Chapter II: Part 2

Rev. D. D. Dodge was made Moderator, and Rev. D. Peebles, Scribe. The five churches had come to be six, the new one being at Hilltown, in the west part of the State, and having as pastor Rev. Islay Walden, a graduate of the New Brunswick Seminary, ordained by the Dutch Classis of that locality, who had been a slave in the region where now he is preaching the Gospel. A gracious revival, and a meeting-house under way, are the fruits of the first six months of the life of this church. These six churches and the five schools of the A. M. A. in the State, were all represented.

McLeansville was fixed upon as the place of the next meeting, where Bro. Connet has his church and high-school. The Conference was favored with the presence of Miss Farrington, lady missionary aided by the ladies of Maine, and located at Wilmington, and also with a visit from Misses Waugh and Barker, located at Newbern as missionaries of the Chicago Baptist Ladies’ Society. These ladies are doing a blessed work in the region round about. In April last, going together, they had traveled 300 miles, and had held 80 meetings.

Two colored young ladies of rare cultivation, one an Episcopalian from Philadelphia, the other a Presbyterian from Long Island, sent down by the Society of Friends to teach in this neighborhood, reported the happy working of their Bands of Hope, the idea of which they had taken from Mr. Peebles’ Band in Dudley.

Do the friends of the American Board and Home Missionary Society know that we down here are broadening their field for harvest? Some of these little churches reported contributions to aid the white people out West in supporting the Gospel and to send missionaries abroad. The one at Wilmington claimed itself to be the Banner Church of all the constituents of the American Board, having given more than any other, according to number and means, as judged by the report of Dr. Alden.

And so the good friend, “Howard,” who is about to help this church to a house of worship, will see that he is sowing seed in good ground.

Rev. H. E. Brown, Secretary of the Freedmen’s Dept. of the International Y. M. C. A., in his work at the South, has this season held six of his union Bible meetings at Washington, Richmond, Raleigh, Dudley, Wilmington, and Savannah, three of which, as will be observed, were in this State. The series has been one of great interest and profit. There are three points of special notice. The first is the quickening of the spirit of Christian union among these people, whose sectarianism is quite intense. The second is the great honor which is put upon the word of God by the constant service of Bible readings, with the plans of the same multiplied for the people by his portable copyist. The third point in this work is, that revivals of genuine Bible religion are usually the result. This was true at the meeting at Raleigh, where there were about 300 conversions among the colored people. There is manifest an abiding increase of regard for the word of God. The quality of the converts is also hopeful. As another perceptible result, union meetings, led by an Evangelist, have since been held by the white Churches of that city, and there were about 200 hopeful conversions in these. We congratulate the Y. M. C. A. upon this successful inauguration of their work among the Freedmen. And we make grateful recognition of the influence of Maj. Joseph Hardie, of Selma, Ala., a member of the Y. M. C. A. Committee, in selecting and introducing Mr. Brown to this work in his own city.

I am happy to make mention also of the work of Rev. E. E. Rogers as an Evangelist in our Church at Macon, Ga. He has proven himself a judicious and successful laborer, wise, earnest and loving. Pastor Lathrop is very emphatic in commending him. Resulting from the stimulus of this meeting, special services were projected in all the other colored churches of the city. And as a matter of fact, revival meetings in the white churches followed. Mr. Rogers had also been a worker of the A. M. A. in former years. We hope that his services in the future may be secured in this line of special movement in our churches at the South. They have come to a degree of intelligence and of steadiness that will encourage such endeavor.

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SOUTH-WESTERN CONGREGATIONAL ASSOCIATION.

Annual Meeting at Terrebonne, La., Apr. 7–10.

REV. W. S. ALEXANDER.

The fact that our meeting was to be at Terrebonne, where we have a live, growing church, and a vigorous, devoted minister, gave promise not only of a hospitable welcome, but of a profitable season of communion.

Brother Clay and his church had made every preparation. One hundred and fifty dollars had been raised and expended in putting the church and parsonage in perfect order. A long room in the house adjoining the church had been provided with a table sufficient to accommodate the delegates, and the table was furnished with new tumblers, knives and forks and spoons, and the kitchen with a new stove, all involving a good bill of costs, but met with the greatest cheerfulness, and without the thought of hardship; and then the members of the church and congregation brought in chickens, hams and bread, and everything to satisfy the appetite of hungry men, and I find that Louisiana Congregationalists eat with the same relish as their brethren in the New England Associations. So much for the material part of the feast, for which Brother Clay and his flock deserve all praise and thanks.

With the exception of two of the small mission churches, every church was represented. Terrebonne is central, and the Morgan R. R. extension (finished to New Iberia), makes communication easy and rapid. There is something delightful about a new church organization. There is an inspiration in building upon newly-laid foundations, and every member feels that he is essential to the success of the movement. In an organization representing many years and great numerical strength, a man of quiet, retiring spirit is lost to view; but in the first years, every heart and hand are needed.

The reports from the churches indicate a pure and steady growth. The process of cutting off dead branches has gone on, so that although nearly two hundred have been received during the year, the numerical gain over all losses has been very small. We are glad to believe that the sixteen hundred members in the churches of the Association represent more solid moral worth than in any previous year. In the business sessions, when questions requiring wisdom and prudence were presented, and in the discussions of vital religious topics, I was gratified to observe real progress in the ability, self-control and kindly Christian spirit of the brethren. These annual meetings serve as a profitable school, and are attended by willing and eager learners. It was a great joy and blessing to have Dr. Roy with us this year. The brethren have already learned to love him, and to confide in his counsels. The Association placed him under heavy tribute at this meeting. At their request he give an address on “Our Country,” and with his large illustrative map indicated the vast extent and marvelous resources of what is now _their_ country, and of which _they_ are citizens. But a few years ago the _plantation_ was all the country they knew anything about, and from the law of the plantation there was no appeal. But now they belong to Uncle Sam’s family of 50,000,000, and can look to him for protection.

Dr. Roy gave an address on our Congregational polity, which greatly delighted the people. Hitherto, many of them have loved Congregationalism without being able to give a reason for it. The address was timely and profitable, because the brethren, while not waging a denominational warfare with other churches, desire to be intelligent in regard to their own faith, and to be able “to give a reason for the hope that is within them.”

The annual sermon, by Rev. W. P. Ward, of Gretna, was earnest and practical, and prepared the large audience for the sermon of the Moderator which followed it. But few congregations in the North would bear two sermons on the same evening, but they not only did that at Terrebonne, but by song and prayer and exhortation continued the service another hour. The brethren seconded the appeals of the preachers from the pulpit, and went down among the people, entreating them to come to Christ by repentance and faith. Eight came forward and kneeled down for prayer, and many hands went up in the audience. God put honor upon His truth that night, and the hearts of the people were touched.

The sermon of Dr. Roy on the last morning was tender and searching, and the tears of the people showed that he had not spoken in vain.

The Church in New Iberia called Rev. W. R. Polk, and he has already entered upon his work. He has a good field. May God give him grace to cultivate it.

Five “missionaries at large” were chosen. Some of them already have churches, and take on all the supplementary work for which they can find time. These men are unsalaried, and depend, in their missionary tours, upon the thoughtful kindness and hospitality of those to whom they go. Hospitality is a virtue among this people. They exercise it “without grudging.” They have a real love for sharing their “loaf” with him, be he stranger or friend, who calls at their door. It is only necessary that he have the “password” of the Christian Church.

Rev. W. S. Alexander and Rev. Isaac H. Hall were elected delegates to the National Congregational Council.

The next meeting of the Association will be held in Terrebonne the 1st Wednesday in April, 1881. Brother Clay said: “I haven’t been half paid for my trouble. You must come back next year.”

Greeting to all the sister Associations in the North! Perhaps we should say _filial_ rather than _fraternal_, but the infant of five years ago is a good, strong child to-day, and we claim a seat at the family table.

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GEORGIA.

Our Revival.

REV. S. E. LATHROP, MACON.

Our church observed the week of prayer, and there seemed to follow an unusual tenderness in the regular prayer-meetings. The people became more united and earnest, and it was evident that the way for better things was being prepared. In February, some of the brethren suggested sending for the aid of Rev. E. E. Rogers, of Orange, Conn., who was pastor here from 1869 to 1873. I wrote and found that the way was open for his coming, and we began at once to hold extra prayer-meetings. Brother Rogers came during the last week of February, and remained five weeks, preaching and laboring with uncommon earnestness and consecration. The Lord has evidently fitted him for this special work. The church took hold with remarkable unanimity. I never have known any church in the North to be so thoroughly united in revival effort. The contagion spread to other churches, many of them soon beginning to hold special services. This somewhat lessened our audiences, but a general revival spirit spread through the city, and still continues. During one or two weeks we held union afternoon prayer-meetings with a colored Baptist church, a very uncommon thing in this country.

The meetings were quiet, tender, impressive throughout. The people are beginning to get out of their old ideas of a noisy conversion. Some of the “old-time” quaint, plaintive songs are, however, wonderfully apt and appropriate in such seasons, ranking among the most effective “spiritual songs.” We held neighborhood meetings in various localities, which seem more necessary here as the people are so widely scattered. One disadvantage we found was the necessity for late hours at night. Some of our people are “in service,” and cannot get away early, and the rest do not finish their work until night, and afterward must go home and get supper, and walk from one to three miles to church. Our little band, however, were remarkably faithful in attendance, though we could not often begin the preaching until half-past eight or nine o’clock.

One peculiarity which I discovered during the meetings was, that so many of the colored people labor so long under conviction before conversion. I had formerly supposed them to be a very religious people, easily persuaded to become Christians; but my experience is (confirmed by that of other workers), that very many labor under intense conviction for many days, and even for weeks, coming to the “anxious seat” every night for long periods, and seeming, for some reason, unable to yield themselves up. No doubt this is in part owing to the traditions handed down from the older ones, and in part to ignorance of the true way. Yet, even after much personal labor and explanation is given, they often remain unenlightened. It is a phenomenon to me, especially as it is seen in the case of some of the most intelligent.

There have been from twelve to fifteen hopeful conversions. Ten have united with our church, four of whom are heads of families, and the rest promising young men and women. Some have united with other churches. It is the custom here with some to seize hold of converts at once and endeavor to persuade them into other churches. Sometimes the different denominations (of the old-time churches) wrangle over converts.

One Saturday night we held a neighborhood meeting in the house of a well-to-do colored family. The strains of song floated out from door and windows, and the sound fell upon the ears of a “poor white” woman of the lowest class, who was living illegally with a deaf colored man. Her heart was stirred. She asked permission to attend the next prayer-meeting, held at the same house on the following Saturday. There she rose, and, with tearful voice, confessed Christ, in the midst of her dusky audience. It seems to be a genuine conversion. She brought in one night three other degraded white women, one of whom was also living illicitly with a colored man, another, who had not attended church for fourteen years, and the third, who had never before in her life entered the doors of a church! And now comes the question, like that of the famous novel, “What will He do with it?” This poor, erring woman is in frail health and hardly able to earn her living. She lives with a colored man whom, she says, she is willing to marry. She wants to marry him and join our church. But here the civil law steps in and says, “Thou shalt not.” It is a crime in the eyes of this commonwealth for white and colored persons to inter-marry, and whoever celebrates such a marriage lays himself liable to a thousand dollars fine. Of course, we cannot admit her to the church while living in her present relations. She cannot marry, according to the law; she has no friends, and is not able to support herself if she should leave him. Even now she is so poor that she has to borrow shoes and other clothing in order to attend church. The white churches here have no room for such persons. She is in a more pitiable condition than even the lowest of the negroes. Such are some of the problems that beset us. Another of these white women is the prodigal daughter of a good family, and we are endeavoring to persuade her to return to her friends.

Our revival has strengthened the church, and has caused us all to “thank God and take courage.” Brother Rogers returned to his home with the benedictions of a multitude. We trust the work has not yet ceased.

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ALABAMA.

Missionary needed.

REV. C. E. CURTIS, SELMA.

We are in the midst of a great union effort here that has been opening the eyes of all the churches to the great need of missionary work right at our doors. The whole city has been districted off and workers assigned from one of the different churches to each district. These are expected to visit every family, take down the name and residence of each person five years old and upward, with his religious condition and needs, present those who may not be in the habit of attending Sunday-school with a card of introduction to the superintendent of any school they may prefer, have religious conversation, Bible reading and prayer, wherever it can be done to advantage, and urge upon all, young and old, a regular attendance on Sunday-school and church services. Every week, we hold meetings to hear reports from the workers in the different localities, and these meetings are intensely interesting. It would rejoice your hearts, I know, to hear the uniform testimony of delight in the work from those who, in many cases, entered upon it with fear and trembling. At the same time, the amount of religious destitution, intemperance and superstition brought to light in this city of churches and schools (there are eight churches and four schools for the colored people here), is alarming. Out of twenty-one families, visited by one worker, only two had Bibles, all but two used tobacco, and the majority whiskey. Of twenty-two families visited by myself, only eight had any church members among them, and the great majority used both whiskey and tobacco. Very few attended Sunday-school. One hadn’t been inside of a church for five years but once, and then only to attend the funeral of a friend. One, who admitted that he habitually used both whiskey and tobacco, claimed to be a minister in good and regular standing among his brethren, and he is not the only such example in the city. Several of the workers, particularly a young student from the Baptist Theological School here, made stirring appeals to the churches that they more earnestly endeavor to bring in the poor and degraded, and make them feel at home in the house of God.

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Last Sabbath a young man came to us to inquire, “What must I do to be saved?” On asking what he had been trying to do, we learned that he had endeavored to follow the plain, simple directions of the Bible at first, but so many of his friends had told him that he must stop reading his Bible and go to praying for visions and dreams, that he had become very much confused about the way. Many of them say plainly that they “don’t believe in Bible religion.” They believe firmly in personal revelations from God, and that these are superior to those in the Bible. There is more excuse for them than for others, when we consider that so few can read and judge for themselves, and that for generations the Bible has been, and still is, represented to them by so many to be the bulwark of slavery. But when I think what abundance of material there is among these millions in the South for religious fanaticism to feed upon, it is a wonder to me that they have, on the whole, wandered so little from the truth, that some imposture has not spread among them before this—as Mormonism did at the North and West—and swept thousands of them away. I fear it will be the case yet, if the churches are not more faithful in preaching and teaching the pure Gospel.

Now, to make the matter practical, what can we do about it? Surely, much more ought to be done here by educated Bible Christians; but our teachers are already nearly breaking down with overwork in their regular school duties, there being one less teacher than usual on the force this year; the missionary and industrial work they have been doing, and in which they feel such an interest, they will probably not be able to keep up another year, and Mrs. C. will be compelled to give up much that she has been doing. In short, I am more than ever convinced that we need a lady missionary here, to devote her whole time to personal work among the classes not now reached by our schools and churches, and to take charge of the industrial work among the women and girls. We have in mind just the one we need if her support can be assured. Our church will, I am sure, assume a share of the expense, though it will be impossible for them to do much more than they are doing. Now, who among the friends of the work in the North will help us in this matter, which seems so important?

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AFRICA.

A LETTER FROM PROF. T. N. CHASE.

Among the most interesting experiences in our visit to the Mendi Mission was a trip to Kaw-Mendi, the first station of the mission, where, over forty years ago, Mr. Raymond, with his company of Amistad captives, began their new home, near the spot where the latter had been torn from their native land, and carried across the sea to be sold into slavery.

A row of eight hours in a boat of four oars, propelled by Junjo, Mómodo Grenace, Carrij Mi-Mah and Boyema, and steered by Geo. Keing, took us across the Sherbro, up the Jong and the Small Boom to our destination. The chief objects of interest on the way were wild monkeys, alligators, and mangrove trees, bearing vegetable oysters that could be plucked as we sailed past. The rowers “cheered the weary traveler,” and increased the speed of the boat, by singing songs in their native tongue, in which, no doubt, as is usually the case, they indulged in personal comments concerning their passengers.

A little after “the sun die” we reach Kaw-Mendi, and are ushered into a native house of four rooms, whose walls, partitions and floors are made of mud, and whose steep hip roof is covered with “bamboo shingles,” the rafters and sheathing being cane. Mr. and Mrs. Williams, born and educated in British Guiana, gave us a hearty welcome to their mission home, leaving their work of manufacturing arrow-root to prepare us a cup of tea. It was prayer-meeting night and we gladly accepted an invitation to attend service. The “barrie,” in which meetings are held, is a bamboo roof, supported by tall posts, and enclosed by a mud wall about four feet high. The floor and platforms are also of mud, nicely sanded.

I was unable to count the audience, for the lamps shed a dim light which was not reflected from the faces of the company. A row of boys led the singing, a young man “turned the word” of those who spoke in English, and several led in brief prayers which we could not understand, but which sounded sensible and devotional.

In the morning we took a more particular view of the premises. Mr. Williams’ house stands just in front of the site of the old residence of Mr. Raymond and Mr. Thompson, a slight hollow and small bank being the only things to mark the place where it stood. While twenty years had crumbled to mother earth, buildings and fences, and produced a jungle that made it almost impossible to identify the site, the cashew, orange and bread-fruit trees had been going on with their steady growth, and are now doing good service with their fruit and shade. The flats along the banks of the river, that had much to do with the unhealthfulness of the location, on account of which it was abandoned, are probably the same now that they were then.

At our request, the two surviving Amistad captives came to see us, Mr. Parn and Mr. Smith. The former had a pleasant smiling face, but was too deaf to converse. The latter wore a rugged-looking countenance, and after a little coaxing told us something of his early life, dwelling especially upon the reason why the Amistads rose up and killed the officers of the vessel on which they were being carried to America. He said the cook told them that they were to be killed and eaten, and showed them a huge kettle in which they were to be boiled. So they rescued themselves from the sad fate that seemed to await them by slaying their captors, acting on the same principle that Stanley did when the natives on the Congo tried to make “meat” of him and his companions.

Chief Geo. Thompson Tucker came to pay his respects. He was educated in the mission and was a pupil of Geo. Thompson. He is not a Christian, but favors Mr. Williams’ work, and renders him much assistance. He wore pants and shoes, and a frock made of country cloth in a country fashion. He converses in English fluently, and sometimes interprets for Mr. Williams.

We desired to visit the cemetery, which Mr. Thompson had removed to some distance, that the sight of so many graves of fallen missionaries might not depress the living. The dew being heavy and the “road” having grown up somewhat, Chief Tucker had two of his men go on in advance, and trim off the overhanging branches with their cutlasses, which they used with wonderful dexterity. The cemetery is partly surrounded by a ditch and bank, Mr. Thompson having concluded that this was more permanent than any fence that could be erected. After a little search by the Chief and old Mr. Smith, three graves were found, ranged side by side at the foot of a mango tree—those of Mr. and Mrs. Tefft and Jane Winters. The wood of which Mr. Thompson made head boards, and which he said did not “know how to rot,” has in some way obtained that undesirable knowledge, and even the planks laid on the graves by some later visitor have crumbled nearly into dust. The other graves that were identified were those of Mr. Garnick, Mr. Carter, Mrs. Arnold and Mr. Thompson’s son George, who died June 6, 1853, at the age of six years. Seven mango trees between one and two feet in diameter mark these resting places. To me there was a strange fascination about this consecrated spot, and words cannot express the feelings I experienced as I walked there among the sainted dead in that distant, strange land.

We next visited the arrow-root farm and saw the boys dig the bulbs, which resemble the sweet potato in shape. Then we went to the little mill where the bulbs are grated and strained, ready for drying and packing. Mr. Williams finds the cultivation and manufacture of arrow-root reasonably profitable, and he deserves encouragement in teaching the natives this and other industries, for the great need of West Africa, apart from the Gospel, is a knowledge of remunerative agriculture.

The church bell had a strange sound, and we learned that it was an old gun-barrel that had been planted in the ground in a native’s door-yard to keep witches out of the house, but upon the conversion of the owner, had been given up to Mr. Williams, and had thus been converted from a profane to a sacred use.

Fifteen church members, twelve inquirers, one hundred attendants upon Sunday service, twenty-three family and nine day pupils, the house and barrie, a clearing of three or four acres, the cultivation of various crops, the manufacture of arrow-root and frequent visits to neighboring towns, give some idea of the industry, perseverance and Christian zeal of this devoted laborer during the past three years, and seem to make it possible to continue the work on this spot of so many hallowed associations and memories.

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THE CHINESE.

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“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”

Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.

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

DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.

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

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_Politics and the Mission._—Our Legislature, the first one convened under our new Constitution, has adjourned, and the Chinese are yet here. Denis Kearney has been made to “go,” and his party is just “going;” the former, in prison attire, to break stones on the public highway, and the latter to befitting insignificance and complete disintegration. But how to assure it that “the Chinese must go,” is a problem by which, now as heretofore, our Californian statesmanship(!) finds itself sore baffled. Among our newly-fledged legislators, there was scarcely one, at the opening of the sessions, but had his pet scheme,—a sure cure for the Chinese ail; and the river of Egypt scarce brought forth frogs more plentifully than did our noisy Legislature its anti-Chinese bills. But most of them died before they were fairly, fully born, and the rest are either squelched under the weight of the U. S. Constitution, or else, not daring to face that foe, have retired into prudent dormancy. The gassy proclamation of our Board of Health, declaring Chinatown a nuisance, has dissolved into thin air, and that district of our city is just as populous, just as busy, just as noisy, and almost as filthy as it was before. Our Mayor, and the doctors associated with him, may possibly have caused a little more of the Chinese gold to be “placed where it would do most good;” but, no other effect of their bombastic demonstration seems now to be even dreamed of.

All this helps us hope that we shall be able to pursue our mission-work with no special molestations, and that the result of our summer campaign may be as bright as the out-look is just now.

_A Touching Farewell Service._—the following paragraph which appeared in the _Pacific_ of April 14th, over the initials of the Principal of our Central school, I am sure will interest our readers. It explains itself:

“A very interesting and impressive meeting was held in Bethany chapel on Thursday evening, April 8th. A large number of the Chinese friends and scholars of Mrs. S. A. Worley and Misses Jessie and Florence Worley, who for some years have been teachers in the schools of the California Chinese Mission of this city, had met together to bid these teachers farewell, as the family intended going to their new home in Stockton on the following day. After the regular exercises of Thursday evening, consisting of singing, prayer and a short address in Chinese, the meeting was thrown open to any who wished to speak or lead in prayer. The first who rose spoke of his regret at their departure and his gratitude for their kindness. He then said: ‘One year ago I hated Christian Chinese, and I hated the name of Jesus Christ. Then Miss Worley came to teach me, and read and explained the Bible to me, and by and by I came to love Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and all those who worship him.’ One after another the Chinese brethren came forward to bear witness to their love for these devoted teachers, and their sorrow for their departure. Many of them, like the first speaker, testified that they had been brought to the knowledge of the saving power of Christ’s love by the words and the example of their loved teachers. More than one tremulous voice and dimmed eye, gave evidence that their words were not the complimentary exaggerations of Chinese courtesy, but came deep from hearts filled with love and gratitude for kindness that had been bestowed upon them, and overflowing with grief at parting from their benefactors. ‘We have nothing to repay you, our dear teachers,’ they said, ‘for all your kindness in teaching us your language, and in leading us to Christ; but we can pray God that He will bless you and keep you wherever you may go. You will go to Stockton and we will go to China, and may never see one another again on earth; but in heaven we will meet again.’

The frequent brief prayers, offered in Chinese, were unintelligible to the Americans present, but the frequent recurrence of the words ‘Stockton’ and ‘Worley’ showed that these men, just awakened from heathen darkness, had grasped the idea of an omnipotent and loving Father, to whom they might confidently intrust their absent friends. What an ample reward to these teachers for their earnest and prayerful devotion must such testimony have been! What a foretaste of heavenly bliss they experienced in seeing this fruit of their labor in the redemption of so many souls from idolatry and heathenism!

H. M. P.”

_More about Oroville._—I give, perhaps, more than its share of notice to our new work in Oroville. But this is our first attempt to reach the Chinese engaged in mining, and, probably, the first systematic attempt ever made in California. On that account it has a special interest and importance. The number thus engaged is large, and no man careth for their souls. We have our first fruits of the work there, in the person of Jee Kane, a very interesting young man. He has joined the Association, thus professing faith in Christ. Miss Waterbury is disposed to commence a work among the women and children, and has one woman already under instruction who seems thoroughly interested. Lee Haim, our greatly-valued helper at Oroville, is obliged to return to China, and Lem Chung, of the Sacramento Mission, takes his place for a time. Miss Waterbury reports that there was a good attendance and evident attention at his last preaching service, and after service his hearers crowded about him asking him questions about the miracles of Christ, of which he had been speaking. He told her, “I feel so _proud_ of Christ. He was with me, helped me speak, put words into my mouth.”

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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[We give, just as they were written, two letters from Indian boys at Hampton for our young readers to puzzle over. We know they will sympathize with Jonathan’s longing for his ponies, and commend his purpose and effort to be content without them and study hard. Our older readers will doubtless be struck with the other letter as curiously resembling that of a German attempting English. His substitution of d for t, and of p for b is quite funnily Teutonic.—ED. MISSIONARY.]

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MY DEAR FRIEND:—I thought I would write to you a few line, use to be in my home, last summer I went out on a hunting Buffalo away off in the west, we off in Texes country, and I saw many Texes and they was trying to fight the Pawnee, but every Pawnee was afraid, because they are good many Texes that makes the Pawnee afraid just like all white men the Pawnee do like them to fight and Texes kind afraid do and they stop and them went home every one. Would come back any more.

When I was a little boy I use to play all time would doing nothing just only play all the time, now I like to worked hard like very much indeed, because if I work hard and get some money note to go away, that is the reason we like them for I come in Hampton Normal I used to live in my tents and stay all time in my tents, when I was a little boy I used to take care of them ponies all time and every morning and take the ponies in a nice grass is and have good to eat them nice grass note to way to take care of them. Now I am doing to school I would take care of them horse and make fat horses any more because I will try and be contented. My father used to talk me about fight the Sioux a long time ago now stop fight and be our friend all of them kind to each other. I went to school about one year in my home that is the reason do know how to talk English because I went to school one year. That is all I can say now

From your friend
JONATHAN HUSTICE.

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DEAR FRIEND:— I hope I write you to day, to let you Know what I was doing when I was a young. Well I was working in my father his farm. We pland some wheat and potatoes, we pland every thing, what we want in a winder. And after-wile we had a school house in our settlemend, so we can go to school, and that time I was very glad to school every day and I minte my teacher what he tells me to to and that time I was school two years and the next year I heart to talk aboude the blacksmith shop, to put some podday a boy to learn his trade put he coult find him any boy to learn fasd, and then the other day I get a letter from our agt. and he dolt me if I like to be a black smith, and I recived his letter to tell him that I am very willing to be a black smith so I pegan to work every day, an when I work one year I heard some boys to send to school some whre and after wile he ask me if I like to school I told her I shoult like to have it So I come here do learn a Good away and so that I can teach my tribe a good away and I dry hard to learn fast to learn write well and so that I help my tribe. I am sorry that I going to say thire was a grait many Indians in our State. Thay are very goot she can not understand to work himself. Some of them she understand to write some thing his own Good. Dear sir I am glad that you help us I am very much obliget to you, and then I will dry hard to learn fast, it all I can to say.

Yours very Respectfully,
ALEXANDER PETERS.
from Wis. State.

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RECEIPTS

FOR APRIL, 1880.

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MAINE, $231.05.

Bangor. Hammond St. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15.00
Bethel. F. B. and H. C. B. 1.00
Brewer. First Cong. Ch. 8.00
Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.12
Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
Gorham. Cong. Soc. 28.12
Hampden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Lewiston. Pine St. Cong. Ch. 101.43
Machias. Centre St. Ch., $13.38, and Sab.
Sch., $7 20.38
Portland. “A Willing Worker” 2.00
Wiscasset. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $291.60.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 36.75
Atkinson Depot. Gyles Merrill, $50.; Mrs.
Gyles Merrill, $25; M. H. C., 50c. 75.50
Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.58
Derry. H. T. 1.00
Greenville. E. G. Heald 6.00
Hampstead. MISS J. S. EASTMAN, $30. to const.
herself, L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12 42.00
Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. 5.00
Hollis. By Geo. Swain 18.00
Mason. Ladies, _for Storrs Sch._, $10;—H. B.
H., $1 11.00
Milford. Cong. Ch. 11.63
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.51
New Boston. Children’s Mission Circle of
Presb. Ch. 18.00
New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln 10.00
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.63

VERMONT, $389.31.

Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
(ad’l.), to const. SAMUEL JEWETT, ERNEST
PATTERSON, MRS. M. G. REMINGTON, MRS. A. C.
BINGHAM and MISS L. MARIA RAY, L. M’s 12.93
Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15;
Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.15 27.15
Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 87.81
Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l.) 7.00
Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.55
East Hardwick. Mrs. L. A. P., $1; Mrs L. W.
J., $1 2.00
East Poultney. A. D. Wilcox 5.00
Hinesburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Marshfield. Lyman Clark 10.00
Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l.) 1.00
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
North Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, Memorial
Contribution, to const. MRS. JOHN SPENCER,
L. M. 30.00
Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.52
North Thetford. “A Friend” 2.00
Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.78
Saint Albans. Young Men’s Class, Sab. Sch. of
First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00
Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Waitsfield. A. M. B. and G. I. B. 1.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 12.06
West Fairlee. Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.27; Dea. J.
P. S., $1 14.27
West Townshend. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.74
West Westminster. Mrs. Z. D. 0.50
Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const.
MISS ELLEN S. STEELE and MISS HARRIET
HERRICK, L. M’s. 56.00
—— “A Friend” 20.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $4,447.11.

Amherst. Second Cong. Ch. 10.58
Andover. “Little Gleaners,” by Miss E. E. A.,
Bbl. of C., _for Savannah. Ga._
Athol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.10
Auburndale. Mrs. T. S. W. 1.00
Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding 50.00
Barre. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. REV.
J. F. GAYLORD, L. M. 30.00
Bedford. Trin. Ch. and Soc., to const. SAMUEL
DAVIS, L. M. 32.75
Berlin. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. 5.00
Boston. S. D. Smith (Organs), $400;—Geo. F.
Kendall, $5, _for Indian M._;—John L.
Shorey, 20 cop. “Nursery,” _for Talladega,
Ala._ 405.00
Boxford. ——$1, _for Savannah, Ga._; Mrs. C.,
50c. 1.50
Bridgewater. Central Sq. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Brimfield. Ladies’ Union of Second Cong. Ch.
$10, _for a Lady Missionary_; Miss P. C.
Browning, $10; Mrs. J. S. Upham, $3 23.00
Brockton. “Friend,” $15;—“Friends,” 2 Bbls. of
C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._ 15.00
Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. Soc. 105.57
Cambridge. Mrs. J. S. S., $1;—Bbl. of C. 1.00
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc., Mon. Con.
Coll. 7.98
Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.07
Conway. Mrs. William Tilton 2.00
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 205.29
Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 30.07
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.00
Florence. A. L. Williston, $500; Florence Ch.
Coll., $111.48 611.48
Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.18
Granby. Cong. Ch. 19.50
Greenfield. Ladies, Box of C., _for Atlanta,
Ga._
Groton. John H. Goddard 500.00
Hadley. E. Porter 10.00
Hardwick. E. B. Foster 5.00
Harwich. “Thank Offering” 1.25
Haverhill. “Two Ladies,” _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 30.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 73.30
Holliston. Mrs. Mary M. Fiske 5.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.23
Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.19
Jamaica Plain. “A Friend” 100.00
Lancaster. LEGACY of Sophia Sterns, by W. W.
Wyman, Ex. 5.25
Lawrence. Central Cong. Ch., $70, to const.
JAMES HARTLEY, and MRS. MARIA T. BENSON, L.
M’s; —— $5, _for Savannah, Ga._;—Rev. J.
Coit, $3.56, and Box of C., _for Macon, Ga._ 78.56
Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.02
Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.00
Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.57
Lowell. High St. Ch. and Soc. 69.41
Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.32
Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.82
Mattapoisett. A. C. 1.00
Melrose. G. L. M. 0.50
Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00
Newburyport. Miss P. N., $1; S. N. B., 50c.;
J. C. Cleveland, Bbl. of C. 1.50
Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc., $125; “A
Friend,” $60; First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$29.17;—Miss. Soc., $20, _for rebuilding
barn, Talladega, Ala._ 234.17
Northampton. First Cong. Ch., $92.81; I. G.
Jewett. $2.15 94.96
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.87
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.28
Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for “Leah,”
Tougaloo, Miss._ 7.50
Peabody. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 139.98
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.76
Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00
Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 102.16
Salem. Mrs. E. O. P. 0.50
Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.87
South Abington. “A Friend” 1.00
South Deerfield. ESTATE of Dea. Zebadiah
Graves, by C. A. Stowell, Ex. 108.46
Southville. “A Friend” 2.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
const. MRS. DEBORAH M. TIRRELL, L. M. 45.00
Springfield. South Cong. Ch., $42.75; First
Cong. Ch., $34.75; Mrs. J. D. L., $1 78.50
Taunton. Ladies of Winslow Ch., Box of C.
Templeton. J. L. 1.00
Tewksbury. Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, _for Hampton
Inst._; —— $5, _for Savannah, Ga._ 35.00
Townsend Harbor. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for
Macon, Ga._
Upton. Mrs. M. F. C. 0.50
Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. PHILLIP
JONES, L. M. 43.91
Watertown. Mrs. J. A. 0.60
Wayland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.90
Webster. Cong. Ch. 25.00
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.05
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00
West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Westport. Pacific Union Church 4.00
West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch. 9.63
West Worthington. Mrs. Arunah Bartlett 5.00
Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.75
Wilmington. “Friends,” $100, _for Student
Aid_;—Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.90 136.90
Winchester. Steven Cutter 80.00
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$135.94;—Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $50; G. H.
Whitcomb, $15, _for Student Aid, Straight
U._,—Salem St. Ch. and Soc., $11.88 212.82
Worthington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.05
—— “A Friend” 1.00

RHODE ISLAND, $99.71.

Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch., $71.71;—A
few Ladies in Cong. Ch., $28, by Mrs. Wm. J.
King, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 99.71

CONNECTICUT, $3,029.74.

Ansonia. First Cong. Ch. 22.17
Bloomfield. Mrs. Sally Gillet, to const.
LOUISA M. HODGES, L. M. 30.00
Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 17.68
Coventry. Second Cong. Ch. 51.23
Darien. Cong. Ch., $30, and Sab. Sch., $7 37.00
Easton. S. R. D. 1.00
Fairfield. First Cong. Ch. 35.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. 39.08
Glastonbury. W. S. Williams, _for Fisk U._ 1,000.00
Greeneville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 39.85
Greenwich. Second Cong. Ch. 62.75
Guilford. Third Cong. Ch., $33; First Cong.
Ch., $20 53.00
Hadlyme. Joseph W. Hungerford 50.00
Hartford. Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $16.45;
Wethersfield Ave. Sab. Sch., $5.23 21.68
Lyme. Old Lyme Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.68
Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch., $6, and
Sab. Sch., $10;—“Friends,” $1, _for postage_ 17.00
Meriden. Center Cong. Ch. 12.21
Middletown. First Ch., $36.53; Third Cong.
Ch., $16 52.53
Milford. Anna C. Nettleton 2.00
New Haven. First Ch., $134.70; Ch. of the
Redeemer, $85; College St. Cong. Ch.,
$41.23; Howard Ave. Cong. Ch., $20 280.93
North Haven. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25; Elihu
Dickerman, $2 27.00
Norwich. Park Cong. Ch., ($30 of which from
Mrs. Chas. Lee, to const. WILLIAM G. ABBOTT,
L. M.) 700.00
Plainville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
DOUGLAS W. MASON, L. M. 50.00
Putnam. Mrs. Geo. W. Keith, $25; Mrs. E. W.
Spaulding, $25 _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 50.00
Saybrook. Old Saybrook Cong. Ch. 7.01
Simsbury. Cong. Soc. 19.00
Somersville. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 41.35
Vernon. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Savannah,
Ga._ 10.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. 5.00
West Hartford. Mrs. F. G. B. 0.50
West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball 10.00
Westford. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Whitneyville. Cong. Ch. 51.00
Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 75.00
—— “Friends,” _for Student Aid_ 53.09
—— “A Friend” 20.00

NEW YORK, $1,936.88.

Ballston Spa. ESTATE of Titus M. Mitchell 200.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch., $167.46;—By Wm.
E. Whiting, $50, _for Chinese M._;—Mrs. Lucy
Thurber, $5 222.46
Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. 21.40
Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, $5; Miss A. G.
Fairchild, $5 10.00
Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch. 2.00
Galway. Delia C. Davis and sister, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Gloversville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Straight U._ 40.00
Honeoye. Miss Hannah Pitts 25.00
Kiantone. Cong. Ch. 8.55
Lumberland. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Madison. G. H. H. 0.50
Millville. Cong. Ch. 5.63
Morrisville. Cong. Ch. 28.90
Newark. James H. Reeves 5.00
Newburgh. John H. Corwin, Box of Books
New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. 1,000.44
New York. “A Friend,” $100;—S. T. Gordon,
$100;—D. J. Carson, $50, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 250.00
Pekin. Miss Oliva Root, $5; L. C., $1 6.00
Rome. John B. Jervis, $25; Miss C. Hurlburt,
$12 37.00
Salem. B. C. 1.00
Sherburne. Chas. A. Fuller, Bbl. of C., and
$5, _for Freight, for Talladega, Ala._ 5.00
Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, $7; Miss F. A.
C., 50c. 7.50
Tarrytown. “S. M. M.” 0.50
Troy. Rev. Chas. Redfield 5.00
Verona. Cong. Ch. 17.66
Victor. “H. P.” 0.50
Wellsville. Cong. Ch. 19.79
Westfield. Mrs. A. B. R. 1.00
Yaphank. “A Friend” 5.00

NEW JERSEY, $231.87.

Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 11.75
Jersey City. Tab. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $30,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._,—Tabernacle Ch.,
M. C. Coll., $8.62 38.62
Lakewood. Rev. G. L. 1.00
Montclair. First Cong. Ch., in part 170.00
Newark. “A Friend” 10.00
Orange. “T. F. S.” 0.50

PENNSYLVANIA, $90.04.

Cambridgeborough. “W. G.” 0.54
Farmers Valley. Mrs. E. C. O. 1.00
Hulton. W. W. Grier, _for Student Aid_ 30.00
Jeansville. Welsh Cong. Ch. 6.50
Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester 5.00
Prentiss Vale. Mrs. C. B. Lovejoy, $10; Wm.
Lovejoy, $2 12.00
Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland 5.00
West Alexander. Dr. Robert Davidson, $20; ——
$10 30.00

OHIO, $1,290.25.

Akron. Cong. Ch., $175.06, to const. DWIGHT W.
HIBBARD, THOMAS RHODES and MRS. LYDIA W.
ASHMAN, L. M’s;—Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 200.06
Bellefontaine. Mrs. John Lindsay, _for Woman’s
Work for Women_ 5.00
Bissells. Mrs. S. H. E. 0.50
Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee, $5, _for Foreign
M._;—“A Friend,” $5 10.00
Burton. Cong. Ch., $30.27, ($5 of which from
Mrs. L. R. Boughton); Ladies’ Miss. Soc., $10 40.27
Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers,” _for Student
Aid, Tougaloo U._ 10.25
Clarksfield. Mrs. Wm. A. A. 1.00
Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch., (of which
from Mrs. N. Scott, $2, Mrs. L., $1),
$23.96; Rev. Peter Kimball, $2; Individuals,
_for A. M._, $3 28.96
Crab Creek. Welsh Cong. Ch. 3.17
Fredericktown. A. H. ROYCE, ($30 of which to
const. himself, L. M.) 500.00
Geneva. Cong. Ch., ($5 of which from Chas.
Talcott, and $3 from James Ford) 23.70
Huntington. Edward West 25.00
Huntsburgh. “Earnest Workers,” Box of C., _for
Talladega, Ala._
Lindenville. David Parker and Samuel Beaty 10.00
Madison. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.37
Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., $61.95; Young
People’s Miss. Circle of First Ch., $30, to
const. MISS ALMEDA RUNYAN, L. M. 91.95
Marietta. Cong. Ch. 90.98
Medina. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mary J. Munger,
Treas. 11.00
Newark. “A Thank Offering,” $50; Mrs. J. C.
Wheaton, $10, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 60.00
Oberlin. First Ch., Branch of Oberlin Freed
Woman’s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Wm. G. Frost,
Treas., _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 75.00
Paddy’s Run. Cong. Ch. 28.00
Painesville. First Cong. Ch. 21.04
Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First
Cong. Ch., by Miss M. J. Leslie 15.00
Xenia. Mrs. Sarah S. Morrow 7.00

MICHIGAN, $128.05.

Benzonia. E. F. Spencer 10.00
Frankfort. First Cong. Ch., $3.71; O. B., $1 4.71
Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Woodville,
Ga._, $40; E. M. Ball, $10 50.00
Homestead. Cong. Ch. 1.87
Joyfield. Cong. Ch., (ad’l) 2.00
Kalamo. Rev. and Mrs. Henry Marsh, _for
rebuilding barn, Talladega, Ala._ 2.00
Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $25
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—“J. W.,” $1 26.00
Kensington. “J. T.” 1.00
Mattawan. W. B. Gorham 10.00
Vermontville. First Cong. Ch. 13.00
Vienna. Union Cong. Ch. 7.47

INDIANA, $2.00.

Sparta. John Hawkswell 2.00

ILLINOIS, $822.02.

Alton. Church of the Redeemer 55.35
Aurora. New Eng. Ch. 35.74
Bartlett. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Chandlerville. Cong. Ch. 2.25
Chicago. ESTATE of Mrs. E. H. Craven, by E. W.
Blatchford, $250, _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._, and $112.50, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._;—New England Ch. Sab. Sch.,
$46.90 _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._;—Bethany Cong. Ch., $15.21;—New Eng.
Ch., M. C. Coll., $11.82; Miss Anna E.
Bushnell, $5; Mrs. J. H. McArthur, $5 446.43
Elgin. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. O. V.
RICE and J. S. SMITH, L. M’s. 81.85
Moline. Thomas Jewett, $50, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._, Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._; S. W. W., 75c. 75.75
Oak Park. Cong Ch., in part 28.10
Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs. C. C. Cully 15.00
Seward. Cong. Ch. 11.50
Wyanet and Providence. Cong. Churches, _for
Lady Missionary, Liberty Co., Ga._, by Mrs.
C. C. Cully 9.50

WISCONSIN, $47.35.

Beloit. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 5.00
Berlin. Union Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 5.00
Caledonia. M. E. N. 1.00
Geneva. Presb. Ch. 26.35
Salem. “R. and F.” 5.00
Waukesha. Vernon Tichenor 5.00

IOWA, $148.81.