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CLOSING EXERCISES AT STRAIGHT.

A Young Men’s Christian Association has been organized during the year, and the first of our closing exercises was a public meeting of this association, conducted by its officers at Central Church.

Addresses were made by Prof. Olds and Rev. Dr. Berger, and a fair audience was present. This was on the morning of Sunday, May 25, and on the evening of the same day the Baccalaureate sermon was preached by Dr. Berger. It was a grand sermon, and was listened to with profound attention by a large audience.

On Monday evening the societies, the old “Sumner Literary Association,” which is almost as old as the school itself; the “Philomathian,” of later birth, but great usefulness; the “Band of Mercy” and “Band of Hope,” united in a public anniversary meeting. A programme, consisting of recitations, orations, reading of essays, and debate, was presented, and a large audience testified to its entire success.

The annual concert and exhibition came on Wednesday evening. The young people were greeted by a full house, and money enough was realized to nearly pay off the indebtedness on the printing outfit. The music was conceded to be excellent, and all the exercises were applauded.

Friday was Commencement. The exercises are held in the evening, as most of those interested in the school being working people, many who would desire to attend could not do so in the daytime. In New Orleans, especially in summer time, audiences are not noted for assembling early, but people have come to know that when Straight University says 7 o’clock, that is the hour when exercises will commence; and as soon as the doors were open, the crowd was ready to go in. No such an audience ever before occupied that church. At the opening of the doors nearly enough were there to fill the main audience room, and soon galleries, aisles and doorways were packed. It is estimated that a thousand people were present, and a great number were unable to get in.

Formerly, on all gatherings of this kind, it was found necessary to have a force of policemen present; but when getting my permit from the Mayor, I was asked what policemen would be required, I ventured to say “none,” and I am rejoiced to be able to say that during the entire series of meetings no disturbance of any kind occurred. It must be remembered, in order to give force to this, that Central Church is situated in the very heart of the most densely populated portion of the city.

It was a long programme, but so quiet and attentive was that dense audience, that every word could be heard in any part of the room. The exercises from the platform were such as we were proud of, and the audience was not less a subject of pride.

Ten students were graduated, the largest number ever completing the course in any year, and all their exercises were marked by a simplicity and force quite in contrast to the floridity and fluffiness often attributed, and sometimes with justice, to the colored people. Some fine music by the choral and glee clubs, and by individuals, gave variety to the exercises.

The diplomas were presented by Hon. Thomas J. Woodward, vice-president of the board of trustees. A few remarks were made by President Hitchcock and Secretary Chas. Shute, followed by a neat and forcible impromptu address by Rev. A. E. P. Albert, D.D., an alumnus of Straight; closing by singing “The Heavens are Telling,” by the choral club, and benediction by Dr. Berger. Of the graduating class, all but one will for the present engage in teaching; several hope to return and take post-graduate courses. All are working Christians.

R.C.H.

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TWO EXAMPLES OF PERSEVERANCE.

The current talk concerning the Negro makes the entire race to consist of improvident ne’er-do-wells, with no care for the future and with no power of denying present gratification for future good. Whatever of truth or falsehood this assertion may contain, and probably it has much of both, very many instances of perseverance come under our observation among our students in the schools of the A. M. A.

A. H. is an orphan girl of about eighteen years, whose desire for education brought her into our school a few months last year. By hard work and careful saving through the summer, she earned enough money to keep herself in school a year. At the close, however, of the first month she brought her books to my desk, saying she must leave school at once; and the poor girl broke down, and began to cry. Little by little I learned the story: Her aunt had been sick, and A. had given to her the earnings hoarded for the year’s tuition. It was now impossible to get the money back, or even enough to meet one month’s demands, and A. had resolved to go out into the country, where she could earn a little by picking up potatoes. By hard work she hoped to save enough to return again at Christmas time. The next day it was my pleasure to send her word that for the present she might remain in the school with free tuition. On Monday she was again in her place, grateful and studious, and kindly offering to give up her desk when the room became full, and herself take a stool or a chair.

In one of our advanced classes there is a young man of nearly thirty years, whose story is equally interesting. In the spring he thought he should not be able to return to school this fall, for lack of money. He went out, however, resolved never to spend an idle day; he would work, even if wages were low. Whenever he failed to secure better work, he went to the woods, splitting rails. Days and days he worked there, through the heat, and found that, by arduous labor, he could clear exactly thirty-five cents a day! “I should have kept on,” said he, “had it been but twenty-five!” The result of his summer’s work was that he found himself, at school time, with more money saved than at any previous fall; and now he is again at his place, studious and faithful, volunteering even to work extra hours each day and Saturday, in the Industrial department, for the sake of the practice with tools.

Instances might be multiplied, but these two are sufficient to show the industry and the sacrifice of many of the scholars, and the need in our schools for a fund to help such to secure the education they desire.

A TEACHER.

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THE INDIANS.

Mr. George W. Reed, of the last class of the Hartford Theological Seminary, has been appointed by the American Missionary Association a missionary to the Dakota Indians. He was ordained a minister of the gospel of Christ, on Tuesday, May 17th, by a council called by the Olivet Congregational Church of Springfield, Mass., at Springfield. Mr. Reed is a member of the Olivet Church. The sermon was preached by Prof. Llewellyn Pratt, of the Hartford Seminary. Ordaining prayer by Rev. Wm. Thompson, D.D., also of the Hartford Seminary. Right hand of fellowship by Rev. Michael Burnham, of Springfield. Charge to the candidate by Secretary Powell.

By request, we publish a portion of the charge to the candidate:

I charge you to remember that the interest which this Council expresses in Indian missions is in the line of our historic development. Away back in the year 1644, the General Court of Massachusetts ordained “that the County Courts in this jurisdiction shall take care that the Indians in the several shires be civilized, and the courts shall have power to take order from time to time to have the Indians instructed in the knowledge of God.” In 1646 John Elliot, a Congregational minister, was at work as a missionary among the Indians. He translated his famous Indian Bible, the first and for many years the only Bible printed in America, gathered the Indians into communities by themselves, and in 1647 had 14 Indian villages, with 1,400 praying Indians, organized into 24 regular congregations, in charge of 24 native pastors, and the discipline of the churches and the qualifications of the ministers were fully up to the Puritan standard then required. In 1743 Rev. Eleazar Wheelock, of Lebanon, Conn., another Congregational minister, took up the work where Elliot had laid it down, and out of his missionary labors grew Dartmouth College, an institution that stands to-day a proud monument of New England Congregationalism’s early interest in the education and evangelization of the Indian.

In 1810 the American Board came into existence, and in 1815 we find it adopting measures for carrying the gospel to the Indians. So rapid did its work grow in that direction, that in 1830 three-fourths of all the church members in its missions were Indians. In 1846 the American Missionary Association was formed, and of the 30 missionaries who held its commission the first year, 11 were missionaries to the Indians. In 1883 the American Board, deciding to prosecute its work exclusively in foreign lands, turned over its Indian missions to the American Missionary Association. So that you see what this Council has done to-night is in the line of our historical development, and connects your life and work in an unbroken line with the early history of Congregationalism in its efforts to reach the Indians.

I charge you to remember that in your special mission, justice, as a Christian principle to be observed in all our dealings with our fellow men, must find in you a champion. This because of the fearful wrongs that, in the name of religion, have been committed against the people to whom you go.

In the person of the poor Indian, entitled to all his rights as a man, Christ has been standing in the presence of the white man’s civilization on this continent for upwards of three hundred years, asking for justice, and it has not yet been accorded him. A most shameful record is the history of the white man’s dealings with the Indians, whether read in the conduct of individuals or in the conduct of the Government. The white man, by reason of his intelligence, his resources and his numerical superiority, had the ability to cheat, rob, and overpower the Indian, and putting his sense of justice out of sight, he has proceeded to cheat and rob and overpower him. Between the years 1778 and 1871, the people of the United States have made with the Indians 649 treaties, and the majority of them they have violated. By these treaties nearly all of the territory of the United States has been acquired—a territory that by reason of its vastness is at present the home of 50,000,000 white men, prospectively to become the home of at least 150,000,000 more—a territory that by reason of its marvellous resources of climate, soil and minerals, has produced a wealth already rivaling that of the oldest nations, and promising in the not far distant future to surpass them all. This territory has nearly all of it been deeded by the Indians to the people of the United States, _on condition_ that the Government should compensate them by money annuities in cash payment, or their equivalent in food, clothing, agricultural implements, and instruction in farming and trades; by establishing and maintaining schools for the education of their children, and rigidly excluding white intruders from their reservations.

Well, we have got the territory, but what about the conditions? The money agreed upon has not been paid; the rations stipulated for have not been issued; the schools promised have not been maintained, and white intruders upon the reservations have not been excluded. From pillar to post these children of the forest have been driven. As fast as the white man has wanted the Indian’s land, a reason has been speedily found for violating the treaty and consummating the robbery. The savage has been goaded to go on the war path by white men’s villainy, and then the Government has been obliged to go out and whip him into submission; and, as a punishment for crime he never would have perpetrated had he not been driven to it, move him elsewhere, and divide up his land among his despoilers.

My brother, remember as you stand to preach the gospel among the Indians it will be your precious privilege to show that the wrongs and injustice they have suffered at the hands of the white man have been inflicted in opposition to the teachings of Christianity and in defiance of its commands.

I charge you to remember that your mission gives repeated emphasis to the faith of the Christian church in the _redeemability_ of the Indian. Lack of faith in this truth has been the cause of much of the cruel indifference on the part of many good people—even Christian people—to the wrongs that Indians have suffered, and has occasioned lack of enthusiasm in the prosecution of Indian missions. It has paralyzed endeavor, and prepared the way for the indulgence of enmity. But notice this: No body of Christians have ever put themselves on record as not believing in the Indian’s redeemability. Stories of massacre and one-sided testimony, when the Indian could not have a hearing, have led many Christians by their opposition to Indian missions, unwittingly to array themselves against the gospel. They did not think, in taking up the cry, “There is no good Indian but a dead Indian,” “The Indian cannot be civilized,” “The Indian should be exterminated,” and other such falsehoods, that they were denying the Christian faith and practically proclaiming that there was no salvation for themselves nor for anyone else; yet that was precisely what they were doing, for if the Indian cannot be redeemed, then no one can be redeemed. If the gospel cannot save the lowest, then there is no salvation for the highest. The Indian is a man, and Christ tasted death for every man, and he is able to save to the uttermost every man. That lowest savage, wretched and vile as he is, can be redeemed, and in this redemption can be raised to highest manhood. All culture and excellence of mind and heart are attainable to him whose soul has felt the redeeming power of Christ’s salvation.

Why, then, after 300 years of the presence of Christianity on this continent, have not the Indians been civilized? does any one ask. Rather, when we think of the way that the Indians have been treated, our surprise shall be that any of them have accepted the gospel. And yet despite all of the difficulties, Dr. Jas. E. Rhoades affirmed that there is no field of mission enterprise which has yielded larger returns than that of our native tribes. Indians have been reached by the gospel, and that, too, in a very remarkable degree. The “five civilized tribes,” as they are called, of the Indian Territory, are practically a Christian people; 81,621 Indians wear citizens’ dress wholly, and 59,695 wear citizens’ dress in part; 43,423 Indians labor in civilized pursuits, and of this number 9,612 are farmers; 21,232 houses are occupied by 40,000 Indians as dwellings; and the significant thing about all this is that this most promising state of things has chiefly come about since the inauguration of the Government’s Peace Policy during the Presidency of General Grant, when Christian missions and Christian schools were multiplied, and the Government, in co-operation, made an honest effort to keep faith with the Indian, and to give him, at least, a show of justice. When the Indian was given the chance, he was found ready to accept it. The facts are most encouraging. Wonderful has been the progress the gospel has made among these people during the last fifteen years. But the field is vast, and, in comparison with the needs, only a beginning has been made. There are 40,000 wild Indian children in the country. Of this number, all told, there are but 12,000 gathered in the Government and mission schools, leaving 28,000 children to whom no school opens its door, and to whom no Christian missionary comes. There are at least sixty whole tribes upon whose darkness no ray of gospel light has ever fallen, as pagan and as savage as were their ancestors when the first white man landed upon these shores!

You have given yourself to this work, my brother, at an auspicious time—at a time luminously prophetic of grand results. God’s bell strikes the hour. Providential lines converge. The machinations of wicked men are growing less. Our government is shaping itself to do right. Our legislators are becoming more humane in their attitude. The voice of the people is rising louder and louder, and becoming more united in its demand for justice. The Christian church is awaking to a sense of its responsibility. The seed planted by Elliot, and Mayhew, and Wheelock, is fruiting in the reviving interest in Indian missions that to-day is seen spreading among the churches. The Indian turns his face towards the sunlight. He stretches out his hands for help. Confidingly he places his destiny in our keeping. To help him into the light and the manhood of the gospel is a work that an angel might covet. To that work you have given yourself, to that work this Council has consecrated you, and into that work we will all follow you with our God-speed and benediction.

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THE CHINESE.

EVANGELISTIC WORK.

All that I can report on this point is that we are feeling our way towards something effective—praying continually, and watching diligently for an answer to our prayer, that God will raise up some Chinese believer and endue him with such power that he may not only disciple those already gathered in our schools, but may make his voice to be heard among the perishing _crowds_ that now refuse to enter our opened doors, and love darkness rather than light.

For three months past we have had Loo Quong in the field—a faithful and beloved missionary helper, previously serving in our Central school in San Francisco. He spent one month in Oroville, one in Marysville, and is about completing a third in Stockton. At each of these points he was joyfully welcomed, and his abundant labors were rewarded by some measure of success. But that for which we pray we have not yet secured, though it waits for us, I am sure, in the gracious purpose of our Lord.

In March, I visited these three missions, and the one in Sacramento also, to which our brother will go as soon as his labors in Stockton are closed. As usual, my observations both lifted me up and cast me down. Most of what is discouraging might have been averted if we had fit Chinese helpers in sufficient numbers, and the means to sustain them. The American teachers at these points are specially faithful, skillful and devoted, but nothing can make up for the loss entailed by the absence of effective Chinese helpers.

Oroville is a rendezvous for the Chinese scattered over a very wide territory. Its resident Chinese population is also large; not less than six hundred. Loo Quong had done a good work here, and I found the school in better condition than ever before. It was on a week-day evening that we gathered round the table of our Lord. The room was well filled with Chinese, and we had several Americans with us also. I think that more than twenty communed. One was baptized and received to our little Chinese church. One other would have been baptized—a brother very well reported of—but he had been obliged to go away to his summer’s work, about eighty miles distant. One brother walked about fifteen miles to be with us at this service, and trudged back again early the next morning, gladly sacrificing for it most of his night’s rest. Very generous subscriptions (considering their deep poverty) were made in aid of our work. Three on that evening expressed their new purpose to live for Christ, by joining the Association of Christian Chinese—an act which involves a confession of Christ quite as explicit as, among us, attends reception to the church.

Lack of space forbids that I speak particularly of the other points visited, except to say that we had in Stockton, after the school session was ended—that is from 9 to 10:30 P. M.—a meeting with the pupils at which the presence of the Spirit was manifest to us all, and _seventeen_ rose to express their full purpose to leave all and follow Christ.

I conclude with a single extract from a letter from Hong Sing, our helper at Santa Cruz, in which he speaks of several attempts of his heathen countrymen to catch him in his words. I ask our friends to read it, remembering that Hong Sing is a house-servant, working in the kitchen all day and teaching and preaching at night:

“I write a few words to tell you how we won the seven souls last month. Since they found the way of light, and so they came with us, with the same mind to worship the true God. Their cousins and acquaintances are full of hatred, and try many ways to make fun of them, to entice them to give up the worship of the Lord God. So was fulfilled the word our Lord has said: ‘When men shall revile you and speak evil of you for my sake.’ Sometimes one or two come to argue with me after the school has closed, and pick out the hardest questions to ask me—as this one: ‘Who made that God in Heaven? for you said, only one God; where that one made from?’ I answer them: ‘Suppose you count anything, do not you say, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and so on? Now, 1,000 come that way from 100; 100 come from 10, and 10 come up from 1; 1 is the beginning. If we add one more, that would be two. If that _one_ God made from another God. So we go on—no end; but we all worship that only _One_ that is at the beginning, who made all things.’ Then their tongues silent.”

Was it not “given him what he should say?”

WM C. POND.

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MISSIONS IN CHINA.

The Chinese Government has issued instructions to the local Governors, in pursuance of which these officials have put forth proclamations warning the people against the persecution of missionaries and Christians.

“Know all men,” says the Governor of Che-Kiang, “that the sole object of establishing chapels is to exhort men to do right; those who embrace Christianity do not cease to be Chinese, and both sides should therefore continue to live in peace, and not let mutual jealousies be the cause of strife between them.”

Likewise Kung, the Governor of the province in which Shanghai is situated, after explaining that, under the treaties, missionaries have the right to hold land and houses, on lease, and to travel about and preach, “their sole aim being the inculcation of the practice of virtue, and having no design of interfering with the business of the people,” goes on to say: “Such of the subjects of China as wish to become converts may lawfully do so, and as long as they abstain from evil doings there is no law prescribing inquisition into, or prohibition of, their actions.” For the destruction of chapels and houses, in disturbances increased “by local vagabonds and bad characters,” summary vengeance will be taken. “Bear in mind,” adds the Governor, “that when missionaries live in the midst of your villages you and they are mutually in the relationship of host and guest. Under ordinary circumstances it is your foremost duty to act toward them with courtesy and forbearance. Should any misunderstanding arise, let each submit his side to the local authorities, and on no account give rein to ill-considered resentment, and fall, owing to the impulse of a moment, in the net of the law.”

When we think of the sentiments that even some Christians in this country hold regarding the Chinese, and when we think of the treatment the Chinese have received at the hands of our nation, the reading of the above is enough to make our faces crimson with shame not unmingled with indignation.

SELECTED.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

Our work is to preach the gospel and all that this implies. The gospel of Jesus Christ reaches head, heart and hand. Anything that is injurious to a human being, in any part of life, the gospel condemns. Temperance is a gospel doctrine. It is one of the great multitude of truths our missionaries proclaim. When in this magazine we report progress in our work, we are reporting progress in temperance, for that is a part of our work. If the word “temperance” doesn’t always appear, it is simply for the same reason that the words honesty, chastity and truth, are not always appearing as words. They are always there in significance. It is the work of the gospel to advance these virtues. We make a few extracts showing the temperance interest as represented at some of our mission stations:

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Sunday was a busy day. Our Sunday-school Temperance Workers held a meeting at a little Methodist Church, called Providence Chapel. The church was filled, and we had a very good programme. Several little girls spoke temperance pieces, and some of them spoke very beautifully and made a deep impression. Music and short, stirring addresses, and printed selections, filled up the time, and some new names were obtained for the pledge. The hardest task, almost, is to induce the older men to give up tobacco, but some of them came to that decision in the meeting. Providence Chapel is surrounded by saloons. The noble and energetic pastor spoke to the children of the Sunday-school in such words as these, “If your mother tells you to go and get a glass of beer, you tell her ‘No.’ If she whips you, come and tell me. I want to know who she is. Be brave enough to tell her ‘No.’” Such words would sound very strange in some places, but here they are needed, for some of those very mothers are members of that church, but they are getting aroused. That meeting Sunday did a great deal for them. It also did our young people good, by giving them an opportunity to do something and feel that they were doing something. The meeting was carried on entirely by the colored people, except that one of the teachers helped make out the programme, another played the organ and another made a short address.

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Temperance is, just now, a subject of great interest in this State. The Legislature have just voted to submit the question of Prohibition to the people next fall. What a grand thing it would be if Tennessee could become a Prohibition State. Our little Sunday-school Temperance Workers are doing well. Our last meeting was held at a large colored Methodist Church. The house was nearly full, and we had a very enthusiastic meeting. Many of the children spoke recitations very beautifully. We had music, essays, and some words of counsel from the ministers of the two churches. Every one seemed to be very much interested. Mr. J. C. Johnson, a prominent white philanthropist of this city, was there, and seemed very much pleased. He said he wished we would go to some church every Sunday and thought we would do a great deal of good. The white temperance leaders feel the importance of securing the negro vote on their side, and such questions as these, which divide the white vote, will go a long way toward securing the political rights of the black man.

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One of our regular studies in school is “Alcohol and Hygiene,” and our class have become very much interested in it. One of the class said to me a few days since, “I just thought people didn’t drink because they did not want to become drunkards. I didn’t know there was so much harm in it, but I am convinced now.” I think this expression is the sentiment of the class. One of its members who could not sign the pledge four months ago, did so at our last meeting. She was influenced to the step by learning of the evil wrought by alcohol.

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A Woman’s Christian Temperance Union was formed at Shelby, with twelve members, and there will doubtless be four or five more organized in other places, when the delegates can have proper instructions, and in no better way can the influence of our churches and work be felt, than in this direction. Nothing has brought about such a desirable harmony as the temperance work in churches of all denominations, and the mothers, wives and daughters see more and more the necessity of uniting their influence against intemperance.

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ENGLISH AS SHE IS “NOT” TAUGHT IN OUR SCHOOLS.

NOTES BY A MISSIONARY TEACHER.

“I would like to have you checktise him.”

“It is the most instructivest book I ever read.”

“May we walk circumspeckle!”

“She has come thousands of miles across the briny ocean to lift us from our ignorancy and degradation.”

“I have outed [erased] my lesson from the blackboard.”

“I obedience my parents.”

“The avalanche [ambulance] has come.”

“She has come for her gosling.” [Gossamer].

“The preserved seats.”

“I don’t like a sit-up religion.” [In prayer].

“It was as neat a funeral as I ever went to.”

“Our much well-beloved classmate.”

“She is right smart better.”

“The sea air is very embracing.”

“Blessed are they that are prosecuted.”

“I have had to delay the correspondence on account of the inclemency of my health.”

“Will you rest your hat?”

“I have the misery in my head.”

“I return you a board of thanks.”

“She is the mattress.” [Matron].

“I went to the exception.” [Reception].

“I don’t lean against [toward] the Episcopalians.”

“He had twenty compulsions.” [Convulsions].

“He is deceasted.”

FOR THE CHILDREN.

I am quite confident that some of our Northern little folks will be glad to know how some of our little ones down here stand on the temperance question. We commenced having Band of Hope meetings over four years ago, but did not ask the children to sign the pledge for many months, for these little ones don’t have temperance papas and mammas to help them keep their pledges, so we did not wish them to sign till they knew well what was expected of them. Over fifty signed the first opportunity, and I came home with a very heavy heart lest many signed because others did, and did not realize the sacredness of their pledge. I felt especially worried about Johnny, a little six-year-old, whose father kept a hotel and had many men around him who drank. It wasn’t long before one of these men urged Johnny to take a drink from his bottle. He took some in his mouth, and then he thought of his pledge, and ran and spit it out; then took some water and washed and washed his mouth.

Little bright-eyed Willie loved the taste of whisky, and his father always gave him a sip of his drink. After he signed the pledge, he so stoutly refused his father when he urged him to drink, that it affected him so that he, too, has signed the pledge for one year.

Some little ones in another family, who had always had their “toddies,” as they call it in this country, have been so true to their pledges, refusing their grandfather, who urged them to drink with him, that it has influenced their mother to think she can do without whisky as a medicine, and to become an enthusiastic member of our N. C. T. U. And so we see “a little child shall lead them.”

MRS. A. A. MYERS.

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RECEIPTS FOR MAY. 1887.

MAINE, $380.20.

Bangor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20.00
Bath. Winter St. Cong. Ch., 31.65; Central
Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30.00 61.65
Bridgton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.40
Center Lebanon. “A Friend” 5.00
Cornish. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Danville Junction. Mrs. Lucy W. Cobb 0.50
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. 15.00
Gorham. Sab. Sch., by Rev. S. H. Huntington,
for _Selma, Ala._ 10.00
Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, _for Macon, Ga._ 5.00
Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker 5.00
Harpswell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Monson. Rev. R. W. Emerson 10.00
New Gloucester. Cong. Ch. 74.00
North Bridgton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 3.18
Portland. Fourth Cong. Ch. 2.00
Portland. Infant Class St. Lawrence St. Sab.
Sch., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 1.50
Rockland. Woman’s Home Miss’y Soc., _for
Woman’s Work_ 20.00
South Berwick. Miss Oaks’ S. S. Class, 2.57;
Mrs. Lewis’ S. S. Class, 2; Miss McLellan’s
S. S. Class, 75c., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 5.32
South Bridgton. Ladies’ M. Soc., by Mrs. Noah
Sawyer, Treas. 5.00
South Gardiner. Cong. Ch. 5.00
South Paris. Cong. Ch. 6.50
Union. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Yarmouth. First Parish Ch. 56.00
York. Second Ch. and Soc. 5.15

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $584.60.

Acworth. Cong. Soc. 9.81
Derry. Nutfield Mission Circle, 50, _for
Sch’p._, 3.75, _for New Dining Hall, Santee
Indian M_. 53.75
East Derry. MRS. MARY G. PIGEON, to const.
herself L. M. 30.00
East Derry. Miss Goldsmith and School _for
Bird’s Nest Indian M_. 1.00
Gilsum. Cong. Ch. 9.63
Hampstead. Miss J. S. Eastman. 10.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Keene. Second Cong. Ch. 15.40
Lebanon. C. M. Baxter, _for Woman’s Work_ 75.00
Littleton. First Cong. Ch. 10.33
Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Nashua. Pilgrim Ch. 88.59
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.
JOHN LEAVITT L. M. 30.00
Northwood. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Pembroke. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 7.39
Pennacook. Rev. A. W. Fiske 5.00
Plaistow, N.H. and North Haverhill, Mass.
Cong. Ch. and Soc., 126.80, and Mrs. Gyles
Merrill, 50 176.80
Rindge. Cong. Ch. 14.24
West Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.66

VERMONT, $553.62.

Ascutneyville. Newton Gage and wife 10.00
Bradford. Mrs. C. D. Redington, _for McIntosh,
Ga._, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks 5.00
Cambridge. Madison Safford 5.00
Charlotte. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild, _for
McIntosh, Ga._ 22.00
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Coventry. Ladies of Cong. Ch., adl. 2.00
Dorset. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh 5.00
Enosburg. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.
Ellen D. Wild 6.30
Fairlee. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs.
Henry Fairbanks 5.00
Georgia. Cong. Ch. 18.17
Greensboro. Ladies, by Mrs. S. Knowlton, _for
McIntosh, Ga._ 13.11
Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.77
Jericho Center. Sab. Sch., for _McIntosh, Ga._ 3.50
Johnson. C. C. Stoddard 2.00
Middlebury. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild,
_for McIntosh, Ga._ 35.00
Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.58
Montpelier. Bethany Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
New Haven. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by
Mrs. Henry Fairbanks 5.25
North Cambridge. John Kinsley, 8; Sevign
Kinsley 1 9.00
Northfield. Mrs. Mary D. Smith 4.50
Putney. Bbl. of C., and 2 _for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.00
Quechee. Cong. Ch. and Soc., bal. to const.
JOHN J. DEWEY L. M. 27.76
Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch., by Mrs. M. A.
Stranahan, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 20.00
Saint Johnsbury. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 165.50
Salisbury. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for McIntosh,
Ga._ 15.00
Waitsfield. Cong. Ch. 15.52
Waterbury. Cong. Ch. 8.66
Wells River. C. W. Eastman 5.00
Weston. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Weston. L. P. Bartlett, 2; Mrs. S. A. Sprague,
2; C. W. Sprague, 1, “In memory of J.
Bartlett” 5.00
West Woodstock. Rev. Wm. S. Lewis and Mrs. E.
W. Lewis, to const. H. T. FLETCHER L. M. 30.00
Woodstock. Ladies, _for McIntosh, Ga._, by
Mrs. Henry Fairbanks 6.00
Worcester. “Friends,” _for McIntosh, Ga._ 6.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $11,244.35.

Amesbury. Main St. Cong. Ch. 17.33
Amherst. William M. Graves, 20; “A Friend,”
10; Rev. G. S. Dickerman, 10 40.00
Andover. Free Christian Ch., to const. LEVI C.
YOUNG L. M. 54.00
Andover. Phillips Academy, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ 5.00
Andover. Mrs. Wm. Abbott, Box of C., etc.,
_for Macon, Ga._
Barre. Y. P. C. E. S. _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 15.00
Bernardston. Cong. Ch. 3.82
Boston. Miss Ida Mason and Miss E. F. Mason,
1700.; Joshua W. Davis, 150.; Alpheus Hardy,
50; Saml. Johnson. 50; J. N. Denison, 50; H.
D. Hyde, 50; E. P. Bond, 20; Frank Wood, 50;
_for Hospital among the Sioux Indians_ 2,120.00
Boston. Central Ch., 998.01; Samuel B. Capen,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._, 50; Mrs. E.
P. Eayrs, 5; J. L. Stone, _for Student Aid,
Thomasville, Ga._ 1; ———— Dorchester, Mrs.
E. J. W. Baker, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._,
60; Mrs. Nathan Carruth, 50; Collected by M.
A. Tuttle, _for Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_, 3;
———— Roxbury. Walter S. Tower, 10 1,177.01
Cambridge. Prof. J. Henry Thayer, _for Atlanta
U._ 20.00
Chelsea. Central Ch. and Soc. 23.31
Cummington. Mrs. H. M. Porter, _for Macon, Ga._ 1.00
Dalton. Cong. Ch. 93.14
Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 176.06
Dedham. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00
East Cambridge. Mary F. Aiken, _for Expressage_ 0.25
East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.13
Florence. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Woman’s
Work_ 12.70
Framingham. Plymouth Ch. and Soc. 79.23
Framingham. Primary Class, Plymouth Ch., _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 3.00
Franklin. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MISS JENNIE P. BAKER L. M., 30; Soc. of
Christian Endeavor, 7 37.00
Greenfield. Infant Class, Miss S. Sparhawk,
Teacher, _for Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 7.00
Greenfield. E. B. Billings 3.00
Hardwick. Cal. Ch. 10.00
Hatchville. Mrs. Vinal N. Hatch 1.00
Hatfield. Rev. R. W. Woods, _for Selma, Ala._ 3.00
Haverhill. Dr. John Crowell’s S. S. Class,
Center Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 30.00
Holliston. Class of Boys, Cong. Sab. Sch.,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 2.00
Holliston. “Bible Christians of Dist. No. 4.” 30.00
Hyde Park. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 50.00
Lee. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 75.00
Lee. Young Girls’ Prayer Meeting, First Cong.
Ch., ad’l, _for Indian M._ 6.00
Lowell. Eliot Ch. 35.33
Mansfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 5.75
Maplewood. Infant Class, Sab. Sch. of Cong.
Ch., _for Wilmington, N.C._ 1.00
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 64.00
Medfield. M. C. Colt. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Medford. Mystic Ch. and Soc., to const. MISS
LUCILLE LEGERWOOD, CHAS. A. DOW, WM. M.
SAWIN and CHAS. N. GOODRICH, L. M’s. 156.48
Melrose. Sarah J. Elder, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Middleton. Ladies’ H. M. Soc., by C. A. Berry,
Sec., _for Tougaloo U._ 5.00
Millbury. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Mill River. Melissa R. Wilcox 10.00
Montague. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
New Bedford (Acushnet). First Cong. Ch. 81.75
Newbury. M. C. Coll. First Ch. 22.69
Newburyport. Belleville Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
65.19; North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 50 115.19
Newton. Freedmen’s Aid Soc. Circle, _for
Freight_ 2.00
Newton Center. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Newton Center. Maria B. Furber Miss’y Soc.,
_for Oahe Indian Sch._ 20.00
Northampton. A. L. Williston, 525; Edwards Ch.
Benev. Soc., 202.50 727.50
North Brookfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong.
Ch., _for Indian M._ 50.00
North Brookfield. “Friends,” by Miss A. W.
Johnson, _for Indian M._ 20.80
Plymouth. Ch. of the Pilgrimage and Soc. 77.21
Plymouth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for the
Debt_ 10.00
Reading. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50
Royalston. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Salem. Young Ladies Miss’y Soc. of South Ch.,
_for Woman’s Work_ 40.00
Scituate. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.85
Somerville. “M” 25.00
Somerville. “Lower Lights,” of Prospect St.
Ch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 10.00
South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., (30 of
which _for Indian M_) 244.81
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 53.30
Spencer. S. S. Class, by Mrs Geo. H. Marsh,
_for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 9.00
Springfield. MISS CARRIE E. BOWDOIN bal. to
const. herself L. M. 10.00
Stoneham. Miss P. Stevens 2.00
Sutton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.00
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.24
Ware. East Cong Ch. to const. J. H. APPERSON,
CLARENCE L. ROBERTS, FREDERICK E. FAIRBANKS,
HATTIE OWEN and HELEN A. CUMMINGS L. M’s. 414.29
Wareham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 47.20; “A
Friend,” 20 67.20
Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell. _for Chinese M._ 5.00
Warren. “A Friend,” _for Debt_ 1.00
Watertown. Sab. Sch. of Phillips Ch., _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 50.00
Watertown. Sew. Cir. of Phillips Ch., _for
Freight_ 2.67
Wellesley. Cong. Ch., adl. 1.00
West Acton. Rev. J. W. Brown 5.00
West Boxford. Miss Sarah P. Foster’s S. S.
Class, _for Student Aid, Thomasville, Ga._ 2.00
West Boylston. Chas. T. White. 3.00
West Bridgewater. C. T. Williams 2.00
Westfield. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 59.00
Westfield. Mrs. C. W. Fowler 7.00
West Gloucester. Mrs. Abby F. Keyes 5.00
West Medway. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.27
West Springfield. Mrs. Lucy M. Bagg, Bbl. of
C., _for Tougaloo U._
West Stockbridge Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.50
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
Woburn. Social Benev. Soc., _for Freight_ 0.72
Worcester. “A. N. X”. 50.00
By Charles Marsh, Treas. Hampden Benev. Ass’n:
Monson 20.00
Springfield. First 25.00
Springfield. North 30.56
Springfield. Olivet 42.69
West Springfield. Park St., _for Marie
Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 50.00
—————— 168.25
————. “A Friend,” to const., MRS. SARAH
MOULTON L. M. 30.00
————. “A Friend” 1.00
———————
$7,141.28

LEGACIES.

Boston. Estate of George Punchard, by Ezra L.
Woodbury, Trustee 763.50
Groton. Estate of George Farnsworth, by Ezra
Farnsworth, Ex. 3,000.00
Malden. Estate of Wm. H. Aiken, M.D., “In
Memoriam” by his sister MARY F. AIKEN, (30
of which to const. herself L. M.) _for
Boarding Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 339.57
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$11,244.35

CLOTHING, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.

Willard, Me. 1 Bbl., _for Williamsburg, Ky._
Swanton, Vt. 1 Bundle.
Boston, Mass. C. A. Richardson, Miscellaneous
Vol’s.
Cambridgeport, Mass. Miss Lucena Palmer, Box
Patchwork, _for Louisville, Ky._
Reading, Mass. Bbl. and Box, _for Macon, Ga._
Sandwich, Mass. “Friends,” 1 Case.
Woburn, Mass. Ladies Social Benev. Soc. 1 Bbl.
_for Louisville, Ky._

RHODE ISLAND.

Arnold Mills. H. A. Bishop, Raspberry plants,
_for Talladega C._

CONNECTICUT, $1,615.27.

Abington. Pkg. of Cards, by Miss D. E. Marcy,
_for Thomasville, Ga._
Ansonia. First Cong. Ch., 28; Mrs. Luke Downs,
2 30.00
Bridgeport. South Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for
Thomasville, Ga._
Bridgewater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.26
Clintonville. “Thank Offering” 35.00
Colchester. Ladies Soc. of Cong Ch., Bbl. of
C., _for Thomasville, Ga._
Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 23.40
East Haddam. First. Cong. Ch. 85.85
East Hampton. Dea. S. Skinner, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 10.00
Enfield. Daniel H. Abbe 5.00
Essex. Girls Soc., “Whatsoevers,” Bbl. of C.,
_for Thomasville, Ga._
Fairfield. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Gilead. Cong. Ch. 16.50
Hartford. Ladies Benev. Soc. of Fourth Cong.
Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Thomasville, Ga._
Hebron. Mrs. Edwin T. Smith 1.50
Killingworth. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 9.00
Lakeville. L. M. S., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 2.00
Long Ridge. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch. 12.00
Meriden. “M. C.” 1.00
New Haven. Mrs. J. A. Dickerman, 100; Prof. J.
L. Ensign, 10; “True Blue” Card, by Fannie
Treat, Collector, 5; Taylor Ch., 3.75 118.75
Newington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 61.08
New Preston. Ch. in New Preston, by Miss Julia
Averill, Collector 54.00
Norfolk. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 20, _for
Santee Indian Sch., aid of a boy,_ and 42
_for Rosebud Indian M._ 62.00
North Guilford. Cong. Ch. 35.00
Norwich. James Dana Coit, _for Rosebud Indian
M._ 1.00
Norwich. Ladies, Bbl. of C., _for Thomasville,
Ga._
Norwichtown. “First Ch.*” 28.50
Plainville. Cong. Ch., 59.53, to const. MISS
JENNIE HAMLIN and MISS BERTHA HAMLIN L. M’s.
A memorial gift, by Mrs. T. M. Darrow 59.53
Roxbury. “A Thankful Daughter’s offering on
her Mother’s 100th birthday” 5.00
Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
South Canaan. “Friends,” _for Rosebud Indian
M._ 1.00
Southington. Mrs. James P. Dickerman, _for
Kindergarten, Atlanta, Ga._ 20.00
South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 5.00
South Norwalk. Cong. Ch., to const. HUBERT H.
BOOTH and MRS. EMMA QUINTARD L. M’s. 105.06
Southport. “Friend” 5.00
Stafford Springs. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for
Student Aid. Fisk U._ 25.00
Stratford. Mrs. Peter P. Curtiss _for Debt_ 5.00
Terryville. Cong. Ch. 92.00
Terryville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. adl., _for
Sch’p Santee Indian Sch._ 17.50
Thomaston. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.28
Wallingford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Indian M._ 50.00
Warren. Cong. Ch. 18.00
Washington. “A Friend” 10.00
Westchester. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 3.50
Westford. Cong. Ch. 6.56
West Hartford. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for
Marie Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 50.00
————. “A Friend in Conn.” 200.00
Woman’s Home Mission’y Union of Conn., by Mrs.
S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec., _for Conn. Ind’l Sch.
Ga._:
Fairfield. Ladies Soc. 25.00
————————
$1,415.27

LEGACY.

New Britain. Estate of Mrs. Emma C. Judd, by
Levi S. Wells, Ex. 200.00
————————
$1,615.27

NEW YORK, $3,453.16.

Brooklyn. Russell Sturgis, Jr., 25; H. M.
Wiggins, 1 26.00
Cambria Center. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 7.00
Columbus. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Cortland. H. M. Soc. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Freight_ 2.85
Deer River. Cong. Ch. 4.50
Dexterville. Mrs. O. King 5.00
Flushing. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Woman’s Work_ 40.00
Granby Center. J. C. Harrington 10.00
Ithaca. First Cong. Ch. 75.83
Maine Village. Cong. Ch. 23.00
New York. Broadway Tab. Ch., add’l (30 of
which to const. J. T. LEAVITT L. M.) 725.00
New York. S. T. Gordon. 100; F. De Clare, 1 101.00
New York. Rev. W. R. Huntington. D.D., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 40.00
New York. Mrs. H. B. Spelman, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
New York. Mrs. F. B. Austin, 1; Mrs. V. M.
Hackley, 1, _for Student Aid, Thomasville,
Ga._ 2.00
North Granville. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 100.00
North Walton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 12.60
Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.21
Otto. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Oxford. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Pekin. Miss Oliva Root, 4; Louisa Coleman,
_for Bibles_, 1 5.00
Perry Center. Cong. Ch. (30 of which from Mrs.
Catharine W. Butler, to const. MISS ELMA C.
BUTLER L. M.) 50.00
Rochester. Plym. Cong. Ch. 36.75
Rochester. Ladies’ Aid Soc. of Plym. Ch., Bbl.
of C., Table Linen, etc., and 12 Silver Tea
Spoons, _for Macon, Ga._
Sherburn. Cong. Ch., 15; “A Friend,” 10 25.00
South Hartford. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Thiells. J. H. Cassedy, _for Cassedy School
Building, Talladega, Ala._ 2,000.00
Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Ch. 5.00
Wellsville. First Cong. Ch. 27.32
West Bloomfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch.,
Birthday offerings, _for Macon, Ga._ 16.75
Westmoreland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 2.25
Yorkshire. R. W. Lyman 1.10
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs.
L. H. Cobb, Treas., _for Woman’s Work:_
Woodville. Ladies’ Aux. 20.00

NEW JERSEY, $725.75.

Arlington. Mrs. G. Overarce, _for Debt_ 5.00
East Orange. Sab. Sch. of Grove St. Ch., _for
Ind’l Sch., Williamsburg, Ky._ 50.00
East Orange. “Willing Workers,” Grove St. Ch.,
Box of C., etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Montclair. First Cong. Ch., 540; First Cong.
Ch. Sab. Sch., 100 640.00
Paterson. Auburn St. Cong. Ch. 15.75
Perth Amboy. “K’s Thank-offering for 95th
Birthday, 10, and for 95th Christmas, 5” 15.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $64.00.

East Springfield. Mrs. C. J. Cowles 4.00
Philadelphia. Bethany Mission Band, by Mrs. W.
S. How 15.00
Philadelphia. Elizabeth Morris, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Scranton. F. E. Nettleton, to const. MRS.
MARION F. NETTLETON L. M. 35.00

OHIO, $798.87.

Atwater. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. GEORGE
W. WELDY L. M. 33.34
Berea. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., Box
Reading Matter, _for Macon, Ga._
Cincinnati. Ladies of Walnut Hills Cong. Ch.,
by Mrs. M. L. Simpson, _for Ind’l Sch.
Williamsburg, Ky._ 100.00
Cincinnati. Storrs Cong. Ch. 1.00
Cleveland. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 20.24;
L. H. Severance, 1 21.24
Columbus. First Cong. Ch. 212.70
Fredericksburg. First Cong. Ch. 6.00
Geneva. First Cong. 25, _for Student Aid, Fisk
U._, 12, _for Grand View Normal Inst.
Tenn._, and to const. DEA. GEO. F. SADD L. M. 37.00
Kent. Sab. Sch, of Cong. Ch., _for Oahe,
Indian M._ 10.00
Kinsman. Presb. and Cong. Ch’s., _for Student
Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 16.15
Lindenville. James McGranahan, Organ, val.
125., _for Chapel, South Williamsburg, Ky._
Litchfield. MRS. MARY S. CLAPP, bal. to const.
herself L. M. 15.00
Lorain. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00
Madison. Mrs. H. B. Frazer, _for Talladega C._ 100.00
Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 3.70
Medina. L. Nettleton, 10; Gaylord Thomson, 15;
Mrs. Gaylord Thomson, 5; to const. WARREN
ANDERSON L. M., “Boys Mission Band” John A.
Sipher, Sec., 5 35.00
Medina. “Friends,” 2 Bbls. of C., _for Macon,
Ga._
Norwalk. First Cong. Ch. 10.60
Norwalk. “Friends” in Cong. Ch., Testaments
val. 8, _for Little Rock, Ark._
Ravenna. Cong. Ch. 24.08
Ridgeville. “Friend,” 10, _for Williamsburg,
Ky._, Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 3, _for
Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 13.00
Steubenville. First. Cong. Ch. 4.56
Strongsville. Cong. Soc., _for Freight_ 1.50
Tallmadge. First Cong. Ch. 100.00
Wellington. Edward West 20.00
Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Williamsburg, Ky._ 4.00
Willoughby. Mary P. Hastings 25.00

ILLINOIS, $734.34.

Amboy. J. P. Thorne, papers and pamphlets,
_for Talladega C._
Aurora. S. B. Dykeman 2.00
Chicago. South Cong. Ch. 145.31
Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, _for Atlanta U._ 300.00
Chicago. W. H. M. U. of South Cong. Ch., _for
Woman’s Work_ 55.00
Chicago. Miss Hannah Brown, _for Kindergarten,
Atlanta, Ga._ 5.00
Forrest. Cong. Ch. 20.32
Galena. Mrs. Ann Bean 2.00
Joliet. Rev. S. Penfield 5.00
La Grange. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 5.21
Lombard. First Ch. 6.25
Maywood. W. C. Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch. _for
Woman’s Work_ 5.00
Millington. Mrs. D. W. Jackson 5.00
Newark. Mrs. Fielding Haverhill 1.00
New Windsor. Cong. Ch. 5.40
Nora. L. S. Bishop 3.00
Oak Park. “A Friend,” _for Debt_ 5.00
Ottawa. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.22
Princeton. Mrs. S. C. Clapp, 25: “An old
friend of the oppressed,” 5 30.00
Rio. Cong. Ch. 7.30
Shirland. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Springfield. “A Friend,” _for McIntosh, Ga._ 20.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Ill. by Mrs.
B. F. Leavitt, Treas., _for Woman’s Work_:
Chicago. Leavitt St. Ch. 1.43
Lombard. W. M. S. 12.00
Millburn. L. M. Soc. 25.00
Rockford. L. M. Soc., First Ch. 20.15
Thawville. L. H. and F. M. Soc. 3.75
—————— 62.33

MICHIGAN, $353.48.

Alma. Mrs. L. A. Van Antwerp 1.00
Ann Arbor. “A Friend,” by W. W. Wines, 30;
Mrs. C. S. Cady, 1 31.00
Cheboygan. Cong. Ch. 4.93
Clinton. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Covert. Sinclair Sab. Sch. and Cong. Ch. 9.00
Greenville. Mrs. R. L. Ellsworth 10.00
Hancock. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch. _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
Lake Linden. Cong. Ch., Sab. Sch. 20; Easter
Coll., 12; “King’s Daughters,” 10, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 42.00
Leslie. Cong. Ch. 6.97
Litchfield. L. M. S., _for Athens, Ala._ 14.00
Ludington. Cong. Ch. 23.08
Middleville. Cong. Ch. 1.75
New Baltimore. “A Disciple” 10.00
Rochester. Cong. Ch. 2.25
South Haven. Clark Pierce 12.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Soc. of Mich. by Mrs.
E. F. Grabill, Treas., _for Woman’s Work_:
Cheboygan. W. H. M. S. 3.00
West Adrian. Women 12.50
—————— 15.50
——————
253.48
LEGACY.

Birch Run. Estate of Lavonius Gray, through
Mrs. Dr. W. C. Palmer, Trustee 100.00
——————
$353.48

WISCONSIN, $257.58.

Beloit. Lyman Meacham 5.00
Bristol and Paris. Cong. Ch. 22.25
Hammond. Rev. J. F. Malcolm 5.00
Koshkonong. Cong. Ch. 3.42
La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 49.27
Lake Geneva. Milo Barnard and wife 25.00
Lake Geneva. Y. P. M. S., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Menomonie. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Marie
Adlof Sch’p Fund_ 9.60
Racine. First Presb. Ch. 30.13
Ripon. Ladies of Cong. Ch., box and bbl. of
C., _for Macon, Ga._
Rosendale. Cong. Ch., 16.57, and Sab. Sch. 5.09 21.66
Viroqua. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., half bbl. of C.,
etc., _for Macon, Ga._
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Wis. _for
Woman’s Work_:
Broadhead. Mrs. S. T. Sherman 5.00
Elkhorn. W. H. M. S., Thank-offering Box 3.50
Platteville. W. H. M. S 5.75
Ripon. W. H. M. S. 20.00
Stoughton. Cong. S. S. Birthday Box 2.00
Waukesha. Y. P. S. C. E 20.00
Windsor. W. M. S. 5.00
—————— 61.25

IOWA, $288.25.

Cherokee. R. H. Scribner, to const. JOHN KIRBY
L. M. 30.00
Chester Center. Cong. Ch. 17.65
Clinton. Cong. Ch. 15.01
Grinnell. Rev. S. G. Brainerd 10.00
Humboldt. “A Friend” 5.00
Iowa City. Cong. Ch. 20.75
Lake City. E. P. Longhead 1.00
Maquoketa. Cong. Ch., by Miss Mary C. Shaw,
Sec. 29.38
Nashua. Cong. Ch. 11.05
Oldfield. Sab. Sch of Highland Cong. Ch. 5.33
Sheldon. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Tipton. “Little Light-burners,” _for Macon,
Ga._ 5.00
Tipton. Rev. A. G. Brande, _for the Debt_ 5.00
Tyrone. Mrs. Mary A. Payne 1.25
Woman’s Home Mission’y Union of Iowa, _for
Woman’s Work_:
Charles City. Ladies’ Soc. 20.00
Chester Center. Ladies’ Soc. 8.25
Davenport. Ladies’ Soc. of Edwards Ch. 26.00
Dubuque. Y. L. Soc. 10.00
Grinnell. W. H. M. U. 6.63
Iowa City. “Gleaners” 5.00
Iowa Falls. Ladies’ Mite Soc. 2.00
Le Mars. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 9.45
McGregor. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 5.95
Mitchellville. Miss S. A. M. Demorest 5.00
Montour. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 4.85
Osage. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 1.20
Postville. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 5.00
Rock Rapids. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 5.50
Tipton. Ladies’ H. M. Soc. 10.00
—————— 124.83

MINNESOTA, $267.55.

Minneapolis. Lyndale Cong. Ch., 19.51;
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Vine Ch., 10 64.18
Northfield. Rev. E. M. Williams, _for Memphis,
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Plainview. W. U. M. Soc., _for Jonesboro,
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Winona. First Con. Ch. 30.81
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Waseca. W. M. S. 5.15
—————— 108.06

MISSOURI, $275.85.

Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., 200.05, and
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Saint Louis. Fifth Cong. Ch. 20.25
Sedalia. First Cong. Ch. 25.10
Springfield. Central Cong. Ch. 12.45

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Cora. Cong. Ch. 8.50
Diamond Springs. Cong. Ch. 8.55
Meriden. J. Rutty 10.00
Olathe. Cong. Ch. 5.76
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Topeka. First Cong. Ch., 23; Pres. Peter
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Huron. First Cong. Ch. 40.88

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NEBRASKA, $81.13.

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National City. Theron Parsons 500.00
Stockton. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D. 10.00

OREGON, $53.00.

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WASHINGTON TER., $25.90.

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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $65.39.

Washington. First Cong. Ch. 25.21
Washington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
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Washington. Mon. Con. Coll., Howard U. 15.18

MARYLAND, $193.50.

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch. 193.50

KENTUCKY, $102.50.

Williamsburg. Tuition 102.50

TENNESSEE, $976.21.

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Jellico. Tuition 26.00
Jonesboro. Tuition 2.00
Memphis. Tuition 358.90
Memphis. A. J. Steele, _for Student Aid, Fisk
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Nashville. Tuition 474.31
Nashville. J. F. Black 10.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $243.93.

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Dudley. Cong. Ch., 1; Tuition, 1.75 2.75
Melville. Sab. Sch., by S. A Paris 1.15
Raleigh. Rev. G. S. Smith and wife, 10; Mrs.
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Ella Baker Hackney, 2.50, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 22.50
Troy. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Wilmington. Tuition 156.65
Wilmington. By Miss H. L. Fitts, 6; by Miss E.
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Wilmington. Dea. A. Pedan’s S. S. Class, _for
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SOUTH CAROLINA, $190.50.

Charleston. Tuition 190.50

GEORGIA, $1,111.55.

Atlanta. “Friends,” 378.50; Gen’l. J. R.
Lewis, 25, _for Atlanta U._ 403.50
Atlanta. Storrs Sch. Tuition 303.00
Atlanta. Unknown 5.00
Macon. Tuition, 175.45; Rent, 1 176.45
Marietta. Cong. Ch., 2; Sab. Sch., 1 3.00
McIntosh. Tuition 20.00
McIntosh. Miss Robertson’s Mission Sch. _for
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Savannah. Tuition 144.95
Thomasville. Tuition 50.55

FLORIDA, $25.00.

Saint Augustine. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 25.00

ALABAMA, $346.13.

Athens. Tuition 41.45
Citronelle. Mrs. N. C. Schwarzaur, _for
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Marion. Nora L. Olin 1.00
Mobile. Tuition 218.40
Talladega. Tuition 83.95

LOUISIANA, $93.67.

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New Orleans. Teachers and Students of Straight
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MISSISSIPPI, $220.65.

Tougaloo. Tuition, 190; Rent, 30.65 220.65

TEXAS, $246.70.

Austin. Tuition 244.85
Dodd City. Pilgrim Cong. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 1.85

CANADA, $5.00.

Montreal. “C. A.” 5.00

NEW ZEALAND, $52.25.

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INCOMES, $1,500.00.

Avery Fund _for Mendi M._ 87.50
De Forest Fund _for President’s Chair,
Talladega C._ 337.50
Hammond Fund _for Straight U._ 125.00
Howard Theo. Fund _for Howard U._ 600.00
La Moyne Fund _for Memphis. Tenn._ 50.00
Luke Mem. Sch’p Fund _for Talladega C._ 10.00
Scholarship Fund _for Straight U._ 47.50
Talladega Endowment Fund, _for President’s
Chair, Talladega C._ 37.50
Talladaga College Sch’p Fund 50.00
Tuthill King Fund _for Atlanta U._ 125.00
Tuthill King Fund _for Berea C._ 25.00
Yale Library Fund _for Talledega C._ 5.00
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Donations $19,091.44
Legacies 4,403.07
Tuition and Rents 2,860.11
Incomes 1,500.00
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Total for May $27,854.62
Total from Oct. 1 to May 31 181,693.07
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