Chapter VI

When the time shall come, as come it must,
And we shall crumble away in dust,
Thy voice shall ring on and on, for aye,
As it peals out on the air today!
And ancient sire to child shall tell
Tales of yore of the Jubilee Bell!

“The evening was given to the

SENIOR PREPARATORY EXHIBITION.

The programme was a full one, and well carried out.

“In some respects the Senior Preparatory Exhibition of Fisk University is _the_ night occasion of commencement week. The interest rises from the first, and culminates with Wednesday night. This was specially true of this year. The knowledge of the fact that the Jubilee Singers were to sing contributed to crowd the chapel with such an audience as has not been assembled in it for months. Every inch of available space was occupied, and many were compelled to stand at the entrance unable to find seats. The Jubilee Singers opened the exercises by a song, “Sweet Music”—Beethoven.

“Thursday, commencement proper:

CLOSE OF THE MOST PROSPEROUS YEAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE INSTITUTION.

“According to announcement, the commencement exercises took place Thursday morning at 10 o’clock, in the presence of a crowded house. In addition to the decorations of the previous day, the wall back of the platform was tastefully set off with the folds of the Dutch and English flags, the American flag being on duty on the border. Upon the folds of the flags were arranged in letters of cedar the words, ‘The Class of 1880.’ Six young men then gave their graduating addresses. These are kindly and appreciatively spoken of, as able and well delivered.

“Prof. G. B. Willcox, D. D., of Chicago, was introduced and spoke to the graduates in reference to those things which scholars hold in common. The ideal of a college graduate is that he has come to the possession of his manhood. It is impossible to give the spirit of this most able address. It abounded in wit, humor, and pathos. These kept the audience on the alert for an hour, after they had sat two hours during the previous exercises.

“Then came, what is now a feature of Fisk commencement day, the Alumni dinner, with its post-prandial wit and wisdom. And thus closed the most successful and prosperous year in the history of Fisk University. The catalogue shows an aggregate of 350 students. The work done in the class-room has been unusually satisfactory. There have been abundant evidences of growth in character and mind on the part of all the students.”

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STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.

Why No Graduating Class—Threatened Suspension of Public Schools.

REV. W. S. ALEXANDER, NEW ORLEANS.

The anniversary of Straight University was observed at Central Church. The audience, both in numbers and intelligent appreciation, was one of the best ever gathered for such a purpose in the city. The literary exercises were exceptionally fine. The original orations, one on “Charles Sumner” and the other on “Our Glorious Union,” were, both in composition and delivery, worthy of high praise. All who heard them were proud of the young and promising orators. A cultivated lady in the audience said to me, at the close of the evening, “You don’t tell me that those orations were written by the young men?” “Certainly; why not?” “Why,” she replied, “I have never heard better.”

There was no graduating class this year. Those who in order would this year have finished their course, were persuaded to remain another year that their graduation might signify a higher grade of scholarship.

The year has been crowned with the Divine favor. Three hundred students have been in attendance, real progress has been made in all departments of study, and the Institution stands higher today in the estimation and affection of the New Orleans public than in any previous year.

Unless all signs fail, the ensuing year will bring to our doors a greatly increased throng of eager and earnest students. The public schools of New Orleans, and of Louisiana, are threatened with the evils of indefinite suspension. The doors will be closed June 30th, and the wisest friends of education cannot predict the time of their re-opening.

So far as adequate support is concerned, the public school system in this State has been an uncertain quantity for many months. Its fate trembles in the balance today. A subscription list is now in circulation among the merchants and bankers to raise money to pay the public school teachers the monthly salaries long since due. The most plaintive appeals are made to public sympathy in their behalf. It is a time to press forward our work.

Applicable to the impoverished State of Louisiana, so far as her public schools are concerned, are the words: “The fields are white already to the harvest,” and “The laborers are few.”

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TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.

More than a Thousand Visitors. Promise of the Coming Year.

The commencement exercises of this growing and popular University were held on Thursday, June 3d, and drew together an unusually large company of visitors within its wide grove of moss-draped oaks.

Many parents were present on this day, and also at the annual examinations, which continued from Monday till Wednesday evening. Two old men came from the northeastern corner of the State, a distance of 200 miles or more, to see their sons graduate.

The pains and thoroughness with which the examinations were conducted, aiming to exhibit the pupil’s real knowledge of his studies, the evidence throughout all of great care and constant drill in the use of clear, simple and correct English, and the plain indication of independence on the part of the students in their studying and in their own thinking, made these class exercises of unusual interest. The Senior Class passed creditable examinations in Natural History, Science of Government, The Theory and Practice of Teaching, and Natural Philosophy. There followed on Wednesday evening the exhibition of the Primary and Intermediate Departments, combined with that of the strong Temperance Society—an organization extending through the whole school, and representing a work of great importance yet to be done in this State, where nearly all people are in the habit of drinking, and that to excess.

On Thursday, a class of seven young men presented orations, and received certificates of graduation from the Normal Department of the Institution. These orations were highly commended by the prominent gentlemen who were present from Jackson. In the afternoon, a stirring address was delivered by President De Forest, of Talladega College, upon the topic of “Work.” This was followed by speeches from Capt. Wolf, of Jackson, from Dr. Watkins, the venerable pastor of the Methodist Church at Jackson, and from Dr. Hunter, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of the same city, all of whom expressed appreciation of the good work this Institution is doing. More than a thousand visitors were present at these closing exercises on Thursday, an excursion train running from a point fifty miles distant for their accommodation. The location of the University on this great railroad which passes north and south through the centre of the State, these beautiful groves being only about half a mile from the depot, furnishes rare facility for such a gathering of the friends and patrons of the school. The ignorance among the people in this State is fearful, but it is a very hopeful sign when the colored people are themselves showing an interest in such a school as this one now is, and when they are beginning to appreciate the sort of training given here to their young men and women. Much of this has been brought about through the wise, energetic and progressive management of the President, Rev. G. S. Pope.

The promise for the coming year is flattering. The school will probably be crowded even more than during the year just past. The buildings must be in some way enlarged, or new ones provided, in order to have room for all who will doubtless desire to come. There has been little or no complaining by the students on account of very rough, cold and crowded rooms—the only temporary places which hitherto could be provided. Another year, however, ought to bring better accommodations. Here is a place second to none in our country for the doing of great and far-reaching good.

A. H.

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HOWARD UNIVERSITY.

Theological Department—Sixteen Graduates.

REV. W. W. PATTON, D. D., WASHINGTON

The anniversary exercises of the Theological Department of Howard University, (which is largely aided by the American Missionary Association), occurred on the 7th inst., in Washington. The spacious and beautiful edifice of the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church was freely offered for the purpose, and was filled with a large audience of white and colored people. Such an event could not have taken place at any former time, and it marks the rapid and healthful progress of public opinion. Six of the graduating class made addresses, which were a credit to themselves and to their race, and elicited the commendation of many intelligent gentlemen and ladies who heard them. Sixteen students were sent forth to preach, all of whom go to the South, to the Freedmen. Five of these had pursued a full course of study, including Hebrew and Greek: the others had received training in English studies only. Fifty theological students have been under instruction in this department the present year. Each graduate received a handsome Bible from the Washington Bible Society, and an address was delivered by Rev. W. R. Harrison, D. D., chaplain of the House of Representatives, and pastor of the South Methodist Church in this city—a fact which marks the progress of good feeling. Never before was the promise of usefulness in this work so great.

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LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.

(_From the Macon, Ga., Telegraph and Messenger._)

As announced, the closing exercises of the Lewis High School took place yesterday, May 27th, and reflected credit alike upon teachers and pupils. The latter, embracing both sexes, number 110; and a more intelligent and well-behaved body of colored youth cannot be found anywhere. The singing and music were especially good, indicating great aptitude on the part of the scholars, and very careful training. This Institution is under the care of the American Missionary Association, whose headquarters are at New York. It appoints the teachers, and supplies all the funds that may be needed annually for its support.

The school is under the general supervision of the pastor of the Colored Congregational Church, Rev. Mr. Lathrop, who also teaches chemistry, philosophy and book-keeping. In all of these branches, the pupils exhibited commendable proficiency.

Among those who attended the examinations were Rev. Geo. McDonald, D. D., and Rev. Joseph Key, D. D. Both of these gentlemen expressed themselves highly gratified with all that they saw and heard, and when called upon, responded with neat and appropriate addresses, to the great encouragement and delight of their auditors.

The Lewis High School, under the judicious management of Mr. Lathrop, Miss Christine H. Gilbert, principal, and her efficient assistant, Miss Belle M. Haskins, is doing a good work for the colored people of Macon, and should receive the countenance and support of our citizens.

The college building is a neat brick structure, which was erected at a cost of $5,000 upon the site of the edifice which was destroyed by fire. The school will open again on the first of October next.

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BEACH INSTITUTE.

(_From the Savannah Morning News._)

The scholastic year of the Beach Institute, which closed yesterday, was made the occasion of interesting school exercises in the examination of the several classes of the Institute, and an exhibition of the scholars in recitation, declamation, reading and singing.

The Beach Institute is one of the educational institutions under the control of the American Missionary Association, whose headquarters are at New York, and whose operations in the South have been directed to the moral and educational advancement of the colored people. The Southern work is under the superintendence of Dr. J. E. Roy, whose headquarters are at Atlanta, and who was present yesterday, a gratified spectator of the progress made at the Institute in the education of the colored race.

The school here is, as we learn from the Superintendent, Prof. J. K. Cole, in a prosperous condition, nearly 300 scholars having been registered during the scholastic year.

The Institution is divided into five grades, under competent teachers, as follows: The first grade, or normal class, under Professor Cole, the Superintendent; the second grade, Miss Partridge, teacher: the third grade. Miss Bailey, teacher; the fourth grade, Miss Burgh, teacher; and the fifth grade, under the supervision of Miss Willey.

The examination yesterday evinced the faithfulness of the instructors in their departments and the aptitude of the pupils, and we were particularly struck with the examination of the normal class in introductory Latin exercises, the pupils showing a remarkable proficiency in their recitations from Harkness’ Introductory Latin Lessons.

At 12 o’clock, the whole school assembled in the chapel, when the programme was successfully carried out, to the pleasure of the large number of friends and parents of the pupils present.

The school will re-open on the first Monday in October.

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AFRICA.

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SUNDAY-SCHOOLS IN CENTRAL AFRICA.

A Paper read at the State Sunday-school Convention, at New Britain, Ct., May 26, 1880, by Albert Burton Jowett a native of the Mendi Country, West Africa.

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I represent the Sunday-schools in the Mendi country of Western Africa. These are located in the interior, about a hundred and fifty miles north of Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. The first Sunday-school among the Mendi was established at Kaw Mendi. This place was the site selected for a mission by Messrs. Raymond and Steele, who accompanied the Amistad captives to Africa, when they left Farmington in 1841.

At this school, my mother was a pupil, and had for her instructor, Mar-groo, one of the Amistad captives who had been hopefully converted.

There was a good day-school at this place, and also one at Freetown, a hundred and fifty miles north, which had been kept up for twenty-five years by the Church Missionary Society of England.

My mother has often told me that the missionaries were very much pleased because the Mendi boys passed a better examination than the boys at Freetown, who had had all the advantages of that sea-port city.

Mr. Burton, a missionary who went to Africa from Connecticut, while traveling up the Bar-groo river noticed a fall of water in a wooded country, and determined to establish an industrial mission at that point.

There was no saw-mill on the coast, so Mr. Burton put up buildings for a mill; some one gave him the necessary machinery, and he opened a station and named it “Avery.” A church and some dwelling houses were built, and a community of people gathered who bought logs, converted them into lumber, and conveyed it to the coast for sale. A school was opened in the basement of the church, and a Sunday-school was convened on Sundays. My father is a teacher and interpreter at this station. This Sunday-school and the one at Kaw Mendi are the only ones in the Mendi country proper, where there are about 2,000,000 people. There are Sunday-schools on the Sherbro Island, but the people there belong mostly to the Sherbro tribe.

Our Sunday-schools constitute one of the means by which our young African friends acquire the simple truths taught by our blessed Saviour. I do not know how it is, if I am in the wrong, pardon me, but I do believe it is much more difficult to teach in Africa than in America, because we have no books in the Mendi language and the children know but little English. Our Sunday-schools in comparison with those in America are very small. The bell for school rings at 2 o’clock, and the teachers go round to the houses where they fear the children do not care to come, and bring them to the school. Before bringing them in to the Sunday-school, a shirt is given to each scholar, as many of them wear no garments at home. This is made of English cloth and supplied by the missionaries; when they return from school, it is laid aside to be worn the next time the school assembles. The instruction is mostly oral—the teacher asking the pupils questions and then requiring them to repeat the answer until they are able to say it.

A good deal of time is spent in singing, as the children readily learn the words and music of the Gospel songs, even though they do not understand the meaning of the English words. They are very fond of singing indeed, and the missionaries listen to their songs with much delight, and give them a great deal of credit for them. As some of the children never attend day-school, the alphabet is taught in the Sunday-school.

We have a portion of the Bible, and a few hymns, translated into the Mendi, and hope some time to have books in the language, so that greater progress can be made.

We have some active members who go about into the small villages and act as home missionaries among the people. These frequently bring in new scholars to the mission: and what do you think causes the increase of our members, more than most any other circumstance? Some kind friends in America and England have been sending us illustrated papers, nice little books, and small cards with letters of nearly every color and size.

Such things are very attractive to the little natives. I wish you could know the good you can do, by sending your missionaries in Africa such attractive papers and cards, for those whom the missionaries cannot reach will be instructed and influenced by them in their homes. The children who are brought in, take these papers and fasten them up in their houses for ornaments. The books and cards are offered as prizes to those who commit portions of the Scripture accurately.

We have no Sunday-school Conventions like this one, but sometimes we have Concerts.

Within the past few years, all our missionaries have been Freedmen from America, and one of them was for a time connected with the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University. They taught us some of the Jubilee Songs, such as “Steal Away to Jesus,” “Mary and Martha,” and “The Hocks and the Mountains Shall All Flee Away.” The people had never heard the like, and were very much delighted with them.

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THE INDIANS.

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S’KOKOMISH, WASHINGTON TERRITORY.

REV. MYRON EELLS.

On the first Sabbath in April, we had the privilege of receiving three more into our church, all on profession of faith, two of them Indians from the school, and the other a young lady who has been assistant-matron in the boarding department. The Twanas and Clallams were formerly at war with each other, and even now there is not always the best of feeling between the two tribes: a like unpleasant feeling has often been shown between the whites and Indians: yet, on that Sabbath, representatives of the three classes received baptism, there being one Twana, one Clallam, and one white person.

Another noticeable fact was the motive which induced them to become Christians. In reply to my question on this point, each one unknown to the other said, that it was because he had noticed that Christians were so much happier than other people. Two of them had tried the wrong road very earnestly, and had found to their great sorrow that “the way of the transgressor is hard.” I was led then to think of two or three others who had united with the church on profession of faith within about a year, employees on the Reservation, who had made similar statements. “If the Bible were not true, and yet I could only believe it to be true, I would gladly do so, if it would bring me the happiness that Christians profess to have,” said one. Since becoming a Christian, he has often spoken of his happiness, and has great pity for those who are skeptical, for he knows how they feel, even if they do argue against Christianity. Another of the number, who was for three years very skeptical, a talented writer, and who used her talents against Christianity so strongly that her companions feared to enter the lists against her, and who was supposed to be thoroughly contented in her unbelief, became a Christian, and now speaks of those years, as “three years of horrible darkness.”

On the third Sabbath of April, I was at Dunginess, where I received four more into our church, three on profession of faith. Two Indians and two whites stood side by side to enter the church. The communion season was very pleasant. One white lady, who had not been to the Lord’s table for a year, and who was just recovering from sickness, was so anxious to be present, that as she was unable to walk the distance, a little more than a quarter of a mile, she was carried by her husband more than half the way in a wheelbarrow. Another lady, seventy-six years old, walked three miles to be present, then another mile to where I should preach to the whites in the afternoon, and home again in the evening, about eight miles in all. Ten of the whites sat down there with the four Indians in the Indian church to celebrate Christ’s love.

One person, who lives half a mile from the Indian village, said to me, as we came away, “It is a shame, _it is a shame_, that the Indians here are going ahead of the whites in religious affairs. It is a wonder how they are making advancement, considering the examples around them.” Two marriages, one infant and three adult baptisms, four received to the church, one communion service, one funeral, three prayer-meetings, and other services to the amount of fourteen in all, were the result of the eighteen days I was away from home.

I had been at home but a few days when I was sent for by an Indian on the Reservation who has been an invalid for some time, and who asked to be received as a member of the church. After considerable consultation, he was so received week ago last Sabbath.

Last Sabbath, my work at Seabeck culminated in a small church organization among the whites. I have written you that I have preached at that place, thirty miles distant, about once a month, when not called on some distant trip. The work has amounted to about eight visits a year.

Some six weeks ago, I felt that it was best for the few Christians there to be banded together. I immediately tried to obtain some assistance in organizing, but after three efforts failed entirely, and hence, armed with authority from this church, I proceeded with the organization. Nine entered it, two on profession of faith. The heterogeneousness of the population may be seen from the fact that of the seven who joined from other churches, one came from a Congregational church and two from a Protestant Methodist church in this Territory, one from a Congregational church in California, one from a Presbyterian church in British Columbia, one from the Episcopal church in England, and one from the Lutheran church in Norway, who, however, does not believe that he was a Christian until after he left Norway. “It is the Lord’s doings and it is marvellous in our eyes.”

In the civilization of the Indians we feel somewhat encouraged. One fact has appeared quite plainly during the past winter. It has been the most severe winter known here for twenty-five years—the snow at one time lying five feet deep—and although it was nearly gone on the tide flats in six weeks, yet on most of the Reservation it lay for more than three months from six inches to two feet deep. As late as four or five years ago, the Indians generally lost a large number of cattle or horses every winter for want of feed, even when there were only two or three weeks of snow, selling altogether too much of their hay in the fall; but during the past winter not one of their animals has died for want of food, as far as I have been able to learn. Experience and observation have taught them to secure sufficient food and to keep it until all danger is over.

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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 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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OUR WORK AT THE CENTER.

REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.

I find that for many months I have had little to say about our work in San Francisco and Oakland. I invite the readers of the Missionary to take a look, with me, at these central points.

Oakland is more to San Francisco, than Brooklyn is to New York. The ocean breezes are so tempered in crossing San Francisco Bay, that a very perceptible change of climate takes place, and Oakland is able to boast of a genial air and a clear sky on many days in summer, when San Francisco is shrouded in fog or swept by heavy, dust-laden winds. It has the aspect, to a very good degree, of a large inland city in New England—Springfield or Hartford, for example. There is a good deal about it not yet very heavenly, but, when compared with the bustle and drive of affairs, both climatic and human, on this side of the Bay, it seems, like Auburndale, Mass., to be a sort of “Saint’s rest.” It is constantly skimming the cream off our San Francisco churches, so that when a brother and sister have fairly come to their places as pillars here in the metropolis, we expect soon to hear that “they are thinking of moving to Oakland.”

These considerations have led to a more abundant provision for missionary work among the Chinese in that city, than anywhere else. Persons, coming to California to labor in this missionary work, are quite apt to become impressed with the necessities of the _Oakland_ Chinese. And so, if our mission had not been, by many years, the first in that field; and if there had not gathered about it a large number of Christian Chinese for whom it is a spiritual home; and, if it were not possible—thanks to the generous provision made for us by the First Congregational Church—to do more work there now, in proportion to expense, than almost anywhere else, I should feel like abandoning the field to those who have crowded in to help us. In the new, spacious and elegant church edifice, rooms much more commodious and much better furnished than those of any other school, have been prepared and assigned to our Chinese work. On the Sabbath, they are occupied by the Chinese Sunday-school, superintended so many years by our dear brother, the late Dea. Edmund P. Sanford, and now in charge of one like-minded, A. L. Van Blarcom, Esq. On week-day evenings, they are opened for our mission school, at which about the same pupils gather who are present on the Sabbath, and every session of which is, in large part, a religious service. About eighty Chinese account themselves members of this school, attend it when they can, and are under its gospel influence; but there are so many interruptions through the pressure of their daily work, that the average attendance is about thirty. Two teachers are employed, Mrs. B. C. Hawes and Miss L. Duncan, who, by years of service in this field, have won a warm place in the affection and respect of the Chinese. The expense is $40 per month. As fruits of this labor, we have 17 who are members of the First Congregational Church in Oakland, nearly as many more in other churches, and a goodly number who have professed Christ in the Association, but have not yet been baptized.

In San Francisco there are 4 schools; Central, Barnes, Bethany, and West. The Central school is taught in our Central Mission house, the headquarters of our work for the whole State. This is, I regret to say, a _rented_ building, the cost of which absorbs more than a sixth of the utmost amount we can hope to command for our whole work. We have occupied it now almost six years, have spent in rents nearly enough to have paid for as good a building, if only we could have seized our opportunity; and I cannot even yet get sufficiently hardened to this expenditure, to meet it without a throbbing heart. “If only I could use this sum for teaching and preaching the Gospel of Christ!” is my thought and my longing; when will the time come? The building is a very plain one, but pleasantly located, just on the edge of the Chinese quarter, and overlooking an acre or two of greenness in the heart of our city which we call “the Plaza.” It has two stories and a basement, the latter occupied by our Association of Christian Chinese as a hall and reading room, with some facilities in the rear for hospitality. The first floor is the school room (18 x 50), in which at times no less than 145 Chinese have crowded themselves. The average attendance now is about 60; it is increasing, and I hope will again reach 100. In the upper story are the rooms of our Chinese helpers, with a little office, also, for the Secretary of the Association above named. A great deal of work is done here besides the mere teaching; a great deal of correspondence carried on; a great deal of what may be called pastoral care exercised; a good deal, also, of honest study of God’s word.

But I am making my story too long. About two miles south of this, on Ridley Street, is the Barnes Mission house, a substantial two-story structure of wood, with a smaller building on the rear of the lot, occupied by our Chinese brethren as a “Home.” This is owned by the Mission, but has a debt upon it of $3,300. The upper story is occupied by the family furnishing the teachers for the school in the room below. The mother and daughter, Mrs. C. A. Sheldon and Miss Jennie Sheldon, are the ones whose names appear upon our lists, but father and brothers all share lovingly and zealously in the work. The rent derived from this upper story and from the “Home” in the rear, pays the interest on the debt, and the cost of insurance and taxes. When we were erecting this building, we expected to gather in it a school of 150 members with an average attendance of about 100; but, the very evening of its dedication, the riots of July 1877 occurred, and, for the time, our work in almost all the city seemed to be knocked prostrate. Other changes, the closing of some large shoe factories, from which many of our pupils came, and the restrictions laid upon the operatives in the Mission Woolen Mills, among whom we hoped to win some souls, have prevented the realization of all that we hoped, though the results at which all was aimed, have not been denied. There are many of whom—looking at our Barnes Mission house—we may say, “This man was born there.”

A mile and a half further south is the Bethany school, taught in the chapel of Bethany church, and through the faithfulness and tact of its teacher well sustained, although the Chinese are not specially numerous in that locality. And about two miles west of the Central Mission is the “West” school, taught in a little back-room, behind a small store—a room most unpromising, and rented for only $5 per month, but, by the taste and care of teachers and pupils, rendered quite neat and inviting. The average attendance in each of these schools is a little less than 20, ranging between 12 and 19.

In the aggregate, about 175 Chinese now belong to these four schools; not as many by nearly one-half as were enrolled in them three years ago. Sandlotism, especially after it invaded our pulpits, has been a sore hindrance to missionary success. But we have tried to get closer to those whom we could bring within our reach, and to do better work among them, and God has graciously owned it in saving power. Sixty-six have been received to Bethany church, and of at least as many more the hope is cherished that they have passed from death unto life. The present outlook seems to me to be especially cheering, not only here but in almost all our fields.

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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THE ELEPHANT IN AFRICA.

We have seen many pictures of elephants in Africa, and they were all in hunting scenes.

This noble, wise, and magnificent animal is hunted in every part of Africa; shot by the Englishman’s rifle in South Africa and on the White Nile, speared by the natives, pursued with the sword by the Abyssinian tribes, as if he were the most deadly enemy of the human race.

It is all for ivory, for the tusks which have taken perhaps fifty years to grow, that the huge beast is slain.

This hunting has been going on for many years, and now in parts of Africa there are no more elephants left.

Some good people, who are also trying to open up the “Dark Continent,” resolved to try some Indian elephants. They were sent from Bombay in a ship to Zanzibar, and after much trouble were landed on the coast. Then away they marched, and after a little time this new procession reached our station at Mpwapwa, and our missionary, Mr. Last, writes to say how successful the elephants have been. The dreaded fly could not harm them; indeed, they kill the flies by catching them in the folds of their thick skin, if the old African travellers are to be believed.

Our missionary, Mr. Stokes, writes from Uyuvi that these elephants had reached Unyamwezi. He says:—

“They can bear a thirty-six miles’ march without food or water. They can carry from twenty-five to thirty men’s loads; and the natives here very soon pick up the management of them. I think these elephants have done more towards the civilization of Central Africa than anything else I have seen. The natives think the white man a most wonderful fellow when these big creatures on which they look with terror obey him. It was quite a picture to view the astonishment depicted on the faces of these poor blacks, as they watched these huge beasts kneeling down at the word of command to let us get on their backs, or elevating their trunks to bid salaam to an Arab.”

The Church Missionary Society would be very glad if it could send two or three of these wise beasts to their Mission at Mpwapwa, to help carry the missionaries up and down with the stores they must have from time to time; and then, when our missionaries can speak freely in the language, think what a help the elephant would be on a missionary tour.

Besides, when the natives see how useful the elephants are, they will soon learn to catch and tame them, as did the Carthaginians, 600 years before Christ.

Turn to the fortieth chapter of Job, and read about the behemoth. You will see in the marginal reference, “The Elephant.” “He is the chief of the ways of God.” What a blessed time that will be, if, instead of being destroyed by man, this, the most wonderful of God’s creatures, is used to carry about the messengers of the Gospel of Peace!—_Church Missionary Juvenile Instructor._

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RECEIPTS

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FOR MAY, 1880.

MAINE, $158.52.

Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.00
Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 16.27
Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Blanchard. “A Friend” 5.00
Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams, to const. WM. H.
SARGENT, L. M. 30.00
Limerick. Miss E. P. Hayes, Box of C., _for Raleigh,
N. C._ Portland. Abby A. Steele 50.00
Saco. Cong. Sab. Sch., $14; Ladies’ Circle, Cong.
Ch., $10.00;—Val. Box of Bedding and Table Linen,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 24.00
Woolwich. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($1.74, _for
Indian M._) 19.25

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $266.34.

Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20, bal. to const.
MISS MARY E. KELLEY, L. M.; Cong. Sab. Sch.,
Bundle of C. 20.00
Concord. “A Friend” 1.00
Epping. Hannah Pierson 5.00
Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. 82.71
Fitzwilliam. A. J. B. 1.00
Hancock. W. P. H. 1.00
Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.11
Hillsborough Bridge. Cong. Ch. 6.25
Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Mason. Cong. Ch. 5.50
Nelson. Dea. A. E. W. 1.00
Piermont. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $5, and Sab. Sch.,
$18.56. 23.56
Plaistow and North Haverhill, Mass. 25.00
Portsmouth. North Ch. and Soc. 34.70
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.32
Short Falls. J. W. Chandler 2.00
Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.69
West Concord. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Wilton. A. B. C. 0.50

VERMONT, $250.01.

Castleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Chester Depot. J. L. Fisher 10.00
Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.18
Burlington. First. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50; First
Cong. Ch. and Soc., (ad’l), $9 59.00
Danby. Cong. S. S., $1.63; Rev. L. D. M., 50c. 2.13
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50
Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Kirby. Cong. Ch. 5.00
North Bennington. Cong. Ch. 6.65
North Cambridge. Miss Maria Kinsley, Box, _for
Cuthbert, Ga._
North Londonderry. Dea. G. S. Hobart 2.00
Peru. Cong. Ch. 2.36
Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, to const. BENJAMIN
S. GAGE, L. M. 30.00
Royalton. Rev. J. C. 1.00
Saint Albans. Mrs. H. B. T. 1.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.97
Westminster West. Mrs. A. S. G. 1.00
West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.09
Weston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.75
Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.38

MASSACHUSETTS, $2,671.10.

Abington. “Mrs. H. P.” 5.00
Andover. Chapel Cong. Ch. and Soc., $141; Old South
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $100; Free Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
($100 of which from F. H. Johnson), $187.45, to
const. JAMES SPENCE, MILO H. GOULD, MISS FLORENCE
A. PARKER, JAMES WATSON, MISS LIZZIE A. PARKER and
MRS. BLYTHE J. TOUGH, L. M’s;—By Miss A. Park,
$25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._; ——$20, _for
Talladega C._ 473.45
Andover. West Parish Sab. Sch. 10.00
Berkley. Ladies, Box of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._
Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $434.44; Mrs. E.
P. Eayrs, $5 439.44
Boston. Highlands. Miss E. Davis 25.00
Boylston Centre. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bbl. of C.,
_for Atlanta, Ga._
Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 67.60
Cambridgeport. G. F. Kendall 5.00
Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield, $50; “A Friend,” $2 52.00
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $79.64; Third
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.95; A. J. S., 50c.; T. E.
G., 50c. 89.59
Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch., ($5 of which _for a
Teacher, Hampton N. and A. Inst._) 25.00
Danvers. Maple St. Leaf Mission Circle, $60; Maple
St. Ch., $25.72; Infant Class Maple St. Sab. Sch.,
$5 _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 90.72
East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. 16.50
East Somerville. A. R. 0.50
Essex. Cong. Ch. $15.75, and Sab. Sch., $14.25,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.57
Fitchburg. W. L. Bullock 2.00
Framingham. Young People’s Circle, box of C., _for
Atlanta, Ga._
Franklin. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.24
Georgetown. Memorial Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 20.00
Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.40
Hubbardston. Miss Emma Cutler 2.00
Hyde Park. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Lawrence. Eliot Cong. Ch. 25.25
Lincoln. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 20.00
Lowell. John St. Ch., ($31.29 of which _for Chinese
M._) 41.29
Lynn. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.32;
North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $4.87 22.19
Middleborough. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.15
New Bedford. H. M. L. 1.00
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.33
Newton. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc., Trunk of C.,
_for Talladega, Ala._
Northampton. “A Friend” 100.00
Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.50
Salem. “Friends,” $6, _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._; G. D., $1 7.00
Sandwich. Miss H. H. N. 1.00
Springfield. North Ch. 30.00
Somerville. Broadway Orthodox Cong. Ch., $14; “A
Friend,” $1 15.00
South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.24
South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.68
South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. C. B.
TILTON, L. M. 30.00
South Dennis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.60
South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 173.50
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc., $363.50, to const.
ROLLIE D. NEWTON, MISS HATTIE G. RICHARDSON, MISS
SUSIE B. HYDE and MRS. GEO. A. ROOT, L. M’s; First
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20 383.50
Warwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $6, and Sab. Sch., $4 10.00
West Boylston. “Willing Workers,” $20; and Bbl. of
C., _for Atlanta, Ga._ 20.00
West Roxbury. South Evan Ch. and Soc. 117.13
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. 15.50
Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Wilmington. C. W. C. 1.00
Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 77.63
Woburn. Mrs. A. W. Dimick, _for Atlanta U._ 3.00
Worcester. Union Ch. 38.60

RHODE ISLAND, $150.05.

Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 125.05
Pawtucket. “Friend” 5.00
State Farms. Rev. Marcus Ames 20.00

CONNECTICUT, $688.28.

Branford. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Broad Brook. Geo. E. Taylor 3.50
Clinton. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_ 7.73
Colebrook. Miss E. R., $1; Mr. S., 50c. 1.50
Collinsville. “A Friend” 2.00
Columbia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.42
Durham Centre. Horace Newton 3.00
East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($30 of which
from Eugene W. Chaffee, to const. MRS. EUGENE W.
CHAFFEE, L. M.) 86.15
Ellsworth. Miss E. C. D. 1.00
Fair Haven. Second Cong. Ch. 41.58
Gilead. Cong. Ch. 12.35
Greenwich. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Hartford. Benj. De Forest, _for Talladega C._ 70.00
Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.59
Millbrook. Mrs. E. P., $1; Individuals, 50c. 1.50
Millington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
New Haven. North Ch., $95.35;—Wells Southworth, $50,
_for Fisk U._;—Howard Av. Sab. Sch., $1, _for
Student Aid_;—Rev. D. J. O., 50c., _for Mag._; C.
A. Williams, Pkg. of Books 146.85
Putnam. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian Boy,
Hampton Inst._ 15.00
Redding. Cong. Ch. 17.20
Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 127.91
Scotland. ESTATE of Caroline Barrows, by Geo.
Lincoln, Ex. 15.00
South Manchester. First Cong. Ch. ($19 of which _for
Student Aid_, and $30, to const. EDWARD TAYLOR, L.
M.) 57.00
Stafford Springs. “A Friend,” $2; Individuals, _for
Mag._, $2 4.00
Torrington. Rev. C. H. B. 0.50
Windsor. Mrs. M. C. W. 0.50
Woodstock. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._

NEW YORK, $522.02.

Amsterdam. Chandler Bartlett 10.00
Binghamton. H. F. L. 0.50
Brooklyn. Sab. Sch., Church of the Pilgrims, $100,
_for ed. of Indians, Hampton N. and A. Inst._;
—“A Friend,” $60, to const. REV. THOMAS B. MCLEOD
and MRS. M. J. C. MCLEOD, L. M’s;—Central Cong.
Sab. Sch., Geo. A. Ball, Supt., $30, _for Lady
Missionary_, and to const. HENRY MARTYN SCUDDER,
JR., M. D., Arcot, Madras Presidency, Southern
India, L. M.;—Mrs. Mary E. Whiton, $20;
East Cong. Ch., $7.04; J. C. Howard, Box of
Books 217.04
Crown Point. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.37
Elma. Mrs. E. S. A. B. 1.00
Lockport. H. W. Nicolas, Box of Books.
Morrisania. Cong. Ch., $6.50, and Sab. Sch., $2 8.50
Newark. Mrs. Phebe Parks, $10 and Communion Set 10.00
New York. Ladies’ Association of Presb. Memorial
Ch., $105, _for a Teacher, Talladega C._;—S. T.
Gordon, Box of Singing Books 105.00
North Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 3.25
Patchogue. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.21
Pitcher. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 18.00
Pompey. Mrs. J. H. Childs, ($4.50 of which _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._) 5.00
Spencerport. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Syracuse. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_ 14.15
Tarrytown. “A Friend” 50.00

NEW JERSEY, $78.19.

Bound Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JAMES D.
EATON, L. M. 30.00
Montclair. Mrs. Pratt’s S. S. Class, $5, and Box of
C., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
Newark. Miss M. E. Sears, $30;—Miss H. Miller, Box
of C., _for Raleigh, N. C._ 30.00
Paterson. Cong. Ch., $12.19; Mrs. A. C. W., $1 13.19
Raritan. Miss Sarah Provost, Box of Papers.

PENNSYLVANIA, $6.50.

Candor. Isabella Connelly 3.00
Canton. H. Sheldon, _for Freight, for Talladega C._ 2.50
Terrytown. G. F. H. 1.00

OHIO, $1,262.90.

Brownhelm. ESTATE of John Locke 613.59
Cleveland. Plymouth Ch., (ad’l) 5.00
East Cleveland. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Mendi M._ 4.00
Elyria. First Cong. Ch. 103.20
Freedom. Cong. Ch., Coll. $7; “J. C. B.,” $5 12.00
Hambden. A. C., 50c.; “A Friend,” 50c. 1.00
Hudson. “A Friend” 10.00
Lennox. A. J. Holman 10.00
Madison. Central Cong. Ch. 10.00
Mechanicsburg. Mrs. M. K. H. 1.00
Newark. “A Thank Offering, _for ‘Leah and Frank,’
Tougaloo U._” 50.00
North Benton. Simon Hartzel 10.00
Oberlin. Ladies, $20, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._;
Ladies, $7, and 5 bbls. of C., _for Atlanta, Ga._;
Mrs. William Kimball, $2; Mrs. J. F. B., 60c. 29.60
Steuben. L. P. 1.00
Wakeman. Mrs. G. V. F. 0.51
Wellington. ESTATE of N. D. Billings, by J. H.
Dickson, Ex. 400.00
Zanesville. Mrs. M. A. Dunlap 2.00

MICHIGAN, $912.45.

Alamo. Julius Hackley 10.00
Calumet. Prof. E. T. Curtis, $1.75, and Box of
Books, _for Talladega C._ 1.75
East Saginaw. ESTATE of Chas. W. Wilder, by N. H.
Culver, Adm’r 82.23
Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
Sengstacke_ 20.00
Hancock. First Cong. Ch., to const. DR. I. M.
RHODES and J. H. CARAH, L. M’s 65.67
Northport. Cong. Ch. 5.35
Pontiac. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.10
Portland. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 15.00
Romeo. Mrs. H. O. S., $1, Mrs. J. S. R., $1, Mrs.
Reed’s S. S. Class, 35c., _for Lady Missionary,
Memphis, Tenn._ 2.35
Union City. “A Friend” 700.00
Webster. Cong. Ch. 9.00

INDIANA, $8.00.

Elkhart. First Cong. Ch. 8.00

ILLINOIS, $521.96.

Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W. Pier,
Ex. 26.00
Chesterfield. ESTATE of Miss Matilda M. Williams,
by E. G. Duckles, Adm’s 50.00
Chicago. Plymouth Ch., $78.31; Leavitt St. Cong.
Ch., $21.77; South Cong. Ch., $18.45; Ladies’
Miss. Soc. of N. E. Ch., $2.13 120.66
Earlville. Cong. Ch., ($30 of which to const. MISS
EMMA HATHAWAY, L. M.) 40.00
Galesburg. “A Friend” 25.00
Kewanee. Gleaners of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 35.00
Lewiston. Mrs. Phelps 50.00
Mattoon. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Morris. Cong. Ch., $27.39, and Sab. Sch., $1.61 29.00
Odell. Mrs. H. E. Dana 10.00
Olney. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 21.73
Payson. Cong. Ch. 22.00
Princeville. Wm. C. Stevens 20.00
Quincy. Mrs. E. T. Parker 20.00
Roseville. Rev. A. L. Pennoyer and Wife 5.00
Wheaton. Cong. Ch. 22.00
Winnebago. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.57

WISCONSIN, $95.26.

Beloit. Dr. A. 1.00
Eau Claire. Cong. Ch. 25.60
Walworth. Mrs. D. R. S. Colton 5.00
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 9.16
Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch., ($30 of which to const. JOHN
M. WHEELER, L. M.) 54.50

IOWA, $239.70.

Alden. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 2.60
Belle Plain. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Cedar Falls. Cong. Ch., _for Freight, for Talladega
C._ 5.75
Chester. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Des Moines. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 24.85
Dubuque. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
New Orleans, La._ 15.00
Garwin. Talmon Dewey 2.50
Hampton. Ladies’ Cent. Soc. 5.25
Keokuk. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Lady Missionary,
New Orleans, La._ 20.00
McGregor. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Mitchellville. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Oskaloosa. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady Missionary,
New Orleans, La._ 10.00
Prairie City. Cong. Ch. 5.75
Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 4.00
Tabor. Cong. Ch. (in part) 50.00
Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emmeline Williams, $25, by
Wm. Mason; W. M., $1 26.00

KANSAS, $9.35.

Onaga. Cong. Ch. 6.50
Washara. Cong. Ch. 2.85

MINNESOTA, $47.44.

Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., $23.44; Second Cong. Ch.,
$6.50 29.94
Montivedo. Rev. D. G. 0.60
Owatonna. Isaac W. Burch 9.90
Wabasha. Cong. Cong. Ch. 7.00

NEBRASKA, $4.00.

Clarksville. Cong. Ch. 4.00

TENNESSEE, $324.70.

Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 195.70
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 129.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $101.95.

Raleigh. Washington Sch., Tuition, $19.75; S. F. H.,
$1 20.75
Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition 81.20

GEORGIA, $686.22.

Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition, $103; Rent, $13;
Storr’s Sch., Tuition, $229.20 345.20
Byron. By C. R. K., _for Mendi M._ 0.50
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 41.25
Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, $208.70; Rent, $30;
Sales, $50.07;—“A Friend,” $10, _for Beach Inst._ 298.77
Warrior. E. F. M. 0.50

ALABAMA, $400.77.

Childersburg. Rev. A. J. 1.00
Mobile. Emerson Inst. 167.75
Montgomery. Pub. Sch. Fund. 175.00
Talladega. Talladega C. 57.02

MISSISSIPPI, $101.90.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $79.90; Rent, $22 101.90

LOUISIANA, $109.50.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition, $108;
Individuals, _for Mag._, $1.50 109.50

JAPAN, $20.00.

Kobe. Rev. R. H. Davis, ($5 of which, _for
Chinese M. in Cal._) 20.00
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Total $9,637.11
Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st $115,471.75

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FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Norwich, Conn. “A Friend” 400.00
—— Conn. “A Friend” 10.00
Galesburg, Ill. “A Friend” 10.00
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Total $420.00
Previously acknowledged in April Receipts 3,887.00
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Total $4,307.00

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FOR SCHOOL BUILDING, ATHENS, ALA.

Portland, Mich. Woman’s Miss. Soc., by Mrs. Wm.
White 10.00
Previously acknowledged in April Receipts 660.59
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Total $670.59

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Receipts for May $10,067.11
Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st. $125,602.90
===========
H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N. Y.

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Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The American Missionary Association.

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AIM AND WORK.

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

STATISTICS.

CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.

INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.—_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.

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

WANTS.

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

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

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

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

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

MAGAZINE.

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

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

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

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

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

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THE

CHRISTIAN UNION.

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HENRY WARD BEECHER,}
LYMAN ABBOTT, } Editors.

“In my own family, every one of us, from the eldest to the
youngest, finds something in every weekly issue to be read with
interest and to yield instruction.”— LEONARD BACON.

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_SPECIAL FEATURES FOR 1880._

=PICTURES OF TRAVEL=, by BLANCHE WILLIS HOWARD, CHARLES
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THE THIRTY-FOURTH VOLUME

OF THE

American Missionary,

1880.

We have been gratified with the constant tokens of the
increasing appreciation of the MISSIONARY during the past year,
and purpose to spare no effort to make its pages of still
greater value to those interested in the work which it records.

Shall we not have a largely increased subscription list for
1880?

A little effort on the part of our friends, when making
their own remittances, to induce their neighbors to unite in
forming Clubs, will easily double our list, and thus widen the
influence of our Magazine, and aid in the enlargement of our
work.

Under the editorial supervision of Rev. C. C. PAINTER, aided
by the steady contributions of our intelligent Missionaries
and teachers in all parts of the field, and with occasional
communications from careful observers and thinkers elsewhere,
the AMERICAN MISSIONARY furnishes a vivid and reliable picture
of the work going forward among the Indians, the Chinamen on
the Pacific Coast, and the Freedmen as citizens in the South
and as Missionaries in Africa.

It will be the vehicle of important views on all matters
affecting the races among which it labors, and will give a
monthly summary of current events relating to their welfare and
progress.

Patriots and Christians interested in the education and
Christianizing of these despised races are asked to read it,
and assist in its circulation. Begin with the next number and
the new year. The price is only Fifty Cents per annum.

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persons indicated on page 223.

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H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES.

1. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal
signs=.

2. Simple spelling, grammar, and typographical errors have been
silently corrected.

3. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.