Chapter II: Part 2

I overheard an intelligent gentleman, a member of Congress, and born in my native Massachusetts, express the duly considered opinion that the Chinese mind is so organized that it cannot be expected to entertain the Christian ideas. It illustrated the sad fact that it takes a long time for even Americans to entertain and be molded by those ideas. This gentleman might easily have found scores of humble servants and laborers of this "unassimilable" race in his own city who had come as truly in the power of Him, who is the Truth, as any of us. For it is the testimony of all who are acquainted with the facts that as large a proportion of those Chinese who take the Christian name "adorn the doctrine" as do those who take that name from among the Caucasian families. Indeed, the proportion may, perhaps, be larger. For what can ordinarily induce a Chinaman to espouse the Christian standing here unless it be the genuine appreciation of Christian truth and the response of his heart to the love of God as shown in the cross of Christ?

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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

Our readers will recall an article issued in this department of the April "Missionary" entitled "A Plan with Reasons." We are happy to report that a good many cheering words in approval of the plan have reached us, and not a few of a practical character. We select from the latter the following:

FROM NEW YORK.

--I have received a delightful letter from our teacher at the Santee Agency, and our Committee are much pleased with her account of her work. I have directed our Treasurer to send to your A. M. A. Treasurer the first quarterly payment on account of the $150 appropriated, and trust it will reach you in due season. Our payments will be made hereafter May 1, Aug. 1 and Nov. 1, as we are dependent on our weekly collections, and hence cannot pay oftener than quarterly.

--Inclosed find $40 for two shares in support of a missionary teacher, from whom we may receive a monthly letter.

FROM MASSACHUSETTS.

--Inclosed please find $20. Our Ladies' Benevolent Society wish to take one share in the expense of a lady missionary teacher, from whom we shall enjoy letters, hoping in this way to call out more interest in the work.

--A recent circular from you was read to our ladies by our pastor's wife, to whom it was sent. We have no separate organization for the Am. Miss. Assoc. but our ladies contribute something to its funds--though probably not enough to take a full share in the support of a teacher. Encouraged by what you say in the circular, we write to ask that we may be included in the list of those to whom monthly letters will be sent, as promised to those who take one or more shares. We are small and few, but the interest is genuine, and we want to increase it. Our contribution goes into the general fund.

FROM MINNESOTA.

--Last week, on a very stormy day, with less than twenty ladies present, the subject of taking shares in the support of a missionary teacher was introduced, and a little over $40 pledged, to be paid before October. I felt very much encouraged, and shall do all I can to increase the amount, though I am too much of a stranger--having been here but a year--to have any idea what we can raise. You promised us letters from our missionary if we took but one of the $20 shares; so we shall hope to receive them. After another month I hope to send you word about a much larger pledge.

--Ours is a country church, laboring under the disadvantage of constant depletion of our younger members; the twin cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis are close by, and our broad frontier also attracts strongly. Last year a determined few, by great exertion, raised almost $100 for division among the Am. Board, A. H. M. S. and A. M. A. The outlook is not encouraging for this year, and, as a regular correspondent might add interest to our small meeting, we voted yesterday to take one share; and should we succeed better than we hope, our rule of division will give you one-third, whatever the amount may be. We need more prayer for warm hearts and the open hand.

FROM OHIO.

--We have been reading "A Plan, with the Reasons," and like it much. We have a class of young girls in our church who ought to be in missionary work. Can you give us a little fuller account of the work? and do you have teachers among the poor white women of the South? Please let us hear soon from you; we want an object to work for. We may not be able to do very much, but would like to do something.

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ALABAMA WOMAN'S MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

MISS M. K. LUNT.

The annual meeting of the Alabama Woman's Missionary Association was held in the prayer-room of the Congregational church in Montgomery, Monday, March 31. The devotional exercises were conducted by the President of the Association, Mrs. H. S. De Forest, who gave the opening address, welcoming the members of the local societies, now numbering seven.

The reports of the Secretaries and delegates showed an increase of interest, labor, and funds collected, as well as a constant growth in missionary intelligence.

Nearly all the societies have remembered the foreign work and the Indians, in addition to their own needs and people, and have shown a deep interest in the advancement of Christian education.

Mrs. Ragland, the wife of one of the Talladega theologians, read a paper upon Home Influence, the prominent points of which were filial obedience, the important place the wife, mother, and daughter fill in the home, and the importance of training the daughter in domestic duties.

Mrs. Ash, whose husband was an acceptable pastor in one of the A. M. A. churches, and who not long since was called home, read a paper, giving a comprehensive history of the work of the American Missionary Association in the South, relating incidents connected with the earlier teachings, and showing how the work had broadened, and brought into the ranks the colored people.

Mrs. Andrews, of Talladega, prepared a paper on the "Origin and History of Our Alabama Movement in Woman's Work," read by Miss Partridge, giving a full development of the organization and growth of the society during its seven years' existence, and showing how much greater results are accomplished by organized effort and unity of action, and advising that the relation of this society as an auxiliary to the W. H. M. A. of Boston be severed and become allied to the Woman's Bureau of New York, which has the Southern field under its special care; referring also to the interest, courtesy and sympathy which the Boston society had always shown toward the Alabama branch.

Mrs. O. F. Curtis, of Emerald Grove, Wis., was present, who has two sons in the South as missionaries and one on the foreign field--Rev. W. W. Curtis, of Japan--who addressed the meeting on the condition of the women and girls in that country; what is being done by the missionaries to lead them to Christ; also speaking of the hindrances to the Christian religion.

This interesting meeting could not fail to awaken a deeper interest in the hearts of all present, and we believe that no one left without feeling that she had gained a new impulse to renewed consecration and work for the Master.

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SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORK AT TOUGALOO.

MISS JOSEPHINE KELLOGG.

The Sunday-school of this Institution has always--under the present management at least--been considered one of the most important, if not the most important means of grace and spiritual enlightenment. The power of sustained attention and consecutive thought is greatly lacking in all untrained minds; hence the superiority of the hand-to-hand question-and-answer method of the class-room over the sermon as a means of informing the mind and clearing away the rubbish of superstition and the misapprehensions of meaning, derived from the ignorant preachers who have been in many cases the only previous expounders of the word, and resulting also from a very vague and limited understanding of the language of the Bible, the preacher--even the teacher.

It would be impossible for one new to the work to even _grasp at_ the distorted images and superstitious misconceptions connected with religious subjects in the minds of the more ignorant colored people without the free interchange of personal conversation. So for years the Sunday-school has been placed at the head of the Sabbath services here, and given the forenoon, the review by the Superintendent occupying the time of a short sermon, with the lesson for the day, already explained and impressed by the several teachers, for its text. Later in the day class prayer-meetings are held, and here young Christians learn to take up the cross of bearing testimony for Christ, and making audible prayer for themselves and others. Many of the scholars feel these meetings to be very valuable.

At the close of the school year a Sunday-school Convention is held, and it is urged as a duty upon all Christian students who go out to teach that they should organize and conduct Sabbath schools in connection with their day schools.

We have recently received two donations of library books, so that we now have enough to go once around, and we loan them out each Sunday. We also generally have papers to distribute, sent us by kind and careful Sunday-school scholars in the North who make their papers do double duty. If some school changing song-books would send our school a hundred or more well-preserved copies of those they lay aside, it would be a gift highly appreciated.

One of our neighbors is a good Mother in Israel, who has always taken a warm interest in this institution in all its departments and appreciated its uplifting influence upon her people. She belongs to one of the branches of the Methodist Church, and felt that she wanted something done for the improvement and revival of interest in the schools of that denomination in the vicinity. Accordingly, she worked up a S. S. Convention among them last Fall, and invited Mr. Pope and some others of us to go and help to make it profitable. We could not get off until after dinner and might as well not have gone at all. Soon after our entrance a young man introduced a resolution that superintendents and teachers be _compelled_ to be at their schools at the hour set for opening. One of the preachers rose and said that teachers _could not_ be _compelled_, and moved as an amendment that they be _acquired_ to come promptly.

Then ensued along, windy, wordy controversy on "compelling" and "acquiring." Seeing no prospect of a conclusion we withdrew. The good auntie who had invited us followed us out in deep humiliation. I said, we are sorry to go without contributing something to the interest of the meeting, but this is such a waste of time, there is no coming to the point. "That's jus' so, dear," she said, "but that their ign'rance. Ign'rance _does_ waste time, honey. _Ign'rance can't come to a pint._" That last sentence struck me as a piece of epigrammatic wisdom.

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CHILDREN'S PAGE

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WONG NING'S IDEAS

AS EXPRESSED BY HIMSELF.

[Wong Ning is no imaginary character. He is a real
flesh-and-blood Chinese boy, living in San Francisco, and much
interested in the new and many sided life going on about him. So
we are glad to give you, in his own words, a few of his
observations on American life and manners.]

My name is Wong Ning. I born on home China, come to this country when thirteen years old, and been here now seven year.

Little boy have very hard time on home China. Have to get up and go to school at six o'clock--very early that--come home, get breakfast at eight o'clock, and lunch at twelve o'clock; then stay till six o'clock in the day. I no think American boy like that!

Little girl no go to school _at all_! Very funny, that! Have one big house, on home China, where all the girls go every day; learn to sew, make the pretty things, the flowers, the birds, everything! by the needle. Little girl no speak to the boy--no! never! on home China.

On home China every one like the mother very much; give everything to she. If a China boy no like the mother, no work hard for she, no send she everything--Oh! horrible! _very bad!_ All the sons marry, bring home the wife to wait on she. Not like the wife so much as the mother, on home China.

The woman--the wife, the mother, the little girl--all work in the house--sew, cook, make the cloth, everything! When they make the dinner or the lunch, set the table very nice, put on everything; then run behind the curtain (no have any door on home China), and then the man--the father, the son, the little boy--all come in, sit down, eat the dinner; eat him all up. Pretty soon, by and by, the woman--the mother, the wife, the little girl--come quiet, lift up the curtain. If he all gone, can come eat; if no, can not come. _Yes! Sure!_

I go to school at night, learn to read and write; I think English very hard. I been work for the Jew family, the Irish family, and the Spanish family. I think my English get too much funny--so many kinds of language. Now I work for the American family; like it more better.

I been here so long, and go to school so much, that I understand the English more better than China. _Very funny that!_ When my cousin, at the wash-house, send me the letter to come take dinner with he, he have to write it in English, and the lady I work for, she laugh very much.

I get one letter this morning. (My American name Charley). Here the letter:

"Mr. Chily, you Please come to Kum Lee this evening to take
dinder, because Lee chong go to home China this week. Ah Do and
Ah Sing all come in to if soon as you can good by WONG VOO."

I know plenty stories about on home China. You ever hear about Kong foo-too?--American call him Confucius--he very great man.

Maybe you like, I tell you one story. He live about two, three thousand year ago, _yes!_ _sure!_ He travel every city, teach Chinaman--that very good.

One city he no came--that Canton--one very big place inside three big walls. Kong-foo-too, or Confucius, he come to Canton, and try to come in the gate--very big gate.

One little boy there seven years old. I think that little boy too smart. He making play of a little city, and building three little walls around it, all the same like Canton. He took up too much room, and talk too smart, so that Confucius cannot get in.

He watch him a little while, then he say, "I guess Canton all right; this boy can teach Canton. I go some other place." _That very bad!_ Next year that boy died--_very strange that_! So Canton never get any teaching, not from boy, not from Kong-foo-too. I think not very good for little boy to be too smart.--_St. Nicholas._

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RECEIPTS FOR APRIL, 1884.

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MAINE, $257.77.

Augusta. "J. S." (5 of which _for Indian Work, Hampton
N. & A. Inst._) to const. REV. ARTHUR F. SKEELE L.M. $30.00
Belfast. Miss A. L. McDowell, _for Selma, Ala._ 1.00
Bluehill. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Brewer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Camden. R. Bowers, 20; Abner Howe and wife, 3; Jonas
Howe, 50c.; Mrs. Myra A. Mansfield, 3.50; E. D.
Mansfield, 3 30.00
Gorham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 65.85
Gorham. Sab. Sch., by J. S. Hinckley, _for Student Aid,
Selma, Ala._ 26.42
Limington. "A. B." 2.00
Lyman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50
Machias. Center St. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Portland. Fourth Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Saint Albans. Rev Wm. S. Sewall 3.00
Scarborough. "A friend in Cong. Ch." 50.00
South Berwick. Mrs. J. H. Hodgden's S. S. Class, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
South Berwick, Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
Wilmington, N. C._
Woodfords. ---- 1.00
Yarmouthville. Rev. A. Loring 1.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $237.16.

Amherst. Cong. Ch. 5.82
Colebrook. "E. C." 2.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.54
Keene. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Sab. Sch. Work_ 15.42
Lyndeborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.50
Marlborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.40
Mason. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Milford. Willing Workers, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo
U._ 50.00
New Boston. ---- (30 of which _for Cal. Chinese M._) 100.00
New Ipswich. A. N. Townsend 1.00
Northwood. Dea. J. J. Cate, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 1.00
Peterborough. Ladies' Circle Union Cong. C., _for
Freight_ 2.04
Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch. 22.44

VERMONT, $716.94.

Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. M. Safford 38.52
Cambridge. "Friends," by Mrs. S. P. Wheelock, Box of C.,
_for Tougaloo U._; "Friend" 2, _for Freight_ 2.00
Dorset. Women's H. M. Soc., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 15.00
Greensborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.50
Jamaica. Mrs. William Hastings 5.00
Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley 70, _for Student Aid_, 25,
_for repairing Piano, Talladega C._ 95.00
Manchester. Rev. and Mrs. A. C. Reed, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Manchester. A. Hemenway 5.00
Milton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.40
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.65
North Cambridge. "A Friend" 5.00
North Ferrisburg. Cyrus W. Wicker 10.00
Norwich. John Dutton 10.00
Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 109.48
Saint Albans. M. A. Stranahan, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 50.00
Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch., 113.25; South Cong.
Ch. Sab. Sch., 61.22 174.47
Springfield. Cong. Ch. M. C. Coll., _for Indian M._ 8.69
Stockbridge. Rev. T. S. Hubbard 10.00
Townshend. "A Friend" 5.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.23
Williston. W. L. Seymour 2.00
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$626.94

LEGACY.

Grafton. Estate of Mrs. Caroline B. Akin, by Wm.
Hastings, Ex. 90.00
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$716.94

MASSACHUSETTS, $6,300.43.

Adams. Mrs. W. B. Green's Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch. 10.00
Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Amherst. Miss Mary H. Scott, _for Reading Room,
Tougaloo U._ 3.00
Andover. "A Friend," 1.50, _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._; Free Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Talladega, Ala._, 3
_for Freight_ 4.50
Athol. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. WM. SHERWOOD
L.M. 54.39
Boston. Central Ch. and Soc., 933.81; Old South Ch.
and Soc., 429.15; Mrs. D. C. Holden, 50c 1,363.46
Boston. Sab. Sch. of Eliot Ch., 25; Mrs. C. A.
Spaulding, 20, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 45.00
Boston, Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 77.84
Bradford. Mrs. Sarah C. Boyd, _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 10.00
Brookfield. Ladies' Benevolent Soc., Cong. Ch., _for
Freight_ 2.35
Cambridge. First Ch., Shepherd Soc. 174.50
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch. Mon. Con. Coll. 14.27
Cambridgeport. Ladies of Prospect St. Sewing Circle,
Bbl. of C. and Box of Books, _for Kittrell, N. C._
Chelsea. Arthur C. Stone and S. S. Class, First Cong.
Ch., 100; Miss Annie P. James, 30, to const. MISS
SARAH L. GRANT L.M.; _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 130.00
Chelsea. Ladies Union Home M. Band, _for Lady
Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 60.00
Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.66
Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 109.94
East Hampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 25.00
East Hampton. "Friends," _for Oaks, N. C._ 6.00
East Hampton. First Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ 2.40
East Medway. Bbl. of C. and S. S. Supplies, by S. E.
Spencer, _for Savannah, Ga._
Easton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.25
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. M. C. Coll. 14.00
Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. 250.00
Florence. Florence Cong. Ch. 24.50
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.96
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Great Barrington. First Cong. Ch. 102.38
Great Barrington. Egbert E. Lee, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 4.00
Haverhill. A. P. Nichols, 35, _for Student Aid_, 15
_for Furnishing Room Talladega C._; Ladies of W. H.
M. Soc., Center Ch., Box of C., _for Talladega C._ 50.00
Haverhill. Sab. Sch. of North Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Haverhill. Sew. Soc. North Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ 1.51
Hubbardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.50
Kingston. "A Friend." 1.00
Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch., "A friend" Bundle of C.,
val. 18, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ and 2 _for
Freight_ 2.00
Lawrence. Bbl. of C. by Mrs. M. E. J. Bean, _for
Savannah, Ga._
Lee. Cong. Sab. Sch. 75.00
Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 72.89
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 61.62
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, Bbl. garden seeds
_for Talladega C._
Medway. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., val. 25
Mill River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.71
Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.00
Newburyport. Mrs. L. J. Case, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 5.00
Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc. 200.00
Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 119.03
Newton Highlands. James L. Hyde, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 3.00
Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes 25.00
New Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.80
North Adams. Cong. Ch. 32.89
Northampton. First Cong. Ch., 307.67; Edwards Ch.,
92.20 399.87
Northampton. Edwards Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Northampton. A. L. Williston, 20, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._, and Package Indelible Ink, _for Talladega
C._ 20.00
Northampton. "A Friend," _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 17.50
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Norton. Mrs. E. B. Wheaton, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Oakham. Bbl. of C., by S. F. Fairbanks, _for Savannah,
Ga._
Orange. Cen. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 26.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.15
Peabody. South Ch. and Soc. 113.00
Pittsfield. "A Friend" 1.00
Plymouth. Church of the Pilgrimage 93.86
Rehoboth. Cong. Ch. 21.54
Roxbury. Dea. Silas Potter, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Salem. Girl's Missionary Soc., of South Ch., _for
Freight_ 2.05
Salisbury and Amesbury. Union Evan. Ch. 15.00
Somerville. Franklin St. Ch. and Soc. 176.76
South Abington. "By a Friend," to const. MRS. SALLY
SOULE and MRS. MEHITABLE REED L.M's 100.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. ad'l to
const. MRS. EMMA J. SMITH and MRS. ALICE H. GARDNER
L.M's 48.00
Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 71.89
Sunderland. Sab. Sch. Classes of Misses Belle Childs
and Kittie Armes, 13.49, and of Mrs. Alice Ball,
Misses Cala A. Delano and Mary L. Hubbard, 14.62;
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 28.11
Taunton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.86
Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.50
Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc., 372.75 to const. GEORGE
S. HALL, CHAS. H. ALLEN, JR., ALVAN HYDE, SARAH G.
HYDE, NELLIE BULLARD and MRS. MARY E. CLEVELAND
L.M's; First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 31.76 404.51
Watertown. Phillips Sew. Circle, Bbl. of C., val. 50.,
_for Tougaloo U._
Westborough. Ladies' Freedmen's Sew. Circle. Bbl. of
C., val. $43.32, _for Talladega C._, 1.50 _for
Freight_ 1.50
West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.05
West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.25
West Hampton. Cong. Ch. 25.00
West Medway. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Westminster. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 89.15
West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and Soc. 22.29
Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. 13.15
Wilmington. Ch. of Christ 45.63
Worcester. Piedmont Ch., 320; Union Ch. and Soc.,
181.60; Central Ch. and Soc., 85 586.60
Yarmouth Port. Ladies' Sew. Cir. of First Cong. Ch.
Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._, 1 _for Freight_ 1.00
By Charles Marsh, Treas., Hampden Benev. Ass'n: Monson
Cong. Ch. 20; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10.92, _for Fisk U._,
and 10.92 _for Hampton N. & A. Inst._; Springfield,
South Ch., 45.64; First Ch., 24.38; Westfield,
First Ch., 40 151.86
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$6,150.43

LEGACY.

North Brookfield. Estate of Lydia C. Dodge, by Wm.
P. Haskell 150.00
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$6,300.43

RHODE ISLAND, $27.17.

Little Compton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Tiverton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 7.17

CONNECTICUT, $3,627.82.

Bozrah. Cong. Ch., 4.63; Miss Hannah Maples, 5 9.63
Bridgeport. First Cong. Ch. 81.01
Canton Center. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.37
Coventry. Second Cong. Ch. 34.02
Darien. Cong. Ch. 33.00
East Hampton. Mrs. Laura Skinner, _for Talladega C._ 5.00
East Hartland. Cong. Ch. 17.40
East Haven. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Enfield. Members of Cong. Ch. _for Student Aid, Straight
U._ 5.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. (175 of which from Dea. Henry D.
Hawley to const. ROBT. MCKEE, ALEXANDER PATTERSON
and HERBERT HART L.M's) 230.37
Franklin. Cong. Ch. 9.18
Guilford. Daniel Hand 100.00
Hartford. Roland Mather, 1,000; Windsor Av. Cong. Ch.,
Mrs. Catherine R. Hillyer, 30, to const. MRS. SUSAN
M. STOWE L.M. 1,030.00
Hartford. Young Ladies' Mission Band, by Minnie Lewis,
Box Thread, _for Dakota Home_
Harwinton. Cong. Ch. 51.00
Meriden. Center Cong. Ch. 50.00
Middletown. First Ch. 55.76
New Britain. Mrs. Norman Hart 14.00
New Canaan. John Erhardt 2.50
Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.14
Mansfield Center. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
New Haven. First Ch., 200.56; Ch. of the Redeemer, 176;
Rev. S. W. Barnum, 10 copies "Romanism as It Is," val.
35; "W. C. S.," 2 378.56
North Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 60.00
Norwich. Park Cong. Ch. and Soc. 333.77
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 63.00
Ridgefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 10.00
Seymour. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Sherman. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Southington. "A Friend," _for Fort Berthold, Dak._ 50.00
South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 4.00
South Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 27.27
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 70.29
Vernon. Rev. Chas. Redfield 5.00
Waterbury. Prof. Wm. M. Aber, _for Atlanta U._ 10.00
West Stafford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
Whitneyville. Cong. Ch., to const. ELI G. DICKERMAN
L.M. 35.00
Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 77.68
Windsor Locks. Ladies Soc., Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo
U._
----. "A Friend" 10.00
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$2,945.95

LEGACIES.

Danbury. Estate of Mrs. R. B. Fry, by L. D.
Brewster, Adm. 481.87
Eastford. Estate of Royel Warren, by J. D. Barrows,
Ex. 200.00
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$3,627.82

NEW YORK, $1,934.74.

Brooklyn. Ch. of the Pilgrims 312.81
Binghamton. Bbl. of C. and S. S. Supplies, by Mrs.
A. L. Webster; Mrs. Webster, 5, _for Savannah, Ga._ 5.00
Cohoes. Mrs. H. S. Gilbert, _for Kittrell, N. C._ 2.00
City Island. Miss H. M. Hegeman, _for Freight_ 2.00
Essex Co. ---- 75.00
Flushing. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady Miss'y_ 40.00
Franklin. Cong. Ch. 2.50
Governeur. "Thank Offering," _for Ken. Mt. Work_ 5.00
Jamesport. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Malone. Mrs. M. K. Wead 100.00
Millville. Cong. Ch. 2.10
Munnsville. T. B. Rockwell 3.00
New York. Broadway Tab. Ch. (65 of which _for Lady
Missionaries_) 1,121.24
New York. Sewing Sch. of Bethany Mission, Tabernacle
Ch., by Miss M. S. Janes, _for Santee Agency, Neb._ 25.00
New York. Miss E. E. Wynkoop 2.00
Norwich. Mrs. C. B. Martin, _for Library Fund,
Savannah, Ga._ 5.00
Nyack. John W. Towt 100.00
Orient. Hetty M. Wiggins .50
Owego. Box of C., _for Oaks, N. C._
Poughkeepsie. Cong. Sab. Sch. Box of Christmas Gifts,
_for Savannah, Ga._
Sidney Plains. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Syracuse. Mrs. Clara C. Clarke, 7.40; Nathan Cobb, 5 12.40
Tarrytown. "A Friend" 40.00
West Salamanca. Rev. Wm. Hall 12.09
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$1,878.64

LEGACY.

Fort Covington. Estate of Reuben Martin by John S.
Parker, Ex. 56.10
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$1,934.74

NEW JERSEY, $60.00.

Boundbrook. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00
East Orange. Grove St. Cong. Ch. 35.00
Irvington. Rev. R. S. Underwood 5.00
Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., adl. 5.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $85.00.

Canton. H. Sheldon 10.00
Coudersport. J. S. and M. W. Mann 5.00
East Smithfield. Rev. C. H. Phelps 5.00
Hermitage. W. F. Stewart 5.00
Philadelphia. Thomas W. Price 50.00
Philadelphia. Frederick S. Kindall, _for Books, Theo.
Dept. Talladega C._ 10.00

OHIO, $351.12.

Akron. Ladies' Home Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch (adl) 5.00
Ashtabula. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Brooklyn. Cong. Ch. 12.95
Chagrin Falls. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Indian M._ 4.25
Chardon. Cong. Ch. 12.91
Cleveland. First Cong. Ch. 24.38
Cleveland. Liberty Holden, 10, Dea. Horace Ford, 5, Mrs.
E. H. Ladd, 1, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 16.00
Conneaut. H. E. Pond 5.00
Elyria. Mission Bands Cong. Ch.: "Little Helpers," 15,
"Opportunity Club," 6, "Golden Links," 4, _for Indian
Girl, Santee Agency_ 25.00
Four Corners. Cong. Ch. 2.90
Hudson. Ladies, by Mrs. A. C. Stevens, _for Furnishing
Reading Room, Straight U._ 6.00
Huntsburg. A. E. Millard, 10, Mrs. M. E. Millard, 5 15.00
Marysville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 21.88
Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. 35.35
Paddy's Run. Cong. Ch. 22.00
Sandusky. First Cong. Ch. 40.50
Tallmadge. Rev. Luther Shaw 10.00
Warrensville. Mrs. Mary Walkden, _for Chinese M._ 10.00
Youngstown. "Two Friends." 2.00
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$301.12

LEGACY.

Cardington. Estate of Wiseman C. Nichols, by Mrs.
F. C. Nichols, Ex. 50.00
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$351.12

INDIANA, $12.50.

South Bend. R. Burroughs 10.00
Sparta. John Hawksville 2.50

ILLINOIS, $518.68.

Cambridge. Y. P. Miss'y Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 85.49; Soc. of Inquiry, Theo.
Sem., 5.15; Millard Av. Cong. Ch., 5 95.64
Chicago. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. N. E. Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Miss'y, Mobile, Ala._ 15.20
Chicago. South Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
Chenoa. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, Mobile,
Ala._ 6.75
Galesburg. "A Friend." 25.00
Gridley. Bbl. of C. and S. S. Supplies, 3 Packages S. S.
Work, by Mrs. Geo. Kent, _for Savannah, Ga._
Homer. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lisbon. Bbl. of C. and S. S. Supplies, by Mrs. Lewis
Sherrill, _for Savannah, Ga._
Oak Park. Young Ladies' Mission Circle, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Oak Park. Mr. Packard's S. S. Class, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 9.00
Rantoul. Mrs. Antrace Pierce 10.00
Tonica. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
By Mrs. E. F. Williams, _for Lady Missionary, Little
Rock, Ark._; Chicago, Ladies of South Cong. Ch., 25;
Moline, Mission Circle of Cong. Ch., 5; Stirling, Cong.
Ch., 10 40.00
----. Bbl. of C., _for Mobile, Ala._
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$306.59

LEGACY.

Galesburg. Estate of Warren C. Willard, by Prof. T. R.
Willard 25.04
Pittsfield. Estate of Rev. Wm. Carter, by Wm. C. Carter,
Ex. 187.05
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$518.68

MISSOURI, $5,015.00.

Sedalia. First Cong. Ch. 15.00

LEGACY.

St. Louis. Estate of S. M. Edgell by Geo. S. Edgell,
Ex. 5,000.00
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$5,015.00

MICHIGAN, $241.46.

Alamo. Julius Hackley 10.00
Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 17.24
Cooper. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 5.30
Croton. Cong. Ch. 3.60
Detroit. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.00
Grand Rapids. Park Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H. H.
Sengstacke_ 50.00
Imlay City. First Cong. Ch. (5.50 of which _for Indian
M._) 11.00
Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett 1.50
Mount Zion. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 1.00
Northport. First Cong. Ch. 7.56
Royal Oak. By Rev. Richard Vivian, _for Indian M._ 2.00
Union. First Cong. Ch. 53.26
Vermontville. Cong. Ch. (ad'l) 29.00

IOWA, $323.47.

Algona. A. Zahlten 10.00
Bear Grove. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New
Orleans, La._, by Mrs. O. C. Warne 3.10
Big Rock. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Charles City. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.00
Creston. Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, New Orleans, La._ 7.02
Des Moines. Ladies of Plym. Cong. Ch., 12.50; "Three
Gentlemen," 8; Mrs. A. A., 1; Mrs. M., 1, _for
Talladega C._ 22.50
Genoa Bluff. H. A. Morse, _for Student Aid, Talladega
C._ 10.00
Grinnell. Cong. Ch., 13.06, and Sab. Sch., 23.17 36.23
Grinnell. Mrs. W. B. Chamberlain, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 20.00
McGregor. Cong. Ch. 24.26
McGregor. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. Cong. Ch. 9.91
Ottumwa. "Friends," _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 2.50
Tipton. Mrs. J. M. L. Daniels, 1; Mrs. M. D. C., 50c.;
S. P. D., 50c. 2.00
Wilton. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 3.00
By Mrs. J. H. Ellsworth, _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._; Corning, Ladies' Miss'y Soc., 4; Cresco,
Ladies, 4.25; Decorah, Ladies of Cong. Ch., 25; Monona,
Ladies of Cong. Ch., 1, Mrs. W. S. Potwin, 2; Postville,
Ladies, 1; Tabor, Ladies' H. M. Soc., 15 52.25
By Mrs. M. G. Phillips, _for Lady Missionary, New
Orleans, La._; Algona Ladies, 1.50; Grinnell, Ladies,
76.20 77.70

WISCONSIN, $203.50.

Beloit. Eclipse Wind Engine Co., Feed Mill, _for Tougaloo
U._
Eau Claire. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Lady Miss'y, Austin,
Tex._ 15.00
Kaukauna. Cong. Ch. 6.50
Lake Geneva. Y. P. Benev. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 35.00
Madison. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, Austin,
Texas_ 30.00
Racine. Hon. W. B. Erskine, _for Furnishing Parlor,
Stone Hall, Straight U._ 100.00
Ripon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady Miss'y, Austin,
Texas_ 16.00
Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall 1.00

MINNESOTA, $207.01.

Alexandria. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Freeborn. Cong. Ch. 2.03
Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch. (8.25 of which from
Dea. Cunningham), 34.01; First Cong. Ch., 10.04; Vine
Cong. Ch., 7.80 51.85
Minneapolis. By Jay Thompson, _for Selma, Ala._ 5.00
Rochester. G. H. Swazey 4.97
Rushford. Cong. Ch. (5 of which _for Indian M._) 7.00
Winona. Cong. Ch. 126.16

KANSAS, $15.50.

Manhattan. William Castle, 5; Miss Mary Castle, 5 10.00
Topeka. Tuition 4.50
Wabaunsee. First Ch. of Christ 1.00

NEBRASKA, $27.30.

Ashland. Cong. Ch. 6.75
Buda Flat. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Crete. Melinda Bowen 5.00
Lincoln. "K. & C." 5.00
Maineland. Cong. Ch. 1.80
Olive Branch. Cong. Ch. 4.75

ARKANSAS, $19.00.

Little Rock. Tuition 19.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $196.00.

Washington. First Cong. Ch. 181.00
Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch., 6.67, and Sab. Sch.,
2.33; Woman's Aid and Mission Soc., 6 15.00

KENTUCKY, $149.25.

Lexington. Tuition 86.50
Williamsburg. Tuition 62.75

TENNESSEE, $598.55.

Chattanooga. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 5.00
Grassy Cove. Rev. J. Silsby 4.50
Jonesborough. Tuition 22.30
Knoxville. Second Cong. Ch. 12.00
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch., Tuition 258.90
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 295.85

NORTH CAROLINA, $365.60.

Hillsborough. Tuition 11.50
Kittrell. "Friends," by P. M. Lee 2.25
Wilmington. Tuition, 243.85; Cong. Ch., 8 251.85

SOUTH CAROLINA, $1,282.65.

Charleston. Tuition, $1,267.65; Cong. Ch., 15 1,282.65

GEORGIA, $660.45.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 230; Rent, 3; First
Cong. Ch., 30 263.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, 164.15; Rent, 2.50;
Cong. Ch., 12 178.65
McIntosh. Tuition 24.00
Savannah. Tuition, 162.80; Cong. Ch., 30 192.80
Way Cross. H. P. Stewart, _for Atlanta U._ 2.00

ALABAMA, $379.80.

Athens. Tuition 58.50
Mobile. Tuition 188.55
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Selma. Cong. Ch. 4.40
Talladega. Talladega C., Tuition, 108.35; Cong. Ch., 10 118.35

MISSISSIPPI, $901.58.

Edwards. Mrs. Fanny Robinson, _for Tougaloo U._ 1.00
Hazlehurst. Mr. Cunningham, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo
U._ 3.00
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., 841.40; Rent, 37.50; Cong. Ch.,
18.68 897.58

LOUISIANA, $287.00.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 262.00
New Orleans. Prof. W. J. McMurtry, _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 25.00

TEXAS, $286.97.

Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst. 285.47
Austin. Live Oak Sab. Sch., _for Bibles_ 1.50

INCOMES, $18.36.

Avery Estate, _for Mendi M._ 7.44
Theological Endowment Fund, _for Howard U._ 10.92
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Total for April $25,207.78

Total from Oct. 1 to April 30 $136,652.79
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FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions for April 44.23
Previously acknowledged 540.12
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Total $584.35

FOR ENDOWMENT FUND.

Providence, R. I. James Coats, 1,000; John E. Troup,
125; John McAuslan, 125; Miss Caroline Richmond, 50;
_for Stone Theo. Fund, Howard U._ 1,300
Providence, R. I. Estate of A. D. Lockwood, _for Stone
Theo. Fund, Howard U._ 250
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Total $1,550

H. W. HUBBARD, TREAS.,
56 Reade St., N. Y.

* * * * *

SKIN HUMORS

CAN BE CURED BY

GLENN'S SULPHUR SOAP.

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16, 1883.

_Mr. C. N. Crittenton_:

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Yours respectfully,

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LICK HOUSE, San Francisco, Cal.

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BRADFORD ACADEMY,

AN INSTITUTION FOR THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF YOUNG WOMEN.
BRADFORD, MASS.
INCORPORATED 1804.

CALENDAR

The year 1883-84 closes with public anniversary, June 18, 1884.

THE YEAR 1884-85.

FIRST TERM opens TUESDAY, Sept. 2, 1884.
FIRST TERM closes WEDNESDAY, Nov. 26, 1884.
SECOND TERM opens TUESDAY, Dec. 2, 1884.

Recess at Christmas time.

SECOND TERM closes FRIDAY, Feb. 27, 1885.
THIRD TERM opens TUESDAY, March 17, 1885.
THIRD TERM closes WEDNESDAY, June 17, 1885.

The academic year closes on the last Wednesday but one in June, and consists of three terms.

The year 1884-85 will commence on the first Tuesday in September.

EXPENSES.

BOARD, including washing, fuel and lights,
FIRST TERM $80.00
BOARD, including washing, fuel and lights,
SECOND TERM 90.00
BOARD, including washing, fuel and lights,
THIRD TERM 90.00
TUITION, including English branches,
Latin and French, Greek or German,
and Vocal Music in Classes ($20 per
term), for the year 60.00
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Total expenses for the year $320.00

Special terms to daughters of Clergymen and Missionaries.

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No extras except the following:

TUITION IN MUSIC AND ART:

Instruction on Piano, per term $20 to $40

Use of Piano one hour a day, per term 3.00

Instruction in Art, including Linear
and Perspective Drawing and Painting,
according to the ability of the pupil,
per term 16.00

Application may be made to Miss ANNIE E. JOHNSON, Principal. In case of failure after an engagement been made, information should be given immediately.

Inquiries in regard to expenses may be made of

J. D. KINGSBURY,
Treasurer,
BRADFORD, MASS.