Chapter II: Part 2

On the Sabbath the fine large church, 50×60, which had been used several years as simply inclosed, and which had been brought to completion, was re-dedicated. The sermon by Superintendent Roy was upon the Glory of the Sanctuary as the place of Spiritual Nativity: “This and that man was born there.” The prayer of dedication was offered by Rev. E. T. Hooker, of Charleston, S.C. In the afternoon a grand missionary meeting was held in behalf of the American Board, the A. H. M. S., the Congregational Union, and the A. M. A., with addresses made by Revs. E. Kent, S. E. Lathrop, E. T. Hooker, and J. E. Roy, all of them using Mr. Kent’s two big maps, one of the world, and one of our country. Miss Kinney read a paper written by Miss Hardy upon that whole missionary scheme. The ladies appointed the wives of Revs. E. Kent, S. E. Lathrop and Dana Sherrill as a Provisional Committee to prepare the way for organizing a State Woman’s Missionary Society at the next meeting of the Association, to be held at Athens. Meantime the ladies propose to organize in each of several of the churches an auxiliary society, and these will unite in the State Society. Between the two services of Lord’s Day I went out and counted the vehicles and the animals that had brought the great assembly to church; I counted 68 vehicles, of which 38 were buggies, 95 horses and 30 ox teams, 40 oxen in all, as some of the carts were drawn by a single ox. There were two other important gatherings in that region on that day, or, as some of the brethren said, you could not have seen the ground, for the animals and the carryalls that would have been there. As it was, we had, by fair estimate, six hundred people present, and their’s was truly, as they call it, “A Big Meeting.”

J. E. R.

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THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.

That is now the name, changed from that of Central South Conference, at the meeting held in Rev. William H. Ash’s church at Florence, Ala., Nov. 2 to 5. This change is in order to uniformity of title in the state ecclesiastical bodies. Georgia, Alabama and North Carolina yet retain the name “Conference.” The Central South, which was the original Congregational body at the South, having sent off two daughters, the Alabama and the Georgia, still holds good her title to the name, as she yet represents the central States of Tennessee, Mississippi, Arkansas and a part of Alabama.

The older members said that this last was the best meeting ever held by the Association. Papers were read by B. F. Foster on pastoral work; by William A. Sinclair on the need of cultivating the missionary spirit; by B. A. Imes on Congregationalism; by Mr. Singleton on school work; and the reading was followed in each case by full and animated discussion. President Pope led in a discussion upon the subject of revivals, and also reported the industrial departments of Tougaloo University. Superintendent Roy reported the recent annual meeting of the A. M. A., at Cleveland. One evening was given to a rousing temperance meeting. The preachings were frequent. Revivals were reported at Fisk and Tougaloo Universities, at Memphis and Chattanooga. Two churches were received, one at Meridian, Miss., Rev. J. L. Grice, pastor, and the Welsh church at Soddy, East Tennessee, Rev. W. H. Thomas, where the Welsh are the colliers. Rev. H. S. Bennett, B. A. Imes and William A. Sinclair were elected to the next National Council. Pastor W. H. Ash, who had made ample provision for the entertainment of the Conference, was laid aside through all of the sessions by a severe illness; but the results of his work were manifest to all. A neat gothic church, a pleasant parsonage, and the whole within a tasteful white fence, were the other signs of the work, while the growing membership and Sunday-school, and the day-school of seventy, taught by Mr. Ash and his estimable wife, were the symbol of the intellectual and moral process going on. At the dedication, two years ago, more than fifty of the prominent white citizens were present, among them Ex-Gov. Patton, three or four pastors and as many lawyers. On the Sabbath the pulpits of the colored churches were supplied, and Messrs. Bennett and Roy preached at the Presbyterian church, where Gov. Patton is the S. S. Superintendent, an office which he has magnified for many years. The week before, the Memphis Synod had met in this church, when the appeal of Mr. Long from the Memphis Presbytery came up. By a technicality the appeal did not stand, and Mr. Long was permitted to withdraw from the denomination, to continue his service as pastor of the First Congregational Church of Memphis. The next meeting of the Association is to be with Rev. Joseph E. Smith, at Chattanooga.

J. E. R.

Wytheville, Va., is a representative mountain town, situated amidst a rich farming and mining region. Already Northern capital and enterprise have found their way to like portions of the South, where the climate is salubrious, the winters mild, and the rewards of labor immediate and sufficient for the wants of an industrious population. Very much, however, remains to be done for the vast areas of the mountain districts of the South. The school privileges of blacks and whites are as yet quite limited. The people, however, have been distinguished for their loyalty to the Government, and in some portions of the mountain country for their readiness to accept missionary endeavors, regardless of the color line. Prof. C. C. Painter, of Fisk University, and Rev. I. P. Dickerson, one of the original Jubilee Singers, now a missionary in the south of France, were born at Wytheville.

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The Rev. W. H. Ash, pastor of our church, and teacher of our school at Florence, Alabama, died on the 13th of November. A protegé of Hon. A. C. Barstow, and a graduate of the Boston University, he began work for us at Mobile, Ala. He was then transferred to Florence, which was in need of such a man as he. Mr. Ash was married to Miss Sarah Hale, of Montgomery, an accomplished lady, who was his helpmeet, not only as a wife, but as a teacher in the school, which they had developed to the great delight of their people, and to the approbation of all the citizens. Mr. Ash, on behalf of the church and of the A. M. A., had built a tasteful church edifice which was also used for the school, and a parsonage. He had commanded the high appreciation of all the best people in the community. During his sickness, the Central South Association had its annual session in his church. His wife took his remains to Montgomery for burial. As writes the stricken companion: “It was only going home to receive the reward of the faithful servant.”

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THE INDIANS.

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STATEMENTS RESPECTING INDIANS AND THEIR NECESSITIES.

BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.

Besides the 59,000 Indians in the Indian Territory, there are about 200,000, of whom 55,000 are wholly supported by the government; 45,000 are partially maintained, and 100,000 receive little or no aid. They occupy 250,000 square miles of land, nine-tenths of it grazing land, the rest suitable for agriculture. The constantly increasing value of this domain from its mineral wealth and the building of railroads presses hard upon its thriftless occupants, who stand right in the line of progress, and must either change or perish. Meanwhile their source of subsistence, game, is disappearing, and, more and more, they will depend either on public charity or on stealing their food unless taught to take care of themselves.

The Indian question is upon us as never before. Those in the Indian Territory and the few thousands in Minnesota, Wisconsin, New York, North Carolina and other States, say 75,000 in all, are remnants of tribes who formerly lived east of the Mississippi River, are inclined to agriculture and domestic life, and have been considered superior to the nomadic tribes of the West. They long since ceased to trouble us, and are, at some places making commendable progress in education, stock raising and crops, besides generally holding their own in numbers. Still, to a large extent, they seem fixed in a half civilized, half pagan state, lacking their earlier manliness for the want of hardship and discipline in their lives, keeping up their heathen rites and dances, living in poverty, without law, demoralized more or less by annuities and destitute of the conditions that create character and self reliance.

They need practical education. A few are already at Hampton and Carlisle; five hundred should have such an opportunity.

More than this, their tribal relations should be broken up, homesteads inalienable for at least twenty-five years should be assigned, and they should be left as citizens of the several states in which they are, to vote and be voted on.

Reservations are merely places for herding Indians; temporary, necessary experiments, that, after a given time, may become growing evils. Herding negroes in like manner would have been a curse to both white and black races. There has been more sentiment than sense in treating the Indian as a separate people. It was kindly meant but a cruel plan in its results. This part of the red race has suffered most from the whites; their comfortable eastern homes have been broken up, their thrifty farms and fruitful orchards abandoned for a western wilderness where thousands have died from exposure. Their record has been the saddest part of the “Century of Dishonor.”

THE WILD TRIBES.

The destruction of the buffalo has been more trying to the Indian than sudden emancipation was to the Negro. The latter changed the relations rather than the realities of life; the former the realities rather than their relations. The one remained on its old foundation of land and of labor—any shifting was voluntary. Game, the support of the other, has gradually failed and they have been roughly pushed from place to place till pauperism seems the only fixed fact of their life. The human machine after running for centuries does not readily reverse itself; the strain on the Indian is tremendous. Was greater ever put upon men?—force to control them, charity to weaken them. Justice demanded help, but wisdom demanded self-help as its condition. Exigency is man’s best teacher. “Necessity is the mother of invention;” it makes men creative. The facts of human nature, and of experience, have been ignored in our treaties with the Indians, probably because we never really conquered them, but purchased peace on the best terms we could make.

Carrying the Indian from helplessness to self support is the most difficult administrative problem of our country. The Negro has taken care of himself. “The forty acres and a mule” method would have ruined the race. He was thrown on himself and given a vote; dangerous as it once seemed, who would now have it otherwise? He struggled, suffered and succeeded.

The Indian is fed “till he shall become self-supporting,” which gives him a motive for not becoming so. He alone of all men on the earth, finds in industry not reward but a penalty. The Shoshone farmers, when a reduction of rations was suggested, threatened to stop cultivating their fields. A few may go to work, but the whole line will not move forward while rations and other gratuities are issued, as now, to lines of ragged, wretched-looking mendicants who are helped for the asking.

Treaties must be kept, but the treaties contemplate ultimate self-support and the necessity of education to that end. It is, I believe, quite within their spirit to withhold supplies from the lazy and intractable.

At Yankton, Devil’s Lake, Cheyenne River and at other points, efficient agents kept the schools full, and the Indians busy by the argument to the stomach, which is their weak point. It is, I believe, the starting point of Indian civilization. The plan is as excellent as it is unusual.

On the Fort Hall reservation, in Idaho, I recently saw fields of wheat, oats and potatoes; two-thirds of the tribe had become farmers, besides owning herds of cattle, because a former agent had issued the coffee and sugar rations, which the red man dearly loves, only as each one successively staked out, plowed and planted his allotted little farm. The nation’s gratuities may do the Indian as much good as they are doing him harm, if wisely administered, especially the luxuries, which afford the best leverage. He is managed now by a class of men whose title, in spite of shining exceptions among them, is a byword and a reproach. Decayed clergymen, hungry politicians, and the broken of every profession, are not the ones to make citizens of the red man. Fifteen hundred or two thousand dollars a year will not secure first-class men, who must travel far with their families, at their own expense, and be liable at any day to discharge and disgrace. By refusing adequate salaries, Congress (and Congress means the people) decides that the Indian’s greatest need shall be unsupplied, for lack of a trifling comparative cost. Millions for fuel and dry goods, but not one or two hundred thousand dollars more that men of repute and of capacity may go to the Agencies. Good beef and flour and shoes, but second-rate men, whose average official life is less than two years, is the present provision for them.

The tender mercies of the Government to the Indian are cruel; the much-talked-of treatment of the slave owner was tender by comparison. The self-interest of the Southern barons was humanity itself, in contrast with the course of men sent in the name of a high duty, many of whom have been tempted, if not forced, into corruption. I would throw no slur on the better class among them, of whom the country is not worthy.

The Indian is a child and needs a Father; physically mature, he is mentally an infant. He stands proud but helpless on the track of a locomotive. He will not heed the advice of whites inferior in natural force to himself, and such, as a rule, he has to deal with. No wonder the young prefer their own leaders. In the school of civilization only object lessons are good for anything. What lessons we have given the Indians!

Recent agitation has chiefly concerned the education, lands and rights of the race, and progress has been made in the way of opportunities offered, but the Indian has not moved. He must be touched; the high and low must come together. Virtue will go out of the one into the other as it entered into her who touched the hem of a sacred garment. There is no salvation in acts of Congress; it is from the springs of action within. To awake these in the bosom of the Indian and consummate it in Christian character is the work of individual men by their contact and by their personal influence.

The Indian question is, first, one of organization, second, one of executive duty; of conditions and of action. In the former, of late years, there has been much progress. Respecting the latter there has been little. Crops and herds have somewhat increased and education has advanced, especially in the East; but the executive work drags, because there is nobody to do it. Men are the need of the hour, and money to provide for their wants.

At the northern frontier outposts, this summer, for the first time, the soldiers remained in their barracks. At the forts in Montana and Dakota which I visited, there was general respect for Indian prowess, and belief in his capacity and in his wrongs. “Were I an Indian I would fight” seemed the feeling of all.

So far as army officers are gentlemen of character, force and experience, and of humane ideas (for there are opposing views), I believe they are better fitted than any others to settle the Indian question. Their destructive work is nearly over: it has fitted them for the constructive work to be done. As officers they have peculiar advantages over civilians of the same capacity and worth, far less temptation and far stronger standing ground for the control of Indians. One-half of the sixty agencies might well be put at once under selected officers; not that it is strict military duty, but it is not an “old woman’s work,” as one of high rank said of Capt. Pratt’s effort. The latter is doing, indirectly, more than any two regiments for the pacification of the Indians—the army’s special business.

Railroads are doing the work of pioneers and of soldiers, peace is not far off. There will soon be need of the army only as a national police, and half of the 15,000 troops at the West may be dispensed with. What better service can a few of its accomplished officers undertake than building up a civilization at its weakest point?

The Indian can be rescued from a sad fate only by personal devotion; that has, under God, created the great results of missionary work throughout the world in recent years. The labors of the Riggses, Williamsons and of Bishop Whipple and others during the past half century, in the western wilderness, has been a seed-sowing of which the results are now appearing. The men they have touched and taught are those who are now breaking from the old superstitions and asking for light, while official dealings have scarcely a moral result to show for armies of agents and vast annuities. Only the light of Christian truth and example steadily shining can lift men up. Mission work among the Cherokees and others, and for the Sioux at Sisseton and Fort Sully and Santee agencies in Dakota, where wild Indians are settled on so peaceful prosperous homes that “a stranger traveling through the country would not believe that he was on an Indian Reservation,” attest the complete success of the Congregational, Episcopalian, and Presbyterian societies. Peoria Bottom, which I visited in 1881, is a charming village of twenty Christian families, on thrifty homes, the result of the efforts of the Rev. Thos. L. Riggs. “In proportion to the aid and means employed no missions since the apostolic age have been more successful than those to the American Aborigines,” declares one of these bodies. There have been, however, weak and disappointing missions.

Such work cannot be inspired from Washington, though it may supply many of the conditions of it. A purified civil service would do more for the Indian than for any class in the country. Good agents would create a _morale_, like a favoring tide, for the Christian teacher.

The “gist” of the Indian question I believe to be honesty and capacity in dealing with them. Given these and the rest will work itself out.

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THE CHINESE.

REV. W. C. POND, SUPERINTENDENT.

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HUMBLINGS.

BY REV. W. C. POND.

I had finished the preparation of the last annual report of our Mission. I had read it at the annual meeting. It was ready for the printer, and had even been placed in his hands. It was a report instinct throughout with good cheer. It could not be otherwise. It recorded the work of a prosperous year. No previous year of our whole history had approached this one, as to the numbers gathered into our schools and brought within reach of the invitations of the Gospel. Perhaps I was in danger of being “exalted above measure.” And, so, humblings were prepared for me.

It may be the dictate of expediency, but certainly it is not that of frankness and honesty, to speak to our benefactors only smooth things. There _are_ shades as well as lights in missionary work. The tide is not always rising. The sun is not always at noon. And if possible, those who sustain the work ought to be made able to see the shadows and to understand the disappointments; ought to be admitted to acquaintanceship with even the mistakes which we, the workers, make. Daylight throughout our operations is essential. Without this, there are bred “bureau distempers,” petty falsities, self-seekings and the whole brood of faults into which even renewed natures get sometimes betrayed. One of the chief beauties and glories of the statements presented this year, both at Portland and at Cleveland, was their manifest frankness—the pains evidently taken to set before the people _all_ the facts so far as the opportunity allowed.

But I am making a long preface. “What humblings have been prepared for you?” my readers are asking. One of our Chinese brethren, converted as we believed, and baptised some years ago—a young man in some respects specially capable and specially pleasing, who knows the way of life well, and can explain it clearly to his less instructed countrymen, is found to have been gambling on (for them) a large scale, and, at first, with rare success. Rumor has it that not less than $3,000 had flowed from the depleted purses of his countrymen into his own; but that blind to the fact that the tide might turn, he had continued his sin until it left him stranded and wrecked. Inquiry shows this rumor to be founded on facts. We are made to blush at the congratulations the heathen Chinese have been proffering over the good-luck of the gambling Christian. We get the heart-ache as we see how sin breeds sin, how falsehood and profanity follow in the train of these dishonest gains. The heart-ache deepens as we see some others of our brethren swept away by sympathy or friendship, or possibly by some less amiable consideration into partial complicity with his wrong. It transpires that with several others as with this brother, there has been a forgetfulness of the assembling of themselves together, a self-assertion and self-trust, a disposition to debate but not to pray, a cooling of brotherly love and Christian zeal, all of which fore-shadowed like dishonors to be heaped upon the name of Christ, unless a breath of God’s dear spirit should soon inspire in them a freshened life.

Thank God, these humblings have not come alone. If the great body of our Chinese Christians had been insensible to them, if there had been no movement, or if only a ripple on the surface of an otherwise stagnant sentiment, I should have been discouraged indeed. But there was an immediate movement, a deep sense of shame, an almost too speedy discipline. And now, taking counsel together, we have undertaken, with the help of God, to withstand more faithfully those beginnings of evil; to make the first symptoms of coldness and inattention and wandering the signal for more earnest prayer and for kindly and cautious, but effective, watch and care.

In connection with this our schools in San Francisco propose to undertake something more general and more generous in the way of giving. Certainly the sum total of expenditures made by our Chinese brethren, in connection with their Christian work, is creditable already. When we consider their circumstances it is not a little thing that in this last year their offerings, one way and another, should reach a total of $2,000. But a scrutiny of the sources from which this amount had come showed that in some quarters the grace of giving had not been as generally cultivated or as fruitful in results as it might have been. And a recovery of lost ground in this regard, an advance beyond anything heretofore attempted is fully resolved upon. Plans are being laid, the mutual exhortations have begun, and it is believed that by the 1st of December they will show us definite and practical returns. One of the helpers writes me as follows: “Last night I have been spoken to the scholars and brethren about the gifts of the money for the missionary work and about the gas that you are going to put up instead of the oil lamps. They were so pleased to help. I can hardly know how to tell you how glad they feel to pay the gas and water bills and to help you pay the rent. I was surprised that I should receive a large sum of gifts last evening so soon as when I get through my sayings, and I expect another sum this evening, because great many have not any money with them last evening.” This same good spirit seems to pervade all the schools and I am greatly comforted by it.

Other encouragements are not wanting. Even now I am awaiting in my study the arrival of five Chinese who, with the approval and recommendation of our brethren, offer themselves as candidates for baptism and reception to our Bethany Church. Scarcely a month has passed without tidings of some one turning to the light and avowing himself a disciple of Christ. But I have been made specially glad this month by the news from two of our youngest and smallest schools. Mrs. Willett, of Santa Cruz, reporting for the first time two of her pupils as giving evidence of conversion, adds: “I am very hopeful concerning the spiritual interests of four of my boys. Eight of them already own and study the New Testament. I give them Bible instruction two whole evenings each week, and they enjoy it.” And Miss Fulton, of Berkeley says: “In reporting that two of the pupils give evidence of conversion, I do not say that they have confessed it by word; but they attend so regularly to school, and to Sunday school, listen to all religious instruction so earnestly, and join in the Lord’s Prayer so heartily, that I feel assured they are earnestly seeking the truth.”

And so God has mingled encouragements with humblings, and not suffered us to be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

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WASHEE WASHEE.

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BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

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Brown John he bends above his tub
In cellar, alley, anywhere
Where dirt is found, why John is there;
And rub and rub and rub and rub.
The hoodlum hisses in his ear:
“Git out of here, you yeller scrub!”
He is at work, he cannot hear;
He smiles that smile that knows no fear;
And rub and rub and rub and rub,
He calmly keeps on washing.

The politicians bawl and crow
To every idle chiv. and blood,
And hurl their two hands full of mud:
“The dirty Chinaman must go!”
But John still bends above his tub,
And rub and rub and rub and rub;
He wrestles in his snowy suds
These dirty politicians’ duds;
He calmly keeps on washing.

“Git out o’ here! ye haythin, git!
Me Frinch ancisthors fought an’ blid
Fur this same freedom, so they did,
An’ I’ll presarve it, ye can bit!
Phwat honest man can boss a town?
Or burn anither Pittsburgh down?
Or beg? Or sthrike? Or labor shirk
Phwile yez are here an’ want ter work?
Git out, I say! ye haythin git!”
And Silver Jimmy shied a brick
That should have made that heathen sick;
But John, he kept on washing.

Then mighty Congress shook with fear
At this queer, silent little man,
And cried as only Congress can:
“Stop washing and git out of here!”
The small brown man, he ceased to rub,
And raised his little shaven head
Above the steaming, sudsy tub,
And unto this great Congress said,
Straightforward, business-like, and true:
“Two bittee dozen washee _you_!”
Then calmly went on washing.

Oh! honest, faithful little John,
If you will lay aside your duds
And take a sea of soap and suds
And wash out dirty Washington;
If you will be the Hercules
To cleanse our stables clean of these
That all such follies fatten on,
There’s fifty million souls to-day
To bid you welcome, bid you stay
And calmly keep on washing.

—_The Independent._

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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THE LITTLE DINING-ROOM.

BY MRS. T. N. CHASE.

Often just before breakfast I hear a tripping step in our hall, then a light tap at the door, and our little John exclaims, “You’re ’vited, mamma.” As I answer the knock, happy Hennie’s voice rings out the welcome words, “You and Mr. Chase are invited to breakfast in the little dining-room.” Now, as the “big dining-room” is filled with about 150 students and teachers, and as board is eight dollars per month, the little dining room offers the most quiet, to say nothing of the superior variety and quality of the food.

Well, now, there has of late been rapidly growing what some of us staid teachers think is an industrial craze. I suppose any day the girls at the North may have to give up one of their studies for the old-fashioned patchwork. Oh! I don’t mean _old_-fashioned. Isn’t it funny that old-fashioned things are the newest-fashioned things? I suppose, too, any day our grandmother’s beautiful samplers may again take their æsthetic places in the schoolroom to teach “marking stitch” from “sure enough” antique letters, and the boys may march into a recitation room, where they will learn to drive nails and shoe pegs. Well, this is a great question, and none but a parent can be more interested than the faithful teacher that the best methods should be used in developing their precious charge.

About two years ago the matron of Atlanta University selected two little dormitory rooms that opened into each other, and turned them into dining-room and kitchen. An old Stewart cook stove used in the big kitchen long ago, before the range was a necessity, was a large part of the little kitchen’s outfit. The clothes press was easily changed to cupboard, and an old flower stand was made into a tidy closet for pots and kettles. In the dining-room the floor was stained in alternate strips of dark and light color; a fly screen put in the window, a few pictures and a rough shelf covered with a pretty lambrequin brightened the walls; and, best of all, while this revolution was going on, an old friend happened to drop in, on her way to Florida. She was so delighted with the matron’s idea that she filled the China closet of the little dining-room with such pretty things that the dainty tea table at once put on airs in its new home. Well, in these two little rooms the two highest classes of girls are honored with practice in household arts, with the matron for their teacher. At first gatherings in the little dining-room were quite rare. The birthdays of the senior class were celebrated there, and guests sometimes entertained, but the girls are so proud of their housekeeping that now they are allowed all the practice they have time for. Absent graduates must remember the room with pleasure, as they send beautiful bouquets for the table. The senior girls take turns in being responsible for the breakfasts and teas, and in presiding at table. In addition to the two girls who preside, there is room for about a third of the teachers. So, as we cannot all go, there can be no general invitations, but each visit there has all the charm of a special invitation out to breakfast or tea. But the best of it all is the encouragement it gives the girls to practice the too often neglected art of good cooking.

So now you see why we are proud of the little dining-room, and why Hennie trips through the halls so merrily as she carries from door to door the coveted invitation.

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RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1882.

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MAINE, $71.05.

Farmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $26.19
Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard 5.00
Machias. Mrs. C. F. Stone, two bbls. of C.,
_for Lady Missionary, Wilmington, N.C._
North Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
South Paris. W. D. B., _for Tillotson C. and
N. Inst. (Building)_ 1.00
Waterville. _For Tillotson C. and N. Inst.
(Building)_ 0.10
Woolwich. Cong. Ch., 11.50; “Family Gift,” 2;
J. P. T., 1; T. M., 1. 15.50
York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.26

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $260.49.

Amherst. Mr. and Mrs. Melendy, 25; Ladies’
Union Miss’y Soc., 25, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 50.00
Amherst. Cong. Ch., 10.98; Miss L. W. B., 50c. 11.48
Auburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Boscawen. Mrs. E. G. W., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 1.00
Chester. Mrs. Mary E. Hidden 10.00
Dover. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 40.00
Dunbarton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.05
Francestown. Joseph Kingsbury 30.00
Kensington. “Friend,” _for Wilmington, N.C._ 2.50
Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.46
New Ipswich. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Short Falls. J. W. C. 1.00
Temple. Mrs. W. K. 1.00
—— “Friends” 8.00

VERMONT, $479.14.

Barton Landing and Brownington. Cong. Ch. and
Soc. 22.56
Bellows Falls. Vermont Farm Machine Co.,
Champion Creamery, Val. 52, Swing Churn,
Val. 12. _for Atlanta U._ Danville. Sab.
Sch. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Grand Isle. Mrs. Rev. Chas. Fay 5.00
Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.75
Randolph. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Rochester. Cong Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Rutland. Mrs. J. B. Paige, _for Freight_ 1.20
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.44
Saint Johnsbury. “Colored Man” 2.00
Wallingford. Miss L. H. A. 0.50
West Randolph. Susan E. Albin and Sarah J.
Washburn 7.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.26
Worcester. Cong. Ch. 4.43
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$139.14

LEGACIES.

Bratleborough. Estate of Mrs. H. M. Linsley,
by C. F. Thompson 70.00
Cabot. Estate of Fanny Putnam, by Rev. H. A.
Russell 50.00
Chelsea. Estate of Dea. Samuel Douglass, by
Edward Douglass, Ex. 220.00
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$479.14

MASSACHUSETTS, $2,447.79.

Alston. H. R. 1.00
Amesbury. Cong. Ch. 16.28
Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and
Soc. 16.60
Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Andover. Ladies’ Union Home M. Soc. (70 of
which _for Student Aid Talladega C._) 73.75
Andover. G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Auburndale. Mrs. Lathrop, Bundle of Papers.
Boston. Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, 5; Mrs. L. R. H. 50c 5.50
Bridgewater. Central Sq. Ch. and Soc. 24.62
Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.63
Brimfield. Ladies Charitable Union of Second
Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and 2, _for freight,
for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00
Brockton. “A Friend” 20.00
Canton. E. R. E. 0.50
Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc. 21.19; Third
Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.35. 29.54
Chelsea. ARTHUR C. STONE, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._, and to const. himself L. M. 30.00
Chelsea. Ladies Union Home M. Band, 20, _for
Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._, also 5
Boxes Papers, etc., _for General work_ 20.00
Chicopee. J. T. C. 0.51
Clinton. “A Friend” 100.00
Conway. D. L., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.
(Building)_ 1.00
Dana. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 167.00
Dorchester. Mrs. R. W. Prouty, 5; Sab. Sch. of
Second Ch. (ad’l), 1.70; Miss E. T., 60c. 7.30
Fitchburgh. Cal. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 204.98
Florence. Florence Cong. Ch. 20.77
Gilbertville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Greenfield. T. H. 0.50
Hatfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 67.50
Hawley. H. S., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.
(Building)_ 1.00
Haverhill. Mrs. Mary B. Jones 10.00
Holden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Holliston. “E. A.,” _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C.,
Val. 32.
Jamaica Plain. Central. Cong. Ch., in part 343.29
Marblehead. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 90.00
Marshfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of First Cong.
Ch., Two Bbls. of C., Val. 88.
Mattapoisett. A. C. 1.00
Matfield. Mrs. S. D. Shaw (1.50 of which _for
John Brown Steamer_) 2.00
Merrimac. John K. Sargent 2.00
Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 27.33;
Prospect St. Ch. and Soc., 25. 52.33
Newton. Freedmen’s Aid Soc., Books, etc., _for
Library, Macon, Ga._
Northampton. “A Friend” 98.00
North Leominster. Cong. Ch. of Christ, 13;
Mrs. S. F. Houghton, 5. 18.00
Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.93
Oxford. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 20.00
Oxford. Woman’s Mission Soc., Bbl of C.
Pawtucketville. J. M. H. 0.50
Randolph. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from
Sab. Sch.) 105.25
Rockport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.42
Rockport. “A Lady,” _for Tillotson C. & N.
Inst. (Land.)_ 1.00
Royalston. Ladies of First Ch., Bbl. of C.,
Val. 45, _for Talladega C._
Shelburne. Ladies Sew. Circle of First Cong.
Ch., Bundle of C., _for Tougaloo U._
Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.32
South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.00
Southampton. Cong. Ch. 38.46
Southbridge, Globe Village. Ev. Free Ch. and
Soc. 35.00
Southborough. Sab. Sch. of Pilgrim Evan. Ch.,
_for John Brown Steamer_ 30.00
South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.81
Sutton. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 5.00
Templeton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00
Townsend. Ladies Benev. Soc., Bbl of C., Val.
20.75.
Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00
Westborough. Ladies’ Freedmen’s Soc., Bbl. of
C. and 1, _for Freight_ 1.00
West Medford. Henry Newcomb 2.00
West Medway. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 10.00
Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 74.50;
Salem St. Cong. Ch., 75; Samuel R. Heywood, 32,
to const. FRANK E. HEYWOOD L. M.; “E. C. C.” 20. 201.50
——. “A Friend,” _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.
(Building)_ 1.00
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$2,247.79

LEGACIES.

Athol. Estate of J. Sumner Parmenter, (60 of
which to const. MRS. J. S. PARMENTER and
MRS. F. S. PARMENTER, L. Ms.), by F. S.
Parmenter, Ex. 160.00
Sandwich. Estate of Tryphosa French by
Fletcher Clark, Ex. 100.00
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$2,447.79

CONNECTICUT, $3,614.73.

Bethlehem. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 10.00
Bridgeport. “Cash,” _for Tillotson C. & N.
Inst. (Building)_ 5.00
Buckingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.39
Canterbury. Westminster Cong. Ch. 9.50
Durham. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of North Cong.
Ch., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 13.00
East Avon. Cong. Ch. 62.30
East Hampton. Cong. Ch. 27.33
Granby. First Cong. Ch. 11.30
Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 95.20
Hebron. Jasper Porter 10.00
Higganum. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Hockanum. South Cong. Ch. (5 of which from
Mrs. E. M. Roberts) 13.00
Mansfield. B. F. K. 0.51
Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. N. L.
BRADLEY, J. C. TWICHELL, GEO. ATKINSON, GEO.
E SAVAGE, EDWARD C. ALLEN, J. P. PARKER,
MRS. F. A. OTIS, F. J. WHEELER, S. C.
PIERSON and A. H. GARDNER L. Ms. 300.00
Milford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ and to const.
ALBERT NETTLETON L. M. 30.00
Naugatuck. Cong. Ch., 105.80; Andrew Hills, 25 130.80
New Canaan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
New Haven. Amos Townsend 10.00
New Haven. Sab. Sch. of Ch. of the Redeemer,
_for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00
New Preston. “Mrs. B. A.,” _for Lady
Missionary, Raleigh, N.C._ 10.00
Orange. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson
C. & N. Inst. (Building)_ 10.00
Plainville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Tillotson C. & N. Inst. (Land)_ 2.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 55.00
Portland. First Cong. Ch. 7.49
Stamford. Cong. Ch. 47.30
Stratford. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 56.72
Torrington. Young Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of
C., val. 50, and 4, _for Freight, for
Talladega C._ 4.00
Washington. “Z.” _for Indian M._ 1.00
Willimantic. I. E. S. 1.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. 8.89
Woodbury. North Cong. Ch. 23.00
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$1,032.73
LEGACIES.

Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by Edwin
Talcott, Ex. 2,200.00
New Haven. Estate of Mrs. Phebe Browning, by
Henry E. Pardee, Ex. 382.00
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$3,614.73

NEW YORK, $10,861.41.

Albany. Clinton Sq. Bible Sch., _for Needmore
Chapel, Talladega, Ala._ 25.00
Albany. H. A. Homes 3.00
Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood, 15; Eliza A. Bell,
2 17.00
Brooklyn. Tompkins Av. Cong. Ch. 216.15
Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., _for
Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla., and
Ladies’ Island, S.C._ 175.00
Champion. Cong. Ch. 8.30
Columbus. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Harlem. Cong. Ch. adl. 0.75
Hobart. J. W. Blish and wife 3.00
Marcellus. Presb. Ch. 4.75
Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 39.27
New York. HENRY C. HOUGHTON, M.D., to const.
himself L. M. 30.00
New York. Sheldon & Co., 56 vols., _for
Library, Macon, Ga._
Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard 150.00
Poughkeepsie. First Reformed Ch. 22.83
Ransomville. John Powley 5.00
Rodman. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00
Sherburne. First Cong. Ch. (15 of which _for
Talladega C._) 78.33
Syracuse. Mrs S. J. White, to const. MRS. H.
J. GOUDY L. M. 30.00
Volney. Ludington Sab. Sch. 3.03
West Bloomfield. Miss Vidie Taft, 25.
“Friends,” 10, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
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$861.41
LEGACY.

New York. Estate of Francis P. Schoals 10,000.00
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$10,861.41

NEW JERSEY, $10.50.

Newfield. Rev. Chas. Willey 5.00
Stanley. “A Friend” 5.00
Woodbridge. Rev. C. N. 0.50

PENNSYLVANIA, $10.00.

Washington. Mrs. M. H. McFarland 10.00

OHIO, $448.19.

Brooklyn. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Brownhelm. “R. A. B.” 2.50
Chardon. Rev. A. T. Reed 3.00
Cleveland. Plymouth Ch. 107.79
Elyria. “M. L. W.,” 1.50; W. J. N., 50c. 2.00
Geneva. W. M. A. 1.00
Grafton. Mrs. Sally Tuttle 5.00
Guilford. Trustees of First Cong. Ch., to
const. MRS. MARY GRAY, MRS. AMANDA BIGHAM
and MRS. A. C. DOWD, L. M.’s 100.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 40.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 30.80
Oberlin. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 30.00
Pittsfield. Rev. W. W. F. 1.00
Ruggles. Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.60
Strongsville. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Wellington. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Willoughby. Florence Page, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 5.00
Wilseyville. E. M. Ensign 10.00
Zanesville. Mrs. M. T. 0.50
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$418.19
LEGACY.

Pittsfield. Estate of Mrs. A. C. Morley, to
const., Prof. EDWARD W. MORLEY, L. M. 30.00
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$448.19

ILLINOIS, $595.82.

Altona. Rev. E. H. B. 0.50
Aurora. New England Cong. Ch. 35.70
Bone Gap. Cyrus Rice, deceased, by Mrs. Martha
Rice 5.00
Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H. 1.00
Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 100; First Cong.
Ch., 87.02 187.02
Chicago. A. H. Andrews & Co., Folding
bedstead, val. 27, _for Atlanta U._
Evanston. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Galesburgh. “A Friend” 20.00
Geneseo. First Cong. Ch., H. Nourse 50.00
Hampton. Cong. Ch. 6.22
Jacksonville. H. L. &. M. C. Melendy 10.00
Mendon. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 5.00
Oak Park. Girl’s Mission Circle, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Ottawa. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Rockford. Mrs. C. L. Robinson, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Sheffield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 6.71
South Chicago. Cong. Ch. 12.04
Stillman Valley. Cong. Ch. 51.91
Waverly. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 12.22
Wilmette. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 12.50

MICHIGAN, $1,444.63.

Alpena. Mrs. T. E. H. 0.50
Armanda. Sab. Sch. of Cong Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00
Detroit. First Cong. Ch., 213; Rev. Jeremiah
Porter, 25 238.00
Four Towns. Rev. E. C. Herrington 5.00
Galesburgh. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Grand Rapids. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke_ 20.00
Kalamazoo. Sab. Sch. of Plymouth Cong. Ch.,
_for Tougaloo U._ 10.00
Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. to const. MRS.
MARY J. MEADE L. M. 30.00
Ludington. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Northport. Cong. Ch. 9.13
Quincy. Samuel F. Porter and Wife 50.00
Saint Johns. G. B. 1.00
Salem. Rev. James Vincent 10.00
South Haven. Clark Pierce 10.00
Union City. “A Friend” 1,000.00
Warren. “C. S. B.” 1.00
Ypsilanti. Gertrude F. Milton 3.00

IOWA, $217.79.

Alden. Cong. Ch., 8; Mrs. E. Rogers, 2 10.00
Bellevue. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. 3.60
Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 32.00
Des Moines. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 25.00
Eldora. Cong. Ch., 10.10; Mrs. G. S., 50c. 10.60
Glenwood. Cong. Ch. 11.59
Holland. “A Friend” 4.00
Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch. 8.55
Long Creek. Mrs. Sarah E. Evans 5.00
Marion. “Willing Workers,” _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 30.00
McGregor. Daisy Club, _for little girls in New
Orleans, La._ 5.00
Montour. Cong. Ch. 22.45

WISCONSIN, $109.81.

Beloit. Y. M. C. A. of Beloit College 1.25
Bloomington. Cong. Ch. 3.30
Cumberland. W. B. Hopkins, M.D. 10.00
Eau Claire. D. Bresee, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. 13.70
Madison. Hon. W. H. Chandler 3.06
Menominee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 12.50
Milwaukee. Hanover St. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Racine. Rev. C. N. 1.00

MINNESOTA, $124.42.

Alexandria. “A Friend,” _for Mendi M._ 11.00
Glyndon. The Church at Glyndon 9.00
Hastings. D. B. Truax 5.00
Lake City. Cong. Ch. 10.25
Mantorville. Rev. Henry Willard 25.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 50.17; Second Cong.
Ch., 4 54.17
Northfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John
Brown Steamer_ 10.00

NEBRASKA, $52.85.

Fremont. Cong. Ch., 26.10, and Sab. Sch., 15 41.10
Lincoln. “K. and C.” 8.00
Nebraska City. Cong. Ch. 3.75

WASHINGTON TER., $5.00.

New Tacoma. Mrs. Eliza Taylor 5.00

MISSOURI, $50.50.

Jefferson City. E. L. A. 0.50
St. Louis. Rev. and Mrs. C. L. Goodell 50.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $48.00.

Washington. First Cong. Ch. 48.00

VIRGINIA, $6.62.

Herndon. Cong. Ch. 6.62

KENTUCKY, $64.75.

Lexington. Tuition 47.00
Whitley. Tuition 17.75

TENNESSEE, $489.00.

Memphis. Tuition 207.70
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 279.30
Nashville. “Cash” _for Freight_ 2.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $253.25.

Wilmington. Tuition 248.25
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.00

SOUTH CAROLINA, $349.35.

Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition 339.35
Charleston. Cong. Ch. 10.00

GEORGIA, $525.17.

Atlanta. Atlanta U., Tuition 161.22
Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Macon. Lewis High School, Tuition, 177; Rent, 8 185.00
Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 138.95; Rent,
10 148.95

ALABAMA, $96.43.

Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 63.00
Marion. Cong. Ch. 10.33
Marion. Tuition 4.75
Shelby Iron Works. Mrs. P. F. H. 0.50
Selma. Cong. Ch. 17.85

LOUISIANA, $159.25.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 159.25

TEXAS, $171.25.

Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Inst., Tuition 163.25
Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
Mendi M._ 3.00
——. “A Friend” by Prof. Anderson, _for
Tillotson C. and N. Inst._ 5.00

INCOMES, $687.45.

Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 83.15
De Forest Fund, _for President’s Chair,
Talladega C._ 344.13
Graves Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._ 72.78
Haley Scholarship Fund, _for Fisk U._ 30.83
Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 22.10
Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ 61.67
Theo. Endowment Fund, _for Howard U._ 72.79
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Total for November $23,654.64
Total from Oct. 1, to Nov. 30 $34,544.36
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“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should be attested by three witnesses.

AIM AND WORK.

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

STATISTICS FOR 1882.

CHURCHES: _In the South_—In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 2; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 5; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 88.

INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.—_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La., and Austin, Tex.—8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: Wilmington, N.C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S.C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.—11. _Other Schools_, 38. Total, 57.

TEACHERS MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 336; among the Chinese, 31; among the Indians, 6; in Africa, 16. Total, 389. STUDENTS.—In theology, 72; law, 28; in college course, 104; in other studies, 9,404. Total, 9,608. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

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

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