Chapter II: Part 2

The examinations were fairly conducted and disclosed the fact that the most advanced methods of teaching were employed. These methods were mainly topical, supplemented by appropriate questions, which evinced that the students had an intelligent comprehension of the subjects under consideration. We were especially impressed by the evidences of patient, systematic, untiring training on the part of the teachers, so well adapted to the colored, or any race, and by the progressive manner in which a subject was developed. All branches taught, passed in review before us, and whether the immediate subject was reading, grammar, history, mathematics, the classics, or other branches, the means employed and the results attained were entirely satisfactory. The examinations were entirely oral and the decorum and order maintained were of a high character.

The cleanliness of the recitation rooms, the preservation of school property and the gradual improvement of the grounds were marked.

The final exercises at Friendship Church were very creditable to the institution. The subjects of the speeches and essays were appropriate, without political bearing, and they were delivered and read in a becoming manner.

Comparing the examinations with preceding ones, we are satisfied that the University is steadily on the up-grade, and that it is becoming a centre of great interest among the colored people.

The religious training of the pupils appeared to be excellent.

The Normal feature of the institution we regard with especial interest. In no way can education be so rapidly extended, or its improved methods so effectually multiplied, as by the special training of teachers. This we believe to be the great educational want of our State.

We have one suggestion to make, viz: as the oral recitation has been now so satisfactorily developed, would it not be beneficial to introduce some written examination work in the higher classes, as affording a better comparative test, and as advancing the examinations fully up to the modern standard?

It is your committee’s opinion, based upon the foregoing, that the State has acted wisely in her appropriation to the Atlanta University, and that a continuance of it is to her best interests.

Respectfully submitted,

H. C. MITCHELL,

Chairman Special Committee.

T. G. POND, C. M. NEAL.

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On motion the above report was ordered to be submitted to the Governor.

H. H. JONES,

Chairman of General Board.

J. T. WHITE, C. M. NEAL.

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ALABAMA.

Why He Likes It.

REV. H. S. DEFORREST, TALLADEGA.

A minister recently called to one of our schools in the South, gives these reasons for liking his place.

1st. I am needed. This is a great work and the workmen are few. It is not at all here as it used to be, and perhaps now is, in Boston on a Saturday morning, scores of men standing with carpet-bag in hand, waiting for a chance to preach, and many waiting in vain. We have here more of field than we can occupy. On all sides comes up the Macedonian-African cry, “come over and help us.” I am often weary on Saturday and poorly enough prepared for Sunday, but am spared the anguish of not knowing where to go or what to do. Besides, there is so much of self-denial in the work that there are probably not a great many thinking that, if I should die or leave, there would be a vacancy, and if there should be a vacancy they would like to fill it. Not many are interested in my will; few would care for my shoes,—I hope to wear them myself and wear them here. For,

2nd. There is here a grand, perhaps unsurpassed opportunity for influencing men. I am not only a Home Missionary, but also a Foreign Missionary to Africa, and that last with special facilities. I am master of the language, and do not work at the disadvantage of a half-learned and half-murdered tongue. Neither is there any prejudice against me as a Foreigner because of my brogue, or my dress or my habits. Without the honors of a Foreign Missionary, I am also without many of his disadvantages, and my national and Yankee peculiarities, which might hinder across the sea, help on this side of the Atlantic. This is indeed a missionary field, but operated with special facilities. It is a double missionary field. For,

3d. The most pressing work in our own country is here. As surely as in 1861 our national peril is largely in the South. Ignorance is dense; immorality is rampant: lawlessness is wide-spread, while intelligence, morality and obedience to law form the only basis for such a government as ours. To save our country, we must save the South; to save the South, we must save the Southerners, and there are no Southerners more hopeful and more deserving than the late slaves. They are down but their faces are upward. Give them a hand and they will take it, especially if it be a “Yankee hand,” and a little lifting develops a good deal of spring in themselves. Thus it is that Patriotism as well as Humanity and Christianity keep me here, and no campaigning in our recent war seemed more a duty of loyalty than that in which I am now engaged. I am glad to be in the ranks and to still wear the blue. But,

4th. Looking beyond our broad land, I hope, standing here, to reach some portion of the “Dark Continent.” I regard this as a good _pou sto_ for moving Africa. Our students, more than those who have been life-long readers, use their memories. They are more impressible than the young of some other stock. They have a strong desire, as they are helped, to help others. Apparently the great missionary movement of the next few years is to be in Africa. The call is already heard for men. Some of these men are here, and the impressions now made, the very words we now speak, may yet be felt and heard in lands whence the fathers of these men were stolen, and in the jungles which the white man may well fear to tread.

5th. Besides, there are some special rewards in this work. If we have the white man’s contumely, we have the black man’s love. A more grateful and appreciative people than some of these, fresh from the prison-house of bondage but now rejoicing in a double freedom, I have never seen. Seldom is a pastor more fervently and affectionately prayed for than are some of us here. And I suspect as the Lord judges souls—He seeth not as man seeth—we have our companionship chiefly with the foremost of this part of the Land. These and similar considerations have led me to think that this College stands somewhere on Mt. Pisgah. Certainly just now I would rather be here than in any other part of the Universe of God. Tell our friends at the North that we do not need their sympathy but we do need their help. With more of means we could greatly multiply our labors and their results. Let those at the rear at least send on supplies, and more abundantly.

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Is the Work in Vain?—Building Progress—A Missionary Spirit.

REV. HORACE J. TAYLOR, ATHENS.

Sometimes one is tempted to say that the work here is in vain. We know, for instance, that a great deal has been done during the last fifteen years by the Principal of Trinity School, and yet one can see that the work is by no means finished. Have not some people at the North been thinking that, after fifteen years of good work among the colored people of the South, the A.M.A. ought to be about leaving the field here for some other? Some here say to me, it will be a work of centuries to bring up this people; others, that the colored race never will be fit for anything but farm laborers; they must be hewers of wood and drawers of water. Some people in Ohio think the religion of the colored man in the South is a “pure and undefiled” religion. Some people here think there is no use in trying to give the colored man a pure system of religion. “They get together and shout and carry on, and that is all they are fitted for.” “Their religion is impure and defiled, and they cannot appreciate a pure religion.” So say the enemies of the colored race. Well, this is partly true; too true. The colored man has emotion, and his late masters were too often content with that “religion” in the slave. As slaves they were allowed to preach and steal and commit adultery, and all together, too.

When we think of the pit from which they have been lifted, and of their ancestry—only a few generations ago heathen all of them, cannibals some of them—can we think that the results are less than we might expect? A great deal has been done here, and there is a great deal to show for it. Some might think there was not much to be seen of good results. A church of forty-four members—three less than two years ago, five less than one year ago—some weak ones, the church as well as the school still pecuniarily dependent on the A.M.A., they will not be ready to cut loose from the fostering care of the Association for some years yet.

Christ said that the kingdom of heaven was like a grain of mustard seed, or like a little leaven. These churches and schools act like leaven in a mass of ignorance. And this leaven works. And it is because of this leavening power of the Gospel that we are encouraged. The whole will be leavened in time. But time is necessary. The Congregational churches have undertaken a mighty work, and they must patiently stick to it for years yet. Much as can be seen of the results of the work here, more than half of it cannot be easily seen. Other churches have been enlightened and helped. Even those who try to keep out the light can’t prevent some of it getting through the chinks.

You will want to know about the work for the new school building. If we had had the least idea that we must work five months with less than one hundred dollars in money, we never would have undertaken the job. We hoped a fair share of the subscriptions would be paid in cash. One or two had themselves to buy the moulds for making the bricks, and the shovels to dig with, and the cord to line the ground with. We had no boards to cover the bricks, so, instead of kilning the bricks as they were made, they were piled in an old log house. Many were broken in this way. Then they were moved when we had boards to cover the kiln; and many more were broken. And from the 1st of August—we didn’t begin to prepare the ground till July 17th—till November we had heavy and frequent rains. The papers said such a season had not been known for many years. We were hindered in our work, and lost bricks from the rains. But we have over a hundred thousand bricks, and a total expense of one hundred and fifty dollars. If the workers next summer can have the money, as we hope, they will not work to such disadvantage, for they will have boards on hand, and can kiln the bricks as they make them, and have tools. The building will be finished, but it takes more time than we at first thought. Such a school-house was not necessary fifteen years ago. Our neat church building, and the necessity for a substantial school building, are proofs of the great work done here by Miss Wells. I enjoy this work, and have become attached to the people. But it is too nice a place for me. I never expected to preach from a carpeted platform. I must go far hence to more destitute places beyond—to the islands of the sea. But the work is one. Whether in Alabama or Micronesia, under the A.M.A. or the A.B.C.F.M., we are working for one Lord, to establish the kingdom of Christ on earth. We can but praise Him that He calls us to work in any corner of His wide vineyard.

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MISSISSIPPI.

Sunday-Schools—Student-Conversions—Crowded Rooms.

MRS. G. STANLEY POPE, TOUGALOO.

The year thus far has been most pleasant and profitable. During the fall term we had an unusually large number of students who entered into study with faithfulness and energy.

Many who had been teaching during the summer, gave most interesting reports of their work. The Sunday-school and temperance work had been vigorously pushed with excellent results; one of which is over thirteen hundred signers to the temperance pledge. Some conversions in their Sunday-schools were also reported; and quite often now some one speaks in our prayer-meeting of receiving a letter from a pupil asking for prayers that he may become a Christian.

Just at the close of the fall term we were visited with a remarkable outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Our good Dr. Roy had been here, and a sermon which he preached left impressions which brought some to decide for Christ. And then the Sunday-school lessons. I remember watching the young people during the closing exercises of Sunday-school the Sabbath before Christmas, and I saw that there was deep feeling, and felt sure that there were some who would not long resist the Spirit, and during the next three days there were nineteen conversions.

Three or four others have since then found Christ. There is also a marked Christian growth and a growing interest in the study of the Bible. Our hearts are greatly encouraged, and we go forward rejoicing that we are permitted to work for Christ. Truly “The Lord hath done great things for us whereof we are glad.”

At present we have one hundred and four boarders, with the prospect of more soon. Every room is occupied, and we are crowded to what seems the utmost limit of our accommodations. What we shall do with those yet to come, is a problem which neither mathematics nor the laws of expansion have solved. Shall they hang up in the trees or bivouac under them? We want to put an addition to the “barracks,” but have not the means necessary. Dear friends at the North, shall we turn these young people away? What is your answer? We hope that by a year from now, a good substantial building will be at least in process of erection, that shall do away with some of the temporary accommodations we now have.

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TENNESSEE.

School Work and Week of Prayer.

E. A. H., MEMPHIS.

Next week will, I believe, close my second month’s work here. I find the work very pleasant, and am enjoying it greatly, though I think I am working harder than I have ever worked in a school before. The school has filled up very rapidly since the holidays. My room is full to overflowing, and I have been obliged to seat a few of my pupils in the Normal room. That room and the Primary are also quite full. Of course, these additions to the school have made the work of the teachers much harder. Besides my work with my own pupils, I am having some practice work done. Four students from the Senior Class of the Normal Department, are engaged for a short time each day in teaching in my department, and under my supervision. This corps of teachers is changed once in two weeks, thus giving each pupil in that class a chance to work. I also meet the Senior Class three times a week, for talks with them on school and class work, taking up the objects to be gained by recitations and the best methods used. I think I can see already that this work is doing good, and I hope that it may prove of great value to the pupils.

We have been observing the week of prayer in the school, by fifteen minute prayer meetings, directly after school. At first, these were held in a recitation room, but Thursday evening the meeting had grown so large that it was held in the Intermediate room, and Friday evening in the Assembly room. A good deal of interest has been shown, and a number have expressed a desire for the prayers of Christians. We hope that the interest may deepen and much good be done.

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TEXAS.

Two Hours’ Work by a Student-Canvasser.

The following letter, with enclosure of $3.50 and fourteen names for the MISSIONARY for six months, will not only explain itself, but may furnish a suggestive example to many.

DEAR FRIENDS: Of course you will be curious to know how it happened that some persons in this place—Marshall, Texas—suddenly conclude to read the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, consequently I send you these words of explanation. I am indebted to your schools for all the education I possess. I attended Straight University five months—from January to June, 1874; then beautiful Fisk University nearly nine months—from September to May, 1879, entering college regularly with the class. Commencement over, I set out for Texas, earnestly desiring to secure means to go through with; but, owing to bad health and the want of proper precaution, I failed. I was unwilling to return immediately to Fisk University empty-handed, to give my teachers additional concern about my welfare, and, as I am firmly resolved to complete the course, everything to the contrary notwithstanding, something had to be done. Hence I decided to remain in Texas a few months longer, giving my wife, who is at Nashville, the choice of remaining there or joining me here, until the difficulty is past. I could get no paying work right away, having walked upwards of two hundred miles and spent three weeks of valuable time in the search. Finally, weary, foot-worn and exhausted, I fell under the effects of intermittent fever—indeed, I was in trouble. Nothing remained, then, but to be idle two months or more, at the expiration of which I could begin to teach, in accordance with a contract that I then held. In the meantime my class would be making progress; this thought, believe me, gave me as much concern as my ill-health. I carried the subject to the Lord in prayer and became reconciled. I reached Marshall, on the 22d instant. I plainly stated my case to the teachers of this Institution. They seemed to sympathize with me, and on the following morning assigned me work. Thus, you see, I am doing something, though it may be very little.

I heard an interesting discourse Sabbath evening from I. Corinthians xv., 58. The preacher proved clearly to my mind that Christians ought to be zealous of good works for the churches to which they belong. He proved, too, that all could do something. The whole furnished me excellent food for reflection. I began to figure out how much we colored people in the South could advance your glorious work if we only had the zeal. I found, indeed, that we are neglecting a very important service; so I resolved, not having anything else in view, to secure some subscribers to the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and within two hours yesterday I begged fourteen persons to put down their names. Now, suppose each one of your students in the South should do even that much, is it not plain that you would soon have a large constituency here as well as in New England? Such service alone would increase your subscription-list by many thousands, and add largely to your income, as well as disseminate, as should be, a wide knowledge of your work. Let, then, every one, put his hand to the wheel, for all can do something. Believe me, I am heartily ashamed of myself, now that I can see what an excellent opportunity of doing great good I have lost by not doing the lesser. I have lived, more or less, in no fewer than twenty towns, and I have taught in at least fifteen different schools since I first left one of your schools, at any one of which I ought to have raised at least as many subscribers to the AMERICAN MISSIONARY as I have here. I have been a Christian for several years, but unfortunately one of that class who are afraid to “stand up for Jesus.” I am feeling differently now, consequently am likely to fly to the other extreme. Should any little work, then, suggest itself to you, such as you may regard me capable of performing, why be assured that a willing servant is at hand. It is to be very much regretted that, since I have to remain here, I could not be with the teachers at Tillotson College; still those who can work will work anywhere.

Very sincerely,

H. C. G.

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THE INDIANS.

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AN INDIAN BOY’S LETTER.

DEAR FRIEND: I was born in Grand Island, Neb. in the 15 day of November. My mother was married by a white man, and used to live in Grand Island, and my father was scouting with the Pawnees, and once it rain very hard and he got lightling struck and died; I did not know him, I never seen him, my mother tells me about him. When he died, my mother went back to her home, and lived with her brother, who lived like a white man. In 1869 I went on a hunting bufflos with the Pawnees and Puncas. We went on about three days; they found some bufflos, so all the men got their best horses and fixed them up, and then took their bows and arrows and guns. They went all around them, and then they just run their horses to see who’ill get there first, one man would kill two or three, sometimes four and eight, and they skin them, and take them home, skin and all. The skins is used for mocassins and men legends (leggings). Once I went swimming while the men went after bufflos, while I was in the water I seen a bufllo coming where I was, frightened me to, I had to climbed upon a tree. It was mad, and some men were after him; and had some arrows in him. They killed it, and then I got down, and I seen them skin it. We had lots bufflo meat; we camp the same place, the Indians were drying their meat, so it will less (last) long. After while we went on again, we went on till sun was sat. Next morning they seen some more bufflos; they killed many more; they had to stay there till their meat was dry. We stayed there and then the Indian women got their work things and work on with their skins. They finished them and had lots meat and skins. We return home again.

I just eat dry meat all the time. No town near to buy some bread nor sugar. I used to be hungry for bread. I used to cry for bread. My stepfather had to take me where their was some Pawnees, that did not go on hunting. We got there. I had all the bread I want. I was glad then. The next day we went on and got to a town; and got in the cars, and went on; we got to another town; we get out and went to my home, and then they sent me to school. I went to school four months. I went home again.

After while some of the Pawnees ran away from their homes, went to Indian Territory and stayed there for couple years, had nice time and had many ponies, then one went back home and told them it was very nice down the Territory, and it made part of the Chiefs think it would be nice to go down there. They used to have a counsil all day, and had a counsil one year. One Chief did not want to go down there; that was Lone Chief, because he liked that place, because the Pawnees were civilized when they were up there. They commencing putting up their houses, and farming. They went down there. I went down with them. When I was there, I used to work on my farm. I have got a farm my own. I use to go to school in winter. I had been wanting to go to school somewhere else. I am very glad they took me to Hampton School. I think my friends will help me all they can. I want to learn all I can at Hampton School and stay here till four or five years, my mother was willing for me to go to school and be among the white people, and when I went to Indian Territory, and I went to the day school one year, and the next year I went to the Boarding School. I never use to talk English one year ago, but the Agent at my home, keep me at his office where there was many white men were writing. They use to talk to me all the time in English, and then I learn how, and then I use to interpret for the Agent.

When we first went down to the Territory, there use to be many sickness; they used to die; they were not use to in warm country. Once I was sick. I had the chills and favor. I near died. I got well again; before I came away, I plow part of my field and sowed some wheat, but I have got brothers who will work at my field while I am away, and keep my horses good, and houses. Some white people used to want to take me. When I was at home I used to write to Col. Meachem, to help me to go to some school. He did help me, and I am glad I went to Hampton School. I am trying to be a good boy, and study all I can. The only thing troubles me is Geography, that is the only thing I have to try hard.

Yours truly,
JAMES MURIE.

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 C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D.D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D.D., Jacob S. Taber, Esq.

DIRECTORS: Rev. George 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. C. Pond. TREASURER: E. Palache, Esq.

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AN ANNIVERSARY AT SACRAMENTO.

REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.

We have sustained a mission school among the Chinese at Sacramento for nearly ten years; but our first public anniversary was held at the Congregational church there, on Sunday, January 11th. The following account of it was furnished for _The Pacific_ by the pastor, Rev. Dr. Dwinell:

“The attendance was good, and the exercises thrilling with Christian interest to one who can see in such facts the beginning of a great tidal wave of grace that is yet to flow over the Chinese empire; and, what is more, a good collection was taken, showing the interest to be genuine. The exercises consisted of recitations of classified Scripture, an original address, an original dialogue, and singing—all by the Chinese—and brief introductory and closing exercises by others. The mission is in a very prosperous condition, and shows the fruits of the earnest, faithful teaching of those who have had charge of the school, and especially of the present principal, Mrs. Carrington.”

After several of the exercises a muffled applause was audible, such as on any other day and in any other place would have been irrepressible. Especially was this the case after the following

ADDRESS BY LEM CHUNG.

“Ladies and gentlemen: I am very glad to see you all here this evening. I thank you very much for your kindness, teaching us about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because our people are in very darkness indeed, worshiping idols. I would like to tell you of something I did when I was a little boy at home. My parents were very careful to attend to worshiping idols, but on the first day of the year they must worship more than any other day of the year. At this time I used to carry a basket with some sacrifice in it, follow after my father from place to place where the different gods were for worshiping. I believe on them very much. I thought the idols can help us a great deal. So when I was at school one day, I wrote a piece of paper, it represent a sage, and I put it inside of my desk. I then bought some nuts and wine and offered to him, and bowed my head to him, and ask him to help me about my lessons, that I might recite them well, and I said, ‘If you do not help me to recite my lessons well, when I return I tear you off and burn you up.’ When the time come I could not recite very well, so then _I burn it_. I had been at school about three years. My father sent me to the high school professor. Explaining the book of Confucius at that time, I often go with the priest to help them play the music for worshiping the evil spirits. After little while the priest came to my father, see if he can let me go learn to be a priest. My father was willing to let me go, but when my mother knew it she said, ‘I cannot spare my son to be a priest, worshiping too much for the evil spirit, but I rather to send him to California, getting his living.’

“Nearly five years have passed since I leaved my native land and came to this country, where I found all the things strange and different from what I had ever seen before. I found there was much for me to learn. A friend of mine invited me to Sunday-school, and I went with him. When I returned to the Chinatown I ask some person what kind of people are they who teach us there? They said, American people; but I could not know how it was that they should be willing to come and teach us without pay. They told me that they were very good people who come to teach you, and talk about Jesus Christ, and show us the right way. I kept on going till I can read the Bible. Great many things very different from other books. My heart was touch of Christ. I could not understand all; but not many days after the same friend invited me to go with him to the evening mission school. So I went with him to the school. After the lessons were over, the Chinese helper explained the Bible and talk to us, telling us it was useless to serve idols; they cannot help us; _they cannot take care of themselves_. But we must come to God of heaven, who made all things, heaven and earth. We must ask Him to help us, and pray to Him to give us all things what we need. We ought to praise Him. So when I heard him say this I saw and felt all I had done before was of no use, and was very wicked. Then I make up my mind to leave off worshiping idols, and begin to worship the true and living God. So I went back where I was employed. When I kneeled down to pray I opened my window, because I thought God cannot hear me if I leave it closed. After a few days the Chinese helper request me to join the Association of Christian Chinese, which I did, and read the Bible day by day, learning more about Christ. Oh, friends, I was very happy when I was converted! when I come to Jesus and worship the true God; leave the darkness and follow the light, and try to lead others of my countrymen to learn of Jesus, and know Him who died for us and save us from sin.

“When my father heard I follow Christ he sent me a letter. He said: ‘What are you doing out there? Are you going to believe Jesus, and leave all your countrymen, and your ancestors, and idols, and Confucius unserved?’ And he said: ‘No other way better than Confucius; so many of your countrymen do not believe Christ. You must leave off and come back to _our own way_. Believe the way that most of our people believe.’ But Christ tell us, ‘He that loveth father or mother more than Me not worthy of Me.’ I cannot leave off the way of Christ for the way of darkness; but I can try to bring them to Jesus. I hope you all, brethren, who come to Christ, will help hold up the light of the Gospel to shine on them which are in the dark and bow down to idols, and that many of my countrymen shall go back to China to tell the glad news to thousands there who have never heard of Christ; and if we cannot reward you, God will reward you every one.”

I have not been willing to correct any of the little mistakes of grammar, but give the address in exact copy from the original. It was uttered in a clear voice, with a distinct and quite correct pronunciation, and with such simple earnestness that every eye was fixed upon him, and every heart seemed touched. Lem Chung has been our helper in Sacramento for about eight months, is _growing_ mentally and spiritually, and gives promise of a very useful future.

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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HOW TO MAKE MONEY FOR THE MISSIONARIES.

An original Essay written by a Girl eleven years old, and read by her at a Woman’s Foreign Missionary Meeting in Indiana.

I should think that everyone could think of ways for themselves, but I suppose we can help each other. Some ways that I may suggest might not be thought of by others, while others in turn might think of many ways that I would not.

The first way that enters my mind is what I found to be a very good plan at one time; have your grandfather get sick so that your father will have to go and see him, and on his return your grandmother will send you a present of one dollar. With it buy a pig in partnership with someone else who has the same amount, and after feeding it with your father’s corn for a year, sell it for twenty dollars, you of course getting one half of it.

Another way is to have a little garden and sell vegetables out of it; and another way is to have a hen and sell eggs, or raise chickens and sell them. One way that I found to be a good one, is to make tidies and sell them. And those of us who are fortunate enough to have a baby brother or sister, attend it two or three hours for a penny an hour. And I think another good way is to be a great talker, and have your mother give you five cents to be still. We may also relieve our mothers very much by watering the house plants, and may be she will give us a little bit.

And I have often thought it would be a good plan to have pay for washing dishes, and may be some of your mothers would; just mention it to them; but mine won’t, for I have tried it! And when your mother sends you to pick berries, just mention the missionaries to her. And if you live in the country, gather apples, churn, kill potato bugs and dig potatoes. And then have a penny a dozen for finding pins; and the best place in the world to find pins is in the oldest sister’s room.

And another way of getting money for our school in Persia is to save a part of the money we spend in candies. But I hope that in our dividing between ourselves and missions, none of us may be like the little boy that I heard of not long ago. His uncle gave him two bright new nickels. They were a little fortune to him, and as he looked upon them, he said, “One of these must go for the heathen and the other for candy.” After this decision he put them away, and every few minutes he would go to see if his fortune was safe. But once, after having them out, one of them was missing. What should he do? and which piece was lost, the missionary or the candy money? His little eyes rested upon the shining piece in his hand, and after many minutes of hard struggle with selfishness and benevolence, he said to his mother, “It was the missionary money that I lost!” But then I guess that bigger folks than children often have their business plans, which they think cannot be broken into by missionaries.

(“Children’s Work for Children.”)

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RECEIPTS

FOR JANUARY, 1880.

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MAINE, $528.76.

Bangor. Central Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._;—Hammond St. Ch. (ad’l),
$15.21; T. U. C., $1 $41.21
Bath. Mrs. J. C. 1.00
Biddeford. J. N. A. 1.00
Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Cumberland. S. M. R. 1.00
Farmington. —— Bbl. of C.
Lovell. Ladies, by Mrs. Lewis Goodrich, Bbl. of C.
Machias. Miss U. M. Penniman. 5.00
Norway. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.84
Orland. Mrs. S. T. Buck and Daughter, $30;
“A Friend,” $1.00 31.00
Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l),
$221.45; High St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;—High
St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Hampton N.
and A. Inst._;—Mrs. David Patten, $5;
Mrs. L. D., 50c. 351.95
Rockland. Mrs. E. R. S., 51c.; Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
bbl. of C. 0.51
Saccarappa. W. K. D. 0.50
South Freeport. Miss Fannie E. Soule, $25, _for
Miller’s Station, Ga._;—Rev. H. I., 50c. 25.50
Sweden. E. P. Woodbury 8.00
Wells. First Cong. Ch., $5.50; Individuals, $2.50 8.00
West Newfield. Samuel C. Adams 10.00
Winthrop. E. H. N., $1; Ladies of Cong. Ch., $1 and
bbl. of C. 2.00
Woolwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.25

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $452.38.

Amherst. Mrs. Ed. Aiken, $25, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._;—Ladies Soc., $2 and Box of Goods,
_for Wilmington, N. C._;—Miss C. M. Boylston, $2 29.00
Colebrook. J. A. H. 0.50
Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $47.01;
—W. H. Pitman, $2, _for Mendi M._;
—Miss F. A. G., 50c.; Mrs. C. D., 50c 50.02
Francestown. ESTATE of Miss Lucy Everett, by Joseph
Kingsbury. 60.00
Francestown. A. F. 1.00
Greenville. Cong. Ch., $8.50; E. G. Heald, $6 14.50
Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. 25.00
Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
Harrisville. D. Farwell 2.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Keene. Individuals 1.50
Kensington. “Friend” 3.00
Lake Village. B. Q. J. 1.00
Londonderry. C. S. P. 1.00
Manchester. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc., $100, to
const. REV. WM. V. W. DAVIS, F. B. EATON and E.
L. BRYANT, L. M.’s; “Pillsbury,” $10 110.00
Mason. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Milford. Cong. Ch. 19.31
Monroe. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 0.97
Mount Vernon. J. A. S. 1.00
Nashua. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc., $30.28; Mrs.
E. A. S., and Rev. F. A., 50c. ea 31.28
New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $3; J. W. C., 50c. 3.50
Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $13; Mrs. M. B. Pratt,
$11; A. E., $1 25.00
Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, $7; Cong. Ch.
and Soc., $5 12.00
Pittsfield. —— $10; John L. Thorndike, $10 20.00
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.30
Short Falls. I. W. C. 0.50
Temple. Individuals, by Rev. J. F. Bassett 5.00
Wentworth. Ephraim Cook, $10 and bbl. of C. 10.00
Wolfborough. Mrs. Sumner Clark 5.00

VERMONT, $1,153.69.

Barnet. W. G. H. 0.60
Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.56
Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 83.44
Craftsbury. ESTATE of Mrs. Deborah W. Lewis, by
C. S. Smith, Ex. 520.87
East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch. 31.56
Enosburgh. G. A. 1.00
Felchville. M. C. F. 0.50
McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.50
North Thetford. Cong. Ch., $13.63; Mrs. E. G. B.,
50c. 14.13
Pittsford. Cong. Soc. 20.00
Post Mills. Mrs. F. J. C. May, bbl. of C.
Royalton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.50
Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. $111.55;
South Cong. Ch., $38.17; Mrs. T. M. Howard, $25,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 174.72
Sheldon. Cong. Sab. Sch. 27.76
South Peacham. Mrs. W. W. 1.00
Springfield. “Springfield Miss. Circle,” _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 120.00
Vershire. Mrs. M. W. Parker 2.00
Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.51
Weathersfield Centre. Mrs. Edson Chamberlin 5.00
West Barnet. Ref. Presb. Ch., $10; Mrs. S. G., $1 11.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch., $62.24;
Mrs. F. C. Gaines, $5 67.24
Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.30; G. F. H.,
50c. 7.80

MASSACHUSETTS, $4,691.00.

Acton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $78.55; North
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $60, to const. Mrs. MARIA
DUTTON and Mrs. JEANETTE E. STEARNS, L. M’s. 138.55
Andover. Peter Smith, $500;—“Lady Friends,” $75,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—West Cong. Ch.
and Soc., $45.18; F. A. T., $1 621.18
Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._;—G. S. S., 51c. 25.51
Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.22
Barre. “Friends,” $3, and Bbl. of C. by Mrs. Edwin
Woods 3.00
Bedford. M. E. R. 0.50
Belchertown. Orrin Walker, $5; D. B. B. 50c. 5.50
Berlin. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtis, $200; Rev. Charles
Nichols, $30, to const. REV. J. ENWRIGHT, L. M.,
“A Friend,” $20; H. S. Robinson, $10; “A Friend,”
$10; Geo. P. Smith, $5; Mrs. B. F. Dewing, $5;
Mrs. S., $1;—“S. E. H.,” 50c. _for Chinese M._ 281.50
Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.19
Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., $34.09; Joseph
Hewett, $10; —— Bbl of C. 44.09
Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch. and Soc. 118.16
Buckland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.25
Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., $124.17;
Pilgrim Cong. Ch., $8.24; Miss A. J. P., 50c. 132.91
Campello. “Mrs. W.,” _for Lady Missionary, Nashville,
Tenn._ 3.00
Chelsea. Miss M. E. Brooks, $2;—Mrs. A. E. P.,
$1, _for Lady Missionary_,——; Miss H., 50c. 3.50
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.50
Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.36
Colerain. Miss E. McG. 1.00
Conway. David Lyons 2.00
Cotuit. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane, $100; Mrs. James P. Crane,
$100 200.00
Dorchester. Mrs. H. 1.00
East Douglass. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
to const. MISS HELEN L. R. BRIGGS, L. M. 55.45
East Longmeadow. Mrs. G. W. C. 1.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.00
Fitchburg. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. R. Eaton 10.00
Framingham. Young People’s Circle, Plymouth Ch.,
$98; Plymouth Ch. and Soc., $50.27;
—— Box of C. 148.27
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.30
Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. Sag. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
GEO. R. BRADFORD, JOHN CUNNINGHAM and JOSIAH
K. HURST, L. M’s 100.00
Granville Corners. C. Holcomb 5.00
Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100;
Miss Emily Beckwith, $10; —— “A. C. T.,”
$1 _for Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 111.00
Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 15.00
Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.51
Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $143.19;
West Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.04;
Mrs. L. P. F., 50c.; Dea. E. W., 50c.; C. C., $1;
Mrs. S. C., 50c. 152.73
Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.10
Holliston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C, val.
$74.11, by Eda B. Partridge, Treas.; A. F., 51c. 0.51
Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 103.80
Housatonic. M. A. H. 0.51
Hubbardston. A. G. D. 0.50
Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.15; Limebrook
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.50 32.65
Indian Orchard. Cong. Ch. 43.00
Jamaica Plain. Boylston Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 6.53
Lawrence. Lawrence St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $150;
—Lawrence St. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 200.00
Lexington. Miss M. E. P. 0.50
Littleton. Woman’s Miss. Circle, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50;—Ladies’
Soc., $1 and bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._;
—Mrs. S. L. P., 50c. 51.50
Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Malden. “A few Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 5.00
Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw 3.00
Medford. “A Friend” 2.00
Methuen. A. P. C. 0.50
Middleborough. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $11.68; Cong.
Ch. and Soc., $10.41 22.09
Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.95
Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin and her S. S. Class, $11,
_for ed. of Indian boys, Hampton N. and A. Inst._;
—Mrs. Dewey’s S. S. Class $6; Miss E. A. W., $1 18.00
Monterey. Rev. A. E. T. 0.50
Natick. Postage 0.10
Needham. Mrs. Ellen H. Green 100.00
Newburyport. Freedman’s Aid Soc., by Mrs. Mary E.
Demmick, Sec., _for Lady Missionary, Macon, Ga._ 25.00
Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 223.15
Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $77.32;
S. A. E., 50c.; J. W., 50c. 78.32
North Abington. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll. 5.00
Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. 20.00
North Amherst. H. S. 1.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. 61.00
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
Norwood. Mrs. Fuller 3.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.50
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. 13.57
Pittsfield. By John T. Poorer, $2.50; Mrs. N. G. B.
and Miss E. F., 50c. ea. 3.50
Plymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 56.56
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.15
Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.06
Reading. Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.92
Rockland. E. Shaw 25.00
Rockport. John Parsons 3.00
Salem. A. P. 0.50
Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, Bbl.
of C. _for Savannah, Ga._
South Boston. Infant Class of Phillips Sab. Sch.,
$15; Miss J. A. 50c. 15.50
South Natick. John Eliot Ch. and Soc. 9.63
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. to
const. MISS MARY B. TIRRELL and MISS MARY A.
LLOYD, L. M’s. 51.00
Somerville. H. B. S. 0.50
Springfield. “M,” $200; First Cong. Ch., $33.06;
South Cong. Ch., $32.91; G. B. K., $1;
Mrs. H., 50c. 267.47
Stockbridge. Cong. Ch. 74.48
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.80
Stoughton. Betsey E. Capen 2.00
Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.40
Sudbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21; “A Friend,” $3 24.00
Taunton. “A Friend” 20.00
Uxbridge. W. J. 1.00
Watertown. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.
_for Wilmington, N. C._
Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $36.08; “L. B. H.,”
$20 56.08
Westborough. Rev. J. W. B. 0.60
West Boylston. “Willing Workers” $2 and Bbl. of C. 2.00
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.16
West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. ADDISON A.
SMITH, L. M. 31.08
West Newbury. J. C. C. 2.50
West Roxbury. South Evan Sab. Sch. _for Indian
Pupils, Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 20.00
Whitinsville. Cong. Ch., $30; “A Friend,” $20;
S. A. D., 50c. 50.50
Williamstown. Cong. Ch., $40; Rev. Mark Hopkins,
$10 50.00
Wilmington. Dea. J. Skilton 10.00
Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., mon. con. coll. $34.22;
North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11.12 45.34
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $133.57;
Old South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $28.24 161.81
Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge 5.00
—— “A Friend,” 10.00
—— “A Friend,” 5.00

RHODE ISLAND, $199.96.

Bristol. Mrs. R. R. and Miss C. De W., _for Mag._ 1.00
Little Compton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00
Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Peace Dale. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Providence. Union Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $126.64;
Charles St. Cong. Ch., $13.72; M. E. L., $1;
Miss P., 60c. 141.96

CONNECTICUT, $3,036.40.

Ansonia. J. H. Bartholomew 25.00
Berlin. C. S. Webster, $50, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._;—Second Cong. Ch., $19.12 69.12
Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Bridgeport. V. C. 1.00
Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Broad Brook. Cong. Ch. 12.50
Burnside. Miss E. S. 0.50
Canaan. “A Friend” 2.00
Canton Centre. Wm. G. Hallock 10.00
Cheshire. Cong. Ch., _for ed. of an Indian boy,
Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 5.00
Colchester. S. G. Millard, $10, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._;—C. B. McCall, $10, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._; Mrs. M. J. G., 50c. 20.50
Collinsville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($6 of which
_for Girls’ Ind. Sch., Talladega C._) 28.43
Cornwall Bridge. Geo. H. Swift 10.00
Cromwell. Cong. Ch. ($3 of which _for Indian M._) 11.00
Danbury. E. B. 1.00
Durham. Ladies’ Miss. Ass’n, $3 and Bbl. of C. _for
Talladega, Ala._ 3.00
Eastford. ESTATE of Royel Warren, by J. D. Barrows,
Ex. 250.00
East Hartford. First Ch. 20.00
East Windsor Hill. Ladies, $10.50, and Bbl. of C.
_for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 10.50
Enfield. Sarah A. Abbe 30.00
Essex. First Cong. Ch. 13.20
Farmington. Cong. Ch. Quar. Coll., (of which $150
from Henry D. Hawley, to const. FLORA E.
Hawley, L. M.) 204.45
Georgetown. Cong. Ch., case of S. S. Books;
Rev. C. A. N., $1 1.00
Glastonbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35; G. M. J.,
63c. 35.63
Goshen. “A Friend” 20.00
Greenwich. Miss Sarah Mead 50.00
Hampton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.77
Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., $149.96, ($10 of
which _for Hampton Inst._); Park Cong. Ch. and
Soc., $133.57; Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., $20.07;
Mrs. Mary C. Bemis, $20;—Young Girls’ Miss.
Ass’n, $5, _for Talladega, Ala._;
Miss P. Johnson, $1.50; Mrs. W. T., 50c. 330.60
Harwinton. Mrs. Frederick S. Catlin 50.00
Hebron. “Friends” 15.00
Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Kensington. Cong. Ch. 5.44
Lebanon. Goshen Sab. Sch. $12; Mrs. P. E. H., 50c. 12.50
Litchfield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Lyme. First Cong. Ch. 17.00
Madison. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Manchester. E. A. B. 0.50
Meriden. Centre Cong. Ch. 21.00
Milford. First Cong. Ch. 50.04
Montville. First Cong. Ch. 6.95
Morris. Cong. Ch. 7.00
New Britain. South Cong. Ch., $55.40; Mrs. A. A., $1 56.40
New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.55
New Haven. Mrs. Henry Johnston, $5.00; Miss B. P.,
$1; Others, $1 7.00
New London. Second Cong. Ch., ($300 of which
from TRUST ESTATE of H. P. HAVEN.) 778.26
New Milford. Mrs. F. G. B. 1.00
New Preston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.50
North Branford. J. A. P. 1.00
Northford. Cong. Ch. 12.50
North Guilford. A. E. Bartlett 10.00
Norwalk. Mrs. Wm. B. St. John 3.00
Orange. Cong. Ch. 12.50
Prospect. Dea. Benj. B. Brown, $10;
Mrs. E. B. Brown, $10 20.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 28.50
Quinnebaug. —Bbl. of C.
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 58.61
Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.16
Southington. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 2.10
Stanwich. Wm. Brush 300.00
Stonington. R. Town 1.50
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 23.09
Thompson. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 9.00
Washington. F. A. F. 1.00
Watertown. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. WILLIAM A.
JONES and LAURA N. DAYTON, L. M’s. 75.00
Weatogue. T. J. W. 1.00
West Meriden. Edmund Tuttle, $30, to const. MRS.
IRA H. MERRIMAN, L. M.; E. K. Breckenridge, $5 35.00
Westminster. Cong. Ch. 5.00
West Suffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.60
Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 2.00
Windsor Locks. Mrs. L. P. Dexter 6.00
Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Woodbury. Mrs. Elizabeth L. Curtiss 10.00
—— “A Friend” 17.50

NEW YORK, $642.73.