Chapter II: Part 2

Another young man, who says that he will re-enter, was last year in school here for the first time, and was brought through the agency of the former. He has written intelligently of his Sunday-school, and has also sent on funds to me to be expended in papers.

Twin brothers from a town in an adjoining county, and last year’s pupils, were converted at a special revival season in the Congregational church here during the winter. To one of the teachers, one brother wrote that he was “doing the best he could teaching in the Sunday-school.” The other said that “the people out there did not know much about managing a Sunday-school properly, but he was working in it, and lent his “Quarterly” around among others, showing them how to study their lessons from it.” These brothers are about 15 years old.

We learn of the expected return of a pupil of ’79 who has been laboring very acceptably for some time in Louisiana in Sunday-school, church and temperance work. He brings a recruit for Burrell also. Another last year’s pupil of ours, from the High school grade, leaves the scholar’s seat to occupy a position behind the teacher’s desk, in the building where for years she has been a studious learner. She is a teacher in the A. M. E. Sunday-school of this place, and a member of the choir. Two other young ladies, former classmates of hers in Burrell, are, for the second year, teaching with us also.

The nature of our school being, as it is, a city school, we have not tried to crowd our work upon the attention of non-residents. We have had, however, pupils from the country and adjoining counties, every year for some time, with rare exceptions. New pupils from elsewhere, brought through the agency of others, have been referred to above. A very promising young man entered this year from a county adjoining this one on the east, who had heard of the school from former pupils. Three persons from a northern county are, I am informed, to come in company with a last year’s pupil. The condition of the cotton crop is such, that some are probably remaining away to assist in gathering and storing the same. This is often the case with country scholars.

The second day of the present session, one came to us as a pupil who has sat in the legislative hall of this State as one of our county’s representatives. He has been a teacher since then, and realizing his deficiency, comes to learn along with children. We think he shows a commendable spirit, and judging from his persistency, predict his success.

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TOUGALOO, MISS.

MISS K. K. KOONS.

The year opens full of promise to us. The school is not only much larger than at the same time last year, but larger than at the same time in any previous year except the first few, before the zeal of this people on the subject of education had had time to abate. Though Strieby Hall is not yet finished, the lower floor, chapel and recitation rooms lack but the finishing touches and furniture, the first of which it is rapidly receiving, the last of which we look for daily.

We held our opening exercises in the chapel, fitted up with temporary seats. Our overcrowded Girl’s Hall and dining-room of last year prepared us thoroughly to enjoy the room which the enlargement to the building affords. Though neither building is completed, the work is being rapidly pushed forward. A number of our students, who came expecting to enter school at once, were glad of the opportunity to help themselves, and are putting in a month of work upon the buildings before entering, thus somewhat lessening the number enrolled at the opening.

Reports of the summer’s work given by our student teachers at our weekly prayer meeting were very encouraging indeed. It has been an unusually hard summer for many of them. Delay in finding vacant schools, the failure of people to keep engagements made with teachers, and hard fare, were very common. But though these things came to us in our letters from them during the summer, they were scarcely referred to in their reports. Interest in their work and the people with whom they labored entirely overshadowed the hardships. The disposition to take a cheerful view of things, and cheerfully and earnestly to meet and work against difficulties and discouragements, is becoming more manifest. Perhaps this is _one_ of the good results to be wrought in them by the sacrifice and self-denial so bravely made after the burning of our chapel last spring.

The interest in the Sabbath-school work is greater. Fewer signers to the pledge are reported than in previous years. The temperance work is the “pons asinorum” of our young people. And well may it be, in view of the almost universal habit of drinking and using snuff and tobacco. In this work they do grow greatly “disencouraged.” But the number of signers to the pledge is, after all, no criterion by which to measure the quiet work done in the line of temperance.

The number enrolled at the opening last year was 46, this year 74. The number of day scholars taught by our twenty student teachers was 1,539; Sabbath-school scholars, 795; signers to pledge, 160; conversions, 32.

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FISK UNIVERSITY, NASHVILLE, TENN.

BY REV. H. S. BENNETT.

Fisk University has opened this year with unusual prosperity. There are at this early date in the year 285 pupils in the entire school. There are in Jubilee Hall 121 boarders, which is within 30 as many as have ever boarded in the hall. Judging from applications which have been made, there will be by the middle of January next 75 more. Last night, at the faculty meeting, the question was earnestly discussed, “What shall we do with those who apply, when the hall is full?” as it is likely to be within a very few weeks. It is felt by all of the faculty that if the crops had not been cut short by the drought we should have had a rush of students altogether unprecedented in the history of the University.

It is felt by those who have known the students for a number of years that those of this year are a superior class. The quality of the students improves with every year, showing that others are at work elsewhere. We have received already this year several students of advanced grade, who have come prepared to enter the college classes. At this time we are negotiating with one who desires to enter the senior college class and graduate next commencement. We expect him in a few days.

The past years of schooling are beginning to tell upon the higher training of the colored youth, and those who come to Fisk for the first time take much higher grades than new students were wont to do a few years ago. Most of the old students have been engaged in teaching during the summer vacation. It is estimated that of 85 in the collegiate department, 60 or 65 taught school during the summer. Wherever these teachers go, they secure a good name for industry, conscientiousness, ability and energy. We are constantly getting good words from white people, directors, superintendents and private citizens in regard to the faithfulness and acceptance with which our students discharge their duties. Almost all those who teach are Christians and engage in Christian work, as a matter of course, when they begin their day schools. As a general thing, they enter at once into the Sabbath-school if there is one, and start one if there is not, and generally get the entire neighborhood enlisted.

There are two interesting features in relation to the students, the like of which we have never had before. During the past few years the trustees of the Peabody fund have sustained a Normal school for white pupils. The effort has been made to secure an appropriation from the State for this school in the years that are past. At the last session of the Legislature an appropriation of $10,000 was made for Normal schools, $2,500 for the colored children of the State, that being their relative share. The Board of Education for the State, to whom the disbursement of this fund was left, decided that the fund for the colored students should be divided among 50 pupils, and that they should have the privilege of choosing between five schools to which they should go. Each pupil would thus be entitled to $50, and each school would receive on an average 10 students. Up to the present time Fisk has received 18 out of the 50, and it is well known that many of the Senators who had the power of appointment had not taken action. We have no doubt that others will come as the year passes by.

The other feature is this. Several colored men were elected to the last Legislature, and as members had the right to appoint cadets to the East Tennessee University, of course they all appointed colored cadets. Some other republican members also appointed colored cadets. This threw the trustees of the East Tennessee University into great perplexity. It is against the law of the State to educate white and colored pupils in the same institution: it is also very much against the traditional prejudices not only of the trustees of the University, but also of the people of the State. The trustees met, and after a thorough discussion determined to make arrangements with Fisk University if possible, to take their colored cadets at $30 apiece. Fisk University was not averse to the arrangement, and so the question was settled. We have now in the University seven cadets, students of the East Tennessee University.

It is accepted by all here as an important truth, that the longer we can keep a student the better it will be for him and the institution and the work. The students in the collegiate department give tone to the whole institution. Every department is lifted to a higher standard by the high standard of the college department. As the college graduates go out into the world, they have, without an exception, taken advanced positions as teachers or other professional men.

Livingstone Hall is now having its roof put on, and all are watching its progress with the greatest interest, as promising a time when the facilities of the institution will be almost doubled. What we shall next need will be an ample endowment. Who will provide this for us?

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OBITUARY.

DEATH OF MRS. T. C. STEWARD.

On the 3d of July last Mrs. T. C. Palmer Steward passed away to her rest, leaving behind a devoted husband and three young children. She was born in Windham, Portage Co., Ohio, August 10th, 1839. She commenced teaching school when fourteen years of age and was graduated from Lake Erie Female Seminary, Painesville, Ohio, July, 1862, having secured her education largely through her own efforts. In October, 1866, she was commissioned by the A. M. A. as a teacher among the Freedmen, and for ten years continued to labor in the South under its direction, being at Chattanooga two years, at Marion four years and at Fisk University four years. In 1868 she was married to Hon. T. C. Steward, who was stationed at Marion, Ala., in charge of the work of the Association. Mr. Steward took an active part in the work of reconstruction in Alabama, and in the most trying and dangerous period in the political history of the State, after the war, represented his district in the legislature. In those times of imminent peril Mrs. Steward stood unflinchingly by her husband’s side and manifested the highest qualities of true Christian heroism. In 1876 Mr. and Mrs. Steward retired from the service of the A. M. A. and moved to Chattanooga, Tenn., where Mrs. Steward’s death occurred in their new and pleasant home on the crest of Missionary Ridge.

Mrs. Steward was a remarkably efficient and successful teacher, and a most devoted and earnest Christian worker.

DEATH OF REV. G. W. WALKER.

DIED.—At Centreville, Pa., August 23, 1881, Rev. G. W. Walker, formerly a teacher at Atlanta University, aged 46 years. He was a graduate of Oberlin College and Theological Seminary. Of Mr. Walker it may be said, without biographical exaggeration, “A good man has fallen in Israel.” As a man, he was quiet, modest, unostentatious, affable and gentlemanly. Sustaining to him the close relation of class-mate for three years, the writer cannot remember a harsh or unkind word as ever having fallen from his lips. As a Christian, he was always calm, serene, happy. His piety seemed like the flow of some sweet, peaceful river. The same traits of character he carried into the ministry. As a preacher, he was Scriptural, earnest and impressive. He was true and faithful to his trust, no flatterer, but outspoken. As a pastor, he endeared himself to all by his gentle manner and lively sympathy. He labored very successfully for a few years in the service of the American Missionary Association. In lowliness and self-abnegation he toiled faithfully, earnestly, for souls wherever the Master placed him, and his memory will not soon be forgotten by his intimate friends, and especially by those who were hopefully saved through his instrumentality. He bore his sickness with a sweet, Christian patience, his greatest trial being that he was deprived of working in the service of Him whom he loved. Through a long and tedious decline, covering nearly two years of painful struggle for life, he found the God he served able to comfort and sustain him and give him at last the victory. He leaves a fond wife and son, who have met with a loss that cannot be measured, and who share the sympathies of a multitude of friends.

May the precious Saviour, whom he served, remember the widow and the fatherless.

EXTRACTS FROM MINUTES OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

SEPTEMBER 13TH, 1881.

Rev. Henry M. Ladd and Dr. E. E. Snow, who were about to proceed up the Nile for locating the Arthington Mission, were brought before the Committee and instructed as follows:

The Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, which has commissioned you to explore the basin of the Upper Nile in Africa, with reference to the locating and the working of the Arthington Mission, would give you these few words of God-speed and of instruction.

We furnish you a letter from the U.S. Secretary of State, which in response to a request from this office, assures you that upon arriving at Cairo, you will find the U.S. Consul General stationed there, Mr. Simon Wolf, instructed to facilitate the labors of your expedition and to protect your rights as American citizens in such ways as are consistent with his duties and with due regard to local laws. With his assistance and your English endorsement you will seek from the Khedive of Egypt the essential protection of his authority.

It is our impression that near the mouth of the Sobat, where the Nile comes in from its great western bend, within the Arthington district, and perhaps upon the very spot where Sir Samuel Baker had his camp, you will locate the headquarters of the mission, whose stations in time will be extended into the country beyond; but we leave this matter of location to your discretion. In determining it you will consider the navigability of the river, the elevation and healthfulness of the site, and the friendliness and condition of the people. You will negotiate with the heads of the people, among whom you locate, for the use of land needed by the mission. You will investigate the feasibility of our owning and running a small steamer between Berber and Sobat.

Upon all these matters you will report as frequently as possible to this office. A journal, kept and furnished us, such as that reported by Sup’t Ladd, in regard to the visit to the Mendi Mission, will be greatly helpful.

Returning, Dr. Snow will stop in England to superintend the construction of a steamer for the Nile service, provided your reports shall warrant the Committee in ordering such an expenditure, and Sup’t Ladd will come back to this country to report in person and to secure colored missionaries to go back with you in the early autumn of 1882.

If the way shall not appear closed up, the plan for the second expedition will be that, with your recruits, you take along your steamer as freight to Berber, where you will put it together and launch it to carry your party and materials for building and for subsistence to the chosen site, upon which you will set up the house of the mission.

While the Superintendent, like the Apostle Paul, will have his “beloved physician” to travel with him as associate missionary, in our prayerful solicitude for your health and safety, we wish to enjoin upon you the utmost diligence in seeking to preserve yourselves from sickness, and in keeping yourselves in that enervating climate from overstrain in travel and work.

We bless God that he has given you a heart to assume this great undertaking in the name of His dear Son. We commend you now to the Divine care, and shall ever pray that you may be preserved in health and in life, and prospered in your mission, until you shall see that heathen people coming to the standard of the Cross which you shall have set up in equatorial Africa.

WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.

MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_.
MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.

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MONTHLY REPORT.

When Livingstone, at the age of twenty-seven, had accomplished his task of fitting himself for a missionary, had taken his medical diploma, and was ready to start for Africa, “a single night,” says his biographer, “was all that he could spend with his family, and they had so much to speak of that David proposed they should sit up all night. This, however, his mother would not hear of. ‘I remember my father and him,’ writes his sister, ‘talking over the prospects of Christian missions. They agreed that the time would come when rich and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries, instead of spending their money on hounds and horses. On November 17th we got up at five o’clock. My mother made coffee. David read the 121st and 135th Psalms, and prayed. My father and he walked to Glasgow to catch the Liverpool steamer.’”

How fitting the setting of this prophetic talk of David and his father—the completed hard labor and sterner sacrifice of preparation, the hurried visit by night, and the long walk in the November dawn! No wonder, with their inspiration, that these two “agreed that the time would come when rich and great men would think it an honor to support whole stations of missionaries.”

The autumn is here and a new year of work begins. We are all promising ourselves redoubled efforts and larger success, each in his sphere, for the coming season. But what can we do new, what can we do more, what fresh successes can we plan for missions, and for home missions? This is one of the questions for us all to ask. Can I start a new auxiliary? I will not neglect the opportunity nor lose time. Can I myself make a larger contribution to the funds this year than last? Then I will, and if I have to give something of less value in exchange for the privilege, so much the better. Shall I read more regularly the news that comes from missions, and so help myself and others to become more interested in the work by the knowledge of what is being done? Yes, I will make a point of this. Can I pray more sincerely for the progress of the cause, remembering with affection and sympathy those who labor in the Lord in the more toilsome parts of the vineyard?

Are not these questions which we may ask and answer in the interest of our W. H. M. A.? We are anxious to do a much larger work this year than last. Would that we might multiply it tenfold! So we must have corresponding purpose and energy in each spoke of the wheel. Our missionaries already in the field have resumed their labors after their summer’s rest. Mrs. Babcock has returned to her work in Washington; Mrs. Steele begins anew in Chattanooga, Tenn.; Miss Rose M. Kinney is to be supported by our Association in Dorchester Academy, McIntosh, Ga.; Miss Sarah E. Tichenor, sister of Miss Lydia M. Tichenor, who has been in Hooper, Utah, has begun her teaching among the “poor whites” in Greenbrier, Tenn. She writes: “I think the prospects are that we shall have a pleasant opening, as they are anxious to have school. I would like a globe and charts very much, and we shall need text books for some who are not able to buy.” Miss Alice E. Carter, who has been our missionary in Nashville, Tenn., this last year, has been detailed from that work to present the cause of the W. H. M. A. to the churches. Auxiliaries wishing to have her address them can make application to the Home Secretary. Under the New West Commission we send out Miss Snyder again to Albuquerque; Miss Elizabeth Keyes to Bingham; Miss Emily S. Robinson to Stockton; and Miss Annie E. Shepardson to Salt Lake City, (the three last named places in Utah).

We are ready to send out more, to double the number of missionaries at once, and the fields are standing ripe. Does not some one desire the “honor” of supporting, not “whole stations of missionaries,” but—a whole mission station? Does not some new auxiliary desire to undertake the support of a new mission?

The annual meeting of the Association will be held in Boston, October 26. We expect the cause of the New West and that of the South to be presented by those personally acquainted with the matter, and we hope for a large attendance.

Receipts of W. H. M. A. from August 27 to September 26, 1881:

From Aux. $ 38.00
“ Don 258.10
“ L. M. 20.00
“ A. M. 11.00
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$327.10

Boxes sent:

From Auxiliary in Monson,
Mass., to the West $150.00
“ Ladies in Central Ch.,
Boston, second-hand
clothing to Michigan
sufferers 8.90

CORRECTION.—In report of W. H. M. A. for September. In Miss Wilson’s diary read, “2d, sent soup,” not soap; and in the last part of the same paragraph read “lunch,” not _land_, given.

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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THOMAS CHATHAM.

BY MRS. THOS. N. CHASE.

About fifteen years ago, a colored boy whom we will call Thomas Chatham helped to swell the flock that followed their white teacher to some tumble-down buildings in Atlanta, Ga.

There is a kind of wild delight about the memory of those days, “just after freedom,” when the “old uncles and aunties” as well as the boys and girls endured heat and cold, hunger and rags, inspired by the blissful idea of getting “larnin’” about as they had gotten freedom, “kind o’ sudden like.” When they found their mistake, of course thousands dropped out by the way, but Thomas Chatham was not one of them.

When we went South in 1869, he had gotten quite a start. I first saw him in the Congregational Sunday-school at Storrs Chapel, and noticed that whenever the Superintendent asked a question that nobody else could answer, a queer-looking fellow with a very thick tongue usually answered it. In two or three years he was admitted to the preparatory department of Atlanta University. But how the boys did laugh at him! How shocking! some tender-hearted child says. So it is. Many a time my heart has ached for poor Chatham. But you must remember that colored children are no better than white ones, and I am sure you have seen some poor awkward white boy laughed at till perhaps your kind eyes filled with tears. Then I suppose I don’t see the funny side of comical sights so quickly as some, and Thomas Chatham did look queer. Although he is quite short, he has very large feet and broad shoulders, with a big head set nearly flat upon the latter. Then he was very poor, and did not know how to make the best of the poor clothes he had. His shoes were run down at the heel, so that when he walked he shuffled along, lest, I suppose, his shoes should fall off. He learned with great difficulty and made very droll blunders, but he never lost his temper or got out of patience. At the beginning of each year a new set of thoughtless scholars would make fun of his looks and his blunders, till his calm dignity told louder than words that he lived in an atmosphere far above that level where the taunts or esteem of his fellows had much weight.

His home was two or three miles from school, yet he trudged on year after year, often drenched with rain and chilled into ague, hoping that some time he would know enough to serve his people as a teacher in a country school. Several of his teachers advised him to learn a trade, judging that from all human appearances he could never teach or control a school. Others who knew more of his Bible knowledge and sublime faith thought that, perhaps, God could find a place for him somewhere; and He has.

Every summer vacation now he goes out into some obscure corner to teach, and reports come back to us that our best students are not so successful as he in leading their pupils to that beginning of all wisdom, the fear of the Lord.

Chatham’s success is to me a living sermon from the text, “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.” And why that Spirit helps him seems to be because he is willing to do anything, to go anywhere, to be only a sower, and let another be the reaper; in short, while he is weak, yet is he strong, because of that most beautiful of all graces, humility. How slow I have been learning the hard lesson, that God passes by the learned, the brilliant and the talented until they are thoroughly humbled, and, to our surprise, honors some lowly one who is willing to give God the glory and not beg back any share of it.

“For thus saith the High and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy, I dwell in the high and holy place _with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit_.”

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LETTERS TO THE TREASURER.

The pastor of the church at Rehoboth, Mass., writes as follows: “The enclosed five dollars was handed me after our missionary concert last evening by a young brother who told me that he had set apart a small piece of ground on his farm, resolving to cultivate it for the Arthington Mission in Central Africa. This five dollars is the first proceeds.”

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SAMUEL GORDON HALEY.

Our Treasurer received recently two thousand dollars for a
scholarship endowment fund for the Fisk University, which was
from Mrs. A. M. Haley, widow of Samuel Gordon Haley, and was
acknowledged in the September AMERICAN MISSIONARY. We publish
the following obituary notice of Mr. Haley as an illustration
not only of the excellent character of the man, but also as a
testimonial to the conscientious act of his widow, who is a
worthy Baptist lady, in bestowing in honor of his memory this
amount to promote educational work under the auspices of our
Association, which was dear to him.

Samuel Gordon Haley, son of Dea. Thos. Haley and Eliza Whicher, was born in Charlestown, Mass., May 7, 1832. He died in Oshtemo, Mich., January 14, 1881. At the time of his birth his parents were not Christians, but they so earnestly desired that Samuel, their first-born, should have eternal life that they prayed that God would early bring him into His kingdom. Mr. Haley was well known as a successful educator and genealogist; he was also deeply interested in historical research. In 1836 his father moved to East Andover, New Hampshire. There in the picturesque Switzerland of America, with its skies filled with light, its green plains and valleys, its bold and its undulating hills, its grand old pines and their dark mossy retreats, its bald-headed Kearsarge in the near distance, in full view of a quiet N.E. village, with its church spires and school-houses, nestling close at the side of Highland Lake, childhood merged into boyhood, and boyhood into early manhood. We may well suppose that such scenes would awaken the imagination of a mind formed by nature to appreciate and sympathize with the truly grand and sublime in the external world, and would help to impart to that mind a loftiness of purpose and purity of thought not otherwise, perhaps, attained. And now, amid those scenes so loved in childhood and admired in maturity, near the revered one who bore him, lies his noble form awaiting the resurrection morn. His paternal home was one of singular good sense and piety; it was sincere, unworldly, unartificial. Tender deference was taught toward the aged, and thoughtful regard toward childhood, the unfortunate, the afflicted. He loved to dwell on the tender recollections, kindred ties, early affections and hallowed associations connected with his home; he eagerly sought every historical incident of his family; and to his father, the aged sire, who still lives to bless, was he indebted for many incidents relating to his predecessors. Mr. Haley graduated from Meriden Academy, Meriden, New Hampshire, in 1856.

He graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1860. Having chosen teaching as a profession, he at once entered upon that work, and for ten years his labors were in academies and high schools in N.H. During the war he spent his summer vacations in Washington, D.C., and vicinity, in the benevolent work of the U.S. Christian Commission. And as we turn the pages of his private writings, and learn of the spirit which actuated him during those dark, bloody hours of our nation’s history, we find renewed proofs of the true greatness of his soul. In 1870 he found work in the public schools in Illinois, where he labored till a short time before his death.

As a teacher, his life was one of untold usefulness. The moral and religious development of his pupils was of first importance. He regarded our schools as a place, not so much of learning, as of preparation for learning; a course of discipline to draw out and sharpen faculties; a means to bring the student up to manhood with ability to perform thenceforth the hard work of a man in his allotted sphere. To that end no part of fundamental study could be spared. A thorough, exact scholar himself, he was satisfied with nothing less than thoroughness and exactness in those whom he taught. Patient, forbearing, forgiving, he held a high place in the hearts of his pupils, and with all his gentleness of spirit he ever maintained a purity of discipline.

Mr. Haley first made a public profession of religion and united with the Congregational church while at Meriden Academy. But so true and pure had been his life that little change could be seen in him after this profession. He subsequently became a member at Hopkinton, N.H., then at Dover, N.H. He united with the church at Providence, Ill., in 1872, and was a member of that church at the time of his death.

As a Christian, he was undemonstrative, but he was faithfulness itself. In all his relations of life did he sow the seeds of love to his Master. He was unsuspicious, resented no evil, indulged in no gossip, perpetrated no slander, exaggerated not his statements, never wore two faces, nor spoke with two tongues. He was guileless. A sectarian, a partisan, a demagogue, a sycophant, a hypocrite, he abhorred. He would do nothing with them but in matters of necessary business. His finer sentiments were not projected. He restrained them through natural diffidence, but when reached they were responsive, pure, refreshing, tempered with Christian meekness and sobriety.

As he approached the realities of that world for which he had lived, he seemed to enter into them as much as man ever can until he has passed within its portals. His spirit gave utterance to expressions which indicated how bright was the source from which had sprung the power and preciousness of his life.

Those who mourn his loss have consolation, not only in the remembrance of those sterling virtues which gave him professional dignity and power, but in that great, tender and noble nature which made those virtues subservient to the familiar every-day enjoyments in a Christian life. They will love to keep in memory his play equally with his work; his genial, frank and sometimes sportive intercourse not less than his graver counsels which instructed them.

The whole example and image which ever lives in their hearts, of sanctified intellect, sentiment and affection, constituting his well adjusted and honorable manhood, will be their best earthly incentive to imitate his virtues and partake of his reward.

MRS. ANNIE M. HALEY.

Buda, Ill., August 25, 1881.

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RECEIPTS FOR SEPTEMBER, 1881.

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MAINE, $183.31.

Augusta. W.F.H. $5.00
Bangor. Rev. Jos. Smith 25.00
Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives 3.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.00
Portland. St. Lawrence St. Ch. 7.31
Saco. Miss Alice Seavery 5.00
Union. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Winslow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
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83.31

LEGACY.

Yarmouth. Estate of Daniel Sweetser, by
Rebecca S. Shorey, Executrix 100.00
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183.31

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $328.88.

Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc., (bal. to const.
MRS. ANN L. JOHNSON, L.M.) 16.59
Amherst. Miss L. W. B. 0.50
Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Bethlehem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($2 of wh. _for
Indian M._) 11.30
Brookline. “Friends” _for furnishing room,
Stone Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
Brookline. Miss E. E. R. 0.50
Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.68
Candia Village. Jona. Martin 5.00
Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $14.57;
E.F.M., $1 15.57
Dover. Mrs. Dr. L. 1.00
Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., (bal. to const.
MISS HATTIE A. EMERSON, L. M.) 18.00
Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Hanover. Dartmouth College Cong. Ch. 60.00
Hillsborough Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.00
Keene. Rev. and Mrs. H. Wood 5.00
Milford. R. M. 1.00
Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.75
Reed’s Ferry. Miss H. McM. 0.50
Salem. Cong. Ch. (ad’l), $2; Mrs. Dean
Emerson’s S. S. Class, $3; “Mrs. G. D. K.”
$2.34 7.34
Thornton’s Ferry. Mrs. H. N. E. 0.50
Wentworth. Eph. Cook 5.00
West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $10.15; F.
O. S., 50c 10.65
Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $22; “Pastor and
Wife,” $12 34.00

VERMONT, $549.04.

Ascutneyville. Dea. P. Haskell 5.00
Benson. “J. K.” 2.00
Bridport. Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.50
Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.68
Cambridge. M. and C. Safford, $38.52; E.
Wheelock, $5; S. M. Safford, $5; Mr. and
Mrs. Blaisdell, $5; O. W. Reynolds, $5; H.
Wires, $2; J. G. Morse, $2; B. R. Holmes,
$2; M. J. M., $1; J. M. S., $1; J. W. T., $1 67.52
Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 52.00
Chester Depot. J. L. Fisher 10.00
Corinth. Cong. Ch. 16.50
Cornwall. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.70
Coventry. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.86
Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Georgia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.10
Lunenburgh. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.60
Norwich. “S. J. B.” 2.00
Royalton. A. W. Kenney 12.00
Saint Albans. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.72
Saint Johnsbury. Sab Sch. of South Cong. Ch.
_for Sab. Sch. Work, Talladega, Ala._ 25.00
Springfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 47.10
Swanton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.45
Waterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.79
Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15.52; Sab.
Sch., $4; “A Friend’s Memento,” $1.50 21.02
Vergennes. Mrs. N. J. I. 0.50

MASSACHUSETTS, $10,808.86.

Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.33
Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.08
Amherst. Agl. College, Class of ’82, _bal. for
furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 5.00
Amherst. G. C. Munsell 2.00
Andover. Dea. E. Taylor, $10; M. C. Andrews,
$5, _for Talladega C._ 15.00
Bernardston. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Boston. “A Friend,” $42; Mrs. P. L. Livermore,
$2 44.00
Boston. Woman’s Home Missionary Association,
_for Lady Missionary_ 26.52
Boston Highlands. John G. Cary, to const. REV.
CHARLES NICHOLS, L. M. 30.00
Boxford. Mrs. J. K. C. and Mrs. E. L. S., 50c.
ea. 1.00
Bridgeton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.29
Brockton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.00
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Mon. Con. Col.,
$13.56; Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., 50c. 14.06
Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00
Chelmsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.38
Chicopee. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.04
Coleraine. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 891.09
Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.25
Foxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.68
Georgetown. “A Friend” 10.00
Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.00
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch., $90.42; Jeanette
Thompson, $5 95.42
Hanson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $200; Center
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $53.50 253.50
Hawley. “A Friend” 1.00
Holland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Holyoke. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ($11 _of which
Mission Concert Fund_) 259.85
Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.75
Kingston. Mayflower Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Lawrence. E. F. E. 0.50
Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.25
Longmeadow. Gents’ Benev. Ass’n. 19.00
Lowell. Pawtucket Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.56
Lunenburg. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad’l) _for
furnishing room, Stone Hall, Straight U._ 0.25
Lynn. Miss Susie Clark, _for Macon, Ga._ 2.00
Malden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.86
Mansfield. P. M. E. 1.00
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, $2,000,
_for buildings, Wilmington, N.C._; $1,000
_for Talladega C._; and $1,533.55 _on
account of excesses in Church Contributions_ 4,533.55
Mattapoisett. A. C. 1.00
Maynard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Melrose. Cong. Ch, and Soc. 52.00
Melrose Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Middleborough. Central Cong. Ch. 42.44
Milton. S. D. Hunt 10.00
Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.49
Newburyport. Whitefield Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Northampton. “A Friend,” $100; Edwards Church,
$35.93 135.93
North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (to const.
G. E. HATHORNE, L. M.) 60.00
North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.00
North Chelmsford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.50
North Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Northfield. Miss M. L. H. 0.51
North Somerville. “A Friend” 1.00
Orange. A. S. M. 1.00
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.84
Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.76
Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.02
Rockport. John Parsons 3.00
Salem. “Friends,” _for Talladega C._ 40.70
Sandwich. Miss Hepsa H. Nye 2.00
Saundersville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Sherborn. “A Friend” 3.00
South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Southborough. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 18.91
South Egremont. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
South Plymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
South Sudbury. Ladies’ Mission Soc., Bbl. of
C. val. $44.68, _for Atlanta U._, _and_ $3
_for freight_ 3.00
Springfield. Mrs. A. C. Hunt 5.00
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.70
Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.
L. ABBA GILBERT, L. M. 40.00
Taunton. Winslow Ch. and Soc. 43.00
Topsfield. Charles Herrick 20.00
Townsend. “A Friend” 2.00
Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00
Waltham. Individuals by N. Scammon, _for Mag._ 2.00
Ward Hill. Elijah Bradstreet 10.00
Wellesley College. “A Friend” 5.00
Wellesley. Mrs. J. L. P. 1.00
West Newton. Mrs. H. A. Barker, 2 Bbls. C.
Westport. Pacific Union Ch. and Soc., $7;
Pacific Union Sab. Sch., $3.86 10.86
West Somerville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.43
West Springfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.40
Woburn. Cong. Ch and Soc. 113.16
Worcester. Samuel W. Kent, $10; Salem St. Ch.
$5 15.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.00
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7,808.86

LEGACIES.

Boston. Estate of Thomas D. Quincy, by Julia
C. Quincy, Thomas D. Quincy, Jr., and Thomas
P. Ayer, Executors 2,000.00
North Brookfield. Estate of Miss Lydia C.
Dodge, by Wm. P. Haskell, Executor 1,000.00
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10,808.86

RHODE ISLAND, $929.28.

Central Falls. Class of Sab. Sch. Girls 10.00
Providence. Central Cong. Ch., $823.68;
Plymouth Cong. Ch., $20.60 844.28
Providence. Central Ch., $50, Union Ch., $25,
_for Parsonage_; Ladies of Central Ch.,
Communion Set, val. $25, _for Church,
Talladega, Ala._ 75.00

CONNECTICUT, $5,403.33.

Avon. Harry Chidsey 100.00
Branford. Cong. Ch. 18.16
Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.18
Bristol. S. E. Root. $25; N. L. Birge, $25;
Mrs. H. S. Bartholomew, $10; H. S.
Bartholomew, $10; Master Roger S. Newell,
$2; Mrs. Dea. C., 50 cents, Mrs. E. S. K.,
50 cents, _for Talladega C._ 73.00
Brooklyn. First Trin. Cong. Ch., $32.50; M. W.
Crosby, _for Mag._, $1.50 34.00
Cheshire. Cong. Ch. 19.14
Colchester. “A Friend,” by Rev. S. G. Willard,
_for Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 5.00
Collinsville. E. H. Sears, _for Talladega C._ 10.00
Durham. First Cong. Ch. 15.00
East Hampton. Hawley Skinner, $10; Dea. Saml.
Skinner, $10; A. H. Conklin, $10; E. C.
Barton, $10; H. H. Abby, $2; Mrs. F. M. K.,
$1; J. C. K., $1, _for Talladega C._ 44.00
East Hartford. First Ch. 20.00
Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown, $5, _for
Hampton N. and A. Inst._, and $5 _for
Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 10.00
Green’s Farms. Cong. Ch. 19.25
Griswold. First Ch. 40.00
Hartford. Roland Mather, $100; Newton Case,
$50; John C. Day, $25, _for Talladega C._ 175.00
Lebanon. “A Friend in First Ch.” 10.00
Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.49
Meriden. First Cong. Ch., $200, to const. JOEL
I. BUTLER, MRS. JULIUS AUGER, MRS. CHARLES
F. LINSLEY, ROBERT T. SPENCER, MISS LUCY A.
TAYLOR, and W. H. CATLIN, L. M’s.; Center
Cong. Ch., $19.50 219.50
Milton. Cong. Ch. 6.35
Naugatuck. Dea. S. H. 1.00
New Britain. Mrs. Laura Nichols, _for Fisk U._ 100.00
New Britain. Henry Stanley, $50; Mrs. Louisa
Nichols, $50; J. Corbin, $25; A. P. Collins,
$20, _for Talladega C._ 145.00
New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 102.89
New Haven. Dwight Place Ch., $40; Third Cong.
Ch., $21; “A Friend,” $5 66.00
New London. First Ch. 43.87
North Manchester. Second Cong. Ch., to const.
DR. S. H. BURGESS and LEVI DRAKE, L. M’s 72.00
North Stonington. D. R. Wheeler 10.00
Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 85.11
Roxbury. S. J. Beardsley 3.00
Sharon. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 42.28
South Coventry. Sab. Sch. Missionary Concert 5.65
Thomaston. Cong. Ch., ($2 _of wh. for
Tillotson C. & N. Inst._) 36.27
Terryville. Dea. R. D. H. Allen, $100 and a
Buggy; Mrs. Mary E. Allen, $25; O. D.
Hunter, $50; N. T. Baldwin, $50; M. C.
Ogden, $50; Wm. Bates, $5; Mrs. G. E. M.,
$1, _for Talladega C._ 281.00
Torrington. L. Wetmore, $100, Cong. Ch. and
Soc., $23.32; Ladies’ Benev. Soc., $10 133.32
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. 52.00
Waterbury. Mrs. G. C. H. 0.50
Watertown. “A Friend,” _for President’s House,
Talladega C._ 500.00
West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.94
West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. 50.03
Wethersfield. First Ch. of Christ 57.02
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 75.00
Winsted. David Strong, $25; Mrs. M. A.
Mitchell, $10; Dea. E. E. Gilman, $10; C. B.
Hallett, $7; G. B. O., $1, _for Talladega C._ 53.00
—— “A Friend” 15.00
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2,789.95

LEGACIES.

Greenwich. Estate of Mrs. Eliza Clark, by
Lyman Mead and D. S. Mead, Executors 2,507.38
Terryville. Estate of Cornelius R. Williams,
(_of which $53 for Arthington M._) by
Moseley H. Williams, Adm. 106.00
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5,403.33

NEW YORK, $1,232.85.

Batavia. Mrs. Anna V. S. Fisher 20.00
Brooklyn. Rev. A. Merwin 25.00
Brooklyn. Library of the late Hon. E. P.
Smith, by Mrs. Smith, _for Fisk U. Library_
Brooklyn. Miss Halliday, bundle of Books and
Papers
Camillus. Isaiah Wilcox, to const. MISS
CORNELIA O. BRAINARD, L. M. 30.00
Copenhagen. Lucian Clark 15.00
Dansville. Mrs. F. C. N. 0.50
Derby. Mrs. Jeanette Bullock 2.00
East Bloomfield. Mrs. P. W. Peck 5.00
Eden. Mrs. Hannah McNett 2.00
Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $38.31; Sab. Sch.
$4.89, to const. RICHARD ANDREWS, L. M. 43.20
Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Homer. Cong. Ch. 69.94
Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambden 5.00
New York. “A Friend,” $50, _for furnishing a
room, Straight U._, and $50, _for furnishing
a room, Talladega C._ 100.00
New York. “H. W. H.,” _for furnishing a room,
Straight U._ 50.00
New York. Robbins Battell, _for President’s
House, Talladega C._ 50.00
New York. Dr. C. R. Agnew, $20; William
Patton, $10, _for William Luke’s Monument,
Talladega, Ala._ 30.00
New York. Rev. A. C. Frissell, _for Hampton N.
& A. Inst._ 10.00
New York. N.Y. Colored Mission Sab. Sch., 135
West 30th St. 3.21
Nunda. “A Friend” 10.00
Pekin. Miss Abigail Peck 10.00
Portland. John S. Coon, $10; Mrs. S. L. L.
Coon, $10 20.00
Seneca Falls. Cong. Ch., “A Friend” 50.00
Sherburne. By Dr. H. A. Newton, _for Needmore
Chapel, Talladega, Ala._ 10.00
Sherburne. Mrs. John Pratt, $10; Miss Carrie
Pratt, $5; Mrs. Harriett Fuller, $5; Mrs.
Chas. Fuller, $5, _for Cooking School,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Syracuse. Geo. W. Bradford, M.D. 2.00
Union Valley. Dr. J. Angel 5.00
Utica. Mrs. Sarah H. Mudge 15.00
West Salamanca. “Mrs. E. G. H.” 10.00
Yaphank. “H. M. O.” 5.00
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632.85

LEGACIES.

Berkshire. Estate of Deodatus Royce, by Chas.
T. Leonard 100.00
Rochester. Estate of Lucina Chapin 500.00
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1,232.85

NEW JERSEY, $35.50.

Chester. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Jersey City. Mrs. S. B. 0.50
Orange Valley. “Friends,” _for Talladega C._ 15.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $67.50.

Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson, $15; Miss Eliza
Dickson, $15 30.00
Philadelphia. Frederic S. Kimball, _for
furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._ 25.00
West Alexander. —— 10.00
Sewickley. —— 2.50

OHIO, $217.94.

Bellevue. Cong. Ch. 22.25
Brownhelm. Oscar H. Perry 5.00
Bristolville. “Friends,” _for Talladega C._ 3.50
Cleveland. Infant Sab. Sch. Class, _for
furnishing room, Talladega C._ 38.00
Cleveland. H. E. Brooks, $5; “Friends,” $1,
_for Talladega C._ 6.00
Columbus. Mrs. James L. Bates 5.00
Hicksville. “A Friend” 10.00
Hilliard. Miss E. McC. 0.25
Mallet Creek. Mrs. Mary P. Goodrich 5.00
Mantua. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Medina. First Cong. Ch., $37, to const. W. H.
SIPHER, L. M.; T. E. R., $1 38.00
Medina. Woman’s Missionary Soc., $10; Class of
Young Ladies in Sab. Sch., $2, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 12.00
Newark. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $8; Welsh Cong.
Ch., $7.93 15.93
Ravenna. THEODORE CLARK, bal. to const.
himself L. M. 25.00
Rochester Centre. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Sharon Center. Mrs. R. A. 0.51
Toledo. Mrs. W. K. Smith ($1 of which _for
Hampton N. and A. Inst._, and $1 _for
Tougaloo U._) 6.00
Twinsburg. L. W. and R. F. Green 5.00
Windham. “Friends.” 5.00
Youngstown. “Railway Man.” 2.00
Zanesville. Mrs. M. T. 0.50

ILLINOIS, $1,294.12.

Amboy. Bureau Association, by Mrs. H. T. Ford,
Treasurer, _for Lady Missionary, Savannah,
Ga._ 25.00
Aurora. N. L. James 5.50
Bartlett. Cong. Ch. 23.00
Brimfield. Cong. Ch. 7.20
Chenoa. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 291.33
Collinsville. Mrs. J. S. Peers, $10; Mr. and
Mrs. J. F. Wadsworth, $10 20.00
Elmwood. Children’s Missionary Soc. 8.00
Evanston. Cong. Ch. 45.00
Granville. Cong. Ch. 22.00
Gridley. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. 46.28
Joy Prairie. Cong. Ch. 12.65
Kewanee. Cong. Ch. 31.28
Lamoille. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Lisbon. Cong. Ch. (adl.) 12.54
Lyndon. “A Friend” 5.00
Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 40.35
Port Byron. Cong. Ch. 5.77
Princeton. “A Friend,” $50; Mrs. Polly B.
Corss, $10 60.00
Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb 2.00
Roseville. Cong. Ch. 40.00
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for Lady
Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 9.22
Waukegan. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Wethersfield. Mrs. R. D. Shaw 10.00
Wilmette. First Cong. Ch. 11.00
Winnebago. Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Parsons 20.00
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794.12

LEGACY.

Galesburg. Estate of Mrs. W. C. Willard, by
Prof. T. R. Willard, Ex. 500.00
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1,294.12

MICHIGAN, $870.58.

Ann Arbor. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.80
Battle Creek. Colored Friends in Second Bapt.
Ch., _for room, Michigan Floor, Stone Hall,
Talladega C._ 30.00
Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Ch., _for room,
Michigan Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 19.25
Battle Creek. Cong. and Presb. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 11.00
Benzonia. E. F. Spencer, $10; H. B. B., $1 11.00
Chelsea. John C. Winans 50.00
Convis. “Friends,” _for room, Michigan Floor,
Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
Detroit. Fort St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Lady Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 50.00
Detroit. D. McLaulin 2.00
Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H.
H. Sengstacke, Woodville, Ga._ 20.00
Greeneville. N. Staght, $38; M. Rutan, $35;
“Friends,” $16, _for room, Michigan Floor,
Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 89.00
Homer. Mrs. C. C. Evarts 5.00
Hopkins Station. D. B. Kidder 5.00
Jackson. First Cong. Ch., to const. ANDREW
WATSON, ISABELLA WATSON, L. H. FIELD and
MRS. L. H. FIELD, L. M’s. 300.00
Kalamazoo. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 26.40
Marshall. Cong. Ch., _for room, Michigan
Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 39.01
North Adams. Cong. Ch. 12.12
Olivet. Hon. William B. Palmer, _for room,
Michigan Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
Olivet. Saml. F. Drury, _for Scholarship,
Straight U._ 10.00
Port Huron. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for room,
Michigan Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 35.00
Potterville and Chester. Cong. Churches (of
which $5 from Rev. O. E. Murray), _for room,
Michigan Floor, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 25.00
Union City. Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Clark, _for
furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._ 25.00
Warren. “A Friend” 2.00
White Lake. Robert Garner 10.00

IOWA, $308.61.

Anita. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Belle Plain. Cong. Ch. 3.25
Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 29.26
Creston. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid_ 5.05
Dubuque. James Beach, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 5.00
De Witt. Cong. Ch. 32.51
Exira. Dea. Lyman Bush 10.00
Farragut. Cong. Ch. 17.50
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. 100.80
Maquoketa. Capt. N. P. Hubbard, $35, _for
furnishing room, Stone Hall, Talladega C._
and $15 _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
Ogden. Mrs. A. M. Palmer, _for Talladega C._ 10.00
Red Oak. Cong. Ch. 10.70
Sergeant’s Bluff. A. M. B. 1.00
Sioux City. Cong. Ch. 15.54
Waterloo. Rev. Clayton Welles, _for
President’s House, Talladega, Ala._ 15.00

WISCONSIN, $1,300.93.