{"collection":"scripture-revelation","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/gutenberg_68684/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/gutenberg_68684","id":"gutenberg_68684","license":"Public Domain (US)","rights_basis":"gutenberg_metadata_copyright_false","source":"gutenberg","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68684","summary":null,"tags":["Category: History - American","Category: Religion/Spirituality","Category: Reports & Conference Proceedings","Category: Teaching & Education","Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals","Home missions -- Periodicals"],"text":"[Illustration: SEPTEMBER, 1888.\n\nThe American Missionary\n\nVOL. XLII.\n\nNO. 9.]\n\n\n\n\n[Illustration: CONTENTS]\n\n\n  EDITORIAL.\n\n    ANNUAL MEETING\u2014FINANCIAL,                              237\n    A CREED\u2014PARAGRAPHS,                                    238\n    MR. MOODY\u2014AFRICA\u2014SIOUX BILL,                           239\n    MOUNTAIN WORK AND THE COLORED PEOPLE,                  240\n    EMANCIPATION IN BRAZIL,                                241\n    INTER-BLENDING OF MISSIONARY WORK,                     242\n    SCHOOL ECHOES\u2014EXTRACT,                                 244\n    DEATH OF MRS. L. A. ORR,                               245\n    ON TO JESUS; ON TO GOD,                                246\n\n\n  THE SOUTH.\n\n    NOTES IN THE SADDLE. By District Secretary Ryder,      246\n    THE BUSY WORKERS,                                      248\n    TALLADEGA COLLEGE,                                     249\n    TRINITY SCHOOL, ATHENS, ALA.,                          251\n\n\n  STUDENT\u2019S LETTER.\n\n    HOW I WON MY SCHOOL,                                   252\n\n\n  THE INDIANS.\n\n    SPEECH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF,                             255\n    FORT YATES, DAKOTA,                                    255\n\n\n  THE CHINESE.\n\n    CHRISTIAN CHINESE EN ROUTE TO CHINA,                   256\n\n\n  BUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\n    LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO,                             259\n\n\n  OUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n    LITTLE INDIANS,                                        260\n\n\n  RECEIPTS,                                                261\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                             NEW YORK:\n\n         PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,\n\n                      Rooms, 56 Reade Street.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                Price, 50 Cents a Year, in Advance.\n\n  Entered at the Post Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class\n                              matter.\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  PRESIDENT, REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D., LL.D., N.Y.\n\n\n  _Vice-Presidents._\n\n    Rev. A. J. F. BEHRENDS, D.D., N.Y.\n    Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D.D., Ill.\n    Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. D. O. MEARS, D.D., Mass.\n    Rev. HENRY HOPKINS, D.D., Mo.\n\n\n  _Corresponding Secretaries._\n\n    Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n    Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  _Treasurer._\n\n    H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., _56 Reade Street, N.Y._\n\n\n  _Auditors._\n\n    PETER MCCARTEE.\n    CHAS. P. PEIRCE.\n\n\n  _Executive Committee._\n\n    JOHN H. WASHBURN, Chairman.\n    ADDISON P. FOSTER, Secretary.\n\n    _For Three Years._\n\n      LYMAN ABBOTT,\n      CHARLES A. HULL,\n      J. R. DANFORTH,\n      CLINTON B. FISK,\n      ADDISON P. FOSTER,\n\n    _For Two Years._\n\n      S. B. HALLIDAY,\n      SAMUEL HOLMES,\n      SAMUEL S. MARPLES,\n      CHARLES L. MEAD,\n      ELBERT B. MONROE,\n\n    _For One Year._\n\n      J. E. RANKIN,\n      WM. H. WARD,\n      J. W. COOPER,\n      JOHN H. WASHBURN,\n      EDMUND L. CHAMPLIN.\n\n\n  _District Secretaries._\n\n    Rev. C. J. RYDER, _21 Cong\u2019l House, Boston_.\n    Rev. J. E. ROY, D.D., _151 Washington Street, Chicago_.\n\n\n  _Financial Secretary for Indian Missions._\n\n    Rev. CHAS. W. SHELTON.\n\n\n  _Secretary of Woman\u2019s Bureau._\n\n    Miss D. E. EMERSON, _56 Reade St., N.Y._\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCOMMUNICATIONS\n\nRelating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the\nCorresponding Secretaries; letters for \u201cTHE AMERICAN MISSIONARY,\u201d\nto the Editor, at the New York Office.\n\n\nDONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS\n\nIn drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may\nbe 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 151 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                                THE\n\n                       AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n          VOL. XLII.       SEPTEMBER, 1888.       NO. 9.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nAmerican Missionary Association.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nThe next Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will\nbe held at Providence, R.I., commencing at three o\u2019clock Tuesday\nafternoon, October 23d. Rev. Arthur Little, D.D., of Chicago,\nwill preach the sermon. On the last page of the cover will be\nfound directions as to membership and other items of interest.\nFuller details regarding the reception of delegates and their\nentertainment, together with rates at hotels, and railroad and\nsteamboat reductions, will be given in the religious press and in\nthe next number of the MISSIONARY.\n\nA meeting of great interest is expected, and we trust our friends\nwill make their preparations in due time to be present.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\nOUR RECEIPTS for the ten months ending July 31st are $235,884.73,\nan increase of $6,377.40 as compared with the corresponding months\nof last year. The increase from collections is $12,628.92, and\nthe decrease from legacies is $6,251.52, leaving the net increase\nas stated. This increase from collections is gratifying; but our\nexpenditures during the last ten months have been $27,079.89\ngreater than for the same months last year.\n\nThis increase has been due not only to the imperative demands for\nthe enlargement of the work, but to the added facilities afforded\nby the contributions of friends who have realized these needs and\nhave provided the necessary buildings and improvements.\n\nThe patrons of the Association have been wont to rally in the\nmonth of September to save us from debt. Our average receipts\nfrom _collections_ for that month for the past three years have\nbeen $38,000, which is nearly double the average of our monthly\ncollections for the past year. We hope our friends have not lost\ntheir zeal in our work, and that their hearts are as warm and their\nhands as liberal as ever.\n\nWe ask their attention to the two items that follow:\n\n\n_A Practical, Thoughtful Man._\n\nA gentleman once said to a Secretary of this Association: \u201cI\ncontribute regularly to all our Congregational societies, and in\naddition to that I lay aside $100 for the society that stands\nin the greatest need. I notice that one or the other of these\nsocieties comes to the close of its fiscal year threatened with\ndebt, and this year I think the American Missionary Association\nmust have the $100.\u201d\n\nThanks were duly expressed.\n\n\n_A Creed._\n\nWe believe that there are many such practical, thoughtful men in\nour churches who lay by money, some more, some less, for this good\npurpose.\n\nWe believe there are many more Christian people, who, while they do\nnot plan so definitely, yet keep watch of the benevolent societies,\nand come to the rescue in time of need.\n\nWe believe that some give out of their abundance, and others,\nfeeling themselves somewhat straitened yet realizing the\ndifficulties of a benevolent society in like circumstances, decide,\nin the spirit of Christian self-sacrifice, to aid with their mite\nthe embarrassed society.\n\nWe believe there are pastors, devoted and efficient in their parish\nwork, who yet are broad-minded and large-hearted enough to keep a\nwatchful eye on the interests of the great missionary societies,\nand, at the appropriate time, to urge upon their churches liberal\ncontributions for the hour of need.\n\nWe believe that, at this time, the American Missionary Association\nis the society needing special help at the close of its financial\nyear, and we earnestly exhort practical, thoughtful Christians and\nchurches to make special remembrance of our wants by prompt and\nliberal contributions during the month of September.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE begin this month the publication of a series of letters received\nfrom students or graduates of our various institutions in the\nSouth. They will be found very readable. Those of our friends who\nbegin the one we publish in this number will read it through, we\nare very sure, and will be glad to read the others as they come in\nsuccessive numbers.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nHOW BRIEF the passage from life to death. This number of THE\nMISSIONARY contains a very interesting sketch of the Commencement\nexercises at Talladega College, written by Mrs. L. A. Orr; and\nyet, on another page, will be found the record of her death. Happy\nare they who are toiling in the Master\u2019s vineyard when the summons\ncomes.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nWE had the pleasure of an intimate acquaintance with Rev. G. D.\nPike, D.D., for nearly twenty years. We knew that his studies ran\nbeyond the range of official work, but we never suspected that he\nindulged in writing verses. Since his death, several hymns have\nbeen found, written by him, and, on another page, we present one\nof these. It was written during his absence for his health and when\nhe regarded the end of life as not far off, and indicates his faith\nand hope. The many friends of Dr. Pike will be glad to read this.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nMR. MOODY.\n\nMr. Moody as a lay evangelist has made a marvellous, a unique,\nrecord in modern Christian labors. No layman, and few clergymen,\nhave surpassed him in this peculiar work. But Mr. Moody\u2019s efforts\nin another line are attracting the attention and admiration of\nChristians in all parts of the world. We venture the prediction\nthat one hundred years hence Mr. Moody will be better known by\nthe schools he has founded than by the evangelistic work he has\ndone. There is something about a permanent institution, like the\nopening of a living spring on the hillside, that is refreshing\nand perennial. John Harvard and Elihu Yale opened such fountains.\nOther men of to-day are doing the same thing in the South, either\nby the consecration of permanent funds or the founding of permanent\ninstitutions. May their number be multiplied.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nAFRICA.\n\nAlas for poor Africa! The day of her redemption lingereth. The\nrebellion of the Mahdi hindered the progress of civilization in\nthe vast regions of the Upper Nile. It occurred precisely at the\ntime that Rev. Dr. Ladd was making his explorations near the mouth\nof the Sobat, with a view to the establishment of the Arthington\nMission. The hope that was entertained that this sudden and\ndisastrous outbreak would soon be quelled has been disappointed.\nThe Mahdi is dead, but he has a successor, Khalifa Abdullah,\nwho, if he does not inherit the Mahdi\u2019s remarkable powers, yet\ncan suffice to keep the Soudan in turmoil. Emin Bey has not been\nrescued and Stanley\u2019s whereabouts and safety are uncertain. Is\nit not time that the duty of the American of African descent to\nthe land of his fathers should be pressed upon him, and that the\nChristian church should help to prepare him for that duty?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE SIOUX BILL.\n\nThe friends of the Indians have sought earnestly and successfully\nto secure proper legislation looking to the civilization of the\nIndians. The Dawes Bill and the Sioux Bill have been hailed with\njoy as important steps in this direction.\n\nBut Senator Dawes himself and other intelligent friends of the\nIndians have foreseen the possible difficulties in the way. The\nrefusal of the Indians to sign the treaty at the recent council\nat Standing Rock, and the indication at this writing that the\nsame refusal will meet the Commissioners at the Cheyenne, Rosebud\nand Pine Ridge Agencies, present the picket lines of these\ndifficulties. But beyond all these lie the stronger hindrances.\nThe great trouble is that the Indian is still an Indian, in his\nignorance, his want of training for civilized life, his dislike\nof work, and his incompetency to make profitable use of the lands\nand teams and implements proffered to him. Of what use to any\nman, white or Indian, is 160 acres of land if he doesn\u2019t want it,\nif he doesn\u2019t know how to use it, and can\u2019t make a living on it?\nAfter all that has been said and done, the thing that the Indian\nneeds is a _Christian education_. If he has that, he will know how\nto work and will be inclined to work, and will become a good and\nself-supporting citizen. Christian friends of the Indian! rally to\nthe great work of Christianing these Indians. The primer and the\nNew Testament are their great want.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE MOUNTAIN WORK AND THE COLORED PEOPLE.\n\nThere are three things which give special emphasis to the\nimportance of pushing forward the \u201cMountain Work.\u201d\n\n1. The great material, intellectual and spiritual destitution of\nthe more than two million people of our Southern mountains\u2014a people\nof good natural endowments, who respond readily to the life-giving\nimpulses of a pure gospel\u2014is the thing which appeals most directly\nto our sympathy.\n\n2. Many well-informed business men are confidently declaring that\nthis is the richest mineral region of the world. Already they are\neither building or planning railroads through every part of the\nmountains, which are made profitable not only by the wonderful\nmines which open at their approach, but also by the great forests\nof black walnut, poplar, and other valuable timber. This, of\ncourse, means that the present primitive condition of things\ncannot long remain. It must give way to something else. Whether it\nshall be to godlessness and wickedness of every form, or whether\nthe natural religiousness of the people shall be met with pure\nand uplifting gospel influences\u2014with the Church and the Christian\nschool\u2014depends in a large measure on what our churches and\nindividual Christians say through the treasury of this Association.\nWhat will take years of work and thousands of dollars in the future\ncan now be done in months and with hundreds.\n\n3. But this work has a connection with our other Southern work\nwhich has been little noted. These mountains extend down into the\nvery heart of the South, in a territory 200 miles broad and 500\nmiles long. In the late war, the people were loyal to the Union\nalmost to a man, and thousands of them fought for its preservation.\nSlaves were few among them, and colored people are now scarcely\nmore numerous than they are in the North, though the proportion\nis increasing. The result is a natural affiliation with what\nare known as \u201cNorthern Ideas.\u201d The feeling against a Christian\ntreatment of the colored people is neither so bitter nor so\ndeep-rooted as elsewhere in the South. It has been demonstrated\nthat no-caste churches and schools can be established and\nmaintained, and the general sentiment of the whole region can, by\nvigorous missionary work, be moulded to the Christian view.\n\nThe people of this region\u2014vivified and developed, intellectually\nand spiritually, on the broad basis of Congregational Christianity;\nbelieving in, and practicing, the doctrine that all men were\ncreated free and equal and should have equal rights in all\npublic matters; and, in their new and fast-increasing commercial\nimportance, in constant contact with other portions of the\nSouth\u2014would furnish an unanswerable argument against the fears of\nthe Southern white people with reference to the amalgamation of\nthe races, and other direful results, which would follow a just\ntreatment of the colored man. \u201cAnd seeing the man which was healed\nstanding with them, they could say nothing against it.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEMANCIPATION IN BRAZIL\u2014WHAT IS TO FOLLOW?\n\nIt is a curious fact that, in precisely the last fifty years,\nslavery has been abolished by the four great nations holding the\ngreatest number of slaves and representing the three great forms\nof the Christian religion\u2014the Protestant, the Greek and the Roman\nCatholic.\n\nThus England, a Protestant power, emancipated her slaves in the\nWest Indies in 1838; Russia, of the Greek Church, freed her serfs\nin 1861; the United States, a Protestant nation, emancipated her\nslaves in 1863; and now, Brazil, a Roman Catholic empire, completes\nthe circle by emancipating her slaves in 1888.\n\nWhile these facts are remarkable, and present cause for profound\ngratitude to God, there is yet a lesson of vital importance to be\nlearned which Brazil needs to understand, and which, indeed, the\nother nations are not fully practicing.\n\nIn the British West Indies, very few white people remained after\nemancipation, and the blacks lacked their guidance and example; and\nbesides this, it was years afterwards before the British Government\nmade any adequate provision for the education of the ex-slaves.\nFrom these two causes have come nearly all the evils that have\ngrown out of the emancipation.\n\nRussia presents a still more striking lesson. In 1861, as the\nresult of a great national movement towards constitutional liberty,\nher fifty millions of serfs were emancipated. The next year, she\ncelebrated the thousandth anniversary of her national existence,\nand the enthusiasm for a free government was intensified. But all\nthese hopes were dashed\u2014no new constitution was given, the Czar\nruled autocratically as before, the serfs were not educated or\nenfranchised, and largely sunk into ignorance and intemperance.\nThe result of all has been nihilism, and the Czar lives in hourly\nfear of death, and rules his people by terror, the prison and\nSiberia.\n\nThe United States has done far better. It enfranchised the slave\nand made him a citizen; the National Government, through the\nFreedmen\u2019s Bureau, expended several millions of dollars for his\neducation; the States organized public school systems, and the\nbenevolent people of the North rendered still more effective\nservice, being the first to introduce the work, acting always, when\npermitted, in co-operation with the Bureau and with the States,\nand continuing its work, blending the educational largely with the\nreligious. But in spite of all this, a dark cloud gathers on our\nhorizon\u2014the blacks are not allowed the free enjoyment of their\nguaranteed rights, and the facilities for educational and religious\nenlightenment are entirely inadequate. Three millions of the\nblacks of ten years of age and upward, in 1880, could not write.\nAmerica needs not only to ponder these facts, but to act upon them\npromptly, if it would avert the impending danger.\n\nIn these facts Brazil should read her warning. If her ex-slaves\nare left in ignorance and vice, she has her work only begun, and\nthe last end may be worse than the beginning. The laws of Brazil\nhave favored gradual emancipation. It was the work of a woman that\ncompleted it. In the absence of the Emperor, who was sick in Italy,\nhis daughter, as Regent, issued the final decree.\n\nMay we not hope that the womanly wisdom and philanthropy which\ndictated the initial act may prompt to the persevering use of\nthe means of the last great duty? And may we not hope that, as\nthousands of the educated women of the North devoted themselves\nto the uplifting of the blacks in the Southern States, so their\nsisters in Brazil may give the crowning glory to emancipation in\nBrazil?\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nINTER-BLENDING OF MISSIONARY WORK.\n\nThe great London Missionary Conference, recently held, awakened\nmuch enthusiasm on the spot in behalf of foreign missions, and we\nbelieve that the published records and addresses will intensify\nand perpetuate that salutary influence. The Christian world needs\narousing to the great work of the church in heathen lands.\n\nThere is, however, an inter-blending in all parts of missionary\nwork that should never be overlooked. The home field is the source\nof the means, and men, and prayers, that must energize the work\nin the foreign field. Dead churches at home cannot give life to\nmission work abroad.\n\nThere is another form in which the home and foreign fields are\nblended. The American Missionary Association is ranked, and\nproperly, as a home missionary organization, but it has its\nrelations to the foreign field.\n\n1. It is called to train the Freedmen of America for mission work\nin Africa. White men meet a speedy death in malarial Africa, and\nthey come to the natives as strangers. The Freedmen can better\nendure the climate of their fatherland and will be welcomed by the\npeople as brothers. We believe that the great problem of African\nevangelization is destined, in the providence of God, to be largely\nsolved by the ex-slaves of America.\n\n2. The Indians of the United States have been ranked heretofore as\ncoming under the work of foreign missions. At one time the American\nBoard had the largest share of its work among these people. Other\nChristian denominations so classed their Indian missions, in part,\nat least\u2014and all this properly, for the mass of the Indians are\nstill heathen. The day will come when the Indian will be lost in\nthe man, and then gospel work for him will be home or parish work.\nBut at present the American Missionary Association is doing foreign\nmission work in the home field, among these Indians.\n\n3. The Chinaman in America, like the Negro in America, is cultured\nand Christianized here very largely for the sake of China. He comes\nhere not to stay, but to go back to the home of his fathers. Now,\nif we don\u2019t stone him, or mob him, but imbue him with the gospel,\nhe goes back home as a missionary. A specimen of the spirit in\nwhich he returns can be seen in the touching letter from a Chinese\nconvert in another column of this magazine. The Hong Kong Mission,\nestablished under the auspices of the American Board, and to which\nour converted Chinamen on the Pacific Slope contributed both men\nand money, is an illustration of the way in which the American\nMissionary Association touches the foreign field in China.\n\n4. Last, but not least. The battle against caste must be fought,\nand the victory won, in America. As the last battle against\nslavery was fought and won here for the world, so we must fight\nthe battle of caste here for India as well as for America. Fifty\nyears ago very wise and good brethren said: \u201cYou Abolitionists are\nright _theoretically_, slavery is wrong and ought to be abolished\nimmediately; but _practically_ you are a set of visionaries.\nSlavery is a local institution, and if you wish to push your\ndenominational interests in the South, you must establish your\nchurches there and let the question of slavery alone.\u201d We have\nlived long enough to hear these brethren confess their mistake.\nThere are wise and good brethren now that say: \u201c_Theoretically_,\ncaste is all wrong, but it exists and can\u2019t be overthrown, and if\nyou wish to press your denominational work in the South, you must\nignore that question and plant your churches on the color line.\u201d\nSomebody will live to hear those who take this position confessing\ntheir mistake. The American Missionary Association stands now on\nthe caste question just where it once stood in regard to slavery.\nIt will neither dodge nor compromise, and will plant schools and\nchurches in the South, if at all, openly and avowedly disregarding\nclass distinctions. It makes no effort to bring the races together,\nyet any man, woman or child, otherwise qualified, will be welcomed\nto its schools and churches, even if God has made him black. In\nwaging this warfare in America, it is doing a Christian missionary\nwork against caste in heathen nations of the old world.\n\n\nSCHOOL ECHOES.\n\nQuestion.\u2014\u201cWhen and how long did Solomon reign?\u201d\n\nAnswer.\u2014\u201c10,000 years before Christ. He rained forty days and forty\nnights.\u201d\n\nQuestion.\u2014\u201cSusy, can you tell me what I read to you about\nyesterday?\u201d\n\nAnswer.\u2014\u201cChrist and the twelve opossums.\u201d\n\nIn Mississippi, one of our teachers taught her class faithfully the\ngolden text, \u201cPut off thy shoes from off thy feet; for the place\nwhereon thou standest is holy ground.\u201d The next Sunday, only one\ngirl could remember it, and she recited it thus: \u201cMoses, Moses,\ntake off them shoes.\u201d\n\nThe colored preachers of the old time, in selecting their\nillustrations from Bible characters, are wont to give them a\nstrongly imaginative turn; as for instance when one, in a long\nstory of Abraham\u2019s trial in offering up Isaac, represented him as\n\u201cgoing along, holding on and not making any fuss during the journey\nby day, but at night when Isaac was not by, as praying and crying\nall night.\u201d\n\n\nENGLISH AS SHE IS WRITTEN BY INDIAN STUDENTS.\n\nTHE RACES.\u2014They are five races, which are the white and yellow, and\nblack and red and brown. The yellow race likes to eat rat, and the\nblack race likes to eat man, and the white race likes to eat frog,\nand the red race likes to eat buffalo.\n\nThe Caucasian is the strongest in the world. The semi-civilized\nhave their own civilization, but not like the white race.\nThe savage race kept their own ways, and they have had three\noccupations: they were hunted, fished and foughted to the other\npeople. They beat, too. The white race have three occupations:\nagriculture, manufacturing and commerce.\n\nThe white people they are civilized; they have everything, and go\nto school, too. They learn how to read and write so they can read\nnewspaper. The yellow people they half civilized, some of them know\nhow to read and write, and some know how to take care of themself.\nThe red people they big savages; they don\u2019t know anything.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nEXTRACT.\n\n  We do not print the extract given below because it has our\n  approval, but because it is taken from a newspaper published by\n  colored men, and is significant.\n\nWe have yet to learn that unless we organize for self-protection\nand make use of our organization, we shall continue to be used as\nfoot-balls, and a target for infuriated white mobs. Unless we take\nactive and aggressive measures for our safety, we shall continue to\nreceive treatment which should not be administered to the beasts\nof the field. We do not believe there should exist one law for\nthe white man and one law for the black man, as there exists in\nthe South to-day. We are all sovereign citizens, and should be\nprotected by the laws alike. The present dispensation of the law\nin the South is an infamous outrage, and is unworthy of a great\ncountry like ours.\n\nWhat is the remedy for this state of affairs? History shows that\nsooner or later oppressed people arise from their lethargy, and\ntake by force that which is denied them by the laws of their\ncountry. What we need to do, is to organize such societies as the\none so earnestly advocated by the editor of the late _Freeman_, and\nuse such societies for the enforcement of the law and the obtaining\nof our rights when they are denied us.\n\nThe colored people of this country need not expect that their white\nfellow-citizens are going to aid them in this struggle, so we might\nas well put our shoulder to the wheel, buckle on our armor and\ngo forth to the conflict with stern faces and undaunted courage.\nBlessings never come to those who recline upon the indolent couch\nof ease and wait for them; the honors of this life do not come\nunsought; a tree planted does not grow to maturity and produce\nabundant fruit unless nurtured and cared for until it is able to\nwithstand the changes of the seasons. So with our condition in this\ncountry. As long as we remain silent while our rights are being\nfilched from us, we may expect a continuance of this kind of thing.\n\nLet us organize ourselves into a powerful and extensive\norganization and then we shall be in a position to make a\nsystematic and aggressive, as well as harmonious, struggle for our\nrights. If we do this, we shall command the respect of all men,\neven if we fail in obtaining what we struggled for. But we shall\nnot fail. Truth and justice sooner or later triumph, if those who\nchampion them are only true to themselves.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nDEATH OF MRS. L. A. ORR.\n\nIn the rest and quiet of vacation, death has come to the little\nband left at Talladega.\n\nOn July 15th, Mrs. Orr passed suddenly away from earth. The day\nbefore, while riding with a friend, the horse stumbled, and falling\nforward pulled her out of the buggy to the ground. It was not\nsupposed she was seriously hurt, but later it was found that the\nfall had produced concussion of the brain. In about two hours she\nbecame unconscious, and lay in that condition through all the hours\nof the night. At 9:30 on Sabbath morning, without a word or look\nof recognition, she passed away. Thus has ended a most useful and\nconsecrated life. She was president of our W. C. T. U., and none\nwill be more missed. Tired teachers ever found a warm welcome, rest\nand quiet in her pleasant rooms, and guests of the college will\nremember with gratitude Mrs. Orr\u2019s careful thoughtfulness for their\ncomfort.\n\nLeaving a pleasant home at the North and remunerative occupation,\nMr. and Mrs. Orr came into this missionary work with but a single\naim, that of doing good, and nobly has it been accomplished.\nBy their efforts, mission schools in two out-stations have been\nestablished and funds obtained for a school and church in one,\nto be called Clinton Chapel in honor of the donors, most of whom\nlived in Clinton, Mass. Mrs. Orr visited these schools. Her\npersonal presence cheered and encouraged them, and she gave from\nher own means with no unsparing hand to further the work. The\ndeath of their friend brings great sorrow to the people of these\nneighborhoods, and they are greatly cast down. \u201cShall we have to\ngive up our new chapel?\u201d and \u201cWhat can we do without Mrs. Orr?\u201d are\nquestions asked on all sides.\n\nDear friend! God help us to more faithfully and prayerfully carry\non the work you have laid down.\n\n                                                      A. R. D.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nON TO JESUS; ON TO GOD.\n\nBY REV. G. D. PIKE, D.D.\n\n    Holy Spirit, comfort me:\n      I am sadly stained by sin;\n    Help thou mine infirmity,\n      Lead me where the Lamb hath been.\n        Thou canst guide me o\u2019er the road,\n        On to Jesus; on to God.\n\n    I have grieved thee oft and sore,\n      Quenched thy gentle, kindly voice;\n    Take, O take me evermore,\n      Let my soul again rejoice.\n        Set my feet upon the road;\n        On to Jesus; on to God.\n\n    Finish thou the work in me,\n      Now so graciously begun;\n    Thanks and praise my song shall be\n      To the blessed three in one,\n        As I hie me o\u2019er the road,\n        On to Jesus; on to God.\n\n    When my mortal days are done;\n      When I meet the Lamb that died;\n    Grant, O grant thy erring son\n      Rest among the glorified,\n        Ransomed, saved, along the road.\n        On to Jesus; on to God.\n\nMATLOCK BANK, ENG., July 1, 1882.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE SOUTH.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nNOTES IN THE SADDLE.\n\nBY REV. C. J. RYDER, DISTRICT SECRETARY.\n\nThe Sunday-school work of the A. M. A. has always been an important\nelement of that work. The rapid development of this department\nwithin the past few years has been somewhat remarkable. Our\nfriends expressed grateful surprise at the Portland meeting that\nthe statistics were so exceedingly encouraging along this line.\n\u201cThe total Sunday-school enrollment, as it appears in the Annual\nReport of 1882, was 7,835, but we are able to report this year an\nenrollment of 15,109, an increase in five years of 7,274, or nearly\n100 per cent.,\u201d was the very satisfactory showing as given in the\nlast Annual Report.\n\nTwo interesting bits of history have recently come to me, which\nindicate that the Sunday-school work of the Association is\ndeveloping with still greater rapidity and success. Reports were\ngathered from twenty-two of the students of Straight University,\nNew Orleans, who taught school during the summer vacation. These\nstudents were not so busy with their work in the day-school\nas to neglect their duty as Christians in the organization of\nSunday-schools. They were scattered throughout Louisiana and\nMississippi, and reached many needy fields. They reported the\nfollowing facts:\n\n  Number of pupils in the day-schools which were taught by them      1,398\n  Number of Sunday-schools organized                                    13\n  These students were superintendents or teachers in                    22\n  Number of scholars in these Sunday-schools                         1,574\n  Number of hopeful conversions to Christ                              168\n  Five Bands of Mercy were organized with a membership of              181\n  Four Temperance Societies were formed with a membership of           241\n\nThese facts furnish us excellent evidence of the judicious and\nenthusiastic efforts of these colored students to save and elevate\ntheir own people. _Fifteen hundred and seventy-four_ children\ngathered into Sunday-schools, most of whom were absolutely\nunreached before, by these twenty-two under-graduates of a single\nA. M. A. school!\n\nIt is not strange that the President of Straight University, in\ngiving these facts, adds, with evident satisfaction:\n\n\u201cIf a complete record could be made of all the work done in one\nyear even, by past and present members of our school, or any of the\nA. M. A. schools, it would make an aggregate most wonderful.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nTurning now to the progress of Sunday-school work in our great\nMountain field, we find the same remarkable development. Calvary\nCongregational Church was organized at Pine Mountain, Tenn., Nov.\n26, 1887, with thirteen members. The following striking facts are\njust reported as the results secured in the past few months by the\nenergetic Christian workers in this church. Sunday-schools have\nbeen established in the following places, with the enrollment given\nbelow:\n\n  Calvary Church Sunday-school enrolled      142\n  Shiloh               \u201c          \u201c          127\n  New Prospect         \u201c          \u201c           68\n  Lick Creek           \u201c          \u201c           78\n\nmaking a grand total of 415 children and young people gathered\ninto these Sunday-schools on the mountain, and only _ten pupils_\nof this whole enrollment _had ever been in Sunday-School before_!!\nAnother school is soon to be formed in this neighborhood. This\n\u201cPine Mountain\u201d field is about 20 \u00d7 60 miles, and the little church\nwhich the A. M. A. built during the past few months is the only\nframed \u201cchurch house\u201d in the whole region. Think of it, O Christian\nfriends, you who hold the Lord\u2019s money in trust, 1,200 square\nmiles, with cabin homes scattered along every \u201ccove\u201d and fertile\nvalley, left, to this year of our Lord 1888, with only one suitable\nplace of worship!\n\nIn building this new church, the people themselves have strained\nevery nerve and made large personal sacrifices. They have had the\noccasional services of the General Missionary of the A. M. A. for\nthat locality, and I visited them once when Field Superintendent.\nThey have also been assisted from the A. M. A. treasury, but they\nhave labored in season and out of season themselves in order\nto establish this splendid work. The rapid development of the\nSunday-schools is not the only feature of this work that merits our\nattention. One member of this church has distributed during the\nyear 424 new Bibles and 145 second-hand Bibles. He has visited 500\nfamilies personally. He found that 60 per cent. of these people\nwere without the Word of God in complete form. A few had mutilated\ncopies of the Bible.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\nThere are hundreds of fields in the Mountain Work of the A. M. A.\njust as needy and just as hopeful as Pine Mountain. All the facts\nindicate that God has now opened this field to us. An intelligent\nmountaineer said to me, some months ago: \u201cOur great and only hope\nlies in the A. M. A. and the Congregational churches of the North.\u201d\nSurely these churches will not disappoint this hope, nor refuse to\nheed the voice of God speaking to them in all the stirring events\nof this Mountain Work.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTHE BUSY WORKERS.\n\n  The hive of the American Missionary Association in the South\n  has no use for drones. The bees are at work summer and winter,\n  and they improve not only the \u201cshining hour,\u201d but have to be\n  busy in rainy days as well. One of our workers who has long\n  been in the field, and who deserves to be kept there still\n  longer, writes as follows in accepting re-appointment:\n\nI most cheerfully accept the work for another year, and to show you\nthat it means work for me I will just give you my programme for the\npast two weeks: A rough ride two weeks ago this P.M. to the top of\nthe mountain, and then on foot down the mountain to Spring City, to\ntake the night train for Lexington. Got into Lexington Wednesday\nmorning in a rain. Looked at this and that piece of property during\nWednesday and Thursday, it raining most of the time. Came back\nFriday to Helenwood. Made some calls on Saturday and preached at\nnight. Preached at 11 A.M. next day, and walked eight miles to\nRobbins and preached at night. Got up at 3 o\u2019clock and walked four\nmiles to catch a train that would stop at Glen Mary. Reached Spring\nCity for breakfast at 6:30. Came up home and answered what letters\nI needed to, and went back to Spring City to stay all night. Took\ntrain at six o\u2019clock Tuesday morning for Sunbright. Rode out to\nDeer Lodge. Made four pastoral calls, walking four miles to do it,\nand was ready for an eight-mile ride in lumber wagon, Wednesday\nmorning, in the rain to Mt. Vernon to deliver the oration of the\nday. Went back to Sunbright next morning and found your letters\nof the 3rd. Went to Emory Gap that evening. Walked out two miles\nin mud to see Bro. Clark. Came back to Sunbright Friday, so as\nto reach Deer Lodge for a church meeting that night. Made some\ncalls Saturday morning, and then walked three miles to call on a\nCongregational family that ought to unite with our church here,\nand came back to preach at night. Taught a lesson in Sunday-school\nnext morning, and preached. Walked to Sunbright, seven miles,\nand preached at night. Got up at 2 o\u2019clock to walk seven miles\nto Glen Mary to take the early train to reach home and attend to\ncorrespondence so I can get off to Crossville to-morrow.\n\nI do not always have it put on quite so thickly as this, but it is\na pretty fair average.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTALLADEGA COLLEGE.\n\nMRS. L. A. ORR.\n\nTalladega College has just passed its eighteenth annual\nCommencement which, in many respects, was the most successful ever\nheld.\n\nThe exercises began on Thursday night, June 7th, with an exhibition\nin the chapel by the second and third grades of Cassedy School,\nfollowed on Friday by exercises in the Primary Department, and\nat night by an exhibition by the fourth and fifth grades of\nCassedy School, all of which reflected credit upon the teachers\nin charge. To many of our Northern friends, these may seem a very\ninsignificant part of Commencement exercises, but to these parents,\nwho consider all school work a failure which does not close with an\nexhibition, and who will travel miles to hear their children \u201csay\ntheir pieces,\u201d they are a very important part. At these exercises\nthe chapel was crowded almost to suffocation, the hall and windows\nwere full, and many went away, as they could not find even standing\nroom.\n\nOn Sunday, in the absence of Pres. DeForest, the baccalaureate\nsermon was preached by Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, D.D., of Cleveland,\nOhio, and was full of rich thought and practical suggestions.\nAt night, Rev. G. M. Elliott, of Selma, preached an excellent\nmissionary sermon, very helpful to the students who go out into the\ndark places to labor among their people.\n\nThe mornings of Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were occupied with\npublic examinations in the different departments, and they all gave\nevidence of faithful work having been done by teachers and pupils.\nThe examinations in theology and moral philosophy were especially\nfine, and would do credit to any Northern white students.\n\nMonday night was given to the exercises of the three literary\nsocieties connected with the college and these were conducted\nwholly by the students.\n\nOn Tuesday afternoon was the inspection of the industrial classes,\nprinting office, barns, &c. In the large airy sewing-room were\nsamples of work done by the girls, including quilts, garments of\nall kinds, and some very neat darning. In the printing office\nseveral young men were engaged in type-setting, presswork, etc.,\nand the neatness of the printed programmes testified to the good\nwork done by the \u201ccollege press.\u201d Visitors to the Slater shop\nfound the blacksmith at his forge, the painter, the glazier and\nthe cabinet-maker busy at work, and the wonder was that one small\nshop could accommodate so many trades. The brick masons were laying\nthe foundation for an addition to the building, which will give\nbetter facilities for work. The fine stock on the farm, the new and\nimproved farming tools, the steam engine in operation, and neat\nbarns, attracted many visitors.\n\nA lecture at night by Dr. Sturtevant, on the subject \u201cManners,\u201d\nclosed a very busy day.\n\nThursday was Commencement and the fullest day of the week. First\ncame the graduating exercises; the class numbered seven, three\nyoung women and four young men from the Normal Department. Next\ncame the alumni address and essay, after which the treasurer gave\na brief statement of the resources of the college. The increase in\nattendance as compared with last year was more than eighty.\n\nAt the alumni dinner, in Foster Hall parlor, were present the\nalumni, the Faculty, and friends from the North, South, East and\nWest, to the number of seventy in all. After supplying our physical\nwants, next in order came the toasts and responses. Dr. Andrews was\nmaster of ceremonies and in response to the toast \u201cOur Theological\nWork,\u201d Rev. Spencer Snell, of Birmingham, spoke of the great need\nof an educated ministry among the colored people, and told an\namusing story of the \u201ccall to preach\u201d of a colored man. He was at\nwork in the field, but soon got tired, and leaning on his hoe, he\nsaid to himself, \u201cDis hoe am _so_ heaby, an\u2019 dis row am _so_ long,\nan\u2019 dis sun am _so_ hot, I tink dis nigger am called to preach de\ngospel.\u201d\n\nNext Paul Bledsoe of Laredo, Texas, spoke for \u201cOur Normal Work,\u201d\nJames Brown for \u201cOur Students,\u201d and Mr. Stephen Childs, of Marion,\nfor the \u201cParents of our Students.\u201d Rev. J. Silsby, of Tenn., who\nwas personally acquainted with the early history of the college,\nresponded to the toast \u201cThe Founding of Talladega College.\u201d \u201cOur\nChurches\u201d was responded to by Rev. C. B. Curtis, of Selma, and J.\nR. Sims, of Shelby Iron Works. Dr. Andrews closed with a few words\nfor the college.\n\nAt night, W. P. Hamilton and J. A. Jones, who were graduated from\nthe theological department in 1887, were ordained to the work of\nthe gospel ministry. This closed the exercises of the week. During\nthe week, many kind words were spoken for the college by friends\nfrom different parts of the State, showing that the best colored\npeople in the State appreciate the thorough work done here.\n\nDuring the week President DeForest was very much missed, but we\nall hoped that what was our loss would be his gain in health and\nstrength from his trip across the ocean.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nTRINITY SCHOOL, ATHENS, ALA.\n\nAnother year of pleasant work has just closed. Teachers and\nstudents, though looking rather worn and weary, are in the happiest\nmood, for all feel it has been a _good year_. The latter part of\nthis school year has been specially characterized by very earnest\nstudy, and an ambition to reach one hundred per cent. in every\nthing. _One_ student has done this with a single exception, and\nsays that he \u201cshall surely make that up during vacation.\u201d All have\nattained a higher standing than usual, and our final examinations\nwere excellent.\n\nOur sending a class to Fisk University this year, with favorable\nreports of them coming from month to month, has proved a constant\ninspiration to our classes here, and we hope as the years go by, to\nsend many more in the same direction.\n\nBut the great struggle with us is to hold our students long enough\nto take them through even an elementary normal course. Parents in\ntheir ignorance and extreme poverty, are in such _a hurry_ to have\ntheir children teach and earn money to help support the younger\nones, that, as soon as they can get a third grade certificate to\nteach in the public schools of the State, they are supposed to be\n_educated_.\n\nAnd, too often, the people in the rural districts, impressed with\nthe wonderful attainments of the young teacher, add to the folly\nof the parents in making these young people themselves, (only the\nweaker ones), think \u201cthey know enough, without going to school any\nmore,\u201d and so they drift into the ranks of those who \u201cthink they\nare something, when they are nothing.\u201d\n\nThis is one of our discouragements, but we have very much for our\nencouragement in the beautiful _homes_ that are springing up all\nover this fair South-land, and in the noble band of intelligent,\nconsecrated, Christian workers who, in pulpits and school-houses,\nand in the conscientious and successful management of business, are\nleading their people to a higher plane of living and to a truer\ncitizenship.\n\nOur closing exercises were held on Monday night, May 28, our\ntwenty-third anniversary. Our large and beautiful hall was\npacked as never before. The audience was appreciative and very\nenthusiastic. There were visitors from Birmingham and Decatur, and\nall the towns along the lines of railroad. They expressed great\ninterest in what they saw and heard, promising to send us many new\nstudents in October; but the difficulty is to find suitable places\nfor them to board, as the parents all prefer to have their children\nin the Institution under the constant supervision of teachers.\n\nOur exercises were quite novel, and had some unique features that\ngreatly pleased the patrons. In all that was attempted, the pupils\nacquitted themselves well, and the _little_ children especially\npleased the patrons of the school in their beautiful and perfect\nScripture recitations. All the Sunday-school Golden Texts from\nOctober to June, were recited without a mistake, also several\nPsalms and an entire chapter from Isaiah. Bible truth planted in\nthe hearts of these young children, will, we trust, bear precious\nfruit in their future lives.\n\n                                                    M. S. WELLS\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nSTUDENT\u2019S LETTER.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOW I WON MY SCHOOL.\n\nMR. W. B. ROSS.\n\nIn the spring of 1881, I left Fisk University in search of a summer\nschool. Knowing nowhere else to go, I went to the southwestern\npart of Arkansas. I had been informed by a Fisk student that there\nwere vacancies in Hempstead county, and thither I bent my way in\ncompany with two other young men, also seeking summer employment,\nboth of whom opened subscription schools in the State. I had taken\ntwo lessons a day in Latin during the school year just ended, and\nexpected to \u201cdouble my Greek\u201d the next year. This would necessitate\nmy being in at the beginning of the school year. I had always been\npolitically inclined, and so had studied almost every artifice to\nwin among strangers.\n\nWe three rode from Hope, Arkansas, to Washington, a distance of ten\nmiles, in an old-fashioned ambulance.\n\nOn arriving at Washington, we were taken to the house of the\ncolored teacher of that place. I looked at him; he extended his\nhand; I explained our business, and immediately he volunteered to\nassist us.\n\nI had a particular school in view on leaving Nashville. On arriving\nat Washington, I learned from Mr. Shepperson, the teacher referred\nto, that one of the trustees of that school was in town.\n\nI immediately started out in search of him. In a short time I was\npresented to a stoutly-built, heavy-set man, who was introduced as\nthe gentleman I desired to see. I forthwith explained to Mr. Holt,\nfor such was his name, that I had been informed that there was a\ncolored school to be taught that summer in his district, and that I\nhad come hoping I could get it.\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d said he, \u201cthere is a school there, but it will be a month\nbefore it can open.\u201d\n\n\u201cIs that so?\u201d said I. \u201cI don\u2019t see what I\u2019ll do. Have you any\nobjections to its being opened now?\u201d\n\n\u201cOh, no; if the colored people are willing, I am,\u201d said he.\n\nBut I could see in the tone of his voice something that showed an\nunwillingness to have the school begin before Mr. Holt\u2019s cotton\nwas worked out. However, I took him at his word, and set out in\nthe hot sun and sand, with my satchel on my back, to the desired\nplantation. On the way, I saw two million lizzards, one billion\nspiders, and a trillion scorpions, to say nothing of tarantulas\nand centipedes that appeared in countless numbers along my path.\nI arrived at Mr. H.\u2019s house about six o\u2019clock in the evening, and\nproceeded immediately to the cabin where the colored people lived.\nFinding no one at the cabin, I went to the field.\n\n\u201cGood evening,\u201d said I to an old colored lady.\n\n\u201cGood evenin\u2019,\u201d said she.\n\n\u201cI am from Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. I have come out here\nto teach this school for you.\u201d\n\n\u201cWhar\u2019s \u2019Fesser Thomson?\u201d said she.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t know where the Professor is, but I\u2019ll teach for you. My\nname is Ross.\u201d\n\n\u201cYas, sah.\u201d\n\n\u201cAnd your name?\u201d\n\n\u201cDaffney.\u201d\n\n\u201cMrs. Daffney, will you show me how to find the rest of the colored\npeople in this settlement?\u201d\n\n\u201cYas, sah. Go down here and cross yonder, and you\u2019ll come to a big\nfield and some trees, sah.\u201d\n\nBefore leaving Nashville, I put on my best. I knew, in case of any\ndifficulty, my clothes would be an important factor in obtaining\nsuccess. I went to an old colored man, plowing in that field,\nopened my duster, showed him my nice coat and shirt-stud, at the\nsame time telling him, as fast as I could, whence I came, my\nobject in coming, and reading the Fisk catalogue to let him learn\nsomething about the school.\n\nHe seemed satisfied with me. His countenance had changed from its\ntroubled appearance to a pleasant one. But for ten minutes we\nargued the possibility of a cotton crop being made there if school\nopened then. I made point after point, but could not convince\nhim, so put out after his wife. She was readily convinced of the\ndesirability of having school open immediately; she promised to\nsend three children, and to turn the old man.\n\nI next encountered Jack Davis. \u201cIf you open school now, we\u2019ll\nstarve next winter,\u201d said he.\n\nI tried to show him differently, but was unsuccessful. I asked him\nfor a drink. On reaching the house for it I explained my mission\nto his wife, and obtained her consent to open the school, with her\npromise to send two.\n\nI next met a man who had no children to send. When I showed him\nthe picture of Fisk University (Jubilee Hall), he immediately\nvolunteered to work for me. He and I went and saw nearly every man\nin the community before 9 o\u2019clock that night.\n\nThe majority were against me, but I had resolved to open school\nthere and then. Time would not permit me to delay longer. The\nnext day (Sunday) I was given a Bible class to teach in the\nSunday-school. To my surprise, on going out doors I found that a\npreliminary school meeting had been held under the trees and that\nthe Sunday-school teacher, though against me on coming there, had\nchanged and was marshalling his forces for the great meeting on the\nmorrow.\n\nAt 11 o\u2019clock that same morning I heard a rousing blast by a\nhuntsman\u2019s horn. On inquiring, I found that my childless friend was\ntelling the people to come together the next day. In the meantime,\nJack Davis came over and discussed the matter with me. He closed by\nsaying that I talked too fast for him, but that one thing was sure:\nhe would send no children.\n\nI did a great deal of talking that Sunday; not willingly, but on\nbeing introduced to the people as they came around to see me,\nnothing was left but to discuss in full the question of opening.\nIt was an ox in the mire. Well, Monday came. The horn once more\nresounded through the woods. The people gathered from far and\nnear. The chairman was elected, and, on stating the object of the\nmeeting, took occasion to show them the impracticability of opening\nbefore the first of July. \u201cThere,\u201d thought I, \u201cwhipped again. The\nchair is against me.\u201d I arose and spoke ten minutes. On taking my\nseat, one opposed to me spoke. Among other things, he said: \u201cToo\nmany rascals are out from school, anyhow.\u201d Here one would rise\non my side; there one on the other side. Every man, including\nmyself, seemed to do his best to talk loud enough. The chairman\nshowed weakness in presiding, and was lacking in a knowledge of\nparliamentary usage. Thought I, \u201chere is my chance.\u201d Every time\nhe blundered I arose and pointed out his error; showed him how to\nappoint his committees, and instructed him as to what motions took\nprecedence. He saw my object, and informed me openly that he had\nparticipated in conventions in Helena. \u201cIt makes no difference,\u201d\nsaid I; \u201cyou are wrong in your ruling.\u201d\n\nHe began to look pitiful in the eyes of all. Men began to leave\nthe room. Soon one-half of them were on the outside. The tide was\nturned. I went out to inquire more fully into matters. Nearly every\nman was now for me. \u201cThen, come in,\u201d said I; \u201cyou can\u2019t help me\nout here.\u201d I remained behind to see that all came. The previous\nquestion, namely, to open the school on the first of June, was\ncalled. All stood up in the affirmative except the man who had\nseen the \u201crascals.\u201d I had won through the chairman\u2019s ignorance. I\nhave often thought of it since, and see more fully every day that\nmost battles are lost or won through incompetency on one side and\nsuperiority on the other, and that knowledge is truly a power.\n\nI will add that Jack Davis was my best friend after opening that\nschool, and Dick Brown, whom I met plowing on going from Aunt\nDaffney\u2019s house, carried my trunk a quarter of a mile for nothing,\nand loaned me his watch while I taught there. On going away, the\nman who was so afraid of the \u201crascals\u201d came four miles to my house\nand carried my trunk thirteen miles to Hope\u2014all for nothing. The\ncrop turned out well. I gained twenty pounds, and, in a word, we\nwere all happy.\n\n\n\n\nTHE INDIANS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nSPEECH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF.\n\n  At a Fourth of July celebration held at Lidgerwood, Dakota, a\n  novel feature of the exercises was a speech by Magayohi (Chief\n  Star), in the Sioux dialect, which being translated reads as\n  follows, and which shows that if all the Sioux Indians were as\n  intelligent and as well disposed as this chief, the Government\n  Commission would have little trouble.\n\n\u201cThis land which lies about us was once the property of my people;\nyou have now possession of it and have made yourselves homes and\nare rearing your families on the land which formerly belonged to\nmy forefathers. I have no complaint to make of this fact, for it\nis perhaps better as it is. Our desire is to become like the white\nman; to learn to cultivate the land and to make a living from it;\nto learn to read and to write and to transact business; to learn\nthe principles of government and become citizens; to acquire title\nto 160 acres for each member of our tribe. We have faith in the\nGreat Spirit and in the Great Father at Washington, and believe\nthat in time your people will teach my people to be like you; the\nnegro\u2019s skin is darker than ours, and you have made a man of him;\nwe ask the Government to do us the same justice.\u201d\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nFORT YATES, DAKOTA.\n\nFROM MISS M. C. COLLINS.\n\nWhat are we going to do? This is a question coming to us\ncontinually. The A. M. A. doubtless is in a happy mood and smiling\ncondition, now that it has strengthened our forces by two new\nmen\u2014one, Rev. Mr. Cross, 300 miles below here, and one, Rev. Mr.\nReed, 32 miles from here at the Agency. It is a good thing\u2014a great\ndeal better than not to have sent anyone. But now, think of it: An\nAgency containing 6,000 souls, scattered in villages of from twenty\nto fifty families in a village, and the settlements from five to\nten miles apart.\n\nI could put a hundred Bibles in as many homes now among Catholics\nand wholly heathen families where one, at least could read it who\nhas learned in some school of ours or the Presbyterians. I could\ngive out a thousand Dakota Primers, or First Readers, into as many\nhomes where they are anxious to read in their own tongue. There\nis no law against a Dakota\u2019s owning a Dakota Bible, nor reading a\nDakota primer in his own home. We could establish ten schools where\nSabbath services could be held, at once. We could so reach a great\nmany homes and hasten the civilization and Christianization of\nthese Indians by many years.\n\nI go long distances into Catholic houses as well as others, to\nadminister to the sick. Last night I had a Government teacher (a\nCatholic) and his sick wife, whom I have been treating, and their\ntwo children, here all night. I have been riding sixteen miles to\ntreat her, and then riding home, the man always coming for me and\nbringing me back.\n\nI have now given twelve years to this work. I have seen wonderful\nchanges. I have seen men with painted faces and feathers following\nthe leader on to darkness and death. I have seen the same men,\nclothed and in their right minds, stand before a heathen audience\nof their own people and heard one say, only last week, \u201cMen and\nbrethren, you know me as a man fierce in war\u2014a man whose hands are\nstained with blood\u2014a man bearing many wounds. My body still bears\nthe marks, but Christ has made me whole. I am another man. My body\nis the same, but my heart is new. My soul is clean; my will has\nchanged; I think differently. The Gospel has renewed me.\u201d It was\none of the grandest pleas for the Gospel I ever heard. O! will you\nnot empty your gold and your silver into the treasury? Will you not\nadvance, and take every post as fast as ready to surrender? Let\nus guard these people with a great army of the Lord. Send on the\nadvance guard and bring up your reinforcements. _I_ do not want to\nfall till I see Dakota taken for the Lord!\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE CHINESE.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nCHRISTIAN CHINESE EN ROUTE TO CHINA.\n\nIt is some of the experiences of our Chinese brethren on their way\nto their native land that I have in mind in this title\u2014not the bare\nfact that they do so return, or that their presence in their old\nhomes cannot but become a leavening and a gradually revolutionizing\ninfluence there.\n\nThe subjoined letter is of special interest only because it is a\nlittle more full in its statement than others relating to other\nvoyages. The writer, Ng Hing, was brought to faith in Christ at our\nBarnes Mission, and the letter is addressed to his teacher, Mrs.\nH. W. Lamont. Ng Hing is a modern Nathaniel. I scarcely ever spoke\nwith him during the first months of his discipleship to Christ,\nbut I felt like repeating that greeting which Jesus gave to the\nfirst Nathaniel: \u201cBehold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no\nguile.\u201d And I have found this impression abundantly confirmed by\nthe testimony of his brethren and my own closer acquaintanceship.\n\nThe letter is a little old, being dated Nov. 17th. When it was\nfirst placed in my hands I asked the privilege of laying it before\nthe readers of the MISSIONARY, but it has been crowded out till\nnow. I give it with no attempt to set it right in its English.\nIt will be understood as it is, and will be read, I trust, with\nall the more interest, revealing, as it does, the attempt of an\nintelligent Chinese to wrestle with what must seem to him the\nawkward idioms of our outlandish tongue:\n\n  \u201c_Dear Teacher_:\n\n  \u201cI am arrived here safely, Nov. 15th, Tuesday, at noon. I thank\n  you and Miss Lilian [daughter of Mrs. Lamont, and, like her\n  mother, one of our teachers] very much indeed for your lovely\n  present and the letter which you given me. I used to read it\n  very often because it is very improve to me, and that I know\n  the Lord Jesus has opened my soul-eye and raised me from the\n  death of sin to a life of righteousness. I will to tell all my\n  countrymen what great thing Jesus has done for me, just as much\n  as I can speak to.\n\n  \u201cNow I want to tell you about our journey. We have met fifteen\n  missionary ladies and gentlemen. Some go to Japan and some to\n  China. And several Chinese Christian brethren were there, and\n  we have joined with the missionary to have service on every\n  Sunday morning. I am very glad we have so pleasant opportunity\n  on the ship\u2014sing to praise God and spoke the gospel of Jesus.\n\n  \u201cBut on the Oct. 26th we meet a great tempest; the waves run\n  over the deck, and the wind against the ship, dreadful. That\n  made the Chinese heathen complain and say many wicked words\n  against us Christians; and they said to themselves, too: \u2018We\n  must not allow these Chinese Christians have the meeting on\n  the ship because they tell us believe in Jesus and not worship\n  the idol and image; therefore the evil spirits made the wind\n  and the waves against the ship.\u2019 Oh, I am very sorry for them,\n  so foolish, when I heard that. For we trust in God and know\n  he will take care of us, and even the tempest so great. God\n  made it peaceful, and carry us all to get through safely\u2014never\n  drown. We should all thank God for his mercies and praise him\n  so great and so powerful. But the heathen not mind God and do\n  not care for their souls.\n\n  \u201cThe missionary was very kindly to them and pity them so\n  ignorant.\n\n  \u201cOn the 6th of Nov. Mr. Chalfant read Acts 17:24-30, and I read\n  it in Chinese and we try to explain it to them, but they were\n  very proud, and not want to hear the Gospel of Jesus. They only\n  crowd round us and make terrible noise, with revilings and\n  indignity to us. That was to be fulfilled the words which Jesus\n  had said to us Christians: \u2018Ye shall be hated of all men for\n  my name\u2019s sake.\u2019 Well, no matter what _they_ said; the Bible\n  says: \u2018Love your enemies and do kindly to them that hated you,\u2019\n  and we know God will be with us and help us in trouble, and\n  even the heathen so persecuted us, but we do kindly to them\n  and pray for them. Now please pray for me, for the temptation\n  is great here; and pray for the missionary in China. * * * I\n  do not forget all your kindness to me. Let God bless you and\n  your family and all the scholars, and increase the number that\n  believe in Jesus our Saviour. From Your scholar,\n\n                                                     NG HING.\u201d\n\nI have room for a sentence or two from Chin Toy at Sacramento, in\na letter just received: \u201cThe tracts and small books were duly\nreceived. I was very glad for them. I think will do much good to\nour people. Street meetings here every Sunday. I give out some of\nthe tracts at the end of the preaching. All hearers seemed very\nglad to come and get them. Each one say, \u2018Give me a piece.\u2019 I trust\nthe Lord will bless the seed still growing, which were sown on\nthese ground. This school is better lately. Had five or six new\nscholars come last week. The Christian brethren are all well and\nattend the meeting regularly.\u201d\n\nAnd here is a little of the \u201cshady side\u201d in another field: \u201cI found\nthese three brethren here not quite love each other. They too much\ncomplained each other\u2019s faults. I felt very sorry for them. I think\nevery one of them is try to do right, but they are all impatient;\nthat is the trouble. I visited some stores in Chinatown; invited\nmen to come to school. Some men told me many scholars stayed away\nbecause the Christian boys quarrel. So I thought better write you\nthat you will pray for them on that matter. I told them we must\nlove and forgive each other, hold fast together in the bond of\npeace, and serve the Lord with the pure heart, then we will bring\nforth fruit.\u201d\n\nSound doctrine, to which many a company of American believers would\ndo well to take heed, though it comes from the pen of one who once\nsat in darkness and worshipped idol-gods!\n\n                                                      WM. C. POND.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nBUREAU OF WOMAN\u2019S WORK.\n\nMISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nWOMAN\u2019S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.\n\nCO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.\n\n  ME.\u2014Woman\u2019s Aid to A. M. A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C. A.\n  Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.\n\n  VT.\u2014Woman\u2019s Aid to A. M. A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry\n  Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.\n\n  VT.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood,\n  Montpelier, Vt.\n\n  CONN.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S. M.\n  Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.\n\n  N.Y.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. William\n  Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.\n\n  ALA.\u2014Woman\u2019s Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G. W.\n  Andrews, Talladega, Ala.\n\n  OHIO.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,\n  Oberlin, Ohio.\n\n  IND.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Rogers,\n  Michigan City, Ind.\n\n  ILL.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor,\n  151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.\n\n  MICH.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren,\n  Lansing, Mich.\n\n  WIS.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter,\n  Brodhead, Wis.\n\n  MINN.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H. L. Chase,\n  2,750 Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.\n\n  IOWA.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,\n  Grinnell, Iowa.\n\n  KANSAS.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison\n  Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.\n\n  NEB.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. F. H. Leavitt,\n  1216 H St., Lincoln, Neb.\n\n  SOUTH DAKOTA.\u2014Woman\u2019s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S. E.\n  Young, Sioux Falls, Dak.\n\n\nLETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.\n\n_My Dear Miss Emerson_:\n\nHaving just returned from my class of Chinese children, my mother\nthought, for the sake of variety, I might give an account of this\ninteresting though curious gathering. This class was formed about\nthree years ago. There was no Sabbath-school for Chinese children\nat the time, and seeing the great need of one, and being unable to\nattend to it on Sunday, I decided to have it on Friday afternoon,\nat three o\u2019clock.\n\nAbout three-quarters of an hour before the time for commencing,\nI start for the children, going from home to home, inviting and\ncoaxing them to come. I sometimes carry with me pieces of cake and\ncandy or a bright text-card to attract those who seem more timid\nthan the rest.\n\nIf I meet a stray child on the street, I say \u201cNa lie dook she?\u201d\n(You come to school?) Sometimes my labors are rewarded by seeing\na bundle of clothes slip past me, and a minute afterward all is\nlost in oblivion in a small alley; but sometimes they slip their\ndirty hands into mine and trudge along with me, amid the jeers and\ncontemptuous smiles of those passing by. Finally we arrive at our\nschool room, between twenty and thirty children being present,\nranging all the way from five to twelve years. We commence by\nsinging three or four hymns; then all rise and repeat a prayer\nafter me in concert, sentence by sentence. I then explain the\nSabbath-school lesson through an interpreter, and either show the\npicture of the International Lessons, or a black-board drawing, and\nsometimes an object. I find, as with all children, their interest\ncan be awakened and held by means of an object or picture. After\nletting each repeat the text given the week before, we close with\nthe Lord\u2019s Prayer in Chinese; and after good-bye is said all\naround, I dismiss them, taking some of them home, as their parents\nare afraid to trust them across the car tracks alone.\n\nThese children are exceedingly bright and attentive, and as to\ntheir good behavior, I can sometimes hold up their example as\nworthy of the imitation of my class of American boys. Only to-day,\nin speaking of the lesson on \u201cWorshiping the Golden Calf,\u201d I asked\nwhich they worshiped, God or idols, and one little girl said, \u201cMe\nworship God; idols no good. They have eyes, no see; hands and\nfeet, and no walk.\u201d And when I asked all to raise their hands who\nwould worship Jesus, she raised both hands. When shown the picture\nof Abraham offering Isaac, one of them said, \u201cWhy did not he run\naway?\u201d One day, when taking home a little girl of five years of\nage, she looked at the cable car which was passing, and said, \u201cWhat\nfor does that car go faster than that one (pointing to a horse\ncar)? That has no horse.\u201d They ask innumerable questions, and want\nto know the why and wherefore of everything.\n\nOh! my dear Christian friends, pray for me, that I may be aided\nin teaching and guiding these precious souls, on whom so much of\nChina\u2019s progress depends.\n\n                         Yours in Christ,\n\n                                                 LILIAN LAMONT.\n\n\n\n\nOUR YOUNG FOLKS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLITTLE INDIANS.\n\nPerhaps there are little children in some of the beautiful homes\nin the cities who cannot understand that the Indians are not all\nborn grown up, with feathers on their heads and tomahawks in their\nhands. One little blue-eyed girl once said to me with a very long\nO-o-o-o and her hand over her mouth, \u201cOh, o-h! I did not know there\nwere little Indian boys and girls!\u201d but let me tell you, little\nGolden Hair, there are Indian boys and girls.\n\nThey have some very funny names, too. But there is one thing\npleasant about it; their names are given to them because they mean\nsomething. As I write this article, I look out from my window and\nsee an Indian boy with a roughly-made sled drawing his little\nsister up the hill so that she can slide down again behind him.\nLittle Indians are not wholly unlike little white boys and girls.\nThey eat and sleep, laugh and cry, but they do not fight. That\ncomes with civilization.\n\nI can from my window watch the boys and girls playing on the\nhillside every day as long as the snow lasts, and I never have\nheard a child cry nor have I seen one child hurt another. I can\nhear them laugh and shout and cheer when one tumbles off the sled,\nbut no angry or bad words are ever used. They are very merry and\nhappy when we remember that there is no Indian child that does not\nknow what it is to be hungry and have the mother say there is no\nfood.\n\nWhen a little baby comes into an Indian home, he is wrapped up in\na blanket and it is tied all about him so that he cannot use his\narms or legs, and he looks very much like a rag doll, but he cries\nand laughs just like a real flesh and blood and bones baby. But,\nlittle Golden Hair, let me whisper to you one secret of the Indian\nbaby\u2019s happy life: he never gets _spanked_! They leave that to the\nuncivilized white mother. So, after all, the white boy does not\nhave all the good in life; does he? Only think of sliding down hill\na whole morning without even a board between the smooth snow and\nthe trousers, going home with wet and worn clothes and not getting\nwhipped; not even sent to bed!\n\nIndian children are never punished; but, after all, they are not\nbad. The boys like to hunt the snowbirds with bows and arrows. They\nkill a great many too. The little girls play with corn-cob dolls\nand little tents and travois, or _toshoes_, as they call them,\nsometimes drawn by dogs.\n\nThe Indian children have hard lives after all. They cannot live to\ngrow up unless they are pretty strong. A great many little ones\ndie for want of good, wholesome food, and many for want of fresh\nair and warm clothes. We want all the little boys and girls in\nChristian homes to remember the little Dakotas. There is much good\nin them; and if they had the advantages you have, perhaps they\nwould be fully as well behaved, and as true and faithful to God, as\nare you. Will you help us to save the little Indians?\n\n                                                MARY C. COLLINS.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nLITTLE INDIAN CHILDREN IN THE BIRDS\u2019 NEST AT SANTEE AGENCY, NEB.\n\nThey are such happy little girls, and so easily entertained. Just\nnow I saw two of them getting such a merry time out of dragging the\nbowl of a large pewter spoon over the ground for a wagon, putting\na little stick in the way to represent water they had to cross\u2014for\nour recent rains have flooded the bottom-lands in several places.\nThere was a nail lying in the spoon, and I asked what that meant.\n\u201cOh,\u201d Maggie said, \u201cthat is me, and I am going to the store to buy\nsome beads.\u201d A shorter nail was there to represent her younger\nplaymate. No little girls to-day, pushing their red-cheeked wax\ndollies in their miniature baby carriages, are any happier than\nour little Indian girls, drawing their broken pewter spoon and\nrepresenting themselves by old rusty nails.\n\nAt our Missionary Society, which meets every Saturday for an hour,\nI generally read them a little story; sometimes from \u201cThe Pansy,\u201d\nwhich was sent us last year, or from \u201cOur Little Men and Women,\u201d\nalso a gift from an unknown friend. They enjoy it always and like\nto see the pictures; but the book that holds the charm, and of\nwhich they never tire, is \u201cThe Story of the Bible.\u201d\n\nThey have pieced two small quilts and one large one this season,\nand will finish two others of medium size. Our mite box contains\n$2.50 at this date. These are the pennies that their parents send\nthem to be used in this way, and occasionally they earn one by some\nlittle service for us.\n\n                                             HARRIET B. ILSLEY.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nRECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1888.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n  MAINE, $1,281.94.\n\n    Bangor. Hammond St. Ch.                                  $75.75\n    Bangor. J.H. Crosby, _for Atlanta U._                      5.00\n    Bethel. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.                     12.50\n    Blanchard. Mrs. Rose B. Packard, deceased, by\n      J. C. B. Packard                                         5.00\n    Brunswick. Mrs. S. F. C. Hammond, _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._                                        25.00\n    Castine. Trin. Cong. Ch.                                   5.00\n    Castine. Class No. 9, Trin. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Student Aid, Tougaloo U._                                1.25\n    Eastport. Sab. Ch. of Central Cong. Ch.                    5.00\n    Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                        23.50\n    Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, _for Atlanta U._                25.00\n    Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker                                5.00\n    Hampden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                5.79\n    North Yarmouth. Rev. J. B. Carruthers, 5;\n      Cong. Ch. and Soc., 4                                    9.00\n    Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 150;\n      Williston Ch., 84; Rev. F. T. Bayley, 25               259.00\n    Saco. First Parish Ch.                                    21.68\n    Skowhegan. Island Av. Cong. Ch.                           12.65\n    South Waterford. Miss M. E. Shurtleff                     10.00\n    Wells. B. Maxwell, 20; First Cong. Ch. and\n      Soc., 10.25                                             30.25\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cFriend in Maine,\u201d _for Williamsburg, Ky._            10.00\n    Woman\u2019s Aid to A. M. A., by Mrs. C. A.\n      Woodbury, Treas., _for Woman\u2019s Work_.\n        Albany. Mrs. H. G. Lovejoy                     3.00\n        Albany. Mrs. A. K. Cummings                    3.00\n        Auburn. High St.                              25.00\n        Auburn. Sixth St.                              5.00\n        Bethel. First Ch.                             14.00\n        Bethel. Second Ch.                            12.00\n        Bethel. Sec. Ch., Little Helpers               3.00\n        Brunswick.                                    72.00\n        Berlin. (N.H.)                                10.00\n        Calais.                                       10.00\n        Cape Elizabeth. Star Mission Circle            3.60\n        Cumberland Center.                            20.00\n        Dennysville.                                   6.50\n        Dennysville. Dea. E. P. Vose                   5.00\n        Dover and Foxcroft. Ch.                       17.00\n        East Baldwin.                                 10.00\n        East Machias.                                  4.00\n        Freeport.                                     22.00\n        Freeport, South.                              42.35\n        Gilead.                                        1.00\n        Gray.                                          6.50\n        Harpswell Center.                             10.00\n        Harrison.                                      6.00\n        Jonesboro.                                     1.00\n        Jonesport.                                     2.00\n        Lewiston. Pine St.                            27.00\n        Machias.                                      20.00\n        Machiasport.                                   8.75\n        Marshfield.                                    2.00\n        Mechanic Falls.                               13.50\n        Minot Center.                                 18.00\n        New Gloucester.                               26.50\n        North Yarmouth.                                4.00\n        Oxford.                                        2.50\n        Phippsburg.                                    5.23\n        Portland. High St. Ch.                        75.00\n        Portland. State St. Ch.                       50.00\n        Portland. Second Parish Ch.                   40.00\n        Pownal.                                        3.10\n        Red Beach.                                     1.00\n        Shelburne. (N.H.)                              2.00\n        South Bridgton.                                5.25\n        Steuben.                                       5.00\n        Sweden.                                        2.00\n        Turner.                                       15.00\n        Upton.                                         2.25\n        West Auburn.                                   3.05\n        West Minot and Hebron.                         6.50\n        Whiting.                                       1.75\n        Yarmouth. First Parish.                       48.60\n                                                     \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014  701.93\n    Received by Mrs. J.P. Hubbard, _for\n      Williamsburg, Ky._\n        Hiram. Mrs. Z.W. Banks, _for Student\n              Aid_                                     1.00\n        North Yarmouth. Mrs. J.B. Carruthers,\n              _for Student Aid_                       11.14\n        Portland. Mrs. Nathan Dane, _for\n              Student Aid_                             5.00\n        Woodfords. S. S. Class, by Miss W.\n              Perry, _for Student Aid_                 4.00\n        Bethel. Mrs. D. W. Hardy, _for\n              Freight_                                 3.00\n        Biddeford. Mrs. J. W. Haley, _for\n              Freight_                                 1.00\n        Farmington Falls. Miss S. G.\n              Croswell, _for Freight_                  2.00\n        Litchfield Corner. Mrs. J. T. Hawes,\n              _for Freight_                            1.00\n        South Freeport. Miss H. H. Ilsley,\n              _for Freight_                            4.50\n        West Falmouth. Rev. W. H. Haskell,\n              _for Freight_                            1.00\n                                                     \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014   33.64\n    Clothing, etc., received by Mrs. J. P.\n      Hubbard, _for Williamsburg, Ky._:\n        Auburn. Bbl., by Mrs. F.S. Root\n        Bethel. Bbl., by Mrs. D. W. Hardy\n        Biddeford. Bbl., by Mrs. J. W. Haley\n        Falmouth. Bbl., by Mrs. Geo. O. Knight\n        Farmington Falls. Miss Susan G. Croswell, Box\n          of Hats\n        Litchfield Corner. Bbl., by Mrs. J. T. Hawes\n        North Yarmouth. Bbl., by Mrs. J. B. Carruthers\n        Phillips. Bbl., by Miss Cornelia T. Crosby\n        Portland. Bbl., by Mrs. Chas. Frost\n        South Freeport. Bbl., by Miss H. H. Ilsley\n        West Falmouth. One and one-half Bbls., by Rev.\n          W. H. Haskell\n        Woodfords. Half-Bbl., by Miss W. Perry\n        Unknown Source. Bbl.\n\n\n  NEW HAMPSHIRE, $574.18.\n\n    Exeter. Mary E. Shute                                     50.00\n    Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                                 7.50\n    Great Falls. First Cong. Ch.                              30.00\n    Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               50.00\n    Lyme. G. W. Randlett, _for Mountain White Work_            2.00\n    Manchester. Hanover St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                32.13\n    Nashua. Ladies Miss\u2019y Soc., by Dora N.\n      Spaulding, _for Woman\u2019s Work_                           20.00\n    Nashua. Betsy A. Wilson, _for Negroes, Indians\n      and Chinese_ and to const. ANNA M. WILSON,\n      CARRIE FAY, MRS. JEFFERSON DEAN, NETTIE A.\n      WILSON, IRA B. WILSON, ADDIE L. WILSON, ETTA\n      A. WILSON and MRS. NELLIA A. MORRIS L. M\u2019s.            300.00\n    Penacook. Rev. A. Wm. Fiske, _for Chinese M._              5.00\n    Piermont. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       5.00\n    Walpole. First Cong. Ch.                                  23.25\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $524.88\n\n    ESTATES.\n\n    Portsmouth. Estate of Mrs. E. A. Brooks, by H.\n      A. Yeaton, Ex.                                          25.00\n    Cornish. Estate of Sarah W. Westgate, by\n      Albert E. Wellman, for Trustees Cong. Ch. of\n      Cornish                                                 24.30\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $574.18\n\n\n  VERMONT, $593.70.\n\n    Barre. Cong. Ch.                                          17.08\n    Castleton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian\n      M._                                                     25.00\n    Chelsea. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild, _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._                                          10.00\n    Danville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          10.00\n    Franklin. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,\n      _for McIntosh, Ga._                                      2.65\n    Greensboro. Rev. S. Knowlton                              20.00\n    Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                      70.00\n    New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                             19.00\n    North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      11.60\n    Norwich. Mrs. H. Burton                                    2.00\n    Quechee. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of Books, _for\n      Talladega C._\n    Peacham. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Mrs. C. A.\n      Bunker, _for McIntosh, Ga._                             26.00\n    Royalton. A. W. Kenney. 30, to const. SEYMOUR\n      CULVER L.M., Cong. Ch. and Soc., 20.02                  50.02\n    Saint Johnsbury. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry\n      Fairbanks, _for McIntosh, Ga._                          91.00\n    Saint Johnsbury. Ladies, ad\u2019l _for McIntosh,\n      Ga._                                                    55.00\n    South Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones                       10.00\n    Thetford. First Cong. Ch.                                  7.00\n    Vergennes. Miss Minnie Wood                                2.00\n    West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch.                                9.24\n    Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                            136.11\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Vt., _for\n      McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks,\n      Treas.:\n        Manchester. L. H. M. S.                        5.00\n                                                       \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014    5.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $578.70\n\n    ESTATE.\n\n    Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray, by E. M.\n      Haynes, Ex.                                             15.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $593.70\n\n\n  MASSACHUSETTS, $7,726.29.\n\n    Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Fisk U._                                   20.00\n    Adams. \u201cMemorial Band\u201d Box of C., Val. 10,\n      _for Tougaloo U._\n    Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 40; South Cong. Ch.,\n      6.67                                                    46.67\n    Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for\n      Lexington, Ky._                                       2000.00\n    Andover. Primary Dep\u2019t Sab. Sch. of So. Ch.,\n      Birthday Boxes                                           1.62\n    Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.                          25.00\n    Auburndale. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._                   17.11\n    Auburndale. Rev. Horace Dutton and \u201cOther\n      Friends,\u201d Prouty Job Printing Press, _for\n      Atlanta U._\n    Ayer. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                    12.52\n        Boston. Union Ch.                            225.58\n        Boston. Miss Julia S. Bartlett, 100;\n                Old So. Ch. Sab. Sch., 35;\n                Berkeley Temple Sab. Sch.,\n                31.83; _for Student Aid,\n                Atlanta U._ Miss Mary L.\n                Thompson, 5; Chas. F. Atkinson,\n                Box of Books; Horace P.\n                Chandler, Box of Books; _for\n                Atlanta U._                          171.83\n        Boston. \u201cUnion Workers of Union Ch.\u201d\n                _for Indian M._                        5.00\n        Boston. Mrs. Jacob Fullarton, _for\n                Prof. Lawrence, Jellico, Tenn._        1.00\n        Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.\n                    (10 of which _for Indian M._)    148.29\n        Dorchester. Harvard Ch.                        1.00\n        Roxbury. Immanuel Cong. Ch.                  105.93\n        Roxbury. \u201cKing\u2019s Daughters,\u201d Highland Cong.\n                 Ch., Box of C., _for Tougaloo U._\n        West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and Soc.        22.14\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014  680.77\n    Barre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                              8.51\n    Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.                           187.80\n    Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                16.00\n    Boxboro. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch., _for\n      Rosebud Indian M._                                       2.00\n    Brimfield. Mrs. P. C. Browning, 10; Mrs. J. S.\n      Webber, 1; First Cong. Ch., 6.80                        17.80\n    Brookline. Harvard Ch.                                    74.13\n    Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.                                    5.00\n    Coleraine. Cong. Ch.                                       7.00\n    Concord. \u201cA\u201d                                              10.00\n    Clinton. W. M. Soc., _for Talladega C._                   30.00\n    Cambridge. North Av. Ch. and Soc.                        150.31\n    Cambridgeport. Ladies of Pilgrim Ch., Box of\n      C., _for Tougaloo U._\n    Chelsea. First Cong Ch.                                   30.00\n    Chester. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., _for\n      Jellico, Tenn._                                         15.00\n    Danvers. Maple St. Cong. Sab. Sch., 28.39;\n      Bible Class Maple St. Cong. Sab. Sch., 6.50;\n      _for Atlanta U._                                        34.89\n    East Billerica. Mrs. A. R. Richardson, from\n      her little children\u2019s Mite Box, _for\n      Mountain White Work_                                     5.00\n    East Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aikin, _for\n      Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                                    5.00\n    East Taunton. Cong Ch.                                     2.00\n    Everett. Cong. Ch.                                        17.19\n    Fall River. Third Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._              10.57\n    Falmouth. First Ch., M. C. Coll.                          14.25\n    Georgetown. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      50.00\n    Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 200;\n      Centre Cong. Ch. and Soc., 100                         300.00\n    Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                           14.15\n    Holden. Cong. Ch.                                         25.00\n    Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch. Primary Class, 6;\n      Class of Young Men, 5.50; Class of Boys,\n      2.30; _for Student Aid, Talladega C._                   13.80\n    Hubbardston. \u201cLadies,\u201d _for Tougaloo U._, 20;\n      Cong. Ch., 10                                           30.00\n    Hyde Park. Woman\u2019s H. M. Union, _for Freight_              9.00\n    Ipswich. First Ch. and Soc.                               20.00\n    Lenox. Cong. Ch.                                          21.75\n    Lexington. Hancock Ch.                                    35.00\n    Littleton. Cong. Ch.                                      19.00\n    Lowell. \u201cThe Cent. Soc. of Eliot Ch.\u201d                     30.00\n    Malden. First Ch.                                         48.15\n    Malden. Mrs. Dr. Wadsworth, Bbl., Children\u2019s\n      Books, Toys, etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._\n    Maynard. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               81.00\n    Medway. Village Ch.                                       60.00\n    Melrose. Miss S. J. Elder                                  3.06\n    Monterey. Cong. Ch.                                       18.00\n    New Bedford. Mrs. M. L. F. Bartlett                       30.00\n    Newton. Eliot Ch.                                        100.00\n    Newton Centre. Maria B. Furber Miss\u2019y Soc.,\n      _for Atlanta U._                                       105.50\n    Newton Center. First Cong. Ch.                            64.09\n    Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. (25 of which _for\n      Tougaloo U._)                                          104.22\n    Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch.                            98.59\n    Northampton. A. L. Williston                             300.00\n    Northboro. Mrs. M. D. Wells                                5.00\n    North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., to const.\n      REV. CHARLES S. MILLS, ROSELLA H. WHITING\n      and EDWARD L. HAVENS L. M\u2019s                            100.00\n    North Brookfield. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., First\n      Ch., _for Freight_                                       2.00\n    North Middleboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                      27.43\n    Orange. Central Evan. Cong. Ch.                            9.11\n    Otis. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                           6.00\n    Oxford. First Cong. Ch.                                   51.00\n    Paxton. Mrs. Rev. A. Morton, Bbl. of C., _for\n      Tougaloo U._\n    Pepperell. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta\n      U._                                                     20.00\n    Pittsfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                10.00\n    Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch.                                   72.00\n    Reading. Cong. Ch., \u201cSpecial\u201d                              2.00\n    Richmond. Cong. Ch.                                        6.84\n    Sheffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                              7.00\n    Shelburne Falls. A. M. Aids, add\u2019l                         0.10\n    South Deerfield. \u201cL. S. C.\u201d                                3.00\n    South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                50.00\n    South Framingham. R. L. Day, 25; \u201cFriend,\u201d\n      50c., _for Mountain Work_                               25.50\n    Spencer. Cong. Ch., one 1,570 lbs. McShane\n      Bell. val. 504.43; cash for expenses, 97.63,\n      _for Atlanta U._                                        97.63\n    Springfield. Y. P. S. C. E., Hope Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                              12.50\n    Springfield. Home Miss\u2019y Circle, Box of C.,\n      Val. 34.95, _for Tougaloo U._\n    Taunton. Union Ch.                                        15.89\n    Templeton. Trin. Ch. and Soc.                             18.35\n    Ware. H. B. Anderson\u2019s Sab. Sch. Class, _for\n      Indian M._                                              35.00\n    Wakefield. Cong. Ch.                                      48.97\n    Waltham. Trin. Cong. Soc.                                 23.03\n    Waverly. Mrs. Daniel Butler, _for Mountain\n      Work_                                                   10.00\n    West Hampton. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                   5.00\n    West Medway. Sab. Sch., of Second Cong. Ch.               13.32\n    Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad\u2019l                     10.00\n    West Somerville. Young Men of Day St. Ch.,\n      _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                              25.00\n    West Springfield. Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle of\n      Park St. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._                        100.00\n    West Springfield. Sab. Sch. of Park St. Ch.\n      _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._                           43.42\n    West Springfield. Mrs. Aaron Bagg\u2019s S. S.\n      Class, _for Indian M._                                   5.00\n    West Springfield. Ladies\u2019 Mission Circle of\n      Park St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._                 5.00\n    West Yarmouth. Cong. Ch.                                   5.38\n    Whately. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. to const.\n      MRS. SARAH J. WELLS L. M.                               31.00\n    Williamsburg. MRS. SOPHIA K. NASH, to const.\n      herself L. M.                                           30.00\n    Williamstown. First Cong. Ch.                             21.57\n    Winchendon. North Cong. Ch., a\u2019dl                          2.50\n    Winthrop. \u201cFriends\u201d                                        0.80\n    Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 210.84; Piedmont\n      Ch., qr. 143.75; Family of Hiram Smith,\n      deceased, by Mary A. and Joanna F. Smith,\n      50; Park Cong. Ch., 5; Mrs. S. A. Howard, 5            414.59\n    Worcester. Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Ch.,\n      Petty, Tex._                                           100.00\n    Worcester. Mrs. Whittemore, _for Mountain Work_            2.00\n    Worcester. Logan, Swift and Brigham, Case\n      Envelopes; Whitcomb Envelope Co., Case\n      Envelopes, _for Atlanta U._\n    Worcester. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc. Central Ch.,\n      Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cCash\u201d                                               100.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend\u201d _for Rev. G. W. Lawrence_                   5.00\n    Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles\n      Marsh. Treas.:\n        Chicopee. Second                              38.05\n        Feeding Hills.                                21.13\n        Holyoke. First                                23.27\n        Huntington. Second                            21.10\n        Long Meadow. Ladies\u2019 Ben. Ass\u2019n.              15.35\n        Long Meadow. Gentlemen\u2019s Benev. Ass\u2019n.        26.23\n        Monson. Sab. Sch.                             50.00\n        Palmer. Second                               100.00\n        South Hadley Falls                            14.00\n        Springfield. First                            20.00\n        Springfield. North                            44.32\n        Springfield. South                            67.37\n        Springfield. Memorial                         31.47\n        Westfield. Second                             14.46\n        West Springfield. First Ch.                   35.00\n        West Springfield. Sab. Sch. First Ch.         20.00\n        West Springfield. Park St., _for\n              Indian M._                              52.91\n        West Springfield. Park St.                     5.00\n        Wilbraham.                                    12.25\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014  611.91\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $7,226.29\n\n    ESTATE.\n\n    Cambridge. Estate of A. E. Hildreth, by\n      Trustees, _for Freedmen_                               500.00\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $7,726.29\n\n\n  RHODE ISLAND, $297.10.\n\n    Central Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  31.10\n    Little Compton. United Cong. Ch.                          16.00\n    Peace Dale. Rowland G. Hazard, _for Atlanta U._          250.00\n\n\n  CONNECTICUT, $2,395.14.\n\n    Bethel. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Bolton. By Rev. L. H. Barber                              12.50\n    Bristol. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     50.00\n    Bristol. Mrs. Lewis, _for Williamsburg, Ky._               2.00\n    Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., to\n      const. CHESTER W. BENNETT L. M.                         50.00\n    Canaan. \u2014\u2014                                                 2.00\n    Center Brook. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn.\n      Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                                        25.00\n    Central Village. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Conn. Ind\u2019l\n      Sch., Ga._                                               1.00\n    Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.                          22.32\n    Cromwell. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Miss M. G.\n      Savage, _for Conn. Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                     19.00\n    Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc.              30.37\n    East Avon. Cong. Ch.                                      16.00\n    East Hartford. First Ch.                                  40.00\n    Fairfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian\n      Sch\u2019p._                                                 50.00\n    Farmington. Cong. Ch. (200 of which from Henry\n      D. Hawley, to const. ROBERT K. HOWE and JOHN\n      LEON WEBSTER L. M\u2019s)                                   317.63\n    Glastonbury. Miss A. M. Goodrich                          60.00\n    Goshen. Cong. Ch.                                         28.86\n    Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch.                                12.19\n    Guilford. \u2014\u2014                                             100.00\n    Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 100; Jos. W.\n      Hungerford, 100                                        200.00\n    Kensington. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. MRS.\n      MARY P. QUILL L. M.                                      4.25\n    Lebanon. First Ch.                                        32.38\n    Mansfield Center. Cong. Ch.                               16.60\n    Marlboro. Cong. Ch.                                       16.37\n    New Haven. Howard Av. Ch.                                 26.96\n    New London. First Cong. Ch.                               54.93\n    Norwich. Park Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._                200.00\n    Norwichtown. \u201c*, First Cong. Ch.\u201d                         24.00\n    Plantsville. \u201cTougaloo Mission Quintet,\u201d _for\n      Tougaloo U._                                            11.66\n    Plymouth. Geo. Langdon                                    50.00\n    Putnam. Second Cong. Ch.                                  35.38\n    Redding. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Mountain Work_                  10.00\n    Rockville. Second Cong. Ch.                               29.65\n    Simsbury. Cong. Ch.                                       33.17\n    South Britain. Cong. Ch.                                   9.89\n    Southington. First Cong. Ch.                              36.64\n    Taftville. First Cong. Ch.                                15.00\n    Terryville. Cong. Ch., 45: Elizur Fenn, 5;\n      Mrs. Elizur Fenn, 5                                     55.00\n    Tolland. Cong. Ch.                                        10.25\n    Wallingford. H. L. Judd, _for Sch\u2019p, Tougaloo\n      U._                                                     70.00\n    Wallingford. Cong. Ch.                                    66.84\n    West Hartford. Anson Chappell                             10.00\n    Westminster. Mrs. S. B. Carter, _for\n      Thomasville, Ga._                                        5.00\n    Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Soc.                            24.76\n    West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.                  134.32\n    Wilton. Cong. Ch.                                         10.00\n    Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       24.22\n    Woodstock. Sab. Sch. and Ladies of Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Thomasville, Ga._                                  16.50\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend in Conn.\u201d                                  100.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend,\u201d _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._             17.50\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Conn., by\n      Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:\n        Bridgeport. Ladies\u2019 Social Circle of\n              South Ch., _for Conn. Ind\u2019l\n              Sch., Ga._                              35.00\n        Chaplin. Ladies\u2019 Soc., _for Conn.\n              Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                        15.00\n        Enfield. Ladies\u2019 Benev. Soc., _for\n              Woman\u2019s Work_                           35.00\n        Pomfret. Ladies\u2019 Soc., _for Conn.\n              Ind\u2019l Sch., Ga._                        20.00\n        Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Ch.,\n              _for Ind\u2019l Work, Williamsburg,\n              Ky._                                    50.00\n        Wallingford. W. H. M. U., _for Ind\u2019l\n              Work, Williamsburg, Ky._                25.00\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014  180.00\n\n\n  NEW YORK, $2,270.42.\n\n    Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch.                                  1164.15\n    Brooklyn. \u201cA Life Member,\u201d to const. MISS\n      ISABEL SHIRLEY L. M.                                    30.00\n    Brooklyn. S. Ballard, _for Tougaloo, Miss._              250.00\n    Brooklyn. Woman\u2019s Miss\u2019y Soc. of Lewis Ave.\n      Cong. Ch., _for Woman\u2019s Work_                           13.40\n    East Beekmantown. John S. Kirby                           10.00\n    East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                       41.67\n    Fillmore. L. L. Nourse                                     5.00\n    Hopkinton. Cong. Ch.                                      10.00\n    Jamestown. Rev. W. D. Henry                               10.00\n    Jefferson. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson                         2.50\n    Little Valley. First Cong. Ch.                             4.00\n    Lowville. Mrs. Lydia C. Hough                             20.00\n    Middletown. Samuel Ayers                                   5.00\n    New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; F. P. Shumway,\n      1.50                                                   101.50\n    New York. Morris K. Jesup, _for Atlanta U._              200.00\n    Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc.                               39.60\n    Oswego. Cong. Ch.                                        140.04\n    Perry Center. Mrs. M. G. Richardson, \u201cin\n      Memory of Rev. J. C. Richardson\u201d                         2.00\n    Poughkeepsie. Cong. Ch., 26.54; First Reformed\n      Ch., 21.92                                              48.46\n    Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch.                                5.10\n    Spencerport. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to\n      const. Miss LOTTA M. SPENCER, L. M.                     33.00\n    Tremont. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                       10.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Country Friend\u201d                                   100.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cA Friend in Essex Co.\u201d                               25.00\n\n\n  NEW JERSEY, $46.00.\n\n    Arlington. Mrs. G. Overacre                                1.00\n    Westfield. \u201cMission Band,\u201d by Miss M. C.\n      Alpers, _for Santee Indian M._                          45.00\n\n\n  PENNSYLVANIA, $30.00.\n\n    Cowdersport. Mrs. M. W. Mann                               5.00\n    Pittsburg. First Cong. Ch.                                10.00\n    Ridgway. Young People\u2019s Bible Class, by Minnie\n      Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._                                  5.00\n    Washington. Mrs. Mary H. McFarland                        10.00\n\n\n  OHIO, $325.22.\n\n    Ashland. Mrs. E. Thomson                                   2.28\n    Bellevue. S. W. Boise                                    100.00\n    Brownhelm. C. H. Perry                                    10.00\n    Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch.                             81.15\n    Cleveland. \u201cHarry, Bert and Others,\u201d Jennings\n      Av. Cong. Ch., _for Ponies_                              2.15\n    Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch.                                  5.03\n    Edinburg. B. E. Bingham and \u201cFriends,\u201d _for\n      Indian M._                                              10.00\n    Garrettsville. Cong. Ch., 8, and 1.21 from\n      \u201cthe Children\u201d                                           9.21\n    Huntsburg. A. E. Millard and Mrs. M. E. Millard           15.00\n    Lodi. Cong. Ch., 7.85; Ladies\u2019 A. M. A., 2.25             10.10\n    Medina. Sab. Sch. Class, by Miss May Woodward              1.00\n    Oberlin. First Ch.                                        54.30\n    Salem. David A. Allen (5 of which bal. to\n      const. REV. DE COSTA POMERENE L. M.)                    25.00\n\n\n  ILLINOIS, $1,567.36.\n\n    Aurora. First Cong. Ch.                                    8.78\n    Bartlett. Cong. Ch.                                       20.75\n    Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch.                                    15.00\n    Chicago. \u201cFriends in New England Ch.,\u201d _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                60.00\n    Delavan. R. Hoghton                                       10.00\n    Downers Grove. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Sch\u2019p\n      Fund, Fisk U._                                           9.00\n    Dundee. Mrs. A. M. Rover, _for Dakota Indian\n      M._                                                      6.00\n    Evanston. Cong. Ch., to const. HARLOW B. HILL\n      and A. D. SANDERS L. M\u2019s                                86.87\n    Glencoe. Ch. of Christ                                    28.67\n    Granville. \u201cA Friend\u201d                                     25.00\n    Hennepin. Cong. Ch.                                       15.00\n    Hinsdale. Cong. Ch.                                       25.00\n    Hinsdale. Y. L. Miss\u2019y Soc., _for Sch\u2019p Fund,\n      Fisk U._                                                20.00\n    Jacksonville. First Cong. Ch.                             47.60\n    Lockport. First Cong. Ch.                                  4.65\n    Lyndon. Cong. Ch.                                          5.00\n    Millburn. Cong. Ch.                                        8.74\n    Millington. Mrs. D. W. Jackson, _for Indian M._            5.00\n    Moline. Juv. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._           7.86\n    Oak Park. Y. L. Miss\u2019y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for\n      Student Aid, Atlanta U._                                50.00\n    Ottawa. Cong. Ch.                                         22.78\n    Paxton. Mrs. J. B. Shaw, _for Student Aid,\n      Atlanta U._                                             10.00\n    Plymouth. Cong. Ch.                                       12.24\n    Providence. Cong. Ch.                                      8.45\n    Ridge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kern                            3.00\n    Sheffield. Cong. Ch.                                      20.00\n    Streator. Cong. Ch.                                        5.67\n    Udina. Cong. Ch.                                           5.30\n    Woodburn. Cong. Ch.                                       11.00\n    Illinois Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union, _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_, by\n        Mrs. C. E. Maltby, Treas.: Ill. W. H. M. U.   10.00\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014   10.00\n                                                             \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                            $567.36\n\n    ESTATE.\n\n    Chicago. Estate of Philo Carpenter, by\n      Executors                                            1,000.00\n                                                           \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n                                                          $1,567.36\n\n\n  MICHIGAN, $178.42.\n\n    Cheboygan. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian\n      M._                                                      1.30\n    Cedar Springs. Rev. E. C. Herrington                       5.00\n    Detroit. Fort Wayne Cong. Ch.                              5.06\n    Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch.                                    13.25\n    Hancock. W. M. Soc., _for Student Aid,\n      Talladega C._                                           25.00\n    Hudson. Cong. Ch.                                         12.65\n    Imlay City. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._               1.75\n    Michigan Centre. Cong. Ch.                                 3.20\n    Middleville. Cong. Ch.                                     2.26\n    Pleasanton. Cong. Ch.                                      2.00\n    Saint Joseph. Cong. Ch.                                   27.45\n    White Lake. Robert Garner                                 10.00\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Mich., _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas.:\n        Covert. L. M. S.                              10.00\n        Detroit. Ladies\u2019 Union of First Cong.\n              Ch.                                     50.00\n        Grand Blanc. \u201cWilling Workers\u201d                 9.50\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014   69.50\n\n\n  WISCONSIN, $417.53.\n\n    Beloit. \u201cL. M.,\u201d Second Cong. Ch.                          5.00\n    Bloomer. First Cong. Ch.                                   3.54\n    Delavan. Chas. T. Smith                                  100.00\n    Evansville. Cong. Ch.                                     20.25\n    Janesville. First Cong. Ch.                               50.00\n    La Crosse. First Cong. Ch.                                43.43\n    Lake Geneva. First Cong. Ch.                              10.00\n    Madison. First Cong. Ch.                                  10.42\n    Menominee. Cong. Ch.                                      14.56\n    Muckwanago. Cong. Ch.                                      2.13\n    Watertown. Cong. Ch.                                       6.20\n    Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union of Wis., _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_:\n        Appleton. W. H. M. S.                          8.25\n        Baraboo. Mrs. Dea. Clark                       1.50\n        Beloit. First Ch., W. M. S., to const.\n          MRS. LYDIA S. H. HAMLIN L. M.               30.60\n        Berlin. W. H. M. S.                            5.00\n        Black Earth. Dr. Stoddart                      2.00\n        Boscobel. W. H. M. S.                          5.00\n        Brodhead. Misses E. and J. Sherman             5.00\n        Clinton. W. H. M. S.                           4.25\n        Eau Claire. W. H. M. S.                       13.30\n        Fond du Lac. W. H. M. S.                      10.00\n        Lake Geneva. Ladies\u2019 Aid Soc.                 12.85\n        Mauston. Mrs. C. W. Barney                     5.00\n        Milton Junction. Misses Chapman                1.25\n        Milwaukee. Pilgrim Ch., W. H. M. S.           15.00\n        Rosendale. L. H. M. S.                         5.00\n        Sun Prairie. Mrs. Buel                         1.00\n        Waukesha. Y. P. S. C. E.                      10.00\n        Wauwatosa. W. H. M. S.                         7.00\n        Windsor. W. H. M. S.                          10.00\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014  152.00\n\n\n  IOWA, $161.81.\n\n    Algona. A. Zahlten                                        12.00\n    Anamosa. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 21.48; Sab. Sch.,\n      4.52                                                    26.00\n    Cedar Rapids. \u201cBusy Bees,\u201d Sab. Sch. First\n      Cong. Ch.                                                2.00\n    Creston. Cong. Ch.                                         1.70\n    Des Moines. Mrs. J. F. Rollins, _for Student\n      Aid, Talladega C._                                       3.00\n    Larchwood. Cong. Ch.                                       1.00\n    Manchester. Cong. Ch.                                     20.00\n    McGregor. Y. P. Mission Band of Cong. Ch.,\n      _for Student Aid, Straight U._                          12.50\n    Osage. Cong. Ch., ad\u2019l to const. MISS ANNETTE\n      H. WHITNEY and MISS STELLA LULA FAY L. M.\u2019s             57.84\n    Reinbeck. Cong. Ch.                                       24.77\n    Waterloo. Mrs. M. B. Forry, _for Talladega C._             1.00\n\n\n  MINNESOTA, $541.33.\n\n    Clearwater. Cong. Sab. Sch. of Fish Creek                  6.25\n    Elk River. Union Ch.                                       6.83\n    Faribault. Cong. Ch.                                      32.40\n    Granite Falls. Cong. Ch.                                   1.58\n    Northfield. \u201cWilling Workers,\u201d by Gertrude\n      Scriver                                                 22.50\n    Rushford. Cong. Ch.                                        3.91\n    Saint Cloud. First Cong. Ch.                              11.00\n    Tivoli. Lyman Humiston                                     2.00\n    \u2014\u2014. \u201cThank Offering\u201d (50 of which _for Student\n      Aid, Atlanta U._)                                      200.00\n    Minn. Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Society, _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_, by Mrs. Clara N. Cross,\n      Treas.:\n        Alexandria. W. M. S.                          20.00\n        Austin. W. M. S.                               9.80\n        Elk River. S. S.                               3.05\n        Excelsior. W. M. S.                            3.56\n        Glyndon. Children\u2019s M. Band                    2.30\n        Granite Falls. W. M. S.                        1.88\n        Detroit. W. M. S.                              1.00\n        Marshall. W. M. S.                             5.00\n        Mapleton. W. M. S.                             2.50\n        Minneapolis. W. H. M. S., Plymouth\n              Ch., to const. MRS. C. T.\n              INGERSOLL, MRS. CHAS. L.\n              LEONARD and MISS ADA WHITE L. M\u2019s       81.50\n        Minneapolis. Y. L. M. S. Plymouth Ch.         20.75\n        Minneapolis. W. M. S. Second Ch.               6.00\n        Minneapolis. Children\u2019s Miss. Band.\n              Open Door Ch.                            2.00\n        Morris. W. M. S.                               5.47\n        Northfield. W. H. M. S.                       40.00\n        Saint Paul. W. H. M. S., Park Ch., to\n              cons\u2019t. MRS. HUGH M. MILLER L.\n              M.                                      35.00\n        Saint Paul. W. H. M. S., Plymouth Ch.         10.00\n        Stephen. W. M. S.                              1.65\n        Waseca. W. M. S.                               3.40\n                                                      \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014  254.86\n\n\n  MISSOURI, $75.00.\n\n    Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch.                            75.00\n\n\n  KANSAS, $93.40.\n\n    Boston Mills. J. Hubbard                                   5.00\n    Burlington. First Cong. Ch.                                7.50\n    Douglass. Cong. Ch.                                        1.25\n    Lawrence. Plymouth Ch., 49.06; Second Cong. Ch., 6        55.06\n    Solomon City. \u201cThank Offering from a Friend\u201d               5.00\n    Sterling. Cong. Ch.                                       19.59\n\n\n  MONTANA, $12.76.\n\n    Helena. First Cong. Ch.                                   12.76\n\n\n  DAKOTA, $42.63.\n\n    Carrington. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._                     4.75\n    Clark. Cong. Ch.                                           6.20\n    Lake Preston. Cong. Ch.                                   11.00\n    Valley Springs. Cong. Ch.                                  4.09\n    Vermillion. Cong. Ch.                                     13.39\n    Dakota Woman\u2019s Home Missionary Union, _for\n      Woman\u2019s Work_, by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.:\n        De Smet. W. M. S.                              3.20\n                                                       \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014    3.20\n\n\n  NEBRASKA, $28.63.\n\n    Tremont. Cong. Ch.                                        20.63\n    Hemingford. Cong. Ch.                                      3.00\n    Oxford. F. A. Wood                                         5.00\n\n\n  OREGON, $7.49.\n\n    East Portland. First Cong. Ch.                             7.49\n\n\n  WASHINGTON TER., $5.00.\n\n    Christopher. White River Cong. Ch.                         5.00\n\n\n  CALIFORNIA, $17.40.\n\n    Riverside. Sab. Sch. Class, by Chas. W. Herron             3.75\n    San Diego. Second Con. Ch., 2.65; Sab. Sch.,\n      Second Cong. Ch., 1                                      3.65\n    Stockton. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D.                       10.00\n\n\n  DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $8.31.\n\n    Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch.                           8.31\n\n\n  KENTUCKY, $78.20.\n\n    Williamsburg. Cong. Ch.                                   48.20\n    Williamsburg. Tuition                                     30.00\n\n\n  NORTH CAROLINA, $86.37.\n\n    Nalls. Dea. A. B. Bruton                                   0.50\n    Troy. Tuition, 1.55; \u201cFriends,\u201d 1, by S. D. Leak           2.55\n    Wilmington. Cong. Ch.                                     83.32\n\n\n  TENNESSEE, $119.25.\n\n    Grand View. Tuition                                       29.80\n    Helenwood. Judge J. C. Parker                              2.50\n    Memphis. Tuition                                          15.00\n    Nashville. Rent                                            6.50\n    Robbins. Cong. Ch.                                         0.90\n    Sherwood. Tuition                                         64.55\n\n\n  GEORGIA, $59.80.\n\n    Andersonville. Coll. \u201cChildren\u2019s Day\u201d                      0.45\n    Atlanta. Nettie Smith, _for Atlanta U._                    0.50\n    Marietta. Cong. Ch., 50c., and Sab. Sch. 50c.              1.00\n    Rutland. Coll. \u201cChildren\u2019s Day\u201d                            0.65\n    Woodville. Pilgrim Ch.                                     2.10\n\n\n  ALABAMA, $245.65.\n\n    Marion. Tuition                                           55.00\n    Selma. Rent                                              100.00\n    Talladega. Tuition                                        90.65\n\n\n  MISSISSIPPI, $1004.00.\n\n    Tougaloo. State Appropriation, _for Tougaloo U._        1000.00\n    Tougaloo. Rent                                             4.00\n\n\n  INCOMES, $750.00.\n\n    Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._                               570.00\n    Belden Sch\u2019p Fund, _for Talladega C._                     30.00\n    Graves Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._                    150.00\n\n\n  CANADA, $5.00.\n\n    Montreal. Chas. Alexander                                  5.00\n\n\n  SANDWICH ISLANDS, $400.00.\n\n    \u201cSandwich Islands. A Friend\u201d                             400.00\n\n\n  CHINA, $5.00.\n\n    Fenchow Fu, Shansi. Rev. J. B. Thompson                    5.00\n                                                         ==========\n    Donations                                            $17,683.88\n    Estates                                                1,564.30\n    Incomes                                                  750.00\n    Tuitions                                               1,341.65\n    Rents                                                    110.50\n                                                         \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total for July                                       $21,450.33\n    Total from Oct. 1 to July 31                         235,884.73\n                                                         ==========\n\n\n  FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.\n\n    Subscriptions for July                                   $47.89\n    Previously acknowledged                                  826.12\n                                                            \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n    Total                                                   $874.01\n                                                           ========\n\n                                      H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,\n                                                56 Reade St., N.Y.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\n_Advertisements._\n\n                       JAMES McCREERY & CO.\n\n                  Importers and Manufacturers of\n\n                          Fine Dry Goods.\n\nIn this store customers can shop by mail as successfully as in\nperson.\n\nSamples for the Fall and Winter Season are now ready and will be\nsent upon application.\n\nOrders by mail or by express are executed the same day they are\nreceived.\n\n                        JAMES McCREERY CO.\n\n                    BROADWAY and ELEVENTH ST.,\n                             NEW YORK.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n[Illustration: TRY THEM. 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FERRIS & CO.\n  NEW YORK\n\n  USE\n\n  \u201cOur constant\n  aim is to make them\n  the Finest in the World.\u201d\n\n  \u201cOUR TRADE-MARK\u201d\n  BACON\n  BONELESS\n\n  MADE BY\n  FERRIS & COMPANY.\n  NEW YORK]\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n                            _6%_, _7%_.\n\n                   _THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO._\n\n                       OF EMMETTSBURG, IOWA,\n\nwith a PAID-UP CAPITAL of $600,000, SURPLUS $75,000, offers First\nMortgage Loans drawing SEVEN per cent., both Principal and Interest\nFULLY GUARANTEED. Also 6 per cent. ten-year Debenture Bonds,\nsecured by 105 per cent. of First Mortgage Loans held in trust by\nthe MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, New York. 5 per cent. certificates of\ndeposit for periods under one year.\n\n                 =7\u2154%= CAN BE REALIZED BY CHANGING\n                   =4 Per Ct. Government Bonds=\n                   Into 6 Per Cent. Debentures.\n\n          Write for full information and reference to the\n                            Company at\n\n                   150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.\n          A. L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n               _Positive Results_ of a Policy in the\n\n                 MANHATTAN LIFE, ON THE NEW PLAN.\n\n        Age, 30; Amount of Policy, $10,000; Term, 20 Years.\n\n  The Annual Premium will be                    $301.80\n                                                \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n  At the end of that time the Company will\n    return to the holder in cash,             $5,700.00\n\n  Thus the $10,000 insurance will have been\n    secured at the net cost for 20 years of\n    only                                         336.00\n                                              \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\n  $1.68 per year for $10,000 insurance, or if\n    the Cash be not drawn the policy will\n    become paid up for                       $10,050.00\n\nThese results are not estimated, but are fixed in a positive\ncontract, the full face of the Policy meanwhile being payable in\nthe event of the death of the assured. There is no forfeiture of\npayment on discontinuance of policy after three years, a =CASH OR\nPAID UP VALUE BEING GUARANTEED BY THE TERMS OF THE NEW YORK LAW.=\n\nFor examples of other ages, and also on the 10 and 15 years\u2019 plan,\nwrite or apply at the office.\n\nNOTE.\u2014The MANHATTAN\u2019S is the simplest form of policy in existence,\nand incontestible after three years, this feature having been\noriginated and adopted by this Company over 23 years ago.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                 The MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.,\n                  _156 & 158 Broadway, New York_.\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n                    JAMES M. McLEAN, President.\n               JACOB L. HALSEY, 1st Vice-President.\n                HENRY B. STOKES, 2d Vice-President.\n         HENRY Y. WEMPLE, Secy.      S. N. STEBBINS, Ac\u2019y.\n\n\n                 *       *       *       *       *\n\n\n\n\nTHE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING\n\nOF THE\n\nAMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION\n\nWILL BE HELD AT\n\nPROVIDENCE, R.I., OCT. 23-25.\n\n\nRev. Arthur Little, D.D., of Chicago, will preach the sermon.\n\nThe Meeting will be held in the Union Congregational Church, of\nwhich Rev. J. Hall McIlvaine, D.D., is Pastor. The friends in\nProvidence have already begun preparations for the reception of the\nAssociation.\n\nLife Members and Delegates chosen by contributing churches, Local\nConferences, and State Associations, constitute the Annual Meeting,\nas will be seen by the following article of the Constitution.\n\n  ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted\n  members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty\n  dollars into its treasury, with the written declaration at\n  the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied\n  to constitute a designated person a life member; and such\n  membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have\n  been completed. Other persons, by the payment of the same sum,\n  may be made life members, without the privilege of voting.\n\n  Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed\n  to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference\n  or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates to\n  the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly\n  attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association\n  for the year for which they were thus appointed.\n\nSo far as possible, the Providence churches will entertain those\nwho attend. Those purposing to be present and wishing entertainment\nare requested to write to Rev. J. Hall McIlvaine, D.D., Providence,\nR.I., Chairman of the Committee of Entertainment.\n\nSpecial rates will be arranged at hotels for those who desire to\npay their own way. Railroad and steamboat favors will be secured as\nfar as possible, and notices of reductions and other matters will\nappear later in this Magazine and in the religious press.\n\n       *       *       *       *       *\n\n\nHOLT BROTHERS\u2019 PRESS, 17-27 Vandewater St., N.Y.\n\n\n\n\nTranscriber\u2019s Notes\n\n\nObvious printer\u2019s punctuation errors and omissions silently\ncorrected. Period spelling and inconsistent hyphenation retained.\nDitto marks replaced with the text they represent to facilitate\neBook text alignment.\n\nUpside-down \u2018g\u2019 corrected in the entry for West Falmouth on page\n262.\n\nBidddford changed to Biddeford on page 262.","title":"The American missionary \u2014 volume 42, no. 9, September, 1888","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":18103}