{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_61015/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_61015","id":"gutenberg_61015","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61015","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: History - Modern (1750+)","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"[Illustration: JULY, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 7.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\n                             CONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    FINANCIAL\u2014SCHOOL ANNIVERSARIES SOUTH                  193\n    NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSEMBLY\u2014CONFERENCE OF\n      MISSIONARIES                                        194\n    MENDI MISSION\u2014JOHN BROWN STEAMER                      195\n    GENERAL NOTES                                         196\n    INDIAN ENCAMPMENT (cut)                               198\n    BENEFACTIONS                                          199\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY REPORTS\u2014HAMPTON INSTITUTE                 200\n    FISK UNIVERSITY                                       201\n    TALLADEGA COLLEGE                                     203\n    STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY                                   204\n    TOUGALOO                                              205\n    HOWARD UNIVERSITY\u2014WILMINGTON NORMAL SCHOOL            207\n    EMERSON INSTITUTE                                     208\n    LE MOYNE INSTITUTE                                    209\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    CATHOLIC MISSIONS\u2014RECENT CHANGES                      211\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    ANNIVERSARIES\u2014WORK DURING APRIL AND MAY               212\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    TO THE LADIES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES          213\n    MISSION HOMES\u2014LETTER FROM MRS. CHASE                  214\n    A MISSION HOME (cut)                                  215\n    QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS                                 216\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    ABOUT GIVING PENNIES                                  217\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                218\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\n    THE 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, D.D., _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; letters to the Woman\u2019s Bureau, to Miss D. E. Emerson, 56\nReade Street.\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 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[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.       JULY, 1883.       NO. 7.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFINANCIAL.\n\nOur receipts during the eight months of the fiscal year closing May\n31 from collections and donations have amounted to $131,434.37.\nThe collections and donations for the same months last year were\n$159,900.45, a decrease of $28,466.08. The legacies for these\nmonths last year were $31,516.63, while for this year they have\nbeen $47,450.24, an increase of $15,933.61. The total receipts\nfor this year in collections, donations and legacies have been\n$178,884.61 against $191,417.08 for the same period last year, a\ndecrease of $12,532.47. This decrease causes us great anxiety.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSCHOOL ANNIVERSARIES SOUTH.\n\nThe establishment of schools for Freedmen and the encouragement\ngiven for institutions for whites in the South since the war,\nhas introduced into that portion of the country a new era. It\nhas given a brighter horizon to the blacks and elevated the\naspirations of the whites. In many localities it has afforded an\nentirely new industry, and given pleasures and pastimes foreign to\nall the former experiences of the lowly laboring people of that\nlocality. This is especially seen in the anniversaries of the\ninstitutions founded through the benevolence of the North. These\nhold their closing exercises at this season, and in many instances\nmake the country alive with enthusiasm for the progress of the\nrising generation. There are several features of these occasions\nthat register the tide-mark of a growing civilization, and are,\ntherefore, fitted to encourage those who are watching the destinies\nof the country and the success of Christ\u2019s kingdom in the world.\n\nIt is a notable fact that philanthropic people from the North are\ninterested to make journeys South to attend these anniversaries.\nSomething of interest and profit is expected not only by those\nimmediately connected with the schools, but by the citizens of the\ncountry where the school exists. Commencement Day is coming to be a\ngeneral holiday, a time when whole families come in for miles to be\npresent to witness the graduation of children or friends; to hear\nthe fine music, to listen to the addresses, and to observe whatever\nof interest attaches to the occasion. These great assemblies are\ninspiring, educative, reformatory. We give an account of nine\nsuch in this number of the MISSIONARY, which we trust will be of\ninterest and profit to our readers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSEMBLY.\n\nThe second annual session of the National Educational Assembly\nwill be held at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Aug. 9, 10, 11, 12. The\npurpose of the session is to bring together on the same platform\nprominent representatives of popular education, irrespective of\nsection, church or political party; to awaken and direct public\nsentiment in favor of enlarged national, state and church efforts\nfor the education and elevation of the illiterate masses of our\ncountry. The chief subjects for discussion during the Assembly\nwill be National Aid to Common Schools, The Negro in America, the\nMormon Question, and the Indian Question. The following, with other\nwell-known persons, are announced to be present and address the\nmeetings: Gen. John Eaton, Frederick Douglas, Bishop Simpson, Rev.\nA. D. Mayo, Senator Blair, of New Hampshire, Judge Tourgee, Hon. T.\nW. Bicknell, Bishop Whipple, Secretaries Strieby, Morehouse, Rust\nand Kendall. The Assembly will be conducted by Rev. J. C. Hartzell,\nD.D., who can be addressed at Saratoga Springs, N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONFERENCE OF MISSIONARIES\n\nA conference of missionary teachers and preachers who have\nheretofore labored, or are now laboring, in the Southern States\nfrom the North, is called to meet at Ocean Grove, New Jersey, Aug.\n11 and 12. This conference will form a part of the proceedings of\nthe National Education Assembly which will then be in session at\nthat time and place.\n\nAn address of welcome will be delivered by Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D.,\nLL.D., of New York City, and responsive addresses will be made by\nrepresentatives of the different denominations engaged in the work.\n\nThe Conference has the approval of the corresponding secretaries of\nthe American Missionary Association, the Freedmen Aid Society of\nthe Methodist Episcopal church, the Board of Missions for Freedmen\nof the Presbyterian church, and the Home Missionary Society of\nthe Baptist church. These secretaries will all be present and\nparticipate in the conference.\n\nA committee of entertainment will be on the ground to receive those\nwho attend, and arrangements will be made for their entertainment\nat hotels and private houses at reasonable rates.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MENDI MISSION.\n\nIt will be remembered that in compliance with the instructions\ngiven at our last annual meeting, arrangements were made with the\nUnited Brethren in Christ to conduct the Mendi Mission for a term\nof years. Dr. Flickinger, the Secretary, visited Africa to mature\nplans for carrying on the mission in connection with the one\nmaintained in the immediate vicinity (the Shengay) by his society.\nHe has just returned and made report, from which we take the\nfollowing extract:\n\n\u201cWe opened a new station at Manboh, a town about midway from Avery\nto Shengay, immediately on the coast, which is quite a suitable\nplace for a mission. This is in charge of Rev. Mr. Fowler, who\ncommenced work at that point the middle of March, and when last\nheard from was doing well. We now have ten native missionaries\nemployed, who are giving their entire time to teaching and\npreaching, and with the help afforded by Rev. Mr. Gomer and Mr.\nWilberforce, are to preach in 113 towns as often as once in two\nweeks, and in some every week. With the four stations and 31\npreaching places on the Mendi side and eight on the Sherbro side,\nwe now have 12 stations and as many day and Sunday-schools, with\n144 towns or preaching places to be provided for in connection with\nthese missions. The Boomphe Mission, which has four stations and 40\ntowns lying to the northeast from Sherbro Mission, as Mendi lies to\nthe southeast, the three extending over 100 miles along the coast\nand embracing 184 towns, are giving from twelve to fifteen thousand\npeople the opportunity of hearing the Gospel and several hundred\nchildren the privilege of attending both day and Sabbath-school.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE JOHN BROWN STEAMER.\n\nRev. Dr. Flickinger was also empowered to contract for the John\nBrown steamer, and visited England last December, on his way\nto Africa, spending some days in conference with ship builders\nrelating to the kind and size of vessel needful. Before closing\nthe contract, however, he decided to examine the depth and width\nof the rivers upon which it was to be used and other matters\ninvolved in its success in connection with the Mendi Mission. Upon\nhis return to England in May, he contracted with Mr. Edward Hayes,\nof Stratford, for the construction of the steamer. It is to be 60\nfeet long, 12 feet beam and 7 feet deep amid ships, draft of water\n3\u00bd feet, speed from 7 to 8 miles per hour to carry 15 tons cargo\nbesides coal for running two days, and to have cabin accommodations\nfor seven persons and room for the crew in the forecastle. It is\nto be of the best of iron and material throughout. Its engine will\nbe 36 horse-power and of the most substantial kind, and the boiler\nof ample size and strength, adapted for wood or coal. It is to be\nfinished in the early autumn and to cost \u00a31,777. To this must be\nadded about \u00a3300 for transporting and putting it in order for use,\nor a little above $10,000 in all. We trust that unpaid pledges to\nthis Association for the steamer will be forwarded to us without\ndelay.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe call attention to the communication in this number from Rev.\nW. C. Pond, Superintendent of our Chinese missions. The magnitude\nand importance of his work will, we hope, stir the hearts of our\nfriends to liberal contributions in its behalf.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014A plan to expend $10,000,000 in the purchase of land to form two\nhundred new villages in Algeria will be presented to the French\nChamber at the beginning of the session.\n\n\u2014Ahmed Tewfik Effendi, a Turk of high rank, has made a profession\nof Christianity and has gone to Cairo to work among the\nMohammedans, under the direction of Mr. Klein.\n\n\u2014The Khedive has given a portion of land at Cairo to Miss Whately\nthat she may erect a building for her school. The school contains\n200 girls and 300 boys, of which two-thirds of the girls and\none-half of the boys are Mohammedans.\n\n\u2014The London _Daily News_ announces that the Egyptian government has\ndecided to send an engineer to Soudan to form a plan for a railroad\nbetween Khartoum and Souakim.\n\n\u2014The Magwangwaras have released without ransom twenty-three\nChristian prisoners that they had taken at Masasi. The amount that\nhad been destined to liberate these has been used to redeem the\nMakouas and the Yaos, their neighbors, who had been reduced to\ncaptivity with them. The farmers of Masasi, who have been sent to\nZanzibar, will return to their station when it is deemed expedient.\n\n\u2014Mr. O\u2019Neill will undertake a journey of exploration in the region\nbetween Mozambique and Nyassa. His principal object will be the\nstudy of the western and northern shores of the lake Chirona, and\nthe ascension of a mountain near by, that is said to be covered\nwith snow. The Geographical Society of London has given two hundred\npounds for the enterprise.\n\n\u2014The English government has accepted an offer made by several\nchiefs to cede to it a strip of territory between Liberia and\nSherbro 30 kilometres in length and two in width. The English rule\nwill then extend in an unbroken line from Sierra Leone to the\nnorthern frontiers of Liberia.\n\n\u2014The chiefs along the river Magbeli have formed a union and\nconcluded a treaty of peace, which has opened the river to\ncommerce, and by this means a large quantity of products from the\ninterior will be brought to the coast.\n\n\u2014The number of slaves liberated by the fact of their arrival on\nFrench territory increases rapidly at St. Louis. There are among\nthem many small children that must be left with their mothers, but\nthose who have attained an age when they can make themselves useful\nare placed in the families of the settlers.\n\n\u2014Captain Hore and his companions have successfully accomplished the\narduous undertaking of conveying to Ujiji in sections the steel\nlife-boat, which was dispatched from England in July last. The\ncaravan reached its destination on the 23d of February.\n\n\u2014The reports this year from the Niger Mission sent in by the two\nAfrican Archdeacons, Henry Johnson and Dandeson Crowther, are among\nthe most remarkable of recent date. There are now 4,000 souls under\nregular Christian instruction at Bonny and Brass. On one occasion\nMr. Johnson was invited to tell the story of the Gospel in a\nheathen town, where he found 500 people waiting to hear him.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014Seven Chinamen were admitted as members of the Presbyterian Church\nat Los Angeles at the communion in April.\n\n\u2014The Hawaiian law prohibiting Chinamen from coming to the Islands\nhas been repealed, and over 3,000 Chinese laborers have contracted\nfor their passage there.\n\n\u2014\u201cThe Chinese American\u201d is the name of a paper recently started in\nNew York under the editorial management of Wong Chin Foo.\n\n\u2014It is reported that there are 2,500 Chinese in New York and its\nsuburbs. Of these 600 are under instruction in Sunday-school, one\nschool having 112 scholars in attendance at one time. Much labor\nis involved in their instruction, as a teacher is given to each\nscholar. About 40 are professing Christians. Three or four are\nstudying for the ministry, and one has gone back to China as a\nmissionary.\n\n\u2014There are 60 Chinamen in Springfield, Ohio, 30 of whom are members\nof the Sabbath-school. They claim that they cannot all attend at\nthe same time, because the \u201cChristians,\u201d as they call all white\npeople, will take advantage of their absence and break into their\nlaundries and steal their money.\n\n\u2014Rev. C. R. Hager and Lee Sam, sent by the American Board to\nestablish a mission in those districts of South China from which\nthe Chinese in America have come, are already at work. A house\nhas been rented and an evening school for the instruction of the\nChinese in English provided for. The plan for instilling the truths\nof the Gospel into the minds of the scholars by using the Bible\nto some extent for a textbook, which has been so successful in\nCalifornia, will be adopted.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014At the annual examination of the Carlisle Indian Training School,\nSecretary Teller, Commissioner Price and Albert K. Smiley of\nthe Board of Indian Commissioners, were present. The school now\ncontains 367 pupils, 240 boys and 127 girls.\n\n[Illustration: INDIAN ENCAMPMENT.]\n\n\u2014The ambition of the Alaska Indian boys is seen in the response\nmade by one Rudolph who was urged to marry a chief\u2019s widow, \u201cI\nwould never marry dirty old Indian; for $1,000 I never marry her.\nWhen I am a man, I want to take a good, clean girl for wife. I want\nher to know books and to housekeep like Boston girl. I not like it\nmy house all dirty, my children not washed.\u201d\n\n\u2014According to the latest statistical report of the Missionary\nSociety of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, it had among the\nIndians thirteen ordained and licensed preachers, seven candidates,\nforty ruling elders, twenty-nine deacons, twenty-four organized\ncongregations, and five hundred and twenty-seven communicants.\n\n\u2014Bishop Whipple, on a recent visit to the Indians of his diocese,\nadministered the communion to 247 Chippewas. Fifteen years ago\nthere was scarcely one communicant among them; now there are 8\nchurches in that mission, and they are building one to cost $10,000.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nS. E. Lee, Esq., of Richmond, Va., has recently given $5,000 to\nWake Forest College.\n\nThe Earl of Zetland has given $25,000 to the Edinburgh Association\nfor the university education of women.\n\nMrs. Senator Grimes, of Burlington, has given $1,000 for Blair\nHall, Iowa College.\n\nSmith College, Northampton, Mass., is to receive $500 worth of new\nand valuable books, the amount having been secured through the\ninfluence of Miss Sanborn.\n\nMr. Moody\u2019s Mt. Hermon school for boys has received a gift of\n$5,000 from England.\n\nUnion Theological Seminary, N.Y., has received $40,000 from a\nfriend who does not give the public his name, for instituting a\nprofessorship for elocution and boys\u2019 culture.\n\nBy the will of Robert Asa Packer, Lehigh University is to receive\none half of his personal and real estate, which is believed to\namount to several million dollars.\n\nA gift of $7,500 has been made to Rutgers College by Henry W.\nBookstaver, Esq., of New York City, a member of the Board of\nTrustees, for purchasing chemical instruments and other apparatus\nfor the class room.\n\nBy the will of Miss Mary Anne McSorley, St. John\u2019s College,\nBrooklyn, is to receive $2,000 for two scholarships for theological\nstudents, and St. Joseph\u2019s school for girls $500.\n\nPrinceton College has received $60,000 from the estate of the late\nFrederick Marquand of New York.\n\n_The eight chartered institutions of the A. M. A. hold their\nanniversaries at this season. Each of them has good grounds,\nsuitable buildings and a competent faculty. They are located at\ncentral points where they will be wanted for generations. Each one\nneeds, and is worthy of, an ample endowment._\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\nANNIVERSARY REPORTS.\n\n\nHAMPTON INSTITUTE.\n\nBY MISS HELEN W. LUDLOW.\n\nThe fourteenth anniversary of Hampton Institute was observed on\nMay 24. The morning was devoted as usual to examinations and\nrecitations, with exhibitions of the products of the various\nindustrial departments and their operation. The Senior class was\nexamined in political economy and civil government, literature,\nancient history, arithmetic and algebra. They did very creditably,\nstimulated by the occasion, as is usual, to do their best. They had\nundergone less brilliantly, but on the whole fairly well, a severer\ntest during three days previous, of written and oral examinations,\nconducted by or before an invited examining committee, consisting\nof Prof. Samuel Elliot, LL.D., late Superintendent of schools in\nBoston, and Prof. Albert Salisbury, Superintendent of Education for\nthe American Missionary Association Schools. The general average of\nthe class on the subjects marked by Prof. Salisbury (arithmetic and\npolitical economy) was 70 and a fraction, several standing from 90\nto 93. Dr. Eliot\u2019s eyes not allowing him to inspect papers closely,\nthe others were marked by Mrs. E. N. L. Walton of Boston, who came\ndown to conduct for the third time the annual Normal Institute at\nHampton for its Senior class and graduates.\n\nThe under classes had their customary reviews. The Indian classes\nwere special attractions, as usual, particularly the division of\nlatest comers, in which some tiny girls and solemn braves emulated\neach other in telling, in unexceptionable English, what went\ninto and out of a remarkably omnivorous bag, and what evolutions\nwere performed by its various contents; their teacher winning\nDr. Eliot\u2019s enthusiastic declaration that \u201cher praises ought to\nbe sounded from the gutter to the university.\u201d The Indians also\ndid well in geography, history, arithmetic and an elementary\nbotany class. The little kitchen-gardeners from the Butler School\nwere as captivating as usual in their white pinafores and red\nturbans and housekeeping accomplishments. The center of the\nindustrial exhibition was the Stone Memorial building; handsome\nwood work, turned moldings, flooring, doors, sashes, etc., from\nthe \u201cHuntington Industrial Works;\u201d shoes ready for filling the\ncontract for agency supplies; shining tinware from the \u201cIndian\nTraining Shop,\u201d sets of harness from the same; desks, settees,\ntables and cupboards made for the school, and a neatly painted\nsign\u2014all the work of Indian and colored apprentices, whose names,\nwith the period of their training, from five months to three years,\nwere indicated on cards affixed to their respective productions.\nThe wheelwright and blacksmith shops showed similarly ax-helves,\nwheels and iron work, and outside the door two gaily painted farm\ncarts proclaimed the skill of Indian and Negro mechanics. The\ntailoring department showed suits of clothes made by colored and\nIndian hands. The girls of both races were represented by very neat\nsewing and inviting-looking cake. The farm products had a table to\nthemselves; early vegetables, grains and grasses. An interesting\nexhibit was that of the little carpenters from the Butler School,\na couple of miniature frame houses, clap-boarded and painted, with\nsets of tables, desks and chairs for furnishing.\n\nThe Normal School Press office had its own exhibit of printing and\nbook binding. The press was running, the student compositors, boys\nand girls at their cases, and the veteran United States soldier at\nhis book-binder\u2019s table.\n\nThe various shops were all in operation through part of the\nmorning, and many visitors walked through them to see the\nAfric-American, native African and Indian apprentices working side\nby side at their various trades in the commodious quarters in which\nmost are at last accommodated. Some extended their walk to the barn\nto visit the stock.\n\nThe afternoon exercises in Whitin Chapel and Virginia Hall\nconsisted, as usual, of essays by the graduating class and former\ngraduates, with music by the school choir, a recitation of one of\nWhittier\u2019s poems by a modest ladylike Indian girl of the Junior\nclass, and a talk in the Sioux language by one of the three young\nIndian fathers now in training with their families at Hampton. His\nwife and baby boy stood admiring listeners in the doorway, ready\nto vanish when the applause of the latter became too vociferous.\nThe Indian said impressively (interpreted by a school mate), \u201cYou\nall know that when a man walks in darkness, if he sees a light\nsomewhere he will go to it; so I want you all to have compassion on\nus and teach us more of your knowledge. I am always thinking about\nthe good news. I came myself to learn how to tell the good news to\nmy people and show them the right way. We know that you have helped\nus, but we need more help. If anybody told you to do something you\nnever had done before, could you do it at once? They will have\nto tell you three or four times before you know how to do it. My\nfriends, that is just the way with the Indians.\u201d\n\nDiplomas were presented to the twenty-eight members of the\ngraduating class. Interesting speeches followed by several of the\ninvited guests. Prof. Newell, Superintendent of the Maryland State\nNormal school in Baltimore, Dr. Eliot, Rev. Dr. Furber of Newton,\nMass., Rev. Dr. Mix of Fall River, Rev. Dr. Burrows and Rev. Mr.\nSpiller of Norfolk, the last, a colored minister, all made very\nenthusiastic and telling impromptu addresses under the inspiration\nof the occasion.\n\nThe average attendance of pupils for the year just past, has\nbeen 510, of which 110 have been Indians. The work done compares\nfavorably with that of former years. The annual reports of the\nPrincipal, teachers and heads of industrial departments, published\nin the June number of the _Southern Workman_, and still more\nfully in pamphlet form, with the treasurer\u2019s report, give many\ninteresting details of Hampton\u2019s work and prospects.\n\n\nFISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE.\n\nMISS ANNA M. CAHILL.\n\nOn Sunday, May 20, the baccalaureate sermon was preached in the\nchapel of Livingstone Missionary Hall. This and all the other\nexercises of Commencement had the added interest of being the first\nheld in our new building\u2014a building in whose beauty and usefulness\nfor school purposes we have rejoiced all the year.\n\nTen young people\u2014three graduating from the higher normal course\nand seven from the college course\u2014listened to the earnest words of\nPresident Cravath, spoken especially to them, from John 14:23, on\nthe power and need of an inner life of communion with God.\n\nThe annual missionary meeting which is always held by the\nmissionary society on the evening of Commencement Sunday, was\nduly observed. Tidings had reached us of the illness of Secretary\nWoodworth, who was to have given the missionary address, and,\nfailing to supply his place, we were thrown back upon our own\nexisting missionary zeal, which, we were glad to find, burned\nbrightly enough upon the home hearth to make a solemn, impressive\nhour of this last Sunday service.\n\nOur Commencement week happened to coincide with \u201cmilitary week\u201d\nin Nashville, for which great preparation had been made, and the\ncity was gaily decorated with the national colors, and crowded\nwith people. We had feared the effect of the excitement on the\nschool, but found no cause for anxiety. Our pupils were too much\nabsorbed in their work to be drawn away by the attractions of the\nparade ground, and our audiences seemed not to be much increased or\ndiminished by the event. The class admitted to college on Monday\nevening numbers eight, three of whom are children of professors in\nthe university. Among the essays and orations of the evening, were\npleas to imaginary millionaires in the audience for a gymnasium,\na conservatory of music and other improvements. Thus the incoming\nclasses are seeing needs and making demands which the university\nhas no means of meeting.\n\nOn Tuesday there drove up to the door of Livingstone Hall a\nfurniture wagon, from which was unloaded a suspicious-looking\nrectangular box addressed to Prof. A. K. Spence. Strange that\nthrough the law of association so much of harmony can be suggested\nby so simple a geometrical form. Curious eyes watched the opening,\nand saw with delight on lifting the top a handsome Steinway square\ngrand piano. It was carried into the chapel and placed upon the\nplatform. Rumor said it was a gift, but nothing further could be\nlearned until Commencement day.\n\nIn the midst of the exercises of the higher normal graduation on\nWednesday evening, Secretary Woodworth entered and took a retired\nseat on the platform. His health was so far restored as to enable\nhim to travel, though not in time to reach us before Sunday. The\nalumni address, which formed part of the programme of the evening,\nwas given by Prof. McPherron. After this Secretary Woodworth was\ncalled out from his retirement and spoke for a few minutes. The\nlist of alumni was read, the present work of each stated and the\nannouncement made that steps had already been taken by the alumni\nto raise gradually a sufficient sum to endow a professorship in the\nuniversity.\n\nThe last great day, Thursday, was as perfect as clear skies and\nfresh, dustless air could make it. A large audience of both white\nand colored people assembled early. The young men marched to\nJubilee Hall, and a procession was there formed to return to the\nchapel. The British flag was draped over the platform on this\nbirthday of England\u2019s queen, and the room was bright with terraces\nof flowering plants. The seven young people who appeared as\ncandidates for a degree represent many years of work on the part\nof student and teacher; the average length of time spent in the\ninstitution by members of the class is seven years. The one young\nlady took for her theme, the great field of work opening before\nand among the girls of the South and the necessary training for\nthat work. Spoken from her standpoint her words were full of solemn\nmeaning. After the graduates had finished their part, we listened\neagerly to the address of Dr. Washington Gladden on the causes of\npoverty, ignorance and vice\u2014the threefold evil against which we are\nfighting.\n\nWhen the final piece of music had been sung, Prof. Spence asked\npermission to say a few words, and after some rapid wheeling\nof pianos to certain places on the platform, announced that\nMrs. General Fisk had presented the new piano for the chapel of\nLivingstone Hall. Its companion was given by the same lady some\nyears ago for the parlors of Jubilee Hall. Mention was made of the\nmany other gifts of Mrs. Fisk, and a vote of gratitude for her\nkindness was heartily given by the entire audience. To afford an\nopportunity to hear both pianos together, Mendelssohn\u2019s wedding\nmarch was played as a quartet.\n\nA prominent Southern gentleman of Nashville, himself a former\nslaveholder, was present for the first time with other invited\nguests at the alumni dinner, and spoke warmly, cordially and\nstrongly for our work. The most encouraging comment that I have\nheard on the exercises of the week was made by a former student,\nwho was present: \u201cIt seems to me that every Commencement is better\nthan the last.\u201d So may it continue to be while Fisk University\nstands.\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nBY REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D.\n\nTalladega, in Eastern Central Alabama, is a bright village of a\nthousand people, lying high up among the hills, away from the\nmalaria which lurks in the valleys below. The air is soft and\nbracing, the water pure and sweet, and the whole region eminently\nbeautiful. Here Talladega College was founded in 1867. The college\nis beautiful for situation, and in this respect would contest\nthe palm with any institution we have, except possibly, Fisk\nat Nashville. Encircled on all sides by green mountain ranges,\nlying far up among the hills, it is one of the most inviting and\nsalubrious spots in the State, and must have been foreordained as\nthe site of a college.\n\nThe institution is well equipped for work. Stone Hall, Swayne\nHall, Graves Hall, and Foster Hall are solid and comely, and have\naccommodated more than 298 students the present year. And of the\ncampus, on which Swayne Hall sits, shaded with superb water oaks,\nit must be said we know of nothing finer in the South. Connected\nwith the college is a farm of some 200 acres, mostly cultivated\nby the young men. Here they learn the art, as well as the science\nof farming, and here the supplies for the students\u2019 table are\nprincipally raised.\n\nIt may be doubted whether any school of the A. M. A. is occupying\na more needy field, or has around it a larger constituency.\nAlabama has a colored population of some 630,000, for whom\nTalladega College is the only institution in the State offering\nto them the advantages of the higher education. For the supply of\ntrained teachers, of educated ministers, and of intelligent and\nreliable leaders\u2014for this immense multitude Talladega must be the\nmain reliance. The college, therefore, has a mission at its own\ndoors, and for the present has more than it can do to meet the\nhome demand. Its students are scattered throughout the State, as\nteachers and preachers, and their influence is felt in every public\ninterest.\n\nThe Faculty of the college is able, clear-headed and intensely\nin earnest. President De Forest is an enthusiast in his work.\nScholarly, inspiring, magnetic and full of faith in the capacity of\nthe negro for the finest culture, and to reach the highest manhood,\nhe does not mind the isolation of his position, nor the ostracism\nattending it, but finds perpetual joy in seeing the good work\nprosper in his hands.\n\nIt was my good fortune to be present during parts of three days in\nCommencement week, though not permitted to witness the exercises\non Commencement day. Of the general air of the school there can\nbe only words of praise. The quiet of the students on the campus,\non the streets, in the class rooms, the self-respect in their\nbearing everywhere manifest, was a token both of the discipline\nof the school and of the spirit of the scholars. We heard\ncreditable examinations in grammar, in Virgil, in the evidences\nof Christianity and in the life of Christ. But the exercise which\ninterested us most was the reading of six or seven essays by\nmembers of the theological class. These papers, we were assured,\nhad received scarcely any alteration in passing through the hands\nof the professor. They were clear, sharp, radical in thinking and\nindependent in style and expression. Two college presidents were\nbrought to the bar of criticism, and it really looked as if the\nstudents had the best of the argument. Yet there was no appearance\nof arrogance or of self-conceit; only the air of honest, thoughtful\nmen.\n\nThe class of students as a whole seemed made up of earnest,\naspiring youth, eager for an education and willing to make every\npossible sacrifice in order to secure it. As an instance, I saw\na man in the grammar school, somewhere from thirty-five to forty\nyears of age, who will work in the foundry six months or a year,\nand then will take his earnings and go to school as long as they\nwill last. This he has been repeating for years. Another was\npointed out to me who had worked on the farm a whole year, and then\nwas using up his credits in schooling and board.\n\nI should not give a complete idea of the college unless I spoke\nparticularly of its religious tone. This is of the highest, and was\nespecially satisfactory. President De Forest is a man of profound\nreligious convictions, and has not the slightest faith in education\nwhich does not include the moral as well as the intellectual\ncharacter. Hence the Bible is put underneath all the courses of\ninstruction, and religion made the practical and ever-present duty\nof the daily life.\n\nTalladega, like so many other institutions, needs endowments for\nits various chairs of instruction. For lack of these it is sadly\nlimited in the good it might accomplish, and its Faculty are badly\nhandicapped and bearing burdens which are making them old before\ntheir time. Let me whisper into the ear of men who are asking what\nthey shall do with the wealth committed to their care: Here is an\nobject worthy of their largest charity, and, at the same time,\nan object most needy and most appealing. Let them give to this\nthousands and tens of thousands, and they will make no mistake.\n\n\nSTRAIGHT UNIVERSITY, NEW ORLEANS.\n\nREV. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.\n\nIt would, we believe, be the judgment of the Faculty and the\npublic, that the past year has been one of exceptional prosperity.\nOur catalogue shows a roll of 380 names with an average attendance\nlarger than any previous year. The examinations in the Law\nDepartment came first in order. The ordeal was severe, certainly\na fair test of legal reading, and fidelity to lectures. Ten young\nmen, eight white and two colored, met this ordeal with great credit\nto themselves and their instructors, and received their degree of\nBachelor of Law. They have since been admitted by the Supreme Court\nto practice in all the courts of the State. It should be mentioned\nas a sign of growth in public sentiment, that one of the Professors\nin the Law Department, a native Charlestonian, has lately published\na Book on Admiralty Law, and on the title page appended to his name\nthe following: \u201cProfessor of Commercial Law, Equity, and Admiralty\nin Straight University.\u201d The Sumner Literary Society was addressed\nby Gen. R. B. Elliot, formerly in Congress from South Carolina.\nHe is one of the most eloquent representatives of the colored\nrace. His treatment of the theme \u201cThe Advance of Civilization in\nthe United States,\u201d was able, eloquent, and scholarly. It was a\nrare pleasure to listen to him. He was a friend of Charles Sumner,\nand the dead statesman had no more eloquent eulogist than he.\nOur Alumni Association was addressed by Rev. A. E. P. Albert, of\nthe class of \u201981. His oration was a careful defense of the negro\nagainst the rude and savage assaults recently made upon him. A poem\nwas delivered by Mr. Colwell, of Baton Rouge, of the class of \u201979.\nIt possessed real poetic merit, and was gracefully delivered. He\nwas cheered to the echo. It was interesting to observe the hearty\nenthusiasm of the audience over \u201cthe coming poet.\u201d The Annual\nExhibition at the University Chapel, under the direction of our\nmost faithful and efficient Dean, was a great success. The Chapel\nwas crowded to excess, and a happier audience is seldom gathered.\n\nOur Commencement on Tuesday evening in Central Church was an\nindication both of the excellence and efficiency of the instruction\nafforded by the University, and the strong hold which the school\nhas gained in the public regard and appreciation. The large\nauditorium was crowded. A fair estimate of the audience would\nplace it at 800, and they remained with delighted attention from\n8 o\u2019clock to 11 o\u2019clock. Four young men and one young woman\ngraduated from the Classical Department, and two young men from the\nHigher English Department. Their orations were well and carefully\nwritten, showing mature thought and manly convictions. It was\ncertainly suggestive of the possibilities of the race to see the\nmanly bearing of these young people, and to hear them treat with\nreal ability and eloquence such themes as \u201cThe first Century of\nthe Republic,\u201d \u201cThe Survival of the Fittest,\u201d \u201cPride of Race\u201d and\n\u201cHead Workers and Hand Workers.\u201d To those who have a chronic habit\nof detracting from the abilities of the negro we say, \u201c_beat them\nif you can_.\u201d It was a delightful feature of Commencement that the\nson of our beloved dean took his diploma in the Higher English\nDepartment, and delivered an oration on \u201cThe Future Fields of\nConquest in Science,\u201d which did credit to his heart and his head.\nWe departed from our usual custom in conferring upon two of our\ngraduates the degree of Bachelor of Science. It was the judgment of\nthe Faculty and our Board of Trustees that this should be done. The\nyoung men have devoted several years to classical and scientific\nstudy in the University; their scholarship has averaged 9\u00bc on a\nscale of 10, and they have pursued such special studies as the\nFaculty have assigned them. At the close of the regular examination\na special examination was appointed for them before a committee\nof the Board of Trustees, in whose presence they also read a\nscientific thesis, the one on \u201cApplied Electricity\u201d and the other\non \u201cThe Copernican System.\u201d Thus closes another school year, and we\nare able to say as never before: \u201cHope is in the ascendant\u201d for our\nbeloved University. Service this year has been a joy, and Almighty\nGod has crowned that service with his blessing. To Him be all the\nglory.\n\n\nTOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.\n\nThe assembling of the Sunday-school and the study of the lesson\nentitled Paul and Barnabas in Cyprus, with \u201cSeparate me Barnabas\nand Saul for the work whereunto I have called them,\u201d as its\nkey-note, seemed a most fitting introduction to the Commencement\nexercises upon the close of which a large number of the students\nwere to go forth to their summer\u2019s work.\n\nFollowing the Sunday-school exercises, and in keeping with\nthe custom of previous anniversaries of this institution, a\nSabbath-school convention was held, in which was discussed a\nvariety of topics calculated to stimulate and aid the students in\ntheir Sunday-school work. These exercises were enjoyed by a large\nnumber of people, many of whom were from a distance.\n\nAt 7:30 P.M. the chapel was again filled. The well-drilled choir\nsang \u201cI will lift up mine eyes unto the hills\u201d in a way to inspire\nall present. The sermon to the graduating class was upon the words,\n\u201cReturn to thine own house and show how great things God hath done\nunto thee.\u201d\n\nMonday, Tuesday and Wednesday were occupied with the oral\nexaminations of the different departments. These examinations\nwere well sustained by the students, who gave good evidence that\ntheir instructors had been faithful and thorough in their work.\nThe attendance of visitors upon the examinations was good, but\nas the last day drew near, large numbers arrived by every train.\nMany came by their own conveyances. One persistent young man, a\nformer student, eager to attend the Commencement, came a distance\nof thirty miles _on foot_. On Wednesday evening the audience room\nwas filled with an expectant throng. The exhibition which called\nit together was greatly enjoyed, and reflected much credit upon\nthose charged with the laborious task of planning and training and\nbringing it to pass.\n\nWhen Thursday morning dawned, many more were added to the number\nof visitors already present. The audience assembled promptly at\n11 o\u2019clock. Members of the State Board of Visitors, with other\ndistinguished guests, were upon the platform. The music by the\nchoir elicited much praise. Three young men and two young women\nhaving completed the Elementary Normal Course were graduated,\nreceiving certificates of fitness to teach the common English\nbranches. Five others were appointed to supplement the programme of\nliterary exercises.\n\nThe essays and orations presented covered the following range of\ntopics: \u201cThe Teachers;\u201d \u201cGenius and Success;\u201d \u201cWhitewash;\u201d \u201cWhy\na Young Man Should Seek a Thorough Education;\u201d \u201cThe Material\nAdvancement of the South;\u201d \u201cThe Cause of Temperance;\u201d \u201cAs You\nWould Have It;\u201d \u201cThe Study of Physical Science;\u201d \u201cThe American\nMissionary Association;\u201d \u201cHome.\u201d The Principal of the Normal\nDepartment then presented certificates to the graduating class,\nsetting forth in a few well chosen and emphatic words the nature of\nthese certificates, of the step the graduates had taken, and that\nthere was more beyond. Col. J. L. Power, editor of the _Clarion_,\na man of wide influence in the State and a staunch friend of the\nschool, spoke on behalf of the State Board of Visitors, of which\nhe is the Secretary. He paid a glowing tribute to the work of the\nschool and of the American Missionary Association. In referring\nto the essay on \u201cWhitewash,\u201d he said there was no _whitewashing_\ndone at Tougaloo\u2014that it was the _genuine_ stuff. Referring to\nthe oration on the American Missionary Association, he said he\nhad known considerable about the Association and its work, but\nthat he was amazed at the magnitude of its work. In closing his\nspeech, which also was without \u201cwhitewash,\u201d he said it would be\nthe pleasure of the Board of Visitors at the meeting of the next\nLegislature to ask for at least as large an appropriation as the\ninstitution had received for the last two years. Rev. Dr. C. B.\nGalloway, Editor of the _Southern Christian Advocate_, was then\nintroduced. He commended the work of the institution and expressed\nhis satisfaction with the original, direct, practical, common-sense\nway in which the essays and orations had been written and\npresented. He was impressed with the absence of grandiloquent gush,\nso characteristic of the youthful mind on Commencement platforms.\n\nAfter the Commencement dinner the graduating class held their \u201cIvy\nExercise,\u201d which consisted of a class song, class poem, planting\nthe ivy and an address by a member of the Faculty.\n\nIn the evening R. W. Jackson, class of \u201980, delivered the address\nbefore the Alumni, on \u201cDecision.\u201d It was well written and full of\ninterest. At its close Mr. G. W. Jackson of Whiteside, Tenn., a\nformer student, and Miss Rosa McCutcheon of Chattanooga, Tenn.,\nclass of \u201982, stepped upon the _Commencement_ platform and were\nunited in Christian marriage, constituting by this sacred tie a\n_Christian family_. Thus closed a most successful year of faithful\nwork.\n\n\nTHEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, HOWARD UNIVERSITY.\n\nREV. J. G. CRAIGHEAD, D.D.\n\nThe anniversary exercises were held in the Fourth Presbyterian\nChurch, Washington City, May 4, when six young men who had\ncompleted the regular three years\u2019 course of study received the\nusual certificate of the department. Five delivered addresses\nbefore a large audience, and were subsequently complimented by many\nof the most judicious friends of the race who were present, for\nthe discriminating and just treatment of their subjects, and for\ntheir evident improvement of the advantages of instruction which\nthey had enjoyed. One of the graduates sails in June for Africa,\nas a missionary of the Presbyterian Board; another is waiting an\nopportunity to labor on the same continent; the remaining four go\nto the wide and needy field in the South\u2014each in a different State,\nso great is the demand for capable laborers.\n\nThe past year has been one of marked favor and prosperity to the\ndepartment. Thirty-four students have been under instruction, and\nthere has been no interruption in study, by reason of sickness,\neither on the part of professors or students. The location of the\ninstitution on the high ground north of the city, overlooking both\nit and the Potomac River, is most conducive to health, while it\nsecures the quiet essential to educational work. With a complete\nand regularly systematized course of studies extending over three\nyears; with six Professors (thanks to the wise liberality of the\nAmerican Missionary Association) imparting instruction in all the\nbranches of study pursued in like theological seminaries in this\ncountry, pious young men can here be prepared to become effective\nworkmen for Christ, either at home or abroad. As these advantages\nbecome better known to those wishing to study for the ministry, we\nmay expect that an increased number will seek to profit by them.\n\nAnd this is desirable for many reasons. With our present\nfacilities we could equally well instruct twice or thrice the\npresent number did the men present themselves having the proper\npreliminary education for the study of theology. Our greatest need\nis _scholarships_, both to secure this elementary training and\nto assist students while in the theological department. Without\nsome aid, but few can obtain a proper education for usefulness in\nthe university. Not much is required, as compared with what white\nstudents require and receive, but this little is necessary to\nstimulate personal effort, and to help them over insurmountable\nobstacles on the road to useful knowledge. Is there a cheaper\nor better way for patriots or Christians to solve this social,\npolitical, moral and religious problem?\n\n\nWILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nBY MR. W. H. THRALL.\n\nPerhaps the tendency of this people is to give much prominence\nto showy performances. We have aimed this year in Wilmington to\ncheck this, and not to allow preparations for the \u201cexhibition\u201d to\ninterrupt regular recitation-room work.\n\nThe scholars were early given to understand that the last monthly\nexaminations would be more than usually difficult; that they would\nbe oral as well as written, and that very much would depend upon\nthe results. The last four days of the school year were given up to\nthe examinations. If the readers of THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY could\nhave hurried through the deep sands of Wilmington\u2019s streets, to our\nschool building on one of those days, they would have seen four\nrooms crowded with anxious workers, telling with tongue or pen,\nwhat they had been learning during the months past.\n\nSome of the pupils, after writing steadily for two or three hours\nat a time begged the privilege of continuing their work at the\nnoon recess and after school hours. The papers spoke for the\nthoroughness of the work that they had done.\n\nUpon the walls were hung map drawings, specimens of penmanship and\nof freehand drawing, that would compare well with exhibits which\nI have seen in rooms of the same grades in the best schools in\nthe North. In the First Primary Room were two things of especial\ninterest: a table covered with needle-work made by the smallest\ngirls of the school, and two sets of papers placed side by side,\nshowing the penmanship, spelling, figures, etc., of the same pupil\nin October, 1882, and in May, 1883. The work of the pupils of that\nroom at the number-table, and their writing and reading, encourage\nus that there is reason for hope in the coming generation of\ncolored people.\n\nThe closing exercises of the school were held Tuesday evening,\nMay 29th. The hall, the aisles, entries, doors and windows were\ncrowded. The men even climbed the verandas to reach us. The pupils\nhad flooded us with the choicest flowers, grasses and foliage,\nand the hall was beautifully decorated. The part the pupils had\nin adorning it spoke well for their taste. At the appointed time\nthe audience of between four and five hundred was called to order,\nand the programme commenced. For two hours and a half the throng\nsat or stood, listening to recitations, declamations, dialogues,\nessays, one oration, songs, etc. I wish the people of the North\nwho question the promise of this race could have been present.\nThere was hardly one hesitation in the recitations; the essays and\noration showed thought and good English; and little boys and girls\ngave concert recitations in perfect unison.\n\nImportant features of the programme were, a tableau called \u201cThe\ntempted boy and the guardian angel,\u201d designed to give an object\nlesson on temperance, and an illustrated poem by pupils of the\nGrammar and Normal Room. Both of these exercises proved the pupils\u2019\nreadiness to understand and their quickness to execute. The teacher\nin charge had but little time to teach them, yet everything was\ndone with ease and rapidity.\n\nThe evening\u2019s entertainment was a fresh exhibit to us all of the\ntalent and the tact that lie dormant in this race, which is to\nbe the ruling race in twelve States at no distant day; and we\nbade \u201cgood-bye\u201d to our pupils with new courage to go on with a\nwork which must be slow, but is essential to the very life of our\ncountry.\n\n\nEMERSON INSTITUTE, MOBILE, ALA.\n\nBY MISS HELEN D. BARTON.\n\nAnniversary exercises at Emerson Institute, May 25th. The\nmuch-talked-of and long-looked-for last day of school had come.\nThough it was the last day many of the last things had already\nbeen done. The last hour of hard study was over, the last\nrecitation heard, the last examination paper marked. The two days\npreceding had been devoted to what were, by courtesy, called oral\nexaminations. In reality, however, much of the time, in the lower\nrooms at least, was devoted to the entertainment of the visitors.\nThe favorite songs were sung and the best recitations made. If\nGeorge Washington\u2019s mother or sister came in, George\u2019s classes\nwere called, his slate work was examined and compared with others,\nand he was invited to recite his \u201cspeech.\u201d A variation from the\nprogramme was made again and again that as far as possible the\nvisitors might judge of the work of the children in whom they are\nmore especially interested. This could be done as the certificates\nfor promotion were given on the standing of the pupils in the\nwritten examinations held the second week in May.\n\nFriday morning the children came together as a school for the last\ntime. After devotional exercises the departments were dismissed\nto their own rooms, where the teacher read the per cents. of the\nexaminations and presented each pupil with a certificate grading\nhim for the coming year. Many faces brightened with pleasure.\nSome few showed dissatisfaction; having fallen slightly below the\ndesired average they find the obnoxious word conditionally written\non the card. Others still feel bitter disappointment; having\nfailed, they must remain in the same grade. Some of these deserve\nour sympathy, the failure being caused by poverty or sickness;\nothers are only reaping the reward of carelessness and indolence.\n\nWhen the distribution of certificates was completed, Miss Caughey,\nthe principal, went in turn to each department, and after adding\nher word of encouragement to the disappointed ones and approbation\nto the successful ones, invited the promoted class to seats in the\nroom the next grade above. This ceremony was impressive, and many\nshowed the conflicting emotions of joy and sadness, joy at the\nhonor conferred and a sadness at the thought of separation from\nteacher and schoolmates which caused them to go reluctantly to the\nplaces assigned.\n\nAt the appointed hour in the evening the assembly room was filled\nto overflowing with the eager happy children and their friends.\nAfter prayer by Rev. O. D. Crawford the exercises given by the\npupils were called in, according to the programme. Mr. Crawford and\nGeneral Slaughter, Post-Master of the city, made brief remarks.\nWhere each one endeavored to do his best, it is difficult to\nmention those who excelled. \u201cMother Goose and her Friends\u201d chiefly\nserved the spice for the entertainment. One of our white friends\nfound it difficult to believe that this ancient singer of nursery\nrhymes was not a middle aged woman instead of the young girl she\nreally is. The \u201cFriends\u201d were received with enthusiasm also, even\ndown to the \u201cbrave boy\u201d Johnnie Horner, the baby of our school. The\ntableau of \u201cHiawatha\u201d was thoroughly enjoyed. In \u201cSongs of Seven,\u201d\nthe recitations \u201cSeven Times One,\u201d by little Odelia Chavanah and\n\u201cSeven Times Seven\u201d by Miss Sallie Washington, were received\nwith gratifying applause. The valedictory by Miss Belle Daniels\ndeserved and received high praise. To critical eyes, no doubt, many\ndefects were evident; but our audience seemed well pleased and\ncongratulations were freely given. I think most of those present\nwould agree with old Aunt Gracie in her remark, summing it all up:\n\u201cIt was delightful to be looked at.\u201d\n\n\nLE MOYNE INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS.\n\n[A large amount of space is given in the _Memphis Daily Appeal_,\nthe _Daily Memphis Avalanche_ and the _Public Ledger_ to reports\nof the anniversary exercises of the Le Moyne Institute. These,\nwith accompanying editorial paragraphs, indicate the high esteem\nin which Prof. Steele and his corps of workers are held and the\nappreciation of his school. The anniversary was attended by two\nthousand people. The enthusiasm is represented to have been\ncontinuous from the beginning to the end of the exercises, and the\neffort of Prof. Steele to raise money for the Institute from the\ncitizens of Memphis was endorsed by many present. We give below an\nextract from the _Appeal_ which represents how our work is regarded\nby the better class of Southern people.\u2014ED.]\n\nThe feeling in this city in favor of universal education was never\nstronger than it is now. This is plainly shown by the interest\neverywhere manifested in the Le Moyne Institute or school for\nnegroes, which gave so enjoyable an entertainment at the Greenlaw\nOpera-house Monday night. A number of prominent citizens who were\npresent expressed the greatest surprise and astonishment, and the\nopinion was general that the inculcation of ideas such as those of\nwhich the graduates seemed possessed was bound to do good to them,\nand by reflection upon the balance of the community.\n\n\u201cWas the entertainment at the Opera-house just as you reported it?\u201d\nasked a gentleman of an _Appeal_ reporter yesterday.\n\n\u201cJustice was not fully done,\u201d was the reply.\n\n\u201cAnd the Le Moyne is a colored institution?\u201d\n\n\u201cYes.\u201d\n\n\u201cYou surprise me,\u201d the gentlemen replied. \u201cI have heard the Le\nMoyne frequently spoken of, but had no idea it was accomplishing\nall it is said to have done. Why, the subjects chosen by the\nessayists could be handled only by those possessed of considerable\nknowledge.\u201d\n\n\u201cYes, it is a new idea in the South,\u201d remarked a listener, who had\nbeen present at the entertainment, \u201cand I find it difficult to say\nwhether I was most surprised or delighted. I heard every essay and\nrecitation from beginning to end, and there was not a break or\nstumble, no stopping to recover breath, no tedious repetitions. The\nabsence of the parrot was noticeable. The novelty of the affair\nheld my attention at first, but I soon forgot this, and found\nmyself drifting along with the essayists as they waded into their\nsubjects. Another thing that struck me forcibly was the absence of\nrant in the young men and the failure to giggle on the part of the\nyoung women. They seemed to take it as a matter of course that they\nwere there, and that their audience would be interested in what\nthey might have to say. I, for one am heartily in favor of keeping\nup the good work. No man who thinks can say that every negro in the\nland would not be better off and better fitted to cope with the age\nin which lives, if he had enough education to enable him to throw\noff the dense cloud of superstition\u2014a mixture of ignorance and\nfaith\u2014in which he is now enveloped. The country would be better,\nits tone purer and healthier, if every man in it were educated.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe music furnished by the graduates particularly attracted me,\u201d\nsaid a lady teacher who heard it. \u201cI have always contended that\nthe negro had a passion for music of a certain rich and melodious\nkind, but could not appreciate its delicate shading, and could\nhave no conception of it as a science. I am ready now to say\nI was mistaken. Though the music the other night was nothing\nextraordinary, I heard enough to convince me that its interpreters\nhad a good idea of symphony, and could with proper training, rise\nto a high degree of excellence. The solo \u2018I\u2019ll Follow Thee\u2019, was\none of the sweetest things I ever heard in public or private. The\nvoice of the young woman who sang it was pure and clear, every\ncadence soft and melodious, every note in perfect tune. It was a\ngenuine revelation.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe whole entertainment was a revelation to me,\u201d remarked an old\nplanter. \u201cI attended the exhibition out of pure curiosity, never\ndreaming that it would impress me as it has done. I have always\nscouted the idea of negro education, and I may say I have been\nits enemy. I am perfectly willing to give way now, however. But I\nhave one lingering fear\u2014that it will take a wrong direction and\nhave a tendency to create an idle class and deplete the ranks of\nlabor, farm labor especially. If those who have the training of\nthe negro will keep this danger before them and guard against it,\nthen the result of their labor will be good; but if they fail and\nallow their pupils to think labor is degrading; to think that man\u2019s\nonly province is to cultivate his mind, then the result will be\ndeplorable. This I notice, however, has already been seen, and\nI cannot say I have any fears on that score from the Le Moyne\nInstitute.\u201d\n\nPerhaps no subject has been more discussed than this since the\nexhibition last Monday night.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCATHOLIC MISSIONS.\u2014RECENT CHANGES.\n\nREV. MYRON EELLS, S\u2019KOKOMISH, W.T.\n\nAbout 30 years ago a Catholic priest came here, taught the people,\nbaptized some of them, made a few Indian priests, and left, so that\nfor many years previous to the assignment of the Agency to the\nAmerican Missionary Association they had received little religious\ninstruction. Intermarriage with some of the tribes where the\nCatholics have had teachers has kept up remembrance of those early\ntimes. One Indian especially, who has been among the very worst,\nbelongs to this class. Having failed to conquer the agent, he gave\nup, but when he returned seemed determined if he failed in one way\nto try another, and so began to revive the old Catholic religion,\nand he has held such services frequently for a number of years.\n\nAbout two years ago an Indian before his death saw several strange\nvisions, which combined some truth with much of the old Indian\nsuperstition. This man leaned toward the Catholics, partly because\nI did not believe these revelations to be of as much value as\nthe Bible, and partly because his relations favored the Catholic\nreligion. A few of them set up regular services, partly Catholic\nand partly after their own revelations. At funerals they sometimes\nwished me to officiate in company with them, but in most cases they\nhave given up and let me have the whole service.\n\nLast fall another Indian who had moved away and taken a homestead\nabout 20 miles from here apparently died, but after six and a half\nhours revived and told of wonderful things which he had seen. He\nhas since been baptized by the Catholics, built a church and become\na priest.\n\nLast summer I spoke of two promising young men whom I hoped would\nbe of great Christian service here. The most promising after doing\nvery well for a time, brought great disgrace upon himself and was\nsuspended from the church. I have tried to show him his error, but\nthus far it has not produced the result desired.\n\nThese Indians have almost entirely lost faith in their old religion\nas such, but naturally want one of some kind. They are, however,\nunwilling to give up their horse-racing and some of them their\ngambling. I have been asked by several to baptize them, but refused\nbecause of these things. The Catholic religion allows all this, and\nso they have turned to it. The consolidation of the three Puget\nSound agencies into one last fall has given us thus far less moral\nforce here.\n\nThere have been occasional light spots. A letter came from Pearl\nStreet Church, in Hartford, where I taught a Sabbath-school\nclass fourteen years ago, offering us a barrel. It seemed very\nprovidential, as if God were saying: \u201cYou work on, and I will take\ncare of the support.\u201d The barrel came and everything appeared to\nbe so good that the children squealed, as they do not often, while\neach article was taken out, and their mother often said: \u201cHow very\nthoughtful the people were,\u201d and we all had to thank God for it.\n\nI have just returned from a visit to the Clallam Indians. I found\nsome of them doing well and some very badly, the agent having\nduring the past seven months had six times as many Indians to look\nafter as formerly, and the best subordinates which he has been able\nto obtain have disappointed him. On the other hand, some have done\nquite well, especially those who have procured land for homes. The\nChristian Indians thus far stand well. They are not perfect, but\nprogressing. Two were received into the church during my visit,\nand three others joined last November. The school-teacher, who\nhad resigned, left while I was there, and it is thought best to\ngive them a long vacation before sending them another. He had\ncharge of the Sabbath-school. The church expects to keep up its\nregular services, including that of the Sabbath-school and a weekly\nprayer-meeting. I have been fortunate in procuring some large,\ncheap Bible pictures, which have taken the fancy of the Indians\nvery much. They have been in demand by all classes. I have already\nobtained or ordered about 185 of them. I can impart religious truth\nby them better than in any other way.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNIVERSARIES\u2014THE WORK DURING APRIL AND MAY.\n\nREV. W. C. POND.\n\nMy report of progress in our Mission covers two months and even\nmore. It will be difficult to compress within my space all that I\nwould like to say.\n\nOur mission at Santa Cruz celebrated its second anniversary\non Sunday evening, April 8. It was an occasion of great and\nencouraging interest. Instead of the fifteen or twenty Chinese\npresent at the previous anniversary, we had at least fifty with\nus. Instead of an assembly of Americans occupying in respectable\nnumbers the pews of the church, we had every inch of available\nstanding-room occupied, and I am told, at least two hundred went\naway from the church door, unable to enter.\n\nThe fact that Chinese once settled in Santa Cruz, seem inclined to\nstay there, and that consequently the membership of the school has\nbeen less changeable than in some other places, gave us a better\nopportunity than is sometimes afforded to measure the progress\nduring a year. The showing gave me great encouragement. There had\nbeen marked progress in the use of the English language and in the\nknowledge of the truth. Best of all, several who a year ago were\nheathen, now seem to be true followers of our Lord Jesus Christ.\nThe contribution was the largest I ever received on any such\noccasion, except in our own Bethany Church. It amounted in cash and\nin pledges to over $100.\n\nOur schools in San Francisco celebrated their eighth public\nanniversary on April 29. This, too, was an exceedingly interesting\nservice, and our Bethany Church was filled. The point of special\ninterest and encouragement about it was this: That while the\nexercises were in all respects equal to those of any previous\nyear, we were not obliged to call in the aid of any of our\nhelpers, except as they assisted in the service of song. The\noriginal address in English by Lung Chung was a frank, manly and\neffective statement of his own Christian life, with its faults and\nshortcomings, as well as its new, strange light and peace.\n\nI lay before the readers of the MISSIONARY the following paragraph,\nwhich I placed in the _Pacific_ of May 9. I trust they will be\ninterested in the statement of facts, and am not without hope that\nthey will listen kindly to the appeal:\n\n\u201cThe monthly reports for April show seventeen schools in active\noperation and thirty-nine teachers and helpers employed. The total\nnumber of pupils enrolled was 991; the average attendance, 415. The\nattendance in this city is temporarily diminished on account of\nthe darkness of the streets; otherwise the enrollment would have\nexceeded 1,000, and the average attendance would have approached\n500. Of those now in attendance on the schools 172 profess to have\nceased from idolatry, and 116 are believed to be true Christians.\nTwo hundred and thirty-one new names were enrolled, and the\ntotal number who have been connected with our schools during the\nlast eight months is no less than 2,356. With the beginning of\nthis month of May, another school is added to our list\u2014the one\nin Alameda. It has been sustained for several years with a most\nChrist-like devotion by Mrs. E. L. Wilson. Unable to carry it on\nany longer alone, she appeals to our mission for aid, and though\nthe operations already in hand task our resources to their utmost,\nwe could not let so good a work as Mrs. Wilson had been doing die\nfor the lack of a helping hand. It will be necessary to raise in\naddition to the appropriation made by the American Missionary\nAssociation, $5,500 to carry this work through to August 31, the\nclose of the present fiscal year. The utmost care is taken to make\neach dollar do its best, but it is impossible to sustain so large\na work on less than $1,000 per month. A careful review of the\nstatistics given above will lead, I am sure, not to criticism of\nthe amount, but rather to surprise that at so little cost so much\nhas been accomplished. Of the $5,500 needed, I have on hand, or in\nsight, $3,000, and for the balance I make an earnest appeal to our\nchurches, and to all friends of Christ and of humanity.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTO THE LADIES OF THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.\n\nDEAR FRIENDS: Permit me to call your attention to the urgent needs\nof the American Missionary Association in its department of Woman\u2019s\nWork.\n\nMany earnest Christian women are personally engaged as missionaries\nat the South, and among the Chinese and the Indians. They give\ninstruction in home duties, improved housekeeping, family\ngovernment, the best use of money; they gather children into\nSunday-schools, teach in day and boarding-schools\u2014bearing with them\nalways the blessed Gospel truth, the foundation on which we build.\n\nWe need your aid in the support of these missionaries and\nmissionary teachers, who will thus become your representatives in\nthe field. Laboring with a lowly and despised people, they are cut\noff in many instances from social privileges, and your Christian\nlove and remembrance will give strength and good cheer.\n\nWe need scholarships to aid worthy and needy students. Our\nboarding-schools are doing a great work for _girls_, and often a\nyoung girl is saved to a useful life by supplementing her meagre\nfunds and retaining her in school. We need supplies of clothing for\ndistribution by missionaries in getting the young into school and\nSabbath-school; also furnishing of bed and table linen for mission\nhomes and boarding halls. Already our matrons are asking supplies\nof this kind.\n\nWe are indebted to the ladies of many of the Congregational\nchurches for valuable aid rendered, and now that the way is opened\nfor more direct communication with you, may we not hope that all\nwill become co-workers with our noble band of missionaries in\nseeking to instruct and benefit the women of races so ignorant and\ndegraded as those with whom we labor?\n\nWe invite special correspondence in regard to the various fields\nand the aid that can be given. Surely so important a work, not\nlimited to schools, but extending to the family and the church\nrelations, cannot be accomplished until _woman_ reaches forth her\nhand to sister woman in uplifting helpfulness.\n\n     Yours truly,\n                                       D. E. EMERSON, Secretary.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSION HOMES.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON.\n\n\u201cWhat is the Mission Home?\u201d The question has often been asked by\nfriends contributing to our work, as well as by those about to\nengage in it, and from the latter we have had some rather striking\ndescriptions of what they supposed the home to be, and of their\npleasant surprise upon reaching it. It is not a boarding hall for\nstudents, as many have thought. Such halls are in connection with\nboarding schools and accommodate both teachers and students.\n\nThe Mission Home, of which we give a specimen in the accompanying\ncut, is at stations where we have churches and day schools, and is\nthe home of the pastor and teachers. In some of the larger cities,\nas Wilmington, N.C., Savannah, Ga., Mobile, Ala., we have graded\nschools requiring a teaching force of from six to ten persons. Then\nthere are the pastor and family and the lady missionary, and the\nhome accommodates all. As each has a special line of duty occupying\nthe full time, a matron is appointed to take charge of household\naffairs and secure by her good management a pleasant and happy\nhome for the family. Sometimes the wife of the pastor or principal\nacts as matron, sometimes the duties of matron and missionary are\ncombined. It is no insignificant position to have charge of such\na home, and our matrons are as truly missionaries as any in our\nfield; besides the direct opportunities of usefulness among the\npeople, they may add to the efficiency of every member of the\nfamily by the cheerful, genial, restful spirit of the home, which\nit is largely in their power to maintain.\n\nThis plan of Mission Homes has its advantages to the work. It gives\nopportunity to teach by example varied lessons in home life, of\nneatness, economy and thrift. The family altar is set up, and often\nsome members of school or church join in the morning or evening\nsong of praise. Social parlor-gatherings are had, when the people\nare cordially invited and are engaged in pleasant conversation and\ngames, which, while interesting them, tend to their improvement.\nHere are often held the mothers meetings and the sewing class, and\ndaily the people come singly or by twos or threes for special help\nand advice, knowing that they are welcome, and that they will find\nin some members of the family the wise counsellor and friend.\n\nWe can scarcely overestimate the educative influence of these\nMission Homes upon the people. Even where there are but few workers\nemployed, we cannot wisely dispense with them. Within a year we\nhave built a small house in a country district where two ladies are\nemployed as missionary teachers. It is plain, two stories, contains\nfive rooms, is simply furnished, and cost about $900. There the\nladies keep house, and they testify, as also do other missionaries\nfrom the city station near, that this little \u201cHome\u201d has already\ndone more for the people as an \u201cobject lesson\u201d in home life than\nall previous effort in that direction.\n\nIn other articles in this department, our friends will learn how\nthey may share with us in this method of usefulness.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTER FROM MRS. CHASE, ATLANTA.\n\nMrs. Nelson has just called with her friend from the North, Mrs.\nBarker, who looked over school and domestic work very carefully,\nand then began plying me with questions, when Miss Stevenson,\nour missionary, dropped in. Mrs. Barker\u2019s face lighted up as she\nexclaimed, \u201cNow I have you both together, the teacher and the\nmissionary, I want to know where you think a little money will do\nthe most good?\u201d Mrs. Nelson said: \u201cEach one loves her own work\ntoo well to be a competent judge.\u201d Miss Stevenson, you know, is one\nof our veterans, been in the field ever since the war. For years\nher mind and body were tied in the class-room six hours in the\nday, but her heart was in the cabins all the while; and as soon as\nshe got relief from double duty, how she has put her whole soul\ninto missionary work! With her pleading eyes upon me, how could I\nmagnify my work above her\u2019s?\n\n[Illustration: A MISSION HOME.]\n\nSince they left, I\u2019ve been thinking that Mrs. Barker probably\nrepresents many women who wish their mites to go where they are\nmost interested. Their hearts, like that of every true mother,\nyearn over these girls in their great peril, and these boys,\ndriven from their wretched homes to the street for recreation. If\nmissionary work, unlike the school, were without organization,\nsystematic routine, or superintendence, it could not recommend\nitself to the cautious. But under the well-defined plan adopted of\nassociating the missionary labor with the school and church, the\nbest results are secured.\n\nMuch as I love the model school, I can but see that the model home\nis its only sure foundation. So the work is all one.\n\nI only hope that the grandeur of \u201cWork for Women in the Home\u201d may\nbe so felt that the noblest women will be drawn into the service,\nand develop such plans and mature such methods that the multitude\nof busy mothers and children, all over our land, can cast in their\npennies and feel sure of a wise investment.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nQUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.\n\nH., N.Y.\u2014What are the qualifications required of those who wish\nto become lady missionaries? Could one succeed with only a\ncommon-school education?\n\nSometimes a lady with only a common-school education does better\nthan one more liberally educated. It depends upon the qualities\nof the woman, the executive ability, the tact, the practical good\nsense, and knowledge of human nature. Of course, all other things\nbeing equal, the more thorough the education the better the work.\n\nB., N.Y.\u2014What is the cost of supporting a lady missionary, and how\nmany months during the year is it expedient for her to labor in the\nSouth?\n\nIt takes $450 to provide for a lady missionary for one year,\nincluding traveling expenses, board and a moderate salary. The time\nof service varies somewhat in different localities. At the extreme\nSouth she can wisely remain eight months of the year; further\nnorth, nine or ten. For other particulars we refer to the March\nnumber of the _Missionary_, which is devoted largely to woman\u2019s\nwork.\n\nNew York.\u2014What assistance can sewing circles and ladies\u2019 societies\nrender during the summer months that would be most helpful and\ntimely?\n\nWe shall need during the early autumn for replenishing our boarding\ndepartments and mission homes, quilts, sheets, pillow-cases,\nblankets, towels, table linen, table ware, and money for furnishing\nrooms in new buildings to be occupied by students. Help in either\nof these particulars will save so much for the support of the\nmissionary work.\n\nS., Ct.\u2014What provision is made during vacation for young girls who\nhave been taken from wretched homes into your institutions? Are\nthey obliged to return to the temptations and want of their early\nassociations? If not, what is the cost for their care during this\ntime?\n\nThere is nothing more important for the well-being of many colored\ngirls than suitable watch and care during their summer vacations.\nWe have been unable to do much in this direction. A few have been\nkept in the different boarding institutions, where the buildings\nhave been open. These have been given work whenever opportunity\noffered. Thirty or thirty-five dollars would provide for a girl in\naddition to what she could earn. We would be glad to correspond\nwith any who are disposed to assist in this way.\n\nR., Mass.\u2014Our children have been accustomed to contribute to the\nDakota schools through the Woman\u2019s Board of Foreign Missions. Does\nthe A. M. A. wish us to continue our interest in that particular\nwork?\n\nCertainly it does. We sincerely hope that all those who have been\ninterested in the support of missions among the Indians will\ncontinue their efforts and forward their gifts to us. The April\nnumber of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY is devoted largely to the work\nthe Association has accepted from the American Board, and is now\ncarrying on. We shall need the cordial co-operation and support of\nall the friends of the Indians in order to conduct the enlarged\nwork we have undertaken in their behalf.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration: ABOUT GIVING PENNIES\u2014SELECTED.]\n\n\nFIVE KINDS OF PENNIES.\n\nA boy who had a pocket full of coppers, dropped one into the\nMissionary-box, laughing as he did so. He had no thought in his\nheart about Jesus or the heathen. Was his penny not as light as\n_tin_?\n\nAnother boy put in a penny and looked around to see if anybody was\npraising him. His was the _brass_ penny; not the gift of a lowly\nheart, but of a proud spirit.\n\nA third boy gave a penny, saying to himself, \u201cI suppose I must,\nbecause all others do.\u201d\n\nThat was an _iron_ penny. It was the gift of a cold, selfish heart.\n\nAs a fourth boy dropped his penny into the box he shed a tear, and\nhis heart said, \u201cPoor heathens! I\u2019m sorry they are so poor, so\nignorant and so miserable.\u201d\n\nThat was a _silver_ penny, the gift of a heart full of pity.\n\nBut there was one scholar who gave his, saying, \u201cFor Thy sake,\nLord Jesus! Oh, that the heathen may hear of Thee, the Saviour of\nmankind!\u201d\n\nThat was a _golden_ penny, because it was the gift of faith and\nlove.\n\n\nTHE PENNY BOX.\n\nThey were giving away Missionary boxes at a Juvenile Missionary\nmeeting to the boys and girls who thought they could collect a\nlittle money for sending the Gospel to the heathen. Among those\nwho asked for a box was a poor child, so poor that the chairman\nhesitated at first to give her a box; on consideration, however, he\nlet her have one.\n\nAbout a fortnight afterward, this little girl called upon him in\ngreat trouble. He said to her, \u201cWhy, Sarah, what are you crying\nfor? Cannot you get any money to put into your box?\u201d\n\n\u201cNo, sir, it is not that,\u201d sobbed Sarah, \u201cit is so full I don\u2019t\nknow how I shall get any more in, the last penny was so hard to get\nin I had to take a hammer to hammer it!\u201d\n\nThe gentleman said, \u201cWell, Sarah, I think we can easily get over\nthat difficulty\u2014here is another box for you.\u201d\n\nBut this was not all; when Sarah first applied for a box, she did\nso just because her feelings of compassion had been awakened for\nthe poor heathen children; but while she was busily engaged in\ncollecting, the thought came into her mind, \u201cWhat am I collecting\nthis money for? That the poor _heathen_ children may be taught\nabout Jesus, but what do _I know about Him myself_?\u201d\n\nSarah then began to pray, and begged God the Holy Spirit to teach\nher about Jesus, and that was the commencement of a new life to the\ndear child.\n\n\nWHAT A PENNY CAN DO.\n\nWillie\u2019s penny made heaven rejoice. It would not have bought more\nthan a stick or two of candy or given much help to a starving\nfamily. What did he do with it? His sister was a missionary\u2019s wife\nin Africa, and the family were filling a box to send her. As one\nafter another brought their gifts Willie said, \u201cI want to give my\npenny.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat shall be bought with it?\u201d was the next question. It was\ndecided to buy a tract and write its history on the margin, and\nwith a prayer for its success send it on its distant errand.\n\nThe box arrived on the mission ground, and among its valuable\ncontents Willie\u2019s gift was laid away unnoticed and for a while\nforgotten. But God\u2019s watchful, all-seeing eye had not forgotten it.\nOne day a native teacher was starting from the mission station to\ngo to a school over the mountain. He knew the language well and was\na great help to the missionaries, but he was not a Christian. He\nhad resisted everything the missionaries had done to make him one.\n\nIn looking over some papers, Willie\u2019s tract was discovered,\nwith writing on the margin, which said that prayer was offered\nin America that it might do good. It was handed to the native\nteacher. He read it on his journey, and what years of labor by the\nmissionaries had not done was now brought about by the penny tract.\nThe man became a sincere Christian. Those who put the tract in his\nhand were overcome with joy, and there is joy in heaven over one\nsinner that repents.\n\nSo you see how Willie\u2019s penny made heaven rejoice.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $141.46.\n\n    Alfred. Mrs. Edith Davis, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            $ 0.35\n    Augusta. Joel Spalding                                    10.00\n    Bangor. Hammond St. Sab. Sch.                             10.00\n    Bangor. Ladies of Third Cong. Ch. \u00bd Bbl. of\n      C., _for Wilmington, N.C._\n    Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          25.00\n    Dover. W. F. Sampson                                       5.00\n    Lebanon. Miss R. H. Weld, _for New Orleans,\n      La._                                                    30.00\n    Lebanon Center. \u201cJ. M.\u201d                                    5.00\n    Limerick. S. F. Hayes, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              1.00\n    Limington. Miss Arzilla Boothby                            1.59\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             12.00\n    Waterford. Centre. Ch. Sab. Sch.                           9.00\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        32.61\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $341.93.\n\n    Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               11.53\n    Alstead. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         10.00\n    Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            14.15\n    Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           73.63\n    East Alstead. Rev. G. A. Beckwith, _for\n      Freight_                                                 1.10\n    Hancock. Mrs. A. W. Hills                                  3.00\n    Hopkinton. \u201cFriend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                      3.50\n    Langdon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Mason. Hon. Dana D. Goodwin, _for Lewis Pub.\n      Library, Macon, Ga._                                     2.00\n    Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns                       30.00\n    Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 5.00\n    Orfordville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            4.04\n    Pembroke. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           18.20\n    Portsmouth. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     101.82\n    Salem. Mrs. G. D. Kelley                                   1.00\n    Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               12.00\n    West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          16.30\n    West Lebanon. Children\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., by Mrs.\n      T. C. Pease, _for Indian M._                             7.00\n    Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             17.66\n\n\n  VERMONT, $317.82.\n\n    Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      10.00\n    Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.55\n    Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ad\u2019l                         7.22\n    Corinth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               31.00\n    East Berkshire. Cong. Ch.                                 10.00\n    Dorset. Women\u2019s Home M. Soc. _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             11.00\n    Georgia. Cong. Ch.                                         7.15\n    Ludlow. The late Mrs. B. P. Spaulding, by Dr.\n      J. N. Moore                                             25.00\n    Montpelier. Bethany Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    36.85\n    Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               42.00\n    Pittsford. Mrs. S. A. Denison                              5.00\n    Randolph. Mrs. M. K. Nichols                               2.50\n    Saint Albans. A. O. Brainerd, 20; H. M.\n      Stevens, 10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                 30.00\n    Pittsford. \u201cD.\u201d                                            1.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $244.27\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Brattleborough. Estate of Mrs. H. M. Linsley,\n      by C. F. Thompson                                       30.00\n    New Haven. Estate of H. P. Bingham, by\n      Jeremiah Powers                                         43.55\n                                                           --------\n                                                            $317.82\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $3,354.37.\n\n    Amherst. Officers and Students of Amherst\n      College                                                 83.07\n    Amherst. Miss Lizzie Stebbing\u2019s S. S. Class,\n      _for the poor, Atlanta, Ga._                            10.00\n    Andover. Free Ch. and Soc., 224.67; Francis H.\n      Johnson, $100; Chapel Ch. and Soc., 92                 416.67\n    Andover. G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             27.15\n    Ballardvale. Mrs. L. J. T. Burnap                          5.00\n    Boston. Shawmut Ch. Sab. Sch., 75; Park St.\n      Sab. Sch., 50; Coll. at Prayer Meetings\u2014Mt.\n      Vernon Ch., 13; Phillips Ch., 12; Park St.\n      Ch., 7; E St. Ch., 6;\u2014Missionary Concert,\n      Highland Ch., 11.10; Dea. Silas Potter, 25;\n      Miss Kirk, 10; Miss Minnie Woods, 10; Mrs.\n      Tead, 5; Mrs. Tyler, 5; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 2; Mr.\n      Gates, 1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                   232.10\n    Boston. Mrs. Henry H. Hyde, 10; Mrs. Emily P.\n      Eayrs, 5                                                15.00\n    Boston. Unitarian Sab. Sch. Pub. Soc., Pkg.\n      Books and Papers, _for Macon, Ga._\n    Byfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.50\n    Cambridge. \u201cA Friend\u201d, _for Indian M._                     5.00\n    Canton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    Chester. Second Cong. Ch.                                  5.66\n    Chelsea. Central Cong. Church and Soc.                    24.46\n    Charlestown. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   10.00\n    Clinton. Mrs. Abbie R. Winter                              2.00\n    Curtisville. Rev. A. G. Beebee                             5.00\n    Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         168.00\n    Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc.                          10.00\n    East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc.                      29.96\n    Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton, 10;\n      \u201cMrs. C. W. H.,\u201d 10                                     20.00\n    Framingham. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., 13.12; \u201cQ.\n      N.,\u201d 10                                                 23.12\n    Franklin. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., Estate of\n      Susan Stewart                                           95.12\n    Granby. Miss A. Bliss, _for New Orleans, La._              5.00\n    Great Barrington. \u201cA Member of Cong. Ch.\u201d                  1.00\n    Groton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                59.30\n    Holbrook. Winthrop Ch. and Soc.                           44.00\n    Holden. Miss N. Perry                                      2.50\n    Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             94.20\n    Lakeville. C. L. Ward                                     10.00\n    Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                      75.00\n    Lee. Bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._\n    Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc.                             82.75\n    Maynard. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV.\n      EDWIN SMITH, EZRA S. TARBELL and J. W.\n      FLOOD, L. Ms.                                           90.00\n    Maynard. Young Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._, and to const.\n      FRANK H. HARRIMAN, L. M.                                50.00\n    Medford. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                       0.50\n    Newton. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                                       40.00\n    New Bedford. First Ch. Acushnet                           53.66\n    Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      54.82; North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 22.94.                 77.76\n    Newburyport. \u201cMiss T.,\u201d 2; \u201cMrs. W.,\u201d 1, _for\n      Washington, D.C._                                        3.00\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Lady\n      Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                         53.68\n    North Abington. Cong. Ch.                                  5.00\n    Northbridge. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                           2.21\n    Palmer. Second Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Peabody. Prof. J. K. Cole, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              2.00\n    Rockport. \u201cPastor\u2019s Class,\u201d _for Indian M._                6.59\n    Roxbury. Eliot Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                25.00\n    Sandwich. Mrs. Robert Tobey, _for Indian\n      Student Aid, Hampton N. & A. Inst._                      5.00\n    Springfield. Olivet Ch., 23.78; I. Merrill, 5             28.78\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch., Box and 2 Bbls. of C.;\n      First Bapt. Ch. (Col.) Box and Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Washington, D.C._\n    South Egremont. Cong. Ch.                                 10.00\n    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.               148.69\n    South Framingham. Ladies\u2019 Assn. of Cong. Ch. 2\n      Bbls. of Bedding, etc., _for Atlanta U._\n    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    30.00\n    Southampton. \u201cL.\u201d                                         10.00\n    Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington                          10.00\n    Upton. Freight                                             3.00\n    Ware. First Cong. Ch. and Sch.                            34.20\n    Wellesley. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Washington,\n      D.C._                                                    2.25\n    Westborough. Ladies Soc. Of Cong. Ch. Bbl. of\n      C., 1 _for Freight_                                      1.00\n    West Medway. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 7.89;\n      Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. and\n      Box of C.                                                7.89\n    Westminster. \u201cFriends\u201d _for Williamsburg, Ky._            60.66\n    West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and Soc.                    66.40\n    West Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 20; Second\n      Cong. Ch., 14.90                                        34.90\n    Weymouth and Braintree. Union Cong. Ch.                   28.49\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            27.05\n    Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., Box of Bedding, _for\n      Atlanta U._\n    Worcester. Salem St. Ch., 64; Union Ch. and\n      Soc., 30; C. K. W., 50c.                                94.50\n    Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        38.10\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $2,654.87\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Fitchburg. Estate of Aaron Eaton, by Daniel\n      Messenger and Ezra B. Rockwood, Exrs.                  200.00\n    Uxbridge. Estate of Willard Judson by Jacob\n      Taft, Ex.                                              500.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $3,354.87\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,630.38.\n\n    Birmingham. J. Tomlinson                                  10.00\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. EUGENE\n      F. ATWOOD L. M.                                         34.37\n    Bristol. Chas. Lane, _for Student Aid, Atlanta\n      U._                                                      5.00\n    Columbia. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              19.26\n    Cornwall. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                           16.40\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                  76.57\n    Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch., to const. DEA.\n      HENRY W. LOOMIS L. M.                                   30.00\n    Gilead. Josiah C. Gilbert                                 10.00\n    Guilford. \u201cA Friend in Third Ch.,\u201d _for\n      Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                               2.00\n    Hartford. \u201cL. C. D.\u201d                                     100.00\n    Hebron. First Cong. Ch.                                    6.51\n    Higganum. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    Mansfield Center. First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Tillotson C. and N. Inst._                 10.00\n    New Britain. Mrs. Norman Hart                             10.00\n    New Haven. College St. Cong. Ch., 100; North\n      Ch., 94.55; Church of the Redeemer, 80; Hon.\n      S. Wells Williams, 20; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 1                   295.55\n    New Milford. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                              2.50\n    New Preston. Cong. Ch. (10 of which _for Work\n      for Women, Savannah, Ga._)                              50.00\n    Plainville. Cong. Ch.                                     55.87\n    Plantsville. Mrs. Mary Hotchkiss, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         5.00\n    Poquonock. Cong. Ch.                                      15.75\n    Reading. Cong. Ch.                                        27.00\n    Simsbury. Cong. Ch.                                       45.09\n    Somerville. Cong. Ch.                                     15.10\n    Sound Beach. Cong. Ch.                                    12.80\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      76.78\n    Waterbury. Second Cong. Ch.                              427.69\n    Windsor Locks. Cong Ch.                                   84.56\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend of Missions\u201d                               571.58\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $2,030.38\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Norwich. Estate of Mrs. F. B. Kellogg, by John\n      C. Kellogg, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                 100.00\n    Southport. Estate of Frederick Marquand                  500.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $2,630.38\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $1,081.84.\n\n    Albany. \u201cM.\u201d                                              50.00\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., 552.74; Julius\n      Davenport, 100                                         652.74\n    Brooklyn. Freedmen\u2019s Helpers, _for Macon, Ga._            15.00\n    Brooklyn. Bbl. of C., _for Washington, D.C._\n    Cazenovia. Mrs. H. L. Ward                                 0.50\n    Cortland. Mrs. E. B. Dean                                  5.00\n    Coventry. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Tillotson C. & N.\n      Inst._                                                   0.30\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                      24.00\n    Goshen. Miss Fannie E. Crane                               2.00\n    Ithaca. First Cong. Ch.                                   65.00\n    Mount Vernon. J. Van Santvoord                            10.00\n    New York. Seeley Bros. (Paint), _for Lewis\n      Pub. Library, Macon, Ga._                               10.50\n    North Evans. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc. of First\n      Cong. Ch.                                                4.80\n    Northville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                           20.00\n    Pekin. Miss Oliva Root, 4; Louisa Coleman, 1               5.00\n    Phelps. Ladies\u2019 Soc., by Mrs. J. R. Snow, _for\n      Student Aid, Emerson Inst._                             10.00\n    West Hebron. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 5; P. B. Larkin, 2                7.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $881.84\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Mount Morris. Estate of Mary F. Albright                 200.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,081.84\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $137.25.\n\n    Bergen Point. Reformed Ch.                                75.00\n    Newark. First Cong., 32.25; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 30 to\n      const. FLORA E. SMALLEY L. M.                           62.25\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $30.50.\n\n    Philadelphia. T. D. Quincy                                20.00\n    Philadelphia. Chas. W. Alexander, 10, _for\n      housekeeping cottage, Atlanta U._; Rachel\n      Grellet, 13 vols. _for Library, Atlanta U._             10.00\n    Prentissvale. L. S. Allen, 50c.; Sab. Sch.,\n      Box of Papers                                            0.50\n\n\n  OHIO, $6,039.95.\n\n    Akron. Cong. Ch.                                         174.62\n    Andover. Cong. Ch.                                         0.52\n    Chardon. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            15.00\n    Claridon. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  6.57\n    Elyria. First Cong. Ch.                                  110.33\n    Granville. G. P. Bancroft                                  2.00\n    Guildford. Trustees of First Cong. Ch.                   271.00\n    Hudson. S. Straight, _for Boy\u2019s Hall, Straight\n      U._                                                  5,000.00\n    Huntsburg. Mrs. M. E. Millard, _for Macon, Ga._            1.75\n    Kent. Cong. Ch.                                            5.49\n    Kingsville. Myron Whiting                                 50.00\n    Mansfield. Ladies Beneficent Soc. of First\n      Cong. Ch., 90, to const. MRS. DR. A. E.\n      KEYES, MRS. G. W. DE CAMP, and MRS. M. B.\n      BUSHNELL L. Ms.; Young People\u2019s Mission\n      Circle of First Cong. Church, 90, to const.\n      MISS ANNA ADAMS, MISS LULU CARTER and WILL\n      H. BLYMER, L. Ms.                                      180.00\n    Marietta. First Cong. Ch.                                 63.52\n    North Kingsville. Rev. E. J. Comings, 10; B.\n      S. Noyes, 5                                             15.00\n    North Monroeville. Freight                                 1.75\n    Norwalk. First Cong. Ch., to const. DEA.\n      CHARLES W. MANAHAN L. M.                                30.00\n    Oberlin. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Williamsburg, Ky._                3.00\n    Richwood. E. D. Jones                                      5.00\n    Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.00\n    Sullivan. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    Wakeman. Mrs. Wm. Terry, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                45.00\n    Warrensville. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Chinese\n      M._                                                     10.00\n    Wauseon. Joel Bingham, 1; Others, 40c., _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                           1.40\n    West Andover. Cong. Ch.                                   13.00\n    Wellington. Rev. James A. Daly                             5.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $7.00.\n\n    Michigan City. \u201cGolden Links,\u201d _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                         5.50\n    Sparta. John Hawkswell                                     1.50\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $3,058.06.\n\n    Bondville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      5.00\n    Chicago. South Cong Ch., 51.42; N. E. Cong.\n      Ch., 48.44                                              99.86\n    Chicago. John Fairbanks, _for Student Aid,\n      Straight U._                                            50.00\n    Chicago. Ladies Soc. of N. E. Cong. Ch., 27;\n      Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. of Lincoln Park Ch., 25,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                     52.00\n    Dundee. Cong. Ch.                                         18.21\n    Earlville. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. S. C.\n      DUPES L. M.                                             31.00\n    Elmwood. Mrs. L. R. Royce, _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                 5.00\n    Galena. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                         2.00\n    Galesburg. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of Brick Cong.\n      Ch.                                                     10.00\n    Geneseo. First Cong. Ch.                                  50.00\n    Glencoe. Cong. Ch.                                        40.00\n    Granville. Merry Workers, Box of Bedding, _for\n      Stone Hall, S. U._\n    Hillsdale. Cong Ch., to const. MRS. L. P.\n      HASKELL L. M.                                           50.00\n    Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. Ferry, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Lawn Ridge. A Crawford, _for Mendi M._                    20.00\n    Lewistown. Mrs. Myron Phelps                              50.00\n    Lombard. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., 2.56; Box of C.\n      and 1.50 _for Freight, for Lady Missionary,\n      Mobile, Ala._                                            4.06\n    Morrison. Cong. Ch., to const. WM. WALLACE and\n      HARMON E. BURR                                          60.00\n    Normal. Cong. Ch.                                          5.36\n    Payson. Cong. Ch.                                         30.00\n    Port Byron. \u201cMission Circle\u201d                               6.00\n    Princeton. \u201cH.\u201d                                            5.00\n    Princeville. Wm. C. Stevens                                5.00\n    Quincy. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. ALVIN R. BROWN\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Rockford. Second Cong. Ch.                               265.60\n    Rose Grove. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                     13.00\n    Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 3.58\n    Thawville. Cong Ch.                                       13.42\n    Tonica. F. A. Wood                                        10.00\n    Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                26.58\n    Udina. Cong. Ch.                                           2.89\n    Wilmette. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                 1.50\n    Wilmette. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                12.50\n    Winnebago. Gertrude F. Milton                              5.00\n    Winnetka. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., 8.50; Bbl.\n      of C. and 2, _for Freight, for Little Rock,\n      Ark._                                                   10.50\n    Winnetka. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           15.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,058.06\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Chicago. Estate of Mrs. Lucy Warner, by Heman\n      Baldwin and D. G. Hamilton, Exrs.                    2,000.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                           $3058.06\n\n\n  MICHIGAN. $451.70.\n\n    Adrian. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Williamsburg, Ky._                 1.20\n    Benzonia. Rev. Joseph S. Fisher, to const.\n      GEORGE L. FISHER L. M.                                  30.00\n    Calumet. Robert Dobbie                                    40.00\n    Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.\n      Fisk U._                                                10.00\n    Greenville. Mrs. A. J. Ecker, _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._                                                     2.00\n    Lamont. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    5.00\n    Lansing. Plymouth Cong. Ch.                               40.00\n    Utica. First Cong. Ch.                                    13.00\n    Webster. First Cong. Ch.                                  10.50\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $151.70\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Kalamazoo. Estate of Sarah D. White ($30 of\n      which to const HELEN J. WHITE L. M.), by D.\n      T. Allen, Ex.                                          300.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                            $451.70\n\n\n  IOWA, $265.87.\n\n    Belle Plaine. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            6.50\n    Chester Center. Cong. Ch.                                 28.00\n    Corning. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            6.00\n    Council Bluffs. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Williamsburg,\n      Ky._                                                     1.00\n    Cresco. Cong. Ch.                                          7.90\n    Decorah. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           25.00\n    Dunlap. Mrs. P. K. Smith, deceased, by Mrs. W.\n      T. Preston                                              10.00\n    Eldon. R. R. Cong. Ch.                                     2.50\n    Elkader. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                            1.50\n    Garwin. Talmon Dewey                                       2.00\n    Iowa City. Two Bales of C., Miss Hattie O.\n      Calkins, 1, _for New Orleans, La._                       1.00\n    Lyons. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           10.00\n    Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             35.82\n    McGregor. Women\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., Bbl. of C. Val.\n      36, _for New Orleans, La._\n    Miles. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Monona. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                            4.00\n    Muscatine. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           10.00\n    Muscatine. Cong. Ch.                                      56.25\n    Osage. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           10.00\n    Oskaloosa. Sab. Sch., _for Lady Missionary,\n      New Orleans, La._                                       13.00\n    Oskaloosa. S. R. Pettit                                    2.00\n    Ottumwa. First Cong. Ch.                                  23.40\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $1,626.41.\n\n    Appleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                           10.00\n    Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            4.00\n    Janesville. Cong. Ch., 14.75; C. Bassett, 10              24.75\n    Janesville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            7.25\n    Jefferson. Mission Band, _for Student Aid, T.\n      C. & N. Inst._                                           1.50\n    Menomonee. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,\n      Fisk U._                                                12.50\n    Salem. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Williamsburg, Ky._                 21.00\n    Sheboygan. James H. Mead, _for Lewis Pub.\n      Library, Macon, Ga._                                     5.00\n    Sheboygan. Dea. D. Brown\u2019s S. S. Class, _for\n      Macon, Ga._                                              1.00\n    Sparta. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            6.00\n    Trempeleau. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            5.70\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                      23.35\n    West Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            11.50\n    West Salem. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 6.30; Mrs. F.\n      M. Montague, 3; _for Lady Missionary,\n      Montgomery, Ala._                                        9.30\n    Whitewater. First Cong. Ch., 113.17; Geo. S.\n      Marsh, 10                                              123.17\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $266.02\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Madison. Estate of Amanda Nesmith, by Chas. E.\n      Shepard                                                960.39\n    Walworth. Estate of Mrs. L. R. S. Colton, by\n      F. W. Maxen, Ex.                                       400.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                          $1,626.41\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $111.52.\n\n    Faribault. \u201cHelping Hands,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            19.00\n    Glyndon. \u201cThe Church at Glyndon.\u201d                         12.27\n    Plainview. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                             5.00\n    Mazeppa. Cong. Ch.                                         7.50\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 59.22\n    Worthington. Union Cong. Ch.                               8.53\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $32.50.\n\n    Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch.                              32.50\n\n\n  KANSAS, $29.50.\n\n    Alma. Cong. Ch.                                            2.08\n    Burlington. John Morris                                    5.00\n    Fort Scott. First Cong. Ch.                                3.30\n    Manhattan. \u201cFather and Daughter,\u201d by Rev. R.\n      M. Tunnell                                              10.00\n    Olathe. First Cong. Ch., 6; and Sab. Sch, 3.12.            9.12\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $70.00.\n\n    Genoa. Cong. Ch.                                           5.00\n    Irvington. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    McCook. Rev. Geo. Dungan                                  10.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cAn old friend in Nebraska,\u201d _for John\n      Brown Steamer_                                          50.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $15.25.\n\n    West Denver. Cong. Ch. 12.04; and Sab. Sch., 3.21        15.25\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $2,779.10.\n\n    Lugonia. Lugonia Sab. Sch.                                 1.30\n    National City. J. E. Cushman                             120.00\n    San Francisco. The California Chinese Mission          2,657.80\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $82.53.\n\n    Washington. First Cong. Ch., 70.53; Howard U.,\n      Mon. Con. Coll., 12                                     82.53\n\n\n  MARYLAND, $100.00.\n\n    Baltimore. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    100.00\n\n\n  VIRGINIA, 87.00.\n\n    Herndon. Cong. Ch.                                         7.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $199.75.\n\n    Ashland. Hugh Means                                       10.00\n    Lexington. Normal Sch. Tuition                            48.50\n    Louisville. Warren Memorial Presb. Ch. Sab.\n      Sch., _for Indian M._                                   40.00\n    Williamsburg. Tuition                                    101.25\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $420.95.\n\n    Knoxville. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          202.40\n    Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition                              208.55\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $239.75.\n\n    Raleigh. Miss E. P. Hayes, 15; \u201cFriends,\u201d\n      10.15., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                   25.15\n    Wilmington. Tuition, 209.60; Cong. Ch., 5                214.60\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $357.80.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, 347.80;\n      Plymouth Ch., 10                                       357.80\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $954.35.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 226,25; Rent,\n      3; \u201cVisitors,\u201d 100; First Cong. Ch., 30;\n      PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, 30, to const.\n      himself L. M.                                          389.25\n    Atlanta. Hon. W. A. Huff, 10; Gen. John R.\n      Lewis, 10, _for Lewis Public Library, Macon,\n      Ga._                                                    20.00\n    Macon. Citizens of Macon, 178.50; Subscribers,\n      14, _for Lewis Public Library_                         192.50\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 148.50; Cong.\n      Ch., 16.50                                             165.00\n    McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition                      0.65\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 119.85; Rent,\n      10; Cong. Ch., 57.10                                   186.95\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $532.41.\n\n    Marion. Tuition, 12; Cong. Ch., 6.50                      18.50\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition                           184.25\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Selma. First Cong. Ch.                                    29.00\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 280.66;\n      Cong. Ch., 10                                          290.66\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $1,164.75.\n\n    Tougaloo. State Appropriation, 1,000; Tougaloo\n      U., Tuition, 111.85; Tent, 52.90                     1,164.75\n\n\n  LOUISIANA, $156.00.\n\n    New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition                        156.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $330.75.\n\n    Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition                 325.75\n    Austin. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, T. C. &\n      N. Inst._                                                5.00\n\n\n  INCOMES, $416.75.\n\n    Theological Fund, _for Howard U._                        141.00\n    Graves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._              125.00\n    Stone Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._                 0.75\n    Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._                      100.00\n    Haley Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._                     50.00\n                                                        -----------\n      Total for May                                      $27,487.70\n      Total from Oct. 1 to May 31                       $178,884.61\n                                                        ===========\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    Jefferson, Ohio. Mrs. Nancy M. Stone and Miss\n      Abbie Stone $500 each, _for Scholarship\n      Fund, Talladega C._                                  1,000.00\n    Stone Professorship, _for Howard U._                     500.00\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions                                             43.84\n    Previously acknowledged                                  591.55\n                                                             ------\n      Total                                                 $635.39\n                                                           ========\n\n         *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n    RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, E.\n      Palache, Treasurer, from Jan. 24, to May 24,\n      1883.\n    FROM CHURCHES: Murphy\u2019s, Cong Ch., Rev. A.\n      Ostrom, 2.\u2014Oakland, First Cong Ch.,\n      12.95.\u2014San Francisco, First Cong. Ch., Two\n      Annual Members, 4; Bethany Ch. Monthly\n      Offerings, 101.25.\u2014Sonoma, Cong. Ch., Rev.\n      and Mrs. H. H. Wickoff, 4.90                           125.10\n    FROM AUXILIARY MISSIONS: Marysville, Chinese\n      Monthly Offering, 29.50; Annual Member, 2;\n      \u201cThree Friends,\u201d 3.\u2014Oroville, Chinese\n      Monthly Offerings, 14.65; Annual Member\n      (Chinese), 2.\u2014Petaluma, Chinese Monthly\n      Offerings, 18.60.\u2014Sacramento, Chinese\n      Monthly Offerings, 30.\u2014Santa Barbara,\n      Chinese Monthly Offerings, 24.\u2014Santa Cruz,\n      Chinese Monthly Offerings, 12.50; Collection\n      at Anniversary, 14.45; Annual Members,\n      8.\u2014Stockton, Chinese Monthly Offerings, 12             170.70\n    FROM INDIVIDUALS: Oakland, Mrs. Nathaniel\n      Gray, 5.\u2014San Francisco, Balfour, Guthrie &\n      Co., 1,000; J.J. Felt, 100; Mrs. Samuel\n      Perkins, 25, to const. SAMUEL PERKINS,\n      L.M.\u2014Liverpool, Eng., Hon. Stephen\n      Williamson, M.P., 500; Alexander Balfour\n      Esq. 500                                             2,130.00\n    FROM EASTERN FRIENDS: Bangor, Me., Central\n      Cong. Ch., 100; E. R. Burpee, 100.\u2014Norwich,\n      Conn., Mrs. S. A. Huntington, 25, to const.\n      MOSES PIERCE, L. M.\u2014Iowa, Grinnell, Alonzo\n      Steele, 5; Miss Mary E. Brewer\u2019s, S. S.\n      Class, 2                                               232.00\n                                                          ---------\n      Total                                               $2,657.80\n                                                          =========\n\n                                        H. W. 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By REV. J. H.\n  MCILVANE, D.D. 1 vol. crown 8vo, $2.50.\n\n\u201c\u2018_The Wisdom of Holy Scripture_\u2019 is no ordinary book. It handles\nsome of the toughest questions of theology and of sociology with\noriginal and intelligent strength. The author does not get outside\nthe limits of evangelical orthodoxy, nor does he give sign of being\nfretted or hampered by the restraints of those limitations.\u201d\u2014_The\nIndependent._\n\n\n                ENGLISH STYLE IN PUBLIC DISCOURSE.\n\n  With Special Relation to the Usages of the Pulpit. By Prof.\n  AUSTIN PHELPS, D.D., author of \u201cThe Theory of Preaching,\u201d \u201cMen\n  and Books,\u201d etc. 1 vol. 12mo, $2.\n\n\u201cThis volume may be read, and not only read, but studied, with much\nprofit by every one who has occasion to speak in public or to write\nfor the public.... We have here a treatise on pulpit style broad\nenough to be that and something more\u2014a satisfactory treatise on all\nEnglish style.... It will be a great help to any who are striving\nto learn how to write and speak their mother tongue with precision,\nforce and grace.\u201d\u2014_The Examiner._\n\n\n                  A CRITIQUE OF DESIGN ARGUMENTS.\n\n  A Historical Review and Free Examination of the Methods of\n  Reasoning in Natural Theology. By L. E. HICKS, Professor of\n  Geology in Denison University, Granville, Ohio. 1 vol. crown\n  8vo, $2.\n\n\u201cThe book, as a compendium of thought on this vast theme, is one\nwhich no student can afford to do without.... We venture the\nprediction that Professor Hicks\u2019 fascinating and in every way\nadmirable treatise will become recognized as one of the works\nwhich not only mark but help to make an epoch in speculative\nthought.\u201d\u2014_The Examiner._\n\n\n                           FINAL CAUSES.\n\n  By PAUL JANET, Member of the French Academy. Translated from\n  the Second French Edition. With a Preface by Robert Flint,\n  D.D., LL.D. 1 vol. 8vo, $2.50.\n\n\u201cNo book of greater importance in the realm of theological\nphilosophy has appeared during the past twenty years than Paul\nJanet\u2019s \u2018Final Causes.\u2019 The central idea of the work is one which\nthe whole course of scientific discussion has made the burning\nquestion of the day, viz., that final causes are not inconsistent\nwith physical causation.\u201d\u2014_Independent._\n\n\n                 DR. McCOSH\u2019S PHILOSOPHIC SERIES.\n\n  No. 1.\u2014Criteria of Diverse Kinds of Truth, as opposed to\n  Agnosticism. Being a Treatise on Applied Logic.\n\n  No. 2.\u2014Energy, Efficient and Final Cause. By James McCosh,\n  D.D., LL.D.\n\n  No. 3.\u2014Development: What it Can Do and What it Cannot Do. Each\n  1 vol. 12mo, paper. 50 cents.\n\n\u201cIt is not unlikely to prove true in the end that the most useful\npopular service which Dr. McCosh has rendered to the cause of\nright thinking and to a sound philosophy of life, is his proposed\n\u2018Philosophic Series.\u2019\u201d\u2014_The Independent._\n\n\n                          LOGIC AND LIFE.\n\n  With Other Sermons. By Rev. H. S. HOLLAND, M.A., Senior Student\n  of Christ Church, Oxford. With an Introductory notice by\n  President Noah Porter. 1 vol. 8vo, $1.50.\n\n\u201cOriginality of thought and expression, a glowing but well-ordered\nimagination, profound spirituality and reflective power, and a\nsustained eloquence that burns on every page, are the current\ncharacteristics of these remarkable sermons.\u201d\u2014_Christian\nIntelligencer._\n\n\n                    THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY,\n\n  According to the Bible and the Traditions of Oriental Peoples.\n  From the Creation of Man to the Deluge. By FRANCOIS LENORMANT,\n  Professor of Arch\u00e6ology at the National Library of France,\n  etc., etc. (Translated from the Second French Edition.) With an\n  introduction by FRANCIS BROWN, Assistant Professor in Biblical\n  Philology, Union Theological Seminary. 1 vol. 12mo, 750 pp.,\n  $2.50.\n\n\u201cThe work is one that deserves to be studied by all students of\nancient history, and in particular by ministers of the gospel,\nwhose office requires them to interpret the Scriptures, and who\nought not to be ignorant of the latest and most interesting\ncontribution of science to the elucidation of the sacred\nvolume.\u201d\u2014_New York Tribune._\n\n\n                  THE GOSPEL OF THE SECULAR LIFE.\n\n  With a Prefatory Essay, by the Rev. W. H. FREEMANTLE, Canon of\n  Canterbury. 1 vol. 12mo, $1.\n\n\u201cThere is the genuine ring of Christian manliness in Canon\nFreemantle\u2019s \u2018Gospel of the Secular Life.\u2019 ... His book is a\nstrong and earnest plea for practical unity among Christian\ndenominations; for the supremacy of Christ in the secular life, and\nfor the grounding of all earthly pursuits upon the firm rock of\nChristianity.\u201d\u2014_The Sunday-School Times._\n\n\n                      OLD TESTAMENT REVISION.\n\n  A Handbook for English Readers. By ALEXANDER ROBERTS, D.D.,\n  author of \u201cCompanion to the Revised Version of the English New\n  Testament.\u201d 1 vol. 12mo, $1.\n\n\u201cWe do not know any work of the same compass which will remove as\nmany misapprehensions and convey as much information about the Old\nTestament Scriptures.\u201d\u2014_Episcopal Register._\n\n\n                          ON THE DESERT.\n\n  With a Brief Review of Recent Events in Egypt. By Rev. HENRY\n  M. FIELD, D.D., author of \u201cFrom the Lakes of Killarney to the\n  Golden Horn,\u201d and \u201cFrom Egypt to Japan.\u201d 1 vol. crown 8vo, with\n  a map, $2.\n\n\u201cIt ought to be in every Sunday-school library and on every home\ntable. The minister\u2019s library need not disdain it. We hope Dr.\nField will live long, travel much, never fail to make abundant\nnotes and give them, with subsequent reflections, in volumes that\nwill be sure to prolong his usefulness and the gathered treasures\nof many days. Books of travel like these preach powerfully both of\nthe ways of man and the ways of God.\u201d\u2014_Christian Union._\n\n\n                THE RELIGIONS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD.\n\n  Including Egypt, Assyria and Babylonia, Persia, India,\n  Ph\u0153nicia, Etruria, Greece, Rome. By GEORGE RAWLINSON, M.A.,\n  author of the \u201cOrigin of Nations,\u201d etc. 1 vol. 12mo, $1.\n\n\u201cThe historical studies which have elevated this author\u2019s works\nto the highest position have made him familiar with those beliefs\nwhich once directed the world\u2019s thought, and he has done literature\nno better service than in this little volume.\u201d\u2014_N. Y. Christian\nAdvocate._\n\n\n                    THE BEGINNINGS OF HISTORY,\n\n  According to the Bible and the Traditions of the Oriental\n  Peoples. From the Creation of Man to the Deluge. By FRANCOIS\n  LENORMANT, Professor of Arch\u00e6ology at the National Library\n  of France, etc. (Translated from the Second French Edition.)\n  With an introduction by FRANCIS BROWN, Associate Professor in\n  Biblical Philology, Union Theological Seminary. 1 vol. 12mo,\n  750 pages, $2.50.\n\n\u201cM. Lenormant is not only a believer in revelation, but a devout\nconfessor of what came by Moses as well as of what came by Christ.\nIn this exploration of Chaldean, Babylonian, Assyrian and Ph\u0153nician\ntradition he discloses a prodigality of thought and skill allied to\ngreat variety of pursuit and diligent manipulation of what he has\nsecured. He \u2018spoils the Egyptians\u2019 by boldly using, for Christian\npurposes, materials, which, if left unused, might be turned against\nthe credibility of the Mosaic records. From the mass of tradition\nhere examined it would seem that if these ancient legends have\na common basis of truth, the first part of Genesis stands more\ngenerally related to the religious history of mankind, than if it\nis taken primarily as one account, by one man, to one people.\u201d\u2014_The\nNew Englander._\n\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n     _These books are for sale by all Booksellers, or will be\n           sent, post-paid, on receipt of the price, by_\n\n      CHARLES SCRIBNER\u2019S SONS, 743 & 745 Broadway, New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATKIN & PROUT, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTranscribers 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.\n\nChanged \u201cmision\u201d to \u201cmission\u201d on page 195 (the mission in\nconnection with the one maintained)\n\nChanged \u201cFragance\u201d to \u201cFragrance\u201d on page 223 (Beauty and\nFragrance).\n\nChanged \u201cEturia\u201d to \u201cEtruria\u201d on the back cover (Etruria, Greece,\nRome).\n\nChanged \u201cPhenician\u201d to \u201cPh\u0153nician\u201d on the back cover (Ph\u0153nician\ntradition).","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 7, July, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19847}