Chapter II: Part 2

I will add that Jack Davis was my best friend after opening that school, and Dick Brown, whom I met plowing on going from Aunt Daffney’s house, carried my trunk a quarter of a mile for nothing, and loaned me his watch while I taught there. On going away, the man who was so afraid of the “rascals” came four miles to my house and carried my trunk thirteen miles to Hope—all for nothing. The crop turned out well. I gained twenty pounds, and, in a word, we were all happy.

THE INDIANS.

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SPEECH OF AN INDIAN CHIEF.

At a Fourth of July celebration held at Lidgerwood, Dakota, a
novel feature of the exercises was a speech by Magayohi (Chief
Star), in the Sioux dialect, which being translated reads as
follows, and which shows that if all the Sioux Indians were as
intelligent and as well disposed as this chief, the Government
Commission would have little trouble.

“This land which lies about us was once the property of my people; you have now possession of it and have made yourselves homes and are rearing your families on the land which formerly belonged to my forefathers. I have no complaint to make of this fact, for it is perhaps better as it is. Our desire is to become like the white man; to learn to cultivate the land and to make a living from it; to learn to read and to write and to transact business; to learn the principles of government and become citizens; to acquire title to 160 acres for each member of our tribe. We have faith in the Great Spirit and in the Great Father at Washington, and believe that in time your people will teach my people to be like you; the negro’s skin is darker than ours, and you have made a man of him; we ask the Government to do us the same justice.”

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FORT YATES, DAKOTA.

FROM MISS M. C. COLLINS.

What are we going to do? This is a question coming to us continually. The A. M. A. doubtless is in a happy mood and smiling condition, now that it has strengthened our forces by two new men—one, Rev. Mr. Cross, 300 miles below here, and one, Rev. Mr. Reed, 32 miles from here at the Agency. It is a good thing—a great deal better than not to have sent anyone. But now, think of it: An Agency containing 6,000 souls, scattered in villages of from twenty to fifty families in a village, and the settlements from five to ten miles apart.

I could put a hundred Bibles in as many homes now among Catholics and wholly heathen families where one, at least could read it who has learned in some school of ours or the Presbyterians. I could give out a thousand Dakota Primers, or First Readers, into as many homes where they are anxious to read in their own tongue. There is no law against a Dakota’s owning a Dakota Bible, nor reading a Dakota primer in his own home. We could establish ten schools where Sabbath services could be held, at once. We could so reach a great many homes and hasten the civilization and Christianization of these Indians by many years.

I go long distances into Catholic houses as well as others, to administer to the sick. Last night I had a Government teacher (a Catholic) and his sick wife, whom I have been treating, and their two children, here all night. I have been riding sixteen miles to treat her, and then riding home, the man always coming for me and bringing me back.

I have now given twelve years to this work. I have seen wonderful changes. I have seen men with painted faces and feathers following the leader on to darkness and death. I have seen the same men, clothed and in their right minds, stand before a heathen audience of their own people and heard one say, only last week, “Men and brethren, you know me as a man fierce in war—a man whose hands are stained with blood—a man bearing many wounds. My body still bears the marks, but Christ has made me whole. I am another man. My body is the same, but my heart is new. My soul is clean; my will has changed; I think differently. The Gospel has renewed me.” It was one of the grandest pleas for the Gospel I ever heard. O! will you not empty your gold and your silver into the treasury? Will you not advance, and take every post as fast as ready to surrender? Let us guard these people with a great army of the Lord. Send on the advance guard and bring up your reinforcements. _I_ do not want to fall till I see Dakota taken for the Lord!

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THE CHINESE.

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CHRISTIAN CHINESE EN ROUTE TO CHINA.

It is some of the experiences of our Chinese brethren on their way to their native land that I have in mind in this title—not the bare fact that they do so return, or that their presence in their old homes cannot but become a leavening and a gradually revolutionizing influence there.

The subjoined letter is of special interest only because it is a little more full in its statement than others relating to other voyages. The writer, Ng Hing, was brought to faith in Christ at our Barnes Mission, and the letter is addressed to his teacher, Mrs. H. W. Lamont. Ng Hing is a modern Nathaniel. I scarcely ever spoke with him during the first months of his discipleship to Christ, but I felt like repeating that greeting which Jesus gave to the first Nathaniel: “Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.” And I have found this impression abundantly confirmed by the testimony of his brethren and my own closer acquaintanceship.

The letter is a little old, being dated Nov. 17th. When it was first placed in my hands I asked the privilege of laying it before the readers of the MISSIONARY, but it has been crowded out till now. I give it with no attempt to set it right in its English. It will be understood as it is, and will be read, I trust, with all the more interest, revealing, as it does, the attempt of an intelligent Chinese to wrestle with what must seem to him the awkward idioms of our outlandish tongue:

“_Dear Teacher_:

“I am arrived here safely, Nov. 15th, Tuesday, at noon. I thank
you and Miss Lilian [daughter of Mrs. Lamont, and, like her
mother, one of our teachers] very much indeed for your lovely
present and the letter which you given me. I used to read it
very often because it is very improve to me, and that I know
the Lord Jesus has opened my soul-eye and raised me from the
death of sin to a life of righteousness. I will to tell all my
countrymen what great thing Jesus has done for me, just as much
as I can speak to.

“Now I want to tell you about our journey. We have met fifteen
missionary ladies and gentlemen. Some go to Japan and some to
China. And several Chinese Christian brethren were there, and
we have joined with the missionary to have service on every
Sunday morning. I am very glad we have so pleasant opportunity
on the ship—sing to praise God and spoke the gospel of Jesus.

“But on the Oct. 26th we meet a great tempest; the waves run
over the deck, and the wind against the ship, dreadful. That
made the Chinese heathen complain and say many wicked words
against us Christians; and they said to themselves, too: ‘We
must not allow these Chinese Christians have the meeting on
the ship because they tell us believe in Jesus and not worship
the idol and image; therefore the evil spirits made the wind
and the waves against the ship.’ Oh, I am very sorry for them,
so foolish, when I heard that. For we trust in God and know
he will take care of us, and even the tempest so great. God
made it peaceful, and carry us all to get through safely—never
drown. We should all thank God for his mercies and praise him
so great and so powerful. But the heathen not mind God and do
not care for their souls.

“The missionary was very kindly to them and pity them so
ignorant.

“On the 6th of Nov. Mr. Chalfant read Acts 17:24-30, and I read
it in Chinese and we try to explain it to them, but they were
very proud, and not want to hear the Gospel of Jesus. They only
crowd round us and make terrible noise, with revilings and
indignity to us. That was to be fulfilled the words which Jesus
had said to us Christians: ‘Ye shall be hated of all men for
my name’s sake.’ Well, no matter what _they_ said; the Bible
says: ‘Love your enemies and do kindly to them that hated you,’
and we know God will be with us and help us in trouble, and
even the heathen so persecuted us, but we do kindly to them
and pray for them. Now please pray for me, for the temptation
is great here; and pray for the missionary in China. * * * I
do not forget all your kindness to me. Let God bless you and
your family and all the scholars, and increase the number that
believe in Jesus our Saviour. From Your scholar,

NG HING.”

I have room for a sentence or two from Chin Toy at Sacramento, in a letter just received: “The tracts and small books were duly received. I was very glad for them. I think will do much good to our people. Street meetings here every Sunday. I give out some of the tracts at the end of the preaching. All hearers seemed very glad to come and get them. Each one say, ‘Give me a piece.’ I trust the Lord will bless the seed still growing, which were sown on these ground. This school is better lately. Had five or six new scholars come last week. The Christian brethren are all well and attend the meeting regularly.”

And here is a little of the “shady side” in another field: “I found these three brethren here not quite love each other. They too much complained each other’s faults. I felt very sorry for them. I think every one of them is try to do right, but they are all impatient; that is the trouble. I visited some stores in Chinatown; invited men to come to school. Some men told me many scholars stayed away because the Christian boys quarrel. So I thought better write you that you will pray for them on that matter. I told them we must love and forgive each other, hold fast together in the bond of peace, and serve the Lord with the pure heart, then we will bring forth fruit.”

Sound doctrine, to which many a company of American believers would do well to take heed, though it comes from the pen of one who once sat in darkness and worshipped idol-gods!

WM. C. POND.

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BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

MISS D. E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.

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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.

VT.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. Ellen Osgood,
Montpelier, 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. William
Spalding, Salmon Block, Syracuse, N.Y.

ALA.—Woman’s Missionary Association, Secretary, Mrs. G. W.
Andrews, Talladega, Ala.

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

IND.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Rogers,
Michigan City, Ind.

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.

NEB.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, President, Mrs. F. H. Leavitt,
1216 H St., Lincoln, Neb.

SOUTH DAKOTA.—Woman’s Home Miss. Union, Secretary, Mrs. S. E.
Young, Sioux Falls, Dak.

LETTER FROM SAN FRANCISCO.

_My Dear Miss Emerson_:

Having just returned from my class of Chinese children, my mother thought, for the sake of variety, I might give an account of this interesting though curious gathering. This class was formed about three years ago. There was no Sabbath-school for Chinese children at the time, and seeing the great need of one, and being unable to attend to it on Sunday, I decided to have it on Friday afternoon, at three o’clock.

About three-quarters of an hour before the time for commencing, I start for the children, going from home to home, inviting and coaxing them to come. I sometimes carry with me pieces of cake and candy or a bright text-card to attract those who seem more timid than the rest.

If I meet a stray child on the street, I say “Na lie dook she?” (You come to school?) Sometimes my labors are rewarded by seeing a bundle of clothes slip past me, and a minute afterward all is lost in oblivion in a small alley; but sometimes they slip their dirty hands into mine and trudge along with me, amid the jeers and contemptuous smiles of those passing by. Finally we arrive at our school room, between twenty and thirty children being present, ranging all the way from five to twelve years. We commence by singing three or four hymns; then all rise and repeat a prayer after me in concert, sentence by sentence. I then explain the Sabbath-school lesson through an interpreter, and either show the picture of the International Lessons, or a black-board drawing, and sometimes an object. I find, as with all children, their interest can be awakened and held by means of an object or picture. After letting each repeat the text given the week before, we close with the Lord’s Prayer in Chinese; and after good-bye is said all around, I dismiss them, taking some of them home, as their parents are afraid to trust them across the car tracks alone.

These children are exceedingly bright and attentive, and as to their good behavior, I can sometimes hold up their example as worthy of the imitation of my class of American boys. Only to-day, in speaking of the lesson on “Worshiping the Golden Calf,” I asked which they worshiped, God or idols, and one little girl said, “Me worship God; idols no good. They have eyes, no see; hands and feet, and no walk.” And when I asked all to raise their hands who would worship Jesus, she raised both hands. When shown the picture of Abraham offering Isaac, one of them said, “Why did not he run away?” One day, when taking home a little girl of five years of age, she looked at the cable car which was passing, and said, “What for does that car go faster than that one (pointing to a horse car)? That has no horse.” They ask innumerable questions, and want to know the why and wherefore of everything.

Oh! my dear Christian friends, pray for me, that I may be aided in teaching and guiding these precious souls, on whom so much of China’s progress depends.

Yours in Christ,

LILIAN LAMONT.

OUR YOUNG FOLKS.

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LITTLE INDIANS.

Perhaps there are little children in some of the beautiful homes in the cities who cannot understand that the Indians are not all born grown up, with feathers on their heads and tomahawks in their hands. One little blue-eyed girl once said to me with a very long O-o-o-o and her hand over her mouth, “Oh, o-h! I did not know there were little Indian boys and girls!” but let me tell you, little Golden Hair, there are Indian boys and girls.

They have some very funny names, too. But there is one thing pleasant about it; their names are given to them because they mean something. As I write this article, I look out from my window and see an Indian boy with a roughly-made sled drawing his little sister up the hill so that she can slide down again behind him. Little Indians are not wholly unlike little white boys and girls. They eat and sleep, laugh and cry, but they do not fight. That comes with civilization.

I can from my window watch the boys and girls playing on the hillside every day as long as the snow lasts, and I never have heard a child cry nor have I seen one child hurt another. I can hear them laugh and shout and cheer when one tumbles off the sled, but no angry or bad words are ever used. They are very merry and happy when we remember that there is no Indian child that does not know what it is to be hungry and have the mother say there is no food.

When a little baby comes into an Indian home, he is wrapped up in a blanket and it is tied all about him so that he cannot use his arms or legs, and he looks very much like a rag doll, but he cries and laughs just like a real flesh and blood and bones baby. But, little Golden Hair, let me whisper to you one secret of the Indian baby’s happy life: he never gets _spanked_! They leave that to the uncivilized white mother. So, after all, the white boy does not have all the good in life; does he? Only think of sliding down hill a whole morning without even a board between the smooth snow and the trousers, going home with wet and worn clothes and not getting whipped; not even sent to bed!

Indian children are never punished; but, after all, they are not bad. The boys like to hunt the snowbirds with bows and arrows. They kill a great many too. The little girls play with corn-cob dolls and little tents and travois, or _toshoes_, as they call them, sometimes drawn by dogs.

The Indian children have hard lives after all. They cannot live to grow up unless they are pretty strong. A great many little ones die for want of good, wholesome food, and many for want of fresh air and warm clothes. We want all the little boys and girls in Christian homes to remember the little Dakotas. There is much good in them; and if they had the advantages you have, perhaps they would be fully as well behaved, and as true and faithful to God, as are you. Will you help us to save the little Indians?

MARY C. COLLINS.

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LITTLE INDIAN CHILDREN IN THE BIRDS’ NEST AT SANTEE AGENCY, NEB.

They are such happy little girls, and so easily entertained. Just now I saw two of them getting such a merry time out of dragging the bowl of a large pewter spoon over the ground for a wagon, putting a little stick in the way to represent water they had to cross—for our recent rains have flooded the bottom-lands in several places. There was a nail lying in the spoon, and I asked what that meant. “Oh,” Maggie said, “that is me, and I am going to the store to buy some beads.” A shorter nail was there to represent her younger playmate. No little girls to-day, pushing their red-cheeked wax dollies in their miniature baby carriages, are any happier than our little Indian girls, drawing their broken pewter spoon and representing themselves by old rusty nails.

At our Missionary Society, which meets every Saturday for an hour, I generally read them a little story; sometimes from “The Pansy,” which was sent us last year, or from “Our Little Men and Women,” also a gift from an unknown friend. They enjoy it always and like to see the pictures; but the book that holds the charm, and of which they never tire, is “The Story of the Bible.”

They have pieced two small quilts and one large one this season, and will finish two others of medium size. Our mite box contains $2.50 at this date. These are the pennies that their parents send them to be used in this way, and occasionally they earn one by some little service for us.

HARRIET B. ILSLEY.

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RECEIPTS FOR JULY, 1888.

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MAINE, $1,281.94.

Bangor. Hammond St. Ch. $75.75
Bangor. J.H. Crosby, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
Bethel. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch. 12.50
Blanchard. Mrs. Rose B. Packard, deceased, by
J. C. B. Packard 5.00
Brunswick. Mrs. S. F. C. Hammond, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Castine. Trin. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Castine. Class No. 9, Trin. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 1.25
Eastport. Sab. Ch. of Central Cong. Ch. 5.00
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.50
Gorham. Miss E. B. Emery, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Hallowell. Mrs. H. K. Baker 5.00
Hampden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.79
North Yarmouth. Rev. J. B. Carruthers, 5;
Cong. Ch. and Soc., 4 9.00
Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 150;
Williston Ch., 84; Rev. F. T. Bayley, 25 259.00
Saco. First Parish Ch. 21.68
Skowhegan. Island Av. Cong. Ch. 12.65
South Waterford. Miss M. E. Shurtleff 10.00
Wells. B. Maxwell, 20; First Cong. Ch. and
Soc., 10.25 30.25
——. “Friend in Maine,” _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 10.00
Woman’s Aid to A. M. A., by Mrs. C. A.
Woodbury, Treas., _for Woman’s Work_.
Albany. Mrs. H. G. Lovejoy 3.00
Albany. Mrs. A. K. Cummings 3.00
Auburn. High St. 25.00
Auburn. Sixth St. 5.00
Bethel. First Ch. 14.00
Bethel. Second Ch. 12.00
Bethel. Sec. Ch., Little Helpers 3.00
Brunswick. 72.00
Berlin. (N.H.) 10.00
Calais. 10.00
Cape Elizabeth. Star Mission Circle 3.60
Cumberland Center. 20.00
Dennysville. 6.50
Dennysville. Dea. E. P. Vose 5.00
Dover and Foxcroft. Ch. 17.00
East Baldwin. 10.00
East Machias. 4.00
Freeport. 22.00
Freeport, South. 42.35
Gilead. 1.00
Gray. 6.50
Harpswell Center. 10.00
Harrison. 6.00
Jonesboro. 1.00
Jonesport. 2.00
Lewiston. Pine St. 27.00
Machias. 20.00
Machiasport. 8.75
Marshfield. 2.00
Mechanic Falls. 13.50
Minot Center. 18.00
New Gloucester. 26.50
North Yarmouth. 4.00
Oxford. 2.50
Phippsburg. 5.23
Portland. High St. Ch. 75.00
Portland. State St. Ch. 50.00
Portland. Second Parish Ch. 40.00
Pownal. 3.10
Red Beach. 1.00
Shelburne. (N.H.) 2.00
South Bridgton. 5.25
Steuben. 5.00
Sweden. 2.00
Turner. 15.00
Upton. 2.25
West Auburn. 3.05
West Minot and Hebron. 6.50
Whiting. 1.75
Yarmouth. First Parish. 48.60
—————— 701.93
Received by Mrs. J.P. Hubbard, _for
Williamsburg, Ky._
Hiram. Mrs. Z.W. Banks, _for Student
Aid_ 1.00
North Yarmouth. Mrs. J.B. Carruthers,
_for Student Aid_ 11.14
Portland. Mrs. Nathan Dane, _for
Student Aid_ 5.00
Woodfords. S. S. Class, by Miss W.
Perry, _for Student Aid_ 4.00
Bethel. Mrs. D. W. Hardy, _for
Freight_ 3.00
Biddeford. Mrs. J. W. Haley, _for
Freight_ 1.00
Farmington Falls. Miss S. G.
Croswell, _for Freight_ 2.00
Litchfield Corner. Mrs. J. T. Hawes,
_for Freight_ 1.00
South Freeport. Miss H. H. Ilsley,
_for Freight_ 4.50
West Falmouth. Rev. W. H. Haskell,
_for Freight_ 1.00
—————— 33.64
Clothing, etc., received by Mrs. J. P.
Hubbard, _for Williamsburg, Ky._:
Auburn. Bbl., by Mrs. F.S. Root
Bethel. Bbl., by Mrs. D. W. Hardy
Biddeford. Bbl., by Mrs. J. W. Haley
Falmouth. Bbl., by Mrs. Geo. O. Knight
Farmington Falls. Miss Susan G. Croswell, Box
of Hats
Litchfield Corner. Bbl., by Mrs. J. T. Hawes
North Yarmouth. Bbl., by Mrs. J. B. Carruthers
Phillips. Bbl., by Miss Cornelia T. Crosby
Portland. Bbl., by Mrs. Chas. Frost
South Freeport. Bbl., by Miss H. H. Ilsley
West Falmouth. One and one-half Bbls., by Rev.
W. H. Haskell
Woodfords. Half-Bbl., by Miss W. Perry
Unknown Source. Bbl.

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $574.18.

Exeter. Mary E. Shute 50.00
Gilsum. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.50
Great Falls. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Lebanon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Lyme. G. W. Randlett, _for Mountain White Work_ 2.00
Manchester. Hanover St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.13
Nashua. Ladies Miss’y Soc., by Dora N.
Spaulding, _for Woman’s Work_ 20.00
Nashua. Betsy A. Wilson, _for Negroes, Indians
and Chinese_ and to const. ANNA M. WILSON,
CARRIE FAY, MRS. JEFFERSON DEAN, NETTIE A.
WILSON, IRA B. WILSON, ADDIE L. WILSON, ETTA
A. WILSON and MRS. NELLIA A. MORRIS L. M’s. 300.00
Penacook. Rev. A. Wm. Fiske, _for Chinese M._ 5.00
Piermont. “A Friend” 5.00
Walpole. First Cong. Ch. 23.25
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$524.88

ESTATES.

Portsmouth. Estate of Mrs. E. A. Brooks, by H.
A. Yeaton, Ex. 25.00
Cornish. Estate of Sarah W. Westgate, by
Albert E. Wellman, for Trustees Cong. Ch. of
Cornish 24.30
——————
$574.18

VERMONT, $593.70.

Barre. Cong. Ch. 17.08
Castleton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian
M._ 25.00
Chelsea. Ladies, by Mrs. Ellen D. Wild, _for
McIntosh, Ga._ 10.00
Danville. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00
Franklin. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry Fairbanks,
_for McIntosh, Ga._ 2.65
Greensboro. Rev. S. Knowlton 20.00
Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 70.00
New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00
North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.60
Norwich. Mrs. H. Burton 2.00
Quechee. Cong. Sab. Sch., Box of Books, _for
Talladega C._
Peacham. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Mrs. C. A.
Bunker, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 26.00
Royalton. A. W. Kenney. 30, to const. SEYMOUR
CULVER L.M., Cong. Ch. and Soc., 20.02 50.02
Saint Johnsbury. Ladies, by Mrs. Henry
Fairbanks, _for McIntosh, Ga._ 91.00
Saint Johnsbury. Ladies, ad’l _for McIntosh,
Ga._ 55.00
South Royalton. Mrs. Susan H. Jones 10.00
Thetford. First Cong. Ch. 7.00
Vergennes. Miss Minnie Wood 2.00
West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 9.24
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 136.11
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Vt., _for
McIntosh, Ga._, by Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks,
Treas.:
Manchester. L. H. M. S. 5.00
———— 5.00
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$578.70

ESTATE.

Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray, by E. M.
Haynes, Ex. 15.00
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$593.70

MASSACHUSETTS, $7,726.29.

Abington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 20.00
Adams. “Memorial Band” Box of C., Val. 10,
_for Tougaloo U._
Amherst. First Cong. Ch., 40; South Cong. Ch.,
6.67 46.67
Andover. Mrs. Phebe A. Chandler, _for
Lexington, Ky._ 2000.00
Andover. Primary Dep’t Sab. Sch. of So. Ch.,
Birthday Boxes 1.62
Ashland. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 25.00
Auburndale. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 17.11
Auburndale. Rev. Horace Dutton and “Other
Friends,” Prouty Job Printing Press, _for
Atlanta U._
Ayer. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 12.52
Boston. Union Ch. 225.58
Boston. Miss Julia S. Bartlett, 100;
Old So. Ch. Sab. Sch., 35;
Berkeley Temple Sab. Sch.,
31.83; _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ Miss Mary L.
Thompson, 5; Chas. F. Atkinson,
Box of Books; Horace P.
Chandler, Box of Books; _for
Atlanta U._ 171.83
Boston. “Union Workers of Union Ch.”
_for Indian M._ 5.00
Boston. Mrs. Jacob Fullarton, _for
Prof. Lawrence, Jellico, Tenn._ 1.00
Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.
(10 of which _for Indian M._) 148.29
Dorchester. Harvard Ch. 1.00
Roxbury. Immanuel Cong. Ch. 105.93
Roxbury. “King’s Daughters,” Highland Cong.
Ch., Box of C., _for Tougaloo U._
West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. and Soc. 22.14
————— 680.77
Barre. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 8.51
Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc. 187.80
Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 16.00
Boxboro. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Rosebud Indian M._ 2.00
Brimfield. Mrs. P. C. Browning, 10; Mrs. J. S.
Webber, 1; First Cong. Ch., 6.80 17.80
Brookline. Harvard Ch. 74.13
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Coleraine. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Concord. “A” 10.00
Clinton. W. M. Soc., _for Talladega C._ 30.00
Cambridge. North Av. Ch. and Soc. 150.31
Cambridgeport. Ladies of Pilgrim Ch., Box of
C., _for Tougaloo U._
Chelsea. First Cong Ch. 30.00
Chester. Sab. Sch. Second Cong. Ch., _for
Jellico, Tenn._ 15.00
Danvers. Maple St. Cong. Sab. Sch., 28.39;
Bible Class Maple St. Cong. Sab. Sch., 6.50;
_for Atlanta U._ 34.89
East Billerica. Mrs. A. R. Richardson, from
her little children’s Mite Box, _for
Mountain White Work_ 5.00
East Cambridge. Miss Mary F. Aikin, _for
Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00
East Taunton. Cong Ch. 2.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. 17.19
Fall River. Third Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 10.57
Falmouth. First Ch., M. C. Coll. 14.25
Georgetown. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., _for
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00
Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc., 200;
Centre Cong. Ch. and Soc., 100 300.00
Haydenville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.15
Holden. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch. Primary Class, 6;
Class of Young Men, 5.50; Class of Boys,
2.30; _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 13.80
Hubbardston. “Ladies,” _for Tougaloo U._, 20;
Cong. Ch., 10 30.00
Hyde Park. Woman’s H. M. Union, _for Freight_ 9.00
Ipswich. First Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Lenox. Cong. Ch. 21.75
Lexington. Hancock Ch. 35.00
Littleton. Cong. Ch. 19.00
Lowell. “The Cent. Soc. of Eliot Ch.” 30.00
Malden. First Ch. 48.15
Malden. Mrs. Dr. Wadsworth, Bbl., Children’s
Books, Toys, etc., _for Williamsburg, Ky._
Maynard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 81.00
Medway. Village Ch. 60.00
Melrose. Miss S. J. Elder 3.06
Monterey. Cong. Ch. 18.00
New Bedford. Mrs. M. L. F. Bartlett 30.00
Newton. Eliot Ch. 100.00
Newton Centre. Maria B. Furber Miss’y Soc.,
_for Atlanta U._ 105.50
Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. 64.09
Newton Highlands. Cong. Ch. (25 of which _for
Tougaloo U._) 104.22
Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch. 98.59
Northampton. A. L. Williston 300.00
Northboro. Mrs. M. D. Wells 5.00
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch., to const.
REV. CHARLES S. MILLS, ROSELLA H. WHITING
and EDWARD L. HAVENS L. M’s 100.00
North Brookfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., First
Ch., _for Freight_ 2.00
North Middleboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.43
Orange. Central Evan. Cong. Ch. 9.11
Otis. “A Friend” 6.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. 51.00
Paxton. Mrs. Rev. A. Morton, Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo U._
Pepperell. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta
U._ 20.00
Pittsfield. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. 72.00
Reading. Cong. Ch., “Special” 2.00
Richmond. Cong. Ch. 6.84
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Shelburne Falls. A. M. Aids, add’l 0.10
South Deerfield. “L. S. C.” 3.00
South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
South Framingham. R. L. Day, 25; “Friend,”
50c., _for Mountain Work_ 25.50
Spencer. Cong. Ch., one 1,570 lbs. McShane
Bell. val. 504.43; cash for expenses, 97.63,
_for Atlanta U._ 97.63
Springfield. Y. P. S. C. E., Hope Cong. Ch.,
_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 12.50
Springfield. Home Miss’y Circle, Box of C.,
Val. 34.95, _for Tougaloo U._
Taunton. Union Ch. 15.89
Templeton. Trin. Ch. and Soc. 18.35
Ware. H. B. Anderson’s Sab. Sch. Class, _for
Indian M._ 35.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. 48.97
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Soc. 23.03
Waverly. Mrs. Daniel Butler, _for Mountain
Work_ 10.00
West Hampton. “A Friend” 5.00
West Medway. Sab. Sch., of Second Cong. Ch. 13.32
Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l 10.00
West Somerville. Young Men of Day St. Ch.,
_for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 25.00
West Springfield. Ladies’ Mission Circle of
Park St. Ch., _for Tougaloo U._ 100.00
West Springfield. Sab. Sch. of Park St. Ch.
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 43.42
West Springfield. Mrs. Aaron Bagg’s S. S.
Class, _for Indian M._ 5.00
West Springfield. Ladies’ Mission Circle of
Park St. Ch., _for Pleasant Hill, Tenn._ 5.00
West Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. 5.38
Whately. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. to const.
MRS. SARAH J. WELLS L. M. 31.00
Williamsburg. MRS. SOPHIA K. NASH, to const.
herself L. M. 30.00
Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. 21.57
Winchendon. North Cong. Ch., a’dl 2.50
Winthrop. “Friends” 0.80
Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 210.84; Piedmont
Ch., qr. 143.75; Family of Hiram Smith,
deceased, by Mary A. and Joanna F. Smith,
50; Park Cong. Ch., 5; Mrs. S. A. Howard, 5 414.59
Worcester. Piedmont Sab. Sch., _for Ch.,
Petty, Tex._ 100.00
Worcester. Mrs. Whittemore, _for Mountain Work_ 2.00
Worcester. Logan, Swift and Brigham, Case
Envelopes; Whitcomb Envelope Co., Case
Envelopes, _for Atlanta U._
Worcester. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. Central Ch.,
Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo U._
——. “Cash” 100.00
——. “A Friend” _for Rev. G. W. Lawrence_ 5.00
Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles
Marsh. Treas.:
Chicopee. Second 38.05
Feeding Hills. 21.13
Holyoke. First 23.27
Huntington. Second 21.10
Long Meadow. Ladies’ Ben. Ass’n. 15.35
Long Meadow. Gentlemen’s Benev. Ass’n. 26.23
Monson. Sab. Sch. 50.00
Palmer. Second 100.00
South Hadley Falls 14.00
Springfield. First 20.00
Springfield. North 44.32
Springfield. South 67.37
Springfield. Memorial 31.47
Westfield. Second 14.46
West Springfield. First Ch. 35.00
West Springfield. Sab. Sch. First Ch. 20.00
West Springfield. Park St., _for
Indian M._ 52.91
West Springfield. Park St. 5.00
Wilbraham. 12.25
————— 611.91
———————
$7,226.29

ESTATE.

Cambridge. Estate of A. E. Hildreth, by
Trustees, _for Freedmen_ 500.00
———————
$7,726.29

RHODE ISLAND, $297.10.

Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 31.10
Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. 16.00
Peace Dale. Rowland G. Hazard, _for Atlanta U._ 250.00

CONNECTICUT, $2,395.14.

Bethel. “Willing Workers,” _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Bolton. By Rev. L. H. Barber 12.50
Bristol. Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Tougaloo
U._ 50.00
Bristol. Mrs. Lewis, _for Williamsburg, Ky._ 2.00
Bridgeport. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., to
const. CHESTER W. BENNETT L. M. 50.00
Canaan. —— 2.00
Center Brook. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Conn.
Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 25.00
Central Village. “A Friend,” _for Conn. Ind’l
Sch., Ga._ 1.00
Cornwall. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 22.32
Cromwell. Ladies of Cong. Ch., by Miss M. G.
Savage, _for Conn. Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 19.00
Danielsonville. Westfield Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.37
East Avon. Cong. Ch. 16.00
East Hartford. First Ch. 40.00
Fairfield. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian
Sch’p._ 50.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. (200 of which from Henry
D. Hawley, to const. ROBERT K. HOWE and JOHN
LEON WEBSTER L. M’s) 317.63
Glastonbury. Miss A. M. Goodrich 60.00
Goshen. Cong. Ch. 28.86
Greenfield Hill. Cong. Ch. 12.19
Guilford. —— 100.00
Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford, 100; Jos. W.
Hungerford, 100 200.00
Kensington. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. MRS.
MARY P. QUILL L. M. 4.25
Lebanon. First Ch. 32.38
Mansfield Center. Cong. Ch. 16.60
Marlboro. Cong. Ch. 16.37
New Haven. Howard Av. Ch. 26.96
New London. First Cong. Ch. 54.93
Norwich. Park Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 200.00
Norwichtown. “*, First Cong. Ch.” 24.00
Plantsville. “Tougaloo Mission Quintet,” _for
Tougaloo U._ 11.66
Plymouth. Geo. Langdon 50.00
Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 35.38
Redding. “A Friend,” _for Mountain Work_ 10.00
Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 29.65
Simsbury. Cong. Ch. 33.17
South Britain. Cong. Ch. 9.89
Southington. First Cong. Ch. 36.64
Taftville. First Cong. Ch. 15.00
Terryville. Cong. Ch., 45: Elizur Fenn, 5;
Mrs. Elizur Fenn, 5 55.00
Tolland. Cong. Ch. 10.25
Wallingford. H. L. Judd, _for Sch’p, Tougaloo
U._ 70.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. 66.84
West Hartford. Anson Chappell 10.00
Westminster. Mrs. S. B. Carter, _for
Thomasville, Ga._ 5.00
Westport. Saugatuck Cong. Soc. 24.76
West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 134.32
Wilton. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.22
Woodstock. Sab. Sch. and Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
_for Thomasville, Ga._ 16.50
——. “A Friend in Conn.” 100.00
——. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 17.50
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Conn., by
Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Sec.:
Bridgeport. Ladies’ Social Circle of
South Ch., _for Conn. Ind’l
Sch., Ga._ 35.00
Chaplin. Ladies’ Soc., _for Conn.
Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 15.00
Enfield. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., _for
Woman’s Work_ 35.00
Pomfret. Ladies’ Soc., _for Conn.
Ind’l Sch., Ga._ 20.00
Hartford. Sab. Sch. of First Ch.,
_for Ind’l Work, Williamsburg,
Ky._ 50.00
Wallingford. W. H. M. U., _for Ind’l
Work, Williamsburg, Ky._ 25.00
————— 180.00

NEW YORK, $2,270.42.

Brooklyn. Plymouth Ch. 1164.15
Brooklyn. “A Life Member,” to const. MISS
ISABEL SHIRLEY L. M. 30.00
Brooklyn. S. Ballard, _for Tougaloo, Miss._ 250.00
Brooklyn. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. of Lewis Ave.
Cong. Ch., _for Woman’s Work_ 13.40
East Beekmantown. John S. Kirby 10.00
East Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.67
Fillmore. L. L. Nourse 5.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Jamestown. Rev. W. D. Henry 10.00
Jefferson. Mrs. Susannah Ruliffson 2.50
Little Valley. First Cong. Ch. 4.00
Lowville. Mrs. Lydia C. Hough 20.00
Middletown. Samuel Ayers 5.00
New York. S. T. Gordon, 100; F. P. Shumway,
1.50 101.50
New York. Morris K. Jesup, _for Atlanta U._ 200.00
Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.60
Oswego. Cong. Ch. 140.04
Perry Center. Mrs. M. G. Richardson, “in
Memory of Rev. J. C. Richardson” 2.00
Poughkeepsie. Cong. Ch., 26.54; First Reformed
Ch., 21.92 48.46
Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. 5.10
Spencerport. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., to
const. Miss LOTTA M. SPENCER, L. M. 33.00
Tremont. “A Friend” 10.00
——. “A Country Friend” 100.00
——. “A Friend in Essex Co.” 25.00

NEW JERSEY, $46.00.

Arlington. Mrs. G. Overacre 1.00
Westfield. “Mission Band,” by Miss M. C.
Alpers, _for Santee Indian M._ 45.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $30.00.

Cowdersport. Mrs. M. W. Mann 5.00
Pittsburg. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Ridgway. Young People’s Bible Class, by Minnie
Kline, _for Oaks, N.C._ 5.00
Washington. Mrs. Mary H. McFarland 10.00

OHIO, $325.22.

Ashland. Mrs. E. Thomson 2.28
Bellevue. S. W. Boise 100.00
Brownhelm. C. H. Perry 10.00
Cincinnati. Central Cong. Ch. 81.15
Cleveland. “Harry, Bert and Others,” Jennings
Av. Cong. Ch., _for Ponies_ 2.15
Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch. 5.03
Edinburg. B. E. Bingham and “Friends,” _for
Indian M._ 10.00
Garrettsville. Cong. Ch., 8, and 1.21 from
“the Children” 9.21
Huntsburg. A. E. Millard and Mrs. M. E. Millard 15.00
Lodi. Cong. Ch., 7.85; Ladies’ A. M. A., 2.25 10.10
Medina. Sab. Sch. Class, by Miss May Woodward 1.00
Oberlin. First Ch. 54.30
Salem. David A. Allen (5 of which bal. to
const. REV. DE COSTA POMERENE L. M.) 25.00

ILLINOIS, $1,567.36.

Aurora. First Cong. Ch. 8.78
Bartlett. Cong. Ch. 20.75
Bunker Hill. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Chicago. “Friends in New England Ch.,” _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 60.00
Delavan. R. Hoghton 10.00
Downers Grove. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., _for Sch’p
Fund, Fisk U._ 9.00
Dundee. Mrs. A. M. Rover, _for Dakota Indian
M._ 6.00
Evanston. Cong. Ch., to const. HARLOW B. HILL
and A. D. SANDERS L. M’s 86.87
Glencoe. Ch. of Christ 28.67
Granville. “A Friend” 25.00
Hennepin. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Hinsdale. Y. L. Miss’y Soc., _for Sch’p Fund,
Fisk U._ 20.00
Jacksonville. First Cong. Ch. 47.60
Lockport. First Cong. Ch. 4.65
Lyndon. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Millburn. Cong. Ch. 8.74
Millington. Mrs. D. W. Jackson, _for Indian M._ 5.00
Moline. Juv. Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 7.86
Oak Park. Y. L. Miss’y Soc. of Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Ottawa. Cong. Ch. 22.78
Paxton. Mrs. J. B. Shaw, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 12.24
Providence. Cong. Ch. 8.45
Ridge Prairie. Rev. Andrew Kern 3.00
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Streator. Cong. Ch. 5.67
Udina. Cong. Ch. 5.30
Woodburn. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Illinois Woman’s Home Missionary Union, _for
Woman’s Work_, by
Mrs. C. E. Maltby, Treas.: Ill. W. H. M. U. 10.00
————— 10.00
——————
$567.36

ESTATE.

Chicago. Estate of Philo Carpenter, by
Executors 1,000.00
————————
$1,567.36

MICHIGAN, $178.42.

Cheboygan. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Indian
M._ 1.30
Cedar Springs. Rev. E. C. Herrington 5.00
Detroit. Fort Wayne Cong. Ch. 5.06
Grand Blanc. Cong. Ch. 13.25
Hancock. W. M. Soc., _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 25.00
Hudson. Cong. Ch. 12.65
Imlay City. First Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 1.75
Michigan Centre. Cong. Ch. 3.20
Middleville. Cong. Ch. 2.26
Pleasanton. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Saint Joseph. Cong. Ch. 27.45
White Lake. Robert Garner 10.00
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Mich., _for
Woman’s Work_, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas.:
Covert. L. M. S. 10.00
Detroit. Ladies’ Union of First Cong.
Ch. 50.00
Grand Blanc. “Willing Workers” 9.50
————— 69.50

WISCONSIN, $417.53.

Beloit. “L. M.,” Second Cong. Ch. 5.00
Bloomer. First Cong. Ch. 3.54
Delavan. Chas. T. Smith 100.00
Evansville. Cong. Ch. 20.25
Janesville. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 43.43
Lake Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Madison. First Cong. Ch. 10.42
Menominee. Cong. Ch. 14.56
Muckwanago. Cong. Ch. 2.13
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 6.20
Woman’s Home Missionary Union of Wis., _for
Woman’s Work_:
Appleton. W. H. M. S. 8.25
Baraboo. Mrs. Dea. Clark 1.50
Beloit. First Ch., W. M. S., to const.
MRS. LYDIA S. H. HAMLIN L. M. 30.60
Berlin. W. H. M. S. 5.00
Black Earth. Dr. Stoddart 2.00
Boscobel. W. H. M. S. 5.00
Brodhead. Misses E. and J. Sherman 5.00
Clinton. W. H. M. S. 4.25
Eau Claire. W. H. M. S. 13.30
Fond du Lac. W. H. M. S. 10.00
Lake Geneva. Ladies’ Aid Soc. 12.85
Mauston. Mrs. C. W. Barney 5.00
Milton Junction. Misses Chapman 1.25
Milwaukee. Pilgrim Ch., W. H. M. S. 15.00
Rosendale. L. H. M. S. 5.00
Sun Prairie. Mrs. Buel 1.00
Waukesha. Y. P. S. C. E. 10.00
Wauwatosa. W. H. M. S. 7.00
Windsor. W. H. M. S. 10.00
————— 152.00

IOWA, $161.81.

Algona. A. Zahlten 12.00
Anamosa. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 21.48; Sab. Sch.,
4.52 26.00
Cedar Rapids. “Busy Bees,” Sab. Sch. First
Cong. Ch. 2.00
Creston. Cong. Ch. 1.70
Des Moines. Mrs. J. F. Rollins, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 3.00
Larchwood. Cong. Ch. 1.00
Manchester. Cong. Ch. 20.00
McGregor. Y. P. Mission Band of Cong. Ch.,
_for Student Aid, Straight U._ 12.50
Osage. Cong. Ch., ad’l to const. MISS ANNETTE
H. WHITNEY and MISS STELLA LULA FAY L. M.’s 57.84
Reinbeck. Cong. Ch. 24.77
Waterloo. Mrs. M. B. Forry, _for Talladega C._ 1.00

MINNESOTA, $541.33.

Clearwater. Cong. Sab. Sch. of Fish Creek 6.25
Elk River. Union Ch. 6.83
Faribault. Cong. Ch. 32.40
Granite Falls. Cong. Ch. 1.58
Northfield. “Willing Workers,” by Gertrude
Scriver 22.50
Rushford. Cong. Ch. 3.91
Saint Cloud. First Cong. Ch. 11.00
Tivoli. Lyman Humiston 2.00
——. “Thank Offering” (50 of which _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._) 200.00
Minn. Woman’s Home Missionary Society, _for
Woman’s Work_, by Mrs. Clara N. Cross,
Treas.:
Alexandria. W. M. S. 20.00
Austin. W. M. S. 9.80
Elk River. S. S. 3.05
Excelsior. W. M. S. 3.56
Glyndon. Children’s M. Band 2.30
Granite Falls. W. M. S. 1.88
Detroit. W. M. S. 1.00
Marshall. W. M. S. 5.00
Mapleton. W. M. S. 2.50
Minneapolis. W. H. M. S., Plymouth
Ch., to const. MRS. C. T.
INGERSOLL, MRS. CHAS. L.
LEONARD and MISS ADA WHITE L. M’s 81.50
Minneapolis. Y. L. M. S. Plymouth Ch. 20.75
Minneapolis. W. M. S. Second Ch. 6.00
Minneapolis. Children’s Miss. Band.
Open Door Ch. 2.00
Morris. W. M. S. 5.47
Northfield. W. H. M. S. 40.00
Saint Paul. W. H. M. S., Park Ch., to
cons’t. MRS. HUGH M. MILLER L.
M. 35.00
Saint Paul. W. H. M. S., Plymouth Ch. 10.00
Stephen. W. M. S. 1.65
Waseca. W. M. S. 3.40
————— 254.86

MISSOURI, $75.00.

Saint Louis. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. 75.00

KANSAS, $93.40.

Boston Mills. J. Hubbard 5.00
Burlington. First Cong. Ch. 7.50
Douglass. Cong. Ch. 1.25
Lawrence. Plymouth Ch., 49.06; Second Cong. Ch., 6 55.06
Solomon City. “Thank Offering from a Friend” 5.00
Sterling. Cong. Ch. 19.59

MONTANA, $12.76.

Helena. First Cong. Ch. 12.76

DAKOTA, $42.63.

Carrington. Cong. Ch., _for Indian M._ 4.75
Clark. Cong. Ch. 6.20
Lake Preston. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Valley Springs. Cong. Ch. 4.09
Vermillion. Cong. Ch. 13.39
Dakota Woman’s Home Missionary Union, _for
Woman’s Work_, by Mrs. Sue Fifield, Treas.:
De Smet. W. M. S. 3.20
———— 3.20

NEBRASKA, $28.63.

Tremont. Cong. Ch. 20.63
Hemingford. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Oxford. F. A. Wood 5.00

OREGON, $7.49.

East Portland. First Cong. Ch. 7.49

WASHINGTON TER., $5.00.

Christopher. White River Cong. Ch. 5.00

CALIFORNIA, $17.40.

Riverside. Sab. Sch. Class, by Chas. W. Herron 3.75
San Diego. Second Con. Ch., 2.65; Sab. Sch.,
Second Cong. Ch., 1 3.65
Stockton. Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D. 10.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $8.31.

Washington. Lincoln Memorial Ch. 8.31

KENTUCKY, $78.20.

Williamsburg. Cong. Ch. 48.20
Williamsburg. Tuition 30.00

NORTH CAROLINA, $86.37.

Nalls. Dea. A. B. Bruton 0.50
Troy. Tuition, 1.55; “Friends,” 1, by S. D. Leak 2.55
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. 83.32

TENNESSEE, $119.25.

Grand View. Tuition 29.80
Helenwood. Judge J. C. Parker 2.50
Memphis. Tuition 15.00
Nashville. Rent 6.50
Robbins. Cong. Ch. 0.90
Sherwood. Tuition 64.55

GEORGIA, $59.80.

Andersonville. Coll. “Children’s Day” 0.45
Atlanta. Nettie Smith, _for Atlanta U._ 0.50
Marietta. Cong. Ch., 50c., and Sab. Sch. 50c. 1.00
Rutland. Coll. “Children’s Day” 0.65
Woodville. Pilgrim Ch. 2.10

ALABAMA, $245.65.

Marion. Tuition 55.00
Selma. Rent 100.00
Talladega. Tuition 90.65

MISSISSIPPI, $1004.00.

Tougaloo. State Appropriation, _for Tougaloo U._ 1000.00
Tougaloo. Rent 4.00

INCOMES, $750.00.

Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 570.00
Belden Sch’p Fund, _for Talladega C._ 30.00
Graves Library Fund, _for Atlanta U._ 150.00

CANADA, $5.00.

Montreal. Chas. Alexander 5.00

SANDWICH ISLANDS, $400.00.

“Sandwich Islands. A Friend” 400.00

CHINA, $5.00.

Fenchow Fu, Shansi. Rev. J. B. Thompson 5.00
==========
Donations $17,683.88
Estates 1,564.30
Incomes 750.00
Tuitions 1,341.65
Rents 110.50
——————————
Total for July $21,450.33
Total from Oct. 1 to July 31 235,884.73
==========

FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Subscriptions for July $47.89
Previously acknowledged 826.12
———————
Total $874.01
========

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

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=CONCERT SONGS, GOSPEL SONGS, SACRED SONGS, SCHOOL SONGS, SUNDAY SCHOOL SONGS, COMIC SONGS, COLLEGE SONGS, JUBILEE SONGS, POPULAR SONGS, CHOIR AND CONGREGATIONAL MUSIC, TONIC-SOL-FA MUSIC, CATHOLIC MUSIC, ANTHEMS AND CHORUSES, PART SONGS AND GLEES, OPERA, ORATORIO AND CANTATA MUSIC, COLLECTIONS OF MUSIC FOR PIANO, ORGAN, AND ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS, AND IN FACT EVERY KIND OF MUSIC THAT IS MADE.=

All this is in the shape of Sheet Music (3.000,000 pieces), Octavo Music (3,000 kinds), or of music collected in well-bound books (4,000 kinds). Send for Lists, Catalogues, Descriptions and Advice. Any book mailed for retail price.

SOME OF THE NEWEST BOOKS ARE:

=PIANO CLASSICS, CLASSICAL PIANIST. YOUNG PEOPLE’S CLASSICS, SONG CLASSICS. Soprano; SONG CLASSICS. Alto and Bass; CLASSIC TENOR SONGS.= Each, $1.00. Very select and good music.

Send the price of any book and receive it by return mail. The convenience of this arrangement is appreciated by thousands of customers.

_Oliver Ditson & Co., Boston._
C. H. DITSON & CO., 867 Broadway, New York.

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INDELIBLE

Mark your Clothing!

Clear Record of half a Century.

“Most Reliable and Simplest for plain or decorative marking.”

Use a common pen.

Sold by all Druggists, Stationers,
News and Fancy Goods dealers.

PAYSON’S
Indelible Ink!

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“A THING OF BEAUTY IS A JOY FOREVER.”

THE RISING SUN
TRADE MARK
STOVE POLISH

PRICE 10 CENTS

MORSE
BROS.
Proprietors
CANTON MASS.

For beauty of polish, saving of labor, freeness from dust, durability and cheapness, truly unrivalled in any country.

CAUTION.—Beware of worthless imitations under other names, put up in similar shape and color intended to deceive. Each package of the genuine bears our Trade Mark. Take no other.]

SOLD BY
MERCHANTS
—IN—
_CIVILIZED_
COUNTRIES.

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JOSEPH GILLOTT’S
STEEL PENS
GOLD MEDAL PARIS EXPOSITION—1878.
THE MOST PERFECT OF PENS

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THE LEADING CORSETS OF EUROPE AND AMERICA.

WARNER
BRO’S

CELEBRATED

CORALINE
AND
HEALTH
CORSETS]

Over 2,000,000 sold last year in this country alone.

The reasons are—

They are the best fitting, best feeling and best wearing corset ever made.

Avoid worthless imitations CORALINE is used in no corsets except those made by us. None are genuine unless

“DR. WARNER’S CORALINE”

is printed on inside of steel cover.

FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING MERCHANTS.

WARNER BROTHERS,
359 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

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FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH, ITALIAN.

You can, by ten weeks’ study, master either of these languages sufficiently for every-day and business conversation, by Dr. RICH. S. ROSENTHAL’S celebrated MEISTERSCHAFT SYSTEM. Terms $5.00 for books of each language, with privilege of answers to all questions, and correction of exercises. Sample copy, Part I., 25 _cents_. Liberal terms to teachers.

MEISTERSCHAFT PUBLISHING CO., BOSTON, MASS.

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=$75 to $250 A MONTH= can be made working for us. Agents preferred who can furnish a horse and give their whole time to the business. Spare moments may be profitably employed also. A few vacancies in towns and cities. B. F. JOHNSON & CO., 1009 Main Street, Richmond, Va.

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DO YOU WANT A GOOD, HONEST
PAINT? HERE IT IS:

READY MIXED
5 GALL’S

LIQUID
COTTAGE COLORS

QUALITY GUARANTEED
CHICAGO WHITE LEAD & OIL CO.
MANUFACTURERS.]

CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

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OUR
TRADE MARK
HAM
F.A. FERRIS & CO.
NEW YORK

USE

“Our constant
aim is to make them
the Finest in the World.”

“OUR TRADE-MARK”
BACON
BONELESS

MADE BY
FERRIS & COMPANY.
NEW YORK]

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_6%_, _7%_.

_THE AMERICAN INVESTMENT CO._

OF EMMETTSBURG, IOWA,

with a PAID-UP CAPITAL of $600,000, SURPLUS $75,000, offers First Mortgage Loans drawing SEVEN per cent., both Principal and Interest FULLY GUARANTEED. Also 6 per cent. ten-year Debenture Bonds, secured by 105 per cent. of First Mortgage Loans held in trust by the MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY, New York. 5 per cent. certificates of deposit for periods under one year.

=7⅔%= CAN BE REALIZED BY CHANGING
=4 Per Ct. Government Bonds=
Into 6 Per Cent. Debentures.

Write for full information and reference to the
Company at

150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK.
A. L. ORMSBY, Vice-President and Gen. Manager.

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_Positive Results_ of a Policy in the

MANHATTAN LIFE, ON THE NEW PLAN.

Age, 30; Amount of Policy, $10,000; Term, 20 Years.

The Annual Premium will be $301.80
———————
At the end of that time the Company will
return to the holder in cash, $5,700.00

Thus the $10,000 insurance will have been
secured at the net cost for 20 years of
only 336.00
—————————
$1.68 per year for $10,000 insurance, or if
the Cash be not drawn the policy will
become paid up for $10,050.00

These results are not estimated, but are fixed in a positive contract, the full face of the Policy meanwhile being payable in the event of the death of the assured. There is no forfeiture of payment on discontinuance of policy after three years, a =CASH OR PAID UP VALUE BEING GUARANTEED BY THE TERMS OF THE NEW YORK LAW.=

For examples of other ages, and also on the 10 and 15 years’ plan, write or apply at the office.

NOTE.—The MANHATTAN’S is the simplest form of policy in existence, and incontestible after three years, this feature having been originated and adopted by this Company over 23 years ago.

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The MANHATTAN LIFE INSURANCE CO.,
_156 & 158 Broadway, New York_.

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JAMES M. McLEAN, President.
JACOB L. HALSEY, 1st Vice-President.
HENRY B. STOKES, 2d Vice-President.
HENRY Y. WEMPLE, Secy. S. N. STEBBINS, Ac’y.

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THE FORTY-SECOND ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION

WILL BE HELD AT

PROVIDENCE, R.I., OCT. 23-25.

Rev. Arthur Little, D.D., of Chicago, will preach the sermon.

The Meeting will be held in the Union Congregational Church, of which Rev. J. Hall McIlvaine, D.D., is Pastor. The friends in Providence have already begun preparations for the reception of the Association.

Life Members and Delegates chosen by contributing churches, Local Conferences, and State Associations, constitute the Annual Meeting, as will be seen by the following article of the Constitution.

ART. III. Members of evangelical churches may be constituted
members of this Association for life by the payment of thirty
dollars into its treasury, with the written declaration at
the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied
to constitute a designated person a life member; and such
membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have
been completed. Other persons, by the payment of the same sum,
may be made life members, without the privilege of voting.

Every evangelical church which has within a year contributed
to the funds of the Association, and every State Conference
or Association of such churches, may appoint two delegates to
the Annual Meeting of the Association; such delegates, duly
attested by credentials, shall be members of the Association
for the year for which they were thus appointed.

So far as possible, the Providence churches will entertain those who attend. Those purposing to be present and wishing entertainment are requested to write to Rev. J. Hall McIlvaine, D.D., Providence, R.I., Chairman of the Committee of Entertainment.