Chapter II: Part 2

“We feel that you agree with us when we express the hope that the time will come when there will be no distinction of North and South, but when our whole people will understand and trust and love each other. Political parties pass away and new ones take their places; but, God helping us, the Congregational method of church government shall never pass away, but it shall be (as long as grass grows and streamlets flow) a firm _bond_ of _union_ and brotherly love between us and you and all other Christians who accept it in its purity. The spirit of the Congregationalism we honor laments both the bigotry of sect and the bitterness of sectional politics. It teaches us, both as citizens and Christians, to love each other. In this spirit of love some of the ablest and most devoted ministers and educators of our denomination have been giving their best strength to our missionary institutions of education in the South. This work is supported by the self-sacrificing contributions of our churches. They believe (what your leading men have told us) that the race for which they do this missionary work must have a training and education in morality and in religious principle, or they will be the greatest source of danger and evil to the South. We know that these brethren are striving to work wholly in the spirit of Christ; and that every noble-minded Southerner, if he could only see their hearts and their devotion to the future of your fair land, would wish them God-speed. And if any of you, who are our brethren in the faith, should ever come to see good results from their efforts, and should be moved to speak the word of sympathy to those engaged in this lonely and difficult work, it will surely be reckoned to you by our Lord and Master as the ‘cup of cold water,’ given in the name of a disciple.”

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TEXAS.

DEATH OF S. B. WHITE.

REV. J. W. ROBERTS, PARIS.

Our faithful missionary, S. B. White, died about three o’clock yesterday, of congestive chills and fever.

He closed a very successful school session here the first of July. He went out north of Paris, on Red River, to teach. The water and climate did not agree with him. He made out to teach one month and a few days by hard struggle, and came up Friday before last, looking like the very shadow of death, conducted Sunday-school on Sunday, and was here to preaching that night. Two o’clock Sunday night he started back to his school, notwithstanding he was warned not to return. He reached there through hard struggle, and was there from Tuesday to Friday, trying to get some conveyance to bring him home. On Friday, August 19, he heard of a wagon that was coming in, so he walked two miles from the place where he was boarding, to take passage, which walk was too exhausting for his already diseased frame. Thus he had to come in a rough wagon in all of Friday’s scorching sun, a distance of some twenty-one or twenty-two miles, with frequent fainting spells. He reached here Friday afternoon at 6 o’clock, where he had the best attention shown him both by his friends and physician. He was not confined to the bed until Monday night.

He had not the least fear of dying. He said: “Don’t fret for me; but I want you all to meet me in Heaven. I am going to that beautiful land of rest to live with Jesus. ‘There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Immanuel’s veins,’” etc. He described the kind of coffin he wished to be buried in. He was the most faithful Christian I ever saw. We have lost a noble Christian worker.

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AFRICA.

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We have the following information relating to the death of Mr. Kemp at the Mendi Mission, from Rev. J. M. Williams, missionary at Kaw Mendi. Mr. Williams’ long experience in Africa has qualified his heart and mind to sympathize most fully with the afflicted. He is a colored man, born in British Guiana, South America, and has rendered much good service to the cause of missions during the past sixteen years.

Mr. Williams writes:—Of the dangerous illness of Mrs. Kemp and of the death of Mr. Kemp, I had not heard a word till I arrived at Good Hope on Saturday. I knocked at the door of the mission house with the fullest expectation of enjoying the company of Mr. and Mrs. Kemp. The closed doors and windows might have awakened apprehension that all was not well, but they did not. The death-like silence that was within, after my repeated knocking at the door, created not the slightest suspicion or foreboding that sickness and death had preceded me, and forever removed my beloved and esteemed friend. After the third rapping at the door, the watchman came to the foot of the stairs and said: “No pusson there, sir;” and in reply to my questions, he further said: “Missis done gone to town. The new massa that came t’other day, he done died.” I could not, and did not, believe the man till after he replied three times to my half-frantic interrogations, “Massa Kemp done died.” Words are inadequate to express my feelings then and now. During my sixteen years’ residence in Africa no event has so sadly affected me as the death of Mr. Kemp, except the death of my two children. I feel it keenly. I deeply sympathize with Mrs. Kemp and with the Association. It is a severe blow to us all, and especially to this station and mission. Although the residence of the Kemps here was short, yet they were much respected and beloved by the inhabitants of Bonthe. By the Europeans, from the Commandant downward, and by the colored people, I have heard them spoken of in the most flattering terms.

While still suffering from the intensity of grief produced by such sudden and unexpected intelligence, Mr. Jowett came and confirmed what I had heard from the watchman. I was informed by Mr. Jowett that Brother Kemp left Good Hope Station for Avery to see Mr. Jackson on the 11th of May, and returned on the 13th. On the way home he was exposed to several heavy showers of rain. About two days after his return he was attacked with intermittent fever. Mrs. Kemp was also dangerously ill and not expected to recover. This kept him up when he ought to have been in bed. Under the combined weight of a disordered mind and body, he sank rapidly until life departed. He had a strong presentiment, two days before his death, that his end was near and his work on earth done, and informed Mrs. Kemp of his convictions. He said: “The doctor has done all he can do. I am ready to die. I commend you to God.” During his illness he was attended by Brother Jowett, Mrs. During, and other kind friends.

He died on Sunday morning, May 29th, at 10 o’clock, without a struggle or groan. He fell asleep in Jesus, and his disembodied spirit took its happy flight to join the great congregation in Heaven. His remains were moved to the chapel at 4 P. M., and from thence to the mission cemetery, followed by a large concourse of every color, rank and station in the community. According to his request, his body now lies at the entrance of the grave-yard under the shade of a large mango tree. I shall do my best to get a few iron-tree posts, and to have the grave enclosed as soon as possible after I return to Kaw Mendi, and I cherish the hope that the friends of the mission will procure a desirable tombstone to be erected over the grave, and send from the States a marble inscription to be put into the chapel.

Mr. Jowett is now taking charge of the Station, and Mr. Goodman is teaching the school at Debia. I sincerely wish you could find a dozen such men as Mr. Kemp to send to Africa; only be sure that they come with sound livers, and be entirely free from heart disease. The climate, I think, is more favorable to lung disease than America. I believe men of any color will live as long in health in Africa as elsewhere, provided they visit America or Europe, for a change, once in every two or three years.

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THE INDIANS.

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WORK ON A SHORT TOUR.

REV. MYRON EELLS, SKOKOMISH, WASH. TER.

We have been made sad by the death of one of our most prominent church members, John F. Palmer. He was at the time of his death working at a saw-mill, when he was accidentally knocked off from a platform, about ten feet below.

He was the first Indian to join this church. He lived, however, to see his wife and her two sisters, whom he brought up, members of the church; the oldest one married, and her daughter the first Indian child who received the rite of infant baptism. He was far ahead in many respects of any other of the Indians, especially in regard to old religious superstitions. While many of the Indians seem willing to give up their old ideas as a religion, they find it very difficult to get rid of a superstitious fear. He, however, seemed to have overcome this entirely. This was partly due to his early life. When he was about ten years old he went to live with a white family in this Territory. He afterwards spent several years on board a sailing vessel, and about twelve years ago he came to this reservation, where he served as interpreter ten years. He understood the Twana, Nisqually, Clallam, Russian and English languages, and could read and write the latter, though he never went to school more than about three weeks. Kind persons in the family in which he lived and on the ship taught him, and he had a library at the time of his death worth fifty or sixty dollars, and took several papers and magazines, both eastern and western, and even wrote a few articles for the papers.

“Jack at all trades and good at some,” was the pleasant way in which Dr. Schaff put it, when some of the students in the Theological Seminary at Hartford had done up some furniture for him to send to New Haven. I have often been reminded of this expression, and especially during a short tour I lately made to Dunginess. We missionaries have to be the first part of the sentence, and we console ourselves with the hope that the latter part may sometimes be true. When three miles from home, the first duty was to stop and attend the funeral of a white man who had recently died. Forty-five miles on, the evening of the next day until late at night was spent in assisting one of the Government employees in holding court over four Indians who had been drunk; a fifth had escaped to the British side, and was free from the trial. This kind of business occasionally comes in as an aid to the agent. I seldom have anything to do with it on the reservation, as the agent can attend to it; but when among Indians, off from the reservation, where neither of us can be more than once in six months or thereabouts, it sometimes saves him much trouble and expense, and seems to do as much good as a sermon. It is of but little use to preach to drunken Indians, and a little law sometimes helps the Gospel. The agent reciprocates by talking Gospel to them on the Sabbath on his trips.

On reaching Dunginess the afternoon was spent in introducing an Indian from British Columbia, who had taken me there in his canoe, to the Clallam Indians and the school, and in comforting two parents, Christian Indians, whose youngest child lay at the point of death. The next morning she died, and as no minister had ever been among these Indians at any previous funeral, they needed some instruction; so it was my duty to help dig the grave and make the coffin, comfort them, and attend the funeral in a snow-storm.

The Sabbath was spent in holding two services with them, one mainly a service of song; and as there was a part of the day not occupied, at the request of the whites near by, I gave them a sermon. The next day I found that “blue Monday” had to be adjourned. Years ago the Indians purchased their land, but owing to a mistake of the surveyor, it was necessary that the deeds should be made out again; so, in order to get all the Indians together who were needed, and the proper officer, I walked fourteen miles and rode six in a canoe, and then saw that nineteen deeds were properly signed, which required sixty-two signatures, besides the witnessing, acknowledging and filing of them, which required seventy-six names more. The plat of their town, Jamestown, was also filed and recorded, and all after half-past three o’clock. When this was done, I assisted the Indians to get two marriage licenses, when we went to the church, where I addressed them on two different subjects, after which the two weddings took place, and by nine o’clock we were done. The monotony of the next day was varied by a visit to the school, helping the chief to select a burying ground (for their dead had been buried in various places), a walk of ten miles, and a wedding of a white couple, who had been very kind to me in my work there, one of them being a member of our church.

On my way home, while waiting for the steamers to connect, I took a trip of about fifty miles to help in regard to the finishing of the Indian census of last year for General Walker and Major Powell, and then on my way home, by the kindness of the captain of the steamer, who waited half an hour for me, I was able to catch and take to the reservation the fifth Indian at Port Gamble who had been drunk, and had returned from the British side.

I have never had a vacation since I have been here, almost seven years, unless such things as these may be called vacations. They are recreation, work, and vacation, all at once.

While at Dunginess I learned one thing which somewhat pleased me. A few weeks before, a medicine man made a feast on Sabbath evening, and invited all the Indians to it. In connection with it there was also a large amount of their incantations. The feast was a bait, and the Indians went, the members of the church as well as the others leaving the evening service for it. Mr. Blakeslee, the school-teacher there, wrote me, as he felt very sad about it. On reaching the place, I found that on the same Sabbath evening, before the feast was over, those Christian Indians, feeling that they were doing wrong, left the place and went to one of their houses, where they confessed their sin and held a prayer meeting over it, and on the following Thursday evening, at the general prayer meeting, made a public statement of it. We could ask for nothing more, but could thank the Holy Spirit for inclining them thus to do, before any white person had spoken to them on the subject.

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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., Robert B. Forman, Rev. T. K. Noble, Hon F. F. Low,
Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev. S. H. Willey, D.
D., Jacob S. Taber.

DIRECTORS: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E. P.
Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Rowell, Rev. John Kimball,
A. L. Van Blarcon, Esq., George Harris, Esq., and the Secretary ex
officio.

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

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“STEADFAST, IMMOVABLE.”

BY REV. WM. C. POND.

It was in the last week in July that one of our Chinese brethren at Marysville, a lad of only 13 years—Ng Gan Don by name—called on one of his cousins to inquire whether money which he had deposited with this cousin to be sent to his father in China, had yet gone forward. The cousin declined to satisfy him upon this point, but wished himself to be satisfied upon another. So, taking Gan Don with yet another cousin into an inner apartment, they inquired into his religious views and practices. They had been specially commissioned, so they said, by Gan Don’s mother, to see to it that what he might hear and see in the land of the Golden Mountains should work no detriment to the religious ideas she had instilled in his mind. Gan Don acknowledged that he had exchanged those views and practices for some which he saw to be wiser and more true; that he no longer worshipped idols or ancestors, but that he believed in Jesus and was going to worship Him. They argued with him, but found him more than a match for them on that arena; and so, being two against one, and that one but a boy, they were easily emboldened to see what virtue there might be in blows. The blows fell fast and hard, and the poor lad’s head on which they fell was suffering sorely, but he maintained his integrity, and told them that he would never worship idols, even if they should undertake to kill him. At length he was released, and went, battered and bleeding, to the mission house. Our brethren, thinking that a little insight into Christian laws might do these persecutors good, entered a complaint against them, and they were fined $30 each.

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EXCITEMENT IN SACRAMENTO.

The _Record-Union_, of Sacramento, tells the story under this heading:—“CHINATOWN PREACHING. CHINESE MISSIONARIES KU-KLUXED, BUT NOT TERRIFIED.” I wish you had space for the entire article, but it would cover too many pages. Suffice it to say, that in connection with other Chinese Christians, our helper, Lem Chung, maintains a regular street-preaching service each Sabbath afternoon, in the very heart of the Sacramento Chinatown. Last Sabbath (August 14), as he and his companions approached the place, they found themselves confronted by a large _white_ poster covered with Chinese characters. White is the emblem of mourning among the Chinese, and gave to the poster much the same significance that black, emblazoned with skull and crossbones, would have done to the colored voters of the South some years ago. Many of the heathen Chinese had gathered to watch the effect of this woful paper on the advocates of the American heresy; and mingled surprise and horror seized them when Lem Chung proceeded coolly to take it down from the wall and read it aloud to them all. I give you his translation of its contents;—“It is claimed by the Christian preachers that Christ is the Lord of heaven and earth and the Creator. They only preach to make money, and it is useless to dispute with them; but something must be said to inform the people against this new false religion. It is learned from Christianity that Jesus was born only 1,881 years ago, which proves that it is false that he made the world; and telling a falsehood about this, they cannot be believed about anything else. Or, if Jesus was born before the world was made, then there was no world to hold Him when He was first born, or for Him to be upon, and His parents would have starved to death. How is it that you fellows keep so happy when you preach such news as this to us? Notice is hereby given that such of the Chinese people as have been converted to Christianity must not follow that way any more. Moreover, this religion must not be preached any more on the street, and if any shall do so they shall be arrested by the Six Companies and punished for preaching false doctrines and deceiving the people. They shall be given eighty lashes, and then dragged to the grave-yard and buried alive; their bones shall not be taken back to China, but shall remain foreign ghosts forever; and then they can believe in Jesus all they are a mind to. Whoever shall dare to take this white notice down shall be the son of no father.”

The effect of the placard was simply to secure a larger audience and a closer attention at the preaching service, to demonstrate the futility of gods that men could make and men destroy, and to give our helper and his friends the best possible opportunity to do two things: 1st, to show that Confucius urges all men to study and seek for the truth wherever they can find it, and those who propose to beat and kill and doom men for doing this, are no followers of that great master; and, 2d, to illustrate the Christian spirit by inviting those who had “put up the white poster to come to the mission-house, where they would be kindly treated,” and find themselves in the midst of good friends.

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FONG GET LOY IN CHINA.

Fong Get Loy was one of our earliest converts, and though only a house servant, has long been a pillar in our Sacramento mission work. Somewhat more than a year ago he returned to China and spent several months. I have been greatly interested in his account of his experiences there, and at my request he has written them out, as follows, (the original in Chinese; the translation by Lem Chung):

Dear Brother in Christ: According to your request, I will at this time send you account of my late visit in China; and what I doing while there. When I sailed from San Francisco, two of our Sacramento mission boys go with me on the ship. Every day we prayed together and talk about Jesus. We take thirty-three days sailing to Hong Kong. Before we landed, just as we casting anchor, we three gathered to hold prayer meeting, that God keep us from evil and temptation in China, and help us to work for Him. At the same time our heathen countrymen sacrificed to the goddess of the sea. I met our Christian brother, Fung Affoo, in Hong Kong; stayed there one day and two nights. Then I take Chinese schooner, sail hundred fifty miles to my own town, which took two days more before I get home. One year before I return to China I sent have house built. When I arrived home, I found idols in some of the rooms to worship: in the kitchen, to the god who takes care the cooking; at the front door, the one who looks and guards the door to let no evil spirits come in to trouble us; also, in the parlor I found the one who watches the whole house. I found blocks of wood with names of ancestors, carefully keep time of birth and death. All these they expect me to worship on my return. I told them: “My father dead—gone away. If he bad man when he live, God punish him now. He would be shut up in prison; can he come? They say ‘No.’ I say: ‘If my father good man, he happy now; he in a good place; he don’t want to come here, eat anything.’ I tell them: ‘You put up the god to take care the cooking; you sit down, do nothing; by-and-by you not have anything to cook. Somebody else have no god in the kitchen; they go to work; by and by they have something to eat!’ I say: ‘You place the idol by the front door; you leave the door open, not watch; you think no thief come? God made all things. He is the one to worship. Idols cannot help you.’ They say to me: ‘You no worship idol, by and by you have no house, no children, no money.’ I answer: ‘Other nations that not worship idols have more money and better houses than any we have in China. We go work for them to get money. We do not have to worship idols to get money.’ I say: ‘Whomsoever worship gods made by men’s hands, it is transgress to God.’ They say: ‘How is this our nation so great, so many wise men all worshipping idols; are they all transgress to Him? Is your experience higher than they?’ I say to them: ‘The idols and ancestors have no spirit nor power to help them any.’ Once in a while the people are crowded at my door. They shouted and said: ‘Well, if you dare to destroy your gods and ancestors, and nothing happen to your family, we will believe you.’ I then took a chair, got up in the parlor, took the goddess which my wife put there, and most all the family help her. I take a hatchet, chop it into pieces, and boil the tea with it. Oh! what astonishment to them! So they disperse. After that, my wife and my son both received the doctrine of the Bible, and every morning and evening we all would offer prayer, and at our meals asked God’s blessing. My wife more faithful than I. She willing to put away the idols, and like to go from house to house, when she have a chance, to tell the people about Jesus. My son attends school. All his school-mates laugh at him, but still he pray to God that He give him more faith, that he not care about the laughing. At the school they have a person’s name which they required to worship, that he may help them study and learn; but my son not want to worship him, after he believe in Jesus. He told them: ‘That’s nothing, only a piece of paper.’ The teacher compel him to do like the others. One day a woman in my town came to me, and asked me to pray for her son. He gone away from her. He send no money to support her. She said: ‘Pray for me that he thinks what he doing now, and may change his conduct, send something to help me.’ I knelt down with her, and pray God that He answer our prayer and bless this woman. Not many days after this God answered that prayer, and sent the money, and, with it, a new heart, for she believe, and thank our Heavenly Father, and came to be a Christian. Now a few others with her and my family keep the holy Sabbath, and have a meeting together. Sometimes they go to the mission station a few miles off, to hear the Gospel. Before, when I went back to China [_i.e._, on his former visit to his home], no Christian or missionary at that part of the province of Canton, but last year I find several hundreds become Christians not far from my home. Many times I go to hear the missionary talk about Christ. Oh, how I thank the Lord that He sent the missionary over there to speak the Gospel to them, and take away the darkness, that they may, by and by, more and more come into the sheep-fold and glorify God! I stayed at home seven months. Every day I work for Jesus while I there. When the time come for me to say good-by, and return to California, I feel I like great deal better to stay and work there for Christ. I promise myself, as soon as I can gain enough to live upon, I will return and give my whole time to work for my countrymen, and bring all I can to bow down to the true God.”

When will the American Missionary Association be ready to keep such men at work in their native land, preaching Jesus?

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GLEANINGS.

—A friend has anonymously contributed the entire cost of the new steel boat required for the Baptist expedition on the African Lakes, and it is to be named the Plymouth.

—A Virginia negro has recently taken out a patent for a fire escape, which is composed of lattice work that can be shut up into very small space or extended into a safe ladder, and can also be used as a pike to throw in tottering walls.

—The following plan for the abolition of slavery in Egypt has been approved by Col. Gordon, and will probably be adopted by the Khedive’s Government:

1.—Registration of all existing slaves in the Mudiriehs of the Soudan, and of Cairo (Lower Egypt), by the Governors.

2.—Registers to be kept in each Government office of the names of slaves and their owners, with description of each.

3.—Every slave to be free if not registered after expiration of six months (the period given for registration). All slaves born after signature of this decree to be free.

4.—Register books to be closed forever after the expiration of six months.

5.—Owners of slaves thus registered to be bound to produce Government certificates corresponding with the register books, when required to do so by the Government of Egypt.

6.—The Governors of Egypt and of the Soudan to proclaim this throughout the land.

7.—All purchases or sales of slaves from family to family are to be endorsed on the registration papers and inscribed in the Government books of registry.—_Anti-Slavery Reporter._

—One of the most successful and trustworthy farmers in Georgia is a negro named Harper, who has just paid $32,000 for 2,100 acres of land lying on Broad River, in Oglethorpe County. He is reported to be one of the best farmers in the country. He is economical; his family all work: most of his money was made by renting land and growing cotton.

—Prof. Wm. S. Scarborough, formerly a pupil at Atlanta University, has published a neat volume of 150 pages, entitled “First Lessons in Greek.” The work was designed to be an imitation of Jones’ “First Lessons in Latin,” and to give a clear and concise statement of the rudimentary forms of the language, with copious notes and references to the grammars of Goodwin and Hadley. Under Part II. Mr. Scarborough gives a few selections taken from the Anabasis and Memorabilia of Xenophon. The work is a good indication of what may be expected from the colored people when they shall have had the advantages of a higher education.

—“Worship in Song,” edited by Jos. P. Holbrook, Mus. Doc., and published by A. S. Barnes & Co., contains 450 pages, and is handsomely bound and attractive. Those best acquainted with Dr. Holbrook recognize his excellent judgment and taste, and the great attractiveness of his compositions. The author and publishers invite a practical test of their book, and it appears to quite meet the expectations of those who may adopt it for public worship.

—Bishop Hurst, in the _Quarterly Review_, writes on this wise respecting the work of the Methodist Episcopal and the Congregational churches at the South:

The two churches which are pre-eminently American, which have grown out of the ideas, convictions and the religious wants of the people under the free institutions of this country, are the Methodist Episcopal and the Congregational. They have laid foundations in the north and west which will endure for all coming time, and both are now doing the same in the South. If considered as antagonistic, which it is not, but rather co-operative, the real rival of the Methodist Episcopal church in the South is the Congregational, with its institutions of learning sustained by the American Missionary Association. It moves upon those lines which will give it a future, while other and older denominations are sleeping, apparently unconscious of the mighty revolution that has taken place, and indifferent to those principles which will inevitably impress themselves upon the church of the next century. Intelligence and morality are everywhere seen in that communion. That it is gaining a foot-hold in the South is obvious to every observer—a fact for which we are thankful. It is not carrying New England ideas into the cabins of the colored people, but it is doing better by bringing them out of their cabins and squalor and ignorance into the New England atmosphere and society created among themselves and for their posterity. We do not entertain a doubt that this denomination will become strong in the South, and we shall rejoice to see the time when it will devote as much attention to the white people as it now does to the colored. Southern ecclesiastical bourbonism is sadly, if not hopelessly, fossilized, and it is very desirable that various churches unite in bringing new spiritual life to the masses in the South, both white and colored.

—Some have made a considerable ado about “Yankee school-teachers” in the negro schools in the South, and in some cases our heathen have acted much as the heathen of Canterbury Green (Ct.) acted in 1831. Perhaps some of them have not been altogether to our taste; perhaps some of them have mixed in with the “three R’s” some things not to our edification. But what else could be done? Would qualified Southern men and women have taken these places when the Northern teachers came? Would they do it now? Not generally, though some of the best would, as a very few of the best have begun to do. Suppose these Northern teachers had not come—that nobody had taught the negroes, set free and citizens! The South would have been uninhabitable by this time. Some may resent this. Be it so; they resent the truth.—_From “Our Brother in Black” by Atticus G. Haygood, D. D., Pres. of Emory College, Oxford, Ga._

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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A MISSIONARY POTATO.

The missionary concert at the Congregational church, last Sunday night, was interesting, and in some respects novel. There is a bit of history connected with it. Two little girls belonging to the Sunday-school some time ago became so inspired with missionary zeal that, after casting about for ways to get money for the purpose, they devised a doll show, and carried it through here last winter with considerable success, netting five dollars. That money they sent to Fisk University, with request for report concerning its use. A letter came back, enclosing a letter from a Fisk student, written from Mississippi, where the young man was teaching to earn money to continue his studies at the University. That letter told of a colored boy, one of the pupils in the student’s school, and made an appeal for him. The boy was the son of his mother’s former master, and since she was emancipated the mother had married. The step-father hired the boy to horse-racers and saloon-keepers, and in various ways kept him under bad influences and away from school. The boy and his mother were ambitious that he should be educated; and when, a short time previous, the step-father had sickened and died, one obstacle seemed removed.

Another obstacle was lack of means, and for that the student appealed, in a letter written in answer to one from our people here, and it was for that purpose that the concert of last Sunday night was given by the Young People’s Missionary Circle of the Congregational Sabbath-school, organized since the little girls’ doll show enterprise. But now the enterprise is shared with them by the other churches, for they all suspended their services on this occasion, and Messrs. Sanders, Walter and Monroe participated in the devotional exercises, and their people swelled the congregation. The exercises, recitations, essays and Jubilee Songs were creditable and entertaining.

A collection was taken for the benefit of Master Walter, the ambitious Mississippi boy, and then a novel feature was introduced. Mr. Dickinson stated that last spring one of the boys in the congregation had noticed for two Sundays, in one corner of the church, a potato, from some source unknown. The thought came to the boy that he would take it home and plant it, for the benefit of missionary interests. He had done so, and now brought the proceeds, some twenty or thirty potatoes, big and little, but mostly little, and desired them to be sold to separate persons who would, make the same use of them next year.

The potatoes were thereupon offered for sale, and bought up, mostly at ten cents apiece; and we may expect to hear more about that missionary potato next year. Potatoes, $2.25.

The proceeds of the evening amounted to $15.05, which is forwarded to the student at the University, where he has already taken the boy Walter, trusting that the needed help will come. The student’s name is McClellan.—_Cambridge (Ill.) Chronicle._

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RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1881.

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MAINE, $241.91.

Bangor. First Cong. Ch. $20.17
Bath. Winter St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MICHAEL F. GANNETT, L. M. 35.10
Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.00
Dennysville. Peter E. Vose, $5; Mrs. Sam’l Eastman,
$5 10.00
Eastport. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5; G. A. P., $1 6.00
Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.59
Hallowell. Girls’ Sunday afternoon prayer meeting of
Classical Academy, _for furnishing a room, Atlanta
U._ 27.00
Hampden. Cong. Ch. 12.75
Machias. “A. R. T.,” $5; “A Friend,” $2 7.00
South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis 5.00
Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.30
West Auburn. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Woolwich. “A widow’s gift” 1.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $315.37.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 15.20
Colebrook. “E. C. W. and Wife” 2.00
Cornish. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const. REV.
JAMES T. JACKSON, L. M. 7.16
East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker 20.00
Francestown. AMASA DOWNS, to const. himself, L. M. 50.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.16; “A Friend,”
$30.00, to const. MRS. MARIA J. STOWELL, L. M. 62.16
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.39
Pembroke. Cong. Ch. 18.31
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.40
Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.35
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.50
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296.97

LEGACY.

Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by Albert
E. Wellman, a Trustee 18.40
——————
315.37

VERMONT, $1,561.86.
Barton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.31
Brookfield. “A Friend,” _for Tougaloo U._, and to
const. REV. WM. M. GAY and MRS. WM. M. GAY, L.
M’s. 50.00
Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.33
East Hardwick. S. W. O. 0.52
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.81
Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, $45; Mrs. Cone, $15,
for _Student Aid, Talladega C._ 60.00
Montgomery. Heman Watkins 4.00
North Cambridge. M. K. 1.00
West Fairlee. Mrs. C. M. H. 0.50
West Glover. Cong Ch. and Soc. 9.25
Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Woodstock. Cong. and Soc. 17.22
——— “L. G.” 25.00
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206.94

LEGACIES.

Charlotte. Estate of Salome Strong, by W. W. Higbee,
Admr. 1,095.30
Springfield. Estate of Dea. Charles Haywood, by Geo.
P. Haywood, Ex. 259.62
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1,561.86

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,454.31.

Abington. Mrs. H. P. 2.00
Amherst. Agricultural College, Class of 1882, _for
furnishing a room, Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._ 30.00
Andover. Rev. Joseph Emerson, $10; West Cong. Sab.
Sch., $10 20.00
Berlin. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Goales, _for Macon, Ga._ 3.00
Boston. Mary R. Sturges, $15; Mrs. G. S. Curtis,
$10, _for Athens, Ala._ 25.00
Boston. “A. B. H. J.” 2.00
Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.05
Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.65
Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $224.43, to
const. MRS. B. F. SANDS, REV. CHARLES F. THWING,
M. L. WALTON, DAVID BOWIE, JOHN HARRINGTON and
FRANK FOXCROFT, L. M’s.; “A Friend,” $5 229.43
Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Chelsea. J. P. Payson, _for freight_ 2.00
Concord. “A Friend” 1.00
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. 109.52
Danvers. Maple Leaf Mission Circle, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 60.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00
Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.00
Grafton. Mrs. S. A. 1.00
Georgetown. A. H. 1.00
Greenfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. _for
Union Point_
Haverhill. “Friend,” _for furnishing room, Tougaloo
U._ 1.00
Holden. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Holliston. D. B. Fitts 3.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Lawrence. Cong Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 16.73
Lunenburgh. “Wilson family,” _for furnishing a room,
Stone Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc. 16.50
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for buildings,
Wilmington, N. C._ 1,500.00
Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. D. W.
WILCOX, L. M. 100.00
Monterey. Cong. Ch. 17.00
Natick. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bundle of C.
Newtonville. J. K. 1.00
Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. _for ed. of an
Indian, Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 20.00
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.80
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.35
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.01
Peabody. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 1.20
Pepperell. “Friends,” _for furnishing room, Stone
Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.43
Randolph. “Randolph,” _for furnishing room, Stone
Hall, Straight U._ 50.00
Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner 10.00
Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 112.00
Somerville. “A Friend” 1.00
South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.59
South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00
Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MRS. SARAH JANE TIRRELL, L. M. 44.00
Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.01; Sec.
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.54; Ira Merrill, $3 85.55
Sunderland. “A Friend,” $5; “Friends,” $2 7.00
Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $130; H. H. Fish,
$25 155.00
Walpole. Mrs. C. F. M. 1.00
Waltham. N. S. and W. J. S., $1;—— Package of
Papers 1.00
Warwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Webster. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
West Boylston. Geo. W. Ames, $3; Polly Ames, $3 6.00
Westhampton. “A Friend,” 20.00
West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing a
room, Stone Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00
Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.50
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Woburn. Mrs. Simon Holden 5.00
Wollaston Heights. Mrs. Caroline C. Shaw 6.00
Worcester. Saml. R. Heywood, to const. HON. GEO. F.
HOAR, L. M. 30.00
——— Church of Christ, North Leominster, $7; Sab.
Sch., Shirley Village, $8.50; Sab. Sch.,
Lunenburgh, $9.50, _for furnishing a room, Stone
Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
———“A Friend,” _for furnishing a room, Stone Hall,
Straight U._ 50.00
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3,354.31

LEGACY.

Franklin. Estate of Mrs. Nancy C. Fisher 100.00
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3,454.31

CONNECTICUT, $1,744.67.

Berlin. “A Friend,” _for aid of a young man
preparing for Africa_ 50.00
Bridgeport. C. K. B. 0.50
Chester. Cong. Ch. 50.25
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. E.
THOMPSON, J. W. BACON, WM. J. RIDER and AMZI T.
ROGERS, L. M’s. 160.00
East Windsor Hill. Mrs. Ira Tracy 2.00
Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Colored
Children_, and to const. MRS. HARRIET W. BARBOUR
and ALBERT W. HART, L. M’s. 63.00
Goshen. “A Friend” 20.00
Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.21
Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, $100; Cong. Ch.,
$5.46 105.46
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Hartford. J. E. Cushman, $200; D. H. Wells, $25 225.00
Hebron. Rev. J. B. Cook 3.00
Huntington. Mrs. S. A. N. 1.00
Lebanon. First Ch. 68.53
Mansfield Centre. “A Friend,” $35, _for furnishing a
room, Stone Hall_; Cong. Sab. Sch. $10, _for
Needmore Chapel_; Mrs. B. Swift, $25; Chas.
Ramsdell, $2; Dea. G. S., $1; Mrs. W. T., $1, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 74.00
Middletown. “A. B. C.” 5.00
New Haven. Rev. J. J. Abbott, $20; “A Friend,” $20 40.00
New Preston. “S. A. W.” 2.00
North Stonington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00
Norwich. First Cong. Ch. 120.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. 41.86
Salem. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 7.55
South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.75
Southington. “A Friend” 1.00
Terryville. Cong. Ch., to const. JOHN CORNELIUS
GREGGS, CHARLES I. ALLEN, SILAS A. GRIDLEY, GEORGE
T. WINSLOW, JUDAH W. CLARK, WILLIAM BATES, GEORGE
H. BATES, BURR S. BEACH and STEPHEN FENN, L. M’s. 303.80
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 50.80
Waterbury. Mrs. Chas. Benedict, _for Macon, Ga._ 3.00
West Chester. Cong. Ch. 8.50
Westville. Cong. Ch. 28.00
Winsted. First Cong. Ch. 38.17
West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. 154.29
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
———“Gratitude,” _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00

NEW YORK, $5,246.32.

Amsterdam. Mrs. L. M. Bell, $25; “A few Members
Presb. Ch.” by C. Bartlett, $67 92.00
Auburn. S. B. O. 0.50
Brooklyn. “A Friend” 5.00
Chittenango. Mrs. Edwin Lewis, $10; Mrs. Amelia L.
Brown, $5 15.00
Copenhagen. Miss A. E. W. 0.25
Coventryville. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Elmira. Miss C. Thurston 5.00
Gerry. Mrs. Mary A. Sears 178.36
Goshen. “Friend of President Garfield” ($1 _of which
for Bibles and Testaments_) 2.00
Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean 7.00
Lebanon. Alfred Seymour, $6.50; Marvin Day, $6;
Thomas Hitchcock, $6; Thomas Williamson, $2; J. A.
Head, $1.50; G. A. Curtiss, $1.25; Others, $6.75,
by Rev. G. A. Curtiss 30.00
Milton. Miss F., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 0.50
Nelson. Cong. Ch. 8.20
New York. Gen. Wager Swayne, _for repairs on Swayne
Hall_ 100.00
New York. N. Y. Colored Mission Sab. Sch. 135 West
30th St. 2.41
Onondaga Valley. A. L. G. 1.00
Oswego. J. G. 1.00
Owasco. Mrs. A. Stewart 2.00
Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers 20.00
Pratham. Edward Halsey 2.00
Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 19.44
Rome. John. B. Jervis 25.00
Sherburne. Joshua Pratt, $500; Lucius Newton, $2,
_for Talladega C._; Miss E. A. Rexford, $5, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 507.00
Smyrna. H. M. Dixon, $5; Dea. C., $1, _for Needmore
Chapel, Talladega, Ala._ 6.00
Syracuse. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 48.91
Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 10.00
Walton. Mrs. C. H. Ladd, $100, _for Mendi M._ “_John
Brown Steamer_”; “The Little Helpers,” Box of C.,
_for School at Avery Station, Mendi M._ 100.00
Walton. By Rev. H. M. Ladd, _for Mag._ 1.50
Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch. 3.25
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1,236.32

LEGACIES.

Coventryville. Estate of Mrs. Esther Reed, by Rev.
W. W. Warner 10.00
Palmyra. Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Woodward, by Daniel
C. Lillie, Ex. 4,000.00
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5,246.32

NEW JERSEY, $5.00.

Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., _for repairs, Talladega
C._ 5.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $525.00.

Mercer. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Worth. John Burgess 5.00
—————
25.00

LEGACY.

Philadelphia. Estate of A. Claxton, _for Mendi M._ 500.00
——————
525.00

OHIO, $1,255.94.

Berea. “Friends,” _for Talladega C._ 62.15
Adam’s Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00
Cleveland. S. H. Sheldon, $26.50, _for furnishing
room, Ladies’ Hall_; M. S. Hinman, $10, _for
furnishing room, Strieby Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._ 36.50
Claridon. Rev. C. C. Starbuck, _for Talladega C._ 3.00
Elyria. Heman Ely, _for Talladega C._ 50.00
Geneva. Mrs. H. A. W. 1.00
Gomer. Welsh Cong. Ch. 52.75
Hudson. C. E. H. 0.50
Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $37.30; Second Cong. Ch.,
$11.87; L. F., $1 50.17
Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 75.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing
room, Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._ 25.00
Saint Clairsville. Wm. Lee, Sen. 3.00
Steuben. Levi Platt 1.50
Strongsville. Mrs. K. Pomeroy, $30, _for furnishing
room, Strieby Hall_; T. J. Bartlett, $5, _for
furnishing room, Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._ 35.00
Sullivan. Cong. Ch., _for Mendi M._ 23.61
Windham. First Cong. Ch. 26.76
——————
455.94

LEGACIES.

Cherry Valley. Estate of Mrs. Fanny Slater, by W. W.
Hopkins, Ex. 100.00
Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, by John G.
Jennings, _for Mendi M._ 500.00
Geneva. Estate of Mrs. Amy Roberts, by Mrs. Harriet
A. Wood 200.00
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1,255.94

ILLINOIS, $992.37.

Chicago. “A Friend,” 200.00
Chicago. Ladies of South Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Mobile, Ala._ 5.50
Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Galva. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 25.00
Geneseo. Cong. Ch. 75.00
Highland Park. Mrs. Elisha Gray, $10; Fred. Fisher,
$5; Mrs. H. McD., $1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 16.00
Kewanee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Savannah, Ga._ 20.00
La Harpe. Cong. Ch. 23.00
Moline. Charles Atkinson, _for President’s House,
Talladega C._ 100.00
Moline. Thomas Jewett, _for building Ladies’ Hall,
Tougaloo, Miss._ 75.00
Naperville. A. A. Smith 5.00
Oak Park. Cong. Ch. 56.45
Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Prospect Park. Mrs. Emma Floyd 5.00
Rochelle. C. F. Holcomb 12.00
Rochelle. W. H. H., Sen., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Rockford. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Rockford. “Rockford Lamplighters,” _for Indian M._ 11.79
Streator. Samuel Plumb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 104.00
Wataga. Cong. Sab. Sch. 9.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 11.13
Wyamet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 12.50

MICHIGAN, $366.53.

Alpena. First Cong. Ch. 134.00
Detroit. Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., $65.25; E. P. B.,
56c. 65.81
Frankfort. First Cong. Ch. 3.40
Grand Rapids. Mrs. E. G. Furness 5.00
Hillsdale. J. W. Ford 2.00
Leland. Cong. Ch. 6.31
Litchfield. Mrs. J. B. S. 0.50
Mankato. Cong. Ch. 2.23
Moline. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Olivet. Cong. Ch. 8.05
Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, _for rebuilding,
Tougaloo U._ 100.00
Summit. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 3.40
Warren. “A Friend” 5.00
Whitehall. First Cong. Ch. 5.83

IOWA, $130.64.

Atlantic. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 27.57
Denmark. Isaac Field 15.00
Grinnell. T. P. Carleton 2.00
Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson 5.00
Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch. 9.90
Marshalltown. G. W. 0.50
Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.82
McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 16.40
Muscatine. Dr. I. L. Graham, _for furnishing room,
Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._ 5.00
New Hampton. Ladies’ Cent. Soc. 2.45
Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 3.00
Traer. Cong. Ch. 20.00

WISCONSIN, $160.68.

Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Missionary,
Talladega, Ala._ 2.00
Beloit. Mrs. S. M. Clary, $5, and Box of C., _for
Macon, Ga._ 5.00
Cooksville. Edward Gilley 5.00
Delavan. Cong. Ch. 45.00
Grand Rapids. Cong. Ch. 1.75
Leeds. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 0.50
Madison. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Pewaukee. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Racine. First Presb. Ch. 33.43
Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon 10.00
Stoughton. Cong. Ch. 1.00

MISSOURI, $19.40.

Breckenridge. Rev. T. A. H. 0.50
DeKalb. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Athens, Ala._ 5.00
Kidder. Cong. Ch. 7.50
Saint Louis. Cong. Ch. 6.40

MINNESOTA, $71.21.

Austin. Mrs. S. C. Bacon 10.00
Minneapolis. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 24.46
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. 16.75

KANSAS, $3.00.

Brookville. Rev. S. G. Wright, $2.50; Mrs. E. E. S.,
50c. 3.00

NEBRASKA, $28.45.

Omaha. “K. and C.” 10.00
Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 18.45

CALIFORNIA, $3.00.

Rocklin. Cong. Ch. 3.00

OREGON, $20.00.

Portland. First Cong. Ch. 20.00

DELAWARE, $1.00.

Wilmington. Mrs. N. T. J. 1.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $15.00.

Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 15.00

SOUTH CAROLINA, $11.25.

Almeda. “Friends” by R. G. Holmes, _for Almeda, S.
C._ 11.25

TENNESSEE, $8.00.

Memphis. By Prof. A. J. Steele 8.00

GEORGIA, $256.60.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $253.60; Rent, $3 256.60

ALABAMA, $214.20.

Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 50.50
Marion. Cong. Ch. 2.05
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 120.00
Selma. First Cong. Ch. ($2.35 _of which for Mendi
M._) 21.65
Talladega. Rev. H. B. De Forest, $10; Prof. Geo. N.
Ellis, $10, _for Needmore Chapel, Talladega, Ala._ 20.00

MISSISSIPPI, $13.10.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition 13.10

TEXAS, $57.75.

Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Ins., Tuition 57.75

INCOME FUND, $120.50.

Avery Fund, _for Mendi Mission_ 85.50
Greenwich, N.Y. Town Bonds, _for Straight U._ 35.00

SCOTLAND, $63.73.

Perth. No. United Presb. Ch., £9; “Friend,” by D.
Morton, 5s.; J. Balman, _for Chinese M._, £2;
“Friend,” _for “John Brown Steamer,”_ £2 63.73
—————————
Total 16,906.79
Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st $207,731.58

* * * * *

FOR TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. Kingman 100.00
West Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emeline Smith 10.00
——————
Total 110.00
Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1st to July 31st 4,974.71
————————
Total $5,084.71

* * * * *

FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.

From Oct. 1st to July 31st $26,289.62

H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._,
56 Reade St., N. Y.

* * * * *

Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.

* * * * *

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.