{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_61846/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_61846","id":"gutenberg_61846","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61846","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Journals","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals"],"text":"[Illustration: OCTOBER, 1883.\n\nVOL. XXXVII.\n\nNO. 10.\n\nThe American Missionary]\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\n\n                                                         PAGE.\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014GOOD AS THREE WEEKS REVIVAL             289\n    CONCERT EXERCISE\u2014REV. STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D.D.           290\n    OUR INDIAN WORK                                        291\n    A VISIT TO THE DAKOTA MISSION                          292\n    THE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE COLORED RACE        294\n    PAMPHLET NO. 8\u2014A HYMN BOOK FOR OUR CHURCHES            296\n    A LIFE NOT TOO LONG\u2014BENEFACTIONS                       297\n    GENERAL NOTES\u2014AFRICA, INDIAN, CHINESE                  298\n    A MARAUDING PARTY IN AFRICA (cut)                      299\n    REFLEX INFLUENCE OF A. M. A.                           301\n    WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA (cut)                     302\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    NOTES OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR IN LOUISIANA AND\n      MISSISSIPPI                                          303\n    A WORD FROM TILLOTSON INSTITUTE                        305\n    LETTER FROM FLORENCE, ALA.                             306\n    LETTER FROM MCINTOSH, GA.\u2014ITEMS FROM THE FIELD         307\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    RECRUITS FOR THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION                   309\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    MEETING OF BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK\u2014THE PAPER MISSION\n      AND WHAT CAME OF IT                                  310\n\n\n  CHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n    A TALK WITH THE CHILDREN                               312\n    TOPSY LEFT ALONE (cut)                                 313\n\n\n  RECEIPTS                                                 315\n\n\n  PROPOSED CONSTITUTION                                    317\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\n\n\n                        FINEST ARCADIA BEST\n                            VELVETEEN.\n\n\nGODEY\u2019S\n\nLADY\u2019S BOOK\n\nSAYS:\n\n\u201cThe ARCADIA VELVETEEN. It is ... much sought after for jackets and\ntrimmed suits for children\u2019s costumes and ladies\u2019 dinner dresses.\nIts cost is also an element in its success, as it can be purchased\nat the same price as ordinary brands.\u201d\n\n[Illustration]\n\n                     FOR CHILDREN\u2019S COSTUMES,\n\n                  THERE IS NOTHING IN THE MARKET\n                     THAT CAN COMPARE WITH THE\n\n                             ARCADIA.\n\n_The advantages claimed for this Velveteen are not few. First, the\ncolor, which is positive and lustrous in all shades. The appearance\nis certainly very handsome and not easily distinguished from\nvelvet; it is thinner and finer in texture, and consequently less\nheavy than ordinary velveteen, and takes the needle more easily\nthan any other make, and finally it will outwear any other material\nof equal finish and dress._\n\n[Illustration]\n\nTHE\n\nBAZAR\n\nSAYS:\n\n\u201cThe ARCADIA VELVETEEN is an improvement upon ordinary velveteen\nthat is sure to be thoroughly appreciated, not only during the\ncoming winter, but for many seasons.\u201d\n\nFor the protection of the consumer we stamp every yard.\n\n                              ARCADIA\n                             VELVETEEN\n                           (REGISTERED)\n\nBe sure and look on the back of goods, and see you find this stamp.\n\n  =SOLD BY= all Dry Goods Dealers, and at Wholesale by\n  SHAEN & CHRISTIE, 165 Church St., New York, U.S.A.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          VOL. XXXVII.     OCTOBER, 1883.        NO. 10.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nANNUAL MEETING.\n\nPreparations for our forthcoming Annual Meeting, to convene in the\nCentral Church, Brooklyn, October 30, are progressing favorably.\nThe indications are that we shall have one of the most important\nmeetings ever held by this Association. We hope to be able to\nannounce through the religious press and otherwise, in good season,\nsuch particulars relating to speakers and accommodations as will be\nof interest to our readers. For the present we refer them to the\nannouncement on the 4th page cover of this MISSIONARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGOOD AS THREE WEEKS REVIVAL.\n\nThe value of the annual meetings of our great missionary societies\nis not measured chiefly by the amount of business transacted,\nimportant and necessary as that is. The information imparted might\nbe gathered otherwise, but the full benefit to mind and heart can\nonly be had by participating in the devotions, the instructions in\nrighteousness, and, indeed, the arousements that are found among\nthe vast throng that assemble on these occasions. Dr. Withrow said,\nat the Saratoga meeting of the Home Missionary Society: \u201cThese\nthree days are worth as much as three weeks revival in giving\na spiritual uplift to the churches.\u201d We believe this to be no\nextravagant assertion. Great religious gatherings of some sort have\nbeen common from time immemorial. These have varied according to\nthe developments of the age.\n\nThe problem of the church to-day is the world\u2019s conversion. All\nother questions are but side issues. The wonderful developments\nof our modern civilization have been preparatory. They have made\nit possible for the church to make rapid strides in hastening the\ntriumphs of the Redeemer\u2019s kingdom. The facilities are ready.\nYoung men and women with trained faculties for the work are being\ngraduated from our schools of learning by the thousands. Nothing\nis lacking but the disposition\u2014the mind to work. The chief value of\nthese meetings is seen in their potency to impart this disposition.\n\nIt is not many years since there was but one truly great and grand\ndistinctively missionary annual meeting in our land\u2014the meeting\nof the American Board. Then there came well up to the front the\nannual meetings of the American Missionary Association, and latest,\nthe meeting of the Home Missionary Society, which, in point of\nattendance from abroad, possibly, outnumbered any one ever held by\nthe Congregational brethren. Other denominations are progressing in\nthis direction. There is a wonderfully encouraging development all\nalong the line. The morning cometh; they who turn their thoughts\nto our great missionary enterprises are looking toward it, and not\ntoward yesterday morning, as men blinded by misbelief continually\nlook.\n\nWe call the attention of our readers to the fact that two of these\ngreat annual meetings convene in October, and we trust that but\nfew obstacles will be deemed so weighty as to interfere with their\nattendance.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTHE demand for Our Temperance Concert Exercise, issued in the\nMay MISSIONARY, and also in circular form, has been steady and\nencouraging. It was recently used in the First Church, Greenwich,\nConn., with gratifying success. Some features were introduced by\nthe pastor, Rev. Mr. Kellogg, not contemplated in the preparation\nof the exercise. Selections were made from the communications on\ntemperance published in the same number of the MISSIONARY, and read\nby different individuals. Words were adapted to Jubilee Songs,\ngiving a pleasing variety, and recitations introduced in addition\nto, and in place of, those given in the paper. We again call the\nattention of our friends to this Concert Exercise, with reference\nto its use.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nREV. STEPHEN R. RIGGS, D.D., LL. D., missionary to the American\nIndians for forty years, died at the age of 71, at Beloit, Wis.,\nin August. Like Livingstone, in early life, he was desirous of\nbecoming a missionary to China, but yielded to what he considered\nthe overrulings of Providence, and in 1837, with his wife,\nwent into the far Northwest among the Sioux. He reduced their\nlanguage to writing, compiled a dictionary and translated the\nHoly Scriptures and hymns. Ten well-ordered churches and many\nout-stations were established in the region of his operations,\nreaching beyond the British line.\n\nAs an author, he did good service. His book, \u201c_Mary and I\u2014Forty\nYears with the Sioux_,\u201d has magnified the significance of Indian\nmissions. Another book, \u201c_Gospel Among the Dakotas_,\u201d portrays\nvividly scenes of pioneer life. His memorial of Dr. Williamson is a\ntribute worthy of the man and his successful efforts in behalf of\nthe Indians. Four of his children have labored among the Sioux, and\none of his daughters has entered upon work across the Pacific. Rev.\nAlfred L. Riggs, principal of our school at Santee, and Thomas L.\nRiggs, of Fort Sally, and Mrs. Martha Riggs Morris, at the Sisseton\nagency, are carrying on the work so happily inaugurated by their\nfather. His life was one of incessant missionary toil, in which for\nyears he had been aided by his children, and to whom he bequeathed\nits continuance, and in the midst of whom he passed from earth to\nhis reward on high.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nOUR INDIAN WORK.\n\nNever was there a more favorable time for enlargement on our\npart. The new impulse to the general cause by General Grant\u2019s\npeace policy, augmented by the success of the schools at Hampton\nand Carlisle, will be still more accelerated by the schools soon\nto be completed by the Government at Chilloco, Indian Territory;\nLawrence, Kansas; and Genoa, Neb. When these are finished and\nfilled, the Indian schools throughout the country will accommodate\n10,250 pupils of the 40,000 school population of the Indians at the\npresent time. Sec. Teller may be too sanguine in the expectation\nthat with adequate means the Indian problem will not be heard of in\nthe next generation, but never before could such a prediction come\nso near being true. At all events, the nation and the Government\nare fully aroused, and it becomes the American Missionary\nAssociation to bestir itself to do its part. This Association\nhas now the responsibility of doing the Indian work for the\nCongregational churches, the American Board having transferred to\nit the whole of its Indian missions. A delegation of the Executive\nCommittee of the Association, consisting of Rev. W. H. Ward, D.D.,\nRev. Addison P. Foster, Charles L. Mead, Esq., and the Secretary,\nmade recently a thorough inspection of all the schools and missions\nwith very favorable impressions, a report of which follows.\n\nEnlargement is imperatively needed in three directions, in addition\nto the $20,000 for the current work:\n\n1. At the old and well-established mission at the Santee Agency,\nNebraska, Rev. A. L. Riggs thus details the immediate wants of\nthat station: additional industrial accommodations; extension of\ncarpenter shop, $250; blacksmith shop, with five forges, $750;\noutfit of tools for the same, $150; general dining hall for\n200 boarders, with laundry rooms, $5,000; outfit for the same,\nincluding heating arrangements, kitchen ranges, laundry apparatus,\n$1,500; making in all $7,650. Boarding-school house for girls at\nOahe, Fort Sully, $2,500.\n\n2. New mission stations and schools among the Indians now\nunsupplied. Three station buildings for native teachers on the\nCheyenne River, $1,000; missionary\u2019s house at Cherry Creek,\nCheyenne River, $1,500; mission among the Crows, $2,000.\n\nWe invite the friends of Indian progress to select from the items\nabove given in both fields of enlargement the specific object for\ncompleting which they will aid us in whole or in part.\n\n3. An agricultural, mechanical and Normal School, to be founded\nperhaps somewhere in Peoria Bottom, a new Hampton located on the\nborder, with the white man\u2019s civilization on one hand and the\nIndian reservations close on the other. This, though it is an\nurgent want and essential to the filling out of our general plan,\nmust await the careful search for a fitting location and the means\nto give it a suitable inauguration.\n\nWhere shall the work be done for the Indian? One successful\nteacher in Indian schools says that the children should all be\nbrought East, and trained amid the white man\u2019s civilization;\nanother gentleman, long connected with a Mission Board, holds\nthat the education should be given wholly among the tribes, so\nthat the pupils would be trained amid their people and not away\nfrom sympathy with them. We believe _both_ methods are necessary.\nThe youth trained at home elevates his people as he rises, and\nis himself strengthened and helped by his friends who come from\nthe East with the higher touch of the white man\u2019s culture. Our\nschools and missions, those now in progress and the one proposed,\nafford the advantages of both plans. We shall aim to combine the\nindustrial, normal and religious training so as to fit the pupils,\nmale and female, for the practical duties of life in the field, the\nshop and the home, in the school room, in the pulpit and the church.\n\nWe have undertaken much. The hour has come for it, and we know that\nthe friends of the Indian will not suffer us to fail for want of\nmeans.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA VISIT TO THE DAKOTA MISSION.\n\nREV. ADDISON P. FOSTER.\n\nThe transfer by the American Board of its Missions among the\nDakota Indians to the American Missionary Association made it\ndesirable that some of the officers of the Association should\nacquaint themselves personally with the work. Accordingly, Rev.\nM. E. Strieby, D.D., Secretary of the Association, and Rev. Wm.\nHayes Ward, D.D., of the _Independent_, C. L. Mead, Esq., and\nyour correspondent, all members of the Executive Committee, met\nby appointment at the Santee Agency. Three of the party then\nvisited the mission station at Oahe, D.T., connected with the\nCheyenne Agency, where the party divided, Dr. Strieby returning\nby way of the Sisseton Agency, Dr. Ward and Mr. Foster, under the\nleadership of Rev. Thomas L. Riggs, the efficient missionary,\nentering the great Sioux Reservation and traveling in an open wagon\nbetween three and four hundred miles, mostly in Indian country.\nThis last-named expedition had not a little of excitement and\nadventure. Camping out at night, fording swollen streams, sleeping\nin an Indian wigwam, driving across trackless prairies by the\naid of a compass, running the divides, killing a rattlesnake,\npreaching to the wild Indians through an interpreter, spending days\nin Indian villages, where hideous heathen mummeries were in full\nview, visiting the Indians\u2019 strange earth-built lodges, and their\noffensive scaffold burying grounds, we passed through a series of\nexperiences not soon to be forgotten.\n\nThe American Missionary Association has become possessor of three\nconsiderable mission stations among the Indians, in or near Dakota\nTerritory. At the Santee Agency, which is just across the Missouri\nin Nebraska, about thirty miles up the river from Yankton, is a\nlarge and very successful school, a church of Indians with an\nIndian pastor, and one out-station with an immediate prospect\nof a second. This school and mission work are under the general\nsuperintendence of Rev. Alfred L. Riggs. The children in the\nschool come not only from the Santees on the Agency, but from long\ndistances, from the Sisseton Agency, Fort Berthold and Montana.\nWe were greatly pleased with the intelligence, the neatness and\nChristian spirit of these students. They will certainly compare\nfavorably in every way with the bright young Indians we have seen\nat Hampton.\n\nOahe is the centre of a wide evangelistic work, which has been\norganized and is carried on with great energy and success by Rev.\nThomas L. Riggs. At Oahe itself is a mission home, a neat chapel,\nalso used as a school-house, and three miles away, a second\nschool-house. A native church is organized here, ministered to most\nacceptably by Yellow Hawk, an exemplary and industrious Indian.\nWe were specially interested in a prayer meeting of Indian women,\nwhich was fully attended and heartily sustained. Oahe is on the\neast side of the Missouri, where a considerable number of Indians\nhave given up their tribal relations, taken up land in severalty,\nand become voting citizens of the United States. Immediately\nacross the river is the Sioux Reservation. This is greatly cut\nup by sizable streams which flow down from the Black Hills. On\nevery stream are extensive and very fertile bottom-lands. Here\nthe Indians are located, living mostly in tents, but some in log\nhouses. They are chiefly wild Indians, only a few years since being\non the war-path, mainly different sections of Sitting Bull\u2019s band.\nThey still wear blankets, and are gaudy in bead-work, and paint\nand feathers. But they are now in wholesome fear of the government\nand, better still, are anxious to be as white men. Mr. Riggs has\nestablished four stations in Indian villages on the Cheyenne River,\nand a fifth on the Grand River. At three of these stations there\nis preaching by native pastors, Solomon Martun (or Bear\u2019s Ear),\nIsaac Renville and Edward Phelps, by name; at the other places are\nschools. The mission at Ft. Berthold is among the Rees, Mandans\nand Gros Ventres. These three small tribes long since combined\nin one village for protection against their ancient foes, the\nSioux. Rev. C. L. Hall is the missionary here. A mission home and\na chapel are the buildings, both in excellent condition. The work\nat this mission is slow in developing results, not from any lack\nof faithfulness or adaptation on the part of the missionaries,\nfor their consecration and fitness are marked, but because these\nIndians by their tribal divisions are jealous of one another, and\nby their contact in the past with white men of bad character are\ncorrupt and hard to reach. Mr. Hall has an out-station in his care\nat Devil\u2019s Lake, where Rev. David Hopkins, a Sisseton Indian, is\nlaboring.\n\n                                                  THE ADVANCE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE RELATIONS OF THE CHURCH TO THE COLORED RACE.\n\nBY REV. LEWIS GROUT.\n\nRev. Dr. J. L. Tucker\u2019s speech on the above subject before the\nEpiscopal Church Congress, in Richmond, last October, has had\na very emphatic indorsement from professional and other men in\nthe South, and yet not without severe criticism from some of the\ncolored people, especially in Jackson, Miss., the home of Dr.\nTucker, where he made the speech. It seems that Dr. Tucker is a\nman of Northern birth, that he was a soldier in the Confederate\narmy, after which he became a planter, then a rector, and that\nhe has had much experience and interest in the education of the\ncolored race, as planter, teacher and minister. And yet, with all\nhis acquaintance with that race, there are several important points\npertaining to their history, character and welfare, in which he is\nsadly mistaken.\n\nThe first mistake of his that I will notice has respect to the\ncharacter of the native African. In Africa, he says, \u201chuman life\nhas no sacredness, and men, women and children are slain as beasts\nare, and even more carelessly, as less valuable. Human suffering\nexcites no pity, and blood flows like water.\u201d \u201cThat what we call\nmorality, whether in the relations of the sexes, or in the sense of\ntruthfulness, or in the sense of honesty, has no lodgment whatever\nin the native African\u2019s breast;\u201d and that they have \u201cno words\u201d for\ngratitude, generosity, industry, truthfulness, honesty, modesty,\ngentleness and virtue, because they have none of these ideas.\nNow all this, and much more of the same sort, is the baldest of\nhyperbole, far from the truth. During my fifteen years of labor in\nthat land, I made the study of African character and language a\nspecialty; and I believe that words representing the ideas above\nnamed may be found in every language and dialect on the continent.\nAs to humanity and all kindred virtues, they are abreast, if not\nahead, of any and every other people that have not had the gospel.\nFor honesty and morality, under pure native rule, in many respects,\nthe Zulus and cognate tribes would put to shame the people in every\npart of this land of ours. I have no reason to believe that I\never lost a sixpence worth of anything, through their stealing,\nin all those fifteen years of my stay among them; and as to the\nrelations of the sexes, I believe there are ten illegitimate births\nhere in New England to-day, where there was ever one in Zululand\nprevious to the incoming of the Dutch and English. To be sure, all\nAfrican tribes may not be abreast of what the Zulus used to be, in\nthese things. And yet Rev. Dr. Crummell, for many years a college\nprofessor and rector of a parish in Liberia, says: \u201cAll along the\nwest coast of Africa the family tie and the marriage bond are as\nstrong as among any _primitive_ people.\u201d \u201cTheir maidenly virtue,\nthe instinct to chastity, is a marvel.\u201d\n\n2. Dr. Tucker says the colored people of the South are grossly\nimmoral. If he had made a very deserved exception of the many\nwho have been brought under the restraints of the gospel by good\nmission work among them, within a few years, his charge would\nhave been more just. But whence came the great excess in vice\nwhich he avers? Could anything else have been expected from long\ngenerations of the peculiar training their bondage gave them? Under\nthe treatment they had, as Dr. Tucker says, \u201cthey quickly learned\nto conceal,\u201d \u201clearned lying, stealing and adultery.\u201d By a somewhat\nminute detail, he shows how the familiarity and \u201cthe intrigues\nwhich the white men\u201d had with the black women wrought in them, as\nhe says, \u201cthe utter destruction of the very sense of virtue.\u201d\n\n3. Dr. Tucker says nothing of importance has been accomplished by\nNorthern benevolence for the colored people, except to make them\nworse\u2014to \u201cbuild strongholds for the devil in disguise,\u201d to \u201cbuild\nup the kingdom of evil.\u201d Now all this, in which his speech abounds,\nI repudiate as false and slanderous. In the course of forty years\nI have seen a good deal of mission work, of one kind and another,\nat home and abroad, and under the auspices of almost every society\nin the world. I have also seen the work of the American Missionary\nAssociation among the Freedmen; and, as the result of all, I am\nfree to say, I believe Dr. Tucker may go the world over, time\nthrough, ransack all history, and not be able to point to a time or\nplace where mission work and money have done more, in proportion to\nthe means employed, than has been done by this Association among\nthe colored people since their emancipation, two decades since.\n\n4. Dr. Tucker alleges that Northern missionaries are incompetent,\n\u201cdon\u2019t know what they are about,\u201d or \u201chow to reach the colored\npeople,\u201d or \u201chow to deal with them,\u201d \u201cbarely know a Negro when they\nsee him.\u201d Well, I am told there are some white people in the South,\nwho, themselves \u201cdon\u2019t know a Negro when they see him,\u201d in some\ncases only as they trace his genealogy and find out who his mother\nwas. But how should Dr. Tucker, himself, be able to know all about\nthis matter, how to reach the colored people, how to lift them up,\nhow to heal them, better than other men of Northern birth?\n\n5. The counterpart of the above charge is, that the Southern whites\nare the \u201conly ones\u201d who know how to do good mission work for the\ncolored race, and that we of the North must put all our money into\ntheir \u201ccontrol.\u201d But what have they ever done to prove such special\nfitness to inspire the Negro with confidence in their teaching and\ntreatment, to prove their own faith in his capacity for a high\norder of improvement, to encourage us to put \u201cevery dollar\u201d of our\nmission money into their hands? Why, after they had had the black\nman in their own special teaching and treatment for more than two\ncenturies, utterly dissevered from pagan Africa, all plastic,\ndocile and confined, as he was, to their exclusive training, has\nhis original heathenism been so little improved as to leave the\nNegro no better than Dr. Tucker represents him to be. And even now,\nwhat great effort have they made for his improvement in the two\ndecades that have passed since his emancipation?\n\nAnother mistake I find in Dr. Tucker\u2019s speech, the greatest and\nmost fatal of all, and the last I will notice, is his color line\n\u201cplan\u201d for all educational and religious work in the South\u2014a school\nand a church on this side of the street for the whites, a school\nand a church on that side for the blacks\u2014a double system, with, as\nhe says, \u201cdouble the expense.\u201d But neither a system such as that,\nnor the spirit that desires or prompts it, will have any place on\nearth when the gospel of Christ gets a proper ascendency in the\nhearts and lives of men.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE have issued Pamphlet No. 8, on _The Reflex Influence of the\nWork of the American Missionary Association_, an address delivered\nin Tremont Temple by Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., Fitchburg, Mass.,\na quotation from which will be found elsewhere. Copies of this\nPamphlet will be supplied gratuitously on application, to those\nwishing them for distribution.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA HYMN BOOK FOR OUR CHURCHES.\n\nIt is the \u201cManual of Praise,\u201d published by E. J. Goodrich, Oberlin,\nOhio, compiled by the lamented Rev. Dr. Hiram Mead and J. B.\nRice. It has the cream of our hymnology, the worshipful, endeared\nhymns to the number of six hundred. It has the wearing pieces of\nMoody & Sankey. Compiled not by an ambitious amateur in musical\ncomposition, it does not seek to force upon the churches a great\nbatch of new and unproven tunes. It was evidently put together for\npractical purposes, and is small enough to go into a side or hip\npocket, a \u201cmultum in parvo.\u201d It is cheap, coming by the dozen, for\nintroduction, so as not to cost over sixty cents a copy. It is\nsuited to all occasions. It has a logical arrangement, which will\nbe of constant advantage in the use of it, though those who have it\nmay not know just how the logic comes in, even as the perfection of\nthe art of elocution is to conceal the art. Where it has been used\nin our institutions and schools, it has been much approved. It is\ncertainly a desideratum for our new churches in the South and in\nthe West.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA LIFE NOT TOO LONG.\n\nOne of our regular contributors, in transmitting his donation to\nour treasury, accompanies his gift with the following cheering\nwords: \u201cThrough the goodness, mercy and truth which has not been\ntaken away from one highly undeserving, I am again permitted\nthe privilege of herewith inclosing a draft to your order for\nthe general use of the A. M. A., for $1,000. Whether now in my\neightieth year, I shall be permitted to repeat the pleasant\nofferings, I know not. Shall I note the fact that coming from no\nlarge store, I cannot see that they diminish it?\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nBENEFACTIONS.\n\nMr. Robert L. Stuart has pledged $150,000 to Princeton College.\n\nLincoln University is to receive $10,000 from the estate of the\nlate David B. Small, of York, Pa.\n\nGen. A. G. P. Dodge has contributed $3,000 to be used in building\nan academy at Jackson, Ky.\n\nThe late William Ward of Brixton Hill left $100,000 to the\nCorporation of London for the establishment and maintenance of a\nhigh school for girls.\n\nMr. C. F. McCay, formerly a professor in the University of Georgia,\nhas given that institution $20,000 in Georgia Railroad 6-per-cent\nbonds.\n\nSarah A. and Emily B. Sumner, of Albany, N.Y., have given $2,500\neach for an endowment fund for Rutgers College.\n\nThe Northwestern University at Evanston has received $25,000 from\nex-Gov. Evans of Colorado.\n\nEx President Wright, of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has given\n$100,000 for the establishment of a boys\u2019 and girls\u2019 college at\nTacoma, W.T.\n\nCarlton College, Northfield, Minn., has recently received $12,000\nfrom Edward H. Williams, Esq., of Philadelphia, for Williams Hall,\nbuilt in memory of his only son.\n\nMrs. Lucy E. Tuttle, of Guilford, Conn., has given $10,000 to the\nOlivet College Library Fund as a memorial of her gifted son, Willie\nSage Tuttle.\n\nBuchtel College, Akron, Ohio, has received $25,000 from Mrs. Lydia\nMessenger, making $56,000 in all donated by her for the benefit of\nthe institution.\n\n_Christian intelligence is the most potent agency for obliterating\nthe barbarism of caste prejudice; and the endowment of schools for\nthose who suffer from it, the most safe and certain means for its\noverthrow._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nGENERAL NOTES.\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\n\u2014The French Romanists have abandoned the country of Uganda.\n\n\u2014It is reported that King Leopold II. of Belgium, with no selfish\nor personal object, with no view of gaining territory or commercial\nprofits, and with no other motive than the highest and purest\nphilanthropy, is spending $400,000 a year from his own private\npurse for the benefit of Africa.\n\n\u2014A hydrographical expedition has been made to the coast of the\nMaroc by Capt. Kerhallet and Mr. Dumoulin.\n\n\u2014The project relative to placing a submarine telegraphic cable\nbetween the Island of Teneriffe and St. Louis on the Senegal has\nbeen voted by the French Chamber.\n\n\u2014The Italian mission directed by Bianchi has safely arrived at\nSamera, where they found the King of Abyssinia, to whom they gave\npresents from the King of Italy.\n\nMonseigneur Lasserre, coadjutor of the Apostolic Vicar of the\nGauls, has obtained from Menelik the authorization to establish\nhimself among the Ittous Gauls, who have submitted to him.\n\n\u2014Under the title of the French Factories of the Persian Gulf and\nof Eastern Africa, a society has been formed for French oriental\ncommerce, of importation and exportation.\n\n\u2014The native chief Ghowe having committed incursions upon the\nterritory of Sherbro near Sierra Leone, Major Talbot has burned\nthe village of Kwatamaha, massacred the inhabitants of Kahun and\npillaged and burnt Jalliah.\n\n\u2014Some friends of the French mission at the Senegal have brought to\nFrance three young negroes, who will be raised in the agricultural\ncolony of Sainte Foy, and prepared to return to St. Louis as\nshoemakers, tailors, cooks, perhaps even teachers and evangelists.\n\n\u2014Upon the demand of many chiefs of the Slave Coast, a protectorate\nof France has been established upon the territories of Petit-Popo,\nGrand-Popo and Porto-Seguro between the English possessions of the\nGold Coast and Whydah, beyond which is the territory of Porto-Novo\nupon which the French protectorate is already recognized.\n\n\u2014Major Machado, who has been at Lisbon to confer with the\nPortuguese government on the subject of the railroad from Delagoa\nBay to Pretoria, has started for the Transvaal to complete the\ntrack of the section from Incomati to Pretoria. A society has been\nfounded at Lisbon to ask the concession of this line.\n\n[Illustration: A MARAUDING PARTY IN AFRICA.]\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n\u2014The Spirit of Missions urges the establishment of a Protestant\nEpiscopal Mission in Alaska, and the sending out of a Bishop from\nthe United States with a score of faithful priests and deacons to\nsecond his efforts.\n\n\u2014A missionary laboring in the Indian Territory reports to\nthe Sunday-school of the Collegiate Church, New York, that a\nSunday-school which he organized eight years ago has grown to be a\nchurch of seventy members. In one of the Indian families he found a\ngrand piano.\n\n\u2014Some years ago the pride of the Cheyenne and Arapahoe schools in\nthe Indian Territory, was their school herd of several hundred\ncattle, which had been accumulated through a number of years\u2019\neffort, without material expense to the government. This furnished\nemployment and prospective income for the school boys. At its most\nsuccessful period it was destroyed by an order from the Department\nat Washington, directing that the cattle be distributed among\nthe Indians. After being without the herd for several years the\nDepartment has now started a new one, by purchasing 600 cows and\nheifers and placing them again under the care of the Indian school\nboys.\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n\u2014Not one in five hundred of the women of Shantung can read.\n\n\u2014There are twenty self-supporting Protestant churches in China, and\nnearly 400 which are partially so.\n\n\u2014A Chinaman in a town called New-Bendigo, in Australia, where there\nis a large Chinese colony, was asked recently what practical good\nhad been accomplished by the missionaries. He answered as follows:\nBefore, no one understood God\u2019s Word. Good many work Sunday all\nsame as week day. Now, no work done on Sunday at New-Bendigo by\nmy countrymen. Perhaps chop little wood for house, or wash him\nclothes; but no go work. No matter poor, every one no work on\nSunday. Before, all worship idols. Now, many come to church; he no\nworship idols. When Lee Wah begin to read, good many had idols in\nhouse; thirty more. Myself had one. Now, only ten houses and stores\nin New-Bendigo with idols in them. Before, at old township, good\nmany Chinese steal fowls, everything. Now, no more steal; every one\nwork; go get job. Before, every night, Chinaman learn to practice\nfight. I tell him too stupid fellow. You learn God\u2019s Word you no\nwant to fight. Now, no more learn to fight. Learn God\u2019s Word.\nBefore people no care for God\u2019s Word; he no know or care. Now, good\nmany people like read God\u2019s Word. Before, too much time, nothing to\ndo. Now, many say I learn to read God\u2019s Word. Now, no more waste\ntime. I like to read. Before, good many make fun God\u2019s Word; laugh.\nPapers were put upon outside of store, make laugh at Christian.\nPapers were put up on door of baptized men\u2019s house. Now, heathen\nmen no more make fun; strong man\u2019s hands tied up. Himself like it\nnow. Very quiet now.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nREFLEX INFLUENCE OF A. M. A.\n\nFROM ADDRESS BY REV. S. L. BLAKE, D.D.\n\nThe direct increase to the wealth of the country, in diminishing\nthe number of mere consumers, and increasing the number of actual\nproducers and property-holders, puts the business world largely in\ndebt to this society.\n\nA few figures will help your understanding of the case. In\ntwenty-one years this society has spent $5,543,636.03\u2014a yearly\naverage of $263,772.19. In seventeen years, from 1863 to 1880,\nfrom not owning a single dollar\u2019s worth of property of any sort\navailable for taxation, these people have come to hold property\ntaxed for $100,000,000, as appears from Southern tax-bills, which\nshow no respect of color\u2014an average rate of increase from nothing,\nof $5,882,352.94 a year. This is a yearly increase greater than\nthe whole amount spent by this society. That is, this society has\nspent $1, and these people, from absolute pauperism, have come into\npossession of over $21 of taxable property. These facts answer the\nquestion whether the colored man can take care of himself, and show\nthat the labors of this society have a cash value which can easily\nbe computed.\n\nThere is still another phase of the cash value of the labors of\nthis society, as related to the productive wealth of the country.\nHere this society touches and increases our material prosperity.\nI refer to a more equable distribution of ownership in the soil.\nSurely no one can deny that to change five or six millions of\npeople from paupers to property-holders, produces a very material\neffect upon the prosperity of the State.\n\nI believe that it is a settled canon of political economy that\na nation\u2019s wealth is in its soil. Where there are but few\nland-owners, and the tillers of the soil are tenants, wealth must\nbe in the hands of the few, and comparative if not absolute poverty\nin the hands of the many. To this state of things belong social\nclasses, as widely separated from each other as continents. It\ngoes without saying that landed monopoly and general prosperity\nof the people do not go together. I am no advocate of communism;\nbut I take the ground, and I believe it can be held, that the same\namount of property, somewhat evenly distributed among the people of\na country, adds more to its actual productive wealth and material\nprosperity, than the same amount of money would do, held in the\nhands of a few, who constitute an aristocracy of wealth and of\nblood. Of course, in every state, some men must be vastly more\nwealthy than others. But a comfortable competence in one\u2019s hands\nmakes him entirely independent of his more wealthy neighbor.\n\nIt is among the proofs of the increasing material prosperity of\nthis country, that the average size of farms has decreased from\n199 acres in 1860 to 134 acres in 1880; and that the amount of\ncapital invested in farms exceeds the money invested in railroads,\nand in manufacturing, including supplies, by over $2,000,000,000.\nGradually this vast preponderance of wealth is being more equably\ndistributed among the people. The plantation system, previous to\nthe war, gives way to the small farm, tilled and owned in many\ncases by the former slaves. Take a single case. Liberty County,\nGeorgia, in 1860, was mostly taken up by large plantations. There\nwere but 48 farms, \u201cof from three acres to one hundred acres each.\u201d\nIn 1880 the county was almost entirely owned by colored people, and\nthere were 1,500 farms. This is an illustration of the yielding of\nlanded monopoly and aristocracy to popular ownership in the soil,\nand to a more general and evenly diffused prosperity. The average\nsize of farms in fifteen slave States has been reduced from over\n368 acres in 1860 to a trifle over 149 acres in 1880, over 50 per\ncent. If you precipitate upon the population of a country 1,000,000\ncitizens, who may become land-holders, you have struck a heavy blow\nat landed monopoly, and taken a long stride toward increase of\nmaterial prosperity.\n\nLet me give you two or three further facts. In 1878 the freedmen\nof Prince Edward County, Virginia, owned 2,305 acres of land,\nan increase in eight years of 1,847 acres. In the county of\nRockbridge, Virginia, two thousand blacks were assessed for $50,000\nworth of real estate. In 1876 the colored people of Georgia owned\nland valued at $1,234,104, and other property to swell the total\nto $6,134,829. In the single State of Georgia these people, from\nnot owning a dollar, have come to possess property greater in value\nthan the entire sum spent by this Association in 21 years. Who says\nthat this alabaster box of ointment has been wasted?\n\nMaterial prosperity indicates a certain degree of intelligence. The\nignorant are not the wealthy nations of the globe. The work of this\nAssociation in bringing these people up to a degree of intelligence\nsomewhat commensurate with their opportunities, and in lifting\nthem to a level of citizenship co-ordinate with the welfare and\nprosperity of the State, has directly aided in this increase of the\nmaterial forces of the nation\u2019s welfare. For if the actual amount\nof property were not increased, yet the prospective wealth of the\nnation must be by converting 6,000,000 illiterate paupers into\neducated, independent property-holders.\n\nI find this in the last issue of the _American Missionary_, which\nsupports my position with high authority: \u201cIt has been estimated\nat Washington that the annual profit to the country by the\nconversion of illiterate into educated labor cannot be less than\n$400,000,000.\u201d This work has been done by this Association.\n\nMoney given to the endowment of its institutions at the South would\nyield a hundred fold in half a generation.\n\n[Illustration: WHITE TOP MOUNTAIN, VIRGINIA.]\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\nREV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.\n\nPROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES OF AN EDUCATIONAL TOUR IN LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI.\n\nPRES. W. S. ALEXANDER, D.D.\n\nAn experiment in the form of a brief educational campaign in\nLouisiana and Mississippi has been attended with the most\ngratifying results, and has been to those identified with it a\nrevelation of what may be accomplished in the same direction.\nHitherto in our educational work in Louisiana we have depended, so\nfar as the patronage of the country parishes was concerned, upon\nthe good reports of the students, and the dawning conception, in\nthe minds of those living remote from the city, of the necessity\nof an education. It occurred to Prof. Hitchcock and myself, as\nwe were likely to be detained in New Orleans the greater part of\nthe summer, that we could in no way better serve the interests\nof Straight University than by presenting the facts of education\ndirectly to the people, and pleading its claims wherever there\nwas \u201can open door.\u201d We not only found doors wide open, but were\ngreeted from many parishes with the Macedonian cry, \u201cCome over and\nhelp us.\u201d Our University was represented in the most important\ncenters, either by our graduates or those still upon our roll.\nThey had borne to their homes a grateful sense of good received at\nthe school, and entered enthusiastically into the matter of the\nmeetings. They were our _avant-couriers_, and most faithfully did\nthey spread the tidings of our coming.\n\nIn the space of a single article we can do little more than\nsummarize, but we trust our enforced conciseness will not despoil\nthe narrative of its interest or value. The first important point\nmade was\n\n\n_Baton Rouge._\n\nThe meeting on July 5 at the Capital of the State had been well\nadvertised, and was largely attended. The A. M. E. Church (Rev.\nMr. Jackson, pastor) was well filled. The majority of the audience\nwere young men, just the class we desired to reach. We had not\nonly a respectful, but an interested hearing. Mr. A. H. Colwell,\na talented graduate of Straight, who fills an important position\nas teacher at Baton Rouge, presided at the organ, and at the\nconclusion of the meeting made a neat address, moving a resolution\nof thanks to the speakers. Rev. Mr. Jackson spoke with feeling and\nintelligent appreciation of the demands of education. The ablest\nwhite lawyer in Baton Rouge made a rousing speech, commending\nheartily the objects of the meeting.\n\n\n_Vicksburg._\n\nThe meeting at this point, July 9th, presents many facts worthy\nof record. Our young men, Reynolds and Temple, graduates of the\npresent year, had been untiring in their efforts to make the\nmeeting a success. Every newspaper in Vicksburg had noticed it\neditorially. Every colored pulpit had twice and thrice advertised\nit, and urged the people to attend. Influential white people\nhad been invited, especially members of the School Board. The\nCourt-House had been applied for, and freely granted by the City\nCouncil for the purposes of the meeting. On the day previous\n(Sunday) it was my privilege to preach in two of the most important\ncolored churches of the city, while Prof. Hitchcock did good work\nin the Sunday-Schools. On Sabbath evening I preached in the A.\nM. E. Church (Rev. Mr. Carolina, pastor) to an audience of 800\npeople. It was a rare privilege, and great was the joy of preaching\non the blessed religion of the Lord Jesus to so many people,\nand all eager and reverent in their attention. On Monday night\nthe Court-House an imposing building situated on \u201cthe heights,\u201d\noverlooking the city, and the first object that attracts attention\nas the boat enters the harbor, witnessed the gathering of an eager\nand crowded assembly of men and women, roused to no common degree\nof enthusiasm by the simple announcement of an \u201c_educational\nmeeting_.\u201d\n\nThe Court-Room, with the wide halls approaching it and the deep\nwindow recesses, was not large enough to accommodate the hundreds\nwho flocked to it. It was estimated that 800 entered and as many\nmore failed to get in. An organ had been brought from one of the\nchurches, a fine choir had been gathered, and very choice music was\nrendered. The leading colored clergymen of the city were present.\nThe addresses which were made were plain matter-of-fact statements\nof the nature and demands of education, the widespread illiteracy\nof the colored people, the opportunity offered them of improving\ntheir condition mentally, socially, materially and morally, and\nthe utter impossibility of their ever reaching a higher place in\nany department of growth without the guiding and helping hand of\neducation. Great plainness of speech was used, and was not only\ntolerated but approved by the audience.\n\n_Rev. C. K. Marshall, D.D._, the author of the vigorous and able\npamphlet entitled \u201cThe Colored Race Weighed in the Balance,\u201d a\ngentleman of great influence in Mississippi, kindly called upon us\nat the hotel, and not only was present at the meeting, but made\nan eloquent and telling address, replete with good points. He has\nalways been a friend of the colored race, and they do not forget\nit now. Rev. Dr. Woodworth, of the M. E. Church South, and Hon.\nMr. Chamberlin. President of the School Board, were also present,\nand spoke kindly words of approval of the objects of the meeting.\nThe leading paper of Vicksburg devoted a column and a half to a\nfavorable account of the proceedings. An old colored man, whom I\nsaw violently gesticulating as I was going down Court-House Hill,\nsaid, \u201cThat meeting was worth one million dollars to our people.\u201d\nGod grant it may be so.\n\n\n_Plaquemine._\n\nThe crowning meeting of the campaign was in the town of\n_Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville_, on Saturday night, July 28th.\n\n_Hon. T. T. Allain_, one of the most enterprising colored men in\nthe South, and one of the most consistent friends of education,\ntook the meeting in hand at the start, and spared neither time nor\nmoney to bring it to the notice of the whole people. This meeting,\nin all its appointments, was so unusual that I shall be pardoned\nif I describe it quite minutely. We were met by a committee of\nreception at the depot, and escorted to the hotel. One hour in\nadvance of the meeting, a large cannon, planted in the court-house\nyard, made a tremendous salute, causing the very village to\ntremble. Peal after peal went forth, each seeming louder than the\nlast. Torches were lighted and planted thickly in the court-yard,\nwhich, by their glare and smoke, gave a weird look to the hundreds\nof dusky faces gathering around them. A large brass band, with a\nfull complement of pieces, added to the novelty and effectiveness\nof the scene.\n\nThink of it, dear friends! This was not a political meeting. It was\nnot a barbecue. It was simply a meeting called in the interests of\neducation among the colored people of Southern Louisiana, which has\nalways been regarded a \u201c_pretty dark strip of woods_.\u201d Well, now\nfor the meeting itself! Mr. Allain gracefully and ably presided,\nand made a speech which did credit to his head and heart. For two\nhours that densely packed assembly listened to Prof. Hitchcock\nand myself with unflagging interest, manifested by frequent\napplause. The Court-House and court-yard were filled, and our\naudience without and within the building gave us a respectful and\nappreciative hearing. Plaquemine has been called the \u201cbanner\u201d town.\n_We_ certainly have no desire to dispute her claim to the honorable\ndistinction, for the treatment we received there was \u201c_royal_.\u201d\n\nThe meeting at _Donaldsonville_, July 12th, was a union of the\nBaptist and Methodist congregations, and will result, we trust,\nin the awakening of a new interest. I should be glad to speak\nparticularly, had I not reached the limit of my space, of meetings\nheld by Prof. Hitchcock at West Baton Rouge, St. Sophie, New Texas\nand Beauregour, and visits to Monticello, Darrowville, and Point\na la Hache, where many of the families and homes of the students\nwere seen. Everywhere he was awarded a warm welcome. People rallied\nto the meetings, sometimes from a distance of 12 miles. Genuine\nenthusiasm was aroused, and the tide of public sentiment has been\nturned, we believe, more strongly toward the \u201c_School-House_,\u201d and\nthat was our only object. The \u201cdoor of opportunity\u201d is fairly open.\nOught we not to enter it and tell the entire people the glad story\nof education?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA WORD FROM TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.\n\nPRES. W. E. BROOKS, AUSTIN, TEXAS.\n\nIt is due the many donors and friends of Tillotson that a brief\nreport of the work of the past year be made. It is a pleasure to do\nthis, both because due and because of the hopeful prosperity which\nhas attended the institution.\n\nThe land upon which to place the new dormitory and the buildings\nfor the mechanical department, when funds shall be secured, has\nbeen bought at a cost of $5,000\u2014$1,250 of which was from the Hon.\nJ. H. Raymond, of Austin. Some progress has also been made in\nobtaining subscriptions for the new hall, which is imperatively\nneeded to meet the pressing demands which are made upon us from all\nparts of the State. How urgent this call is may be inferred from\nthe fact that on the 2d day of last October, one day before the\nopening of the school, Allen Hall was full to repletion, and the\nwork of turning away began, and continued throughout the year, so\nthat it is safe to say that for every one received one was refused.\nWe had one hundred in our boarding department during the year.\nThis necessitated placing four students in the larger rooms, and\nthree in nearly every other\u2014too many by far, but there seemed to be\nno other way. They begged to be received, while the two or three\nalready in the room, urging us to admit one more, made it difficult\nto refuse. Put yourself, dear reader, in our place, and you will\nappreciate our condition, and why we allowed this crowding process.\nIt was the best that could be done under the circumstances. Besides\nthe one hundred in the boarding department, we had ninety-one day\npupils, making our total attendance during the year 191. We have\nno primary department. Our numbers would have been very greatly\nincreased if we had had the room to store them.\n\nIn educational and religious results the past year has been\nour best. More and better work has been done. The training has\nbeen more thorough and systematic, and the real progress more\nsatisfactory. This was to be expected. Each year increases largely\nour own knowledge of the work and how best to do it.\n\nOur religious services have been more largely attended and richer\nin results. A goodly number found Christ, and gave clear evidence\nof a change of heart. One in particular, who had been intemperate\nand profane to a sad degree, underwent a complete transformation.\nOur Sunday school was well attended, drawing in quite a number from\nthe outside, while our prayer meetings, on Sunday and Thursday\nevenings, were pleasant and profitable.\n\nThe temperance society, with a pledge prohibiting the use of both\nrum and tobacco, embraced nearly every student of the institution.\nThey gave evidence that they had joined for life. Many of them are\ndoing good work in this direction, in the schools where they are\nnow engaged in teaching. We have reason to feel deeply grateful for\nthe advancement along the whole line of our threefold yet one work.\n\nOur closing exercises won the praise of the many who were present.\nAmong these were Gov. Ireland, ex-Gov. E. M. Pease, Hon. Mr. Swain,\nComptroller of State, Judge Delaney of the Court of Appeals, Prof.\nHogg, at the head of the schools of Fort Worth, and many other\nprominent citizens of Austin.\n\nAble addresses were made by all of the above gentlemen and others;\nbut among them all none was more cordial and appreciative than that\nof Gov. Ireland. He urged the students to continue to press onward\nand upward, assuring them that the hour was close at hand when\nmerit will determine every man\u2019s position, and not the color of his\nskin. All, including those named, expressed themselves surprised\nand pleased at what they saw and heard. It was the brightest day in\nour history.\n\nThis brief summary of the work of the past year indicates, but\ncannot fully unfold, our need of more room. Young men and women\nin the same building is an unfortunate necessity. It is the best\nand only thing that can be done with safety to the work, and even\nthis is full of danger. Then to be forced to refuse admittance\nto so many is unpleasant. We ought to keep the streams flowing\ntoward us, and not turn them in other directions or cause them to\ncease flowing altogether. As our only institution in the great\nEmpire State we ought to provide liberally for it, that it may\ncarry forward the work so auspiciously begun. No field can be more\ninviting. Nowhere in all the South is there a more Catholic spirit.\nEverything conspires to insure large returns on all investments\nin this department of Christian effort. Are there not friends who\nwill now come forward and render us needed help in the hour of our\nnecessity? Twenty thousand dollars in cash or approved pledges and\nthe new hall will be begun. Some two thousand are already secured.\nMonuments of finest brass will perish through the wearing passage\nof the ages, but those erected for the uplifting of a race are\nimperishable. Will you help erect this?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTER FROM FLORENCE, ALA.\n\nA person in attendance on revival meetings at this place writes to\nDr. Roy:\n\n\u201cI hasten to tell you what a dear Saviour I have found. I have\naccepted Him as mine and I mean to serve and trust Him the rest\nof my life. Last Sunday the 20th year to a day since my marriage,\nI resolved to be a Christian, but thought I would wait till the\nmiddle of the week before starting. On last evening (Monday) I\ndrove my team down to the boat for passengers, but on finding that\nI would probably have to carry them back and hence be kept from the\nmeeting, I drove away and attended church. When the invitation was\ngiven I could wait no longer; went forward, gave my heart to Jesus,\nand to-day I am a new man, not ashamed to tell the world. I was so\nglad that I wish others could this afternoon in the praise meeting\nspeak for my Saviour, whose pleadings I have so long withstood. I\nwanted to write you these words, because I knew you were anxious\nfor my salvation. How glad have I been always to meet you. No man\nwould I rather see or hear talk than you. You have caused me to\nshed many a tear, but you didn\u2019t know it. Oh I am so glad that\nthe Lord spared me that I might return to Him. I mean to give the\nbalance of my days to the blessed master. Shall do all I can to\nhave others come to Him and live for Him; pray for me that I may be\nstrong and useful. The Evangelist and his good wife are truly sent\nout by the Lord.\n\n\u201cBro. Brown and they work nicely together. We just seem to be\nin a good way. No doubt many will be converted. Up to this time\ntwelve have been brought out into the light. The Christians are\nstrengthened, the church encouraged and a good feeling prevails\namong the people.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLETTER FROM McINTOSH, Ga.\n\nFROM REV. FLOYD SNELSON.\n\nOur school work has been vigilantly prosecuted this year, somewhat\nto the end that the great demand which is made upon us for persons\nto teach the public schools in this and adjoining counties might be\nmet. We have twenty-eight students licensed and sent out to work\nthis year, who have received all or a part of their training in our\nschool. Still a great many more are wanted. I have appeals before\nme now for teachers for seven schools, made up and ready to begin\nat any time, that I cannot supply. I do hope to see the day when\nsome lover of humanity will aid us with the facilities of a regular\nboarding-school here, that this great need of teachers in the\ncommon schools may be met. The twenty-eight that have gone out this\nyear to teach are allowed from 20 to 40 pupils. With an average of\n30 in each of their schools, they will be able to start a light in\nthe dark minds of 840 needy ones.\n\nOur church work, I am very thankful to say, has also received an\nadditional Divine recognition. At our last communion season, which\nwas held July 22, sixteen persons, hopefully converted, came into\nthe fellowship of the church, and six children were brought to be\nbaptized.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nITEMS FROM THE FIELD.\n\n\u2014An effort is being made by Rev. Mr. Roberts, of Paris, Texas, to\norganize a church at Dood City, where he has been holding special\nmeetings.\n\n\u2014A new house of worship has been dedicated at Belle Place, La. Rev.\nWm. Butler, pastor, was assisted by Rev. W. R. Polk, of New Iberia,\nin the dedicatory services. The A. M. A. furnished a portion of the\nfunds for the building.\n\n\u2014Rev. B. F. Foster, who labored the past year as pastor and\nteacher at Fayetteville, Ark., will prosecute his studies at the\nTheological Seminary, Chicago. Rev. John M. Shippen, a recent\ngraduate of the Theological Department of Howard University, has\naccepted an invitation to occupy the place vacated by Mr. Foster.\n\n\u2014Rev. George W. Moore, a graduate of Fisk University and Oberlin\nTheological Seminary, has assumed the pastoral care of the Lincoln\nMemorial Church, Washington, D.C., under favorable auspices. He is\nto supply Dr. Rankin\u2019s pulpit one Sunday.\n\n\u2014Rev. Zechariah Simmons, a licentiate of the North Carolina\nAssociation, has been appointed to take charge of the mission\nat Woodbridge, N.C., with reference to the organization of a\nchurch. The A. M. A. has recently purchased a parsonage for his\naccommodation.\n\n\u2014The church in Oaks, Alamance Co., N.C., is building a comfortable\nhouse of worship under the supervision of Rev. J. N. Ray, its\npastor, who has received $100 from the A. M. A. for the furtherance\nof the enterprise. Miss E. W. Douglass, an experienced missionary\nteacher, has been appointed to labor at this point.\n\n\u2014Mr. G. W. Jackson and his wife (Rose McCutcheon) are pushing their\nmission day and Sunday-school work at Whiteside, Tenn. They have\nbeen visited by Rev. Jos. E. Smith and Mrs. Steele of Chattanooga,\nand meetings of much promise have been held.\n\n\u2014The _Clarion_, of Jackson, Miss., gives an interesting report\nof the colored Congregational Church, organized by the A. M. A.\nin that city, with Rev. C. L. Harris, pastor. The church has a\nmembership of 16 and a Sabbath-school of 63. Services are held in\nthe hall of the Hope Fire Company. The citizens of Jackson have\nsubscribed liberally toward the erection of a house of worship.\n\n\u2014Rev. S. N. Brown, while furnishing a vacation supply at Florence,\nAla., has been assisted by the evangelist, Rev. J. E. Fields, in a\nseries of revival meetings, which has resulted in an addition of\ntwenty members to the church. This is the church which was so much\ndepleted by the Exodus.\n\n\u2014Rev. A. W. Curtis, of Marion, Ala., on invitation of Rev. Dr.\nRaymond, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, has preached on\nexchange with him. This is said to be the first expression of\nfellowship of this kind the A. M. A. preachers have received at the\nSouth. Mr. Curtis has also accepted an invitation to exchange with\nthe pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South in the same city.\n\n\u2014Rev. Geo. W. Clark of Athens, Ga., and his people, with aid from\nthe A. M. A., have purchased a lot and are proceeding to build a\nhouse of worship. Up to this time they have held their services in\nthe chapel of Knox Institute.\n\n\u2014The A. M. A. is building a church at Pekin, N.C., with\naccommodations for school purposes.\n\n\u2014The church at Chattanooga, Tenn. (Rev. Jos. E. Smith, pastor),\nhave built a new fence about the meeting house, which has been\npainted outside and inside and beautifully frescoed.\n\n\u2014The St. Louis _Globe-Democrat_ says, in connection with the Press\nConvention: \u201cOne remarkable paper was that represented at the\nConvention by its business manager, R. C. Edmondson. It was _The\nFisk Herald_, a college paper published at the Fisk University\nin Nashville, Tenn.; in fact, the only college paper the colored\npeople have. It is a nice eight-page tinted paper, well printed\nand generally well reading journal.\u201d The _Daily World_ says: \u201cThe\npresent number is of neat typographical appearance, and is filled\nwith interesting reading matter. A liberal encouragement should be\nextended to this enterprise.\u201d\n\n\u2014The President of the Produce Exchange, Wilmington, N.C., speaking\nof the school of the A. M. A., says: \u201cThe boys, after leaving\nthe institution, get employment more readily than others, because\ntheir moral principles are higher, and because they are generally\nbetter fitted for intelligent occupation than the majority of those\nwho profess to have received an elementary education. The people\nof Wilmington have great cause for thankfulness that our Negro\npopulation is so law-abiding and faithful to duty; and to take\ncourage from the results already accomplished in a transition so\nviolent from a life of slavery to that of freedom and citizenship\nin the eyes of the law. The utmost harmony has prevailed between\nthe races for many years past, and instances of disagreement\nbetween employers and employed are far more rare than among the\nwhites in the North.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nRECRUITS FOR THE SOUTH CHINA MISSION.\n\nREV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.\n\nI trust that our friends do not forget how God has begun to fulfil\nthe prayer which the motto of our mission, \u201cChina for Christ,\u201d\nand the hearts of our Chinese Christians sent up during so many\nyears, in the establishment by the American Board of a Mission in\nChina to co-operate with ours, and to reach, first of all, the\nswarming millions in those districts from which our immigrants\nhave come. In connection with the departure of Bro. Hager to this\nfield, our Congregational Association of Christian Chinese gave\n$500 in cash, and one of its best members and my best helpers as a\nco-laborer. Bro. Hager has established his head-quarters at Hong\nKong and has gathered there a school similar in all respects to\nours in California. But this is only a rendezvous. The main work\nis elsewhere, preaching the gospel and scattering the word of life\non the main land. Lee Sam is busy with this already; enduring\nhardness as a good soldier, and working almost alone. But he will\nnot be suffered to work long alone. Our helper for years past at\nSacramento, Lem Chung, sailed for China more than six weeks ago,\nand has already, we hope been welcomed at Hong Kong. Sustaining for\nyears a relation to the Chinese of Sacramento every way equivalent\nto that which an American pastor sustains in the community where\nhe labors, he so commended himself by his mental capacity, his\nfaithfulness, his Christian spirit and consistent walk that while\nour Chinese brethren clung to him as few American churches do to\ntheir pastors, he was also \u201cof good report,\u201d or, as the revision\nreads it, \u201chas good testimony from them that are without,\u201d both\nChinese and Americans. Whether he will remain permanently in China\nis not decided, but so long as he does remain, I doubt not he will\nbe ready for every good word and work. And now three others among\nour helpers, Hong Sing of Santa Cruz, Wong Him Wong of Stockton\nand Lou Quong of the West School in this city, are making ready to\ndepart. They go together. They hope to begin missionary work on\nthe steamer. They hope to continue it when they reach their native\nland. We shall miss them greatly. They have approved themselves\nin our service, workmen that needed not to be ashamed, rightly\ndividing the word of truth and illustrating its power in their\nconsistent lives. But with reference to our great purpose, \u201cChina\nfor Christ,\u201d our loss is a gain, and we gladly take others to fill\nthe vacant places, hoping that these too, trained to preach by\npreaching and to teach by teaching, will follow their brethren to\nthe dark regions across the wide sea.\n\nAt the time of this writing, a fortnight remains before the close\nof our fiscal year. Toward the $12,500 which our work for the year\n_must_ cost, we have received in cash and pledges $11,800. To find\n$700 more within these two weeks seems to be quite impossible,\nby virtue of any resources remaining within the superintendent\u2019s\nreach. He repeats over to himself: \u201cMy God shall supply all your\nneed;\u201d he recounts to himself the many mercies past; and how, again\nand again, in his own experience, what seemed impossible has come\nto pass, and still he questions and he doubts, and asking, seeking,\nknocking, can do no better than to cry, \u201cLord I believe, help thou\nmine unbelief.\u201d Before this reaches the eye of our readers, the\nfiscal year will have closed, and the account will be made up: yet\n_not so closed_ but that if any of our readers are willing to share\nwith me the load which open doors and proffered harvests have laid\nupon me, their help would be most welcome and most _timely_.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMEETING OF BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nIn connection with the Annual Meeting of the A. M. A. in Brooklyn,\nnotice of which is given elsewhere, there will be a Woman\u2019s Meeting\nin the interest of our Bureau of Woman\u2019s Work. Report of mission\nwork among the Chinese on the Pacific Coast will be made by Mrs.\nW. C. Pond, wife of Superintendent Pond; on Indian Missions, by\nMrs Alfred L. Riggs, wife of the Principal of our Santee School,\nNebraska; on work among the mountain whites of Kentucky, by Mrs. A.\nA. Myers, wife of Rev. Mr. Myers, our missionary in that region;\non work among the colored people, by Miss Anna M. Cahill, late\nPrincipal of Normal Department, Fisk University. Other ladies will\nparticipate in the meeting, particulars concerning which, and also\nas to the hour of the meeting, will be given in the religious press\nat a later date.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE PAPER MISSION, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.\n\nBY MISS NANCY MARSH, PROVIDENCE, R.I.\n\nSince we commenced our mission, May, 1880, we have received many\nletters asking \u201cWhat can I do?\u201d To such we have made various\nsuggestions.\n\nIn Stoneham, Mass., the ladies felt they could not send boxes, but\nwished to do something, so organized the \u201cStevens Home Missionary\nSociety,\u201d and have sent to various places 779 papers and pamphlets,\nand 7 Sunday-school books. They have basted 1,465 blocks of\npatch-work and sent to seven teachers in Texas, Tennessee, Georgia,\nNorth Carolina and Ladies Island; have basted also 49 handkerchiefs\n\u201cfrom pieces of cloth, to teach the children to sew, and give them\nwhat they needed.\u201d Postage $5.22. They have also corresponded with\nseveral pastors and teachers. The Secretary says; \u201cI am delighted\nwith some of the correspondence, and enjoy the work very much; am\nso glad to help even a little in this good work. I love some of the\ndear teachers very much, and it has all come through their dear\nletters, heart touching heart, and all for Jesus. Thank you for all\nthe interest you have taken to help us get started, and for your\naid right along; we have had no names except what you have given\nus.\u201d This society has proved very efficient, and they have been so\ngrateful for the privilege of working, it has been a pleasure to\nfind them opportunities; it has done them good as well as others.\nSome of these letters have been read in their missionary concerts,\nand awakened an increasing interest in the community.\n\nA lady in Chesterfield, Ill., formerly a teacher in Utah, and some\nyoung friends have basted 300 blocks of patch-work for teachers in\nArkansas, North Carolina and Tennessee, feeling, she says, \u201cthat\nour greatest privilege is to work for the Lord.\u201d\n\nA letter came to us from Middleboro, Mass., saying, \u201cI am very\nanxious to do something for the missionaries, and, as I am an\ninvalid, and unable to give money, I thought I could cut and baste\npatch-work if nothing more.\u201d Recently we received a card stating\n\u201cI have sent 600 blocks to Chattanooga, Tenn., I would be glad to\ndo more, but am now unable to do any kind of work, but hope to\nsometime, if ever so little.\u201d In answer to inquiries, this lady\nsays: \u201cThe work I sent Mrs. S\u2014\u2014 I did lying on my reclining chair\nnearly as flat as a bed; but have been confined to my bed many\nweeks at a time, and suffering more than words can tell.\u201d Surely\nthis service performed for the Master, in such weariness and pain,\nshall not lose its reward.\n\nFrom Claremont, N.H., the question came: \u201cWhat can a mission circle\ndo for Christmas?\u201d We suggested a place as affording ample scope\nfor their ingenuity and generosity; so \u201cthe Sunbeams\u201d (the mission\ncircle) 25 in number, from six to fourteen years, sent rays of\nlight and gladness to cheer the hearts of these desolate people\nin the shape of picture-frames, book-marks, work and scrap-bags,\nmittens, pin-balls, spectacle-cases for the old ladies, etc. The\nladies of this place also sent a box of second-hand clothing, which\nwas greatly needed.\n\nThere has been much labor in corresponding with so many persons:\n69 letters and postals have been written. This includes work only\namong the Freedmen, yet we have rejoiced in the interest awakened\nin various places by this means, and are glad to help this good\ncause in every way in our power. Aid has been given in various ways\nand different places, which, including postage, makes $37.24. This\n_patch-work_ has become quite an institution, 2,504 blocks have\nbeen sent, greatly helping the teachers in their work, saving their\ntime and strength, and helping to form habits of industry which\nare so essential to the well-being of these women and young girls,\nthus fitting them for usefulness in the future. One old lady, who\nis much interested in the young, and fond of patch-work, gave us\n78 blocks very nicely basted, which were sent to Ladies Island,\nso meeting the needs of a young girl whose quilt had come to a\nstandstill for want of materials.\n\nIn 1882, in order to enlarge our field of operations, we sent\nto Dr. Strieby for new names of pastors and teachers among the\nFreedmen, and are now able to report that we have forwarded to the\nSouthern States 1,021 papers and pamphlets, 339 lesson papers,\n122 tracts, 74 Scripture cards and 103 Christmas cards; postage\n$5.72. Besides these, papers have been sent by several persons\nin different States. A teacher in Texas writes, \u201cI should like\nSunday-school papers, temperance, and other tracts, to distribute\nas I visit among the people.\u201d \u201cCan make use of the patch-work\nand any other sewing prepared; thanks for encouraging words, and\nsympathy, we need your constant and earnest prayers.\u201d\n\nFrom N.C.\u2014\u201cYour Christmas cards reached us safely; the children\nenjoyed their gifts, and received them gratefully. My field is not\nan easy one, but I am endeavoring with the Master\u2019s help to plant\nand replant fruitful seed. Any good reading matter is acceptable.\nI need material for my sewing school (one dozen spools of cotton\nand six crochet needles, were sent to this school by two young\nladies). Your letter was full of encouragement and good advice,\nand strengthened me much. My work is chiefly among the children,\nhave 50 or 60 in Sunday-school in the morning, and about the same\nnumber attend the Band of Hope every Sabbath afternoon. We have\nprayer-meetings every Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. I\nhave also a Bible-class for adults, which I teach an hour and a\nhalf every Wednesday evening. Have received the patch-work from\nMrs. M., it is indeed a great help to have it basted, my time is so\noccupied.\u201d\n\nGa.\u2014The teacher writes: \u201cThanks for your interest in us, we pay\nfor our Sunday school papers, for we think the people prize them\nmore when they pay for them; but I can send what I receive into\nthe country, where they are very glad of them; sent your roll last\nnight out twenty-five miles to a place where they have nothing to\nhelp them; have several places to which I can send, and profitably\nuse all I receive. We are trying to give the people a little\ninstruction in mission work; and take up a collection once in three\nmonths; this people need nothing more than to understand that there\nare others as poor as themselves, and they certainly are very poor,\nbut, as they receive, they must also give; true growth comes from\nlooking out. Our day school has over 100, and our Sunday school\nnearly as many more, some coming four or five miles, and have been\nvery enthusiastic in their work. My scholars are looking forward to\nteaching. Last summer 14 were out, and more will probably go this\nsummer. We are hoping to give them better ideas of religion, that\nthey may help to change the character of the coming generation. We\nhave organized a \u201cWoman\u2019s Missionary Society.\u201d They are to meet\nfrom house to house, taking their supper with them; think it will\ngo far toward making them better housekeepers, as well as teaching\nthem to make things, which they will sell, and so get a little\nmoney into their treasury, then they can send a dollar to some\ncause in which they are interested. Pray for the success of this\nsociety for through it, I hope to reach the homes, and there is so\nmuch to be done in the homes before there can be much improvement.\u201d\n\nWe have had cheering words from pastors in Arkansas and Kentucky,\ntelling of souls converted, Christians revived and children\ngathered into Sunday schools. Our papers have been given where\nthere is great destitution of reading matter.\n\nAt Christmas a few cards and papers were sent to a pastor in\nChildersburg, Ala. He writes: \u201cI want to thank your class for\ntheir gifts to the children, who are destitute of such things. Our\nchurch was burned a year ago, after a temperance lecture, but the\npeople are building better than before. We held services in our\nchurch last winter without a stove, and the house all open, yet we\ntrust the Lord was with us; our school numbered 30 or 40 during the\ncold weather and a larger number when pleasant. There are many who\ncannot read, and many who can have no Bibles.\u201d\n\nWe have been much interested in these pastors and teachers, some\nof them have made great sacrifices, and though not appreciated by\nthose who should sustain and encourage them, future generations\nwill rise up and call them blessed. We are very grateful to all the\nkind friends who have helped us in our work by papers, postage,\npatch-work, and in various ways and places, especially for the\nChristian sympathy extended to these pastors and teachers. It has\nbeen duly appreciated, and lightened many a burdened heart; so we\ntrust our \u201cPaper Mission\u201d has not been a failure in the Southern\nStates.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nCHILDREN\u2019S PAGE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nA TALK WITH THE CHILDREN.\n\nMISS IDA M. BEACH, SAVANNAH, GA.\n\n\u201cThe lady asked me was I agoin\u2019 to hear the children make their\nspeeches,\u201d said a little colored girl but just transplanted from\nher Southern home to this Northern land.\n\n\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d I asked.\n\n\u201cWhy, it is breakin\u2019 up day in the schoolhouse over yonder, and the\nchildren are goin\u2019 to speak.\u201d\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  _From Harper\u2019s Young People._\n\nTOPSY LEFT ALONE.]\n\nSitting by my window the next day, voices of children attracted\nmy attention. Looking up I saw two little ones\u2014a brother and\nsister\u2014trudging along followed by another little girl. I noticed\nthe fresh white dresses and pretty aprons, and that they seemed\nto be very much in earnest about something. A half hour later\nthe mother passed, and it dawned upon me, then, that it was the\n\u201clast day of school.\u201d Afterward, riding by the school-house, and\npeeping in, I saw rows of bright children and many happy parents\nand friends. It brought to my mind another \u201clast day,\u201d where were\nchildren dressed by just as loving hands in their white lawns, and\npink and cream buntings. Their songs were just as well sung\u2014perhaps\nbetter\u2014for a lady, after spending a day in a public school of a New\nEngland city, wrote: \u201cThe children are trained by a music teacher\nwho receives $800 a year, but their singing could not be compared\nto that we heard by the pupils of \u2014\u2014,\u201d referring to these of whom\nI am telling you. Their little \u201cspeeches\u201d were recited just as\ndistinctly; the teachers were just as proud; the parents just as\nhappy, nay, happier. I\u2019ll tell you why by and by.\n\nHave you studied U.S. History? And do you remember the story of our\nlate Civil War? Then you know that one result of it was that nearly\nfour million slaves, who were owned by other people, to be bought\nand sold like any other property, were made free. They could go\nwhere they chose; work as they wanted to; receive the wages they\nearned; make homes for themselves, and not be afraid that their\nchildren would be torn away from them to go with another master.\n\nIf you should take the cars in Richmond and ride though\u2014what\nStates?\u2014till you came to Florida, you would pass through miles and\nmiles of pinelands scattered all along. Set right in among the pine\ntrees are little log cabins, the homes of many of these people.\nOwning little farms, raising their rice and corn, cotton and sweet\npotatoes, they seem very happy indeed. I heard snatches of \u201cHold\nthe Fort\u201d coming from within one of these cabins, and remembered\nseeing a little church not far away, so I think they must have\nSunday-school, and use the \u201cGospel Hymns,\u201d don\u2019t you?\n\nStopping over one train in a Southern city, and inquiring for the\nhomes of the colored people, you will be directed to almost any\nlane. Shall I tell you about one I visited?\n\nClara told me where to find her. Hunting around among many houses\nwhich were nearly alike, I suddenly saw a face at a window which\nI knew must be that of Clara\u2019s mother. I crossed the street and\nknocked at the door. It was old and weather-beaten, and fairly\ncreaked as I rapped.\n\nA little old woman, with a white turban bound about her head,\nopened the door. With a courtesy and warm greeting she offered\nme a chair. The floor was uncarpeted, but as clean as frequent\nscrubbings with soap and water could make it.\n\nTwo sticks were burning in the open fire-place, before which stood\na half dozen flat-irons. Mrs. \u2014\u2014 apologized for \u201cbein\u2019 a ironin\u2019 on\na Saturday,\u201d and after giving a few finishing touches to a piece on\nthe board sat down to tell me about Clara.\n\n\u201cMy husban\u2019 is dead, an\u2019 it is very hard to get an hones\u2019 livin\u2019\nan\u2019 keep Clara in school. She ain\u2019t strong, ma\u2019am, Clara ain\u2019t, an\u2019\ncan\u2019t do much hard work, but she love\u2019 her books an\u2019 want to teach.\nShe was graduate\u2019 las\u2019 year, but nothing would do but I mus\u2019 sen\u2019\nher this year. It is mighty hard to get the money, you know, ma\u2019am,\nbut I never can give her nothing but an education. I never had none\nmyself, but, Clara, she is right smart in her books, ma\u2019am. I wants\nher to be educated.\u201d The same story oft repeated, \u201cthe children,\nthe children they mus\u2019 be educated.\u201d\n\nDo you know, now, why those mothers were so happy when listening to\nthe songs and recitations of their children? Can you realize how\nproud they are when they find that Nehemiah and Charles Henry can\nread and write like any white boys?\n\nWho will hunt up nine others and be one of ten to save ten cents\neach month to pay the tuition of one of these children?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1883.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $222.07.\n\n    Bangor. First Cong. Ch., 18.61; Rev. Joseph\n      Smith, 10                                              $28.61\n    Bluehill. Mrs. E. W. Mayo, 4; Mrs. H. W. J., 1             5.00\n    Brewer. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.85\n    Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 69.60; Marshall\n      Cram, 10                                                79.60\n    Brunswick. Mrs. John D. Lincoln, _for Selma,\n      Ala._                                                    2.00\n    Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           13.02\n    Ferry Village. Rev. R. D. Osgood                          10.00\n    Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                28.38\n    Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, _for Macon, Ga._                 3.00\n    Kennebunk. Union Ch. and Soc.                             21.61\n    Limington. Miss A. Boothby                                 4.00\n    Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       14.00\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $234.62.\n\n    Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                  20.00\n    Candia Village. Jona. Martin                               5.00\n    Derry. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 17.65\n    East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker                        20.00\n    Goffstown. Cong Ch. 37.74, and Sab. Sch.,\n      1.55, to const. MRS. HATTIE A. PAIGE L. M.;\n      \u201cA Friend,\u201d 30, to const. MISS LUELLA D.\n      CARPENTER L. M.                                         69.29\n    Hampstead. Miss Ann M. Howard                              5.00\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               25.00\n    Mount Vernon. Cong Ch. and Soc.                            5.00\n    Pembroke. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              52.58\n    Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 2.10\n    West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          13.00\n\n\n  VERMONT, $164.96.\n\n    Barre. Cong. Ch.                                          12.50\n    Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             31.00\n    Jeffersonville. \u201cA Friend.\u201d                               25.00\n    Johnson. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               15.00\n    Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 20.47; and Sab.\n      Sch., 1.80                                              22.27\n    Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, _for Foster\n      Hall Reading Room, Talladega C._                        20.00\n    Pittsford. \u201cD.\u201d                                            1.00\n    Post Mill Village. Mrs. C. M. Holbrook                     1.00\n    Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch.                             13.05\n    Tyson Furnace. \u2014\u2014                                          1.14\n    Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             20.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cRutland Co.\u201d                                          3.00\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $2,078.81.\n\n    Amesbury. C. F. Hovey, 10.40; E. P. Elliott, 50c.         10.90\n    Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc.          17.00\n    Amherst. G. C. Munsell                                     2.00\n    Barre. Evan. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                          17.00\n    Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., adl.                      0.25\n    Blackstone. H. Hodgson                                     1.50\n    Boston. \u201cIn memory of little Fannie,\u201d 10; Mrs.\n      Susan Collin, 1                                         11.00\n    Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        40.57\n    Brookfield. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.,\n      _for Fisk U._\n    Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              54.27\n    Coleraine. Mrs. Prudence Smith                             2.50\n    Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch., 32.17; Mrs.\n      Henrietta M. Daniels, 10                                42.17\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        45.00\n    Granby. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                80.00\n    Haverhill. G. Merrill and wife, 150; Centre\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., 34; Mrs. Mary B. Jones, 10         194.00\n    Hopkinton. \u201cFriends\u201d                                       2.00\n    Housatonic. Cong. Soc.                                    50.56\n    Hubbardston. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    4.50\n    Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc. of First Cong.\n      Ch., Bundle of Goods, _for Santee Agency, Neb._\n    Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Indian Aid, Hampton N. & A. Inst._                      50.00\n    Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc                          20.00\n    Long Meadow. Gent\u2019s Benev. Soc.                           21.60\n    Lowell. Rodolphus Stevens                                 15.00\n    Lunenburg. \u201cL. L. E. N.,\u201d a Chronometer.\n    Mattapoisett. Cong. Ch. & Soc.                            10.00\n    Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc., (30 of which to\n      const. REV. THEOPHILUS PARSONS SAWIN L. M.,\n      and 30 from D. W. Wilcox to const. MISS EMMA\n      JOSEPHINE WILCOX, L. M.)                               122.15\n    Middletown. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            12.00\n    Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.\n      SAMUEL N. ROGERS and ALBERT W. LINCOLN, L.\n      Ms.                                                     72.35\n    Mill River. M. R. Wilcox                                  10.00\n    Monson. Cong. Sab. Sch., 20; Mrs. C. O.\n      Chapin, 5                                               25.00\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                        8.00\n    Newburyport. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                    5.00\n    Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             7.60\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                          19.97\n    Peabody. \u201cA Friend,\u201d to const. MISS SUSANNA\n      MILLS, L. M.                                            30.00\n    Phillipston. D. & L. Mixter                                2.00\n    Randolph. Miss Abbie W. Turner                            10.00\n    Reading. \u201cA. H. M. S.\u201d                                     2.50\n    Revere. \u201cA Friend,\u201d by Mrs. A. S. Steele, _for\n      Orphans from Chattanooga at Tougaloo U._                50.00\n    Rockport. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        33.30\n    Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Fisk U._                                           30.00\n    Shelburne. First Cong. Soc.                               83.76\n    South Easton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  20.00\n    South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                    25.00\n    South Weymouth. Union Ch. and Soc.                        36.64\n    Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 23.92; Hope\n      Cong. Ch. 39                                            62.92\n    Sudbury. U. E. Ch. and Soc.                               20.80\n    Sunderland. Cong. Ch and Soc                              40.00\n    Sunderland. \u201cM.\u201d                                           2.00\n    Wakefield. \u201cMission Workers,\u201d _for Indian\n      girl, Bird\u2019s Nest, Santee Agency_                       30.00\n    West Boylston. Polly W. Ames, 3; Geo. W. Ames,\n      2.50                                                     5.50\n    West Springfield. First Cong. Ch.                         20.00\n    Worcester. Hiram Smith and family                         30.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $1,508.31\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Milbury. Estate of Asa Hayden, by Harriet W.\n      Hayden, Extx.                                          570.50\n                                                           --------\n                                                          $2,078.81\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $584.00.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch                                   63.00\n    Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        21.00\n    Providence. Geo. H. Corliss                              500.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $3,398.82.\n\n    Berlin. Mrs. C. M. Jarvis, _for Woman\u2019s Work_              5.00\n    Bethel. Cong. Ch.                                         20.00\n    Birmingham. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                5.00\n    Branford. H. G. Harrison                                   5.00\n    Canterbury. Westminster Cong. Ch.                          4.15\n    Central Village. Cong. Ch.                                10.00\n    Chester. \u201cI. O.\u201d                                           5.00\n    East Hampton. Cong Ch.                                    25.00\n    Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C. _for\n      Tillotson C. & N. Inst._\n    Farmington. A. F. Williams, to const. CLARENCE\n      BROWNING VORCE, L. M.                                   30.00\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch.                                         14.78\n    Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch., adl.                          18.30\n    Greenwich. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.                       5.31\n    Griswold. First Cong.. Ch.                                30.00\n    Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 100: Jos. W.\n      Hungerford, 100; Cong. Ch., 7                          207.00\n    Kensington. Mrs. M. Hotchkiss                              5.00\n    New Britain. Mrs. Alonzo Astor                             3.00\n    New Haven. Nelson Hall                                    50.00\n    Norfolk. \u201cB.\u201d                                              2.00\n    North Guilford. Sarah R Fowler                             6.00\n    Norwich Town. \u201c*. Cong. Ch.\u201d                              35.00\n    Plantsville. \u201cA Friend.\u201d 300; E. E. Stone,\n      100; H. D. Smith. 100; Stephen Walker, 60;\n      Geo. F. Smith, 25; E. W. Twichell, 25; O. W.\n      Stone, 20; W. S. Ward. 10; Mrs. J. C. P., 5;\n      C. L. Ames, 5; C. D. Smith, 5, _for Atlanta\n      U._                                                    655.00\n    Putnam. Ladies, _for Student Aid, Straight U._             2.00\n    Ridgefield. First Cong. Ch.                               32.14\n    Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                  6.00\n    South Britain. Cong Ch.                                   36.00\n    Stafford. Mrs. T. H. Thresher                              5.00\n    Stamford. \u201cA Friend \u201d                                      5.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch. 180, to const. MAGGIE\n      MCNAUGHTON, SUSIE BELLE GRANNIS, LURA\n      GENEVIEVE BUNNELL, ANNIE S. COOK and EMMA C.\n      L. CASTLE L. Ms.; Elizur Fenn. 5; Mrs.\n      Elizur Fenn, 5                                         190.00\n    Thomaston. Cong Ch.                                       24.46\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch.                                        13.59\n    Trumbull. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              16.43\n    Union. Cong. Ch.                                           2.12\n    West Hartford. Cong. Ch.                                  30.40\n    West Hartford. Anson Chappell                              5.00\n    West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch.                           201.27\n    Wethersfield. First Ch of Christ                          60.59\n    Wolcott. Cong. Ch.                                        10.03\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             18.25\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,798.82\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Goshen. Estate of Miss Sarah Beach, by Henry\n      Norton, Ex.                                            500.00\n    New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven\n      (_of which_ $300 _for Talladega C._ and $200\n      _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._)                         850.00\n    Orange. Estate of Mrs. H. Coe, by L. W.\n      Cutler. Ex.                                            250.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $3,398.82\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $22,720.10.\n\n    Big Hollow. Nelson Hitchcock                               5.00\n    Binghamton. Mrs. Chauncey Bean, _for Woman\u2019s\n      Work_                                                    5.00\n    Blauveltville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  1.50\n    Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. _for\n      Missionaries, Fernandina, Fla._                        100.00\n    Clifton Springs. Rev. Lewis Bodwell                        2.00\n    Coventryville. First Cong. Ch.                            10.56\n    Eaton. Cong. Ch.                                          13.25\n    Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               10.00\n    Ithaca. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo.\n      Dept., Talladega C._                                    35.00\n    New York. \u201cFriends\u201d                                       50.00\n    Nyack. John W. Towt                                       50.00\n    Port Byron. Sarah B. Osburn, _for Chinese M._              0.50\n    Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch.                             40.08\n    Sherburne. Cong. Ch.                                      59.41\n    West Groton. Cong. Ch. 19.54 Sab. Sch. 1.46               21.00\n    Wellsville. Cong. Ch.                                     22.97\n    Yaphank. Mrs. Hampton Overton, _for Chinese M._            5.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u2014\u2014                                                    60.08\n                                                            -------\n                                                            $491.35\n\n    LEGACIES.\n\n    Deansville. Estate of Mrs. Polly M. Barton, by\n      D. W. Barton and Jos. F. Barton, Exs.                  500.00\n    Victor. Estate of Emeline Lewis, by D. Henry\n      Osborne, Ex.                                        21,728.75\n                                                         ----------\n                                                         $22,720.10\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $1,110.00.\n\n    Newfield. Rev. Charles Willy                              10.00\n    LEGACY.\n    Orange. Estate of John Hancock, by Exs.                 1100.00\n                                                          ---------\n                                                          $1,110.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $26.23.\n\n    Cambridgeboro. Cong. Ch., 13.23; Ladies\u2019\n      Miss\u2019y Soc. of Cong. Ch., 10                            23.23\n    Troy. Moss Grove Sab. Sch.                                 3.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $302.87.\n\n    Adam Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith                              10.00\n    Ashtabula. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo. Dept.,\n      Talladega C._                                           28.20\n    Chatham Center. Cong. Ch.                                 26.37\n    Cincinnati. Seventh St. Cong. Ch.                         51.09\n    Garrettsville. Cong. Ch.                                  12.00\n    Medina. Cong. Ch., to const. C. B. ABBOTT and\n      FRANK NETTLETON L. Ms.                                  75.12\n    Medina. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc. _for Talladega C.,\n      Freight_                                                 2.00\n    Newburg. Welsh Cong. Ch.                                   8.52\n    Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch.                                 20.57\n    Toledo. First Cong. Ch.                                   52.00\n    Wakeman. B. T. Strong                                      5.00\n    Willoughby. Mary P. Hastings                              12.00\n\n\n  INDIANA, $10.00.\n\n    Auburn. James Adams                                       10.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $508.46.\n\n    Chenoa. Cong. Ch.                                         13.35\n    Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 108.83; N. E. Cong.\n      Ch., 64.68; \u201cA Friend\u201d 50, to const. JAMES\n      W. PORTER L. M.                                        223.51\n    Chicago. U. P. Cong. Sab Sch., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      50.00\n    Chicago. C. H. Morse, Scales, val. 31.75, _for\n      Talladega C._\n    Geneseo. Cong. Ch.                                        35.00\n    Hutsonville. C. V. Newton                                  5.00\n    La Harpe. Cong. Ch.                                       10.50\n    Lamoille. Cong. Ch.                                       24.41\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch.                                 14.36\n    Newark. Horace Day                                         5.00\n    Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens                                10.00\n    Prospect Park. Cong. Ch.                                   7.00\n    Roseville. L. C. Axtell                                  100.00\n    Woodburn. Cong. Ch.                                       10.33\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $126.33.\n\n    Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch.                                      31.41\n    Benzonia. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                      10.00\n    Eaton Rapids. First Cong. Ch. (3 of which from\n      Mrs. C. C. P. Taylor)                                   30.92\n    Kalamazoo. \u201c*\u201d                                             3.00\n    North Leoni. Cong. Ch.                                     6.00\n    Northville. D. Pomeroy                                     5.00\n    Olivet. Wm. J. Hickok                                     20.00\n    Ransom. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc. of First Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Indian M._                                         10.00\n    Vermontville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                  10.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $272.13.\n\n    Alden. Cong. Ch.                                           7.40\n    Cedar Rapids. Mrs. T. M. Sinclair, _for a New\n      Mission, Poncas Indians_                               200.00\n    Eldora. Cong. Ch.                                          4.68\n    Grinnell. Prof. Fisk P. Brewer, _for Raleigh,\n      N.C._                                                   10.00\n    Le Mars. Cong. Sab. Sch.                                   4.61\n    Lewis. Cong. Ch., 13; Mrs. O. C. Warne, 5                 18.00\n    McGregor. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc.                             10.44\n    Peterson. Cong. Ch.                                        2.00\n    Sioux Rapids. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n                                                           --------\n                                                            $262.13\n\n    LEGACY.\n\n    Grinnell. Estate of E. Marvin, by W. B. & J.\n      M. Dunn, Exrs.                                          10.00\n                                                             ------\n                                                            $272.13\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $359.14.\n\n    Alderley. Mrs. Anna Reid, 2.50; Mrs. E.\n      Hubbard, $2.50                                           5.00\n    Appleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 1.25; \u201cA\n      Friend,\u201d 75c., _for Lady Missionary,\n      Montgomery, Ala._                                        2.00\n    Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                            2.46\n    Beloit. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                           75.85\n    Bristol and Paris. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Lady Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                      10.00\n    Fond du Lac. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady\n      Missionary, Montgomery, Ala._                           10.00\n    Janesville. Cong. Ch.                                     19.51\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  75.00\n    Milwaukee. Grand Av. Cong. Ch.                            43.32\n    Racine. Mrs. Smith and Marsh                              10.00\n    Whitewater. \u201cFriends,\u201d by Prof. A. Salisbury,\n      _for Reading Rooms_                                    106.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $131.27.\n\n    Afton. L. I. Olds                                         10.00\n    Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 41.18; Mrs. W. K.\n      Smith, 4.50                                             45.68\n    Northfield. Cong Ch.                                      56.59\n    Northfield. Mrs. Knowlton, 5; M. Bryant, 2; G.\n      M. Phillips, 2; Rev. A. Willey, 1.50; Mrs.\n      Norton, 1; Mrs. Nourse, 50c., _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      12.00\n    Sauk Center. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D.                     5.00\n    Springfield. Cong. Ch.                                     2.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $34.34.\n\n    Manhattan. First Cong. Ch.                                20.64\n    McPherson. Cong. Ch. (ad\u2019l)                                6.70\n    Olatne. Rev. W. W. McMillan                                1.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cW. H. M. S.\u201d                                          6.00\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $17.75.\n\n    Brookfield. Cong. Ch.                                      7.75\n    Kidder. S. O. Coult                                        5.00\n    St. Louis. Mrs. R. Webb, _for Library,\n      Straight U._                                             5.00\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $11.70.\n\n    Creighton. First Cong. Ch.                                 6.70\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                        5.00\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $10.06.\n\n    Clark. Cong. Ch.                                          10.06\n\n\n  COLORADO, $10.00.\n\n    Colorado Springs. Cong. Sab. Sch.                         10.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $312.50.\n\n    Washington. United States Gov., _for Sisseton\n      Agency_                                                312.50\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $121.00.\n\n    Chattanooga. Sales, by Mrs. A. S. Steele, _for\n      Orphans from Chattanooga at Tougaloo U._               107.00\n    Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch.                               12.00\n    Nashville. Howard Chapel Cong. Ch.                         2.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $5.00.\n\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                      5.00\n\n\n  SOUTH CAROLINA, $12.00.\n\n    Charleston. Plymouth Ch.                                  10.00\n    Greenwood. Coll. by Rev. L. C. J.                          2.00\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $82.50.\n\n    Macon. Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. Lizzie A. Hodge, 15            30.00\n    Savannah. Concert, Beach Inst, 32.50; Rent, 20            52.50\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $121.90.\n\n    Marion. Cong. Ch.                                          3.00\n    Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 2.20; Cong.\n      Ch., 55c.                                                2.75\n    Montgomery. Cong. Ch.                                     10.00\n    Selma. Cong Ch., 14.15; Temperance Concert,\n      1.75                                                    15.90\n    Talladega. Talladega C. Tuition, 74.65; Cong.\n      Ch., 10                                                 84.65\n    Talladega. A. Bingham & Co., _for Needmore\n      Chapel, Talladega C._                                    5.60\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $2.00.\n\n    Jackson. Collected by Chas. L. Harris.                    2. 00\n\n\n  INCOMES, $287.85.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               257.85\n    Belden Fund, _for Talladega C._                           30.00\n\n\n  TURKEY, $50.00.\n\n    Constantinople. The Missionary Children\u2019s\n      Missionary Soc. in Turkey and Bulgaria, by\n      Miss Belle Bliss, Treas., _for a girl,\n      Dakota Home_                                            50.00\n\n\n  INDIA, $4.85.\n\n    Bombay. Women\u2019s Benev. Sec., _for Dakota Home_             4.85\n                                                          ---------\n      Total for August                                   $33,333.26\n    Total from Oct. 1 to Aug. 31                        $262,579.95\n                                                        ===========\n\n\n  FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions                                             32.74\n    Previously acknowledged                                  739.22\n                                                            -------\n      Total                                                 $771.96\n                                                            =======\n\n                                      H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\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                             The Great\n                              Church\n                              LIGHT.\n\n\n[Illustration]\n\n=FRINK\u2019S Patent Reflectors= give the =Most Powerful=, the\n=Softest=, =Cheapest= and the =Best= Light known for Churches,\nStores, Show Windows, Parlors, Banks, Offices, Picture Galleries,\nTheatres, Depots, etc. New and elegant designs. Send size of room.\nGet circular and estimate. A liberal discount to churches and the\ntrade.\n\n                               I. P. FRINK, 551 Pearl St. N.Y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                           TO INVESTORS.\n\n             $925 will buy a $1,000 6 per cent. gold\n                        coupon bond of the\n\n                East and West R. R. Co. of Alabama\n\nThis is a strictly first-class investment bond secured by a first\nmortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always\npaid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This\nbond will pay you =$30= every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and\na safe investment. For sale by the EAST AND WEST R. R. CO. OF ALA.,\n502 B\u2019way, or AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST CO., 113 B\u2019way, N.Y.\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\neven been offered to the public which seems to 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\n                                 SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 1883.\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 humor 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 time the amount.\n\n  Yours respectfully.\n                                                  M. H. MORRIS\n\n  LICK HOUSE, San Francisco, Cal.\n\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                        59 Carmine Street.\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                             MANHATTAN\n\n                     LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK\n\n                      _156 and 158 Broadway._\n\n\n                        THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.\n\n\n  DESCRIPTION\u2014One of the oldest, strongest, best.\n\n  POLICIES\u2014Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash\n  surrender values.\n\n  RATES\u2014Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.\n\n  RISKS carefully selected.\n\n  PROMPT, liberal dealing.\n\nGENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to\nwhom permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.\n\nAddress\n\n                                         H. STOKES, President.\n\n  H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec\u2019y.\n  S. N. STEBBINS, Act\u2019y.\n  J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.\n  H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                                THE\n\n                         Religious Herald\n\n                            ENTERED ITS\n\n                         FORTY-FIRST YEAR\n\nJanuary 1st. 1883, aiming as heretofore to be a safe and valuable\naid in the family to an intelligent and practical knowledge of the\nworld, and how to live in it. It will urge the claims of religion\nupon all, not forgetting the little children; and will discuss the\npractical questions of the day with candor; advocating earnestly\nthe cause of temperance; speaking freely on all subjects, literary,\neducational, civil, social or financial, and aiming to speak\nwisely. Its reviews and articles, correspondence and comments,\nnotes and summaries of news, will be carefully edited. 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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\n                      THE SIMPLEST AND BEST.\n\nSales now greater than ever before.\n\nThis Ink received the Diploma and Medal at Centennial over all\nrivals.\n\nReport of Judges: \u201cFor simplicity of application and indelibility.\u201d\n\n\n                            INQUIRE FOR\n\n                      PAYSON\u2019S COMBINATION!!!\n\nSold by all Druggists, Stationers and News Agents, and by many\nFancy Goods and Furnishing Houses.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                     ESTABLISHED THIRTY YEARS.\n\n[Illustration:\n\n  SMITH\n  AMERICAN\n  ORGANS]\n\n                           ARE THE BEST.\n\n\n                 _Catalogues Free on Application._\n\nAddress the Company either at\n\n  BOSTON, MASS., 531 Tremont Street;\n  LONDON, ENG., 57 Holborn Viaduct;\n  KANSAS CITY, Mo., 817 Main Street;\n  ATLANTA, GA., 27 Whitehall Street;\n  Or, DEFIANCE, O.\n\n\n                         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\n\nANNUAL 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\nTranscriber\u2019s 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 cover (I BEQUEATH to\nmy executor).\n\nChanged \u201cus\u201d to \u201cas\u201d on page 311 (there are others as poor as\nthemselves).\n\nChanged \u201centhusastic\u201d to \u201centhusiastic\u201d on page 312 (very\nenthusiastic in their work).\n\nChanged \u201cWoman\u2019 Msissionary\u201d to \u201cWoman\u2019s Missionary\u201d on page 312\n(Woman\u2019s Missionary Society).\n\nChanged \u201cpurned\u201d to \u201cburned\u201d on page 312 (Our church was burned a\nyear ago).\n\nChanged \u201cFragance\u201d to \u201cFragrance\u201d on page 319 (Beauty and Fragrance)","title":"The American Missionary \u2014 Volume 37, No. 10, October, 1883","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18171}