The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 12, December, 1887

Chapter C: M. Lamson, D.D., of Vermont, presented the report upon Secretary (3)

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4. There should be an assigned place in every missionary concert for a paper or a report on some branch of the Association’s work, prepared by some one previously designated to do it. It is to be deplored that some churches take little interest in the missionary concert. It is a mistake, in its effects injurious to the church as well as to the cause of missions. The missionary concert by a little care and painstaking can be made one of the most interesting and profitable meetings that the church holds. Its influence as an educational power transcends measurement. The geography, government, history, social life and customs of the country where missions are located, are more or less brought out in the consideration of what the missionaries are doing. If our eyes are only sharp enough to read it the story of missions is rich in everything that interests the human mind. Romance, tragedy, heroism, sacrifice, pathos, wit and humor, are all intermingled in that wonderful story. If our ears are only sensitive enough to hear them there come appeals from missionary experiences that stir to their profoundest depths everything that is noble and good within us. The American Missionary Association is peculiarly affluent in topic and incident for use in the missionary concert. A summary of the contents of the current number of the _Missionary_ will always be in order as a report; while for papers and addresses and discussions, there is no assignable limit to the topics furnished by the history and development of the Association and its work. Its lines reach out in their relations to all the ends of the earth. In its anti-slavery agitations it joined hands with the great emancipation advocates of Europe. By its labors in behalf of the Chinese on the Pacific slope it has become a factor in the great movement of Christian missions for the evangelization of Asia. Through its special championship and heroic efforts in behalf of the negro its records have already become a part of that which shall be written when the history of redeemed Africa is completed; and in what it has done for the North American Indian and is doing; in what it has done for human rights and liberty, and in defense of a pure Christianity, and is doing, it has become an integral part of those mighty forces that will one day redeem America from the dominance of false principles and bring in the reign of justice, equity and truth throughout the length and breadth of the land. Within the vast circle surrounding all these racial questions that this Association touches in its work of the past and in its outlook for the future there lie subjects and topics for thought and discussion absolutely inexhaustible! There is no need of any missionary concert’s being dull or uninteresting, and certainly there is no need of its being unprofitable while such a missionary society as this is in the field. It should have a place and a hearing in every missionary concert.

5. The circulation of the _American Missionary_ should be greatly increased and the people urged to read it. Among the 436,379 members of the Congregational churches in the country there are sent every month 19,463 magazines; that is on an average _one_ magazine to twenty-two readers. If this one magazine were passed round so that all had a chance to read it there are enough of them to answer the purpose. One subscriber wrote us that she made her _American Missionary_ to be so much of an Episcopalian, that it “_kept lent_” all the year round. But the evidence is not very overwhelming that this _is_ done to any great extent. The evidence is, however, quite convincing that the magazines are not all read by their subscribers, and that the waste basket is not altogether unacquainted with their presence. After Dr. Ellinwood, Secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, had once made an earnest appeal for money in the Presbytery, the Moderator, a distinguished Doctor of Divinity, asked him if he would not confer a favor on the brethren by printing the facts that he had just stated in the _Missionary_ magazine next month, adding that he had been trying for a long time to obtain those figures. “Why,” responded Dr. Ellinwood “That magazine, for the last two months, has contained just what I have been telling you to-day.” Missionary literature is despised. If this despite were shown on the merits of the case there would be nothing to say, but that is not so. It is despised without examination and in perfect ignorance of its contents. Like the Saviour, of the progress of whose kingdom it tells the story, it is despised and rejected of men. Not on its merits. There are those who read it, and who read it regularly, ready to testify to the exceeding value and interest of its matter. One of the great literary monthlies recently contained an article in which were assertions bearing upon a question of literature which two months before were utterly destroyed by statements of facts that appeared in the _American Missionary_. When historians undertake to write the history of countries into which missionaries have gone, they are sure to consult the missionary literature; and they do not often find it necessary to question either the accuracy or the value of the information they there obtain. This prejudice against missionary literature, which in the main is both unfounded and unjust, ought to be abandoned. Its worth and value ought to be recognized. Its wide dissemination and reading ought to be advocated; and that, too, on its merits. If there are reasons why the _American Missionary_ should be read by one of our church members, the same reasons hold good why it should be read by all of them; if there are reasons why it should go into one of our families, for the same reasons it should go into them all. There is a wide field here for cultivation. Only one magazine for every twenty-two readers; only one magazine for every four families among our constituents, and all of these not read by those who take them! No wonder there is ignorance among the churches about our work, and there being ignorance no wonder that there is a lack of interest and meagreness of contributions! But I hear some one say: “Our church members will not take the _American Missionary_. They would not read it were you to give it to them.” Well then, they are not interested in our work, that is all. They don’t care whether the gospel is preached to the poor or not; they don’t care whether illiteracy is allowed to run rampant all over the country and destroy our free institutions or not; they don’t care whether justice shall be done to those who have been most cruelly defrauded or not; they don’t care whether the honor of the nation by meeting the involved obligations of slavery’s abolition shall be preserved or not; they don’t care whether the issues of the war for the maintenance of the Union, secured by sufferings and sacrifices transcending the power of the human mind to portray, shall be made secure or not. They don’t care? Then somebody is to blame. They do care? Then why are they not willing—even eager to read about the work that has all these sacred objects in view, and is helping to solve the stupendous problems they contain? They do care. Yes, I believe it. Their lack of interest in the American Missionary Association and their unwillingness to read its monthly magazine is because of their ignorance of its work, and therefore it is that there is here a wide field, hopeful and promising, for cultivation by all those who wish to aid in the advancement of the cause.

The reasons assigned for raising the question to which the above answers have been given are most grave and weighty. They are significant indications of peril that threatens the cause committed to our care. Shall we heed the lessons which the signals flash?

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Do not forget that this month of December is an excellent time to increase the number of those who subscribe for THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. A word fitly spoken by our friends will secure the desired result.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

WOMAN’S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

ME.—Woman’s Aid to A. M. A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. C. A.
Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.

VT.—Woman’s Aid to A. M. A., Chairman of Committee, Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury, Vt.

CONN.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S. M.
Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford, Conn.

N.Y.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. C. Creegan,
Syracuse, N.Y.

OHIO.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Flora K. Regal,
Oberlin, Ohio.

ILL.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor,
151 Washington St., Chicago, Ill.

MICH.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Mary B. Warren,
Lansing, Mich.

WIS.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. Matter,
Brodhead, Wis.

MINN.—Woman’s Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. H. L. Chase,
2,750 Second Ave., South, Minneapolis, Minn.

IOWA.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Miss Ella E. Marsh,
Grinnell, Iowa.

KANSAS.—Woman’s Home Miss. Society, Secretary, Mrs. Addison
Blanchard, Topeka, Kan.

SOUTH DAKOTA.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. W. H.
Thrall, Amour, Dak.

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REPORT OF SECRETARY.

In inviting the women of the North, and particularly those of the Congregational churches to help establish and sustain its missions, the American Missionary Association has felt that woman’s work in the churches at home is as important as woman’s work in the mission field, in order to secure the greatest efficiency, the best results of the labor expended.

Nor have we been disappointed. As the hearts of those at home have opened pityingly toward the needs of women suffering from the effects of oppression, abuse and paganism, right here in our own country, and the hearts of our missionaries have been burdened with the same woes, the helping hand has been mutually extended; and it has been the mission of the Bureau of Woman’s Work to join these hands in strong and loving ministry.

Our woman’s work in the field can be only briefly referred to here. It is embodied in the full report which the Association gives of all its missions. Of the sixteen Normal and graded schools reported by the Association, seven are in the charge of lady teachers alone. One of these is a boarding school especially for girls, and is similar in plan to the Mt. Holyoke and Auburndale schools. But in all our boarding schools like methods are introduced, indeed the best that can be culled from Northern experience is put into practice.

Some slight changes in our plan of work should be noted, as indicating the new demands upon us in woman’s work. We no longer select our special missionaries mainly for house-to-house visiting and Bible reading, but combine this with more effective organized work. To concentrate effort upon the training of the young for usefulness, is conceded by all our workers as most essential. This is well accomplished in our boarding schools, but where we have only day schools or churches we have felt the need of reaching the home life more effectually than could be done by a missionary visitor. We therefore bring the young people to our special missionary for practical instruction, connecting this with the Christian training.

Sewing-schools are established in which girls are taught not merely how to sew well, but how to cut and make garments for themselves and fathers and brothers. Kitchen-garden has been quite generally introduced for teaching all kinds of laundry, kitchen and dining-room work, care of bed-rooms and bedding, polite attention to guests, with all amenities of home life. Thus a transformation has been made in many homes through the new life opened up to the children.

White Shield and White Cross Societies are sustained in the interests of purity. Missionary societies are formed and the young people are taught how to manage them. Through these societies the sympathy and interest of colored and Indian women have been so moved as to lead to self-denial that would put us to shame, so eager are they to give to others the light they have received. Temperance work has a prominent place in all our missions. As illustrative of the influence exerted in this direction we note one instance. The principal of our colored school in Jonesboro, Tenn., organized her temperance society ten years ago, and for years it was the only one in the place. Thus the colored people were organized and ready for action long before the white ladies. Our Northern missionary bought materials for colors, sat up nights and lettered the banners, and at the late election in Tennessee took her school to the polls, nearly every child carrying a suggestive motto, such as “Protect Our Homes,” “Lead us not into Temptation.” Through her persistence and energy the white ladies of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union joined in the movement. It is true, the amendment was lost in the State, but in Jonesboro every colored man except two voted for prohibition. Noble efforts may sometimes fail—noble lives, never.

But even could our woman’s work in the field be written in minute detail it would give but an imperfect review of what is undertaken. You hear of overflowing schools, of many forms of Christian work, of the numbers added to our churches from ranks in day and Sunday-schools, but the wrestling prayers of earnest women, the watchful admonitions, the unremitting toil which has entered into what we call success, who shall record? Over two hundred such missionaries the American Missionary Association has upon its rolls, and it is for these, and that we may add to the number, that we ask your united support.

We have much to encourage us in the results of the past year. There has been an earnest reaching out by ladies’ societies, Sunday-schools and mission bands, for some special work which would tell for good in direct influence toward the enlightenment of those in darkness and need, and contributions have been so applied as to be at once helpful to our treasury and yet assigned to some specific object interesting to contributors. Christian Endeavor Societies have begun to come forward with their help. These societies, which include lads and misses, find a most useful and attractive work in our Indian Missions. It has been quite a problem how to win and hold the interest of boys in missions, but we have found the magic word—Indian—and that if our boys’ thoughts are given proper direction in the study of Indian history and missions, they will not fail to be on the right side in their convictions and eager to help educate an Indian youth, the longer and more unpronounceable his name the more eager.

Sewing societies have been encouraged to contribute their service in a way that is valuable to us. Our item of house furnishing alone is a large one, for in connection with our eighty-nine schools are about thirty mission homes and boarding halls to be kept supplied with bedding, table linen, etc., for families of from fifteen to two hundred and fifty. These needs are indicated in a sewing leaflet which is sent to those who will assist us to set an example of good housekeeping where we plant our missions.

The most important help, however, being money contributions from all these societies, we have sought by our system of missionary letters to encourage the ladies and young people to annual contributions. The amounts thus received have varied from $10 to $100, according to the ability of the church, but every society thus contributing to the A. M. A. may work for some definite object and receive the field letters.

To the Woman’s State organizations we offer specific work on a larger scale. Of such we name the following as co-operating directly with us: Maine and Vermont each by a “Woman’s Aid to the A. M. A.” Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, each by a Woman’s Home Missionary Union, and Minnesota and Kansas by their Woman’s Home Missionary Societies.

The State organizations have some of them undertaken the support of a single school, and others of missionaries selected from different departments of our work. In every State the appeal of the A. M. A. is made through its Woman’s Bureau to the ladies of all the churches and to all the ladies of the churches, and the contributions are in part through the State organizations and in part direct, all working to the same end.

Other States also, not yet organized, are assisting us in definite lines, as Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Any society of old or young people, whether Missionary, Ladies’ Aid, Benevolent Society, Sewing Circle or Christian Endeavor—whatever involves combined interests and united work—we cordially welcome to share with us in the grand opportunities of our field.

In this way the ladies of the Congregational churches are helping in the support of seventeen of the established missions of the American Missionary Association—among the colored people, poor whites, Indians and Chinese, according to their choice.

Public meetings in behalf of missions have been provided with lady speakers, and in many instances the monthly missionary concerts of the churches having the American Missionary Association for a subject, have been furnished with fresh letters from different parts of the field, thus giving vividness to the facts gathered from the A. M. A. literature.

We all know that it is not by doing any great thing that the home is made beautiful and strong, but by the many acts of thoughtfulness, the light and skillful touches which singly appear so small, but together and often repeated become essential. So in our connection with these great mission boards, let us make our work valuable by our constancy and skill in doing what we can, giving an aureola to the cause of missions by the well directed rays of womanly, consecrated service.

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A WORD FROM BULGARIA.

“For a long time I have not had an opportunity to read THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, and chancing to see it lying on the table at the house of one of my associates, it instantly awakened a host of memories of the past when I was a teacher of the Freedmen during the war of the Rebellion. My interest in the work of the Association has always been great, and I should have given my life to its service had I not felt that God called me elsewhere. My prayer is that God may bless the labors of the faithful missionaries in my own dear native land more and more abundantly.”

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RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1887.

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MAINE, $216.78.

Alfred. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $18.39
Augusta. Miss K. Carpenter’s Sab. Sch. Class,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
Bangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., add’l, to
const. REV. CHARLES H. CUTLER, MRS. HELEN M.
QUIMBY and JOHN F. COLBY L. M’s. 30.00
Castine. Sab. Sch. Class, by Prof. Fred. W.
Foster, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 1.60
Freeport. First Cong. Ch., 16.94; Rev. Daniel
Lane, 1 17.94
Gorham. “Helping Hand Soc.,” by Miss Mary E.
Tolford 25.00
Gray. Sab. Sch. Classes, by Mrs. Julia Doughty
and sister, _for Selma, Ala._ 3.35
Kennebunk Port. South Cong. Ch. 5.00
Norridgewock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.25
Phillips. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Portland. Williston Ch., 46; Wm. W. Mitchell,
25 71.00
Topsham. Mrs. M. P. Sewall 2.00
——. “An Aged Lady” 0.25

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $257.35.

Bennington. Cong. Ch. 11.17
Boscawen. Mrs. J. McClure, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 1.00
Candia. “A Friend.” 1.00
Epping. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Exeter. S. C. E., First Cong. Ch., _for
Atlanta U._ 4.35
Hanover. Dartmouth College Cong. Ch. 15.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Hudson. J. G. Proctor, to const. MRS. J. G.
PROCTOR, L. M. 30.00
Keene. Ira J. Prouty, M.D. 5.00
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
New Ipswich. Children’s 25th Annual Fair (2 of
which _for Indian M._) 19.32
New Ipswich. Cong. Ch. 3.71
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.50
Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.00
Penacook. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 20.00
Peterboro. Union Evan. Ch. 44.30

VERMONT, $460.20.

Barnet. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.
Henry Fairbanks 12.52
Burlington. First Ch., 128.05; Third Cong.
Ch., 74.56 203.61
Chester. Cong. Ch. 33.50
East Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 4.35
Enosburg. First Cong. Ch., add’l. 5.00
Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 2.88
Hartford. E. Morris 100.00
Middlebury. Miss E. Starr 5.00
Orange. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Quechee. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.
E. D. Wild 5.00
Quechee. Mrs. H. Thomas, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 2.00
Rupert. Miss Cora Guild 2.00
Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch., add’l. 1.00
Vergennes. Cong. Ch., 13.38, and Sab. Sch.,
1.62 15.00
Wallingford. Bbl. of C., _for McIntosh, Ga._
Waterbury. Cong. Ch. 5.34
West Brattleboro. Miss Annie L. Grout, Box of
C., 1 _for freight, for McIntosh, Ga._ 1.00
West Randolph. First Cong. Ch. (6 of which
_for McIntosh, Ga._) to const DEA. J. O.
FOWLER L. M. 30.00
Williamstown. Mrs. E. E. Cheney 1.00
Williston. Cong. Ch. 27.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $4,941.44.

Amherst. C. G. Noyes, 10; Second Cong. Ch.,
8.80 18.80
Andover. Ladies’ Union Home Miss’y Soc. by
Charlotte H. Swift, Treas. 91.00
Ashby. Cong. Ch. 13.26
Boston. “Friends,” 500;
Individuals, by J. W. Davis,
400; _for Hospital among the
Sioux Indians_ 900.00
Boston. Park St. Ch. and Soc. 31.67
Boston. J. H. Farrar 20.00
Boston. Miss Robinson, _for
Talladega C._ 2.00
Boston. “A Friend in Central Ch.” 2.00
Dorchester. Collected by Miss Mary
A. Tuttle, _for Marie Adlof
Sch’p Fund_ add’l. 2.50
Jamaica Plain. Mrs. Lydia M. Story,
_for Indian M._ 10.00
Roxbury. Sab. Sch. of Immanuel Ch.,
_for Aid of Indian Student_ 60.00
Roxbury. Mrs. Livermore 10.00
West Roxbury. Evan. Cong. Ch. 19.65
————— 1,057.82
Bridgewater. Central Sq. Cong. Ch., to const.
WM. F. LEONARD L. M. 34.98
Brimfield. Mrs. P. C Browning, 15; Mrs. J. S.
Webber, 3 18.00
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 53.34
Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch., add’l. 1.00
Campello. South Cong. Ch. 100.00
Chelsea. Dr. Horatio N. Page 5.00
Clinton. Mrs. R. N. Ingalls, 20; Mrs. Wm.
Fairbanks, 10; Mrs. G. Carter, 5; Mrs. Emily
Bigelow, 5; Mrs. Greely, 5; Mrs. Dakin, 3;
“Friends,” 1.05, _for Talladega C._ 49.05
Dedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00
Deerfield. Ortho. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.53
Easthampton. Sab. Sch. of Payson Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 30.00
Easthampton. Mrs. Samuel Skinner, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Essex. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.00
Fitchburg. Sab. Sch. of Rollstone Ch., _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 50.00
Framingham. Sab. Sch. of Plym. Ch., _for
Indian M._ 20.31
Framingham. Mrs. C. M. Clark’s mite-box 6.00
Freetown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.37
Gardner. Woman’s Miss’y Soc., _for Indian
Sch’p._ 50.00
Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Greenfield. M. O. Farrand 10.00
Greenwich. Cong. Ch. 11.20
Harvard. Cong. Ch. 18.50
Holland. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Holliston. “Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4” 30.00
Holliston. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 16.46
Holyoke. “Friends,” by E. B. Reed, _for Indian
Sch’p._ 17.50
Hubbardston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. 25.00
Lawrence. Y. P. S. of Christian Service,
Trinity Cong. Ch. 5.00
Leominster. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 42.00
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Lincoln. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
Lowell. Mrs. O. C. Moore, _for Freight_ 2.00
Lynn. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Ch., add’l _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
Marshfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
Merrimac. Cong. Ch. 100.00
Milford. Ladies of Cong. Soc., _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 6.07
Monson. Mrs. C. O. Chapin 5.00
New Bedford. Trin. Cong. Ch. 18.78
Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. 75.69
Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch., add’l. 1.00
North Adams. First Cong. Ch. 31.48
North Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.
Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Orleans. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 20.00
Pittsfield. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 7.10
Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.06
Reading. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50
Reading. Mrs. Z. M. Hazleton, _for Freight_ 4.00
Rockland. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 7.00
Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.00
Rutland. Cong. Ch. 6.50
Salem. Crombie St. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 25.00
Somerville. Sab. Sch. of Franklin St. Ch.,
_for aid of Indian student_ 40.00
Southampton. Cong. Ch. 31.77
South Dennis. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
South Egremont. Cong. Ch. 30.30
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch., 26; “A Friend,”
2 28.00
South Hadley Falls. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 14.79
South Weymouth. Miss Sadie B. Tirrell’s S. S.
Class Second Cong. Ch., _for aid of Indian
student_ 3.50
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV.
D. A. NEWTON L. M. 39.08
Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (6 of which
_for Student Aid, Sherwood Acad., Tenn._) 34.87
Wakefield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian
M._ 27.70
Ware. “A Friend” 5.00
Watertown. “A Friend” 0.75
Westhampton. Cong. Ch., add’l. 28.34
Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
West Medford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.75
West Medway. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 2.00
West Medway. Mrs. E. C. T. Robbins 0.50
West Newton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch. 50.00
West Springfield. Ladies’ Mission Circle of
Park St. Ch., 100 _for Pleasant Hill,
Tenn._, and 100 _for Tougaloo U._ 200.00
Whitinsville. Mrs. J. J. Abbott, 10; Miss
Helen L. Abbott, 2; “A Friend,” 10, _for
Indian M._ 22.00
Winchendon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 19, and
Sab. Sch. 21.57 40.57
Woods Holl. Case of Books
Worcester. Wm. Woodward, 100; Sab. Sch. of
Central Ch., 5 105.00
Worcester. Sab. Sch. of Central Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 38.02
Worcester. Geo. F. Orr, 10; Mrs. Orr, 6; Mrs.
Laird, 2, _for Talladega C._ 18.00
Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. 50.00
——. “A Friend.” 30.00
——. “For the Indians,” 5.00
By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass’n.
Agawam. 19.05
Chicopee. First 19.50
Palmer. First 5.36
Palmer. Second 36.00
Palmer. Second 35.00
Springfield. First 25.00
Springfield. South 42.97
Springfield. Memorial 43.00
Springfield. North 53.80
Westfield. Second 71.52
West Springfield. First 29.00
————— 380.20
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$3,741.44

LEGACIES.

Medfield. Estate of Mrs. Abigail Cummings, by
Executor, _for Atlanta U._ 1,000.00
Worcester. Estate of Benj. W. Fletcher, by
Geo. Swan, Ex. 200.00
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$4,941.44

RHODE ISLAND, $37.70.

Kingston. Cong. Ch. 12.70
Providence. N. W. Williams 15.00
Providence. Cent. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.00

CONNECTICUT, $1,007.51.

Bristol. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta
U._ 9.00
Chester. “I. O.” 5.00
Clinton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.30
Eastford. Cong. Ch. 7.77
East Hampton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.00
Ellington. Cong. Ch., add’l 0.50
Farmington. Cong. Ch., 20; H. D. Hawley, 20,
_for Mechan’l building_, Austin, Texas 40.00
Gilead. “A Friend” 8.00
Harwinton. Cong. Ch. (5 of which from Mrs.
Hilpah Watson, _for Indian M._) 41.05
Higganum. Mrs. Susan Gladwin 4.00
Lisbon. Cong. Ch., 6; “A Friend,” 1, _for
Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 7.00
Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Meriden. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._, and to const. D. M.
LYMAN L. M. 50.00
New Britain. South Cong. Ch. 179.56
New Canaan. Woman’s H. M. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
_for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 26.00
New Haven. Davenport Cong. Ch., 41.34; Young
Ladies’ Mission Circle of Humphrey St. Ch.,
24.79 66.13
North Branford. Cong. Ch. 11.69
North Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Old Lyme. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Plainfield. First Cong. Ch. 23.92
Plantsville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Atlanta U._ 32.58
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 38.54
Preston. Long Soc. Sab. Sch. 3.60
Preston City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.00
Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 21.90
Putnam. “A Friend,” _for Atlanta U._ 20.00
Reynolds Bridge. Eagle Rock Cong. Ch., bal. to
const. REV. J. S. BURGESS L. M. 24.00
Rockville. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., box
papers, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
Seymour. Cong. Ch. 12.05
Scitico. Mrs. Chas. E. Stowe 5.50
South Canaan. “A Friend.” 1.00
South Windsor. First Cong. Ch. 8.00
Terryville. Cong. Ch. 43.00
Terryville. “Soldier of Christ” (10 of which
_for Indian M._) 15.00
Terryville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for aid
of Indian student_ 17.50
Waterbury. Sunshine Circle, by Jessie B.
Brooks, _for Woman’s Work_ 5.00
Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.88
West Avon. Cong. Ch., 7.50; Rev. R. Scoles, 10 17.50
Westbrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.54
Westford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian
M._ 5.00
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Windsorville. Jane Bancroft and Parents 25.00
Woodbury. North Cong. Ch. 23.00

NEW YORK, $858.89.

Amsterdam. Mrs. Chandler Bartlett 2.00
Bergen. First Cong. Ch. 14.25
Brasher Falls. Mrs. Eliza A. Bell, to const.
WILLIE J. BELL L. M. 30.00
Brooklyn. G. H. Nichols, _for Talladega C._ 100.00
Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. of Central Cong. Ch.,
37.50; Puritan Ch., 11.53, _for Indian M._ 49.03
Brooklyn. H. W. Brinkerhoff, _for Atlanta U._ 10.00
Brooklyn. Puritan Cong. Ch., 72.56; Rev. E. P.
Thwing, 5; Rev. S. B. Halliday, Pkg. Books 77.56
Columbus. Aunt Sally Williams, by Rev. J. W.
Keeler 20.00
Fredonia. JEANNIE E. KINSMAN, to const.
herself L. M., and _for Student Aid, Athens,
Ala._ 30.00
Hudson. Mrs. D. A. Jones 15.00
Lima. Sab. Sch. of Presb. Ch., bal. of C.,
etc., 5.17, _for Freight, for Sherwood,
Tenn._ 5.17
Livonia. Mrs. Wm. Calvert 5.00
Madison. Cong. Ch. 4.25
Millville. Cong. Ch. 8.50
Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. 21.06
New Lebanon. Cong. Ch., 16.45; Sab. Sch. of
Cong. Ch., 5 21.45
New York. Rev. D. Stuart Dodge, _for Talladega
C._ 100.00
Norwich. “Ten Friends,” 7.75; “Seven Young
Men,” 1.75; Miss Gibson, _for Beach Inst_.,
1; by Miss M. M. Foote 10.50
Norwood. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 5.71
Owego. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._, add’l to
const. MRS. D. H. BLOODGOOD and DEA. JAMES
M. HASTINGS L. M’s 25.00
Rushville. First Cong. Ch. 3.81
Schenectady. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. REV.
JOHN H. MUNSELL L. M. 40.00
Seneca Falls. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 8.00
Sherburne. Joshua Pratt, 50; Mrs. H. De Forest
Fuller, 25; “A Friend,” 25; “Kin and Kind,”
20; Rev. Charles C. Johnson, _for Student
Aid_, 5—_for Talladega C._ 125.00
Volney. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 5.60
West Groton. Cong. Ch., 13.70; Birthday Box,
2.30 16.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs.
L. H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman’s Work_:
Fairport. Aux., by Mrs. G. Brooks 100.00
Cambria Center. Ladies’ Aux. 6.00
————— 106.00

NEW JERSEY, $406.88.

Montclair. Sab. Sch. Class, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 5.00
Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 152.19
Paterson. P. Van Houten 5.00
Upper Montclair. Christian Union Cong. Ch. 219.69
Westfield. “Mission Band,” by M. C. Alpers,
_for Indian M._ 25.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $26.00.

Farmers Valley. Mrs. E. C. Olds 1.00
Guy’s Mills. Cong. Ch. 18.00
New Castle. John Burgess 2.00
Ridgway. Young People’s Bible Class, by Minnie
Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._ 5.00

OHIO, $458.15.

Akron. Mrs. A. A. Conger 1.00
Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch. 82.00
Cleveland. W. M. S. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Indian M._ 7.78
Columbus. “L. M. S.” of Eastwood Cong. Ch.
(thank offering), _for Indian M._ 26.00
Conneaut. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Conneaut. W. M. S., _for Indian M._ 2.50
Conneaut. May A. Kneeland, _for Student Aid
and Mountain Work_ 2.00
Garrettsville. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 3.32
Hudson. W. M. S., _for Indian M._ 7.00
Medina. W. M. S., 10; Primary S. S. Class, 1;
Girls’ Mission Band, 20c., _for Indian M._ 11.20
Painesville. “A Lady,” _for Indian M._ 5.00
Peninsula. Erastus Jackson, 1; James Scobie, 1 2.00
Richfield. Cong. Ch. 8.63
Tallmadge. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 31.64; Y.
L. H. M. Soc., 12, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 43.64
Toledo. First Cong. Ch., 120; Ladies’ Miss’y
Union of Central Cong. Ch., 12 132.00
Toledo. Young People’s Miss’y Soc., _for
Woman’s Work_ 20.00
Youngstown. “Old Life Member” 5.00
——. “A Friend” 10.00
——————
$397.12

LEGACY.

Elyria. Estate of Lurania Tyler, by Lester
McLean, Adm. 61.03
——————
$458.15

INDIANA, $7.41.

Terre Haute. Cong. Sab. Sch., Birthday
Offerings 7.41

ILLINOIS, $407.05.

Champaign. “Three Friends” 5.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 100; Grace Cong.
Ch., 20 120.00
Chicago. U. P. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 25.00
Chicago. Rev. J. Porter, D.D., Box of Books,
_for Library, Sherwood, Tenn._
Earlville. “J. A. D.” 50.00
Highland. Ladies’ Missionary Soc., _for
Woman’s Work_ 5.00
Lee Center. Cong. Ch. 4.05
Moline. Cong. Ch., add’l 5.00
Oneida. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Park Ridge. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Payson. Cong. Ch. 7.50
Rantoul. L. M. S. of Cong. Ch. 5.00
Ridge Prairie. St. John Ch., by Rev. A. Kerr 10.00
Roseville. Miss S. J. Axtell and Friends, box
of C, etc., _for Sherwood, Tenn._
Sannemin. Mrs. M. E Knowlton 1.00
Sheffield. Cong. Ch., add’l 2.00
Streator. Bridge St. Cong. Ch. 11.88
Washington Heights. Bethany Union Cong. Ch. 10.00
Winnebago. Cong. Ch. 9.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Ill., by Mrs.
B. F. Leavitt, Treas., _for Woman’s Work._
Ashkum. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. 3.15
Chicago. L. M. S. of Lincoln Park
Ch. 26.00
Chicago. L. M. S. of Leavitt St. Ch. 1.47
Elgin. Ladies of First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Milburn. L. M. Soc. 25.00
Oak Park. L. B. Soc. 10.00
————— 115.62
——————

MICHIGAN, $351.49.

Alpena. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. 20.73
Church’s Corners. Cong. Ch., 34.37; Sab. Sch.,
5.63; Dea. N. R. Rowley, 10 50.00
Farmington. Mary Erwin 5.00
Hancock. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Ludington. Mrs. S. A. B. Carrier 1.00
Manistee. First Cong. Ch. 29.18
Middleville. Cong. Ch. 2.33
Olivet. Cong. Ch. 143.55
Union City. Ladies’ Missionary Soc. of Cong.
Ch., _for Athens, Ala._ 10.00
Vernon. Cong. Ch. 3.70
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Michigan, by
Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas., _for Woman’s
Work_:
Alma. L.M.S. 11.00

WISCONSIN, $171.56.

Cooksville. Edward Gilley 5.00
Janesville. First Cong. Ch. 66.00
Koshkonong. P. T. Gunnison 10.00
La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 60.00
Ripon. Mrs. C. T. Tracy 5.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Wisconsin,
_for Woman’s Work_:
Appleton. W. H. M. S. 8.25
Green Bay. W. H. M. S. 5.00
Madison. W. H. M. S. 10.31
Whitewater. W. H. M. S. 2.00
————— 25.56

IOWA, $190.43.

Alden. Sarah B. Rogers 2.00
Almoral. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Atlantic. Mrs. O. C. Warne 8.00
Cherokee. First Cong. Ch. 15.33
Council Bluffs. Cong. Ch. 24.60
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. 14.85
Lake City. E. P. Longhead 0.50
Marcus. Mary Bosworth 1.00
Muscatine. German Cong. Ch. 3.00
Pleasant Prairie. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 4.00
Tabor. Mrs. Sarah J. Spees, deceased, by Prof
E. B. Geer 50.00
Tabor. Miss May Matthews 0.90
Tipton. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Iowa, _for
Woman’s Work._
Alden. L. M. S. 2.70
Algona. L. M. S. 5.00
Cedar Falls. L. M. S. 6.05
Central City. L. M. S. 5.00
Grinnell. W. H. M. U. 7.08
Le Mars. L. M. S. 6.50
Mason City. L. M. S. 9.17
McGregor. L. M. S. 6.20
New Hampton. L. M. S. 5.05
Ogden. Mrs. E. S. Lord 2.50
————— 55.25

MINNESOTA, $182.88.

Brownton. Cong. Ch. 1.14
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., 28.46; First Cong.
Ch., 14.10; Lyndale Cong. Ch., 8; Silver
Lake Ch., 5; Miss Mary C. Noyes, 1 56.56
Monticello. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Morris. “Friends,” by Miss Nellie S. Ruddock 23.40
Northfield. Cong. Ch. 97.78
Three Lakes. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 1; Miss
Emma Leonard’s Class, 1 2.00

MISSOURI, $85.46.

Saint Joseph. Tabernacle Cong. Ch., to const.
HENRY KIRK WHITE L. M. 32.60
Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 40.00
Springfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 12.86

KANSAS, $4.08.

Fairview. Cong. Ch. 4.08

DAKOTA, $5.00.

Sioux Falls. W. M. A., by Mrs. Sue Fifield,
Ter. Treas. 5.00

NEBRASKA, $54.53.

Bradshaw. Cong. Ch. 4.08
Cortland. Melinda Bowen 10.00
Hay Springs. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Indianola. Cong. Ch. 14.20
McCook. Cong. Ch. 2.25
Stratton. Cong. Ch. 3.00
York. First Cong. Ch. 19.00

OREGON, $3.64.

East Providence. Cong. Ch. 3.64

WYOMING, $15.90.

Cheyenne. First Cong. Ch. 15.90

NEW MEXICO, $5.00.

White Oaks. Rev. R. E. Lund 5.00

COLORADO, $3.00.

Julesburg. Cong. Ch. 3.00

CALIFORNIA, $1,478.90.

Lugonia. First Cong. Ch. 32.00
San Francisco. Receipts of the California
Chinese Mission 1,444.90
Santa Barbara. Milo Sawyer 2.00

KENTUCKY, $157.55.

Lexington. Tuition 157.55

TENNESSEE, $297.42.

Crossville. “Friends” 0.75
Grand View. Tuition 15.00
Jonesboro. Tuition, 5.50; Rent, 50c. 6.00
Knoxville. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._ 5.12
Nashville. Tuition 266.55
Sherwood. Union Ch. 4.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $9.35.

Troy. Cong. Ch. 0.50
Wilmington. Primary Sab. Sch.: Miss Hyde’s
Class, 4.85; Miss Farrington’s, 4, _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 8.85

GEORGIA, $437.27.

Atlanta. Storrs Sch. Tuition 333.45
Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. 2.02
Macon. Tuition 101.80

ALABAMA, 75c.

Pleasant Ridge. Ch. and Sab. Sch., by Rev. E.
Tapley 0.75

MISSISSIPPI, $9.40.

Tougaloo. Y.P. Miss’y Soc. 7.40
Tougaloo. Rent 2.00

TEXAS, $4.00.

Helena. Children’s Miss’y Soc., by Rev. M.
Thompson 4.00

——, 25c.

——. “A Friend,” 0.25

CANADA, $5.00.

Montreal. Charles Alexander 5.00

CHINA, $5.00.

Taiku. Rev. J. B. Thompson 5.00
==========

Donations $10,419.84
Legacies 1,261.03
Tuition 879.85
Rents 2.50
—————————
Total for October $12,563.22
==========

FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions for October $37.17

Receipts of the California Chinese Mission,
from May 11th, 1887, to September 30th,
1887. E. Palache, Treas.:
FROM AUXILIARY MISSIONS.—Alameda, Mon. Off’s,
4.—Alturas, Mon. Off’s, 15.—Marysville, Mon.
Off’s, 17.—Ann. Mem. (of which from Mar
Fook, 4; Mar Tin Bow, 5), 29.50.—Oakland,
Japanese, Mon. Off’s, 28.75; M. E. Gospel
Soc., 2.50.—Oroville, Mon. Off’s 11.95; Ann.
Mem’s, 34; “American Friends,” 2.—Petaluma,
Mon. Off’s, 4.75; Ann. Mem’s,
16.—Sacramento, Mon. Off’s, 26; Ann. Mem’s,
8.—San Diego, Mon. Off’s, 2.50.—Santa
Barbara, Mon. Off’s, 14.95; Mrs. E. M.
Shattuck, 10.—Santa Cruz, Mon. Off’s, 16.75;
Ann. Mem’s, 46.—Stockton, Mon. Off’s, 1.95;
Ann. Mem’s, 46; James Jackson,5 342.60
FROM CHURCHES.—Crockett, Cong. Ch.,
2.50.—Lorin, Park Ch., 2.—Los Angeles, First
Cong. Ch. (4 of which from W. R. Blackman,
for A. M.), 145.—Lugonia, Cong. Ch., Edson
D. Hale, 5; Chinese Sab. Sch.,
5.30.—Oakland, First Cong. Ch. (100 of which
from Miss M. L. Newcomb, _for Evan._ Work,
20 from Rev. J. K. McLean, D.D., 5 for
Japanese M., From E. M. Noyes),
205.—Oakland, Plym. Av. Ch. (of which Rev.
J. A. Benton, D.D., 5; Mrs. C. Richards, 5;
Rev. H. E. Jewett, 4; Mrs. M. L. Merritt, 2;
Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D.D., 1; L. M., 75c.),
32.75.—Oakland, Golden Gate Ch., Rev. W. H.
Cooke, 5.—Pomona, First Cong. Ch., “A
Friend,” 5.—Redwood, Cong. Ch., Rev. W. H.
Pascoe, 1.—Rio Vista, Mrs. Thurber and Mrs.
Gardner, Ann. Mem’s, 4; Coll., 15.25.—San
Francisco, Bethany Ch., of which from
American members, J. M. Stockman, 5; Miss
Julia Pickard, 5; Mrs. S. C. Hazelton, 5;
Dr. H. H. Lamont and family, 10.50; Mrs. M.
A. Wilson, 5; L. S. Sherman, 5; Dr. H. C.
French, 2.50; W. J., 2.50; W. D. F. Wiggin,
6; Ann. Mem’s, etc., 35.—Chinese members,
Central Mission, Mon. Off’s, 3; Ann. Mem’s,
etc., 94.50.—Barnes’ Mission Mon. Off’s,
5.65; Ann. Mem’s, 10.—West Mission, Mon.
Off’s, 13.15; Ann. Mem’s, 28.—Saratoga,
Cong. Ch., 35.75.—Sonoma. Cong. Ch.,
10.—Westminster, Cong. Ch., 6 715.35
FROM INDIVIDUALS.—James M. Haven, 25; Hon. F.
F. Low, 25; J. J. Felt, 25; Rev. E. N. Dyer,
25; Hawley Bros., 25; Gen. W. H. Dimond, 10;
Geo. W. Hazelton, 10; Messrs. Redington &
Co., 10; J. J. Vasconcellos, 5; Rev. A. J.
Wells, 5; Rev. Philip Coombe, 5; Mrs. A.
Cognard, 2 172.00
FROM EASTERN FRIENDS.—Bangor, Me., Hon. E. R.
Burpee, 100.—Amherst, Mass., Mrs. Rhoda A.
Lester, 100.—Albany, N.Y., Mission Sab.
Sch., by J. C. Hughson, Supt., 14.—Chicago,
Ill., Mission Sab. Sch., one Class, by I. H.
Morse, 1.55 215.55
————————
Total $1,444.90
========

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

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The American Missionary — Volume 41, No. 12, December, 1887Chapter C: M. Lamson, D.D., of Vermont, presented the report upon Secretary (3)

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