by ,cornell ,university ,digital ,collections47 ,illustration3 ,the ,american ,missionary ,january1 #ahhd4 ,,vol4 ,,xxxviii4 ,,no4 #a4 ,,contents 99 99 99 99 99 ,,page4 ,,editorial3 ,,another ,,year--,,this ,,number #a ,,pamphlet--,,american ,,missionary--,,joint ,,committee #b ,,one ,,thousand ,,dollars ,a ,,day #c ,,paragraphs #d ,,wanted--,,benefactions--,,general ,,notes #e ,,traveling ,,in ,,africa 7,,cut7 #f ,,chinese ,,women 7,,cut7 #h ,,bureau ,,of ,,woman',s ,,work3 ,,the ,,indian ,,woman1 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,riggs #i ,,the ,,chinese1 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,w4 ,c4 ,,pond #aa ,,mountain ,,white ,,work ,,in ,,kentucky1 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,a4 ,a4 ,,myers #ab ,,colored ,,people ,,of ,,the ,,south1 ,,by ,,miss ,,ida ,m4 ,,beach #af ,,report ,,of ,,the ,,secretary #ai ,,form ,,of ,,constitution--,,the ,,bureau ,,in ,,the ,,west #ba ,,children',s ,,page3 ,,christmas ,,giving ,,at ,,mystic1 ,,conn4 #bc ,,children ,,bearing ,,christmas ,,gifts 7,,cut7 #bd ,,receipts #bf ,,constitution #cj 99 99 99 99 99 ,,new ,,york3 ,,published ,,by ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association4 ,rooms1 #ef ,reade ,street4 99 99 99 99 99 ,price #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 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association4 ,,president4 ,hon4 ,,wm4 ,b4 ,,washburn1 ,,ll4,d41 ,mass4 ,,vice-,,presidents4 ,,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,,goodell1 ,d4,d42 ,,rev4 ,f4 ,a4 ,,noble1 ,d4,d42 ,,rev4 ,a4 ,j4 ,f4 ,,behrends1 ,d4,d42 ,,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,,rankin1 ,d4,d42 ,,rev4 ,,alex4 ,,mckenzie1 ,d4,d4 ,,corresponding ,,secretary4--,,rev4 ,m4 ,e4 ,,strieby1 ,d4,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,treasurer4--,h4 ,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,esq41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,auditors4--,,wm4 ,a4 ,,nash1 ,w4 ,h4 ,,rogers4 ,,executive ,,committee4 ,,john ,h4 ,,washburn1 ,chairman2 ,a4 ,p4 ,,foster1 ,secretary2 ,,lyman ,,abbott1 ,a4 ,s4 ,,barnes1 ,j4 ,r4 ,,danforth1 ,,clinton ,b4 ,,fisk1 ,s4 ,b4 ,,halliday1 ,,edward ,,hawks1 ,,samuel ,,holmes1 ,,charles ,a4 ,,hull1 ,,samuel ,s4 ,,marples1 ,,charles ,l4 ,,mead1 ,s4 ,h4 ,,virgin1 ,,wm4 ,h4 ,,ward1 ,j4 ,l4 ,,withrow4 ,,district ,,secretaries4 ,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,,woodworth1 ,d4,d41 ,boston4 ,rev4 ,g4 ,d4 ,,pike1 ,d4,d41 ,new ,york4 ,rev4 ,,james ,,powell1 ,chicago4 ,,communications relating to the work of the ,association may be addressed to the ,corresponding ,secretary2 those relating to the collecting fields1 to the ,district ,secretaries2 letters for the ,editor of the ,american ,missionary1 to ,rev4 ,g4 ,d4 ,pike1 ,d4,d41 at the ,new ,york ,office2 letters for the ,bureau of ,woman's ,work1 to ,miss ,d4 ,e4 ,emerson1 at the ,new ,york ,office4 ,,donations ,,and ,,subscriptions 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 #aab ,west ,washington ,street1 ,chicago1 ,ill4 ,a payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a ,life ,member4 ,,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 ,association' 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 ,illustration3 ,,count ,,rumford4 ,,horsford',s ,,acid ,,phosphate4 7,,liquid47 ,,for ,,dyspepsia1 ,,mental ,,and ,,physical ,,exhaustion1 ,,nervousness1 ,,diminished ,,vitality1 ,,urinary ,,difficulties1 ,,etc4 ,,prepared ,,according ,,to ,,the ,,direction ,,of ,prof4 ,e4 ,n4 ,horsford1 of ,cambridge1 ,mass4 ,there seems to be no difference of opinion in high medical authority of the value of phosphoric acid1 and no preparation has ever been offered to the public which seems to so happily meet the general want as this4 ,it is not nauseous1 but agreeable to the taste4 ,no danger can attend its use4 ,its action will harmonize with such stimulants as are necessary to take4 ,it makes a delicious drink with water and sugar only4 ,prices reasonable4 ,pamphlet giving further particulars mailed free on application4 ,,manufactured ,,by ,,the ,,rumford ,,chemical ,,works1 ,providence1 ,r4 ,i41 ,,and ,,for ,,sale ,,by ,,all ,,druggists4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,manhattan ,,life ,,ins4 ,,co4 ,,of ,,new ,,york1 #aef and #aeh ,broadway4 ,,thirty-,,third ,,year4 ,,description--,one of the oldest1 strongest1 best4 ,,policies--,incontestable1 non-forfeitable1 definite cash surrender values4 ,,rates--,safe1 low1 and participating or not1 as desired4 ,,risks carefully selected4 ,,prompt1 liberal dealing4 ,,general ,,agents ,,and ,,canvassers ,,wanted in desirable territory1 to whom permanent employment and liberal compensation will be given4 ,address ,h4 ,,stokes1 ,president4 ,h4 ,y4 ,,wemple1 ,sec'y4 ,s4 ,n4 ,,stebbins1 ,act'y4 ,j4 ,l4 ,,halsey1 #ast ,v4-,p4 ,h4 ,b4 ,,stokes1 #b;d ,v4-,p4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 ,,vol4 ,,xxxviii4 ,,january1 #ahhd4 ,,no4 #a4 99 99 99 99 99 ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,another year4 ,are we ready for it1 ready to work and to win8 ,the harvest is still plenteous and every increase of store is precious4 ,who can measure such privilege8 ,and what of opportunities8 ,the swift-winged events of our civilization are continually hurrying us into the midst of them4 ,it is a day of speedy rewards4 ,christ comes quickly in these times4 ,the business of the ,church is helped as absolutely as secular business by the development and use of material agencies for advancement4 ,what is wanted is the good seed of the word4 ,it is that--the light which shines forth from that--which gives life and growth and masterly power4 ,we want faith in the promises4 ,it shall be said1 ,the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our ,lord and ,his ,christ4 ,the truth of it is not to be doubted or eclipsed4 ,we want power from on high1 and that is neither distant nor subject to unseasonable delay4 ,what the year shall be is for us1 under ,god1 to determine4 ,let us labor and pray that the word of promise--the divine imbuement--may make rich and fruitful1 and place the great religious interests of our land on the foundation of ,god which standeth sure4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we devote considerable space in this number of the ,missionary to the papers and reports presented at the ,woman's ,meeting held in connection with our ,annual ,meeting in ,brooklyn4 ,the topics considered related to the wide range of work conducted by this ,association4 ,they were treated by persons having much experience in our mission fields1 and will be welcomed not only as interesting reading1 but as furnishing authoritative data for the encouragement of the friends of our work4 ,the constitution proposed at the meeting1 for ,women's co-operative societies is given1 and is commended to the attention of those ladies who desire to aid mission work in our own country4 ,the valuable ,paper on ,woman's ,work in ,modern ,charity and ,missions1 read by ,rev4 ,a4 ,h4 ,bradford at our ,annual ,meeting1 not published elsewhere1 has been put in pamphlet form1 with a view to general distribution4 ,we will be pleased to furnish copies gratuitously1 in such numbers as may be desired1 to those wishing it for the promotion of woman's work4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we are happy to report that the practice of paying for subscriptions for the ,american ,missionary is becoming more general year by year4 ,this is as it should be4 ,we try to make the ,missionary worth the price1 which is fifty cents annually4 ,we believe the information it contains is of value to all1 and that most of it cannot be found elsewhere4 ,will not our friends kindly aid us in its circulation1 remitting to our treasurer at once what may be gathered for that purpose8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,joint ,,committee4 ,the ,joint ,committee appointed by the ,american ,home ,missionary ,society and the ,american ,missionary ,association for the consideration of the relation between the two societies1 met by adjournment at ,springfield1 ,mass41 ,dec4 #aa4 ,the committee on the part of the ,a4 ,h4 ,m4 ,s4 consisted of ,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,twitchell1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,lyman ,abbott1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,geo4 ,l4 ,walker1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,goodell1 ,d4,d41 and ,a4 ,s4 ,barnes1 ,esq4 ,the ,committee on the part of the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 consisted of ,rev4 ,j4 ,l4 ,withrow1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,washington ,gladden1 ,d4,d41 ,rev4 ,d4 ,o4 ,mears1 ,d4,d41 ,prest4 ,s4 ,c4 ,bartlett1 and ,rev4 ,w4 ,h4 ,ward1 ,d4,d4 ,all were present except ,dr4 ,goodell1 and his place was filled by ,mr4 ,s4 ,b4 ,capen4 ,a letter from ,dr4 ,goodell was read4 ,dr4 ,barrows1 representing the ,home ,missionary ,society1 and ,dr4 ,strieby1 representing the ,american ,missionary ,association1 were also present by invitation4 ,it was manifest that the members of the ,committee were equally friends of both societies and sought only their greatest efficiency4 ,no partisan feeling found utterance4 ,the members of the ,committee are men of independent views and judgment1 and examined the subject before them from different standpoints1 and yet reached in the paper presented below a remarkable degree of unanimity--every item receiving a unanimous vote4 ,the result will command and deserves the attention of the churches4 ,the following is ,,the ,,action ,,of ,,the ,,committee4 ,consulting the principle of comity between the two societies--the ,a4 ,h4 ,m4 ,s4 and the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4--and that traditional policy of ,congregationalists which ignores caste and color lines1 and also in view of the present relative position and strength of the two societies1 we1 the ,joint ,committee1 give as our judgment3 #a4 ,that1 as heretofore1 the principal work of the ,american ,home ,missionary ,society should be in the ,west1 and the principal work of the ,american ,missionary ,association should be in the ,south4 #b4 ,whatever new work may be called for in any locality should be under the charge of the society already occupying the ground4 ,no exception to this rule should be allowed unless it be by agreement between the two societies4 #c4 ,concerning work already established by either society1 we would recommend that if either comity1 economy or efficiency will be advanced by it1 such a transfer of the work should be made as shall bring the work of the societies into harmony with the preceding recommendations4 #d4 ,we would recommend to the two societies to consider the practicability of using a common superintendent in those portions of the field where an economical and efficient administration will be secured by it4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,one ,,thousand ,,dollars ,a ,,day4 ,what can be done with it8 ,we can sustain efficiently our current work of educating teachers and preachers and the planting of churches4 ,in the progress of development1 more requires more4 ,if the ,association did not need increased receipts it would be evidence of lack of growth4 ,there is no such lack4 ,new demands are springing up at every point1 and it is wise economy to meet these demands4 ,they are simply the healthy development of legitimate missionary work4 ,just now there is urgent demand for the increase of facilities for promoting industrial education4 ,the ,south is arising into a new life4 ,new fields of labor are rapidly opening4 ,skilled workmen are wanted4 ,the possibilities of agricultural prosperity are becoming better understood4 ,the aspiring youth of both sexes are comprehending their opportunities1 and the industrial departments in connection with our institutions are patronized as never before4 ,we ought to make the most of them now4 ,we need more means for supplying the minds of those hungering for knowledge with good reading4 ,the colored people have few1 if any1 books or periodicals4 ,we ought to have the means at once for furnishing fifty libraries and reading-rooms at as many different points4 ,such help to those willing to help themselves to some extent should be provided4 ,the students leaving our schools to go forth as teachers may be numbered by thousands4 ,these explore the dark places of the land4 ,they open schools in such buildings as can be found1 or1 finding none1 teach out of doors4 ,we need means to aid many such with supplemental support1 making it possible for them to continue their schools longer than the few months provided for by the limited ,state appropriations4 ,thousands of dollars could be used wisely in this way4 ,the opportunity now for temperance work is more promising than ever4 ,a temperance wave has been sweeping some portions of the ,south4 ,our students are thoroughly indoctrinated in the principles of total abstinence4 ,they make the best advocates of the cause that can be had for many localities4 ,it is a crucial period4 ,the time to do this work is now--now1 while the great questions at issue are being agitated and settled4 ,we ought to have means for extending our efforts to the utmost in this direction4 ,of more importance still is evangelistic work1 supplemental to the labors of our pastors4 ,this is coming into more than usual prominence4 ,our students have had thorough training for it1 and no little experience in it during their course of study4 ,a score of them in every ,southern ,state could be set to work with profit1 if we had the money for such outlay4 ,nothing could do more for immediate results in developing a pure ,christianity among the untaught and unsaved poor of the ,south4 ,we might also1 with a thousand dollars a day1 do more than we have ever done to foster the growth of right and permanent institutions in all our fields of labor4 ,this is the great and urgent necessity4 ,out of ,christian churches and schools will flow all the benefits demanded by a ,christian civilization4 ,for this especially we emphasize our appeal4 ,to what better use can the ,christians and patriots of our country devote a thousand dollars a day8 99 99 99 99 99 ,a friend1 noting the annual average addition of churches as five or six1 raised the question whether the time had not come for doubling that rate4 ,the ,association is glad to recognize this worthy aspiration and itself to avow the spirit of it1 and still further to remind the friends that the disposition of leaders on the field to magnify the work of each year is also in the same line4 ,nevertheless1 we find that those who become in some sense responsible for the nurture and support of these ecclesiastical children born to us become conservative instead of becoming rash1 as is sometimes averred4 ,yet we are able to give assurance that the ,field ,superintendent and his associates1 with their eyes upon the whole field1 watching the germs and their unfolding1 are only anxious to set out these plants of the ,lord's house as fast as is at all consistent4 ,we also see1 in no far-away future1 a large church work for us as the fruitage of our school work4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a prize of #ge is given annually to the best male ,greek scholar in the ,high ,school at ,newport1 ,r4 ,i4 ,the best examination this year was by the daughter of ,george ,rice1 the colored steward of the steamer ,pilgrim4 ,as she was not eligible to the award a gentleman from ,new ,york sent her #ge in gold4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,wanted6 --,we greatly need a new school building1 for the lower grades at ,tougaloo ,university1 a two-story building with school rooms below and a chapel above4 ,who will give #c1jjj for ---- ,hall at ,tougaloo8 --,we need also a steam engine for the ,industrial ,department at ,tougaloo1 a portable engine of ten or twelve horse-power4 ,who will give it1 or the money needful8 --,we need twenty or more sets of carpenters' tools for schools of carpentry at ,talladega and elsewhere4 ,who will give one or more sets8 --,we need illustrated books and magazines for our ,reading ,rooms4 ,who will give us subscriptions to ,wide ,awake1 ,st4 ,nicholas1 etc41 or money to buy such books as will help to create the reading habit8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,benefactions4 ,rutgers ,college has received #a1jjj toward an endowment fund from ,mr4 ,r4 ,h4 ,ballentine1 ,newark1 ,n4 ,j4 ,mayor ,low1 of ,brooklyn1 has given the city of ,salem1 ,mass41 #g1ejj1 the income of which is to be applied in aid of needy students in college4 ,illinois ,college has recently received a gift of #a1jjj from ,mr4 ,e4 ,w4 ,blatchford1 of ,chicago1 who was a member of the class of '#fe4 ,mr4 ,george ,w4 ,dixon1 of ,bethlehem1 ,pa41 has given #bj1jjj to ,linden ,hall ,female ,seminary1 to build a ,gothic chapel in memory of his daughter4 ,mr4 ,roland ,mather1 of ,hartford1 ,conn41 has given #aj1jjj to ,olivet ,college1 ,mich4 ,joseph ,dean1 of ,minneapolis1 has placed in the hands of the trustees of ,hamlin ,university #be1jjj to increase the endowment of that institution4 ,mrs4 ,robert ,l4 ,stuart has given #aej1jjj to ,princeton ,college to endow the department of philosophy and pay the salaries of professors in logic1 ethics and psychology4 ,among the wants specified in the report of the ,executive ,committee of the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 for the coming year was #aj1jjj for a new hall for the ,edward ,smith ,college1 at ,little ,rock1 ,ark4 ,it is proposed that the donor of the amount name the hall at his discretion4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,general ,,notes4 ,,africa4 --,among the ,belgians no less than six commercial societies have been constituted to explore the ,congo4 --,the ,livingstone ,inland ,mission has founded a new station at ,ngoma's ,town1 one hundred kilometers up the river from ,stanley ,pool4 --,the merchants of ,lisbon have constituted a company for the navigation of the ,quanza4 ,they have constructed to this effect in ,england a steamer1 the ,serpa ,pinto1 which was to be delivered in ,september4 --,the ,scotch ,presbyterian ,church have decided to furnish a steamer for the use of the ,old ,calabar ,mission4 ,the young people throughout the church have been requested to take up the matter and secure the money by the time the steamer is ready4 --,according to a dispatch from ,sierra ,leone the ,queen of ,massah1 with the consent of the native chiefs1 has authorized the annexation of the neighboring territory of ,sherbro to the ,english possession1 which will thus extend without interruption from ,sierra ,leone to ,liberia4 ,illustration3 ,,traveling ,,in ,,africa4 --,the fever of speculation reigns at ,axim and in the districts of the ,golden ,coast4 ,from the climate and the conditions of exploration1 the working of the mines proceeds slowly4 ,commander ,cameron1 director of the ,west ,african ,goldfields ,company1 has introduced upon his grant the hydraulic processes employed in ,california4 --,the ,journal of ,geneva announces that the ,international ,african ,association is occupied at present in seeking colonists who will receive gratuitously land in the countries of the ,congo1 of which ,stanley has taken possession4 ,it is negotiating to attract the ,germans1 and already the ,prussian journals speak of the creation of a ,german ,consulate4 --,flegel has offered to the ,african ,german ,society to make a new exploration in a region entirely unknown1 which extends to the ,congo2 or1 if they choose1 to return toward the west to ,mount ,cameroon4 ,the ,government of the ,german ,empire has granted a sum of #ej1jjj francs for this exploration4 ,on the other hand1 some private individuals of ,lagos1 where ,flegel has resided since his last voyage1 have furnished him funds with which to conduct an exploration to the basin of the ,niger and to ,bnou1 in the advancement of science and commerce4 --,mr4 ,petersen and ,dr4 ,sims have founded at ,stanley ,pool a new station for the ,livingstone ,inland ,mission4 ,dr4 ,sims very quickly commenced to heal the sick1 which gained him the confidence of the natives4 ,these latter do not labor hard enough to produce from their land the provisions necessary for the number of ,europeans established at ,stanley ,pool1 and the price of provisions has greatly increased4 ,the steamer1 ,henry ,reed1 destined for the ,upper ,congo was to start out the first of ,august4 ,,the ,,indians4 --,of the #f1jjj ,pi-,utes it is said that there are never more than #fjj on their reservation at one time4 ,not more than fifty attend the agency school4 --,the ,national ,indian ,association1 an organization composed exclusively of ladies1 has for its object to obtain for the ,indians the rights of citizens1 and to induce the ,government to allow them to own farms4 --,the ,general ,council of the ,choctaw ,nation1 recently closed1 appropriated #ajj1jjj for the erection of a new council house1 the old one to be used as a manual-labor school for the education and training in industrial pursuits of fifty orphan boys4 --,the ceremony of receiving ,sitting-,bull into the ,catholic ,church at ,fort ,yates has been indefinitely postponed because ,sitting-,bull cannot make up his mind which of his two wives he will let go4 ,bishop ,marty has had him under his care for several months1 and his instructions were being rapidly absorbed by the ,chief2 but separation from his wives proved too much1 and he will probably return to heathenism4 ,,the ,,chinese4 --,the missionaries in ,china1 to the number of #bca1 have presented another petition to the ,house of ,commons against the infamous opium traffic4 --,there is a ,chinaman at work in ,tahiti1 in the ,south ,sea ,islands1 who is said to be a whole ,bible society in himself1 expending twenty dollars a month out of a salary of twenty-five dollars1 for ,bibles to distribute among his countrymen there4 --,the largest bell in the world is in ,kiota1 ,japan4 ,it is #bd feet high and #af inches thick at the rim4 ,it is sounded by a suspended piece of wood1 like a battering ram1 which strikes it on the outside1 and its booming can be heard for miles4 ,nobody knows when or by whom it was cast1 and though its surface is covered with characters1 no scholar has yet been able to translate them4 --,the ,foreign ,missionary says the great secret of success in teaching the ,chinese in ,america lies in the direct personal influence of the teacher over the pupil4 ,generally each pupil is provided with a teacher1 and the chances of spiritual benefit are in direct proportion to the cordial sympathy and manifest kindness evinced4 ,the first important revelation that dawns upon the ,chinaman is that there are those in this land who are not hoodlums1 and that brutality is not the universal law in ,america2 that ,christianity is higher and purer than the enactments of ,congress1 and that ,christ is the friend of all men1 and has died for ,chinamen as well as ,melicans4 ,illustration3 ,,chinese ,,women4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,bureau ,,of ,,woman',s ,,work4 ,,miss ,d4 ,e4 ,,emerson1 ,,secretary4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,papers ,,read ,,at ,,the ,,woman',s ,,meeting ,,in ,,brooklyn4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,indian ,,woman4 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,riggs4 ,to describe an ,indian woman is no easy task for one who lives among them1 for every peculiarity becomes so familiar1 and so interwoven with our common everyday experience1 that we forget how strange and unlike white women she appeared to us at first4 ,but she is a woman1 even though she wears her shawl over her head and carries her baby on her back4 ,how uninteresting1 you must think1 and she probably thinks the same of you4 ,she does not know that you care for her4 ,she feels that she is different in some way1 and most likely if you smile upon her she will not know it1 for she is too modest even to look at you2 but speak to her in a pleasant tone and offer to shake hands with her and notice her baby1 and she begins to think that you are a woman4 ,in her no trace of dignity nor ,pocahontas beauty are discernible1 but she is untidy in person and attire1 her movements are decidedly lackadaisical4 ,an uninteresting object1 indeed1 to one who does not care to help her4 ,but we believe that she has a woman's heart2 and more than that--she has a soul4 ,her aspirations for herself are limited1 but she wants her child to grow up in the white people's way4 ,yet how small her conception of how this is to be accomplished6 ,she is a heathen--hemmed in on every side by fear and superstition4 ,her gods are gods of fear4 ,she believes in witchcraft1 is afraid of a world full of evil spirits4 ,under a pagan religion her place is next to the mere animals4 ,she goes with her husband to the hunt1 not as a companion1 but as the drudge1 the human pack-horse2 she prepares the food1 and her husband devours it regardless of her needs2 he may boast of his old woman as being nina mimi heca 7swift or good to work7 for that is the only accomplishment required in his selfish1 egotistical mind4 ,the ,indian woman comes into the world under a species of protest--every ,indian parent desiring to have boys1 rather than girls1 hence she grows up into a condition of servitude4 ,in the ,indian nation to purchase a wife is the honorable way1 all other ways are dishonorable1 and the man having bought his wife1 although the custom of the country does not allow him to dispose of her to another1 yet he may put her away1 or leave her1 at his pleasure4 ,he may also whip her and beat her1 for she is his money4 ,i never shall forget one poor woman who came to me soon after we went to the ,indian country4 ,she showed me her back covered with the marks where her husband had beaten her4 ,now ,i have given you a brief description of the ,indian woman as we find her4 ,what can be done for her8 ,what would you do for her8 ,there is only one thing4 ,help her to become a ,christian4 ,this is not to be accomplished in a hurry1 for she is in bondage to her husband--to her religion4 ,but faith and prayer1 together with a genuine interest in the ,indian home1 can accomplish much4 ,desolate and comfortless though that home may be1 it can be transformed1 and the husband even can be made to see that there is something more real1 something that is more satisfying1 something that is more comforting than this life of fear and bondage to his heathen gods4 ,the man has more to give up than the woman if he becomes a ,christian4 ,if a woman changes her gods and her religion1 no one cares very much2 it is 'only a woman4' ,but a man must abandon his ancestral faith1 which binds him more strongly than the woman1 for the very reason that he is a man1 and has been inducted into manhood through the ceremonies of his religion4 ,he can be led to see that his wife is worth more to him than his horse or his dog2 and he begins to see that he can do some of the work which she has been obliged to do1 and thus she is enabled to make home more attractive4 ,with the dawn of ,christianity comes the first effort toward civilized ways4 ,the husband now brings the wood and water1 and little by little a few household conveniences appear1 such as chairs1 a table1 a few dishes2 also knives and forks are used instead of fingers2 even lambrequins are sometimes seen--hung1 however1 in the most absurd way1 outside the shades--and we are astonished to see in some of the houses white counterpanes and ruffled pillow-shams4 ,also a ,u4 ,s4 ,t4 ,d4 blanket is often spread down for a carpet1 and the rude1 rough walls are covered with pictures cut from illustrated newspapers4 ,we find them ready and anxious to be taught many simple and needful domestic arts1 such as making light bread and preparing wholesome dishes of food for the sick4 ,the teaching of making light bread became quite an important part of my duties as a missionary's wife1 and for the ,indian women to take lessons in bread-making became quite fashionable4 ,then she shows a desire to dress like white women1 and instead of the broadcloth skirt tied around her waist with a string and the short calico sack1 and moccasins upon her feet1 she appears with a kilt plaiting around her dress skirt1 and1 what probably in her mind is an improvement upon white woman's taste1 the plaiting is headed with two or three rows of bright worsted skirt braid4 ,as she admires the thin and lightly covered head of the white baby1 she closely clips her own baby's hair so as to have it as nearly like a white baby as possible4 ,but all this is the mere outside of life--one benefit which ,christianity brings to her personally4 ,she begins to show that she has become a missionary at heart and that she has a desire to send this great blessing which has wrought such a change in her home into other homes2 and as others like herself1 near at hand1 have been treasuring up the blessed words of the ,lord ,jesus1 ,go ye and preach my gospel1 they begin to think that they can do something to send the good tidings to those who are in the darkness which so recently surrounded themselves4 ,now1 in the ,dakota mission1 we have thirteen churches1 and in every one a woman's missionary society1 and the money raised is used to support native missionaries--that is1 ,christian ,indians are sent out among the heathen ,indians as missionaries1 and are supported by ,indian societies4 ,the ,indian woman's society is conducted very much like any sewing society among white women4 ,some woman is appointed to lead the devotional exercises1 and we have our officers appointed annually4 ,they make children's clothing after the white woman's fashion1 and many useful articles similar to those usually made in sewing societies4 ,those women who are able make articles after their own styles1 such as moccasins1 pretty bags handsomely ornamented with porcupine1 bead or ribbon work4 ,these articles are gifts to the society1 and we have no difficulty in disposing of them to those who wish specimens of ,indian woman's skill in fancy work1 or who may wish to help this native missionary work which is being so nobly carried on4 ,some of these women are really wonderful in their zeal and faithfulness1 walking six1 seven1 or eight miles to the meeting every week4 ,i could tell you many things about these faithful ,christian ,indian women1 but do you wish any better proof of the hold ,christianity has upon ,indians8 ,as ,i said before1 an ,indian woman's aspirations for herself are limited1 but she wants her child to grow up in the white people's way4 ,now1 if we are to elevate the ,indian nation1 let us plant in the homes the desire for the ,gospel1 and as we do it gather the children as fast as they are old enough to leave their mother's care into ,christian training schools4 ,now out in the ,indian country we are all the time carrying on missionary work in the homes1 planting schools1 organizing churches1 and sending out native missionaries4 ,we have at ,santee ,agency1 ,neb41 a large school of advanced grade1 well established for the education of children and youth4 ,so well known is this school among ,christian ,indians that our accommodations have become very limited1 and last year we were obliged to refuse many who wished to come4 ,i think you cannot know how hard it is for us to say1 ,we cannot take you4 ,the great ,dakota nation is ready to receive the ,christian religion4 ,we have the ,bible in the ,dakota language--a monument grand and beautiful to one who has just gone to his reward4 ,years of patient1 quiet toil were spent in translating the precious words from the ,greek and the ,hebrew into the language of over fifty thousand savages4 ,then what hinders the work8 ,we have hymns in the ,dakota tongue4 ,who will go and sing these precious words to those who never heard them8 ,there are those who are ready to go1 but where is the money to send them8 ,if you cannot go1 what hinders you from sending some one8 ,to be sure1 this is a work of difficulty1 for how can we expect a few years of training to so revolutionize a savage's live that he can withstand the heathenism which still permeates his native home8 ,but we have those whom we can trust1 and who are filling places of responsibility and usefulness4 ,besides those who have gone out as missionaries and teachers1 we have in our school at ,santee native teachers1 and our own children are taught by them4 ,one of our pupils is assistant matron in the ,dakota ,home4 ,one who has been under our care is in the little city of ,pierre1 ,d4 ,t41 giving music lessons to white pupils4 ,i give only a few instances1 to show that we are beginning to see the results of our work4 ,then give the free ,gospel of the love of ,christ to this great heathen nation right here so near us4 ,here is the ,bible1 here are the hymns2 who will provide the means to scatter them1 and who will go to carry them8 ,we are preparing those who will go with you as assistants and interpreters4 ,we hear of those who wish to get rid of the ,indians2 the surest way to do it is to educate them and ,christianize them4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,chinese4 ,,extract ,,from ,,address ,,of ,,mrs4 ,w4 ,c4 ,,pond4 ,i will not waste time upon an introduction4 ,i will only say that ,i am glad to be among you2 glad that you are interested in the ,chinese work1 with which we have been connected so many years in ,california4 ,we feel that we are greatly privileged in having these dark souls within our reach4 ,we can obey our ,saviour's last command1 ,disciple all nations1 without having to go far from our homes and native land4 ,they are with us and we have but to open our hearts and our churches to them and they will come in4 ,they are coming in2 not in large numbers but one by one4 ,in the church of which my husband has been the pastor for nearly ten years there are over seventy ,chinese members--about one-third of our whole membership4 ,many inquire how ,chinese converts are tested4 ,they join the ,christian ,association on probation and after a test of six or eight months are recommended to the church4 ,then they come before a committee of the church and are examined1 and after studying the articles of faith1 in their own language1 for several weeks they are propounded for church membership1 and if they prove satisfactory are baptized and come into full fellowship with the church4 ,they are not hurried into the church and are themselves timid and prefer to wait4 ,we have no work among the ,chinese women that we can call our own4 ,both ,presbyterians and ,methodists have such a work in ,san ,francisco1 and it divides into very little sections what can be at best but a small work1 because there are only three or four hundred ,chinese women in ,san ,francisco1 and not a tenth of these accessible4 ,but if means would allow we would be glad to attempt a work among the women at ,sacramento1 where nothing is done for them4 ,with our very limited resources we can save more by working among the thousands of men and boys4 ,but we have much work by women of whom ,i would like to make mention4 ,patient and heroic1 prayerful and soul-saving have been their efforts among the ,chinese4 ,i would like to tell you of one who has recently gone to her reward4 ,before leaving my home two months ago ,i called upon her and found her strength failing4 ,but she was hopeful respecting her recovery1 and the strongest incentive she had to get well was that she might have more opportunities to tell the story of ,jesus to her boys1 as she called those in the ,chinese school4 ,and when death came to her1 six ,chinese acted as pall-bearers at her funeral1 at her own request4 ,the church was more than half filled with ,chinese1 and the scene was touching in the extreme1 as one by one they went to look upon her face for the last time4 ,you are all1 doubtless1 more or less familiar with the ,american ,missionary1 and read from time to time ,mr4 ,pond's reports found therein4 ,i will give a few statistics quoted from my husband's report1 read recently before the ,general ,association of ,california1 convened in ,santa ,cruz4 ,they are as follows3 ,nineteen schools1 as against #ae the last year2 total enrollment of scholars1 #b1hbc1 as against #b1efg the former year2 #dj teachers1 of whom #ad were ,chinese1 as against #ca teachers the previous year1 of whom #aa were ,chinese2 number of those who have professed to cease from idolatry1 #age1 as against #aef the year before2 number of those who have given evidence of conversion1 #aba1 as against #ajf the former year1 and the whole number of those who have turned to ,christ during the history of the ,mission1 #djj1 who are scattered over the ,united ,states and in ,china4 ,we hear of many of them who are doing good work for the ,master and for the salvation of their countrymen4 ,toward the expense of the ,mission during the past year the ,chinese themselves have contributed #gcj4je4 ,i would like to have you remember the name of our church4 ,it is ,bethany4 ,remember us in your prayers1 for ,god has laid a great work upon us4 ,we started in much weakness1 but ,god has been with us and blessed us4 ,we have felt ,his presence in our ,bethany as ,martha and ,mary of old did in theirs4 ,we have heard the ,master's voice saying unto us frequently1 ,inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these1 ,my brethren1 ye have done it unto ,me4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,mountain ,,white ,,work ,,in ,,kentucky4 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,a4 ,a4 ,,myers4 ,there is an unnoticed class of people dwelling almost in the very centre of the settled portion of the ,united ,states4 ,our brother in black has been held up to the view of two continents for the last fifty years4 ,and what is ,america going to do with him and for him1 has been a question which has interested the whole civilized world4 ,this same question for a still longer time has been propounded in regard to the red man of the forest1 and in later years concerning the ,chinese4 ,and right nobly has the ,christian brotherhood evidenced its purpose to make men of these degraded classes4 ,but until recently it has escaped the notice of these ,christian workers that we have another class as needy perhaps as any4 ,no spice of romance is connected with them4 ,no barbarous tale of cruelty could be told to awaken sympathy in them4 ,they are simply poor people1 who during slavery were unable to obtain large plantations and so were driven by the arrogant ,bluegrass slaveholder on the one side1 and the greedy cotton-planter on the other1 back into the mountains1 where they are shut away from the rest of the world by mountain barriers1 and still more hopelessly by the haughty caste spirit of the slave-holding monarchs1 who disdain to have anything to do with them except to seek their votes4 ,these people are not really poor4 ,most of them own farms of three or four hundred acres2 and the soil1 if properly tilled1 would be quite productive4 ,their plowing is done in the most primitive manner4 ,a single horse attached to a little shovel plow simply tears the sod a little1 enough so the weeds spring up luxuriantly1 and the women and children must work hard in the hot sun to destroy them1 while the lord of the home saddles his horse and rides to town1 to sit on store boxes and tell low stories4 ,this people1 especially the male portion1 seem to have a natural distaste for labor4 ,they would be aristocratic if they could4 ,in days of slavery they had their household servants1 and tried to imitate the more wealthy slave-owners by living in idleness1 and they still look upon labor as degrading4 ,they make no effort to get themselves homes4 ,the large majority live in log cabins1 with no windows4 ,the doors stand open winter and summer4 ,the women in cool weather always sit with a little shawl around them and a sunbonnet on4 ,there are generally two rooms to each house1 usually with a chimney or open hall between them1 so you have to go out of doors to pass from one to the other4 ,in the kitchen 7which also serves as dining-room7 is a large fireplace and a cook stove1 if they are the happy possessors of one4 ,the other is the sitting and sleeping-room4 ,you will often see three beds and one or two trundle-beds in a single room4 ,here the whole family and all the visitors sleep4 ,we have sought to rest with thirteen of us in a room1 perhaps #ae by #bj feet1 and not a window in it and the doors shut4 ,fortunately the large-mouthed fireplace gave a pittance of ventilation4 ,no carpets are used1 and furniture is very limited4 ,i believe nine-tenths of the people could put all their goods on a couple of loads and be ready to move at an hour's notice4 ,families are large1 numbering twelve1 fifteen or even nineteen children4 ,girls marry young1 and seem to be entirely satisfied with their condition4 ,you seldom hear a desire expressed for anything they don't possess4 ,give them a box of snuff and a stick to chew it with and you never hear a murmur escape their lips4 ,tobacco is indispensable4 ,old and young1 male and female1 are wedded to it4 ,i have known of an old gentleman working all day for fifty cents and spending forty cents at night for tobacco for himself and wife and nine children4 ,they seem to be without a standard in the land4 ,they live so isolated1 and have measured themselves by themselves until they have lost all idea of accurate judgment4 ,morality and sobriety are hardly looked for1 even among church members and ministers4 ,religion may be up to fever heat1 while morality is down to zero4 ,people confess1 as they call it1 and join the church1 and in their entire life thereafter you could never know any difference4 ,they are satisfied if their names are on the church book4 ,i don't think they ever question their eternal salvation after they are once inside a church4 ,if a person dies without having joined a church his friends frame some theory on which they rest their hope of his salvation4 ,a young man was shot a little while ago in a drunken broil4 ,as he fell mortally wounded he cried1 ,oh1 ,lord6 ,his mother is sure he is safe because he called on the ,lord4 ,they have no conception of living religion4 ,they have no prayer or conference meetings4 ,aside from our own ,i doubt if there is a prayer meeting nearer than ,berea1 seventy miles away4 ,there is no family prayer in all the land4 ,i asked my class of boys1 twenty or more in number1 how many had ever heard their mothers' voice in prayer4 ,not one of them could raise a hand4 ,at another school ,i asked a still larger class the same question1 and only one girl raised her hand4 ,there is no gathering of the little home nestlings together and instructing them--no ,bible instruction given in the family4 ,it has ceased to be a wonder to me1 to ask nearly grown boys some of the most simple ,bible questions1 and hear them answer1 ,i don't know4 ,an ,m4 ,e4 minister in one of his pastoral visits took occasion to dwell with some stress on the blessedness of walking in the light4 ,the mother showed how she literalized by promptly remarking1 ,yes2 ,i've told ,john ,i wanted a hole sawed in this end of the house1 but he won't do it4 ,during the same call he asked a young lady if she was preparing to go to judgment4 ,she replied1 ,no1 ,i reckin ,i won't go4 ,if ,i do ,i'll have to walk1 for we hain't got but two nags1 and ,rachel and ,becky always ride them4 ,the prevailing churches are the ,reform or ,campbellites1 the ,methodists1 and the ,missionary and ,anti-,missionary ,baptists4 ,the latter church is strong all through the mountains4 ,they are bigoted and ignorant1 and boast that their knowledge comes direct from the throne1 and they have nothing to do with man-made theories1 as they call education4 ,their preaching is a sort of canting reiteration of the text and what few ,scripture verses they chance to know and some hackneyed expressions4 ,they are great on arguing1 and it would be laughable if it was not so pitiful to hear the profound questions they discuss4 ,last season one of these preachers nearly broke up one of our mission ,sunday-,schools1 which we could attend only each alternate ,sabbath4 ,in the passage that reads ,and anon they tell ,him1 he contended that ,a-non was an angel1 and they referred to the angel ,a-non4 ,each ,sunday when we were not there that important question had to be discussed4 ,one of these same preachers took his children from school because they were taught the heresy in geography that the world is round4 ,they do all they can to prejudice the people against our work4 ,they call our religion railroad religion4 ,they are great barriers in our way4 ,still we have been cheered this year to see that their hold on the young people is loosening1 and we are getting their hearts in spite of the protests of their parents4 ,one of our mission ,sunday-,schools1 which has averaged this season one hundred1 is composed almost entirely of young people and children1 seldom ever a parent there4 ,the ,smith ,american ,organ ,co4 have honored ,god and themselves1 and will ever be held by some hearts in grateful remembrance by their gift to that society of a new organ4 ,i have some times thought1 as ,i have heard the young voices ring out with such enthusiasm1 that1 though critics might smile at our endeavor1 ,heaven would not disdain our offering of praise4 ,the dingy low walls1 the glass-less windows1 the tobacco besmeared floor1 become transformed to a holy temple1 where ,god deigned to make visible ,his presence1 and it has been a sacred place4 ,our hope of this people centres largely in the young4 ,if it were not for them1 we could not feel it right to stay among them4 ,another barrier to be overcome is their habits of worship4 ,they have meetings but once a month during the summer and none at all during the winter4 ,when they have service it is more for a visit than worship4 ,their churches are rough log houses1 and so small that the greater part of the congregation remain out of doors4 ,four or more ministers are always in attendance1 and all must preach4 ,the congregation expect a tiresome time1 and from the first are restless4 ,they go out and come in1 and they keep a constant march to and from the water pail1 which usually sits on the desk in front of the speaker4 ,several grown people at a time will be standing waiting on each other at the pail4 ,the speaker seems to be used to such things1 and not at all disconcerted4 ,nearly all their services are funeral services for those who may have been dead for years4 ,they bury their dead the same day or the day following death4 ,they have no religious service1 except a prayer at the grave1 if there chance to be a minister present4 ,generally about a year after death1 but often from five to fifteen years after1 they have the funeral sermon preached4 ,in regard to healthfulness of our mountain home1 we have felt somewhat disappointed4 ,up so high1 with nice springs and spring streams1 one would expect a healthy climate4 ,on the contrary1 almost every one is ailing4 ,coughs and colds are universal4 ,it is no wonder the natives are unhealthy2 their habits of living would seem to prohibit health4 ,they eat corn bread or hoe cake and bacon2 some have flour1 but it is always made up into hot biscuit1 shortened with lard4 ,they have this1 with little variation1 three times a day1 #cfe days in a year4 ,in summer1 green beans cooked with bacon is added to the bill of fare4 ,of course the blood becomes impoverished1 and almost every one has scrofula4 ,calomel and pills are the great panacea for all their bodily ills4 ,pills are brought on by the quart1 and sold by the merchants like any other commodity4 ,cleanliness of the person is an unheard of luxury2 ,i doubt whether they ever bathe4 ,children come to the table with unwashed faces4 ,they are put to bed with the same clothes they wear during the day4 ,then add to all this the fact that tobacco is used almost from the cradle1 and whiskies and toddies from the time the poor child opens its eyes to this world1 and it's no great marvel that gray-haired men are exceedingly rare1 and it's the old man and the old woman when one has reached the age of twenty-five4 ,now comes the question1 ,what are we doing for the people8 ,we have been with them nearly two years1 and this has been our effort from the first1 to get them to see that religion is a life rather than a sectarian belief4 ,we have sought to impress upon them that joining a church is not ,christianity4 ,we have succeeded in getting a few to take part in our prayer meetings1 and we have the assurance that all the people are awaking to the fact that ,god has some demands upon them4 ,we have from the first kept up regular ,thursday night prayer meetings2 have had good attendance1 but often only ,mr4 ,myers and myself to take part in them except as others read ,scripture verses4 ,on the ,sabbath we have ,sunday-school at #i3cj4 ,average attendance1 #ajj2 preaching at #aa4 ,i hasten home1 saddle my horse1 and ride six miles to the next railroad station 7,pleasant ,view74 ,here ,i have met #ajj or more young people4 ,i have been surprised that in a land where a woman isn't expected to know anything1 or be anything but a doll or a drudge that there has been so little prejudice against my school4 ,some1 of course1 have thought a woman entirely out of her sphere to undertake such work and have taken occasion to remark to my friends3 ,why1 ,mrs4 ,myers opens the school by prayer1 just as ,mr4 ,myers would4 ,i don't know but it's all right1 but it don't seem just the proper thing for a woman to do4 ,mr4 ,m4 has a mission in ,south ,williamsburg or the mills1 where numbers of children are growing up in the midst of gambling and shooting4 ,prof4 ,w4 has1 about the same hour1 a school two miles out in another direction4 ,at night we have services again in ,williamsburg4 ,at these services we have more than can get into the house1 and many are obliged to leave for lack of accommodation4 ,tuesday nights we go to ,pleasant ,view and help them learn the ,gospel ,songs4 ,each alternate ,wednesday evening1 church socials2 each alternate ,friday afternoon1 ,band of ,hope2 ,saturday evening1 choir drill2 ,covenant ,meeting once a month on ,saturday afternoon4 ,mr4 ,myers has preached during the year beginning with ,oct4 '#hb1 one hundred and forty-two sermons4 ,the services1 together with the other public services just mentioned1 have amounted to three hundred and forty4 ,have attended fifty or more meetings conducted by others4 ,we spend all the remaining time our strength will permit in calling at the homes4 ,we have a neat modern church nearly finished1 and so far without foreign help4 ,but no one knows what an effort has been required4 ,mr4 ,myers would announce a working bee to draw stone or any such work2 would try to enthuse the people as he has so often done in the ,north4 ,but when the time would come he has worked all day alone4 ,we have learned at last that this people don't enthuse4 ,we are hard at work in our high-school enterprise4 ,we have ,prof4 and ,mrs4 ,w4 and ,miss ,g41 all from the ,north1 with us4 ,we hope to get a school1 the good influence of which will never die out of these mountains4 ,these are peculiar people4 ,what ,i have said of them has reference to the general class of society4 ,but there are some who seem of better stock1 who are shrewd1 keen1 far-sighted people4 ,you cannot find their superiors in native ability in any country4 ,though often lacking in culture and morality1 they still hold a wide influence over the rest1 so that something besides goodness is required in those who wish to come among them as helpers4 ,there must be ability to adapt oneself to these widely diverse conditions4 ,one needs wisdom and tact to get along with the shrewdest1 and such a love for souls that he can come with a helping hand to the most degraded1 nor be discouraged if1 with a heart brimful of sympathy1 he reaches the hand a long time only to see it rejected by those most in need4 ,the work is a work of time4 ,the majority of the people are unstable1 thriftless improvident and ignorant4 ,slavery left its blight of impotency and profligacy upon them4 ,they come and go as did their fathers a hundred years ago4 ,their tools and utensils are the same their great-grandparents used1 and they are content with them4 ,we never worked harder and saw less result in the conversion of sinners than while in ,kentucky1 and yet never felt more satisfied that we were where ,god wants us1 and doing an important work4 ,unless these people have help they will prove a fretting leprosy in our nation4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,work ,,among ,,the ,,colored ,,people ,,of ,,the ,,south4 ,,by ,,miss ,,ida ,m4 ,,beach4 ,no small part of the work undertaken by the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 is that among the colored people of the ,south4 ,perhaps we may judge something of how vast this work is in itself1 and how far-reaching in its results1 if we consider for a few moments the numbers and condition of the colored people4 ,twenty years ago about #d1jjj1jjj people were liberated from bondage1 with all the evils resulting from the system of slavery resting upon them4 ,there was great rejoicing among lovers of freedom when the ,proclamation of ,emancipation was issued4 ,the slaves themselves1 wild with joy1 shouted1 ,we're free6 ,we're free6 ,the year of jubilee has come6 ,free6 yes1 free6 but with the burdens of manhood and womanhood suddenly thrust upon them4 ,freedom brought the right and opportunity of establishing homes4 ,glorious privilege6 ,but do we not all know how much good judgment and wisdom and thought and planning it takes to maintain a true home8 ,freedom gave them the right of keeping their little ones and seeing them grow to manhood and womanhood1 but oh6 how much of patience and ,god-given power it requires to train the little feet to tread the right way6 ,four million people1 half civilized1 uneducated1 untrained1 with the judgment and reason of children1 hitherto knowing little of the ways of the outer world1 suddenly brought into life's conflicts6 ,what an amount of instruction they needed6 ,right here the ,american ,missionary ,association stepped in and assumed the work of training these people4 ,christian men and women1 filled with love for the ,master1 went down among these lowly ones4 ,they carried the ,gospel of ,jesus ,christ1 established schools and churches1 teaching in the open air1 or in rude huts and deserted cabins4 ,for twenty years this work has been carried on1 and much good has been done in the name of the ,lord4 ,but to-day there are between six and seven million colored people in our ,southland4 ,the work of the ,a4 ,m4 ,a41 together with all done by other societies and by students going forth from the colleges as teachers1 as yet scarcely begins to reach this great number4 ,their first need is to be ,christianized1 for this alone lifts them up and gives a desire for better things4 ,it is the religion of ,jesus ,christ alone which has given to us our high estate4 ,how much we owe to the training of ,christian mothers6 ,let us pity and stoop to lift up these ignorant ones4 ,send out those who can carry the glad tidings and point to the ,lamb of ,god1 who taketh away the sin of the world4 ,let us do all we can to teach them what the pure religion is4 ,but we cannot stop here4 ,we must teach them how to use it4 ,woman's work for woman1 surely1 for this must be done in the homes4 ,freedom gave them the right to establish homes6 ,they did the best they knew how1 many of them1 but they needed teaching--they need it to-day4 ,they must be taught thrift and industry1 and cleanliness and order4 ,they want someone to come to them and help them to transform their huts into homes4 ,could you see their rags1 their ugly1 misshapen garments1 you would agree with me that the women and girls greatly need to be taught the use of the needle4 ,of course ,christian schools need to be multiplied among them1 where the rudiments of an ,english education shall be thoroughly given1 where sewing and cooking1 the care of the house and the care of the sick shall be carefully taught the girls1 where the boys may learn the use of tools and all that pertains to good farming4 ,our stronghold is the children4 ,we can never eradicate the evils existing among the older generation4 ,slavery left too much ignorance and superstition to ever be driven from the minds of those who lived under its sway4 ,but we are responsible for the coming generations4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association aims to reach the young and meet their needs by the workers sent out4 ,perhaps our work in ,savannah will be illustrative of that done in many other parts of the field4 ,we have there established a church and school4 ,there are now in school over #bjj pupils4 ,the majority of these remain long enough with us to obtain a good common-school education4 ,we have also a normal grade1 where methods of teaching are taught those who desire to fit themselves for teachers4 ,besides this we have fitted up a sewing-room1 where the girls learn every part of sewing and repairing1 cutting and basting4 ,many schools have shops for boys2 we look forward to the time when we may be able to have them1 too4 ,we are just establishing a reading-room4 ,those who have read ,prof4 ,salisbury's article in the ,november ,,missionary understand how much this is needed4 ,in our present circumstances we arrange it so that all pupils of higher grades have a daily reading hour1 with teacher to direct4 ,then once in two weeks the older pupils meet for a social reading4 ,in our devotional exercises and school prayer meetings we aim to assist them in a knowledge of true religion4 ,last year we observed the ,week of ,prayer1 and in the daily meetings held for several weeks some found the way to ,christ and ,christian life4 ,our ,church and ,sunday-,school work reaches many who are not connected with our school4 ,we have a devoted missionary who spends her time in visiting the parents and children in their homes1 ministering to the wants of the sick and needy1 and holding ,bible and ,missionary meetings4 ,this is a bare outline of our work4 ,i presume many of you are saying4 ,have there been no results during these last twenty years8 ,oh yes1 we have a bright side to the picture4 ,when we are tired and discouraged1 and wonder if harvest time will never come1 we go to some of the pleasant homes where great changes have been wrought4 ,we point to a scholar and tell her past history1 and then thank ,god that the seed sown found a lodging place and good soil4 ,in the cities when the large schools are1 and where there are fair public schools--where there is constant contact with civilized life1 many of the colored people live well4 ,yet there may be a neat1 cosy home just across the street1 and a few doors beyond1 a wretched hovel4 ,in the country1 when the ,teachers' ,home and little school house are built beside their log cabins1 they catch a glimpse of better things than they have known4 ,the modest house1 freshly painted1 with the neat1 cosy rooms inside--very simple and plain to us--seems like a palace to them4 ,they begin to want the same4 ,the children go to school and come home with wonderful things to tell4 ,faces and hands become clean1 the woolly heads are more carefully combed1 rents are mended1 the girls put on clean collars4 ,the missionary shows the women how to fashion home-made lounges and stools1 they are covered with some bright calico1 the floor is scrubbed white1 and they begin to live4 ,the teacher says that they must work if they want to have homes1 money begins to be saved1 and before you know it little frame houses are going up beside the old cabin4 ,a good horse or mule1 with a bright shiny buggy1 takes the place of the old steer and cart4 ,yes1 indeed1 much has been accomplished4 ,but we had very few workers in the early days among four million people1 although just as many as could be supported with the means furnished1 and to-day1 among nearly seven millions1 we have but #ccf workers4 ,millions sit in darkness right here in our own land4 ,a mighty work is to be done1 and the work in ,africa must be done largely by these people1 too4 ,we need more money2 ,christian men and women to go forth1 and ,christian men and women who are willing to send them4 ,the harvest truly is plenteous1 but the laborers are few4 ,pray ye therefore the ,lord of the harvest that he will send forth laborers into his harvest4 ,he that reapeth receiveth wages1 and gathereth fruit unto life eternal4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,report ,,of ,,the ,,secretary4 ,the information from the field1 to which you have listened1 explains to you the necessity for the organization of a ,bureau of ,woman's ,work4 ,it was organized in ,april1 #ahhc1 for the purpose1 as was then stated3 #a4 ,to give information to the ladies in the churches of the variety of work sustained by the ,association and to assist in devising plans of help4 #b4 ,to promote correspondence with churches1 ,sabbath-schools1 missionary societies or individuals who will undertake work of a special character1 such as the support of missionaries1 aiding of students1 supplying clothing1 furnishing goods1 and meeting other wants on mission ground4 #c4 ,to send to the churches1 conferences or associations desiring it1 experienced and intelligent lady missionaries to address them1 giving fuller details of our methods of work4 ,it was believed that the growing interest on the part of the ladies of our churches1 and their evident disposition to aid more effectively in the elevation of women1 particularly the women of the ,south1 called for such a department4 ,already the ladies of one ,state had organized the ,woman's ,aid to the ,a4 ,m4 ,a41 that they might have their definite line of work in the support of lady missionaries1 and inquiry had been made by many how best to assist in this work4 ,it was recognized that in no other way could a general interest be awakened and maintained so well as by giving direct information from the field1 and the twenty years' experience of the ,association in the ,south1 during which time more than #c1jjj different ladies had been employed as missionaries and teachers1 the knowledge gained of the peculiarities of the field and best methods of reaching the people1 and the thorough organization of the different departments of labor in home1 school1 and church1 prepared us to bring before the ladies the information necessary1 and to offer most excellent opportunities for special work for women4 ,the ready response to this movement confirms the wisdom of the step1 and we trust that ere long the ,bureau will open new avenues of usefulness to the ladies of the churches1 and give enlargement and efficiency to the work in the field4 ,immediately following the organization of the ,bureau1 ,miss ,rose ,kinney1 of ,oberlin1 ,o41 for many years engaged in the ,southern work1 and recently located in one of the dark corners of the field1 ,mc,intosh1 ,ga41 was detailed for service in the ,north4 ,she spent about six weeks in ,ohio1 ,michigan1 ,illinois and ,iowa1 addressing ladies' meetings at the ,general ,associations1 and with good results4 ,in ,june the ,secretary of the ,bureau was present at the ,state ,conferences of ,vermont and ,maine1 and gave information of the work in the field1 resulting in the appointment of a ,state ,committee of ladies in ,vermont1 to secure funds for the support of a missionary4 ,early in ,september ,miss ,anna ,m4 ,cahill1 for nine years connected with ,fisk ,university1 ,nashville1 ,tenn41 was detailed for special service1 and has recently attended a series of meetings in ,michigan and ,illinois4 ,it is our purpose thus to bring the work before the ladies whenever and wherever opportunity is given1 through different teachers and missionaries whom we may be able to spare temporarily from the field4 ,within the year just closed1 ,sept4 #cj1 the ,association has had special aid from ladies ,north in the support of seven missionaries1 as follows3 ,ladies of ,maine1 support of ,miss ,lunt at ,selma1 ,ala41 and ,miss ,farrington at ,wilmington1 ,n4 ,c4 #fge4jj ,ladies of ,first and ,second ,cong4 ,churches1 ,oberlin1 ,o41 support of ,miss ,stevenson at ,atlanta1 ,ga4 #chg4jj ,ladies of ,illinois1 support of ,miss ,clark at ,mobile1 ,ala4 #bad4df ,ladies of ,wisconsin1 support of ,miss ,jillson at ,montgomery1 ,ala4 #bed4cc ,ladies of ,congregational ,churches1 ,chelsea1 ,mass41 support of ,mrs4 ,steele at ,chattanooga1 ,tenn4 #dhh4ha ,ladies of ,iowa1 support of ,miss ,gerrish at ,new ,orleans1 ,la4 #djf4de --------- ,total #b1dbf4je ,in this connection we would mention also that a lady missionary1 ,miss ,clary1 at ,beaufort1 ,s4 ,c41 was sustained to the amount of #cjj by the ,sunday-school of the ,central ,congregational ,church1 ,brooklyn4 ,supplies in the furnishing of ,mission ,homes and dormitories have been recently furnished1 and there is very marked increase of aid in the furnishing of clothing1 both new and second-hand1 for the benefit of students who are struggling in the greatest poverty to obtain an education4 ,while1 therefore1 but a few months have elapsed since the organization of the ,bureau of ,woman's ,work1 its advantage is already manifest4 ,since the field of missionary operations in our own country is large and diversified1 and three leading societies exist1 each having its distinct and important work1--viz43 ,the ,new ,west ,education ,commission1 the ,american ,home ,missionary ,society1 and the ,american ,missionary ,association--no effort has been made by the ,american ,missionary ,association to organize local societies auxiliary to itself2 but that a society should exist in every church1 able to co-operate directly with this ,association in its great work for the ,chinese1 the ,indians1 the negroes and the needy whites of the ,south1 seems apparent4 ,to this end we urge upon the ladies1 organization1 as helpful to systematic giving1 and to facilitate such movement we present a form of constitution for a co-operative society1 that may be open to the call from all parts of our country4 ,this we greatly prefer as avoiding complication and preserving fellowship and unity in the home work4 ,such is the pressure of claims upon us1 however1 through the needs of our field1 that except as such opportunity is afforded for aid to the ,am4 ,miss4 ,assoc41 we feel that we may be constrained to ask for organization auxiliary to the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 exclusively--for the women and children of #f1jjj1jjj of colored people of the ,south alone presents a field for missionary work in the elevation of women1 which we must not ignore1 from the responsibility of which we cannot escape4 ,we are just now entering upon a new year of work4 ,of the #age ladies appointed to the various departments of missionary labor1 twelve are engaged for special home visitation among the people4 ,you can see at a glance that this number is insufficient for that line of duty4 ,although our teachers are missionaries1 and accomplish much through the schools and various agencies set at work for the elevation of the people1 yet we ought to have at least one experienced and efficient woman at every mission station1 whose entire time should be given to special work in the homes of the people4 ,not only do we desire this1 but the most urgent appeals are sent us from the field for help of this kind1 not instead of that which we are doing in school and church1 but supplementary to it1 as necessary in securing the results we seek4 ,already fifteen applications are before us for lady missionaries to work in the homes1 and we wait only for the women of the ,north to furnish us the necessary funds4 ,as fast as we receive pledges of support the missionaries will be sent out4 ,may the heart of every ,christian woman be quickened to new impulse for the development of womanhood in those in our own land1 so degraded and helpless6 99 99 99 99 99 ,,form ,,of ,,constitution ,,of ,,woman',s ,,missionary ,,societies4 ,,art4 #a4 ,this ,society shall be called the ,woman's ,co-operative ,missionary ,society1 ---- ,church4 ,,art4 #b4 ,its object shall be to co-operate with the established missionary societies of the ,congregational churches of ,america1 in diffusing missionary intelligence1 increasing interest in prayer1 and in raising funds for missionary work in this country4 ,,art4 #c4 ,the officers of this ,society shall be a ,president1 a ,vice-,president1 a ,secretary1 a ,treasurer1 and an ,executive ,committee of ---- members4 ,the ,treasurer shall keep separate accounts for the different societies co-operating1 or1 if preferred1 a ,treasurer may be appointed for each4 ,,art4 #d4 ,contributors to this ,society may designate to which branch of missionary work they wish their contributions applied4 ,undesignated contributions may be assigned by vote of the ,executive ,committee4 ,,art4 #e4 ,any lady may become a member of this ,society by contributing a sum not less than one dollar annually1 or ten cents monthly4 ,gentlemen elected at any regular meeting may become honorary members by the payment of ---- dollars4 ,,art4 #f4 ---- members present at any regularly called meeting shall constitute a quorum for business4 ,,art4 #g4 ,meetings shall be held monthly1 at which the ,secretary shall give information of the work of the various societies assisted4 ,special meetings may be called by the officers and ,executive ,committee4 ,meetings shall be opened by devotional exercises4 ,,art4 #h4 ,a vote of two-thirds of the members present at any regular meeting shall be requisite for making any change in this constitution4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,bureau ,,in ,,the ,,west4 ,,by ,,miss ,,anna ,m4 ,,cahill4 ,one main object of the ,woman's ,bureau1 as stated at the time of its organization1 is to diffuse information among the ladies of our churches1 as to our work in its various departments4 ,the carrying out of this purpose led to my eight weeks of itineracy among the conferences and churches of ,wisconsin and ,michigan4 ,if ,i went to inform ,i went also to learn--to see how fares our cause in these churches4 ,especially ,i sought to learn how strong a hold the work of the ,american ,missionary ,association has upon the sympathy and effort of the ,christian ladies of that section1 what organized system of helpfulness they already have in this line1 or what in their judgment can be done and will be done toward incorporating this work in their regular plan of missionary operations for each year4 ,as ,i expected1 ,i found the interest in our cause in various stages of development4 ,it is not strange that in some places the ladies did not even so much as know that there was a ,woman's ,bureau4 ,the ,bureau is in its infancy1 and the fact of its existence has not yet taken hold of us all in any practical way4 ,in many churches--not by any means always the larger ones--,i found an intelligent appreciation of the needs and claims of the ,south4 ,we have had many workers from these ,states of the ,west1 or rather of the ,interior1 and when ,i had the pleasure of going into a community that had sent out one or more to the work in some part of our field1 ,i found always an enthusiastic interest and a warm response to my appeals4 ,my introduction to the warm-hearted ,christian people of ,wisconsin was at the ,state ,association1 met at ,racine ,sept4 #bd4 ,finding on my arrival a large representation of ladies gathered to celebrate the anniversary of their ,foreign ,missionary ,society1 ,i felt sure that there must be also an active sympathy for the work in our own land1 and ,i was not disappointed4 ,on the following day1 at a special gathering of the ladies1 a ,state society was organized1 whose range of objects should include all the benevolent societies of our denomination1 working in this country1 leaving conferences and local organizations at liberty to contribute through one treasurer or several treasurers1 to any of these societies4 ,after attending this gathering of the tribes it was my privilege to go by invitation to a few of the towns in southern ,wisconsin4 ,of course the ,state organization has not yet stretched out its arms over the ,state in the formation of local societies4 ,i can but think that ,beloit1 ,whitewater1 ,geneva and ,kenosha will be among the first to take definite steps in this direction4 ,wisconsin has by special contributions from her ladies supported a missionary in the ,south for several years and is still doing so4 ,when through regular channels of organization they shall make this a part of their regular yearly charity1 the arrangement can be more permanently relied upon by the ,woman's ,bureau4 ,many1 ,i think1 will endorse the sentiment of a prominent lady in ,michigan who said to me3 ,i think the ladies of each one of these ,western ,states ought to support one or more teacher-missionaries under the ,association4 ,on the #ith of ,october1 at ,grand ,rapids1 ,i joined the representative of the ,woman's ,department of the ,american ,home ,missionary ,society1 with whom the longer tour of six weeks was to be made in ,michigan4 ,we were then on our way to the ,grand ,river ,conference at ,allendale1 where we found a hearty welcome4 ,in this ,conference there is a branch of the ,state ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,society1 a society already more than a year old and organized on the same broad platform as that adopted in ,wisconsin4 ,before the meeting of the ,southern ,michigan ,conference we were able to visit1 in rapid succession1 the churches at ,middleville1 ,vermontville1 and ,olivet1 in all of which an evident sympathy in the various forms of our work led me to hope that increased effort might result from this new presentation of our needs4 ,in the ,southern ,conference we found also a branch organization1 union in its character1 and so efficiently officered that all is likely to be done that can be accomplished through it4 ,nowhere did ,i find stancher friends for our ,christian educational work in the ,south than in this conference4 ,at this point a short break occurred in our ,michigan tour4 ,a rapid journey brought us to ,lake ,city in time to spend one day at the ,minnesota ,state ,association--just to grasp the hands of our ,minnesota friends and be assured of their continued helpfulness4 ,the ,woman's ,home ,missionary ,society voted that at the next annual meeting the constitution should be reconsidered1 with a view to enlarging its borders and including all the benevolent societies of our home work4 ,the giving of a year's notice before any change can be made is required by the constitution itself4 ,we took up the work in ,michigan again at ,st4 ,joseph1 and from there went to the ,kalamazoo ,association4 ,we found here1 as elsewhere1 that these autumn conferences are generally held with the smaller and less accessible churches1 where the attendance of ladies is necessarily limited1 and we must1 therefore1 give our message to the pastors1 charging them with the responsibility of carrying it to the ladies of their churches4 ,before the next conference we were able to take in our plan the central points1 ,jackson1 ,ann ,arbor1 ,flint and ,lansing1 and when we went up from there to ,nashville to the ,marshall ,conference we felt that we were meeting old friends in the pastors and people1 at whose homes we had already been4 ,another tour through ,kalamazoo1 ,allegan1 ,owosso1 ,port ,huron1 ,st4 ,clair1 ,detroit1 ,union ,city and ,chelsea brought us much the same experiences as before4 ,we came finally to the large ,eastern ,conference1 which was to be our last place of labor in ,michigan4 ,the ladies of this ,conference1 though not yet organized for home work under the ,state society1 for several years supported a missionary in the ,south1 largely through the personal effort of one active lady1 who made this special collection her care4 ,with the closing of this ,bureau visit to the ladies of ,michigan the work is left in their hands--not to be forgotten by them1 but to be developed and strengthened until there shall be a rich annual fruitage of effort and practical result4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,children',s ,,page4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,christmas ,,giving ,,at ,,mystic1 ,,conn4 ,,rev4 ,,charles ,h4 ,,oliphant4 ,the ,editor has asked me to give some account of the way our ,sunday-school behaves itself at ,christmas-time4 ,there are two ideas about the ,church2 and as parents feel and think about the ,church the children will be pretty sure to think and feel about the ,sunday-school4 ,one conception of the ,church is that it is a kind of receptacle for pious people4 ,when one becomes good enough he is expected to get into this receptacle and there be acted upon by the means of grace4 ,it is one of the mischiefs of this notion that it seems to excuse laymen from any active part in ,christian work1 if only they are regular attendants upon divine service4 ,so1 many people come to the preaching and the praying as if there were nothing for them to do1 nothing either great or small4 ,such members may be said to be found in the passive voice4 ,the other and better notion is that the ,church is not a receptacle1 but an engine2 not a box for ,christians to get into1 but a body for them to operate1 and through which ,christ can act upon the world of to-day4 ,according to this view1 the minister is not the only member whom the ,master has called into ,his vineyard1 the ideal ,church is not so much a company of sheep as a company of soldiers2 the congregation comes together not simply to hear ,mr4 ----1 but to organize for work4 ,this may be called the ,church's active voice4 ,i cannot 7within the verbal limits assigned me7 measure the miles of distance which lie between these two views4 ,the same confusion of thought prevails in the ,sunday-school4 ,we know how the small boy finds that ,sunday-school the most attractive 7and that teacher the nicest7 whose ,christmas-tree pays the largest dividend4 ,illustration3 ,,children ,,bearing ,,christmas ,,gifts ,when ,i came to my present field of work it had been the immemorial custom to have a tree and a treat for the children of the school4 ,after a year or two of competition with other schools in making it worth while for children to attend our own1 we braced up and put the question to vote whether we would make the ,christmas festival a feast for ourselves or a feast for others2 whether we would have our school at this time a dispenser of sweetmeats and ourselves the beneficiaries1 or dispense a gift instead to some more needy servants of the ,master1 who had no parental pocketbook to tap2 no good things to give away4 ,to the surprise of all the vote was unanimous against the old1 and in favor of the new1 way4 ,there was much misgiving as to results4 ,many confidently predicted that the offerings 7each class was invited to bring its own in a sealed envelope7 would be microscopic4 ,it was distinctly understood that no money--not the smallest sum--was asked from those who disapproved the plan4 ,teachers were urged to dissuade their classes from perfunctory gifts4 ,inquiring next for a suitable object1 we were advised by the ,home ,missionary ,society of a poor servant of theirs in a ,western ,state1 whose poorer and more to be pitied wife was the mother of seven children4 ,we put her to vote1 and she was promptly and unanimously chosen4 ,with the introduction into the plan of a personal element1 enthusiasm began1 and it became evident at once that there was to be sharp rivalry between the classes as to the size of their gifts4 ,at length came the ,christmas ,eve concert1 and with it a bright1 full company of children4 ,they never looked so happy1 and every one of them knows that he never was so happy on such an occasion1 as when1 class by class1 the offerings were handed to the ,superintendent4 ,with each of these a passage of ,scripture was recited4 ,it became only too evident1 as the pile within his hand increased1 that the prognostications of those who were sure that an old ,sunday-school could not be taught new tricks were false4 ,we are a small school--only #hj scholars--but the class offerings on this occasion footed up twenty-eight dollars and some cents4 ,a letter was accordingly written and the money inclosed to the wife 7this was the best part of it1 for we were sure that the minister could not then1 as ministers will1 mistake the remittance for a portion of his salary71 who was asked to purchase with the amount some article or articles of which she was individually in need4 ,the letter which came back to us after a week made those who heard it read in open school clear their throats and wink away an inevitable tear4 ,it revealed 7among other things7 the fact that this poor servant had hitherto made all the clothing for seven children with the bare needle4 ,now she has a sewing machine4 ,we all think1 but none more fervently than the children1 that the memory of a few oranges1 more or less--oranges eaten three years ago--would not compensate for the glad consciousness that life is easier every day in at least one prairie home4 ,thus we were led to translate the ,beatitude pronounced upon the giver into our own experience1 and we have its meaning in the continuous stream of happiness which many have felt at the remembrance of what our pennies wrought4 ,we have recently chosen an object for this year's offering2 for the practice of giving and not receiving at ,christmas-time is now habitual with us4 ,dr4 ,pike has told us about ,philip ,page1 the ,african lad now at ,atlanta1 seeking eagerly1 but with insufficient means1 such an education as will qualify him to go back to his people a missionary4 ,we shall send him enough for his support for one1 and perhaps for two months4 ,let me urge those who may read these words to allow no seeming obstacle to prevent the putting in practice1 in the schools to which they belong1 of the plan here described4 ,do not fail to give the children for their ,christmas gift the happiness that giving brings4 ,do not delay to teach the young by so simple a lesson the difference between the blessedness of giving and that of receiving4 ,identify by all means the aims and methods of the ,church and ,sunday-school4 ,let it not1 even in a figure1 appear to the child that the ,christian attitude is one of idle enjoyment4 ,no matter how small the gift1 it is the giving up which makes us the ,lord's disciples4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,receipts ,,for ,,november #ahhc4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,maine1 #dbe4jb4 ,bangor4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bej4ie ,bangor4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 for ,dakota ,m4 #a4ef ,brunswick4 ,young ,ladies' ,missionary ,soc4 of ,first ,parish1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #ae4jj ,eastport4 ,central ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #e4jj ,falmouth4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #cj2 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #g4bj #cg4bj ,hiram4 ----1 for ,selma1 ,ala4 #a4ge ,portland4 ,state ,street ,cong4 ,ch41 #ej2 ,saint ,lawrence ,street ,ch4 and ,soc41 #aa4ag #fa4ag ,wells4 ,ladies of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,wilmington1 ,n4 ,c4 ,winthrop4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4jj ,yarmouth4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ae4ci ,york4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ba4jj ,,new ,,hampshire1 #gae4df4 ,east ,jaffrey4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bj4fh ,dover4 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,fairbanks1 #g2 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,foye1 #e1 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #ab4jj ,great ,falls4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ci4ab ,haverhill4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ae4fc ,hinsdale4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #i4cc2 ,cyrus ,newhall1 #a #aj4cc ,keen4 ,geo4 ,e4 ,whitney #e4jj ,keene4 ,ladies' ,benev4 ,soc4 of ,second ,ch41 for ,mc,intosh1 ,ga4 #b4ej ,lyme4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #aj4jj ,marlborough4 ,freedmen's ,aid ,soc41 #b bbls4 of ,c41 val4 #fj1 for ,talladega ,c41 #d for ,freight #d4jj ,nashua4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bi4dc ,new ,ipswich4 ,children's #bast ,annual ,fair for benevolent objects #aj4ej ,pembroke4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7ad'l71 #e2 ,rev4 ,d4 ,goodhue1 #a #f4jj ,pittsfield4 ,box of ,goods1 by ,rev4 ,g4 ,e4 ,hill1 for ,marion1 ,ala4 ,rindge4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #e4jj ,tilton and ,northfield4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #be4jj ,walpole4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bj4bg ,west ,lebanon4 ,children's ,mission ,band4 ,christmas ,box1 for ,bird's ,nest1 ,santee ,agency1 ,neb4 ,west ,lebanon4 ,bbl4 of ,c41 by ,rev4 ,t4 ,c4 ,pease1 for ,marietta1 ,ga4 -------- #bae4df ,,legacy4 ,francestown4 ,estate of ,mrs4 ,harriet ,f4 ,downes1 ,by ,geo4 ,e4 ,downes #ejj4jj -------- #gae4df ,,vermont1 #age4je4 ,barnet4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #dh4ac ,berlin4 ,ladies' ,benev4 ,soc41 ,bbl4 and ,box of ,c41 for ,talladega ,c4 ,brattleborough4 ,h4 ,halsey1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #e4jj ,manchester4 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,c4 ,reed1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,atlanta ,u4 ,norwich4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aj4jj ,randolph4 ,mrs4 ,mary ,k4 ,nichols #c4jj ,rupert4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aa4be ,saint ,johnsbury4 ,mrs4 ,v4 ,m4 ,howard1 #be2 ,mrs4 ,e4 ,d4 ,blodgett1 #be1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,swanton4 ,h4 ,stone1 wife and daughter #e4jj ,vershire4 ,luella ,d4 ,carpenter #a4jj ,worcester4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aj4ee ,west ,randolph4 ,mrs4 ,susan ,e4 ,albin #f4jj ,westminster ,west4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ai4aj ,windham4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #f4jb ,,massachusetts1 #b1gie4ai4 ,abington4 ,a ,friend1 to const4 ,,nahum ,,fullerton ,l4,m4 #ej4jj ,amesbury4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4cj ,amherst4 ,a ,friend1 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #g4jj ,andover1 ,g4 ,w4 ,w4 ,dove1 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #be4jj ,andover4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,south ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #bj4jj ,attleborough4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #ij4gb2 incorrectly ack4 in ,december number from ,vt4 ,auburn4 ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,rev4 ,,samuel ,d4 ,,hosmer1 ,l4,m4 #dg4fg ,boylston4 ,ladies' ,soc4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 ,box of ,c41 val4 #af ,boston4 ,pilgrim ,soc4 of ,phillips ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,boston4 ,mrs4 ,d4 ,c4 ,holden1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,chattanooga1 ,tenn4 ,boston4 ,cash #aj4jj ,boxford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #cg4hg ,brookline4 ,mrs4 ,crafts1 ,books ,brimfield4 ,ladies of ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,freight #b4jj ,brockton4 ,porter ,ch4 and ,soc41 ,a ,friend1 #bj 7adl47 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,alpheus ,,gurney and ,,everett ,c4 ,,randall ,l4,m's2 ,mrs4 ,mary ,e4 ,perkins1 #e #be4jj ,brockton4 ,mrs4 ,baylis ,sanford1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 #b for ,freight1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 #b4jj ,bradford4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 for ,student ,aid1 ,chattanooga1 ,tenn4 #aja4jj ,billerica4 ,ladies of ,o4 ,c4 ,ch41 ,chest of ,c41 for ,atlanta ,u4 ,bridgewater4 ,central ,sq4 ,trin4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #dj1 to const4 ,,annie ,m4 ,,edson ,l4,m42 ,central ,sq4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #ae #ee4jj ,brimfield4 ,ladies of ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,chattanooga1 ,tenn41 val4 #cd #e4jj ,cambridge4 ,a tithing #e4jj ,chelsea4 ,ladies' ,union ,home ,mission ,band1 for ,lady ,miss'y1 ,chattanooga1 ,tenn4 #be4jj ,chelsea4 ,third ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4fg ,chicopee4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #ca4hg ,clinton4 ,woman's ,home ,miss'y ,ass'n1 to const4 ,,miss ,,annie ,c4 ,,pierce ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ,dedham4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aei4ha ,dorchester4 ,second ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 7ad'l7 #a4bd ,duxbury4 ,a4 ,p4 ,ellison1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,atlanta ,u4 ,east ,bridgewater4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,d4 ,shaw #c4jj ,florence4 ,florence ,cong4 ,ch4 #ae4ha ,fitchburg4 ,calvinistic ,ch4 and ,soc4 #afj4hg ,gilbertsville4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,hatfield4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #eh4jj ,haverhill4 ,algernon ,r4 ,nichols1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #ce4jj ,haverhill4 ,sew4 ,soc4 of ,no4 ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 val4 #ge4cg1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 ,holliston4 ,friends1 #ae4ig2 ,missionary ,concert1 #d4jc1 for ,student ,aid2 ,friends1 ,shoemaker's kit1 val4 #aj1 ,shoe-lasts and clothing1 for ,talladega ,c4 #bj4jj ,hyde ,park4 ,heart and ,hand ,soc41 #be2 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #ae for ,straight ,u41 furnishing #dj4jj ,ipswich4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #i4ca and ,bbl4 of ,c4 #i4ca ,lawrence4 ,e4 ,f4 ,e4 #e4jj ,lee4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #ge4jj ,leominster4 ,orthodox ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bf4de ,lexington4 ,hancock ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bd4ge ,ludlow4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ce4af ,malden4 ,trin4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,medfield4 ,ladies of ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 #c for ,freight1 for ,savannah1 ,ga4 #c4jj ,melrose4 ,orthodox ,ch4 and ,soc4 #fj4gg ,middleboro4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ef4ei ,monson4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7#ab of which from ,mrs4 ,h4 ,dewey's class1 for ,howard ,u47 #cg4jj ,newbury4 ,first ,parish1 #b ,bbls4 of ,c41 for ,tougaloo ,u4 ,newburyport4 ,north ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #cf4hc2 ,prospect ,st4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #bi4ej #ff4cc ,newton4 ,ladies' ,freedman's ,aid ,sew4 ,cir41 ,bbl of ,c41 for ,macon1 ,ga4 ,newton ,center4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,chattanooga1 ,tenn4 #ajj4jj ,newton ,lower ,falls4 ,friend1 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u4 4#ej ,norfolk4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #f4ge ,north ,amherst4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #ea4jf ,norwood4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #e4ad ,oxford4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,missionary1 ,topeka1 ,kan4 #ae4jj ,oxford4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 #b for ,freight1 for ,wilmington1 ,n4 ,c4 #b4jj ,palmer4 ,thorndike ,cong4 ,ch4 #a4dd ,pepperell4 ,friends1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,avery ,inst4 ,pittsfield4 ,mrs4 ,hurd1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 #b4ej for ,freight1 for ,talladega ,c4 #b4ej ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 7#aj of which from ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,s4 ,s4 work7 #adc4jj ,rockport4 ,busy ,bee ,soc41 by ,sadie ,w4 ,butman1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #f4jj ,rockport1 ,pastor's ,class1 for ,dakota ,m4 #e4fd ,rockport4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #b ,bdls4 of ,s4 ,s4 ,exercises ,shirley ,village4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #g4jj ,south ,abington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ej4je ,spencer4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #acf4fj ,spencer4 ,young ,ladies' ,mission ,circle1 ,bdl4 of ,c4 ,springfield4 ,hope ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4jj ,sunderland4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 #c for ,freight1 for ,atlanta ,u4 #c4jj ,sutton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #di4hc ,taunton4 ,union ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ac4ed ,tewksbury4 ,ladies' ,benev4 ,soc41 for ,freight1 for ,talladega ,c4 #b4jj ,townsend4 ,ladies' ,benev4 ,soc41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 val4 #bb4ej ,watertown4 ,young ,ladies' ,mission ,band of ,phillips ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u4 #ej4jj ,webster4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ej4jj ,westborough4 ,evan4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #ej4jj ,westborough4 ,freedmen's ,mission ,ass'n1 ,bbl4 of ,c41 #a1 for ,freight1 for ,atlanta ,u4 #a4jj ,west ,medway4 ,cyrus ,adams #aj4jj ,west ,newton4 ,a ,friend1 ,bbl4 of ,c4 ,weymouth4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #i4ge ,winchendon4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,harriet ,,bemis ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ,worcester4 ,plymouth ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #afc4bf2 ,salem ,st4 ,ch41 #id2 ,e4 ,c4 ,c4 #bj #bgg4bf ,worcester4 ,a ,friend1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #ajj4jj ,worcester4 ,plymouth ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #h4ff ,worcester4 ,infant ,class ,piedmont ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #cj4jj ,worthington4 ,an ,aged ,lady1 by ,rev4 ,f4 ,s4 ,huntington #aj4jj ,yarmouth4 ,ladies' ,sew4 ,c4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,chattanooga1 ,tenn4 ----4 ,a ,friend #bj4jj ,,rhode ,,island1 #ccg4hj4 ,kingston4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bb4ia ,,legacy4 ,providence4 ,estate of ,sarah ,p4 ,phillips1 by ,t4 ,salisbury1 ,adm'r #cad4hi ,,connecticut1 #a1igb4da4 ,branford4 ,rev4 ,c4 ,p4 ,osborne #aj4jj ,brookfield ,center4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ad4ha ,cheshire4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,sab4 ,sch4 ,work1 ,marion1 ,ala4 #be4jj ,coventry4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #da4ic ,danbury4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4jj ,derby4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,tillotson ,c4 ,n4 ,inst4 #aj4jj ,east ,hartford4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch41 #ae2 ,mrs4 ,e4 ,m4 ,roberts1 #e #bj4jj ,east ,woodstock4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #be4jj ,ellington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bf4ad ,guilford4 ,a member of ,third ,cong4 ,ch4 for ,student ,aid1 ,tillotson ,c4 ,n4 ,inst4 #b4jj ,haddam ,neck4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,hartford4 ,pearl ,st4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #hd4da ,higganum4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #ca4dc1 to const4 ,,john ,h4 ,,freeman ,l4,m42 ,cong4 ,ch41 #bj #ea4dc ,kensington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ce4gc ,killingly4 ,e4 ,f4 ,jencks #e4jj ,lakeville4 ,children's ,mission ,circle1 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #ej4jj ,litchfield4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,meriden4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,catharine ,c4 ,,hinsdale1 ,,mrs4 ,,wm4 ,,homan1 ,,joseph ,u4 ,,pratt1 ,e4 ,b4 ,,cowles1 ,,margaret ,,logan1 ,,lillian ,b4 ,,smith1 ,,lucy ,b4 ,,griswold1 ,,sallie ,e4 ,,collins1 ,,john ,,warren and ,,marshall ,a4 ,,fowler1 ,l4,m's #cjj4jj ,meriden4 ,center ,cong4 ,ch4 #ej4jj ,middletown4 ,first ,ch41 #be4bi2 ,a ,friend1 #e #cj4bi ,milton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4ac ,millington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,new ,britain4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4jj ,new ,haven4 ,a ,friend1 in commemoration of fiftieth birthday1 #ej2 ,mrs4 ,sylvia ,johnson1 #aj #fj4jj ,new ,london4 ,church of ,christ #di4ij ,new ,london4 ,mrs4 ,b4 ,p4 ,mc,ewen1 ,bbl4 of ,c4 and ,chest of ,books1 for ,talladega ,c4 ,northfield4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 to const4 ,,miss ,,mary ,mc,c,a,l,l ,l4,m4 #ea4jb ,norwalk4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ge4da ,norwich4 ,rev4 ,w4 ,s4 ,palmer #e4jj ,norwich ,town4 ,charles ,b4 ,baldwin #aj4jj ,putnam4 ,missionary ,workers of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #be4jj ,stamford4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #dd4fi ,south ,coventry4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #be4jj ,stonington4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ih4jj ,thomaston4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4ej ,thompsonville4 ,first ,presb4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,straight ,u41 ,library #f4fa ,west ,avon4 ,a ,friend #aj4jj ,west ,haven4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4ia ,west ,hartford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4ej ,wethersfield4 ,rev4 ,g4 ,j4 ,tillotson1 for ,tillotson ,c4 ,n4 ,inst41 ,land #ej4jj ,westport4 ,amasa ,warren #e4jj ,winchester4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4jb ,vernon ,centre4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ca4ih ---------- #a1dgb4da ,,legacy4 ,new ,britain4 ,estate of ,mrs4 ,laura ,f4 ,stanley1 by ,oliver ,stanley1 ,ex4 #ejj4jj ---------- #a1igb4da ,,new ,,york1 #hia4ja4 ,adams ,basin4 ,mrs4 ,ezekiel ,clark #e4jj ,albany4 ,chas4 ,a4 ,beach #be4jj ,brooklyn4 ,a ,friend #b4jj ,brooklyn4 ,estate of ,chas4 ,wilbur1 pkg4 ,bibles ,camden4 ,cong4 ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,talladega ,c4 #bh4jj ,clinton4 ,miss ,cynthia ,chipman1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #e4jj ,crown ,point4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,durham4 ,a ,friend #c4jj ,ellington4 ,george ,waith #a4jj ,fairport4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #gi4aa ,fredonia4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,pres4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,gloversville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7#ajj of which from ,a4 ,judson7 #abg4jj ,hamilton4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #bj4jj ,homer4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 for ,talladega ,c4 ,le ,roy4 ,miss ,delia ,a4 ,phillips1 for ,lady ,miss'y1 ,topeka1 ,kansas #aj4jj ,liverpool4 ,a ,friend1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #a4jj ,malone4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #cb4bj ,marion4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bb4fj ,morristown4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4jj ,munnsville4 ,n4 ,s4 ,hall1 for ,tillotson ,c4 ,n4 ,inst41 ,reading ,room #e4jj ,new ,york4 ,pilgrim ,cong4 ,ch41 #ha4ej1 for ,talladega ,c4 and bal4 to const4 ,,dr4 ,,joseph ,f4 ,,land1 ,,edmund ,l4 ,,champlin and ,,mrs4 ,,louise ,s4 ,,ayres ,l4,m's2 ,gen4 ,clinton ,b4 ,fisk1 #cj1 to const4 ,,miss ,,fanny ,,gleason ,l4,m42 ,a ,friend1 #a2 ,harper ,brothers1 #bjj vols4 ,school ,books1 val4 #ajj #aab4ej ,new ,york4 ,d4 ,j4 ,carson1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,new ,haven4 ,a ,friend1 to const4 ,,rev4 ,,frank ,n4 ,,greeley and ,,mrs4 ,,anna ,c4 ,,greeley ,l4,m's #fj4jj ,penn ,yan4 ,chas4 ,c4 ,sheppard #aej4jj ,portland4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #h4fj ,west ,chazy4 ,rev4 ,l4 ,prindle #b4jj ,west ,durham4 ,diantha ,scoville #aj4jj ,warsaw4 ,mrs4 ,h4 ,l4 ,booth1 ,pkg4 of ,papers ,waterville4 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,s4 ,hitchcock1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #e4jj ,whitestown4 ,s4 ,hoxie1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #aj4jj ----4 ,yale #ei1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #ej4jj ----4 ,a ,friend1 ,blacksmith and ,shoemakers' tools1 val4 #hj4jj1 for ,talladega ,c4 ,,new ,,jersey1 #bha4jj4 ,bernardsville4 ,j4 ,l4 ,roberts #dj4jj ,elizabeth4 ,mrs4 ,hannah ,w4 ,page #a4jj ,jersey ,city4 ,tabernacle ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,indian ,girl1 ,santee ,agency #be4jj ,montclair4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,hampton ,a4 ,n4 ,inst4 #ce4jj ,paterson4 ,p4 ,van ,houten #e4jj ,upper ,montclair4 ,christian ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 7#aj4ej of which for ,dakota ,m47 #age4jj ,raritan4 ,box of ,papers ,,pennsylvania1 #ce4jj4 ,clark4 ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,dickson #ae4jj ,meadville4 ,miss ,eliza ,dickson #ae4jj ,north ,east4 ,mrs4 ,m4 ,k4 ,spooner #e4jj ,,ohio1 #dgb4fa4 ,alliance4 ,welsh ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #e4jj ,andover4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4be ,bellevue4 ,cong4 ,ch41 ,collection #aj4ce1 ,s4 ,w4 ,boise #be41 to const4 ,,rev4 ,w4 ,g4 ,,roberts ,l4,m4 #ce4ce ,berea4 ,mrs4 ,fred ,smedley1 for ,lexington1 ,ky4 #c4ge ,cleveland4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #bd4bi ,cleveland4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,cleveland4 ,white ,sew4 ,machine ,co41 ,sewing ,machine1 for ,straight ,u4 ,farmer4 ,e4 ,m4 ,ensign #aj4jj ,geneva4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,kingsbury1 in memory of her daughter ,madelin1 to const4 ,,miss ,,emma ,a4 ,,johnson ,l4,m4 #cj4jj ,huron4 ,theodore ,alvord #a4ej ,hudson4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #dc4af ,hudson4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #e4jj ,new ,lyme4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,straight ,u41 ,library #g4fj ,north ,bloomfield4 ,e4 ,a4 ,brown1 for ,theo4 ,dept41 ,talladega ,c4 #ajj4jj ,oberlin4 ,a ,friend #aj4jj ,peru4 ,friends1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #fc4ge ,ruggles4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4bc ,saybrook4 ,wm4 ,c4 ,sexton #a4ej ,strongsville4 ,e4 ,lyman1 bal4 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,julia ,a4 ,,avery ,l4,m4 #aj4jj ,toledo4 ,mrs4 ,eliza ,h4 ,weed #e4jj ,west ,andover4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ag4df ,wellington4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ei4bg ,york4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7ad'l7 #a4ej ,,illinois1 #ffc4hj4 ,cable4 ,maria ,b4 ,holyoke #b4jj ,camp ,point4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,b4 ,mc,kinney #aj4jj ,chicago4 ,new ,eng4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #dj4ec2 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc4 of ,new ,eng4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #i4aj #di4fc ,dover4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #be4ca ,dover4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,lady ,miss'y1 ,mobile1 ,ala4 #aj4jj ,englewood4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,evanston4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #aa4jj ,farmington4 ,phineas ,chapman #ej4jj ,freeport4 ,l4 ,l4 ,farwell1 for ,talladega ,c4 #aj4jj ,galesburg4 ,infant ,class ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ag4ej ,galesburg4 ,c4 ,s4 ,halsey1 case of medicines1 for ,talladega ,c4 ,hampton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4jj ,jacksonville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #di4cj ,millburn4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 for ,lady ,miss'y ,mobile1 ,ala4 #be4jj ,moline4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ee4ci ,naperville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ag4dj ,ottawa4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #da4jj ,onarga4 ,gentleman 4#ej ,providence4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4jj ,rochelle4 ,w4 ,h4 ,holcomb1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ij4jj ,rochelle4 ,a ,friend1 for ,tillotson ,c4 and ,n4 ,inst41 ,reading ,room #ej4jj ,sheffield4 ,etta ,m4 ,kingburn #c4bg ,sparta4 ,wm4 ,rosborough1 #e2 ,bryce ,crawford1 #e2 ,d4 ,p4 ,barker1 #b2 ,p4 ,b4 ,gault1 #a2 ,j4 ,hood1 #a2 ,s4 ,alexander1 #a2 ,j4 ,alexander1 #a2 ,r4 ,h4 ,rosborough1 #a2 ,l4 ,fulton1 #ej;c #ag4ej ,sycamore4 ,i4 ,h4 ,rogers1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ajd4jj ,,michigan1 #chg4ad4 ,alamo4 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc4 #e4jj ,allegan4 ,friends1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4he ,adrian4 ,c4 ,c4 ,spooner #e4jj ,baldwin4 ,rev4 ,s4 ,b4 ,demarest #b4jj ,church's ,corners4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #ac4dj1 and ,sab4 ,sch41 #ab4fj2 ,j4 ,f4 ,douglass1 #d2 ,a4 ,w4 ,douglass1 #b2 ,james ,robbins1 #b #cd4jj ,clinton4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #i4fj ,east ,saginaw4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #cd4jj ,grand ,rapids4 ,park ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,rev4 ,j4 ,h4 ,h4 ,sengstack #cj4jj ,greenville4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #be4jj ,halloway4 ,james ,vincent #aj4jj ,hudson4 ,young ,people's ,benev4 ,soc41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,kalamazoo4 ,mrs4 ,henry ,montague1 #e2 ,mr4 ,reimer1 #c1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #h4jj ,lansing4 ,plymouth ,ch4 #ba4gd ,litchfield4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #aa4fj2 ,ladies' ,miss'y ,soc41 #aa4bj #bb4hj ,olivet4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4fc ,salem4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,fisk ,u4 #aj4jj ,saint ,clair4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #db4cg ,three ,oaks4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ce4fe ,union ,city4 ,j4 ,r4 ,blake #e4jj ,vienna4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4ej ,,iowa1 #bjh4df4 ,alden4 ,mrs4 ,e4 ,rogers #b4jj ,anamosa4 ,ladies ,freedmen's ,soc41 ,clothing1 for ,straight ,u4 ,bellevue4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,miss'y1 ,new ,orleans1 ,la4 #d4jj ,chester ,center4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #dj4jj ,council ,bluffs4 ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,talladega ,c4 #ej4ee ,decorah4 ,ladies' ,soc41 ,bbl4 of ,c41 val4 #dj1 for ,straight ,u4 ,des ,moines4 ,ladies of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #c ,bbls of ,c41 for ,talladega ,c4 ,eldora4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4ga ,grinnell4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4jj ,mc,gregor4 ,young ,ladies' ,mission ,band of ,cong4 ,ch4 #ag4jj ,mc,gregor4 ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,miss'y1 ,new ,orleans1 ,la4 #ah4jj ,montour4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #cb4fj ,onawa4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4fj ,staceyville4 ,miss ,p4 ,d4 ,shattuck1 bedding for ,straight ,u4 ----4 ,hawkeye1 for ,student ,aid1 ,talladega ,c4 #d4jj ,,wisconsin1 #afc4fi4 ,burlington4 ,plymouth ,ch4 #ae4jj ,cooksville4 ,edward ,gilley #e4jj ,emerald ,grove4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ac4ej ,janesville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4cb ,kan ,kanna4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,la ,crosse4 ,mission ,sch4 #ae4jj ,milton4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4hg ,madison4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ej4jj ,platteville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ce4jj ,shopiere4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u4 #h4jj ,whitewater4 ,winchester ,partridge ,mfg4 ,co41 ,corn and ,feed ,mill1 val4 #dj1 for ,tougaloo ,u4 ,,minnesota1 #fb4fi4 ,detroit4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4jj ,glyndon4 ,union ,ch4 #h4ag ,minneapolis4 ,plymouth ,ch4 #cj4df ,rochester4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ba4jf ,,kansas1 #i4gj4 ,lawrence4 ,plymouth ,cong4 ,ch4 #i4gj ,,nebraska1 #ajg4be4 ,nebraska ,city4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4be ,york4 ,dr4 ,benjamin ,bissell #ajj4jj ,,arkansas1 #f4jj4 ,little ,rock4 ,tuition #f4jj ,,california1 #bj4jj4 ,arcata4 ,a ,friend #bj4jj ,,maryland1 #abi4bb4 ,baltimore4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #abi4bb ,,kentucky1 #abb4ge4 ,lexington4 ,tuition #hg4ej ,newport4 ,f4 ,w4 ,c4 ,crane #e4jj ,williamsburg4 ,tuition #cj4be ,,tennessee1 #b1aie4ec4 ,nashville4 ,fisk ,u41 ,tuition4 #hhf4ic2 ,rent1 #ge #ifa4ic ,knoxville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4jj ,memphis4 ,friends for ,le ,moyne ,sch41 ,enlargement of ,building #a1jjj4jj ,memphis4 ,le ,moyne ,sch41 ,tuition #bba4fj ,,north ,,carolina1 #bcb4aj4 ,raleigh4 ,friends1 #b2 ,miss ,e4 ,p4 ,hayes1 #f 7of which #a for ,freight7 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #h4jj ,wilmington4 ,normal ,sch41 ,tuition1 #bai4aj2 ,cong4 ,ch41 #e #bbd4aj ,,georgia1 #dej4je4 ,atlanta4 ,storrs' ,sch41 ,tuition1 #bdd4je2 ,rent1 #c2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #cj #bgg4je ,macon4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,savannah4 ,beach ,inst41 ,tuition1 #adb1 ,rent1 #aj2 ,cong4 ,ch41 #aj #afb4jj ,woodville4 ,a ,friend #a4jj ,,alabama1 #deh4ae4 ,athens4 ,tuition1 #fc4ij1 ,student ,aid1 #bj #hc4ij ,marion4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,mobile4 ,emerson ,inst41 ,tuition1 #bie4he2 ,cong4 ,ch41 #a4bj #big4je ,montgomery4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #bj4jj ,talladega4 ,talladega ,c41 ,tuition1 #cg4bj2 ,cong4 ,ch41 #aj #dg4bj ,,louisiana1 #bjg4jj4 ,new ,orleans4 ,straight ,u41 ,tuition #bjg4jj ,,mississippi1 #a4jj4 ,jackson4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #a4jj ,,texas1 #bea4jj4 ,austin4 ,tillotson ,c4 ,n4 ,inst41 ,tuition #bea4jj ----1 #be4jj4 ,port ,arthur4 ,rev4 ,h4 ,h4 ,robins1 for ,talladega ,c4 #be4jj ,,incomes1 #icc4jc4 ,avery ,fund1 for ,mendi ,m4 #ege4jj ,c4 ,f4 ,hammond ,fund1 for ,straight ,u4 #abe4jj ,de ,forest ,fund1 for ,president's ,chair1 ,talladega ,c4 #cg4ej ,howard ,theo4 ,fund1 for ,howard ,u4 #he4ec ,income ,fund1 for ,straight ,u4 #bj4jj ,le ,moyne ,fund1 for ,memphis1 ,tenn4 #ej4jj ,luke ,mem4 ,sch4 ,fund1 for ,talladega ,c4 #aj4hj ,n4 ,m4 and ,a4 ,stone ,fund1 ,for ,talladega ,c4 #be4jj ,yale ,library ,fund1 for ,talladega ,c4 #d4bj ----------- ,total for ,november #ad1gcd4aa ,total from ,oct4 #ast to ,nov4 #cjth #bi1igg4ji ,,for ,,american ,,missionary4 ,subscriptions from ,oct4 #ast to ,nov4 #cj #gf4jg ,h4 ,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,treasurer1 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to ,,investors4 #ibe and accrued interest will buy a #a1jjj #f per cent4 gold coupon bond of the ,,east and ,,west ,r4 ,r4 ,,co4 ,,of ,,alabama ,this is a strictly first class investment bond1 secured by a first mortgage on an old road1 fully built and equipped1 that has always paid its interest1 and earns a dividend on its stock besides4 ,this bond will pay you #cj every six months4 ,no taxes1 no trouble1 and a safe investment4 ,for sale by the ,,east ,,and ,,west ,r4 ,r4 ,,co4 ,,of ,,ala41 #ejb ,b'way1 or ,,american ,,loan ,,and ,,trust ,,co41 #aac ,b'way1 ,n4 ,y4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,constitution4 ,,art4 ,i4 ,this society shall be called the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,,art4 ,,ii4 ,the object of this ,association shall be to conduct ,christian missionary and educational operations and diffuse a knowledge of the ,holy ,scriptures in our own country and other countries which are destitute of them1 or which present open and urgent fields of effort4 ,,art4 ,,iii4 ,members of evangelical churches may be constituted members of this ,association for life by the payment of thirty dollars into its treasury1 with the written declaration at the time or times of payment that the sum is to be applied to constitute a designated person a life member2 and such membership shall begin sixty days after the payment shall have been completed4 ,other persons1 by the payment of the same sum1 may be made life members without the privilege of voting4 ,every evangelical church which has within a year contributed to the funds of the ,association and every ,state ,conference or ,association of such churches may appoint two delegates to the ,annual ,meeting of the ,association2 such delegates1 duly attested by credentials1 shall be members of the ,association for the year for which they were thus appointed4 ,,art4 ,,iv4 ,the ,annual ,meeting of the ,association shall be held in the month of ,october or ,november1 at such time and place as may be designated by the ,association1 or1 in case of its failure to act1 by the ,executive ,committee1 by notice printed in the official publication of the ,association for the preceding month4 ,,art4 ,v4 ,the officers of the ,association shall be a ,president1 five ,vice-,presidents1 a ,corresponding ,secretary or ,secretaries1 a ,recording ,secretary1 a ,treasurer1 ,auditors1 and an ,executive ,committee of fifteen members1 all of whom shall be elected by ballot4 ,at the first ,annual ,meeting after the adoption of this ,constitution1 five members of the ,executive ,committee shall be elected for the term of one year1 five for two years and five for three years1 and at each subsequent ,annual ,meeting1 five members shall be elected for the full term of three years1 and such others as shall be required to fill vacancies4 ,,art4 ,,vi4 ,to the ,executive ,committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds1 the appointing1 counseling1 sustaining and dismissing of missionaries and agents1 and the selection of missionary fields4 ,they shall have authority to fill all vacancies in office occurring between the ,annual ,meetings2 to apply to any ,legislature for acts of incorporation1 or conferring corporate powers2 to make provision when necessary for disabled missionaries and for the widows and children of deceased missionaries1 and in general to transact all such business as usually appertains to the ,executive ,committees of missionary and other benevolent societies4 ,the acts of the ,committee shall be subject to the revision of the ,annual ,meeting4 ,five members of the ,committee constitute a quorum for transacting business4 ,,art4 ,,vii4 ,no person shall be made an officer of this ,association who is not a member of some evangelical church4 ,,art4 ,,viii4 ,missionary bodies and churches or individuals may appoint and sustain missionaries of their own1 through the agency of the ,executive ,committee1 on terms mutually agreed upon4 ,,art4 ,,ix4 ,no amendment shall be made to this ,constitution except by the vote of two-thirds of the members present at an ,annual ,meeting and voting1 the amendment having been approved by the vote of a majority at the previous ,annual ,meeting4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,vick',s ,,floral ,,guide ,for #ahhd is an ,elegant ,book of #aej ,pages1 #c ,colored ,plates of ,,flowers and ,vegetables1 and more than #ajjj ,illustrations of the choicest ,flowers1 ,plants and ,,vegetables1 and ,directions for ,growing4 ,it is handsome enough for the ,center ,table or a ,holiday ,present4 ,send on your name and ,postoffice address1 with #aj cents1 and we will send you a copy1 post-paid4 ,this is not a quarter of its cost4 ,it is printed in both ,english and ,german4 ,if you afterwards order seeds deduct the #aj cents4 ,,vick',s ,,seeds ,,are ,,the ,,best ,,in ,,the ,,world4 ,the ,floral ,guide will tell how to get and grow them4 ,,vick',s ,illustrated ,monthly ,magazine1 #cb ,pages1 a ,colored ,plate in every number and many fine ,engravings4 ,price #a4be a year2 ,five ,copies for #e4 ,specimen numbers sent for #aj cents2 #c trial copies #be cts4 ,address1 ,,james ,,vick1 ,rochester1 ,n4 ,y4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 7drawing of lamp7 ,the ,great ,church ,,light4 ,,frink',s ,patent ,reflectors give the ,most ,powerful1 the ,softest1 ,cheapest and the ,best ,light known for ,churches1 ,stores1 ,show ,windows1 ,parlors1 ,banks1 ,offices1 ,picture ,galleries1 ,theatres1 ,depots1 etc4 ,new and elegant designs4 ,send size of room4 ,get circular and estimate4 ,a liberal discount to churches and the trade4 ,i4 ,p4 ,,frink1 #eea ,pearl ,st4 ,n4 ,y4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,skin ,,humors ,,can ,,be ,,cured ,,by ,,glenn',s ,,sulphur ,,soap4 ,,san ,,francisco1 ,feb4 #af1 #ahhc4 ,mr4 ,c4 ,n4 ,crittenton3 ,,dear ,,sir3 ,i wish to call your attention to the good your ,sulphur ,soap has done me4 ,for nearly fourteen years ,i have been troubled with a skin humor resembling salt rheum4 ,i have spent nearly a small fortune for doctors and medicine1 but with only temporary relief4 ,i commenced using your ,glenn's ,sulphur ,soap nearly two years ago--used it in baths and as a toilet soap daily4 ,my skin is now as clear as an infant's1 and no one would be able to tell that ,i ever had a skin complaint4 ,i would not be without the soap if it cost five times the amount4 ,yours respectfully4 ,m4 ,h4 ,,morris4 ,,lick ,,house1 ,san ,francisco1 ,cal4 ,the above testimonial is indisputable evidence that ,glenn's ,sulphur ,soap will eliminate poisonous ,skin ,diseases ,,when ,,all ,,other ,,means ,,have ,,failed4 ,to this fact thousands have testified2 and that it will banish lesser afflictions1 such as common ,,pimples1 ,,eruptions and ,,sores1 and keep the skin clear and beautiful1 is absolutely certain4 ,for this reason ladies whose complexions have been improved by the use of this soap ,,now ,,make ,,it ,a ,,constant ,,toilet ,,appendage4 ,the genuine always bears the name of ,c4 ,n4 ,,crittenton1 #aae ,fulton street1 ,new ,york1 sole proprietor4 ,for sale by all druggists or mailed to any address on receipt of #cj cents in stamps1 or three cakes for #ge cents4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 7logo7 ,j4 ,r4 ,,lamb1 #ei ,carmine ,street4 ,sixth ,ave4 cars pass the door4 ,,banners ,,in ,,silk1 ,,new ,,designs4 ,,church ,,furniture ,,send ,,for ,,hand ,,book ,,by ,,mail4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,pearls in the ,,mouth ,illustration3 7smiling woman7 ,beauty and ,fragrance ,are communicated to the mouth by ,,sozodont which renders the teeth pearly white1 the gums rosy1 and the breath sweet4 ,by those who have used it1 it is regarded as an indispensable adjunct of the toilet4 ,it thoroughly removes tartar from the teeth1 without injuring the enamel4 ,,sold ,,by ,,druggists ,,everywhere4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,mason ,,hamlin ,,organs4 ,a cable dispatch announces that at the ,international ,industrial ,exhibition 7#ahhc7 now in progress 7#ahhc7 at ,,amsterdam1 ,,netherlands1 ,these ,organs have been ,awarded the ,,grand ,,diploma ,,of ,,honor1 ,being the ,,very ,,highest ,,award1 ranking above the ,,gold ,,medal1 and given only for ,,exceptional ,,super-,,excellence4 ,,thus ,,is ,,continued ,,the ,,unbroken ,,series ,,of ,,triumphs ,,of ,,these ,,organs ,,at ,,every ,,great ,,world',s ,,industrial ,,exhibition ,,for ,,sixteen ,,years1 ,no other ,american ,organs having been found equal to them in any4 ,,the ,,record ,,of ,,triumphs of ,,mason ,,hamlin ,,organs in such severe and prolonged comparisons by the ,,best ,,judges ,,of ,,such ,,instruments ,,in ,,the ,,world now stands3 at ,,paris1 ,,vienna1 ,,santiago1 ,,phila41 ,,paris1 ,,milan1 ,,amsterdam1 #ahfg #ahgc #ahge #ahgf #ahgh #ahha #ahhc ,,france4,,austria4 ,,chili4 ,u4 ,s4 ,,amer4,,france4,,italy4,,netherlands4 ,the ,testimony of ,musicians is ,equally ,emphatic4 ,illustration3 ,,the ,,new ,,world ,,says ,,much ,,the ,,best ,,musicians ,,generally ,,so ,,regard ,,them ,,theo-,,thomas ,,and ,,thousands ,,of ,,others4 ,,illustration3 ,,the ,,old ,,world ,,says ,,matchless ,,unrivaled ,,franz ,,liszt ,,and ,,hundreds ,,of ,,others4 ,a ,,new ,,illustrated ,,catalogue ,,for #ahhc-d 7dated ,october1 #ahhc7 is now ready and will be sent free2 including ,,many ,,new ,,styles--the best assortment and most attractive organs we have ever offered4 ,,one ,,hundred ,,styles are fully described and illustrated1 adapted to all uses1 in plain and elegant cases in natural woods1 and superbly decorated in gold1 sliver and colors4 ,prices1 #bb for the smallest size1 but having as much power as any single reed organ and the characteristic ,mason ,hamlin excellence1 up to #ijj for the largest size4 #ej styles between #ajj and #bjj4 ,sold also for easy payments4 ,catalogues free4 ,,the ,,mason ,,hamlin ,,organ ,,and ,,piano ,,co41 #aed ,tremont ,st41 ,boston2 #df ,east #adth ,street 7,union ,square71 ,new ,york2 #adj ,wabash ,avenue1 ,chicago4