Chapter M: M. G. Dana, (2)

But beside this aspect of the case, and to a great extent independently of it, the judgment asked for, _viz., the adoption of the policy of exclusion, was considered_. Whereupon it appeared that it was the proposal of an act no less serious, no less forbidden, than to disown and repudiate a principle, the maintenance of which more than any other thing distinguishes us as a nation, which our fathers built into the foundation of our government, which we have always advocated to the world in every publishment of our political creed—a principle which we have ever claimed to be one of natural right, which we have persistently endeavored, from the outset of our national existence, to persuade other governments to recognize as such, and which we had particularly emphasized in the very treaty of which this act, if consented to, would be the violation. It appeared, furthermore, that it was a proposal that we take toward China the very attitude which we had helped force China out of, as towards ourselves and other nations, _i. e._, that we borrow a page of cast-off Chinese politics and insert it in our law—that it was a proposal to return from the nineteenth to the eleventh century, and convert to the use of a modern free republic something in the likeness of a medieval edict against the Jews; that, finally, it was a proposal to go back upon ourselves, to revoke our own most recent step of advance in civilization, and restore that doctrine of race discrimination, which we had lately put away.

And when this was seen, the country said, No! Legislature, chamber of commerce, institutions of learning, benevolent organizations, united in the protest. The general voice was, that whatever evil there was to be remedied must be dealt with in some other way. A Congressional committee, indeed, brought in a report not warranted by the evidence it had heard, favorable to the policy of exclusion—the lamented Morton dissenting—and Congress itself passed the anti-Chinese bill. But that was Congress, which has reasons of its own for what it does sometimes, not very mysterious in this instance. But the report for the people, which the people with little distinction of party gratefully and audibly accepted, was made by President Hayes in his strong veto.

Of course the Chinese Government, through its representatives at Washington, is accurately informed of all this; and besides, the Chinese Government reads the papers. Thus an attempt which, had it succeeded, would have destroyed our friendship with China, has not only failed, but has been the occasion of such an expression of the national sentiment of good-will toward her as never had been made before, and as could not have been made otherwise.

A minor but very much to be noted result of the affair has been _the disclosure of the actual state of things in California_. It has shown how and where the anti-Chinese movement started, how low its origin was and how it grew, by what means, by what management it drew into it such respectable elements as it did; that it was fomented by the press operating in the field of State politics—that it was mainly a worked-up irrational furor kindling by contagion, and did not really signify what it seemed to. It was shown that much of the best part of California was not in it. Why, the evidence for the defence on which the country, balancing it with the other evidence heard, found its verdict aforesaid, was, all of it, the evidence of California men—men from the first rank of citizenship. It transpired that there was in California a not inconsiderable party on the poor Chinaman’s side, not forbearing to denounce and oppose the violation of his rights, and to testify in his favor, that much as had been said and done there against him, a good deal in the name of Christian benevolence and humanity and justice had been said and done for him. And so in the upshot of the public trial of the case it has come about that the offence of California is mitigated by it.

And to the affront perpetrated in the halls of Congress in addition to the offset furnished by the public attitude, there has been a special one, too remarkable not to be mentioned. It was a most lamentable spectacle to see a man like James G. Blaine, of New England, in the eminence of his position, his great gifts and his reputation, stand up in the United States Senate, and before the world turn the power of his rare eloquence against the cause of the weak. It was too bad. It cannot be excused. But not only did his utterances call out replies from the most capable and influential sources, notably from Dr. S. Wells Williams, long resident in China, but now of Yale College, than whom there is no higher authority on China and Chinese affairs living; from Henry Ward Beecher, in a splendid address given in Philadelphia on the 3d of last March; and from William Lloyd Garrison, in a noble letter of protest, his dying deliverance, the last shot the old warrior for humanity fired;—not only, I say, did Mr. Blaine provoke these replies by which he was convicted of ignorance and fallacy and his argument throughout annihilated; but it happened that almost at the same time he was misrepresenting both China and us at the Capitol, another citizen of this country, in the eminence of a still more illustrious fame, was in the far East, in the audience of China herself, speaking our true mind for us; for it was to a delegation of the Chinese merchants of Penang that, in the month of April of the present year, Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, in that felicity of well-chosen and straightforward simple speech that is characteristic of him, said, “The hostility of which you complain does not represent the real sentiment of America, but is the work of demagogues. * * * I do not doubt, and no one can doubt, that in the end, no matter what effect the agitation for the time being may have, the American people will treat the Chinese with kindness and justice, and not deny to the true and deserving people of your country the asylum they offer to the rest of the world.” And may God bless him for saying it.

Moreover, in the month of June following, this same man of great deeds and weighty speech, in an interview with certain of the highest officials of the empire at Peking, and at their request, offered counsel, which a few weeks later, on a like request, he repeated in an interview with the Emperor of Japan, to the effect that the time had now arrived when the two nations of China and Japan, in peace and close alliance with one another, should no longer submit as they had done to the interference and dictation of foreign powers in their affairs; should assume control of their own commerce, and together stand for their independence and their proper rights, as it became so great nations to do, and as they were able to do against the world. God bless him for saying that, too! It was the most seasonable word, next to the Gospel, that has been spoken on that side of the world in this age. And I, for one, am thankful and proud that it was an American who had the breadth of vision and the magnanimity to speak it.

And now there remains to be spoken of an outcome of good from the anti-Chinese agitation that is of more immediately practical consequence than any other. It has been the occasion of calling universal and earnest _attention_, such as had not been drawn to it before, and such as it is scarcely conceivable could have been drawn to it otherwise, _to the fact of the presence within our borders of so many of the Chinese people_. The nation at large is now aware of them and informed with respect to them. While it is not yet settled what is to be done with them politically, and while no doubt there will be further contention over them, it does seem to be settled that they are not to go by a violent dismissal. Here they are, then, more than a hundred thousand souls of them, and here they are to stay. They are an object of the very highest interest, and that for more reasons than one. Not only are they such in themselves, but they constitute by far the most vital point of our contact with that great nation beyond the sea, and afford the most available means and medium of reaching it that we possess. And we are interested in them on our own account. By their presence we have already been put to the test in one way, and we are still to be tested by them in other ways. We are to be tested as to the capacity of our civil institutions, and as to the power of our religion—no, not as to the power of our religion, but as to our power in it.

It is one of the most humiliating confessions that can be made, to say that these people cannot be granted room on our soil, with liberty and justice under our laws, with safety to ourselves. It is a still more humiliating confession to say that the attempt to Christianize them is a hopeless one.

Is it so that in their case we have come to the end of our resources for securing men the exercise and enjoyment of their few inalienable rights under our Government? Then they are vastly less than we had thought. Is it so that the encounter of our Christianity with heathenism in the persons of a few score thousand pagans, here on our ground, within hearing of our Sabbath bells, is too much to be ventured, lest heathenism win the day? Then there is not enough to our Christianity to make it much matter.

It is all absurd to say such things. It is not indeed to be questioned that the problem of dealing with this strange element thrown in upon us is a perplexed and difficult one; but it is not the first perplexed and difficult matter we have had to accommodate, nor is it the last. Our labors as a nation are not over. The time when there will be no perilous or incommoding exigencies arising to disturb our ease as citizens is far distant. Who thinks it not so is greatly mistaken. As other vexing problems in the past have been solved, so with patience this Chinese problem can be without sacrifice of principle.

OUR CHRISTIAN DUTY.

It is a work in which the state and the church must co-operate. But we are here to-day to look especially to the part which the latter has in it—as servants of Christ and as representatives of the Christian community to attend to the cry of the poor that comes to us from the Pacific coast, and to consider how we shall respond to it.

The one thing which we are disallowed, be it first of all observed, is to deem that our principal duty in the premises is discharged by giving hard words to California. We are not to sit in judgment on California. We are not in a position to do so, and I trust we are not disposed to do so. There are reasons which the rest of the country does not perceive, certainly does not feel as California does, why the presence in her population of this unassimilated foreign mass is very undesirable and very trying. Not a doubt of it. I have heard Yung Wing himself say it. We may with propriety, in view of some reasons, on the other hand, that naturally enough we see more clearly than they do in California, plead with our fellow-citizens there to try and discern the larger aspects of the situation, and to bear whatsoever ills it entails upon them till they can be remedied in the way that is best for all of us and for all men. If I had the ear of the Irish citizens of California I would plead with them, as lately foreigners themselves, and as sons of a church that for more than five hundred years has befriended China through her missions, and is still doing it, to regard these new foreigners with more kindness.

California is a grand State—splendid in her youthful prime—a queenly figure sitting there on her golden shore—our own flesh and blood. Our warmest sympathies, our best hopes are with her. To look upon any fault of hers with less than a generous charity is out of character, and besides, in the present instance, it is nothing to the purpose. The only course for Christian America to take at this juncture is to offer California our Christian service. That we can do, and the way of it is plain. There are faithful brethren and faithful churches in California ready and waiting for help in the work already by them inaugurated, and carried on sufficiently far to prove beyond cavil the practicability of its success, bringing these Chinese thousands under the sway of the gospel of Christ. Some help we have sent them, but not enough. There ought to be abundance of it; not only abundance, but a sufficiency—all that can be used to advantage. This is a mission that ought to be lavishly supported, that ought not to be stinted as respects either money or men. And the time to push it is now. If the churches of the country will encourage and assist the enterprise in a free-handed, free-hearted, neighborly way—the churches of our order, through the agency of this vigorous and patriotic Association—the Chinese question would ere long be satisfactorily and permanently disposed of. Nothing would be so effectual to modify and reshape the public sentiment of California upon it as such a Christian demonstration. Nothing would more effectually contribute to the evangelization of China. Nor is there anything at present within our power that would apparently do more to hasten the conversion of the world.

RECEIPTS

FOR OCTOBER, 1879.

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MAINE, $94.74.

Bangor. First Parish Ch. $28.00
Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. 10.00
Brownville. C. L. Nichols, 2 bbls. of C.
East Madison. Eliza Bicknell 5.00
Gardiner. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.84
North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Orland. M. C. Trott 5.00
Thomaston. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.
Wells. First Cong. Ch. 15.00
Winterport. W. R. M. 2.00
Winthrop. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.40
Woolwich. John Percy, $2; E. H. T., 50c 2.50
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch., 3 bbls. of C.,
Central Ch., bbl. of C.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $121.58.

Amherst. Women’s Memorial Union, $10; First
Cong. Ch., $7.50 17.50
Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Concord. No. Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.
Derry. Mrs. H. R. Underhill, box and bbl. of C.
Dover. Mrs. Dr. L. 1.00
Fitzwilliam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Hillsborough Bridge. Cong. Ch. 3.50
Lancaster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Milford. First Cong. Ch. 13.58
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.50
New Ipswich. Proceeds of Children’s Fair 16.00
New Ipswich. Cong. Sab. Sch. ($10 of which
from Leavitt Lincoln) 13.50
Wolfborough. Rev. S. Clark 5.00

VERMONT, $303.38.

Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $18.29; M. Larens,
$3.88 22.17
Cambridge. Madison Safford 44.94
Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.50
Derby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox 5.00
Ferrisburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.25
McIndoe’s Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00
Montgomery Centre. “Friends” 5.00
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.19
Saint Johnsbury. North Ch. Sab. Sch. 50.00
South Ryegate. Mrs. Wm. Nelson 50.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.66
Weybridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.67

MASSACHUSETTS, $6,208.96.

Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.62
Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to
const. AUSTIN D. LOOMIS and WM. D. CROCKER,
L. M.’s;—Mrs. R. A. Lester, $50.00 110.00
Andover. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 300.00
Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.50
Attleborough Falls. Central Cong. Ch. 6.86
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 14.23
Charlestown. Winthrop Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.23
Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $10.86, and Sab.
Sch. $5.24 16.10
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $45.40;
Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.30 61.70
Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.35
Bernardston. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Boston. Mrs. Henry Mayo, $10, _for Lady
Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._;—G. E. S. K., $1 11.00
Boxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. and Soc. 76.61
Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Ch. and Soc. 41.25
East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.92
Fitchburg. Rollstone Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$154.03, to const. SAMUEL S. HOLTON, GEO. P.
CROSBY, THOMAS R. LAWRENCE, WM. A. LOOMIS
and MRS. REBECCA S. CARPENTER, L. M.’s;—E.
C. Ch. and Soc., $133.89 287.92
Florence. A. L. Williston 500.00
Framingham. South. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Georgetown. “A Friend” 50.00
Harvard. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.00
Haverhill. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.00
Holyoke. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
Hubbardston. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$31.25;—Cong. Sab. Sch., $22.37; Juv. Miss.
Circle, $17, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 70.62
Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 1.00
Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00
Lowell. Elliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.65
Lowell. Pawtucket Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.50
Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $16.50; H.
J. Martin, $3, and bbl. of C. 19.50
Monson. Rev. C. B. Sumner 5.00
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch., $100, _for a
Lady Missionary, Macon, Ga._;—Belleville
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $67 167.00
Newton. Eliot Ch. 125.00
Northampton. First Cong. Ch. 73.07
North Leominster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20.60; Mrs. H.
N. F., $1 21.60
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.09
Pittsfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.25
Quincy. Evan. Cong. and Soc. 72.50
Rockport. Levi Sewall 5.00
Roxbury. Misses Soren 4.00
Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Salem. M. T. Goodhue 2.00
Sandwich. H. H. Nye 2.00
Shirley Village. H. H. Nye 1.00
Somerset. Rev. J. C. Halliday 10.00
Somerville. “A Friend.” .50
Southampton. J. E. Phelps 2.00
South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Springfield. “A Friend,” _for a Teacher_ 500.00
Springfield. Memorial Ch., $31.58; First Cong.
Ch. and Soc., $26.38; So. Cong. Ch. and
Soc., $20.78; Mrs. P. B., $1 79.74
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.34
Townsend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50
Westborough. Freedmen’s M. Ass’n, bbl. of C.
West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. $48.75;
Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Second Ch., $13.25, to
const. MRS. LIZZIE ANN TORREY and MISS
EMELINE F. PAINE, L. M.’s 62.00
Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const.
MARTHA E. SMITH, L. M. 30.00
Worcester. Estate of Rev. M. G. Grosvenor, by
David Manning, Ex. 2,500.00
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$159.44; Salem St. Ch. and Soc.,
$68.01;—Salem St. Sab. Sch., $50, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._;—Old South Ch. and
Soc., $36.45; Hiram Smith and family, $30;
“E. C. C.,” $20 363.90

RHODE ISLAND, $355.

Providence. Central Cong. Ch., _for Church
building, Florence, Ala._ 100.00
Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. 250.00
Westerly. Mrs. Emeline Smith 5.00

CONNECTICUT, $1,018.62.

Ashford. L. H. Carpenter 2.00
Avon. Cong. Ch. (of which $100 from Harry
Chidsey and $1.50 from Mrs. M. Avent) 129.00
Cheshire. “A Friend” 15.00
Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 20.11
East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch., quarterly coll. 74.60
Franklin. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 8.00
Georgetown. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Hockanum. Mrs. E. M. Roberts, $5; South Cong.
Ch., $4 9.00
Higganum. Mrs. Susan Gladwin, $2; Mrs. R.
Reed, $1.24; Mrs. G. S. G., $1 4.24
Litchfield. “L. M.” 3.00
Middletown. First Ch., $79.30; Rev. Geo. L.
Edwards, $2 81.30
Mill Brook. Mrs. E. R. A 1.00
Milford. Mrs. David Merwin 3.00
New Haven. “A. T.” $20; E. Pendleton, $10; N.
J., 50 cts 30.50
North Guilford. Mrs. E. F. Dudley 5.00
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. 75.00
Norwalk. Mrs. Dea. Chas. Lockwood 2.00
Norwich. Mrs. Dr. Chas. Lee 25.00
Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 8.30
Plainville. “A Friend” to const. MRS. MARY
WRIGHT and MRS. HENRIETTA BEACH, L. M’s 100.00
Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.75
Putnam. “A Friend” 5.00
Southport. “A Friend,” _for a Student, Fisk U._ 25.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 25.11
Warren. LEGACY of Dea. Wm. Hopkins, by Geo. C.
Hopkins, Ex. 100.00
Watertown. John De Forest, $75, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._;—Truman Percy, $30, to const.
MARY E. SHORT, L.M 105.00
West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.71
Windsor. J. W. Baker 25.00
Windsor Locks. Young Ladies’ Social Soc., _for
a Lady Missionary_ 50.00

NEW YORK, $444.99.

Amsterdam. S. Louise Bell 5.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, _for a
Lady Missionary_ and to const. E. R.
KENNEDY, L. M., and $25 _for Rev. Geo. Henry_ 55.00
Brooklyn. Rev. A. Merwin, $10; Puritan Ch. $8;
Mrs. J. V. Houten, $2 20.00
Camillus. Isaiah Wilcox, to const. MISS FLORA
BUTTERFIELD, L. M. 30.00
Cortland. C. E. Booth, 25c. and pkg. of
newspapers 0.25
East Bloomfield. Mrs. A. G. P. 1.00
East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey, $50; Chas. M.
Clark, $3 53.00
Essex Co. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 50.00
Groton. Dr. C. Chapman 6.00
Hempstead. Mrs. C. M. H. 0.50
Jamestown. ——, 20.00
Keeseville. Mrs. M. A. H. 1.00
Lisbon. First Cong. Ch. 8.00
Middleton. Samuel Ayres ($2 of which _for
Foreign M._) 5.00
New York. S. J. B. 0.25
Oxford. Associated Presb. Ch. 6.57
Perry Centre. Cong. Soc. 20.24
Portland. J. S. Coon, $5; Rev. J. R. B., $1;
Others, $1.25 7.25
Pulaski. Miss M. E. P. 1.00
Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 75.82
Rome. John B. Jervis 25.00
Syracuse. “Member of Plymouth Ch.,” 25.00
West Farms. Mrs. Rev. A. Wood, $10; Ref. Ch.
S. S., pkg. of Books 10.00
Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.11
—— “A Friend,” _for Teachers and Students_ 15.00

NEW JERSEY, $57.27.

East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. 21.27
Englewood. Chas. Taylor 11.00
Montclair. First Cong. Ch. 25.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $68.

Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson and Miss Eliza
Dickson, $25; Mrs. H. B. Harrington $5 30.00
Lynn. S. W. Smith 2.00
Norristown. M. W. Cooke 10.00
Philadelphia. M. E. M. 1.00
Sharpsburgh. Joseph Turner 5.00
West Alexander. Robert Davidson 20.00

OHIO, $1,236.56.

Berlin Heights. N. S. Wright 3.00
Cincinnati. Sab. Sch. of Storrs Cong. Ch. to
const. JOHN ELLIOTT RICE, L. M. 30.00
Cleveland. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 57.33
Collamer. Union Sab. Sch. 5.00
Geneva. W. M. A. 1.00
Hudson. S. Straight, _for rebuilding Straight
U._ 1000.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Hiram. M. S. 1.00
Lindenville. John Thompson 10.00
Medina. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger,
Treas. 7.00
Painsville. First Cong. Ch. 37.03
Saybrook. Sabbath Sch. District No. 3, for
_Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 5.00
Senecaville. Rev. E. T. 1.00
Steubenville. Women’s Miss. Soc. of First
Cong. Ch., by Martha J. Leslie, Treas. 10.00
Tallmadge. Cong. Sab. Sch. $20.00; “A Friend,”
$6 26.00
Twinsburgh. L. W. and R. F. Green 5.00
Yellow Springs. Mrs. Mary A. Cone 10.00
West Andover. Cong. Ch. 15.20

INDIANA, $7.34.

Dublin. H. M. 0.50
Evansville. Rev. J. Q. A. 0.50
Solsberry. Cong. Ch. 6.34

ILLINOIS, $472.54.

Buda. Cong. Ch. 17.25
Chicago. Lincoln Park Cong. Ch., $31.79; Mrs.
E. Rathburn, $10.50; First Cong. Ch. (ad’l)
$5; Three Ladies at Annual Meeting, $3;
Woman’s Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch. $2.25 52.54
Collinsville. Mrs. J. S. Peers and J. F.
Wadsworth and Wife 20.00
Elgin. Mrs. Gail Borden, $10; “Little
Freddie,” 2c. 10.02
Englewood. Cong. Ch. 6.12
Fitchville. First Cong. Ch., $14; Second Cong.
Ch., $5 19.00
Freedom. Mrs. John Hubbard 10.00
Genesco. Lucy B. Perry 5.00
Granville. Cong. Ch. 45.00
Jefferson. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Kewanee. Bureau Association, by Mrs. C. C.
Cully, _for Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._ 100.00
Kewanee. Cong. Ch. 24.07
Lake Forest. Rev. W. A. Nichols 17.85
Lockport. Cong. Ch., $4.04; I. P., $1 5.04
Park Ridge. Geo. B. Carpenter, $5; L. P. S.,
$1: Others, $2 8.00
Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. 10.25
Prospect Park. Mrs. Emma L. Boyd 5.00
Rockford. First Cong. Ch. 32.06
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. (of which $14 _for Lady
Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._) 35.00
Summer Hill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.40
Sterling. C. H. Rich 9.69
Wethersfield. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Kellogg 5.00
Willamette. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 2.25
—— Freeman Miles 5.00

MICHIGAN, $283.66.

Armada. Cong. Ch., _for Missionary, Memphis,
Tenn._ 9.35
Bellevue. Mrs. N. E. B., $1; M. A. H., 50c. 1.50
Benzonia. Amasa Waters and Wife, $11; Rev. A.
L. Gridley and Wife, $6; S. A. Wells and
Wife, $2; D. B. Spencer and Wife, $2;
Others, $5 26.00
Cooper. Cong. Ch. 5.22
Edwardsburgh. S. C. Olmsted 25.00
Galesburg. Mrs. S. M. S. 0.51
Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Homestead. First Cong. Ch. 3.59
Imlay City. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 5.00
Imlay City. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.26
Northfield. Cong. Ch. 5.03
Olivet. Cong. Ch., $24.20; S. F. Drury, $10
_for Scholarship, Straight U._ 34.20
Richland. Mrs. R. Boyles 2.00
St. Clair. Young People’s Miss. Soc., _for
Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 18.00
Union City. “A Friend” 100.00
Stony Run. “Friends” 3.00
Portland. T. L. Maille 15.00
Vienna. Union Cong. Ch. 12.00

IOWA, $861.24.

Algona. J. B. Leake 3.81
Ames. Ladies’ Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
New Orleans, La._ 3.00
Belle Plain. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 4.65
College Springs. ESTATE of Rev. J. Lowery, by
Mrs. N. Lowery 25.00
Decorah. Rev. J. F. T. 0.90
Denmark. Cong. Ch. Sab. School 17.00
Des Moines. Ladies of Cong. Ch., $10; “Prairie
Chickens,” $7, _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._ 17.00
Durant. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Franklin Co. “Widow’s offering” 2.00
Green Mountain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Green Mountain. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 1.35
Grinnell. ESTATE of Chas. F. Dike, by Mrs. C.
F. Dike, Executrix 500.00
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $74.66;—“A
Friend” $20, _for Student preparing for
African M._;—Ladies of Cong. Ch. $10, _for
Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 104.66
Hampton. Cong. Ch. $9.38; Ladies’ Aid Soc. $5 14.38
Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 21.00
Jamestown. Women of Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for
Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 3.00
Mason City. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Maquoketa. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 10.00
McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 17.19
Montour. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 5.00
Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 30.00
New Hampton. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 1.10
Ogden. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 5.00
Onawa. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Osage. Woman’s Miss. Soc. bal. to const. MRS.
ELLA STACY, L. M. 4.20
Rockford. Women of Cong. Ch. and Soc. _for
Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 3.00
Toledo. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 1.00
Traer. Women of Cong. and Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 10.00
Waterloo. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 10.00
Wilton. L. M. Soc. $10, _for Lady Missionary,
New Orleans, La._;—Cong. Ch., $4 14.00
Stuart. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 2.00

WISCONSIN, $354.97.

Appleton. Ann S. Kimball, $50, _for a Student,
Fisk U._;—“L. T.” ($5 of which for Chinese
M.) $10 60.00
Beaver Dam. Mrs. Allyn Avery 5.00
Beloit. Second Cong. Ch. $25; Mrs. M. A. K., $1 26.00
Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 5.47
Columbus. Alfred Topliff, to const. MRS. C. H.
CHADBOURNE, L. M. 30.00
Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.82
Fond du Lac. Cong. Ch. 40.00
Geneva Lake. G. Montague 5.00
Janesville. First Cong. Ch. 42.93
Johnstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.75
Madison. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. HON. S. D.
HASTINGS, REV. CHAS. H. RICHARDS, PROF. ED.
T. OWEN, HON. D. TAYLOR, F. J. LAMB and A.
S. FRANK, L. M’s 110.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Raymond. T. Sands, $5; Master Charles S.
Davis, $1 6.00
Wautona. Cong. Ch. 5.00

MINNESOTA, $166.62.

Austin. Mrs. L. C. Bacon 10.00
Cannon Falls. First Cong. Ch. 6.00
Cottage Grove. Mrs. M. W. 1.00
Chain Lake Centre. Cong. Ch. 1.18
Lake City. Cong. Ch. 7.02
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 11.70
Northfield. First Cong. Ch. 78.33
Northfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for
Teacher, Athens, Ala._;—Bethel Sab. Sch.
$2.09; A. N. N., $1 28.09
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 2.25
Sherburn. Cong. Ch. 1.30
Waseca. First Cong. Ch. 15.75
Waterford. Union Ch. 4.00

KANSAS, $12.25.

Bellevue. Harriet M. Dunlap 2.00
Council Grove. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Osborne. Cong. Ch. 5.25

NEBRASKA, $19.56.

Ashland. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Camp Creek. Cong. Ch. 3.56
Mainland. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Silver. Melinda Bowen 5.00
Waho. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Wayland. Miss S. P. Locke 5.00

DAKOTA, $5.50.

Yankton. Mrs. T. N. B. 0.50
Centreville. Rev. L. Bridgman 5.00

COLORADO, $10.

Colorado Springs. Mrs. S. B. Pickett 10.00

CALIFORNIA, $3.

National City. T. Parsons, $2; J. T., $1 3.00

OREGON, $5.

Canyon City. —— 5.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $100.

Washington. Ludlow Patton, _for Theo. Dept.
Howard U._ 100.00

MARYLAND, $153.51.

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. $143.51; W. K.
Carson, $10. 153.51

TENNESSEE, $236.

Chattanooga. Rent 236.00

MISSOURI, $5.89.

Webster’s Grove. Cong. Ch. 2.65
Cahoka. Cong. Ch. 3.24

TEXAS, $3.50.

Marshall. By Henry C. Gray 3.50

—— , $1

—— ——. Mrs. A. M. C. 1.00

ENGLAND, $76.96.

London. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc. _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._, £16 76.96
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Total $12,687.64

FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Greenland, N. H. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $17.00
New Britain, Conn. Mrs. Norman Hart, $25; Mrs.
Ellen H. Wells, $25 50.00
Malone, N. Y. Mrs. S. C. Wead 100.00
Baltimore, Md. T. D. Anderson 10.00
Galesburg, Ill. “Two Friends” 15.00
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Total $192.00

FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.

London, Eng. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc. £304 $1,462.24
London, Eng. Dr. O. H. White, £10 48.10
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Total $1,510.34

FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.

Lake Forest, Ill. E. S. W. 1.00
Northfield, Mich. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00
Rosendale, Wis. MRS. H. N. CLARKE, to const.
herself L. M. 30.00
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Total $56.00

H. W. HUBBARD,
_Treasurer_.

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Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.

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ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.”

ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and to diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.

ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.

ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.

ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.

ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.

ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.

The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.

Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.

ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.

ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.

ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.

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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., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14, La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.

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.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.

TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 253; among the Chinese, 21; among the Indians, 9; in Africa, 13. Total, 296. STUDENTS—In Theology, 86; Law, 28; in College Course, 63; in other studies, 7,030. Total, 7,207. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. INDIANS under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady INCREASE of regular income to keep pace with the growing work. 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 accommodate 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.

Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. office, as below:

NEW YORK H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street.
BOSTON Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House.
CHICAGO Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street.

MAGAZINE.

This Magazine will be sent, gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath Schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.

Those who wish to remember the AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION in their last Will and Testament, are earnestly requested to use the following

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”

The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required—in other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months before the death of the testator.

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For 1880.

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