Chapter L: A. P

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AFRICA.

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THE MENDI MISSION.

Eight Added to the Church—A Refreshing Sunday.

Rev. Floyd Snelson writes:

Last Saturday was our day for preparatory meeting, the following
Sabbath being the day of Communion. Ten persons presented
themselves as candidates for membership. All were examined
carefully, in open meeting; eight were received, as we believed
from their evidence that they were hopefully converted, and two
rejected on the ground that they were not married according to
law (this is one of the greatest evils that exist here, both
among the white and colored, there being no law to compel them
to marry). Sunday was, indeed, a day of great refreshing, there
being before us eight adults to be welcomed into the Church
of Christ, and seven children, in the arms of parents and
god-parents, to be consecrated to Him. And what increased the
joy was, that the whole week had been a rainy one up to late on
Saturday, when the good Master stopped the rain, and removed the
clouds gradually, and let the light of the sun beam upon us.
I would say more upon this precious subject, but the time for
closing the mail has arrived, and I am compelled to stop. Pray
for us.

Mr. E. White writes:

The thing I want to ask you about now is this—if you will help
me to take care of a few boys? When I was here the first of
the year, the people came almost daily to get me to take their
children and keep them in the mission, but I told them that
I was not allowed to do so; if I were, I would do it gladly.
Their reason was that, if they sent their children to the
mission-school, they would only be in the school a small portion
of the day, and at home most of the day and all night, and,
therefore, the evil influence which they would have over them
in that time would overbalance what the teacher would teach
them in the short time he would have them in the day; and they
wanted their children to “Sabby-book,” and if they did, they
must be taken away from them. They say that they don’t think
their children can become like the white man while they are with
them; the “pickin’” must be taken from the old people; and I
agree with them on this point. The vices which the old people
practice, the children will surely follow, if allowed to be where
they are. There are no children in this station, and we said in
our meeting that we would not take in any till we heard from
you; but, as I am a single man, you might not think of my taking
any mission children. Therefore, I write to ask you if you will
allow me to take some of the boys offered me. Some of the people
have promised to bring rice (which is the most they eat) for the
children, if I would only take them.

One being with these people every day can clearly see that the
redemption of Africa is in the little folks, and, therefore, I
think, that a number of these boys and girls should be taken by
somebody, and trained, as they are at Hampton.

This part of Africa is very little behind the South in 1866; and
see what the A. M. A. has done in that dark place since that
time? There are only two things that differ here from the South.
First, the colored people in the South had been taught to work
with more skill than these people have. Second, those at the
South had more civilized people to deal with than these people
have now. Take out these two, and Africa (this part), to-day,
will compare with the South before the A. M. A. took it in hand.
Now, if so much has been done in America, why not in Africa?

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THE INDIANS.

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S’KOKOMISH RESERVATION.

REV. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., PORTLAND, OREGON,

_Superintendent A. H. M. S., for Oregon and Washington Territories._

The best way to study the Indian problem is to study the Indians themselves. The agents and employees on the reservations have all the means to test every element of this question.

Safety of Life and Property.

The agent, Edwin Eells, Esq., with wife and children, has lived among the Indians here seven years. The employees and their families have lived here from one to six years each, all without harm or fear. At any moment the Indians could have killed them, stolen their property, burnt the dwellings, and fled to the rugged hills and mountains. The agent has traversed the country occupied by his bands, alone, or with Indians, by day and by night, without injury or alarm, leaving his wife and little ones at their mercy. Whisky is excluded from the reservation, but outsiders have sold it to the Indians, and exposed him and his household and company to danger from them, when excited by it, and the more when arresting them and arraigning and convicting the sellers in the courts. But in no case has he or one of the whites received a blow, or a stab, or a shot, or a threat from an Indian during all these seven years.

Like facts can be put on record of the safety of agents and employees, and their families, on most, if not all the reservations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.

Their property has also been safe. Agent Eells affirms that clothes are left out day and night, tools are left in open sheds, doors are never locked, and yet they have never had an article stolen. He adds that they have had no occasion to use force, or show weapons, except in the arrest or retention of criminals. For this police service he commonly appoints Indian constables. What is true on these counts of the S’Kokomish Indians, is true of other bands or tribes placed on reservations in this region. Those who live near them, or who have observed them in all conditions, both off and on the reservations, for the last fifteen, and even for thirty years, can bear witness that they are usually quiet, peaceable hunters, fishermen, or workers on farms, or in mills, or lumber camps, or in kitchens and laundries for the whites, exciting no fear among families, and causing no danger to lone travellers on the prairies or in the forests.

The Nez Percé reservation has been traversed for thirty years by whites in safety. Prospectors have ranged alone among their mountains, and through the gulches in all directions, in search of gold and silver for twenty years, in entire safety. Miners have followed and pitched their camps in every sort of lonely spot, exposed to the attacks of these savages. Long caravans of goods, in mule or wagon trains, in the care of a few teamsters, have passed back and forth among these Indians, and most of the other tribes, transporting merchandise of all kinds during the last twenty years, unmolested by the Indians. Express-men have had no fear to go to any mining camp of the upper country in charge of millions of gold. The mail carriers, on horses, have crossed and recrossed the whole Indian country unharmed. Stages, loaded down with mails and passengers, have rolled along over many of the same routes, having no more fear of Indians than of the white settlers, for whose convenience the post routes were established by government. Flocks and herds, in care of a few scattered men, have multiplied in all those regions. The robberies and murders, as the records of the courts testify, have been committed by white men. Sheriffs trace nearly every crime and outrage to the white, not to the Indian race.

The charges of a thieving, savage, murderous spirit made against the Indian in the public press, on the street, in the halls of debate and legislation, are not borne out by the facts. It is like charging a whole community with the vices and outrages of a small number of its members. It is like putting the stigma upon the whole South for the atrocities of Libby prison and Andersonville. It is the charge of fraud upon the U. S. A. for the defalcations and embarrassments of a few of her citizens.

In war or peace the Indian is cruel in revenge; but we cannot forget the massacres of Memphis. The victim in his grasp is tortured; but we remember the Chisholm and Hamburg horrors, and those in the negro parishes outside of New Orleans. He destroys without mercy, and devastates without remorse; but the Pittsburgh riots, the New York mobs, and the Commune of San Francisco, belong to the white race. He has burnt a few of our hamlets and settlers’ cabins. We have swept him and his household and his camps,—the only houses and cities that he can call his own—with canister and grape, the hail of iron and lead and fire. Having no commissariat, he has starved his prisoners. Without transportation or fortress for their safe keeping, he often raises the black flag and slays them at sight. But again and again, at the outset of battle, the order has moved along our line, “Take no prisoners!” Cold as steel, we have made a jest of his life, and hailed him good only when dead. We have steadily driven him from one hunting ground to another, over the rivers and beyond the lakes, hemmed him in from the gulfs and the oceans, crowded him off the prairies into rugged mountains, compelled him to sell his native lands, and have let loose the dogs of war upon him, because, forsooth, he has had the manhood to resist our march of doom against his race. If he has counted us the aggressors and the outlaws, we have hurled back upon him the fiercest invective known to human speech. If he, in the wild delirium of madness, has outraged and mutilated his captive, we have, in fiercer and more fiery passion, counselled, if not plotted, his extermination.

Progress in Civilization.

Proofs press upon the eye and ear of agents and employees that he does more and better with the means in his hand for the support of himself and family than other men would. I visited ten Indian families at their homes on the S’Kokomish reservation, on the 15th of August, and saw twenty more of their frame-boarded houses enclosed within their small claims. About thirty of the Indians, having finished haying, were away from home, most of them hunting in the mountains, or fishing at the weirs. Those at home had neat, well swept rooms, usually a sitting-room, bed-room and kitchen. Almost every one had a cooking stove, with its furniture, and crockery on the table, or in the cupboard a few chairs or benches, a clock in every house (often two), occasionally a rocking-chair and bureau, always one or two bedsteads, with beds and blankets, and often covered with a neat quilt of the wife’s taste and make. Cards and pictures were hung on the walls, and some of their photographs, also. They were dressed in comfortable clothes, and were glad of a call and a kindly greeting. They are adopting the manners of their white teachers.

The school, in charge of Deacon G. A Boynton, has a list of thirty-one pupils, twenty-four of them pure Indians, six half-breeds, and one little white girl. In dress, order and studiousness, they rank with many of our common-schools. In reading, singing, writing, at the blackboard, or in mental arithmetic, they evince ability to learn what white children learn. It is done more slowly, partly because while reciting in English they probably think in their own more familiar language, or in the jargon, and thus fail to get or convey the meaning of words quickly, and probably from lack of such mental training in their parents. The laws of heredity hold in them as in other people. Better shaped heads and finer brain power may be expected of their children.

In church and Sabbath-school, Indian parents and children meet with white parents and children, join in singing, listen to a sermon in the morning, translated by the interpreter into the Twana Indian language, and in the evening, to one in English. They exhibit a desire to learn the word of truth, and are profiting by their instructions. Several of the pupils in the school have become Christians and united with the church.

The testimony of the agent, the missionary, the teacher, the physician, the farmer and the carpenter, is uniform as to their capacity, and desire to improve and live like the whites, and of their real progress in industry and manner of living. They are trusted more and more, and they honor the trust.

It is cowardly to despise them and cast them out like dogs. It is noble to respect them as men and women, who have the rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. They have claims on us for sympathy and help to secure these things. It is a credit to lift up the lowest, if we count them so. Those who know them best have most hope of them, if given a fair chance.

A Neglected Treaty.

No man will clear land and make a farm unless he owns it, or has a lien upon it. The treaty pledges them an allotment for a homestead on the reservation. It was made by Gov. Stevens, in Jane 1855, at Point-no-Point, and ratified by the government in 1859. In private and public speeches, with one voice, they plead for their titles. They want the patents promised in the bond nineteen years ago. With these in hand, they will improve their homes still more. It is a reasonable demand. The plan to remove them from these lands, where they were born, excites their fears and their rebellion. We cannot expect them to rest in quiet and work with energy until we give them the motive of ownership in the soil they till and the timber they cut. This is the question of the hour for the Indian. Shall he own in law his garden and his field and his house, or hold it as a tenant at the will of another, liable to ejectment? If government grant the former, as it has promised, the largest factor of the problem will be found that will solve the rest of it.

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GREEN BAY AGENCY, KESHENA, WIS.

JOS. C. BRIDGMAN, ESQ., AGENT.

The Stockbridge tribe take very little interest in education. The head men, not specially interested, voted to have only six months’ schooling, paying the teacher but $25 per month. As this tribe receive $3,800 a year, the same being the interest on their funds in the hands of the Government, this meagre sum is illiberal. Rev. J. Slingerland, who has been both preacher and teacher for this tribe for many years, is still retained. While the number of children of school age is twenty-five, with nearly as many of the “old citizen” party, who are not allowed privileges, the greatest number attending any one month is thirteen, and the average for the year is ten. The church membership is twenty-nine.

The Oneidas are making an unusually good record. Their crops are nearly or quite one-third larger than last year. The school attendance shows an increase of thirty-seven, and the church membership fifty-three over last year.

The Methodist Mission-school is unfortunately located for reaching even a fair number of scholars, and Rev. S. W. Ford, without additional compensation, has opened a school a mile and a half distant; his daughter, Miss Mary W. Ford, teaching the Mission school without pay. The records of the two schools are seventy-nine scholars enrolled, with an average attendance of forty-five, against an average of twenty-six for the one school of last year. I am urging upon the Department the wisdom of establishing this new school, which was started as an experiment, with the result as above. Unless thus sustained it will be abolished, as Mr. Ford cannot give his time without reward.

The church membership, 178, has had some twenty-five additions the past year, as the result of a revival in the fall and winter of ’77–78. Two or three of its members have been licensed to preach the gospel. Exception to the rules of the Methodist Church is made, and Mr. Ford is now on his sixth year at this post, being found peculiarly fitted for work among the Indians, whom he well understands, having lived with this and other tribes of the State.

The Episcopal Mission-school has enrolled 114, many of whom are induced to come by gifts of clothing, etc., supplied by the Episcopal Mission. Average attendance for the year forty-five and two-ninths. The Episcopal Church is well attended by a serious and devout congregation on the Sabbath. Membership 150.

Although there is a lodge of Good Templars with this tribe, I regret to say that some of the members do not realize the sacredness of their oath as they should, and falling from grace is no uncommon occurrence; yet it has brought about a radical change with some who have been confirmed drunkards for many years.

The Menomonees have shown a wonderful spirit of thrift and enterprise the past year, putting 200 or more acres of new land under cultivation. Permission having been granted by the Department, it is proposed to hold a fair the last week in September, with a list of prizes for the best and second best productions of their crops, stock of all kinds, and manufactured articles by the women. Two hundred dollars in silver coin is to be given. This is creating a spirited impetus to good work, and lively times are expected on Fair-day.

The schools of this tribe have, we regret to say, taken a step backwards. In 1876, through the advice of Inspector Watkins, the day-schools were consolidated into a Manual Labor and Boarding School at Keshena, which far exceeded our most sanguine expectations in numbers and interest. The breaking out of the scarlet fever, in the fall term of 1877, compelled us to close the school, with but four or five weeks’ teaching. It was renewed on the 6th of January, but, owing to the non reply to letters, and the omission of instructions from the bureau, only eight weeks’ schooling has been had since January 1st.

At the present time we are waiting permission to employ a matron (as necessary to the success of the school as a teacher). This delay is to be greatly regretted, as fifty children could be easily gathered (the limit of our poor accommodations), while the day-school has an average of less than ten.

Crime and drunkenness is greatly on the decrease; not a case of any magnitude of the former, and but a very few cases of the latter, coming to my notice for the past year. This is a very hopeful sign with this tribe, many of whom are wishing to become citizens.

With the exception of scarlet fever, in a very mild form, among the Menomonees, the sanitary condition has been excellent with these people.

As you are aware, the religion of this tribe is about equally divided between the Pagan and Catholic, the former adhering closely to their rites and ceremonies, as for worship and the burial of their dead; and, when standing by, as they render their thanks to the Great Spirit for “our homes,” “our friends,” “our food,” asking His protection “from storms,” “from disease,” and, “when taken into the happy hunting-ground,” to be “found in favor,” etc., one cannot but feel that “He” who “is no respecter of persons” accepts their thanks and hears their petitions, although accompanied with the shaking of gourds and the pounding upon an Indian drum, instead of the grand _Te Deum_ from the organs of our city churches.

While the soil for Christian labor is unfavorable, and tares find root, to the choking out of good seed sown, yet we should take heart in the increasing desire on their part for better homes and farms, and the laying aside of the wigwam for good houses, the gun and rod for the plow and hoe. A slow and certain improvement in their habits from year to year is observable, and with kindness, honest dealing and right influence, the time is not so very far in the future when they can and will take a place in our nation, not a whit behind many pale faces.

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THE CHINESE.

“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”

Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.

PRESIDENT: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. VICE-PRESIDENTS: Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. L. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.

DIRECTORS: Rev. George Moor, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. W. E. Ijams, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, E. P. Sanford, Esq., H. W. Severance, Esq.

SECRETARY: Rev. W. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.

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We print the following letter from our Brother Pond, in regard to
the need and call for a mission work in Hong Kong, not because
the Executive Committee have formed any design of entering upon
such a work in the name of the American Missionary Association,
but only as these letters from converted Chinamen show to what
earnestness of missionary zeal they have been converted, and so
bear witness to the reality of their Christianization.

Even though we felt warranted in extending our work to embrace
a limited foreign field on the Chinese Coast, as we do not,
there are questions of comity which would forbid it. The English
missionary societies occupy the Hong Kong field in force, and
the Presbyterian Board have missionaries in the Canton district,
from which the Chinese immigrants come to our Western coast. We
shall be very glad if they, or either of them, will supply the
want indicated by our correspondent, and for which the Chinese
converts show such deep concern.—[ED’S AM. MISS.]

MORE ABOUT A MISSION AT HONG KONG.

While studying the proposition which I ventured to broach last month, for a mission at Hong Kong, which should be in intimate relationship with our Californian Mission, I requested our helper, Bro. Fung Affoo, to consult the Chinese brethren on the subject and tell me what they thought. Soon after, letters began to pour in upon me, till now I have about twenty on file, and it has occurred to me that extracts from these would interest the readers of the MISSIONARY. Some of them I can copy verbatim; some will need to be retouched a little in their English in order to be understood; but the ideas are their own, and the expressions will be modified as little as possible.

First of all, Affoo himself says: “I told the brethren at the meeting last Sunday what you said to me about establishing a mission at Hong Kong. They were very glad; their faces beamed with joy. They all wish, with one accord, that this enterprise will be accomplished before long.”

The first letter which I take from my file is from Wong Sam. He says “I wish you could establish a school in Hong Kong for a Young Men’s Christian Association, as we have here. Then we could hold all our brethren together when they go back to China, and they would not all scatter abroad. I am sure all our brethren will be glad to have one. I ask God all the time for it, if God is willing, for He knows what is best. We cannot do anything without the Holy One. Accept my warmest love and thanks for your kindness in expending so much on our account, and bringing us out of darkness. You will not lose your reward ‘in my Father’s kingdom,’ as Christ says.”

The next one which comes to hand is from Hong Sing, and addressed to Affoo. It reads as follows: “I heard you some time ago talking about if we would like have one American Association school in Hong Kong. I feel very glad, indeed, if we have one school in Hong Kong, that we may go back to our China and find a Christian Home. Canton and Hong Kong have two or three schools, but not our Congregational Association. You know how many of our Christian brothers have gone back to China. They find no Christian home; then they find very hard to be good, and bye-and-bye feel cold with Jesus.”

Joe Lee and Chin Quong write to say: “I like the idea of having a Christian school in Hong Kong very much, indeed. I think it will be great benefit, not only to the Christian boys, but also to the poor heathen boys there.” Chung Sun says: “I very glad; God very good to me. I like bye-and-bye go back China; tell father, mother, sister, brother, very good Jesus. If him all [i.e., his relatives] no like me I go Christian house, call Christian friend Help me tell father, mother, sister, brother, how very good Jesus is. If all man, woman love Him, bye-and-bye go heaven. If he all beat and _lick_ me, I go to the Chinese Mission at Hong Kong; very good, all the same my own church.”

Ah King writes: “Dear Mr. Pond—I am very glad in heart that I heard missionary schools be opened in Hong Kong. I think you make these things for our Christian brethren, just like builder build a stone foundation of buildings—the wind cannot blow off it.” That is, the mission work at Hong Kong will tend to secure the results of our work here. Without this, the winds of contradiction and persecution in China will tend to blow our brethren who return there off the foundation.

Perhaps these will suffice as samples, and I think that all the points made in the other letters are referred to in these. But the tone differs in different letters, and the fact specially emphasized; thus, for example, the chief point with one is, “If it [mission at Hong Kong] can be, it can keep us _doing good_ when we go back, and I thank God with all my heart.” With another, it is sorrow that we been without such a mission so long. “We plead,” he says, “our brethren to help us. I pray that God will bless you and open a way to make a mission in Hong Kong.” Another says, “If men can’t do it, we all hope God has an authority [has some way] do it for us. I hope our parents hear the gospel, receive it all, come to Him forever.” A refuge from persecution is often referred to. “We have great many trials, and I hope the Christians do this thing, then our brothers have a place to see each other. We are far from each other in China.”

I conclude with the following from Jee Gam, whose name is familiar to most of our readers—the helper longest in service with us; whose good judgment, Christian spirit, and untiring zeal, I have learned to greatly respect. He says: “I was very much pleased to hear that you have written to the A. M. A., requesting its permission and aid to establish a Chinese Mission in Hong Kong. Without attempting to add anything to what you have written, I will tell you what Ting Ki, the most active deacon of the London Mission at Hong Kong, said to me while I was there: that the best way to accomplish the most good is to open a mission and a Christian Association similar to ours here. He also said that the great need of the English language is now felt by most of the Chinese in that city, and in order to aid them, such schools as we have here should be established. This is the best way to reach them, so as to interest them in the Bible, which is our chief aim. As many of the people in that city are laboring people, they could attend school better in the evening than through the day. Ting Ki was very anxious to have me remain and establish such a mission-school, and teach them the English language. The brethren in the Oakland school all feel as I do about this matter, and they asked me to write for them, as well as for myself.”

I will add nothing to these expressions. I confess that as I read them over, they ring in my ears like the Macedonian cry, and I cannot but hope that our Association, hearing it, will endeavor immediately to go into this modern Macedonia, “assuredly gathering that the Lord has called us for to preach the gospel unto them.”—Acts xvi, 10.

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THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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From a Private Letter of a Pastor’s Daughter on a Visit to Talladega College, Alabama.

BY THE ROAD-SIDE, _Aug. 24, ’78_.

DEAR AUNTIE: Where do you think I am? This morning, Miss L. (the matron of the college) and Mr. W. (one of the teachers) and I started out, with horse and open buggy, for Anniston, a little town twenty-six miles away. We got up early, and ate our breakfast before the rest, then put the three satchels and water-proof, shawl, two umbrellas, two blankets and pail of oats and lunch-basket in the bottom and back of the buggy. Then we three piled in, stopping in the village just long enough to get some lemons. We had a lovely ride—part of the way through the woods—catching glimpses of the mountains in the distance, all along.

Perhaps you know that Alabama abounds in springs; so, whenever we go out for a drive or a picnic, we always aim for a spring—taking a gourd with us for a cup. We learned at a little town just below here that there was a fine spring a little farther on; and here we are now right in the woods. I am writing on a _Sabbath-school Teacher_, which doesn’t take the place of a desk very well. We have eaten our dinner and washed the dishes, and have been reading aloud. We are now just ready to pick up the blankets and things, and start again, for we have eleven miles yet to go. So, bye-bye, till the next stopping-place.

ANNISTON, ALA., _Sunday_.

I am going to write part of my letter Sunday, you see. I didn’t tell you what we came here for, did I? Well, many of the scholars at the college go out to teach in the summer, and sometimes the teachers who are staying there through vacation go off to see their old scholars, and encourage them in their Sunday-schools. They do a great deal of good in this way. I have visited two of these mission-schools; and this time we came to see Mr. M., one of the theological students who has just been ordained here at Anniston.

We found him and his wife living in a neatly-painted house, close by his little church. It did me so much good to go into his home and see what it was. Not much like most of the colored people’s houses—log-huts, dirty, low, and only one room, with so few comforts. This was a house of two rooms—the front room carpeted neatly; a nice bureau and bed in the room; a little table with books on it (one of which was a copy of Shakspeare!) In one corner of the room was his writing desk, with library over it—and a very good library it was; books on Isaiah and Psalms; Gospels and Epistles; several, or rather all of Barnes’ Notes; a book on Moral Philosophy, etc. I suppose that doesn’t sound like much of anything to you; but when you know how many of these people live, and how ignorant they are, it seems so much. There were pictures on the wall, a clock on the mantel, shades and curtains at the windows, etc. The church has a good bell, and is to be painted very soon.

We attended Sunday-school this morning. Mr. M. has a little blackboard, a review chart, question-books, Gospel-hymns, and all such things. It did seem, this morning, when I was there, that the colored people were advancing some. I am really interested in them, Aunt Sarah. Have you heard of _my_ little Sabbath-school? May H., a girl a little older than myself, and three of the students (girls), and a driver, start at half-past two o’clock every Sunday afternoon, in a mule-wagon. The school is held in a Mr. Allen’s house—colored—(not the house, but the man, you know). We have to go jolting over the roughest kind of a road to get there, crossing the railroad track twice. When we reach the place, we crawl through the fence and enter the little house. We find the children seated on benches made of rough boards. May and I take our places in chairs at the head of the school. Sometimes we have over forty children. We open the school by singing some of the Gospel-hymns, then follows the prayer; after talking a minute or two to the scholars, the teachers take their classes and benches out of doors, and teach right among the bee-hives and hollyhocks!

The room is too small for so many scholars, especially as there are two beds in it. After a while, the classes are called in, and one of the scholars chooses a hymn to sing. Then I ask questions about the lesson. Then we count the scholars and call their names, and give out papers. Then I ask for verses from the children, which they have learned in the classes. We then repeat the Twenty-third Psalm together, and close by saying, in concert, the Lord’s Prayer.

Now, you know a little of my Sabbath-school. I take ever so much pleasure in planning for it. Friday evenings we have a Teachers’ Meeting, just for us six teachers to talk over the school, and study the lesson for the next Sabbath. Those are dear little meetings. I enjoy them _so_ much. I hope I am helping a little to raise up these poor neglected people.

I will leave the rest of my paper for my next stopping-place.

BY THE ROAD-SIDE, _Monday_.

Here we are again, at the same lovely spring where we took our dinner Saturday. We have just lunched, and Miss L. is reading. Leila, our horse, is taking her dinner, and when she finishes it, we shall start again for _home_.

This morning we passed a whole field full of cardinal flowers. We picked some beautiful ones, which are now bathing in the spring. When riding here, we see such different sights from what we do in the North. There are such beautiful tall pines here. They grow up fifty or sixty feet before putting out any branches. The sweet gum-tree, too, is very pretty. In the distance it looks like a maple. We often see wild grape-vines covering trees, the stems as large at the bottom as my two fists. The English ivy seems to like this climate, too, for when it is planted by the side of a tree, it grows way up into the branches, and almost covers the whole tree sometimes. The passion flower grows in the fields here.

Leila is just eating her last oat, so we must be starting. I suppose my next stopping place will be Talladega. Good-bye. From your loving niece,

LAURA P. H.

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RECEIPTS

FOR AUGUST, 1878.

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MAINE, $279.20

Augusta. ESTATE of Mrs. Mary B. Buxton, by
Samuel Titcomb, Ex. 200.00
Bangor. First Ch. 7.80
Bath. Isaiah Percy $5; Beulah B. Percy $3;
Eliza Bowker $3 11.00
Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Brewer. First Ch. $6 and Sab. Sch. $2 8.00
Ellsworth. Mrs. L. T. Phelps and daughter 12.00
Falmouth. P. N. Marston 6.40
Lebanon. S. D. L. 1.00
North Anson. “A Friend” 5.00
Saco. D. J. 1.00
Winthrop. Mrs. E. H. N. 1.00
York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $259.35.

Antrim. “A Friend,” _for Wilmington, N. C._ 5.00
Auburn. P. C. 1.00
Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 45.00
Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.75
Brookline. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.50
Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.47
Concord. Individuals, by A. J. Herbert 3.00
Exeter. “Friend” 20.00
Francestown. Cong. Ch. $10; A. F. $1 11.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.76
Hampstead. “A Friend,” 50.00
Lancaster. Rev. C. E. S. 1.00
Mason. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.25
Meredith. S. S. Tappan 5.00
Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc. 23.87
Pittsfield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 17.00
South Merrimac. “A Friend” 2.00
Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.75

VERMONT, $852.65.

Benson. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.63
Cambridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $29.79; Dea. S.
Montague $10; J. T. Fullerton $3 42.79
Fair Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.87; Cong.
Sab. Sch. $25 51.87
Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Guildhall. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 0.50
Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25
Manchester. E. J. Kellogg 10.00
Monkton. Henry Miles 7.35
St. Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.88
Sharon. S. P. F. and Mrs. A. F. $1 ea. 2.00
Springfield. Mrs. E. D. Parks $100; Cong. Ch.
and Soc. $55.38. 155.38
Thetford. J. M. 1.00
Waterbury. L. Hutchins 500.00
West Westminster. Rev. A. Stevens 10.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,685.48.

Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.14
Ashfield. F. H. Smith 5.36
Athol. ESTATE of Mrs. Abigail Chaplain, by
Lewis Thorp, Ex. 300.00
Bellingham. E. W. 1.00
Beverly. ESTATE of John Lovett, by James Hill
and Chas. T. Lovett, Executors 1,311.31
Beverly. Miss Emma Harwood, proceeds of
Children’s Fair 2.00
Boston. Juvenile Class of Phillip’s Cong. Ch.
$18.75, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._; “A
Friend” $1 19.75
Boston Highlands. R. W. $1; J. F. 25c. 1.25
Charlton. Clarissa W. Case 5.00
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. 91.79
Duxbury. Mrs. A. P. Holmes 2.00
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.00
Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Georgetown. Orth. Memo. Ch. and Soc. 26.16
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Great Barrington. ESTATE of Mary and Nancy
Kellogg, by Hiram Crittenden, Adm’r. 500.00
Harwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (M. C. Coll.) 11.94
Haverhill. John Kendrick 10.00
Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fisk 5.00
Housatonic. W. G. 1.00
Hubbardston. Mission Circle $14, _for
Talladega C._; Mrs. Alden Pollard $6 20.00
Littleton. Orthodox Sab. Sch. 5.00
Long Meadow. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. $18.58;
Gents’ Benev. Soc. $18.25 36.83
Mansfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.41
Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Marshfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $58.52,
and box of Books. 58.52
Medway Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
GEORGE E. SANDERSON, JOSEPH JONES and REV.
H. A. HANAFORD, L. M’s. 112.50
Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.23
Monterey. Cong. Ch. 17.00
Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. 44.42
Northampton. First Cong. Ch. $33.91; Edwards
Ch. $29.22. 63.13
Norfolk. W. E. C. 1.00
Pittsfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; S.
F. 51c. 5.51
Randolph. “A Friend” 10.00
Reading. Old South Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.03
Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 120.00
Royalston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 130.50
Sandwich. H. H. Nye. 2.00
South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
South Hadley. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.62
South Weymouth. Ladies’ Mission Soc. of Second
Cong. Ch. 18.00
Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch. $15; South Cong.
Ch. $12.34; Mrs. Sarah Merrill $2.50 29.84
Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36.55; Cong.
Sab. Sch. $7.58 44.13
Townsend Centre. —— 8.00
Ware. “A Friend” 10.00
Woburn. Cong. Sab. Sch., for _Hampton, Va._ 70.00
Worcester. Union Ch. $46.37; Hiram Smith and
Family $30 76.37
West Boylston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00
Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.07
West Haverhill. Miss C. M. Smith 50.00
Winchendon. North Cong. Sab. Sch. 29.67
——. “R. A. L.” 100.00

RHODE ISLAND, $15.

East Providence. Cong. Ch. 15.00

CONNECTICUT, $887.46.

Brooklyn. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.00
Canterbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc 6.12
Cromwell. Cong. Ch. 60.00
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 64.17
Deep River. H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.25
Lebanon. First Ch. 48.70
Lyme. Grassy Hill Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00
Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 25.07
Mount Carmel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.17
New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 35.25
New Haven. College St. Cong. Ch. 66.50
New London. “Collected by a Friend,” _for
Mendi M._ 10.00
Norwich Town. First Cong. Ch. 41.50
North Stamford. Cong. Ch. $1.50; Mrs. A. A. N.
$1 2.50
Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 95.35
Rocky Hill. Individuals, by Miss E. M. W. 1.05
Salem. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Simsbury. Mrs. M. H. W. 1.00
South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $32.75 (of
which $10 from P. B. Averill, _for the Debt_) 22.75
Stafford. Mrs. Thomas S. Thresher 3.50
Terryville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
GERTRUDE M. FENN, NELLIE TERRY and LELIA
WILLIAMS, L. M.’s 110.40
Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.80
Westbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch. box of Books, by
Dea. I. N. Spencer.
West Haven. Cong. Ch. 19.40
Wethersfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.61
Wilton. Cong. Ch. 40.00
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Wolcottville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.37

NEW YORK, $807.23.

Albany. V. S. Knowles 2.00
Binghampton. J. D. Wells 5.00
Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Champion. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00
Columbus. “A Friend” 3.00
Copenhagen. Lucian Clark $10; Martha Smith $5 15.00
Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.65
Gaines. ESTATE of Henry O. Bidelman ($30 of
which to const. EDWIN S. BIDELMAN, L. M.),
by Charles Bidelman, Ex. 200.00
Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $28.72, to const.
MRS. L. A. SANFORD, L. M.; Cong. Sab. Sch.
$8.90 37.62
Greenville. F. H. W. 1.00
Homer. Cong. Ch. 32.15
Ithaca. Mrs. Adam Harrison 3.00
Le Roy. Mrs. Sarah Covert 5.00
Lima. Rev. H. N. P. 0.25
New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50.—Mrs.
Congdon $5, _for Fisk U._ 55.00
Oneida. Rose J. Topliff $50; H. P. Palmer $20 70.00
Peekskill. Prof. Robert Donald, Set of
School-desks and chairs.
Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.56; S. R.
Barber $10 40.56
Pompey. Mrs. James H. Child ($4.50 of which
_for Student Aid_) 5.00
Rome. Sarah H. Mudge 10.00
Spencerport. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 17.50
Syracuse. “S. J. W.” 10.00
Union Springs. Mrs. Mary H. Thomas, _for
Woodbridge, N. C._ 100.00
Utica. ESTATE of Job Parker, by T. and M. M.
Parker, Executors 140.00
Warsaw. Mrs. C. B. Darling $10; W. R., G. M.
P., A. W. N., O. F. P and A. G. B. $1 ea.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._—Mrs. S. A.
H. 50c. 15.50
West Winfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
—— ——. 5.00

NEW JERSEY, $20.

Newfield. Rev. Charles Willey 10.00
Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Ford 10.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $105.47.

Philadelphia. “B.” 50.00
Washington. Dr. F. Julius Le Moyne, _for Le
Moyne Sch., Memphis, Tenn._ 55.47

OHIO, $436.

Alexandria. Ladies, by Rev. D. S. Jones 5.00
Adams Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00
Cardington. W. C. Nichols 5.00
Cleveland. W. F. Hinman, _for Tougaloo U._ 50.00
Cincinnati. Rent $41.48, _for the poor in New
Orleans_.—Rev. B. P. Aydelott, D. D. $10 51.48
Dover. David Ingersoll and Mrs. Nancy H.
Ingersoll 42.00
Garrettsville. P. S. Tinan $5; A. C. W. 70c.;
“Friends” $1, _for Tougaloo U._ 6.70
Geneva. A. W. Hyman $10; Chas. Talcott $5;
“Friends” $1.05; Dea. G. C., M. C., W. E.
P., J. E. C., Mrs. A. E. H., Miss L. H. and
Mrs. H. A. W. $1 ea; Mrs. M. and Miss M. M.
K. $1; Mrs. E. W. S. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 24.55
Huntsburg. Young Ladies’ Soc. $5; Miss E. L.
Miller $2, _for Ind. Dept. Talladega, C._ 7.00
Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet 10.00
Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 6.25
Lenox. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Madison. Elias Strong $5; Mrs. H. E. H. $1; L.
J. W. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 6.50
Mecca. Burt Case $5; J. C. H. $1, _for
Tougaloo U._ 6.00
Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., by M. A.
Curtis, Sec., $12, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega
C._—Cong. Ch. $14; M. E. Nettleton $5; Mrs.
S. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._—Mrs. Ann G. Fenn
$2 33.50
Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. 52.58
Painesville. A Friend 5.00
Tallmadge. F. F. Fenn $6; Mrs. P. Seward $5;
Calvin Treat $3; Mrs. H. E. Wolcott, H. A.
Sackett, Wm. Hind, F. D. Alling and Daniel
Hind $2 ea.; Mrs. C. A. Sackett $1.25; H.
Carter $1.10; Mrs. E. A. W., Miss J. E. W.,
B. W. and Mrs. M. J. B. $1 ea; Mrs. L. A. S.
and Mrs. T. B. W. 50c. ea, _for Tougaloo U._ 31.35
South Ridge. Urania Haviland 2.00
Strongsville. Presb. Ch. $4.36; Mrs. A. P. $1,
_for Tougaloo U._ 5.36
Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. (of which $5 from
Sarah D. Todd). 26.37
Wauseon. Mrs. W. 0.50
Wayne. Mrs. Lydia Beers 2.00
West Andover. Rev. J. E. S. 1.00
Weymouth. Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 3.86
Windham. “Friends” $1.25; Mrs. E. K. H., Dea.
S. P., A. J., E. A., A. A. and G. A. M. $1
ea.; M. G. D. 50c., _for Tougaloo U._ 7.75
York. Cong. Ch. 16.25

ILLINOIS, $239.18.

Amboy. Mrs. D. W. Slauter 1.50
Canton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Chicago. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch., $25,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._—Mrs. S. P. H. 50c. 25.50
Hutsonville. C. V. Newton 2.00
Ivanhoe. R. Osgood 5.00
Lafayette. Mrs. D. J. H. 2.00
Lake Forest. Mrs. S. B. Williams, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
Moline. F. H. Williams 14.00
Morrison. Cong. Ch. 21.51
Newark. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Oak Park. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 10.00
Odell. Cong. Ch. 8.25
Payson. Cong. Ch. (of which $50 from J. K.
Scarborough) 80.00
Peoria. Cong. Ch. (in part) 22.92
Solon Mills. R. R. C. 1.00
South Holland. Rev. A. B. 0.50

MICHIGAN, $290.60.

Ada. T. I. H. 1.00
Adrian. Stephen Allen 5.00
Allegan. J. M. McCord, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 5.00
Almont. Ladies of Cong. Soc. $5; Mrs. H. G.
(Romeo) $1, _for a Missionary, Memphis,
Tenn._ (Incorrectly ack. in August Mag.)
Alpena. “A Friend,” _for Indian Boy, Hampton
N. and A. Inst._ 25.00
Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. $23.50; Isaac
Elliott $5 28.50
Armada. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.48
Battle Creek. Mrs. Dr. J. B. Chapin 3.00
Benzonia. W. B. $1; “A Friend” 50c. 1.50
Bellevue. “A Little Band of Cheerful Givers in
First Cong. Soc.” $11.30, by Mrs. H. L.
Berry. (Ack. incorrectly in Sept. number
from Bellevue, Ohio.)
Detroit. Rev. H. D. Kitchell $25; “A Friend”
$21.40; Miss H. $1, _for Missionary,
Memphis, Tenn._ 47.40
Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Grand Haven. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Leland. Rev. G. T. 1.00
Litchfield. Cong. Ch., to const. F. C. MEAD L.
M. 31.00
New Baltimore. Miss Hattie Milton, _for
Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 7.00
Northport. Cong. Ch. 11.72
Rochester. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for
Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 3.00
Union City. “A Friend,” (in part) to const.
AARON C. HENDERSON L. M. 40.00
Vermontville. L. P. D. 1.00
White Lake. Robert Garner $10; John Garner $5 15.00

WISCONSIN, $103.78.

Burlington. Plymouth Ch. (in part) 11.35
Delavan. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Elk Grove. Cong. Ch. 8.25
Fort Howard. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Fox Lake. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Leeds. Cong. Ch. 3.85
Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 19.10
River Falls. Cong. Ch. 9.66
Waukesha. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 7.00
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 11.57

IOWA, $200.84.

Burlington. Cong. Ch. 34.11
Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch. 72.00
Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer 10.00
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. 60.00
McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 14.56
Oskaloosa. M. B. Turner, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 2.17
Wintersett. Sarah Dinsmore 8.00

MINNESOTA, $109.30.

Afton. Cong. Ch. 3.50
Audubon. Cong. Ch. 2.84
Minneapolis. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.
$25; Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. $17, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._—Plymouth Ch. $17.55 59.55
Northfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 39.41
Sleepy Eye. Cong. Ch. 4.00

KANSAS, $2.

Burlington. John Morris 2.00

NEBRASKA, $15.50.

Brewer Crossing. Mrs. E. T. 1.00
Omaha. Cong. Ch. 14.50

MISSOURI, $1.50.

Ironton. J. Markham 1.50

NORTH CAROLINA, $93.54.

Raleigh. Public Fund. $75; Washington Sch.
$18.54 93.54

GEORGIA, 45c.

Woodville. Pilgrim Ch., _for Mendi M._ 0.45

ALABAMA, $567.11.

Montgomery. Public Fund $181.26; H. A. L. 50c. 181.76
Talladega. Talladega College. $185.35; Rev. E.
P. Lord $200 385.35

MISSISSIPPI, $5.

Tougaloo. Rev. G. S. Pope 5.00

SCOTLAND, $105.

Edinburgh. Adam Parsons $100; Mrs. Wm. Lillie
$5 105.00

TURKEY, $5.

—— “A Wanderer” 5.00
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Total 9,086.64
Total from Oct. 1st to August 31st. $151,757.14

H. W. HUBBARD, _Ass’t Treas._

RECEIVED FOR DEBT.

Goffstown, N. H. M. A. Stinson 5.00
Conway, Mass. Rev. A. Shirley 1.00
Collinsville, Conn. “Friends” 3.00
Fairfield, Conn. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
New Haven, Conn. E. Pendleton 20.00
Putnam, Conn. “A Friend” 17.50
South Britain, Conn. P. B. Averill 10.00
West Hartford, Conn. M. A. Ellsworth 5.00
New York, N. Y. “A Friend” 100.00
Andover, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Case, $10 ea. 20.00
Bell Brook, Ohio. Daniel Holmes 10.00
Berea, Ohio. J. S. Smedley 10.00
Cleveland, Ohio. “A Memorial” 250.00
Sandusky, Ohio. Mrs. S. B. Caldwell 10.00
Toledo, Ohio. Mrs. M. A. Harrington 10.00
New Corydon, Ind. Geo. Stolz 10.00
Logansport, Ind. Mrs. J. C. Merriam 5.00
Dwight, Ill. J. C. Hetzel 25.00
Elgin, Ill. W. G. Hubbard 50.00
Milan, Ill. Mrs. J. M. N. Daniels 1.00
Moline, Ill. John Deere 25.00
Plymouth, Ill. L. A. Cook 5.00
Polo, Ill. Mrs. R. M. Pearson 5.00
Princeton, Ill. Mrs. A. R. Clapp 50.00
Princeton, Ill. Mrs. P. B. Corss 20.00
Alpena, Mich. “Friends” 25.00
Hillsdale, Mich. Mrs. H. I. Mead 5.25
Imlay, Mich. Mrs. N. D. Glidden 5.00
Olivet, Mich. W. B. Palmer 50.00
Olivet, Mich. Mrs. H. L. Porter 5.00
Marion, Iowa. Mrs. R. D. Stevens 25.00
Marion, Iowa. Miss Mary Stevens 5.00
Marion, Iowa. Miss Louise Stevens 5.00
Marion, Iowa. Master Redman Stevens 5.00
Appleton, Wis. Miss Ann S. Kimball 20.00
Appleton, Wis. “Ruth” 10.00
Bristol, Wis. Charles M. Fowler 10.00
Fort Howard, Wis. Mrs. C. L. A. Tank 50.00
——————
892.75
Previously acknowledged in July Receipts 13,215.47
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Total $14,108.22

RECEIVED FOR TILLOTSON C. AND N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Bridgeport, Conn. MRS. MARY BISHOP, to const.
herself L. M. 50.00
Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. KINGMAN, to const.
herself L. M. 30.00
Chester, Conn. Dea. E. C. Hungerford 30.00
Greenwich, Conn. Miss Sarah Mead 100.00
Greenwich, Conn. Dea. Josiah Wilcox 25.00
Greenwich, Conn. Miss Hannah Mead 20.00
Greenwich, Conn. Richard B. Carpenter 10.00
Greenwich, Conn. E. A. Knapp 10.00
Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. Eliza Clark 5.00
Greenwich, Conn. Mrs. A. S. Downes 1.00
Harwinton, Conn. Mrs. F. S. Catlin 10.00
New Hartford, Conn. Dea. H. W. Brown 10.00
New Hartford, Conn. Mrs. H. W. Brown 3.00
Plymouth, Conn. George Langdon 10.00
Rocky Hill, Conn. Mrs. A. Williams 1.00
Winsted, Conn. C. J. Camp 25.00
Rockland, Mass. Mrs. Rachel B. Reed 30.00
Pekin, N. Y. MISS A. PECK, to const. herself
L. M. 30.00
Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Maria Willets 10.00
Purchase, N. Y. Mrs. Sarah W. Collins 10.00
Purchase, N. Y. Miss Sarah Collins 1.00
Onargo, Ill. Mrs. L. C. Foster 20.00
Olivet, Mich. William B. Palmer 200.00
——————
641.00
Previously acknowledged April Receipts 824.00
——————
$1,465.00

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

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AIM AND WORK.

To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.

STATISTICS.

CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 11; Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4. _Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.

INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH. _Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; _Other Schools_, 7. Total, 26.

TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS—Among the Freedmen, 209; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 16; in foreign lands, 10. Total, 252. STUDENTS—In Theology, 74; Law, 8; in College Course, 79; in other studies, 5,243. Total, 5,404. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by _regular_ and _larger_ contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as the strong.

2. ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS for our higher educational institutions, to accomodate the increasing numbers of students; MEETING HOUSES, for the new churches we are organizing; MORE MINISTERS, cultured and pious, for these churches.

3. HELP FOR YOUNG MEN, to be educated as ministers here and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.

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See below Card of Am. Tract Society, which is endorsed by Rev. A. H. Clapp, D. D., Treas. Am. Home. Miss. So.; and Rev. Dr. Thwing, Sec. Board of Foreign and Domestic Missions of the Prot. Episcopal Church.

American Tract Society,
150 NASSAU ST., N. Y., _Nov_. 23, 1877.

ACME LETTER FILE M’F’G CO., _49 John St._:

_Gentlemen_—It gives me great pleasure to say to you that the Acme Parchment Paper bought of you has given perfect satisfaction; for toughness and ability to resist hard wear it is unsurpassed. I have commended it to several clergymen for use as Sermon paper, and they are much pleased with it.

Yours truly, H. E. SIMMONS, _Business Agent_.

N. B. The public are cautioned against a cheap imitation of this paper, resembling it only in color, but possessing none of its good qualities.

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Mme. DEMOREST’S

Grand Opening

Of all the distingue Styles and Exquisite Novelties for the Fall and Winter Fashions. 5 Rue-scribe, Paris; 17 East 14th St., New York, and all the agencies everywhere. Paris Exposition Medal in Fashion Department awarded to the Demorest House. Now ready, Portfolio, with 500 large illustrations, 15c. “What to Wear,” with full information, 15c. “Quarterly Journal,” 5c; either post free.

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Autumn and Winter Fashions. A Book of over 100 pages. Containing full and complete information on every department of Ladies’ and Children’s Dress, including Materials, Trimmings, Laces, Traveling, Wedding and Mourning Outfits, Costumes of all descriptions, Jewelry, Coiffures, Millinery, etc., etc. _Price 15 cts; Post Free._

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Of Fashions for the Autumn and Winter Fashions of 1878–9. A large and beautiful book of 52 quarto pages, containing over 500 LARGE ILLUSTRATIONS of the Latest and Best Styles, including all the standard and useful designs for Ladies’ and Children’s Dress, with French and English descriptions, amount of material required, etc., etc. _Price 15 cts; Post Free._

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A choice of double premiums for 1879. The beautiful and highly-priced Oil Pictures, “THE LION’S BRIDE,” 15×21 in., “ROCK OF AGES,” 15×21 in., two pictures to each subscriber at $3.00; or a selection from 20 other useful and valuable articles. Useful and valuable premiums also given to persons sending a number of names. Send postal card for full particulars. Subscriptions can commence with any month. Address W. JENNINGS DEMOREST,

_5 Rue Scribe, Paris; 17 E. 14th St., New York_, or any of Mme. Demorest’s Agencies.

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A. S. BARNES & CO.

Educational Publishers.

TEACHERS are requested to send for our Descriptive Catalogue of 400 Text Boots and Professional Manuals.

A. S. B. & Co., also publish

Dale’s Lectures on Preaching:

As delivered at Yale College, 1877. Contents: Perils of Young Preachers; The intellect in Relation to Preaching; Reading; Preparation of Sermons; Extemporaneous Preaching and Style; Evangelistic Preaching; Pastoral Preaching; The Conduct of Public Worship. Price, postpaid, $1.50.

Chas. G. Finney’s Memoirs:

Written by Himself. 477 pp., 12mo, $2.00.

“A wonderful volume it truly is.”—_Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D. D._ “What a fiery John the Baptist he was.”—_Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D._

Ray Palmer’s Poetical Works:

Complete. With Portrait. 8vo, full gilt, rich, $4.00.

Memoirs of P. P. Bliss:

By Whittle, Moody and Sankey. With portraits of the Bliss Family, on steel. Price $2.

Lyman Abbott’s Commentary

ON THE NEW TESTAMENT (Illustrated). Matthew and Mark (1 vol.), $2.50; Luke, $1.50: others nearly ready.

“Destined to be _the_ Commentary for thoughtful Bible readers.... Simple, attractive, correct and Judicious in the use of learning.—_Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D._”

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111 & 113 William Street, New York.

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The Book of Psalms.

ARRANGED FOR RESPONSIVE READING
SABBATH SCHOOL, OR SOCIAL OR FAMILY WORSHIP.

The current version is strictly followed, the only peculiarity being the arrangement according to the _Original Paralellisms_, for convenience in responsive readings. Two sizes. _Prices_: 32mo, Limp Cloth, 30 cts. per copy, $25 per 100; 16 mo. Cloth, 70 cts. per copy, $56 per 100. Sent postpaid on receipt of price.

TAINTOR BROTHERS, MERRILL & CO., Publishers
758 Broadway, New York.

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MASON & HAMLIN ORGAN CO.,
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THE SINGER

LEADS THE WORLD!

Works of the Singer Manufacturing Co., Elizabeth, N. J.

Notwithstanding the great depression of business, THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY made and sold

282,812 Machines in 1877—BEING 20,496 =MORE= THAN IN ANY PREVIOUS YEAR.

_PRICES REDUCED_ =$30= _ON EACH STYLE OF MACHINE_. _Send for Circular._

☞ The public are warned against a counterfeit machine, made after an _old abandoned model_ of our Machine. To get a genuine “SINGER SEWING MACHINE,” buy only of our authorized Agents, and see that each Machine has our Trade-Mark stamped on the arm.

THE SINGER M’F’G CO., Principal Office, 34 Union Square, New York.

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From the Vienna and Philadelphia Exhibitions

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W. & B. DOUGLAS,

Middletown, Conn.,

MANUFACTURERS OF

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Founded in 1832.

Branch Warehouses:

85 & 87 John St.

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AND

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Established A. D. 1850.

THE

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156 Broadway, New York,

HAS PAID

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HAS PAID

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HAS A SURPLUS OF

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_By New York Standard of Valuation._

_It gives the Best Insurance on the Best Lives at the most
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