{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_61019/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_61019","id":"gutenberg_61019","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61019","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals","The American Missionary"],"text":"[Illustration: AUGUST, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 8\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                   PAGE.\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014THIS NUMBER\u2014VACATION DAYS        225\n    CONGREGATIONALISM SOUTH                         226\n    GENERAL NOTES                                   228\n    BENEFACTIONS                                    230\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    ANNIVERSARY REPORTS\u2014BEREA COLLEGE               231\n    ATLANTA UNIVERSITY                              232\n    CUT OF ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS             233\n    LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL                               234\n    AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE                          236\n    BEACH INSTITUTE                                 237\n    BREWER NORMAL INSTITUTE                         238\n    GOLIAD, TEXAS\u2014FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.                239\n    A COTTON PLANTATION (cut)                       240\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    TESTIMONY OF AN INDIAN AGENT                    241\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    MISSION WORK IN MAY                             243\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    NOTES ON MEETINGS OF STATE SOCIETIES            245\n    GLEANINGS FROM CORRESPONDENCE                   246\n    WORK AT THE DAKOTA MISSION                      247\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    A LITTLE MERCHANT                               248\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                          250\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n         PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n                      Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n          Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y.,\n                      as second-class matter.\n\n\n\n\nTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nPRESIDENT.\n\n  Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, LL.D., Mass.\n\n\nCORRESPONDING SECRETARY.\n\n  Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\nTREASURER.\n\n  H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\nAUDITORS.\n\n  M. F. READING.\n  WM. A. NASH.\n\n\nEXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.\n\nJOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman; A. P. FOSTER, Secretary; LYMAN\nABBOTT, ALONZO S. BALL, A. S. BARNES, C. T. CHRISTENSEN, FRANKLIN\nFAIRBANKS, CLINTON B. FISK, S. B. HALLIDAY, SAMUEL HOLMES, CHARLES\nA. HULL, SAMUEL S. MARPLES, CHARLES L. MEAD, WM. H. WARD, A. L.\nWILLISTON.\n\n\nDISTRICT SECRETARIES.\n\n  Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D., _Boston_.\n  Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n  Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to\nthe Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting\nfields, to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of\nthe \u201cAmerican Missionary,\u201d to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New\nYork Office; letters for the Bureau of Woman\u2019s Work, to Miss D. E.\nEmerson, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nmay be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,\nor, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21\nCongregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,\nChicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a\nLife Member.\n\n\nFORM OF A BEQUEST.\n\n\u201cI BEQEATH 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[Illustration: ESTEY ORGAN\n\n  J. ESTEY & CO\n  Brattleboro Vt.]\n\nAs musical culture increases it demands in musical instruments for\nhome, church, or school, excellence in tone, tasteful workmanship,\nand durability.\n\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n            VOL. XXXVII.      AUGUST, 1883.      No. 8.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in the Central Congregational Church,\nBrooklyn, New York (Dr. A. J. F. Behrends\u2019), commencing Tuesday,\nOctober 30, at 3 o\u2019clock P.M. Rev. J. L. Withrow, D.D., of Boston,\nwill preach the sermon. Other addresses and papers, and also\narrangements relating to the meeting, will be announced hereafter.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWe give in this number of the MISSIONARY additional reports of\neight of our educational institutions, and also a cut of the\ncollege buildings of Atlanta University. The new Stone hall, which\nis the centre building, is 124 feet in length, three stories\nhigh, with a basement, and contains president\u2019s and treasurer\u2019s\noffices, class rooms, Graves library room, chapel, which will seat\ncomfortably 400, besides lecture rooms, dormitory room, etc., etc.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nVACATION DAYS.\n\nBy the time this issue of the _Missionary_ reaches our readers,\na large number of those in the service of this Association\nwill be enjoying a season of needed rest. As the climate South\nis enervating to those who have been raised at the North, it\nis essential that our missionaries working in that portion of\nthe country return every year or two to their former homes and\nassociations for recuperation and courage for future work. Many\nof them need also contact with Northern society to refresh their\nhearts and minds, and to gain a stimulus not imparted by the circle\nof acquaintances found on the Southern field. These visits North\nafford opportunities for our workers to make known the wants of\nthe people with whom they labor, and to show the deep interest\nthey take in their welfare, and the sacrifices they are willing\nto make in their behalf. The return of a missionary to the church\nfrom which he or she went forth, often gives a spiritual uplift to\nthe whole congregation. We are happy to recognize the willingness\nmanifested by pastors, by Sabbath-schools and by local missionary\nsocieties, to afford these returned missionaries the privilege\nof explaining the needs of their work and of enlisting a deeper\nsympathy for it. We wish, however, to make it known that these\nmissionaries greatly appreciate kindly attention. Many of them have\nfelt the want of it on the Southern field, and sometimes on their\nreturn after protracted absence receive it with glad surprise.\nWe are sure that if those with whom they meet will be forward to\nexpress their pleasure in seeing them and their interest in their\nsacrifices and success, they will find that the little effort\nput forth to give cheer will go a long ways in strengthening the\nheart, and adding to the ability of the missionary to do more\nvaliantly the work of Christian patriotism in which he is engaged.\nInvitations to literary and social circles, as well as to more\nstrictly religious meetings, will almost always be grateful to\nthe tired worker, and we are very sure that the information, the\nunconscious influence, imparted by the missionary, as well as the\nsatisfaction in having done a good and kindly service, will amply\nrepay for any effort Christian friends may make to render the\nmissionary\u2019s vacation agreeable and profitable.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCONGREGATIONALISM SOUTH.\n\nRY REV. J. E. ROY, D.D.\n\nWhen the American Missionary Association went \u201cdown toward the\nSouth,\u201d Congregationalism was hated by the ruling class, as coming\nfrom the hot-bed of New Englandism, and was absolutely unknown\namong the people to whom the Northern evangelism then had access,\nand even on their part, as a system, it had yet to encounter the\ndensest opposition which ignorance, superstition and sectarianism\ncould combine. And when, like John the Baptist, it laid the ax at\nthe root of the tree, demanding morality as well as pietism, it\nconfronted the momentum of generations of pagan vice confirmed\nby the indurations of the system of slavery. In order to get any\nfoothold on this basis, it has to begin with the spelling-book, as\nthe key to the incarcerated Bible. But the hunger for letters, for\nideas, forced a way into the word of God. Schools followed the army\nacross the Southland. Revivals, like the Northern clover, sprang up\nin the same track. Every teacher, by his or her vow, entered into\nwith the A. M. A., became a missionary.\n\nTalk about women\u2019s work for women. Here, for a score of years, have\nbeen from 150 to 200 gifted consecrated women, of whom the world\nwas not worthy, sacrificing youth and beauty, going for a time into\nplaces where men could not stand, with their names cast out as\nvile, yet lifting up their lowly sisters and starting scores and\nscores of young men on into a religious life and into the ministry\nof the Lord Jesus. As converts multiplied, many of them took to the\nold churches, and not a few desired to have the way which their\ndear teachers represented. And so, gradually there came on these\nchurches, each one a miniature republic, and each, in almost every\ncase, an outcome of the school process.\n\nIn that early time, not a few of the best tried friends of the\nAssociation grew uneasy at the slow progress of the church work,\nonly in late years to admire the wisdom of the administration in\nnot picking the pear before it was ripe. The M. E. church going\nSouth had only to open its doors to receive 200,000 of the old-time\nMethodists, with their clinging immoralities and their corrupting\nministers. Grandly has that patriotic church wrestled with its\nproblem. But ours has been a call to a different task.\n\nIn five years after the close of the war, besides the three\nJohn G. Fee churches in Kentucky, which had flung themselves\nupon the serried ranks of the slaveholders, compelling a vast\nregion to behold what sort of stuff this Puritanism was made\nof, the Association numbered _eleven_ churches among the sable\nbrethren, whose teachers and preachers usually joined with them\nin fellowship. In ten years these had come to number _forty_. And\nnow, eighteen years after the war, the total is _eighty-nine_, an\naverage of five for each year. Nor are these merely nominal or\nskeleton churches. Their average membership is _sixty-five_, while\nthat of all our churches west of the Mississippi is _thirty-five_.\nNearly every one has its own place of worship and its own pastor.\nTheir own ministers have had to be grown, converted and trained\nup from the alphabet, while multitudes have been prepared in our\nschools for service in the old-time churches, the small number\nthat we have taken (a half hundred, besides several foreign\nmissionaries) serving only as the toll for grinding the grists. A\nhigh wisdom was that which was displayed by the early workers in\nseizing upon the strategic points, so that one can now hardly go to\na principal city of the South without finding there a fully-working\nCongregational church, such as those at Washington, Hampton,\nCharleston, Raleigh, Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Mobile, Montgomery,\nBirmingham, Meridian, Jackson, New Orleans, Austin, Little Rock,\nMemphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, and Louisville. So it\nseems that this work has gone on in every State of the South, for\nin Florida, which might seem an exception, the noted church at\nJacksonville was organized by one of the actuaries of the A. M. A.,\nand nourished by another. Nor have these churches been left to the\nweakness of an isolated independence. For the better training of\nthem, and for the consolidating of their strength, they have been\norganized into regular State associations, which have sought to\nintroduce the methods of the North, which in their varied services\noften come to an intellectual and spiritual glow that astonishes\nus, and which come to a consciousness of their national fellowship\nwhen they each elect their delegates to the annual meeting of the\nA. M. A., and to the National Council, one of their own members\nhaving served at the last triennial as an assistant moderator.\nThese State bodies now number _eight_, which nearly cover the\nwhole South. So, then, the physical geography of the land is quite\nwell mapped out, Congregationally. There remains much space for\nfilling.\n\nNo view of the Congregationalism taken into the South by the A. M.\nA. will be complete without considering the pervasive influence\nof all of these churches and institutions of learning, that have\ncome to be a power universally recognized. Almost every member\ngoing forth from them is, in some sense, a representative of the\nCongregational idea, though he does not himself take the name.\nIn all the South, among the whites as well as the blacks, these\nprinciples have been made known, so that the way, in great part, is\nprepared for carrying on there a spiritual propagandism that shall\nyet recognize the essential feature of this past dispensation,\nwhich, at the North, has been up-borne by sympathy and prayer, the\nconsecration of substance and the offering of sons and daughters,\nand which, at the South, has bravely stood, this score of years,\nfor this sublime act and testimony, in sacrifice enduring hardness,\nostracism and scorn, viz., the features of the brotherhood of\nman in Christ Jesus, the real unity of all Christian believers,\nirrespective of race, color, or social condition.\n\n                                            THE CONGREGATIONALIST.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014The French government will shortly submit to the Chamber a project\nfor the construction of a railroad from Soukarras to Tebessa.\n\n\u2014Dr. Schweinfurth will soon come to Halle to confer with Dr.\nRiebeck upon the results of their exploration of Sokotora.\n\n\u2014The English missionaries sent to reinforce the station of Roubaga\nhave all been detained by the fever at Msalala to the south of\nVictoria Nyanza.\n\n\u2014P. Livinhac, who for five years has directed the station of\nRoubaga, has been appointed apostolic vicar of Victoria Nyanza.\n\n\u2014According to a communication from Rohlfs to the Geographical\nSociety of Berlin, Dr. Stecker has vainly attempted to traverse the\nGallas country and will return to Europe.\n\n\u2014Mr. Herisson has reported from his new arch\u00e6ological exploration\nin Tunis, two grand mosaics from Carthage, the most beautiful that\nhave as yet been found in Africa.\n\n\u2014Hicks Pasha has defeated over 5,000 Arabs in the Soudan, killing\n500. The Arabs fight bravely, but their spears are useless against\nshells and cannon. The Egyptian loss was two killed.\n\n\u2014Captain Casati has traversed the country of the Niams-Niams,\nfollowing several routes not frequented as yet by European\ntravelers. He has encountered great dangers, was detained a\nprisoner for two months in the house of Prince Azanga, and only\nrescued himself from his captivity by flight.\n\n\u2014The Wesleyan missions on the West Coast of Africa in Sierra Leone,\nGold Coast, Yomba, Popo and Gambia have contributed about $150,000\nin the last ten years. The number in church fellowship is 15,044;\nin attendance on public worship, 53,474.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014The Indian School at Carlisle has 137 acres of wheat, from which\nabout 600 barrels of flour will be made for the use of the boarding\ndepartment.\n\n\u2014There are Indian girls in the Indian Territory University who\nare studying German, French, Latin, and Greek, geology, moral\nphilosophy, political economy and other branches of the College\ncourse.\n\n\u2014The Indian Mission of the Methodists in the Indian Territory is\norganized into a conference with four presiding elder\u2019s districts\nand twenty-nine pastoral charges. There are 112 local preachers,\n1,100 white members, 30 colored members, 5,107 Indian members, 58\nSunday Schools with 1,602 scholars.\n\n\u2014The Presbyterians have arranged to establish next September a\nboarding school among the Creek Indians where they have never been\nreached by Christian influences.\n\n\u2014The capacity of Indian children for learning English is shown by\nthe fact that at Carlisle quite a number who came in August without\nknowing the language were able to converse in it the next May.\n\n\u2014It is said that the Indians of Alaska do not belong to the same\nrace as the North American Indians, but they are probably an\noffshoot from Japanese Coreans. The missionaries who have been\nlaboring among them say that in many respects their conceptions of\nmoral law are better than those of civilized nations.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014There are Chinese Baptist churches in Guiana, South America.\n\n\u2014The English Presbyterian Synod Missionary Society, having its\nfield of labor principally in China, reported for last year an\nincome of $425,000.\n\n\u2014The Trinity Baptist Church of New York has twelve Chinamen among\nits members. At the baptism of J. Sing recently, some twenty other\nChinamen were present. One of these converts, Kun Sing, is about to\ngo as a missionary to his countrymen in Canton, China.\n\n\u2014A number of Japanese have prepared a formal paper, asking that in\nthe work of translating the Old Testament the Japanese Christians\nmay be represented by a committee of their own countrymen, selected\nby themselves.\n\n\u2014The Stockton (Cal.) _Herald_ gives the following account of a\nChinese bride: The other afternoon a strange procession of hacks,\nwith gay colors flying, with a scent of burning spices about them,\ndrew up at the shed of the California Steam Navigation Company,\nwhere the steamer Mary Garratt was loading. In the first hack was\na lone female, with her head in a bundle of bright-colored Chinese\nsilk, which concealed every feature. Behind was another hack, in\nwhich several Chinese boys rode, each carrying a burning taper.\nThen came two more hacks, each filled with Chinese women. All\nalighted at the wharf, and the hooded woman was assisted out and\nled on board the steamer, her course being conducted by the boys\nwith the lighted tapers and the women. The woman was so closely\nveiled as to be practically blindfolded. Then it was ascertained\nthat she was a daughter of \u201cSonora George,\u201d and was going to\nBedouin Island to be married.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nMr. Deering has given $50,000 to the Northwestern University of the\nMethodists at Evanston, Illinois.\n\nMr. John C. Phillips has given $25,000 for the further endowment of\nPhillips Exeter Academy.\n\nWm. H. Vanderbilt has added $100,000 to the endowment fund of\nVanderbilt University.\n\nLafayette College has received from Mr. T. W. McWilliams of New\nYork a contribution of $10,000 toward the endowment of the March\nChair of Philology.\n\nMr. J. H. Cassedy of Thiells, N.Y., has given $5,000 to Talladega\nCollege for a model school building, to bear his name.\n\nMiss Susie Bartlett of Oshkosh, Wis. has given $500 to Beloit\nCollege for the purchase of scientific books.\n\nBy the will of Amasa Stone, Adelbert College is to receive $100,000\nin addition to the half million given during his lifetime.\n\nThe Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute of Troy, N.Y. has received\nfrom Mrs. Wm. Howard Harts, as a memorial of her late husband,\n$60,000 to endow a professorship to bear his name.\n\nMrs. Dr. Griffin of Troy, N.Y., a former preceptress at Cazenovia\nSeminary, has given $5,000 to that institution.\n\nOberlin College has received $5,000 from Miss Sturges of Mansfield,\nOhio, for a new building for the use of ladies\u2019 societies, to be\ncalled Sturges Hall.\n\nBy the will of Lucy O. Bowditch, late of Boston, a bequest of\n$5,000 is made to the industrial school for girls, at Dorchester,\nto be added to the permanent fund, the income to be applied to\npaying the expenses of the school.\n\n_Endowments for the Christian education of the coming generations\nare the best bulwarks of our free institutions._\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       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEREA COLLEGE.\n\nProf. W. E. C. Wright.\n\nThe seventeenth year of Berea College closed on June 30th with\nmost satisfactory marks of the sustained usefulness and increasing\nimportance of the school.\n\nThe Commencement festival really began with the joint exhibition\nof the Ladies\u2019 Literary and Phi Delta Societies on Friday evening,\nbefore a large audience, in the chapel. The pupils of the lower\nschools gave their interesting exhibitions in the same place on\nSaturday evening. President Fairchild\u2019s baccalaureate discourse on\nSunday morning was a vigorous and comprehensive rehearsal of the\nreligious and moral ideas of consecration to God and love toward\nall men, which this college has ever sought to impress on its\nstudents; his text, Phil. iv., 9, \u201cThose things, which ye have both\nlearned and received and heard and seen in me, do.\u201d No Christian\nman could have heard it without feeling how supremely important\nfor the educational regeneration of the South is such a spirit of\nreligious earnestness.\n\nOn Tuesday evening the Literary Societies were addressed on the\nsubject of \u201cProgress,\u201d by Col. Swope, who is the Internal Revenue\nCollector for this district, and a native of Kentucky.\n\nOn Wednesday came the final exercises, which gathered a great\nmultitude from mountain and from plain. The season has been very\nrainy, but this was the most perfect of June days\u2014its unclouded\nsun tempered by a cool breeze from the south. Soon after sunrise\nvehicles of every description, and saddle-horses carrying one, two\nor three passengers, began to pour in toward the Tabernacle, most\nvisitors bringing luncheon for a noon-time picnic in the oak grove.\n\nBesides the three graduates\u2014one from the classical, and two from\nthe scientific course\u2014fourteen other students from the higher\nclasses presented orations or essays. All were listened to by the\ngreat audience with interest, and some with enthusiasm. In the\nafternoon nearly as many gathered again to hear a most suggestive\nand interesting address from Rev. R. T. Hall, of Mount Vernon,\nOhio, on \u201cThe Abuse of Liberty.\u201d Short addresses followed from Rev.\nMr. Simmons of the (colored Baptist) Bible Institute of Louisville,\nand Rev. Mr. Barnett, a Methodist minister from College Hill.\n\nIt suggests the interest of our neighbors in the work of Berea\nthat the Kentucky _Register_, published at the county seat and\na representative paper of the Kentucky aristocracy, gave nearly\na column the next day to a strongly commendatory notice of the\nexercises. A gentleman of a well-known old Kentucky family\npassing this way toward the mountains turned aside to see what\nthe Commencement was like, and spent the day in such unexpected\napproval of what he saw and heard that he declared at night that he\nmight be set down hereafter as for Berea every time. This is the\nmore noticeable as the appearance of blacks and whites in about\nequal numbers and with entirely equal respect on the same platform\nmust at first have given a great shock to his Southern prejudices.\n\nA Northern visitor, remarking on the perfect pronunciation of the\nspeakers, said, \u201cA blind man could not tell to which race the\nseveral speakers belong.\u201d The \u201ccolor blindness\u201d which still keeps\nthe students of Berea about equally divided between the two races\nis one of the most important elements in its work for reducing the\nilliteracy of Kentucky (28 per cent. of the voters and almost as\nmuch of it white as black), and settling the problems the nation\nhas inherited from slavery.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nATLANTA UNIVERSITY.\n\nPROF. THOS. N. CHASE.\n\nOur annual examinations are made interesting and exciting by the\npresence of visitors appointed by the Governor, who this year,\nas usual, attended the three days of examination and one day of\nliterary exercises.\n\nThe grades were examined in South Hall and the normal preparatory\nand college classes in the new Stone Hall. Some of the visitors\nevidently thought the interior of Stone Hall most too fine for\npoor students, and so we often felt moved to call attention to the\nsimplicity of its construction, and the fact that good Boston desks\ndo not cost much more than the very cheapest kind.\n\nOn each day quite a large number of spectators was present.\n\nWhile numerous complimentary remarks were made we do not think\nthat some features of the school were fully appreciated. Latin,\nGreek, higher mathematics and metaphysics still possess a charm for\nscholars, both South and North, while modern methods in the lower\ngrades attract the attention and win the admiration of only an\nappreciative few.\n\nThe specimens of map drawing and of original designs in industrial\ndrawing were considered good by competent judges.\n\nFor several years a large part of the public have had object\nlessons from nature and in form of a daily exercise, with especial\nreference to teaching them to make simple and exact statements in\nclear and correct language; and in their examinations they were\nsaid to show marked ability in making nice distinctions and using\ngood English.\n\nThe experiment of the senior normal girls in cottage housekeeping\nunder the direction of one of the teachers meets with universal\nfavor. Everybody in these United States thinks every girl ought to\nknow how to keep house well, and the best way to learn how to do a\nthing is to do it. The outcome of the work in this department is\nhighly satisfactory, and we wish we had a larger cottage for next\nyear.\n\nThe silk culture has been worth the while for the sake of the\nentertainment and instruction it has afforded, even if no pecuniary\nbenefit came from it. The worms \u201cwound up\u201d their business, at about\nthe same time the rest of us did ours, and everybody said \u201cWell\ndone.\u201d\n\nThe competitive gardens formed another feature in our work. These\nwere a rod square and thirty-six in number. Beets, beans, peas,\npotatoes and onions were the crops. The potatoes were dug on the\nlast day of examination, and it was found that our native African\nhad gained the first prize, having 82\u00bd pounds on his square rod.\nHow about slavery\u2019s developing the African race?\n\nAs the visitors inspected the new barn, the twelve full kits of\ncarpenters\u2019 tools donated by a friend in New York City, though\nstill unused, were not concealed from view. Funds for a shop have\nnow been pledged, and a teacher of carpentering is to be employed,\neven if some other department is suspended, and the boys are to be\ntaught the use of tools, in obedience to the prevailing sentiment\nof what ought to be, and in the hope that such instruction will\nhelp the colored man to hold his present position in the mechanical\nfield.\n\n[Illustration: ATLANTA UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS.]\n\nOn Commencement day \u201ceverything passed off well,\u201d and a clergyman\nfrom Boston was heard to say, \u201cGood thoughts well expressed.\u201d\nSixteen young men and women received diplomas or certificates, and\nlistened to parting words from the president.\n\nGovernor McDaniel honored us with his presence, and sent a verbal\nmessage to the graduates, saying that he had been much pleased with\ntheir exercises and felt a warm interest in them.\n\nAt the alumni meeting an excellent paper was read by an alumnus\nupon the subject of industrial education, and several speeches were\nmade, showing intellectual growth and telling of good work done.\n\nWithin ten days from Commencement, as many as three-fourths of\nour students will be scattered all over the State, and in many\nplaces in neighboring States, metamorphosed into dignified and\nwise pedagogues. May they all meet with great success in their\nday-school, Sunday-school and temperance work, and in their efforts\nto stimulate the people to acquire property and make for themselves\npleasant and pure homes.\n\nWe were glad to have with us Prest. De Forest and Prof. Ellis, of\nTalladega College, the former of whom preached the baccalaureate\nsermon, that abounded in gems of deep and practical thought,\nincased in clear and transparent language.\n\nAt the meeting of the Board of Trustees, Sec\u2019y Strieby was\nre-elected, and one of Atlanta\u2019s most prominent men in business,\nsocial and religious circles, who had recently declined the office\nof Mayor, consented to become a member of the Board. Resolutions\nwere passed, thanking Messrs. King, Cassedy and Sessions, and the\nrepresentatives of the late Hon. W. E. Dodge, for gifts to the\nschool.\n\nCrowded halls, continued success in old lines of work, and\nencouragement in new, added buildings, generous gifts, growing\nfavor among the people, good reports from graduates and the\nconstant presence of the Divine Spirit lead us to thank God and\ntake courage, believing that the school is accomplishing its\nmission in the main, and that the financial clouds that lower will\nbe dispelled in due time, as others have been in the history of the\ninstitution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLEWIS HIGH SCHOOL, MACON, GA.\n\nA missionary villa, picturesque and interesting, is comprised of\nthe Lewis High School, Church, Library Building and Teachers\u2019 Home,\noccupying the summit of a beautiful street in Upper-Central Macon.\nThe Anniversary exercises were inaugurated on Sunday evening, May\n27, with a lecture by Hon. Walter B. Hill, a lawyer of Macon,\nwho, in urgent language worthy of his profession, argued that\nignorance is the cause of the faults of those partially educated.\nHis subject, therefore, named the remedy, Christian education.\nIn closing, the speaker said he had searched for and chosen the\nbest poem for the conclusion of his address, the author of which\nwas the worthy pastor of the church, Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop\u2014\u201cThe\nRain-Drop\u2019s Lesson\u201d\u2014ending with the lines:\n\n    \u201cNever tempted\n      Work to stop\n    Though my cup hold\n      But a drop.\n    Rising Heavenward,\n      Pure to grow,\n    Coming earthward,\n      Joy to sow!\u201d\n\nRev. J. W. Burke, a prominent Southern Methodist clergyman, of\nMacon, in earnest and well-chosen words, corroborated Mr. Hill\u2019s\narguments.\n\nThe examinations began on Tuesday, culminating in an exhibition on\nThursday. Prof. W. A. Hodge, principal, examined the classes, with\nfour lady helpers, who would take high stand in our best Northern\nschools, in their several departments. There have been 298 pupils\nenrolled, an increase of fifty per cent. As we listened to the\nhighly creditable results we learned better how to teach, and were\nfilled with equal regard for the field which is \u201cwhite already,\u201d\nand for those laborers whom the Lord of the vineyard, through the\nA. M. A., has sent forth into His harvest.\n\nThe work of adding to knowledge, understanding, requires patient\ntoil here, yet we learned from the assistant principal, Miss\nLindsley, who has taught in four States, that she has never before\naccorded the highest mark (100) to two scholars, in any one\nschool, for deportment and scholarship. Miss Sprague, teacher of\nthe Intermediate Department, has shown good results in the common\nEnglish branches and declamation, and has a bright, stimulating way\nof interesting her pupils. Miss Pingree has won in a few months the\nlove of the primary class so heartily, that two of them meeting\na visitor, a stranger in this city, anxiously inquired, \u201cDo you\nthink Miss Pingree will come back?\u201d Her success as a missionary\nhas led her to feel called to that work; and could such a need\nhere be filled, the A. M. A. have one who is already beloved among\nthis people in such capacity whose labors have been voluntarily\ngiven outside of school hours. All the teachers seek to know their\npupils in their homes, taking long walks \u201cwithout the camp.\u201d We\nwish that a missionary horse and carriage could be an auxiliary!\nMiss Woodworth has developed the music to an astonishing degree.\nThey have performed a cantata, sing accurately in difficult parts,\nand the primary class reminded us of a full band of music! These\nteachers are much beloved, and the young women of the school gave\nthem a surprise party at the Home, furnishing ice cream and cake.\nThis was a voluntary certificate of esteem.\n\nThe Exhibition Day filled the church with an audience of 400.\nWe noticed in the dialogues an apparent enjoyment, evincing the\nimitative faculty and love for diversion. In these they seemed\nto feel at home. The exercises were listened to with unbroken\nattention throughout. The last feature of the occasion was the\npresentation of a Wheeler & Wilson sewing machine, costing $65\n(through the Macon agent, Judge M. R. Freeman), awarded by the\ncompany to the girl who produced the best work; five machines\nhaving been furnished during the winter for practice. Mrs. D. W.\nJob, daughter of the late Rev. Nehemiah Adams, D.D., of Boston, in\nthe name of Mrs. Lathrop and Mrs. Hodge whom she called the \u201cWoman\nin Proverbs,\u201d and \u201cDorcas\u201d\u2014told the story of the sewing school and\nawarded the machine.\n\nFor three years Mrs. Lathrop, the worthy \u201cminister\u2019s wife,\u201d has met\nnearly every week with girls to teach them to sew. They have made\nabout 500 garments, and one of their patch-work quilts has been\ngiven to the oldest scholar, _aged_ 93! Ten competed for the prize.\nMrs. Prof. Hodge, matron of the Teachers\u2019 Home, has assisted this\nwinter in this benevolent and important work.\n\nProf. Hodge, with some earnest words of fitting counsel, presented\ncertificates of graduation to the senior class of three boys and\nfour girls.\n\nAfter a beautiful chorus, all were invited to adjourn to the\ndedication of a gem of a building, which we will call \u201cThe\nEmerald,\u201d in chaste tints of green and olive, set in the rear of\nthe grounds on the brow of the hill. This might be appropriately\ntermed \u201cThe Lathrop Library,\u201d for the pastor in the last two years\nhas collected the books and the money which now constitute a public\nlibrary for the colored people and their friends.\n\nThe building cost $350, and contains about 3,600 volumes, and\nis furnished with book-cases, chairs, table and a cabinet. What\npublishers or friends will now supply magazines and papers,\nimparting religious instruction and profitable information? The\nlower story, it is hoped, will be converted into a workshop, where\ntrades may be taught. Money will be needed for this.\n\nThe evening was devoted to a concert, conducted by Miss Woodworth.\nWe recognized one of the best and most difficult Harvard songs, nor\ncould the Glee Club sing it with better expression.\n\nIn social, educational, moral and religious growth, this year\u2019s\nwork of the A. M. A. in Macon cannot be estimated. God bless the\nNorth! God bless the South! God bless the colored people of Macon,\nand cause His face to shine upon them all.\n\n  BOSTON, Mass.                                        D. W. J.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE, CHARLESTON, S.C.\n\nPROF. A. W. FARNHAM.\n\nOur Commencement exercises began with the sermon, Sunday, June\n24, which was preached by Rev. Prof. A. G. Townsend, of Claflin\nUniversity. The following, with reference to the sermon, is from\nthe _News and Courier_:\n\n\u201cThe sermon to the graduating class at Avery Institute was\ndelivered last evening at 6 o\u2019clock to a full audience by the Rev.\nProfessor A. G. Townsend, of Claflin University, who is also an\nalumnus of Avery. After a brief salutation to old and new friends,\nwhich was conceived in good taste and just feeling, the preacher\nannounced his text, Prov. iv., 13: \u2018Take fast hold of instruction;\nlet her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.\u2019 The discourse was\nstraightforward and of substantial interest.\u201d\n\nMonday, June 25, was \u201cChildren\u2019s Day.\u201d This day, organized by the\npresent Principal seven years ago, has become almost as popular as\n\u201cGraduation Day.\u201d The leading features this year were selections\nfrom the Kitchen-Garden exercises, as taught by Miss Huntington\nof New York, and the exhibit of two quilts, a rug, and a quantity\nof holders, which were made by the children. In these exercises\nand the use of the needle, the boys have engaged as heartily and\nsuccessfully as the girls. This industrial showing was enlivened\nwith singing, several recitations, a dialogue, and two class\nreadings. \u201cChildren\u2019s Day\u201d is given to the primary and intermediate\nclasses. To these classes have been devoted two hours a week for\nindustrial work.\n\nThe grammar school exhibition occurred June 26. The 1st years gave\nMiss Andrews\u2019 geographical play of the \u201cUnited States,\u201d and a\ndialogue, in a manner that reflected credit upon their teacher, who\nhad prepared them. The 2d years gave two class readings (a scene\nfrom \u201cWilliam Tell\u201d and \u201cThe Charcoal Man\u201d); and the 3rd years\ngave the comic opera of \u201cKing Alfred.\u201d The industrial work of this\ndepartment has been confined to inventive and perspective drawing.\nIn inventive drawing the pupils made their designs with sticks,\nfirst of equal then of unequal lengths, and when these designs were\naccepted by the teacher they were drawn first on slates, then in\ndrawing books.\n\nOn Graduation Day, June 29, six young men and the same number of\nyoung women read essays. Their subjects were: \u201cOur Common School\nLaw,\u201d \u201cAfter Graduation, What?\u201d \u201cChemistry of Common Things,\u201d \u201cThe\nRelation of Geography to Other Sciences,\u201d \u201cThe Action of Alcohol on\nthe Body and Mind,\u201d \u201cWater,\u201d \u201cWhy Do You Use Tobacco?\u201d \u201cIndustrial\nEducation,\u201d \u201cShould Cooks be Educated?\u201d \u201cPhysical Culture,\u201d \u201cHeat,\u201d\nand \u201cSome Evidences of Christianity.\u201d This class chose for its\nmotto, \u201cNothing great is lightly won.\u201d The young men all intend to\ngo to college.\n\nThe results of the industrial work in the normal department were\na surprise to all on account of the quantity, variety and beauty\nof the work displayed. It consisted of colored designs for dadoes,\nborders and embroidery; useful and ornamental articles of scroll\nsawing; leaves, animals, vases, a bust and other articles modeled\nin artists\u2019 clay; samples of printing, including the commencement\nprogrammes, and a fine display of crochet and art needlework. An\naverage of an hour a week was given to the industrial work in the\nnormal department.\n\nThe music, both vocal and instrumental, on each occasion, was good.\nSpecial mention should be made of \u201cInflammatus,\u201d from \u201cStabat\nMater,\u201d which was well given and well received. Bible recitations\nby classes took the place of Bible readings in the devotional\nexercises of each day. On graduation day the graduating class\nrecited the 12th chapter of Ecclesiastes.\n\nOn July 4th the Avery Alumni Association meets, has literary\nexercises, a business meeting, and gives a $50 cash prize to\nthat member of the class of \u201983 who has the best record; its\nmembers exchange greeting, vow new devotion to their _Alma Mater_,\npronounce a benediction upon her, and then go their ways for\nanother year of honest work in behalf of less favored humanity.\n\nReferring to our visitors the _New Era_ has the following:\n\n\u201cDuring the exercises of the week, a number of prominent white\ncitizens were in attendance and evinced genuine interest in the\nproceedings. It is very gratifying to see this attention on the\npart of the white element. It betokens a hopeful outlook. And why\nshould there not be the pleasantest relations between all good\ncitizens? We are all destined to dwell together. The quicker, under\nreasonable progress, that the past is forgotten, the better for\nall. We are sincerely glad that Prof. Farnham gives cordial welcome\nto all who are interested in the work in which he so intelligently\nand sincerely engages his intellectual and moral forces.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBEACH INSTITUTE.\n\nMISS IDA M. BEACH.\n\nFor weeks we had looked forward to these last hours! And now all is\nover!\n\nFour days of written examinations were very tiresome, but I wish\nmy readers could have seen the earnest workers. Oral examinations\noccurred on Friday, May 25. A pleasant hour could be spent in the\nPrimary Department. Here are little folks reading now so smoothly\nin First Reader, who eight months ago knew nothing of A B C work.\n\nWords never seen before are placed on the board with diacritical\nmarks. The little hands come up, and the correct pronunciation is\ngiven. In another room pupils are engaged in writing a spelling\nlesson. Examined slates prove that attention has been given to\ncareful instruction.\n\nHurrying on, we find older pupils reciting in arithmetic and\ngeography; others, more advanced, in algebra and literature. The\nsame earnest spirit fills each room, and all seem striving to do\ntheir best.\n\nOn Sunday evening, in the Congregational Church, Rev. Dana Sherrill\npreached a sermon to the members of the graduating class, taking\nfor his text Phil. iii., 13, 14. Gathering up the lessons learned,\nbut forgetting past attainments, they should be ever striving for\nsomething better beyond. The kind, practical counsel found, at\nleast, attentive listeners. Said one graduate: \u201cThat was our New\nYear\u2019s motto. I shall never forget it now.\u201d\n\nA new feature of our anniversary exercises was a juvenile concert.\nOn Monday night a goodly company gathered in our chapel. One\nhundred and forty children greeted them with a song. The choruses\nwere rendered with enthusiasm. Of particular interest were the\nsolos and action songs by the little Primaries. A solo, \u201cI\u2019se\ngwine to Alabama,\u201d given by one of the older boys, was thoroughly\nenjoyed. The net sum of $32.00 was raised for the increase of our\nlibrary fund.\n\nIt was interesting to watch the delighted parents during the\nsociability of the \u201cbreaking up.\u201d\n\nWednesday came, with clouds in the morning, and at the hour\nappointed for the public exercises, rain falling in torrents. Yet\nnearly every child was in place, and extra chairs were brought for\nthe gathered spectators. The exercises consisted of recitations,\ndialogues and songs. As the children performed the parts assigned\neach, I did not wonder that both teachers and mothers \u201cfelt proud.\u201d\nAn invitation to examine work done by members of the sewing class\nwas generally accepted, giving the happy parents fresh cause for\npride.\n\nWe decided to hold our graduating exercises on Wednesday evening.\nAt an early hour every seat was taken, while numbers were standing\nin the aisles and halls. Girls in pretty white dresses and boys\nin fresh spring suits, march in and take seats reserved. A sweet\nsong by the girls opened the exercises. Prayer was offered and\nthe Lord\u2019s Prayer chanted. Reading, declamations and recitations\nfollowed. Conversation between several girls concerning their plans\nfor life brought \u201csincerity,\u201d a fairy, into their midst. Her waving\nbanner proclaimed to each the simple words, \u201cBe true.\u201d\n\nThe graduates read their essays and received their diplomas,\naccompanied by kind words from the Superintendent. Mr. S., rising,\ncalled to him a boy of fifteen years and said: \u201cA scholarship\nwas offered to the one who should excel in general scholarship,\npunctuality and deportment. I hold in my hand a paper stating that\nyou, having done this, are entitled to the same.\u201d Amid hearty\napplause the gift was received with smiles and thanks.\n\nA few words from Mr. Callen, a colored preacher, and one of our\npupils; a parting song, a gathering in the school-room for the\n\u201cgood-night,\u201d and then we said good-by.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBREWER NORMAL INSTITUTE.\n\nREV. L. C. JOELL.\n\nGreenwood is located at the junction of the Augusta & Knoxville\nRailroad with the Columbia & Greenville. The town is one of the\nprettiest in the upper part of South Carolina. With a population\nof one thousand, with one hotel, four white schools, two colored\nschools and several churches, a newspaper and other evidences\nof thrift, it offers an attractive locality to settlers, and\nespecially as its climate is very healthful. The eleventh\nanniversary of the Brewer Normal School, which is located in this\ntown, was observed June 28. This always creates a profound interest\nin the vicinity, and long before the hour of commencing, an\nanxious throng of every imaginable description of vehicle is seen\nwending its way thitherward. On Sunday the 24th, a special sermon\nwas preached to the students and a large number of friends, from\nGalatians 5:9.\n\nThe exercises on the closing day were attended by an unusually\nlarge number of citizens and visitors from far and near. The\nstudents in attendance during the sessions were 157, an advance\nupon that of any previous year. The programme of the day was\ninviting. The principal, Mr. J. D. Backenstose, presided; vocal\nand instrumental music for the occasion was supplied by Mrs. W.\nW. Frazier, formerly Miss Mary Clark of Fisk University, and the\ntrained classes of the school. Rev. E. W. Williams of the Second\nPres. Church in Abbeville gave the address, taking for his subject\n\u201cReality in Morals, in Education and in Christianity.\u201d It enlisted\nearnest attention during the hour consumed in its delivery. At the\nintermission between the morning and evening sessions, friends held\nfellowship with friends and betook themselves to the contents of\nabundantly laden refreshment baskets. Everybody seemed to manifest\nthat the lines had fallen to him in pleasant places.\n\nThe afternoon exercises consisted of singing, recitations and\ndialogues from the little ones of the primary department.\nThe evening was occupied with similar exercises by the older\nstudents of the school. The audience room was by far too small to\naccommodate the immense throng seeking admission. The year\u2019s work\nhas been a grand success.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGOLIAD, TEXAS.\n\nBY MR. J. R. S. HALLOWAY.\n\nSchool closed here on the 31st of May with an examination and\nexhibition. The house was packed to its utmost. Prominent white\npeople of Goliad were in attendance, and returned home surprised\nand astonished, exclaiming \u201cWe saw more than we came to see. We\nhad no idea that the Congregational school could come up to this.\nThat anthem \u2018Strike the Cymbals\u2019 sung by the teacher and school\nwas splendid. We would advise all those who are sending their\nchildren to this school to continue.\u201d Goliad is acknowledged to\nbe the greatest educational centre in western Texas. The prospect\nof building up a good school here is seventy-five per cent\nbetter than it was a month ago. There is an educational society\ninstituted about a year ago which is doing all in its power for\nthe advancement of the school, and we look forward to the day when\nthe much needed school building will be provided. We are about to\norganize a Band of Hope.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHENDERSON SCHOOL, FAYETTEVILLE, ARK.\n\nBY MRS. H. D. FOSTER.\n\nThe Henderson School closed its first year of nine months with\nexaminations Thursday, May 24th. A large number of interested\nparents and friends came in to inquire and see for themselves what\ntheir children had been doing for the year. After listening to\nvarious recitations and exercises, they expressed themselves highly\npleased.\n\nThursday evening the annual exhibition came off, and about 400 were\npresent. At half past eight o\u2019clock, the pupils marched into the\nprimary room. They made a grand appearance, being neatly and some\nof them very prettily dressed. The programme consisted of nineteen\nparts, interspersed with good music. Some of the pieces given were\nvery pleasing. The calisthenic exercises and the selections were\nall well rendered and won many complimentary remarks, not only from\ncolored people, but also from prominent white families of the city.\nIt is something unusual to see the ladies of the latter class out.\n\nThose who had seen the scholars at the beginning and at the end\nof the session noticed a striking improvement in their personal\nappearance. The intellectual, moral and spiritual culture had left\nits stamp upon their countenances, and it was exhibited in their\ndeportment.\n\nThroughout the year special attention has been given to our Mission\nSunday school, out of which has grown a little church. During the\nprecious revival of January, some of our pupils gave their hearts\nto Christ. In all our successes and discouragements the Heavenly\nFather has been very near us. Hon. J. H. Van Hoose, a correspondent\nof the _Arkansas Democrat_, the leading journal of the State, which\nis published at the Capital, a citizen of high standing in the\nState for forty years, and thirty years in this place, asked to\ngive an impromptu speech, in which he expressed his surprise at the\nprogress made. The following, clipped from the above-named journal,\nwritten by this gentleman, will explain the sentiments of the\ncitizens here toward our work:\n\n[Illustration: A COTTON PLANTATION.]\n\n\u201cProf. Foster (colored) and his wife, formerly of Little Rock,\nhave just closed a nine months\u2019 school at the brick school-house\nin the northeast part of Fayetteville. They were at first employed\nby our school directors to teach a three months\u2019 school for the\ncolored portion of our district, but they continued to teach six\nmonths longer for a very small consideration paid them by the\npatrons of the school and the American Missionary Association.\nThe examination exercises closed Thursday night with a public\nexhibition. The school room was neat and clean and gorgeously\ndecorated with festoons and wreaths of evergreens and flowers, and\nthe house filled with an appreciative audience, the best of order\nprevailed, and your correspondent was delighted with the evidences\nof improvement in the manner and conduct of all who had been so\nfortunate as to be under the influence and training of Prof. Foster\nand his accomplished assistant, Mrs. Foster.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTESTIMONY OF AN INDIAN AGENT.\n\n[Major Gassman, who was formerly engaged in the ministry at Omaha,\nNebraska, but who now is serving as Indian agent in Dakota,\nrecently paid a visit to Hampton, where he gave to the students an\ninteresting account of his experience in Indian work, which was\npublished in the _Southern Workman_, and from which we make the\nfollowing extracts.\u2014ED.]\n\nI went to my post with fear and trembling. I had had no experience,\nno business experience, or any but in the ministry; but I was sure\nof one thing, that good, honest, persistent effort would bring good\nresults. I had heard about many of the iniquities and shortcomings\nof agents. My friends warned me against the position. I knew that\nthe name of Indian agent had become almost a synonym of rascal or\ncheat. I felt, however, that it was a position a man could fill\nwith honesty and integrity and good results. So I went to work.\n\nI was horrified at the state of things I found. For many years\nan agency had been established; thousands of dollars had been\nexpended; a great many men had been employed. But I saw that the\nIndians were discouraged, doing nothing, sulky and averse to\neffort. I arrived at the agency early in April, and found that\nthe fields had been left for a year untilled and in a filthy\ncondition. I had had early experience as a farmer. I called the\nIndians together, and told them they must clean their fields. They\nsaid they had no teams or ploughs. I asked if they couldn\u2019t at\nleast clean them up? They said yes. I told them to begin and I\u2019d\nsee what I could do for them, but there was no time to lose. They\nsaid they would start to-morrow. The next morning I was waked by\nloud talking. I looked out and saw at least fifty women with hoes,\naxes and shovels on their shoulders\u2014not a man among them. I took an\ninterpreter and went out to them. They said they had come to clean\nthe fields. I said that was good, but I hadn\u2019t sent for them, but\nfor the men. They laughed at that idea\u2014it was a novelty. I told\nthem the men must come, gave them some good advice on household\nwork for women\u2014on which I am well posted\u2014and sent them home. They\nwent their way, and that was the end of the work. I couldn\u2019t get an\nIndian man out that time. I was puzzled what to do next. I went\nout to the fields with the interpreter, and we did find one old\nman who had gone to work. I told him to go on, and I\u2019d plow what\nhe would clean up, which I did. This encouraged one and another by\ndegrees, with the gift of extra rations, and so at last we got the\nfields cleaned and planted.\n\nThe first year, though, was very trying, owing to my ignorance\nof the Indian character. I spoke to them as I would to any one\nelse about truth and duty, etc., but met constant, persistent\nopposition. I was wearied to death with their councils. Fifty to a\nhundred great stalwart Indians would walk into my office, sit down\non the floor, and begin to smoke. Then I would wait with patience\ntill one of them would rise and make their wants known, and I\nwould answer them. But everything I proposed they would oppose,\nfor some reason I did not understand. They would tell me my words\nwere sweet, but that like all other white men, I was a liar. So it\nwent on for a year. It was rather hard to take their plain talk,\nespecially as I am somewhat of a muscular Christian. I gave them,\nhowever, as good, plain talk as they sent, and let them understand\nwhat I thought of them.\n\nBut at the end of a year I thought I might as well give it up. I\nwrote to my friends that I thought of resigning. Then I called\nthe Indians to a last council. I told them what I felt, why I\ncame, what I had endeavored to do. I spoke feelingly. When I had\nfinished, an old chief, \u201cStruck by the Ree,\u201d got up and said: \u201cWe\nhave listened to your words for a year. We have now come to the\nconclusion that we will both listen and obey. We had been told that\nyou were not a good man. Many of us believed what we heard, but you\nhave convinced us that you are good, and we will obey you.\u201d\n\nWell I stayed, and I had no more trouble, except such as was\nunavoidable. The councils were more and more pleasant. I never had\na rude or disagreeable word from them again. They would sometimes\ndisagree with me, but generally took my advice, and were always\ncourteous.\n\nI laid before them first this plan. I told them that rations and\naid from government are only temporary. They will come to an end.\nThey are given to aid them to be self-supporting. I told them I had\ncome to help them to become so. They were not much interested in\nthat idea at first, but as continued dropping wears away the rock,\nmy words from day to day had some effect, and here and there I saw\nsome improvement.\n\nI found all the work at the agency done by whites\u2014only two Indians\nemployed out of 2,000 Sioux at the station. I employed the Indians\nas fast as possible to give them work. I put one boy in the\nblacksmith shop, another with the carpenter, another in the mill,\ntwo or three with the agency farmer, two in the butcher house, and\nto help issue rations. When I came there I found the cattle were\nslaughtered in a brutal manner, shot in a filthy yard, where the\nIndians dressed the meat in a careless, unclean way. I applied for\na slaughter-house, cattle-pens and a proper butcher, and got them.\nI put my Indian boys with him, as I said, and at the end of a month\nthey could take hold and do the work properly themselves, and did\nit so six years. The beef was issued clean.\n\nThe system of employing Indians and encouraging industry was\npleasing. They were glad to see their young men employed; they were\nwilling to go to work when there was any encouragement to do so.\n\nI had several thousand bushels of wheat to harvest. I succeeded in\ngetting the ground broken, the crop cultivated, the wheat ground\nand eaten up, too. While they were threshing one hot day, some of\nthe Indians gave out. They sent me word from the field that two\nmore men were needed. I went out on my horse and looked about,\nbut couldn\u2019t see an Indian anywhere but in the field. I rode to\nthe trader\u2019s store, and there I found a young Indian _gentleman_,\ngotten up in fine style, with red blanket, embroidered leggings\nand moccasins, looking glass and fan; face painted, hair braided\nand ornamented with feathers\u2014\u201ca fancy buck,\u201d so they say out on the\nfrontier. I went up to him, laid my hand on his shoulder, and said,\n\u201cFriend, I want you.\u201d He looked up with an independent air, and\nsaid, \u201cHow!\u201d I told him to get on his horse and follow me, which\nhe did. I took him into the field and up to the threshing machine,\nand told the interpreter to tell him I wanted him to work and would\npay him so much. The Indian boys around laughed. I told them to\nbe quiet. He said \u201cHow,\u201d and went at it. The only vacant place at\nthe machine was where the chaff and dust comes pouring out\u2014not an\nagreeable place for him\u2014pouring out on his paint and oil. He never\nhad a pitchfork in his hands before, but he went to work manfully.\nPretty soon off came his red blanket; then off came the paint\nitself in streaks. Piece by piece came off the rest of his toggery,\ntill the Indian was an Indian but not much besides. But he stuck\nto that pitchfork. I watched him; if he had given out I would have\ntaken his place; but there was no give out to him; he worked right\non for three days; at the end of the time his delicate hands were\nall bleeding.\n\nThat shows the pluck of the Indian. I have had other employ\u00e9s, who\nhad never done a thing before in the way of labor, work till the\nblood ran down their hands. This one was, of course, a remarkable\ncase. But I have had Indians who labored for me industriously for\neight years without ever losing one day.\n\nIt was difficult to get them to save their wages. I finally adopted\na system of banking for them. They let me lay aside their wages\ntill the end of the quarter. Then we talked over the question what\nthey had better buy, and under my advice they generally spent their\nmoney in useful articles, wagons, harness, stoves, furniture, etc.\n\nI received satisfactory evidence that the Indian can be made a\nlaboring man, but in order to do it we must pay him good wages to\nstart with.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMISSION WORK IN MAY.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nThe dry figures are as follows: Eighteen schools, forty-one\nteachers, the number of pupils enrolled, 1,043; the average\nattendance (lessened doubtless in San Francisco by the fact that\njust now our street lamps are not lighted, and our dark streets\nare not viewed by Chinese as conducive to their personal safety),\n435. Total number enrolled during the nine months now past, of the\npresent fiscal year, 2,470. Word came of at least five among the\npupils who, during May, professed to have turned from the worship\nof idols, and to have become the followers of Christ. It seems to\nme that in several of the schools the interest in spiritual things\nis deepening, and that the prospect brightens for a continuous and\nlarge harvest.\n\n\u201cALL QUIET UPON THE POTOMAC.\u201d This proverb, dating back to the\ntroublous times of 1862, has often risen to my lips, as, week by\nweek, or day by day, I have asked tidings from our North School\nin this city. In April it was established in permanent quarters,\nwhere we believe it will grow to a size, and will cheer us with\na fruitfulness, second only to our central school. But in almost\nevery locality where we plant a school we are obliged by passive\nresistance and patient endurance to \u201cconquer a peace.\u201d The struggle\nhas been longer and harder than usual in our North School, but\nit seems to be over, and peace to be won. Our hoodlum neighbors\ntried what virtue there was in outcries and in stones rattling\nupon the roof and doors and blinds till they could have been\npicked up by the bushel, and in various tricks which it would be\na waste of paper to describe, but have retired at last defeated\nfrom the field, and the work moves on undisturbed. We have reason\nto speak well of the protection extended us by the police, and to\nremember with hearty admiration the heroic lady teacher who was the\nprincipal sufferer and the champion in the fight.\n\nA PROTEST FROM OROVILLE.\u2014As the most strenuous efforts seem\nunlikely to secure the funds needed in order to continue our\nfull work, we look about to see where the knife can be applied.\nI thought that a vacation would do as little harm at Oroville\nas anywhere, and I sent word to close the school from June till\nSeptember. The following protest came back signed by sixteen of\nthe pupils: \u201cDear pastor.\u2014We heard from you that you told Miss M.\nDeuel to close this school at present. We are very sorry, because\nthis school is doing very well. We would like to understand the\nwords of truth, but we cannot do it without the teacher\u2019s help. So\nwe hope you will consent to open this school continually. Some of\nthe boys just became Christians. If school to be closed seems we\nlike the sheep without a shepherd; perhaps we going other ways and\nfall in the river of death. Or, this Oroville have many precious\nsouls; if this school to be continue may be other people come to\nschool and hear who are speak the gospel of Christ and come to him,\nthat their souls may be save.\u201d They go on to say that they know\nthat the school cannot but be smaller in summer than in winter, and\nthat they will try to sustain it without a Chinese helper, but they\ncannot bear to have it closed.\n\nHow could I be deaf to such an appeal? I wrote them to do their\nutmost to help me by their offerings and their prayers, and the\nschool should be continued. I confess that I do not know how I am\nto maintain so large a work as ours now is, on resources so scanty;\nbut when souls are asking after God I cannot shut away the only\nlight that shines upon their path. I must trust God and trust God\u2019s\npeople, and move on.\n\nLETTERS FROM HONG SING.\u2014Hong Sing has been a helper for four or\nfive years. At present he is stationed at Santa Cruz, where special\ninterest has existed for some time, and five of the pupils have\nbeen led to Christ. Two recent letters from this helper giving\naccounts of his discussions with the heathen about him have greatly\ninterested me. They are too long to be inserted here, and I\nscarcely know how to condense them without spoiling the charm which\ncomes from his queer attempts to get the English idioms. But I must\nmake the endeavor to give one.\n\nIt describes in a pleasant way some of the petty annoyances to\nwhich the Christian brethren are subjected by their heathen\ncountrymen; annoyances which, he says, make him think of Paul and\nthe other apostles; \u201cthough our trials it is a very trifle thing,\ncompared with theirs, _nothing_; yet I am dismayed because I get\nimpatient with them. I pray that God may open the blind of their\nmind that they may see the Salvation of Christ.\u201d\n\nHe then goes on to say: \u201cThey argue with me several times, but\nevery time they get angry, then I stop. * * * They say: \u2018You tell\nthe people must not gamble, not smoke opium, not swear. These\nthings are very suitable for us. But tell us not worship gods and\nour parents when they die, this hurt our heart. You just think your\nmother: how much pain when she bear you, and now you grow to be a\nman, so you forget and ungrateful. It seem to me you are not come\nfrom your mother but from the mountain bank, so that you will not\nhonor father and mother. If you were my brother, I would kill you\ninstantly.\u2019\u201d\n\nTo all this Hong Sing replied: \u201cQuestion is now, friends, _which\nway_ we ought to honor father and mother, in life time or in death\ntime, with a kind word or with wrath answer your mother. Mind your\nmother is honor or disobey is honor. Suppose when you come to\nCalifornia your father and mother give you good advice\u2014must not\ngamble, not smoke opium, not go among the bad men, not be indolent\nbut industrious. You just see how many has been gambling, how many\nsmoke opium and do such evil things. Is this obey parent, honor,\nadmire? I think not at all. This is disobey, dishonor, ingratitude.\nWhen I was in China I often see and hear of many men has beat\nmother with a stick and not like to support her living, but permit\nher starve and not let her have good food. But when she die then\nyou put ten pound pork and chicken and many things set on the\ntable, ask her to eat. In life time when she can eat and drink,\nnever buy five cents worth meat. When die, no eat, no drink. So you\nwill kill a calf, set on a table to ask her to eat and drink. It\nis vanity. Our Confucius has said, \u2018If any man were good conduct\nand endeavor to walk on the wisdom way and good virtue that show to\nobey and honor father and mother. Therefore, every man know he is\na good man and understand that he must have had good parents, and\nhe never said to honor our parents by worshipping them when they\ndie.\u2019\u201d Other points were made which cannot be reproduced. Under\nordinary circumstances I discourage all debating with the heathen.\nI advise our helpers to keep close to their own work, which is to\npreach the gospel.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES ON MEETINGS OF STATE SOCIETIES.\n\nThe Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Society, connected with the State\nAssociation of Michigan, held its session during the meetings of\nthat body. The ladies present were addressed by Mrs. Norton, of\nDakota, and Miss Rose M. Kinney, of Georgia. Brief remarks were\nmade by Messrs Clark, Cobb, Gilbert and Pike. Mrs. Leroy Warren\nwas re-elected president, and measures were adopted providing for\nco-operation with the benevolent societies of the Congregational\nchurches working in this country. It is probable that efforts will\nbe made by the ladies to bring the claims of these societies before\nthe people of Michigan in the early autumn.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe ladies of Iowa will continue to support their missionary, Miss\nA. D. Gerrish, at New Orleans, La., and as they too have organized\nfor better co-operation, it is confidently hoped that the response\nfrom the ladies will enable them to assume the support of a second\nmissionary, at some other point. They have selected as a State\nCommittee Mrs. S. H. Smith, of Davenport, and Mrs. J. H. Ellsworth,\nof McGregor.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nAt the recent State Conference of Vermont, a special meeting of\nthe ladies was called to hear the claims of the A. M. A. missions\npresented by Miss D. E. Emerson, and a good degree of interest\nwas manifested, resulting in the appointment of a committee of\nthree, Mrs. A. W. Wilde, of Charlotte, Mrs. Henry Fairbanks, of\nSt. Johnsbury, and Mrs. Bowman, of Newport, to secure co-operation\namong the ladies of the Congregational churches of Vermont in\nsupport of a missionary in the South.\n\nAt the meeting of the Woman\u2019s Aid to the A. M. A., in connection\nwith the Maine State Conference, there was a large and appreciative\naudience to listen to the reports of their two missionaries, Misses\nLunt and Farrington.\n\nIt was evident that the frequent correspondence with these\nmissionaries, and the knowledge thus gained of the field, had\nquickened the sympathies of those contributing to their support,\nand there is every reason to believe that the collections will\nincrease so that a third missionary will in good time be adopted,\neither in the South or in the Indian Mission. Miss D. E. Emerson\naddressed the ladies on the general work of the A. M. A. in the\nSouth. In order to vary the means of raising funds and to awaken\nmore interest in the churches, a system of rotation of committees\nis followed, and a new State Committee was therefore appointed:\nMrs. Hubbard, of Hiram; Miss L. C. Vose, of Dennysville, and\nMiss S. Waldron, of Augusta. It was gratifying to learn that the\nCommittee of the past year, of which Miss Smith was chairman, laid\naside with regret the duties which, though involving considerable\ncare, had proved more a pleasure than a burden.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe ladies of Illinois have adopted the same plan of aid to the\nA. M. A. as the ladies of Maine, and have appointed as a State\nCommittee Mrs. E. F. Williams, of Chicago; Mrs. H. L. Boltwood, of\nOttawa, and Mrs. Charles Perry, of Geneva. Already the conferences\nhave been districted to the State Committee, and the sub-collectors\nappointed. They will continue the support of a missionary at\nMobile, Ala., and have adopted also Miss Rose M. Kinney to\nrepresent them at Little Rock, Ark.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOne of the ladies appointed at the Illinois Meeting has written an\nencouraging letter which indicates the heartiness with which the\nwork is entered upon in that State. She says: \u201cLast month we heard\nthe sound of the new departure from Maine. When we are sure it is\nthe Master calling, the sound flies quickly, and we are thankful it\nhas so soon reached Illinois. We already, from the new consecration\nit arouses in us, are buckling on the armor. I assure you that from\nthe ladies of this State will come no uncertain sound. We must do\nthe work.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[That our friends may know the spirit that pervades our missionary\nteachers, enabling them to rise above the discouragements and\ntrials of the field in the joy of Christian service, we give\na few gleanings from recent correspondence not written for\npublication.\u2014D. E. E.]\n\n\u2014I never enjoyed my work so much as during the past year, although\nit was never so hard before.\n\n\u2014The year\u2019s work has been such a pleasant one that I am reluctant\nto bring it to a close, although I feel the need of the coming rest.\n\n\u2014I hope my return another year may be favorably considered by you,\nas I must see _my boys_ through. I have but just begun the work.\nI like it and feel that another year I could accomplish much more\nthan I have this.\n\n\u2014My health has failed and it is thought to be a risk for me to\nremain through the year. It is a great disappointment to me,\nI believe the greatest I ever had, for I love the work and so\nstrongly hoped I should be able to continue. But God knows best.\nPerhaps in years to come He may grant me such measure of strength\nas will enable me again to enter this field.\n\n\u2014Our scholars have done good, faithful work for some time past\nand the results will show, I am sure. I _do_ enjoy the work\nthoroughly. Of course there are times of discouragement, days when\nwe wonder if some one else could not do more or better for those\nwho are under our instruction, when it seems as if it were spending\nour strength for naught; but I suppose every person knows what it\nis to feel so, and I certainly am glad to do what I can while I can.\n\n\u2014We are very busy now, this last half of the year. My room is\nvery full\u2014sixty-eight. They sit thickly together, close up to my\nplatform, and three with me by my desk. I enjoy my school very\nmuch, even more than I anticipated, especially now that I really\nknow my scholars individually. I have many who are eighteen or\ntwenty years old and I feel anxious for them to learn all they can,\nfor fear they may not come another year. I really trust I may be\nled in just the right way in this work, for I came here with that\none desire.\n\n\u2014On reaching here I found Miss \u2014\u2014 busy in her preparation to leave\nin answer to your call. The young people look as sad as though\nparting with a mother, and several, both old and young, said to me:\n\u201cDo tell them in New York they must send her back\u2014she understands\nus so well and we her, and it would take a long time for a\nstranger, to know us.\u201d One old man said, \u201cI tell you she is smart.\u201d\nOh, how I do wish she could go before the ladies of our Northern\nchurches and tell of this work. I know that they are very ignorant\nin regard to the needs of these fields. I know, too, there is a\nwillingness to do if they could only be shown the needs and be once\nawakened.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWORK AT THE DAKOTA MISSION.\n\nIn the AMERICAN MISSIONARY for April we gave a statement relating\nto the transfer by the American Board of its Dakota mission to the\nA. M. A., and published a list of the missionaries. Among these\nwere Miss Illsley, Mrs. Steer, Miss Voorhees and Miss Webb, who\nwere laboring at the Santee Agency. We have gleaned from their\ncircular letters in the _Word Carrier_ the following extracts which\nindicate the importance and success of woman\u2019s work for the Indians.\n\nMiss Illsley says: \u201cAs each one who writes will naturally tell of\nher own work, it becomes my pleasure to speak especially of our\nlife at the Bird\u2019s Nest. Miss Brown and I think we have seventeen\nas interesting little girls to look after as can be. Our oldest\nis twelve, and our youngest five years of age. All are doing well\nin school. Our little girls love to learn their Bible verses, and\nwhile we teach them the words, we hope and feel that God impresses\nthe truths on their hearts as we cannot. Many of them say, \u2018I am\ngoing to read the Bible to mamma when I go home.\u2019\u201d\n\nMrs. Steer writes: \u201cI deem it one of the highest privileges granted\nto me in this life to be numbered among the Dakota missionaries,\nalthough with the care of my family I can do but little definite\nmissionary work. Yet I would be loath to stand as an outsider. God\ngranting me the strength of body, I hope soon to take a more active\npart in this grand work. We have strong evidence that God\u2019s Spirit\nis with us at this time, and a number of our young people have\nbeen led to think seriously of their spiritual condition, and have\nentered the fold which has Christ for its Shepherd.\u201d\n\nMiss Voorhees writes: \u201cI have had nineteen boys in my care, until\nthe Poncas left. Seven are now in bed with the measles. Some of\nthem are very sick, but all are so patient and obedient that it\nmakes the work of caring for them comparatively easy. The three\nBerthold boys are very interesting, and I think promising boys.\nMiss Calhoun, Mrs. Hall\u2019s sister, is associated with me at present.\nThough our boys are too small to see any decided results just yet,\none of them has expressed a desire to unite with the church.\u201d\n\nMiss Webb says: \u201cThe amount there is to be done and overcome too\noften discourages and overwhelms us, and it seems to me in a letter\nlike this, a few thoughts on points of progress and improvement\nmay be helpful. There seems to me to have been progress in\nspiritual, mental and physical aspects. There is a hidden principle\nin our girls to which we can effectually appeal, which has been\ndeveloping, and makes dealing with them by force and various\ncontrived punishments less and less necessary. They are more open\nto reason, and are more influenced by kind talks, and a knowledge\nof our desires for them. There is not the clannishness among them,\nwhich made it so hard to discipline one, because all would rebel\nand side with the erring one. These are a few of the indications\nwhich show the heart is being educated, and the seed is taking\nroot. There is also more gratitude manifest, more diligence in\nstudy, and more real live interest shown. We hear less frequently,\nand more reasonably, \u2018give me this or that,\u2019 which seemed to come\nso continually, and in such a way as to make us feel all they\nthought or cared about was what they could get out of us, and there\nis less fault-finding with what they receive. Looking at them in\na physical aspect it would almost seem as if some of them had\nnew bodies, so much have they improved by their regular life and\nhabits.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n[Illustration]\n\n\nA LITTLE MERCHANT.\n\nBY MISS E. E. BACKUP.\n\nIt could hardly be called a village; there were a few houses, a few\nstores, and a mammoth hotel. During \u201cthe season\u201d all the life of\nthe place seemed to centre about the hotel. The building covered\nconsiderable space, and two sides were inclosed with glass, which\ngave it quite an Oriental air. The hotel was known for miles\naround, and when the house was full a pleasurable excitement\npervaded the little hamlet. It extended to the little pickaninnies\nwho rolled and tumbled in the log cabins which dotted the\nlandscape in every direction as far as the eye could reach. What a\nscramble there was to see the gentlemen and ladies as they walked\nor drove by, and a party on horseback was a sight sufficiently\nimposing to warrant extra efforts.\n\nTo these little folks, who never pored dreamily over enchanting\nfairy tales, Denis Hotel was a veritable fairy palace inhabited by\nchoice fairies from the dim and shadowy Northland, whose pockets\ncontained a never failing supply of gold. This latter was almost\nan article of faith among the youthful colored population of K.,\nand developed a very large eye for business. The roads swarmed with\ncolored urchins desirous of selling various wares. One class of\ninfants had an inexhaustible supply of gourds which they offered\nat remarkably low rates to the \u201cYankee\u201d ladies. Another class of\njuveniles was of a geological turn, and enough arrow-heads and\nother Indian \u201cremains\u201d were offered for sale to stock several\nnational museums. Then, when all else failed, there were the sweet\nwild flowers which seemed softly to plead for the dark little\nfingers which had lovingly brought them forth into the light.\n\nGeneral Grant was one of the most indefatigable and successful of\nthe little merchants, as was befitting the namesake of a great\nGeneral. Intelligence beamed from the General\u2019s dark face, and\nthere was no resisting the mute appeal of his large, lustrous eyes.\n\n\u201cWhat, more flowers!\u201d we exclaimed, one day, \u201cand jessamine, too!\nfive cents? Oh, yes, we\u2019ll take them. Really, General, you must be\ngrowing rich.\u201d\n\n\u201cI does right smart, thank you,\u201d with a smile and a bow, the\ngraceful native politeness more than atoning for the defective\nspeech.\n\n\u201cWe rejoice in your success, General,\u201d chimed in Mr. Brown. \u201cTwo\nor three little rascals have tried to make us believe that their\npennies all went straight into the contribution box. It\u2019s likely we\nshould believe such nonsense! Now we would just like to know what\nyou do with your money. Buy candy, I\u2019ll be bound.\u201d\n\nThe large eyes grew a trifle larger as their little owner\nunflinchingly encountered Mr. Brown\u2019s steadfast gaze. \u201cWe chillens\nare mighty fond of candy,\u201d he said, \u201cand it\u2019s seldom we get a bit.\nI did buy some candy once for the young uns, but the rest has done\ngone for homespun.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhat do you do with homespun?\u201d\n\n\u201cWhy, mammy makes dresses for the girls. Sally looked mighty peart\nlast night when she put on her new dress, and didn\u2019t she dance\n\u2019round though,\u201d and the kind eyes grew moist at the recollection.\n\n\u201cThen you don\u2019t put money in the contribution box?\u201d Mr. Brown\ncontinued.\n\n\u201cWe put a cent in \u2018most every Sunday. But we get our Sunday-school\nmoney \u2018knocking up Jerusalem.\u2019\u201d\n\n\u201cThe dickens!\u201d exclaimed Mr. Brown, quite forgetting himself, \u201cand\nhow do you \u2018knock up Jerusalem\u2019?\u201d\n\n\u201c\u2018Knocking up Jerusalem\u2019 is a song, sir,\u201d our little hero\nrespectfully replied; \u201cand we shall be right proud to sing it to\nyou sometime if you\u2019ll come to the cabin. And you ain\u2019t to give us\nanything, neither.\u201d\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ll come,\u201d said Mr. Brown. \u201cWe want to see Sally\u2019s new gown, and\nI wouldn\u2019t fail to hear \u2018Knocking up Jerusalem.\u2019\u201d\n\nWe went, according to promise, and were most hospitably received\nat the little cabin. We admired Sally\u2019s blue and white homespun,\nand when that subject was exhausted we listened to \u201cKnocking up\nJerusalem.\u201d The five children stood in a row with Gen. Grant at\ntheir head, and kept time with their feet as they sang. It was\nevidently one of the old-time spiritual songs, a queer mixture, and\nwe listened with mingled feelings of interest and regret\u2014interest\nin the dark, earnest little faces, and the sweet, pathetic strains,\nregret at the words and gestures, alike meaningless.\n\nThe song ended, we talked of Jesus, and these little ones, ignorant\nand untaught, yet knew of Him as the children\u2019s Friend.\n\nGen. Grant was actively engaged as long as we remained in K., but\nit was slow work after all, and we became so interested in his\nunselfish efforts, that we determined to aid him. Enough homespun\nfor several dresses was privately left at the cabin, together with\na few simple papers and books, of which the cabin was utterly\ndestitute. The day we left, Gen. Grant was at the station to\npresent us with a beautiful bouquet, and we almost cried ourselves\nas he bade us a tearful good-bye.\n\nOur chief regret for K. is that we can do so little to improve the\ncondition of the colored people there. Poor and ignorant, they need\nwhat they have never had, an educated teacher. We wish the A. M. A.\nwas rich enough to sustain a school in every Southern village.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JUNE, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $210.86.\n\n    Bangor. First Cong.                                      $20.56\n    Dennysville. Peter E. Vose, 8; Mrs. Samuel\n      Eastman, 5                                              13.00\n    Eastport. Bbl. of C., _for Raleigh, N.C._,\n      1.50 _for Freight_                                       1.50\n    Foxcroft. Mrs D. Blanchard                                 5.00\n    Machias. Centre St. Ch. and Soc., 6.96; Sab.\n      Sch., 5.11                                              12.07\n    Portland. Seamen\u2019s Bethel, 34; St. Lawrence\n      St. Ch. and Soc., 9.73                                  43.73\n    Saco. Ladies\u2019 Sew. Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box and\n      Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta U._\n    Warren. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.00\n    Washington Co. \u201cWashington Co. Bible Soc.,\u201d\n      _for Bibles_                                           100.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $378.24.\n\n    Amherst. \u201cL. F. B.\u201d                                       20.00\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.00\n    Derry. Young People of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Bird\u2019s Nest, Santee Agency_                50.00\n    Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           10.00\n    Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                17.75\n    Hanover. Dart. College Ch.                                87.71\n    Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DEA.\n      S.Q.A. NEWTON L. M.                                     30.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               9.44\n    Hollis. Cong. Ch.                                         10.74\n    Hopkinton. Bbl. of C., _for Raleigh, N.C._\n      Nashua. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                            88.10\n    Pittsfield. Mrs. Emily Hill, _for Atlanta, Ga._            5.00\n    Short Falls. J. W. Chandler                                2.00\n    Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   36.50\n    Wakefield. Rev. N. Barker, 2; Mrs. M. J.\n      Barker, 1                                                3.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend of the Freedmen\u201d                             3.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $479.15.\n\n    Benson. \u201cJ. K.\u201d                                            2.00\n    Danby. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                                 2.27\n    Danville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                 20.00\n    Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                10.00\n    East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.28\n    Lyndon. Dr. L. W. Hubbard                                  1.50\n    New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             50.00\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 10; Mrs. B. B.\n      Newton, 5                                               15.00\n    Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                18.50\n    Pittsford. \u201cD.\u201d                                            1.00\n    Rutland. Box of C., _for Raleigh, N.C._, _5\n      for Freight_                                             5.00\n    Springfield. A. Woolson, 200; Mrs. E. D.\n      Parks, 100                                             300.00\n    Townsend. Mrs. H. Holbrook                                 2.50\n    Wallingford. Cog. Ch. and Soc.                            37.10\n    Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   7.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $5,475.95.\n\n    Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 33.62;\n      First Parish Sab. Sch., 10                              43.62\n    Andover. Teachers and Pupils, Abbots Academy              62.00\n    Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      ADDISON H. BARTLETT AND FREDERICK L.\n      STEBBINS L. Ms.                                         67.00\n    Bellerica. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Kindergarten,\n      Atlanta_, Ga.                                            2.50\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                           136.00\n    Boston. Shawmut Cong. Ch., 451.15; Mrs. E. C.\n      Ford, 20; Central Ch., 10; \u201cFriend,\u201d 1                 482.15\n    Boston. Walnut Av. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   56.99\n    Boylston. Mrs. John B. Gough                               2.68\n    Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   50.00\n    Brookline. \u201cHarvard Wide Awakes,\u201d 6.50; and\n      Pkg. Papers, _for Raleigh, N.C._                         6.50\n    Cambridge. Young Ladies\u2019 Working Party of\n      Shepherd Ch., Bundle of C., _for Indian\n      Children in Bird\u2019s Nest, Santee Agency_\n    Charlemont. Edward Graves                                  1.00\n    Chelsea. Arthur C. Stone, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             60.00\n    Chelsea. Ladies Union Home Mission Band, _for\n      Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                    60.00\n    Colerain. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              15.00\n    Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.00\n    Dalton. First Cong. Ch.                                   30.33\n    Dorchester. Stoughton St. Baptist Sab. Sch.,\n      Two Pkgs. Picture Cards, _for Indian\n      Children_\n    East Granville. Cong. Ch.                                 24.00\n    Fitchburg. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      2.00\n    Georgetown. Memorial Ch., $42.08; First Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $30.75                                    72.83\n    Georgetown. Woman\u2019s Mission Soc., _for Dakota\n      M._                                                      6.54\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       60.00\n    Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             79.64\n    Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         35.00\n    Lawrence. \u201cMerry Workers\u201d Mission Circle of\n      Lawrence St Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._              5.00\n    Littleton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             26.00\n    Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc., $70; First Cong.\n      Ch. and Soc., $39.54, to const. JOHN W.\n      DARCY L. M.                                            109.54\n    Malden. Rev. W. H. Willcox, D.D., _for\n      Furnishing Room, Stone Hall, Atlanta U._               100.00\n    Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          36.40\n    Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, Box of\n      Garden Seeds _for Talladega C._, and two\n      packages _for Raleigh, N.C._\n    Marshfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                         20.00\n    Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       82.20\n    Medway. Village Ch. and Soc.                              96.80\n    Newbury. First Ch. and Soc.                               30.00\n    Newburyport. \u201cFriends,\u201d Cask and Bbl. of\n      articles, _for Mission Schools, Charlotte,\n      N.C._\n    Newton. Ladies Aid Soc., Bbl. of C., _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Newton Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                43.50\n    Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes, 5; \u2014\u2014, 5; \u2014\u2014,\n      2, _for Raleigh, N.C._                                  12.00\n    Northampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  100.00\n    Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          33.25\n    Orange. Cen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           11.32\n    Orleans. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.00\n    Peabody. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Pepperell. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U.                                            50.00\n    Pittsfield. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      42.08\n    Rutland. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          7.53\n    Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc., 250.15; George\n      Driver, 2                                              252.15\n    Saundersville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         15.00\n    Somerville. Prospect Hill Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   70.00\n    South Hadley. Teachers, Mt. Holyoke Sem.                  20.00\n    South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to\n      const. JOSEPH E. TORREY and MRS. ANNA M.\n      TIRRELL L. Ms.                                          52.00\n    Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, 48; \u201cA few\n      Ladies,\u201d Basted Work, _for Raleigh, N.C._               48.00\n    Stoneham. Basted Patchwork, _for Raleigh, N.C._\n    Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            44.80\n    Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc.                               13.32\n    Taunton. Winslow. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Taunton. Sewing Soc. of Broadway Ch., _for\n      Atlanta U., Freight_                                     1.00\n    Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid. Fisk U._                                           10.00\n    Topsfield. Philena Stevens                                 1.00\n    Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              20.50\n    Townsend Harbor. Dea. John Proctor                         1.00\n    Upton. Mrs. Austin Putnam                                  1.50\n    Watertown. Phillips Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MISS ABBIE B. CONANT, FRANK M. CONANT, MRS.\n      ABIGAIL G. CONANT and MRS. ELIZABETH A.\n      KEYES L. Ms.                                           130.00\n    Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Atlanta U._\n    Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. DR.\n      G. B. SWASEY L. M.                                      60.70\n    West Pelham. \u201cX.\u201d                                          1.00\n    Williamstown. Rev. Mark Hopkins, D.D.                     25.00\n    Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      86.81\n    Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             35.00\n    Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      128.24; Central Ch. and Soc., 91.53                    219.77\n    Worcester. Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        25.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. CHARLES W. HOWLAND\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    \u2014\u2014. Package Picture Cards, etc.\n    \u2014\u2014. Herbert H. Dole, Bundle Papers and C.\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cPansy,\u201d 7 \u201cPansy\u201d books, _for Talladega C._\n                                                         ----------\n                                                          $3,475.95\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Whitinsville. Estate of E. W. Fletcher, by\n      Charles P. Whitin, Ex.                               2,000.00\n                                                         ----------\n                                                          $5,475.95\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $3.52.\n\n    Westerly. Women\u2019s Benev. Soc., 3.52, _for\n      Raleigh, N.C., Freight_                                  3.52\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $1,956.49.\n\n    Bethlehem. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                10.00\n    Bristol. Mrs. S. T. Smith                                  1.50\n    Colchester. First Cong. Ch.                               86.05\n    Colebrook. Cong. Ch.                                      26.59\n    Coventry. First Cong. Ch.                                 46.38\n    East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                     88.75\n    East Hartford. Cong. Ch., 15; A. Williams, 5              20.00\n    Ellsworth. Cong. Ch.                                      13.78\n    Essex. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        32.50\n    Granby. South Cong. Ch.                                    6.00\n    Greenville. Cong. Ch.                                     27.82\n    Guilford. Third Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._                                32.00\n    Hartford. First Ch., 500.25; \u201cA Friend in\n      Asylum Hill Cong Ch.,\u201d 15; Miss Mary\n      Herrick, 5                                             520.25\n    Kensington. Miss E. Cowles, 2; Mrs. M. Cowles, 1           3.00\n    Kent. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                                 30.00\n    Little River. A. Doolittle                                10.00\n    Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      57.08\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch.                                     23.98\n    Middletown. First Ch.                                     75.56\n    Mill Brook. Mrs. E. Pinney, 1; Mrs. E. R.\n      Allen, 50c                                               1.50\n    New Britain. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   15.00\n    New Haven. Dwight Place Cong. Ch., 29.22; Ch.\n      of the Redeemer (ad\u2019l), 10; Mrs. Sylvia\n      Johnson, 10                                             49.22\n    New London. \u201cChurch of Christ\u201d                            34.62\n    New Preston Hill. Cong. Ch., 15.40, and Sab.\n      Sch., 3.60                                              19.00\n    Norfolk. Cong. Ch.                                        50.00\n    Norwich. John A. Rockwell, M.D., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        10.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch., to const. GEORGE S.\n      BRADLEY and CHARLES H. RATTHEI L. Ms.                   83.00\n    Riverton. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    Saybrook. Cong. Ch.                                       12.50\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             62.18\n    Stamford. First Cong Ch.                                  57.83\n    Thomaston. Cong. Ch.                                      35.61\n    Thompson. Cong Ch. and Soc.                               29.56\n    Unionville. First Cong. Ch.                               25.73\n    Westford. Cong. Ch.                                        3.00\n    West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            23.50\n    Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst. Land._                         250.00\n    Winsted. First Ch. Sabbath Sch., for\n      Furnishing Room, Talladega C.                           35.00\n    Woodbury. North Cong. Ch.                                 21.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $7,529.56.\n\n    Bristol. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            1.00\n    Bridgewater. Cong. Ch.                                    16.32\n    Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 101.18; \u201cA Friend.\u201d\n      5.00                                                   106.18\n    Greigsville. Mrs. F. A. Gray                               1.00\n    Havana. J. F. Phelps                                       2.00\n    Jefferson. Susannah Ruliffson                              3.00\n    Mott\u2019s Corners. Cong. Ch.                                  3.20\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, _for Student Aid, Fisk\n      U._                                                    200.00\n    New York. Mrs. W. E. Dodge, 100.00 Rev. D.\n      Stuart Dodge, 50.00, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                            150.00\n    New York. Mrs. W. P. McPherson, Material for\n      Pulpit-covers, _for Talladega C._\n    New York. Erastus Hayes 1 doz. Feather\n      Dusters, Val., 12., _for Raleigh, N.C._\n    North Franklin. Mr. and Mrs. David Foote                  10.00\n    Perry Center. Cong. Ch.                                   81.24\n    Perry Center. Ladies Benev. Soc., _for\n      Raleigh, N.C., Freight_                                  3.20\n    Rochester. Gen. A. W. Riley                               50.00\n    Saugerties. Cong. Ch.                                     17.42\n    South Byron. Wallace Fisk, Automatic seed\n      planter, _for Talladega C._\n    Spencerport. Cong. Ch.                                    22.00\n    Springville. Mrs. Lawrence Weber                           3.00\n    Thiells. J. H. Cassedy, _for School Building,\n      Talladega, Ala._                                     5,000.00\n    \u2014\u2014  \u2014\u2014 \u2014\u2014                                                 50.00\n                                                         ----------\n                                                          $5,719.56\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Brooklyn. E. D. Estate of Mary Withington, by\n      John. N. Stearns, Ex.                                1,660.00\n    New York. Estate of Wm. E. Dodge, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                       150.00\n                                                         ----------\n                                                          $7,529.56\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $123.50.\n\n    Montclair. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., 53, _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U_; 35 _for Student Aid.\n      Hampton N. & A. Inst._,                                 88.00\n    New Brunswick. I. P. Langdon, to const. REV.\n      DR. THOMAS CHALMERS EASTON, L. M.                       30.00\n    Sayreville. A. B. Karner                                   0.50\n    Summit. Central Presb. Ch.                                 5.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $4.00.\n\n    Fannettsburg. Geo. W. Park. Flower seeds and\n      \u201cFloral Guide\u201d for \u201983, _for Talladega C._\n    Providence. Cong. Ch.                                      4.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $472.67.\n\n    Brighton. Cong. Ch.                                        5.17\n    Cleveland. \u2014\u2014                                              1.50\n    Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet                               60.00\n    Madison. Ladies\u2019 Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            13.00\n    Medina. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           10.00\n    Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch., 142.66; and Young\n      Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., 10. to const. MRS.\n      CHARLES COOPER and GEORGE S. PENFIELD L. Ms.           152.66\n    Oberlin. Ladies\u2019 Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._                     75.00\n    Peru. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     40.00\n    Perrysburg. Rev. J. K. Deering                             0.85\n    Ravenna. Cong Ch., to const. MRS. SARAH K.\n      HARMON, L. M.                                           53.24\n    Rootstown. Cong Ch.                                       26.25\n    Salem. D. A. Allen, _for Tillotson C. and N.\n      Inst._                                                  25.00\n    Toledo. P. A. Nichols                                      5.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cOhio\u201d                                                 5.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $4.50.\n\n    Versailles. J. D. Nichols                                  4.50\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,101.09.\n\n    Alton. Church of the Redeemer                             40.00\n    Canton. First Cong. Ch.                                   45.00\n    Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, _for a Teacher,\n      Atlanta U._                                            300.00\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 143.04; N. E. Cong.\n      Ch., 31.93                                             174.97\n    Chicago. Young Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., U. P. Ch.,\n      _for Teacher, Santee Agency_                             8.93\n    Chicago. Miss C. E. Stanton, Box Papers, _for\n      Macon, Ga._\n    Creston. Dement Cong. Ch.                                  8.55\n    Cornell. Mrs. B. R. Johnson                                5.00\n    Garden Prairie. Willie L. Dawson                           0.75\n    Hennepin. Cong. Ch.                                        5.40\n    Highland. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch., $50; _incorrectly\n      acknowledged in July number._\n    Homer. Cong. Ch.                                          13.26\n    Moline. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Fisk U._                              25.00\n    Oak Park. Cong. Ch.                                      253.11\n    Oak Park. Girls\u2019 Mission Circle, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           50.00\n    Odell. Cong. Ch., 21.50, and Sab. Sch., 5.50              27.00\n    Paxton. \u201cA Friend,\u201d 9.00; Cong. Sab. Sch.,\n      1.76, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                     10.76\n    Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss                               15.00\n    Wilmette. ARTHUR B. SMITH, to const. himself\n      L. M.                                                   30.00\n    Winnetka. Cong. Ch., to const. JOHN T. DALE L. M.         28.36\n                                                         ----------\n                                                          $1,051.09\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Chicago. Estate of Mrs. Lucinda Kilborn, by F.\n      B. Ives, M.D.                                           50.00\n                                                         ----------\n                                                          $1,101.09\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $198.00.\n\n    Detroit. \u201cA Cheerful Giver\u201d                               30.00\n    Buchanan. B. M. Pennell                                   10.00\n    Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev.\n      J. J. H. Sengstack_                                     20.00\n    Grass Lake. Cong. Ch.                                     15.00\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch.                                       108.00\n    Hancock. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo. Dept.,\n      Talladega C._                                           15.00\n    Kalamazoo. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Box of\n      Bedding, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._\n\n\n  IOWA, $1082.07.\n\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary. New\n      Orleans, La._                                           15.00\n    Cherokee. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary, New\n      Orleans, La._                                           10.00\n    Chester Center. Mrs. E. Fisher                             5.00\n    Creston. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., Pilgrim Parish,\n      _for Student Aid. Tougaloo U._                          20.00\n    Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington                        899.12\n    Dunlap. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                    2.70\n    Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer                              20.00\n    Green Mountain. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, New Orleans, La._                           12.00\n    Iowa City. Cong Ch. (21 of which from Ladies,\n      _for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._)                93.20\n    Stacyville. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                            3.00\n    Waterloo. Bbl of C., _for Talladega, Ala._,\n      2.05 _for freight_                                       2.05\n\n\n  WISCONSIN. $179.00.\n\n    Blake\u2019s Prairie. Cong Ch.                                  3.00\n    Columbus. Olivet Cong. Ch.                                19.65\n    Ripon. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                           17.50\n    River Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               8.35\n    Rosendale. Cong. Ch.                                      25.00\n    Sheboygan. Mrs. L. H. Chase                                9.00\n    Viroqua. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc., _for Macon, Ga._                5.00\n    Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch., to const. JAMES L.\n      SEXTON and Miss ISABELLA E. GILBERT L. Ms               76.00\n    Windsor. Union Cong. Ch.                                  15.50\n\n\n  KANSAS, $43.81.\n\n    East and West Branch. Cong. Chs.                           7.00\n    Burlington. First Cong. Ch.                               22.81\n    Wabaunsee. Cong. Ch.                                      14.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $100.00.\n\n    St. Louis. Mrs. R. Webb                                  100.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $135.36.\n\n    Colorado Springs. First Cong. Ch.                        106.76\n    Denver. First Cong. Ch.                                   28.60\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $41.63.\n\n    Faribault. \u201cHelping Hand,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Tougaloo U._                                            11.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 25.63\n    Plainview. Ladies\u2019 Miss\u2019y Soc.                             5.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $11.80.\n\n    Aten. Rev. Lewis Bridgman                                  5.00\n    Crete. Olive Branch Ch.                                    3.30\n    Red Cloud. Cong. Ch.                                       3.50\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $2.00.\n\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            2.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $1.50.\n\n    New Tacoma. Mrs. Eliza Taylor                              1.50\n\n\n  OREGON, $5.00.\n\n    Albany. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $117.60.\n\n    Lexington. Tuition                                        42.25\n    Williamsburg. Tuition                                     75.35\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $677.50.\n\n    Nashville. Fisk University, Tuition                      452.75\n    Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.                               12.00\n    Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition                          212.75\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $181.66.\n\n    Wilmington. Williston Normal Sch., Tuition               176.66\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $10.00.\n\n    Charleston. Plymouth Ch.                                  10.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $479.90.\n\n    Atlanta. Storrs\u2019 Sch., Tuition, 205.69; Rent,\n      3; First Cong. Ch., 30                                 238.69\n    Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 172.80; Cong.\n      Ch., 20                                                192.80\n    McIntosh. Tuition                                          6.70\n    Savannah. \u201cFriends\u201d by S. B. Morse, _for\n      Furnishing Room, Stone Hall, Atlanta U._                31.71\n    Savannah. Cong. Ch.                                       10.00\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $554.75.\n\n    Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition                             93.15\n    Marion. Cong. Ch., 13; Tuition, 5.50                      18.50\n    Mobile. 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R. S. STORRS, D.D.,\n\nPastor of the Church of the Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N.Y.\n\nIn addition to the collection of Psalms, this Psalter contains\nselections, not only from the Messianic prophets, but from the\npoetry of the Books of Job, from the Proverbs, from Ecclesiastes,\nand one or two from the Book of Revelations. The following order of\narrangement has been adopted, viz.:\n\n\n                            THE PSALMS.\n\nI.\u2014The Preparation of the Spirit for Divine Worship. II.\u2014The\nworship of God for His goodness and majesty. III.\u2014The worship\nof God for the Kingship of His Son. IV.\u2014The worship of God as\ndefender of His people. V.\u2014The worship of God as Judge on the\nearth. VII.\u2014The worship of God for the teaching of His Word.\nVII.\u2014Supplication to God for deliverance and favor.\n\n\n                         OTHER SELECTIONS.\n\nVIII.\u2014Praise to God for His greatness. IX.\u2014God\u2019s purposes\nconcerning Christ and the Church. X.\u2014The briefness of man\u2019s life.\nXI.\u2014The excellence of wisdom. XII.\u2014The glory of the heavenly life.\n\nThis edition of the Psalter has been awaited with much interest,\nand the knowledge that Dr. Storrs was engaged upon it has given\ngeneral satisfaction. The previous work has had a successful life,\nhaving been instrumental, as the pioneer Psalter, in awakening\nwidespread interest in responsive reading. There were necessarily\nsome changes to be made in that edition which long use and\nexperience have suggested. More changes are made in this edition,\nand we now have such a Psalter as will fully meet the requirements\nof all non-Episcopal churches. It is needless to say that Dr.\nStorrs is more eminently fitted to the work of preparing the\nPsalter than most men, and the work will undoubtedly be accepted as\nthe general standard.\n\nThe work is furnished for introduction at low rates. Churches using\nthe old edition may exchange for the new on favorable terms.\n\nA specimen copy will be sent, postpaid, for examination, to any\naddress, on receipt of 75 cents. Address the publishers.\n\n\n                      DR. JOSEPH P. HOLBROOK\n\nis by general consent in the front rank to-day of composers\nof church music. He is the Musical Editor of \u201cThe Songs for\nthe Church,\u201d \u201cSongs for the Sanctuary,\u201d \u201cBaptist Praise Book,\u201d\n\u201cMethodist Hymnal,\u201d \u201cPart Songs,\u201d \u201cQuartet and Chorus Choir,\u201d etc.,\netc.\n\nHolbrook\u2019s tunes have thus become wedded to many, if not most, of\nthe acceptable hymns now sung. Compilers of hymn and tune books\nare eager to secure these tunes, as they find that no book can be\nsaid to be complete without them. Many of Holbrook\u2019s latest tunes\nare, however, the best he has made, and he has recently issued a\nnew book embodying them all, together with a fine collection of the\nbest English and American tunes. The\n\n\n                          Worship in Song\n\ncontains 700 choice hymns and 500 tunes. In the selection of\nhymns Dr. Holbrook has had the colaboration of several eminent\nhymnologists, and on account of them alone the book will be found\nto be the most acceptable yet published.\n\nThe book has been adopted by Presbyterian and Congregational\nchurches east and west, and adds greatly to the interest in the\nworship wherever used. A prominent clergyman in Connecticut says:\n\u201cI am much interested in Mr. Holbrook\u2019s book. We use it daily and\nenjoy it. I have always thought the success of \u2018Songs for the\nSanctuary\u2019 was more due to the musical editing than to anything\nelse.\u201d\n\nFor specimen copies, price post-paid $1.25, which may be returned\nafter examination, if desired. Address the publishers.\n\n\n                          JUST PUBLISHED.\n\n               A Liturgy for Non-Episcopal Churches.\n\nA General Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer, prepared by\n\n                          PROF. HOPKINS,\n\n                  Of Auburn Theological Seminary.\n\nCONTENTS.\u2014Table of Scripture Readings for Divine Service on every\nLord\u2019s day in the year. Order of Evening Prayer. Order of Morning\nPrayer. Order of S. S. Service (four lessons). S. S. Service for\nthe Nativity of Jesus. S. S. Service for the Resurrection of Jesus.\nPrayers and Collect against unbelief. Second Coming of Christ. For\npeace. For pardon against delay of conversion. For protection. For\nthe unity of the Church. Prayers for travelers. Prayers of St.\nBasil. Prayers for the Holy Spirit. For the meeting of a Presbytery\nor Synod. Prayer of Balthazar Lydius. For timely repentance. Prayer\nof St. Basil, etc. (63 special and general occasions in all). Order\nfor the administration of infant baptism. Form for administration\nof adult baptism. Marriage Services. Funeral Services. Ordination\nand installation of Bishops. Prayers at sea. Communion service.\nConsecration of a church. Seventeen anniversary Collects, as First\nof July, Fourth of July, etc. Twenty-one Collects and prayers from\nthe Euchologion of the Scottish Church Service Society. The sources\nfrom which these forms have been taken are the Greek Liturgies, the\nSacramentaries of Gelasius, Leo and Gregory, the Mozarabic Missal,\nthe Monumenta Liturgia from the sixth to the tenth centuries, the\nPrymer of the Sarum Use, and to some extent more modern sources,\nas the Euchologion of Book of Common Order of the Church Service\nSociety of Scotland.\n\nProf. Hopkins has devoted many years to the preparation of this\nwork, and has submitted portions of it, together with his whole\nplan, to his brethren in the Church, meeting their full approval\nand indorsement to an unprecedented extent. A copy will be sent for\nexamination on receipt of $1. Churches wishing to adopt this Prayer\nBook may obtain special terms on quantities of 100 copies or more.\n\n\n                      The Evangelical Hymnal,\n\n                              BY THE\n\n                    REV. CHARLES CUTHBERT HALL,\n\n      Pastor of the 1st Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.,\n\n                                AND\n\n                         SIGISMUND LASAR,\n\n                     Editor of \u201cThe Hymnary.\u201d\n\n              This book contains approved versions of\n\n                   Six Hundred Excellent Hymns,\n\nwith tunes by the most celebrated composers of ancient and modern\ntimes.\n\nThe adaptations of tunes to hymns have been made with a special\nreference to a higher standard of ecclesiastical music than may be\nfound in any other American Hymnal.\n\nThe Biographical Index contains brief but comprehensive notices of\nauthors, translators and composers, and much valuable biographical\ninformation is printed at the heading of each hymn and in frequent\nfoot notes.\n\nExamination Price, Postpaid, $1.75.\n\n[Illustration] Specimen pages free to any address. A copy of the\nwork itself will be sent to any pastor or committee desiring to\nexamine it to be returned if not adopted.\n\nA. S. BARNES & CO., Publishers, 111 and 113 William St., New York.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n        ATKIN & PROUT, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions silently\ncorrected. Inconsistent hyphenation retained due to the\nmultiplicity of authors. Period spellings and author\u2019s grammar\nhave been retained.\n\nIllustrations have been moved outside of paragraphs, causing page\nnumbers to be slightly off. The illustration on page 240 differs\nbetween copies of the magazine.\n\nChanged \u201cburiness\u201d to \u201cbusiness\u201d on page 234 (most prominent men in\nbusiness).\n\nChanged \u201cacccounts\u201d to \u201caccounts\u201d on page 244 (giving accounts of\nhis discussions)\n\nChanged \u201cTallageda\u201d to \u201cTalladega\u201d in the Marblehead entry on page\n251.\n\nChanged \u201cTownsend Habor\u201d to \u201cTownsend Harbor\u201d on page 251.\n\nChanged \u201cTalledega\u201d to \u201cTalladega\u201d in the Hancock entry on page 252.\n\nMissing \u201cA\u201d added in \u201cHARPER\u2019S BAZAR\u201d in the table in Harper\u2019s\nadvertisement on page 254.\n\nChanged \u201cFragance\u201d to \u201cFragrance\u201d on page 255 (Beauty and\nFragrance).\n\nMissing \u201cn\u201d added in \u201cMessianic\u201d on the back cover (from the\nMessianic prophets).\n\nMissing \u201ci\u201d added in \u201cKingship\u201d on the back cover (Kingship of His\nSon)\n\nMissing \u201co\u201d added in \u201cfor\u201d on the back cover (Prayers for the Holy\nSpirit)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 8, August, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":19927}