Chapter II: Part 2

The work went slowly on for lack of funds. Twice it stopped, and no sound of saw or hammer was heard. Some prophesied it would take seven years to complete the building. Troubled dreams and wakefulness came, and sleep said, “If you don’t go on with the work I will not come to you.” I then said to the carpenter: “Come Monday morning, and I will be responsible for your pay.” He came, and Monday’s mail brought me $6 from the Sunday-school in Edgecomb, Me. I paid the carpenter Saturday night, and said, “Come again.” He came, and Monday’s mail at 11 A. M. brought $7 from the Sunday-school in East Orrington, Me. Rebuked for my lack of faith, I said, “Come again,” and the third Monday at 11 A. M. brought $25 from that noble man, Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., who always sells honest seed, and has also recently sent us a fine bell and paid the freight on it.

Slowly the building grew, till, by much tug and toil, where markets and railroads were far away, and even money absent, to-day the house stands finished.

The last thing, the furnishing, is being done. So we are planning to christen it with services there next Sabbath, and on Monday enter it with our growing and promising school, which, ere long, if friends stand firm to its interests, is to be one of the bright lights in the State of Tennessee.

So much for the new house on the Cumberland Mountains.

HOW HAS IT BEEN DONE?

“Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.”

It is the _Lord’s_ work, through his dear children. He has awakened in the hearts of Christian men, women, young people, and even _little_ children, an interest in this work, so that, by closest attention and careful application of funds, God has enabled me to engineer the work till I can see that He means the house shall stand complete, without so much as a nickel of debt upon it.

We have also organized a Congregational Church, and have in connection with our work another church at Pomona, and Sabbath-schools in all three.

I preach twice each Sabbath, riding twelve miles in the saddle. With increasing faith in God and this mountain work, which demands much grace and not a little grit, I ask the prayers of those who pray.

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THE INDIANS.

A VISIT TO THE DAKOTAS.

BY SECRETARY J. E. ROY.

In 1871, on a tour of home missionary supervision in Dakota, I came over the Missouri in a canoe, the only mode then of transportation to this Santee Agency School. I found here Rev. A. L. Riggs, who had come the year before to take up the newly initiated work of Rev. J. P. Williamson, who removed up the river thirty miles to open a mission upon the reservation of the Yankton Sioux. At that time Mr. Riggs had already displaced the cabin home and cabin school-house by a frame residence and a frame chapel school-house about 30×50. Now I find that the chapel has been spread out upon the sides and elongated in the rear, with sliding doors to shut off each of the several new parts into additional recitation and Sunday-school rooms, and the whole to be crowded for morning prayers and Sabbath service. There have also come on, the Dakota Home for Young Women, the Bird’s Nest for Little Children and the Cottage for Little Boys, each of the three under a matron, and the Dakota Hall for Young Men, with one of the teachers’ families there in charge. Then come the well-built shops for shoemaking, carpentry and blacksmithing; and lastly, the three-story dining-hall, with accommodation for a hundred and fifty at the tables, with rooms for teachers and workers, and a whole story yet to be finished off, when funds are in hand, to accommodate more girls. The whole is heated by furnaces and supplied with the most approved apparatus for cooking, baking and laundry work.

But, beyond this expanding of the shell, I find the inner institution matured into a good deal of character and strength. Though it has grown by itself, it has come to be very much like our best boarding-schools at the South. The course of the year makes up more than two hundred pupils, and there are now here one hundred and thirty. The mass of them have learned the English, and the classes are taught in it. Many of them have been advanced in English studies. The régime everywhere takes on the Christian type. A great majority of the scholars have been brought to a personal acquaintance with Christ. A good number of teachers and preachers have already been sent forth. Music--vocal and instrumental--brings in its refining influence. A splendid corps of teachers is employed. Every pupil, male and female, has some work to do. The shops for blacksmithing, carpentry and shoemaking have each a competent workman as instructor, and those departments are run under the closest inspection. I have seen one Indian doing a fine job of shoeing horses, that most important of all work in blacksmithing.

Mr. Riggs, the father of the Theological Institute of Chicago Seminary, has brought the same feature in here. And so for two weeks, about twenty-five men, young pastors and divinity students, coming in from their fields, are drilled in the practical Bible doctrines and methods of preaching and pastoral work. The lectures have run from two to four in a day. Clearly it has been a season of stimulus and of replenishment to the young brethren. Those who were pleased with the young people from this school, who sang at the Chicago Council, at the New Haven Anniversary and over the East, last fall, will be glad to learn that at least half a hundred of equal cultivation could be sent out as specimens. Three native teachers are here employed, and they can use either language. It has been a great delight to me to hear Pastor Artemas Ehnamani preach in his own pulpit in the presence of his church, that numbers a couple of hundred, and without the chopping up of his address by the intervention of an interpreter.

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THE CHINESE.

BY REV. F. B. PERKINS.

Mr. Pond has just left for San Francisco, after a week of exhausting toil for the Chinese missions here and in Santa Barbara. For his relief, I have undertaken to write this letter, that his vacation--for so he calls it--may not be altogether farcical. I do it the more readily for the opportunity it gives me of saying some things which your readers would not be likely to learn from him.

It has long been my conviction that, in proportion to the means employed, no form of Christian work on this coast yields so large a revenue as Chinese missions. I am sure this is so as regards that carried on under the direction of the A. M. A. And the explanation I find largely in the Christ-like devotion of your superintendent and his coadjutors.

It is but a single illustration of this spirit which Mr. Pond’s recent visit offers. Both at Santa Barbara and San Diego the missions have lost their rented premises, and are literally homeless. It seems imperative that, if the work is to go on, they should no longer be subject to the disabilities of rented buildings. But it is a fixed principle of this mission, on no account to incur a debt. So it is of Mr. Pond, as regards himself; but for Christ’s needy ones he has more than once accepted the burden. This he has now again done. In Santa Barbara he purchased a lot for $600, for which land he is personally liable, but which he holds in trust for the mission. On that lot, by the close of this week, a chapel will be erected by a Christian friend, at a cost of $340. For this property a moderate rental is to be paid by the mission, and when the sums thus paid shall amount to the price of the land it, together with the building, (toward which the little Chinese band have already paid $150), becomes the property of the mission. In San Diego the course pursued has been the same, only that here, owing to the rise in real estate, the amount assumed by Mr. Pond and one other friend of the work, is $2,500. By similar acts of Christian self-sacrifice in the past, the mission has already become possessed of property to the value of $10,000, all without the burden of debt, or an even temporary diversion of its funds.

But is the mission work worth all this toil and sacrifice? Mr. Pond, in a carefully guarded statement, says, that since the establishment of this mission the Chinese converts number over 600, at least fifty having been added during the past year; and this statement, you observe, makes no mention of results wide reaching in their beneficence which do not involve this radical heart work. If this statement be accepted as correct, the question is answered. But is there really any such a character as a Christian Chinese? Many persons say, “No.” It is but a day or two since a Christian man denied it, in my hearing. My reply to him was to ask for his standard of judgment. If his demand was that Chinamen should cease to become Chinese, and, abandoning all their associations, habits and prejudices, become simply Americans, doubtless they are not Christians; but in that case, neither are converts from many another nationality to be reckoned as Christians. Or if absolute freedom from infirmities and faults be made the test, this would shut them out, but it would shut out many others also. Alas! it would be fatal to the hopes of the writer. But if the test be the same we apply to ourselves, love more or less enthusiastic, loyalty true, even if troubling, to our Divine Master, and our judgments be according to the law of charity, then we have no more reason to look askant upon a Chinese than upon a Bohemian, or a negro brother. The grace of God works out in these and in those alike, encountering similar obstacles and being triumphant in about an equal degree.

_Ex uno disce omnes._ He was a house servant, and naturally not of amiable disposition or agreeable ways. But some twelve months ago his employer began to notice a change in his bearing, a more cheerful observance of his duties and a generally pleasanter manner. Awhile ago he came to the lady, and said: “Mrs. B., I’m a Christian. I don’t know as you have thought it, but I am.” “Yes, Jim,” was the reply, “I have seen it for some months past.” Yet he is as much a Chinaman now as ever, and no more faultless perhaps than an American Christian. But he is “following on,” reaching out after likeness to the Master, and that is about as much as most of us can claim.

“But so much of the work seems fruitless owing to the migratory life these people live.” Well, twelve years ago I was among the prospectors of Southern Colorado. During one of our meetings, I noticed a Chinaman enter the room. Through all the service he maintained a respectful and interested attitude, and at the close, taking his hand, I asked him; “You sabe (understand)? You know our Jesus, our Saviour.” “Yes, I know.” “Where did you learn?” “San Fis.” “Who taught you?” “Miss Loomis (Rev. Dr. Loomis).” So I had come across one of these waifs in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, and two years after he had gone out from his Christian teacher. I don’t know how clear his views of sin and salvation were, nor how hearty his trust in the atoning Saviour. That could only be learned by longer intercourse, and I have never seen him since. But he knew enough to find his way into that little cabin in the wilds of Colorado, and to speak with apparent intelligence and sympathy of the things of the kingdom. Nor could I doubt that he stood as the representative of very many who go out from these mission schools, and are lost to all but the all-seeing eye of Infinite Love.

The work in their behalf may seem to be, but it is not, fruitless. From this number let us not doubt it, many will stand forth at last, redeemed unto God, monuments alike to the unspeakable grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the patient fidelity of Christ’s disciples.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

Please remember to renew the “shares” in the support of teachers. Those who desire it can have their shares transferred from year to year to new fields, thus obtaining more varied knowledge of the work from the missionary correspondence.

EXTRACTS FROM LETTERS.

_Missionary._--I am happy to write you that the $25 pledged for the support of a teacher is again ready for you. The letters received were enjoyed very much in the Society and I know greatly increased our interest and membership.

_New York Missionary Union._--Our auxiliaries voted the $1,100 the coming year for the A. M. A. (support of three missionaries.) I have promised, as last year, bi-monthly letters from each of these teachers. Our auxiliaries much enjoy the letters and greatly miss them if anything delays.

_Local Church Society, Conn._--The amount of our pledge is collected and will be forwarded. We have received the missionary letters monthly and we take them into our Mission Circle, and read them, and frequently they are read from the pulpit so that all may hear the good results of help given. We wish the good work God-speed.

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It will be remembered that after the Annual Meeting in New Haven the Indian students from the Santee Normal Training School made a short campaign among the churches. The writer of the following letter was one of the students, and in it she tells a friend what she saw and thought as she went from place to place.

_Dear Friend_:

I will now try to tell you how much I enjoyed our trip East. We
had good and hard times, too. We left Santee Oct. 12th. We were
gone for eight weeks. It seems very nice to get back to Santee. I
think more of the school every time I go away and come back.

We stopped over Sunday at Chicago; then we took train for New
Haven, Conn., and it was a very tiresome journey, for we never
had been on the train for such a long distance. We reached New
Haven Tuesday evening; then the next afternoon we went to the
meeting. The church was just packed, so they had the meeting in
two churches and we had to go back and forth to sing. We sang in
Dakota and English.

I want to tell you some of the places we went to. It will take
me too long if I try to tell you all. We met a great many of our
teachers’ friends.

We went to Essex and had a very pleasant afternoon at Miss
Pratt’s home. We felt as though we were going to see some of our
old acquaintances when we knew that we were to meet our teachers’
friends. As we went in Boston I thought of you and wondered how
many times you had been in that depot. I like Boston very well,
but not as well as I like our old home Santee.

At Providence I met one of my teachers, Prof. Wilson, and I went
home with him and spent the night at his house and had a very
good time.

At Northampton, after the service was out, two young ladies
invited us to go with them the next morning to Smith College, so
we went around and saw the most of the buildings; then again we
went to South Hadley Seminary, and I could not make out which
school I liked the best. I think I never saw so many young ladies
at once as I did that morning.

When we were in Newport one thing we wanted to see very much was
the ocean; but it rained when we reached the city, so we were
afraid that after all we could not see the ocean; but some kind
friends sent their carriages and drivers to take us out to the
beach, and we girls got in one carriage, and we all enjoyed that
ride very much because we saw the great waters we had heard so
much about. As we went along and saw the large, beautiful houses
closed, I wondered why the people built such beautiful houses
just for the summer. I think they might have used their money
some other way just as well as to spend all on houses like that.
Perhaps it was wrong for me to wish it, but I did, when I saw so
many right along the beach. I wished we had some of that money
for our work out here, and if we did it would do more good than
just to stand as those houses did, just for the looks.

At Groton we had a very pleasant evening with some young ladies
who invited us to take tea with them. Many of them got so
interested in our people that they kept asking us about one
thing or another all the time. On our way home we stopped at New
York and Brooklyn, and we saw the Suspension Bridge and we were
surprised to see it; I wanted to see it very much; and one more
thing too, and that was the Niagara Falls. We went across on
Canada side and when we saw the Falls it seemed as though there
never could be so much of water falling down at once. I think it
is just grand to see it, and to hear the great noise it makes.

At Southport we had a very pleasant place to stay and we enjoyed
being there with such good kind friends and to know that we had
such friends at the East. One morning while we were staying there
we had a very hard storm, but in the afternoon it cleared off
and we went to the shore and gathered some shells and stones to
take home with us. We were there for two or three days, while
Miss Ilsley, Mr. Shelton and Mr. Riggs went to other places. At
Norwich, Miss Ilsley wasn’t with us, so John played for the short
time she was away. We missed her very much.

Sometimes the people asked us such funny questions. At Boston we
had service Sunday evening, and after the close of the meeting
one lady came up and said, “Is your teacher Indian?” It seems
she would have known the difference between us and our teacher,
for she was not Indian at all. Then again at one place--I don’t
remember just where--one lady said to me, “How is it you all have
such good teeth?” I told her “I don’t know.” Then again she said,
“Do the Indians ever have the toothache?” I told her yes, and I
think she was surprised to hear my answer.

Since I have come back I want to help more in this work, and I
hope I will be able to do so in the future by God’s help.

Your friend,

JENNIE W. COX.

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FOR THE CHILDREN.

(_Letter from a colored boy to his teacher._)

_Dear S. S. Teacher_:

I want to extend my thanks and gratitude to you for that _bright
light_ you presented to me yesterday (I mean that Bible). For
God says it is a lamp and a light, and I believe it. I have been
wanting one for a long time, because I am trying to be one of the
_very best_ Christian boys, and I need God’s word to teach me
and instruct me how to be the _best_ boy. I hope you will have
a large attendance in your class to-morrow, and I hope they all
may be on time. As God has given me the Bible I will make it my
lamp and my light and also my rule to live by. And I will ask God
to help me as I read it, to understand it, and I do want to walk
“Even as He.” I know God’s word can make me whiter than pop-corn
and sweeter than candy.* I would ask of thee to teach me all you
can.

Good Night.

* At the Christmas Festival pop-corn and candy were referred to
by one of the speakers in illustration.

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(_Letter from Mrs. A. A. Myers._)

We read in the old story that every mamma crow thinks her own little crows are the whitest of birds. And I think no one will be surprised that, having worked with the little folks in Kentucky for five years, I should have a little weakness toward them, and if I repeat some of their wise sayings and doings it is only what might be expected.

Little Elbert, between three and four years of age, with his golden text in mind, took his kitty on his knee and very gravely said to it, “Kitty if you lack wisdom, ask of God and he will give it to you.” Looking at the new moon one evening he said, “There’s a piece broken out of it;” and one evening when the setting sun cast out those rays peculiar to it when the air is full of moisture, he exclaimed, “Mamma, the sun is sticking its feet at us.” Little Ernest, three years old, was awakened in the night by hearing our church bell ring a fire alarm. He began to cry, saying “Our Sabbath-school is burning up.” Little Johnny, five years old, was so interested in class over the story of the blind man going with clay on his eyes to the pool of Siloam to wash, and returning seeing, that when in the general review before the school, he sitting in the middle of a full house, the question was asked, “What did Christ tell the blind man to do after anointing his eyes,” Johnny could wait no longer but spoke out in a clear ringing voice, “I dess the blind man was glad of it, don’t you?” Callie’s answer, in the same review, to the question, “Where did Christ tell the blind man to go and wash,” was, “Go to the mud-puddle and wash.”

I will try soon to tell you something about our Band of Hope little folks.

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RECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1887.

MAINE, $646.11.

Bangor. W. S. Dennett, _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._ $6.00
Bath. Central Ch. and Soc. 42.00
Bridgton and Bath. Packages of work _for
Selma, Ala._
Brownville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV.
WILLIS LERMOND, E. W. STICKNEY and Hon. A.
H. MERRILL L M’S. 102.61
Brunswick. Two bbls. of C. _for Selma, Ala._
Castine. Trin. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Castine. Class No. 9, Trin. Cong. Ch. Sab.
Sch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 1.05
Cornish. Cong. S. S., _for Mobile, Ala._ 10.00
Dennysville Cong. Ch. 10.38
Farmington. Pastor’s Bible Class of Cong. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega, C._ 2.00
Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard 2.00
Gorham. One bbl. of C., _for Selma, Ala._,
2.50 _for freight_ 2.50
Hallowell. Mrs. F. C. Page, _for Indian M._ 10.00
Machias. Miss Sara P. Hill’s S. S. Class, _for
Indian M._ 1.50
North Bridgton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for
freight_ 2.87
North Edgecomb. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Pleasant
Hill, Tenn._ 5.00
Orland. “Friends,” by S. E. Buck 40.00
Portland. High St. Ch. (35 of which _for the
Debt_) 226.97
Portland. Williston Ch. 59.68
Portland. Brown Thurston’s Class, High St.
Sab. Sch., _for Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 25.00
Portland. By Miss D. P. Lord, 10; Mrs. Nowell,
1; _for Louisville, Ky._ 11.00
Portland. Bbl. and box of C., _for Wilmington,
N. C._
Rockland. Cong. Ch. 41.40
Skowhegan. Ladies’ M. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 7.40
Wells. B. Maxwell 20.00
Wells. Young People’s Miss’y Soc. of Second
Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00
Wilton. Cong. Ch. 6.75

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $729.04.

Amherst. “A Friend” $2.00
Antrim. “Friends,” by John E. Hastings 12.00
Concord. “Friends” 1.00
Derry. One bbl., _for McIntosh, Ga._, 2 _for
freight_ 2.00
Exeter. Mary E. Shute 25.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. 10.50
Franklin Falls. Mrs. Walter Aiken, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Hampstead. Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.60
Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.08
Harrisville. Mrs. L. B. Richardson 10.00
Jaffrey. “Lillies of the Field,” Box of
Bedding, etc., _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta,
Ga._
Keene. Second Cong. Ch., 19.76, and Sab. Sch.,
46.65 66.41
Keene. S. S. Class, Cong. Ch., by Mrs. K. L.
Wright, _for Woman’s Work_ 20.00
Lebanon. C. M. Baxter, _for Woman’s Work_ 75.00
Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.00
Lebanon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 8; Miss Mary
Choate, 4; _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 12.00
Lyme. Cong. Ch. 34.50
Manchester. Franklin St. Ch. 113.11
Ossipee Center. Cong. Ch. 35.00
Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thomson. 7.00
Plainfield. Mrs. Hannah Stevens, _for Indian
M._, and to const. TOM S. WOTKYNS, ARTHUR E.
RICHARDSON and CHARLES S. HORTON, L. M’S. 96.00
Rindge. Cong. Ch. 2.23
Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch. (12.59 of which _for
Indian M._) 36.69
Tilton. Cong. Ch. 4.30
Troy. Trin. Cong. Ch. 10.87
Walpole. Member of Cong. Ch. 20.00
Wolfboro. Rev. S. Clark 5.00
By George Swain:
Amherst. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Brookline. Cong. Ch. 5.25
New Boston. Presb. Ch. 1.50
New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. 7.00 21.75

VERMONT, $543.32.

Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 45.27
Braintree. Ladies and Sab. Sch., _for
McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild 8.44
Brattleboro. Mrs. F. C. Rice, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 78.00
Brattleboro. By Mrs. F. A. Wells, Sec. Ladies’
Soc., 3 bbls. of C., _for Talladega C._
Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,
“Christmas Gift” 15.00
Burlington. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 50.00
Burlington. Ladies of College St. Ch., _for
McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs Henry Fairbanks 5.00
Castleton. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh,
Ga._, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks 3.50
Chester. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to const.
MRS. IRENA MARTIN BREWER and MISS LIZZIE E.
ROUNDS, L. M’S. 64.72
East Hardwick. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. JOHN
ELLSWORTH HANCOCK, L. M. 35.00
Fair Haven. Christmas Cards, _for Athens, Ala._
Granby. Infant Class, by H. W. Matthews, _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 0.50
Hubbardton. Mrs. James Flagg 5.05
Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.59
Norwich. “A Friend” 10.00
Pittsford. Mrs. Nancy P. Humphrey 10.00
Poultney. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Randolph. Mrs. Isaac Nichols 1.50
Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 134.52
West Randolph. Miss Susan E. Albin 7.00
Windsor. Mrs. Mary J. Wyman 25.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. 16.25
----. “A Friend” 5.50
Ladies of Vermont, _for McIntosh, Ga._:
Charlotte. 1 Bbl., _for Freight_ 2.00
Cornwall. “ “
Coventry. “ “ 2.00
Derby. “ “ 2.50
Hartland. “ “ 2.00
Middlebury. “ “ 2.00
Newport. “ “ 2.00
Rutland. “ “
Springfield. “ “
St. Johnshury. 1 bbl., “
Stafford. 1 Box, “ 3.00
West Glover. 1 Bbl., “ 2.00 17.50

MASSACHUSETTS, $7,406.39.

Amherst. Miss Mary H. Scott, Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo U._
Amherst. First Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._
Andover. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Andover. “A Friend” 20.00
Andover. Miss L. G. Merrill, _for Mobile, Ala._ 8.00
Andover. I. Starbuck, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 1.00
Andover. Package of Christmas Cards, _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._
Ashby. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 52.35
Attleboro. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 60.00
Auburndale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 270.11
Beverly. Washington St. Ch. and Soc. 53.16
Boston. Mount Vernon Ch. and Soc., 223.02;
Homeland Circle of Park St. Ch., 100 _for
Woman’s Work_ & 54 _for Student Aid,
Straight U._, and to const. MRS. JACOB
FULLARTON, MRS. DAVID H. BREWER, MRS. CHAS.
HOUGHTON, MISS EMMA NEWTON & MISS ISABELLA
H. HOBART, L. M’S. “A Friend,” 30; Miss M.
A. Willard, 4; Union Ch., ad’l, 2; Benjamin
Cutler, 1.--Dorchester: Second Cong. Ch. and
Soc. 134.55; Village Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._, 50, and _for
Student Aid, Straight U._, 12.67; “Friend,”
$5; “Friend,” _for Greenwood, S. C._, Bbl.
of C.--Jamaica Plain: By Miss I. Blake, 2
Bls. of C.; Miss I. Blake, _for Freight_, 2,
_for Talladega C._--Roxbury: Immanuel Cong.
Ch., 35.36.--West Roxbury: South Evan. Ch.
and Soc., 20.75 674.35
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc., 75.02; “E.
P.” 1 76.02
Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch. 19.27
Cambridge. Hannah E. Moore 8.00
Cambridgeport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc.,
215.62; Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Pilgrim Ch.,
30, to const. MRS. REV. GEORGE A. TEWKSBURY
L. M.; Pilgrim Ch., M. C. Coll., 2.97 248.59
Chelsea. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Chelsea. Miss E. Davenport 5.00
Clinton. First Evan. Ch. 12.11
Clinton. Mrs. E. K. Gibbs, _for Freight_ 0.50
Coleraine. MRS. PRUDENCE B. SMITH, to
constitute herself L. M. 30.00
Concord. Mrs. E. Hunt 5.00
Curtisville. Mrs. Frances M. Clark 4.50
Dalton. Mrs. James B. Crane 100.00
Dedham. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Straight U._ 25.00
Dracut. Cong. Ch. 7.00
East Billerica. Mrs. A. R. Richardson 5.00
East Bridgewater. Union Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
East Douglas. Cong. Ch. 52.72
Easthampton. Payson Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
East Somerville. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Howard 50.00
Fitchburg. Mrs. Mary C. Whittier, 5; J. C.
Moulton, 5, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 10.00
Fall River. First Cong. Ch, (44.04 of which
_for Indian M._) 99.29
Fall River. Third Cong Ch. 10.37
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. 8.46
Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc. 31.72
Framingham. Plymouth Sab. Sch. 24.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. 28.89
Gilbertville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Gloucester. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 108.00
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch., 15 _for
Woman’s Work_, 15 _for Student Aid, Straight
U._, Miss’y Soc. of Sab. Sch., 5 _for
Woman’s Work_ to const. MRS. LAVINIA
STODDART L. M. 35.00
Gloucester. Miss C. A. Lyle, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 5.00
Great Barrington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee
Indian M._ 12.00
Greenfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Hadley. Member of Russell Ch. 3.00
Harwichport. Pilgrim Ch. 18.00
Haverhill. West Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rosebud
Indian M._, 6.43; “Harvest Festival,” 3.32;
Rev. Mr. Lowell’s Class, 3.71; Mrs. Lowell’s
Class, _for Talladega C._, 6.44; Dea. Amos
Hazeltine’s Class, 6.92; Dea. Eben Webster’s
Class, 4.70
Haverhill. West Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Hingham. “A Friend” 0.25
Holliston. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 8.50
Holliston. Class of Young Ladies’, Cong. Sab.
Sch., Bbl. of C.; “A Friend,” Side of
Leather and Shoemakers’ Supplies:
Cranberries, Quinces and Clothing, _for
Talladega C._
Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 73.14
Hopkinton. Cong. S. S., by Ellen Brewer, 8;
Cong. Sab. Sch., by Miss J. L. Bridges, 8,
_for Mobile, Ala._ 16.00
Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Ipswich. South Ch. and Soc. 35.00
Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch. and Soc. 87.96
Lawrence. Lawrence St. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 10.00
Leicester. J. W. Brown, _for Talladega C._ 3.95
Lenox. “Do What You Can Soc.,” _for Pleasant
Hill, Tenn._ 25.00
Leominster. Ortho. Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 60.64
Littleton. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 5.00
Littleton. J. C. Houghton 5.00
Loudville. Mrs. Mary E. Rust 1.50
Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch., 210; First Cong.
Ch. and Soc., 47.98, to const. SIDNEY A.
DREWETT L. M.; John St. Cong. Ch.,
28.88; Mrs. Geo. C. Osgood, 1 287.86
Lynn. Cong. Ch., _for Freight_ 3.00
Malden. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.28
Maplewood. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C.,
80c. _for Freight, for Wilmington, N. C._ 0.80
Marlboro. Members Un. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 2.50
Marlboro. T. B. Patch 1.00
Medford. “A Woman to the Rescue,” _for Debt_ 50.00
Medford. McCullom Mission Circle of Mystic
Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Medford. Mrs. Alfred Tufts, 10; Ladies of
Mystic Ch., ad’l, 50c. 10.50
Medway. Village Ch. and Soc., 31.63; “A
Friend,” 5 36.63
Merrimac. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Millbury. First Cong. Ch. 52.08
Monson. Miss Sarah E. Bradford 4.00
Natick. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
New Bedford. Trin. Ch. and Soc. 22.89
Newton. Eliot Ch., 45.92; Woman’s Gift, 1,
_for Debt_, 1 _for Atlanta U._, 50c. _for
New Building_ 48.42
Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.52
Newton Upper Falls. S. D. Hunt 5.00
Newtonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 82.06
North Amherst. Cong. Ch., 1/2 Bbl. of C., _for
Fisk U._
Northampton. “Friends,” 6; “A Friend,” 1.50,
_for Indian M._ 7.50
Northbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Northfield. Mission Band, 4.20 _for Marie
Adlof Sch’p Fund_, and 5 _for Woman’s Work_,
by Mrs. E. R. Drake 9.20
North Leominster. Miss Annie Herrin’s S. S.
Class of Boys, _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 5.00
North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch., 1.20; Miss Hunt,
_for Charleston, S. C._, 1 2.20
North Woburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.97
Oakham. Cong. Ch. 22.01
Oxford. Cong. Ch., 50, and Sab. Sch. 20.75 70.75
Pepperell. Y. P. S. C. E. of Ev. Cong. Ch. 1.25
Pittsfield. James H. Dunham 50.00
Quincy. Girls’ Mission Circle of Ev. Cong. Ch,
_for Student Aid, Straight U._ 8.70
Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.91
Royalston. Ladies’ Sew. Circle, 2 Bbls. of C.,
etc., value 10.20, _for Greenwood, S. C._
Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 108.02
Shelburne Falls. “American Missionary Aids,”
by Mrs. A. N. Russell, _for Woman’s Work_ 20.00
Shelburne Falls. E. Maynard 10.00
Shelburne Falls. Cong. Sab. Sch. Class, No. 4,
3.32; Class No. 13, 1, _for Woman’s Work_ 4.32
Shelburne Falls. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Cong.
Ch., Bbl. of C., value 30.84, _for Tougaloo
U._
Somerville. Prospect Hill Ch., _for Woman’s
Work_ 103.00
Somerville. E. Stone, (50 of which _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._) 100.00
Southampton. Miss S. S. Edward’s Sab. Sch.,
Infant Class 0.70
South Framingham. R. L. Day, _for Mountain
Work in Ky._ 100.00
South Hadley Falls. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by
Miss Lizzie Gaylord, _for Debt_ 5.00
South Weymouth. Member of Second Ch., to
const. MRS. MINOT GARDNER L. M. 30.00
South Weymouth. Ladies’ Praying Circle of
Second Ch. 14.00
Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 224.33
Springfield. Memorial Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Springfield. Miss M. A. Dickinson, _for
Freight_ 1.00
Springfield. Miss M. A. Dickinson, _for Debt_ 0.50
Springfield. Five Classes in Sab. Sch.,
Christmas offering, by Miss M. A. Dickinson,
Box of C., etc., value 10.35, _for Oaks, N.
C._
Stoughton. Mrs. Betsey E. Capen 1.00
Sudbury. Ladies of Ev. Un. Ch., ad’l, _for
Debt_ 0.60
Warren. Cong. Ch. 113.00
Warren. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Straight U._ 40.15
Watertown. Phillips Mission Band, 50, _for
Student Aid, Straight U._, 90c. _for Freight_ 50.90
Watertown. “Friends,” 1.50; “Friend,” 50c. 2.00
Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.66
Wellesley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 80.27
Wellesley Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.00
West Boylston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.40
West Boxford. “The Gleaners,” _for Student
Aid, Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 10.00
Westfield. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 20.00
Westfield. B. B. Adams, Jr., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 5.00
Westhampton. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., by Mrs. E.
P. Torrey, Sec., _for Woman’s Work_, and
bal. to const. MRS. A. E. TODD L. M. 10.00
Westhampton. Grace J. Edwards, T. B. Card
Collection 5.00
West Medway. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 1.00
West Newbury. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 13.22
West Newton. Second Cong. Ch. 23.31
West Newton. By Capt. S. E. Howard, Clothing,
etc., _for Talladega C._
Woburn. Mrs. S. S. Greenough 4.50
Worcester. Salem St. Ch., 30.01, Piedmont Ch.,
17; “A Friend,” 10 57.01
Worcester. Primary Dept. Piedmont Sab. Sch.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 48.00
Worcester. Pilgrim Ch., _for Indian M._ 17.53
Worcester. Nettie Orr, 10; “Friends,” 2, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 12.00
Worcester. Mrs. Jennie J. Ware, _for Macon,
Ga._ 5.00
By Chas. Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass’n:
Huntington. Second 10.57
Monson 32.86
Springfield. First 32.08
Springfield. South 62.24
Springfield. Olivet 3.32 141.07
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$5,306.39

LEGACIES.

Whitinsville. Estate of Frances A. Batchelor,
deceased, by her mother, Mrs. Mary A.
Batchelor 2,000.00
Boston. Hollis Moore Memorial Trust, by E. K.
Alden, Residuary Legatee 100.00
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$7,406.39

CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.

North Bridgeton, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2
Bbls., _for Williamsburg_ and _Louisville,
Ky._
South Berwick, Me. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl.,
_for Wilmington, N. C._
Hancock, N. H. “Cheerful Workers,” Bbl., _for
Oaks, N. C._
Warner, N. H. W. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch., 2
Bbls., _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._
Bedford, Mass. Case, _for Charleston, S. C._
Brimfield, Mass. Ladies’ Union of Second Cong.
Ch., Bbl., _for Oaks, N. C._
Cambridgeport, Mass. By Mrs. R. L. Snow,
Reading Matter, _for Straight U._
Fitchburg, Mass. H. H. Dole, 1 year’s No’s.
“Youth’s Companion.”
Framingham, Mass. Ladies of Plym. Ch., Bbl.,
value 71, _for Tuskegee, Ala._
Framingham, Mass. Ladies of Plym. Ch., Bbl.,
value 38, _for Kittrell, N. C._
Holyoke, Mass. Second Cong. Sab. Sch., Case,
_for Citronelle_.
Lynn, Mass. Chestnut St. Ch., 2 Bbls., _for
Marion, Ala._
Milford, Mass. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 3 Bbls.,
_for Talladega C._
Newbury, Mass. First Parish, Bbl., _for
Straight U._
Newton, Mass. F. A. Sew. Circle, 2 Bbls., _for
Macon, Ga._
Somerset, Mass. M. C. of Cong. Ch., Bbl., _for
Straight U._
Somerville, Mass. Y. P. M. Band, Day St. Ch.,
Bbl., _for Marietta, Ga._
Somerville, Mass. Primary Dept. of Prospect
Hill Ch., Box, _for Straight U._
Watertown. Mass. Ladies of Phillips Ch., 2
Bbls., _for Athens, Ga._
Watertown, Mass. Phillips Mission Band, Bbl.
and Box, _for Louisville, Ky._
Waverley, Mass. Mrs. Wm. H. Chany, Pkg.
Westboro, Mass. L. F. Soc., Bbl., value 22,
_for Straight U._

RHODE ISLAND, $454.78.

Bristol. First Cong. Ch. 39.18
Bristol. Mrs. Hope Walker, _for Rosebud Indian
M._ 5.00
East Providence. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 31.00
Little Compton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 20.00
Newport. Mrs. S. L. Little, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 6.00
Pawtucket. Mrs. Maria E. Edwards 200.00
Providence. Union Cong. Ch., ad’l 152.60
Providence. Miss C. Danielson, _for Indian M._ 1.00

CONNECTICUT, $5,027.71.

Abington. Package of Christmas Cards, _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._
Berlin. “Golden Ridge Mission Circle,” by Mrs.
W. S. Brandeyn, _for Avery Inst._ 10.00
Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 5.00
Bethel. Cong. Ch. 59.68
Birmingham. Miss Hattie A. Curtiss 2.00
Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. 12.87
Bristol. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Storrs
Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ 10.00
Canterbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.64
Clinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.06; Rev. T. A.
Emerson, 10; Mrs. Frances H. Emerson, 10 50.06
Deep River. Cong. Ch. 23.47
Durham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
East Canaan. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
_for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 14.00
East Granby. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn.
Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 5.00
East Hampton. Mrs. L. A. Skinner, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
East Wallingford. Mrs. Benj. Hall 5.00
East Woodstock. Roll of Patchwork, by M. M.
Paine, _for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._
Ellington. Miss S. K. Gilbert 5.00
Enfield. “Be True Soc.,” by Miss A. Johnson,
2; Mrs. S. W. Winch, 25c., _for Macon, Ga._ 2.25
Fairfield. Cong. Sab. Sch., 30, _for Santee
Indian M._, 25, _for Tougaloo U._ 55.00
Fairfield. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.24
Falls Village. First Cong. Ch., to const.
MYRON H. DEAN and MISS HATTIE M. MILLARD, L.
M’S. 64.64
Hadlyme. Jos. W. Hungerford, 100; R. E.
Hungerford, 100; Miss Nellie A. Hungerford, 3 203.00
Hampton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.42
Hartford, Asylum Hill Cong. Ch., 269.12;
Second Ch. of Christ, 100.50 369.62
Hartford. Windsor Av. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Hartford. Mrs. M. C. Bemis, 20; Windsor Av.
Cong. Ch., 12.50; Park Cong. Ch., ad’l, 8 40.50
Jewett City. Second Cong. Ch. 23.00
Kensington. Wm. Upson, 10; Edward Cowles, 5;
Mrs. Edward Cowles, 2; Miss Eliza Cowles, 2;
Sidney M. Cowles, 1 20.00
Lakeville. Mrs. G. B. Burrall’s S. S. Class,
_for Conn. Ind’l Sch Ga._ 20.00
Lebanon. First Cong. Ch. 11.01
Ledyard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.65
Lyme. First Cong. Ch. 45.08
Meriden. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Middletown. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Indian Sab. Sch. Work_ 25.00
Milford. Ladies’ Soc. of First Cong. Ch., Bbl.
of articles _for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._
Mystic Bridge. Cong. Ch. 19.00
New Britain. “Friends,” First Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 7.00
New Britain. First Cong, Ch. Sab. Sch.,
Primary Dept., _for Rosebud Indian M._ 5.00
New Haven. Cong. Churches, _for Expenses of
Annual Meeting_, by T. H. Sheldon, Treas.
Local Com. 242.04
New Haven. Humphrey St. Cong. Ch., 53.22, and
Sab. Sch., 75.28; College St. Cong. Ch.,
57.82 186.32
New Haven. Three Sab. Sch. Classes in First
Ch., and other friends, 3 Bbls. and 1 Box of
Goods, and _for Freight_, 11.08, _for Jones
Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._ 11.08
New Haven. Dwight Place Ch., Box of C., _for
Fisk U._
Newington. Cong. Ch. 97.99
New London. Second Cong. Ch. 711.32
New Preston. Ladies, by Mrs. F. S. Child, _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch Ga._ 14.00
Norfolk. Cong. Ch. 149.65
Norfolk. Rev. John De Peu, _for Chinese M._ 13.00
Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., 216.45; First Cong.
Ch., ad’l, 1.59 218.04
Norwich. Francis E. Dowe, _for Indian M._ 5.00
Old Lyme. First Cong. Ch. 11.14
Old Saybrook. Mission Band of Cong. Ch., _for
Indian M._ 10.00
Orange. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. 35.50
Prospect. B. B. Brown 20.00
Putnam. Mrs. A. S. Fitts, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 17.50
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 37.20
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., 10; T. L.
Norton’s S. S. Class, 5; Home Class, 5; Miss
Roraback’s Class, 5; L. W. Harvey’s Class,
3; Mrs. M. H. Williams and Mrs. Lyman, 3,
_for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 31.00
Sherman. Ladies, by Mrs. A. G. Herrick, _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch Ga._ 10.00
Somers. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.50
South Haven. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Southington. Cong. Ch. 75.00
South Manchester. Ladies’ Sewing Soc., _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 22.00
Southport. “Friends,” _for Indian M._ 36.00
Thomaston. Ladies of First Ch., _for Conn.
Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 30.00
Tolland. Mrs. Lucy L. Clough 5.00
Torrington. “Valley Gleaners,” _for Fort
Berthold, Indian M._ 50.00
Torrington. Mrs. A. E. Perrin, Bbl. of C.;
Contents of Toy Banks, 56c., for Talledega C. .56
Wallingford. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 63.43
Wapping. Cong. Ch. 21.41
Warren. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Debt_ 3.50
Watertown. Mrs. F. Scott’s Class, _for Fort
Berthold, Indian M._ 10.00
West Hartford. Anson Chappell 10.00
Wethersfield. M. J. Amidon, 5; Others, 5, _for
Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 10.00
Wethersfield. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Wethersfield. Friends by Rev. G. J. Tillotson,
3 bbls., of C. etc. val. 110; _for Pleasant
Hill Tenn._
Wilton. Cong. Ch. 70.00
Windsor. Cong. Sab. Sch., 35; “A Friend” of
Cong. Sab. Sch., 35, _for Student Aid,
Indian M._ 70.00
Winsted. W. L. Gilbert, _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._ 10.00
Winthrop. Mrs. M. A. Jones, 1.50; Miss C.
Rice, 1 2.50
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. 5.10
Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss 10.00
----.----. 500.00
----. By E. W. Hazen _for Debt_ 4.00
By Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec W. H. M. U. of
Conn., _for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._:
New Haven. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. of
College St. Ch. 35.00 35.00
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$4,138.91

LEGACY.

Greenwich. Estate of Israel Peck, by Daniel S.
Mead, Jr., Ex’r. 888.80
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$5,027.71

NEW YORK, $1,026.08.

Albany. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 56.00
Albany. Chas A. Beach 25.00
Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., 29.75; John M.
Stearns, 5; Mrs. M. L. Hollis, 3 37.75
Brooklyn. Mrs. Mary E. Whiton, _for Woman’s
Work_ 20.00
Candor. Pastor and Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box of
Bedding, etc., _for Talladega C._
Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. 25.32
Cohoes. Mrs. I. Terry 2.50
Connecticut. Mrs. R. Kimball, _for Debt_ .50
Fairport. Children’s Soc., Contents of
Birthday Box, _for Woman’s Work_ 4.65
Franklin. S. G. Smith 5.00
Galway. Delia C. Davis, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
Havana. J. F. Phelps 4.00
Homer. Cong. Ch., Picture and Two Books, _for
Talladega C._
Hudson. Mrs. D. H. Jones 15.00
Ithaca. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student’s Aid,
Talladega C._ 35.00
Lebanon. Cong. Ch., Box of C., etc., _for
Athens, Ala._
Lima. Mrs. O. Warner 1.50
Lockport. Miss E. B. Balliott, Sec. W. H. M.
Soc., 2 Bbls. of C., _for Talladega C._
Lowville. Mrs. L. C. Hough 20.00
Malone. Mrs. Mary K. Wead 100.00
Marcellus. Mrs. L. Hemenway 5.00
Massina. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of Papers,
_for Talladega C._
Morrisville. Cong. Ch. 10.15
Newark Valley. Mrs. H. B. Loveland, _for
repairs on Lincoln Mem. Ch., Washington_. 27.00
New York. A Member of Broadway Tabernacle, by
Dr. Wm. L. Taylor, 100; W. Jennings Demorest
(30 of which to const. himself L. M.), 50;
Pilgrim Ch., ad’l, 27; “Good Cheer Ass’n,”
by Miss Agnes E. Warner, 5 182.00
New York. John R. Ford, _for Fisk U._ 100.00
Norwich. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.23
Norwich. Agnes McCann, Box of Thimbles, _for
Athens, Ala._
Oneida. “Hattie’s Pennies,” _for Marie Adlof
Fund_ .13
Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch., “A Friend,”
_for Indian M._ 20.00
Rome. Rev. Wm. B. Hammond 10.00
Saratoga. Woman’s Soc. Plym. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 4.40
Syracuse. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 88.75
Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 5.00
Vernon Center. Rev. G. C. Judson 1.00
Warsaw. Indian Soc. of Boys and Girls, by S.
V. Lawrence, _for Dakota Indian M._ 15.00
Waterville. Mrs. Julia Candee, 5; Mrs. Wm.
Winchell, 5 10.00
Waverly. Anna A. Merriam, _for Marie Adlof
Fund_ .20
West Camden. E. W. Curtis, _for Debt_ 1.00
By Mrs. L. H. Cobb, Treas. W. H. M. U. of N.
Y., _for Woman’s Work_:
Albany, L. H. M. S. to const. MRS. SARAH J.
SMART and MRS. JUDITH A. POLLARD, L. M’s. 60.00
Brooklyn. Infant Class, Puritan Ch. 3.00
New York. “The King’s Daughters” 7.00
Poughkeepsie. Ladies’ H. M. S. 25.00
Sherburne. Ladies’ Aux. 19.00
Smyrna. L. H. M. Aux. 25.00
139.00

NEW JERSEY, $219.22.

Arlington. Herbert Overacre, True Blue Card
Collection, 5; “A Friend,” 5 10.00
Arlington. Mrs. G. Overacre, _for Charleston,
S. C._ 2.00
Colts Neck. Reformed Ch. 6.78
Lakewood. “G. L.” 3.00
Montclair. “S. S. Class,” 8; “S. S. Class,” 5
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 13.00
Paterson. Benj. Crane 20.00
Roselle. Miss Betsey B. Tenney, _for Pleasant
Hill, Tenn._ 25.00
Upper Montclair. Sab. Sch. of Christian Union
Cong. Ch. 13.55
Vineland. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.01
Woodbridge. First Cong. Ch. 14.88
----. “A Lady from New Jersey.” 100.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $2,056.51.

Carbondale. “Thank-offering.” 2.50
Center Road. J. A. Scovel 10.00
Coudersport. John S. Mann 5.00
Nanticoke. Welsh Cong. Ch. 9.01
Scranton. Thomas Eynon 25.00
West Alexander. John McCoy 5.00
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$56.51

LEGACY.

Philadelphia. Estate of James Smith, by Frank
P. Pendleton, Ex. 2,000.00
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2,056.51

OHIO, $1,321.92.

Akron. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 50.00
Andover. Cong. Ch. 9.10
Ashtabula. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00
Atwater. _For Freight_ 1.50
Atwater. Willing Workers, Roll of Carpet, _for
Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._
Berea. James S. Smedley 5.00
Chardon. Cong. Ch. 7.53
Cincinnati. Mrs. Ruggles, _for Louisville, Ky._ 2.00
Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch. (10 of which
_for Indian M._) 170.00
Cleveland. “A Lady of Jennings Av. Cong. Ch.,”
50; Madison Av. Cong. Ch., 6.29 56.29
Cleveland. Ladies’ Home Miss’y Soc. of Euclid
Av. Cong. Ch., _for Woman’s Work_ 20.00
Cleveland. Mount Zion Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 9.50
Cleveland. Mrs. C. A. Garlick, _for Indian M._ 1.50
Delaware. Wm. Bevan 5.00
Dover. Christmas Dinner, _for Athens, Ala._
Fredericksburg. First Cong. Ch. 12.00
Huntsburg. Cong. Ch., 5, and Sab Sch., 10; A.
E. and M. E. Millard, 15 30.00
Kingsville. Myron Whiting 400.00
Lyme. Cong. Ch. 16.80
New Lyme. A. J. Holman 10.00
North Benton. Margaret J. Hartzell 2.50
Oberlin. Rev. E. P. Barrows, 10; Harris Lewis,
5 15.00
Painesville. First Ch. 44.78
Perrysburg. Mrs. P. W. Warriner, 50c; Rev. J.
K. Deering, 50c 1.00
Radnor. Edward D. Jones 5.00
Rockport. Cong. Ch. 0.50
Saybrook. Wm. C. Sexton 3.00
Strongsville. Ladies of First Cong. Ch., _for
Debt_ 3.00
Tallmadge. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 27.74
Unionville. Mrs. J. C. Burnelle 5.00
Windham. Wm. A. Perkins 5.00
---- “An Ohio Friend.” 10.00
By Mrs. Ella J. Mahony, Treas. O. W. H. M. U.,
_for Woman’s Work_:
Ohio Woman’s H. M. U. 68.18
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$1,021.92

LEGACY.

Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, by John
G. Jennings, Ex. 300.00
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1,321.92

INDIANA, $29.27

Kokomo. Cong. Ch. 19.27
Michigan City. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 10.00

ILLINOIS, $794.94.

Batavia. Cong. Ch. 54.30
Beaver Creek. Joseph Pike 1.00
Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote 4.00
Belvidere. Mrs. M. C. Foote, _for Woman’s Work_ 3.00
Camp Point. Mrs. S. B. McKinney 11.00
Chicago. New Eng. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 80.55
Chicago. New England Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
24.89; Y. L. M. S. of New Eng. Cong. Ch.,
12.33; Mrs. J. H. McArthur, 5 42.22
Creal Springs. Rev. P. W. Wallace 2.50
Elgin. Ladies Miss’y Soc., Bbl. of C., etc.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Englewood. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch. 30.00
Galesburg. Mrs. S. P. M. Avery 10.00
Galesburg. First Church of Christ, Box of
Christmas Gifts; Mrs. Ridley, S. S. Papers,
_for Athens, Ala._
Ivanhoe. “Sunbeam Band,” _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 15.02
Lombard. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Mobile, Ala._ 3.00
Lowell. V. G. Lutz 5.00
Maywood. H. W. Small, 1; L. V. Ferris, 1 2.00
Millburn. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Normal. Mrs. P. E. Leach 2.00
Peoria. First Cong. Ch. to const. MRS. MARY E.
BAILEY, MRS. ABBY BLAIR, MRS. HELEN BRIGGS,
MRS. MARY CLARK, MRS. AGNES M. HANSEL and
MRS. MARY MEALS, L. M’s. 200.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 20.70
Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch. 86.15
Ravenswood. Cong. Ch., to const. MRS. HELEN M.
LLOYD L. M. 31.03
Ridge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kern 2.50
Sterling. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell 5.00
Turner. Mrs. R. Currier 4.50
By Mrs. B. F. Leavitt, Treas. W. H. M. U. of
Ill., _for Woman’s Work_:
Ashkum. Aux. and Y. L. M. C. 0.65
Chicago. W. M. S. of Lincoln Park Church 21.50
Chicago. L. M. M. of New England Cong. Ch. 12.00
Oak Park. L. B. S. of Cong. Ch. 32.25
Port Byron. W. M. S. 16.00
Rockford. W. H. M. U. of First Ch. 26.27
Rockford. H. M. U. of Second Ch. 10.80
Rockford. Y. L. M. S. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for Indian M._ 25.00
Springfield. Mrs. C. S. Post 5.00
------ $149.47

MICHIGAN, $572.97.

Adrian. C. C. Spooner 5.00
Alpena. Member of Cong. Ch. 25.00
Ann Arbor. Mrs. R. M. Cady 1.00
Banks. Cong. Ch. .8.65
Bay City. Mrs. A. P. Lyon 5.00
Calumet. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 40.00
Covert. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., by Mrs. E. F.
Grabill, Treas. W. H. M. S. of Mich., _for
Woman’s Work_ 10.00
Detroit. “A Friend”, First Cong. Ch., _for
Kreutzer Marie Adolf Sch’p_ 100.00
Detroit. First Cong. Sab. Sch., 25; Rev. J. D.
McLaulin, 9.22 34.22
Detroit. Rev. J. D. McLaulin, _for Student
Aid, Tougaloo U._ 25.00
Grand Rapids. South Cong. Ch. 2.50
Hancock. Woman’s M. Soc. Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Kalamo. Mrs. S. E. Slosson 1.60
Northville. D. Pomeroy 5.00
Portland. Fanny Wadsworth Miss’y Soc., by
Sadie Hinman, Treas., _for Debt_ 4.50
Romeo. Miss E. B. Dickinson 50.00
Stanton. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Union City. I. W. Clark 200.00
Union City. Mrs. S. M. Lucas 0.50
Wheatland. N. R. Rowley 10.00
White Lake. Robert Garner 10.00

WISCONSIN, $620.16.

Delavan. Cong. Ch. 12.72
La Crosse. Cong. Ch. 100.00
Lake Geneva. Cong. Ch. 20.78
Madison. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 40.00
Menominee. John H. Knapp (100 of which _for
Indian M._) 200.00
Milwaukee. Gr. Av. Cong. Ch., 40; Hanover St.
Cong. Ch., 11.13 51.13
Prairie du Chien. “Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._ 5.50
Racine. Mrs. D. D. Nichols 0.50
Ripon. Union Fair, College and Sab. Sch., _for
Macon, Ga._ 6.00
Ripon. Mrs. C. T. Tracy 5.00
Sheboygan. First Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Macon,
Ga._ 15.00
Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. Sewall 1.00
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 8.93
Waupun. Cong. Ch., 21.90; and Sab. Sch., 10 31.90
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Wis., _for
Woman’s Work_:
Alden. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 1.75
Baraboo. W. M. S. 25.00
Decorah. L. M. S. 25.00
Eldora. “ 6.50
Elk Horn. “ 7.00
Grinnell. W. H. M. U. 3.14
Madison. W. M. S. 25.00
Marion. Y. P. M. S. 20.00
McGregor. W. M. S. 10.87
Osage. “ 4.45
Stacysville. “ 5.00
Polk City. Collected by Minnie Stubbs and
Dolly Egleston 0.74
Windsor. W. M. S. 5.00
------- 114.70

IOWA, $423.67.