Chapter II: Part 2

Several papers were listened to with interest, the first read by Miss Jillson, on “Our Duty to Foreign Missions and the means by which an interest may be Promoted.” Miss Plimpton and Mrs. A. W. Curtis followed in discussion on the subject. Mrs. Curtis spoke of the joy her husband’s mother felt in giving three sons to the missionary fields; how this love had been awakened in her children by reading to them from the _Missionary Herald_. Mrs. Andrews read letters of greeting from the President and Secretary of the Boston Association. Miss Chafin sent a paper, on “Do we owe a Tenth to the Lord?”

A poem was read by Miss Partridge, “So Much to do at Home.” In this an African Chief is begging for some Christian teachers to go with him to lead his people to the Saviour, but is denied because there is so much at home to be done. Mrs. Fay gave a talk on “How to organize Missionary Societies,” urging the members of those churches who have no such organization to form one at once.

Miss Mickle presented another paper on “Hath She Done what She Could?” Mrs. Steele of Chattanooga, Tenn., was present and offered the closing prayer. Singing was interspersed, and we felt that the hours had brought to us an encouragement and strength which will make us more hopeful for the future.

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NOTES FROM THE FIELD.

—A Welsh Cong. Church has been organized at Rock Creek, Tenn., with 22 members, by the Rev. Wm. H. Thomas.

—Rev. L. C. Joell, a recent graduate of the Theol. Dept. of Howard University, has been appointed for church work at Greenwood, S.C.

—More than two score souls are reported to have been converted at a series of meetings conducted by Revs. Imes and Fields at Memphis, Tenn.

—A revival is reported in connection with the labors of Rev. B. F. Foster at Fayetteville, Ark.

—Rev. Milus Harris, of Talladega, is conducting school and church services at Tecumseh, Ala., in the building erected by the Tecumseh Iron Co.

—A church of fourteen members has been recognized by Council at Jackson, Miss. The sermon was by Supt. Roy. Most of the members had been students at Tougaloo University.

—The Mississippi Association of Cong. Churches and ministers was organized at Tougaloo, Miss., March 31. Pres. Pope and Rev. C. L. Harris were elected as delegates to the National Council. A missionary committee was appointed to take charge of two missions already established.

—Supt. Roy has organized a church of ten members at Knoxville, Tenn., which was recognized by Council April 22. Rev. Simon Peter Smith, from Washington, has been assigned to this charge. A church edifice has been secured.

—The Central Church, New Orleans, under the ministration of Rev. Dr. Alexander, has received forty new members during the year. The church pays $50 a month towards the pastor’s salary.

—Miss Gerrish, who has been sustained by the ladies of Iowa, as missionary, in connection with the Central Church, New Orleans, has been greatly blessed in her work done in the mothers’ meeting and the sewing class. Twelve hundred calls were made by her during the first six months of her service.

—A church was organized at Fayetteville, Ark., with nine members, April 15. Supt. Roy and Rev. B. F. Foster, the pastor of the church, were in attendance. At the first communion season the church was made happy in the use of a new communion set and an outfit of chapel lamps from Rev. Geo. M. Boynton’s people, Jamaica Plain, Mass.

—The Spirit of God has been poured out upon both church and school at the Le Moyne Institute. In the normal department of the school there are but six or eight who do not profess Christ. Eighty per cent. of all the students are reported to be seeking to lead Christian lives. Over fifty souls have recently professed faith in Christ, about twenty of whom will soon be added to the church.

—Prof. Hitchcock, of Straight University, New Orleans, has interested parties on the ground to provide for orange and other fruit trees to be planted on the square in connection with the University buildings. He is anxious, however, to secure additional funds in order that the planting may be sufficient and immediate.

—A new church has been organized at Birmingham, Ala., under the guidance of Supt. Roy. Rev. Andrew J. Headen has been chosen pastor, and the work is now being carried on with good success.

—Rev. C. W. Francis, of Atlanta, reports the conversion of eighteen students in connection with the University. One is a member of the graduating class and another has been a Roman Catholic.

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THE CHINESE.

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THE NEW MISSION IN SOUTH CHINA.

BY REV. W. C. POND.

The memorable event of the month of February—so far as our work is concerned—is the inauguration of the mission of the American Board to Hong Kong, and through Hong Kong to those districts of South China from which most of our Chinese have come. Rev. C. R. Hager, a recent graduate of our Pacific Theological Seminary, and for more than a year past a very successful and greatly beloved pastor at Antioch, in this State, having offered himself to the Board as a Foreign Missionary, was at our own suggestion and request appointed to take charge of this new work, and was ordained as a Missionary at Bethany Church, on Friday, Feb. 16. One of the exercises at the ordination service was an address by Jee Gam, a portion of which, I trust, can be crowded into the space allotted in the MISSIONARY to our work. It will scarcely be necessary for me to add anything, unless it be to say that to my faith this work thus begun looms up in grand proportions, as fraught with most beneficent results. I am prepared in spirit patiently to wait—prepared, if such be God’s will, utterly to fail—but my faith feels so strong, my hopes are so high, so bright, so confident, that I seem to myself already to be entering on the harvest, and the joy of harvest fills my heart.

JEE GAM’S ADDRESS.

It was ten years ago when our Chinese brethren first felt the need of a mission in China at or near the districts from which most of our brethren came. They grew more and more anxious for this mission, when they heard of the aid and refuge given to the persecuted Christians by the other mission in Canton city.

The first three years we often expressed our great desire among ourselves for this mission, but never thought of telling our superintendent, Rev. W. C. Pond. Not a word was said to him until at our usual Wednesday afternoon Bible class, about seven years ago, when the subject of foreign missions was accidentally mentioned. We then told Rev. W. C. Pond what we so much desired. He at once approved of it. Hong Kong was chosen for the seat of this mission, and Mr. Pond requested that those who were able to write a letter should do so, explaining why this mission was so much needed. He accordingly forwarded these letters to the American Missionary Association. Though the Association sympathized with us in our want, yet how this mission could be established looked very doubtful. The matter was left to stand; but we remembered that James tells us to ask in faith, nothing wavering, and we knew that God was able to supply all our needs; so we kept on praying. In the first part of October, 1879, I was greatly surprised by the very generous invitation which the American Missionary Association tendered me to attend its annual meeting at Chicago. I started for the East, but thought nothing of this Hong Kong mission until at the annual meeting, when I felt moved by the Holy Spirit to make an earnest plea for it. I also spoke for it at all the meetings I attended while East.

On the evening of the 4th of August, 1882 (the same day the Chinese Restriction bill went into effect), the good news came through our superintendent that the American Board had consented to establish the Hong Kong Mission. Oh, how my heart, filled to overflowing, went out to God in thanksgiving and praise! Immediately we called the brethren to tell them the good news. Christ has told us to ask and we shall receive; yet, when this ten years’ prayer was answered, it seemed almost too much to believe, and we are here this evening to praise God once more for his love to us and our benighted countrymen in China. * * *

Having Hong Kong for headquarters, missionaries and teachers can be sent from there to preach and teach in the villages from which our young men come. Besides this, the English language is used more in Hong Kong than in any other part of China, and the Chinese living there, or those visiting that place, could not be reached in a more efficient manner than by opening the same kind of free schools for them that you have opened for us here. They need to know the English language. Of course there are public schools, where both the English and Chinese languages are taught by the British Government, but all have their sessions in the daytime: consequently, the children are the only ones benefited by these schools. There remains the laboring class unreached. If a free evening school is opened, I have no doubt that much good could be done among them. Moreover, Hong Kong is a great highway to all foreign ports, especially San Francisco. Through Hong Kong nearly all the Chinese in the United States have come and will return. If a general mission could be established at this port, much co-operating work could be accomplished between our missions here and that at Hong Kong. Christian Chinese returning home would receive letters of introduction to the superintendent of the Hong Kong mission. This superintendent would have pastoral care over them, and would be a very great help in time of persecution. Converts would be made firmer in faith, and more earnest in leading others to Christ.

The Congregational Association of Christian Chinese, at its last annual meeting, voted to give $500 toward the establishing of this Hong Kong mission, and do all in its power to help in the future. God be praised, for he has shown his wonderful love to China. He is to be praised for this beloved brother, who so kindly offers himself for the Master’s service. He is to be praised for the American Board which sends him. May the Lord raise up many more like workers, who shall devote their lives to China.

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Let me add that besides this gift of money, our mission sends with Mr. Hager one of our very best helpers, Lee Sam. We shall miss him greatly, but we have plead for this new work, expecting that it would draw upon us in that way largely. To raise up and train men for Gospel work among the millions beyond the sea, will now be one of the chief ends to be kept in view in our work in California. And because of this, we ask with an intensity of desire scarcely known to us before, a place in the prayers of God’s people throughout our whole land.

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

THE COMING OF THE ORGAN.

BY MRS. WALTER E. C. WRIGHT, BEREA, KY.

“Pine Grove College,” as it is called in Jackson County, needed an organ; there was no doubt about that. But the likelihood of obtaining it seemed small. Away up there in the mountains of Kentucky, there were few who had ever seen an organ, and only the teacher knew how much it would help in the day school, the Sunday-school and the preaching services. So Miss Barton sang herself hoarse trying to teach the children to sing by rote, and on Sunday the minister had to line the hymns for want of books. (Your grandmamma can tell you what I mean by “_lining_ the hymn.”) In all the mountain churches, both colored and white, the people always sing in that way, and having no organ to keep them together, they come out at the end one behind the other, like the “rounds” you sing at school.

One day a teacher from Berea went up to visit the school, and when she saw the bright, eager faces of the children, and the effort the teacher was making to have them learn to sing, she said, “Why, how much you need an organ here. It would lift these children into a whole new world of ideas.” “Yes, I know it,” answered Miss Barton, “but where is it to come from?” Well, Miss D. went home and thought it over, and then wrote to Miss Barton that if the people there would raise thirty dollars, she would see that they had an organ. Miss Barton did not feel much encouraged, for the people in that region are not rich, and one dollar looks very large to them. However, she read Miss D.’s letter to them at Sabbath school, and explained what an advantage it would be to have the instrument to use. To her great surprise they pledged the amount at once, though many of them cannot afford sugar in their coffee, or butter on the corn bread, which, with bacon, is the staple of their living. I have not time to tell how Miss D. raised the rest of the money, how she found a dealer who had a very fine organ to sell at second hand, and who threw off fifteen dollars when he found for what she wanted it—nor how one friend in Tallmadge and another in Akron helped on, and at last the organ was ordered and sent. It was expected on a certain Saturday, and on Sunday morning you might have seen the people gathering in unusually large numbers. All who did not walk came on horseback. There a mother with her baby on her arm, and a little girl behind her on the family horse. Here the father, with a three-year-old boy behind him on the colt, and yonder three older children on another horse, all sitting with that easy security they express when they say “I was born on a horse,” and thinking no more about it than you do when you ride in a street car.

But when the people reached the school-house their faces fell as they came in one after another and saw there was no organ on the platform. The wagon had broken down bringing it over the almost impassable roads from the station twenty miles away, and at last Sunday-school was commenced with a feeling of disappointment in all hearts. Even brave Miss Barton felt a lump in her throat, for she had counted on it like the meeting of an old friend in a strange land. But just in the middle of the lesson the creaking of wheels was heard and some men came in with _something_ still encased in the box in which it was packed. No more lesson that day. Every boy and girl, colored and white, was as eager and curious as if this was a stray cage from some menagerie. Finally, with some little trouble, the packing-case was removed, and there was a plain, quiet little walnut thing, looking some like a small cupboard, and now the question arose on which side was it made to stand? The teacher, seeing the dilemma, suggested the proper base, on which it was firmly placed. Then a chair was brought, some books piled on it—and _then_ they found there was no key. But somebody produced a nail, the cover was lifted, and there was their organ smiling at them and showing every one of its pretty white teeth. And oh, when the wonderful thing began to sing, how pleased they were! The children forgot that they too could sing

“Praise God from whom all blessings flow,”

while listening to the beautiful, strange voice. Presently they gained courage and joined in the Gospel hymns (which the common people _do_ sing gladly), and sang, and sang, and sang, all through the time for Sabbath school and all through the time for preaching.

I think the angels hearing the sounds must have rejoiced that day with great hope for the souls that might be won to repentance through the Coming of the Organ.

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RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1883.

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MAINE, $215.13.

Bath. Central Ch. and Soc., 45; Winter St.
Cong. Ch. and Soc., 35.15 $80.15
Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.24
Brewer. Cong. Ch. 9.50
Buxton. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
East Orrington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.04
East Otisfield. Mrs. Susan Lovell, 5; Mrs.
Sarah P. Morton, 2; Rev. J Loring, 1.75;
Mrs. A. Lovewell, 1; Mrs. M. H. Jennings, 25c 10.00
Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.78
Gorham. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Needmore Chapel,
Talladega C._ 19.17
Newport. Mrs. M. S. Nickerson 0.50
South Paris. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.25
Norway. Mrs. M. K. Frost 0.50
Waldoborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Wells. Barak Maxwell 20.00
Winthrop. Cong. Ch. 17.00
York. “A Friend,” by Rev. D. B. Sewall 3.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $430.07.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 15.70
Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Colebrook. “E. C. W.” 2.00
Concord. North Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 122.08
Exeter. Cong. Ch. 2 Bbls of C., _for Tillotson
C. & N. Inst._ Mrs. Odlin _for Freight_ 3.00
East Alstead. Rev G. A. Beckwith, Box Books,
_for Library, Macon, Ga._
Great Falls. Mission Fund, Cong. Soc. 11.25
and Bbl. of C. _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 11.25
Hillsborough Bridge. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 32.55; George
Cooke, 5 37.55
Lisbon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Mason. Cong. Ch. 9.00
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.74
New Boston. “A Friend” (of which 50 _for
Chinese and 25 for Indian M._) 100.00
New Ipswich. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
North Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady
Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 21.00
Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 16; “H. H. C.,” 1.
“F. B.” 25c 17.25
Orfordville. D. T Hale 5.00
Piermont. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; E. Ford, 5 10.00
Portsmouth. Rev. W. W. Dow 2.00
Shelburne. Mrs. Mary C. Ingalls 2.50
Wilton. Rev. A. E. Tracy, Bbl. C., _for Macon,
Ga._

VERMONT, $530.68.

Brattleborough. Helen J. Preston, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Brookfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.35
Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. M. Safford 38.52
Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.27
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.65
Norwich. Mrs. H. Burton 2.00
Manchester. Cong. Ch., 122.68; A. Hemenway, 5 127.68
Rochester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Two bbls. C.
_for Talladega C._
Rutland. Cong. Ch. 243.74
Saxton’s River. Rev. William Sewall, Pkg. of
C., _for Atlanta U._
Thetford. Cong. and Soc. 12.14
Townshend. “Miss E. M. B.” 5.00
——. “L. G.” 5.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch., and Soc. to
const. MRS. MARY W. CLARK L. M. 31.53
West Brattleborough. Ladies of Cong. Soc., 2
Bbls. of C. _for Talladega. C., 5 for
Freight_ 5.00
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 2.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $13,166.38.

Andover. West Parish Juv. Soc., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Andover. Mrs. Sophia Tufts, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 5 00
Andover. The late Mrs. Caroline T. Jackson 17.00
Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.75
Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Amherst. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 1.00
Ashburnham. Marshall Wetherbee 2.00
Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.86
Auburn. Cong. Sab. Sch. (of which 11.66 for
Indian and Chinese M.) 17.50
Beverly. Ladies’ M. C. of Cong. Ch., 20 pair
of sheets, _for Fisk U._
Billerica. Trinitarian Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
14.97; Sab. Sch., 8.35, bal. to const. REV.
FREDERICK. A. WILSON L. M. 23.32
Boston. Central Ch. and Soc., 1,008.64; Chas.
C. Barry, 25; “A Friend,” 5; M. A. Willard, 1 1,039.64
Boston. N. B. Goodnow, 5; “A Friend,” 1; Lee &
Shepard, books, val. 17, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 6.00
Boston and vicinity. Ladies, Seven boxes
Bedding, _for Fisk U._
Boxborough. Mary Stone 10.00
Boxford. Miss Mary Sawyer, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 1.00
Brocton. Porter Evan. Ch. 51.78
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 87.83
Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., 30, to
const. MRS. CAROLINE F. BRADSHAW, L. M.;
Pilgrim Ch., 13.42 43.42
Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 74.47
Chelsea. “Ladies Union Home Miss. Band,” _for
Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 40 00
Coleraine. Rev. D. A. Strong 0.50
Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.26
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17 04
Dorchester. Village Ch. and Soc. 38.37
Dracut. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
JAMES THOMPSON, L. M. 40.00
Dunstable. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.00
Essex. “Helping Hand Soc.” of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Dakota M._ 50.00
Essex. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00
Essex Co. “A Friend,” 15.00
East Charlemont. Dea. Phineas Field 2.00
East Hampton. Ladies Benev. Soc. Payson Cong.
Ch. Two Bbls. of C., 5 _for Freight, for
Talladega C._ 5.00
Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.80
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Florence. Florence Cong. Ch. 27.78
Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.09
Granby. Mrs. A. Bliss, _for Atlanta, Ga._ 5.00
Granville. C. Holcomb and wife 10.00
Globe Village. B. U. Bugbee, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 2.50
Gloucester. Addie W. Proctor, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 1.00
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. ($30 of which
from Ladies to const. MISS MARY D. WILLIAMS,
L. M.) 68.09
Holbrook. Ladies Sew. Circle, Bbl. and Box C.,
_for Macon, Ga., 6 for Freight_ 6.00
Holliston. “Friends.” 13.50; Primary Class
Cong. Sab. Sch., 5, _for Student Aid_;
“Friend,” Carpet (Val. 22.50), _for teachers
room, Stone Hall_. Ladies Benev. Soc., of
Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega C._ 18.50
Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. 14.84
Ipswich. “Friends of the Cause” 4.00
Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box S. S.
Books _for McIntosh, Ga._
Lincoln. “A Friend,” _for Chinese M._ 1.00
Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 81.35
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 500.00
Medford. “A Friend,” Bickford Knitting
Machine, _for Atlanta U._
Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Hampton N. and
A. Inst_ 40.00
Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.16
Monson. Cong. Ch. 43.04
Montague. First Cong. Ch. 14.41
Natick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Natick. Cong Ch., 15; “Friends,” 10; Harrison
Harwood, 5; S. E. Howard, 5, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 35.00
Newton. Freedman’s Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl. of C.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Newton Centre. Ladies Benev. Soc. _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch. & Soc. 55.48
Newtonville. Ladies of Cong. Ch. & Soc. Bbl.
and Box of C, _for Raleigh, N.C._
North Adams. First Cong. Ch. 25.71
Northampton. A. L. Williston 525; First Cong.
Ch., 254.82; “A Friend” 100 879.82
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00
Peabody. South Ch. and Soc. 130.00
Peabody. Mrs. W. G. Sperry, _for Atlanta, Ga._ 1.00
Pittsfield. Ladies of Free Will Soc. First
Cong Ch., Bbl. of C. (Val. 56), _for
Atlanta. U._
Reading. Coll. by Mrs. Temple _for Freight_ 4.00
Reading. Ladies of Bethesda Ch. and Soc., Bbl.
of C. (Val. 25), _for Fisk U._
Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 31.48
Royalston. Mrs. E. B. Ripley, Box Bedding,
_for Talladega C._
Salem. Young Ladies’ Mission Circle of Tab.
Ch., _for Dakota M._ 50.00
Salem. Tabernacle Ch. Sab. Sch., Primary
class, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00
Somerville. Franklin St. Ch. & Soc. 95.68
South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.39
South Deerfield. Mrs. M. C. Tilton 2.00
South Framingham. Young Peoples’ Benev. Soc.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Springfield. “H. M.” 500; South Cong. Ch.
28.62; First Cong. Ch., 20.85 549.47
Springfield. Mrs. P. Burnham, _for Indian M._ 0.50
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.00
Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00
Taunton. Dr. J. S. Andrews, 17, _for Student
Aid_; Ladies Soc. of Broadway Ch., Bbl. of
C., _for Atlanta U._ 17.00
Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5, “L. H. S.” 5 10.00
Townsend Harbor. Box Mission Goods, by Mrs.
Ralph Ball, _for Ladies’ Island, S.C._
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.03
Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.00
Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc, to const.
FREDERICK C. BLOOD, F. D. WINSLOW, MISS
CARRIE GIBBS, MISS BELLE NAYLOR, L. Ms. 403.45
Watertown. Phillips Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
West Berlin. Miss S. C. Larkin, _for Atlanta,
Ga._ 1.00
West Boylston. “Willing Workers” of Cong. Ch.,
15 _for furnishing Stone Hall_, 10 _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00
Westfield. First Cong. Ch., 70; Second Cong.
Ch., 23.91; Mrs. Charlotte W. Fowler, 5 98.91
West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.62
Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., by Wm. J.
Edwards, “S. S.” and S. A. Phelps, 31; Cong.
Sab. Sch., 13.52; “A Friend,” 25 69.52
West Townsend. Mrs. Samuel Jenkins, deceased,
by Julia A. Cumings 5.00
Wellesley Hills. B. F. Parker, 5 _for Student
Aid_; Ladies of Cong. Soc., Bbl. of C., 1.65
_for Freight, for Talladega C._ 6.65
Wilmington. “Friends,” by Mrs. H. G. Noyes,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Winchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l. 119.85
Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc. 114.00
Worcester. Ladies of Piedmont Ch., _Box of C.,
for Talladega C._
Yarmouth. Bbl of C., by Rev. J. W. Dodge, _for
Wilmington, N.C._
——. “A Friend” 10.00
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$6,036.86

LEGACIES.

Danvers. Estate of Benjamin Hutchinson, by
Elijah Hutchinson, Ex. 25.00
Taunton. Estate of Mary Ide, by Stephen
Pierce, Ex. 7,104.52
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$13,166.38

RHODE ISLAND, $52.52.

Kingston. H. J. Wells 15.00
Little Compton. Sab. Sch. of United Cong. Ch.,
15.62; “A Friend,” 5; “Thank Offering,” 1.38 22.00
Providence. Miss N. Marsh, 3 pkgs. Papers,
_for Little Rock, Ark._
Slatersville. Cong. Church. 15.52

CONNECTICUT, $2,308.58.

Bethlehem. Cong. Ch., 12.26; “A Friend,” 10 22.26
Birmingham. Cong. Ch., 65.02; George W.
Shelton, 10 75.02
Bolton. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Branford. “H. G. H.” 5.00
Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 60.00
Bristol. Cong. Ch. 93.88
Clinton. Cong. Ch., _for Tillotson C. & N.
Inst._ 10.12
Colchester. Josiah Gillette 5.00
Collinsville. M. McNary Spencer 2.00
Essex. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 30.50
East Hampton. Cong. Ch. 25.86
East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
East Haven. Cong. Ch. 8.05
East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Darien. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. 60.98
Franklin. Cong. Ch. 9.00
Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 12.00
Hartford. Mrs. C. R. Hillyer, to const. LYMAN
BEECHER STOWE L. M. 30.00
Hartford. W. J. Wood _for Theo. Dept.
Talladega C._ 25.00
Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MRS. FRANCES C. CARPENTER L. M. 20.00
Lakeville. Mrs. M. H. Williams 10.00
Ledyard. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.31
Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.82
Mansfield Center. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Meriden. Center Church 29.00
Milford. Rev. G. H. Griffin, 25 Books, _for
prizes, Macon, Ga._
New Britain. South Cong. Ch., 177.40; Members
South Cong. Ch. (special) 15; to const. J.
N. CARLETON, J. WARREN TUCK, JOHN N.
BARTLETT, GEORGE A. CONKLING, WILLIAM E.
LATHAM and WM. H. HART L. Ms 192.40
New Haven. First Ch., 195.65; Church of the
Redeemer, 100; Edwin Shelley, 2 297.65
New Haven. Miss McAllister’s Class, North Ch.
Sab. Sch., _for John Brown, Steamer_ 5.00
Newington. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of Toys, _for
Talladega C._, 1, _for Freight_ 1.00
North Coventry. Cong. Ch. 42.00
Plantsville. Cong. Ch. 255.20
Plantsville. “Friends” by L. C. Clark, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 75.00
Putnam. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 25.00
Rockville. First Cong. Ch., $30 of which to
const. GEORGE N. BRIGHAM L. M. 133.50
Seymour. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Sherman. Cong. Ch. 17.00
Terryville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 35.00
Unionville. 2 Bbls C., Mrs. James A. Smith 5,
_for Little Rock Ark._ 5.00
Waterbury. Mrs. Chas. Benedict, Clock, _for
Macon, Ga._
Westminster. Rev. & Mrs. S. B. Carter 5.00
West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Whitneyville. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Windsor Locks. Young Ladies’ Soc., Bbl. of
Bedding, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._
Woodbridge. Cong. Ch. 8.03
Woodbury. Class No. 13, North Ch. Sab. Sch., 5
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._, and 5 _for ed.
Indian Girls, Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 10.00
——. “A Friend” 500.00

NEW YORK, $3,789.14.

Baldwinsville. Howard Cutler 25.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla. and Ladies’
Island, S.C._ 175.00
Brooklyn. H. M. Wiggins, 50c.; REV. S. B.
Halliday, Pkg. Books 0.50
Bristol. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 13.00
Buffalo. First Cong. Ch. 70.00
Buffalo. Mrs. W. G. Bancroft, _for Tillotson
C. and N. Inst._ 50.00
Cooperstown. C. Stoddard, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 5.00
Crown Point. First Cong. Ch., 34.02; Second
Cong Ch. 3 37.02
Gilbertsville. A. Wood, A.M. 5.00
Homer. Four Classes in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 8.00
Jamesport. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Little Falls. Young Ladies Circle, Presb. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. 749.49
New York. Broadway Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
New York. S. T. Gordon, 51 copies “Song
Garner.”
Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. MRS.
HANNAH M. TIFFINY, L. M. 38.83
Oneida. Edward Loomis 5.00
Penn Yan. W. M. Taylor 2.50
Spenceport. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 17.50
Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 7.30; Miss F.
Amelia Clarke, 1 8.30
Troy. John H. Kellogg, Pkg. Books, _for
Library, Macon, Ga._
Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch. 9.00
West Yaphank. Mrs. Hannah M. Overton 5.00
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$1,289.14

LEGACY.

Waverly. Estate of Phebe Hepburne by Howard
Elmer. Ex. 2,500.00
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$3,789.14

NEW JERSEY, $396.00.

Highlands. Rev. R. R. Proudfit 10.00
Jersey City. “A Friend” 10.00
Montclair. First Cong. Ch. 345.00
Orange Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 5.00
Paterson. Auburn St. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Raritan. Miss Sarah Provost, Box of Papers,
etc.
Waverly. Mission Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 16.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $62.75.

Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., adl. 17.75
Sewickley. Lucy F. Bittinger, _for Dakota M._ 10.00
West Alexander. Rural Mite Soc., 25.00; Thomas
McCleery, 10.00 35.00

OHIO, $1,855.00.

Aurora. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Bellevue. Young People’s Miss’y Soc. of Cong.
Ch. 10.00
Belpre. Cong. Ch. 30.63
Bryan. S. E. Blakeslee, _for Indian M._ 5.00
Castalia. Cong. Ch. 3.85 and Sab. Sch. 1.21 5.06
Cleveland. Jennings Ave. Cong. Ch. 96.75.
First Cong. Ch. 19.51 116.26
Cleveland. Daniel P. Eells, 50; Young People’s
Miss’y Soc., 25; Dea. S. H. Sheldon, 10; S.
C. Smith, 10; Henry M. Brooks, 3, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 98.00
Columbus. First Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. B.
D. HILLS, DEA. I. W. CHAMBERLAIN, REV. BENJ.
TALBOT, GEO. W. BRIGHT, DR. HENRY S.
BABBITT, MRS. HARRIET E. IDE, MRS. JOHN B.
HALL, MRS. B. F. REES and DEA. JEROME C.
BRIGGS, L. Ms. 264.00
Conneut. H. E. Pond 5.00
Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch. 9.84
Galion. Mrs. Campbell and E. C. Lindlay, _for
Atlanta, Ga._ 2.00
Mechanicsburg. Mrs. M. K. Howard 1.00
Napoleon. Mrs. N. B. Palmer 1.00
North Bloomfield. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 35.00
Oberlin. J. W. Merrill 90.00
Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,
_for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 75.00
Paddy’s Run. Cong. Ch. 22.30
Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. ADOLPH M.
LEVE L. M. 40.91
Springfield. Miss Anna Rice, _for Little Rock,
Ark._ 2.00
Tallmadge. Welsh Cong. Ch. 7.00
Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed 10.00
Unionville. Mrs. A. S. Hardy, S. S. Papers,
_for Little Rock, Ark._
West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Youngstown. “Mrs. J. D. W.” _for Lady
Missionary, Savannah, Ga._ 1.00
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$855.00

LEGACY.

Bellevue. Estate of Mrs. Elvira Boise, by
Spencer W. Boise, Ex. 1,000.00
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$1,855.00

INDIANA, $5.00.

New Corydon. Geo. Stolz 5.00

ILLINOIS, $1,475.46.

Batavia. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 18.24
Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. 26.10
Chesterfield. Miss L. M. Lawson, basted
patchwork, _for Little Rock, Ark._
Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 160.72; New
England Cong. Ch., 33.33; Leavitt St. Cong
Ch., 30.24; Theo. Sem. Missionary Soc, 7.10 231.39
Chicago. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Plymouth Ch.,
_for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._ 50.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Chicago. W. W. Catlin. _for Atlanta, Ga._ 4.35
Danville. Friends, 10 _for Student Aid_;
Ladies Soc. of Presb. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for
Talladega C._, 1.30 _for Freight_ 11.30
Galesburg. “A Friend,” _for Avery Inst.,
Charleston S.C._ 25.00
Griggsville. Mrs. James McWilliams 2.00
Fairview. Cong. Ch. 1.56
Farmington. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. LILLIAN
STERNBERG L. M. 89.42
Ivanhoe. “The Gleaners.” 25.00
Kewanee. Missy. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 20.00
Oak Park. S. W. Packard, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Oak Park. O. Packard’s Boys’ Class, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 17.00
Oswego. Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.47
Providence. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 14.65
Rockton. Cong. Ch. 16.72
Victoria. Cong. Ch. 2.37
Wilmette. Cong. Ch. 54.50
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 7.39
Wyanet. J. R. Phelps 1.00
——. “A Friend of A. M. A.” 500.00
——. “A Friend,” _for Talladega C._ 250.00

MICHIGAN, $530.09.

Alamo. Julius Hackley 10.00
Allegan. Cong. Ch. 26.10
Alpena. Miss Farwell, Pkg. of C., _for Atlanta
U._
Ann Arbor. “Friends,” _for Matron’s room,
Straight U._ 11.00
Benzonia. “Friends,” 4.13; S. F. Judson, 4.50 8.63
Bridgman. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 5.00
Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.
Talladega C._ 37.16
Charlotte. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Detroit. Hon. John S. Newbury, 100; Jas. A.
McMillan, 100, _for Pastor’s Residence,
Talladega C._ 200.00
Fremont. Cong. Ch. 4.25
Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H.
H. Sengstacke_ 20.00
Hancock. ——, _for Talladega C._ 20.00
Manistee. Cong. Ch. 34.79
Marble. Mrs. Josephine Barnes 2.00
Northport. First Cong. Ch. 7.41
Old Mission. Cong. Ch. 6.22
Olivet. Cong. Ch. 5.58
Pinckney. First Cong. Ch. 7.00
Traverse City. Samuel Anderson 5.00
Union City. Dea. Israel W. Clark, _for
Teacher’s Residence, Talladega C._ 100.00

IOWA, $419.87.

Algona. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._ 4.00
Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Needmore
Chapel, Talladega C._ 13.35
Bowen’s Prairie. Cong. Ch. 3.15
Cedar Falls. “Busy Bees” Cong. Ch., _for
Needmore Chapel, Talladega C._ 12.00
Charles City. Ladies of Cong. Ch. _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 10.00
Danville. Mrs. Harriet Huntington 6.00
Davenport. Ladies of Edwards Cong. Ch., _for
Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 13.45
Des Moines. Young People of Cong. Ch., by
Jennie Otis, 57.25; By Mrs. S. G. Otis,
7.25; Plymouth Cong. Ch., 12; S. J. Otis, 5;
“Friends,” 5 Bbls. C., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 81.50
Dubuque. Young People’s Benev. Soc., 25; Young
Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 25, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 50.00
Fontanelle. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 10.00
Grinnell. Ladies, _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._ 60.35
Grinnell. Mrs. J. B. Grinnell, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
Keokuk. Cong. Ch. 48.35
Lansing. Ladies _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._ 3.50
McGregor. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 9.58
McGregor. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 8.90
Miles. Rev. Oliver Emerson 2.00
Muscatine. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid.
Talladega C._ 10.00
Osage. Cong. Ch. 10.44
Riceville. Ladles, _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._ 3.00
Stuart. Mrs. Alice S. F. Kinsey, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 10.75
Tabor. W. H. M. Soc., _for Lady Missionary,
New Orleans, La._ 15.00
Tabor. Rev. J. Todd 0.50
Waterloo. Ladies Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, New Orleans, La._ 10.00
Watertown. Cong. Ch., Bbl. C. _for Talladega
C._, 2.05 _for freight_ 2.05
West Liberty. Mrs. L. K. Sisson, Box Books,
_for Library, Macon, Ga._
Winterset. Mrs. S. J. Dinsmore 12.00

WISCONSIN, $184.46.

Columbus. Calvin Baker 5.00
Elkhorn. Mrs. Harrison, _for Tillotson C. & N.
Inst._ 1.00
Emerald Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 9.53
Fort Atkinson. Mrs. C. B. Snell 10.00
Genesee. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.08
Kaukauna. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Kenosha. Thos. Gillespie, M.D. 5.00
Madison. First Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. E. H.
DUDLEY, MRS. FANNY BOWMAN and MRS. L.
GOODNOW, L. Ms. 100.00
Milwaukee. Grand Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00
Milwaukee. Mrs. J. M. Sewell and Friends, Box
Books, etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Ripon. Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls C., _for Macon, Ga._
Rosendale. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.75
Viroqua. Cong. Ch. 9.10
Watertown. Rev. G. S. Hubbs, Temperance Chart,
_for Macon, Ga._

MINNESOTA, $267.15.

Detroit. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Freeborn. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Glyndon. Mrs. S. N. Millard, _for Atlanta, Ga._ 0.25
Marshall. Cong. Ch. 12.15
Medford. First Cong. Ch. 3.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 25.81; Second Cong.
Ch., 1.44 27.25
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 60.00
Minneapolis. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Rushford. Cong Ch. 4.00
Saint Paul. Miss Anna Baker, _for Atlanta, Ga._ 2.00
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 3.50
Tivoli. L. Humiston 1.00
Winona. First Cong. Ch., to const. JAS. M.
HOLZINGER, L. CORA, DOUD and LOUISA M.
BASSEY, L. Ms. 75.00
——. *M.,* _for Talladega C._ 25.00

MISSOURI, $25.00.

Cameron. “Friends.” 2.00
Holden. Mrs. S. E. Howe, _for Indian M._ 2.00
Index. W. B. Wills, 10; P. M. Wills, 5; F. P.
Moreland, 1 16.00
New Cambria. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Sharon. Cong. Ch. 3.00

KANSAS, $12.00.

Topeka. Oliver H. Hay, _for Ground, Straight U._ 12.00

NEBRASKA, $219.90.

Bradshaw. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Buda Flat. German Cong. Ch. 2.40
Clarks. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lincoln. “A Friend of the Colored Race,” _for
Students preparing for the Ministry_ 200.00
Lincoln. “K. and C.” 6.00
Wayland. Miss S. P. Locke 4.50

UTAH, $5.00.

White Rocks. Miss Eliza C. Ayer 5.00

MONTANA, $3.00.

—— “A Friend” by L. N. B. 3.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $148.00.

Washington. First Cong. Ch. 148.00

KENTUCKY, $84.00.

Lexington. Tuition 55.50
Williamsburg. Tuition 28.50

TENNESSEE. $381.15.

Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 221.90
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 159.25

NORTH CAROLINA, $207.05.

Wilmington. Williston Sch., Tuition 202.00
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 5.05

SOUTH CAROLINA, $315.35.

Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $305.35
Plymouth Ch., 10 315.35

GEORGIA, $582.26.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $212.71; Rent.
$3; First Cong. Ch., $30 245.71
Atlanta. H. Franklin, Coal oil stove, _for
Atlanta U._
Hawkinsville. Rev. E. P. Johnson, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch. Tuition, 162.30; Cong.
Ch., 10 172.30
McIntosh. Tuition 18.65
Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 120.25 Rent, 11 131.25
Woodville. Cong. Ch, 3.35; Rev. J. H. H.
Sengstacke, 1 4.35

ALABAMA, $354.00.

Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition 49.90
Marion. Rev. A. W. Curtis, 5.; Cong. Ch. 5;
Tuition, 8.25 18.25
Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 161.40; Cong.
Ch., 1 162.40
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Selma. Cong. Ch. 6.95
Montgomery. Judge John Bruce, _for Student Aid
Talladega C._ 10.00
Selma. Miss Lunt, _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 1.50
Talladega. Cong. Ch. 60.00
Talladega. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16., Woman’s
Miss’y. Soc., 15.; Capt. R. H. Isbell, 2.50;
Wm. Kidd, 1.50, _for Needmore Chapel,
Talladega C._ 35.00

MISSISSIPPI, $145.23.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, 127.98; Rent,
10.25; Cong. Ch. 5 143.23
Tougaloo. Miss’y Soc. of Tougaloo U., _for
Chinese M._ 2.00

LOUISIANA, $194.00.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 169.00
New Orleans. Prof. W. J. McMurtry, _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00

TEXAS, $333.32.

Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition 331.30
Paris. Cong. Ch. 2.02

INCOMES, $77.53.

John Brown Steamer Fund 32.65
Tuthill King Fund, _for Berea C._ 19.33
Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 16.92
C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 4.48
Luke Memorial Scholarship Fund 1.93
Theological Fund, _for Fisk U._ 1.24
Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ 0.98
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Total for April $28,775.27
Total from Oct. 1 to April 30 $151,396.91
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FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION.

Income Fund 102.95
Previously acknowledged 347.58
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Total $450.53

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FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions 53.81
Previously acknowledged 537.74
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Total $591.55
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_June 1st, 1883._

_H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Treasurer,_

_56 Reade Street, New York:_

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_Your TOWN_,

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AIM AND WORK.

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

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

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

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ART. I. This society shall be called the American Missionary Association.

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

ART. III. Members may be constituted for life by the payment of thirty dollars into the treasury of the Association, with the written declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated person a life member; and such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have been completed.

Every church which has within a year contributed to the funds of the Association and every State Conference or Association of such churches may appoint two delegates to the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association for the year for which they were thus appointed.

ART. IV. The Annual Meeting of the Association shall be held in the month of October or November, at such time and place as may be designated by the Executive Committee, by notice printed in the official publication of the Association for the preceding month.

ART. V. The officers of the Association shall be a President, five Vice-Presidents, a Corresponding Secretary or Secretaries, a Recording Secretary, a Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive Committee of fifteen members, all of whom shall be elected by ballot.

At the first Annual Meeting after the adoption of this Constitution, five members of the Executive Committee shall be elected for the term of one year, five for two years and five for three years, and at each subsequent Annual Meeting, five members shall be elected for the full term of three years, and such others as shall be required to fill vacancies.

ART. VI. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds, the appointing, counseling, sustaining and dismissing of missionaries and agents, and the selection of missionary fields. They shall have authority to fill all vacancies in office occurring between the Annual Meetings; to apply to any Legislature for acts of incorporation, or conferring corporate power; to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries, and in general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the Executive Committees of missionary and other benevolent societies. The acts of the Committee shall be subject to the revision of the Annual Meeting.

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

ART. VII. No person shall be made an officer of this Association who is not a member of some evangelical church.

ART. VIII. Missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.

ART. IX. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an Annual Meeting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the previous Annual Meeting.

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LIFE INS. CO. OF NEW YORK,

_156 and 158 Broadway_.

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THIRTY-THIRD YEAR.

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DESCRIPTION—One of the oldest, strongest, best.

POLICIES—Incontestable, non-forfeitable, definite cash
surrender values.

RATES—Safe, low, and participating or not, as desired.

RISKS carefully selected.

PROMPT, liberal dealing.

GENERAL AGENTS AND CANVASSERS WANTED in desirable territory, to whom permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given.

Address

H. STOKES, President.
H. Y. WEMPLE, Sec’y.
S. N. STEBBINS, Act’y.
J. L. HALSEY, 1st V.-P.
H. B. STOKES, 2d V.-P.

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A TYPE WRITER FOR $1.00.

FOR FAMILIES, STOREKEEPERS, BOYS AND GIRLS.

This is one of the most ingenious inventions of modern times, invented and patented by =MR. INGERSOLL=. For =writing letters=, =addressing envelopes=, =lettering show cards=, =tickets=, =printing labels= and =circulars=, it has no equal. It will last a lifetime and is the most useful and fascinating machine ever invented. Children learn their letters, the arrangement of letters into words, and words into sentences by its use. As you will see by the illustration this is no =cheap fraud= with metal type, but is a well made machine with patent rubber-faced type. It is impossible to lose the letters or soil your fingers. The ink fountains will last for months, and can be replenished in one moment with ink furnished for the purpose. Great taste may be displayed in using the two colors of ink, as all letters can be inked from either pad. A letter can be written as perfectly as with a =$50 Type Writer=, and with little practise =very rapidly=. =Only $1.00= buys this Machine all complete. Agents wanted to sell it in all parts of the U.S. Send for sample and terms. Address =E. G. RIDEOUT & CO.=, 10 Barclay St., New York.

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the great youth’s paper of America. _All the best authors write for it._ PUBLISHED WEEKLY, =only $1.75 a year=. Trial month’s subscription, 15 cents; _three months, 45 cents_. Specimen copies and terms FREE. For particulars address

THE GOLDEN ARGOSY, 14 Barclay Street, N.Y.

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A HANDSOME PRESENT _FOR_
=$10=.
AN AMATEUR PHOTO. OUTFIT.
SEND FOR CIRCULAR TO
SCOVILL MFG. Co.
W. IRVING ADAMS 419 Broome St.
AGENT. N.Y.

EDDIE
&
CLARA
AMATEUR
PHOTOGRAPHERS

GRANDFATHER SITTING FOR HIS PICTURE.]

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MASON & HAMLIN
BEST
ORGANS

PARIS VIENNA
1867 1873

MATCHLESS UNRIVALED. FRANZ LISZT

A WONDER TO ALL WHO SEE AND TEST IT.

PHILAD MILAN SANTo
1876 1881 1875

THE
FINER
DRAWING ROOM
STYLES
ARE UNRIVALED.
ONE TO THREE
MANUALS;
TEN TO THIRTY-TWO
STOPS.
$200. to $600.
AND UP.

POPULAR
STYLES
NO 109; SUFFICIENT
COMPASS FOR FULL PARTS
OF POPULAR MUSIC
$22.
OTHER STYLES:
$30. $57. $72.
$78. $93. $108.
$114. $117. $120 UP
FOR CASH.
EASY PAYMENTS
OR RENTED.

MUSICIANS GENERALLY REGARD THEM AS
UNEQUALED. THEO. THOMAS

CATALOGUES FREE

PARIS PARIS
1878 1878

HIGHEST HONORS
AT ALL THE GREAT WORLD’S EXPOSITIONS
FOR
SIXTEEN
YEARS

THE TONES COMBINE SO WELL
WITH THE VOICE. CH. GOUNOUD.

NO INSTRUMENT SO ENRAPTURES
THE PLAYER. XAVER SCHARWENKA.

NORWAY ONE SWEDEN
1878 HUNDRED 1878
STYLES

MASON & HAMLIN · ORGAN & PIANO Co
BOSTON 154 TREMONT ST. NEW YORK, 46 E 14TH ST. CHICAGO, 149 WABASH AVE.]

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BRADBURY PIANOS.

BISHOP PECK. BISHOP HURST.
REV. J. E. COOKMAN. DR. JOSEPH CUMMINGS. CHAPLAIN M. CABE.
REV. L. HITCHCOCK. BISHOP SIMPSON. REV. J. M. WALDEN.
BISHOP MERRILL. BISHOP AMES.

“_The Sweetest and Best Toned Piano Made is the Bradbury._”

Dr. TALMAGE says:

“_Friend Smith is a Methodist, but his pianos are all orthodox; you ought to hear mine talk and sing. It is adapted to morning prayers or the gayest parties. Should have no faith in sense of a person who does not like the Bradbury pianos._”

BISHOP SIMPSON says:

“_After a trial in my family for years, for beauty of finish and workmanship, and splendid quality of tone, your Bradbury piano cannot be equaled. We are delighted with it._”

=PRESIDENT ARTHUR= _has just ordered two new scale full grand Bradbury upright pianos, one for the Red Room in Executive Mansion, where he receives and entertains his friends, and the other for his house at Soldiers’ Home, Washington, D.C._

“=Friend Smith=: _Why will you persist in making the
best piano in the market? Send me one to my home in
Plainfield. Yours truly_, =J. H. VINCENT=.”

=Lead the World!= OVER 17,000 IN USE. RECEIVED SEVEN PREMIUMS AND MEDALS IN FOUR WEEKS.

The best manufactured; warranted for six years. Pianos to let, rent applied if purchased. Monthly installments received for the same. Old pianos taken in exchange; cash paid for the same.

The peculiar charm of this piano is its adaptation to the human voice as an accompaniment, owing to its sympathetic, mellow, yet rich and powerful singing tones.

DR. C. H. FOWLER, Missionary Secretary, says: