Chapter I: Part 1

VOL. XXXIV. No. 2.

THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

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FEBRUARY, 1880.

_CONTENTS:_

EDITORIAL.

PARAGRAPHS 33
ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA—KNOWING, GIVING,
PRAYING 34
TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS 35
WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA—ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 36
GENERAL NOTES 37
NEW APPOINTMENTS 39

THE FREEDMEN.

GEORGIA CONFERENCE REVIEW 44
EDUCATIONAL REPORT 46
ATLANTA MISCELLANIES 47
FLORIDA—Letter From Rev. Geo. Henry 48
LOUISIANA—Schools and Churches: Rev. W. S. Alexander 49
TENNESSEE—Labor among Convicts: Rev. H. S. Bennett 50
TENNESSEE—Woman’s Work among Women: Miss Hattie A.
Milton 51
TENNESSEE—Student-Teachers from Le Moyne 52

THE INDIANS.

BOYS FOR HAMPTON FROM FORT BERTHOLD: Rev. C. L. Hall 53

THE CHINESE.

THE ROMANCE OF MISSIONS: Rev. W. C. Pond 54

RECEIPTS 56

CONSTITUTION 61

AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS 62

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PRESIDENT.

HON. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Hon. F. D. PARISH, Ohio.
Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.
Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.
ANDREW LESTER, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.
Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.
WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.
Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.
Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.
Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.
Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.
Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.
Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.
Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.
HORACE HALLOCK, Esq., Mich.
Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.
Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.
DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.
Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.
SAMUEL D. PORTER, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.
Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.
Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Oregon.
Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.
Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.
EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.
DAVID RIPLEY, Esq., N. J.
Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.
Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.
A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.
Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Minn.
Rev. J. W. STRONG, D. D., Minn.
Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.
Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.
Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.
Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.
S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.
PETER SMITH, Esq., Mass.
Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.
Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.
Rev. WM. T. CARR, Ct.
Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.
Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.
Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.
WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.
J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.
E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.
Rev. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.
A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.
Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.
FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.
JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.
Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.
Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.
E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.
C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.
Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.
Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

REV. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., _56 Reade Street, N. Y._

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
REV. G. D. PIKE, _New York_.
REV. JAS. POWELL, _Chicago_.

H. W. HUBBARD, ESQ., _Treasurer, N. Y._
REV. M. E. STRIEBY, _Recording Secretary_.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

ALONZO S. BALL,
A. S. BARNES,
GEO. M. BOYNTON,
WM. B. BROWN,
C. T. CHRISTENSEN,
CLINTON B. FISK,
ADDISON P. FOSTER,
S. B. HALLIDAY,
SAMUEL HOLMES,
CHARLES A. HULL,
EDGAR KETCHUM,
CHAS. L. MEAD,
WM. T. PRATT,
J. A. SHOUDY,
JOHN H. WASHBURN,
G. B. WILLCOX.

COMMUNICATIONS

relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, at the New York Office.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.

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VOL. XXXIV. FEBRUARY, 1880. No. 2.

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American Missionary Association.

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_A Public Opportunity to Contribute Once a Year._—That is, we think, a modest claim for the almoners of your bounty to make. Will you secure it for us in your church this year?

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We need very much two communion services—one for the Midway church, Golding’s Grove, Ga., and the other for the new church at Cypress Slash. Who will send them to us?

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A pastor of an M. E. Church South, in Georgia, asked us by mail, the other day, for a hundred copies of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY to put on a Christmas tree for members of his church, that he might thus awaken more interest in the missionary cause. We sent them. This is the first time we were ever asked to send our publications as “Christmas greens.”

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How the angels must smile when they see a man whom God has greatly prospered carefully take a hundred dollars out of a hundred thousand that he has laid away, and hear him say to himself, with a chuckle of self-complacency: “Yes, we are only stewards; we must deal generously by these good causes; I will give that to the Lord.” A pauper giving crumbs in charity to the King on whom he depends for daily bread! But then there are some who do not give even the crumbs.—_Congregationalist._

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In this month of February, we publish, according to our custom, the list of our missionaries and teachers in the field; and we are proud of it, not for its length or numbers, but for the high and approved character of those who constitute it; nay, rather, we are thankful to Him under whom we all labor, that He has given to us and to each other so worthy a band of co-laborers, so intelligent and so devoted. We do not forget that these pastors and teachers are far from their homes, and that each is known personally to but a limited number of the friends of the Association, and we bespeak for them not only a general but a personal remembrance. Would it not be well to select some one whose work you, reader, will follow with especial interest, to whom you will some time write, assuring of your interest and prayers, and with whom you may establish and maintain a personal friendship? Pray for some one at least in this list by name, and you will be less likely to forget to pray for all the rest.

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“_Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion; build thou the walls of Jerusalem._”—So, in that hour of unearthly experience as recorded in the fifty-first Psalm, does David’s heart leap from the state of penitence and of forgiveness to take in the welfare of Zion. So, evermore, does the truest devotion inspire the missionary spirit. The first burden of our Lord’s Prayer is for a heavenly Kingdom on earth. His last prayer with and for His disciples, that they might be kept, and sanctified and glorified, was, “that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.” It is the instinct of a soul in communion with God, that in every prayer it should utter at least one petition for the coming of his Kingdom. So often do our lyric hymns, which are but a transcript of Christian experience, glance off from almost any line of thought and of feeling, to utter the great aspiration for the crowning of Christ in His spiritual realm. The nearer we come to God, the more do we long to have Him enthroned in all hearts.

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ARRIVAL OF MR. NURSE IN AFRICA.

Mr. Miller writes: “I am very glad to be able to announce to you the arrival of Bro. Nurse from America to join our work in Western Africa. His voyage was rather longer than had been expected, and he doubtless grew impatient as the ship neared this place, and stood several days under the silent influence of a calm.

“Yesterday was Thanksgiving-day with you at home—not less so with him and his mother, from whom he had been separated for many years, as they met in warm embrace. How freely the tears rolled down the cheeks of that overjoyed mother, as she looked upon her son returned to her and the ‘dark continent,’ a missionary of the Gospel to assist in lifting up degraded, perishing mankind. Bro. Nurse is a little worn-out from his long voyage, but will soon get well rested, and we shall leave for Sherbro.”

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KNOWING, GIVING, PRAYING.

These are the three strands of the rope by which the car of missions is drawn. This is the trinity of Christian work. The three are one, and each one is only itself fully as it is with the three.

One can have little interest in knowing of a work for which he neither gives nor prays. His knowledge will be indefinite and easily forgotten. It has no grip in it such as comes from a personal connection. In the nation’s war, men and women thought of it, read of it, were eager to know the latest tidings, because their sons and their wealth had been given to the cause which they believed was God’s, and their prayers were daily following as they traced the progress of the day.

No one will give generously or sufficiently when he has not taken pains to know. You cannot get up much enthusiasm over a mere list of stations or catalogue of workers. Dr. Albert Bushnell says that half the Presbyterian churches in the United States give nothing to the cause of foreign missions, and that many who do not give do not pray. We should be willing to go further than that and say that none who do not give can pray effectually. They may repeat prayers possibly in public for missions, because that is the proper thing to do, but such are but “vain repetitions” against which we are warned.

We all agree that missions need the prayers of Christians; that such prayer is the duty of all who bear the name of Christ. Then it is equally a duty for all such to fulfil the conditions by which they may be able to pray aright. It is a duty to know about the progress of the Redeemer’s cause. If He bids us say, “Thy kingdom come,” He will not be content with us if we sit with closed eyes, indifferent to the signs of its coming. But how many Christian people take pains to keep themselves informed of the affairs of the nations of the earth, their wars, their acts, their commerce, and skip the paragraphs which tell of the contests and conquests of Christ’s kingdom! How many who know of the strifes and supremacies of parties in Maine and Mississippi, know nothing at all of the religious state or progress of our land! Is it likely that such will give much, or pray earnestly?

Nor will they pray aright unless they give. That makes it their work. That establishes their interest in it. That, if it be real giving—not mere throwing away to avoid the trouble or the embarrassment of saying No—based on intelligent appreciation of the need, enlarges and emphasizes and doubly underscores the prayer which, then, with the alms ascending, will surely find their way to God together.

Friends, we want your prayers for us, for our workers and for our work. But we want prayers that are weighted by your gifts—they will rise the better for it; and that are illuminated with your intelligence—they will be read the better for it, even by the Father who “dwelleth in light.”

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TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

This school was founded on the same comprehensive scale as the other chartered institutions of the American Missionary Association. In 1876, a beautiful site of eight acres, overlooking the valley of the Colorado River and the mountains beyond, was secured in the city of Austin, the capital of Texas, and subsequently paid for by the originator of the enterprise, Rev. Geo. J. Tillotson. Efforts were commenced at once to raise the funds for the first building, which is to serve all the purposes of a boarding school until the growth and ability of the institution shall necessitate and provide others. Dea. David Allen, of Connecticut, headed the subscription with $1,000, and to this amount has since added $250. David Banks, of Stanwich, Conn., a gentleman over 80 years of age, raised $1,200 more, subscribing one-third of it himself. The remainder of the amount we now have on hand was collected for the most part by Mr. Tillotson, who has kindly added the gift of his services to the enterprise founded by his liberality. The principal benefactors of the institution are all over seventy years of age.

Work on the new building was commenced last summer, and is still going on. It is being constructed of brick, with some trimmings, and will have accommodations for seventy boarding students. The funds at our disposal for the object are barely sufficient to inclose the building. We need $7,000 additional in order to finish and furnish it for occupation by the 1st of October. The money already given, amounting to about $11,000, exclusive of the $5,000 paid for the site, was subscribed largely in sums of $400 each by persons who are to have the privilege of naming the students’ rooms, of which there will be thirty-five. A grand example has been given. Are there not others ready to follow?

The burden of debt, and the struggle required to maintain the institutions already under way, has deterred this Association, during the past three years, from pressing the claims of this, our only school in Texas; but we believe the time has now come when we should earnestly solicit the gifts needful for its speedy completion. Already we have received the written indorsement of seventy-six of the leading citizens of Austin, saying, “We believe that such a school is very much needed, and that the enterprise will be hailed by very many of our best citizens as of great importance to the welfare of the State.” Texas has a territory larger than France, and constitutes no mean part of “the whole world” where we are commanded to go and teach. Will our friends aid us to go up at once and possess the land?

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WHO SHALL CIVILIZE AFRICA?

We copy from the _Tribune_ the following opinion of Col. C. Chaillé Long, the African explorer, who preceded Stanley by a year in visiting Mtesa:

If the heart of Africa is ever reached by civilizing influences, Colonel Long thinks the work must be done by intelligent colored people from the United States. They, if anybody, could keep communications open, introduce trade, and gradually train the natives in habits of systematic industry. Last spring, when public attention was attracted to the exodus of negroes from the Southern States, Colonel Long wrote a letter to the King of Belgium, who is President of the principal European society for exploring and civilizing Africa. In that letter he proposed that the King should stimulate, through the medium of his society, a movement to take a large body of the discontented blacks from our Southern States and settle them in Central Africa, opening with them a line of trading and missionary posts from the West Coast to the lake country.

Colonel Long believed that thousands of the most industrious and best educated colored men in the Gulf States could be induced to go. Their presence in Africa would, he wrote, create no surprise or hostility among the natives, and they would soon acquire influence over the native tribes and start the work of civilization. In this way the experiment of opening the dark continent would be tried under the only conditions that afford the least promise of success. King Leopold wrote in reply that the project deeply interested him, and that he should give it his careful investigation, but nothing further has been heard from him. Colonel Long says it would cost a great deal of money to carry out the scheme, but the African exploring societies in Europe could raise it if they tried. He is not enthusiastic about the success of his plan, but is confident that it is the only one not foredoomed to failure. Equatorial Africa, he insists, will never be civilized by white men.

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ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.

MACON, GA.—Pastor S. E. Lathrop is getting under way his Circulating Library for the colored people. He sends out a circular, printed on his own “Gospel Press,” that was given him as a home missionary in Wisconsin, appealing for the gift of new or second-hand books for this purpose. Gov. Colquitt and Senators Gordon and Hill have furnished some. Pres. A. L. Chapin, of Beloit, Wis., is putting up a trunk full. Sup’t Roy sent in a “carpet-bag” full. Who’ll follow up?

MACON, GA.—A graduate from the Lewis High School writes: “I have worked faithfully for three months. I was assigned to a place where there was no school-house or church. The people had their meeting under an arbor. I worked with the patrons of the place until they built me a school-house. Since that they have erected a church at the expense of $350. It is 35 by 45 feet. We are holding protracted meetings. Three persons have been received in full connection, and many more are hovering around the altar. Our Sunday-school is prospering. Many are coming in. The old folks are more interested in this great work than the young. We are hammering down upon them. My school numbers thirty-nine scholars. I have received several petitions from the colored people, asking me to come again and teach for them.”

MCINTOSH, LIBERTY CO., GA.—A pleasant and profitable Sunday-school concert and Christmas exercise was held in the Dorchester Midway church. Mr. McIntosh, the superintendent and teacher, and Miss Douglass, the missionary, are doing good and successful work. Rev. Floyd Snelson is the pastor, and his children gave some exhibitions of their African treasures and experience. A watch-night prayer-meeting was held at his house New Year’s eve.

CYPRESS SLASH, GA.—The people are getting up timbers for their new meeting-house.

TOUGALOO, MISS.—We have had a blessed work here this week. Several of our pupils had been very thoughtful for a great while, some of them a year, and one or two even longer. They had held out stoutly, but last Sabbath afternoon one yielded. Saturday night, several asked for prayers. After church, three young men were converted. Monday morning, twelve more yielded. Monday afternoon, one of the most stubborn cases I ever met came into the fold. She had been trying to climb up some other way for more than two years. Tuesday afternoon another gave up, making in all eighteen within two days. Our term closed on Wednesday. Several went to their homes very anxious. I hope they may still be brought within the fold.

FLORENCE, ALA.—The new church edifice mentioned in our last number was first planned through the benevolence of Mrs. J. Fowler, of Mendon, Ill., who contributed fully one-third of the total cost, and thus laid the foundation of this good enterprise. The completion of the work was made possible by “Howard.”

WASHINGTON, D. C.—The American Missionary Association has called Rev. Simon P. Smith to a missionary work among the colored people of Washington. The Lincoln Mission, a Sabbath-school enterprise connected with the Congregational Church, has offered its capacious building, and here may yet arise a colored Congregational church. Mr. Smith is a colored clergyman, a graduate of Howard and then of Chicago Seminary, and well fitted for his work.—_Congregationalist._

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GENERAL NOTES.

The Freedmen.

—The school work of the Presbyterian Church among the Freedmen reports 39 schools, 4,184 scholars, 58 (or, including 16 ministers and 6 catechists engaged in teaching in addition to their other duties, 80) teachers; making in both departments, including a few assistant teachers, 140 missionaries. Five of their higher schools report 1,126 pupils, of whom 145 taught part of the year, reporting 7,513 pupils. Of the teachers from four of these schools, 77 superintended Sabbath-schools while teaching, and reported 4,043 Sabbath-school scholars. These four schools report also 51 students preparing for the Gospel ministry.

—The M. E. Church, through its Freedmen’s Aid Society, has aided in establishing and supporting 6 chartered colleges, 3 theological and one medical school, and 9 institutions not chartered. In these institutions the number of pupils taught during the year is classified as follows: Biblical, 453; law, 20; medical, 60; collegiate, 74; academic, 270; normal, 1,020; intermediate, 242; primary, 371. Total, 2,510.

—A colored lawyer was recently admitted to practice in the Court of Appeals of Virginia. He is the first colored man who has ever enjoyed this privilege in that State. The motion for his admission was made by the son of ex-Gov. Wise.

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Africa.

—On the 8th of July, Mr. James Stewart, C. E., then in charge of the Nyassa Mission, wrote to the Convener from Livingstonia. After building a dwelling-house for the head of the mission at Livingstonia, he sailed north to visit the stations of Marenga and Kaningina. He found all well. The Mangoni chiefs had presented the mission with eleven cows, but insist on their being used only in the country around Kaningina. Our own cattle—most precious property—were in good condition. At Livingstonia, advancing cultivation had driven off the pestilent and fatal tsetse fly. After a fortnight’s holiday, the school-boys and girls had returned to Christian instruction. Mr. Stewart had distributed toys and handkerchiefs as prizes at the examination. Namalambi, “a fine, promising boy,” was dux of the school. Mr. Stewart had already started for Lake Tanganika before the request of the London Missionary Society was telegraphed, and was hoping to meet and, if necessary, aid Messrs. Hoare and Hutley.

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The Indians.

—The Hon. Carl Schurz, Secretary of the Interior, devotes a large portion of his annual report to the Indian question. He states that the hostile Indians at the West are few compared with the whole number of the race. He states the Indian policy of the Department to be as follows:

“The ends steadily pursued by it are: _First_, to set the Indians to work as agriculturists or herders, thus to break up their habits of savage life and to make them self-supporting; _second_, to educate their youth of both sexes, so as to introduce to the growing generation civilized ideas, wants and aspirations; _third_, to allot parcels of land to the Indians in severalty, and to give them individual titles to their farms in fee, inalienable for a certain period, thus to foster the pride of individual ownership of property, instead of their former dependence upon the tribe, with its territory held in common; _fourth_, when settlement in severalty with individual title is accomplished, to dispose, with their consent, of those lands on their reservations which are not settled and used by them, the proceeds to form a fund for their benefit which will gradually relieve the Government of the expenses at present provided for by the annual appropriations; _fifth_ when this is accomplished, to treat the Indians like other inhabitants of the United States under the laws of the land.

“This policy, if adopted and supported by Congress, and carried out with wisdom and firmness, will in my opinion gradually bring about a solution of the Indian problem, without injustice to the Indians, and also without obstructing the development of the country. It will raise them to a level of civilization at least equal to that of the civilized tribes in the Indian Territory, and probably to a higher one, considering the stimulus of individual ownership in land. It will not take away from them by force what in justice and equity belongs to them, but induce them to part with what they cannot cultivate and use themselves for a fair compensation. It will open to progress and improvement large districts now held by Indians, which will then be of no real advantage to them and are now to nobody else.”

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The Chinese.

—Last February, Congress passed the bill prohibiting Chinese immigration which was vetoed by President Hayes. The very next day the new anti-Chinese constitution was adopted by the convention in California, denying the Chinaman the right to land, to labor, to vote, or even to live in any town or city. Soon came on the other side a decision of the Federal courts, adjudging the queue-cutting ordinance to be an unconstitutional violation of personal rights; and another, asserting that the treaty with China, granting its people a right of residence, gave them also a right of labor, and forbade any State to prohibit their employment. Chinese merchants meanwhile, unwilling to give up the commercial advantages assured to them by treaty, are establishing a line of steamers from China to the Sandwich Islands, and a connecting line thence to the Pacific coast. This record of the year’s events is memorable and full of suggestiveness.

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NEW APPOINTMENTS.

1879-1880.

The following list presents the names and post-office addresses of those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the Freedmen in the South, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Theological Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association. The Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their own Boards of Trustees; but being either founded or fostered in the past by this Association, and representing the general work in which it is engaged, their teachers are included in this list.

THE SOUTHERN FIELD.

REV. J. E. ROY, D. D., Field Superintendent.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

WASHINGTON.
_Theological Department, Howard University._
Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., Washington, D. C.
Rev. J. G. Craighead, D. D., Washington, D. C.
Rev. Alexander Pitzer, D. D., Washington, D. C.
Rev. John G. Butler, D. D., Washington, D. C.
HOWARD MISSION.
_Missionary._
Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill.

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VIRGINIA.

HAMPTON.
_Minister._
Rev. J. H. Denison, New Britain, Ct.
NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.
Gen. J. F. B. Marshall, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Albert Howe, Hampton, Va.
Mr. F. C. Briggs, Hampton, Va.
Mr. G. B. Starkweather, Hampton, Va.
Mr. E. B. French, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Daniel F. Cock, Hampton, Va.
Mr. M. B. Crowell, Hampton, Va.
Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Hampton, Va.
Capt. Henry Romeyn, Hampton, Va.
Miss Anna M. Hobbs, Hampton, Va.
Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y.
Miss Mary F. Mackie, Newburgh, N. Y.
Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.
Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City.
Miss Julia A. Wilson, Hampton, Va.
Miss Lucy S. Shepard, Hampton, Va.
Miss Angelina Ball, Hampton, Va.
Miss Laura E. Coe, Hampton, Va.
Miss Lucy D. Gillett, Hampton, Va.
Miss Grace Harding, Hampton, Va.
Miss Jane E. Davis, Hampton, Va.
Miss Abby E. Cleaveland, Hampton, Va.
Miss Mary J. Sherman, Hampton, Va.
Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Hampton, Va.
Miss S. F. Sheppard, Hampton, Va.
Miss Mary T. Galpin, Hampton, Va.
Mrs. Eunice C. Dixon, Hampton, Va.
Miss Elizabeth P. Hyde, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Emily Kimball, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Thomas T. Brice, Hampton, Va.
Mr. James C. Robbins, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Frank D. Banks, Hampton, Va.
Mr. John E. Fuller, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. H. Dagge, Hampton, Va.
Mr. G. J. Davis, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Booker Washington, Hampton, Va.

CARRSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. A. Andrus, Riceville, Pa.

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NORTH CAROLINA.

WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).
NORMAL SCHOOL.
_Minister and Superintendent._
Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
_Principal._
Miss Isabel Phelps, Oswego, N. Y.
_Assistants._
Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.
Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N. H.
Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N. H.

RALEIGH.
_Minister._
Rev. George S. Smith, Raleigh, N. C.
_Teachers._
Prof. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
Mrs. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.

DUDLEY.
_Minister._
Rev. David Peebles, Dudley, N. C.
_Teacher._
Miss Alice M. Conley, Shelby, Ala.

McLEANSVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.

WOODBRIDGE.
_Teacher._
Mr. William Ellis, Southfield, Mass.

BEAUFORT.
_Minister._
Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N. C.

SALEM CHURCH, TROY AND HILLTOWN.
_Minister._
Rev. Islay Walden, —— N. C.

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SOUTH CAROLINA.

CHARLESTON.
_Minister._
Rev. Temple Cutler, Ipswich, Mass.
AVERY INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Prof. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
_Assistants._
Miss H. E. Phelps, Hannibal, N. Y.
Miss S. M. Tillotson, Wethersfield, Ct.
Miss M. E. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.
Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. M. L. Brown, Charleston, S. C.
Miss Monimia McKinlay, Charleston, S. C.
Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N. Y.
Mrs. S. D. Gaylord, Grundy Centre, Iowa.

ORANGEBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Thornton Benson, Talladega, Ala.

GREENWOOD.
BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N. Y.

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GEORGIA.

ATLANTA.
_Ministers._
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga.
[A]Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Horace Bumstead, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. Frank W. Smith, Lincoln, Mass.
Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N. Y.
Mr. J. K. Hannahs, Newark, N. J.
Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.
Miss Susie A. Cooley, Honek, Kansas.
Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.
Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.
Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.
Miss Mary L. Santley, New London, Ohio.
Miss E. F. Moore, Chicago, Ill.
Miss Grace L. Robertson, Atlanta, Ga.
Mrs. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
_STORRS SCHOOL_, (104 Houston St.)
_Principal._
Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N. Y.
_Assistants._
Miss Julia Goodwin, Mason, N. H.
Miss Amelia Ferris, Oneida, Ill.
Miss M. E. Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Miss F. J. Norris, Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Abbie Clark, Atlanta, Ga.

MACON.
_Minister._
Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss Christene Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Belle Haskins, Delmore, Kan.
Mrs. C. M. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass.
Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.

AUGUSTA.
_Teacher._
Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.

MARIETTA.
_Teacher._
Mr. Cosmo P. Jordan, Atlanta, Ga.

ATHENS.
_Teacher._
Mr. J. G. Hutchins, Atlanta, Ga.

CUTHBERT.
_Teacher._
Mr. Richard R. Wright, Atlanta, Ga.

FORSYTH.
_Teacher._
Mr. William F. Jackson, Augusta, Ga.

HAWKINSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. B. Curtiss, Chattanooga, Tenn.

FORT VALLEY.
_Teacher._
Miss S. V. Whitic, Macon, Ga.

THOMASVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.

AMERICUS.
_Teacher._
Mr. G. W. F. Phillips, Milledgeville, Ga.

MILLEDGEVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. Henry L. Walker, Augusta, Ga.

CARTERSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. T. C. Sheppard, Chattanooga, Tenn.

SPARTA.
_Teacher._
Mr. R. H. Carter, Atlanta, Ga.

ALBANY.
_Teacher._
Mr. Peter A. Denegall, Savannah, Ga.

WASHINGTON.
_Teacher._
Mr. Edw. P. Stewart, —— S. C.

SAVANNAH.
_Minister and Supt. of Missions._
Rev. R. F. Markham, Wheaton, Ill.

BEACH INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Mr. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass.
_Assistants._
Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.
Miss Adelaide Daily, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Anna Burgh, New York, N. Y.
Miss E. H. Twichell, Saratoga Springs, N. Y.
Miss E. B. Willey, Andover, Mass.
Mrs. J. K. Cole, Boxford, Mass.

WOODVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.
_Assistant._
Miss N. Headen, Talladega, Ala.

MILLER’S STATION.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. John R. McLean, McLeansville, N. C.
Miss E. W. Douglass, Decorah, Iowa.

LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
_Minister._
Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.

McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
THE GROVE.
_Minister._
Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.
_Teachers._
John McIntosh, Jr., Savannah, Ga.
Mrs. John McIntosh, Savannah, Ga.

CYPRESS SLASH.
_Minister._
Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission, West Africa.

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ALABAMA.

TALLADEGA.
_Minister._
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa.
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Mr. George Atkins, Olivet, Mich.
Miss A. E. Sawyer, Boxford, Mass.
Miss Fannie Andrews, Milltown, Me.
Miss M. E. Carey, Huntsburg, O.
Miss H. P. Fisk, Beloit, Mich.
Mrs. H. S. DeForrest, Muscatine, Iowa.
Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, Me.
_MISSION CHURCHES._
ALABAMA FURNACE, KYMULGA, THE COVE, LAWSONVILLE.
_Superintendent._
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.

SHELBY IRON WORKS.
_Minister._
Rev. J. D. Smith, Talladega, Ala.

KYMULGA.
_Teacher._
Mr. Samuel B. White, Kymulga, Ala.

ANNISTON.
_Minister._
Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.

CHILDERSBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.

MOBILE.
_Minister._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
EMERSON INSTITUTE.
_Supt. and Teachers._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
Miss Kate Randall, Lorain, Ohio.
Miss Ella F. Grover, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss Clara Boynton, Andover, Mass.
Miss May Hickok, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss H. Jennie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.

MONTGOMERY, (P. O. Box 62).
_Minister._
Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
SWAYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Miss Martha J. Adams, Columbus, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss Jane S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.
Miss May Merry, Providence, R. I.
Miss Minerva Shufort, Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. M. Hardaway Davis, Montgomery, Ala.
Miss Anna Duncan, Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.

SELMA.
_Minister._
Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.

MARION.
_Minister._
Rev. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass.
_Missionaries._
Mrs. Geo. E. Hill, Boston, Mass.
Miss Laura Hill, Boston, Mass.

ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. Horace J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
TRINITY SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Rev. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.
Mrs. H. J. Taylor, McMinnville, Tenn.

FLORENCE.
_Minister._
Rev. William H. Ash, Providence, R. I.

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TENNESSEE.

NASHVILLE.
_Ministers._
Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. Geo. W. Moore, Nashville, Tenn.
FISK UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. F. A. Chase, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. C. C. Painter, Gt. Barrington, Mass.
Mr. Edward P. Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. John Burrus, Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio.
Miss E. M. Barnes, Bakersfield, Vt.
Miss Mary O. Swift, Lansing, Mich.
Miss Irene E. Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Sarah M. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
Miss Sarah A. Stevens, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Miss Mary Farrand, Ypsilanti, Mich.
Miss Dora Ford, N. Abington, Mass.

MEMPHIS.
_Minister._
Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.
LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Emma Rand, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Ella Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Hattie Milton, Romeo, Mich.

CHATTANOOGA.
_Minister._
[A]Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] Absent at the Mendi Mission.

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KENTUCKY.

BEREA.
_Minister._
Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
BEREA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D., Berea, Ky.
Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
Prof. L. V. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
Rev. Charles G. Fairchild, Berea, Ky.
Prof. P. D. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
Mr. Wm. Hart, Berea, Ky.
Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublette, Ill.
Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, Ohio.
Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass.
Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky.
Miss —— Warren, Berea, Ky.
Miss —— Clark, Berea, Ky.
Miss Clara A. Saxton, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miss C. W. Haynes, Oberlin, Ohio.

CAMP NELSON.
_Minister._
Rev. John Drew, Berea, Ky.
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MISSISSIPPI.

TOUGALOO.
_Minister._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.
_Managers and Instructors._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
Prof. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas.
Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O.
Miss Orra A. Angell. Greenville, R. I.
Miss Fanny J. Webster, Berlin, Wis.
Miss Irene C. Barnes, Greenville, R. I.
Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, Ohio.
Mrs. D. I. Miner, Bavaria, Kansas.
Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.

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LOUISIANA.

NEW ORLEANS.
_Ministers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn.
Rev. Isaac Hall, New Orleans, La.
Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, Pomfret, Conn.
Prof. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.
Mr. Geo. S. Ely, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Caroline Park, West Boxford, Mass.
Miss H. J. Halleck, Success, L. I.
Miss Lucia G. Merrill, Andover, Mass.
Miss Frances Stevens, Oswego, N. Y.
Mrs. J. M. McPherron, New Orleans, La.

ABBERVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. Charles E. Smith, New Orleans, La.

NEW IBERIA.
_Minister._
Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La.

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TEXAS.

GOLIAD.
_Minister._
Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Texas.

CORPUS CHRISTI.
_Minister._
Rev. S. M. Coles, New Haven, Conn.

HELENA.
_Minister._
Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Goliad, Texas.

FLATONIA.
_Minister._
Rev. A. J. Turner, Flatonia, Texas.

AUSTIN.
_Teacher._
Mrs. E. M. Garland, Austin, Texas.

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AMONG THE CHINESE.

_Superintendent._
Rev. W. C. Pond, San Francisco, Cal.
_Teachers._
OAKLAND, Miss L. B. Mann.
Miss L. Duncan.
Mr. Lee Haim.
Mr. Jee Gam.
OROVILLE, Miss Jessamine Wood.
PETALUMA, Miss M. C. Waterbury.
Mr. Wah Yin.
SACRAMENTO, Mrs. S. E. Carrington.
Mr. Lem Chung.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mr. Henry M. Pond.
Mr. John Johnston.
Mr. Chung Mon.
Mr. S. Hackley.
Mr. Low Quong.
Mrs. M. A. Hackley.
Miss F. N. Worley.
Mrs. M. T. Huntling.
SANTA BARBARA, Miss Helen E. Clark.
STOCKTON, Mrs. M. B. Langdon.
Mr. Hong Sing.

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AMONG THE INDIANS.

_Lake Superior Agency, Wis._
Agent, Dr. Isaac L. Mahan.
Teacher, —— ——
Teacher, Robert Pew.

_Ft. Berthold Agency, Dakota Territory._
Agent, —— ——

_Sisseton Agency, Dakota Territory._
Agent, Charles Crissey.
Teachers, (Connected with the Mission
of the A.B.C.F.M.)

_S’Kokomish Agency, Washington Territory._
Agent, Edwin Eells.
Missionary, Rev. Myron Eells.
Teachers, (Supported by Gov’t.)

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MENDI MISSION, WEST AFRICA.

_Missionaries and Assistants._
Rev. A. P. Miller. Mrs. A. P. Miller.
Rev. A. E. Jackson. Mrs. A. F. Jackson.
Dr. Benjamin James. Mr. Elmore L. Anthony.
Mr. A. E. White. Mr. Nathaniel Nurse.
Rev. Geo. N. Jewett. Mr. Jos. H. Gerber.
Mr. Sam. H. Goodman. Mr. Buel Tucker.
Mr. James Pickett. Mrs. Lucy During.

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THE FREEDMEN.

REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,

FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.

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GEORGIA.

CONFERENCE REVIEW.

This review of the state of religion in the Congregational churches of South Carolina and of Georgia, during this first year of their General Conference, shows abundant occasion of gratitude for general prosperity and spiritual blessing.

The fact that all of our fourteen churches except one, have been represented in this Conference by their ministers and delegates, reveals an interest in its meetings, and in the doctrine of the fellowship of the churches, that is truly delightful. In this connection we cannot refrain from noting the grace of God conferred upon the churches in their custom of providing the necessary traveling expenses of their delegates. We hope that such messengers of the churches will reciprocate this consideration, and magnify their office, by making a full report of this and all such convocations to their respective assemblies for worship.

We gratefully recognize the increase of our total membership by 354, making the present number 949. One new church has been organized, that of Cypress Slash, which reports to us a membership of 54; a temporary cabin, built as a place for church and school, with the purpose soon to erect a more comely and permanent sanctuary; and also a new young minister who, with his wife, is already reaping missionary fruit.

We note with gratification that every one of our churches is supplied with the ministry of the word, except that at Marietta, whose pastor, Rev. S. P. Smith, has been transferred to Washington City for the purpose of building up the 2d Congregational Church at the capital. So, with the same exception, every one of our churches has its own house of worship. Some of these are commodious and tasteful; others are very plain; but all are places of sanctuary comfort, and the worshippers are striving each year to increase their comeliness and convenience. During the year, three of these congregations have added to their meeting-houses the attraction of the church-going bell. Among a people, few of whom have clocks or watches, the church bell is their time-keeper, and the promoter of that promptness which adds a charm to the services of public worship.

The doctrine of church discipline as a means of grace has been illustrated by a heroic use of the pruning knife upon these vines, that they may bring forth more fruit. The seeking of a clean membership is essential to the healthfulness and well-being of the churches.

The cause of temperance has been kept near the heart of our members. One church, the Pilgrim, at Woodville, has a large and influential Band of Hope. All preach temperance and require its practice among their members. We are deeply convinced that the habit of intemperance is the devil’s best grip upon the poor and lowly people among whom we have our lot and our work, and that total abstinence is the only consistent rule for Christians. In a community where pastors and officers and members of Protestant churches indulge in the practice of drinking liquors, we feel called upon to bear an unremitting and uncompromising testimony against this violation of the spirit and the precept of the Gospel.

We are confirmed in the wisdom of the union of the school-work and the church-work in our evangelizing process. The school prepares the way for the church. It brings along the young and hopeful material for the church membership. The church garners up such fruit. It reacts upon the school and the community by its educating and elevating influence. In our ideal, both unite in the one purpose of saving and edifying the souls of men. We desire to express our sincere gratefulness in view of the devoted and self-denying labor of the teachers in the schools associated with our churches.

The higher schools and colleges within our bounds have gone along upon the plane of their former success. The Avery Institute, at Charleston, has passed through a change of administration without any diminution of its members or lowering of its high grade of scholarship. The Normal School at Greenwood, S. C., has held on in its beneficent way, enjoying the fine building and campus of an old time Baptist College. The Beach Institute in this city, with its cultivated and consecrated corps of seven teachers, with its fine body of pupils, with its thorough discipline and its decided moral and religious tone, is a power for good in this community and in this part of the State. The Dorchester Academy at Midway, the Lewis High School at Macon, and the Storrs School at Atlanta, have kept steadily upon the line of their extensive and beneficent influence. The Atlanta University maintains its high position as to classical and normal scholarship, and as to moral and religious tone, approved by the authorities of the Commonwealth and also by the favor of Heaven, in the enrolling during the year of a couple of score of its students among the disciples of the Great Master. Its independent Union Church, with 67 members, although not belonging to our body, is to us a sister in Christ, for whom our prayers and sympathies shall ever abound. Its Faculty consists of three graduates of Yale and one each of Harvard, Dartmouth and Amherst Colleges, and of half a dozen cultivated ladies. To these it has just added Prof. A. W. Farnham, who is introducing the most approved normal methods, not only for the benefit of the normal scholars but of all in the University. More than a dozen of its graduates are now teaching high schools in leading cities of the State of Georgia, and so starting from these centres, radiating influences that shall bless many more communities. We give thanks to God for the bequest of $50,000, by which the University will now be able to add still more to its spacious accommodations.

We greatly rejoice in the new feature of the work within our limits, that of lady missionaries. We have four of them. One of these has been located at Charleston, one at Miller’s Station, one at Macon, and one in Atlanta. Woman’s work for women and children in these communities, we consider a Christly service of the utmost value. Woman can enter the homes as the pastor cannot; and yet she will make work for him in following up her discoveries. Her ready sympathy and happy tact will help her in stimulating to greater domestic comfort, and will aid her in doing good through many ways that are peculiarly her own.

We are comforted by the educated young men who are coming forward to minister in our churches. Besides those who have been raised up in the “Beach” to minister to the churches that cluster about it, we are happy in the coming of four graduates of the Theological department of Talladega College in Alabama, three of whom are this week receiving ordination at the hands of our own church councils, and the other is the moderator of one of these Convocations. We are happy to express grateful obligation to that Christian institution in another State for this gift of her cultured sons, who are to us also a part of the ascension gift of our blessed Lord.

We are devoutly grateful to God for the spiritual refreshings that have been enjoyed this year in our churches and schools. Some have had special seasons of revival. Others have had the dew in the fleece. Many souls have been brought into fellowship with Christ, and Christians have, we trust, been advanced somewhat in the process of purification.

We cannot conclude this annual narrative without recording our gratitude to the American Missionary Association, which, under God, has been the occasion within a short period of all this school and church development as now represented by the Conference of Georgia. We remind ourselves, also, that this is only one of seven of these Conferences which have been the outgrowth of the same general Christianizing process at the South. We magnify the grace of God bestowed upon the churches and friends who have furnished that Association with the funds, the prayers and the sympathies, that were essential to this great work. “This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.”

J. E. ROY.
JOHN MCINTOSH.
P. W. YOUNG.

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EDUCATIONAL REPORT.

At the Georgia Conference the Committee on Education make the following report:

That “Education is the handmaid of Religion” has become an accepted maxim. To be remembered everywhere, it is of especial importance in this field. Religion has here been corrupted by ignorance, and has often degenerated into superstition. A devout and imaginative spirit has been betrayed into serious errors and gross excesses in the name of truth and godliness. More knowledge, more culture of mind, is necessary in many cases to prepare the way for the perception of the truth. The one great object of the Church of Christ in its labor among men is to save the souls of men by holding forth the word of Life; but to attain this, the Church must help to teach them what that word is, and how to read and study it for themselves. The Gospel seeks to prepare men, not only for the next life, but for this life also. It is fitted to bless the whole man, physical and mental, as well as spiritual. Education and Gospel piety must go together. The Committee would, therefore, recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:

1. _Resolved_, That this Conference desires to emphasize the fact that the past year’s experience gives new occasion for gratitude that from the beginning of the American Missionary Association’s work in this field, the school and the church have been closely united.

2. _Resolved_, That it is the deliberate judgment of this Conference that this field still requires the enlargement and vigorous prosecution of the school work, as a necessary aid to the upbuilding of our churches.

3. _Resolved_, That the churches must not cease to pray fervently for those who are teaching in our elementary and higher schools, and for their pupils, that the instruction given and the mental culture gained may bear the stamp of Christian consecration.

4. _Resolved_, That we desire to express our _warm sympathy with our young people_, who, in the face of many obstacles, are bravely pressing forward in their studies, to fit themselves for teachers or preachers, and would urge them to get as thorough and complete an education as possible.

Respectfully submitted,

C. W. HAWLEY,
T. T. BENSON,
WILSON CALLEN,
_Committee_.

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ATLANTA MISCELLANIES.

BY A RESIDENT.

—A Christmas concert was observed by the Sunday-school of the First Congregational Church of Atlanta, Georgia. It followed Dr. Vincent’s programme, which, with variations, was rendered with great success. The singing was excellent. The recitations and the responsive readings of Scripture were impressive. The recitations on the platform, of prose or poetry, a score or more, did not have a failure or a prompting. Every piece during the whole evening was about Christmas. The good reading and elocution were apparent as the result of the good training in the Storrs School, whose teachers are also instructors in the Sunday-school. Pastor C. W. Hawley seemed in his element as the leader of this service. Sup’t Roy made a talk at the close. The school numbers two hundred and twenty-five. It would greatly gladden the hearts of the friends of our work if they could only look in upon this and the many other such schools in the South.

Atlanta has a monthly Sunday-school Teachers’ Institute. Pastor Hawley attends it. Atlanta’s County, Fulton, has also a Sunday-school Association, which convenes in the city quarterly. At the last meeting, as interest was warming up in favor of taking some more practical measures toward helping the colored Sunday-schools, it was found that the constitution limited the membership to such schools as were “all white.” Whereupon a _resolution_ of interest and of encouragement was adopted. At the last meeting of the State S. S. Association, held in Macon, a colored school in Savannah applied for membership. The matter was quieted for the time, but it is said that it will come up again. Upon the recommendation of Gov. Colquitt it is proposed to adopt the Brooklyn idea of a Children’s Day once a year; this not only for the City but for the State. In Atlanta there are fourteen colored Sunday-schools.

—At an entertainment at the Atlanta University, during the holidays, the Field Superintendent gave one of his addresses upon the map of the United States.

—At the watch-night service in the Trinity M. E. South Church, of Atlanta, one of the speakers, Rev. Dr. Potter, a Presiding Elder, dwelling upon the openings of benevolence during the last year, expatiated at length upon the million of dollars given by one estate to the American Board. Surely the children of light are beginning to do business upon something of the grand scale on which the children of this world project their schemes. It was stated at that meeting that during the year, under Pastor Heidt, the Trinity Church had received two hundred members, half of them upon confession of faith, and had paid off a debt of twenty thousand dollars. It seems that the M. E. General Conference, South, has abolished the feature of a six months’ probation. Only those are received who give evidence of conversion. The form in receiving a member that night was quite Congregational. This church has also advanced upon the policy of its sister at the North, in allowing a _four_ years’ pastorate, instead of _three_.

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FLORIDA.

Letter from Rev. Geo. Henry.

DEAR SIR: I opened last Monday a day-school in addition to our Sunday-school. The necessity of this step will be apparent when I tell you that there are fifty children in this place who wish to attend school, but have been unable heretofore to do so, as the distance to the nearest colored school is from four to seven miles from their homes. Only a few of the larger ones have been able to attend.

In my school I have dull and bright, lazy and industrious children, as you have in all other schools, but taking them altogether, they study as well and learn as quickly as any set of pupils I have ever seen. I have one little girl who did not know the alphabet last Monday, but by the end of the week was able to read little stories from a Reader rapidly and accurately. I have never anywhere seen such progress made by a young child.