,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 ,,december1 #ahhi4 ,,vol4 ,,xliii4 ,,no4 #ab ,,contents4 ,,editorial4 ,,our ,,annual ,,meeting ,,financial ,,the ,,daniel ,,hand ,,fund ,,the ,,literature ,,of ,,the ,,meeting ,,notices ,,from ,,the ,,press ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,brief ,,notes ,,annual ,,meeting4 ,,proceedings ,,of ,,annual ,,meeting ,,summary ,,of ,,treasurer',s ,,report ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association--,,its ,,place ,,and ,,work4 ,,by ,,secretary ,,strieby ,,the ,,missionary ,,view ,,of ,,the ,,southern ,,situation4 ,,by ,,secretary ,,beard ,,reports ,,of ,,committees ,,addresses ,,on ,,these ,,reports1 ,,by ,,messrs4 ,,wright1 ,,woodbury1 ,,taylor1 ,,hiatt1 ,,fisk1 ,,foster1 ,,riggs1 ,,stimson1 ,,goodwin1 ,,and ,,salisbury ,,closing ,,address ,,by ,,rev4 ,,dr4 ,,taylor ,,bureau ,,of ,,woman',s ,,work4 ,,report ,,of ,,secretary ,,woman',s ,,state ,,organizations ,,receipts 99 99 99 99 99 ,,new ,,york3 ,,published ,,by ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association4 ,rooms1 #ef ,reade ,street4 99 99 99 99 99 ,price1 #ej ,cents a ,year1 in ,advance4 ,entered at the ,post ,office at ,new ,york1 ,n4,y41 as second-class matter4 99 99 99 99 99 ,american ,missionary ,association ,,president1 ,rev4 ,,wm4 ,m4 ,,taylor1 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 ,n4,y4 ,vice-,presidents4 ,rev4 ,a4,j4,f4 ,,behrends1 ,d4,d41 ,n4,y4 ,rev4 ,f4,a4 ,,noble1 ,d4,d41 ,ill4 ,rev4 ,,alex4 ,mc,k,e,n,z,i,e1 ,d4,d41 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,d4,o4 ,,mears1 ,d4,d41 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,,henry ,,hopkins1 ,d4,d41 ,mo4 ,corresponding ,secretaries4 ,rev4 ,m4,e4 ,,strieby1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,rev4 ,a4,f4 ,,beard1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,recording ,secretary4 ,rev4 ,m4,e4 ,,strieby1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,treasurer4 ,h4,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,esq41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,auditors4 ,,peter ,mc,c,a,r,t,e,e4 ,,chas4 ,p4 ,,peirce4 ,executive ,committee4 ,,john ,h4 ,,washburn1 ,chairman4 ,,addison ,p4 ,,foster1 ,secretary4 ,for ,three ,years4 ,s4,b4 ,,halliday1 ,,samuel ,,holmes1 ,,samuel ,s4 ,,marples1 ,,charles ,l4 ,,mead1 ,,elbert ,b4 ,,monroe4 ,for ,two ,years4 ,j4,e4 ,,rankin1 ,,wm4 ,h4 ,,ward1 ,j4,w4 ,,cooper1 ,,john ,h4 ,,washburn1 ,,edmund ,l4 ,,champlin4 ,for ,one ,year4 ,,lyman ,,abbott1 ,,chas4 ,a4 ,,hull1 ,,clinton ,b4 ,,fisk1 ,,addison ,p4 ,,foster1 ,,albert ,j4 ,,lyman4 ,district ,secretaries4 ,rev4 ,c4,j4 ,,ryder1 #ba ,cong'l ,house1 ,boston4 ,rev4 ,j4,e4 ,,roy1 ,d4,d41 #aea ,washington ,street1 ,chicago4 ,rev4 ,c4,w4 ,,hiatt1 #fd ,euclid ,avenue1 ,cleveland1 ,ohio4 ,financial ,secretary for ,indian ,missions4 ,rev4 ,,chas4 ,w4 ,,shelton4 ,field ,superintendent4 ,rev4 ,,frank ,e4 ,,jenkins4 ,secretary of ,woman's ,bureau4 ,miss ,d4,e4 ,,emerson1 #ef ,reade ,st41 ,n4,y4 ,,communications ,relating to the work of the ,association may be addressed to the ,corresponding ,secretaries2 letters for ,,the ,,american ,,missionary1 to the ,editor1 at the ,new ,york ,office2 letters relating to the finances1 to the ,treasurer4 ,,donations ,,and ,,subscriptions ,in drafts1 checks1 registered letters1 or post-office orders1 may be sent to ,h4,w4 ,hubbard1 ,treasurer1 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,new ,york1 or1 when more convenient1 to either of the ,branch ,offices1 #ba ,congregational ,house1 ,boston1 ,mass41 or #aea ,washington ,street1 ,chicago1 ,ill4 ,a payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a ,life ,member4 ,,notice ,,to ,,subscribers4--,the date on the address label indicates the time to which the subscription is paid4 ,changes are made in date on ladle to the #ajth of each month4 ,if payment of subscription be made afterward1 the change on the label will appear a month later4 ,please send early notice of change in post-office address1 giving the former address and the new address1 in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed4 ,,form ,,of ,a ,,bequest4 ,i bequeath to my executor 7or executors7 the sum of ---- dollars1 in trust1 to pay the same in ---- days after my decease to the person who1 when the same is payable1 shall act as ,treasurer of the ',american ,missionary ,association1' of ,new ,york ,city1 to be applied1 under the direction of the ,executive ,committee of the ,association1 to its charitable uses and purposes4 ,the ,will should be attested by three witnesses4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 ,,vol4 ,,xliii4 ,,december1 #ahhi4 ,,no4 #ab ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,our ,,annual ,,meeting4 ,we return from our ,annual ,meeting held in ,chicago with a deep sense of gratitude to ,god and to the many friends who in various ways helped to make it one of the most pleasant and profitable of our anniversaries4 ,we did not have the remarkable uplift of a munificent gift like that of ,mr4 ,daniel ,hand1 which made our meeting at ,providence so memorable1 but we had1 in the strength and appropriateness of the sermon1 and in the ability of the addresses1 papers and reports1 that which will render this meeting a cheering landmark in our history4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,financial4 #ejj1jjj ,,for #ahhi-ij4 ,our financial exhibit1 with the able report upon it1 was one of the encouraging features of our ,annual ,meeting4 ,the report of the ,treasurer announced the gratifying fact that the books closed with all obligations and indebtedness paid1 and with a balance on hand of over #d1jjj4 ,the able ,finance ,committee gave a careful examination of the ,treasurer's books and papers1 and made very commendatory report as to methods and accuracy4 ,the ,national ,council1 at its meeting in ,worcester1 recommended that the churches contribute to the ,association for the coming year #ejj1jjj4 ,the ,finance ,committee after careful examination of the needs of the work endorsed the recommendation of the ,council1 and the ,association heartily adopted the report4 ,this sum1 therefore1 is what1 in the judgment of competent persons1 is imperatively needed2 and we1 therefore1 take pleasure in going before our constituents1 appealing for that amount4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,daniel ,,hand ,,fund4 ,this noble gift1 which awakened such enthusiasm at our annual meeting one year ago1 came with its echo of work well done during the year--an echo which we trust will reverberate with steady force through all the years to come4 ,in the ,treasurer's report the figures were given as to the appropriations made from the income of this ,fund during the year2 in the ,general ,survey cheering statements were made as to the many pupils it had stimulated to industry and education1 and the buildings it had erected2 and in several of the papers and addresses1 grateful mention was made of the benefits conferred by it4 ,we trust that other large givers may be stimulated to follow in the footsteps of one who has so wisely invested his money for the uplifting of the most needy in our land4 ,a recent letter from ,mr4 ,hand shows his deep solicitude that his gift shall be used for the highest moral and religious purposes4 ,he says3 ,i have feared that the teachers might be more concerned for letters than for morals4 ,my bequest was given to you chiefly as a religious society4 ,religion is the first1 chiefest and best of it all4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,literature ,,of ,,the ,,meeting4 ,this presents a genuine case of the embarrassment of riches4 ,we never had better4 ,we wish all our friends might have the opportunity for the careful study of it1 for it is worth their time and attention4 ,full reports of the proceedings were made daily in the ,chicago ,inter ,ocean4 ,they were all gathered into a supplement1 and have already been widely scattered4 ,some copies are still on hand at our offices in ,new ,york1 ,boston1 ,cleveland and ,chicago1 and can be had on application4 ,the annual sermon1 as usual1 will be printed with the ,annual ,report4 ,this number of the ,,missionary 7an enlarged number7 will contain the ,minutes and the official papers1 including reports and the speeches upon them1 7the latter necessarily somewhat abridged7 ,secretaries' papers1 and the closing address of ,rev4 ,dr4 ,taylor4 ,other papers and addresses1 including the ,representative ,addresses1 will be published hereafter as far as practicable in subsequent numbers of the ,,missionary or in some other form4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,notices ,,from ,,the ,,press4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,from ,,the ,,advance4 ,no meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association has ever been better than this last one4 ,dr4 ,william ,m4 ,taylor1 who with such consummate felicity combines so many of the best characteristics of the ,scotch1 the ,english and the ,yankee1 presided4 ,the topics of the several papers and addresses1 though covering a large range of thought all converged to the same main point1 and were especially pertinent to the hour4 ,those who had been invited to prepare papers showed1 by the manifest pains they took with them1 their sense of the importance of the occasion4 ,they brought the results of their best and most earnest thinking4 ,and it is rare that such speakers are confronted by a more earnest1 intelligent and sympathetic audience4 ,the meeting was a good one in every respect2 it is not easy to overestimate either its delightfulness or its moral power4 ,it is not possible for a great society to place before itself a more eminently ,christlike purpose4 ,it has been greatly honored of ,god in its results thus far4 ,and no decently intelligent history of ,america will ever fail to note the vital and decisively critical part which1 in the ,providence that overrules all history1 has been given to this so timely and so sagaciously ,christian organization to take in preparing the various despised races of ,america for good citizenship in our common country1 so that ,negro1 ,indian1 ,chinaman and whatever other race representatives are among us may sing in glorious unison3 ,my country 'tis of thee1 sweet land of liberty6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,from ,,the ,,congregationalist4 ,the ,annual ,meeting in ,chicago was remarkable in many respects4 ,all the sessions were good4 ,there was no talking against time4 ,there were no displays of eloquence4 ,no one spoke for effect4 ,the ruling desire seemed to be to get at the facts1 and to learn the lessons which they teach4 ,subjects were carefully grouped together1 so that at the close of the meeting one felt that the fourfold character of the work of the ,association had been fully and intelligently presented4 ,speeches were almost entirely by those whose names were on the programme1 and who1 therefore1 had given time and thought to the matters on which they had been invited to enlighten others4 ,every one came with the idea that he might speak1 that he had the liberty of the floor1 and yet few cared to use this liberty4 ,debate is good1 but on matters which concern the treatment of more than ten millions of people--eight of ,negroes1 two of mountain whites1 besides ,indians and ,chinese--extempore addresses are not the best use of time4 ,as a result of this preparation1 ,wednesday1 the day when most of the papers were read1 will compare favorably with the best days of the ,american ,board4 ,the ability of the younger men in our denomination was conspicuous4 ,none of our great benevolent enterprises will suffer in their hands4 ,while there was great seriousness1 there was also evident hopefulness1 and an unshaken confidence in the power of the gospel to remove all the difficulties in the race problem1 the ,indian and the ,chinese questions1 and in the treatment of the ,mountain ,whites4 ,while a unit in sentiment as to the importance of the school1 the convention seemed to be equally a unit as to the importance of making it a missionary school1 and of keeping it in closest union with the church4 ,the conviction seemed to prevail that to separate the one from the other would1 in the highest degree1 be unfortunate4 ,it was evident1 furthermore1 that the work of the ,association has only just begun1 that no backward step can be taken1 and that the churches ought to give larger sums for the support of the ,association year by year4 ,it deserves1 and will reward1 their confidence and generosity4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,from ,,the ,,christian ,,union4 ,the ,annual ,meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association1 held in ,chicago last week1 and of which a full account will be found elsewhere1 brought out anew the directness and energy with which this society is bringing its aid to the solution of some of the most immediate and perplexing problems in this country4 ,the ,negro1 the ,indian and the ,chinese are the especial objects of its care1 and it has rendered immense service to these races in this country1 not only by its direct answer to the appeal for help which comes1 consciously or unconsciously1 from all of them1 but by its educational influence upon the country at large4 ,the importance of the race question in the ,south cannot be overstated1 and it is a question the very gravity of which makes all partisanship on either side the gravest offense against the welfare of the country4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association1 planting itself resolutely on the principle of equal justice to all races on our continent1 and holding firmly to the method of ,christian education1 holds distinct leadership in the only direction which can bring permanent peace and safety4 ,there is no missionary work in the world so urgent and so important as that among the ,negroes of the ,south4 ,it is not often that the work of a great ,association is so plainly marked1 commends itself so thoroughly to the support of the country1 and converges so directly upon those things which are most urgent in their demand upon the best thought of the best citizens1 as the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,from ,,the ,,independent4 ,the meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association in ,chicago had no debated question to excite difference4 ,all agree that the meeting was one of the most earnest and effective in the history of the ,association4 ,beginning with the opening sermon of ,dr4 ,meredith1 and closing with the address of ,dr4 ,taylor1 all the reports and addresses were thoughtful and pertinent4 ,some of the papers on special topics were of a very high order1 and it may not be invidious to name the remarkable paper by ,colonel ,keating1 of ,memphis1 ,tenn41 which places him alongside of ,drs4 ,curry and ,haygood among the leaders of thought in creating the true ,new ,south4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,from ,,the ,,hartford ,,courant4 ,no society in all this country of societies is doing nobler or more useful work than the one which has been holding its yearly meeting this week in the city of ,chicago2 none more thoroughly deserves the favor and sympathy 7expressing itself in dollars7 of the public4 ,look at a few eloquent figures4 ,this ,american ,missionary ,association1 not yet fifty years old1 has one hundred and thirteen missionaries at work among the ,negroes1 the sadly neglected white mountaineers and the newly arrived immigrants in the ,southern ,states4 ,it has established and maintains there one hundred and thirty-six churches2 also five chartered institutions of learning1 eighteen normal and graded schools1 and thirty-seven common schools1 served by two hundred and sixty instructors4 ,among the ,indians it has half a dozen churches and three times that number of schools1 sixty-eight missionaries and teachers2 among the ,chinese in this country1 sixteen schools1 thirty-five missionaries and teachers4 ,its expenditures during the year footed up a little over #cff1jjj--;a little over a thousand dollars a day4 ,what a work these figures represent1 not merely for the ,christian religion1 but for civilization1 for morals1 for good citizenship6 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association ought to have at least half a million dollars to work with1 this year1 and ,hartford should show well up toward the top in the list of contributors4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 ,the rich treat which this number of the ,,missionary presents may well suggest the privilege and duty not only of reading1 but also of circulating it4 ,let each reader possess himself of these important facts and figures--these broad views as to the great work laid on the hearts of ,american patriots and ,christians--and then hand the magazine to some neighbor4 ,let us suggest farther1 that the ,,missionary1 in its monthly issues1 is full of the same sort of facts and thoughts1 and should be more widely read--it should have a larger list of paying subscribers4 ,please read the subjoined letter from a converted ,chinaman and then go and do thou likewise4 ,,los ,,angeles1 ,,cal41 ,sept4 #be1 #ahhi4 ,dear ,american ,missionary3 ,i am sorry to say that ,i have utterly forgotten to pay you for the ,american ,missionary for the year #ahhi4 ,now ,i beg your pardon for that4 ,you know ,i have used to send the money through our pastor ,dr4 ,pond1 but since ,i had left ,san ,francisco visiting missions in different towns and cities and therefore the ,american ,missionary did not reached me while ,i am away from ,los ,angeles1 so my attention of paying for it was dropped from that point4 ,now ,i sent you one dollars including a new subscriber1 our brother ,jue ,king4 ,while ,i am writing this note another brother came in who wish to get one also1 and therefore have to send you #a4ej1 one dollar #ej cents4 ,this brother name ,leung ,chow1 ,los ,angeles4 ,address ,jue ,king's to the same ,p4,o4 ,box as mine and oblige4 ,god bless the ,american ,missionary4 ,respectfully yours1 ,,loo ,,quong4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,brief ,,notes4 ,,rev4 ,c4,j4 ,,ryder1 ,,district ,,secretary4 ,a little swarm of ,busy ,bees1 in ,dover1 ,n4,h41 have been making honey for the needy children in one of the missions of our ,association4 ,their gift1 amounting to sixty-five dollars1 has been used to furnish a ,reference ,library for the school at ,wilmington1 ,n4,c4 ,special rates were kindly given us on books by the ,congregational ,sunday-school and ,publishing ,society and other firms in ,boston1 so that this sixty-five dollars furnished a number of very useful books4 ,have not these ,busy ,bees in ,new ,hampshire set a good example to other children's societies8 ,speaking of the ,sunday-school and ,publishing ,society reminds me of two things4 ,the first is the kindly interest and generous help of that society in the work being done by the ,association in various fields4 ,literature is abundantly supplied from their press1 and in some instances they have sent colporteurs and missionaries into the various fields1 who do a grand good work4 ,the other thing suggested by reference to this society is a queer contribution which was brought in to ,mr4 ,hall1 a missionary of the ,association at ,fort ,berthold1 ,dakota4 ,i chanced to be there when it was brought in4 ,mr4 ,hall had told the ,indian boys and girls of the useful work done by the ,sunday-school and ,publishing ,society in different parts of the land4 ,it has always been the policy of the ,association1 as our friends know1 to present the other ,congregational ,societies in our missions1 and distribute the small gifts which it is possible for these poor people to give1 among the different societies and not absorb it all in the ,association4 ,these ,indian boys had not money to give to the ,sunday-school ,society1 but they saw a premium offered for killing gophers4 ,they are a mischievous little animal1 devouring a large amount of wheat1 corn and other grain every year4 ,the farmers pay two cents for each dead gopher4 ,the proof that the gopher has been killed is his tail4 ,now these little ,indian boys had been so interested in the story told of the work being done by the ,sunday-school ,society1 that they spent their ,saturday afternoon holiday snaring gophers4 ,they brought the tails in the envelopes of the society1 as their contribution4 ,i took some of the envelopes1 paying two cents apiece for each tail and brought them ,east with me4 ,on one envelope ,i found the following3 ,richard ,fox1 one tail4 ,what could be more appropriate6 99 99 99 99 99 ,another of our ,district ,secretaries not long since took a cup of coffee at a lunch counter kept by a colored man in ,northern ,ohio4 ,after paying1 he spoke of the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,the colored man's face lit up at once4 ,are you in that work8 ,yes1 ,i am4 ,take back that fifteen cents1 sir4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,forty-,,third ,,annual ,,meeting ,,of ,,the ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,forty-third ,annual ,meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association convened in the ,new ,england ,congregational ,church of ,chicago1 ,ill41 on ,tuesday1 ,october #bi1 #ahhi1 at #c o'clock ,p4,m4 ,the ,association was called to order by the ,president1 ,rev4 ,william ,m4 ,taylor1 ,d4,d4 ,the hymn1 ,i love thy kingdom1 ,lord1 was sung1 after which the ,president read the thirty-fifth chapter of ,isaiah and led the ,association in prayer4 ,dr4 ,norman ,seaver1 supplying temporarily the pulpit of the ,new ,england ,church1 welcomed the ,association1 and was responded to by ,dr4 ,taylor4 ,rev4 ,n4,a4 ,millerd and ,rev4 ,e4,n4 ,andrews were appointed tellers1 and while the roll was being made out1 ,secretary ,a4,f4 ,beard read the portion of the ,constitution relating to membership in the ,association4 ,rev4 ,j4,c4 ,armstrong1 of ,illinois1 was elected ,secretary1 and ,rev4 ,e4,s4 ,williams1 of ,minnesota1 ,assistant ,secretary4 ,the ,president was instructed to appoint a ,nominating ,committee4 ,the ,treasurer1 ,h4,w4 ,hubbard1 ,esq41 presented his annual report with schedules and the certificates of the auditors4 ,the report was accepted and referred to the ,committee on ,finance4 ,field ,superintendent ,rev4 ,frank ,e4 ,jenkins read the ,general ,survey of the ,executive ,committee4 ,the document was accepted and the parts were referred to the special committees to be appointed4 ,the ,president appointed the ,nominating ,committee as follows3 ,rev4 ,g4,s4,f4 ,savage1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,h4,p4 ,higley1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,a4,w4 ,archibald1 ,rev4 ,a4,b4 ,allen and ,rev4 ,a4,c4 ,hodges4 ,the ,association was led by ,secretary ,strieby in a concert of prayer with the workers in the field1 ,rev4 ,flavel ,bascom1 ,d4,d41 ,district ,secretary ,roy and many others participating1 by remarks or prayers1 in the exercises4 ,the ,nominating ,committee reported the following committees1 which were appointed3 ,committee on ,business4--,rev4 ,g4,h4 ,ide1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,c4,r4 ,bruce1 ,rev4 ,m4,w4 ,montgomery1 ,rev4 ,d4,p4 ,breed1 ,rev4 ,e4,m4 ,williams4 ,committee on ,finance4--,f4,j4 ,lamb1 ,esq41 ,j4,h4 ,moore1 ,esq41 ,pres4 ,david ,beaton1 ,pres4 ,albert ,salisbury and ,rev4 ,w4,s4 ,rugby4 ,committee of ,arrangements4--,rev4 ,norman ,seaver1 ,d4,d41 ,wm4 ,dickinson1 ,esq41 ,wm4 ,h4 ,bradley1 ,esq41 ,o4,b4 ,green1 ,esq41 ,rev4 ,f4,a4 ,noble1 ,d4,d41 ,j4,h4 ,hollister1 ,m4,d41 ,district ,secretary ,j4,e4 ,roy4 ,,evening ,,session4 ,the exercises ,tuesday evening opened with a selection by the quartette choir of the ,new ,england ,church4 ,the ,association was called to order by ,president ,taylor1 and ,rev4 ,w4,b4 ,wright1 ,d4,d41 read the ,scripture and led in prayer4 ,watchman1 tell us of the night1 was then sung1 after which ,rev4 ,r4,r4 ,meredith1 of ,new ,york1 preached the ,annual ,sermon1 from ,isaiah xlii1 #a-d4 ,the sermon was followed by the administration of the ,lord's ,supper4 ,the following named persons officiated at the service3 ,ministers3 ,rev4 ,h4,p4 ,higley1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,graham ,taylor1 ,d4,d4 ,deacons3 ,s4,d4 ,hastings1 ,w4,h4 ,bradley1 ,wm4 ,dickinson1 ,c4,f4 ,gates1 ,h4,w4 ,hubbard and ,chauncey ,collom4 ,at the close of the communion service1 adjournment was taken to ,wednesday at #h ,a4,m4 ,the benediction was pronounced by ,president ,taylor4 ,,wednesday ,,morning4 ,the prayer-meeting from #h to #i o'clock was led by ,president ,e4,d4 ,eaton4 ,at #i o'clock1 ,president ,eaton was called to the chair temporarily1 and was succeeded by the ,vice-,president of the ,association1 ,rev4 ,f4,a4 ,noble1 ,d4,d4 ,the minutes of the previous day were read and approved4 ,the ,president1 ,dr4 ,taylor1 then resumed the chair4 ,the ,nominating ,committee reported the following special committees1 who were appointed3 ,committee on the ,chinese4--,rev4 ,h4,a4 ,stimson1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,e4,p4 ,goodwin1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,wm4 ,walker1 ,rev4 ,j4,g4 ,aikman1 ,d4,j4 ,pike1 ,esq4 ,committee on the ,indians4--,rev4 ,a4,p4 ,foster1 ,d4,d41 ,gen4 ,c4,h4 ,howard1 ,rev4 ,clinton ,douglass1 ,rev4 ,c4,v4 ,spear4 ,committee on ,educational ,work4--,rev4 ,w4,b4 ,wright1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,f4,p4 ,woodbury1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,amos ,dresser1 ,rev4 ,h4,m4 ,tupper1 ,rev4 ,f4,a4 ,ragland4 ,committee on ,church ,work4--,rev4 ,graham ,taylor1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,warren ,f4 ,day1 ,rev4 ,l4,b4 ,maxwell1 ,s4,d4 ,hastings1 ,esq41 ,o4 ,davidson1 ,esq4 ,committee on ,mountain ,work4--,rev4 ,d4,m4 ,fisk1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,s4,e4 ,lathrop1 ,rev4 ,s4,a4 ,norton1 ,rev4 ,e4,p4 ,south1 ,rev4 ,w4,e4 ,barton1 ,robert ,f4 ,wheeler1 ,esq4 ,a paper on ,the ,american ,missionary ,association1 its ,place and ,work1 was read by ,secretary ,m4,e4 ,strieby1 and referred to a committee to be appointed4 ,following this1 ,secretary ,a4,f4 ,beard read a paper on ,the ,missionary ,view of the ,southern ,situation1 which was referred also to a committee to be appointed4 ,the report of the ,committee on the ,chinese ,work was presented by ,rev4 ,henry ,a4 ,stimson1 ,d4,d4 and accepted1 and an address was made by ,rev4 ,e4 ,p4 ,goodwin1 ,d4,d4 ,the ,nominating ,committee nominated the following special committees1 who were appointed3 ,committee on ,secretary ,strieby's ,paper4--,prof4 ,g4,b4 ,willcox1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,j4,f4 ,dudley1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,e4,d4 ,hill1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,flavel ,bascom1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,c4,w4 ,camp1 ,rev4 ,w4,l4 ,tenney1 ,rev4 ,j4,e4 ,snowden4 ,committee on ,secretary ,beard's ,paper4--,rev4 ,h4,m4 ,tenney1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,c4,o4 ,brown1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,e4,m4 ,williams1 ,rev4 ,e4,f4 ,williams1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,calvin ,keyser1 ,deacon ,g4,n4 ,palmer4 ,right ,rev4 ,h4,b4 ,whipple1 of ,minnesota1 then addressed the ,association on ,the ,future of the ,indian in our ,country4 ,after which1 remarks were made on the ,chinese question by ,dr4 ,h4,a4 ,stimson and ,rev4 ,m4,f4 ,sargent4 ,after announcements of committees and programme for the afternoon1 ,president ,taylor pronounced the benediction1 and recess was taken until #b o'clock ,p4,m4 ,,wednesday ,,afternoon4 ,the ,association was called to order by ,vice-,president ,noble4 ,saviour1 visit thy plantation1 was sung1 after which ,dr4 ,noble conducted the devotional exercises for a half hour4 ,a paper on ,the ,future of the ,negro in our ,country1 was read by ,rev4 ,c4,h4 ,richards1 ,d4,d41 of ,wisconsin1 and referred to the ,executive ,committee with power to publish4 ,rev4 ,c4,f4 ,thwing1 ,d4,d41 unable to be present as announced1 forwarded his address for the use of the ,secretaries of the ,association4 ,rev4 ,a4,p4 ,foster1 ,d4,d41 presented the report of the ,committee on the ,indian ,work4 ,addresses were then made by ,rev4 ,t4,l4 ,riggs1 of ,oahe1 and ,rev4 ,c4,w4 ,shelton1 ,financial ,secretary for ,indian ,missions4 ,after singing1 ,sow in the morn thy seed1 the ,association was addressed by ,rev4 ,w4,b4 ,wright1 ,d4,d41 on the ,educational ,work1 presenting the report of the committee and speaking in its behalf4 ,rev4 ,f4,p4 ,woodbury1 ,d4,d41 spoke also on the same topic4 ,after announcements1 ,dr4 ,noble pronounced the benediction1 and the ,association took a recess until #g3cj ,p4,m4 ,,wednesday ,,evening4 ,the ,association was called to order by ,secretary ,strieby1 who invited ,e4,w4 ,blatchford1 ,esq41 of ,illinois1 to preside during the evening in the absence of ,president ,taylor4 ,professor ,g4,b4 ,willcox led the ,association in prayer4 ,on being introduced by ,secretary ,strieby as representing the ,american ,board1 ,mr4 ,blatchford said3 ,i have no authority from the ,american ,board to convey to you any special message2 and yet ,i know that they will be glad to have me express to you their sentiments of sympathy with you in your work4 ,the work is one4 ,in carrying forward the work of the ,american ,board and the ,american ,missionary ,association we are obeying the same command of our ,lord3 ,go ye into all the world and disciple all4 ,we are inspired by the same prophetic promises1 that the time will come when this world shall obey the command of ,god as it is obeyed in heaven4 ,in fact1 this gathering is in itself a type of the unity of this work2 for as ,i look around me ,i see brethren and sisters representing the different societies in which we are all interested4 ,i see them here from the ,new ,west ,commission2 ,i see the workers and representatives of our ,home ,missionary ,society2 ,i see1 of course1 many representatives of the ,american ,missionary ,association1 and those deeply interested in the work of our ,american ,board4 ,so that we have here in this very meeting an illustration of these words of the ,apostle3 ',one ,lord1 one faith1 one baptism4' ,mrs4 ,j4,j4,m4 ,angear1 in charge of a ,chinese ,sunday-school in the ,first ,congregational ,church1 ,chicago1 spoke of her work1 her ,chinese choir singing ,stand up for ,jesus1 and later a verse of ,sweet ,by and ,by1 in both ,english and ,chinese4 ,representative addresses then followed1 ,mr4 ,chin ,kue speaking for the ,chinese1 ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,winyan for the ,indians1 ,rev4 ,t4,l4 ,riggs interpreting1 and ,rev4 ,mr4 ,mc,clellan for the ,negro4 ,a verse of ,shall we whose souls are lighted1 was sung1 after which ,rev4 ,w4,e4 ,barton spoke of the ,mountain ,whites4 ,president ,eaton's paper was deferred1 owing to the lateness of the hour4 ,after ,secretary ,strieby had led the ,association in prayer and pronounced the benediction1 recess was taken until ,thursday morning at #h3cj ,a4,m4 ,,thursday ,,morning4 ,devotional exercises from #h3cj to #i o'clock were conducted by ,rev4 ,e4,s4 ,hill4 ,vice-,president ,noble called the ,association to order4 ,the minutes of the previous day were read and approved4 ,a letter to ,secretary ,strieby from ,col4 ,j4,m4 ,keating1 of ,tennessee1 on the ,southern ,problem1 was read by ,secretary ,j4,e4 ,roy4 ,a rising vote was taken1 expressing approval of the sentiments of the letter and requesting the ,association to publish it4 ,dr4 ,f4,a4 ,noble was instructed to correspond with ,col4 ,keating1 assuring him of the ,association's appreciation of his address4 ,the report on the ,mountain ,work1 was presented by ,rev4 ,d4,m4 ,fisk1 ,d4,d41 who followed it by an address4 ,district ,secretary ,c4,j4 ,ryder read a paper on ,the ,debt of our ,country to the ,american ,highlanders4 ,my ,country 'tis of ,thee1 was then sung1 after which ,secretary ,ryder's paper was referred to the ,executive ,committee of the ,association with reference to publication4 ,president ,taylor resumed the chair at this point and introduced ,rev4 ,h4,m4 ,tenney1 ,d4,d41 who read the report of the committee on ,secretary ,a4,f4 ,beard's paper4 ,the report was accepted and referred to the ,executive ,committee4 ,an address on the ,church ,work was made by ,rev4 ,c4,w4 ,hiatt1 ,district ,secretary of the ,association1 and was followed by several brief addresses on the ,mountain ,work4 ,the report and an address was then made by ,rev4 ,graham ,taylor1 ,d4,d4 ,the report was accepted and its recommendations adopted4 ,after announcements1 ,dr4 ,noble was instructed to reply to ,dr4 ,arthur ,little1 of ,massachusetts1 in response to his telegram of greeting4 ,after the benediction by ,president ,taylor1 recess was taken until #b o'clock ,p4,m4 ,,thursday ,,afternoon4 ,the ,association was called to order by ,vice-,president ,dr4 ,f4,a4 ,noble4 ,a verse of the hymn1 ,in the cross of ,christ ,i glory1 was sung4 ,f4,j4 ,lamb1 ,esq41 read the report of the ,committee on ,finance1 supplementing the report with a brief address4 ,the report was accepted4 ,the report on ,secretary ,strieby's paper was presented by ,prof4 ,g4,b4 ,willcox1 ,d4,d4 ,the report was accepted and referred to the ,executive ,committee4 ,following this1 ,secretary ,strieby made a statement respecting the ,hand ,fund4 ,dr4 ,e4,p4 ,goodwin1 ,president ,salisbury and ,president ,w4,m4 ,taylor spoke on the ,financial ,report1 and the report was adopted4 ,the ,association then adjourned to the chapel1 and the church was occupied by the ,woman's ,missionary ,meeting under the auspices of the ,woman's ,bureau of the ,association4 ,mrs4 ,george ,m4 ,lane1 of ,detroit1 ,michigan1 presided4 ,the report was made by the ,secretary1 ,miss ,d4,e4 ,emerson1 after which addresses were made by the missionaries3 ,on the mountain work1 by ,miss ,hayes1 of ,tennessee2 on the colored people1 by ,mrs4 ,shaw1 of ,georgia1 and ,miss ,plant1 of ,mississippi2 and on the ,indians1 by ,miss ,barnaby1 a native teacher4 ,the ,nominating ,committee reported the following list of officers for the ensuing year3 ,president1 ,,rev4 ,,wm4 ,m4 ,,taylor1 ,d4,d41 ,,ll4,d41 ,n4,y4 ,vice-,presidents1 ,,rev4 ,a4,j4,f4 ,,behrends1 ,d4,d41 ,n4,y4 ,,rev4 ,f4,a4 ,,noble1 ,d4,d41 ,ill4 ,,rev4 ,,alex4 ,mc,k,e,n,z,i,e1 ,d4,d41 ,mass4 ,,rev4 ,d4,o4 ,,mears1 ,d4,d41 ,mass ,,rev4 ,,henry ,,hopkins1 ,d4,d41 ,mo4 ,corresponding ,secretaries1 ,,rev4 ,m4,e4 ,,strieby1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,,rev4 ,a4,f4 ,,beard1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,recording ,secretary1 ,,rev4 ,m4,e4 ,,strieby1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,treasurer1 ,h4,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,esq41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4,y4 ,auditors1 ,,peter ,mc,c,a,r,t,e,e1 ,,chas4 ,p4 ,,peirce4 ,executive ,committee1 ,for ,three ,years4 ,s4,b4 ,,halliday1 ,,samuel ,,holmes1 ,,samuel ,s4 ,,marples1 ,,charles ,l4 ,,mead1 ,,elbert ,b4 ,,monroe4 ,for ,one ,year4--,,albert ,j4 ,,lyman4 ,a ballot was taken and the brethren named were elected4 ,after the benediction by the ,president1 recess was taken until #g3cj ,p4,m4 ,,thursday ,,evening4 ,the ,association was called to order by ,president ,taylor4 ,stand up1 stand up for ,jesus1 was sung1 after which ,rev4 ,simeon ,gilbert1 ,d4,d41 led in prayer4 ,the records of the previous sessions of the day were read and approved1 and the ,secretary was instructed to complete the minutes4 ,the invitation to hold the next ,annual ,meeting in ,northampton1 ,massachusetts1 was accepted4 ,president ,george ,a4 ,gates1 of ,iowa ,college1 addressed the ,association1 and was followed by an address by ,president ,cyrus ,northrop1 ,d4,d41 of ,minnesota1 and also by ,president ,e4,d4 ,eaton1 ,d4,d41 of ,wisconsin4 ,the closing address of the ,association was made by ,president ,taylor4 ,the following minute read by ,secretary ,roy was then adopted3 ,when1 just eighteen years ago1 this city was smoldering in the ruins of the great fire1 which had consumed the holy and beautiful house of this ,new ,england ,church and the homes of every family in it1 the pastor1 searching among the ashes within these walls for some memento1 found a charred leaf of the pulpit hymn-book on which he was able to decipher these words3 ,daughter of ,zion1 awake from the dust1 ,exalt thy fallen head3 ,rebuild thy walls1 thy bounds enlarge1 ,and send thy heralds forth4 ,that hymn was sung at the first service in the rough board tabernacle erected upon this spot4 ,we give thanks to ,god this day for the faith and courage by which this people did awake from the dust and rebuild these walls1 and by which they have gone on building up their spiritual temple and participating largely in the whole round of service for extending the ,redeemer's kingdom1 a part of which has been the inviting and the welcoming of this missionary convocation to their sanctuary and to their homes1 and for which1 to them1 along with all others in the sister churches who have joined them on this occasion in exercising this grace of hospitality1 we express our heartiest thanks4 ,we here call to mind with grateful emotion one of the manliest of men1 one of the truest disciples of ,christ1 ,dea4 ,c4,g4 ,hammond1 who counted it an honor to have ministered at this altar from the day of its setting up to the day of his translation1 and who for many years had served as one of the ,vice-,presidents of this ,association1 and had been giving largely of his substance to its treasury4 ,at this closing hour1 we are also thankfully reminded that the ,first ,congregational ,church of this city was ready thirty years ago to entertain this ,association in the days of its weakness and of its cross-bearing witness for ,christ and for his lowly poor3 and likewise1 ten years ago1 to open its doors to receive the same body then brought along by the providence of ,god to a position of honor and extended usefulness4 ,and so we gratefully name the ,union ,park ,church1 which is now lending us its pastor as one of our ,vice-,presidents1 and which1 with the other two churches mentioned1 has furnished us with the three grand annual sermons of ,drs4 ,goodwin1 ,noble1 and ,little1 and the ,plymouth ,church1 which1 from the day of its organization1 with its testimony and its offerings1 has stood by this ,association1 and all the other churches of this vicinage1 grown now to be such a comely sisterhood1 which have shared with these others in the support of our work4 ,to the four great railway passenger associations1 which have extended to us their courtesies2 to the city press1 which has so immensely broadened the influence of this missionary convocation2 to the gentlemen who1 at no small sacrifice of time and labor1 have honored this occasion by their addresses1 reports1 and clerical service2 and to our honored and beloved ,president1 who has guided our deliberations with such skill and grace1 we express our obligations of thanks4 ,rev4 ,norman ,seaver1 ,d4,d41 responded for the ,new ,england ,church4 ,he said there was a saying that lightning never struck the same place twice1 yet1 though it fell to him to welcome the ,association1 it had also fallen to him to respond to this vote of thanks4 ,he had asked ,secretary ,beard what he would say on this occasion1 and was answered1 in his witty way1 ,tell us ,godspeed1 and we are glad to get rid of you4 ,dr4 ,seaver felt that the local people were the recipients1 and the visitors the benefactors in what had been done4 ,the ,president had inspired them with his spirit2 he had not withdrawn his presence1 and very late might he return to the heavens4 ,students and young ministers had been benefited by listening to those many learned men and devoted servants of ,god1 and were inspired for future usefulness4 ,we are not the benefactors1 we are the recipients1 and we wish you ,godspeed4 ,after having sung the doxology1 with the benediction by ,president ,taylor1 the ,association adjourned1 to meet at ,northampton1 ,massachusetts1 for its next ,annual ,meeting4 ,j4,c4 ,,armstrong1 ,secretaries4 ,e4,s4 ,,williams1 99 99 99 99 99 ,,summary ,,of ,,treasurer',s ,,report4 ,,expenditures4 ,,the ,,south4 ,for ,church and ,educational ,work1 ,land1 ,buildings1 etc4 #bee1jhc4hd ,,the ,,chinese4 ,for ,superintendent1 ,teachers1 ,rent1 etc4 #aa1jgj4ge ,,the ,,indians4 ,for ,church and ,educational ,work1 ,buildings1 etc4 #ea1gha4jj ,,foreign ,,missions4 ,for ,superintendent1 ,missionaries1 etc41 for ,missions in ,africa1 income paid to the ,a4,b4,c4,f4,m4 #d1ged4bb ,for ,support of ,aged ,missionary1 ,jamaica1 ,w4,i4 #bej4jj ,,publications4 ,for ,american ,missionary1 7#bc1bjj monthly71 ,annual ,reports1 ,clerk-hire1 ,postage1 etc4 #g1bcj4ca ,,agencies4 ,,new ,,york4--,woman's ,bureau1 ,secretary1 ,traveling ,expenses1 ,circulars1 etc4 #a1cfa4gd ,,for ,,eastern ,,district4--,district ,secretary1 ,clerk-hire1 ,traveling ,expenses1 ,printing1 ,rent1 ,postage1 ,stationery1 etc4 #d1ehi4ei ,,for ,,western ,,middle ,,district4--,district ,secretary1 ,traveling ,expenses1 ,printing1 ,rent1 ,postage1 ,stationery1 etc4 #a1bdf4cc ,,fob ,,western ,,district4--,district ,secretary1 ,agents1 ,clerk-hire1 ,traveling ,expenses1 etc4 #f1aif4ig ,,administration4 ,for ,corresponding ,secretaries1 ,treasurer1 and ,clerk-hire #ab1eje4jj ,,miscellaneous4 ,for ,rent1 ,care of ,rooms1 ,furniture1 ,repairs1 ,fuel and ,light1 ,books and ,stationery1 ,rent of ,safe ,deposit ,boxes1 ,clerk-hire1 ,postage1 ,traveling ,expenses1 ,expressage1 ,telegrams1 etc4 #e1eda4dc ,annual ,meeting #egg4je ,wills and ,estates #c1che4jg ,annuity ,account #djg4ic ,amounts refunded1 sent to ,treasurer by mistake #abb4gg ----------- #cff1ajd4jj ,debt ,sept4 #cj1 #ahhh #e1fda4ba ----------- #cga1gde4ba ,balance on hand ,september #cj1 #ahhi #d1dga4fg ----------- #cgf1baf4hh ,,receipts4 ,from ,churches1 ,sabbath ,schools1 ,missionary ,societies and ,individuals #ahi1bii4eg ,estates and ,legacies #aad1jbj4da ,income1 ,sundry ,funds #aj1idg4bf ,tuition and ,public ,funds #cd1abf4fi ,rent #ejf4cf ,united ,states ,government1 for ,education of ,indians #af1djh4he ,slater ,fund1 paid to ,institutions #h1hii4ii ,sale of ,property #b1jjg4ge ---------- #cgf1baf4hh ,,daniel ,,hand ,,fund1 ,,income ,,account4 ,income received to ,september #cj1 #ahhi #cf1iii4ga ,amount expended #bj1caa4ae ,balance in hand and appropriated #af1fhh4ef ---------- #cf1iii4ga ,,receipts ,,for ,,the ,,work ,,of ,,the ,,year #ahhh-hi4 ,for ,current ,work #cgf1baf4hh ,income from ,daniel ,hand ,fund #cf1iii4ga ,total ----------- #dac1baf4ei ,,endowment ,,funds ,,received ,,during ,,the ,,year #ahhh-hi4 ,the ,daniel ,hand ,fund for the ,education of ,colored ,people1 ,securities received1 face value #a1jjj1hid4be ,foltz ,endowment ,fund1 ,estate of ,rev4 ,benjamin ,foltz4 7,balance7 #ejj4jj ------------- #a1jja1cid4be ,h4,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,treasurer1 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association--,,its ,,place ,,and ,,work4 ,,by ,,secretary ,m4,e4 ,,strieby4 ,we commemorate the forty-third anniversary of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,during these years1 its place and work have become somewhat definitely settled1 and ,i take this occasion to set forth the position that it now holds in relation to its constituents1 its sister societies1 and the great work providentially thrown upon it4 #a4 ,the ,association recognizes the control of its constituents4 ,that recognition was one of the corner-stones on which it was founded4 ,it sought its members and its funds from persons of evangelical faith and practical morality4 ,of such1 it offered membership to any one who contributed to its funds4 ,thus broadly was it placed on a popular basis4 ,at length1 however1 it began to be felt by many of its supporters that there were evils in this method--that the acts of the society were liable to be regulated by the local attendance at each annual meeting1 and that such meetings might easily be packed to carry out a purpose4 ,the officers of the ,association1 true to the cardinal principles of its founders of control by its constituents1 welcomed the discussion and cheerfully accepted the present constitution1 which was adopted after due deliberation4 ,that constitution designates as voters1 life members and delegates from the churches1 local conferences and state associations4 ,the ,executive ,committee believe that we have now reached a satisfactory basis1 but if it shall be the will of the constituents to make further modifications hereafter1 the fundamental principle of the ,association will dictate a ready acceptance of any change that will not set aside the evangelical1 missionary1 and philanthropic basis on which the ,association was founded1 and that will not impair contracts or endanger invested funds4 ,the ,association belongs1 under ,christ1 to its constituents4 #b4 ,the work of the ,association embraces all forms of effort in both the church and the school4 ,it was organized and chartered as a missionary society4 ,this was its fundamental aim4 ,it was not till #ahfi1 twenty-three years after its organization1 that the word educational was put into its charter4 ,but this change did not alter the character of its work--the school is missionary1 the church an educator--and this church and school work are inseparably blended4 ,the people among whom it labors are children in knowledge1 and will remain so for a long time1 for there are millions of blacks1 mountain whites1 ,indians1 and ,chinese in our country who cannot read and write4 ,in ,northern communities where the children grow up in ,christian homes and are environed in cultured society1 with the best of common schools1 the church finds the material for its membership1 so far forth1 prepared to its hand1 but among these millions of unlettered peoples the church1 if it is to be pure and intelligent1 must be the outgrowth of the ,christian school2 and the branches of the tree might as well be expected to grow up without the roots1 as such churches without these schools4 ,the work among them begins in the primary school1 and follows them through all departments of industrial1 normal1 collegiate and theological instruction4 ,in all this long process the teachers are with them at every step--in the shop1 the school1 the ,sunday-school1 the prayer meeting1 and the church1 and often the principal of the school is the pastor of the church4 ,thus the church1 which grows up within or along side of the school1 gets the priceless boon of the personal example and influence of these ,christian teachers1 in refining the manners and in making character2 and as the pupils are converted they enter the church to become its stable members and intelligent officers4 ,on the other hand1 the families in the church1 with their kindred and friends1 furnish the pupils for the school and help to sustain it by their money and prayers1 both the church and the school being stronger by their mutual support and more potent in their influence in the community than if they stood apart4 ,and even after the scholars have left the school and have entered upon the business of life1 the ,association is especially fitted to gather them into churches4 ,it has occurred in several instances1 in starting new churches beyond the range of our schools1 that we have found them to be made up first almost wholly of graduates and students from our different institutions1 and that these have remained the most intelligent and reliable members4 ,we have found1 too1 that when a church was thus organized where we have no school1 we are very soon importuned to start one4 ,in localities with a scattered population there might not be sufficient public funds to open a colored public school2 in many more places they would sustain the school for only two months in the year1 and in larger towns it sometimes has happened that these public schools were of such a character that the parents begged for a ,christian school as a means of saving the moral purity of their children4 ,thus1 in every way1 and under all circumstances1 the school and the church need and help each other4 ,and what is true of the colored people is equally true of the whites in the mountains and elsewhere1 among whom the ,association is working so auspiciously1 planting its schools and churches in mutual helpfulness4 ,the suggestion that all the church work of the denomination in the home-field be given to one society1 and all the educational be concentrated in one other society1 deserves thoughtful consideration1 for it meets with this very serious objection1 that it provides for but one collection for work that now receives two or three4 ,the experience of our churches is conclusive against the hope that one enlarged collection would be given to the one society4 ,for a time1 a brief time1 spasmodic efforts might1 as in former cases1 result in some special contributions1 but the new experiment would certainly be more disastrous1 if it should fail1 than those already tried1 because it would involve far greater interests4 ,it is not to be supposed for a moment that such consolidation is contemplated in order that the churches may escape the large responsibility now resting upon them2 and if economy and efficiency are the only objects sought1 we fear the result would be disappointing4 ,such an arrangement would not save in the number of workers in the field1 and surely it is not wise business management to leave great interests inadequately supervised4 ,even if the consolidated society were divided into separate departments or bureaux1 the supervision could not be less1 if efficient1 while the combination would be likely to lead to complications1 and would weaken1 in the several departments1 the sense of individual responsibility and take away the impulse of historic life and achievement4 ,more work well managed and vigorously pushed seems to me to be the only plan that will satisfy the ,christian conscience or meet the approval of the ,master4 #c4 ,the work of the ,association extends to all races of men4 ,this claim is sanctioned by the fraternal agreement existing between it and the ,american ,home ,missionary ,society1 by its own history1 and by the needs of the field4 ,the agreement with the sister society says explicitly that the ,association is to pursue its educational and church work in the ,south among both races4 ,the history of the ,association shows that at the beginning the populations reached by it in ,america were all white except the ,indians and a few colored refugees in ,canada4 ,its home missions at the ,north and ,west were among white people3 and so were they even in the ,south before the war4 ,john ,g4 ,fee and his heroic associates in ,kentucky1 and ,daniel ,worth and others in ,north ,carolina1 founded churches and schools only among the whites4 ,berea ,college was for whites only1 at the outset4 ,it was not till the era of emancipation with its overwhelming flood of freedmen that the ,association turned its direct and almost exclusive attention to them4 ,it heard the voice of ,god in the tramp of these millions marching out of bondage into freedom1 and in that voice it heard the call to itself1 providentially prepared for the new era4 ,it answered the call1 without1 however1 abandoning its mission to preach the gospel to the whites also2 and now1 with its schools and churches well established throughout the ,south1 with an open door to the whites1 and especially to those in the mountain regions1 it hears the voice of ,god calling it thither4 ,the ready adaptation of its methods to these people1 and the success of its efforts among them1 attest the validity of its call and the wisdom of its response4 #d4 ,the work of the ,association is not a transient one4 ,a ,new ,england pastor at the beginning of our work for the freedmen1 gave me a hearty welcome to present our cause in his pulpit1 telling me frankly he did so the more cheerfully because he thought our work would soon be over--say in twenty or twenty-five years4 ,now that good man believed that home missions in the ,west1 and in some of the older ,eastern ,states1 would be needed well nigh on to the millennium1 yet he imagined that the blacks1 just escaped from bondage1 utterly poor1 ignorant and degraded1 would 7perhaps he hardly stopped to think how7 rise in twenty-five years above all need of help from any quarter in their upward struggle6 ,but the fallacy of such a supposition is realized more since these twenty-five years have passed than it was then4 ,it is now clearly seen that these ex-slaves will require for three or four generations the most abundant help to bring them up to the level of those ,western settlers1 including the ,swedes1 ,germans and ,norwegians crowding in thither1 who are comparatively well-off and intelligent4 ,and then1 after that preparation of the ,negro has been made1 the regular work of home missions will only be fairly begun among them4 ,the work for this people1 therefore1 is not transient1 and the missionary society that has it in hand has before it not only a great but long-continued task4 ,and for that great work the ,association has had a manifest call and preparation1 and has gained an experience and an influence of peculiar value in its further prosecution4 ,the ,association has wrought itself into the schools and churches1 into the industries of the colored people1 the improvement of their homes1 the preparation of their sons and daughters for home and business life1 and for teachers and preachers and physicians2 it has wrought itself into their better aspirations for both this world and that which is to come4 ,it has won upon the confidence and respect of the white people by its unselfish and ,christian work1 its kind but firm adherence to principle1 and by the blessing it has conferred upon both races in aiding the ,south in the only true solution of its great problem4 ,the ,association has become anchored to this great work by the large amount of invested funds intrusted to its care4 ,it has received thousands of dollars from the ,freedmen's ,bureau1 from the ,avery estate1 from the gifts of ,mrs4 ,stone and others1 and added to all these is the large sum placed one year ago in its hands by the munificence of ,mr4 ,hand4 ,these several sums aggregate more than two millions of dollars--an amount of endowment1 we believe1 without a parallel among our ,congregational societies for the home field4 ,while no inconsiderable share of these funds is in plant1 and therefore increases instead of diminishes current expenses1 yet the ,association is the only legal custodian of these funds4 ,they constitute1 therefore1 a strong evidence of the confidence of large donors in its usefulness and stability and in the importance of its work1 and at the same time they make a strong plea for current contributions to sustain that work4 ,god has moved the hearts of noble men and women to lay these firm foundations4 ,will not others equally able and far-seeing in their benevolence add to these gifts and thus extend these foundations1 and will not the churches build thereon with diligent and cheerful hands8 ,these forty-three years under review have been memorable in the history of this ,nation4 ,they have witnessed the reign of slavery in the height of its arrogant domination4 ,they have seen the rising protest of conscience and religion against that domination1 with the mad resistance of slavery1 until it culminated in one of the bloodiest wars of modern times4 ,they have beheld a united ,nation emerge from the conflict1 and not a slave in all its broad land4 ,they have seen the uplifted hands and hearts of the freedmen grasping for knowledge4 ,and1 last of all1 they behold the new power seated on the throne vacated by slavery1 dooming the colored man to a position of inferiority scarcely less degrading than slavery itself4 ,along all these lines the sympathies and efforts of the ,association have run4 ,it pleaded for the slave in his bondage1 when to do so cost odium and ostracism2 it joined with others in the appeal against slavery1 with the hope that righteousness would avert the calamity of war4 ,when the slave came forth free1 it went with prompt hands to fit him for his new position1 and now1 as he enters the long and dark struggle against poverty1 ignorance and race-prejudice1 it girds itself for the great struggle1 armed with what have ever been its only weapons1 the light of knowledge and the love of the gospel of ,christ4 ,the contest may be long1 the work will be great1 but the triumph must be sure4 ,may the church of ,christ1 the patriots of the land1 and the abundant blessing of the ,almighty ,god strengthen and help us in this great undertaking6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,missionary ,,view ,,of ,,the ,,southern ,,situation4 ,,by ,,secretary ,a4,f4 ,,beard4 ,the ,southern problem is a ,national peril4 ,problems are not always perils4 ,this is a problem large with political and religious perils1 and whether political or religious it can not be ignored1 nor can its consideration be postponed4 ,it is here4 ,it is our problem4 ,it is nearer to the ,south1 and more immediate1 than to the ,north1 but it is ours4 ,we are not foreigners in any part of this country4 ,it has been settled once for all that we are to be fellow citizens in a common country when we come from ,boston to ,chicago and when we go from ,new ,york to ,new ,orleans4 ,the problem which belongs to a country to which we belong1 is ours4 ,this might as well be understood4 ,we have no right to take our hands off from that of which we are a part and which is a part of us4 ,no part can say to another1 it is not your concern4 ,this is true politically4 ,thrice true is it religiously--,christian faith is not confined to ,state boundaries4 ,it belongs everywhere4 ,the problem is not a new one4 ,it has its roots bedded deep in history4 ,when years ago it began to be discussed by a few they were called agitators1 as if the discussion of right and wrong were itself a wrong1 as if the letting in of light upon the darkness were a deed of darkness4 ,nevertheless1 the ,nation became thoughtful over the question of the rights of man4 ,while it was musing the fire burned1 and an irrepressible conflict came4 ,in the issue it was settled that no man should be held by another man in involuntary servitude in this common and inseparable country4 ,a quarter of a century has elapsed since this settlement of a problem which involved the destiny of two races1 and of our whole country4 ,the question now before the ,nation and before the churches is a corollary of slavery4 ,it is the second section of the first chapter4 ,the first question was3 ,how shall liberty be proclaimed to the captive and the enslaved become free8 ,the second is3 ,being free1 how can the two races--as distinct and separate as are the white and black races of the ,south--now equal before the law1 live side by side under the same government1 and live in ,christian truth and peace8 ,this is the problem1 and1 like the first1 it is irrepressible4 ,in one sense it is a new question--that is1 a new generation of white people has in part come forward to participate in the duties of citizenship1 since all men became men in the law of the land4 ,to them the question is practically new4 ,the situation as they find it1 is this3 ,the ,negroes1 who1 twenty years ago1 were four millions1 are now eight millions4 ,the increase of the blacks above the increase of the whites in the period of twenty years1 is fourteen per cent4 ,in his work on the ,african in the ,united ,states1 ,professor ,gilliam1 having in hand the figures of our ,census ,bureau1 forecasts with the demonstration of mathematics our population one century hence4 ,we do not know what may modify his figures1 but he computes that at the present rate of increase there are to be in the old slave ,states in one hundred years1 ninety-five millions of whites and double this number of ,african descent4 ,therefore1 whatever may modify1 it is probable that before one half an hundred years are over1 the numbers of the blacks will furnish them sufficient guarantee for their legal rights4 ,there are those in this presence who have seen the population of this republic multiply itself nearly three times4 ,our childhood's geography taught us that twenty-three millions of people lived in the ,united ,states4 ,now our children learn that there are sixty millions4 ,twenty years ago four millions of ,negroes and eight millions to-day4 ,therefore1 as large as the problem now is to us1 it will be greater for our children if we err in our solution of it4 ,this race of ,african descent has been declared by constitutional enactment to be entitled to whatever privileges belong to man1 as man4 ,standing on this1 and beginning with nothing but the heredity of hindrances1 with the brand of color and the prejudice of race against them1 this people have climbed up from their low estate with a remarkable progress4 ,they have applied themselves to take hold of knowledge as no other people ever did in the annals of history4 ,they have made great inroads upon their previous illiteracy4 ,they have rapidly acquired property4 ,they have developed industrial skill1 and established the evidences of business facility4 ,they have shown themselves capable of good citizenship1 both in the understanding of its duties and the practice of them4 ,they have vindicated the act of emancipation and the decrees of citizenship4 ,yet to-day their standing both as citizens and as ,christians is opposed4 ,the question of their rights is discussed as if it were an open one1 and in the ,south it is coming to be increasingly denied4 ,under the plea that it is unsafe for the black man to exercise his civil rights1 there arises a condition of affairs that can have no standing under our government except a revolutionary standing4 ,and the question whether the rights of man as man shall be regarded1 is to-day a more pressing question than it has been at any previous time since the slaves were declared to be men4 ,the ,southern press1 which both creates and voices public opinion1 reveals an attitude of mind increasingly hostile to the equal civil rights of the black man1 for the simple reason that he is not white1 which is calculated to fill the friends of ,american institutions with gravest apprehensions1 and which demands the serious attention of us all4 ,almost every week discloses to us the fact that intimidation1 oppression and violence do override the government of the land1 in its application to the ,negro people4 ,influential ,southern journals have pronounced the ,fifteenth ,amendment a living threat to the civilization of the ,south1 and declare that ,christian statesmanship demands its abrogation4 ,a thoughtful book published in ,new ,york1 written in a calm and judicial tone by an able lawyer in ,virginia1 in its chapter upon the future of the ,negro1 says3 ,the social aspect of the ,negro suffrage is certain to grow more threatening as the blacks increase4 ,the motives which have led the great body of whites to vote together in this age1 must augment in force in the age to follow4 ,to day the rapid increase of the black population constitutes a greater danger to the stability of our government than any that is sapping the vitality of the ,european monarchies4 ,the partial disfranchisement of the ,negro in the future would appear to be inevitable1 essential1 if not to the existence of the ,south1 then to the prosperity of the ,union4 ,this is a temperate expression of much ,southern opinion4 ,not a few hold the view that the education and advancement of the ,negro tends to create the race problem1 and do not hesitate to say that if the ,negroes could only be kept as laborers in the cotton and rice and sugar fields1 in the furnaces and mines of the ,south1 aspiring to nothing higher and not antagonizing the whites in political matters1 there would be no race problem4 ,six months ago we could quote from an editorial column written by an ex-,confederate officer for an influential ,democratic paper in the ,south these words3 ,the duty of the white people of the ,south is plain4 ,in the spirit of noblesse oblige we must sympathize with those who are fitting the colored people for the duties of life1 remembering what the ,negroes were to our forefathers and what our forefathers were to them4 ,no one can doubt that a ,negro has a soul to save4 ,that admitted1 he is as much entitled to the benefits of salvation as the white man4 ,but1 he adds1 what do we see8 ,nearly all the bodies of ,christians even1 except the ,roman ,catholics1 shuffling to set the ,negro apart and leave him largely to his own ways1 shuffling out of their responsibility according to the gospel which they profess as their guide1 and putting the ,negro apart in spite of the word of ,god1 whom they worship1 that he is no respecter of persons4 ,the ,negro was brought over here by theft and outrage4 ,he is here to stay1 and we must deal with him according to the golden rule1 and as we would wish to be done by if we were similarly placed4 ,this is not a quotation from the ,national ,council of ,congregational ,churches1 where such an utterance would both by nature and by grace find expression1 but it is from the pen of an officer of the ,southern ,confederacy1 who knows the light when he sees it1 who keeps open an honest eye1 and who does not hesitate to speak from an honest mind4 ,this sentiment balances somewhat of that which pleads against the black man1 and not a few friends of this kind has the ,american ,missionary ,association won to itself throughout the ,south4 ,it never had so many who are saying3 ,yours is the most practical missionary work ever undertaken by a ,christian body4 ,you have won our confidence by your spirit and your methods2 you have our cordial sympathy4 ,at the same time we recognize the fact that both prejudice and partisanship are now making strenuous efforts to create the judgment that the ,negro should be stripped of his civil rights and that his education is going on too rapidly4 ,for example1 the ,southern ,journal1 whose ,christian sentiments of six months ago1 just quoted1 with another editor to-day1 comes to us with another deliverance1 probably nearer to the heart of most of its constituency1 saying3 ,the ,negro is not a fit subject for ,northern missionary effort4 ,northern money is not wanted to build him schools1 and ,northern teachers and preachers are not wanted to improve his mind nor to save his soul4 ,he should be let alone4 ,he is out in the water3 let him swim4 ,he should be left alone to work out his own salvation4 ,the editor who says we must save him is an ex-,confederate officer who has always lived in the ,south4 ,the editor who says he should be left alone is a ,northern man who has gone ,south to live4 ,the first writes1 noblesse oblige4 ,the second does not understand the language4 ,he1 doubtless1 has the largest constituency4 ,the pulpit also creates and voices public opinion4 ,our work is coming to get many a good word from the ,southern pulpit4 ,but a ,southern white bishop--,bishop ,pearce--did not write to unwilling ears when he said3 ,in my judgment higher education would be a calamity to the ,negroes4 ,it would elevate ,negro aspirations far above the station which the ,negro was created to fill4 ,the whites can never tamely1 and without protest submit to the intrusion of colored people into places of trust1 profit1 and responsibility4 ,this1 you will observe1 is from a minister of ,christ4 ,it is from a bishop of a church4 ,it is from one who prays our ,lord's prayer1 given alike to white and black4 ,after this manner1 therefore1 pray ye4 ,our ,father4 ,this is from one who believes in the baptism at ,pentecost1 when devout men from every nation under heaven received the impartial benedictions of ,god4 ,this from one who read the story of ,peter and the sheet4 ,alas1 my brother4 ,all this1 then1 is the atmosphere of the situation4 ,some prophetic souls are looking out upon a most perplexing and perilous problem with profound solicitude1 and extending to us their sympathy and prayers for our work4 ,more1 many more1 are teaching and preaching that ,god has created the ,negro race to fill forever a place of inferiority1 and that he must stay down in the bog or in some way be destroyed4 ,it is not surprising1 therefore1 that ignorant white people should give form and substance to these hostile opinions in scenes of violence and cruelty4 ,they believe in the inherent inferiority of the blacks1 and have a mighty fear lest this doctrine should prove to be untrue4 ,the ,negro1 twenty-five years ago in absolute poverty and illiteracy1 has been greedy for education1 and has seriously thought of nothing but to rise from his low condition4 ,the intelligent white man now1 and to his great surprise1 is all at once confronted by the intelligent black man4 ,they are not so numerous now as to be an element to fear1 but the whites are foreseeing the not distant day when they can not be relegated to inferiority because of their color4 ,the calamity that ,bishop ,pearce deplores and would prevent is not far away--educated ,negroes with aspirations1 in other words1 men4 ,the general ,negro illiteracy is gaining fast upon the white ignorance1 and the despised ,negro is found to be living above many of his illiterate white neighbors4 ,this makes it easy work for designing men to sharpen race prejudices1 which by force and fear shall keep the ,negro down4 ,on the ,negro side1 he has been patient and forbearing4 ,with these outbreaks of persecution some are discouraged1 and are ready to surrender their manhood4 ,on the other hand1 some are no longer patient1 but are enraged4 ,they would retaliate4 ,they feel that defense against wrongs is right4 ,an influential ,negro paper says1 ,,educate1 ,,agitate1 ,,retaliate4 ,does one strike me8 ,with the power of ,god on high1 back also will ,i strike him4 ,this feeling grows4 ,add to it the fact that the ,negro is developing the power of organization4 ,there are leaders4 ,they are in their councils and conventions4 ,they are feeling deeply1 speaking plainly1 and organizing efficiently4 ,this is the situation6 ,how shall this problem be solved8 ,how shall we prevent the conflict between races8 ,a ,southern author says3 ,these problems have been solved in the past in four ways4 ,by reducing the weaker race to slavery1 or by expulsion1 or by extermination1 or by the amalgamation of the races4 ,slavery is out of the question--that is settled4 ,equally repugnant is expulsion or extermination4 ,amalgamation is abhorrent4 ,therefore1 the problem will not be solved by any historical precedents4 ,the two races must live here in the same sections1 equal before the law1 with mutual rights1 and all rights must be sanctioned and confirmed4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association is living with this problem day by day4 ,it is trying to see it with the look of ,christ4 ,this ,association foresaw this question forty years ago4 ,it took on itself the preparation for it4 ,it guided itself to meet the problem in the fields before the armies in the ,south were disbanded4 ,it went with its distinctive and unpopular principles4 ,it went in the patience and love of ,christ4 ,for the most part it met a natural and unconcealed hostility4 ,it did not retaliate even in spirit1 but it stood firm in spirit and in truth4 ,it has lived on in the ,south1 and taught the same ever-living and everlasting gospel for all men1 of whatever race or color4 ,its record is before the churches4 ,they have never had reason to feel other than grateful to ,god for its work4 ,beginning with a great number of little primary schools1 and with thousands of beginners in the alphabet of learning1 it has gradually passed into larger and more far-reaching influences by teaching teachers and preachers1 who shall go1 and who do go out and reach multiplied thousands4 ,in order that applied ,christianity may have the power of self-help and self-care1 industries are introduced4 ,in that the people are being fitted to save themselves4 ,all of our work from first to last is missionary1 and instinct with the motive of salvation2 our schools are means to an end2 fitting preachers1 teachers1 mechanics1 home makers to meet the problem and the peril4 ,it is not by education that the question is to be solved4 ,the missionary view is not simply the educational view4 ,this society is not an educational society4 ,education is not the panacea for the ills of man4 ,ignorance is a great evil1 but it is not the worst one2 sinfulness is worse and more difficult to cure4 ,the one who is educated may make trouble and not heal it2 secular education can not meet the problem2 ,state education can not protect against the peril1 but sanctified education can1 for it has in it the power of ,god4 ,this society is a missionary society which1 like the ,american ,board1 teaches in order to save4 ,you can scarcely save ignorance4 ,this means ,christian schools not only full of ethics1 but vital with faith4 ,it means also the twin life of school work and church work4 ,to put these factors apart would be a great disaster to each2 nay1 it would put away from the only society that can effectively1 and we believe effectually1 meet this problem1 the chief factor in the solution of the impending and serious question4 ,education alone is not equal to this question1 and those who have won the ear and the sympathy of those who need to come under the power of the gospel1 who have been their friends and teachers1 who have their confidence and trust1 are the ones to take this gospel to them and show them how to take it to others4 ,the schools reach parents1 the schools reach pastors1 the schools reach the people1 the schools are intertwined with all the church life that has any hope in it4 ,this is the missionary view4 ,when this people in the wilderness cried out in their distresses1 ,who will speak for us8 the ,association spoke for them4 ,when they needed sympathy1 sympathy it gave4 ,when they needed instruction1 it went to them in the name of ,christ4 ,in his name it stood for the ,negro4 ,in his name it stood by the ,negro4 ,in his name it stood with him4 ,it stands there to-day4 ,it is his friend and counselor4 ,when the ,negro is cast down1 the churches will hear one voice and they will wish their own society to be found faithful in this4 ,with this charter as a missionary society for schools and churches1 we present to the ,negro race continually the personal hope of souls not only1 but the hope of the race4 ,when they think that the progress is slow we tell them that ,christianity is sure4 ,when they tell us that they can not wait1 but must organize and retaliate1 we tell them to wait upon ,god4 ,vengeance is mine1 saith the ,lord4 ,we ask them to remember that a quarter of a century1 or a century1 is a short time in the history of a people4 ,we point to a million--a round million--of ,negro children in the schools to-day4 ,we are teaching them to be men4 ,we are saving them to be ,christians4 ,we teach them not to remain down and not to be put down4 ,being men1 they are to stand like men1 but like ,christian men1 to conquer prejudices by worthiness1 to meet race hatred with only a stronger purpose to command respect1 not to render evil for evil1 but contrariwise1 blessing2 not blow for blow1 but to go on upbuilding themselves1 deserving their rights1 and remembering that a great element in the solution of this problem must be an intelligent faith in ,god4 ,with this missionary view we stand firm4 ,we have learned that the ,southerners of our own race1 even when they hold their prejudices against our principles1 respect those who stand in a ,christian way for their principles2 and that these principles will never be accepted in the ,south by our holding them loosely1 or in suspense1 or in any sort of abeyance4 ,they respect us when we teach our people that they have all the rights of manhood and womanhood2 that they are to respect themselves and to be worthy of self-respect2 that they are not to consent in their own minds to any assertion of superiority based upon the tint of the skin1 and that they are never to feel guilty for being black4 ,we are teaching the colored people to hold honor with themselves4 ,what this ,association and other missionary forces have done and are doing--this ,association more than others--will be the balance of power to prevent the dreaded conflict of races2 the balance of power to settle the question2 ,how can the two races live in the same section with mutual respect for each other's civil and ,christian rights8 ,this may take time4 ,christianity takes time4 ,it is ours to take ,christianity to teach that the beginning of ,christianity was the death blow to wrong principles and evil practices of men1 however well intrenched and fortified these forces may be4 ,it is this which gives us courage to grapple with centuries of wrong and to undertake the slow reduction of these evils4 ,when ,christianity came1 the era of conscience came1 and in ,his gospel is the power of intelligence and moral determination that shall not be overcome of evil1 but shall overcome evil with good4 ,men bound with right are strong3 ,right bound with right in ,christian faith ,will conquer a world of wrong4 ,the missionary schools and the missionary churches are1 we believe1 the only safeguard against the conflict of races4 ,they are the guardian against this national peril4 ,this being so1 the churches must speed them more and more4 ,they must not hinder them nor tie their hands4 ,the guarantees of this peaceful solution are in the hands of the churches4 ,multiply and hasten the ,christian energies4 ,multiply the ,christian prayers that we may be workers together with ,him of whom it is written1 ,he shall not fail or be discouraged4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,reports ,,of ,,committees4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,educational ,,work ,,south4 ,,by ,,rev4 ,,wm4 ,,burnet ,,wright1 ,d4,d41 ,,chairman4 ,it is an ominous fact that in the ,south illiteracy is steadily increasing4 ,it is an encouraging fact that in the region surrounding our chartered and normal schools illiteracy is steadily diminishing4 ,the colored people are multiplying more rapidly than the means of educating them4 ,if the supply of school accommodations to-day exactly equalled the demand1 so that every colored child of suitable age was provided for in some school1 there would be at the time of our next annual meeting #bee1ejj children asking to be taught their letters to whom we should have to say1 ,we cannot teach you4 ,but the supply does not yet nearly equal the demand4 ,in respect to education1 the ,south is a dark sky rapidly growing darker1 but flecked with patches of lighter shade1 which are gradually growing brighter and larger4 ,such a bright space frames each of our chartered and normal schools4 ,fisk ,university1 ,talladega ,college1 ,tougaloo ,university1 ,straight ,university1 in ,new ,orleans1 and ,tillotson ,institute1 at ,austin1 ,texas1 are doing work which vindicates each year more distinctly the strategic sagacity which located them4 ,in these institutions alone nearly two thousand students of both sexes are being trained to be light-bearers to their race4 ,besides these1 each of which is essentially a normal school1 and includes a normal department1 eighteen distinctively normal schools are sustained at different points of strategic importance4 ,two new schools have been established during the year4 ,good work has also been done among the mountain whites4 ,the income from the gift of ,mr4 ,daniel ,hand has enabled the ,association to enlarge its school accommodations1 and to assist more than three hundred students1 who1 without it1 would have been unable to attend schools of any kind4 ,the committee would emphasize among special needs of the work1 funds for a girls' hall at ,tillotson ,institute1 and for the endowment of a theological school for training colored pastors4 ,two facts are pre-eminently gratifying4 ,the first is that in nearly all the schools of the ,association some kind of industrial training is provided1 and that the influence of such training is conspicuously shown in improved ideas of home life and comfort among those connected by family or other ties with our students4 ,the second fact is1 that in all our schools the students are taught that the fear of the ,lord is the beginning of wisdom1 and that consequently the separation between religion and morality1 which is the supreme danger of the ,southern black churches1 is perceptibly diminishing4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,church ,,work4 ,,by ,,professor ,,graham ,,taylor1 ,,chairman4 ,the mission of the ,american ,missionary ,association is shown to be a specialty and a unit by its church work4 ,it is the work of a specialist among ,christian organizations that alone could have produced these churches4 ,to meet the demands of an exigency which could not be met by the pre-existent ordinary agencies1 this child of ,providence was born of ,god and the times4 ,for the accomplishment of ends for which no means had been found1 its methods were providentially chosen by a process of spiritual selection4 ,its agencies are the accretions of the ,divine purpose in its progress toward the salvation of the undermost1 and the edifying of the whole body of ,christ4 ,to the production of its unique ,christian institutions the exclusive devotion to the study of the peculiar conditions of these entirely distinct communities was necessary4 ,there have been generated by this devotion and acquired through the experience of nearly half a century a knowledge and skill which claim for this ,association the recognition of the world as its foremost expert in the successful application of ,christianity to the solution of the most difficult race problems of modern civilization4 ,and yet in the accomplishment of this great achievement1 loyalty to the common faith and to our own polity1 as well as to the teachings of experience1 demanded only the new application of the old prime factors of ,god's own choice1 the local church with its evangelism and ,christian nurture4 ,in the work of this ,association these two great agencies are uniquely one4 ,the pastor is often teacher and evangelist4 ,the sanctuary is school-house and mission station4 ,at twenty-three points on the field ,god has made of these twain--the church and the school--one4 ,the church is the unit of this unity4 ,for while the church is generally the offspring of the school1 the school finds both its profoundest reasons for existence and its highest consummation in the needs and ends of the church4 ,in it the work both of the teacher and evangelist co-ordinates and culminates4 ,it will not be so very long before these schools and colleges will find their chief sources of supply in these churches1 which although now so dependent1 must ultimately be depended upon to maintain and develop their own institutions4 ,even now it is to be remembered that the appeal of this evangelizing church work meets with the wider and more popular response from the giving constituency of the ,association1 while the educational institutions are more dependent upon the larger gifts of interested individuals4 ,moreover1 it is the church which opens the springs of the family life from which the schools must draw their scholars4 ,and it is the church which creates the environment necessary to the ,christian homes1 to which the graduates are sent back again to live their lives1 and from which1 as the heart's fulcrum1 their saved lives can best lift up the lost4 ,these little church groups of evangelized and educated families are at once the prime sources and the constituent elements of the new ,christian civilization which already heralds the coming of the kingdom to those neglected1 outcast peoples1 to secure whose human rights1 ,christian privileges and church fellowship is the first1 loudest1 longest call upon the ,congregational ,churches of ,america4 ,therefore1 in the name of this ,association1 whose heroic type of missionary and teaching service makes our whole membership and ministry the more attractive and ennobling2 in the name of its schools which became churches1 and its churches which are schools2 in the name of their #h1djj professing ,christians1 and their #ae1jjj ,sunday-school scholars1 and the #a1jjj converts of the year2 in the name of the races of three continents to whom the ,father is sending these our brethren as we are sent to them1 we pledge the fidelity of the ,american ,missionary ,association to the two-fold agency of its one work1 the discipling of these races by the evangelizing church1 and the ,christian nurture of its schools4 ,and we re-echo the call which the ,national ,council makes upon our churches for the #ejj1jjj required by the exigencies and opportunities of this year's work for the neediest and most helpless of all our fellow-countrymen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,mountain ,,work4 ,,by ,,rev4 ,d4,m4 ,,fisk1 ,d4,d41 ,,chairman4 ,the formal report of your committee can without injustice be brief2 not because the field considered is narrow1 or the work unimportant as a missionary movement1 but from the fact that a certain unity pervades both1 making it possible to comprehend in one view even the diversities of a population of over two millions1 and an area of above one hundred thousand square miles4 ,the official summary of the year's work1 on which we report1 once again sets before this ,association the situation and its involved problem2 a situation full of contradictions1 a problem at once serious but not hopeless4 ,here is the amazing spectacle of a self-isolated people1 begirt with the active life and thought of our eager times1 yet sharing neither4 ,here is an empire that is content to live in the past3 having rich resources it neglects to develop them2 a productive soil but niggard crops4 ,amidst a veritable ,lebanon of forestry it has shanties for homes2 with coal deposits that are the envy of the world1 its shivering women in stoveless hovels attempt to defend themselves about their domestic toil with coarse homespun shawls and slat-bonnets4 ,in an age that has harnessed mechanism1 beast1 and steam to the plow1 scythe1 sickle and flail1 these owners of mountains of iron and mines of power still indolently vex a grudging soil with tools of such barbaric simplicity that their intrusion is scarcely more than a provocation to weeds4 ,here is needless poverty in the lap of potential wealth1 thriftlessness in the face of every seeming stimulus to diligence4 ,here is a diversified landscape that should inspire and a climate that should invigorate1 but in place of vivacity and health we find apathetic endurance and intrenched disease4 ,scrofula and its parasite kin are domesticated in the debilitated blood1 and pills1 calomel1 and death jointly contend for the prolific cradle1 and even when temporarily defeated succeed in transforming childhood into unlovely age1 without the long interval of intermediate active1 zestful manhood4 ,and yet1 pitiful as is this exhibit of deficiency1 these ,highland dwellers are none the less men and our brethren4 ,slavery robbed them of their lands half a century ago1 and roughly shouldered them off into the mountain wilderness dowered with the pauperizing maxims of oppression1 notably the indignity of toil1 and their shrewd native mother-wit has been left to rust to dullard loss in the absence of schools worthy the name2 worse still1 their natural devoutness has been warped by unworthy shepherds1 till superstition1 bigotry1 and gross immorality have taken fierce possession of many a society1 hearthstone and heart4 ,if to-day the schools are inefficient and some of the preaching blasphemous2 if self-satisfied idleness has turned over this mountain realm to want and the slavery of low living1 and 7as ever7 made woman at once the servant and the victim of its barbarism1 it is but another historic count in the awful indictment of human selfishness4 ,and all these crying deficiencies are but make-weights with our conviction of responsibility to this mountain flock of ,god1 that often has been misled and unworthily sacrificed4 ,the only problematical element in this matter is the measure of our faith in ,god and man and all-prevailing truth4 ,wherever the ground has been broken by faithful men there is a crop to show as returns for invested toil4 ,more than a thousand children are now under ,christian instruction in our schools4 ,our pupils are in hungry demand as teachers1 even to a minimum of years that to us would seem absurd 7#ae and #af years74 ,over twenty churches are holding up a reasonable religion1 as a life rather than merely a profession4 ,new fields plead for mission work4 ,our already planted churches and schools are stimulating other denominations to redoubled diligence in church planting4 ,courage is in the tone and look of our frontier workers4 ,the officers of this ,association feel in an aggressive mood4 ,the question resolves itself into one of faith and contributions4 ,what1 my brethren1 shall be our answer8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,indian ,,work4 ,,by ,,rev4 ,,addison ,f4 ,,foster1 ,d4,d41 ,,chairman4 ,the committee on the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association among the ,indians respectfully report that they gratefully recognize the good hand of ,god in the work already done4 ,since the ,american ,missionary ,association took the work1 the expenditures have increased from #aa1jjj to #eb1jjj1 the out-stations for direct evangelistic effort from seven to twenty-one1 and the churches from two to six4 ,this last year1 the ,association has established three new out-stations3 the ,moody station among the ,mandans1 fifty miles north of ,fort ,berthold2 the ,moody ,station ,no4 #b among the ,gros ,ventres1 twenty-five miles north of ,fort ,berthold2 the ,sankey ,station among the ,dakotas at ,cherry ,creek4 ,it has just put up a mission house1 with a room for church worship1 at ,rosebud ,agency4 ,it has organized anew church at ,bazille ,creek1 some distance out from ,santee2 a branch church at ,cherry ,creek1 on the ,sioux ,reservation1 and is just forming a church at ,standing ,rock1 for which a building is now completed4 ,this record is certainly gratifying and shows that the ,association appreciates the emergency1 and is striving to meet it1 so far as the means put in its hands allow4 ,but your committee feel also that never before was there so great an opportunity as now brought before the ,christians of this land1 and especially our own denomination1 for work among the ,indians4 ,the relations of the ,government and of the churches in ,indian work are now unusually harmonious and kindly4 ,the present ,administration is thoroughly in sympathy with missionary operations1 and will do nothing to impair their efficiency4 ,we believe it to be sincerely actuated by a desire to promote the best welfare of the ,indians1 and ready to co-operate with all good people in efforts in this direction4 ,it aims to educate every ,indian child4 ,we desire to see this done1 and believe that when the ,government assumes1 as it should1 the primary education of all ,indians of school age1 we shall be called on to turn our efforts to a much larger work for direct evangelization4 ,our opportunity is enlarging further by the breaking down of the old pagan prejudices of the ,indians4 ,the testimony of all the workers on the field is to this effect4 ,the ,indians are desirous of living as white men4 ,they are rapidly losing their distinctive ,indian ideas and are imbibing the notions of their white neighbors4 ,this is seen in their burials1 which now are not uniformly1 as of old1 on scaffolds1 but are more and more interments4 ,it is shown in their feeling and behavior when death comes into their households4 ,they no longer fill their houses with hideous outcries1 but instead seek the missionaries to inquire about the life in the other world4 ,a further opportunity is to be noted in the fact that the ,dakota ,indians have specially fallen into our care4 ,our chief missions are located among them1 at ,santee1 ,rosebud1 ,oahe1 ,standing ,rock1 and outlying stations4 ,but the ,dakota ,indians number #dj1jjj in all1 or about one-sixth of all the ,indians in the country4 ,we have mastered the ,dakota language2 and a ,bible1 hymn-book1 dictionary and other books are printed in that tongue4 ,we have1 then1 special ability to carry on mission work among them1 and are bound to utilize it to the full4 ,the time is ripe for immediate action4 ,it must be taken without delay if taken at all4 ,the opening up to white settlement of a large strip of land though the center of the great ,sioux reservations is to bring the ,indian into contact with the influence of white men as never before4 ,it is impossible that that influence shall be altogether good4 ,the contact of the ,indian with the frontiersmen of our own people has resulted most deplorably in the past1 and we cannot hope for much better results now4 ,rum and licentiousness are sure to work untold harm to the ,indian unless they are met by the gospel4 ,this opening up of ,indian territory to white settlement lays1 therefore1 a most imperative and immediate obligation on ,christian people to protect the ,indian from ruin by giving them the gospel4 ,we are satisfied that nothing but the gospel will suffice4 ,education alone can not save1 and may simply give new strength to evil habits and influences4 ,it must be a ,christian education2 schools should be simply preliminary and altogether subsidiary to the most energetic and wise presentation of the gospel4 ,the uniform policy of the ,american ,missionary ,association in all departments of its work has been in this direction1 and we gladly recognize the fact that its ,indian work has steadily progressed with the idea of evangelizing the ,indian4 ,we know very well that the ,association is laboring for #h1jjj1jjj ,negroes and for #b1jjj1jjj ,mountain ,white people and for #abe1jjj ,chinese1 as well as #bfb1jjj ,indians4 ,we know that the proportion of the ,indians is comparatively small4 ,at the same time we urge that this disproportion is to a large degree counterbalanced by the special opportunities we have considered4 ,the ,indian problem is before us for immediate settlement4 ,it admits of no delay4 ,care for these few ,indians now1 ,christianize them now1 as we may1 and the ,indian becomes as the white man1 and our missionary efforts will then be released for other fields4 ,in this special emergency we feel strongly the necessity laid on the ,association for an enlargement of its administrative force4 ,since the death of our lamented brother1 ,secretary ,powell1 the force at the ,new ,york office of the ,association has been short-handed4 ,we hope that the earnest efforts which are being made by the ,executive ,committee to find a suitable person to become another ,secretary of the ,association may be at once successful4 ,an emergency is upon us1 and we say this with the conviction that the demands of the ,indian work are now so imperative as to require a large portion of the time and thought of such a ,secretary4 ,it is a necessity that such a ,secretary should frequently visit the field and be in constant communication with the workers4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,chinese ,,work4 ,,by ,,rev4 ,e4,a4 ,,stimson1 ,d4,d41 ,,chairman4 ,this is the smallest and least conspicuous department of the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association1 but the one that stands in the closest relation to ourselves1 and the one also that can show the largest returns4 ,the ,chinese in ,america are few in number1 but they are scattered everywhere1 as if ,god intended in them to put the spirit of our churches to a crucial test1 and1 where that test is endured1 to give to his servants a prompt reward and an unanswerable confirmation of his promises and of their faith4 ,these strange little men from the land of ,sinim1 mysterious1 silent1 capable1 incredibly industrious1 money-making1 with their pig-tails and their felt shoes1 their pidgin ,english and their unintelligible turkey tracks1 their wooden countenance and their bias eyes1 their opium1 and their ways that are dark1 who1 in spite of restrictive laws and brutal personal treatment1 are filtering in everywhere1 until they may be seen crouched in the corner of any street car1 and are a familiar object in the village street--why are they here8 here just now and here so persistently8 ,it is no mighty immigration of men1 such as ,de ,tocqueville liked to dwell upon4 ,it is no conquering host1 no familiar immigration4 ,whatever may once have been the attractive force of the ,california gold fields1 washing soiled linen can hardly be regarded as satisfying a national instinct1 or thumping through the long hours of the night upon an ironing table a soul-filling amusement4 ,much may be said of the golden fleece1 but these are no modern ,argonauts4 ,they are money-making as our friends the ,jews1 but no high emprise or grand endeavor fires their calm pulse1 and much as has been written of the coolie system and the ,six ,companies1 nothing has been adduced which seems adequate to explain the movement4 ,the fact is1 ,god is in it4 ,he is crowding these heathen upon our churches in these missionary days of an opening world1 first of all to prove our ,christianity4 ,do we believe that all men are brothers8 ,do we believe that the ,holy ,ghost who renewed our hearts can renew these8 ,do we believe that the ,lord who died for us1 died for the world8 ,do we believe--not that the world--but that this particular heathen as he stands before us in his blue blouse1 or sits at our side with his reading-book1 is as dear to our heavenly ,father as you and ,i are8 ,do we believe that we are to go to him with the gospel to find a way for the truth into his heart1 to bear his burdens1 to win him by love1 and that without him we ourselves can not be made perfect8 ,do we believe1 in short1 that ,god has brought him here to our door that we might learn that if we have not a religion that will save1 and will make us eager to have it save a ,chinaman1 we have not a religion that will save ourselves8 ,seven hundred and fifty of these men already members of the churches connected with our mission on the ,pacific ,coast6 and who will say how many more on the rolls of our churches from ,st4 ,louis to ,boston6 ,what are these ,chinese converts1 the fruitage of our ,sunday-schools and prayer-meetings1 our personal labor1 but ,god's blessed seal set upon our ,christian faith6 ,here is the evidence4 ,ours is the conquering faith of the world4 ,it will save every man1 for it has saved these men1 no less than you and me4 ,but this is not all4 ,china's day has come4 ,we hear from beyond the sea of the new railway1 the awful floods1 the burning of the ,altar of ,heaven1 and the strange stirrings of the mind of that mighty people1 the oldest1 and judged by its persistent life1 the strongest now on the globe4 ,merchants tell us of its limitless trade3 diplomatists speak of its astuteness and of its new navy1 second only to that of ,england2 scholars wonder at a nation of heathen with whom learning determines rank1 and where the boss and the fixer of elections are unknown4 ,missionaries write of the throngs that gather in strange cities to hear them preach1 of the new gentleness and courtesy everywhere shown them1 and of the increasing number of young people pressing into the mission schools4 ,in the midst of all this1 when the ,lord's voice is heard calling us to lift up our eyes and look on the fields now white for the harvest1 comes word from our solitary watchman upon the watch-tower in ,hong-,kong that when he returned to his post1 as he did last year1 perplexed and down-hearted1 because not one ,christian in all ,america heeded his call and went with him to his field1 to his surprise and joy the ,lord has been preparing his own servants in the person of ,chinese emigrants coming home from ,america1 bringing with them not money only and knowledge of the wide world1 but the new-found faith2 graduates of laundries1 but also of our ,sunday-schools1 members of our churches1 filled with an eager spirit to tell their parents1 their brethren1 their neighbors1 of ,jesus ,christ4 ,ah1 dear friends1 ,god's ways are not as our ways4 ,let us not be slow to catch his thought and walk where he leads4 ,here1 then1 is the call to us4 ,begin with the ,chinaman at your door4 ,recognize that the ,lord ,jesus stands before you in him4 ,you prove your own faith2 you do it unto your ,lord2 you forward the plan of ,god when you take him by the hand and gently entreat him for ,christ4 ,for the same reason you will give your money to support the work of this ,association4 ,no work has been more devoted1 more upheld by prayer1 more ,christlike1 or1 we may add1 more deservedly successful than that under the lead of our representative1 ,dr4 ,pond1 on the ,pacific ,coast4 ,he has already surrounded himself with a band of trained ,christian converts1 who would be a joy in any field1 and who are making themselves felt for good far and wide4 ,their influence reaches to ,chicago1 ,st4 ,louis1 and even ,boston and ,new ,york4 ,it is ours to see that the ,christian city they find here is not less ,christlike than that which met them when they landed on our shores1 and that the hoodlum of our ,eastern cities no more represents the spirit of our churches than does he of ,san ,francisco and of ,oakland4 ,let us be careful to show that our hand will be as promptly raised to protect the helpless ,chinaman from insult on the street as it will be to lead his soul to ,christ4 ,let us insist upon it1 as ,americans and as ,christians1 that no distinction of race or of color shall stand between any man and his rights1 either in the ,state or in the ,church4 ,then may we hope that all--white and black1 ,chinaman and ,american--will care less for rights and more for duties1 and1 in the joy of a true brotherhood1 will labor together to bring in the day of the ,lord4 ,in any case1 let us1 with all our multiform machinery1 our conventions1 our societies1 our churches1 be not so busy saving souls that we have not care to save men and women4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,of ,,the ,,finance ,,committee4 ,,by ,f4,j4 ,,lamb1 ,,esq41 ,,chairman4 ,your committee beg leave to report that they have had under consideration the matters committed to them4 ,they have been attended by your ,treasurer1 and they have examined his reports submitted1 particularly the detailed statement of receipts and expenditures for the year closed2 also statement of trust funds of the ,association2 also statement of resources and liabilities1 and of the income of the ,daniel ,hand ,educational ,fund for the same period4 ,these statements come to us duly vouched for by the standing committee of auditors elected by the ,association4 ,a summarized statement of receipts and expenditures has been printed and distributed at this meeting1 which accords with the detailed report4 ,other reports show that the invested funds of the ,association1 aside from the ,daniel ,hand ,fund1 are #bcj1hge4gh1 being #ejj more than in the previous year4 ,from the statement of resources and liabilities1 we find that the various colleges1 schools1 stations1 buildings1 and property constituting what may be termed the plant of the ,association1 amount1 at their estimated value1 to #gde1hdi4 ,this is a large sum1 but the investment yields no pecuniary return to the ,association4 ,it represents the fixed property with which the ,association carries on its work1 and the figures may serve in some measure to apprise us of the magnitude of the work being carried on by the ,association4 ,the ,daniel ,hand ,fund is a separate and distinct trust1 and its income cannot be used for the general work of the ,association1 and may demand some further notice before this report is closed4 ,the general condition of the fund is found on the printed abstract already mentioned4 ,we find the system of keeping the accounts clear1 convenient1 and well adapted to exhibit from month to month the exact pecuniary condition of the ,association1 and the restrictions upon drawing money from the treasury well calculated to insure safety in that respect1 and we find the management of the ,treasurer's accounts and office in all details satisfactory and deserving our commendation4 ,comparing the gifts and work of the ,association for the last year just closed with the previous year1 and the recommendations of the ,finance ,committee a year ago1 we find that the year #ahhh closed with a deficit of over #e1jjj1 that the amount of receipts for that year had been #cbj1iec4db2 that the ,finance ,committee then recommended that the friends of the ,association should raise for the year #cge1jjj for its current expenditures4 ,it is a source of great gratification to find that this recommendation has been nobly met1 and #cgf1baf4hh have been received during the year just closed1 an increase of over #ee1jjj2 that the deficit of the former year has been supplied1 and that the ,association commences the current year with a fund in the treasury of #d1dga4fg4 ,this we deem substantial indorsement of the ,association and its work1 by the churches1 ,sunday-schools1 missionary societies and its individual friends4 ,this report might stop here with congratulations for the prosperous year just closed1 but the duties so well done1 and work so well performed1 must simply furnish the ,association a standing place and vantage ground for a greater work on its part1 and grounds for greater sacrifices and gifts by its friends for the year to come4 ,the ,national ,council1 representing the ,congregational churches of the whole nation1 lately in session at ,worcester1 by a unanimous vote recommended that the churches and friends of the work of this ,association raise for it for current expenditures for the year now commenced the sum of #ejj1jjj4 ,is this magnificent sum too much to ask for the year now auspiciously begun8 ,happily for your committee1 we are saved the necessity of elaborate or studied examination of the needs of the work that has been done by the papers read and to be printed and addresses delivered from the platform during the meetings up to this time4 ,you are thus informed more fully than we could hope to inform you what these needs are and their urgency4 ,but we may say that of the #h1jjj1jjj ,negroes in the ,south it is estimated only #b1jjj1jjj can read and write4 ,add to these the millions of poor whites in the mountains and the red men of the ,west and the ,chinese in our land1 and we are fully justified in asserting that the work of this ,association equals in magnitude any work of the church1 and involves issues of ,christianity1 and patriotism touched by no other work of our age4 ,it is estimated by the officers of the ,association that through its schools and colleges and the teachers furnished by them1 who are instructing the children in the ,south more or less every year1 perhaps #age1jjj are being reached and instructed4 ,assuming that as many are reached by other missionary and benevolent societies1 we see the tremendous need that can not be ignored4 ,this burden is laid peculiarly and urgently on this society and its contributing friends4 ,can we meet this duty with less than #ejj1jjj for the current year8 ,your committee say1 ,no4 ,perhaps you will be ready to acquiesce4 ,but let us see what this means4 ,it means that every living donor who contributed last year must increase his contribution #ej per cent41 or the number of donors must be largely increased4 ,a large amount was received last year from estates and legacies1 namely1 #aad1jbj4da4 ,this resource is a variable quantity4 ,the ,association can not depend on any increase from this source4 ,its confidence must be in the living1 who can give if they will4 ,your ,committee deem it proper to call more particular attention to the magnificent gift of ,daniel ,hand to the ,association4 ,it is quite likely that some may suppose1 and some may have measured their gifts last year in the belief1 that the income of this fund was applicable to pay current expenses of the ,association4 ,but this is not so4 ,the ,daniel ,hand ,fund is appropriated to special work1 which1 although connected generally with the work of the ,association1 is yet not a part of that ordinary work for which this fund we recommend to be raised is to be expended4 ,hence all friends of the ,association must make and measure their gifts to it understanding that the sum we propose must be raised without any aid from the income from that million dollars constituting one of the grandest gifts of our time4 ,shall this #ejj1jjj for the current work of the ,association for #ahhi be furnished to it8 ,this is ,god's work4 ,the churches here represented and the friends of the ,association have the money4 ,it can not be put to any nobler ,christian use2 the needs demand it1 and we recommend that #ejj1jjj be raised for the ,association for its current work for the year now begun4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,secretary ,,strieby',s ,,paper4 ,,by ,,rev4 ,g4,b4 ,,willcox1 ,d4,d41 ,,chairman4 ,the paper by ,dr4 ,strieby impresses your committee as an admirably comprehensive and discriminating statement of the policy and work of the ,association4 ,as to the reconstruction of our educational and missionary societies1 to the suggestion of which much of the paper calls attention1 and from which he dissents1 we should do well to make haste slowly4 ,some time in the future it may become practicable4 ,but we discover no finger of ,providence pointing toward it at present4 ,if the thought were to reduce our societies to which these interests are intrusted to two1 calling for but two annual collections where we now have three or four1 it needs no prophet to foresee the effect of that on the amounts collected4 ,if the suggestion is of the reconstruction1 not of the societies1 but only of the work--if it proposes that our educational and missionary enterprises be so divided that no one society shall to any extent conduct both--it has certainly an attractive look4 ,but is it more than a look8 ,the educational institutions of several of our societies were born out of the inmost life of those organizations and lie on their bosom for nourishment to-day4 ,to ask the ,american ,board1 for example1 to turn over its colleges and schools to some other society1 for that1 of course1 is involved in the plan suggested--would be like asking one of our ,christian mothers to send her babe to the foundlings' home4 ,some of us are old enough to remember that the venerable and now sainted ,dr4 ,anderson was at first vehemently opposed to the schools planted by the missionaries in ,india4 ,it was confounding things that differ4 ,the work of a missionary society was not to manage schools4 ,the schools were discontinued4 ,but the ,board soon discovered that it was doing its work with but one hand4 ,the schools came back and came to stay4 ,now we conservatives are rather jealous of our progressive brethren calling for a reconstruction of the ,american ,board4 ,we know not whereto this thing may grow4 ,if the colleges and schools of the ,american ,missionary ,association were secular1 if they had no vital oneness of life with its churches1 there might be room for the plan suggested4 ,but they are as thoroughly ,christian in their aim as the churches4 ,the churches are as indispensably educational as the schools4 ,as ,dr4 ,strieby remarks1 the teacher is often the pastor4 ,the pastor finds a great part of his flock in the school4 ,the teachers teach in his ,sunday-school4 ,the prayer-meeting depends on them for its success4 ,the unseen shuttles of mutual sympathy1 flying back and forth incessantly1 are weaving the two together1 and working out the one pattern of the ,divine life in souls1 that covers both4 ,the plan proposed would1 at least to the eye1 disentangle all complications4 ,it would lay out the work in the ,year-,book with clean-cut precision4 ,but vital things are not always improved by vivisection4 ,it would doubtless simplify our apprehension of the organs of a man to lay the lungs on one side of the table1 the heart on another1 the liver on a third1 and the brains on a fourth4 ,but how far it would enhance the vitality and usefulness of the man is another question4 ,there is an organism which is often1 and without harm1 in that fashion distributed4 ,but it is a mannikin--not a man4 ,the one most formidable evil among our colored countrymen is their deplorable ignorance of the connection between religion and morality--or rather the fact that religion1 on its outward side1 is morality4 ,the sable deacon who1 when confronted with a list of his sins as dark as his countenance1 replied triumphantly2 ,well1 bredren1 ,i'se broke ebery commandment ob de ten--but bress de ,lord1 ,i'se nebber los' my 'ligion1 was no monster of iniquity4 ,he was only saturated and sodden with the delusion which submerges ,pagan1 ,mohammedan1 and ,papist alike1 and throws no little of its froth over ,protestant1 too often1 that duties toward ,god and toward man are not blended1 or even dove-tailed together4 ,but they are weights in opposite scales4 ,be only devout in your penances or your hallelujahs1 and your life among men is of little account4 ,now1 that notion can not be corrected in such a people as that one with which we have to do in the ,south by an occasional ,sunday sermon4 ,in the day-school it must be reiterated morning1 noon1 and night in various applications1 line upon line and precept upon precept4 ,and so1 on the other hand1 teachers1 as well as scholars1 must be reminded by pastors1 with a little ,puritan iron in their blood1 of their ,christian1 as well as educational obligations4 ,one member of your committee who has had practical experience in the ,southern work reports that some teachers1 occasionally even now1 need to be reminded of the ,christian service that the ,association1 as well as the ,master1 expects from them4 ,but divide these different functions1 put the churches and ,sunday-schools under other auspices1 and1 self-evidently1 that temptation would be so much the worse4 ,we must have groped out of the morning twilight toward the millennial day much further than we have before any such plan can be reduced to fact4 ,dr4 ,strieby speaks in the paper of his clerical friend of twenty-five years ago1 who thought the work of the ,association would be transient4 ,it reminds us of ,mr4 ,seward's remark that three months would end the civil war4 ,we are in for a long campaign4 ,the sad fact is not to be blinked that1 with the enormous increase of the colored population1 the illiteracy among them is greater to-day than at the close of the rebellion4 ,we have need to sing at times3 ,o1 learn to scorn the praise of men3 ,o1 learn to lose with ,god4 ,as ,dr4 ,goodwin grandly told us yesterday1 our work is under the ,master's order4 ,success is no concern of ours4 ,but success1 because it is ,his concern1 is sure4 ,every losing battle in ,his service turns in time to victory4 ,we remember in ,count ,agenor de ,gasparin's ,uprising of a ,great ,people1 how spell-bound1 awe-struck1 he appeared to be before that magnificent ground swell of the loyal nation1 rolling on1 as a traveling mountain range1 to sweep the rebellion as drift-wood before it4 ,the eight millions of the freedmen and their children are rising4 ,if1 for the present1 there are refluent waves that sadden us it is ,god who brings in the tide4 ,and when ,i begin1 saith the ,lord1 ,i will also make an end4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,on ,,secretary ,,beard',s ,,paper4 ,,by ,,rev4 ,h4,m4 ,,tenney1 ,d4,d41 ,,chairman ,the committee to which was referred the paper of ,secretary ,beard respectfully report that the ,missionary ,view of the ,southern ,situation therein presented impresses us profoundly with the fact that the sincerest piety is the most exalted patriotism4 ,it commends itself to us as worthy of the most serious attention of the thoughtful of both races in the ,north and in the ,south4 ,the gravity of the ,southern problem1 as set before us1 is little less than appalling4 ,the colored race now looks back over a quarter of a century of freedom and recognized rights4 ,the traditions and customs and conservative ties of slavery are broken with its chains4 ,the ideas1 aspirations and manly instincts of liberty have taken hold upon the colored people and are becoming controlling4 ,the intellectual progress of the many1 the political and national prominence of the few1 the acquisition of wealth1 and the marvelously disproportionate increase in their numbers1 serve to awaken the colored race to self-consciousness and a sense of power4 ,it is beginning to demand its rights and to be impatient of their resistance and suppression4 ,the ,samson of the past1 bound1 shorn and blinded1 stands to-day with fetters broken1 with locks grown long1 and with eyes yet dim1 but with the dimness of returning vision1 as one who sees men as trees walking4 ,and whether he shall be carried on to complete emancipation1 intellectual and spiritual1 a true manhood1 or goaded to madness1 and driven to bow himself against the pillars of our national and social temple1 and pull it down to the common ruin of us all1 is the question of the hour4 ,a race so situated1 were there no other factors in the problem1 would be a peril to any people1 and would call for the most helpful effort and self-sacrificing zeal and ,christ-like patience4 ,but the white man in the ,southern situation is as serious a factor in the problem as the black man4 ,in a different way1 the incubus of slavery has rested as heavily upon him as upon his black brother4 ,the illiteracy is not all on one side4 ,if we put ourselves in the place of our ,southern white brothers1 and remember what human nature is1 apart from the grace of ,god1 we may not greatly wonder1 in view of the heritage of the past and the real difficulties and perils of the present1 that there is an intensity of race prejudice1 and a bitterness of caste spirit1 and an increasing hostility to the rising colored population which registers itself in outbreaks of violence and bloodshed1 in the defiance of law1 and in crimes against the ballot-box4 ,we may not be greatly surprised that there should be intelligent men who regard the education of the colored man as a calamity1 and deny his rights1 and call for his disfranchisement4 ,the white man of the ,south needs emancipation and ,christian elevation as well as the black4 ,we are the debtors of ,christ to both races4 ,leave these two races to themselves without the gospel of ,christ1 and the conflict between them is inevitable1 and it can be but terrific and protracted1 and a dark blot upon the ,christian name and civilization4 ,dr4 ,beard has well said that the problem can not be solved by historic precedents4 ,all talk of slavery or peonage for the inferior race1 or migration1 or extermination1 or amalgamation1 is idle and morally repugnant and politically dangerous4 ,the problem set for our solution by ,almighty ,god is just this--as stated in this missionary view of it3 ,how1 being free1 two races as dissimilar as are the white and black races1 now equal before the law1 can live side by side under the same government and live in prosperity and peace4 ,this problem must be solved1 and it must be solved aright4 ,and we may be sure that the ultimate solution of blessing for both races does not1 and can not1 lie in any retrograde movement toward the old darkness and bondage1 but forward in the direction of the larger light and truer liberty of ,christ4 ,if the colored race1 as a race1 seems to have reached a point when a little knowledge is a dangerous thing1 its hope and ours lie not in a return to ignorance and degradation1 but in pressing on to that larger knowledge and truer wisdom1 the beginning of which is the fear of ,god1 and the fullness of which is a hearty recognition and cordial acceptance and discharge of the obligations and trusts of a ,christian manhood and ,christian citizenship4 ,the condition of the colored race1 indeed1 is but a necessary stage in its upward and onward march4 ,it is no other than we have always had reason to expect would be reached4 ,that the mile-stone of to-day marks so great progress is cause for profound gratitude4 ,the new features of the situation and the fresh difficulties are those1 and those only1 which are incident to progress4 ,there is but one solution for the ,southern problem1 and that is the solution for which this ,association has labored from the beginning1 and which this paper urges4 ,christianity in its highest forms1 an intelligent ,christian manhood1 is that solution4 ,it is an impressive thought that it is the mission of this ,association1 more than all other institutions and agencies1 to develop that ,christian sentiment among the colored people1 and indirectly among the whites1 which shall create a balance of power which shall save the races and the nation from that conflict which without it seems inevitable4 ,this fact is a trumpet call to us to press the work of the ,association in its schools and colleges and churches with renewed vigor and devotion4 ,and we would especially emphasize the necessity of preserving the unity of the educational and religious work of the ,association to this end4 ,every teacher must be a missionary as truly as every preacher4 ,and this unity of purpose and effort must be felt4 ,church and school1 as in the past1 must continue to stand together in the minds and labors of the people that there may be no exaltation of education at the expense of religion4 ,in the dark days of slavery1 it was faith in ,god that sustained the ,negro1 that inspired his songs1 and that made him strong to endure and patient to wait4 ,and it was by the power of ,god that he was at last set free4 ,never did the colored man need that faith in ,god1 and in an overruling and guiding ,providence1 more than now1 when the goal of liberty and equality is so nearly attained1 and yet strangely delayed4 ,nobly do the leaders of the race realize that faith1 and seek to lead their brethren into it4 ,it belongs to this ,association1 by all the agencies at its command1 to teach this people to be patient and to wait upon the ,lord1 to endure hardship1 to leave vengeance with the ,lord1 and1 accepting the responsibilities of liberty and citizenship1 to gird themselves to meet them in the spirit and in the strength of a grand ,christian manhood4 ,this the history of this people warrants us in expecting from them4 ,to this manhood1 struggle and work we welcome them1 and in it we pledge them our ,christian support4 ,let this be the temper of those who hold the balance of power between the races in the ,south1 and in no long time the slumbering conscience of the ,southern white will respond4 ,the noble utterances of the ,southerners1 who already demand that the ,golden ,rule shall be applied to the race problem1 prove that it is already waking to life and power4 ,it will be felt then that it cannot be safe to sin against ,god1 to despise even the least of his children2 that it must be safe to follow in the way where he leads1 to do his bidding1 and to give equal rights to all1 and to treat all men as brethren4 ,and thus the missionary view prevailing1 and the missionary solution accepted1 the perils and conflicts of to-day will disappear as the storm-cloud passes1 and the difficulties of race relations now anticipated will adjust themselves in ,god's way1 and in ,god's time--the way of ,christian manhood and brotherhood1 of righteousness and of peace4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,addresses ,,on ,,the ,,preceding ,,reports4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,,wm4 ,,burnet ,,wright1 ,d4,d4 ,when that ,egyptian ,king1 of whom we all know1 was carving those memorials of his greatness which1 even as brought to us by the magazines of late1 have interested us all so much1 and when ,egypt was the most superb power in the world1 slave women1 of whom the mother of ,moses was one1 were lamenting by the ,nile4 ,but the people then to be pitied were not the ,hebrews1 but the ,egyptians4 ,as ,i think of the future of my country1 my anxiety is not for the black race4 ,the two nations which seem destined to exert in the near future the most intense and wide influence are ,russia and the ,united ,states4 ,before each of them ,god has set essentially the same task and appears to have conditioned largely their prosperity upon the way in which they do it4 ,that task is to develop into full-orbed free men a vast number of citizens who have been dwarfed and twisted by slavery4 ,how to do this most thoroughly and speedily is the superlatively important question for each nation to decide4 ,in ,russia1 there is no more acute observer than ,count ,tolstoi3 and ,count ,tolstoi has said to his countrymen1 ,what we in ,russia need supremely is three things2 they are schools and schools and schools4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association1 in view of all that has been said here these two days1 seems to me to be repeating1 with the emphasis of an adequate experience1 those same words2 and ,i think ,mr4 ,hand has shown a judgment equal to his generosity in so wording the conditions of his gift that it repeats the same thing4 ,the ,association1 whether intentionally or unintentionally1 is telling us that what we need in the ,south supremely is schools and schools and schools4 ,by schools ,i certainly do not mean institutions which train only the mind or the body1 or both4 ,i am perfectly familiar with the picture which ,mr4 ,maturin ,ballou has drawn of the ,alaska ,indian using the knowledge gained in missionary schools to raise a check4 ,i know that education which does not rightly train the will may be giving tools to a burglar or weapons to a mad man4 ,the anarchism in ,chicago1 but for the education it controls1 would have been like ,bunyan's giants--able only to gnaw its nails in malice and have fits in sunshiny weather4 ,but the ,american ,missionary ,association understands this thoroughly4 ,in that copy of the year's review which ,dr4 ,strieby sent me1 the report of the school work was marked with a red pencil1 that of the church work with a blue one2 but the two marks overlapped1 the red and the blue1 so completely that all attempts to separate them were hopeless4 ,dr4 ,strieby himself could not distinguish between the church work and the school work of the ,association4 ,no man can4 ,they are indistinguishable because they have been inseparable4 ,this is as it should be4 ,this is essential to their real success4 ,this is ,new ,testament preaching--discipling2 and that is what the ,master told us to do4 ,the danger of ,count ,tolstoi's leadership in ,russia is great1 and it is solely this3 that he does not know that fact4 ,the safety of your guidance1 gentlemen1 who conduct the policy of this ,association1 is that you do4 ,the education given by the ,state and by the ,federal ,government has been and must necessarily be1 almost wholly secular4 ,but the education given by this ,association is distinctly1 not technically1 religious4 ,it is rooted and grounded in the ,bible4 ,and if what ,i am saying appears to you trite1 ,i am glad of it1 because it shows that on the substantial facts we are at one and need no argument4 ,there are1 however1 two facts which sharply distinguish between the work we have to do among our emancipated slaves and that set before ,russia among her emancipated serfs1 and which make it more conspicuously obvious than it can be in ,russia that we need schools4 ,we have1 first of all1 to contend with the prejudice of color4 ,we have been told how great that is4 ,i need spend no time in repeating this while the debates at ,worcester and in the ,episcopal ,convention at ,new ,york ring in our ears2 while ,harvard seniors can not elect for class orator the ablest and fittest man they have if he happens to be colored1 without eliciting from ,new ,york newspapers two-column editorials of amazement2 and while writers as wise1 as informed1 and as calm as ,george ,cable1 are unable to write without showing their quivering apprehension of a race war4 ,the wickedness of this class feeling is conceded by all good men1 and ,i need not dwell upon it4 ,the cause of it has been largely overlooked1 and therefore the remedies so often advocated have proved futile4 ,until the cause is distinctly recognized and acknowledged and remedied1 the prejudice will remain4 ,the cause is this3 ,all freeborn people in every age and clime have had a contempt for slaves4 ,that is very near the feeling--mark my words--they ought to have4 ,it was stronger in ,athens than it has ever been in ,charleston4 ,it is partly1 and has always been largely1 caused by the wicked pride of mastership1 but it has also been largely inspired by the perception of those vices and inferiorities which his condition breeds in the slave4 ,ignorance1 deceit1 cowardice1 are contemptible2 and therefore men who know better fall into the way of despising those who are ignorant and cowardly instead of trying to help them become the reverse of all these things4 ,in nearly every other nation--there are two exceptions that will readily occur to you--save our own1 as soon as the slave's chains have been broken and the slave's vices eradicated1 the emancipated man has been absorbed among the class of freemen4 ,there was nothing left to suggest that he had ever been a slave4 ,the people forgot it4 ,but the black man bears an ineffaceable mark that he belongs to a race which has been enslaved2 and it is1 therefore1 in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred unconsciously but instinctively assumed that his is still the servile character4 ,there is no natural antipathy between the white and the black races2 if there were there could be no mulattoes4 ,the sole reason of the persistence of this caste feeling is that the black man bears the mark saying to every one that sees him1 ,i belong to a race that has been enslaved3 and unconsciously men assume1 ,therefore your character is still a servile character4 ,the prejudice is deep2 it is almost universal2 and so long as there is a ,god in heaven who led forth the ,hebrews and overthrew the ,pharaohs1 there will be no safety for this ,nation of ours until the prejudice is obliterated1 as completely as that which once existed and was more intense between the ,anglo-,saxon and the ,norman4 ,if1 as has been the case in many another land1 there should arise an emergency threatening the existence of our ,nation1 and there were one man1 and only one1 capable of steering us through the storm into safety--some ,lincoln or ,washington--and if every voter in our country knew that this man were the only one who could do it1 that man1 if he were black1 could not be elected ,president4 ,were such an emergency to arise to-morrow1 we should perish4 ,we should perish by suicide1 and richly deserve all that we got4 ,there is no safety for our land until this prejudice of caste is gone4 ,it never came by argument2 it can never be argued away4 ,it can not be smothered under legislation nor uprooted by resolutions nor effaced by tears4 ,while good men feel it they will fight it1 but the majority will yield to it and it can be decided in only one way4 ,that way was well outlined by a colored student in ,hampton ,institute in the debating club of that institution4 ,the subject for discussion was1 ,how ,shall ,we ,black ,men ,secure ,our ,rights8 ,the last speaker was black as ebony1 and had been bred in his early years a slave4 ,when he arose ,i expected to hear him repeat the familiar complaints and suggest the familiar remedies4 ,he did neither4 ,he simply said3 ,my friends1 ,i do not agree with all that you have said4 ,i think1 as you do1 that the way white people treat us in the street cars and hotels--and he might have added1 in churches1 but he did not--is wrong1 unchristian1 and cruel4 ,and when he said that1 there was a pathos in his voice which made me ashamed to be a white man4 ,but1 he added1 while ,i think as you do that it is cruel1 ,i do not think that the white people will ever stop treating us as inferiors so long as we are inferiors1 and ,i think that they will despise us as long as they can4 ,but when we get enough character in our hearts1 enough brains in our head1 and enough money in our pockets1 they will stop calling us niggers6 ,he was right--a thousand times right4 ,we must face the facts and steer by them1 and not attempt to be guided by sentiment and emotions4 ,so long as the sight of a black face instinctively suggests to us rags and ignorance1 and servility and menial employments1 just so long this prejudice of caste will endure1 and no amount of individual genius1 culture1 or character will be able to brush the mildew of caste from any individual black man's brow4 ,that lady may be a ,florence ,nightingale1 but if ,i whisper1 and whisper truly1 that she came from the slums1 that her sisters are in the penitentiary1 and her brothers are thieves1 society will never forgive her for not being in the penitentiary herself4 ,society will pity her in ostentatious magniloquence1 which is far worse than contempt or neglect2 perhaps it will clothe her with silk and diamonds2 but it will never treat her as it would not dare not to treat any lady whom it felt its equal4 ,as has been well said1 what is needed is not patronage nor pity1 but fact--the recognition of fact4 ,when the sight of a black face shall no longer remind men that it belongs to a race of which the immense majority close at hand are still showing what we have driven into them by the lash and bound in them by chains2 when the black face shall have clothed itself in associations as full of comfort and culture and ,christian worth as a white man wears1 ,negro will be as honorable as ,caucasian4 ,and for this1 through its churches which are schools1 and its schools which are churches1 the ,american ,missionary ,association is laboring and praying with splendid success4 ,i would like to remind you of the second point1 which is emphasized by the statement in the report that a graduate1 of ,fisk ,university1 with his wife1 another graduate1 has gone to ,africa under commission of the ,american ,board1 and has there shown eminent abilities4 ,africa is the only continent on the planet that has never had a history4 ,for millenniums it has been a locked closet4 ,but in the providence of ,god the gaze of ,christendom is now concentrated upon it4 ,all the passions1 good and bad1 which push men are impelling the most adventurous and energetic of our race to look or to go thither4 ,love of money1 love of adventure1 love of power1 love of man and love of ,god1 are leading men to look into the #bjj1jjj1jjj dusky faces there from which the veil has at last been thrown back4 ,meanwhile #h1jjj1jjj of that race whose ,christianizing means the regeneration of a continent vaster than ,europe and the inauguration of a history perhaps to be more splendid than that which ,europe has wrought out in two millenniums1 are here for you and me to educate4 ,do you believe these facts are accidents8 ,do you believe that ,he who maketh the wrath of man to praise ,him and restraineth the remainder of wrath has not ordained them according to the counsels of his own will8 ,there never can be a ,christian education which does not plant and foster the missionary spirit4 ,is it a dream8 ,if so1 let me die before ,i wake4 ,is it a dream that among #h1jjj1jjj of our fellow citizens each of whom1 as ,dr4 ,strieby told us at ,new ,york1 is qualified to live1 perhaps to thrive1 in the climate which has proved a grave to ,anglo-,saxons1 each of whom is qualified to visit ,africa with a fair hope of making himself received as a child returning unto his own household8 ,is it too much to hope that1 under the ,christian education we may give them if we will1 enough will desire to preach ,christ to the dark continent to gem it with life and light as the sky is gemmed with stars8 ,i am too old to do it1 but so complete is my conviction that the future of the race in the coming century shall move toward ,africa as in the ages following ,paul it moved toward the ,north and ,west of ,europe1 that were ,i a young man1 loyal and devoted to my ,master1 and trying as he told his followers by ,gennesaret to read in the morning and evening red the signs of the times1 ,i should not go to ,africa1 perhaps2 ,i would go to ,tougaloo ,university1 ,i think1 and there devote all my energies and powers to instructing black men in the meaning and scope and inspiration and promise of the ,master's words1 ,go ye4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,f4,p4 ,,woodbury1 ,d4,d4 ,i feel that ,i have learned a great deal to-day2 and as the last speaker spoke concerning ,africa1 an idea has come into my mind which ,i may express4 ,here we have on one side of the great ocean1 ,africa2 on the other side1 ,america4 ,we have here a race conflict2 on the one side eight millions of blacks1 we will say1 and perhaps eight millions of irreconcilable whites on the other4 ,and these dominant eight millions of white men maintain1 with the utmost pertinacity--and they have the power in their right hand so far as we can see--that they propose to rule and keep down those eight millions of black men4 ,i have seen the title of a book recently published1 ,an ,appeal to ,pharoah1 which is vouched for as a calm and temperate discussion of the question whether1 after all1 we are not going to get by this race difficulty by a great deportation to ,africa4 ,it is a good deal to raise the question of eight millions of men leaving one country and going across the ocean and settling in another continent4 ,but isn't there something in it after all8 ,might it not compose the differences8 ,i know that the cost would be very large1 but careful estimates go to show that the cost is not anywhere near the amount we spent in our civil war4 ,on the one side1 we have these eight millions of black men--ignorant1 very largely superstitious1 still somewhat above those of the same color in ,africa1 and plunged here into an antagonism which is deep1 and bitter1 and hopeless4 ,on the other side1 we have these eight millions of white people who do not accept the results of the war4 ,isn't it better that eight millions shall go8 ,i don't know4 ,i think it deserves serious consideration4 ,but when the question arises for practical consideration1 ,i think there is another and a little deeper question that we ought to remember1 and that is this3 ,which eight millions ought to go8 ,is it these who have been faithful to the ,american flag1 who are straight in the line of progress that this republic proposes to maintain1 who are in the line of the development of all the ages1 who are looking upward8 ,or is it the eight millions who are hopelessly side-tracked by the purposes of infinite ,god1 and who are standing here in this republic1 undertaking to maintain a conflict that is necessarily one of despair1 as sure as ,god is at the head of the universe8 ,expatriation if you please1 deportation if you will2 but consider the question whether it shall be eight millions of ,american patriots who are to be sent over to ,africa or eight millions who have come out of a rebellion and maintain their seditious and rebellious attitude to-day4 ,my friends1 we all know that we are going to live together4 ,there is no more baseless theory on ,god's earth than that we are going to take eight millions of men and send them out of this country1 because they want to learn something1 because they want to live like men and be men and citizens1 and because ,god has put them here for our work and our education4 ,i tell you1 my friends1 the immediate problem seems to me only one form of a larger problem4 ,what is the problem of the planet to-day8 ,is it not the problem as to which of two theories shall maintain itself concerning the masses which are at the base of society8 ,isn't that the problem in every nation8 ,isn't it the problem here concerning white and black1 red and yellow alike8 ,there is no possible doubt about it4 ,the labor problem1 do you call it8 ,here is one theory which holds that the masses shall be kept down4 ,here is the other system which maintains that they shall be elevated4 ,we have got to live with them in the world1 for ,i imagine there is nobody talking about sending them to the moon4 ,don't you know1 and ,i know that the world is growing smaller every year8 ,talk about neighborhood--look over this continent4 ,germany is here2 ,ireland is here2 ,france is here2 ,china is here2 ,africa is here4 ,we are neighbors to everybody4 ,we are touching elbows across the ocean all the time4 ,if you send anybody to ,africa1 why1 he is only next door2 and by and by we shall have air ships that will float up over there in a few hours6 ,how are you going to manage this thing8 ,we have got to live together in this world1 and nearer and nearer to one another with every generation2 and this country may just as well be the field in which to try the experiment out as any other country on the face of the globe4 ,i think we are going to try it out to the end4 ,there are symptoms of it all around4 ,but the conflict is here2 it is in the air4 ,it is not a conflict by sword4 ,you know they tell the legend among the old medival stories that in one of the great battles on one of the plains of ,europe1 after the quiet darkness of the night had settled over the scene1 the field strewn all over with the forms of the mangled and the dead1 there were seen in the shuddering midnight air to rise spirit forms maintaining the deadly conflict there1 and carrying on the battle of the day4 ,it seems to me1 in some sense1 true of us4 ,the sword has done what the sword could do2 it can do no more4 ,but the conflict is here in the air1 pronouncing itself with every event that drifts across our horizon4 ,harvard sets its seal on the brow of ,clement ,morgan1 and the ,memphis ,avalanche has no other word for him than to call him that dusky steer with the crumpled forelock4 ,my friends1 we are going right forward in the field of conflict1 which is the field of victory4 ,one with ,god is a majority1 and we are thousands with ,god4 ,and we have on our side the weak and the helpless1 too4 ,i don't want any better aid than that4 ,you know that ,burke in that magnificent invective against ,warren ,hastings1 when he rose to the very climax of it and told the story of those atrocious tortures to which the poor and ignorant and misguided peasants of ,india had been put1 how they had had their fingers tied together and mashed with hammers1 and other unmentionable things had been done to them1 appealed to the parliament and said that if they should refuse justice those mashed and disabled hands1 lifted high to ,heaven in prayer1 would call down the power of ,god for their deliverance4 ,is it not worse to mash and disable a mind and a soul than a hand8 ,i tell you the prayers of the poor are on our side2 and if we had nothing of all this magnificent achievement of this ,association to look upon1 we could look on those hands raised and those souls crying out from the social bondage of to-day1 as they did from the physical bondage of a few years ago1 and know that if ,god be for us we need not care who or what is against us4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,professor ,,graham ,,taylor4 ,i have but a very few words to add to this report4 ,the facts speak louder than any statement of them can4 ,when skirting the ,asiatic shore of the inner sea1 that lonely traveler1 ,paul1 heard a voice1 he looked across to the shores of ,europe1 and there in the night stood a great colossal form1 not of a naked savage1 but a form clad perhaps1 in the panoply of the ,macedonian phalanx1 the representative of the ,europe that then was and was yet to be1 the precursor1 it may be1 to the classically informed mind of the missionary to the ,gentiles1 of that long procession of great world conquerors4 ,it was the ,man of ,macedon who stood there in the might of his strength and cried1 like the crying of an infant in the night1 the crying of an infant for the light1 ,come3 come over into ,macedonia and help us4 ,now1 my brethren1 this was the cry of the strong for help4 ,this was the cry of the peoples that were following the westward course of the star of empire4 ,and yet1 in their strength1 they cried as though they were the weakest of woman born4 ,and when that missionary1 in response to that call1 crossed the sea1 though he came to that ,macedonian city which had been the battle-scene of the contending forces of the ,roman empire1 he found access for the gospel into ,europe through the open heart of one woman--,lydia1 a seller of purple4 ,and there1 sitting down by the water course1 where prayer was wont to be made1 he just grouped those individuals into that unit of ,god's operations on the face of the earth1 the local church4 ,and this church was distinguished among the apostolic churches for its family traits1 for the infusion of feminine grace and masculine strength1 for the most domestic hospitality and the very faults of the close attritions of human life4 ,there he planted the seed which has grown into our ,european and ,american civilization and ,christianity4 ,and so ever at the cry of the strong for help the gospel has had just these three great prime factors to present for the solution of the problems of every age3 first1 the home1 with its priesthood of the father and mother1 the sanctuary of the house and the ministrations of family life2 secondly1 the school2 and thirdly1 between the home and the school1 the church4 ,when our ,lord himself1 from all possible sources1 made selection of the first among the many means he has chosen for the redemption of this world1 he chose a trained personality4 ,as the medium for the transmission of truth1 no improvement1 no change has been found in all the progress of the gospel4 ,by this trained personality--the heart that has been led to live with ,christ awhile1 and then go forth in his name and filled with his love to the hearts that have place for that love and rootage for that life--this wonderful product of our ,christian civilization has everywhere been produced4 ,and ,i take it that in no one of the ,christian agencies known to us are these three methods so wonderfully unified1 so inseparably united1 as the home and the church and the school are in the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,they are one and the same4 ,they are indissoluble4 ,the long experience of this ,association through this half century of specialized work does fit it1 as the report has said1 to give an almost commanding opinion in regard to the method of the work to be pursued among these very distinct classes4 ,from the field as well as from the office1 and from the experience of those longest at work1 we learn that the school finds its ultimate aim only in the church2 that1 as a ,christian agency1 we are to work with the school only as a means to the end of building up that body of ,christ on the face of the earth which is known by the name of his church4 ,i do not see how the separation to any extent of school and church work can fail to break the unity of administration and hinder the progress of this gloriously on-going work4 ,i have just one word to add in regard to the reflex influence of this church work upon the home churches4 ,my brethren1 there has been a great dearth in candidates for the ministry until very recently4 ,it strikes me that there is no such object-lesson in all our land1 inviting men to consecrate themselves to the noblest of purposes1 as the heroic ministry of this ,association4 ,it needs the heroic element to attract young men4 ,it needs something which is very plainly worth their while to live for and to work for and to consecrate their energies toward1 in order to attract them from the allurements of business and material progress to-day4 ,the ,indian service of the ,british ,government1 and even the service of the great commercial companies1 have that element of heroism in it them which has attracted the very best brain and brawn of the ,english race to ,india4 ,so it seems to me we will have to hold up these great organizations1 which reach down to the hard places of the land1 which occupy places that require men to man them1 in order to recruit the ranks of our ministers4 ,a man needs to know that he will have to be all the more a man to be anything of a minister now-a-days1 to attract him into this great work4 ,and this heroic type of ,christian ministry and of ,christian manhood and womanhood1 shown in the half century of this society's work and existence1 is to my mind one of the great attractions upon the best1 the strongest1 and the most consecrated of those men and women who devote their lives to the service of the church4 ,its reflex influence upon every other branch of missionary activity in the church is very plain4 ,it is to-day--,i do not hesitate to say it--the hero of our organizations4 ,it takes far less stamina1 far less consecration1 ,i believe1 to go to ,india1 or ,china1 or ,japan than it does to come out at the call of ,god and of this agency of ,his divine ,providence and enter many a field manned by this ,association4 ,in the personnel of our theological seminaries ,i have long noticed that the choicest spirits1 the men with the stamp of courage upon them1 those who are not working for place1 but for ,christ1 and him alone1 are the men who take up this work4 ,they are the men who1 when they come back to the schools of the prophets1 thrill our hearts as no other men do with the story of the conquests of ,christ in their own hearts as well as out in the hard fields which they cultivate for his sake2 and there will be no more glowing missionary meeting of the seminary with which ,i have the honor to be connected than when the reports of this meeting shall be carried back to the brethren4 ,the prayers of the class-rooms1 the prayers of the missionary meetings1 the yearnings of the hearts of the men who are preparing to follow in the footsteps of those who have heroically led the way1 are the wires for these unseen and yet never unused electric currents which unite the ,north with the ,south1 the frontier with the citadels of our common ,christianity4 ,we know very well the danger of a false education1 of a school without ,a church1 education without evangelization1 a university without the heart of ,christ beating in it4 ,great are the joy and confidence felt in the hearts of the constituency of this body that school and church are so inextricably interwoven with each other that if you plant a school it will develop into a church1 and if the church comes it will eventually and inevitably re-act1 and in a most blessed way in spiritual and often in material resources upon the school4 ,we give largely to the school because there is a home beneath it and a church around it4 ,i regard these churches of the ,american ,missionary ,association with their evangelistic and nurturing agencies1 prime sociological factors for bringing in ,christ's dear kingdom in this land of ours4 ,it is their mission not only to remedy evils1 not only to restore rights1 but to be great constructive agencies of a new ,christian civilization4 ,for when ,christ came1 he came preaching1 not the gospel of the individual1 not a gospel simply to save that man1 that woman1 that child1 but the gospel of the ,kingdom1 the gospel which this great ,association so effectually preaches and not only preaches but applies and administers as well4 ,and the time will not be far hence when this whole subject of the environment of the spiritual life will force itself so imperatively upon the study of the churches at home that they will take the type of their work and the inspiration for their new developments from the leadership of this and kindred missionary organizations which have set them these most brilliant examples of being ahead of the thought and the feeling of their day4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,c4,w4 ,,hiatt4 ,more than fifty years ago ,de ,tocqueville gave utterance to these prophetic words3 ,the most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future existence of the ,united ,states arises from the presence of a black population upon its territory4 ,i think that that prophecy has been iterated and reiterated before this convention until we ought finally to let it rest as an established fact4 ,i believe we are menaced by these eight millions of people1 who are twice as great in number as were the people of the ,united ,colonies when they broke from the mightiest naval and military power in history2 but ,i believe that the peril that we are menaced by in the presence of this black man arises from his perils4 ,there is a peril from the black man1 but it is a peril secondary to the peril of the black man upon this soil4 ,i do not apprehend any uprising by ,uncle ,tom2 but ,uncle ,tom is dead1 and his son is here and his friends of a younger generation4 ,these men are being gnarled and corrupted and imbruted1 and are massing themselves1 touching elbows one with another2 and under the influences of the age in which we live are becoming a factor in our civilization which1 unless we modify and change it under our ,christian teaching1 will render our ,southland like that island on the north of the ,caribbean ,sea where to-day it is said that the name of ,toussaint l',ouverture1 the original defender and liberator1 is a hissing and a reproach4 ,it was a fine augury of the future when the work for the ex-slave began at ,fortress ,monroe in the atmosphere of religion4 ,mary ,peake1 meeting the advancing multitudes of refugees1 gospel in heart and primer in hand1 as by divine suggestion1 laid the pattern of all our succeeding toil4 ,side by side of mutual helpfulness ,god has placed the alphabet and decalogue1 the teacher and the preacher1 the school-house and the church4 ,what therefore ,god hath joined together let not man put asunder4 ,the largest1 grandest word in the title of this organization is ,missionary4 ,when that word drops out its work will be done1 for its call will have ceased4 ,our ultimate end and present purpose is1 and always should be1 simply this--to save4 ,we cannot lift our fallen brother without the leverage of the cross4 ,no field is wider1 none more difficult1 than that to which our eyes are turned1 embracing as it does four of the five families of mankind4 ,they huddle together in the lap of ,christendom1 but feel no warmth4 ,they are a demonstration of the fact that civilization never touches barbarism without polluting it4 ,the ,indian1 finding his highest ideal in the rude and tipsy defender of our flag2 the ,chinaman1 taking home more heathenism than he brings2 the ,negro1 bound tighter by the vices of the whites than ever he was by their iron chains--these three1 ignorant of the ,christ and grasping the satanic weaponry of our sinful land and age1 together form the most discouraging of mission fields4 ,our laborers are faced by all the serious problems of the foreign land--problems unrelieved by a single romantic charm4 ,when we send our missionaries to ,africa they go to labor among the ,africans2 and when we send them down ,south they go to teach niggers4 ,notice1 then1 what the report of this committee signifies in the presence of the fact that our laborers not only grapple with foreign languages1 conceptions1 idolatries1 habits of benighted peoples1 but all the time are hindered and assailed on every hand by these ,bedouin ,arabs of our land--the minions of mammon and the slaves of caste4 ,to gather and hold and save in such a field as this1 is task enough for the finest corps in the army of the ,lord4 ,in the presence of these well-known facts1 the report of the committee adds another chapter to the ,book of ,acts4 ,it gladdens our hearts with thrilling music--the music of ringing sickle and reaper's song4 ,from all over this mighty field1 from mountain1 and savannah1 and shore1 and plain1 we hear the resonant footsteps of advancing troops--a solid regiment of converts marching in the army of our ,christ and into the fellowship of his ,congregational ,church4 ,i want you to notice that this church which we have planted in the ,south is just the kind of a church to take these people and assimilate them1 to save them and to preserve them to their highest usefulness4 ,and why8 ,in the first place1 because it is a church that will take them in4 ,i saw the other day this inscription over a great arch erected in honor of our ,pan-,american guests in the city of ,cleveland1 ,welcome ,all ,americans4 ,well1 the ,congregational ,church has put three talismanic letters over the portal of every church that it has planted in the ,south and in the ,west1 ,a4,m4,a4--,all mankind acceptable4 ,every convert in our work has cosmopolitan views respecting the brotherhood of man4 ,this means that one thousand people have seated themselves before an apostolic communion table4 ,white1 black1 red and yellow1 side by side in harmony before the broken memorials of the life of love4 ,the spirit of color-caste is a post-apostolic devil4 ,the most eminent convert of the evangelist ,philip was as black as a middle vein of ,massilon coal4 ,perhaps that is why they met in the desert and the spirit compassionately caught ,philip away4 ,the purest church and the purest ray of sunshine are alike--they absorb the seven colors of the spectrum4 ,when the ,creator flung the rainbow like a silken scarf over the shoulder of the summer cloud1 he drew his color-line4 ,pentecostal blessings fell at ,jerusalem1 and have fallen ever since on the cosmopolitan church4 ,the second feature of this church that adapts it to ours field is the open ,bible4 ,every convert is armed with the shining sword--the sword of the spirit1 which is the word of ,god1 like the sword in the hand of the angel at ,eden's gate1 turning every way at once4 ,you do not hear of immorality1 gross and fearful1 within the precincts of our ,congregational churches4 ,you do not hear of our people walking up the hills of the beatitudes over the broken tables of the law4 ,the written word1 like the ,incarnate1 goes into our congregations and drives out all the sellers of oxen and of doves4 ,the ,word1 also1 is the protection of these people against their greatest foe of this day--the encroaching power of the ,church of ,rome4 ,do you know that that ancient foe of liberty is stalking all across the twelve ,states of the ,south8 ,do you know what it means to have the ,church of ,rome take in hand these people of lowly and of feeble intelligence8 ,we do not have to crossover to ,austria or ,italy in order to discern her aims1 for the ,nun of ,kenmare has alighted upon our shores1 and her alarming words are running through the land4 ,rome knows no color prejudice1 and the foot of that great despotic power can rest just as easily upon a skin that is black as upon a neck that is of the purest alabaster4 ,and the ,congregational ,church down ,south is the only champion against this papal see1 for she has an aisle wide enough for five races of mankind to march up to her communion table1 while the sword of the ,spirit guards her portals4 ,again1 ,i wish you to notice this fact3 ,that this ,church which we are planting is not only hiding a multitude of sins by saving these lowly people1 but it is serving the interests of the ,state as well4 ,when we remember that the polity of our church is a polity of liberty1 that it teaches that rights and duties go hand in hand1 that it takes just as much wisdom to elect the pastor of a church as the ,president of the ,united ,states1 we can see that the moral influence of this polity of ours is serving the interests of our commonwealth4 ,the ,congregational ,church is carrying the ,pilgrim idea into the soil of the ,cavalier4 ,straight ,university1 ,tillotson ,institute1 and these other schools1 are but the outcropping of that old stone down in an ,eastern harbor that we call ,plymouth ,rock4 ,down ,south are being planted those two principles upon which the great superstructure of our liberty rests firm--a church without a bishop and a state without a king4 ,this is what ,congregationalism is carrying into that land long ruled by aristocracies4 ,it is giving these people who possess liberty the knowledge of how to use it aright4 ,finally we not only hide a multitude of sins1 we not only serve the ,state1 but we reach forth a long arm to save the world4 ,awhile ago ,i was in the study of ,dr4 ,ladd4 ,there1 spread before us1 were relics of his well remembered cruise along the ,nile4 ,there were implements for rude tillage of the soil1 there were swords and spears beaten into shape by barbaric artisans1 there were the cats and lizards and toads1 objects of worship by unnumbered millions4 ,thus were displayed in object lesson the savagery and idolatry of one of the largest families of man4 ,the ,doctor placed his finger on the map at ,mendi ,mission4 ,there1 said he1 ,i saw a row of missionaries graves4 ,their headstones sadly told the tale of the pestilential land4 ,two months1 three months1 nine months they survived1 and then fell to rise no more4 ,no white man can endure the clime4 ,another time ,i was at a commencement of ,fisk ,university4 ,i saw ,professor ,spence take two photographs1 and hold them up before the gaze of five hundred intelligent colored youths1 whose faces fairly glowed as they looked upon the well-remembered features of two of their alumni1 who in ,western ,africa1 if ,i mistake not1 are teaching the gospel of ,christ and enduring the rigors of the climate4 ,and in the glowing features of these five hundred folk1 ,i saw the prophecy of a splendid recruiting of our feeble forces in that continent which by and by shall not be dark4 ,ah1 this work is grand6 ,we are putting the cross of ,jesus into the dusky hands that shall carry it not only to the land of the pyramids1 not only to the land of the ancient wall2 but1 as ,i believe1 there will come a day when some child now in our schools of the ,west1 some ,apache or ,dakotan1 will rise with apostolic fervor1 and going southward along the isthmus and over the mountains will put this transfigured cross of ,christ into the pampas and the llanos through which the ,amazon and the ,orinoco pour their majestic streams4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,d4,m4 ,,fisk1 ,d4,d4 ,it may be fitting to add a few supplementary words corroborative of the hopeful view taken in this report on the ,mountain ,work4 ,at first glance it does seem that this is a discouraging field4 ,i need not recapitulate what has been said in the report already before you4 ,it is sufficiently discouraging2 the ignorance and poverty are not the worst features4 ,the position of the clergy in many sections--,i am happy to say not in all--is full of discouragement4 ,the worst thing we have to face is the apathy of the people4 ,their phrase1 ,we-uns never asked you-uns to come here1 is certainly most pathetic4 ,what do we propose to do about it8 ,what do we propose to do with more than two millions for whom ,christ died1 ,american citizens1 in the very heart of our ,nation1 around whom the currents of commerce and industry swirl every day8 ,shall the greatest tidal wave of all time pass them by1 and they not feel it for a moment8 ,more than all1 shall the great gospel of ,god1 which is life1 and hope1 and peace1 and home1 for us1 be nothing for them8 ,i am happy to say that it is not all dark by any manner of means4 ,your committee is hopeful1 the members of this ,association are hopeful1 our brethren on the frontier are hopeful4 ,there are very many favorable things1 and one of the most favorable is their increasing numbers4 ,do we stop to estimate what two millions of souls means8 ,more than thirty thousand cradles filled in a single year4 ,these men respect the ,bible4 ,they feel a superstitious regard for it2 they are not infidel people4 ,they have a simple1 childlike faith1 and the ,bible word is to them final4 ,many things that many of us have to contend with1 the brethren there do not meet ,i mean in the field of infidelity4 ,they have great respect for woman if she respects herself4 ,i have the statement of one of our workers in the ,south that a woman can go even among these men when they are drunk1 and if she respects herself and has maintained her character she is perfectly safe in their midst4 ,this same writer tells me of a young man who went out from one of their schools1 and kept school in a certain place during the winter1 ,when he returned1 he said3 ,nothing would tempt me to go back there again4 ,not so with the young ladies4 ,it is one of the most astonishing signs of the times that really into the feeble hand of womanhood is given the key of the situation4 ,they respect these girls1 they reverence them and give them a place of dignity in their hearts4 ,that makes it possible for these women to do a large and splendid work in the ,south4 ,once let these girls that come under the influence of our ,christian ,northern women who go there as teachers1 and the graduates of these various colleges and schools that we have planted1 and are about to plant in the ,south2 once let common womanhood in the ,south that has been so much under the heel of this oppression2 once let girlhood feel the power that has come go girlhood1 that to them as young women in the cradle of these hills1 under this fair sky is given the power to turn over in not less than thirty or forty years this whole country for ,god and humanity1 for enlightenment and for ,christian peace2--once let that idea get into the minds of these girls1 and we have not the same problem that we have to-day4 ,there is good blood there as well4 ,there is a man in ,congress to-day1 honoring himself and his district and his nation1 who went to school there1 and ,i know not for how many years wore but one garment4 ,i call that pretty good blood when from such circumstances a man can come up to such a large place4 ,there is a transition time with this whole section4 ,new conditions are being put upon them4 ,they feel the outside movement of the world4 ,a friend of mine is now in the ,south who has brought up a large quantity of lumber in a certain district1 and when he finds the right man he will plant a school there4 ,coal and iron are being extensively worked4 ,my brother here 7the ,rev4 ,s4,e4 ,lathrop7 tells me that near ,cumberland ,gap four hundred houses have gone up within a very brief time1 and over two thousand workmen are pushing into a section not before opened4 ,it will not come in an hour or in a day2 but by and by1 when these men face the new life of our times1 when they have once felt its pressure1 and the tremendous disparity between their manner of living and the high kind of life of ,northern homes and ,northern hearthstones1 they will move1 and a change will come over the spirit of their dreams4 ,even now1 the native preachers1 who have been so hostile to our work1 are coming to these1 our pastors1 and asking for light on the ,bible4 ,furthermore1 our pupils are going out and organizing county institutes1 and the work is going on everywhere4 ,there is a dark side to it1 but ,i praise ,god there is a bright side4 ,it is like a dam4 ,when the dam begins to go1 it will go all at once4 ,youth is on our side4 ,in thirty years we shall not have the same problem we have now--no1 not in twenty years4 ,wealth is coming in4 ,a large tract of eleven thousand acres1 containing some of the finest coal that the world knows1 is being developed4 ,this means a great influx of population1 and this wealth is to be developed1 and new material power is coming as an auxiliary to our spiritual power4 ,this wealth is being converted4 ,a man who five years ago was a godless man1 and who owns to-day one-seventh of these eleven thousand acres of coal lands1 was converted4 ,he was made a ,sunday-school ,superintendent1 but he could not say the ,lord's ,prayer2 yet he was determined that the ,lord's ,prayer should be repeated in that school1 and he hired a large number of small boys and gave them a dime apiece and told them to learn the ,lord's ,prayer that week4 ,they did so2 and when ,sunday came1 with a chorus to back him1 he came on as a solo performer4 ,a dear girl of my own acquaintance dressed1 in one morning1 fifteen or sixteen women and children4 ,they came around her and felt her all over1 and wondered at the complexity of her garments4 ,i speak of this thing because it indicates that that old apathy is breaking up1 and they are coming to look at new things and feel a new interest in the life outside of themselves4 ,and as this same dear girl taught from thirty to fifty of these women1 they listened eagerly1 and the tears rolled down their cheeks1 and they said to her1 ,oh1 come and tell us more about ,jesus1 for we want to be different kind of women1 different kind of mothers4 ,there was one girl1 coarse enough in fiber1 heavy enough in build1 gross enough in appearance1 who came out to one of our commencements1 and went back with the arrow in her heart1 saying1 ,i would give all the world if ,i had it1 if ,i could write a piece and git up thar and read it like them4 ,she went home determined she would go to college4 ,she was a large girl1 fifteen years old1 yet did not know a single letter4 ,she walked fifty miles nearly1 and came and said to the college president that she wanted to work for her board1 so that she could enter the school4 ,what could she do8 ,he found that really she was incapacitated for doing anything2 but she said1 ,i can hoe corn like a nigger4 ,finally she was set at some sort of work1 and that girl1 after three or four years1 went out as a school teacher into a district where young men dared not go1 where her eyes were blistered with the sights she saw--men shot down before her face and eyes by the whisky distillers--and she was asked to organize a ,sunday-school there4 ,when any one starts a ,sunday-school he is expected to preach1 and so that girl had to become a preacher1 and to-day she is preaching the gospel of ,god and spreading the work there4 ,and yet she came from one of the very humblest classes4 ,there is a peaceful invasion of this people by themselves4 ,this mission of the people to themselves is one of the most hopeful things about this work4 ,and when they realize that they have a mission1 ,pauline in spirit1 unto their own people1 then victory shall come to us4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,,addison ,p4 ,,foster1 ,d4,d4 ,this ,indian problem has been largely settled on its civil side4 ,for many years the friends of the ,indians have been consulting together1 and have done their utmost to influence public opinion4 ,and the ,government has heeded the call--as it always does--of a widely extended and wise public sentiment2 and1 in consequence1 our policy with regard to the ,indian has been very largely re-shaped4 ,to-day1 by reason of the ,dawes ,bill1 land is open to the ,indians in severalty4 ,there is a fair degree of law secured for the ,indians4 ,the great questions pertaining to their outward circumstances are under happy prospect of adjustment4 ,but1 this being the fact1 it simply increases the necessity laid upon us to meet the requirements of the present day4 ,the door is open for the ,indian to become a citizen2 and in this land1 whenever any man receives the privileges of citizenship1 it is incumbent upon us to see to it that he is fitted for that sacred obligation by the church and by the school4 ,this is a necessity of our republic which we have recognized from our earliest day4 ,when our fathers came to this land1 they located side by side the school house and the church2 and1 wherever we have sought to open the privileges of the suffrage1 and the dignities1 and honors1 and joys of citizenship1 to any class of people among us1 we have always felt it to be an imperative necessity to see to it that they had both these sacred training schools1 the educational institution and the religious institution1 side by side4 ,now to-day we have unusual opportunities4 ,everything seems to be coming to a focus in regard to our work for the ,indians4 ,never has the time been so auspicious as it is to-day4 ,never have there been so many things combining to show to us that if we are to improve the opportunity ,god gives us to care for the ,indian--this man who held this land before we came to it and from whom we have taken our possession--we must do it to-day4 ,there are other great needs about us1 other races and other classes and other conditions2 but there is no other class appealing so intensely to the sympathies of all our people to-day1 as is the ,indian4 ,this is one great explanation of the remarkable increase of the work of this ,association among the ,indians4 ,how did it ever spring from an expenditure of #aa1jjj annually to #eb1jjj1 as it is to-day8 ,partly because the ,government has been willing to aid1 but still more because our people throughout the land have been intensely interested in the ,indian and have been glad to help him4 ,they have said by their gifts that now is the time1 and we must leap to improve this opportunity or else it will slip away from us forever4 ,it is the conviction of your committee--and ,i can voice it most perfectly--that we must improve this opportunity before it is gone1 and that this people who have long suffered at the hands of their white brethren have a claim to our earnest ,christian sympathy and to our heartiest effort to put them upon their feet4 ,they are more than ready1 they are anxious for our aid1 they are crying to us for help4 ,now1 let me say that the ,american ,missionary ,association has always felt the importance of working in evangelistic lines4 ,it would be nothing if it had not the church before it as an incentive4 ,it works primarily through the school2 but always with the thought that the school is secondary1 and that the church is the one great aim before it4 ,and unless this incentive were before it1 unless it recognized that its work was to bring men to ,christ1 and to bind them together in ,christian churches1 there would be but little to call for the great self-denials of ,christian workers in the field and many ,christian givers in the country at large4 ,it is this thought that has ever been held up before it--the thought that the church and the school go together1 and that the school is simply the handmaid of the church4 ,we recognize the fact that in ,congregationalism especially1 out of all forms of religious belief1 we cannot hope to make men earnest1 effective ,christians1 caring for themselves1 managing their own affairs independently1 and having in them the heart to go out and work1 unless we cultivate their minds as well4 ,and so this ,association has sought1 and this body of ,christians that represent the ,association has sought1 by gifts and by teaching1 to develop the thought that there always should be an educational work going forward that there may be something to build upon4 ,christianity needs education in order to give it its largest power4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,,thomas ,l4 ,,riggs4 ,it was said of ,dr4 ,williamson by an old ,indian that he had an ,indian heart4 ,i1 too1 have an ,indian heart1 and ,i can lay claim to that possession as but few can4 ,it would take but a very little while to go from here into the very midst of our present ,indian field4 ,it took my father and ,dr4 ,williamson1 when they first entered the field1 some six months to reach it4 ,i could start to-morrow morning1 and taking the cars in this city1 and reaching ,pierre by the following night1 could be farther off by ,saturday1 farther from the border of the mission field1 than my father and ,dr4 ,williamson could after they had travelled six months4 ,i would like to invite you to go with me on a tour of inspection of the mission field itself4 ,i would take my two ponies and drive out to the ,cheyenne ,river1 and take you to one of our out-stations1 and show you something of the influences at work in the field to-day4 ,as we went up the valley1 we would see the ,indian village located there1 and in the midst1 on a rising piece of ground1 the mission station4 ,over some of the houses we would see a red flag flying4 ,that is a prayer1 a votive offering2 there are sick in that house1 and that is a prayer to the gods that healing may come1 and that death may be kept from them4 ,over on the right we would see the dance-house--a great octagonal house with an open roof1 in which the ,indians gather night after night to dance to the monotonous beating of the drum4 ,that is a very common sound out in the ,indian villages1 bringing to us always that thought of slavery to evil4 ,as we go up to the station itself1 we would see something more of the work than you have as yet been able to see4 ,if it be on the ,sabbath1 as we go in we would see a young man there1 with his audience before him1 not a very large audience--old men1 old women1 boys and girls--gathered on the rough benches1 and very much as they are in their own homes4 ,some of the old women have their hair down over their faces1 the boys with dirty hands1 old men with their dirty blankets1 and yet they are gathered around there to hear the word of life4 ,the preacher1 as he stands before them1 tells them of ,god's wonderful love1 and takes as his text that most wonderful verse in the ,bible1 ,god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten ,son4 ,then1 as you look at the man who is preaching there1 you would hardly recognize in him one who thirteen years ago was a savage1 a painted ,indian4 ,as ,i look at him it seems a most wonderful thing that such a change has taken place4 ,i knew him as a savage2 a splendid fellow he was1 and he is now a more splendid man than ever he was a savage2 and he is teaching the gospel of ,christ to his own people4 ,i have been out there seventeen years1 and if there were not another result to show for those seventeen years of work than the lifting up of this ,clarence ,ward1 and making of him a man in ,christ ,jesus1 ,i should be abundantly satisfied4 ,there is another influence of which ,i would speak1 the influence of the home4 ,here in our happy homes we know but very little of what that means to the ,indian4 ,an ,indian has no home1 in our sense of the word4 ,some years ago ,i went with a party of ,indians #age miles west of the ,missouri ,river in the middle of winter4 ,we climbed a mountain and looked away to the east4 ,we could see1 ,i should think1 #aej miles1 and the ,indian as he sat there on the edge of a rock1 covered his head up in a blanket and cried4 ,said he3 ,this is my country1 and we have had to leave it4 ,that was his idea of home--such a barren stretch as that1 the snow glistening in the sunlight4 ,the ,dakota ,indian lives in a region1 not in a place4 ,the ,christian home coming into the midst of a village carries there an ideal of which the ,indian knows nothing1 and he is taught by the power of example day after day4 ,the ,christian woman in that home keeps her house clean1 keeps her children clean1 and stands there as a persistent example of the power of the gospel of soap1 just as the man himself there who has become a ,christian no longer steals horses4 ,a party going out into an enemy's country would go as often for the sake of bringing back stolen horses1 as they would for scalps4 ,the man who has become a ,christian is recognized at once as shut out from that privilege4 ,reference has been made to the opening up of the reservation1 and the crisis is now upon us in connection with our ,indian work4 ,we have eleven million acres of land there just west of the ,missouri ,river to be thrown open for settlement4 ,do you know what that means8 ,were any of you down at ,oklahoma this last season8 ,it means the rush of a swarm of people1 good1 bad and indifferent--chiefly bad and indifferent--and these settlers will crowd themselves in as a wedge between the two divisions of the ,indian reservation1 and we shall have ,indians both to the north and to the south4 ,they will be exposed to influences from which they have been kept as yet2 influences which will tend to uplift in the outcome1 as well as to degrade4 ,i thank ,god for it4 ,i thank ,god that he is bringing the white man into the midst of the ,indian country4 ,it may seem that this is a heroic remedy4 ,so it is1 but it is time for heroic remedies4 ,we need to meet the question as it comes to us to-day4 ,there is a ranchman out on ,bad ,river1 who tells me that there is no such thing as an ,indian question4 ,why1 said ,i1 what are you talking about8 ,there is no such thing1 said he4 ,i asked him how he explained it4 ,the simple thing to do is just to treat them as men1 and that will be all there is to it4 ,that will settle it1 and there will be no such thing as an ,indian question4 ,treat them as men and make ,christians of them1 and we will settle the whole thing4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,,henry ,a4 ,,stimson1 ,d4,d4 ,referring to ,dr4 ,goodwin's powerful address1 ,i find myself transported again to ,china2 but the fact recurs to my mind that this is not a foreign missionary society1 but a home missionary one1 and what we have to do is to open our minds to the conviction that it is possible to do at home plenty of work for the ,chinaman4 ,i am glad to give a little personal testimony because what we need most of all is to be convinced of the necessity to give time and strength and labor to win the individual ,chinaman to ,christ4 ,not very long ago there came to my knowledge in ,st4 ,louis an ordinary ,chinaman1 comparatively a young man4 ,he joined our church and ,i knew he desired to be recognized as a ,christian man4 ,about a year before1 he had been a member of a ,sunday-school where ladies were teaching ,chinese4 ,before that our newspapers had created great outcry about a case of leprosy in the city4 ,this ,chinaman appeared at my house in great trepidation4 ,he had been two or three years in this country1 and had been saving his money in order to go back and see his mother's face before she would die1 and he hoped to be able to return to ,china in the following fall4 ,he had learned that there was a ,chinaman1 unknown to him1 lying ill in a little laundry1 of a disease of which nothing was known1 without friends and without care4 ,he took care of this man1 leaving his own work for the purpose1 and at length he came to me asking where he could get a physician to attend the patient4 ,i gave him a note to one of the best physicians in my own church1 who went at once and saw the man1 and he seeing it was a strange form of disease1 went to a specialist of skin diseases1 who had the man brought to a hospital in order to watch his disease4 ,rumors of this reaching the newspapers1 the reporters thought it a good opportunity to make a story about leprosy1 giving the number and street of an imaginary laundry in the heart of the city4 ,instantly the patronage of the ,chinese laundries stopped4 ,my ,chinese friend was in the greatest distress about it1 and particularly about me1 lest ,i should think he had brought the contagious disease to my house4 ,i could hardly persuade him to enter1 and then he told me there was no truth in the story of the newspapers1 and asked what he should do4 ,what was the result of the story8 ,the ,chinaman took care of his friend in the house and in the hospital1 paying considerable for his care1 and when he recovered sent him to ,san ,francisco--in fact1 spent about #ahj on him1 the whole sum he had saved to take himself home to his mother1 and he did this for a man who was as utterly unknown to him as to you or me4 ,he also came to me with a #aj bill to pay the doctor1 saying it was not enough1 but it was all the money he had1 and he would add to it by and by4 ,all we want is testimony as to the character of the ,chinese4 ,here was a man not converted by ,moody or by any service1 but by the ministry of an unknown ,sunday-school teacher2 as the result of that simple agency he found a charity so ,christ-like as to do work like this4 ,that little ,chinaman brought to me some of his companions1 asking me to do something to help them to be ,christians1 and as the result of his work a large ,sunday-school is to-day in operation4 ,there is abundance of such testimony1 ,i believe1 to be furnished throughout our land1 which we should have before our heart as an answer to the anti-,chinese mania which now and then sweeps over this country4 ,help us to carry the gospel to these men of unmeasured possibilities1 whom ,god in his mercy has brought across the seas to plead at our doors4 ,this audience can help the ,chinese in a better way than giving them money4 ,that ,chinaman was asked in my house the other day how many hours he slept1 and he said1 ,two or three4 ,are you ever troubled by hoodlums8 ,yes1 every day4 ,they break the windows4 ,last week they broke into my laundry and stole five bundles of clothes1 for which ,i had to pay customers #bj4 ,do you get no protection from the police8 ,i asked him4 ,he shook his head--yes1 sometimes1 but they were no good4 ,the ,chinese have the same right to life and liberty that we have1 and if we get them that1 they'll get the money fast enough themselves4 ,we owe it to the ,chinese that they get protection4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,e4,p4 ,,goodwin1 ,d4,d4 ,i rejoice that ,i can lift my voice at least in a word of commendation1 if such a word seem in any sense to be needed1 in the furtherance of this particular kind of work4 ,i remind myself sometimes that this very tone of apology is a tone that ought to set some of us1 as ministers and as brethren1 to reconsidering our conception of the gospel4 ,why1 beloved1 suppose it were an admitted fact that for the next hundred years not a solitary ,chinaman would be converted4 ,what then8 ,do you imagine that that fact would absolve us from allegiance to the commands of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ8 ,you will remind yourselves--,i am sure ,i remind myself often--that in respect to our ,christian work1 the breadth of it and the particular departments of it1 we have absolutely no option whatsoever3 that when our ,master said to his disciples1 ,go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature1 he made no exception of those that might have almond eyes and yellow faces1 nor of those that might have black skins and woolly hair2 that he took in1 in that wide sweep of his omniscient vision1 every nation and kindred under the whole sky1 and that should exist until the kingdom itself should come4 ,if it could be demonstrated that it required ten times as much work and ten times as much money to convert the ,chinaman as anybody else1 then all the more because of degradation and superstition and idolatry and hardness of heart--all the more must ,i storm the ,gibraltar of that paganism4 ,the ,master's principle seemed to be1 ,give ye them to eat4 ,the fact of hunger is what lays the law upon the hearts of the disciples2 and by so much as men are more hungered--if there be one nation more so than another--by so much as they are nearer to starving for the bread of life1 by so much the more are your heart and my heart called upon in the name and in the sympathy of ,jesus ,christ1 to respond to that cause4 ,those disciples of that early day might just as well have said1 ,master1 we can not feed all these ten thousand4 ,we will pick out those around us1 the nearest at hand4 ,we won't touch that set of lepers just over there from ,capernaum2 we won't have anything to do with that other set of outcasts and vagabonds drifted in here1 some of them from ,samaria2 we will have nothing whatever to do with these wretches from ,chorazin--gamblers and abandoned people of every sort4 ,what do you think would have been his response to that sort of argument8 ,i think if ,peter had given him any such plea as that it would have cut him off hopelessly from any apostleship4 ,there would have been a new band of apostles that would have been instituted then and there that were willing to take the ,master's command1 take ,him as responsible for the authority and for the result4 ,they knew better2 they knew ,him better2 and though they had their little scant loaves that would not give a quarter of a crumb apiece to the great multitude1 they said3 ,that is not our responsibility2 ours is to obey4 ,it is ,his to furnish when the resources fail4 ,brethren1 that is my theory of missions4 ,do you remember the little anecdote about ,francis ,xavier1 that before he went abroad as a missionary to ,china1 while he was sleeping with his room-mate one night1 he startled him by rising in his sleep and throwing out his arms with great urgency1 as he said1 ,yet more1 oh1 my ,god1 yet more6 ,his comrade wakened him and asked him what he meant4 ,why1 said he1 ,i was having a vision of things in the ,east4 ,i was seeing missionaries tortured2 some of them were being burned1 some of them were having their flesh torn from their bodies1 and in many ways they seemed to be suffering in their testimony for ,christ's sake4 ,and as ,i looked1 the tears came to my eyes1 and a voice said to me1 ',that is what it will cost you if you go on this missionary tour4 ,are you willing to take the cost8' ,and ,i said1 ',oh1 ,lord ,jesus2 yet more1 yet more1 if ,i may win these perishing souls4' ,brethren1 it is the call of the hour4 ,these people may become1 in my judgment1 pre-eminently the missionary people4 ,they have been called the ,yankees of the ,orient4 ,they are scattered every whither1 in every quarter of the world4 ,i think it ought to shame us to have less enthusiasm for these for whom ,christ died than they of the ,romish church in the palmiest days of its missionary zeal4 ,god help us that we may stand true upon the ,pacific coast and all through our land1 and that for every missionary church abroad there may be a score and a hundred4 ,dr4 ,williams said1 after thirty years' knowledge of the ,chinese1 that we might evangelize ,china from one end of the empire to the other in half a century if we were in earnest4 ,god help us that we may labor and pray for the coming of such a day4 ,now ,i believe this3 ,that1 so far as the facts go1 there is just as large a percentage of results to be shown for work among the ,chinese as for work anywhere4 ,take it in our city1 among some of the ,chinese schools2 take it in ,san ,francisco1 take it in ,china itself4 ,i received on ,saturday last a letter from ,mr4 ,gray1 of ,hong-,kong1 speaking of a young man who had gone out from our church as his assistant in the work there4 ,said he to me3 ,he is one of the most valuable helpers ,i could have4 ,he not only stands fast by his work1 but he also seems to have spiritual discernment to meet the peculiar difficulties we have to encounter1 and there are plenty of them4 ,here is a man1 for instance1 who says he would whip his wife to death if he should hear of her accepting ,christ4 ,there is another1 a mother1 who would let her child starve if she thought it was being taught the gospel of ,jesus ,christ4 ,but among this people there is no more successful laborer that ,i know of than ,sui ,chung4 ,i knew him well4 ,he came into our ,chinese ,sunday-school1 which is held every ,sunday afternoon4 ,i remember him distinctly1 as giving1 so far as ,i could see1 clear evidence of being born of the ,spirit4 ,and ,i bear testimony to these young men now in my church--there are ten or a dozen of them--that1 so far as ,i know them and so far as ,i have been able to talk with them in imperfect ,english or through ,chinese interpreters1 their ,christian experience is as satisfactory as that of any others4 ,nay1 ,i will say more than that4 ,i will venture to say that the ,chinese brethren in my church are more earnest4 ,they sustain a ,chinese prayer-meeting regularly every ,sunday of their own accord in their own language1 and have kept it up ever since there were enough of them to be united together4 ,i frequently look in and talk with them2 and there is one thing about these ,chinese that ,i greatly respect--,i never saw them pull out their watches while ,i was speaking to them4 ,i never saw any of them going to sleep2 ,i never saw a look in the face of one of them which indicated that he was not profoundly interested4 ,i was in their meeting last ,sunday1 and ,i told them about ,sui ,chung4 ,most of these ,chinese can read4 ,some of them are very fluent talkers1 and some are very intelligent4 ,i suppose we have a thousand or fifteen hundred in this city1 and a very large proportion of them1 they tell me1 can read the ,chinese ,bible4 ,now1 ,i have great respect for this people1 if for nothing more than for their history4 ,we have a petty hundred years of history4 ,how many hundred have they8 ,any nation that can hold itself together for #d1jjj years--or shall ,i say for more8--and that to-day constitutes nearly one-quarter of the population of the earth1 certainly deserves our respect4 ,any people that can take our own handicrafts and beat us at them--and they will do it in a good many directions1 and make money1 even though you may disapprove of their way of living--deserve our respect4 ,any people that can furnish diplomates fitted to stand side by side with ,bismarck and ,gladstone1 and our own embassadors say that they can1 certainly deserve our respect4 ,one thing more they desire of the ,christian church1 if it were only a debt to be paid4 ,i insist upon it1 brethren1 that at least ,christian ,england and ,christian ,america ought to pay back to them in missionary moneys at least an amount equal to that of which we have robbed them by the infamous opium traffic1 and to-day it is people from ,christian lands1 more than anything else1 who are furnishing the difficulties in the way of the introduction of the gospel abroad4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,president ,,albert ,,salisbury4 ,there are values even in this world for which we have no expression1 for which we have no definite standard1 and of which we have no very clear comprehension4 ,they are values1 none the less4 ,but there is one standard of value of which ,i think it may be safely said the ,american people have come into a very clear comprehension1 that is1 of the weight of the working power of a dollar4 ,most of us know it by pretty thorough experience4 ,we know what a dollar costs1 how hard it is to get1 how hard it is to keep1 how little we are liable to receive for it when it goes4 ,and1 let me say it1 ,i believe there are no people on this ,western ,continent who have any more exact1 definite1 clearly defined comprehension of what a dollar is1 what it will do1 and what it will not do1 than the managers of our missionary enterprises4 ,then1 it is sometimes thought and sometimes said that these men who conduct church work and missionary work do not know much about dollars2 that a dollar1 a thousand dollars1 or a million dollars1 is a very indefinite thing2 and that they ask for a million dollars1 or half a million dollars1 with a great deal of nonchalance1 as if it were merely a matter of asking4 ,it is not so4 ,when this ,finance ,committee indorse the recommendation of the ,national ,council that half a million of dollars be raised for the work of this ,association during the coming year1 they do it from a business point of view1 and when the officers and managers of this ,association second this demand1 they know what it means4 ,they know better than anybody else in the world knows how hard it is to get half a million of dollars4 ,for some years ,i went up and down through the ,south and ,west in the service of this ,association4 ,i went in and out of the rooms at ,no4 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,new ,york1 and ,i must have been very dull not to know pretty well the inside workings of this ,association4 ,i have been among workers on the field4 ,i know how closely everything is reckoned1 how carefully every penny is spent2 and ,i know how the demands of the work and the needs press upon the workers in the field1 so that they look back to those rooms in ,new ,york with the feeling that somehow there is not a very great deal of liberality there1 that those officers pare very closely4 ,but these workers in the field have no such experience after all as the officers there at the centre of things4 ,those members of the ,executive ,committee1 those ,secretaries and the ,treasurer1 sitting there together1 and facing the demands of the old work and the new1 have rolled upon them every day a sense of the value of money and of the need of economy such as even the workers in the field can not comprehend4 ,i have been there1 ,i am now outside1 and ,i am free to say whatever ,i please2 and ,i make bold to say to you here that the work which is alive and growing must have the most money4 ,increased demands must cost4 ,it is a law of nature4 ,now1 then1 when this ,finance ,committee come forward to indorse this recommendation that #ejj1jjj instead of #cge1jjj be raised for the coming year1 they do not at all reach the measure of the need4 ,there is only one thing necessary to get this money and more4 ,it is a pretty comprehensive thing4 ,if upon the members of our churches in this land as clear a sense of the need of what ought to be done and can be done could be brought as comes to those in contact with the work1 the money would be forthcoming4 ,how to make our people realize the facts in this matter is the problem4 ,money will come when our people know how much it is needed1 how profitably it is spent1 and how grandly it pays dividends4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,address ,,of ,,rev4 ,,wm4 ,m4 ,,taylor1 ,d4,d4 ,last ,wednesday evening at the ,prayer and ,conference ,meeting of the ,broadway ,tabernacle1 one of the office-bearers of the church put this question to me3 ,can we hope to be instrumental in the conversion of the ,jews1 so long as the present prejudice against ,god's ancient people exists among us8 ,and that inquiry1 taken in connection with the fact that the ,annual ,meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association was to be held here this week1 led me to examine the ,word of ,god1 that ,i might discover what incidental light is thrown on the subject of pride of race by its histories and other contents1 and ,i mean to-night to put the result of my examination before you4 ,the first and most striking instance of its manifestation which we come upon in ,scripture is the treatment given by the ,egyptians to the ,israelites4 ,every shepherd was an abomination to the ,egyptians1 so they counted themselves superior to the ,hebrews1 and subjected them to the greatest indignities1 grinding them under the harshest oppression1 and exacting from them1 by the lash of the task-master1 the most arduous labor4 ,but mark how their pride was rebuked and their cruelty punished1 under the moral and retributive government of ,god4 ,their land was desolated by a series of plagues culminating in the death of the first-born1 and the people whom they had oppressed made their escape from the most powerful empire then existing in the world1 without themselves striking a single blow4 ,the ,lord fought for them4 ,each of these ten plagues was a ,divine protest against that national pride which arrogated to itself the exclusive right to power1 privilege1 immunity and possession1 and which met its merited punishment that day1 when the ,lord saved ,israel out of the hand of the ,egyptians1 and ,israel saw the ,egyptians dead upon the seashore4 ,but the mention of the ,hebrews in this connection may seem to some to be most inappropriate4 ,were not they1 it may be asked1 virtually created into a separate and exclusive nation1 and taught to look upon themselves as ,god's peculiar people8 ,did not they become proverbial for their pride of race1 and for saying on every occasion1 ,we have ,abraham to our father1 and were they not especially the ,pharisees among the nations8 ,now it must be confessed that all these questions must be answered in the affirmative1 but when we widen our view and take into consideration the great purpose of ,god in the formation and conservation of the ,hebrew commonwealth1 we may see reason somewhat to modify our opinion4 ,for the settlement of the ,jews in ,canaan and their restriction within its limits were not ends in themselves1 but only means for the attainment of higher ends which were to affect the moral and spiritual condition of all people that on earth do dwell4 ,the promise made to ,abraham was in this wise3 ,in thee and in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed2 and it was for the purpose of securing the fulfilment of the latter part of that promise that a special and peculiar hedge was planted around the vine which ,god had brought out of ,egypt4 ,it was not meant to be a permanent arrangement1 but was designed merely for a temporary emergency1 until1 as ,paul has said1 the ,seed should come to bless the world with his great salvation4 ,it cannot1 therefore1 be quoted as furnishing a universal example1 or as giving any divine approval to that pride of race of which we have been speaking4 ,moreover1 even when the ,hebrews were selected by ,god for this purpose1 they were told over and over again that they were not chosen for anything in themselves1 and that they had no reason to plume themselves on the fact that they were chosen4 ,and when they degenerated into self-conceit on the ground of their having been so highly privileged1 they were finally cast out of the land of promise4 ,nor is this all4 ,in the system under which they were placed by ,moses1 they were taught to look with kindliness on those who came to sojourn among them1 of whatever race they might be4 ,they were not1 indeed1 to be a missionary people1 or to seek to induce others to settle among them1 but if others came to dwell beside them1 hear how they were to treat them3 ,thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him1 for ye were strangers in the land of ,egypt4 ,and if a stranger sojourn with thee in the land1 ye shall not vex him4 ,but the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you1 and thou shalt love him as thyself2 for ye were strangers in the land of ,egypt4 ,i am the ,lord your ,god4 ,love ye therefore the stranger1 for ye were strangers in the land of ,egypt4 7,exodus xxii4 #ba2 ,levit4 xix4 #cc2 xxv4 #ce2 ,deut4 x4 #ai74 ,lay these commands alongside of recent legislation among ourselves with reference to the ,chinese1 and then see what ,god must think of that blot upon our statute book in this age of our boasted enlightenment4 ,take1 again1 the account of the singular retribution that came upon the people in the days of ,david because of ,saul's treatment of the ,gibeonites4 ,these aborigines belonged to the ancient ,canaanitish tribes1 and were so astute as to impose even upon ,joshua1 and to obtain from him a treaty on false pretenses4 ,still an agreement was made with them on the terms that they should be permitted to live in the land1 but that they should be hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of the ,lord4 ,this contract was faithfully observed on both sides until the days of ,saul1 who sought to slay them in his zeal to the children of ,israel and ,judah4 ,and what was the result8 ,a famine lasting for three years1 which was only removed at last by the giving up1 according to the ancient practices of the ,gibeonites1 of seven of ,saul's sons for execution4 ,now there is much in that old history that is difficult for us at this distance of time1 and ignorant as we are of the customs that prevailed among these tribes1 to understand4 ,but no one of us can read it without being reminded of our treatment of the ,indian tribes that linger among us still4 ,have we not broken almost every treaty that we ever made with them8 ,have we not said1 unpityingly regarding them1 that their destruction before the advance of civilization is inevitable8 ,and have we not forgotten that the ,god of the ,gibeonites lives to be the avenger of the ,indians8 ,if the hewers of wood and drawers of water were not beneath his notice long ago1 think you he does not see and chronicle the wrongs of the ,indians to-day1 and shall not he render to every man according to his works8 ,before passing from the ,old ,testament to the ,new1 ,i merely mention the fact that among the ancestors of the ,lord ,jesus ,christ we find two belonging to alien races1 namely1 ,rahab of ,jericho1 and ,ruth the ,moabitess1 whose very presence in that noble line is a prophecy of the glorious truth that the ,son of ,david was to be also the ,son of man1 the ,saviour of sinners of every name and nation1 the kinsman of all races1 the brother of humanity1 and that as he represents them all in his priestly intercession yonder1 so in each of them we may see a representative of him here and now upon the earth4 ,but now what may we learn from ,christ himself in the ,new ,testament8 ,it is true that his personal ministry in the world was almost entirely confined to the ,jews4 ,it had to be so limited at first1 if his gospel was to gather force for its triumphant march over the world at a later day2 but even during his life in the world he came repeatedly in contact with men and women of races other than that of the ,jews1 and always in such a way as to show his sympathy with them and love toward them4 ,i remind you of his long and earnest conversation with the woman of ,samaria1 at the well of ,sychar1 and of the fact that she was a descendant of that mixed nationality which sprung from the amalgam of those heathen colonists that were sent by the ,king of ,assyria to take the places left vacant by the ten tribes whom he had carried away captive4 ,i recall to your recollection1 too1 his eulogy on the ,roman centurion1 and his constant exposure of the contemptuousness of the ,pharisees in their attitude not only toward the publicans and sinners of their own nation1 but also toward ,gentiles of every description4 ,think of his dealing with the ,syrophoenician woman4 ,she was a ,canaanite of the old race1 and1 though at first he seemed to turn her away1 yet ultimately he gave her all she asked and more3 and even his apparently abrupt treatment of her in the beginning1 if ,i read the history aright1 was meant to be an exposure and condemnation of the feelings commonly cherished toward those of her nation by the ,jews of his day4 ,no doubt it tested and strengthened her own faith4 ,but we must not forget that the whole conversation with her was meant to teach a lesson to his disciples also4 ,it was part of their training for their future life work4 ,it was a portion of their preparation for carrying his gospel to all nations4 ,and so he spoke out their own thoughts about the women1 holding up a mirror before them in which they might see themselves1 when he said1 ,it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs2 and he ultimately showed them that she was better far than many who would have spurned her from their presence4 ,so from the kindness showed to aliens by the ,lord himself1 we may learn not only to beware of this leaven of the ,pharisees1 but also to deal kindly and truly with men of every race1 and make them sharers with us in the blessings of the gospel4 ,but thus far we have not come upon any case where the difference was one not only of race but of color4 ,even here1 however1 we are not without scriptural instances to guide us4 ,you remember that of ,ebed-melech1 the ,ethiopian4 ,jeremiah was1 by the cruelty of his enemies1 imprisoned in a dungeon or water tank1 and was sunk in the mire at the bottom4 ,ebed-melech1 learning his condition1 went and informed ,king ,zedekiah of the real state of the case1 and obtained a command to take an escort of thirty men with him and deliver him from the dungeon lest he should die4 ,so with great tenderness the ,ethiopian threw down rags to put under the ropes which he let down1 and by which he was to soften the pressures of the cords under his arms as they drew him up therewith from his filthy prison2 and after they had thus delivered him there came to the prophet this message of ,god concerning him2 ,go and speak to ,ebed-melech1 the ,ethiopian1 saying1 ,thus saith the ,lord of hosts1 the ,god of ,israel3 ,behold1 ,i will bring my words upon this city for evil1 and not for good2 and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee4 ,but ,i will deliver thee in that day1 saith the ,lord2 and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid4 ,for ,i will surely deliver thee1 and thou shalt not fall by the sword1 but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee2 because thou hast put thy trust in me1 saith the ,lord4 ,here we have a kindness done by a colored man to ,jeremiah1 and a message sent from ,god to the colored man acknowledging and rewarding that kindness2 but ,o6 how many debts of that sort owed by men among ourselves to the colored people have been forgotten or repudiated6 ,in the agony of the war1 colored people fought in the ranks of the ,northern armies2 and ,i have heard those who have belonged to the ,confederate side declare with tears in their eyes that the faithful watch kept by their colored servants over their wives and families while they were absent with the troops was beyond all praise4 ,and yet in these days we read every now and then of colored people shot down like dogs on the slightest provocation1 and prevented on the merest pretext from exercising the rights of citizens of this free ,republic1 and men look on and do nothing4 ,but ,god may say something by and by1 and when he speaks men's ears shall tingle6 ,we have another illustration of ,god's treatment of a colored man in the case of the ,ethiopian treasurer4 ,he was returning from ,jerusalem1 where he had been at one of the great annual ,jewish feasts1 and as he was riding in his chariot he was reading aloud to himself the book of the prophet ,isaiah1 when the evangelist ,philip1 specially sent thither for the purpose by ,god's ,spirit1 addressed him1 and on being asked to come into the carriage with him expounded to him the meaning of the passage which he was reading1 and preached the gospel from it unto him with such good effect that he was forthwith baptized on the confession of his faith1 and afterward went on his way rejoicing to found that ,ethiopian church which claims to this day to be one of the most ancient ,christian churches in the world4 ,he was a man1 for he was moved by the truth as you and ,i have been1 and he became a ,christian--the highest style of man--to show us that1 as ,peter said1 ,in every nation they that fear ,god and work righteousness are accepted of him4 ,that which is highest in any man is his appreciation and acceptance of the gospel6 of ,christ1 and wherever we see that appreciation we have not only a fellow man but a brother ,christian1 to be treated by us as ,paul requested ,philemon to treat ,onesimus--as a brother beloved4 ,nor let any one suppose that there is a single race upon the earth that can not be so transformed and gladdened as this ,ethiopian was4 ,even ,charles ,darwin declared that after the ,patagonians it could not be said that any race is too degraded for the gospel to elevate1 and so he gave new emphasis1 unwittingly1 perhaps1 but1 if so1 all the more strongly1 to the words addressed to ,peter on the housetop3 ,what ,god hath cleansed that call not thou common2 or those of ,paul in one of his epistles3 ,for there is neither ,jew nor ,greek1 there is neither bond nor free1 there is neither male nor female1 for ye are all one in ,christ ,jesus4 ,this topic is at present greatly occupying the attention of the ,christian churches in our land4 ,it was before the ,general ,assembly of the ,presbyterian ,church in ,may last1 and has been again discussed at the meeting of the ,council of ,congregational churches in ,worcester three weeks ago1 and in the ,triennial ,convention of the ,protestant ,episcopal ,church1 which has just closed its sessions in ,new ,york4 ,i will not seek to criticise or to characterize the decisions at which these bodies have arrived1 save to say that in my judgment the ,presbyterian ,assembly faced the difficulty more thoroughly1 and disposed of it more courageously1 than either of the others4 ,but ,i will say that there is only one solution of a question of this sort4 ,every ,christian1 when he comes to think on it seriously1 must feel that to be the case4 ,no compromise will satisfy either party to it or will please ,god1 and any settlement to be permanent must be in harmony with the inspired statement that ,god hath made of one blood all the nations that dwell upon the face of the earth4 ,but such a result can not be brought about either in the state or in the churches merely by legislation4 ,you can not compel either by physical or moral constraint the different races to meet on terms of social equality4 ,no doubt you can1 and you ought to see to it1 that men of all races stand precisely on the same platform before the law and have the same protection from the law4 ,but to get rid of a prejudice you must take a different method4 ,you can not uproot that all at once4 ,the removal of that must be the result of education and of spiritual growth4 ,but when ,i speak of education ,i must add that it is not the colored people alone that need to be educated here4 ,the white people of all our cities1 whether ,north or ,south1 require education as well4 ,they need to be taught that the ,negro is a man1 for at bottom that is not more than half believed by multitudes4 ,they need to be taught that the ,negro may become a ,christian1 and that there are possibilities of ,christian missionary enterprise in his race that are absolutely incalculable4 ,they need to be taught to look upon the different races of ,indians1 ,chinese and ,africans among us as dignified and ennobled by ,christ's incarnation1 and as purchased by his sacrificial blood equally with themselves4 ,they need to look upon the ,christianized among them as brethren in ,christ1 and then the rest will come of itself4 ,there has been great progress in these recent years toward the result of which ,i speak4 ,the present agitation concerning the color-line1 as it is called1 is itself an indication of progress1 and the day assuredly will dawn when men of all nationalities and names shall come from the ,east and from the ,west1 from the ,north and from the ,south1 and sit down with ,abraham1 with ,isaac1 and with ,jacob in the kingdom of our ,father4 ,but if we as a ,nation cultivate the spirit of the ,pharisees1 and continue to despise those who are guilty of a skin not colored like our own1 we may be sure that he who visited the ,hebrew nation for their treatment of the ,gibeonites will send also some nemesis on us4 ,i can not but feel1 beloved brethren1 that in these meetings which to-night come to a close1 something has been done to help forward that result which under the guidance of the ,scriptures we all believe to be the right one4 ,we have had a series of most delightful conferences4 ,now let us go back to our homes determined to take the seminal truths which have been presented to us here1 and scatter them wherever we are called to labor4 ,the seed may seem to be but a handful1 and the soil may seem unpromising as the rocky mountain tops--but be sure the result will be a harvest that will shake like the cedars of ,lebanon4 ,and though it may seem a little incongruous to quote from the ,scottish poet--would that everything he wrote were of as pure and lofty an inspiration--,i will venture to conclude with his well-known lines3 ,then let us pray that come it may1 ,as come it will for a' that1 ,that man to man the world over ,shall brithers be for a' that4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,bureau ,,of ,,woman',s ,,work ,,miss ,d4,e4 ,,emerson1 ,,secretary4 ,the ,annual ,meeting of the ,bureau of ,woman's ,work of the ,american ,missionary ,association1 held on ,thursday afternoon in the church during the session of the business meeting in the chapel1 was one of unusual interest4 ,following the ,report of the ,secretary1 there were interesting addresses by missionaries1 and a very effective address by ,mrs4 ,geo4 ,m4 ,lane1 of ,detroit1 ,michigan1 who presided4 ,the ,report and some of the addresses will be published in separate leaflets1 and may be had by application to ,miss ,emerson at #ef ,reade ,st4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,of ,,secretary4 ,a look backward over the twelve months since our last annual gathering reveals much of interest and encouragement1 that should fill our hearts with gratitude that our woman's work has had such an influence in bringing light and gladness to thousands of women and children1 whose lives have been cast in the dark portions of our ,christian land4 ,so large an element of ,woman's ,work enters into the plan upon which the field of the ,american ,missionary ,association is operated1 and it is so interwoven with the entire structure of its missions1 that any report of it as separate and distinct can be only partial4 ,and yet with the more systematic organization of woman's work in the raising of funds1 we have been able to assign special woman's work on mission ground1 with most satisfactory results1 for to have a particular school or missionary has stimulated the givers1 and has brought courage and comfort to the missionaries who have been thus sustained4 ,our ,woman's ,work4 ,what is it8 ,whom is it for8 ,who should do it8 ,what is it8 ,it is to take to heathen mothers and sisters here in our own country the glorious news of salvation for them2 to bring the light and truth of the ,gospel to those who are groping in the fog of superstition and a wrong conception of ,bible truth2 to plant the ,christian school2 to establish the ,christian home as an object lesson2 to show mothers how to train their children to honor and obedience1 to mingle with the needy and helpless1 and by sympathy and tact secure such changes in the homes as will lead to their permanent improvement2 in a word1 to follow the example of our ,lord ,jesus1 by living and teaching the blessings of intelligence and godliness among those in our home-land for whose improvement and well-being we are peculiarly responsible4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association has ninety-four schools1 and in most of these more women than men are engaged4 ,it is the duty of the missionary teacher to avail herself of every opportunity which her relation with her scholars affords1 either in day or boarding school1 to inculcate ,christian truth1 to warn against the evils which she finds common among the people1 to teach by example and precept the living ,word1 as manifested in the life of ,christ4 ,the wonderful change wrought in those who are brought under the influence of such consecrated missionaries1 testifies to the value of woman's work in missions4 ,but who are these for whom we are peculiarly responsible1 and why is there so especial need of woman's work8 ,they are our eight millions of negroes1 of whom probably not more than one-fourth may be said to have felt the corrective influence of the ,gospel upon their lives4 ,perhaps only those who have come in contact with these people for the sole purpose of helping them to manhood and womanhood1 can comprehend the tremendous incubus of bad habits1 stunted growth1 blunted susceptibilities1 with which they struggle4 ,it is painful to note the limitations of those even who have had the best advantages4 ,yet they are ever reaching upward1 and the struggle is bringing out noble qualities of character1 showing the possibilities of the race4 ,we have had a goodly recompense for ,christian labor among them1 and does not this increase our responsibility for the three-fourths that are yet to be helped to a good understanding of themselves and their duty toward man and ,god8 ,and no one will question that in the development of the best womanhood there rests the surest hope of the elevation of this wronged1 and even now1 greatly oppressed people4 ,but our woman's work finds also its mission among the needy whites of the ,south4 ,it seems almost incredible that there should be found1 within thirty-six hours' ride of our ,northern towns1 so dotted with schools and churches and ,christian homes1 a section of our country where there have been in hiding1 in the ravines and on the mountain sides1 two or more millions of our ,american people1 in gross ignorance and superstition4 ,but such is the case1 and as always1 the women are the greatest sufferers4 ,doubtless the ,negroes have the largest claim upon us1 because of their past history1 their present wrongs1 and their great numbers1 which have become so startling as to make it imperative that we yield no jot of advantage gained1 but rather increase our efforts every year for their intellectual and moral improvement4 ,yet the work for the mountain whites is just now especially urgent4 ,a missionary of much experience expresses the view1 that if we can bring the forces of ,christian education to bear mightily upon these mountain people for the next ten years1 they will themselves become a power as our allies in the great battles of the future against immorality and false doctrines4 ,a few weeks since ,i met in ,north ,carolina near the ,great ,smoky ,mountains a mother and daughter1 the latter about eighteen years old4 ,a school for mountain girls had been opened there1 and the daughter had attended the last year4 ,on entering she could not read a word1 but now was in the ,fourth ,reader1 and studying arithmetic and geography4 ,the rich1 soft color that came to her cheeks1 and the kindling light of her eyes1 told of the brightness this school had brought into her life2 this ,christian school1 for here too1 she had learned the way of eternal life4 ,even the mother's eyes sparkled like stars as she looked with admiration upon her learned daughter4 ,but our door stands wide open also towards the ,indians and ,chinese1 and all the arguments that appeal to us so strongly for the disenthrallment of women in heathen lands1 appeal with equal1 yea greater force for the heathen in our own land1 whom the ,gospel only can make free4 ,such is our great and urgent call for work for woman in the field of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,who should do it1 and how8 ,who but the ,christian women of our churches1 either directly or by substitutes8 ,some can go1 of those who have prepared themselves for the highest and best quality of ,christian service4 ,they should be thoroughly trained and disciplined teachers1 but not this alone4 ,every teacher should be a careful and intelligent ,bible student1 able to instruct from the word of ,god1 practical and earnest1 self-sacrificing and co-operative1 ready to do what seems most necessary1 even though it should not call into action her finest mental qualities4 ,let those who cannot go1 send a substitute1 but let none fail to seize the opportunity for a part in this blessed work1 for the salvation of our country1 and its protection as a ,christian land4 ,there are now twenty-six ,state organizations for ,woman's ,work in our own country through our ,congregational ,churches1 which co-operate in the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,some have increased their contributions during the past year2 others have not fallen below the standard they had fixed for this field1 but have not made any annual advance4 ,with a very few1 co-operation has not yet extended beyond a study of our work4 ,but a study of the field is encouraging1 for a knowledge of the need brings responsibility to do all possible to meet it1 and soon we trust these also will be contributing ,unions4 ,to facilitate the study of our field1 our monthly magazine has been sent free to many ladies' societies1 our literature has been distributed1 and more than sixteen thousand copies of missionary letters have been circulated among the ladies4 ,would not the value of organization be shown in the larger flow of funds annually for a work of such pressing necessity as this8 ,we rejoice that some have already demonstrated this value of united effort4 ,more than one ,state ,missionary ,union1 recognizing the importance of this work and remembering that in drawing upon the benevolence of all the ,congregational ,ladies' ,societies in the ,state1 it should not do a small thing1 has raised the support of four or more missionary teachers for an entire school4 ,and the officers of the ,union have taken pains to stir up the pure minds of the ladies in each auxiliary by way of remembrance of this particular field4 ,but there are those not in the ,state organizations1 whose help we record1 as ,sunday-schools and ,christian ,endeavor ,societies4 ,many such have during the year asked for a special object for their contributions4 ,what can the ,secretary do8 ,the particular things that can be accomplished with forty or fifty or seventy dollars are indeed few1 but these sums combined may sustain a missionary for a year4 ,so each such contribution is made a share of the four hundred dollars necessary for the purpose1 and something definite is accomplished4 ,what is it8 ,this4 ,a faithful ,christian woman is sent to the field1 where1 in a neat cottage1 she makes her home life an object lesson to the colored people or the mountain whites or the ,indians for many miles around4 ,their homes begin to improve4 ,her day school1 held in the little church near by1 attracts not only children1 but young men and women1 and even young married people4 ,a ,christian ,endeavor ,society is formed4 ,the ,sunday-school and church take a new start under her teachings4 ,other ,sunday-schools and ,christian societies are maintained through her influence1 and so the small contributions accomplish a large work4 ,private individuals also have aided us4 ,what a blessed privilege to be able out of one's own income to put worthy missionaries into such a field4 ,there has been an increase in aid rendered in sewing1 a form of help that is very valuable in keeping our boarding schools and mission homes furnished1 our sewing schools provided with basted work1 and clothing ready for worthy but needy students4 ,as with money1 so with sewing1 we could use wisely very much more than has been received4 ,we acknowledge also the kindness of ladies in furnishing books and papers adapted to the need4 ,the young people1 especially among the ,negroes1 are acquiring a taste for reading1 and with their emotional and excitable natures1 they take readily to sensational literature1 with its startling illustrations4 ,a neighborhood or society collection of books and papers will usually contain some of such a stamp1 and you maybe sure they will not always discriminate in favor of the most instructive reading4 ,therefore select for them as you would for your own sons and daughters1 what is attractive and healthful1 and withhold all else4 ,and now we are just starting upon a new year4 ,four hundred and seventy-six laborers have been called into the missionary ranks of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,one hundred and ninety missions are in operation1 with their widening influence and ever growing needs4 ,of our one hundred and forty-two churches there are fifty-seven which have not at present any ,northern missionary associated with them4 ,the difference in the development of these churches1 as contrasted with those which have the influence and help of ,northern teachers1 is so marked1 as to constitute a most urgent appeal for more missionaries--faithful women--to gather in the young people1 interest and instruct them1 to live among them1 an example of economy and thrift in housekeeping1 of neighborly kindness1 of faithfulness in church obligations and of consistent ,christian life4 ,i do not hesitate to affirm that in the field of the ,american ,missionary ,association such provision is next in importance to the preached word4 ,neither can take the place of the other4 ,either is at a disadvantage without the other4 ,and yet there are fifty-seven of these mission stations this year1 now1 without such beneficent woman's ministry1 waiting only for additional funds1 the new money necessary to provide reinforcements4 ,i appeal to you1 ,christian women1 in your organized capacity as ,state ,unions2 and as individuals--stewards to whom perchance our ,lord has entrusted a goodly inheritance--for help to the ,american ,missionary ,association in this almost overwhelming responsibility4 ,send us the missionaries for these needy fields4 ,i appeal to you in behalf especially of the wronged and helpless women and girls of these ten millions of our own countrymen1 ,american born1 whose only hope is in the sympathy and the help of the ,christian people of our own land4 ,we do not live in the day of small things1 but of great needs and large opportunities4 ,surely now1 if ever1 is the time to enlarge the place of thy tent and stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation4 ,spare not1 lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes1 that thou mayest spread abroad on the right hand and on the left1 and possess the nations of our land4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,woman',s ,,state ,,organizations4 ,,co-,,operating ,,with ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association4 ,,maine4 ,,woman',s ,,aid ,,to ,a4,m4,a4 ,chairman of ,committee--,mrs4 ,c4,a4 ,woodbury1 ,woodfords1 ,me4 ,,vermont4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,a4,b4 ,swift1 #afg ,king ,st41 ,burlington4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,e4,c4 ,osgood1 #ad ,first ,ave41 ,montpelier4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,wm4 ,p4 ,fairbanks1 ,st4 ,johnsbury4 ,,massachusetts ,,and ,,rhode ,,island4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,association4#a ,president--,mrs4 ,alice ,freeman ,palmer1 ,cambridge1 ,mass4 ,secretary--,miss ,nathalie ,lord1 #cb ,congregational ,house1 ,boston4 ,treasurer--,miss ,ella ,a4 ,leland1 #cb ,congregational ,house1 ,boston4 ,,connecticut4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,francis ,b4 ,cooley1 ,hartford4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,s4,m4 ,hotchkiss1 #aga ,capitol ,ave41 ,hartford4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,w4,w4 ,jacobs1 #ai ,spring ,st41 ,hartford4 ,,new ,,york4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,wm4 ,kincaid1 #dhc ,greene ,ave41 ,brooklyn4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,wm4 ,spalding1 #f ,salmon ,block1 ,syracuse4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,l4,h4 ,cobb1 #ei ,bible ,house1 ,new ,york ,city4 ,,ohio4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,j4,g4,w4 ,cowles1 #dag ,sibley ,st41 ,cleveland4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,flora ,k4 ,regal1 ,oberlin4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,phebe ,a4 ,crafts1 #ie ,monroe ,ave41 ,columbus4 ,,indiana4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,c4,b4 ,safford1 ,elkhart4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,w4,e4 ,mossman1 ,fort ,wayne4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,c4 ,evans1 ,indianapolis4 ,,illinois4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,b4,f4 ,leavitt1 #dji ,orchard ,st41 ,chicago4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,c4,h4 ,taintor1 #aea ,washington ,st41 ,chicago4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,c4,e4 ,maltby1 ,champaign4 ,,iowa4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,t4,o4 ,douglass1 ,grinnell4 ,secretary--,miss ,ella ,e4 ,marsh1 ,box #bcb1 ,grinnell4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,m4,j4 ,nichoson1 #aeac ,main ,st41 ,dubuque4 ,,michigan4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,george ,m4 ,lane1 #dg ,miami ,ave41 ,detroit4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,leroy ,warren1 ,lansing4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,e4,f4 ,grabill1 ,greenville4 ,,wisconsin4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,h4,a4 ,miner1 ,madison4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,c4 ,matter1 ,brodhead4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,c4,c4 ,keeler1 ,beloit4 ,,minnesota4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,society4 ,president--,mrs4 ,e4,s4 ,williams1 ,box #dfd1 ,minneapolis4 ,secretary--,miss ,gertude ,a4 ,keith1 #acej ,nicollet ,ave41 ,minneapolis4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,m4,w4 ,skinner1 ,northfield4 ,,north ,,dakota4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,society4 ,president--,mrs4 ,a4,j4 ,pike1 ,dwight4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,silas ,daggett1 ,harwood4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,j4,m4 ,fisher1 ,fargo4 ,,south ,,dakota4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,a4,h4 ,robbins1 ,bowdle4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,t4,m4 ,jeffris1 ,huron4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,s4,e4 ,fifield1 ,lake ,preston4 ,,nebraska4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,t4,h4 ,leavitt1 #abaf ,h4 ,st41 ,lincoln4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,l4,f4 ,berry1 #gbd ,no4 ,broad ,st1 ,fremont4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,d4,e4 ,perry1 ,crete4 ,,missouri4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,c4,l4 ,goodell1 #cjjf ,pine ,st41 ,st4 ,louis4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,e4,p4 ,bronson1 #cajj ,chestnut ,st41 ,st4 ,louis4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,a4,e4 ,cook1 #dade ,bell ,ave41 ,st4 ,louis4 ,,kansas4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,society4 ,president--,mrs4 ,f4,j4 ,storrs1 ,topeka4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,george ,l4 ,epps1 ,topeka4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,j4,g4 ,dougherty1 ,ottawa4 ,,colorado ,,and ,,wyoming4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,j4,w4 ,pickett1 ,white ,water1 ,colorado4 ,secretary--,miss ,mary ,l4 ,martin1 #ajf ,platte ,ave41 ,colorado ,springs1 ,colorado4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,s4,a4 ,sawyer4 ,boulder1 ,colorado4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,c4,t4 ,goodell1 #bdth and ,eddy ,sts41 ,cheyenne1 ,wyoming4 ,,southern ,,california4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,elijah ,cash1 #ibg ,temple ,st41 ,los ,angeles4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,h4,k4,w4 ,bent1 ,box #dbf1 ,pasadena4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,h4,w4 ,mills1 ,so4 ,olive ,st41 ,los ,angeles4 ,,california4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,society4 ,president--,mrs4 ,h4,l4 ,merritt1 #fhf #cdth ,st41 ,oakland4 ,secretary--,miss ,grace ,e4 ,barnard1 #fgg #bast4 ,st41 ,oakland4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,j4,m4 ,havens1 #ccbi ,harrison ,st41 ,oakland4 ,,louisiana4 ,,woman',s ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,r4,d4 ,hitchcock1 ,new ,orleans4 ,secretary--,miss ,jennie ,fyfe1 #dij ,canal ,st41 ,new ,orleans4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,c4,s4 ,shattuck1 ,hammond4 ,,mississippi4 ,,woman',s ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,a4,f4 ,whiting1 ,tougaloo4 ,secretary--,miss ,sarah ,j4 ,humphrey1 ,tougaloo4 ,treasurer--,miss ,s4,l4 ,emerson1 ,tougaloo4 ,,alabama4 ,,woman',s ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,h4,w4 ,andrews1 ,talladega4 ,secretary--,miss ,s4,s4 ,evans1 #bfab ,fifth ,ave41 ,birmingham4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,g4 ,baker1 ,selma4 ,,florida4 ,,woman',s ,,home ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,mrs4 ,s4,f4 ,gale1 ,jacksonville4 ,secretary--,mrs4 ,nathan ,barrows1 ,winter ,park4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,l4,c4 ,partridge1 ,longwood4 ,,tennessee ,,and ,,arkansas4 ,,woman',s ,,missionary ,,union ,,of ,,the ,,central ,,south ,,association4 ,president--,miss ,m4,f4 ,wells1 ,athens1 ,tenn4 ,secretary--,miss ,a4,m4 ,cahill1 ,nashville1 ,tenn4 ,treasurer--,mrs4 ,g4,s4 ,pope1 ,grand ,view1 ,tenn4 ,,north ,,carolina4 ,,woman',s ,,missionary ,,union4 ,president--,miss ,e4 ,plimpton1 ,chapel ,hill4 ,secretary--,miss ,a4,e4 ,farrington1 ,raleigh4 ,treasurer--,miss ,lovey ,mayo1 ,raleigh4 ,footnote #a3 ,for the purpose of exact information1 we note that while the ,w4,h4,m4,a4 appears in this list as a ,state body for ,mass4 and ,r4,i41 it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere4 ,we would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of ,state ,missionary ,unions1 that funds for the ,american ,missionary ,association be sent to us through the treasurers of the ,union4 ,care1 however1 should be taken to designate the money as for the ,american ,missionary ,association1 since undesignated funds will not reach us4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,receipts ,,for ,,october1 #ahhi4 ,,the ,,daniel ,,hand ,,fund1 ,for the ,education of ,colored ,people4 ,,from ,,mr4 ,,daniel ,,hand1 ,,guilford1 ,,conn4 ,income from ,october1 #ahhi1 #ifj4jj 99 99 99 99 99 ,,current ,,receipts4 ,,maine1 #afe4gf4 ,alfred4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4ef ,bangor4 ,corelli ,w4 ,simpson4 ,engravings for ,hospital1 ,fort ,yates1 ,dak4 ,ellsworth4 ,mrs4 ,phelps1 for ,teachers' ,home1 ,lexington1 ,ky4 #a4jj ,fryeburg4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4ed ,greenville4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #ae4ee1 and ,sab4 ,sch41 #ab #bg4ee ,island ,falls4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,litchfield ,corners4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4jj ,new ,castle4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,s4,d4 ,,wyman and ,,mrs4 ,,auranus ,,millee ,l4,m's #fj4jj ,patten4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ae4jj ,portland4 ,george ,c4 ,frye1 ,chemist1 ,medicines1 val4 #ae4jf1 for ,hospital1 ,fort ,yates1 ,dak4 ,south ,bridgton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,sab4 ,sch4 #ag4aa ,wells4 ,a ,friend4 #a4jj ,,new ,,hampshire1 #bgd4je4 ,alstead4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #i4jj ,canaan4 ,mary ,a4 ,george #e4jj ,franklin4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bj4jj ,great ,falls4 ,ladies' ,home ,miss'y ,soc4 #aj4jj ,hanover4 ,dartmouth ,college ,cong4 ,ch4 #fg4bj ,mason4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4cj ,nashua4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #bj4jj ,new ,ipswich4 ,proceeds of ,children's ,fair 7#b of which for ,indian ,m47 #aj4hj ,pelham4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ce4jj ,pembroke4 ,first ,cong4 ,soc4 #ah4be ,peterboro4 ,union ,evan4 ,ch4 #ca4ej ,portsmouth4 ,in as much ,circle of ,king's ,daughters of ,north ,ch41 for furnishing room1 ,girl's ,hall1 ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #cj4jj ,raymond4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4jj ,,vermont1 #bag4bj4 ,benson4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4hj ,bethel4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #b4ef ,brandon4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #f4jj ,brattleboro4 ,center ,cong4 ,ch4 #ha4jj ,essex ,junction4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #af4jj ,guildhall4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4ej ,hubbardton4 ,d4,j4 ,flagg #e4jj ,newport4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #h4ej ,sharon4 ,a ,friend1 #a2 ,x41 #a #b4jj ,sharon4 ,communion ,service1 for ,jonesboro1 ,tenn4 ,springfield4 ,f4,v4,a4 ,townsend1 to const ,,mrs4 ,,isabella ,,waterman ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ,townsend4 ,mrs4 ,h4 ,holbrook #a4jj ,west ,brattleboro4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ad4hd ,westminster4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ad4jj ,westminster4 ,west4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,mc,intosh1 ,ga4 #af4jj ,,massachusetts1 #d1eii4fi4 ,amherst4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4jj ,andover4 ,phillips ,academy for ,boys' ,hall1 ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #be4jj ,andover4 ,pansy ,band1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #af4gb ,beverly4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,dane ,st4 ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4ab ,boston4 ,woman's ,home ,miss'y ,soc41 #djj1 for ,woman's ,work2 #ce from ,shawmut ,mite ,soc41 for ,indian ,sch'p4 #dce4jj ,a ,friend ,in ,boston1 for ,building ,fund1 ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #bej4jj ,woman's ,home ,miss'y ,ass'n #cj4jj ,dorchester4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #ie4hg ,mrs4 ,walter ,baker1 #cj1 ,mr4 ,hardwick1 #aj1 ,mrs4 ,means1 #aj1 ,mrs4 ,wales1 #e1 ,miss ,carruth1 #e1 ,miss ,salmon1 #e #fe4jj ,friends1 by ,a4,c4 ,hopkins1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #fj4jj ,harvard ,cong4 ,ch4 #cg4dj ,mrs4 ,eliza ,bicknell #d4jj ,roxbury4 ,highland ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,indian ,m4 #ae4jj ,ladies of ,immanuel ,ch41 for ,freight on ,bbl4 to ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #b4jj ,im4 ,ch41 ,mrs4 ,m4,m4 ,graham #a4jj ,west ,roxbury4 ,south ,evan4 ,ch4 #bd4ea ------- #a1jai4gh ,brimfield4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4fd ,brookline4 ,harvard ,ch4 #eg4ch ,brockton4 ,porter ,evan4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 to const4 ,,chas4 ,h4 ,,reynolds1 ,,sidney ,e4 ,,nickerson and ,,mrs4 ,,jane ,b4 ,,jennings ,l4,m's #ajd4dh ,cambridge4 ,mrs4 ,c4,a4 ,phelps' ,s4,s4 ,class1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #aj4jj ,cambridgeport4 ,pilgrim ,ch41 #ig4ad2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #a #ih4ad ,campello4 ,mrs4 ,s4,a4 ,southworth1 for ,freight on ,boxes to ,chapel ,hill1 ,n4,c4 #c4jj ,charlestown4 ,winthrop ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ff4ab ,chelsea4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #ch4ej2 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,first ,cong1 ,ch41 #ae #ec4ej ,concord4 ,trin4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bb4ed ,east ,cambridge4 ,miss ,m4,f4 ,aiken1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #d4jj ,everett4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ci4gd ,fitchburg4 ,rollstone ,cong4 ,ch4 #hj4jj ,framingham4 ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,e4 ,guernsey1 for ,mountain ,work #a4jj ,franklin4 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,grand ,view1 ,tenn4 #ae4jj ,gardner4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 to const ,,chas4 ,f4 ,,read and ,,mrs4 ,,seth ,,heywood ,l4,m's #fj4jj ,greenfield4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #eh4ie ,groton4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 #ade4hj ,harvard4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ae4jj ,haverhill4 ,mary ,merrill1 ,package ,patchwork1 for ,sew4 ,sch41 ,sherwood ,tenn4 ,holliston4 ,bible ,christians1 #dg2 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #dj4ej #hg4ej ,housatonic4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #ej4de ,hyde ,park4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #bd4jj ,lawrence4 ,trinity ,ch41 for ,freedmen and ,indian ,m4 #cb4ai ,lawrence4 ,united ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,lee4 ,friendly4 #a4ej ,ludlow ,center4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 ,ladies' ,soc41 for ,tougaloo ,u4 #aj4jj ,mansfield4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc4 #aj4jj ,medfield4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #gh4ch ,milton4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4ej ,middleboro4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch41 #df4gc2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #ac4ad #ei4hg ,newton4 ,eliot ,ch41 #abj2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #ge4jh #aie4jh ,newton ,center4 ,mrs4 ,sarah ,c4 ,davis1 for ,indian ,m4 #bjj4jj ,norfolk4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4fj ,north ,attleboro4 ,frank ,bennett1 for ,mountain ,work #e4jj ,north ,brookfield4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 #ac4ah ,north ,chelmsford4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #ba4jj ,north ,leominster4 ,ch4 of ,christ #ba4dc ,northampton4 ,a4,l4 ,williston1 #agj2 ,a ,friend1 #i1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #agi4jj ,northampton4 ,edwards ,ch4 ,benev4 ,soc4 #afj4jj ,north ,middleboro4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cb4fe ,oxford4 ,woman's ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,freight on #c ,bbl's4 to ,kittrell1 ,n4,c4 #f4ej ,oxford4 ,oxtord4 #e4jj ,peabody4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 #e2 ,west ,branch of ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 #b4ge #g4ge ,reading4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ah4jj ,randolph4 ,miss ,,marion ,,belcher1 to const4 herself ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ,rockland4 ,miss ,cordelia ,shaw1 for ,freight on ,bbl4 to ,fisk ,u4 #b4jj ,salem4 ,crombie ,st4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #fg4jj ,saxonville4 ,edwards ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aj4ic ,sharon4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #cj1 to const4 ,j4,w4 ,,perry ,l4,m42 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 #aj #dj4jj ,somerville4 ,day ,st4 ,ch41 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #ae4jj ,southampton4 ,l4,c4 ,tiffany's ,s4,s4 ,class1 ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,theo4 ,student ,aid ,fund #bj4jj ,south ,egremont4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ad4jf ,south ,deerfield4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #cd4ae2 ,sab4 ,sch41 #ab4ic #dg4jh ,south ,framingham4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch41 7#ej of which for ,mountain ,work7 #agd4ed ,south ,hadley4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #bc4ej ,springfield4 ,miss ,carrie ,h4 ,bowdoin #aj4jj ,springfield4 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e41 ,first ,ch4 of ,christ1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #e4jj ,south ,weymouth4 ,miss ,s4,b4 ,tirrel's ,s4,s4 ,class1 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4hb ,townsend4 ,mrs4 ,ralph ,ball1 for ,freight on ,bbl4 to ,sherwood1 ,tenn4 #b4jj ,wakefield4 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e41 for ,mountain ,work #c4jj ,west ,boxford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4he ,westhampton4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch4 #ah4gh ,westhampton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ac4eh ,west ,medford4 ---- for ,boys' ,hall1 ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #cj4jj ,west ,springfield4 ,ladies' ,mission ,circle of ,park ,st4 ,ch41 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #ej4jj ,winchendon4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #ac1 and ,sab4 ,sch41 #ag4cj #cj4cj ,winchester4 ,ladies' ,western ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #ij4jj ,winchester4 ,s4 ,elliott #aj4jj ,worcester4 ,mary ,a4 and ,joanna ,f4 ,smith #ej4jj ,yarmouth4 ,rev4 ,john ,w4 ,dodge1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #ej4jj ,hampden ,benevolent ,association1 by ,charles ,marsh1 ,treasurer3 ,agawam #bj4be ,holyoke4 ,second #hc4ca ,south ,hadley ,falls #i4ia ,springfield4 ,south #df4cj ------- #aei4gg --------- #d1bdi4fi ,,estates4 ,dunstable4 ,estate of ,mary ,wilson1 by ,wm4 ,p4 ,proctor1 ,ex4 #ej4jj ,enfield4 ,estate of ,j4,b4 ,woods1 by ,rev4 ,r4,m4 ,woods1 ,trustee1 to const4 ,,miss ,,charlotte ,a4 ,,lathrop ,l4,m4 #ej4jj ,groton4 ,estate of ,samuel ,c4 ,rockwood1 by ,george ,s4 ,gates1 ,ex4 #cjj4jj --------- #d1eii4fi ,,clothing1 ,,books1 ,,etc41 ,,received ,,at ,,boston ,,office4 ,kennebunk1 ,maine4 ,mrs4 ,mary ,p4 ,smith1 ,box of ,c41 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 ,campello1 ,mass4 ,mrs4 ,s4,a4 ,southworth1 #b ,boxes1 for ,chapel ,hill1 ,s4,c4 ,cambridgeport1 ,mass4 ,by ,mrs4 ,r4,l4 ,snow1 ,box of ,bedding1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 ,gardner1 ,mass4 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e41 ,package of ,papers1 for ,jellico1 ,tenn4 ,hopkinton1 ,mass4 ,king's ,daughters1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 val4 #ej1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 ,oxford1 ,mass4 ,woman's ,miss'y ,soc41 #c ,bbls41 for ,kittrell1 ,ala4 ,rockland1 ,mass4 ,ladies' ,sew4 ,circle of ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl41 for ,fisk ,u4 ,roslindale1 ,mass4 ,miss ,f4,h4 ,wiswall1 ,box ,hymn ,books1 etc41 for ,talladega1 ,ala4 ,roxbury1 ,mass1 ,ladies' ,benev4 ,soc4 of ,immanuel ,ch41 ,bbl41 val4 #ca4ed1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 ,townsend1 ,mass4 ,by ,mrs4 ,ralph ,ball1 ,bbl41 for ,sherwood1 ,tenn4 ,,rhode ,,island1 #gcj4if4 ,little ,compton4 ,mrs4 ,antrace ,pierce #e4jj ,newport4 ,united ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4jj ,providence4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch4 7#be of which for ,girls' ,hall1 ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 and #aj4 for ,talladega ,c47 #fbe4jj ,providence4 ,north ,cong4 ,ch4 #dd4ga ,providence4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,beneficent ,cong4 ,ch41 #be1 ,miss ,burrows' ,class1 #a4be1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #bf4be ,,connecticut1 #b1gje4jj4 ,berlin4 ,mrs4 ,sophia ,savage1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 #aj4jj ,bridgeport ,d4,h4 ,terry1 #aj41 ,l4,b4 ,silliman1 #e1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 #ae4jj ,bristol4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ai4bg ,buckingham4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #c4bi ,east ,granby4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4fe ,ellington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #adh4gj ,granby4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch41 #ac2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #f4ab #ai4ab ,hadlyme4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #d42 ,mrs4 ,e4 ,geer1 #a4 #e4jj ,hartford4 ,students' ,association of ,hartford ,theo4 ,sem41 #cd4ha2 ,mrs4 ,charles ,t4 ,hillyer1 #cj4jj #fd4ha ,hartford4 ,d4,r4 ,howe1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 #be4jj ,lisbon4 ,cong4 ,ch41 bal4 to const4 ,,rev4 ,q4,m4 ,,bosworth ,l4,m4 #g4jj ,middlebury4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4ja ,monroe4 ,mrs4 ,f4,a4 and ,h4,l4 ,curtiss #aj4jj ,plymouth4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #df4jj ,poquonock4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ec4bj ,portland4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4ia ,preston4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ae4jj ,putnam4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #bj4id ,new ,britain4 ,prayer ,meeting ,coll4 ,center ,ch41 for ,tougaloo ,u4 #cd4bd ,new ,britain4 ,normal ,class of ,south ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,normal ,inst41 ,grand ,view1 ,tenn4 #g4ca ,new ,haven4 ,united ,ch41 #bfh4eb2 ,college ,st4 ,ch41 #aj4jj #bgh4eb ,new ,london4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ej4jf ,newington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #gi4ie ,new ,preston4 ,mrs4 ,henry ,upson1 #d2 ,mrs4 ,stanley ,williams1 #a1 for ,conn4 ,ind'l ,sch41 ,ga4 #e4jj ,northford4 ,cong ,ch4 #ae4jj ,north ,madison4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4jj ,norwich4 ,broadway ,cong4 ,ch4 #baa4hh ,rockville4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 7#fe of which for ,tougaloo ,u47 to const4 ,,miss ,,lucinda ,,bailey1 ,,miss ,,ellen4 ,l4 ,,wilson1 ,,miss ,,celia ,e4 ,,prescott1 ,,luther ,h4 ,,fuller and ,,isaac ,m4 ,,agard ,l4,m4's #afh4je ,stamford4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4fa ,terryville4 ,elizur ,fenn #aj4jj ,thomaston4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,sch'p1 ,santee ,ind4 ,sch4 #ag4ej ,thomaston4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4fe ,tolland4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jb ,wallingford4 ,mrs4 ,clara ,beebe ,darling1 ad'l1 for ,chapel1 ,darling ,station1 ,fort ,yates1 ,dak4 #ajj4jj ,wallingford4 ,h4,l4 ,judd1 for ,student ,aid1 ,tougaloo ,u4 #gj4jj ,wapping4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4bg ,watertown4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bd4gi ,watertown4 ,sab4 ,sch4 ,class1 by ,mrs4 ,fred4 ,scott1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fort ,berthold1 ,ind4 ,sch4 #ae4jj ,west ,hartland4 ,h4,l4 ,wilcox1 for ,conn4 ,ind'l ,sch41 ,ga4 #f4jj ,winchester4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ad4jj ,woodbury4 ,north ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4be ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,union of ,conn41 by ,mrs4 ,ward ,w4 ,jacobs1 ,treas41 for ,woman's ,work3 ,bridgeport4 ,l4,h4,m4 ,soc4 of ,north ,ch4 #ej4jj --------- #a1gje4jj ,,estate4 ,plymouth4 ,estate of ,eliza ,bull1 by ,ira ,b4 ,bull and ,geo4 ,m4 ,welles1 ,executors #a1jjj4jj --------- #b1gje4jj ,,new ,,york1 #hch4fg4 ,albany4 ,e4,m4,e4 #aj4jj ,amsterday4 ,mrs4 ,chandler ,bartlett #b4jj ,aquebogue4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4bj ,brooklyn4 ,tompkins ,ave4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #djj4jj ,churchville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ca4je ,clifton ,springs4 ,mrs4 ,w4,w4 ,warner1 ,box of ,c41 ,val4 #df4fe1 for ,mc,leansville1 ,n4,c4 ,deansville4 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e41 for ,student ,aid1 ,avery ,inst4 #aj4jj ,hudson4 ,mrs4 ,d4,a4 ,jones #ae4jj ,ithaca4 ,sab4 ,sch4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ed4 of a girl1 ,santee ,ind4 ,sch4 #ce4jj ,jamestown4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4ci ,kelloggsville4 ,miss ,c4,l4 ,taylor #ej4jj ,lebanon4 ,thomas ,hitchcock1 #e2 ,ladles ,aid ,soc41 #e2 ,alfred ,seymour1 #e2 ,mrs4 ,servilia ,g4 ,childs1 #b2 ,mrs4 ,j4,h4 ,wagoner1 #a2 ,j4,a4 ,head1 #a2 ,g4,g4 ,grosvenor1 #ej;c42 ,c4,p4 ,day1 #ej;c4 #bj4jj ,munnsville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,napoli4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4cb ,new ,lebanon4 ,a ,friend #d4jj ,new ,york4 ,broadway ,tab41 ,j4,t4 ,leavitt #ajj4jj ,new ,york4 ,mrs4 ,h4,b4 ,spelman1 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #be4jj ,new ,york4 ,j4,h4 ,washburn1 ,pkg4 of ,c4 ,syracuse4 ,plymouth ,ch4 #bf4jj ,utica4 ,miss ,caroline ,e4 ,backus1 for ,mountain ,work #e4jj ,warsaw4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ad4ga ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,union of ,n4,y41 by ,mrs4 ,l4,h4 ,cobb1 ,treas41 for ,woman's ,work3 ,binghamton4 ,helpers ,h4,m4 ,soc41 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,j4,l4 ,,mesereau ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ,geddes4 ,ladies ,aux4 #e4jj ,lyssander4 ,ladies' ,aux41 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,desire ,a4 ,,fuller ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ------- #fe4jj ,,new ,,jersey1 #ahe4jj4 ,montclair4 ,womans' ,home ,miss'y ,soc4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 for ,marshallville ,sch41 ,ga41 and to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,lucia ,p4 ,,ames1 ,,mary ,b4 ,,ames and ,,lulu ,,ames ,l4,m's #ahj4jj ,paterson4 ,p4 ,van ,houten #e4jj ,point ,pleasant4 ,rev4 ,s4,y4 ,lum1 ,box of ,books1 for ,talladega ,c4 ,,pennsylvania1 #aj4jj4 ,cambridge4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,ridgway4 ,bible ,class by ,minnie ,j4 ,kline1 for ,oaks1 ,n4,c4 #e4jj ,,ohio1 #a1gjf4jd4 ,cincinnati4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,walnut ,hills ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,grand ,view1 ,tenn4 #cj4jj ,cleveland4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #cj4ba2 ,rev4 ,w4,l4 ,tenney1 #ae2 ,plymouth ,ch41 #e4he #ea4jf ,columbus4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #aia4fj ,columbus4 ,a ,friend ,box of ,bedding1 for ,grand ,view1 ,tenn4 ,conneaut4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 #bj2 ,h4,e4 ,pond1 #e41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,fort ,recovery4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,lafayette4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4ej ,lorain4 ,wide ,awake ,soc4 for ,student ,aid1 ,tougaloo ,u4 #c4ee ,medina4 ,friends in ,cong4 ,ch41 by ,mrs4 ,e4,f4 ,leach1 for furnishing a room1 new boarding hall1 ,macon1 ,ga4 #ej4jj ,north ,bloomfield4 ,prof4 ,f4,o4 ,reed #e4jj ,oberlin4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #fh4bi ,oberlin4 ,rev4 ,c4,v4 ,speare1 for ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #ej4jj ,oberlin4 ,young ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,student ,aid1 ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 #be4jj ,oberlin4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,jewett ,memorial ,hall #aa4ee ,pittsfield4 ,ladies' ,benev4 ,soc41 ,bundle of ,carpeting1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 ,newark4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,strongsville4 ,elijah ,lyman #aj4jj ,toledo4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ej4jj ,wakeman4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #e4ge ,york4 ,cong4 ,ch4 to const4 ,,milo ,e4 ,,branch ,l4,m4 #cb4jj ,ohio ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,union1 by ,mrs4 ,phebe ,a4 ,crafts1 ,treasurer1 for ,woman's ,work3 ,chagrin ,falls4 ,aux4 for ,miss ,collins #g4ej ,chester ,cross ,roads4 ,st4 ,paul's ,miss4 ,band1 for ,dakota ,indian ,m4 #c4jj ,cleveland4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e4 #d4ac ,conneaut4 ,w4,h4,m4,s41 for ,miss ,collins #e4jj ,hudson4 ,l4,h4,m4,s4 #g4af ,friends #bd4ie ,painesville4 ,m4,s4 ,home ,dept4 #be4jj ------ #gf4gd --------- #gjf4jd ,,estate4 ,ashtabula4 ,estate of ,miss ,e4,g4 ,austin1 by ,henry ,fassett1 ,adm'r #a1jjj4jj --------- #a1gjf4jd ,,illinois1 #gdc4hc4 ,atkinson4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4bj ,aurora4 ,n4,l4 ,janes #aj4jj ,buda4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aad4hf ,chicago4 ,mrs4 ,f4,e4 ,brush1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ajd4jj ,chicago4 ,ladies of ,south ,park ,ch4 #b4ej ,crete4 ,phineas ,chapman #ej4jj ,elgin4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,mountain ,work #i4da ,elgin4 ,a ,friend #e4jj ,elmwood4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #c4jj ,mattoon4 ,friends1 by ,mrs4 ,a4,f4 ,cushman1 for ,sch'p ,endowment ,fund1 ,fisk ,u4 #ae4jj ,morrison4 ,william ,wallace #aj4jj ,lawn ,ridge4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,sab4 ,sch4 #ai4dh ,lee ,center4 ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u4 #ab4ge ,marseilles4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #i4jj ,payson4 ,j4,k4 ,scarborough #ajj4jj ,peoria4 ,miss ,etta ,proctor's ,s4,s4 ,class1 ,sab4 ,sch4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #c4jj ,princeton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4ga ,princeton4 ,rev4 ,f4 ,bascom1 ,d4,d41 ,box of ,books1 for ,talladega ,c4 ,prospect ,park4 ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,indian ,m4 #bj4jd ,oak ,park4 ,young ,people's ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,sch'p ,endowment ,fund1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,turner4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4ac ,illinois ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,union1 by ,mrs4 ,c4,e4 ,maltby1 ,treas41 for ,woman's ,work3 ,ashkum #j4ef ,atkinson #e4jj ,buda #c4ej ,chebanse #e4jj ,chicago4 ,park #bb4ge ,elgin #e4jj ,oak ,park #bd4jj ,peoria #ej4jj ,rockford4 ,first #ae4jj ,rockford4 ,second #bj4jj ,sterling #h4ej ,toulon #b4jj ,warrensburg #ad4dd -------- #ahj4ge ,,michigan1 #i1dag4fd4 ,detroit4 ,parke1 ,davis ,co41 ,chemists1 ,medicines1 ,val4 #ag4ca4 for ,hospital1 ,fort ,yates1 ,dak4 ,grand ,rapids4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #be4jj ,hart4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4jb ,litchfield4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4af ,manistee4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #bf4jj ,new ,haven4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4aa ,south ,haven4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #a4je ,wheatland4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #be4jj --------- #ie4cd ,,estate4 ,olivet4 ,estate of ,william ,b4 ,palmer1 by ,geo4 ,w4 ,keyes1 ,ex4 #i1ccb4bj --------- #i1dag4ed ,,wisconsin1 #hb4ff4 ,beloit4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 #aa4hf2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #e4ej #ag4cf ,beloit4 ,sab4 ,sch4 ,first 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,francisco4 ,the ,california ,chinese ,mission 7,see ,items ,below7 #c1ach4dj ,tustin4 ,busy ,bees by ,miss ,mary ,buss1 #ae1 and ,package ,c41 for ,student ,aid1 ,normal ,inst41 ,grand ,view1 ,tenn4 #ae4jj ,,north ,,carolina1 #dc4he4 ,blowing ,rock4 ,f4,w4 ,van ,wagenen1 for ,blowing ,rock1 ,n4,c4 #be4jj ,mc,leansville4 ,rev4 ,a4 ,connet1 for ,talladega ,c4 #ad4fj ,willmington4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4be ,,texas1 #be4jj4 ,dallas4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #be4jj ---------- ,donations #ac1hfb4cj ,estates #aa1gbb4bj ---------- #be1ehd4ej ,,tuition1 #dff4ja4 ,lexington1 ,ky4 ,tuition #aga4ce ,wilmington1 ,n4,c4 ,tuition #f4jj ,jonesboro1 ,tenn4 ,county ,fund #ej4jj ,jonesboro1 ,tenn4 ,tuition #a4jj ,nashville1 ,tenn4 ,tuition #aib4ce ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 ,public ,fund #dj4jj ,pleasant ,hill1 ,tenn4 ,tuition #c4jj ,austin1 ,texas4 ,tuition #b4ca -------- #dff4ja ,united ,states ,government for the ,education of ,indians #a1jag4ih ---------- ,total for ,october #bg1jfh4di ,,for ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 ,subscriptions for ,october #ha4hf ,,receipts ,,of ,,the ,,california ,,chinese ,,mission1 from ,april #bjth to ,october #afth1 #ahhi4 ,e4 ,palache1 ,treas4 ,,from ,,local ,,missions4--,los ,angeles1 ,chinese ,mon ,off's4 #cd4hj4 ,annual ,mem's and other gifts1 #bj4ej4--,marysville4 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #bg4hj2 ,annual ,mem's1 #f4--,oakland1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #dj2 ,annual ,mem's1 #bd4--,oroville4 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #ae4he2 ,annual ,mem's4 #cd4--,petaluma3 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #aj4ej2 ,anniversary ,coll41 #e4ge2 ,annual ,mem's and other gifts 7#f of which from ,dea4 ,a4,b4 ,case7 #ef4ej4--,riverside1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #ag4ee2 ,annual ,mem's #ae4--,sacramento1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #cf2 ,annual ,mem's1 #cj4be4--,san ,buenaventura1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #ad1aj2 ,annual ,mon's1 etc41 #ca3 ,chinese ,special ,offerings1 #ia4he--,san ,diego1 ,chinese weekly offerings1 #hf2 ,annual ,mem's and other gifts1 #ec4de2 ,j4,a4 ,rogers1 #aj2 ,,quon ,,neuey1 #be1 to const4 himself ,l4,m42 ,rev4 and ,mrs4 ,j4,b4 ,silcox1 #aj2 ,col4 ,e4,f4 ,french1 #e2 ,moses ,frick1 #b4ej2 ,others4 #c4--,santa ,barbara1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #ad4je2 ,annual ,mem's and other gifts1 #dc4ge2 ,pon ,dan1 #e2 ,yee ,ock1 #e2 ,gin ,chow1 #e2 ,mrs4 ,e4,m4 ,shattuck1 #c4ej1 balance to const4 ,,rev4 ,c4,t4 ,,weitzel ,l4,m42 ,lady ,friend1 #e2 ,mrs4 ,josiah ,bates1 #d2 ,cong4 ,ch41 #cb4be2 ,collection at ,social1 #aj4ej4--,santa ,cruz4 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #cf4aj2 ,anniversary ,coll41 #aj4hj2 ,annual ,mem's1 etc41 #fc4ej4--,stockton1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #h4ge2 ,annual ,mem's4 #ce4--,tucson1 ,chinese ,monthlies1 #g2 ,annual ,mem's1 #ah2 ,a ,friend1 #a4ce #ifd4ie ,,from ,,congregational ,,churches4--,bethany1 7,san ,joaquin ,co47 #d4--;,byron1 #f4--;,crockett1 #b4ej4--,lorin1 #f4dj4--,los ,angeles1 ,first1 ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,soc14 #dc4aj4 ,y4,p4,s4,c4,e41 #d4ej4--,murphys1 #d4--,oakland4 ,first1 ,annual ,off's1 #abj4he2 ,fellowship ,fund1 #bb2 ,sab4 ,sen41 ,primary ,class1 #ai4be2 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,annual ,mem's1 etc41 #h2 ,west ,mission1 ,monthly ,off's1 #bg4fj2 ,annual ,mem's4 #bi2 ,san ,francisco ,branch ,ass'n #g4ee1 7#be of which from ,chinese to const4 ,,rev4 ,j4,f4 ,,masters ,l4,m474--,saratoga1 #aj4--,woodland1 #g4gj #hcd4ie ,,from ,,individual ,,donors4--,messrs4 ,balfour1 ,guthrie ,co41 #ejj2 ,mrs4 ,a4,j4 ,styles1 #bej42 ,frank ,j4 ,felt1 #ej42 ,john ,jackson1 #be42 ,rev4 ,joseph ,rowell1 #aj4 ,rev4 ,j4,c4 ,holbrook1 ,d4,d41 #aj42 ,mrs4 ,e4,g4 ,chaddock1 #e42 ,rev4 and ,mrs4 ,h4,h4 ,wickoff1 #e #hee4jj ,,from ,,eastern ,,friends4--,bangor1 ,me41 ,hon4 ,e4,r4 ,burpee1 #ajj4--;,a ,friend1 #aj4--;,brewer1 ,me41 ,mrs4 ,hardy1 #ajj4--,norridgewock1 ,me41 ,mrs4 ,benjamin ,tappan1 #b4--,north ,conway1 ,n4,h41 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #aj42 ,rev4 ,r4 ,henry ,davis1 #aj4--;,amherst1 ,mass41 ,mrs4 ,r4,a4 ,lester1 #ajj4--,south ,braintree1 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,j4,b4 ,sewall4 #be4--,marlboro1 ,mass41 ,miss ,h4,j4 ,alexander1 #a4ej4--,new ,haven1 ,conn41 ,mrs4 ,henry ,farnum1 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