Chapter II: Front Matter (2)

No small part of the work undertaken by the A. M. A. is that among the colored people of the South. Perhaps we may judge something of how vast this work is in itself, and how far-reaching in its results, if we consider for a few moments the numbers and condition of the colored people. Twenty years ago about 4,000,000 people were liberated from bondage, with all the evils resulting from the system of slavery resting upon them. There was great rejoicing among lovers of freedom when the Proclamation of Emancipation was issued. The slaves themselves, wild with joy, shouted, "We're free! We're free! The year of jubilee has come!" Free! yes, free! but with the burdens of manhood and womanhood suddenly thrust upon them. Freedom brought the right and opportunity of establishing homes. Glorious privilege! But do we not all know how much good judgment and wisdom and thought and planning it takes to maintain a _true home_? Freedom gave them the right of keeping their little ones and seeing them grow to manhood and womanhood, but oh! how much of patience and God-given power it requires to train the little feet to tread the right way!

Four million people, half civilized, uneducated, untrained, with the judgment and reason of children, hitherto knowing little of the ways of the outer world, suddenly brought into life's conflicts! What an amount of instruction they needed!

Right here the American Missionary Association stepped in and assumed the work of training these people. Christian men and women, filled with love for the Master, went down among these lowly ones. They carried the Gospel of Jesus Christ, established schools and churches, teaching in the open air, or in rude huts and deserted cabins. For twenty years this work has been carried on, and much good has been done in the name of the Lord. But to-day there are between six and seven million colored people in our Southland. The work of the A. M. A., together with all done by other societies and by students going forth from the colleges as teachers, as yet scarcely begins to reach this great number.

Their first need is to be Christianized, for this alone lifts them up and gives a desire for better things. It is the religion of Jesus Christ alone which has given to us our high estate. How much we owe to the training of Christian mothers! Let us pity and stoop to lift up these ignorant ones. Send out those who can carry the glad tidings and point to the Lamb of God, who taketh away the sin of the world.

Let us do all we can to teach them what the pure religion is. But we cannot stop here. We must teach them how to use it. "Woman's work for woman," surely, for this must be done in the homes.

Freedom gave them the _right_ to establish homes! They did the best they knew how, many of them, but they needed teaching--they need it to-day. They must be taught thrift and industry, and cleanliness and order. They want someone to come to them and help them to transform their huts into homes. Could you see their rags, their ugly, misshapen garments, you would agree with me that the women and girls greatly need to be taught the use of the needle.

Of course Christian schools need to be multiplied among them, where the rudiments of an English education shall be thoroughly given, where sewing and cooking, the care of the house and the care of the sick shall be carefully taught the girls, where the boys may learn the use of tools and all that pertains to good farming.

Our stronghold is the children. We can never eradicate the evils existing among the older generation. Slavery left too much ignorance and superstition to ever be driven from the minds of those who lived under its sway. But we are responsible for the coming generations.

The American Missionary Association aims to reach the young and meet their needs by the workers sent out.

Perhaps our work in Savannah will be illustrative of that done in many other parts of the field. We have there established a church and school. There are now in school over 200 pupils. The majority of these remain long enough with us to obtain a good common-school education. We have also a normal grade, where methods of teaching are taught those who desire to fit themselves for teachers. Besides this we have fitted up a sewing-room, where the girls learn every part of sewing and repairing, cutting and basting. Many schools have shops for boys; we look forward to the time when we may be able to have them, too.

We are just establishing a reading-room. Those who have read Prof. Salisbury's article in the November MISSIONARY understand how much this is needed. In our present circumstances we arrange it so that all pupils of higher grades have a daily reading hour, with teacher to direct. Then once in two weeks the older pupils meet for a social reading.

In our devotional exercises and school prayer meetings we aim to assist them in a knowledge of true religion. Last year we observed the Week of Prayer, and in the daily meetings held for several weeks some found the way to Christ and Christian life. Our Church and Sunday-School work reaches many who are not connected with our school. We have a devoted missionary who spends her time in visiting the parents and children in their homes, ministering to the wants of the sick and needy, and holding Bible and Missionary meetings.

This is a bare outline of our work. I presume many of you are saying. "Have there been no results during these last twenty years?" Oh yes, we have a bright side to the picture. When we are tired and discouraged, and wonder if harvest time will never come, we go to some of the pleasant homes where great changes have been wrought. We point to a scholar and tell her past history, and then thank God that the seed sown found a lodging place and good soil.

In the cities when the large schools are, and where there are fair public schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life, many of the colored people live well. Yet there may be a neat, cosy home just across the street, and a few doors beyond, a wretched hovel.

In the country, when the "Teachers' Home" and little school house are built beside their log cabins, they catch a glimpse of better things than they have known. The modest house, freshly painted, with the neat, cosy rooms inside--very simple and plain to us--seems like a palace to them. They begin to want the same. The children go to school and come home with wonderful things to tell. Faces and hands become clean, the woolly heads are more carefully combed, rents are mended, the girls put on clean collars.

The missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and stools, they are covered with some bright calico, the floor is scrubbed white, and they begin to live. The teacher says that they must work if they want to have homes, money begins to be saved, and before you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old cabin. A good horse or mule, with a bright shiny buggy, takes the place of the old steer and cart.

Yes, indeed, much has been accomplished. But we had very few workers in the early days among four million people, although just as many as could be supported with the means furnished, and to-day, among nearly seven millions, we have but 336 workers.

Millions sit in darkness right here in our own land. A mighty work is to be done, and the work in Africa must be done largely by these people, too.

We need more money; Christian men and women to go forth, and Christian men and women who are willing to send them. "The harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest." "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal."

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REPORT OF THE SECRETARY.

The information from the field, to which you have listened, explains to you the necessity for the organization of a Bureau of Woman's Work. It was organized in April, 1883, for the purpose, as was then stated:

1. To give information to the ladies in the churches of the variety of work sustained by the Association and to assist in devising plans of help.

2. To promote correspondence with churches, Sabbath-schools, missionary societies or individuals who will undertake work of a special character, such as the support of missionaries, aiding of students, supplying clothing, furnishing goods, and meeting other wants on mission ground.

3. To send to the churches, conferences or associations desiring it, experienced and intelligent lady missionaries to address them, giving fuller details of our methods of work.

It was believed that the growing interest on the part of the ladies of our churches, and their evident disposition to aid more effectively in the elevation of women, particularly the women of the South, called for such a department. Already the ladies of one State had organized the "Woman's Aid to the A. M. A.," that they might have their definite line of work in the support of lady missionaries, and inquiry had been made by many how best to assist in this work.

It was recognized that in no other way could a general interest be awakened and maintained so well as by giving direct information from the field, and the twenty years' experience of the Association in the South, during which time more than 3,000 different ladies had been employed as missionaries and teachers, the knowledge gained of the peculiarities of the field and best methods of reaching the people, and the thorough organization of the different departments of labor in home, school, and church, prepared us to bring before the ladies the information necessary, and to offer most excellent opportunities for special work for women. The ready response to this movement confirms the wisdom of the step, and we trust that ere long the Bureau will open new avenues of usefulness to the ladies of the churches, and give enlargement and efficiency to the work in the field.

Immediately following the organization of the Bureau, Miss Rose Kinney, of Oberlin, O., for many years engaged in the Southern work, and recently located in one of the dark corners of the field, McIntosh, Ga., was detailed for service in the North. She spent about six weeks in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Iowa, addressing ladies' meetings at the General Associations, and with good results. In June the Secretary of the Bureau was present at the State Conferences of Vermont and Maine, and gave information of the work in the field, resulting in the appointment of a State Committee of ladies in Vermont, to secure funds for the support of a missionary. Early in September Miss Anna M. Cahill, for nine years connected with Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., was detailed for special service, and has recently attended a series of meetings in Michigan and Illinois.

It is our purpose thus to bring the work before the ladies whenever and wherever opportunity is given, through different teachers and missionaries whom we may be able to spare temporarily from the field.

Within the year just closed, Sept. 30, the Association has had special aid from ladies North in the support of seven missionaries, as follows:

Ladies of Maine, support of Miss Lunt at Selma, Ala.,
and Miss Farrington at Wilmington, N. C. $675.00
Ladies of First and Second Cong. Churches, Oberlin, O.,
support of Miss Stevenson at Atlanta, Ga. 387.00
Ladies of Illinois, support of Miss Clark at Mobile, Ala. 214.46
Ladies of Wisconsin, support of Miss Jillson at Montgomery,
Ala. 254.33
Ladies of Congregational Churches, Chelsea, Mass., support
of Mrs. Steele at Chattanooga, Tenn. 488.81
Ladies of Iowa, support of Miss Gerrish at New Orleans, La. 406.45
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Total $2,426.05

In this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary, Miss Clary, at Beaufort, S. C., was sustained to the amount of $300 by the Sunday-school of the Central Congregational Church, Brooklyn.

Supplies in the furnishing of Mission Homes and dormitories have been recently furnished, and there is very marked increase of aid in the furnishing of clothing, both new and second-hand, for the benefit of students who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an education.

While, therefore, but a few months have elapsed since the organization of the Bureau of Woman's Work, its advantage is already manifest.

Since the field of missionary operations in our own country is large and diversified, and three leading societies exist, each having its distinct and important work,--viz.: The New West Education Commission, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Missionary Association--no effort has been made by the American Missionary Association to organize local societies auxiliary to itself; but that a society should exist in every church, able to co-operate directly with this Association in its great work for the Chinese, the Indians, the negroes and the needy whites of the South, seems apparent.

To this end we urge upon the ladies, organization, as helpful to systematic giving, and to facilitate such movement we present a form of constitution for a co-operative society, that may be open to the call from all parts of our country. This we greatly prefer as avoiding complication and preserving fellowship and unity in the home work. Such is the pressure of claims upon us, however, through the needs of our field, that except as such opportunity is afforded for aid to the Am. Miss. Assoc., we feel that we may be constrained to ask for organization auxiliary to the A. M. A. exclusively--for the women and children of 6,000,000 of colored people of the South alone presents a field for missionary work in the elevation of women, which we must not ignore, from the responsibility of which we cannot escape.

We are just now entering upon a new year of work. Of the 175 ladies appointed to the various departments of missionary labor, twelve are engaged for special home visitation among the people. You can see at a glance that this number is insufficient for that line of duty. Although our teachers are missionaries, and accomplish much through the schools and various agencies set at work for the elevation of the people, yet we ought to have at least one experienced and efficient woman at every mission station, whose entire time should be given to special work in the homes of the people. Not only do we desire this, but the most urgent appeals are sent us from the field for help of this kind, not instead of that which we are doing in school and church, but supplementary to it, as necessary in securing the results we seek. Already fifteen applications are before us for lady missionaries to work in the homes, and we wait only for the women of the North to furnish us the necessary funds. As fast as we receive pledges of support the missionaries will be sent out.

May the heart of every Christian woman be quickened to new impulse for the development of womanhood in those in our own land, so degraded and helpless!

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FORM OF CONSTITUTION OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.

ART. 1. This Society shall be called the Woman's Co-operative Missionary Society, ---- Church.

ART. 2. Its object shall be to co-operate with the established missionary societies of the Congregational churches of America, in diffusing missionary intelligence, increasing interest in prayer, and in raising funds for missionary work in this country.

ART. 3. The officers of this Society shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary, a Treasurer, and an Executive Committee of ---- members. The Treasurer shall keep separate accounts for the different societies co-operating, or, if preferred, a Treasurer may be appointed for each.

ART. 4. Contributors to this Society may designate to which branch of missionary work they wish their contributions applied. Undesignated contributions may be assigned by vote of the Executive Committee.

ART. 5. Any lady may become a member of this Society by contributing a sum not less than one dollar annually, or ten cents monthly. Gentlemen elected at any regular meeting may become honorary members by the payment of ---- dollars.

ART. 6. ---- members present at any regularly called meeting shall constitute a quorum for business.

ART. 7. Meetings shall be held monthly, at which the Secretary shall give information of the work of the various societies assisted. Special meetings may be called by the officers and Executive Committee. Meetings shall be opened by devotional exercises.

ART. 8. A vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular meeting shall be requisite for making any change in this constitution.

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THE BUREAU IN THE WEST.

BY MISS ANNA M. CAHILL.

One main object of the Woman's Bureau, as stated at the time of its organization, is to diffuse information among the ladies of our churches, as to our work in its various departments.

The carrying out of this purpose led to my eight weeks of itineracy among the conferences and churches of Wisconsin and Michigan.

If I went to inform I went also to learn--to see how fares our cause in these churches. Especially I sought to learn how strong a hold the work of the American Missionary Association has upon the sympathy and effort of the Christian ladies of that section, what organized system of helpfulness they already have in this line, or what in their judgment can be done and will be done toward incorporating this work in their regular plan of missionary operations for each year.

As I expected, I found the interest in our cause in various stages of development. It is not strange that in some places the ladies did not even so much as know that there was a Woman's Bureau. The Bureau is in its infancy, and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold of us all in any practical way. In many churches--not by any means always the larger ones--I found an intelligent appreciation of the needs and claims of the South.

We have had many workers from these States of the West, or rather of the Interior, and when I had the pleasure of going into a community that had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field, I found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my appeals.

My introduction to the warm-hearted Christian people of Wisconsin was at the State Association, met at Racine Sept. 24. Finding on my arrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the anniversary of their Foreign Missionary Society, I felt sure that there must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land, and I was not disappointed. On the following day, at a special gathering of the ladies, a State society was organized, whose range of objects should include all the benevolent societies of our denomination, working in this country, leaving conferences and local organizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or several treasurers, to any of these societies.

After attending this "gathering of the tribes" it was my privilege to go by invitation to a few of the towns in southern Wisconsin. Of course the State organization has not yet stretched out its arms over the State in the formation of local societies. I can but think that Beloit, Whitewater, Geneva and Kenosha will be among the first to take definite steps in this direction. Wisconsin has by special contributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the South for several years and is still doing so. When through regular channels of organization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly charity, the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the Woman's Bureau. Many, I think, will endorse the sentiment of a prominent lady in Michigan who said to me: "I think the ladies of each one of these Western States ought to support one or more teacher-missionaries under the Association."

On the 9th of October, at Grand Rapids, I joined the representative of the Woman's Department of the American Home Missionary Society, with whom the longer tour of six weeks was to be made in Michigan. We were then on our way to the Grand River Conference at Allendale, where we found a hearty welcome. In this Conference there is a branch of the State Woman's Home Missionary Society, a society already more than a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that adopted in Wisconsin.

Before the meeting of the Southern Michigan Conference we were able to visit, in rapid succession, the churches at Middleville, Vermontville, and Olivet, in all of which an evident sympathy in the various forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might result from this new presentation of our needs.

In the Southern Conference we found also a branch organization, union in its character, and so efficiently officered that all is likely to be done that can be accomplished through it. Nowhere did I find stancher friends for our Christian educational work in the South than in this conference.

At this point a short break occurred in our Michigan tour. A rapid journey brought us to Lake City in time to spend one day at the Minnesota State Association--just to grasp the hands of our Minnesota friends and be assured of their continued helpfulness. The Woman's Home Missionary Society voted that at the next annual meeting the constitution should be reconsidered, with a view to enlarging its borders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work. The giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is required by the constitution itself.

We took up the work in Michigan again at St. Joseph, and from there went to the Kalamazoo Association. We found here, as elsewhere, that these autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less accessible churches, where the attendance of ladies is necessarily limited, and we must, therefore, give our message to the pastors, charging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of their churches.

Before the next conference we were able to take in our plan the central points, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Flint and Lansing, and when we went up from there to Nashville to the Marshall Conference we felt that we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people, at whose homes we had already been.

Another tour through Kalamazoo, Allegan, Owosso, Port Huron, St. Clair, Detroit, Union City and Chelsea brought us much the same experiences as before.

We came finally to the large Eastern Conference, which was to be our last place of labor in Michigan. The ladies of this Conference, though not yet organized for home work under the State society, for several years supported a missionary in the South, largely through the personal effort of one active lady, who made this special collection her care. With the closing of this Bureau visit to the ladies of Michigan the work is left in their hands--not to be forgotten by them, but to be developed and strengthened until there shall be a rich annual fruitage of effort and practical result.

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CHILDREN'S PAGE.

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CHRISTMAS GIVING AT MYSTIC, CONN.

REV. CHARLES H. OLIPHANT.

The Editor has asked me to give some account of the way our Sunday-school behaves itself at Christmas-time.

There are two ideas about the Church; and as parents feel and think about the Church the children will be pretty sure to think and feel about the Sunday-school. One conception of the Church is that it is a kind of receptacle for pious people. When one becomes "good enough" he is expected to get into this receptacle and there be acted upon by the means of grace. It is one of the mischiefs of this notion that it seems to excuse laymen from any active part in Christian work, if only they are regular attendants upon divine service. So, many people come to the preaching and the praying as if there were nothing for them to do, nothing either great or small. Such members may be said to be found in the "passive voice."

The other and better notion is that the Church is not a receptacle, but an engine; not a box for Christians to get into, but a "body" for them to operate, and through which Christ can act upon the world of to-day. According to this view, the minister is not the only member whom the Master has called into His vineyard, the ideal Church is not so much a company of sheep as a company of soldiers; the congregation comes together not simply to "hear Mr. ----," but to organize for work. This may be called the Church's "active voice." I cannot (within the verbal limits assigned me) measure the miles of distance which lie between these two views.

The same confusion of thought prevails in the Sunday-school. We know how the small boy finds that Sunday-school the most attractive (and that teacher the "nicest") whose Christmas-tree pays the largest dividend.

When I came to my present field of work it had been the immemorial custom to have a tree and a treat for the children of the school. After a year or two of competition with other schools in making it "worth while" for children to attend our own, we "braced up" and put the question to vote whether we would make the Christmas festival a feast for ourselves or a feast for others; whether we would have our school at this time a dispenser of sweetmeats and ourselves the beneficiaries, or dispense a gift instead to some more needy servants of the Master, who had no parental pocketbook to tap; no good things to give away. To the surprise of all the vote was unanimous against the old, and in favor of the new, way. There was much misgiving as to results. Many confidently predicted that the offerings (each class was invited to bring its own in a sealed envelope) would be microscopic. It was distinctly understood that no money--not the smallest sum--was asked from those who disapproved the plan. Teachers were urged to dissuade their classes from perfunctory gifts. Inquiring next for a suitable object, we were advised by the Home Missionary Society of a poor servant of theirs in a Western State, whose poorer and more to be pitied wife was the mother of seven children. We put her to vote, and she was promptly and unanimously chosen. With the introduction into the plan of a personal element, enthusiasm began, and it became evident at once that there was to be sharp rivalry between the classes as to the size of their gifts. At length came the Christmas Eve concert, and with it a bright, full company of children. They never looked so happy, and every one of them knows that he never was so happy on such an occasion, as when, class by class, the offerings were handed to the Superintendent. With each of these a passage of Scripture was recited. It became only too evident, as the pile within his hand increased, that the prognostications of those who were sure that an old Sunday-school could not be taught new tricks were false. We are a small school--only 80 scholars--but the class offerings on this occasion footed up twenty-eight dollars and some cents. A letter was accordingly written and the money inclosed to the wife (this was the best part of it, for we were sure that the minister could not then, as ministers will, mistake the remittance for a portion of his salary), who was asked to purchase with the amount some article or articles of which she was individually in need. The letter which came back to us after a week made those who heard it read in open school clear their throats and wink away an inevitable tear. It revealed (among other things) the fact that this poor servant had hitherto made all the clothing for seven children with the bare needle. Now she has a sewing machine. We all think, but none more fervently than the children, that the memory of a few oranges, more or less--oranges eaten three years ago--would not compensate for the glad consciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie home. Thus we were led to translate the Beatitude pronounced upon the "giver" into our own experience, and we have its meaning in the continuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the remembrance of what our pennies wrought.

We have recently chosen an object for this year's offering; for the practice of giving and not receiving at Christmas-time is now habitual with us. Dr. Pike has told us about Philip Page, the African lad now at Atlanta, seeking eagerly, but with insufficient means, such an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a missionary. We shall send him enough for his support for one, and perhaps for two months.

Let me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming obstacle to prevent the putting in practice, in the schools to which they belong, of the plan here described. Do not fail to give the children for their Christmas gift the happiness that giving brings. Do not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference between the blessedness of giving and that of receiving. Identify by all means the aims and methods of the Church and Sunday-school. Let it not, even in a figure, appear to the child that the Christian attitude is one of idle enjoyment. No matter how small the gift, it is the _giving up_ which makes us the Lord's disciples.

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RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER 1883.

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MAINE, $425.02.

Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. $250.95
Bangor. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Dakota M._ 1.56
Brunswick. Young Ladies' Missionary Soc. of First
Parish, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 15.00
Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30; Second Cong.
Ch. and Soc., 7.20 37.20
Hiram. ----, _for Selma, Ala._ 1.75
Portland. State Street Cong. Ch., 50; Saint Lawrence
Street Ch. and Soc., 11.17 61.17
Wells. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
Wilmington, N. C._
Winthrop. Cong. Ch. 16.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.39
York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $715.46.

East Jaffrey. Cong. Ch. 20.68
Dover. Mrs. A. Fairbanks, 7; Mrs. S. Foye, 5, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 12.00
Great Falls. First Cong. Ch. 39.12
Haverhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.63
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.33; Cyrus Newhall, 1 10.33
Keen. Geo. E. Whitney 5.00
Keene. Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Second Ch., _for McIntosh,
Ga._ 2.50
Lyme. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Marlborough. Freedmen's Aid Soc., 2 bbls. of C., val.
60, _for Talladega C._, 4 _for Freight_ 4.00
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.43
New Ipswich. Children's 21st Annual Fair for benevolent
objects 10.50
Pembroke. Cong. Ch. (ad'l), 5; Rev. D. Goodhue, 1 6.00
Pittsfield. Box of Goods, by Rev. G. E. Hill, _for Marion,
Ala._
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Tilton and Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Walpole. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.27
West Lebanon. "Children's Mission Band." Christmas Box,
_for Bird's Nest, Santee Agency, Neb._
West Lebanon. Bbl. of C., by Rev. T. C. Pease, _for
Marietta, Ga._
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$215.46
LEGACY.

Francestown. Estate of Mrs. Harriet F. Downes, By Geo.
E. Downes 500.00
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$715.46

VERMONT, $175.05.

Barnet. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.13
Berlin. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. and Box of C.,
_for Talladega C._
Brattleborough. H. Halsey, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 5.00
Manchester. Mrs. A. C. Reed, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta
U._
Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Randolph. Mrs. Mary K. Nichols 3.00
Rupert. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.25
Saint Johnsbury. Mrs. V. M. Howard, 25; Mrs. E. D.
Blodgett, 25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Swanton. H. Stone, wife and daughter 5.00
Vershire. Luella D. Carpenter 1.00
Worcester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.55
West Randolph. Mrs. Susan E. Albin 6.00
Westminster West. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.10
Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.02

MASSACHUSETTS, $2,795.19.

Abington. "A Friend," to const. NAHUM FULLERTON L.M. 50.00
Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.30
Amherst. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 7.00
Andover, G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Andover. Sab. Sch. of South Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 20.00
Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 90.72;
incorrectly ack. in December number from Vt.
Auburn. Cong. Ch., to const. REV. SAMUEL D. HOSMER, L.M. 47.67
Boylston. Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch., Box of C., val. 16
Boston. Pilgrim Soc. of Phillips Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Boston. Mrs. D. C. Holden, Bbl. of C., _for Chattanooga,
Tenn._
Boston. "Cash" 10.00
Boxford. Cong. Ch. 37.87
Brookline. Mrs. Crafts, Books
Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ 2.00
Brockton. Porter Ch. and Soc., "A Friend," 20 (adl.)
to const. MRS. ALPHEUS GURNEY and EVERETT C. RANDALL
L.M's; Mrs. Mary E. Perkins, 5 25.00
Brockton. Mrs. Baylis Sanford, Bbl. of C., 2 _for
Freight, for Tougaloo U._ 2.00
Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student Aid,
Chattanooga, Tenn._ 101.00
Billerica. Ladies of O. C. Ch., Chest of C., _for
Atlanta U._
Bridgewater. Central Sq. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40,
to const. ANNIE M. EDSON L.M.; Central Sq. Sab. Sch.,
15 55.00
Brimfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of
C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._, val. 34 5.00
Cambridge. "A tithing" 5.00
Chelsea. Ladies' Union Home Mission Band, _for Lady
Miss'y, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 25.00
Chelsea. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.67
Chicopee. Second Cong. Ch. 31.87
Clinton. Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n, to const. MISS
ANNIE C. PIERCE L.M. 30.00
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 159.81
Dorchester. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., (ad'l) 1.24
Duxbury. A. P. Ellison, Bbl. of C., _for Atlanta U._
East Bridgewater. Mrs. S. D. Shaw 3.00
Florence. Florence Cong. Ch. 15.81
Fitchburg. Calvinistic Ch. and Soc. 160.87
Gilbertsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Hatfield. Cong. Ch. 58.00
Haverhill. Algernon R. Nichols, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 35.00
Haverhill. Sew. Soc. of No. Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C.,
val. 75.37, _for Tougaloo U._
Holliston. "Friends," 15.97; Missionary Concert, 4.03,
_for Student Aid_; "Friends," Shoemaker's kit, val.
10, Shoe-lasts and clothing, _for Talladega C._ 20.00
Hyde Park. Heart and Hand Soc., 25; First Cong. Sab.
Sch., 15 _for Straight U., furnishing_ 40.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 9.31 and Bbl. of C. 9.31
Lawrence. "E. F. E." 5.00
Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00
Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.45
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 24.75
Ludlow. Cong. Ch. 35.16
Malden. Trin. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 25.00
Medfield. Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3
_for Freight, for Savannah, Ga._ 3.00
Melrose. Orthodox Ch. and Soc. 60.77
Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 56.59
Monson. Cong. Ch. (12 of which from Mrs. H. Dewey's
class, _for Howard U._) 37.00
Newbury. First Parish, 2 Bbls. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 36.83; Prospect
St. Cong. Ch., 29.50 66.33
Newton. Ladies' Freedman's Aid Sew. Cir., Bbl of C.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Newton Center. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Chattanooga, Tenn._ 100.00
Newton Lower Falls. "Friend," _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ .50
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.75
North Amherst. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 51.06
Norwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.14
Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Missionary, Topeka,
Kan._ 15.00
Oxford. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., Bbl. of C., 2 _for Freight,
for Wilmington, N. C._ 2.00
Palmer. Thorndike Cong. Ch. 1.44
Pepperell. "Friends," Bbl. of C., _for Avery Inst._
Pittsfield. Mrs. Hurd, Bbl. of C., 2.50 _for Freight,
for Talladega C._ 2.50
First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (10 of which from Sab. Sch.,
_for S. S. work_) 143.00
Rockport. Busy Bee Soc., by Sadie W. Butman, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 6.00
Rockport, "Pastor's Class," _for Dakota M._ 5.64
Rockport. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 2 Bdls. of S. S.
Exercises
Shirley Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.05
Spencer. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 136.60
Spencer. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, Bdl. of C.
Springfield. Hope Cong. Ch. 30.00
Sunderland. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., 3 _for
Freight, for Atlanta U._ 3.00
Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 49.83
Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc. 13.54
Tewksbury. Ladies' Benev. Soc., _for Freight, for
Talladega C._ 2.00
Townsend. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 22.50
Watertown. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Phillips Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Straight U._ 50.00
Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Westborough. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00
Westborough. Freedmen's Mission Ass'n, Bbl. of C., 1,
_for Freight, for Atlanta U._ 1.00
West Medway. Cyrus Adams 10.00
West Newton. "A Friend," Bbl. of C.
Weymouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.75
Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. MRS.
HARRIET BEMIS L.M. 30.00
Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. and Soc., 163.26; Salem
St. Ch., 94; "E. C. C." 20 277.26
Worcester. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 100.00
Worcester. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 8.66
Worcester. Infant Class Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 30.00
Worthington. "An Aged Lady," by Rev. F. S. Huntington 10.00
Yarmouth. Ladies' Sew. C. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl. of
C., _for Chattanooga, Tenn._
----. "A Friend" 20.00

RHODE ISLAND, $337.80.

Kingston. Cong. Ch. 22.91

LEGACY.

Providence. Estate of Sarah P. Phillips, by T.
Salisbury, Adm'r 314.89

CONNECTICUT, $1,972.41.

Branford. Rev. C. P. Osborne 10.00
Brookfield Center. Cong. Ch. 14.81
Cheshire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Sab. Sch. Work, Marion,
Ala._ 25.00
Coventry. First Cong. Ch. 41.93
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. 12.00
Derby. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C. &
N. Inst._ 10.00
East Hartford. South Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. E. M. Roberts,
5 20.00
East Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Ellington. Cong. Ch. 26.14
Guilford. "A member of Third Cong. Ch." _for Student
Aid, Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 2.00
Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch. 84.41
Higganum. Cong. Sab. Sch., 31.43, to const. JOHN H.
FREEMAN L.M.; Cong. Ch., 20 51.43
Kensington. Cong. Ch. 35.73
Killingly. E. F. Jencks 5.00
Lakeville. Children's Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Litchfield. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Meriden. First Cong. Ch., to const. CATHARINE C.
HINSDALE, MRS. WM. HOMAN, JOSEPH U. PRATT, E. B.
COWLES, MARGARET LOGAN, LILLIAN B. SMITH, LUCY B.
GRISWOLD, SALLIE E. COLLINS, JOHN WARREN and MARSHALL
A. FOWLER, L.M's 300.00
Meriden. Center Cong. Ch. 50.00
Middletown. First Ch., 25.29; "A Friend," 5 30.29
Milton. Cong. Ch. 7.13
Millington. Cong. Ch. 5.00
New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 7.00
New Haven. "A Friend, in commemoration of fiftieth
birthday," 50; Mrs. Sylvia Johnson, 10 60.00
New London. Church of Christ 49.90
New London. Mrs. B. P. McEwen, Bbl. of C. and Chest of
Books, _for Talladega C._
Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS MARY
McCALL L.M. 51.02
Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 75.41
Norwich. Rev. W. S. Palmer 5.00
Norwich Town. Charles B. Baldwin 10.00
Putnam. "Missionary Workers" of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Stamford. First Cong. Ch. 44.69
South Coventry. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Stonington. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 98.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 30.50
Thompsonville. First Presb. Sab. Sch., _for Straight U.,
Library_ 6.61
West Avon. "A Friend" 10.00
West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.91
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. 5.50
Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for Tillotson C. &
N. Inst., Land_ 50.00
Westport. Amasa Warren 5.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. 8.02
Vernon Centre. Cong. Ch. 31.98
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$1,472.41

LEGACY.

New Britain. Estate of Mrs. Laura F. Stanley, by
Oliver Stanley, Ex. 500.00
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$1,972.41

NEW YORK, $891.01.

Adams Basin. Mrs. Ezekiel Clark 5.00
Albany. Chas. A. Beach 25.00
Brooklyn. "A Friend" 2.00
Brooklyn. Estate of Chas. Wilbur, pkg. Bibles
Camden. Cong. Ch. & Sab. Sch., _for Talladega C._ 28.00
Clinton. Miss Cynthia Chipman, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 5.00
Crown Point. Second Cong. Ch. 5.00
Durham. "A Friend" 3.00
Ellington. George Waith 1.00
Fairport. First Cong. Ch. 79.11
Fredonia. Sab. Sch. of Pres. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (100 of which from A. Judson) 127.00
Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 20.00
Homer. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega
C._
Le Roy. Miss Delia A. Phillips, _for Lady Miss'y,
Topeka, Kansas_ 10.00
Liverpool. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
Malone. First Cong. Ch. 32.20
Marion. Cong. Ch. 22.60
Morristown. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Munnsville. N. S. Hall, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst.,
Reading Room_ 5.00
New York. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 81.50, _for Talladega C._
and bal. to const. DR. JOSEPH F. LAND, EDMUND L.
CHAMPLIN and MRS. LOUISE S. AYRES L.M's; Gen. Clinton
B. Fisk, 30, to const. MISS FANNY GLEASON L.M.; "A
Friend," 1; Harper & Brothers, 200 vols. School Books,
val. 100 112.50
New York. D. J. Carson, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
New Haven. "A Friend," to const. REV. FRANK N. GREELEY
and MRS. ANNA C. GREELEY L.M's 60.00
Penn Yan. Chas. C. Sheppard 150.00
Portland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.60
West Chazy. Rev. L. Prindle 2.00
West Durham. Diantha Scoville 10.00
Warsaw. Mrs. H. L. Booth, Pkg. of Papers
Waterville. Mrs. J. S. Hitchcock, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 5.00
Whitestown. S. Hoxie, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
----. "Yale 59," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
----. "A Friend," Blacksmith and Shoemakers' tools,
val. 80.00, _for Talladega C._

NEW JERSEY, $281.00.

Bernardsville. J. L. Roberts 40.00
Elizabeth. Mrs. Hannah W. Page 1.00
Jersey City. Tabernacle Sab. Sch., _for Indian Girl,
Santee Agency_ 25.00
Montclair. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Hampton A. & N. Inst._ 35.00
Paterson. P. Van Houten 5.00
Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. (10.50 of
which _for Dakota M._) 175.00
Raritan. Box of Papers

PENNSYLVANIA, $35.00.

Clark. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson 15.00
Meadville. Miss Eliza Dickson 15.00
North East. Mrs. M. K. Spooner 5.00

OHIO, $472.61.

Alliance. Welsh Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Andover. Cong. Ch. 7.25
Bellevue. Cong. Ch., Collection 10.35, S. W. Boise 25.,
to const. REV. W. G. ROBERTS L.M. 35.35
Berea. Mrs. Fred Smedley, _for Lexington, Ky._ 3.75
Cleveland. First Cong. Ch. 24.29
Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Cleveland. White Sew. Machine Co., Sewing Machine, _for
Straight U._
Farmer. E. M. Ensign 10.00
Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury, "in memory of her daughter
Madelin," to const. MISS EMMA A. JOHNSON L.M. 30.00
Huron. Theodore Alvord 1.50
Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.16
Hudson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 5.00
New Lyme. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Straight U.,
Library_ 7.60
North Bloomfield. E. A. Brown, _for Theo. Dept.,
Talladega C._ 100.00
Oberlin. "A Friend" 10.00
Peru. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 63.75
Ruggles. First Cong. Ch. 6.23
Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton 1.50
Strongsville. E. Lyman, bal. to const. MRS. JULIA A.
AVERY L.M. 10.00
Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed 5.00
West Andover. Cong. Ch. 17.46
Wellington. First Cong. Ch. 59.27
York. Cong. Ch. (ad'l) 1.50

ILLINOIS, $663.80.

Cable. Maria B. Holyoke 2.00
Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney 10.00
Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., 40.53; Ladies' Miss'y Soc.
of New Eng. Cong. Ch., 9.10 49.63
Dover. Cong. Ch. 25.31
Dover. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y, Mobile,
Ala._ 10.00
Englewood. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Evanston. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.00
Farmington. Phineas Chapman 50.00
Freeport. L. L. Farwell, _for Talladega C._ 10.00
Galesburg. Infant Class First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 17.50
Galesburg. C. S. Halsey, case of medicines, _for
Talladega C._
Hampton. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. 49.30
Millburn. Ladies' Miss'y Soc., _for Lady Miss'y Mobile,
Ala._ 25.00
Moline. First Cong. Ch. 55.39
Naperville. Cong. Ch. 17.40
Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. 41.00
Onarga. "Gentleman" .50
Providence. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Rochelle. W. H. Holcomb, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 90.00
Rochelle. "A Friend," _for Tillotson C. and N. Inst.,
Reading Room_ 50.00
Sheffield. Etta M. Kingburn 3.27
Sparta. Wm. Rosborough, 5; Bryce Crawford, 5; D. P.
Barker, 2; P. B. Gault, 1; J. Hood, 1; S. Alexander,
1; J. Alexander, 1; R. H. Rosborough, 1; L. Fulton,
50c 17.50
Sycamore. I. H. Rogers, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 104.00

MICHIGAN, $387.14.

Alamo. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 5.00
Allegan. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.85
Adrian. C. C. Spooner 5.00
Baldwin. Rev. S. B. Demarest 2.00
Church's Corners. Cong. Ch., 13.40, and Sab. Sch.,
12.60; J. F. Douglass, 4; A. W. Douglass, 2; James
Robbins, 2 34.00
Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 9.60
East Saginaw. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 34.00
Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Ch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
Sengstack_ 30.00
Greenville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 25.00
Halloway. James Vincent 10.00
Hudson. Young People's Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Kalamazoo. Mrs. Henry Montague, 5; Mr. Reimer, 3, _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 8.00
Lansing. Plymouth Ch. 21.74
Litchfield. Cong. Ch., 11.60; Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 11.20 22.80
Olivet. First Cong. Ch. 6.63
Salem. First Cong. Ch., _for Fisk U._ 10.00
Saint Clair. Cong. Ch. 42.37
Three Oaks. Cong. Ch. 35.65
Union City. J. R. Blake 5.00
Vienna. Cong. Ch. 4.50

IOWA, $208.46.

Alden. Mrs. E. Rogers 2.00
Anamosa. Ladies Freedmen's Soc., Clothing, _for Straight
U._
Bellevue. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New
Orleans, La._ 4.00
Chester Center. First Cong. Ch. 40.00
Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 50.55
Decorah. Ladies' Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 40, _for Straight
U._
Des Moines. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., 3 Bbls of C., _for
Talladega C._
Eldora. Cong. Ch. 11.71
Grinnell. First Cong. Ch. 16.00
McGregor. Young Ladies' Mission Band of Cong. Ch. 17.00
McGregor. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La._ 18.00
Montour. Cong. Ch. 32.60
Onawa. Cong. Ch. 12.60
Staceyville. Miss P. D. Shattuck, bedding _for Straight
U._
----. "Hawkeye," _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 4.00

WISCONSIN, $163.69.

Burlington. Plymouth Ch. 15.00
Cooksville. Edward Gilley 5.00
Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. 13.50
Janesville. Cong. Ch. 10.32
Kan Kanna. Cong. Ch. 5.00
La Crosse. Mission Sch. 15.00
Milton. First Cong. Ch. 6.87
Madison. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Platteville. Cong. Ch. 35.00
Shopiere. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 8.00
Whitewater. Winchester & Partridge Mfg. Co., Corn and
Feed Mill, val. 40, _for Tougaloo U._

MINNESOTA, $62.69.

Detroit. First Cong. Ch. 3.00
Glyndon. Union Ch. 8.17
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 30.46
Rochester. First Cong. Ch. 21.06

KANSAS, $9.70.

Lawrence. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 9.70

NEBRASKA, $107.25.

Nebraska City. Cong. Ch. 7.25
York. Dr. Benjamin Bissell 100.00

ARKANSAS, $6.00.

Little Rock. Tuition 6.00

CALIFORNIA, $20.00.

Arcata. "A Friend" 20.00

MARYLAND, $129.22.

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. 129.22

KENTUCKY, $122.75.

Lexington. Tuition 87.50
Newport. F. W. C. Crane 5.00
Williamsburg. Tuition 30.25

TENNESSEE, $2,195.53.

Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition. 886.93; Rent, 75 961.93
Knoxville. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Memphis. Friends _for Le Moyne Sch., Enlargement of
Building_ 1,000.00
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 221.60

NORTH CAROLINA, $232.10.

Raleigh. "Friends," 2; Miss E. P. Hayes, 6 (of which 1
_for Freight_) _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 8.00
Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 219.10; Cong. Ch., 5 224.10

GEORGIA, $450.05.

Atlanta. Storrs' Sch., Tuition, 244.05; Rent, 3; First
Cong. Ch., 30 277.05
Macon. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 142, Rent, 10; Cong.
Ch., 10 162.00
Woodville. "A Friend" 1.00

ALABAMA, $458.15.

Athens. Tuition, 63.90, "Student Aid," 20 83.90
Marion. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, 295.85; Cong. Ch., 1.20 297.05
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 37.20; Cong. Ch., 10 47.20

LOUISIANA, $207.00.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 207.00

MISSISSIPPI, $1.00.

Jackson. Cong. Ch. 1.00

TEXAS, $251.00.

Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition 251.00

----, $25.00.

Port Arthur. Rev. H. H. Robins, _for Talladega C._ 25.00

INCOMES, $933.03.

Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 575.00
C. F. Hammond Fund, _for Straight U._ 125.00
De Forest Fund, _for President's Chair, Talladega C._ 37.50
Howard Theo. Fund, _for Howard U._ 85.53
Income Fund, _for Straight U._ 20.00
Le Moyne Fund, _for Memphis, Tenn._ 50.00
Luke Mem. Sch. Fund, _for Talladega C._ 10.80
N. M. and A. Stone Fund, _For Talladega C._ 25.00
Yale Library Fund, _for Talladega C._ 4.20
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Total for November $14,734.11

Total from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30th 29,977.09
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FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions from Oct. 1st to Nov. 30 76.07
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H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
56 Reade Street, New York.

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TO INVESTORS.

$925 and accrued interest will buy a $1,000 6 per cent. gold coupon bond of the

EAST and WEST R. R. CO. OF ALABAMA

This is a strictly first class investment bond, secured by a first mortgage on an old road, fully built and equipped, that has always paid its interest, and earns a dividend on its stock besides. This bond will pay you $30 every six months. No taxes, no trouble, and a safe investment. For sale by the

EAST AND WEST R. R. CO. OF ALA., 502 B'way, or
AMERICAN LOAN AND TRUST CO., 113 B'way, N. Y.

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CONSTITUTION.

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 country and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.

ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into its treasury, 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. Other persons, by the payment of the same sum, may be made life members without the privilege of voting.

Every evangelical 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 Association, or, in case of its failure to act, 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 powers; 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 and voting, the amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the previous Annual Meeting.

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