{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_61820/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_61820","id":"gutenberg_61820","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61820","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Sociology","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals"],"text":"[Illustration: SEPTEMBER, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 9.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014THIS NUMBER\u2014FINANCIAL                  257\n    THE NERVE OF MISSIONS                                 258\n    THE JOHN BROWN STEAMER (drawing)                      259\n    SECOND NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSEMBLY                    260\n    HON. FREEMAN WALKER                                   261\n    SIXTY YEARS IN THE HARVEST FIELD\u2014GIFT BY A\n        BOHEMIAN BOY                                      262\n    BENEFACTIONS                                          263\n    GENERAL NOTES                                         264\n    VICTORIA FALLS, ZAMBESE RIVER (cut)                   266\n\n\n  THE COLOR-LINE.\n\n    OPINIONS FROM THE PRESS                               267\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    FROM OUR LADY MISSIONARY, WILMINGTON, N.C.            279\n    A VALUED WORKER GONE                                  279\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    CHUNG WAH                                             280\n    A CHINESE GARDEN (cut)                                281\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                282\n\n\n  PROPOSED CONSTITUTION                                   286\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n         PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n                      Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n          Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y.,\n                      as second-class matter.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\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. G. D. PIKE, D.D., _New York_.\n  Rev. JAMES POWELL, _Chicago_.\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nrelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to\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 BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of \u2014\u2014 dollars, in\ntrust, to pay the same in \u2014\u2014 days after my decease to the person\nwho, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the\n\u2018American Missionary Association\u2019 of New York City, to be applied,\nunder the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,\nto its charitable uses and purposes.\u201d The Will should be attested\nby three witnesses.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAIM AND WORK.\n\nTo preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with\nthe almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its\nmain efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens\nand Christians in America, and as missionaries in Africa. As\nclosely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted\nCHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its\nhumane and Christian policy toward the INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n           How to Build a House with little or no Money.\n\n[Illustration: A $900 COTTAGE\n\nBUILT FROM ASSOCIATION PLANS.]\n\n\n=HOW TO BUILD A HOUSE=, contains most approved designs for Villas,\nFarm Houses, Cottages, and Suburban Residences, ranging in cost\nfrom $350 to $20,000. 1 Vol., large quarto, 178 illustrations.\nPrice =50= cts.\n\n=BARNS AND OUTHOUSES=, (=Just Published=) contains most practical\ndesigns for Farm Barns, Stock Barns, Carriage Houses, Stables,\nDairies, Hog Houses, Chicken Houses, Artificial Rearing Apparatus,\nCorn Cribs, Granaries, Smoke Hot Beds, Green Houses, Graperies, How\nto lay out Farms and Gardens, designs for Lawn and Hanging Baskets,\nGarden Vases, Fountains, and valuable illustrated articles on Cheap\nHomes, Concrete Buildings. How to improve old Barns, etc. 1 Vol.,\nlarge quarto, 200 illustrations. Price =50= cents.\n\n\u201cThe wonder is that publications of this kind have not been\nissued before.\u201d\u2014_N.Y. Weekly Witness._ \u201cPrecisely meets a want\nwhich thousands have felt.\u201d\u2014_N.Y. Observer._ \u201cThe most practical\nbook we have ever seen.\u201d\u2014_Episcopal Methodist._ \u201cA responsible\nAssociation.\u201d\u2014_Christian at Work._\u2014\n\nThese books must be seen to be appreciated\u2014a mere circular or\ncatalogue can give no idea of their value. On receipt of =$1.00=\nwe send both books, post-paid, _for examination_. Both or either\ncan be returned, if not entirely satisfactory and the money will be\nimmediately refunded. Address,\n\n              Co-operative Building Plan Association\n  (_Mention this Paper._)      24 Beekman St., (Box 2702,) New York.\n\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          VOL. XXXVII.      SEPTEMBER, 1883.      NO. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will\nconvene in the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn (Dr.\nBehrends\u2019), Oct. 30. For further information, see 4th page cover.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE present to our readers in this number of the _Missionary_ a\nr\u00e9sum\u00e9, or broadside, on the Color-line. The interest of the public\non the question at issue is manifest from the constant series of\narticles on the subject in the religious papers.\n\nAs to caste prejudice itself, we hold and wish to propagate\npronounced opinions. We believe it to be a sin and a curse; a\nhindrance to Christian missions abroad, and a root of bitterness\nthat will trouble us in this country till it be eradicated. It\nis a stone of stumbling to whites and blacks in the South, and\nan element of discord in the nation. We, therefore, give these\nextracts with the hope that they may promote the discussion and\naid in its final and right settlement. There are some good men and\ntrue who have written on this subject in a tone other than we would\nadopt, but we give extracts representing their views.\n\nOn the far less important question as to which missionary societies\nshall do the work among the whites and blacks in the South, we\ndo not now express an opinion, and have no wish to influence the\nopinions of anybody, believing, as we do, that no difficulties\non this score are likely to arise. On this point, therefore,\nour extracts are made with the utmost endeavor at impartiality,\npresenting them simply as showing fairly the drift of public\nsentiment on the subject.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR receipts from collections and donations during the ten months\nclosing July 31, 1882, were $188,677.02; the collections and\ndonations for the same months this year have been $164,652.04, a\ndecrease of $24,024.98. The legacies for these months last year\nwere $74,152.29, while for this year they have been $64,594.65,\na decrease of $9,557.64. The total receipts for these months last\nyear in collections, donations and legacies were $262,829.31, while\nfor this year they have amounted to only $229,246.69, a decrease of\n$33,582.62.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE John Brown Steamer, a drawing of which is given herewith, will\nbe ready for use at the Mendi Mission during the next dry season,\nwhich commences about November 1.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE NERVE OF MISSIONS.\n\nThe first effort on record, so far as we know, to cut the nerve of\nmissions, was made by Satan himself in the Garden of Eden when he\naffirmed to our first parents, \u201cThou shalt not surely die.\u201d The\nreason for missions comes out in the great truth of Scripture,\nthat men are lost without the Gospel, and are saved only by the\nGospel. The advocacy of any view that relieves the mind of a\nsense of the lost condition of unbelievers cuts at the nerve of\nmissions. The purpose of God the Father in sending his Son was\nthat \u201cWhosoever believeth in him might not perish.\u201d The fact\nthat Christ came to seek and save the lost makes it clear that\nwhatever serves to convince the world that men are not already,\nand will not continue eternally to be, lost without the obedience\ninvolved in the exercise of faith in Christ, runs counter to the\nwhole drift of missionary endeavor. The gospel of repentance was\nforemost in the preaching of John the Baptist, of Christ and the\nApostles\u2014repentance because \u201cHe will thoroughly purge his floor and\ngather his wheat into the garner, but he will burn up the chaff\nwith unquenchable fire.\u201d\n\nHowever much good may come from missions to civilization,\nhowsoever much they may add to the comfort, the intelligence,\nthe personal enjoyment of those who may receive the benefit of\nthem, nevertheless the grand inspiring motive of missions is to\nsave lost souls. Those in the closest sympathy with Christ, those\nwho have consecrated themselves to work for him, feel this most\ndeeply. There are many who appreciate the excellent example given\nus by our Saviour when on earth, many who are actuated by kindly\nimpulses, who wish well for the happiness of their fellow men here\nand hereafter; but if these men fail to realize that Christ\u2019s\nmission was to save the lost, and that the lost can be saved only\nthrough the preaching of His cross, they are not, as a rule, deeply\ninterested in the work of promoting missionary efforts at home or\nabroad. They do not manifest in any good degree the actuating power\nof any nerve of missions. Help must come, progress must be made,\nindeed, the world must be brought to Christ, so far as we can see\nfrom history, or from observation in the present generation, by\nthose who believe and are ready like Christ himself to do all in\ntheir power to bring a lost world into the fullness and blessedness\nof the Redeemer\u2019s kingdom.\n\n\n[Illustration: THE JOHN BROWN STEAMER.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSECOND NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSEMBLY.\n\nThis Assembly, to which reference was made in our July\n_Missionary_, was held at Ocean Grove, Aug. 9, 10, 11 and 12, for\nthe purpose of bringing together prominent persons to awaken public\nsentiment in favor of aid for the education of the illiterate\nmasses in our country.\n\nThe meetings were conducted by Rev. J. C. Hartzell, D.D., and the\ntopics discussed embraced nearly every phase of educational work,\nrelating more especially, however, to the negroes, the poor whites\nand the Indians. In our limited space, we can give simply two or\nthree leading features of the discussion.\n\nThe subject of National Aid to Education deservedly received\nlarge attention and found its way into addresses other than those\non that particular topic. Secretary Strieby presided during the\nsession when it was considered, and the time was occupied by Prof.\nPainter, Hon. J. P. Wickersham, Senator H. W. Blair and others.\nMr. Wickersham gave a comprehensive r\u00e9sum\u00e9 of the aid provided by\nforeign nations for schools, pointing out its benefits and also its\nevils. He argued that, although it generally was the wisest and\nthe only successful way for the people to provide education for\nthemselves, yet under conditions like those in a portion of our\ncountry, help should be given by the government. True patriotism,\nhe said, requires us to keep an army of schoolmasters in the South\nnow as much as it did to maintain an army of soldiers to put down\nthe rebellion. The urgency of national aid to education at once\nwas emphasized by Judge Tourgee in the expression that ten million\ndollars for this purpose to-day would be worth more than ten\nthousand millions twenty years hence. Senator Blair, who recognizes\nfully the value of aggressive and thorough methods of reform,\ndeclared, and we think truly, that if every leading newspaper\nwould give one strong editorial urging the importance of national\naid, if every popular lecturer would devote one hour to public\ndiscussion of the subject, and if every minister would preach one\nsermon in its advocacy, the next Congress would pass a bill for\nan appropriation for the purpose among its earliest acts, and the\npeople of the nation would applaud with hearty commendations.\n\nThe Negro in America came up for a full share of attention at a\nmorning session. A goodly number of colored bishops, doctors of\ndivinity and professors in educational institutions were present.\nTheir zeal for bringing about reform had been heightened by the\nfact, that in so good and moral a community as Ocean Grove,\nthey were requested to occupy a dining-room by themselves, near\nthe kitchen, in the house where they were entertained. There\nwas no color-line drawn, however, at the meeting. Dr. Rust, who\npresided, claimed that as the Africans came to this country as\ninvited guests, that as we even sent our ships for them, they were\nentitled to more respect than ordinary foreigners. That respect\nwas certainly accorded them on this occasion. Dr. Ward, of the\n_Independent_, led off with a clear-cut address on the Danger-Line\nin Negro Education, setting forth the folly of those who hold that\neducation unfits men for useful labor. The gist of this topic he\ngave in a sentence: \u201cWe must educate or we perish.\u201d Rev. J. C.\nPrice (colored) of North Carolina, urged that the Negro must solve\nhis problem by his own impressibility. So fitting and eloquent were\nhis words, that when his limited time had expired, the audience,\nwith prolonged applause, refused to allow the next speaker to be\ncalled, and it was only when the Chairman assured them that Mr.\nPrice was but one colored orator among the many he had to bring\nforward and announced Bishop Campbell that the speakers were\nallowed to proceed. Dr. Tanner, also colored, read a paper on \u201cThe\nColor-Line,\u201d taking the ground that in this country there must be\nno class distinction, but that we must be one people. A new code\nof ethics, he said, was proposed, a code not known in any other\nnation. It was that equals may associate with equals, if they are\nof the same color. The session, which had been participated in by\ntwo white speakers, was brought to a close by Bishop Campbell,\nwhose good-natured appearance brought freshly to mind the anecdote\nthat had just been told by Rev. J. W. Hamilton, of Boston, the pith\nof which was the reply of the black man, that if the negro had no\nsoul, religion made his body feel mighty happy.\n\nAn evening was given for a public reception of missionaries,\nteachers and preachers who have labored in the South from the North\nsince the war, about 150 of whom were present. Gen. John Eaton\npresided over the immense gathering assembled to welcome them.\nPres. Braden, of Nashville, Tenn., Sup\u2019t Salisbury, of the A. M. A.,\nGen. S. C. Armstrong, and others, made addresses.\n\nAll the meetings were full of interest, and the managers will\npublish a report of the proceedings in pamphlet form.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE little company which met in Albany Sept. 3, 1846, to found\nthe American Missionary Association, is rapidly passing away.\nAnother of those original founders, Hon. Freeman Walker, of North\nBrookfield, Mass., at the ripe age of seventy-nine entered into\nrest July 11, 1883. If less conspicuous than some others, he was\nnot less clear in his convictions nor less staunch in his defense\nof the liberties and rights of his fellow men. He had large\nofficial trusts in town, and State and nation, extending over many\nyears, and was always the incorruptible citizen, as he was the\nhumble Christian.\n\nHe inherited all the mental keenness, as well as the moral\ntoughness and tenacity of the Puritan ancestry, in the eighth\ngeneration of which he stood in regular descent. He had hardly\nreached his majority before he placed himself in the ranks of the\nfew who then stood on the side of the slave. His heart and his\nhand, his purse and his home were at the service of the fugitive\nin the days of slavery, and since the emancipation as fully at the\nservice of the freedmen.\n\nThe Association has had no firmer friend than Mr. Walker, and few,\nin the measure of their means, have more liberally contributed to\nits treasury. He belonged to a generation of heroes and martyrs\u2014men\nof daring courage and of mighty faith. They were honored of God,\nand are now coming to receive the homage of mankind.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n_Sixty Years in the Harvest Field_ is the title of a biographical\nsketch of Havilah Mowry, Jr., published by A. S. Barnes & Co. The\nbook contains 360 pages, and is valuable by way of suggestion as\nto how laymen may employ their leisure even in the humble walks of\nlife in bringing sinners to Christ. Mr. Mowry, after working as\na blacksmith for a series of years in Connecticut, entered upon\nservice as city missionary at Brooklyn, N.Y., where he labored for\nmany years with marked success. The book is worthy of a place in\nSunday-school libraries, and fitted to promote evangelistic work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA GIFT BY A BOHEMIAN BOY.\n\nWe publish below a letter from Dr. Alden, Secretary of the American\nBoard, to District Secretary Woodworth, of Boston.\n\nIt is a touching fact that a boy in that far-off land should\nremember the black children of our own country. It shows how\nstrangely the impulse of Christian sympathy strikes from land to\nland, and suggests the propriety of making this humble gift of\nthe utmost value to him that gives and those who receive. We,\ntherefore, propose, as a simple method of reaching that object,\nthat any person or Sunday-school sending us $10 for the purpose\nshall receive one of these pieces of money. The donors to this\nobject will receive the pieces in the order of application. If more\ngifts than the ten are forwarded, we will return them to the donors\nor appropriate them by permission to the colored children of the\nSouth.\n\n\u201cREV. C. L. WOODWORTH, D.D.\u2014_My dear brother_: I take great\npleasure in committing to your trust the inclosed pieces of money,\nten pieces in all, each of them the value of ten kreutzers, making\n100 kreutzers in all, or probably about half a dollar of our\ncurrency. It is the gift of a boy in Prague, Austria, whose name\nis Bohumil Burda. The name \u2018Bohumil\u2019 is the same in signification\nas the ordinary name Theophilus, that is to say, \u2018a friend of\nGod.\u2019 This boy placed the money in my hands when Dr. Clark and I\nwere at Prague, saying that he wished it to be given to the \u2018black\nchildren of America.\u2019 I give you the exact coins which he had laid\nup after the self-sacrifices of several months, in his warm spirit\nof Christian benevolence, and I commit them to you as a sacred\ntrust, assured that you will know how to multiply them, and how to\nuse them in such a way as will be not only for the interest of the\nblack children of America, but for the awakening of their interest\nin the needy and the promising children of Bohemia.\n\n\u201cWith best wishes for the success of the Society which you now\nrepresent, I remain yours most fraternally,\n\n                            \u201cE. K. ALDEN, Sec. A. B. C. F. M.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nHenry L. Kendall, of Providence, has bequeathed $1,500 to the\nHampton Institute.\n\nDr. Eliphalet Clark has left a bequest of $50,000 to the Kent\u2019s\nHill Methodist Seminary in Maine.\n\nAn unknown contributor, of Massachusetts, has given $5,000 to\nWilliams College to establish a physical gymnasium.\n\nCharles L. Colby has given $1,000,000 to establish a new university\nin Wisconsin. It was his father, Gardner Colby, who endowed the\ncollege which bears his name in Waterville, Me.\n\nThe large liberality of Dr. Lucien C. Warner, of New York, will\nprovide a building three stories high, and 150 feet by 120, for\nthe Conservatory of Music at Oberlin. It is expected to cost from\n$30,000 to $50,000.\n\nMr. and Mrs. Mills have just added $20,000 to their gifts to Mills\nSeminary, Oakland, Cal., and fifteen acres of land. Another gift of\n$5,000 has also been received, and one of $2,000 from Mrs. Wm. E.\nDodge.\n\nThe trustees of the estate of the late Frederick Marquand have\ngiven a subscription to the Elmira Female College of $25,000, on\ncondition that an equal sum be raised by the friends of the college.\n\nThe Canadian government has appropriated $44,000 for the\nestablishment of Indian schools in the Northwest. Two schools are\nto be built with this money\u2014one Protestant and one Catholic.\n\nMr. Moody has recently received from a gentleman in Boston a gift\nof $50,000 for his school at Northfield, on condition that an\nadditional $50,000 be raised. Several scholarships of $3,000 each\nhave also been received lately.\n\n_The demand for a new building at the Tillotson Institute, Austin,\nTexas, of which mention was made in our December_ MISSIONARY, _is\nvery urgent. Last year the number of students turned away for lack\nof room was greater than the number admitted. Twenty thousand\ndollars, in addition to the amount already pledged for the purpose,\nare needed at once._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014W. H. McKinney, a Choctaw from the Indian Territory, graduated\nthis year from Roanoke College, receiving the degree of B.A.\n\n\u2014Thirty Nez Perces women, widows of the men who fled from Idaho in\n1876, have been permitted to leave the Indian Territory and return\nto their old homes.\n\n\u2014The Department at Washington has entered into an agreement with\nthe managers of the Lincoln Institute, Philadelphia, whereby that\ninstitution is to undertake the education of fifty Indian girls.\n\n\u2014Bishop Whipple, when on a recent visit to the Indian department of\nthe missionary diocese, administered the communion to 247 Chippewa\nIndians. There are eight churches in the Chippewa mission. One just\nbuilding will cost $10,000.\n\n\u2014Three hundred acres of land have been purchased, south of\nLawrence, Kansas, for the site of an Indian Industrial School,\nlocated by the last session of Congress. Suitable buildings will be\nerected for the accommodation of 500 pupils. Ten thousand dollars\nhave been raised for the object by private subscription, and it\nwill probably be completed by November 1.\n\n\u2014Information is published in Nebraska to the effect that the\ntradition that Indians will not work is untrue. On the line of the\nMinneapolis & Omaha Railroad they hang around the section houses\nand insist on being hired whenever any extra work is to be done,\nand every regular gang has both Winnebagoes and Omahas in it. They\nmake efficient laborers, often giving better satisfaction than\nforeigners in the employ of the company.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014The revival power is being manifested to a greater extent in Japan\nthan elsewhere.\n\n\u2014A union for Christian work among the Chinese of Brooklyn, N.Y.,\nhas been formed, with Andrew A. Smith, Secretary of the Park\nCommission, at its head. A reading-room and headquarters will be\nestablished at 991 and 993 Fulton street.\n\n\u2014There are now more than 300 Chinese Christians on the Hawaiian\nIslands, and stated religious services for them are maintained\nat four different points. One of these Celestials, a member and\na deacon of the Church in Honolulu, has built a school-house in\nhis native village in China, and now supports a Christian teacher\nthere, thus showing the importance of evangelistic work among the\nChinese of these Islands.\n\n\u2014European statisticians are gradually reducing their estimates of\nthe population of China. It used to be put at over 400,000,000.\nBehm and Wagner reduce their estimate for China and Corea from\n434,500,000 to 379,500,000. Peterson reduces his estimate by\n75,000,000, making the present total 350,000,000. Dr. Happer,\nmissionary, believes this can safely be reduced another 50,000,000.\nMr. Hippisley, Acting Commissioner of Customs, thinks 250,000,000\nmore nearly correct than 350,000,000. The losses by the Taeping and\nMohammedan rebellions, and by the famine and pestilence which swept\nthe provinces of Chili, Shantung, Shansi, Shensi and Houan, are\nvariously estimated at from 61,000,000 to 81,000,000.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014King Mtesa, of Uganda, is dead. He welcomed and co-operated with\nCapt. Speke, the discoverer of Victoria Nyanza, and has played a\nprominent part in all the events that have occurred in his kingdom,\nwhether they were in the interest of exploration or mission work.\n\n\u2014The German Reichstag is said to have voted 1,000,000 marks, about\n\u00a350,000, for the expense of a German exploring expedition into\nCentral Africa.\n\n\u2014Mr. H. M. Stanley is said to have used more than a million yards\nof Manchester goods in paying the workmen employed in constructing\nthe road to Stanley Pool.\n\n\u2014Drs. Bachmann and Wilms, of Munster, set out in May for a journey\nof several years in Africa, especially in the Transvaal, which they\ncontemplate exploring with reference to botany and zo\u00f6logy. They\nhope also to develop commercial relations between Southern Africa\nand Germany.\n\n\u2014Since the overthrow of Arabi Pasha, the missions of the United\nPresbyterians of America have been more prosperous than ever.\nTheir work, which is largely among the Copts, is approved by the\nCoptic Bishop, and one of the young men recently licensed by the\nmission has been engaged to expound the Scriptures. So great was\nthe interest in his first sermon that he was obliged to repeat it\nthree times. Women disguised themselves in male attire in order to\nget into the streets to hear the preaching. An effort will be made\nto establish a regular national evangelical church in Egypt.\n\n\u2014From reliable statistics it appears that the progress of Islamism\nin Africa, during the last hundred years, has been appalling. At\nthe Mohammedan Missionary University, at Cairo, in Egypt, there\nare at this day 10,000 students under training, ready to go to any\npart of the world to teach the doctrines of Islam. Missionaries\nmeet these Moslem priests not in Turkey alone, which is the centre\nof their power, but also in Persia, India and China, and in the\nheart of Africa. Very few have been led to renounce their faith for\nChristianity. This is owing to the fear of persecution, for the\nMoslem holds that it is not only proper, but a duty to kill any one\nwho abjures his faith in their prophet.\n\n[Illustration: VICTORIA FALLS, ZAMBESE RIVER, AFRICA.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE COLOR-LINE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n_Opinions Gathered from the Press._\n\nCASTE PREJUDICE.\n\nREV. W. H. WARD, D.D.\u2014ADDRESS AT CLEVELAND.\n\nChristianity in India has utterly succumbed to caste once. The\nmissionaries of the last century, after beginning nobly, yielded\nand allowed caste to rule in the Christian church. \u201cI have\ncarefully avoided all coercive measures,\u201d said Schwarz, in 1787.\nBishop Heber allowed caste. Not till 1833 did the English Church\nmissionaries decide, through the voice of the noble Bishop Wilson,\nin a peremptory pastorate letter of July 5, 1833, that no mercy\nshould be shown to the accursed thing. \u201cThe distinctions of caste,\u201d\nsaid he, \u201cmust be abandoned decidedly, immediately, finally.\nBirth condemns no class of men, from generation to generation, to\ninevitable contempt, debasement and servitude. The enforcement of\nthis order broke up churches. A Sudra would sooner give up his\nChristianity than take the communion with a pariah. The war has\nbeen long, and is not yet fully concluded. An American Lutheran\nmissionary lately felicitated himself that now the two castes have\nbeen prevailed upon to take the Lord\u2019s Supper together. In a London\nmissionary station some ten years ago a few pariahs were converted,\nwhereupon the Shanars, at their own cost, built a chapel for their\nlow caste brethren, lest they should have to worship with them. A\nfew years ago a missionary led several low caste Christians into a\nchapel door, whereupon the high caste occupants hastily scrambled\nout of the window. * * *\n\nDo I say that caste is broken down? Not quite. Even yet it lingers:\nand where it lingers chiefest is, it shames me to say, in education\nand Christianity. To the infinite disgrace of the church, the chief\ndenominations of the South divide on the caste line. The white\nChristians and churches are put purposely into one denomination,\nand the colored into another. We have white Methodists and\nblack Methodists; white Baptist associations and black Baptist\nassociations. What denomination is there but the Roman Catholic,\nthe Episcopalian and the Congregational, in which whites and blacks\ncan stand equally before God? In the South both whites and blacks\naccept this condition, for the most part, as right. It does not\noccur to them to protest against it. Even the negroes accept the\nhumiliation to which they have become accustomed. No voice of\nprotest is raised. Whites and blacks alike seem satisfied that\nGod\u2019s church united above should be divided below. Why lingers\nJerubbaal amid the wheat-threshings of Manasseh? Why comes no\nGideon forth, inspired with the zeal of the Lord, to cut down this\nhorrible idol of his father\u2019s house? * * * *\n\nWhen the colored race were slaves, the color marked the social\ndistinction of service. That is all past now. They may be servants\nstill. Then the social distinction still holds. We cannot break up\nthese right social distinctions. We cannot prevent the existence\nof classes in society. We choose those of our own sort, with whom\nwe are intimate. But in the name of God, in the name of the hopes\nand rights of the poor, in the memory of the accursed experience\nof the ages of serfdom, in the East and in the West, we demand\nthat neither law nor recognized custom shall impose on social\nconditions the Satanic burdens, the hopeless, crushing weight\nof impassable caste. It is accursed in the hall of legislation,\naccursed at the ballot-box, accursed in the court-room, accursed in\nthe church-pews, accursed at the Lord\u2019s table\u2014most accursed when it\nsets an impassable gulf between high and low, white and black in\nthe school-room.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA QUESTION OF CASTE.\n\nBY REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D.\n\nIt should be remembered that this prejudice in the South is more\none of caste than it is one of race. It is in the former relation\nof master and slave that the distinction between the races has its\nstrongest roots. The personal antipathy on the ground of feature\nand color\u2014the race prejudice pure and simple\u2014is not so great in the\nSouth as at the North, where fewer colored people are met with. I\nhave heard a Congregational pastor, in one of the most enlightened\ncommunities of Massachusetts, declare that he did not think he\ncould endure the presence of a colored cook in his kitchen. One\nof the best Northern teachers in the South confesses that when\nhe first met with colored people in the horse-cars of Washington\nhe would sit as far from them as possible. But Southern men and\nwomen who were nursed at the breasts of slave mammies in infancy,\nhave played familiarly with colored children in childhood, and\nhave been served all their lives by the darker-skinned race in a\nmultitude of ways and in the closest personal proximity, can feel\nlittle, if any, of this personal antipathy. It is the distinction\nbetween a serving class and a ruling class which chiefly causes the\nseparation here. But as the colored people acquire intelligence and\nproperty, and the white people learn more of the dignity of labor,\nthis distinction will cease to coincide with the color line.\n\nBut it is said that white students will not _now_ attend school\nwith the colored, and that we must take the facts as they are.\nBut the facts are not all on one side. For years the students of\nBerea College, in Kentucky, have been about equally divided between\nthe two races, and have studied harmoniously together. And why?\nSimply because, for a large surrounding region, Berea College has\noffered the best and cheapest opportunity for an education. Let\nall the institutions of the American Missionary Association be\namply endowed and equipped, so that they can offer to the poor\nwhites more and better than can be obtained anywhere else, and the\nwasteful and needless expedient of missionary color-line schools\nand colleges will no longer be thought of.\n\n                                      _The Congregationalist._\n\n\nNOT ON ACCOUNT OF COLOR.\n\nEDITORIAL IN INDEPENDENT.\n\nProfessor James M. Gregory, of the Howard University, made some\ncapital remarks on the \u201ccolor line\u201d at the recent banquet in\nWashington, in honor of Frederick Douglass. \u201cThe color line,\u201d as\nhe justly said, \u201cwas drawn when the Negro was made a slave in this\ncountry,\u201d and the prejudice existing against him is \u201cnot on account\nof color, but by reason of previous condition, his color serving\nto indicate his identity with a race held as bondmen.\u201d \u201cThis\nprejudice,\u201d he added, \u201cis purely American. Colored men traveling in\nother countries have not found _color_ a mark of degradation. If\nthey are reminded of their color at all, it is by Americans they\nmeet, who are not magnanimous enough to treat the negro courteously\neven on foreign soil, where race prejudice is not tolerated.\u201d * * *\n\nLet the practice of the American people be as impartially just as\nis their Constitution; and our colored fellow-citizens will have no\ngrievances of which to complain. We congratulate them upon the fact\nthat the Constitution has taken them under its charge, and upon the\nfurther fact that the day-star of a bright and promising future is\ngradually shedding its light upon their horizon. The doctrine of\nequal privileges and equal responsibilities will in the end lift\nthem to the level of an unquestioned and developed manhood; and\nthen the \u201ccolor line\u201d will wholly disappear.\n\n\nONLY HALF TRUE.\n\nA friend, who is familiar with the blacks at the South, writes\nus that the statement that \u201cthe colored people prefer to be in\nchurches by themselves\u201d is only half true. He adds that, so far as\nit is true, it is because they either shrink from the restraints\nof a pure and intelligent religion, such as that of the whites,\nor from the scorn or ill-concealed toleration of their white\nfellow-worshipers; and that, if sure of a cordial welcome by the\nwhites, they do not prefer to worship by themselves. We are glad to\ngive publicity to this statement, although it is contradicted by\nthat of every one else whom we remember to have heard speak of the\nmatter. Is there not another reason which tends to separate white\nand black Christians into distinct churches? Do not the latter,\neven when assured of a cordial welcome by the whites, usually\nprefer an emotional, hortatory style of preaching which is very\ndear to them, but which disturbs, if it do not even amuse, the\nwhites? Certainly it is so here at the North.\n\n                                      _The Congregationalist._\n\n\nONE DESTINY.\n\nBY FREDERICK DOUGLASS.\n\nThere is but one destiny, it seems to me, left for us, and that\nis to make ourselves and be made by others a part of the American\npeople in every sense of the word. Assimilation, not isolation, is\nour true policy and natural destiny. Unification for us is life.\nSeparation is death. We cannot afford to set up for ourselves a\nseparate political party or adopt for ourselves a political creed\napart from the rest of our fellow-citizens.\n\n                                            _The Independent._\n\n\nCHRIST OR CASTE.\n\nBY H. K. CARROLL.\n\nShall we go into the South to exalt Christ or to surrender to\ncaste? Shall we go to the Negro as to a being made a little lower\nthan man, and reach down to him, not to lift him up to our plane,\nbut to help him live better and be content on his own lower\nplane? Or, shall we go to him as to a brother of our own blood,\nunfortunate, degraded, despised, and strive thus to save him and\nimprove him on Christ\u2019s plan? If we go for Christ, we go inevitably\nto bear reproach, to submit to ostracism; we go to contend against\nuntold difficulties, to meet with discouragements, to fail, it may\nbe, for many years, of at least great numerical success. * * * The\nsecret of much wrong thinking and wrong practice concerning mixed\nchurches is the idea which both Dr. Curry and Dr. Wheeler seem to\nregard as universal, that the Church is a social institution. If\nthis be once admitted, Dr. Wheeler is right in contending that the\nlines of social distinction which are drawn in the drawing-room\nwill inevitably be drawn in the Church. Here is a basis quite\nsufficient to build white and colored churches upon; but it is\njust as certainly broad enough for other social distinctions,\nwhich Methodism, of all branches of the Church Catholic, has been\nthe least willing to admit. Seeing, as Dr. Wheeler sees, that the\nemployer and the laborer, the rich and the poor, the learned and\nthe unlearned form different and more or less distinct classes\nin society, we cannot only justify churches organized on the\ncolor line, but we must be prepared to justify churches organized\nexclusively for the rich; churches for the poor; churches for the\neducated and churches for the uneducated; churches for merchants\nand distinct churches for clerks. The idea that the Church is a\nsocial institution, if rigidly adhered to, would give us a system\nof class distinctions as intricate as that of India. There are\ntwo great facts which make the whole human race absolutely equal,\nabsolutely without distinctive claims or advantages, before the\naltar. The first is the fact of universal sin; the second is the\nfact of universal need of salvation. Men of all degrees, from the\nprince to the peasant, from the millionaire to the pauper, from\nthe most profound scholar to the most unlettered backwoodsman,\nfrom the whitest European to the blackest African, meet in church\non a common platform. They leave their social distinctions, their\nrank, and their peculiar privileges outside the church door. Here\nis the one place where all the sons of God may meet and work\ntogether as one family. The Duke of Wellington knelt at the altar\nwith a plain farmer and received the sacrament. \u201cHere,\u201d said he,\n\u201cwe are brothers.\u201d The Church is associational rather than social.\nIt exists in society, is formed from society, and exercises the\nmost powerful influence on society; but its province is neither to\nbreak down nor build up distinctions in society. It may inculcate\nprinciples, which men and women will carry into their social\nrelations, for the cure of such evils as may exist in society; but\nit is not its province as an organization to form and regulate\nsociety. Its distinct work is to draw all men to Christ and help\nthem to live a righteous and useful life.\n\n                                            _The Independent._\n\n\nTHE CHRISTIAN LEAGUE.\n\nBY REV. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D.\n\n\u201cThis company must be a clean one, and there is no lack of sound\nand reputable men in our churches.\u201d\n\n\u201cHow about the colored brethren?\u201d queried Mr. Strong.\n\n\u201cThe colored brethren must be left out,\u201d was the answer, \u201cnot for\nsocial, but for ecclesiastical reasons. One of the first duties\nof this league of ours, if it ever gets into operation, will be\nthe suppression of these colored churches. When the colored people\nabandon their own organizations, and join the other churches,\nthey may come in as representatives from them. We will have no\ncolor-line in the Christianity for which this club stands. I\u2019ll go\nas far as any other man in fraternizing with colored men; but with\ncolored churches, never. The sectarianism whose only basis is the\ncolor of the skin is the meanest kind of sectarianism.\u201d\n\n                                                _The Century._\n\n\nIT DECIDES NOTHING.\n\nBY REV. D. M. WILSON.\n\nWe are told that the colored prefer to be by themselves. Were\nthis true, it would decide nothing as to the proper method of\nchurch work. The several castes of India would have preferred to\nremain separate even after nominally embracing Christianity; but\nthis could not be. Among Christians there is but one fold and one\nShepherd. The very object of religion is to make men one in Christ\nand one in Christian fellowship. If this be not done, nothing\nis done to any good purpose. Our separate schools and separate\nchurches have during the last eighteen years done more to separate\nand alienate the two races than two hundred and forty years of\nslavery had done. In the times of slavery both races were in the\nsame churches. Why not now? One thing is too plain for an honest\nman to deny, and that is the fact that, had the whites treated\nthe colored during these last years with the same courtesy that\nthey extend to a Roman Catholic Irishman and his children, we\nwould never have heard of a colored school or that ecclesiastical\nmonstrosity, a _colored church_. The results are disastrous to both\nparties. The colored are left to themselves and the blind lead the\nblind. Nine-tenths of their preachers have no more fitness for\npreaching than they have for lecturing upon fluxions. Were one of\ntheir churches of average capacity for senseless noise and uproar\nwithin earshot of my residence, I would regard it a number one\nnuisance. But it is _not_ their fault that they are by themselves.\nA brute only moderately domesticated soon understands when he is\nnot welcome, and acts accordingly. When slavery had disappeared,\nthe colored saw but too plainly that they were _not_ welcome any\nlonger in their old churches, and they went forth into a darkness\ndeeper than they had before know.\n\n                                            _The Independent._\n\n\nMORE AT HOME BY THEMSELVES.\n\nREV. JAS. H. FAIRCHILD, D.D.\n\nThe colored church came into existence not because the colored\npeople were not welcomed to all the other churches, nor because\na separate organization was desired by those who had been most\nfavored with education and culture, but because considerable\nnumbers of them felt more at home with a style of service and\ninstruction more like that with which they had been familiar.\n\n                        _Oberlin, the Colony and the College._\n\n\nWHITE AND COLORED CHURCHES.\n\nBY C. L. GOODELL, D.D.\n\nHaving lived over ten years in a Southern State and been an\ninterested observer of colored people and a sympathetic helper\nwherever I could be, I feel a deep interest in the settlement of\nthis question concerning the mixing of the races in the churches.\n\nWhenever there is a call for a church of Christ, let the brethren\ncome together and organize it, and start it off with all the\nwisdom given them, as to location and other practical matters. It\nis a little republic ordering its own affairs, with whatever fact\nand counsel it may seek from sister churches. If it be a colored\nchurch, let it take in whatever white Christians may come to its\ndoor, in case it would take in a colored Christian applying under\nsimilar circumstances and of the same Christian character and\nfitness. Not many white Christians will come; some might, owing to\ntheir peculiar relations to the church, or to the neighborhood, and\nso on.\n\nIf a white church be organized, let it receive whatever colored\nChristians may knock at its door, in case it would receive white\nChristians applying under similar circumstances and of the same\nChristian character and fitness. Let that be the rule. There are\nalways individual cases which must be settled each by itself. Not\nmany colored people will come; some might, owing to their special\nrelations to the church or some member of it, and so on. This law\nis fundamental in God\u2019s order of society. It applies to Chinamen\nand Indians and all races in our communities. Take them as they\ncome. Not many will come. They prefer to be together; and it is\nbetter they should be as a general thing. * * * Colored Christians\nought to have free access and welcome to white churches. As soon as\nthey find out that they are really loved and esteemed, and can come\ninto white churches as brethren, they cease to desire it. They are\nhappy and helped by this knowledge; but they would rather worship\ntogether, just as every other race would. They love to exchange\nfraternal salutations and have many interests in common; but in the\nregular work and worship of church life they choose to be one of\nthe distinct branches of the great body of whom Christ is the head.\nI know this from years of practical experience.\n\n                                            _The Independent._\n\n\nTHE COLOR LINE IN CHURCHES.\n\nThere is no place in the country where the question of the color\nline can be so easily and so fairly tried as in Washington. Here\nis a population of 60,000 colored people, with sixty-five colored\nchurches. There are also in the District 124 white churches,\nnearly or quite all of them having one or two colored members,\ngenerally the sexton and his wife. But every colored adult in\nWashington knows that the Congregational Church is the only one in\nwhich he stands on an equal footing with his white brethren and\nsisters, as their great leader, Frederick Douglass, told them,\n\u201conly one church in the national capital over whose doors is the\nbeautiful inscription, \u2018Freedom to worship God without distinction\nof color.\u2019\u201d And the pastor of that church, Dr. Rankin, is as much\nbeloved and as much trusted by the colored population of this city\nas a man can be. And the leaders of the colored people all come\nhere. Hon. J. M. Langston, United States Minister to Hayti, Hon.\nB. K. Bruce, ex-senator and now Registrar of the Treasury, the\nprofessors of Howard University and a few others come; and yet I\ndoubt if there are two dozen colored members in this church. There\nare two colored Congregational churches in Washington without a\nwhite man in them, and to them all the colored Congregationalists\ngo. Nor is it to be wondered at. To the great majority of them the\npreaching would be over their heads. Their education and position\nin life deprive them of meeting their white brethren on an equality\nin parish or prayer meeting. They naturally go by themselves, not\nthat they are forced to, but because they prefer it. The emotional\ndemands of their nature are not met in the cooler atmosphere of the\nwhite man\u2019s religion. And so it must be throughout the South. Each\nrace will for the present prefer churches of its own color. If two\nchurches are formed in one place at the same time the whites would\nnot care to sit under the imperfect education and narrow compass of\nthought of the colored preacher, nor would the darker portion of\nthe audience enjoy the more cultivated sermons or prayers of the\nwhites. Until the average education of the black is more advanced\nlet them keep separate. The mixing of the races is sure to come,\nbut it will require generations to do it. All the present can do is\nto offer them open doors. If they decline to enter it is their own\naction. But with growing wealth, with education equal to that of\ntheir white neighbors, will come social intercourse, and not till\nthen.\n\n                              _W. R. H. in Congregationalist._\n\n\nRESOLUTIONS OF A. M. A. AND A. H. M. S.\n\nAt the recent annual meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation, held in Cleveland, O., a petition was presented\nrequesting the appointment of a committee to report on the policy\nof the Association in regard to race or color prejudice in the\nsupport of schools and churches. As the Executive Committee, to\nwhom that petition was referred, are entering upon enlarged church\nwork in the South, they feel called upon to take early action on\nthis petition, and make the following announcement:\n\n1. That in accordance with the New Testament doctrine upon which\nthe Association was founded, and by which it has from the beginning\nbeen governed, that God has made of one blood all the nations of\nmen, we reiterate the rule, which we believe that fidelity to\nChrist requires, that all our churches and schools shall open their\ndoors impartially to persons of every class, race and color.\n\n2. That in obedience to the same New Testament doctrine, we shall\nrequire that all churches aided by us shall unite with neighboring\nchurches of the same faith and order in Christian fellowship in\nthe same conferences or associations, and in church councils,\nand in other usual means of fraternity and fellowship, making no\ndistinctions on account of race or color.\n\n3. That this Association will not enter upon any new church work\nin any city or town where the American Home Missionary Society has\nalready established a church work, without previous conference with\nthe officers of its sister society.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThe American Home Missionary Society is taking steps to enlarge\nits work in the Southern States. Recent statements and inquiries\nhaving been made which show a misapprehension, on the part of\nsome, of the methods of its work in that part of the country, the\nExecutive Committee deem it proper to state: That the American Home\nMissionary Society still adheres to its long-established usage\nin declining to aid in the support of a missionary to serve any\nchurch, whether in the South or North, which refuses to receive\nto its membership any applicant, solely on account of color.\nThat it still expects, as it has from the beginning, that any\nchurch, wherever situated, that receives its aid in supporting a\nminister, will unite with the association, convention, or other\necclesiastical body of the denomination within whose bounds he is\nappointed to labor; and by participating in councils, conferences\nand other customary gatherings for mutual help and edification,\nwill show its Christian fellowship with other Congregational\nchurches. And that, in case of proposals to form or aid churches\nin cities or towns where the American Missionary Association has\norganized missionary operations, this society will not enter on\nsuch work without first corresponding or conferring with its sister\nassociation.\n\n\nA MISTAKEN POLICY.\n\nBY REV. W. HAYNE LEAVELL.\n\nThis is my deliberate conviction, based upon such knowledge of the\nSouthern People as comes from the fact of having been born and\nbred among them, and from my observation among the more cultivated\nfamilies that go there from this region.\n\nYou will permit me to say, therefore, that in my judgment the\nproposed policy of our societies is a mistaken one. Most of the\nreasons that influence our brethren who guide the policies of these\nmissionary organizations I have considered, and largely sympathize\nwith their spirit; and if the plan were practicable, I would see no\nChristian reason why it should not be carried out. But if we desire\nto secure a foothold for Congregationalism among the respectable\nwhite people of the South, and enlarge our borders in that\ndirection, we must adopt the only policy that will gain this end,\nand have churches composed predominantly, if not exclusively, of\nwhite people, as well as churches composed mainly of black people\nfor the blacks.\n\nWe may argue against caste in the churches of Jesus Christ, and\nresolve that we will not be a party to its perpetuation anywhere\nunder the sun. Very well, then we must not hope for a successful\npropagation of our denominational principles among the ruling\nclasses of the South, for they will not enter into church relations\nwith the colored people. After the churches are separately\norganized, and while they are separately maintained, they will\naffiliate in associations and conventions, but the limit will be\ndrawn at the line of the church. However unrighteous, this is a\nstubborn fact\u2014and anybody who has good knowledge of the Southern\ncharacter will know that it is to remain as stubborn for all time\nto come.\n\nMixed churches among us, where colored people are comparatively\nfew, and in the South, where colored people are so numerous, are\nvery different things. For among us the predominant element in the\nchurches will remain predominant, and it is an easy matter for 500\nwhite Christians to associate with five of another race and color.\nBut for 250 white Christians to associate in churches on equal\nterms with 250 \u201ccolored\u201d Christians is another, and by no means a\ncomfortable thing. Before the war, negroes and their masters were\nin the same churches and enjoyed the association, but the negroes\nsat in the galleries, and in other ways were not put upon an\nequality.\n\n\nWHO SHALL WORK SOUTH?\u2014THE QUESTION STATED.\n\nBY REV. L. W. BACON, D.D.\n\nA gravely important and difficult question as to the future\npolicy of the Society (A. H. M. S.) was submitted in behalf of\nthe executive. It was one technically within the competency of\nthe executive to decide, but too important to be so decided,\nwithout larger counsel: Shall the Society\u2019s system of operations\nwith missions and superintendencies be extended over the Southern\nStates? In favor of this measure are urged (1) the desire to make\nthe field of the Society\u2019s work co-extensive with the nation; (2)\nthe duty we owe to white people, as well as black, at the South;\n(3) the alleged demand for the Society\u2019s aid to communities of\nCongregationalists who have moved to the South. Against it are (1)\nthe measureless inadequacy of the Society\u2019s present or probable\nresources for the urgent instant demands of its present field;\n(2) the wastefulness of organizing and supporting a second system\nof superintendencies over the field already occupied by the\nsuperintendencies of the American Missionary Association, and the\nchances of friction or collision between the two systems; (3) the\nimpossibility of drawing any line of demarkation between the two\nsystems of missions on the same ground, except a color line: the\nemphasizing of the color line, in the most obtrusive and offensive\nmanner, not only by two orders of missionaries, one to whites\nand one to blacks, but by two orders of mission churches, one\nfor black people in which whites shall be tolerated, and one for\nwhite people where blacks shall be tolerated with not so much as\na common superintendency to co-ordinate them; and thus the danger\nof indelibly fixing the color line, fortifying it by new vested\ninterests, and defeating any kindly tendency toward the effacing of\nit from the Christian Church. Such considerations as these led the\ncongregation (we can hardly say the Society), after deliberation\nand debate, and especially after the very able speech of Mr.\nBlakeslee, to decline committing itself to this great and not\neasily revocable step, and to leave it for a year\u2019s consideration,\nand though a later and less considerate vote was obtained in a form\nwhich seemed to throw doubt upon this decision, nevertheless the\nreluctance toward the new policy was of such a weight and character\nthat a prudent executive may be trusted to keep it in view and move\nwith caution, in a matter that does not press for instant action.\n\n                                                _The Advance._\n\n\nA QUESTIONABLE PROCEDURE.\n\nBY REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D.\n\nThe American Missionary Association and the Am. Home Missionary\nSociety have both announced their purpose to enter upon enlarged\nchurch work in the South. Is it not questionable whether it is best\nfor the Home Missionary Society to enter the Southern field at all?\nDoes that Society propose to do the same broad work for all races\nand classes which the A. M. A. aims to do, and in good measure has\ndone? If so, why duplicate missionary machinery for this region? Or\nis it proposing to do a work less broad, and if so, are its friends\nready to support it in so doing?\n\n                                      _The Congregationalist._\n\n\nTHE OHIO IDEA.\n\nRESOLUTION OF CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AT AKRON.\n\nWHEREAS, During the past twenty years the work of the\nCongregational churches for the needy millions of the South has\nbeen performed in a manner that is fast winning the respect and\nsympathy of all classes; first, by its being based upon Christian\nneeds without too evident attention being paid to denominational\nadvantages; second, by its uncompromising fidelity to Christian\nprinciples in respect to the spirit of caste;\n\n_Resolved_, That we, the members of the Congregational Association\nof Ohio, do earnestly deprecate the adoption of any permanent\npolicy by which Congregational churches shall be established in the\nSouth, practically, though not professedly, on the basis of what\nis called the \u201ccolor line;\u201d and that in our judgment two distinct\nCongregational Societies, the one working mainly for the white and\nthe other for the black race, in the same field, will inevitably\ntend to perpetuate race prejudice, set at variance Congregational\nbrethren themselves, and so defeat the end of true religion.\n\n\nWHAT IS A COLOR-LINE CHURCH?\n\nBY PROF. C. G. FAIRCHILD.\n\nThe State Conference of Ohio recently protested against the\nestablishment by Northern missionary funds of churches based\n\u201cpractically, though not professedly, upon the \u2018color line.\u2019\u201d What\nis a color-line church? A church at the North composed largely or\nexclusively of colored members, following naturally a race line\nof cleavage, as do the Irish or German, is not in this sense a\ncolor-line church. Most white churches at the North have only white\nmembers; but probably there is not one of them but would receive\na colored member without hesitating in the slightest about his\ncolor. These are not color-line churches. There are many important\nwhite churches at the South that have had for many years colored\nmembers; but the colored members must wait for the communion until\nthe whites are served, and must occupy special seats. Such churches\nare color-line churches. Churches at the South composed of blacks,\nwith a few white teachers and their friends, who would welcome\nwith tears of gratitude any Southern white families who would show\ntheir love and sympathy by identifying themselves with them are not\ncolor-line churches. A church at the South, composed of whites, in\nthe midst of a large colored population, or in close contiguity\nwith a church of kindred organization and sources of support, and\nwhere the advent of the first colored member would be deprecated,\nnot welcomed, is a church based practically, though it may not be\nprofessedly, upon the color-line. * * * * *\n\nIt is always wise to consider facts. The first fact is that this\ncolor distinction is the most potent factor, politically, socially\nand religiously, in Southern society. This should dominate every\nplan for Christian effort at the South as much as the existence of\nthe rebel army dominated plans for the \u201cOn to Richmond\u201d during the\nwar.\n\nIn the ultimate solution of Southern problems, natural race lines\nof cleavage may largely prevail; but it lies within the realms of\nreasonable expectancy, and not fancy, to believe that the time\nwill come when color will not be thought of in the admission of a\nperson to any hotel, railway car, school, or church. We have no\nright yet to let go of this Christian and patriotic hope; but for\nthe present at the South color places upon a man a more damning and\nineffaceable stain than does murder or political treason, and the\npresent establishment of white churches as above described would\nseem to be an obeisance to this most potent and evil influence.\n\n                                            _The Independent._\n\n\nTHE TENDENCY IS TO RELAX.\n\nEDITORIAL IN INDEPENDENT.\n\nThe natural bent of Southern whites is to separation from colored\nmembers, and white congregations willing to open their doors to\nall alike will not spring up in great numbers. The tendency, the\ntemptation is to relax a little on the principle, under trying\ncircumstances, for the sake of immediate results. We have pointed\nout how signally some of the Friends\u2019 schools in the South have\nfailed to keep their first principles intact. The same lowering\ninfluence has been at work among the Northern Methodists. It is\nworth a generation of endeavor, and perhaps it will require it, to\nestablish an influential constituency on the solid basis of true\nChristian Brotherhood.\n\n\nTHE SOUTHEAST.\n\nSEC. BARROWS\u2019 REPORT AT SARATOGA.\n\nHow soon shall the Society have a superintendent in this region?\n_It is for you to decide._ The executive officers are convinced\nthat the time has already come for this forward movement.\nDuring the past winter we have had a general missionary at work\nin Florida, with encouraging results. At our next anniversary\nthere will doubtless be present a representative from the Florida\nAssociation of Congregational Churches. The Society also has\nmissionaries in Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and\nGeorgia\u2014and appeals are constantly received urging us to enlarge\nthis work.\n\nIt is not the purpose of this society to foster the spirit of\ncaste. It was to remove all suspicions on this score that a\nfriendly conference was lately had with our brethren of the\nAmerican Missionary Association, and with the results of that\nconference you are all familiar. It is our idea to form churches at\nthe South, like Dr. Rankin\u2019s in Washington, and Dr. Goodell\u2019s in\nSt. Louis, churches open to the colored people and to which they\nwill be made welcome if they see fit to join. The only difficulty\nwill be to find enough colored people willing to join to save the\nprinciple\u2014the uniform experience hitherto having been that they\nprefer to be in churches of their own.\n\nBut we have too long ignored the fact that there are several\nmillions of poor whites at the South who need our help, and must\nhave it if they are to be fitted for citizenship on earth or in\nheaven. They have claims upon our Christian sympathy equal to those\nof the colored people, for they too are the victims of slavery, and\nare despised by the old slaveholding aristocracy\u2014and even by the\nnegroes. A Southern man said in our hearing a few days ago, \u201cThere\nare as many white people at the South who need your help as there\nare colored people, and they must be reached by similar means,\nviz.: the Christian school and the Christian church.\u201d\n\nLet us now ask the question\u2014Have we been doing our duty by these\npeople? We know we have not. God forgive us for having neglected\nthem so long, and may we now show by our actions that our\nrepentance is genuine! Do you wish the Home Missionary Society to\norganize an agency to do this work?\n\n\nREPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DR. BARROWS\u2019 PAPER.\n\nBut why ask the Home Missionary Society to plant these churches and\ncommission these missionaries? Simply because the endeavor is one\nwhich no present organized agency can successfully accomplish.\n\nThe work of the American Missionary Association is noble, and its\nfield is wide. But broad as are its principles it cannot, as a\npractical matter of fact, cultivate the whole of that needy part\nof our Lord\u2019s vineyard. That which has been the pride and the\n_strength_ of the American Missionary Association, the thing it\nhas printed on its publications and blazoned on its banners, that\nit was organized for the help of the despised races of America, to\nsome extent honorably incapacitates it for some of the work which,\nnevertheless, needs to be done. Not in this generation, nor in\nthe next, can men and women, between whom not history and habit\nonly, but nature and providence, run lines so deep as between the\nraces of the South, be made to any considerable extent to blend in\ncomfortable and harmonious church relationship.\n\nThe ignoring of this fact will cost limitless labor and limitless\ndisappointment. Why not take up the case as we find it, and\nin those places where the hand of invitation now so obviously\nbeckons, respond to the call? What need of trespass, what occasion\nfor misunderstanding, if the Home Missionary Society and the\nAssociation thus at some points work side by side?\n\n                                        _The Home Missionary._\n\n\nDR. WALKER\u2019S ADDRESS.\n\nThere is no man in this house who has, to the limit of his ability,\ndone more cordial and earnest work for the American Missionary\nAssociation than I have. There is no man who maintains a more\ncordial relationship with the secretaries and officers of that\nsociety than I do. Personally, each one of them is my friend.\nBut I do feel, Christian friends, that we have here a question\nthat we must meet; and the best way to meet it is in the spirit\nof frankness and openness, giving it the deliberation which\nit requires. The American Missionary Association, as has been\nsuggested in the paper which has been presented to you, is, in my\nview, handicapped for doing a part of the work which is necessary\nto be done. * * *\n\nNow the question is: Is it not expedient for us to enter upon that\nwork? I am met by the objection: \u201cWhy, you are doing the same work\nthat the American Missionary Association is doing. Why have two\nsocieties, side by side, doing essentially the same work?\u201d They are\nnot doing the same work, in the fact that the subjects for which\nthey labor are providentially made distinct. It is impossible in\nthis generation, and in the generation to come, for the American\nMissionary Association to plant Congregational churches to any\nconsiderable extent through the South. Now, the plain and practical\nquestion is: Is it wise for us to neglect the present opportunity\nand, for the sake of what may be proved after all to be but\nsentiment, let the present moment pass, a moment so freighted\nwith consequences to the future? Is it wise for us to insist upon\nthe strength of ecclesiastical ties as sufficient to hold men\ntogether, whom we cannot counsel to come together by strength of\nnatural ties? We cannot advise marriage among the races; why insist\nupon a kind of work that forces them together in ecclesiastical\nrelationships to which they are equally unfamiliar and averse?\n\n                                        _The Home Missionary._\n\n\nNO CLASHING MUST BE ALLOWED.\n\nEDITORIAL IN ADVANCE.\n\nWhat the American Missionary Association has done, and is doing,\nis only the prophecy of what it is to do in the near future, if it\nis promptly sustained in its noble work. And while we are on this\nsubject, we wish most emphatically to say:\n\nThere is not to be, there _must_ not be, any clashing in the work\nbetween this society and the American Home Missionary Society.\n\nThe American Missionary Association was organized for a specific\nwork, broadly and definitely understood to be for the uplifting\nof the colored races on this continent. To that work they are\npledged, for that money is given to them, and they are very wisely\nadministering the trust committed to their hands. To criticise\nthat society because it does not organize what are known as white\nchurches is the height of folly, and for it to attempt to force\nmixed churches on the South would be equally absurd. The American\nHome Missionary Society should not go down South with the idea of\nstarting white churches. It should be allowed, and must be allowed,\nto go there and organize churches just as it does in Iowa, Dakota,\nMissouri and Kansas, saying nothing at all about the race question\nor in any way excluding colored people from its membership; giving\nthem that freedom which is theirs, to come in, and the freedom also\nto stay out, and to have their own churches, and their own social\ncircles, just as they please. Any one who undertakes to force\nsuch things out of their natural and proper course will only work\nconfusion and loss.\n\n\nNO TROUBLE NEED BE BORROWED.\n\nEDITORIAL IN CONGREGATIONALIST\n\nAs for the matter of the entrance of the Home Missionary Society\nupon work in the South, that may be trusted to take care of itself.\nThe two societies mutually have agreed upon a policy of comity\nand consultation. Unless there be a real and imperative demand for\nits services at the South, the Home Missionary Society probably\nwill find all that it can do in its present field. If such a demand\narise, the Society will do its best to meet it, not in rivalry of,\nbut in co-operation with, the Missionary Association. There may be\nlocalities where the former can work in the same line to better\nadvantage than the latter. Nobody need borrow trouble on their\naccount, for both are pledged, and honestly, we are sure, to keep\nout of each other\u2019s way when necessary, and together to erase \u201cthe\ncolor line\u201d as fast as possible.\n\n\nCRITICISMS NOTED.\n\nEDITORIAL IN ADVANCE.\n\nWe fear that many of those who are criticising the policy of the\nsociety (A. H. M. S.), in pushing its work in the South, know\nlittle or nothing either of the New West or of the South. We call\nthe attention of Dr. Bacon, and the minority which he represents,\nto a few facts. In the first place, the American Missionary\nAssociation cannot reach the white people of the South. In proof of\nthis we appeal to agents of that society, who are in the field\u2014Dr.\nRoy and the missionaries down South. One of the missionaries has\njust been in this office and gave his testimony most freely, while\nwe were reading the proof of Dr. Bacon\u2019s article. He said: \u201cI have\nbeen three years in Alabama. I am pastor of a colored church there.\nWe are prosperous. We were never more so. The Southern people are\ncoming more and more to labor with us, and to co-operate with us\nin every way for the education of the negro. But there must be a\ncolored church for colored people, and a white church for white\npeople, and this will be done without saying anything about it.\nBoth races prefer it, and it is a natural method. Our society\ncannot reach the white people, we ought not to attempt to do so.\u201d *\n* *\n\nThere is a call for the work of the American Home Missionary\nSociety in the South. To refuse to go there would be wicked. That\nsociety has just as much right to build a church in Mississippi or\nGeorgia, and to give it aid, as it has to aid a church in Iowa or\nDakota. No other society has a right to bid it keep north of Mason\nand Dixon\u2019s line.\n\n\nWHO SHALL WORK AT THE SOUTH?\n\nBY REV. J. E. ROY, D.D.\n\n_To the Editor of the Advance_:\n\nIn your response to Dr. Bacon on this question, you said: We appeal\nto Dr. Roy. I did not understand you as committing me; but finding\nthat some brethren took you as setting me down to the theory that\nthe A. M. A. could not do the work among the white people there\nbecause of its relation to the colored, I wish to disavow it, for I\nnever held that view, never expressed it. I think that the A. M. A.\n_could_ do that work if the constituency shall so direct, though,\nas our experience among the mountain people of Kentucky proved, it\nwould require patience, wisdom and fortitude, and would be a slow\nprocess.\n\n                                                _The Advance._\n\n\nRESOLUTION AT SARATOGA MEETING.\n\nVoted, That a committee of five be appointed who shall consider our\ndenominational work in the South and confer with the secretaries of\nthe American Missionary Association, or any committees appointed\nby that society, in reference to the same, and report at our next\nmeeting.\n\nCommittee to confer with the American Missionary Association\u2014Rev.\nDrs. J. E. Twichell, G. L. Walker, Lyman Abbott, C. L. Goodell, and\nA. S. Barnes, Esq.\n\n                                        _The Home Missionary._\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFROM OUR LADY MISSIONARY, WILMINGTON, N.C.\n\nMISS A. E. FARRINGTON.\n\nMy work the past month has been very encouraging. Mrs. Steele has\nbeen with us and special meetings were held among the women and\ngirls. At one of these about 90 were present, and many seemed\ndeeply interested. At the close quite a number rose for prayers and\nremained for personal conversation. After the meeting that night,\nwhich was also quite full, the same girls remained, and several\nexpressed the hope that they had given their hearts to Jesus. Some\nof them had been very thoughtful for weeks, and seemed to need just\nthe help that these meetings gave to bring them to a decision. A\nmeeting of the boys was also held. The girls begged me to keep on\nwith meetings for them, which I have very gladly done every Monday\nafter school, from twenty to thirty-five coming in. Nine or ten\nof them hope they have become Christians. Several of them wish to\nunite with the church at once. They were examined and their friends\nconsulted, and three were propounded for admission, but will not be\nreceived until they have had a little time to test their sincerity.\nInfluences have been brought to bear to draw them away from us.\nThey have been told that there is no religion where everything is\nso quiet, and endeavors have been made to get them into revival\nmeetings which are wild with excitement. Last week some of our\nteachers went into one of these meetings, where several girls were\nrolling on the floor, crying and moaning. One lady thought she saw\none of her scholars among them, and going to her held out her hand\nand told her to get up. She obeyed at once, and her teacher led her\nto a seat, where she talked to her quietly a few moments, telling\nher that God did not require any such thing as that of her or any\none else, that her good conduct in school and elsewhere lately\nwas stronger evidence that she had given her heart to Jesus than\nanything she saw there. Afterwards she went to another part of the\nchurch, where others of her scholars were, quieting them, some\ngoing home as soon as they saw her. These lambs of the flock need\nto be very tenderly guarded, and others seem only waiting to be led\nalong the right way.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA VALUED WORKER GONE.\n\nRev. Dr. Woodworth, of our Boston office, in a commemorative\naddress on the death of Mrs. D. L. Furber, of Newton Centre, Mass.,\ngives an account of her devotion to the cause of missions, in\nlanguage fitted to arouse, in no common degree, the zeal of the\nChristian women of the country. He says:\n\nShe had the rare faculty, perhaps I should say double faculty,\nof comprehending a great cause, and at the same time of making\nindividual cases all her own. I have heard her talk of the work\nin the South _as a work for the African race_, until her tongue\nthrilled with eloquence, her face shone with a strange light, and\nher whole person seemed to expand to the measure of her theme. To\nher it seemed so strange that people did not see what to her was so\nplain: that the churches were so slow to accept their opportunity;\nthat the very _conjuncture_ of the death of slavery and the opening\nof the African continent by exploration and commerce were a\ndemonstration that they were part and parcel of the same plan and\npattern, and meant the salvation of the African race. Why could not\nthe churches see it? Had blindness happened to the people of God?\nHow hot and fast her words fell, as she pictured the possibilities\nwhich lay in the Southern work, and as she expressed her amazement\nat the failure of good people to discern the signs of the times!\n\nTo _her_ these four millions coming out of the house of their\nbondage, _in need of every thing_, were Christ himself, hungry,\nthirsty, naked, homeless\u2014a stranger. In them she saw her Lord; in\nthem she heard _His_ cry of distress; in them, as unto _Him_, she\ngave her sympathies, her time, her bounty. She walked under the\nlight of that vision which so glorified her life. Each one of that\nsuffering race whom she took into her family, to whom she sent\nclothing, or aided in his course of education, represented _Him_.\n\nAnother thing which struck me was what seemed a thorough mental\nhonesty; and by this I mean that she took the widest survey of the\nfield of which she was capable, and formed her judgments after full\ncollation of the facts. Like the ideal scientist seeking light from\nevery quarter, and open to its reception, come from where it might,\nshe was ready to follow the truth wherever it might lead. She\nsubmitted her judgment to her intelligence, and was not afraid to\nobey her convictions. She loved the slave when it was not popular\nto do so. She was on the side of the weak when only a few stood\nwith her. She counted the cost and took the stand for righteousness\nand truth. She saw in them clearly the humanity now represented on\nthe throne, and for _that_ would have gone down among them with\nperfect serenity and cheerfulness, bidding every offended sense\nand feeling _be still_. She had schooled herself to do right. She\nhad said to her soul, \u201cI will do for the poor as I would do for my\nLord.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHUNG WAH.\n\nBY SUSIE W. HASSELL.\n\nHe is a bright little ten-year-old who lives in a town away off\nWest. You know by his name that he is Chinese, and I am afraid\nsome of you have already turned up your noses in disgust, and\nhave thought, \u201cBah! those dirty Chinamen! My mamma says it makes\nher sick to think of them, and papa\u2019s glad they can\u2019t come to our\ncountry any more.\u201d But let me tell you about Chung Wah, and then\nyou can decide the Chinese question for yourselves.\n\nHe is in the A class in Number Two, and in the schoolroom his\nyellow face is almost always bright with soap-suds and joy, for he\nis a wonderfully happy boy, and smiles all the time he is happy.\nHis little black eyes look like apple-seeds, and snap whenever he\nwinks. He wears great flapping brown pantaloons, which are covered\nto the knee by his pink calico aprons, but on Wednesday, when he\nspeaks his piece, he has on a white apron, so stiffly starched\nthat it rustles and cracks like paper. His low cloth shoes have no\nheels, but long, pointed, turned-up toes. Chung Wah is very quick\nat his lessons, and neat in his slate-work, so that when visitors\ncome in his slate is one of the first the teacher shows them.\n\nHe has always loved to study, but last May, when the days commenced\nto be warm and bright, he must have grown a little tired of school,\nfor, alas, a great many times he was seen on the street the whole\nday long. When questioned the next morning, he told the teacher:\n\u201cMy fadder send me to school an\u2019 I no come.\u201d I suppose he liked to\npitch horseshoes with the other boys down in Chinatown, none of\nthem had to go to school; or to follow old Sam Lee round the town\nas he gathered up the clothes for the wash-house. At any rate he\nplayed truant many days, until his teacher sent him up-stairs for\nthe school superintendent to talk with him. Still the truancy was\nrepeated, and he gave no excuse only, \u201cI no likee come dat day.\u201d At\nlast, one morning, the superintendent whipped him for truancy, and\npoor little Chung Wah went down-stairs with both fists in his eyes\nand a very sore heart.\n\n[Illustration: A CHINESE GARDEN.]\n\nThat very afternoon, just before the tardy bell rang, who should\nwalk into the superintendent\u2019s room but Chung Wah, his face still\ndowncast and troubled. He held a preserve jar, covered with\nChinese characters, in one hand, and in the other a bright silk\nhandkerchief, such as are sold in the Chinese shops. With an\nawkward little nod, just as if he were going to speak a piece in\nschool, he said: \u201cMy fadder gib \u2019em to you. He say you heap good\nman. He likee you beat me ebly day I no go school.\u201d\n\nBrave little Mongolian! Do you think you clean, white boys and\ngirls could have carried such a hard message as that so honestly?\n\nSomehow, after he had said the words the lump in his throat seemed\nto grow easier, and, although the superintendent said some words\nnot very comforting: \u201cWell, Chung Wah, tell your father I will\npunish you when you are truant from school\u201d\u2014yet when the boy went\ndown-stairs this time his face beamed as though it had never known\na tear, and his little black cue bobbed merrily behind him.\n\nA good many months have passed since then, and he has never\ndeserved another whipping. I don\u2019t believe he will. His teacher\nsays he has a wise father, and that if there were more fathers\nlike him there would be more good boys in school, but I say, brave\nlittle Chung Wah! The boy who can tell the truth when it is so hard\nto tell has a clean side to his heart, though his face may be very\nyellow.\n\nWhat do you say, my white boys and girls? Would he be a bad\nplayfellow for you?\n\nIf some fifteen or twenty years from now you should hear that the\ngrown-up Chinaman, Chung Wah, fills well any position of honor and\ntrust, don\u2019t be surprised, but tell _your_ boys and girls, \u201cOh,\nyes, when he was a little fellow he was brave enough to obey his\nfather, and tell the whole truth.\u201d\n\n                                                _The Advance._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $76.18.\n\n    Bangor. Ladies of Third Ch., _freight for\n      Wilmington, N.C._                                       $1.28\n    Bingham. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       11.00\n    Bluebill. Mrs. Stevens ($1 _of which for\n      Indian M._)                                              2.00\n    Castine. Mrs. B. A. Sewall, Trunk of C.\n    Gray. Girls\u2019 Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                            2.00\n    Hallowell. S. S. Classes of the Classical\n      Academy, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                  24.40\n    St. Albans. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             5.00\n    Skowhegan. Cong. Ch., 20; Mrs. L. W. Weston,\n      4.50; Miss Sarah Tilton, 1                              25.50\n    South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis\u2019 S. S. Class, _for\n      Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._                           5.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $351.94.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Ch.                                         7.62\n    Center Harbor. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to\n      const. JENNIE C. BLACKEY L. M.                          30.00\n    Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      MRS. MARY G. BATCHELDER L. M.                           47.66\n    Durham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                18.00\n    Exeter. Second Cong. Sab. 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Miss Ellen Hawley, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      50.00\n    Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            42.50\n    North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       6.00\n    Pittsford. \u201cL. J.\u201d                                        12.00\n    Putney. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.25\n    Saxton\u2019s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         9.15\n    West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           6.93\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             63.54\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $270.42\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Grafton. Estate of Caroline B. Akin, by\n      William Hastings, Ex.                                  100.00\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $370.42\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $4,305.36.\n\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 25; William M.\n      Graves, 20                                              45.00\n    Andover. Elmira Jones                                      5.00\n    Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 13.65\n    Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. LEVI\n      H. VINCENT L. M.                                        44.63\n    Bradford. Mrs. S. C. Boyd                                 14.00\n    Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       11.25\n    Bridgewater. Chas. L. Prince, Bundle of Books\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc.                           90.03\n    Cambridge. G. F. Kendall (10 of which _for\n      Chinese M._)                                            25.00\n    Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc.                      319.65\n    Campello. Mrs. Allen Leach                                 0.50\n    Charlton. Cong. Ch., 13.90, and Sab. Sch., 1.96           15.86\n    Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         23.45\n    Chelsea. Ladies\u2019 Union Home Mission Band, _for\n      Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._                    75.00\n    Chelsea. Ladies\u2019 Union Home Mission Band, 3\n      bbls. and 2 boxes of C., Val. 92, _for\n      Chattanooga, Tenn._\n    Curtisville. Miss Mary Lumbert                             0.50\n    Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.                           56.31\n    East Hampton. Mrs. E. G. Williston, 100; First\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., 46.24                              146.24\n    Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       10.00\n    Fall River. Central Ch. Mission Sab. Sch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                         70.00\n    Fitchburg. Mrs. Mary Johnson                              10.00\n    Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                         35.96\n    Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      30.00\n    Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch.                             244.21\n    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           16.10\n    Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.                                 23.00\n    Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             16.00\n    Lanesville. Cong. Ch.                                      1.75\n    Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        17.12\n    Lee. Cong. Ch.                                            32.41\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.                           38.00\n    Long Meadow. Ladies Benev. Ass\u2019n.                         13.97\n    Marlborough. Union Ch.                                    55.31\n    Methuen. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          4.20\n    Merrimac. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. W. H.\n      HUBBARD L. M.                                           30.00\n    Millbury. First. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       59.55\n    Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._              16.74\n    Natick. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Teacher_                  50.00\n    Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                25.00\n    Newburyport. Miss Mary Plummer, _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                            5.00\n    Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc.                               200.00\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   65.32\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      46.27\n    North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.\n      REV. HORACE H. LEAVITT L. M.                            60.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,\n      150; Union Ch. and Soc., 10                            160.00\n    Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.00\n    Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc.                           100.00\n    South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          5.79\n    South Boston. Phillips Ch. and Soc.                      100.00\n    Springfield. \u201cH. M.,\u201d 500; South Cong. Ch.,\n      27.87; Mrs. Edward Clarke, 5                           532.87\n    Sterling. \u201cSterling\u201d                                       5.00\n    Templeton. Trinitarian Ch. and Soc.                       20.95\n    Waltham. Mrs. Joseph Stackpole                             0.50\n    West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          13.43\n    West Midway. Cong. Sab. Sch., 19; C. Albert\n      Adams, 5                                                24.00\n    Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch.                          1.84\n    West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch.                      16.02\n    Wilbraham. Cong. Ch.                                      21.50\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             16.75\n    Winchendon. \u201cF. T. J.\u201d                                     2.00\n    Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc. to const. BENJ.\n      F. HARRINGTON, Mrs. ISSAC SARGENT and FRANK\n      H. HOLLAND, L. Ms                                      106.00\n    Worcester. Salem Street Mission Workers, _for\n      Indian boy, Hampton N. & A. Inst._                      25.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cFriend to the Cause\u201d                                 25.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cFor Mission work among the Indians\u201d                   4.00\n    Massachusetts Bible Soc., 2 boxes of Bibles,\n      _for Avery Inst._\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $3,292.63\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Cambridge. Estate of Abijah F. Hildreth by\n      Edwin Hildreth and Stanley B. Hildreth,\n      Executors and Trustees                                 500.00\n    Natick. Estate of Clarissa Morse, by Willard\n      W. Wight, Adm\u2019r.                                       100.00\n    North Abington. Estate of Mrs. Susan B. Frost,\n      by Mrs. Rachel B. Reed, Admx.                          162.73\n    North Brookfield. Estate of Miss Lydia C.\n      Dodge, by W. P. Haskell, Ex.                           250.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $4,305.36\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $1,005.00.\n\n    Bristol. Miss Charlotte De Wolf, 500; Mrs. M.\n      D. W. Rogers, 500                                    1,000.00\n    Westerly. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Wilmington,\n      N.C._                                                    5.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $11,815.83.\n\n    Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                  20.20\n    Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                   11.80\n    Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          50.00\n    Enfield. First Cong. Ch.                                  25.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch.                                     64.10\n    Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch.                                 8.80\n    Guilford. First Cong. Ch., 18; \u201cA Friend in\n      Third Ch.,\u201d 2                                           20.00\n    Hartford. \u201cA Friend in Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.\u201d             20.00\n    Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           10.00\n    Kent. First Cong. Soc.                                     5.94\n    Lebanon. First Ch., 64.86; Mrs. Mary Dutton,\n      4.50                                                    69.36\n    Meriden. E. K. Breckenridge, 5; Mrs. S. F. S.\n      Brown, a Quilt                                           5.00\n    Middletown. South Cong. Ch.                               69.71\n    Mount Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        50.00\n    North Haven. E. Dickerman                                  2.00\n    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc., 272.54;\n      Broadway Cong. Ch., 200                                472.54\n    Norwich. Henry B. Norton, _for Atlanta U._                50.00\n    Oxford. Cong. Ch., 28.50, and Sab. Sch., 6.25,\n      to const MRS. CARRIE RIGGS L. M.                        34.75\n    Plantsville. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Atlanta U._                  5.00\n    Plainville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   100.00\n    Portland. First Cong. Ch.                                  7.00\n    Salisbury. Cong. Ch.                                      46.76\n    Saybrook. Second Cong. Ch.                                20.25\n    Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             68.28\n    Southport. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.\n      O. H. PERRY, CHAS. LACEY, E. CORNELIUS\n      SHERWOOD, L. FRANK SHERWOOD and REV. WILLIAM\n      H. HOLMAN L. Ms                                        185.84\n    Stanwich. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brush                      25.00\n    Torrington. Young Ladies\u2019 Aux. Soc., _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                              70.00\n    West Hartford. Charles Boswell                           250.00\n    West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball                            10.00\n    Winsted. David Strong, _for Theo. Dept.,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                            17.50\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,815.83\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Hartford. Estate of John B. Eldridge, by John\n      R. Redfield, Ex.                                    10,000.00\n                                                         ----------\n                                                         $11,815.83\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $785.67.\n\n    Antwerp. First Cong. Ch.                                  33.18\n    Binghamton. First Cong. Ch.                               80.55\n    Brentwood. E. F. Richardson                               25.00\n    Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., for\n      _Missionary, Ladies\u2019 Island, S.C._                      75.00\n    Brooklyn. Church of the Covenant                          10.00\n    Chittenango. Mrs. Ameline L. Brown                         5.00\n    Clifton Springs. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                1.00\n    Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, 2.50; Miss A. G.\n      Fairchild, 2.50                                          5.00\n    Danby. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. H. B. CHAPMAN L. M.      18.35\n    East Bloomfield. First Cong. Ch.                          52.80\n    Gloversville. Cong. Ch.                                  102.57\n    Ithaca. E. P. Gilbert                                      5.00\n    Jamesport. Cong. Ch.                                       5.00\n    Lenox. A. S. Johnson                                       5.00\n    Lisbon Center. First Cong. Ch.                            18.00\n    Martinsburg. Horatio Hough, 5; Almira H.\n      Arthur, 1; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 1                                 7.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon                                   250.00\n    New York. Colored Orphan Asylum (5 of which\n      _for John Brown Steamer_)                               10.00\n    North Evans. Cong. Ch. (1.50 of which from\n      Mrs. Spencer Bullock)                                    8.17\n    Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. Safford                                5.00\n    Patchogue. Cong. Ch.                                       9.28\n    Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                       20.00\n    Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch.                             32.27\n    Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.                 2.50\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $233.50.\n\n    Bound Brook. Cong. Ch.                                    38.50\n    Irvington. Rev. A. Underwood                              50.00\n    Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian\n      girl, Hampton, N. & A. Inst._                           40.00\n    Montclair. Mrs. Pratt\u2019s S. S. Class, _for\n      Student Aid, Talladega C._                               5.00\n    Morristown. Miss Ella M. Graves, _for Atlanta\n      U._                                                    100.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $37.50.\n\n    East Smithfield. Miss Polly S. Tracy                      18.00\n    Jeansville. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                5.00\n    New Milford. Horace A. Summers                            14.50\n\n\n  OHIO, $2,629.22.\n\n    Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson                               2.28\n    Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               27.39\n    Bronson. Rev. H. Lawrence, Bbl. of Bibles;\n      Mrs. F. Lawrence 1 set Henry\u2019s Commentaries,\n      _for Talladega C._\n    Harmar. Cong. Ch.                                        118.75\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch.                                           11.25\n    Madison. Ladies, Books, and 3., for Freight,\n      _for Talladega C._                                       3.00\n    Mansfield. Mrs. Tracy, _for Trinity Sch.,\n      Athens, Ala._                                           50.00\n    Mount Vernon. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., of Cong. Ch.           10.00\n    Oberlin. Miss Rose M. Kinney                               1.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Atlanta U._                                             50.00\n    Painesville. First Cong. Ch., bal to const.\n      SAMUEL R. HOUSE and E. E. JOHNSON L. Ms                 36.55\n    Peru. \u201cFriends,\u201d _for Student Aid, Talladega\n      C._                                                     13.00\n    Randolph. W. J. Dickinson                                 10.00\n    Unionville. Rev. J. C. Burnell                             2.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $335.22\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Kent. Estate of Andrew James                             394.00\n    Tallmadge. Estate of Rev. John Seward, by Wm.\n      H. Upson, Ex.                                        1,900.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $2,629.22\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $639.58.\n\n    Amboy. First Cong. Ch.                                    43.00\n    Chebanse. Cong. Ch.                                        6.00\n    Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., 255.18; Bethany\n      Cong. Ch., 13.35                                       267.43\n    Chicago. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. of N. E. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._                          14.00\n    Elgin. Mrs. E. E. C. Borden                                1.00\n    Galesburg. First Cong. Ch., 79; First Ch. of\n      Christ, 5                                               84.00\n    Geneseo. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Needmore\n      Ch., Talladega_                                         50.00\n    Griggsville. Cong. Ch.                                    23.85\n    Princeville. Chas. Cutter                                  5.00\n    Sycamore. First Cong. Ch.                                100.60\n    Sycamore. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Thomasborough. \u201cR.\u201d                                        1.00\n    Udina. Cong. Ch.                                           1.00\n    Wheaton. First. Cong. Ch.                                 17.70\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $441.62.\n\n    Benzonia. H. H. Balch                                      1.00\n    Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo. Dept.\n      Talladega C._                                           38.84\n    Chelsea. John C. Winans                                  200.00\n    Detroit. Second Cong. Ch.                                120.00\n    Fort Huron. Cong. Ch.                                     40.58\n    Grand Rapids. E. G. Furness                                5.00\n    Kalamazoo. Mrs. J. A. Kent                                 5.00\n    Michigan Center. Cong. Ch.                                 4.00\n    Salem. Summit Missionary Soc.                              2.59\n    Union City. Cong. Sab. Sch., bal. to const.\n      MRS. ANNA CHURCH L. M.                                  10.00\n    Vienna. Cong. Ch.                                          4.61\n    White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $194.87.\n\n    Algona. A. Zahlten                                         7.50\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $38.02, and Sab.\n      Sch., $4.75                                             42.77\n    Belle Plain. Cong. Ch.                                     5.30\n    Davenport. Geo. W. Ells                                   10.00\n    Des Moines. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 bbls. of C.\n      _for Talladega C._\n    Farragut. Cong. Ch.                                       20.49\n    Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              93.22\n    Tabor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                              3.59\n    Washington. \u201cMother and Ralph\u201d _for Needmore\n      Ch., Talladega C._                                      12.00\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $55.22.\n\n    Delavan. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing\n      room, Stone Hall, T. C._                                 5.00\n    Lake Geneva. Cong. Ch.                                    17.70\n    Leeds. Cong. Ch.                                           2.67\n    Koshkonong. P. T. Gunnison                                10.00\n    Koshkonong. Cong. Ch.                                      4.30\n    Platteville. Cong. Sab. Sch.                               5.30\n    Shullsburg. First Cong. Ch.                                4.00\n    Springvale. Cong. Ch.                                      6.25\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $345.53.\n\n    Audubon. Cong. Ch.                                         2.83\n    Austin. Cong. Ch.                                         24.17\n    Elk River. Union Cong. Ch.                                 9.20\n    Excelsior. Cong. Ch.                                      15.00\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      17.85\n    Hutchinson. Cong. Ch.                                      2.55\n    Lake City. Joseph Pike (1 of which _for John\n      Brown Steamer_)                                          2.00\n    Medford. Cong. Ch.                                         4.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.                                 29.83\n    Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch.                        26.10\n    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    \u2014\u2014. Friends, _for Atlanta U._                            200.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cFriends in Minnesota\u201d _for Dakota M._                10.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $49.95.\n\n    Great Bend. Cong. Church                                   6.00\n    Lawrence. Ladies, by Rev. R. F. Markham                   11.45\n    McPherson. First Cong. Ch.                                15.00\n    Stockton. Cong. Ch.                                        2.50\n    Topeka. First Cong. Ch.                                   10.00\n    White City. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $161.88.\n\n    Amity. Cong. Ch., 12.06; \u201cA Friend,\u201d 15                   27.06\n    Ironton. J. Markham                                        2.50\n    Kansas City. First Cong. Ch.                            102. 00\n    Meadville. Cong. Ch.                                      10.32\n    Webster Groves. Cong. Ch.                                 20.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $35.75.\n\n    Crete. First Cong. Ch.                                     7.75\n    Lincoln. \u201cK. & C.\u201d                                         8.00\n    Santee Agency. Mrs. Mary Van Nest, _for Indian\n      M._                                                     20.00\n\n\n  COLORADO, $5.35.\n\n    Denver. Cong. Ch. (1 of which from Mrs. C. L.\n      Garland)                                                 5.35\n\n\n  NEVADA, $5.00.\n\n    Wells. C. A. Birchard                                      5.00\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $27.55.\n\n    Skokomish. Cong. Ch., 17.55; Rev. M. Eells and\n      Wife, 10.00                                             27.55\n\n\n  OREGON, $10.00.\n\n    The Dalles. First Cong. Ch.                               10.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $4.50.\n\n    Rutherford. Robert McComb                                  4.50\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $437.50.\n\n    Washington. U.S. Government, _for Indian M._             437.50\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $5.59.\n\n    Berea. Sab. Sch.                                           5.59\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $161.70.\n\n    Chattanooga. Rent                                        149.70\n    Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.                               12.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $11.00.\n\n    Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $4; Rent,\n      $2; Cong. Ch., 5                                        11.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $628.30.\n\n    Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $618.30;\n      Plymouth Ch., $10                                      628.30\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $345.65.\n\n    Atlanta. Alumni Ass\u2019n of Atlanta U., 125, _for\n      Furnishing Room, Stone Hall_; Pellegrini &\n      Castleberry, 2 Terra-cotta Vases, _for steps\n      of Stone Hall_                                         125.00\n    Atlanta. First Cong. Ch., 30; Storrs Sch.,\n      Tuition, 5.50                                           35.50\n    Macon. Cong. Ch.                                           8.55\n    Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 146.60, Rent,\n      20, Cong. Ch., 10                                      176.60\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $503.98.\n\n    Athens. Miss M. F. Wells, _for Trinity Sch.,\n      Athens, Ala._                                           25.00\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     20.00\n    Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 373.98,\n      First Cong. Ch., 10                                    383.98\n    Talladega. Rev. H. S. DeForest, _for Talladega\n      C._                                                     75.00\n\n\n  FLORIDA, $5.00.\n\n    Daytona. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc., by Mrs. E. C.\n      Waldron                                                  5.00\n\n\n  TEXAS, $5.00.\n\n    Helena. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. (2 of which\n      _for John Brown Steamer_)                                5.00\n\n\n  INCOMES, $1,033.75.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               795.00\n    Theological Endowment Fund, _for Howard U._              125.00\n    C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._                        50.00\n    General Endowment Fund                                    50.00\n    Incomes, _for Atlanta U._                                 13.75\n\n\n  ENGLAND, $10.00.\n\n    Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes                                  10.00\n\n\n  SCOTLAND, $59.29.\n\n    Perth. North United Presb. Ch., \u00a310; James\n      Balman, _for Chinese M._, \u00a32; \u201cFriend, per\n      D. Morton,\u201d 5s.                                         59.29\n\n\n  AUSTRIA.\n\n    Prague. Bohumil Burda (a little boy) 100\n      Kreutzers, _for the colored children in\n      America._\n                                                        -----------\n      Total for July                                     $26,794.18\n      Total from Oct. 1 to July 31                      $229,246.69\n                                                        ===========\n\n\n  FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions                                             38.75\n    Previously acknowledged                                  700.47\n                                                           --------\n      Total                                                 $739.22\n\n\n  FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.\n\n    Holbrook, Mass. Miss Mary W. Holbrook, _for\n      Stone Professorship Howard U._                         500.00\n                                                             ======\n\n                                        H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                PLEASE COPY THIS FORM AND MAIL IT.\n\n                                        _September 1st, 1883._\n\n_H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Treasurer_,\n\n            _56 Reade Street, New York_.\n\n_Enclosed, please find Fifty Cents, subscription for_ THE AMERICAN\nMISSIONARY _for the year 1883._\n\n_Send the same to the following address_:\n\n              _Sign with your NAME_,\n\n                      _Your TOWN_,\n\n                              _Your COUNTY_,\n\n                                      _And STATE_ [_in full_].\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nPROPOSED CONSTITUTION OF THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n\nART. I. This society to be called the American Missionary\nAssociation.\n\nART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct\nChristian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a\nknowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries\nwhich are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent\nfields of effort.\n\nART. III. Members may be constituted for life by the payment of\nthirty dollars into the treasury of the Association, with the\nwritten declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is\nto be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and\nsuch membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have\nbeen completed.\n\nEvery church which has within a year contributed to the funds of\nthe Association and every State Conference or Association of such\nchurches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the\nAssociation; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be\nmembers of the Association for the year for which they were thus\nappointed.\n\nART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in\nthe month of October or November, at such time and place as may be\ndesignated by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the\nofficial publication of the Association for the preceding month.\n\nART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President,\nfive Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries,\na Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive\nCommittee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by\nballot.\n\nAt the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this\nConstitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be\nelected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for\nthree years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members\nshall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others\nas shall be required to fill vacancies.\n\nART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting\nand disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining\nand dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of\nmissionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies\nin office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any\nLegislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate\npowers; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries\nand for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in\ngeneral to transact all such business as usually appertains to the\nExecutive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies.\nThe acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the\nAnnual Meeting.\n\nFive members of the Committee constitute a quorum for transacting\nbusiness.\n\nART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association\nwho is not a member of some evangelical church.\n\nART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may\nappoint and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency\nof the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.\n\nART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by\nthe vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting,\nthe amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the\nprevious Annual Meeting.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                  [Illustration: COUNT RUMFORD.]\n\n                            HORSFORD\u2019S\n\n                          ACID PHOSPHATE.\n\n                             (LIQUID.)\n\n                FOR DYSPEPSIA, MENTAL AND PHYSICAL\n                     EXHAUSTION, NERVOUSNESS,\n                   DIMINISHED VITALITY, URINARY\n                        DIFFICULTIES, ETC.\n\n              PREPARED ACCORDING TO THE DIRECTION OF\n\n             Prof. E. N. Horsford, of Cambridge, Mass.\n\nThere seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical\nauthority of the value of phosphoric acid, and no preparation has\never been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the\ngeneral want as this.\n\nIt is not nauseous, but agreeable to the taste.\n\nNo danger can attend its use.\n\nIts action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to\ntake.\n\nIt makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only.\n\nPrices reasonable. Pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free\non application.\n\n                        MANUFACTURED BY THE\n\n                      RUMFORD CHEMICAL WORKS,\n\n                         Providence, R.I.,\n\n                  AND FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            SKIN HUMORS\n\n                          CAN BE CURED BY\n\n                       GLENN\u2019S SULPHUR SOAP.\n\n                                 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 1883.\n\n_Mr. C. N. Crittenton_:\n\n  DEAR SIR: I wish to call your attention to the good your\n  Sulphur Soap has done me. For nearly fourteen years I have been\n  troubled with a skin humour resembling salt rheum. I have spent\n  nearly a small fortune for doctors and medicine, but with only\n  temporary relief. I commenced using your \u201cGlenn\u2019s Sulphur Soap\u201d\n  nearly two years ago\u2014=used it in baths and as a toilet soap\n  daily. My skin is now as clear as an infant\u2019s, and no one would\n  be able to tell that I ever had a skin complaint.= I would not\n  be without the soap if it cost five times the amount.\n\n  Yours respectfully.                            M. H. MORRIS.\n\n  LICK HOUSE, San Francisco, Cal.\n\nThe above testimonial is indisputable evidence that Glenn\u2019s Sulphur\nSoap will eliminate poisonous Skin Diseases WHEN ALL OTHER MEANS\nHAVE FAILED. To this fact thousands have testified; and that it\nwill banish lesser afflictions, such as common PIMPLES, ERUPTIONS\nand SORES, and keep the skin clear and beautiful, is absolutely\ncertain. For this reason ladies whose complexions have been\nimproved by the use of this soap NOW MAKE IT A CONSTANT TOILET\nAPPENDAGE. The genuine always bears the name of C. N. CRITTENTON,\n115 Fulton street, New York, sole proprietor. For sale by all\ndruggists or mailed to any address on receipt of 30 cents in\nstamps, or three cakes for 75 cents.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                           J. & R. LAMB,\n\n                        59 Carmine Street.\n\n                  Sixth Ave. cars pass the door.\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                              BANNERS\n\n                             IN SILK,\n\n                           NEW DESIGNS.\n\n                         CHURCH FURNITURE.\n\n                    SEND FOR HAND BOOK BY MAIL.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                        PEARLS IN THE MOUTH\n\n                          [Illustration]\n\n                       Beauty and Fragrance\n\n                 Are communicated to the mouth by\n\n                             SOZODONT\n\nwhich renders the _teeth pearly white_, the gums rosy, and the\n_breath sweet_. By those who have used it, it is regarded as an\nindispensable adjunct of the toilet. It thoroughly _removes tartar_\nfrom the teeth, without injuring the enamel.\n\n                         SOLD BY DRUGGISTS\n\n                            EVERYWHERE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    CHEAPEST BOOK IN THE WORLD.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n=The New American Dictionary, Price Only $1.00=, CONTAINS 1,000\nENGRAVINGS AND 100 PAGES MORE THAN ANY OTHER BOOK OF THE KIND\nEVER PUBLISHED. This useful and elegant volume is a Library and\nEncyclopedia of general knowledge, as well as the best Dictionary\nin the world. Superbly bound in cloth and gilt. No pocket\naffair, but a large volume. It contains every useful word in the\nEnglish language, with its true meaning, derivation, spelling\nand pronunciation, and a vast amount of absolutely necessary\ninformation upon Science, Mythology, Biography, American History,\nInsolvent Land and Interest Laws, etc., being a =Perfect Library of\nReference=. Webster\u2019s Dictionary costs $9.00, and the New American\nDictionary costs only $1.00.\n\n                     Read what the Press Says:\n\n\u201cWe have examined the New American Dictionary, and find it is a\nvery valuable book.\u201d\u2014HOUSE AND HOME. \u201cWe have never seen its equal,\neither in price, finish or contents.\u201d\u2014THE ADVOCATE. \u201cWorth ten\ntimes the money.\u201d\u2014TRIBUNE AND FARMER. \u201cA perfect Dictionary and\nlibrary of reference.\u201d\u2014LESLIE ILLUSTRATED NEWS. \u201cWe have frequent\noccasion to use the New American Dictionary in our office, and\nregard it well worth the price.\u201d\u2014CHRISTIAN UNION. \u201cWith the New\nAmerican Dictionary in the library for reference, many other\nmuch more expensive works can be dispensed with, and ignorance\nof his country, history, business, law, etc., is inexcusable\nin any man.\u201d\u2014SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. \u201cA valuable addition to any\nlibrary.\u201d\u2014N.Y. SUN. \u201cThere is more real worth than in most books\nat ten times the cost.\u201d\u2014N.Y. COMMERCIAL WORLD. Note the price,\n=$1.00=, post-paid; =2= copies for =$1.75=.\n\n=Extraordinary Offer.= If any person will get up a Club of Ten, at\n$1.00 each, we will send Free as a premium the American Waterbury\nStem-Winding Watch. For a =Club of 15= we will send free a Solid\nSilver Hunting Case Watch. For a =Club of 30= we will send free a\nLady\u2019s Solid Gold Hunting-Case Watch. For a =Club of 50= we will\nsend free a Gent\u2019s Solid Gold Hunting Case Watch. Send a Dollar at\nonce for a sample copy. You can easily secure one of these watches\nin a day or two, or during your leisure time evenings. As to our\nreliability, we can refer to the commercial agencies or any express\ncompany in this city. 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WOOD.\n\n\n                                               April 30, 1883.\nWORLD MANUFACTURING CO.:\n\nInclosed find money order for Ten Dollars, as part payment for\n\n  27 New American Dictionaries, at $1 each        $27.00\n   6 Bible Dictionaries, at $1.40 each              8.40\n  23 Shakespeares, at $1.50 each                   34.50\n                                                  ------\n             Total                                $69.90\n\nWill pay balance of bill at express office. Please send the $50\nDomestic Sewing Machine for my premium The books sell readily, and\ngive satisfaction. Will send you a larger order soon.\n\n                           Yours truly,\n                             STELLA S. BECKWITH, McHenry, Ill.\n\n\n                                               April 30, 1883.\nWORLD MANUFACTURING CO.:\n\nGENTLEMEN: Find inclosed One Hundred and Ten Dollars for 100 New\nAmerican Dictionaries. Send Bible Dictionaries and Shakespeare\u2019s\nWorks for the extra ten dollars. I will take the $50 Domestic\nSewing Machine and the Gold Watch for my premiums. I sent you Fifty\nDollars last month, and will send you more orders soon. Ship books\nat once, and oblige\n\n          CHARLES O\u2019DONNELL, New Tacoma, Washington Territory.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                    7 PER CENT. to 8 PER CENT.\n\n                     Interest Net to Investors\n\n                    In First Mortgage Bonds ON\n\n                         IMPROVED FARMS in\n\n                          Iowa, Minnesota\n\n                            and Dakota,\n\n                            SECURED BY\n\n                        ORMSBY BROS. & CO.,\n\n                  BANKERS, LOAN AND LAND BROKERS,\n\n                         EMMETSBURG, IOWA.\n\n\n          _11 Years\u2019 Experience. Loans Absolutely Safe._\n\n        References and Circulars forwarded on Application.\n\n\n            _BRANCH BANKS AT MITCHELL AND HURON, D.T._\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                             PAYSON\u2019S\n\n                          INDELIBLE INK,\n\n                   FOR MARKING ANY FABRIC WITH A\n\n                       COMMON PEN, WITHOUT A\n\n                           PREPARATION.\n\n\n          It still stands unrivaled after 50 years\u2019 test.\n\n\nTHE SIMPLEST AND BEST.\n\nSales now greater than ever before.\n\nThis Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all\nrivals.\n\nReport of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n\n                            INQUIRE FOR\n\n                      PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\nSold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many\nFancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  SMITH\n  AMERICAN\n  ORGANS]\n\nARE THE BEST.\n\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n                         OVER 95,000 SOLD.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  THE\n  RISING SUN\n  STOVE POLISH]\n\n    For beauty of gloss, for saving of toil,\n    For freeness from dust and slowness to soil,\n    And also for cheapness \u2019tis yet unsurpassed,\n    And thousands of merchants are selling it fast.\n\n    Of all imitations \u2019tis well to beware;\n    The half risen sun every package should bear;\n    For this is the \u201ctrade mark\u201d the MORSE BROS. use,\n    And none are permitted the mark to abuse.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                  ANNUAL MEETING OF THE A. M. A.\n\n\nThe Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the American Missionary\nAssociation will be held in the Central Congregational Church,\nBrooklyn, N.Y. (Dr. Behrends), beginning Tuesday, October 30 at 3\nP.M. and closing on the evening of Thursday, November 1.\n\nThe sermon will be preached by Rev. John L. Withrow, D.D., of\nBoston, Mass., Tuesday evening, at 7:30, to be followed by the\ncommunion service.\n\nThe citizens of Brooklyn will cordially welcome to their homes\nall persons in attendance at the meetings. Those wishing such\nhospitality are requested to forward their applications to Richard\nM. Montgomery, 169 Columbia Heights, Brooklyn, N.Y., before October\n15, specifying in their letters the time of their proposed arrival.\n\nApplicants will receive cards of introduction to families in which\nthey will be entertained. Should any person after receiving a card\nof assignment decide not to attend the meetings, he will please\nnotify the Committee at once, that his place may be given to some\nother applicant.\n\nNegotiations are in progress to secure reduced rates of travel over\ndifferent railway and steamboat lines, the results of which will be\ngiven at an early day.\n\nAny further information which may be needed will be gladly\nfurnished on application to either of the undersigned.\n\n  WM. G. HOOPLE, Chairman, 325 Greene Avenue.\n       RICHARD M. MONTGOMERY, Secretary, 169 Columbia Heights.\n\n\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\n                  SEND FOR ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n        ATKIN & PROUT, Printers, 12 Barclay St., New York.\n\n\n\n\nTranscribers Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions silently\ncorrected. Inconsistent hyphenation retained, due to the\nmultiplicity of authors.\n\nChanged \u201cbeqeath\u201d to \u201cbequeath\u201d on the inside front cover (I\nbequeath to my executor).\n\nOpening quote on page 267 has been left unclosed as it is unclear\nwhere the appropriate close should be (must be abandoned decidedly).\n\nChanged \u201cpereferred\u201d to \u201cpreferred\u201d on page 270 (would have\npreferred to remain).\n\nChanged \u201cincase\u201d to \u201cin case\u201d on page 273 (in case of proposals).\n\nChanged \u201csuperindentency\u201d to \u201csuperintendency\u201d on page 274 (a\ncommon superintendency)\n\nAdded missing \u201ce\u201d to \u201cJamesport\u201d in the Jamesport entry on page 284.\n\nChanged \u201cFragance\u201d to \u201cFragrance\u201d on page 287 (Beauty and\nFragrance).\n\nAdded missing \u201ct\u201d to \u201cWaterbury\u201d on page 288 (American Waterbury\nStem-Winding Watch)\n\nAdded missing \u201ca\u201d to \u201cCase\u201d on page 288 (Solid Silver Hunting Case\nWatch)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 9, September, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18561}