Chapter II: Part 2

A gravely important and difficult question as to the future policy of the Society (A. H. M. S.) was submitted in behalf of the executive. It was one technically within the competency of the executive to decide, but too important to be so decided, without larger counsel: Shall the Society’s system of operations with missions and superintendencies be extended over the Southern States? In favor of this measure are urged (1) the desire to make the field of the Society’s work co-extensive with the nation; (2) the duty we owe to white people, as well as black, at the South; (3) the alleged demand for the Society’s aid to communities of Congregationalists who have moved to the South. Against it are (1) the measureless inadequacy of the Society’s present or probable resources for the urgent instant demands of its present field; (2) the wastefulness of organizing and supporting a second system of superintendencies over the field already occupied by the superintendencies of the American Missionary Association, and the chances of friction or collision between the two systems; (3) the impossibility of drawing any line of demarkation between the two systems of missions on the same ground, except a color line: the emphasizing of the color line, in the most obtrusive and offensive manner, not only by two orders of missionaries, one to whites and one to blacks, but by two orders of mission churches, one for black people in which whites shall be tolerated, and one for white people where blacks shall be tolerated with not so much as a common superintendency to co-ordinate them; and thus the danger of indelibly fixing the color line, fortifying it by new vested interests, and defeating any kindly tendency toward the effacing of it from the Christian Church. Such considerations as these led the congregation (we can hardly say the Society), after deliberation and debate, and especially after the very able speech of Mr. Blakeslee, to decline committing itself to this great and not easily revocable step, and to leave it for a year’s consideration, and though a later and less considerate vote was obtained in a form which seemed to throw doubt upon this decision, nevertheless the reluctance toward the new policy was of such a weight and character that a prudent executive may be trusted to keep it in view and move with caution, in a matter that does not press for instant action.

_The Advance._

A QUESTIONABLE PROCEDURE.

BY REV. HORACE BUMSTEAD, D.D.

The American Missionary Association and the Am. Home Missionary Society have both announced their purpose to enter upon enlarged church work in the South. Is it not questionable whether it is best for the Home Missionary Society to enter the Southern field at all? Does that Society propose to do the same broad work for all races and classes which the A. M. A. aims to do, and in good measure has done? If so, why duplicate missionary machinery for this region? Or is it proposing to do a work less broad, and if so, are its friends ready to support it in so doing?

_The Congregationalist._

THE OHIO IDEA.

RESOLUTION OF CONGREGATIONAL CONFERENCE AT AKRON.

WHEREAS, During the past twenty years the work of the Congregational churches for the needy millions of the South has been performed in a manner that is fast winning the respect and sympathy of all classes; first, by its being based upon Christian needs without too evident attention being paid to denominational advantages; second, by its uncompromising fidelity to Christian principles in respect to the spirit of caste;

_Resolved_, That we, the members of the Congregational Association of Ohio, do earnestly deprecate the adoption of any permanent policy by which Congregational churches shall be established in the South, practically, though not professedly, on the basis of what is called the “color line;” and that in our judgment two distinct Congregational Societies, the one working mainly for the white and the other for the black race, in the same field, will inevitably tend to perpetuate race prejudice, set at variance Congregational brethren themselves, and so defeat the end of true religion.

WHAT IS A COLOR-LINE CHURCH?

BY PROF. C. G. FAIRCHILD.

The State Conference of Ohio recently protested against the establishment by Northern missionary funds of churches based “practically, though not professedly, upon the ‘color line.’” What is a color-line church? A church at the North composed largely or exclusively of colored members, following naturally a race line of cleavage, as do the Irish or German, is not in this sense a color-line church. Most white churches at the North have only white members; but probably there is not one of them but would receive a colored member without hesitating in the slightest about his color. These are not color-line churches. There are many important white churches at the South that have had for many years colored members; but the colored members must wait for the communion until the whites are served, and must occupy special seats. Such churches are color-line churches. Churches at the South composed of blacks, with a few white teachers and their friends, who would welcome with tears of gratitude any Southern white families who would show their love and sympathy by identifying themselves with them are not color-line churches. A church at the South, composed of whites, in the midst of a large colored population, or in close contiguity with a church of kindred organization and sources of support, and where the advent of the first colored member would be deprecated, not welcomed, is a church based practically, though it may not be professedly, upon the color-line. * * * * *

It is always wise to consider facts. The first fact is that this color distinction is the most potent factor, politically, socially and religiously, in Southern society. This should dominate every plan for Christian effort at the South as much as the existence of the rebel army dominated plans for the “On to Richmond” during the war.

In the ultimate solution of Southern problems, natural race lines of cleavage may largely prevail; but it lies within the realms of reasonable expectancy, and not fancy, to believe that the time will come when color will not be thought of in the admission of a person to any hotel, railway car, school, or church. We have no right yet to let go of this Christian and patriotic hope; but for the present at the South color places upon a man a more damning and ineffaceable stain than does murder or political treason, and the present establishment of white churches as above described would seem to be an obeisance to this most potent and evil influence.

_The Independent._

THE TENDENCY IS TO RELAX.

EDITORIAL IN INDEPENDENT.

The natural bent of Southern whites is to separation from colored members, and white congregations willing to open their doors to all alike will not spring up in great numbers. The tendency, the temptation is to relax a little on the principle, under trying circumstances, for the sake of immediate results. We have pointed out how signally some of the Friends’ schools in the South have failed to keep their first principles intact. The same lowering influence has been at work among the Northern Methodists. It is worth a generation of endeavor, and perhaps it will require it, to establish an influential constituency on the solid basis of true Christian Brotherhood.

THE SOUTHEAST.

SEC. BARROWS’ REPORT AT SARATOGA.

How soon shall the Society have a superintendent in this region? _It is for you to decide._ The executive officers are convinced that the time has already come for this forward movement. During the past winter we have had a general missionary at work in Florida, with encouraging results. At our next anniversary there will doubtless be present a representative from the Florida Association of Congregational Churches. The Society also has missionaries in Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia—and appeals are constantly received urging us to enlarge this work.

It is not the purpose of this society to foster the spirit of caste. It was to remove all suspicions on this score that a friendly conference was lately had with our brethren of the American Missionary Association, and with the results of that conference you are all familiar. It is our idea to form churches at the South, like Dr. Rankin’s in Washington, and Dr. Goodell’s in St. Louis, churches open to the colored people and to which they will be made welcome if they see fit to join. The only difficulty will be to find enough colored people willing to join to save the principle—the uniform experience hitherto having been that they prefer to be in churches of their own.

But we have too long ignored the fact that there are several millions of poor whites at the South who need our help, and must have it if they are to be fitted for citizenship on earth or in heaven. They have claims upon our Christian sympathy equal to those of the colored people, for they too are the victims of slavery, and are despised by the old slaveholding aristocracy—and even by the negroes. A Southern man said in our hearing a few days ago, “There are as many white people at the South who need your help as there are colored people, and they must be reached by similar means, viz.: the Christian school and the Christian church.”

Let us now ask the question—Have we been doing our duty by these people? We know we have not. God forgive us for having neglected them so long, and may we now show by our actions that our repentance is genuine! Do you wish the Home Missionary Society to organize an agency to do this work?

REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON DR. BARROWS’ PAPER.

But why ask the Home Missionary Society to plant these churches and commission these missionaries? Simply because the endeavor is one which no present organized agency can successfully accomplish.

The work of the American Missionary Association is noble, and its field is wide. But broad as are its principles it cannot, as a practical matter of fact, cultivate the whole of that needy part of our Lord’s vineyard. That which has been the pride and the _strength_ of the American Missionary Association, the thing it has printed on its publications and blazoned on its banners, that it was organized for the help of the despised races of America, to some extent honorably incapacitates it for some of the work which, nevertheless, needs to be done. Not in this generation, nor in the next, can men and women, between whom not history and habit only, but nature and providence, run lines so deep as between the races of the South, be made to any considerable extent to blend in comfortable and harmonious church relationship.

The ignoring of this fact will cost limitless labor and limitless disappointment. Why not take up the case as we find it, and in those places where the hand of invitation now so obviously beckons, respond to the call? What need of trespass, what occasion for misunderstanding, if the Home Missionary Society and the Association thus at some points work side by side?

_The Home Missionary._

DR. WALKER’S ADDRESS.

There is no man in this house who has, to the limit of his ability, done more cordial and earnest work for the American Missionary Association than I have. There is no man who maintains a more cordial relationship with the secretaries and officers of that society than I do. Personally, each one of them is my friend. But I do feel, Christian friends, that we have here a question that we must meet; and the best way to meet it is in the spirit of frankness and openness, giving it the deliberation which it requires. The American Missionary Association, as has been suggested in the paper which has been presented to you, is, in my view, handicapped for doing a part of the work which is necessary to be done. * * *

Now the question is: Is it not expedient for us to enter upon that work? I am met by the objection: “Why, you are doing the same work that the American Missionary Association is doing. Why have two societies, side by side, doing essentially the same work?” They are not doing the same work, in the fact that the subjects for which they labor are providentially made distinct. It is impossible in this generation, and in the generation to come, for the American Missionary Association to plant Congregational churches to any considerable extent through the South. Now, the plain and practical question is: Is it wise for us to neglect the present opportunity and, for the sake of what may be proved after all to be but sentiment, let the present moment pass, a moment so freighted with consequences to the future? Is it wise for us to insist upon the strength of ecclesiastical ties as sufficient to hold men together, whom we cannot counsel to come together by strength of natural ties? We cannot advise marriage among the races; why insist upon a kind of work that forces them together in ecclesiastical relationships to which they are equally unfamiliar and averse?

_The Home Missionary._

NO CLASHING MUST BE ALLOWED.

EDITORIAL IN ADVANCE.

What the American Missionary Association has done, and is doing, is only the prophecy of what it is to do in the near future, if it is promptly sustained in its noble work. And while we are on this subject, we wish most emphatically to say:

There is not to be, there _must_ not be, any clashing in the work between this society and the American Home Missionary Society.

The American Missionary Association was organized for a specific work, broadly and definitely understood to be for the uplifting of the colored races on this continent. To that work they are pledged, for that money is given to them, and they are very wisely administering the trust committed to their hands. To criticise that society because it does not organize what are known as white churches is the height of folly, and for it to attempt to force mixed churches on the South would be equally absurd. The American Home Missionary Society should not go down South with the idea of starting white churches. It should be allowed, and must be allowed, to go there and organize churches just as it does in Iowa, Dakota, Missouri and Kansas, saying nothing at all about the race question or in any way excluding colored people from its membership; giving them that freedom which is theirs, to come in, and the freedom also to stay out, and to have their own churches, and their own social circles, just as they please. Any one who undertakes to force such things out of their natural and proper course will only work confusion and loss.

NO TROUBLE NEED BE BORROWED.

EDITORIAL IN CONGREGATIONALIST

As for the matter of the entrance of the Home Missionary Society upon work in the South, that may be trusted to take care of itself. The two societies mutually have agreed upon a policy of comity and consultation. Unless there be a real and imperative demand for its services at the South, the Home Missionary Society probably will find all that it can do in its present field. If such a demand arise, the Society will do its best to meet it, not in rivalry of, but in co-operation with, the Missionary Association. There may be localities where the former can work in the same line to better advantage than the latter. Nobody need borrow trouble on their account, for both are pledged, and honestly, we are sure, to keep out of each other’s way when necessary, and together to erase “the color line” as fast as possible.

CRITICISMS NOTED.

EDITORIAL IN ADVANCE.

We fear that many of those who are criticising the policy of the society (A. H. M. S.), in pushing its work in the South, know little or nothing either of the New West or of the South. We call the attention of Dr. Bacon, and the minority which he represents, to a few facts. In the first place, the American Missionary Association cannot reach the white people of the South. In proof of this we appeal to agents of that society, who are in the field—Dr. Roy and the missionaries down South. One of the missionaries has just been in this office and gave his testimony most freely, while we were reading the proof of Dr. Bacon’s article. He said: “I have been three years in Alabama. I am pastor of a colored church there. We are prosperous. We were never more so. The Southern people are coming more and more to labor with us, and to co-operate with us in every way for the education of the negro. But there must be a colored church for colored people, and a white church for white people, and this will be done without saying anything about it. Both races prefer it, and it is a natural method. Our society cannot reach the white people, we ought not to attempt to do so.” * * *

There is a call for the work of the American Home Missionary Society in the South. To refuse to go there would be wicked. That society has just as much right to build a church in Mississippi or Georgia, and to give it aid, as it has to aid a church in Iowa or Dakota. No other society has a right to bid it keep north of Mason and Dixon’s line.

WHO SHALL WORK AT THE SOUTH?

BY REV. J. E. ROY, D.D.

_To the Editor of the Advance_:

In your response to Dr. Bacon on this question, you said: We appeal to Dr. Roy. I did not understand you as committing me; but finding that some brethren took you as setting me down to the theory that the A. M. A. could not do the work among the white people there because of its relation to the colored, I wish to disavow it, for I never held that view, never expressed it. I think that the A. M. A. _could_ do that work if the constituency shall so direct, though, as our experience among the mountain people of Kentucky proved, it would require patience, wisdom and fortitude, and would be a slow process.

_The Advance._

RESOLUTION AT SARATOGA MEETING.

Voted, That a committee of five be appointed who shall consider our denominational work in the South and confer with the secretaries of the American Missionary Association, or any committees appointed by that society, in reference to the same, and report at our next meeting.

Committee to confer with the American Missionary Association—Rev. Drs. J. E. Twichell, G. L. Walker, Lyman Abbott, C. L. Goodell, and A. S. Barnes, Esq.

_The Home Missionary._

BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

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FROM OUR LADY MISSIONARY, WILMINGTON, N.C.

MISS A. E. FARRINGTON.

My work the past month has been very encouraging. Mrs. Steele has been with us and special meetings were held among the women and girls. At one of these about 90 were present, and many seemed deeply interested. At the close quite a number rose for prayers and remained for personal conversation. After the meeting that night, which was also quite full, the same girls remained, and several expressed the hope that they had given their hearts to Jesus. Some of them had been very thoughtful for weeks, and seemed to need just the help that these meetings gave to bring them to a decision. A meeting of the boys was also held. The girls begged me to keep on with meetings for them, which I have very gladly done every Monday after school, from twenty to thirty-five coming in. Nine or ten of them hope they have become Christians. Several of them wish to unite with the church at once. They were examined and their friends consulted, and three were propounded for admission, but will not be received until they have had a little time to test their sincerity. Influences have been brought to bear to draw them away from us. They have been told that there is no religion where everything is so quiet, and endeavors have been made to get them into revival meetings which are wild with excitement. Last week some of our teachers went into one of these meetings, where several girls were rolling on the floor, crying and moaning. One lady thought she saw one of her scholars among them, and going to her held out her hand and told her to get up. She obeyed at once, and her teacher led her to a seat, where she talked to her quietly a few moments, telling her that God did not require any such thing as that of her or any one else, that her good conduct in school and elsewhere lately was stronger evidence that she had given her heart to Jesus than anything she saw there. Afterwards she went to another part of the church, where others of her scholars were, quieting them, some going home as soon as they saw her. These lambs of the flock need to be very tenderly guarded, and others seem only waiting to be led along the right way.

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A VALUED WORKER GONE.

Rev. Dr. Woodworth, of our Boston office, in a commemorative address on the death of Mrs. D. L. Furber, of Newton Centre, Mass., gives an account of her devotion to the cause of missions, in language fitted to arouse, in no common degree, the zeal of the Christian women of the country. He says:

She had the rare faculty, perhaps I should say double faculty, of comprehending a great cause, and at the same time of making individual cases all her own. I have heard her talk of the work in the South _as a work for the African race_, until her tongue thrilled with eloquence, her face shone with a strange light, and her whole person seemed to expand to the measure of her theme. To her it seemed so strange that people did not see what to her was so plain: that the churches were so slow to accept their opportunity; that the very _conjuncture_ of the death of slavery and the opening of the African continent by exploration and commerce were a demonstration that they were part and parcel of the same plan and pattern, and meant the salvation of the African race. Why could not the churches see it? Had blindness happened to the people of God? How hot and fast her words fell, as she pictured the possibilities which lay in the Southern work, and as she expressed her amazement at the failure of good people to discern the signs of the times!

To _her_ these four millions coming out of the house of their bondage, _in need of every thing_, were Christ himself, hungry, thirsty, naked, homeless—a stranger. In them she saw her Lord; in them she heard _His_ cry of distress; in them, as unto _Him_, she gave her sympathies, her time, her bounty. She walked under the light of that vision which so glorified her life. Each one of that suffering race whom she took into her family, to whom she sent clothing, or aided in his course of education, represented _Him_.

Another thing which struck me was what seemed a thorough mental honesty; and by this I mean that she took the widest survey of the field of which she was capable, and formed her judgments after full collation of the facts. Like the ideal scientist seeking light from every quarter, and open to its reception, come from where it might, she was ready to follow the truth wherever it might lead. She submitted her judgment to her intelligence, and was not afraid to obey her convictions. She loved the slave when it was not popular to do so. She was on the side of the weak when only a few stood with her. She counted the cost and took the stand for righteousness and truth. She saw in them clearly the humanity now represented on the throne, and for _that_ would have gone down among them with perfect serenity and cheerfulness, bidding every offended sense and feeling _be still_. She had schooled herself to do right. She had said to her soul, “I will do for the poor as I would do for my Lord.”

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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CHUNG WAH.

BY SUSIE W. HASSELL.

He is a bright little ten-year-old who lives in a town away off West. You know by his name that he is Chinese, and I am afraid some of you have already turned up your noses in disgust, and have thought, “Bah! those dirty Chinamen! My mamma says it makes her sick to think of them, and papa’s glad they can’t come to our country any more.” But let me tell you about Chung Wah, and then you can decide the Chinese question for yourselves.

He is in the A class in Number Two, and in the schoolroom his yellow face is almost always bright with soap-suds and joy, for he is a wonderfully happy boy, and smiles all the time he is happy. His little black eyes look like apple-seeds, and snap whenever he winks. He wears great flapping brown pantaloons, which are covered to the knee by his pink calico aprons, but on Wednesday, when he speaks his piece, he has on a white apron, so stiffly starched that it rustles and cracks like paper. His low cloth shoes have no heels, but long, pointed, turned-up toes. Chung Wah is very quick at his lessons, and neat in his slate-work, so that when visitors come in his slate is one of the first the teacher shows them.

He has always loved to study, but last May, when the days commenced to be warm and bright, he must have grown a little tired of school, for, alas, a great many times he was seen on the street the whole day long. When questioned the next morning, he told the teacher: “My fadder send me to school an’ I no come.” I suppose he liked to pitch horseshoes with the other boys down in Chinatown, none of them had to go to school; or to follow old Sam Lee round the town as he gathered up the clothes for the wash-house. At any rate he played truant many days, until his teacher sent him up-stairs for the school superintendent to talk with him. Still the truancy was repeated, and he gave no excuse only, “I no likee come dat day.” At last, one morning, the superintendent whipped him for truancy, and poor little Chung Wah went down-stairs with both fists in his eyes and a very sore heart.

That very afternoon, just before the tardy bell rang, who should walk into the superintendent’s room but Chung Wah, his face still downcast and troubled. He held a preserve jar, covered with Chinese characters, in one hand, and in the other a bright silk handkerchief, such as are sold in the Chinese shops. With an awkward little nod, just as if he were going to speak a piece in school, he said: “My fadder gib ’em to you. He say you heap good man. He likee you beat me ebly day I no go school.”

Brave little Mongolian! Do you think you clean, white boys and girls could have carried such a hard message as that so honestly?

Somehow, after he had said the words the lump in his throat seemed to grow easier, and, although the superintendent said some words not very comforting: “Well, Chung Wah, tell your father I will punish you when you are truant from school”—yet when the boy went down-stairs this time his face beamed as though it had never known a tear, and his little black cue bobbed merrily behind him.

A good many months have passed since then, and he has never deserved another whipping. I don’t believe he will. His teacher says he has a wise father, and that if there were more fathers like him there would be more good boys in school, but I say, brave little Chung Wah! The boy who can tell the truth when it is so hard to tell has a clean side to his heart, though his face may be very yellow.

What do you say, my white boys and girls? Would he be a bad playfellow for you?

If some fifteen or twenty years from now you should hear that the grown-up Chinaman, Chung Wah, fills well any position of honor and trust, don’t be surprised, but tell _your_ boys and girls, “Oh, yes, when he was a little fellow he was brave enough to obey his father, and tell the whole truth.”

_The Advance._

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RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1883.

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MAINE, $76.18.

Bangor. Ladies of Third Ch., _freight for
Wilmington, N.C._ $1.28
Bingham. “A Friend” 11.00
Bluebill. Mrs. Stevens ($1 _of which for
Indian M._) 2.00
Castine. Mrs. B. A. Sewall, Trunk of C.
Gray. Girls’ Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 2.00
Hallowell. S. S. Classes of the Classical
Academy, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 24.40
St. Albans. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Skowhegan. Cong. Ch., 20; Mrs. L. W. Weston,
4.50; Miss Sarah Tilton, 1 25.50
South Berwick. Mrs. Lewis’ S. S. Class, _for
Student Aid, Wilmington, N.C._ 5.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $351.94.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 7.62
Center Harbor. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to
const. JENNIE C. BLACKEY L. M. 30.00
Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MRS. MARY G. BATCHELDER L. M. 47.66
Durham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00
Exeter. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 20.00
Fitzwilliam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.50
Henniker. Miss E. F. Connor 5.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Laconia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.79
New Market. T. H. Wiswall 10.00
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.15
Peterborough. Union Evan. Ch. 20.17
Pittsfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 12.28
Temple. Rev. Geo. Goodyear 5.00
Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.59
Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.50
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$324.26

LEGACIES.

Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by
Albert E. Wellman, Trustee 27.68
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$351.94

VERMONT, $370.42.

Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.56
Brattleborough. E. C. Crosby, _for Talladega
C._ 10.00
Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.22
Grafton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.27
Lyndon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.00
Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.50
North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Pittsford. “L. J.” 12.00
Putney. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.25
Saxton’s River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.15
West Newbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.93
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 63.54
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$270.42

LEGACIES.

Grafton. Estate of Caroline B. Akin, by
William Hastings, Ex. 100.00
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$370.42

MASSACHUSETTS, $4,305.36.

Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 25; William M.
Graves, 20 45.00
Andover. Elmira Jones 5.00
Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.65
Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. LEVI
H. VINCENT L. M. 44.63
Bradford. Mrs. S. C. Boyd 14.00
Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.25
Bridgewater. Chas. L. Prince, Bundle of Books
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 90.03
Cambridge. G. F. Kendall (10 of which _for
Chinese M._) 25.00
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 319.65
Campello. Mrs. Allen Leach 0.50
Charlton. Cong. Ch., 13.90, and Sab. Sch., 1.96 15.86
Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.45
Chelsea. Ladies’ Union Home Mission Band, _for
Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 75.00
Chelsea. Ladies’ Union Home Mission Band, 3
bbls. and 2 boxes of C., Val. 92, _for
Chattanooga, Tenn._
Curtisville. Miss Mary Lumbert 0.50
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. 56.31
East Hampton. Mrs. E. G. Williston, 100; First
Cong. Ch. and Soc., 46.24 146.24
Fairhaven. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Fall River. Central Ch. Mission Sab. Sch.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 70.00
Fitchburg. Mrs. Mary Johnson 10.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.96
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 244.21
Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.10
Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. 23.00
Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Lanesville. Cong. Ch. 1.75
Lawrence. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.12
Lee. Cong. Ch. 32.41
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 38.00
Long Meadow. Ladies Benev. Ass’n. 13.97
Marlborough. Union Ch. 55.31
Methuen. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.20
Merrimac. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. W. H.
HUBBARD L. M. 30.00
Millbury. First. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 59.55
Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 16.74
Natick. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Teacher_ 50.00
Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Newburyport. Miss Mary Plummer, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc. 200.00
Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 65.32
Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 46.27
North Andover. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
REV. HORACE H. LEAVITT L. M. 60.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
150; Union Ch. and Soc., 10 160.00
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc. 100.00
South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.79
South Boston. Phillips Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Springfield. “H. M.,” 500; South Cong. Ch.,
27.87; Mrs. Edward Clarke, 5 532.87
Sterling. “Sterling” 5.00
Templeton. Trinitarian Ch. and Soc. 20.95
Waltham. Mrs. Joseph Stackpole 0.50
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.43
West Midway. Cong. Sab. Sch., 19; C. Albert
Adams, 5 24.00
Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch. 1.84
West Springfield. Park St. Cong. Ch. 16.02
Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. 21.50
Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. 16.75
Winchendon. “F. T. J.” 2.00
Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc. to const. BENJ.
F. HARRINGTON, Mrs. ISSAC SARGENT and FRANK
H. HOLLAND, L. Ms 106.00
Worcester. Salem Street Mission Workers, _for
Indian boy, Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 25.00
——. “Friend to the Cause” 25.00
——. “For Mission work among the Indians” 4.00
Massachusetts Bible Soc., 2 boxes of Bibles,
_for Avery Inst._
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$3,292.63

LEGACIES.

Cambridge. Estate of Abijah F. Hildreth by
Edwin Hildreth and Stanley B. Hildreth,
Executors and Trustees 500.00
Natick. Estate of Clarissa Morse, by Willard
W. Wight, Adm’r. 100.00
North Abington. Estate of Mrs. Susan B. Frost,
by Mrs. Rachel B. Reed, Admx. 162.73
North Brookfield. Estate of Miss Lydia C.
Dodge, by W. P. Haskell, Ex. 250.00
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$4,305.36

RHODE ISLAND, $1,005.00.

Bristol. Miss Charlotte De Wolf, 500; Mrs. M.
D. W. Rogers, 500 1,000.00
Westerly. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Wilmington,
N.C._ 5.00

CONNECTICUT, $11,815.83.

Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 20.20
Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.80
Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. 64.10
Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch. 8.80
Guilford. First Cong. Ch., 18; “A Friend in
Third Ch.,” 2 20.00
Hartford. “A Friend in Asylum Hill Cong. Ch.” 20.00
Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Kent. First Cong. Soc. 5.94
Lebanon. First Ch., 64.86; Mrs. Mary Dutton,
4.50 69.36
Meriden. E. K. Breckenridge, 5; Mrs. S. F. S.
Brown, a Quilt 5.00
Middletown. South Cong. Ch. 69.71
Mount Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
North Haven. E. Dickerman 2.00
Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc., 272.54;
Broadway Cong. Ch., 200 472.54
Norwich. Henry B. Norton, _for Atlanta U._ 50.00
Oxford. Cong. Ch., 28.50, and Sab. Sch., 6.25,
to const MRS. CARRIE RIGGS L. M. 34.75
Plantsville. “A Friend,” _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
Plainville. “A Friend” 100.00
Portland. First Cong. Ch. 7.00
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 46.76
Saybrook. Second Cong. Ch. 20.25
Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 68.28
Southport. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS.
O. H. PERRY, CHAS. LACEY, E. CORNELIUS
SHERWOOD, L. FRANK SHERWOOD and REV. WILLIAM
H. HOLMAN L. Ms 185.84
Stanwich. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brush 25.00
Torrington. Young Ladies’ Aux. Soc., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 70.00
West Hartford. Charles Boswell 250.00
West Haven. Mrs. E. C. Kimball 10.00
Winsted. David Strong, _for Theo. Dept.,
Talladega C._ 25.00
——. “A Friend” 17.50
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$1,815.83

LEGACIES.

Hartford. Estate of John B. Eldridge, by John
R. Redfield, Ex. 10,000.00
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$11,815.83

NEW YORK, $785.67.

Antwerp. First Cong. Ch. 33.18
Binghamton. First Cong. Ch. 80.55
Brentwood. E. F. Richardson 25.00
Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch., for
_Missionary, Ladies’ Island, S.C._ 75.00
Brooklyn. Church of the Covenant 10.00
Chittenango. Mrs. Ameline L. Brown 5.00
Clifton Springs. “A Friend” 1.00
Coxsackie. Mrs. E. F. Spoor, 2.50; Miss A. G.
Fairchild, 2.50 5.00
Danby. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. H. B. CHAPMAN L. M. 18.35
East Bloomfield. First Cong. Ch. 52.80
Gloversville. Cong. Ch. 102.57
Ithaca. E. P. Gilbert 5.00
Jamesport. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lenox. A. S. Johnson 5.00
Lisbon Center. First Cong. Ch. 18.00
Martinsburg. Horatio Hough, 5; Almira H.
Arthur, 1; “A Friend,” 1 7.00
New York. S. T. Gordon 250.00
New York. Colored Orphan Asylum (5 of which
_for John Brown Steamer_) 10.00
North Evans. Cong. Ch. (1.50 of which from
Mrs. Spencer Bullock) 8.17
Oneonta. Mrs. L. J. Safford 5.00
Patchogue. Cong. Ch. 9.28
Spencerport. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 20.00
Walton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 32.27
Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 2.50

NEW JERSEY, $233.50.

Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 38.50
Irvington. Rev. A. Underwood 50.00
Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Indian
girl, Hampton, N. & A. Inst._ 40.00
Montclair. Mrs. Pratt’s S. S. Class, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
Morristown. Miss Ella M. Graves, _for Atlanta
U._ 100.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $37.50.

East Smithfield. Miss Polly S. Tracy 18.00
Jeansville. Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.00
New Milford. Horace A. Summers 14.50

OHIO, $2,629.22.

Ashland. Mrs. Eliza Thompson 2.28
Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.39
Bronson. Rev. H. Lawrence, Bbl. of Bibles;
Mrs. F. Lawrence 1 set Henry’s Commentaries,
_for Talladega C._
Harmar. Cong. Ch. 118.75
Lodi. Cong. Ch. 11.25
Madison. Ladies, Books, and 3., for Freight,
_for Talladega C._ 3.00
Mansfield. Mrs. Tracy, _for Trinity Sch.,
Athens, Ala._ 50.00
Mount Vernon. Woman’s Miss’y Soc., of Cong. Ch. 10.00
Oberlin. Miss Rose M. Kinney 1.00
Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Painesville. First Cong. Ch., bal to const.
SAMUEL R. HOUSE and E. E. JOHNSON L. Ms 36.55
Peru. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 13.00
Randolph. W. J. Dickinson 10.00
Unionville. Rev. J. C. Burnell 2.00
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$335.22

LEGACIES.

Kent. Estate of Andrew James 394.00
Tallmadge. Estate of Rev. John Seward, by Wm.
H. Upson, Ex. 1,900.00
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$2,629.22

ILLINOIS, $639.58.

Amboy. First Cong. Ch. 43.00
Chebanse. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Chicago. Union Park Cong. Ch., 255.18; Bethany
Cong. Ch., 13.35 267.43
Chicago. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of N. E. Ch., _for
Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala._ 14.00
Elgin. Mrs. E. E. C. Borden 1.00
Galesburg. First Cong. Ch., 79; First Ch. of
Christ, 5 84.00
Geneseo. Ladies Miss’y Soc., _for Needmore
Ch., Talladega_ 50.00
Griggsville. Cong. Ch. 23.85
Princeville. Chas. Cutter 5.00
Sycamore. First Cong. Ch. 100.60
Sycamore. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Thomasborough. “R.” 1.00
Udina. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Wheaton. First. Cong. Ch. 17.70

MICHIGAN, $441.62.

Benzonia. H. H. Balch 1.00
Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Theo. Dept.
Talladega C._ 38.84
Chelsea. John C. Winans 200.00
Detroit. Second Cong. Ch. 120.00
Fort Huron. Cong. Ch. 40.58
Grand Rapids. E. G. Furness 5.00
Kalamazoo. Mrs. J. A. Kent 5.00
Michigan Center. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Salem. Summit Missionary Soc. 2.59
Union City. Cong. Sab. Sch., bal. to const.
MRS. ANNA CHURCH L. M. 10.00
Vienna. Cong. Ch. 4.61
White Lake. Robert Garner 10.00

IOWA, $194.87.

Algona. A. Zahlten 7.50
Anamosa. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $38.02, and Sab.
Sch., $4.75 42.77
Belle Plain. Cong. Ch. 5.30
Davenport. Geo. W. Ells 10.00
Des Moines. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 bbls. of C.
_for Talladega C._
Farragut. Cong. Ch. 20.49
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 93.22
Tabor. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 3.59
Washington. “Mother and Ralph” _for Needmore
Ch., Talladega C._ 12.00

WISCONSIN, $55.22.

Delavan. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing
room, Stone Hall, T. C._ 5.00
Lake Geneva. Cong. Ch. 17.70
Leeds. Cong. Ch. 2.67
Koshkonong. P. T. Gunnison 10.00
Koshkonong. Cong. Ch. 4.30
Platteville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.30
Shullsburg. First Cong. Ch. 4.00
Springvale. Cong. Ch. 6.25

MINNESOTA, $345.53.

Audubon. Cong. Ch. 2.83
Austin. Cong. Ch. 24.17
Elk River. Union Cong. Ch. 9.20
Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Faribault. Cong. Ch. 17.85
Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 2.55
Lake City. Joseph Pike (1 of which _for John
Brown Steamer_) 2.00
Medford. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 29.83
Minneapolis. E. D. First Cong. Ch. 26.10
Rushford. Cong. Ch. 2.00
——. Friends, _for Atlanta U._ 200.00
——. “Friends in Minnesota” _for Dakota M._ 10.00

KANSAS, $49.95.

Great Bend. Cong. Church 6.00
Lawrence. Ladies, by Rev. R. F. Markham 11.45
McPherson. First Cong. Ch. 15.00
Stockton. Cong. Ch. 2.50
Topeka. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
White City. Cong. Ch. 5.00

MISSOURI, $161.88.

Amity. Cong. Ch., 12.06; “A Friend,” 15 27.06
Ironton. J. Markham 2.50
Kansas City. First Cong. Ch. 102. 00
Meadville. Cong. Ch. 10.32
Webster Groves. Cong. Ch. 20.00

NEBRASKA, $35.75.

Crete. First Cong. Ch. 7.75
Lincoln. “K. & C.” 8.00
Santee Agency. Mrs. Mary Van Nest, _for Indian
M._ 20.00

COLORADO, $5.35.

Denver. Cong. Ch. (1 of which from Mrs. C. L.
Garland) 5.35

NEVADA, $5.00.

Wells. C. A. Birchard 5.00

WASHINGTON TER., $27.55.

Skokomish. Cong. Ch., 17.55; Rev. M. Eells and
Wife, 10.00 27.55

OREGON, $10.00.

The Dalles. First Cong. Ch. 10.00

CALIFORNIA, $4.50.

Rutherford. Robert McComb 4.50

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $437.50.

Washington. U.S. Government, _for Indian M._ 437.50

KENTUCKY, $5.59.

Berea. Sab. Sch. 5.59

TENNESSEE, $161.70.

Chattanooga. Rent 149.70
Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch. 12.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $11.00.

Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, $4; Rent,
$2; Cong. Ch., 5 11.00

SOUTH CAROLINA, $628.30.

Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $618.30;
Plymouth Ch., $10 628.30

GEORGIA, $345.65.

Atlanta. Alumni Ass’n of Atlanta U., 125, _for
Furnishing Room, Stone Hall_; Pellegrini &
Castleberry, 2 Terra-cotta Vases, _for steps
of Stone Hall_ 125.00
Atlanta. First Cong. Ch., 30; Storrs Sch.,
Tuition, 5.50 35.50
Macon. Cong. Ch. 8.55
Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 146.60, Rent,
20, Cong. Ch., 10 176.60

ALABAMA, $503.98.

Athens. Miss M. F. Wells, _for Trinity Sch.,
Athens, Ala._ 25.00
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 373.98,
First Cong. Ch., 10 383.98
Talladega. Rev. H. S. DeForest, _for Talladega
C._ 75.00

FLORIDA, $5.00.

Daytona. Woman’s Miss’y Soc., by Mrs. E. C.
Waldron 5.00

TEXAS, $5.00.

Helena. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. (2 of which
_for John Brown Steamer_) 5.00

INCOMES, $1,033.75.

Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 795.00
Theological Endowment Fund, _for Howard U._ 125.00
C. F. Dike Fund, _for Straight U._ 50.00
General Endowment Fund 50.00
Incomes, _for Atlanta U._ 13.75

ENGLAND, $10.00.

Albyns. Miss S. L. Ropes 10.00

SCOTLAND, $59.29.

Perth. North United Presb. Ch., £10; James
Balman, _for Chinese M._, £2; “Friend, per
D. Morton,” 5s. 59.29

AUSTRIA.

Prague. Bohumil Burda (a little boy) 100
Kreutzers, _for the colored children in
America._
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Total for July $26,794.18
Total from Oct. 1 to July 31 $229,246.69
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Previously acknowledged 700.47
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