Chapter II: Part 2

It is sad to see the sick and dying in such uncomfortable hovels. This young lady is an invalid in a log house. In many places the daubing is out. The floor is of rough plank, with cracks between. The joists are partly covered with loose plank, while large spaces are not covered at all. There is no window, and the door is left open most of the time for light. The room is about eighteen by twenty feet. At one end is a fire-place, which answers the double purpose of cooking the simple fare and heating the small apartment. The bed of the sick is at the other end.

The above, with slight variation, is a description of the houses in which all the colored people live.

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GEORGIA.

Thanksgiving Letter—Sequel to Begging Letter.

MRS. T. N. CHASE, ATLANTA.

I confess that it is with some regret I must inform you the 26
rooms are all furnished, for this very morning the post brought
me these words from dear old Massachusetts: “My Willing Workers,
a society of nearly 70 young people, earnestly desire to send
$25 to furnish a room in response to your letter in the October
AMERICAN MISSIONARY, but fear it is too late. * * With kindest
wishes for abundant answers to all your begging letters, I am
yours, sincerely,

Mrs. W.”

During the past three months so many such cheering, cordial messages have come in response to that October call, that I’m sure they have a mission to other hearts as well as mine.

Before ever the October MISSIONARY reached my eyes, came this message from a tried veteran in the field who frequents the New York office: “I think myself fortunate in seeing the advance sheets of the MISSIONARY, and in getting the first taste of your appeal; I think it my privilege to be the first to respond. Save me a light and cheery room, to be named my daughter.”

A few days later came the following from one who has made thousands of hearts glad during the past two years.

“I have just finished reading your letter in the October MISSIONARY, and as I closed, proposed to my wife that we each respond with $25. She, good, dear wife that she is, at once assented, and enclosed I send you my check for $50.”

Next came an inquiry from one who had “just read” the appeal. He had furnished a room ten years before in memory of a brother, and now begged the privilege of naming another for a sainted sister. His consideration for others that made him fear the furnishing of _two_ rooms was too great a privilege to be granted to _one_, made us question whether the millennium had not really begun.

Later comes a check, and “The money is the gift of the Sunday-school, and they desire to have the room named for our old pastor,——-, who was one of the early abolitionists, and lived to see the slave made free. We feel it would give him pleasure could he know that we remembered him in this way.”

Again from the Ladies’ Department of a Classical School “way down in Maine.” “We number fifteen girls in our home, and are—some of us, at least—trying to work for the same Master as you in your Southern home. We bring our money regularly to our meetings, and soon expect to send you the money to fit up a room for some girl who shall in the future do good work.”

Still later, “Another of my dear Sunday-school scholars, a young lady of twenty, for whom I’ve labored, prayed and trembled for many long months, has been ‘born again.’ She is radiant with the new love in her soul, and when I think how long she was indifferent to all His entreaties, and know what an unsatisfactory life she was leading. I cannot thank and praise Him enough who has so transformed her. And so with the ‘song of thanksgiving’ on my lips I offer to Him through you this memorial of love and gratitude. Appropriate it, if you please, to the furnishing of a room in the new wing. Name it for me, if you choose, but know assuredly it will henceforth be to me a ‘Peniel.’”

But I must not weary you with extracts. The unwritten history of other gifts will doubtless touch our hearts even more deeply when revealed in the light of the Bright Hereafter.

Over 80 girls have already filled the new rooms. Next year it is hoped still another addition will be made. If so, writing another begging letter will be no burden while the memory of such prompt and delightful responses remains.

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ALABAMA.

Emerson Institute.

MISS EMMA R. CAUGHEY, MOBILE.

Emerson Institute, formerly occupying Blue College, which was burned in 1876, is now in the third year of its progress and growth, the present school building being dedicated in May, 1878.

During the years 1876-1878 the work never ceased; the workers having put their hands to the plow did not look back nor abandon the labor to which they had consecrated themselves. Under many difficulties and discouragements the school did not wholly lose its organization. For a time after the fire a small church opened its doors for its accommodation. It was afterward removed to a little corner grocery, which was secured and made as inviting as possible. The third removal was to rooms in the present “Mission Home.” Now we rejoice in a comfortable and convenient brick building, in a very pleasant part of the city, in the midst of a grove of pine and live-oak trees. This present year our work has been assuming new proportions, which, although a cause for great encouragement, involved us in new difficulties. Early in the year, for lack of room, we were obliged to refuse forty or fifty pupils admission to the intermediate and primary grades. In the course of a few weeks the A. M. A. sent us another teacher, and a new department was at once formed. But where should it find a home? Our walls would not expand. Again the basement room of a church near by furnished a haven, and the primary department, numbering between seventy and eighty, has been receiving instruction there. In the meantime, arrangements have been made for the removal of our own Congregational church from its old site to a place by the side of our school building, where it will be fitted up to answer the double purpose of chapel and schoolroom; and the primary department will find more commodious and convenient quarters, and hope, in the course of a few weeks. Up to this time we have had enrolled 300 pupils, under the instruction of six teachers, two of whom are teachers in the Normal room, so that the pupils must all be seated in four different rooms.

Many friends from the North have been generous to us this year, and we wish to acknowledge their kind donations and express our hearty appreciation of their gifts through the columns of the MISSIONARY. The cow purchased with money received by Miss Boynton from various friends at the North, has been a great luxury and comfort to us at the Home.

One five-dollar bill given to Miss Boynton, designed especially for table use, provided us with various essential articles: jelly cups being exchanged for drinking glasses, a needed coffee-pot, tea-pot, cups, saucers, etc. A set of silver teaspoons helped to supply a deficiency. Sheets, pillowslips and towels replaced worn out articles of prime necessity. Thus, while our personal wants have been so thoughtfully provided for, other friends have generously remembered the poor and needy Freedmen among whom we labor, very many of whom are suffering for the necessities of life. Within a week two well-filled boxes of good second-hand clothing came to Rev. O. D. Crawford, forwarded to him by friends in Dubuque and Waterloo, Iowa, the distribution of which has called forth tears of gratitude, and invoked blessings on the heads of the donors from many a poverty-stricken soul. I would that space permitted me to depict some of the distressing needs of the poor right at our own door, that the generous heart of the North might be opened to relieve. I shall hope to avail myself of a future opportunity to give a more minute account of our work, its growing needs and opportunities.

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MISSISSIPPI.

A Changed Home.

Miss Koons, of Tougaloo, Miss., relates the following interesting narrative:

Two of our young men, brothers, were converted last fall term. Their step-father was a hard drinker; their mother not a Christian. When they returned from their Christmas vacation, one of them, greatly troubled, told me what an unpleasant vacation they had had, so much so, that he felt as if he could not stay, but must come back to us. The step-father was drunk continually, and kept about him other drunken associates, abused the mother, and by his conduct so grieved the boys that they felt they could not endure it.

They went home in June and took charge of the farm. They held a little prayer-meeting every Wednesday evening and Sunday morning with the mother and step-father. They also went together to the house of a near neighbor—a terribly wicked man—and held a prayer-meeting with the family every Sunday afternoon. The story of the Prodigal Son was the means of the conversion of one of the brothers, and some weeks after his conversion he came in to ask where it might be found in the Bible, saying, “I have been hunting for it for two weeks, and can’t find it.” He says now, “I often read the Bible to my mother, and explained to her that story of the Prodigal Son, to the best of my knowledge.” During the summer the mother was converted, afterward the step-father, and then the neighbor for whom and with whom the boys had been praying. His face was of joy as he told of the conversion of his mother, who “could not bear the thought of her boys going one way and she another,” and he exclaimed, “Oh, Miss Koons, our home is a different place now!”

Both the boys were at work in the Sabbath-school—one at home and the other some miles from home, and neither one missed a Sabbath from June to the time of their return to us in November.

I hardly need tell you that they are not among the silent members of our weekly prayer-meetings.

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TENNESSEE.

Cabin, “Frame House,” and “Little Brick.”

MISS ALICE E. CARTER, NASHVILLE.

My method of work probably does not bear the merit of originality, yet the work itself holds for me all the charm and freshness of novelty. Day by day draws me closer to the hearts of the people; day by day draws us together closer to that universal Heart, nearer to the Christ whom we try to serve.

To make a beginning of visiting seemed at first a puzzling and almost perilous matter. To attempt the mazes of the city—alleys where one cabin differed from another cabin only in its greater or less dilapidation without, and squalor within; to hazard a walk across the common and bottoms through the almost impassable mud, were equally difficult beginnings, and yet it is in these city alleys and in the bottoms and commons outside the city limits that the work is waiting—a harvest too great for the few laborers.

There were many ways, I soon learned, to make entrance to the homes of the people. The halloo at the gate would immediately bring the loud “come in,” and a simple excuse, as a wish to warm or rest, or to inquire where such a cabin might be, would gain for me a ready welcome. Then, with a few minutes’ chatting and close observation, it would be an easy matter to detect the special need there.

At first I chose for my visits only the cabins, or, in the parlance of the people, the _shanties_, but, as my work has widened, I have often learned of need and suffering in many a “frame house,” or “little brick.” Indeed, it seems as if the difference between those in the cabin and those in the frame house and the little brick lies here: the former have never _tried_ to get above their wretched poverty; the latter _have tried_, and, with a measure of success, still remain poor. Those in the cabins need everything—food and clothing primarily, no doubt; but of paramount importance are their other needs, viz., to be elevated from their sloth and indolence and licentiousness by the forces of education and religion. Those in the frame house and little brick need encouragement in the path already chosen.

I was asked to visit one day in a neat brick cottage which I should have passed many times with no suspicion of need within. On entering, the first thing that attracted my attention was that the walls and ceiling were entirely unfinished; the walls were the bare bricks, and overhead were the flooring beams, and, where the walls and ceiling met, were wide open spaces for the wind to sift up from under the eaves. The inmates were a colored woman, unfitted for work by age and rheumatism, and her daughter; the daughter was her widowed mother’s only dependence, yet the poor girl was lying sick with pneumonia, and had been two weeks without medical treatment. They had no money, but pride kept them reticent of their affairs. To provide medicines, and later, little delicacies; to visit the sick girl every day and sometimes twice a day was my care for three weeks. She is now well again, and they are independent.

I have made, up to December 31, one hundred and twenty-five calls, and have succeeded in relieving some suffering with gifts of fuel and food, although the little accomplished in that direction is as one drop in the sea.

From barrels of clothing received from the North I have sold and given a great many garments; have oftener sold, because it seems always wiser, although the prices may be ridiculously small. This money helps me to purchase medicine for the many sick persons. Let me add here, that with homeopathic remedies I have had most flattering success, always preparing the medicines myself, and carefully renewing them until the patients, without exception so far, are cured.

In addition to my visits, I have tried to reach the women by means of cabin prayer-meetings, and to help the girls and young women by the medium of sewing-schools. I have two schools in successful operation in different parts of the city. One numbers twenty pupils, the other nearly forty. We begin with prayer and short Scripture reading, and then with great eagerness the girls set about their sewing, or lesson in cutting, as the case may be. When a garment is finished, each girl purchases her own work for a dime or fifteen cents.

While they sew I read to them, if occasion permits, and sometimes they sing. They have begged to meet twice a week—a fact which proves their enthusiasm. My kind friends in Boston and Providence have done much toward supplying me with print, gingham and cotton cloth for my sewing-schools.

In Sunday-school work I have succeeded in drawing some strangers into my own class at Howard Chapel, and in forming some other classes for volunteer teachers from Jubilee Hall.

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TEXAS.

“The African Congregational Church” of Paris.

The origin of this church, back in the dark days of terror, in 1868, was so unique, so spontaneous, so much after the spirit and form of the New Testament Churches, that we think it worth while to make some record of the same. At that time the colored people were indeed “scattered abroad as sheep having no shepherd.” Separated from the old church edifices of the white people, they had not yet gathered themselves into their own churches. A Mr. Smith, from Illinois, who had gone through the war as a soldier, and who had settled in mercantile business in Jefferson, Texas, and whose life was soon after sacrificed in the turbulence of those times, came up through Paris lecturing to the colored people. He proposed a church that would accommodate all the Christians, and the result was the organization above named, with a regular constitution and covenant. Its preamble reads thus:

“We, the ministers and members of different Christian churches, feeling greatly embarrassed in our former church relations, and regarding those matters of difference which divided the churches to which we have belonged as being unimportant, mischievous in their tendency, and in discordance with the spirit of Christianity, do now, on this 15th day of March, 1868, unite in a new organization, the African Congregational Church. Thankful to God, our gracious and mighty _Redeemer_, for this right and privilege of choosing and adopting our own church forms, ceremonies, and government, and of worshiping God as our conscience dictates, we hereby solemnly pledge ourselves to God and to one another that we will maintain a Scriptural Christian character, and support such laws and regulations founded on the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments as shall be adopted from time to time by two-thirds of the members of this church.”

The Constitution provides in the five articles for the election of “discreet and faithful members” as trustees, deacons, a clerk and treasurer, who shall pay out money only by vote of the church upon an order from the clerk; for the use of either one of the three modes of baptism; and for the choosing of ministers, “who shall preside over all the deliberations of the church;” a Scriptural plurality of preaching elders, a “presbytery” _in_, and not over the church.

Not being acquainted with the technical term of “covenant,” they bind themselves by five articles of “Church Fellowship.” The first requires evidence of a Christian experience; not stopping with the fact, of which they were not aware, that Congregationalism was, at first, a protest against receiving unregenerate members into the church, they go back to Acts xx., 20, 21. The third reads: “That, trusting in the promised grace of God, we will not indulge in our hearts, nor practice, any of these manifest works of the flesh” (see Gal. v., 20, 21); example: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, etc. The fourth binds them to cultivate the fruits of the Spirit (Gal. v., 22, 23). In the fifth they bind themselves to obey the Scriptures (1 Thess. v., 11, 12), “by studying to be quiet in doing our own business, working with our own hands, walking honestly toward them that are without;” and also to discharge faithfully their Christian duties as subjects of civil law and authority in obedience to God (Rom. xii., 1, 2).

Here is the way by which, for lack of a council (of which they knew nothing), and for lack of authority this side of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom they had taken as the Head of their Church, they ordained their first presiding pastor:

“_Resolved_, That we, the members of this church, in conference assembled, do call, set apart, and ordain our well-beloved brother, John McAdams, as the pastor of the church, to minister to us in spiritual things as the minister of the Gospel; that we hereby authorize our said well-beloved brother to administer the ordinances of baptism and the holy sacrament of the Lord’s Supper, and to solemnize the rite of matrimony in accordance with the laws of this State; and that our well-beloved brother be furnished with a certified copy of this resolution.”

Four years later the church called to its aid Rev. Warren Norton, a Congregational minister then at Brenham, Texas, in ordaining brothers Albert Gray and Wm. Hamilton as their ministers in the Lord. And this last fall I was permitted to participate in a regular council for the ordination of Mr. J. W. Roberts as pastor in that same church, and of Mr. J. W. Strong as a pastor for the church in Corpus Christi. We had a sermon and all the other parts, including the solemn laying on of hands in prayer; but still we were only helping the church in a function which, in the first place, it exercised alone with a beautiful simplicity and all legitimate _authority_.

How has the church gotten along? Why, it ran up to a large membership. It paid $115 in gold for a lot, and built a church. It branched out into the Shiloh, the New Hope, and the Pattonville African Congregational churches, in neighborhoods about, and these four became associated in a quarterly conference. But, as the propagandists came along, they found in the walls of the mother church stones with old inscriptions. Baptists, African M. E., Campbellite, Northern M. E., and each pulled out his own and set up churches of those several sorts, so that now the original church building is the shabbiest of the lot, and the membership is only an average. But still, with a high standing for character, with an educated minister, and an educated teacher, Prof. S. W. White, with a new and more respectable site, purchased, with the old acre and a half to be sold, and with some members of property (two of them large farmers) and of influence in the community, they give promise of great usefulness, promise of realizing the expectations of the martyr founder.

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THE INDIANS.

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COMMUNION SUNDAY AT HAMPTON.

MISS ISABEL D. EUSTIS.

Many warm friends of Hampton have come to see her on her gala days; have crowded into the hall decorated with flags and flowers, while the band played a welcome, and her graduates waited to give to the audience the fruit of their three years’ study and experience. Perhaps some of these would like to go with the quiet company who are walking to the little church in the Soldiers’ Cemetery, near the close of a bright day that has fallen in the midst of weeks of rain and storm, and join in the simple communion service of the first Sunday in the New Year.

The afternoon sunlight slants in through the windows upon the plain walls and benches, and lights up the dusky faces of the colored and Indian students who fill the seats. The simple service upon the communion table is the gift of the strong and loving woman, who gave the best of her heart and brain to Hampton at its start, and who kept her connection with the church she helped to organize until she was called to the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. In the seats nearest the table are six colored and eight Indian students who begin the New Year by confessing Christ as their Saviour. We ask ourselves, as we notice their quiet and decorous manner, if these can be some of the strange and uncouth people who came knocking at our doors two years ago, and as we watch the sweet, softening expressions stealing over their faces, telling of reverent and gentle thoughts within, we wonder still more if these are the very faces from which once it seemed impossible to win an answering smile.

The congregation rise and sing together in full, sweet chorus, as only a colored audience can, “My faith looks up to thee.” The minister reads the creed and covenant, and then the Indian scholars, whose parents had, perhaps, hardly heard the name of Christ, come one by one to receive the rite of baptism. As they kneel beside the font the minister says to each, separately and calling him by name, “Do you promise to take Jesus Christ as your Saviour, to love him and serve him? Do you _promise_?” and the emphatic Indian assent and little Annie’s timid “Yes, sir,” are heard through the still church, and those who wait to hear know that the heart’s promise has gone with the lips.

Ahuka (White Wolf) comes first for baptism. As he stands there quiet and reverent, a sudden memory of the first time we saw and knew him flashes across our minds. We see again the school-room, the day after the arrival of the new pupils. They are seated in a semi-circle around a teacher, who stands by a black-board on which some easy English words have been written: “Stand up; Walk; Stop; Look up;” which she has been teaching the scholars to illustrate. On the front seat at one end sits Ahuka, a somewhat alarming-looking pupil. His thick, shaggy, black hair bangs down to his waist over the blanket which he holds wrapped tight about him, while he casts now and then stealthy but keen glances from under his heavy eyebrows.

Teacher debates for a few seconds whether to call on him for a recitation; but concludes not to shirk, and he comes to the board. Teacher points to the first word on the blackboard, on the pronunciation of which she has been drilling the class, and looks at the brave for a response. Brave looks at her, then at the word, back again, more sharply at her, says nothing. Teacher mustn’t expect a response in a hurry, keeps her pointer on the word and her eye on the brave. Brave continues to transfer his glance from the word to the teacher, till suddenly, whether in despair or rage she cannot tell, he throws his head back, bends forward and utters a prolonged howl. Teacher with difficulty restrains herself from a flight down the corridor, and doesn’t question why he is called “the Wolf.” It is no difficult task to picture him back in the wilds of Dakota.

We think of him now: his quiet and reverent manner; the pleading look we have learned to know in the once defiant, savage eyes, and we pray that as he is laying aside all that was the pride and pleasure of his savage strength he may grow (slowly he must, but certainly he shall) into the beauty and power and glory of a Christian manhood.

Harry Brown, Chief White Horse’s manly little son, stands by the font now. We came near making a bad mistake about Harry. The day that the minister had appointed to talk to the scholars who were to unite with the church was a crisp winter one, and the creek was covered with glittering ice. Harry went skating; almost the first chance he’d had since he left Dakota. There was no way to tell the time; he was having splendid fun. He stayed too long; when he came back it was too late for the meeting. The next day, when the minister kindly made an appointment for him by himself, one of the first questions he asked was, “Harry, do you pray?” “No.” “Not pray?” “No.” “Did you ever pray?” “Yes.” “And you don’t pray now?” “No.” “Why not?” And then Harry shut himself behind his Indian reserve and his inability to talk English, and didn’t say anything more. It certainly didn’t look as if he was far on the road to saint-ship. And yet if there was a boy in the school who was commending himself by his faithful, kind and manly conduct it was Harry Brown. What did it mean? The minister asked one of the teachers, with whom the boy might not be so shy, to try and find out. She dismissed the interpreter, who seemed to embarrass him, and all her questions were answered with thoughtfulness and earnestness till the old one came up, “Harry, the minister says you don’t pray?” Then came the same emphatic “_No_.” “Well, Harry, this isn’t a little thing you want to do. You are going to give yourself to God to be His child all your life, and you say you don’t pray to Him. It seems as if you didn’t care much about it. We think you had better wait till the next Communion Sunday, and be sure you mean what you are going to do.” “How long?” said Harry. “Two months.” “Too long. Can’t wait. Must come now,” said Harry decidedly. “How long have you been trying to do right, Harry?” “Two years.” Then I think Harry’s good angel put a thought into the teacher’s mind. “Harry, have you changed your room lately? Do you stay now with those seven boys up-stairs?” “Yes.” “Is that the reason you don’t pray? Are you ashamed?” “Yes.” “Doesn’t any boy in that room pray?” “Just one.” “Well, if you are going to be Christ’s soldier you have got to fight for Him sometimes when it’s hard. Will you pray to-night?” “Yes.” And knowing that older Christians had wavered before the same temptations, and not been more honest and brave in acknowledging it, we forebore to shut the boy away from the patient guidance and long suffering love which leads us all. A few weeks afterward we asked Harry one day when the interpreter was by, “Harry, do you pray now?” The little interpreter himself looked up with a quick, bright smile, “All we boys in that room pray now every night.” It was a good victory, surely, for the first one. God grant that each of those who are now confessing Christ be kept by Him in the temptations which will crowd them in the life to which they must go.

The service is almost over. The bread and wine have been passed. To each waiting heart down through its darkness to its weakness has come the touch of the Divine Soul which is light and power.

Once more the sweet strong chorus rises, “Jesus, Lover of my Soul.” We go out into the twilight. The young crescent and the star of love hang in the Western sky whose glowing sunset lights are reflected in the lovely waters, and through the heavens falls a voice with the old word, at once reproof and inspiration, “Say not ye, There are yet four months and then cometh the harvest. Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest, and he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life eternal.”

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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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The Executive Committee of the W. H. M. A. are happy to announce that with this number of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY and of the _Home Missionary_, they begin a series of monthly reports of their work, which they know will be welcomed by many. The American Missionary Association and the American Home Missionary Society have each generously given us the opportunity of reporting in its monthly publication the work undertaken by us in its field. Our friends will therefore find in the AMERICAN MISSIONARY, accounts from our missionaries among the negroes; and in the _Home Missionary_, reports from the West. For the courtesy which has given as this opportunity we desire to express, thus publicly, our thanks.

Recent statements show that the present condition of our work is not known. Five ladies are now at work in the South and West, and two more teachers will soon go to Utah. Those already in the field are: Miss Mary Snyder, Assistant Principal of the Academy at Albuquerque, New Mexico; Miss Julia A. Wilson, who is working among the colored refugees in Kansas; Miss Alice E. Carter, acting as city missionary in Nashville, Tenn.; Mrs. Clara B. Babcock, who is doing missionary work in connection with the colored church recently formed in Washington, D. C.; Mrs. Almira S. Steele, who teaches a day and Sunday-school at Almeda, S. C. Detailed accounts of the work of each of these will be given from time to time. But, that more work may be undertaken, we ask for larger contributions and a wider support, for annual subscriptions and donations as well as for auxiliary societies.

Some suggestions as to organization and management of auxiliaries are here made in the hope that they may be helpful. In many places the sewing society, devoted to parish work, may take in addition the Home Mission work, if it is as agreeable to the members as it has been found to be in many cases already. At each meeting, some one previously appointed may communicate intelligence of Home Mission work, while others sew.

In other places the old cent society to which our grandmothers belonged is available as the channel for contributions.

In other places still, a wholly separate organization may be most advisable, in which the filling of Home Mission boxes, the collection of money for the W. H. M. A., and the communication of intelligence as to Home Mission work may be the only objects of the society.

The regular Woman’s Prayer Meeting might well set apart one meeting each month where they are held weekly, or a meeting at longer intervals when they occur less frequently; this monthly or quarterly meeting to be devoted to prayer and conversation about the spread of the Gospel in our own country. At these meetings a collection may be taken and there may be a treasurer to receive this, and an officer, either secretary or president, to preside at the meeting. It is not necessary that these officers should serve no other organizations, since the same person not infrequently acts as an officer in one or more societies and keeps the business of each by itself. It seems wise, however, whenever a sufficient number of persons can be obtained, to have separate officers for different organizations. The end to be attained is that there be a definite, separate time given to praying and working for the cause of the evangelization of our own country, and a definite, separate contribution arranged so that each woman of the church may have just the channel at hand by which to send her own offering for this cause direct to its destination.

And further, may we not ask those churches that have adopted the system of weekly offerings, known as the “Harris plan,” to put this Association also on their list, to make this one of the channels of distribution through which individual members of the church show their desire and accomplish their purpose of co-operating in Christ’s work of saving men? It is no longer—if it ever ought to have been—the age in which Christian men and women should wait to be stirred, to be urged, even to be invited, to give. Does it not become each of us to find out by calculation, careful, generous calculation, how much we can afford to the specific work of spreading the Gospel; and then through what channels we can best effect our object? And if this is done by all will there not be some who will wish to send part of their funds through this society, whose work is, directly, for the women and children of our country?

New opportunities for work are presenting themselves almost every week, in the new West, the South, for Indian girls, for colored women and children. There is no quarter to which we can look that we do not see those, dear to us by nature, and by what Christ has done for us, waiting to be helped and to be taught; nor, as yet, have we had any lack of those who were well fitted for the work of teaching and helping, and anxious to go into it.

We, therefore, ask the Christian women in our churches whether, in addition to the interest, money and prayer they are giving to kindred societies, they do not wish to give also to this particular work which seems at once so urgent and so promising. It requires but small individual sums, regularly and prayerfully given, to enable the church to pursue a vigorous and effective work in this direction for the kingdom of Christ.

Receipts from Oct. 15, 1880, to Jan. 1, 1881:

From auxiliaries $761.00
From donations 155.08
From life members 100.00
From annual members 81.00
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Total $1,097.08

The committee also acknowledge with thanks, the following donations: From the Congregational Publishing Society, $19 worth of papers and maps, and from Mr. J. L. Hommett, three large wall maps, and from S. M. H. a movable black-board, all for the use of Mrs. Steele at Almeda, S. C. A barrel has been sent to Miss Carter containing new material for use in her Industrial school, and clothing for distribution.

CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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6 WASHINGTON PLACE,}
TROY, N. Y., Dec. 31, 1880.}

Dear Mr. Hubbard: I remember your showing us the place where you put our contributions, in the great safe on Reade St., and your deciding where you met Aunty Lizzie before.

I will send a share of the money which we earned, for the American Missionary Association.

This Summer I devoted one of my broods to your society. The hen’s name was Nano: she had eight chickens. Two of them died, four were given to Papa for the hen’s feed, and the rest were sold for fifty-three cents.

This was this hen’s second brood.

Margaret had also a hen named Goldy, and her second brood was devoted to your society. She stole her nest in the bushes and hatched thirteen little, beautiful chickens;—five died, two are kept, and the three remaining ones were sold for eighty-eight cents. We earned money in other ways, so we each add the necessary sum to make it two dollars.

I send much love to you, and Miss Dodge. Your Loving Little Friend,

MARY F. CUSHMAN.

A CRUMB FOR THE BOYS.

A clergyman on his way to a missionary meeting overtook a boy, and asked him about the road, and where he was going.

“Oh!” he said, “I’m going to the meeting to hear about the missionaries.”

“Missionaries!” said the minister. “What do you know about missionaries?”

“Why,” said the boy, “I’m part of the concern. I’ve got a missionary-box, and I always go to the missionary meeting. I belong.”

Now that is what we want. Every child should feel that he is “part of the concern,” and that his work is just as important as that of any one else. Linch-pins are little things; but, if they drop out, the wagon is very likely to come to a stand-still. Every pin and screw should be in working order, and every child should be able to say, “I always go to the missionary meeting. Why, I’m part of the concern!”—_Exchange._

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RECEIPTS

FOR JANUARY, 1881.

MAINE, $696.91.

Alfred. Mrs. Charlotte Dane, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ $20.00
Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.54
Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $150;
First Cong. Sab. Sch., $14.67 164.67
Bethel. T. and M. E. B. 1.00
Biddeford. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.65
Blanchard. “A Friend” 5.00
Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $11.38;
Marshall Cram, $10 21.38
Brunswick. Box of C., _for Wilmington, N. C._
Calais. John Barker, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Castine. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Cumberland Centre. J. W. 1.00
Cumberland Mills. Warren Ch. to const. JAMES
GRAHAM, L. M. 45.00
Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.00
Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Gilead. I. B. 0.51
Hallowell. Correction.—Fannie A. Davis, $25,
ack. in Dec. number, should read “Friends”
by F. A. D.
Machias. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5.36; Prayer
Meeting Coll., $5.14; E. G. L., 50c.; U. M.
Penniman, $5 16.00
Norway. Mrs. Mary K. Frost 5.00
North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Orland. S. E. Buck to const. MISS HANNAH T.
BUCK, L. M. 30.00
Portland. High St. Cong. Ch., $100; State St.
Ch., $84.66; Mrs. L. D., $1 185.66
Richmond. Ladies of Cong. Parish, _for
Freight_, $1; Cong. Ch., half Bbl. of C. 1.00
Scarborough. “A Thank Offering” 38.00
Skowhegan. Mrs. F. A. M., $1; M. D. P., $1 2.00
South Berwick. Ladies, Bbl. of C. _for
Wilmington, N. C._
Thomaston. Infant Class in Cong. Sab. Sch.,
$6; Mrs. J. H., 50c. 6.50
Weld. Rev. D. D. Tappan 2.00
Wells. B. Maxwell 20.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $440.42.

Amherst. Cong. Ch., $20.50; Miss C. M.
Boylston, $20 40.50
Amherst. Ladies U. M. Soc., $29; L. K.
Melendy, $25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 54.00
Amherst. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Box of C. and
$2, _for Freight, for Wilmington, N. C._ 2.00
Brookline. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
DEA. CHAS. KIMBALL, L. M. 51.50
Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 13.69
Dover. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.94
Exeter. “Friends” _for Chapel, Wilmington, N.
C._ 0.50
Francestown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
REV. H. M. KELLOGG, L. M. 34.20
Fisherville. J. C. Martin 10.00
Greenfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.05
Greenville. E. G. Heald 6.00
Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.77
Hancock. Ladies’ Sewing Circle and The
Cheerful Workers, Bbl of C., and $1.50 _for
Freight, for McIntosh, Ga._ 1.50
Hebron. J. B. C. 1.00
Hillsborough Bridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.75
Keene. Geo. Cook 5.00
Keene. Correction:—Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of
First Ch., Bbl. of C. acknowledged in Feb.
number, should read, of Second Ch.
Kensington. “Friends,” _for Chapel,
Wilmington, N. C._ 2.50
Londonderry. C. S. P. 1.00
Manchester. W. O. A., 50c.; I. G. M., 50c. 1.00
Marlborough. Ladies’ Freedman’s Aid Soc., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
Milford. Cong. Ch., $11.90; Mr. and Mrs.
Harris, $10 21.90
Nashua. Pilgrim Ch. 27.11
Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, $5; C. C. S.,
51c. 5.51
Pittsfield. John L. Thorndike 10.00
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.50
Rochester. Phebe J. Moody, _for furnishing
room, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Short Falls. J. W. C. 0.50
Stratham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
West Lebanon. Mrs. E. L. K. 0.50
West Peterborough. Mrs. Lucy B. Richardson 10.00
Wilton. Willing Workers, _for Student Aid,
Wilmington Normal Sch._ 15.00
Wilton. A. B. C. 0.50
Wolfborough. Rev. S. Clark 5.00

VERMONT, $638.95.

Barnet. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 86.66
Berlin. Cong. Ch. 13.06
Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. H.
A. TITUS, L. M. 36.25
Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.29
Burlington. N. G. H. 1.00
Cabot. Cong. Ch. ($5 of which from Milton
Fisher) 14.02
Chester. Penny Contributions of Cong. Sab.
Sch., $50; “A Friend,” $15; Cong. Ch. and
Soc., $16.03; G. H. C., 60c. 81.63
Clarenden. Mrs. J. P. 1.00
Cornwall. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.33
East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.86
Fairlee. “Friends” 5.00
Felchville. M. C. F. 0.51
Ludlow. N. M. P. 1.10
Middlebury. Cong. Sab. Sch. 23.53
North Thetford. Cong. Ch., $8.56; Mrs. E. G.
B., 50c. 9.06
Pittsford. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 44.00
Quechee. Cong. Sab. Sch., “New Year’s Gift.” 13.40
Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., $136.45;
South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35 171.45
Sharon. Mrs. A. F., $1; S. P. F., $1 2.00
Thetford. Rev. L. H. Elliot 10.00
Townshend. Mrs. Mary Burnap, $5; Mrs. Anne
Rice, $5; Mrs. Harvey Holbrook, $2; Mrs. W.
C., $1; Mrs. E. H., $1; S. D. W., $1; G. P.,
$1 16.00
Vergennes. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing
room, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Weathersfield. Mrs. Edson Chamberlin 10.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.80
West Randolph. Mary and Susan E. Albin, $6; S.
J. W., $1 7.00
West Rutland. W. Newton 5.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $7,929.61.

Amesbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.,
_for Washington, D. C._
Amherst. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45, to
const. MRS. ELLA M. HALL, L. M.; MRS. OLIVE
C. STERNS, $30, to const. herself L. M.; Wm.
M. Graves, $20; “A Friend,” $5; “A Friend,”
$10 110.00
Amherst. “Friends,” 18 Bbls. apples and 3
Bbls. vegetables, _for Atlanta_.
Andover. West Parish Cong. Ch. 29.18
Andover. G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Ashland. Ladies Assn., Bbl. of C., _for
Talladega C._
Auburn. Cong. Ch. 29.42
Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 173.71
Ayers Village. Mrs. E. M. C. 0.50
Berlin. Mrs. Mary G. Houghton 5.00
Barre. E. C. Sab. Sch. 19.58
Boston. “Wilberforce,” _for Chapels_ 1,000.00
Boston. “A Friend,” New Year’s Gift _for a
Chapel_ 300.00
Boston. Woman’s Home Missionary Association,
by Mrs. H. M. Moore, Chairman of Finance
Com., ($30 of which to const. MRS. HANNAH F.
TYLER, L. M.) 247.91
Boston. Cong. Pub Soc., Box of books and
papers _for Talladega C._
Boston. Charles Nichols. $30, to const. EDDIE
WORTHEN, L. M.; Miss S. B. Jones, $15; Mount
Vernon Ch., ad’l. $3; “H. B. H.,” $5; Miss
A. P. B., 50c. 53.50
Brimfield. Cong. Ch., $39.56, to const. NEWTON
S. HUBBARD, L. M.; Second Cong. Ch. Sab.
Sch., $15 54.56
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 104.20
Cambridge. A. E. Hildreth, $100; Mrs. A. G.,
$1; Miss R. L. McP., $1; F. C. S., $1 103.00
Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc.,
$109.09; “Cash,” $25; G. B. C., $1; V. D.,
50c.; A. A. P., 50c. 136.09
Charlton. Rev. W. C. Fiske 2.00
Chelmsford. “A Friend.” 5.00
Chester. Rev. A. E. T. 0.50
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Cohasset. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.78
Coleraine. Mrs. Wm. B. McG. 1.00
Dalton. Hon. Z. M. Crane 100.00
Dalton. Mrs. J. B. Crane, _for Indian M.,
Hampton Inst._ 100.00
Danvers. J. F. Fuller, 5 Bbls. apples, _for
Atlanta_.
Dorchester. Mrs. Susan Collins, $5; Second
Cong. Sab. Sch., $2 7.00
East Berkshire. Cong. Ch. 10.00
East Douglas. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.29
East Longmeadow. Mrs. G. W. C., $1; E. M., $1 2.00
East Medway. First Ch. of Christ 14.00
Essex Co. “Howard,” _for Repairs, Talladega C._ 100.00
Everett. A Friend 10.00
Fall River. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $14; M.
E., $1; C. E. F., 50c. 15.50
Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Fitchburgh. Mrs. Wm. Hubbard, $10; “A Friend,”
$5 15.00
Florence. Mrs. I. G. Jewett 1.50
Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc. 157.88
Framingham. Young People’s Soc., by Alice
Hastings, $25, and Box of C., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.93
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
const. ALEXANDER PETTIGREW, JOHN K. DUSTIN,
JR., and JERGEN C. OVERBECK, L. M’s. 110.00
Grafton. Evan. Sab. Sch., Box of Books
Grafton. Ladies Sew. Circle, Bbl. of C., _for
Atlanta_.
Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$100 to const. C. W. BALDWIN, A. W. SELKIRK,
and I. R. PRINDLE, L. M’s.; Mrs. L. M.
Chapin, $5 105.00
Greenwich Village. Daniel Parker 2.00
Groton. Rev. Darwin Adams 10.00
Hadley. First Ch. and Soc., $8.16; and Sab.
Sch., $7.67 15.83
Hampden. W. B. S. 1.00
Hardwick. C. A. W. 1.00
Haverhill. West Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17.81;
and Sab. Sch. (Eben Webster’s Class), $3.24;
Mrs. L. P. F., 50c.; E. W., 50c.; Mrs. S.
C., 50c.; C. C., 51c. 23.06
Haverhill. Mrs. Mary Ann Chase ($5 of which
_for Indian M._) 10.00
Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.86
Holbrook. Winthrop Cong. Ch. ($200 of which
from Bequest of E. N. H., and $50 from E. E.
H.), $322.01; Mrs. C. Thayer, $5 327.01
Holden. “Friends,” Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta,
Ga._
Holliston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
$20; Band of Helpers, $5.25; Other Sources,
$1.75; _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 36.00
Holliston. “Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4.” 25.00
Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $90.04;
Cong. Ch. and Soc., Mon. Con. Coll., $11.85 102.09
Housatonic. W. G. 0.50
Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 38.63
Ipswich. Limebrook Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lawrence. Lawrence Cong. Ch. 95.00
Lee. M. A. H. 1.00
Leicester. Mrs. M. A. S. and Miss A. G. L.,
50c. each; Cong. Sab. Sch., Pkg. of papers 1.00
Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.17
Lexington. G. S. 0.50
Lincoln. “Friends,” 24 Bbls. apples, _for
Atlanta_.
Lowell. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $90.10; M.
C., $1 91.10
Lowell. “A Friend,” _for Emerson Inst._ 2.00
Lowell. Miss Puffer, Box of C., _for
Talladega_.
Lynn. B. V. French, $25; Central Cong. Ch. and
Soc., $20 45.00
Mansfield. P. M. E. 1.00
Malden. Mrs. Valeria G. Stone, by Trustees 1,292.05
Medway. E. M. 5.00
Merrimac. John K. Sargent, $2; Chas. N.
Sargent, $2 4.00
Middleborough. Mrs. G. H. D., $1; E. B. E.,
50c. 1.50
Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $61.46;
Mary E. Bond, $7.25 68.71
Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Millbury. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
furnishing room, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Mill River. Miss M. R. Wilcox 10.00
Monson. Cong. Ch., $19; Mrs. Dewey’s Sab. Sch.
Class, $6, _for furnishing room, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Monson. Two Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 9.00
Monterey. Young Ladies’ Sew. Soc., by Amelia
A. Bidwell, _for Ed. of Indians, Hampton,
Va._ 10.00
Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00
Newburyport. Leavitt Lincoln, $10; Miss S. N.
B., 50c. 10.50
Newburyport. “Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 10.00
New Bedford. Mrs. H. W. 1.00
Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. 243.64
Newton. “Friends,” 11 Bbls. Apples, _for
Atlanta_.
Newton. “Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc.,” by
Ellen D. Jackson, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 50.00
Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
$13.73; Mrs. W. T. W., 50c. 14.03
Newton Highlands. Sunday Sch., by E. W. B.,
_for freight_ 7.85
North Amherst. Miss Harrington, _for Student
Aid, Tougaloo U._ 12.00
Northampton. “A Friend,” $100; “Member of
first Cong. Ch.,” $5 105.00
Northbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Norfolk. Friends, 18 Bbls. Apples, _for
Atlanta_.
Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $6.25, and
Sab. Sch., $20 26.25
Oxford. First Cong. Ch., $31.50; First Cong.
Sab. Sch., $18; L. Shumway, $10 59.50
Paxton. Ella Rowell, _for Freight_ 1.60
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $35.35;
H. A. B., 50c.; Mrs. H. M. Hurd, a
Comfortable 35.85
Plymouth. Pilgrimage Ch. and Soc., $50.18;
Mrs. C. W. P., 50c. 50.68
Reading. Old South Ch. and Soc., $12.50; A. T.
H., 50c. 13.00
Reading. Bethesda Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 100.00
Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, D. D. and Wife,
_for furnishing rooms, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Rockland. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 25.00
Royalston. “A Friend” 1.00
Salem. A. and M. B., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 1.00
Salem. Individuals, _for Mag._ 2.70
Sherborn. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 1.00
Somerville. Prospect Hill Ch. and Soc., $5.56;
Miss M. C. Sawyer, $2; “A Friend,” $1.25;
Mrs. H. T. S., 50c. 9.31
Southampton. Miss E. L. S. 0.60
South Boston. Miss J. A. 0.50
South Deerfield. Mrs. M. B. R. 0.50
South Egremont. “A Friend” to const. REV.
ALLEN F. DECAMP, L. M. 30.00
South Hadley. H. M. 1.00
South Weymouth. Union Ch. and Soc., to const.
JOHN A. FOGG, L. M. 30.00
South Weymouth. Miss Grover’s Class in Second
Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 7.00
Springfield. Mrs. R. K., $1; Mrs. R. C. H., $1 2.00
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.25
Sutton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $21.50; Mrs.
M. H. L., $1 22.50
Topsfield. Richard Price, _for furnishing
rooms, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Tewksbury. North Ch., $5 and 2 Bbls. of C.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
Uxbridge. W. J. 1.00
Walpole. Lowell Mann, 4 Bbls. apples and 1
Bbl. cranberries, _for Atlanta_.
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $88.39; L.
A. S., 50c. 88.89
Ware. C. C. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 25.00
Watertown. Phillip’s Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. of C.,
_for Talladega_.
Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.03
Wellesley. May Chase, _for furnishing room,
Atlanta U._ 12.50
Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., (Mon. Coll.) 22.69
Westborough. Ladies’ Freedman’s Aid Soc., Bbl.
of bedding _for Atlanta U._
Westborough. Freedmen’s Miss. Assn., Bbl. of
C., _for Savannah_.
West Boylston. Willing Workers, $25; _for
Student Aid, Storr’s Sch., and_ $25 _for
furnishing a room, Atlanta U._ 50.00
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., (of which
$10 _for Indian M._) 42.00
Westminster. “E. A. W.” 5.00
West Newbury. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $17;
J. C. Carr, $2.50 19.50
Whitinsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., $27.39; A. F.
W., 50c.; Mrs. S. A. D., 50c. 28.39
Whitinsville. Mrs. J. C. Whitin, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 30.00
Williamsburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.80
Winchendon. Atlanta Soc., _for Atlanta U._ 3.00
Winchendon. Mrs. M. D. B. 1.00
Woburn. Cong. Sab. Sch., $120; Cong. Ch. and
Soc., $27.81; William Temple, $5; G. A. B.,
$1; “S. B. Soc.,” by E. A. E., $2, _for
freight_ 155.81
Worcester. Ladies of Plymouth Ch., $11.50; and
2 Bbls. of C., _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 11.50
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. 100.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.00
—— B. Sanford, Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo_.
—— Unknown Source, Bbl. of C.
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$7,399.61
LEGACIES.

Boston. Estate of Rebecca I. Gilman, by Hannah
E. Gilman, Ex. 185.00
West Medway. Estate of Lucy M. Clark 340.00
Lancaster. Interest, Legacy of Sophia Stearns,
by Wm. M. Wyman, Ex. 5.00
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$7,929.61

RHODE ISLAND, $91.51.

Barrington. Cong. Ch., $36.88, and Sab. Sch.,
$23.20 60.00
Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Pawtucket. Mrs. R. B., 51c.; Mrs. R. R., 50c. 1.01
Providence. S. L. H. 0.50
Westerly. Mrs. Emeline Smith 5.00

CONNECTICUT, $2,862.64.