,,vol4 ,,xxxiii4 ,no4 #g4 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 99 99 99 99 99 8,to the ,poor the ,gospel ,preached40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,july1 #ahgi4 ,,contents3 ,,editorial4 ,,paragraphs #aic ,,signs ,,of ,,the ,,times #aid ,,responsibility ,,of ,,answered ,,prayer3 ,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,roy1 ,d4,d4 #aie ,,africa ,,in ,,america ,,and ,,america ,,in ,,africa #aif ,,congregationalism ,,in ,,the ,,south3 ,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,woodworth #aig ,,general ,,notes #aih ,,our ,,query ,,column #bja ,,the ,,freedmen4 ,,the ,,hampton ,,anniversary3 ,by the ,editor #bja ,,fisk ,,university----,increasing favor----,closing days #bje ,,straight ,,university ,,commencement #bjg ,,tougaloo ,,university ,,commencement #bjh ,,howard ,,university ,,commencement #baj ,,beach ,,institute----,year's ,work #baa ,,georgia----,,no4 #a ,,miller',s ,,station----,work----,temperance---- ,superstition #bab ,,tennessee1 ,,memphis----,the ,kansas ,fever----,le ,moyne ,school #bac ,,the ,,chinese4 ,,the ,,new ,,constitution ,,and ,,our ,,missionary ,,work #bae ,,the ,,children',s ,,page #bag ,,receipts #bah ,,constitution #bba ,,work1 ,,statistics1 ,,wants1 c4 #bbb 99 99 99 99 99 ,,new ,,york3 ,published by the ,american ,missionary ,association1 ,,rooms1 #ef ,,reade ,,street4 99 99 99 99 99 ,price1 #ej ,cents a ,year1 in advance4 ,american ,missionary ,association1 #ef ,,reade ,,street1 ,n4 ,y4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,president4 ,,hon4 ,e4 ,s4 ,,tobey1 ,boston4 ,,vice-,,presidents4 ,hon4 ,f4 ,d4 ,,parish1 ,ohio4 ,hon4 ,e4 ,d4 ,,holton1 ,wis4 ,hon4 ,,william ,,claflin1 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,,stephen ,,thurston1 ,d4 ,d41 ,me4 ,rev4 ,,samuel ,,harris1 ,d4 ,d41 ,ct4 ,wm4 ,c4 ,,chapin1 ,esq41 ,r4 ,i4 ,rev4 ,w4 ,t4 ,,eustis1 ,d4 ,d41 ,mass4 ,hon4 ,a4 ,c4 ,,barstow1 ,r4 ,i4 ,rev4 ,,thatcher ,,thayer1 ,d4 ,d41 ,r4 ,i4 ,rev4 ,,ray ,,palmer1 ,d4 ,d41 ,n4 ,y4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,m4 ,,sturtevant1 ,d4 ,d41 ,ill4 ,rev4 ,w4 ,w4 ,,patton1 ,d4 ,d41 ,d4 ,c4 ,hon4 ,,seymour ,,straight1 ,la4 ,,horace ,,hallock1 ,esq41 ,mich4 ,rev4 ,,cyrus ,w4 ,,wallace1 ,d4 ,d41 ,n4 ,h4 ,rev4 ,,edward ,,hawes1 ,ct4 ,,douglas ,,putnam1 ,esq41 ,ohio4 ,hon4 ,,thaddeus ,,fairbanks1 ,vt4 ,,samuel ,d4 ,,porter1 ,esq41 ,n4 ,y4 ,rev4 ,m4 ,m4 ,g4 ,,dana1 ,d4 ,d41 ,minn4 ,rev4 ,h4 ,w4 ,,beecher1 ,n4 ,y4 ,gen4 ,o4 ,o4 ,,howard1 ,oregon4 ,rev4 ,g4 ,f4 ,,magoun1 ,d4 ,d41 ,iowa4 ,col4 ,c4 ,g4 ,,hammond1 ,ill4 ,,edward ,,spaulding1 ,m4 ,d41 ,n4 ,h4 ,,david ,,ripley1 ,esq41 ,n4 ,j4 ,rev4 ,,wm4 ,m4 ,,barbour1 ,d4 ,d41 ,ct4 ,rev4 ,w4 ,l4 ,,gage1 ,ct4 ,a4 ,s4 ,,hatch1 ,esq41 ,n4 ,y4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,h4 ,,fairchild1 ,d4 ,d41 ,ohio4 ,rev4 ,h4 ,a4 ,,stimson1 ,minn4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,w4 ,,strong1 ,d4 ,d41 ,minn4 ,rev4 ,,george ,,thacher1 ,,ll4 ,d41 ,iowa4 ,rev4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,stone1 ,d4 ,d41 ,california4 ,rev4 ,g4 ,h4 ,,atkinson1 ,d4 ,d41 ,oregon4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,,rankin1 ,d4 ,d41 ,d4 ,c4 ,rev4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,chapin1 ,d4 ,d41 ,wis4 ,s4 ,d4 ,,smith1 ,esq41 ,mass4 ,,peter ,,smith1 ,esq41 ,mass4 ,dea4 ,,john ,c4 ,,whitin1 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,,wm4 ,,patton1 ,d4 ,d41 ,ct4 ,hon4 ,j4 ,b4 ,,grinnell1 ,iowa4 ,rev4 ,,wm4 ,t4 ,,carr1 ,ct4 ,rev4 ,,horace ,,winslow1 ,ct4 ,sir ,,peter ,,coats1 ,scotland4 ,rev4 ,,henry ,,allon1 ,d4 ,d41 ,london1 ,eng4 ,,wm4 ,e4 ,,whiting1 ,esq41 ,n4 ,y4 ,j4 ,m4 ,,pinkerton1 ,esq41 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,f4 ,a4 ,,noble1 ,d4 ,d41 ,ct4 ,,daniel ,,hand1 ,esq41 ,ct4 ,a4 ,l4 ,,williston1 ,esq41 ,mass4 ,rev4 ,a4 ,f4 ,,beard1 ,d4 ,d41 ,n4 ,y4 ,,frederick ,,billings1 ,esq41 ,vt4 ,,joseph ,,carpenter1 ,esq41 ,r4 ,i4 ,,corresponding ,,secretary4 ,,rev4 ,m4 ,e4 ,,strieby1 ,d4 ,d41 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,district ,,secretaries4 ,,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,,woodworth1 ,boston4 ,,rev4 ,g4 ,d4 ,,pike1 ,new ,york4 ,,rev4 ,,jas4 ,,powell1 ,chicago4 ,,edgar ,,ketchum1 ,,esq41 ,treasurer1 ,n4 ,y4 ,h4 ,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,,esq41 ,assistant ,treasurer1 ,n4 ,y4 ,,rev4 ,m4 ,e4 ,,strieby1 ,recording ,secretary4 ,,executive ,,committee4 ,,alonzo ,s4 ,,ball1 ,a4 ,s4 ,,barnes1 ,,edward ,,beecher1 ,,geo4 ,m4 ,,boynton1 ,,wm4 ,b4 ,,brown1 ,,clinton ,b4 ,,fisk1 ,,addison ,p4 ,,foster1 ,e4 ,a4 ,,graves1 ,s4 ,b4 ,,halliday1 ,,sam',l ,,holmes1 ,s4 ,s4 ,,jocelyn1 ,,andrew ,,lester1 ,,chas4 ,l4 ,,mead1 ,,john ,h4 ,,washburn1 ,g4 ,b4 ,,willcox4 ,,communications relating to the business of the ,association may be addressed to either of the ,secretaries as above2 letters for the ,editor of the 8,american ,missionary0 to ,rev4 ,geo4 ,m4 ,boynton1 at the ,new ,york ,office4 ,,donations ,,and ,,subscriptions should be sent to ,h4 ,w4 ,hubbard1 ,ass't ,treasurer1 ,no4 #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 ,correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each letter the name of their ,post ,office1 and the ,county and ,state in which it is located4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,vol4 ,,xxxiii4 ,,july1 #ahgi4 ,no4 #g4 99 99 99 99 99 ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the time has come when our schools at the ,south are closing the year's work4 ,in this number will be found communications from ,hampton1 ,fisk1 ,straight1 ,tougaloo1 ,howard1 and ,beach4 ,all of them give reports encouraging and hopeful4 ,the change wrought in those who go forth from these institutions by their few years of study and discipline is marvelous1 and the contrast in all the course and influence of their lives with what it might have been may well satisfy all who have taken part in so good a work4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,boston anniversary day has come and gone again4 ,the last hour of the morning was given to the work of this ,association4 ,secretary ,woodworth read a brief report of work4 ,rev4 ,p4 ,b4 ,davis1 of ,hyde ,park1 spoke from his observations in a recent tour among our schools and churches4 ,rev4 ,albert ,h4 ,heath1 of ,new ,bedford1 spoke of this continent as the mens' battle-ground for the settlement of the great questions which have never been decided1 and argued that1 having the opportunity and the ability1 we are under obligation to help the three despised races4 99 99 99 99 99 ,we have no word to say in favor of intermarriage between whites and blacks in our country1 but we desire to say an earnest word against the laws of ,virginia in the ,south and of at least one ,state in the ,north1 which makes a marriage between such parties a cause of imprisonment1 but permits them to live together in illicit relations unpunished4 ,the best restraint upon such miscegenation will be by punishing it when unlimited by law1 and only allowing it when it does not violate the law of ,god4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a few barrels of clothing have been received by us for the ,freedmen in ,kansas4 ,we forwarded them to the ,kansas ,freedmen's ,relief ,association at ,topeka1 and have received their acknowledgments and thanks4 ,governor ,st4 ,john1 who is the ,president of the ,association1 in a recent letter says3 8,between three and four thousand refugees have arrived in ,kansas1 and have been distributed to various portions of the ,state1 and ,i think1 perhaps with the exception of say not to exceed one hundred of the entire number1 they are now making their own living1 and getting along without asking or receiving aid4 ,i am inclined to the opinion that the rush is over for the present1 but will be renewed again in the fall2 meantime1 no doubt there will be small numbers coming in from time to time1 but ,i think1 as a general rule1 will not require much aid4 ,there are now between two and three hundred on the banks of the lower ,mississippi desiring to come here1 but the boats refuse to bring them4 ,i think it very likely that measures will be resorted to that will end in transporting these people to the ,north1 and in all probability to ,kansas1 and it is very likely that within the next few weeks they will have to be provided for40 99 99 99 99 99 ,one of the best ways of aiding the poor negroes in ,kansas1 or anywhere else1 has been devised by ,mr4 ,montgomery1 a colored planter in ,mississippi4 ,visiting ,kansas1 he bought a section of land in ,wabaunsee county4 ,four other sections have been divided into forty-acre tracts1 and a colony of about fifty families will be established upon them4 ,until the colonists get their little farms in order1 they will be given employment upon ,mr4 ,montgomery's #fdj acres1 and will thus be able to earn enough for their support4 ,the settlers agree to pay #b4fe an acre for their land with #g per cent4 interest4 ,could there be a simpler or better way devised of helping poor immigrants or poor citizens to help themselves8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,signs ,,of ,,the ,,times4 ,it seems to be a day of great bequests4 ,while our country and others as well have been straitened by hard times1 fortunes well planted have been growing silently1 and those who have watched over them have been devising liberal things4 ,the estate of ,daniel ,stone of ,massachusetts1 yields #a1jjj1jjj for educational endowments2 that of ,asa ,otis of ,connecticut1 at least #a1jjj1jjj for foreign missions4 ,judge ,packer of ,pennsylvania leaves #b1jjj1jjj to the ,lehigh ,university2 this in addition to #a1jjj1jjj which it cost to found the institution4 ,gardiner ,colby of ,boston directs nearly #djj1jjj to be distributed among various ,baptist institutions and societies4 ,dr4 ,hugh ,miller of ,scotland leaves some #adj1jjj for missionary purposes4 ,nor can we fail to mention here the #ajj1jjj which ,mr4 ,robert ,arthington of ,england has given or offered to ,british and ,american missionary societies1 of at least four denominations of ,christians1 for the planting of missionary enterprises in ,equatorial ,africa4 ,the estate of ,mr4 ,r4 ,r4 ,graves of ,new ,york1 in addition to large gifts already made1 has nearly #ajj1jjj in process of distribution mainly for work in the ,south4 ,these and others like them are significant facts1 that from so many sources there should have been such large appropriations to such good work4 ,we are led to look1 therefore1 to the other end of the line4 ,what is the motive which has moved these stewards of ,god to turn their benefactions in such directions in so large a measure8 ,rather1 we ask1 what is the corresponding providence which has called for them1 or the preparation which has been making far away for their wise use1 the signs of which were not seen1 perhaps1 by the givers at the time when they were thus carrying out the ,lord's will8 ,what is the significance of it all in the divine plan8 ,is it not that the world is suddenly opening for missionary work as perhaps never before in all its history8 that in more than one direction the long twilight which has been slowly creeping over the eastern sky is breaking in a moment into glorious dawn8 that the seed which has been growing secretly these many days has come to be the bud1 and now is bursting into the flower8 ,such crises do come in the history of ,god's world1 in the progress of the ,gospel of his ,son4 ,three illustrations of this truth are just now conspicuous----,india is clamoring for the ,gospel2 missionaries are beset with eager throngs begging for the bread of life2 whole villages are calling each for a ,christian teacher to come and dwell among them and lead them to the ,christ4 ,thousands have been baptized in the name of the ,lord ,jesus during the past year4 ,japan1 too1 which succeeded in keeping itself secluded from all interference from without until so late a day1 has taken down its official threats published at every crossroad against 8the ,jesus religion10 and1 as it throws away its idol gods1 is ready to accept either the materialism or the ,christianity of ,europe and ,america2 and ,africa is no longer a region of unexplored darkness1 but has been forced to give up its secrets to the ,christian explorer as well as to the ,arab slave-trader1 who heretofore alone has shared them with the aborigines4 ,africa is known1 and already has followed the death-blow to the internal traffic in human life2 missionary expeditions are winding along its rivers and across its swamps1 and1 with the ,arab out1 the ,christian may come in4 ,for us1 this last great continent is of peculiar interest1 and its opening lends a new and wider meaning and reach to the work we have been patiently doing in the ,south8 ,are not these the complementing facts which stand over against those stated first1 and which explain them8 ,god has brought his church into a crisis by which he will try its faith and its faithfulness4 ,he has opened the doors wide for its entrance into new fields4 ,no longer does the missionary have to push himself into the midst of heathendom2 but the cry is heard on every side1 8,come over and help us40 ,and then the ,lord of both the fields and the fountains has shown us by these illustrious examples of both the living and the dead1 how he looks to the men who hold his wealth to administer their trusts1 and to lead on the hosts of those who may swell the stream with much or little1 as he has prospered them4 ,will the church of ,christ bear the testing8 ,let us hope that these large gifts are only the great drops which tell us of the coming shower which shall fill all the pools4 ,nay1 rather1 let us pray that this may be the beginning of 8the latter rain40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,responsibility ,,of ,,answered ,,prayer4 ,the obligation which comes from offered prayer is apparent4 ,it implies a complete subordination of our will to ,god's will----a readiness for any self-denial and effort on our part necessary to the answer1 through whatever trying ordeal that answer may come4 ,but the process is essential to the result4 ,once answered1 the prayer brings the additional responsibility of walking in its light4 ,we find ourselves straggling within the toils of some disaster4 ,we ask the ,lord1 8,how is this80 ,he gradually unfolds the meaning as indicating some transition in ,his plan for our life4 ,having carried us safely through1 and having set us surely in the line of the new departure1 ,he expects us to take up the full measure of its obligation4 ,when1 with ,saul of ,tarsus1 we are dazed by the new experience and cry out1 ,lord1 what wilt thou have us to do8 we are1 with him1 to accept the labor and sacrifice implied thereby4 ,david puts it thus3 8,i will pay ,thee my vows which my lips have uttered and my mouth hath spoken when ,i was in trouble40 ,hannah1 with her prayer answered in the gift of a son1 must fulfil her vow in devoting him to the service of the ,lord4 ,for a long time ,god's people were praying ,him to open the way among the nations for the entrance of the ,gospel of his ,son4 ,he answered by setting open the door to every land and to every island of the sea4 ,it is our duty to enter and occupy4 ,if we do not1 we are grossly disobedient to the heavenly vision2 we are found guilty of deserting in the battle of the great day of the ,lord ,almighty4 ,the ,christian world now rests under this obligation4 ,we wrestled with ,god in prayer for the deliverance of our brethren in bonds4 ,we cried1 ,oh ,lord1 how long6 how long6 ,the answer came by terrible things in righteousness4 ,we had scarcely expected to see it in our day4 ,our thought had stopped with the great burden of emancipation4 ,our vision scarcely took in the mountain of obligation looming in the horizon of our answered prayer4 ,we thought that if we could only see our country delivered from its crime and shame of oppression1 the millennium would be near at hand4 ,we had not yet taken upon our hearts the burden of lifting up the emancipated race4 ,we had not yet received our divine commission to lead this people through their forty years of training into the citizenship of the republic and of the kingdom of ,god4 ,but this was all implied in the answering of our prayer4 ,we asked for this child of liberty1 and now it is but the instinct of nature and the demand of reason that we meet the obligation of its nurture4 ,we prayed that the slaves might be set free1 and this implies that we make good the conditions of freedom4 ,in the words of the martyr-,president1 they are 8the wards of the nation40 ,so also are they the children of the ,church1 given in answer to prayer1 to be nourished into ,christian character for service in this their native land and in the country of their ancestral home4 ,j4 ,e4 ,,roy4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,africa ,,in ,,america ,,and ,,america ,,in ,,africa4 ,we are glad to print the following letter1 from an intelligent friend in ,new ,england1 to a member of our ,executive ,committee3 ,,my ,,dear ,,sir3 ,i have received and read with interest the paper you have sent me in relation to ,africa and the colored people4 ,it has seemed to me a very remarkable indication of ,god's recognition of ,his promise1 8,ethiopia shall stretch out her hands10 that the two great events of recent years----the abolition of ,american slavery1 and the brilliant explorations and discoveries in ,africa1 which have become epochs in history----have occurred nearly simultaneously2 and the higher education of the colored young men and women seems to have progressed in relative proportion to the further opening up of ,africa1 with its immense population1 suffering1 dying for the ,word of ,life4 ,the climate of tropical ,africa1 taken as a whole1 is evidently fatal to the white man4 ,there is a region about those large interior lakes1 though under the equator1 which from its altitude 7#d1fjj feet above the ocean level7 at the ,victoria ,nyanza1 is represented by ,mr4 ,stanley to be salubrious4 ,but the climate1 even in this most highly favored part of the ,african continent1 is enervating and ultimately destructive to the life of the white man4 ,the missions upon the ,west ,coast of ,africa have been conducted for the past hundred years at a fearful sacrifice of the lives of white missionaries4 ,we may not forecast events for the ,providence of ,god to follow4 ,we do our duty when we faithfully perform the work ,he assigns us4 ,but ,i cannot exclude the thought from my mind1 that sometime at the proper time1 the children of ,africa now natives of our own country1 must be prepared by education and the ,spirit of ,god to go with hearts of love1 laden with the ,gospel of ,peace1 to their own race in ,africa1 and elevate them from their degradation and barbarity1 to the liberty wherewith ,christ maketh free4 ,i feel deeply the wrongs which have been perpetrated upon poor1 suffering1 abused1 down-trodden1 defenceless ,africa4 ,her country has been the foraging field for the violent1 the cruel and bloody-minded for centuries4 ,a dim light now dawns upon it4 ,the slave trade is nearly1 perhaps quite suppressed4 ,a million of philanthropic hearts are beating high with earnest desire to repair the wrongs which inhumanity has inflicted upon it4 ,god grant that the sun of righteousness may soon arise upon that benighted land4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association is doing a noble work in the schools it has inaugurated for the education of colored young men and women to be teachers and missionaries1 and should receive increased subscriptions from our ,new ,england ,states4 ,g4 ,m4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,congregationalism ,,in ,,the ,,south4 #d4 ,its ,opportunities4 ,,dist4 ,,sec4 ,c4 ,l4 ,,woodworth1 ,,boston4 ,we have now reached the point where attention may be well directed to the opportunity of ,congregationalism for enlargement1 and so for greater usefulness in the ,southern ,states1 and especially among the blacks4 ,if the claim that our faith and polity lie in the very letter as well as spirit of the ,new ,testament be anything more than pretense1 then it is nothing less than cowardice to consent that either should be limited by lines of latitude4 ,the other denominations have spread over the country1 and have aspired to a national name and influence2 but ,congregationalism1 until within thirty years1 had hardly set foot outside of ,new ,england4 ,it had clung to the early home1 and lingered among the graves of the fathers1 while other churches were pressing across the continent4 ,late in the contest it joined the grand march of the churches ,westward1 and has shown what fine work she can do as an educator and civilizer4 ,now the door opens ,southward1 and she will be recreant to every call of duty1 to every impulse of patriotism and religion1 if she does not widen her borders and diffuse her influence in that direction4 ,the opportunity is before her for enlargement to the full dimensions of our country1 and she should be satisfied with nothing less4 ,the church of the ,pilgrims has a right to a national name----the ,south has a right to any good she may have to bestow4 ,it has been intimated1 indeed1 that other churches hold the field1 and that ours has no right to intrude4 ,if the churches on the ground had fairly done all the work----had enlightened the ignorant1 had lifted the degraded----there would be some place for such a sentiment4 ,it may seem a cheap and almost contemptible thing to enter the ,south through the negro cabins and offer the poorest of the poor our culture and our faith4 ,but nothing is contemptible that bears the image of the ,son of ,god or carries ,his sanction4 ,we simply follow the spirit of ,his own command3 8,if they receive you not in one city1 flee ye into another40 ,we have no disposition to discriminate against the whites1 but when they discriminate against themselves we have no alternative but to turn to the blacks4 ,and perhaps it is as well2 for if the whites had opened their hearts and their homes to receive us1 what would have become of the race that needs us most of all2 that showed such hunger for knowledge and eagerness for teachers as perhaps was never before seen in the history of races8 ,as it is now1 we can lay foundations at the very bottom of ,southern society4 ,it is an opportunity to be useful to those who have made themselves useful to us4 ,they see in our teachers and missionaries the practical illustration of human brotherhood2 and they find that just so far as the doctrines we teach prevail1 they are recognized as men4 ,they only need to know us fully1 to turn to us by thousands4 ,we have an immense advantage in this work1 too1 because we are not hampered by any connection with the old colored churches1 and are not tempted to cater to their superstition and confusion in worship4 ,the temptation to count members in the ,annual ,report1 and to sweep whole congregations into the church1 is very great2 but1 fortunately1 it has not lain in our path4 ,there were no ,southern ,congregational churches1 and so there were no churches of our name for which we were held responsible4 ,it was our work to prepare a pure and intelligent seed with which to plant the ,southern field4 ,we antagonized no other church2 8the land was all before us where to choose40 ,the #e1cjj laborers we have sent into the ,south during these seventeen years were for the negro race2 and the #b1jjj more we have raised up out of that race are for the instruction of their people4 ,the foundations we have laid1 therefore1 have been broad1 and just those needed to start the race upward4 ,to those who are intent on merely propagating an ism1 the results up to this time may seem small compared with the outlay of men and money2 but to those who look deeper1 the results cannot be counted in numbers of schools or churches2 the churches founded represent but a part of the spiritual outcome4 ,the old churches have been wonderfully quickened and elevated by the incoming of large numbers of youths brought to ,christ under our teaching2 these have carried back a more intelligent piety and a severer standard of morals4 ,such a result was to be expected1 and1 if the old churches are to be purified and saved1 is not to be regretted4 ,in estimating the good done1 therefore1 we must take into account not merely the new churches planted1 but the old ones enlightened and cleansed4 ,our mission has been1 and may be1 largely to leaven the old1 while we build up1 over the ,south1 the churches and schools to serve as lights and guides of the people into the new and nobler future4 ,we oppose nothing that is good2 we come with no ,northern name to antagonize a ,southern one2 we come as a new spiritual force to help all true churches1 and all good people1 in working out the problem of the negro's salvation4 ,our right to go1 then1 is the right to do good as we have opportunity2 is to take advantage of most favoring circumstances for enlargement and usefulness4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,general ,,notes4 ,the ,freedmen4 ----,a ,national ,colored ,convention met in ,nashville1 ,tenn41 ,may #fth1 and continued in session four days4 ,it was a body thoroughly in earnest and deeply impressed with a sense of the wrongs endured by the people of whom they were the representatives from all parts of the ,south4 ,in an address to the country1 adopted by them1 they speak as follows in regard to their political condition3 8,wholly unbiased by party considerations1 we contemplate the lamentable political condition of our people1 especially in the ,south1 with grave and serious apprehensions for the future4 ,having been given the ballot for the protection of our rights1 we find1 through systematic intimidation1 outrage1 violence and murder1 our votes have been suppressed1 and the power thus given us has been made a weapon against us40 ,in regard to the recent emigration they say in the same address3 8,the migration of the colored people now going on has assumed such proportions as to demand the calm and deliberate consideration of every thoughtful citizen of the country4 ,it is the result of no idle curiosity or disposition to evade labor4 ,it proceeds upon the assumption that there is a combination of well-planned and systematic purposes to still further abridge their rights and reduce them to a state of actual serfdom4 ,if their labor is valuable it should be respected4 ,if it be demonstrated that it cannot command respect in the ,south1 there is one alternative1 and that is to emigrate40 ,at the ,general ,assembly of the ,presbyterian ,church1 at its recent meeting at ,saratoga1 the report of the ,committee on ,missions for ,freedmen1 contained the following items3 receipts from churches1 #eb1iba4ic2 receipts from the ,state ,school funds1 #d1bdf4jj2 expenditures on account of missions1 #dj1cfj4bg4 ,there are #dh ordained missionaries 7of whom #cd are colored71 #i licentiates1 #be catechists 7all colored71 and #eh teachers 7of whom #cf are colored74 ,eight churches were organized last year1 and #a1bae communicants were received4 ,the whole number of communicants is #aj1egg4 ,the total amount paid for self-support by churches and schools is #ah1faa4ee4 ,it was determined not to transfer this department to the ,home ,missionary ,board4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,indians4 ----,judge ,dundy1 of the ,u4 ,s4 ,court at ,omaha1 has made a decision which1 if confirmed by the ,circuit ,court to which an appeal has been taken1 will greatly change the status of the ,indians4 ,it declares the reservation plan a nullity1 and that ,indians cannot be held within certain boundaries4 ,it was made in regard to the ,poncas1 who were removed two years ago against their will to the ,indian ,territory4 ,a small number returned this spring to ,nebraska1 where1 though peaceably engaged in agriculture1 they were arrested by ,gen4 ,crook and taken back to the ,territory4 ,on a writ of habeas corpus1 sued out for their relief1 the judge decided that the ,indian is a 8person0 within the meaning of the laws of the ,united ,states1 and has rights under the laws2 that ,indians possess the inherent right of expatriation1 as well as the white race1 and have the inalienable right to life1 liberty and the pursuit of happiness1 so long as they obey the laws2 that no rightful authority exists for removing by force any of these ,poncas to the ,indian ,territory1 as ,gen4 ,crook had been directed to do1 and that being unlawfully restrained of liberty1 they must be discharged4 ,if this decision be confirmed and the principle established1 the results will be far-reaching4 ----,a prominent citizen of ,southern ,kansas asserts that not less than #e1jjj white persons are now in the ,indian ,territory4 ,a despatch from ,independence1 dated ,may #e1 says3 8,over #aej wagons passed into the ,indian ,territory southwest of this point yesterday40 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,chinese4 ----,gen4 ,grant1 in responding to a cordial reception given him by the ,chinese merchants of ,penang1 said that he never doubted1 and no one could doubt1 that1 in the end1 no matter what agitation might for the time being effect at home1 the ,american people would treat the ,chinese with kindness and justice1 and not deny to the free and deserving people of that country the asylum they offer to the rest of the world4 ----,the bill introduced into the ,senate by ,slater1 of ,oregon1 seems to be of some interest to the ,chinaman in ,america4 ,it provides that after ,july #a1 #ahhj1 no ,chinaman shall be allowed to 8engage in1 carry on1 or work at any manufacturing or mechanical business1 or to own or lease1 carry on or work any mine1 or to own or lease any real estate for any other purpose than that of lawful commerce and for places of residence40 ,as if this were not enough1 the ,chinaman is forbidden to 8work or engage to work as mechanic1 artisan1 laborer1 waiter1 servant1 cook1 clerk or messenger1 or in any other capacity or at any other kind of labor1 skilled or unskilled40 ,and there is a heavy penalty inflicted upon the ,chinaman or ,american citizen who violates it4 ,if such a bill should become a law there would be nothing left for the ,chinaman to do except to climb a tree and stay there4 99 99 99 99 99 ,africa4 ----,the ,london ,missionary ,society has received advices dated ,jan4 #bc;d1 from ,mr4 ,dodgshun4 ,preparations for proceeding to the lake from ,kirasa were begun in ,june1 #ahgh4 ,various delays have made progress very slow1 as lack of porters and war between ,mirambo and the ,arabs1 and ,mr4 ,d4 had only then reached ,unyanyembe4 ,meanwhile1 three of the six who set out in ,august1 '#gg1 were left on the field1 and they the juniors of the expedition4 ,messrs4 ,hore and ,hutley are at ,ujiji4 ,two students of the ,society have been appointed to join the force----,rev4 ,w4 ,griffith and ,mr4 ,southon1 ,m4 ,d4 ,dr4 ,mullens1 the ,foreign ,secretary of the ,society1 offered himself to lead the new expedition4 ,the ,directors allowed him to go as far as ,zanzibar1 hoping that it would not be necessary for him to go farther4 ,central ,africa seems yet to be a great way off4 ----,the following illustrates the exposure of ,african missionaries to suspicion and violence3 8,at ,mukondoku in ,ugogo we were within an ace of being attacked by over #ajj of the natives1 fully armed1 and thirsting for the blood of the white men4 ,their only ground of complaint was that ,m4 ,broyon's little child had lost a toy----an indiarubber doll----in our camp1 which they found1 and persisted in calling #8medicine to ruin their country6' ,when convinced that they were wrong1 and that we had not the slightest wish to injure them1 they only grew the more violent1 and told the pagazi to leave us alone that they might kill us4 ,a heavy payment of cloth smoothed the way for peace1 but we fully expected to have to fight for our lives1 as we had not a single man to be depended on to stand by us40 ----,mr4 ,mackay1 of the ,c4 ,m4 ,s41 at ,lake ,nyanza1 writes that after his two years' march he found the goods of the expedition in safety1 but mixed in indiscriminate confusion4 ,ten days brought some order out of this chaos4 ,the engines are complete1 and almost everything1 though divided into #gj lb4 parcels for the journey of #gjj miles1 is at hand and in place4 ----,mr4 ,mackay speaks thus of the evil of intemperance in ,africa3 8,oh1 how often will ,i enter in my journal1 as ,i pass through many tribes1 ,drink is the curse of ,africa6 ,useguha1 ,usagara1 ,ugogo1 ,unyamwezi1 ,usukuma1 ,ukerewe1 and ,uganda too----go where you will1 you will find every week1 and1 when grain is plentiful1 every night1 every man1 woman and child1 even to sucking infant1 reeling with the effects of alcohol4 ,on this account chiefly ,i have become a teetotaler on leaving the coast1 and have continued so ever since4 ,i believe1 also1 that abstinence is the true secret of continued and unimpaired health in the tropics4 ,whoever wishes to introduce civilization into ,africa1 let a sina qu non of the enterprise be that its members be total abstainers40 ----,the expedition1 under ,dr4 ,laus1 to explore the west side of ,lake ,nyassa1 returned in ,december4 ,livingstonia is proving a city of refuge to natives escaping from slavery4 ,the health record is good4 ----8,in ,western ,africa the climate is still our great difficulty4 ,it cripples our work by prostrating our men4 ,the ,gambia ,mission has been almost entirely deprived of its ,missionaries during the year from this cause1 and the ,river ,mission has been obliged to be suspended4 ,the ,committee would gladly diminish1 if possible1 these risks1 and improve the chances of health1 and attention is being given to this subject2 but the need is being felt more and more keenly every year of adequate and well-furnished institutions1 in which the ,african shall be trained to win ,africa for ,christ4 ,the education of the girls1 the women of the future1 is also most desirable here40----,from the ,annual ,report of the ,wesleyan ,missionary ,society of ,great ,britain4 ----,the ,church ,missionary ,society received last year #ice1jjj1 and expended #a1jbj1jjj4 ,the ,wesleyan ,missionary ,society reports receipts1 #fff1jjj2 expenditures1 #ghf1jjj4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,our ,,query ,,column4 #a4 ,how do you prevent truancy8 #b4 ,how do you prevent tardiness8 #c4 ,do you allow anything but failures in lessons to be deducted from scholarship8 #d4 ,what is your standard in scholarship for promotion8 #e4 ,how much time1 and in what manner1 do you devote to religious exercises in schools wholly attended by resident pupils8 99 99 99 99 99 ,answers to ,queries in ,june ,missionary4 ,dr4 ,johnson's ,dictionary 7,latham's ,edition1 #ahff-gd1 #dto1 #d vols471 probably surpasses all others in the ,english book market4 ,richardson's is an accepted standard1 especially in matters of definition and derivation4 ,walker's is still a standard in pronunciation4 ,of ,american dictionaries1 ,webster's leads in ,england4 ,khedive is pronounced ,kay-deeve4 ,so far as we know1 ,beaufort1 ,s4 ,c41 alone is pronounced ,bew-fort4 ,other places of the name1 ,bo-fort4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,freedmen4 ,,rev4 ,,jos4 ,e4 ,,roy1 ,d4 ,d41 ,field ,superintendent1 ,atlanta1 ,ga4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,hampton ,,anniversary4 ,the ,negro and the ,indian----,co-,education of the ,races----,addresses by the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,hoge1 of ,richmond1 and ,secretary ,carl ,schurz1 of ,washington4 ,by the ,editor4 ,more than the ordinary interest attaches this year to the anniversary exercises of the ,hampton ,normal and ,agricultural ,school1 just held4 ,the experiment of negro education has been tried for the last #af years1 until it is no longer an unsolved problem1 but one of which the once unknown quantities have come to have an ascertained value4 ,but the question of the educability of the red man has been one not so conspicuously settled4 ,what has been accomplished in that direction has been done so far away as not to have made much impression on the ,american people4 ,this year1 the institution which has done so much to prove the responsiveness of the negro to educational training has been engaged in its first experiment with the ,indian4 ,of its success thus far there can be no shadow of a doubt4 ,the ,indian boys are contented and making progress1 and coming steadily up to a plane on which they can pursue the regular courses of study4 ,it was said by many at the outset that the negro and ,indian races would not associate with each other1 but the case is as contrary to this as can be4 ,the ,indian boys at first seemed to be somewhat discontented1 and ,gen4 ,armstrong found that they wanted most of all to learn ,english4 8,too much ,indian talk10 they said4 ,he asked them in class one day how many of them would like to room with the negro boys2 every hand went up4 ,he then went to his senior class and asked them how many of them would be willing to take in an ,indian as a roommate1 to help and teach him4 ,a larger number than was needed of his very best young men expressed their willingness1 and so1 instead of standing aloof1 the two races are completely mixed in their rooms and at table1 to their mutual satisfaction4 ,this is a notable element in the experiment4 ,some #ab of the ,indian boys have joined the church connected with the ,institute4 ,is it needful to say a word about the ,hampton ,institute itself8 ,beautiful for situation it certainly is1 with its front on the creek1 and only a narrow point of land separating it from the famed ,hampton ,roads4 ,its buildings are simple but effective in their outline and grouping4 ,virginia and ,academic ,halls1 and the new wigwam----the quarters prepared for the #gj ,indian students2 the cottages in which the boys live1 in families of #cj or more1 largely self-governed2 the residences of the ,principal and his assistants2 and not least1 the great barn1 sheltering a fine collection of blooded stock----and all this on a farm of some #bjj acres4 ,it is but a few years since there were only small and temporary barracks to accommodate the applicants for admission2 now about #bjj negro and #gj ,indian students are well provided with dormitories1 recitation-rooms and workshops4 ,a creditable brass band1 composed of students1 greeted the visitors with their cheering strains1 well rendered1 considering the short time since practice was begun4 ,capt4 ,romeyne keeps the boys1 both black and red1 in good military drill1 and under firm1 though kind1 government1 and in their gray uniforms1 cheap but comely1 they presented no mean appearance4 ,work and study are the order of every day4 ,the brightest and most inspiring teaching the writer ever saw wakens the intellect to an eager activity2 and work on farm and in shop for the boys1 in kitchen and laundry and with the knitting machine for the girls1 both teaches them how to labor1 and enables them to pay a considerable part of the expenses of their living4 ,the examinations1 except of the graduating class1 were not written1 but were oral1 and on the plan of the daily recitations4 ,the ,indians attracted perhaps the greatest attention from the many visitors1 in the conversation classes1 which were conducted with rare tact and skill4 ,on a table was placed a mass of common plants and flowers4 ,one of the band of ,indians brought only a few months ago by ,capt4 ,pratt was called up and asked to pick out some grass2 its uses brought out the words eat and horse1 and sentences were formed of these words4 ,beet1 onion1 potato and clover were selected in turn1 and their uses brought out by skillful questioning4 ,then1 in another lesson1 working and earning money and spending it were illustrated1 and the language taught necessary to express these ideas4 ,at the other end of the gradation of studies were the very creditable recitations of the graduating class of colored students in algebra1 history1 physiology and other higher branches2 nor would it do to omit the class in teaching1 where the seniors showed their skill in interesting and instructing the little children of the ,butler ,normal ,school4 ,in the afternoon the public exercises were held in ,virginia ,hall1 which was crowded to overflowing4 ,the addresses were manly and earnest2 some of them quite forcible and free in thought and expression1 and dealing with questions affecting their race4 ,it was quite touching to see a black boy pleading for the extension of the privileges of education to the ,indian1 and one of the features of interest was a simple story of his home life in ,indian ,territory by an ,indian youth4 ,music by the band1 by a select few1 and by the whole school1 relieved the speaking4 ,but we must not forget to give the prominence due them to the visitors of the day4 ,most conspicuous among them was the delegation of ,indians1 in blankets and feathers1 from ,washington4 ,little ,chief and six warriors with him of the ,northern ,chippewas were persuaded to come down to see what was being done for the boys of their own race4 ,just how they were impressed by it all1 it is impossible to say1 as their faces were covered with their blankets most of the time1 and they acted like a group of shy old women4 ,probably they were a good deal bored1 though they gave signs of occasional amusement4 ,but there were other visitors of note4 ,chief among these were ,secretaries ,schurz and ,mc,crary1 of the ,president's ,cabinet2 ,senator ,saunders and ,representative ,pound1 of ,wisconsin2 ex-,president ,mark ,hopkins1 of ,williams ,college2 the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,plumer1 of ,charleston1 ,s4 ,c41 and the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,hoge1 of ,richmond2 the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,armstrong of ,norfolk1 ,va41 and ,judge ,lafayette ,s4 ,foster1 of ,connecticut4 ,after the diplomas had been presented to the graduating class by the ,rev4 ,dr4 ,strieby1 of this city1 ,president of the ,board of ,trustees1 ,dr4 ,hoge was called upon to address the graduating class1 and among other things said3 8,it has been my lot to attend a good many college commencements1 but ,i never attended one in all my life where so much honor and encouragement were given to those connected with an institution as to-day4 ,two members of the ,cabinet of the ,united ,states1 the ,president of the youngest university of the ,united ,states1 and which bids fair to be one of the grandest 7,president ,gilman1 of the ,johns ,hopkins ,university71 judges of our courts1 eminent professional men1 and two of the most venerable gentlemen on this continent1 ,dr4 ,plumer and ,dr4 ,hopkins----,massachusetts and ,south ,carolina uniting to-day to give encouragement to this institution and to the labors of those who are so nobly carrying out its objects4 8,i cannot stand here to-day in this historic latitude without some profound emotions4 ,i should not be a ,virginian if ,i did4 ,i cannot stand in sight of ,fortress ,monroe without remembering our fallen fortunes4 ,the last two summers ,i have been abroad1 and ,i have come back believing that there is no land which ,god has so smiled upon as this country4 ,we have no need so great as of a stable government4 ,i do not mean of force4 ,no government can be stronger than the love of the people for it4 ,you may put great iron bands upon it1 but there will be a centrifugal power which will burst them4 ,there must be centripetal force powerful enough to attract the people together in it4 ,if our ,government is to be like that1 may the ,lord smile upon it and perpetuate it to the last syllable of time4 8,all my life long ,i have been a friend to one of the classes represented here1 and now ,i am grateful that this institution has extended its protecting wing over another4 ,i have been something of a student of races4 ,i could occupy the remainder of the day in telling you of the good qualities of the ,african race2 and there has always been a great deal that has touched my heart in the character of the ,indian people----their love for their ancestral lands1 their reverence for the bones of their forefathers1 that decorous reserve which gives such dignity to their bearing4 ,one thing which ,i have always admired in them is this1 that when a war is over1 they never talk about the war that is fought4 ,it is not considered magnanimous in an ,indian to taunt a fallen foe4 ,it seems to me that in our popular assemblies and in other assemblies it might be well to imitate the ,indian1 and not talk too much about the war4 8,the ,indian who told us the story of his life at home said something that went straight to my heart4 ,he didn't say it very forcibly1 but the force was in the thing he said4 ,time was1 he told us1 when he did not know anything about his soul or his salvation4 ,one end of this institution is to make the poor ,indian acquainted with the things which shall help him see ,god1 not in the clouds1 but in the face of ,jesus ,christ2 and to hear him1 not in the winds1 but in the still small voice of the ,spirit1 speaking peace to his soul40 ,the ,doctor closed with calling attention to goodness as the greatest element of success2 that no man can afford to succeed by sacrificing it2 illustrating it by reference to a humble girl who came during the yellow fever scourge to nurse the sick1 and who died a victim to its poisons1 and by the life of a colored ,baptist minister who recently died in ,richmond4 ,the ,hon4 ,carl ,schurz1 ,secretary of the ,interior1 was called upon to follow4 ,he began thus3 8,i respond to this call not to prolong the exercises of the day1 nor for purposes of debate4 ,i do not intend to discuss the war4 ,i am glad it is over4 ,i only desire to bear testimony that of all the speakers of the day1 not one has alluded to the war save in a most innocent way1 and they were the ,indian and the reverend gentleman who is1 ,i am sure1 a most peaceable member of the church militant4 ,as to the manner in which civil wars should be treated1 he and ,i do not disagree4 8,my heart is elated with this spectacle to-day4 ,reference has been made to the fact that two ,cabinet officers are present4 ,i assure you that we did not come here for purposes of amusement1 but to witness elements in the solution of one of the most difficult and dangerous problems of our day----the problem of blending two races1 one of which has been in subjection and the other in hostility4 ,we are all filled with feelings of admiration and gratitude to ,gen4 ,armstrong and his co-workers here2 to the ,state of ,virginia1 which1 by its generous aid1 renders a service to itself not only and to the colored people1 but to this whole country2 and to the benevolent people ,north and ,south1 in ,massachusetts and in ,south ,carolina4 ,in this ,i see the real end of the war and the inauguration of true peace4 ,if ,i look back with satisfaction on anything in my official career1 it is that ,i have been instrumental in aiding such a work4 ,i am happy to know that the experiment is a success2 and ,i assure you that so far as the means and power of my department go1 nothing shall be left undone to strengthen and enlarge the experiment4 ,the time has gone when the ,indian can live on buffalo meat and give himself to the chase4 ,the time has come when every man must work4 ,all the information which comes to us tends to show that not only these but other tribes desire education1 and that the attempt to give it to them is successful4 8,the question is often asked1 ,will they not relapse into barbarism on returning among their own tribes8 ,i am inclined to think that this danger is real1 unless the education be extended to a much larger number of ,indians----enough to support each other1 and so resist the pressure4 ,this is the object to be held in view1 and which ,i hope1 in part1 may be accomplished before my term of office expires4 8,i commend this institution4 ,i do not know of one educational institution in the country which is more important in its tendencies1 as well as in its promised results1 than this4 ,i hope that ,virginia will continue to extend her helping hand1 that its patrons ,north and ,south will not withdraw their support1 and that continued success may attend the labors of the ,general and those who are associated with him in this work4 ,i will only add that these sentiments of appreciation of this work1 and the desire for its enlargement and extension1 are most heartily concurred in by the ,president of the ,united ,states40 ,with a benediction from the venerable ,dr4 ,plumer1 the assembly broke up4 ,the visitors turned toward their homes1 and the school resumed its work1 which will continue for three weeks1 to the end of its academic year4 ,i need not say to the friends of the ,indian and the negro1 perhaps scarcely to those who care for the welfare of our own ,caucasian race in these ,united ,states1 don't forget ,hampton and the institutions of which it is a shining example4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,fisk ,,university4 ,early delays----,increasing favor----,the five closing days4 ,,miss ,,anna ,m4 ,,cahill1 ,,nashville4 ,looking back over the past nine months1 it seems a long time since the dark days of last ,september1 when the school opened under the shadow of the pestilence1 and we saw one of our own students1 just returned from his summer work1 stricken down by the fever4 ,the firmness with which the few students then in the school stood bravely by their work gave some of us a confidence in their fortitude and faithfulness which1 perhaps1 we could not have gained without some such time of trial to develop it4 ,as the autumn advanced the school began to fill up1 though some who came to us after ,christmas from the lower part of ,mississippi assured us they came 8as soon as it was safe40 ,naturally the decrease in attendance resulting from the epidemic1 was mostly seen in the number of new students4 ,those who have fairly started in the work of getting an education cannot be detained except by absolute necessity2 others1 who were thinking for the first time of going away to school1 were easily led to wait another year4 ,notwithstanding the delay in getting the school started1 one of the features of the year has been the steadiness in attendance1 especially in the advanced classes4 ,as the result of this regularity in attendance1 the school work has gone on with rather unusual satisfaction4 ,there has been little to interrupt the quiet spirit of study that has so much to do with the amount accomplished2 a friendly spirit of rivalry between different classes and among members of the same class makes it from year to year more of a disgrace to fall below the standard of scholarship4 ,the school has been growing in favor with the ,southern people4 ,the presence of a large part of the ,state ,legislature at our public rhetorical exercise1 in ,march1 and the evident pleasure with which they listened to the young people1 indicated an increasing interest in our success4 ,we find that the aims of the ,university commend themselves to the best men of the ,state4 ,the anxious question as to how these aims can be carried out1 and the enlarging necessities of the work met1 has been partly answered by the generous offers to the ,university of #fj1jjj and #bj1jjj1 which have made this year memorable4 ,it is safe to say that no visit has ever been made to our school that left in the hearts of teachers and students more hope and encouragement and thankfulness than that of the gentlemen who1 after inspecting the work of the school for a few days in the ,spring1 gave1 at the close of their visit1 the intimation of the former gift4 ,the year has had a religious history peculiar to itself4 ,without any thing that could be called revival interest1 there has been a constant turning of the unconverted1 and a quiet earnestness on the part of ,christians1 that leave us with the feeling that the ,spirit of ,god has indeed been with us4 ,beginning with ,january1 there have been several additions to the college church at every communion season1 and fully as many have connected themselves with other churches4 ,as the closing exercises of a school must partake of the general character of the year1 our commencement week was one of much interest4 ,our delightful ,tennessee climate scarcely affords a more beautiful week than that in which the commencement occurred4 ,beginning with ,sunday1 five days are occupied with the different exercises4 ,examinations continue through ,monday1 ,tuesday and ,wednesday4 ,monday evening is given to the exhibition of the class finishing the common school normal course2 ,tuesday evening is devoted to the ,union ,literary ,society2 and on ,wednesday evening the class finishing the preparatory course deliver their orations and are admitted to college4 ,thus there is a growing interest and importance through the entire week1 ending with the college commencement on ,thursday4 ,dr4 ,roy reached us on ,saturday1 and stayed during the closing week1 delivering1 on ,sunday evening1 an excellent address before the ,missionary ,society4 ,the baccalaureate sermon was for the first time preached by ,president ,cravath1 who for several years has been necessarily absent at the close of school4 ,the shadow of death came once more into our household4 ,one who five years ago came to the ,university to take the place of matron1 but who for the past year has been suffering the weariness and pain of a long illness1 was1 on the morning of ,commencement ,sunday1 called away from earth4 ,the simple funeral services mingled strangely with the closing exercises1 but the effect seemed to be only to give a deeper shade of earnestness to all our work1 as one who had loved the work to the last passed from its labor into rest4 ,among the visitors who attended the examinations were the superintendent and teachers of the white schools in the neighboring city of ,edgefield1 who expressed great pleasure at what they heard4 ,the evening exhibitions are always largely attended1 the audience frequently changing every evening4 ,quite a large number of white people can be seen at almost any of our public exercises4 ,the students of ,vanderbilt ,university take a friendly interest1 or perhaps curiosity1 in hearing their darker brothers4 ,the exercises of the ,union ,literary ,society on ,tuesday evening especially attracted their attention4 ,five of the students received certificates1 and two of those admitted to college were absent teaching in ,mississippi4 ,the class entering college1 ten in number1 is the largest ever admitted to our college course1 and we hope ,president ,cravath's admonition to have their number complete when they are ready for their degrees will be carried out4 ,of ,commencement day the following extracts from the ,nashville ,american1 of ,may #bc;d1 will give the best account3 8,the chapel of ,jubilee ,hall was beautifully decorated4 ,around the six iron pillars were twined ropes of cedar1 while over the shield1 upon which are the memorable words of ,albert ,miller1 now a missionary in ,africa1 #8,her sons and her daughters are ever on the altar1' hung festoons of cedar4 ,draped along the entire length of the stage1 and hanging in graceful folds1 were the ,dutch and ,american flags1 while the ,british ,union ,jack stretched along the side of the room4 ,above the platform1 in the centre1 hung the beautiful portrait of ,dr4 ,david ,livingstone4 ,on either side were the portraits of the ,earl of ,shaftesbury and ,william ,wilberforce4 ,between the portraits1 in large letters of cedar1 were the words1 #8,class of '#gi4' ,an hour before the time the highways were filled with the friends of the ,institution on their way to ,jubilee ,hall40 ,after giving the opening programme1 the account continues3 8,preston ,r4 ,burrus1 of ,nashville1 spoke of #8,the ,power of ,wealth' with earnestness and good gesticulation1 but a little too fast for the best expression4 ,he was greeted with deserved applause as he closed4 ,miss ,j4 ,h4 ,k4 ,hobbs1 of ,nashville1 read a well prepared essay on #8,what shall we ,read8' ,she read in a loud1 clear voice4 ,the excellence of the matter and the manner of reading enlisted the close attention of the audience4 ,austin ,r4 ,merry1 of ,nashville1 spoke of #8,ideals and their ,influence4' ,mr4 ,merry's production was an elegant presentation of the difficult subject he had taken1 and evinced the possession of a pen of no ordinary ability4 ,the delivery was as vigorous and graceful as the production was well written4 8,miss ,lulu ,f4 ,parker1 of ,memphis1 presented an essay on #8,genius and ,labor1' but owing to sickness was unable to read it4 ,it was read by ,miss ,laura ,s4 ,cary1 one of the graduates of the ,institution1 and at present assistant teacher of ,greek4 8,the commencement address was delivered by ,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,roy1 ,d4 ,d4 ,dr4 ,roy announced as his subject1 #8,the ,incompleteness of ,individual ,talent4' ,while there is adjustment of the powers of the mind----intellect1 sensibility and will----these are not always equally developed4 ,unity in variety is the law of ,nature4 ,as no two faces are alike1 so no two minds are alike4 ,one mind supplements another2 one man fails where another succeeds2 the first man succeeds in some other calling4 ,a ,western farmer failed as a farmer and storekeeper1 but became the greatest captain of his age4 ,all gifts are not combined in one man4 ,great inventions are the growth of years and the contributions of many minds4 ,theology is a growth developed through the centuries and by many intellects4 ,it is still open to improvement4 ,this diversity of talent provides for a division of labor4 ,all occupations are mutually helpful1 each being dependent on the other4 ,men and women have each their sphere1 or rather hemisphere2 the family is the unit of society4 ,the mail goes to the polls and deposits #8their' votes----the votes of the family4 ,each man has his own talent4 ,this he should cultivate4 #8,act well your part1 there all the honor lies4' ,the address abounded in striking passages and terse statements40 8,president ,cravath then1 in behalf of the ,trustees of the ,university1 addressed the graduating class in fitly chosen words1 and gave them their diplomas4 8,at two o'clock the alumni dinner1 one of the institutions of ,commencement week1 came off4 ,about sixty guests1 including former graduates1 members of the college classes1 and various ministers of city churches1 sat down with students and teachers to an ample collation4 ,after dinner an hour was occupied in listening to speeches1 which abounded in wit1 humor and pathos4 8,thus closed a series of exercises which are regarded by all those who witnessed them as unusually interesting and successful40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,straight ,,university4 ,commencement----,a ,local ,notice----,a ,short ,year----,needs and ,hopes4 ,,prof4 ,j4 ,k4 ,,cole1 ,,new ,,orleans4 ,a class of eight has just been graduated from the classical department of this ,university----the largest class yet sent out----of which seven were young men4 ,six members of the class pursued the entire course here2 the other two had taken the greater part of their course at another school1 and came here the last year to graduate4 ,the size of the class and the corresponding large circle of personal friends excited more than usual interest in the commencement exercises1 which were held ,wednesday evening1 ,june #dth1 at ,central ,church4 ,the body of the church was crowded to its utmost capacity1 and many were forced to find seats in the gallery4 ,it is something entirely new that our school should be noticed in the local papers1 and ,i shall be pardoned for taking the following from the ,new ,orleans ,times of the #eth inst4 ,after giving the order of exercises1 it says3 8,the orations were of high order1 and reflected great credit upon the young men4 ,they all gave evidence of the thoroughness of training they had received in the ,university4 ,they certainly gave promise of honorable success in the life-work to which they had devoted themselves4 ,the essay and valedictory of ,miss ,flemming deserves especial mention4 ,it was well written and gracefully rendered40 ,the singing1 says the ,times1 8was exceptionally fine4 ,professor ,mc,pherron deserves great credit for the patient and thorough instruction which was manifest in the superior rendering of the anthems and glees40 ,president ,alexander conferred the diplomas in a brief address of commendation1 encouragement and advice4 ,the school year has been too short to accomplish all that was desirable4 ,eight months1 our usual time1 seems a short school year1 but to reduce this one-quarter is almost a disaster2 and furnishing school-rooms and supplying furnaces1 out-buildings1 cisterns and much needed plank-walks after school opened1 was for a time a great hindrance4 ,but the end of the year shows1 in many respects1 favorable results1 and leaves more hopeful impressions and anticipations for the future4 ,the need of buildings for a boarding department is as urgent as ever1 but this need we hope may be met by the donation from the ,stone estate4 ,these accommodations will bring in a large addition from the country of just such material as we desire----young men and women from the better families who are unwilling to come to the city and board away from the influences of the teachers4 ,the unsettled condition of the public schools1 too1 is likely to add largely to the number of students here next year4 ,we can only hope that our good friends at the ,north will see1 as we in the field see1 the importance of not only keeping up our present work1 but of extending it and making it better each succeeding year4 ,new buildings will certainly bring many new pupils4 ,more pupils will require more teachers1 and more teachers will increase the expenses of the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 ,but now is the time to do good among this people1 and we trust the churches who sustain this work will not be weary in well-doing1 but will furnish all the means that are needed to extend this work wisely4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,tougaloo ,,university4 ,sunday-,school ,convention----,farm and ,normal ,work----,compliments4 ,,miss ,,orra ,a4 ,,angell1 ,,tougaloo4 ,during my three years' stay in ,tougaloo1 there have been many changes that deserve to be more widely known4 ,one that is fresh in mind is our ,sunday-school convention1 held on ,june #ast4 ,it was first assembled by our principal1 one year ago1 at that time an entirely new and unheard-of affair among our pupils4 ,what a change was wrought in their estimate of ,sunday-school work by last year's teachings and convention4 ,the heavy rains of ,saturday last compelled our use of the chapel instead of the grove1 and reduced the number in attendance1 yet one of our students made a journey of fifty miles to be present1 and we received word from others through the county who desired to come4 ,a ,sunday-school ,union of our young men having been formed this term1 its president opened the convention1 and our principal was appointed chairman of the session4 ,the forenoon was given to remarks and a temperance concert by our ,sabbath-school4 ,one fruit of the concert ripened immediately4 ,one of the recitations was an extract from ,colfax1 upon the death following drunkenness1 and the young man who gave it came to the office next morning to sign the pledge4 ,being asked if it had not been his business to sell liquor1 he answered1 8,yes1 but ,i shall bust it up6 ,i felt as if ,i was bound for death40 ,the two months he has spent here have prepared him to make this decision4 ,the afternoon session from two to five consisted of addresses by the ,faculty and students1 followed each by discussion4 ,the good of the convention was not merely in the considerable number present giving the people of this county the benefits of one day's contact with a modern ,sunday-school2 but the efforts of our students will be far more intelligently directed as they disperse through this ,state to their summer teaching4 ,their desire to push forward their mission work will only be increased by the rude log churches1 benches that tip uneasily1 shuttered holes in the walls1 and dearth of ,sunday-school papers1 books and ,bibles4 ,the needs of their people are becoming more and more plain to them as they observe the methods and efforts used for themselves at this school1 and the example set causes them to use some efforts for the benefit of others4 ,they draw their pupils with them on their return here4 ,the pestilence of last summer kept from us an overflow of students whom our next term will see filling our rooms4 ,perhaps the cracked and leaning walls of our buildings will be severely tried1 but all who wish to study will be welcomed with confidence on our part1 that all needs will in time be met with a supply4 ,the young people enter on a busy life here1 in many respects new to most of them4 ,their own hands do most of the farm and in-door work4 ,we have a field of one hundred acres planted in corn2 next on one side is the sweet potato patch of ten acres2 and on a southeast slope were set strawberry plants last year1 that will another season furnish a supply for some northern market4 ,this spring ten acres were sown with grass1 ten with clover that now feels revived by the recent rains4 ,the new wire fence is already showing its merits by keeping in our own stock and shutting out others that have heretofore grazed in our grove and fields4 ,our stock is now of the best breeds1 and instead of buying we shall be able to supply meats for our tables1 that already have a variety of early vegetables from the garden4 ,ornamental trees have been set out upon the grounds1 and the whole plantation has been brought to better use and improved appearance4 ,less frequent change of teachers1 a more regular attendance of students1 and their promotion according to merit1 have advanced the scholarship in this institution4 ,last summer for the first time it graduated a class4 ,the present year opened two months later than usual1 and the senior class will study another year before graduating4 ,normal methods have been used this year in the seminary department1 and proved a success1 giving promise of better material for promotion to the preparatory department4 ,the senior class in the normal department have had one lesson a week in the primary room2 and in addition to this preparation for their work as teachers1 all in the normal department have been formed into a practice class in grammar1 each in turn being teacher of the rest4 ,the examinations of this week in these and other classes have given pleasing evidences of the work accomplished4 ,after the examination closed on ,thursday1 students in the normal department have literary exercises1 interspersed with music1 before an audience numbering many of the parents and former students1 some of the trustees and other friends of the institution4 ,at #c ,p4 ,m4 the ,president of the ,board of ,trustees of the ,state ,normal ,school and others gave congratulations and sound advice to attentive and appreciative listeners4 ,the ,president of the ,board referred to the fact that the ,state had made no appropriation for the school for the present year and last1 saying it was not from any lack of interest in the work done here1 but simply because the ,board of ,trustees found it impossible to perform the duties imposed by the ,state1 while the school itself was under the control of another ,board of ,trustees or ,society1 and therefore had made no recommendations to the ,legislature4 ,he said1 as evidence of their appreciation of our work1 that he would refer to what one of the members of the ,board1 who is also county superintendent of an adjoining county1 said at the last meeting of the ,board4 ,he said that the moral influence of the teachers in his county who are students at ,tougaloo is quite different from those coming from other schools2 that almost invariably they start ,sunday-schools as soon as they open their day-schools4 ,he assured the teachers and pupils and friends present1 that they might expect with much confidence an appropriation to the institution of a few thousand dollars from the next ,legislature1 with a visiting committee to see if it is well expended1 and make report directly to the ,legislature4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,roy1 ,d4,d41 our ,field ,superintendent1 in his address upon 8,our ,country10 gave an immense amount of practical information in regard to its history1 vast area and resources1 its wonderful development during the past century1 its present condition and future possibilities4 ,this address1 as also his missionary address the night before1 could not fail to inspire all with true patriotism1 and the real gospel spirit4 ,thursday evening an exhibition by the preparatory and primary departments closed the exercises of the week1 and the delighted friends parted1 feeling a greater interest than ever in their institution4 ,we feel grateful for the general good health and harmony of feeling during the past year1 and we look forward with courage to the coming year4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,howard ,,university4 ,commencement ,exercises----,theological ,department4 ,,rev4 ,w4 ,w4 ,,patton1 ,d4,d41 ,,washington4 ,the educational year at ,howard ,university1 ,washington1 ,d4 ,c41 closed with the last week in ,may4 ,it has been one of success in all respects4 ,the students instructed in the various departments were #bcf4 ,the concluding exercises were largely attended and of great interest4 ,at the college commencement the audience overflowed all accommodations1 large numbers being compelled to stand1 and various members of ,congress who attended went away expressing the highest gratification at all that they saw and heard4 ,the recent appropriation by ,congress of #aj1jjj towards the maintenance of the ,university in the academic departments1 is a great relief and encouragement1 it having received the support largely of both political parties4 ,the thoughtful ,democrats are becoming convinced that the ,university is well managed1 and is doing a good work1 which could easily be quadrupled with suitable aid4 ,at the recent annual meeting of the trustees1 ,hon4 ,thomas ,j4 ,kirkpatrick1 of ,lynchburg1 ,va41 appeared for the first time1 and at the close made very impressive remarks as a representative of the old slave-holders4 ,he was an officer in the ,confederate army1 and is an elder in the ,southern ,presbyterian church4 ,he pledged a hearty co-operation in our work1 and declared the negro race to be a noble race and deserving of all that could be done for it4 ,this brought to his feet another trustee1 ,frederick ,douglass1 the famous colored orator1 now marshal of the district1 who responded with great eloquence and pathos1 and as an ex-slave cordially welcomed the ex-slave-holder to the common work of sustaining ,howard ,university as a grand instrumentality for elevating the oppressed negro race4 ,the scene was touching in the extreme1 and ended with a prayer of thanksgiving by ,bishop ,brown1 of the ,african ,methodist ,episcopal ,church4 ,the ,theological ,department1 which has been for the last two years largely supported by the ,am4 ,miss'y ,association1 closed its educational year on the #cjth ult4 ,the theological students have numbered forty-two1 being eleven more than the previous year4 ,their number would have been still further increased could we have aided sufficiently all who were desirous of coming4 ,endowed and annual scholarships are a sore need of this as of kindred institutions4 ,the young men have come from seven denominations of ,christians1 into each of which the leaven of intelligence and purity is thus being introduced4 ,they have applied themselves well1 and show commendable improvement4 ,the most of them1 not having enjoyed a training in ,greek and ,latin1 are fitted for usefulness among the ,freedmen by a prolonged ,english course of study2 others take the full course pursued in any theological seminary4 ,this year a class of seven studied ,hebrew1 and acquitted themselves most creditably4 ,the anniversary exercises were held in the ,fifteenth ,street ,presbyterian church 7colored71 a new and tasteful edifice1 which was filled with an interested audience of both races1 including several clergymen and ,judge ,strong of the ,supreme ,court of the ,united ,states4 ,four young men who had completed their course of study delivered orations4 ,a ,bible was presented to each by the ,president of the ,district ,bible ,society1 and an admirable closing address was made to the students by ,rev4 ,mr4 ,dinwiddie1 of ,alexandria1 ,va4 ,three of the young men go immediately to the care of churches which await them4 ,the indications are of a still fuller theological class next fall1 the term beginning ,september #ajth4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,beach ,,institute4 ,its ,history----,its ,importance----,its ,year's ,work4 ,,mr4 ,b4 ,f4 ,,koons1 ,,savannah1 ,,ga4 ,soon after the war1 schools for the ,freedmen were opened at ,savannah in army barracks4 ,in due time a suitable building was erected1 and the school continued under the auspices of the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 until #ahgd1 when the city rented the building and assumed the responsibility of the school4 ,this arrangement continued until ,february1 #ahgh1 when the building was surrendered and the city school removed4 ,the day after it was thus left1 a stable standing near took fire1 and the flames soon reached the building and destroyed the upper part of it4 ,it was at once determined to rebuild and resume the work1 strictly under the ,association4 ,during the summer1 ,pastor ,markham remained and superintended the construction of the new building4 ,when we landed here late last ,september1 it was approaching completion1 and on the last day of the same month a new corps of teachers began the work of the year4 ,on the first day over #fj applied for admission1 and the number has gradually increased to #cch1 in all grades from the ,normal down4 ,there has been nothing specially marked in the year's work4 ,it has been one of very quiet1 faithful1 persistent labor on the part of both teachers and pupils1 and a reasonable degree of success has attended their efforts4 ,the following facts may throw light upon the need of such an institution in this city4 ,the facilities afforded by the city were not sufficient to fit the persevering pupils to become teachers and leaders among their people1 hence the need of ,beach ,institute4 ,the good accomplished by this school is of a double nature1 for the re-opening of it has led the city1 for the present1 to add one year more to its course of study1 and to the enterprising it is an avenue to higher schools and wider culture1 and so to greater usefulness4 ,there are some very efficient teachers in the public schools1 but their hands are tied1 first by the limited course of study1 and then by unusual restrictions on their religious influence4 ,there are two schools for the colored people of the city4 ,in former years the children have been turned away from these by the score for want of room1 and even during the present year they have been refused admission in great numbers4 ,we1 too1 have had all we could accommodate1 and even more than we could do justice to with the present corps of five teachers4 ,one of these buildings was purchased by a wealthy citizen1 and by him given to the ,school ,board for a colored school1 with the expressed stipulation that no religious exercises of any character should be permitted1 not even the singing of 8gospel hymns40 ,it is reported that the same gentleman contemplates the purchase of the other building1 which is rented by the city now1 and the presentation of the same to the city1 and1 we may reasonably conclude1 with the same restrictions4 ,these stipulations are displeasing to many of the colored people4 ,ignorant as some are1 they feel the need of ,christian training for their children4 ,we do not doubt that this restraint is equally unwelcome to many of the ,school ,board and citizens of the city1 but as a corporation they are involved1 and perhaps they are doing the best they can under the circumstances4 ,the ,catholics have a small school for the colored people1 but some of the parents 7good ,catholics7 have applied for admission for their children to our school1 saying1 8,i have concluded that the teaching of the ,catechism and but little else is not an education for my child2 ,i want something better40 ,it seems that the hold they are getting upon the colored people of ,savannah is rather feeble4 ,that the position was well taken in re-establishing the ,beach1 there can be no doubt1 for it was needed as a connecting link between the city schools and the ,university at ,atlanta1 as well as for the ,christian training which it will be able to give to a large class of the youth of the city4 ,this week has been devoted to examinations and the closing work of the year4 ,the greater part of the previous days were devoted to written work2 but it had been announced that in the morning hours of to-day public oral examinations would be held4 ,at an early hour a good number of parents and friends showed the interest they have in their children and the school by coming in to witness the day's work4 ,the morning was spent in the various rooms1 many of the old people as well as the children showing a lively interest in the examinations4 ,at twelve o'clock our commodious chapel was well filled by an attentive and appreciative audience1 to witness the closing exercises of the school1 which consisted of essays from the fine members of the normal class and recitations and music from the other departments4 ,after a very enjoyable hour and a half in the chapel1 the various grades passed to their rooms1 the promotions were read1 the school dismissed1 the good-byes said1 the doors closed2 and thus1 with its cares and its perplexities1 its joys and its sorrows1 its successes and its failures1 endeth another chapter of the great volume of life4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,georgia4 ,the ,work----,temperance----,superstition4 ,,rev4 ,j4 ,r4 ,m',,lean1 ,,no4 #a ,,miller',s ,,station4 ,miss ,douglass' coming here has been a blessing to us all1 and a great help to the work4 ,through her we have been able1 as we hope1 to get money enough to finish our church inside4 ,our congregation has not been so large as we think it ought to have been1 and yet our work is felt by all the other churches4 ,the ,sabbath-school has been larger this year than at any time before since ,i have been here1 and we have seen indications of the good it is doing4 ,god's word will accomplish that which ,he pleases4 ,the day school has been good all the time4 ,we have on the list about #ee2 it numbered a month ago #da daily4 ,some of the larger ones have gone out of school to work on the farm4 ,we have had a strong religious spirit in the school all the year4 ,some twenty or more have1 as we hope1 been converted2 five of that number have been received into this church4 ,five of the members of our church1 who spent at least a dollar and a half a week for strong drink when ,i first came here1 have left it off altogether and say they do not want to smell it now4 ,one of them yesterday1 at our communion1 would not partake with us4 ,when asked why1 he said3 8,i wanted to take it the worst kind1 but ,i was afraid it would make me want to go to drinking again10 and tears ran down his face as he spoke these words to ,miss ,douglass4 ,you can see from this that some of the people are trying to leave off the habits of slavery1 but it is done with no little effort1 for the habits seem to have become a second nature4 ,a man who is a ,jew1 and cares nothing about religion1 said to me1 the other day1 that he had been here thirteen years1 and had never seen such a change as recently among the people4 ,i am not able to say what has caused it4 ,i feel sure that much of it has come from the labor of ,miss ,d42 she has gone to see them in their homes and read the word to them1 and prayed with them1 and given them good tracts to read1 and the blessing of ,god has been with her in the work4 ,but there is a dark side to my picture4 ,we have so many ,atheists here that it is very hard to do anything4 ,the man who denies ,god's word is just as much of an ,atheist as the one who says there is no ,god4 ,we find only a few who believe ,god's word4 ,they say the ,bible does not teach us the way to come to ,christ1 but that ,he brings us to ,himself through a dream interpreted by some old ignorant godfather or godmother4 ,these foolish ideas have led many of the hopefully converted ones to doubt and caused many of them to go in darkness for weeks1 and some of them do not see the light yet4 ,some of those who gave their hearts to the ,saviour in our meetings1 7and such changes were seen in their actions1 that no one could doubt their being ,christians17 before they could join the old churches must go off and dream1 and hear the little voice say1 8,oh1 my little one1 go in peace1 and sin no more40 ,i find many of those who have joined this church much worse than they were before they thought of becoming ,christians4 ,the cause lies in the fact that they have been led to trust in forms and not to trust ,jesus4 ,a knowledge of the ,bible is the only thing that is to save the thousands of my people4 ,their ministers teach the same foolish ways of which ,i have spoken4 ,nothing but the grace of ,almighty ,god can lead this people in the way everlasting4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,tennessee4 ,the ,kansas ,fever----,le ,moyne ,normal ,school4 ,,miss ,,laura ,a4 ,,parmelee1 ,,memphis4 ,memphis has been very little affected by the emigration movement1 but from students who are teaching in ,tennessee1 ,arkansas and ,mississippi1 we hear enough to keep us interested4 ,from a neighboring village several families moved to ,kansas in the winter4 ,they are pleased with their prospects1 and send word for a certain student to hold himself in readiness to come to them and teach as soon as they can get ready for school4 ,the following letter is from a member of last year's class now teaching in ,leota1 ,miss43 8,the ,kansas fever1 as it is called here1 has reached our section of the country1 and the people are entirely carried away by it4 ,they quit their crops and sell their stock for little or nothing to get money to travel on4 ,fine milch cows and calves are selling for #aj or #ab at the highest4 ,one man bought #abe chickens for #e4 8,having accomplished this much of their intention1 about thirteen or fourteen hundred moved to town on ,may #b4 ,in the evening1 the white people became excited over the action of the colored people4 ,they came to town and held a meeting4 ,then the colored people became excited over the action of the whites1 and made ready to protect themselves4 8,by night there were #b1jjj persons in town1 all armed4 ,the sheriff was dispatched for2 he came with many others4 ,the next morning he went to the camp of the colored people and examined their arms4 ,all but one submitted to his authority4 ,the man drew his gun and the sheriff drew his pistol4 ,if either of the two had fired there would have been trouble all around1 but1 thank ,god1 there was none4 ,this man was arrested and sent to jail4 8,the town is crowded now and is guarded at night 7every night7 by the whites4 ,it seems that they will not allow the boats to interfere and convey these poor people to ,st4 ,louis4 ,they have been waiting on the bank four days4 ,yesterday 7,sunday7 it rained very hard1 and the women with their little ones and household goods were out in all of the storm4 ,we have had very heavy rains2 the thunder and lightning was as if the world were coming to an end4 ,the people are exposed to the weather1 but determined to go to ,kansas4 8,the whites are doing all they can to get them back to their homes to stay this year4 ,they go to the camp1 talk and coax1 but the people have not yielded yet1 and it is doubtful if they will4 8,i cannot relate the whole story2 it is very long and sad40 ,another letter just received says the people returned to the farms for this year4 ,hunger and the necessities of the case compelled them to yield4 ,both the writer of this letter and the young man called to ,kansas1 expect to return to ,le ,moyne next year and graduate4 ,we do not graduate a class this summer1 but shall give diplomas to a large and well prepared class next season4 ,if we are denied the privilege----or deny ourselves----of graduating students1 we find ample compensation in the excellent work and character of our young people4 ,i wonder if ,mr4 ,steele has told you of our five ministers scattered around in different classes----two ,baptist1 two ,methodist1 one ,christian ,adventist4 ,four of the five are settled over churches and are of excellent spirit1 possessing fair ability4 ,yesterday the churches had a grand union picnic4 ,a procession headed by a band of music marched to ,estival ,park1 which has opened its gates to colored people within the past fortnight4 ,a few of our scholars were excused to attend1 but all the older students preferred to continue at work and were entirely unaffected by the excitement4 ,three years ago1 two days had to be given to ,sunday-school picnics----the ,thursdays when the ,baptists and ,methodists held anniversaries4 ,we think it quite a triumph to have reached the point of ignoring such events4 ,we discuss plans for enlarging our work in the industrial department1 and long for dormitories to accommodate the strangers that come to us4 ,miss ,milton has charge of the sewing class1 and informs you of its success4 ,next year we hope to have a text-book on nursing introduced as a regular study4 ,lippincott ,co4 are issuing a book that meets our wants4 ,thursdays1 after the regular lecture to the young ladies1 recipes for plain and sick cooking are distributed4 ,there is a demand for recipes for pies1 cakes1 etc41 which has to be gratified once in a while4 ,we recognize the duty of endowing the colleges at the earliest possible moment1 and rejoice that ,fisk1 ,atlanta1 ,straight and ,talladega can be established more firmly4 ,we would not take anything from their strength4 ,certainly they must be maintained1 and we will help them by sending our students abroad as soon as possible4 ,the young people who come to us are not able to pay the twenty-five dollars extra that is needed to carry them to ,nashville4 ,they must come here1 or not go to school at all4 ,they will not go to ,nashville until they finish the course at ,le ,moyne2 and the better training we can give1 the more will they be likely to desire instruction in other branches than are allowed here4 ,i will in a short time send you report of our library receipts and expenditures during the year4 ,we did not think one year ago it could be possible to be in possession of so large and excellent an assortment of books as now stands upon our shelves4 ,what more we can accomplish for it remains to be seen4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,chinese4 99 99 99 99 99 8,,california ,,chinese ,,mission40 ,auxiliary to the ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,new ,,constitution ,,and ,,our ,,missionary ,,work4 ,,rev4 ,w4 ,c4 ,,pond1 ,,san ,,francisco4 ,the inquiry is raised with much anxiety by ,eastern friends1 what will be the effect on our missionary work of the adoption of our new ,constitution4 ,that the spirit and intent of this instrument are intensely hostile to the ,chinese is well understood4 ,to find it providing as skilfully and malignantly as possible for forcing them out of the ,state will create no surprise4 ,it stands alone1 ,i apprehend1 among all our ,state ,constitutions in singling out one class among those upon whose industries the ,state lives1 and by whose taxes its treasury is replenished1 and making it the object of restrictive and oppressive legislation4 ,one whole ,section 7,,xix47 is devoted to this1 and bears as its title 8,chinese40 ,stigmatizing them as 8aliens who are or may become vagrants1 paupers1 mendicants1 criminals or invalids1 99 99 99 or otherwise dangerous or detrimental to the ,state10 it directs the ,legislature 8to discourage their immigration by all the means within its power20 8to impose conditions upon which such persons may reside in the ,state1 and to provide for their removal from the ,state0 if the conditions are not fulfilled4 ,it forbids any corporation from employing them 8directly or indirectly in any capacity20 and requires that cities and towns be empowered by the ,legislature to 8remove the ,chinese beyond their limits1 or to locate them within prescribed limits20 and to 8make and enforce all such local1 police1 sanitary and other regulations as are not in conflict with general laws40 ,these provisions are broad enough to admit any and every cruelty conceivable to be practised under the forms of law1 and the ,chinese cannot1 as heretofore1 appeal to our ,state ,supreme ,court with any hope of relief from oppressive enactments4 ,the question is1 what will the result be1 and what can we do about it8 ,if a man values highly his reputation for sagacity1 he does well to be careful how he prophesies2 and if anywhere such caution is needed1 surely it is here in ,california2 but as ,i have no reputation to be anxious about1 ,i will tell how the prospect looks to me4 #a4 ,there can be no question that these provisions1 carefully framed though they are1 are in conflict with the ,constitution of the ,united ,states1 and with not only our present treaty with ,china1 but any other treaty that could possibly be framed4 ,of course1 all this may amount to nothing until the question of their constitutionality has been passed upon by the ,u4 ,s4 ,supreme ,court2 but it seems to me that the interests involved are so many and so great that soon an issue must be made and be pressed through to decision4 ,this done1 that whole section----vile blot that it is on the fair fame of ,america6----becomes void1 unless1 indeed1 the whole land can be dragooned by ,californian politicians1 overriding its treaties and trampling under foot the most sacred axioms of its civil polity----dragooned into a timid1 restrictive1 barbarous policy which we taught ,china years ago to discard4 ,i do not believe this can be done4 ,i have faith in a free people among whom the leaven of ,christ is at work----faith that no question can get settled among them till it is settled right1 and that however selfishness and oppression may triumph for awhile1 their 8latter end shall be that they perish for ever40 #b4 ,if1 however1 the laws enacted in virtue of these new provisions are made to work1 there cannot but be a large exodus of the ,chinese from ,california4 ,they will be starved out4 ,we have come to the proud distinction of having1 as a ,state1 introduced starvation into our organic law4 ,those who can go1 must go2 and those who have not the means of travelling must starve or be removed at ,state expense4 ,but as to the effect of that exodus1 ,god is giving us beforehand an impressive object-lesson4 ,the negro is scarcely more essential to the industry of the ,south than the ,chinaman is to that of ,california4 ,let this exodus be large and simultaneous1 and the backbone of business here is broken4 ,there will be harvests that cannot be reaped1 because the ,liverpool price of wheat will not pay the cost of harvesting4 ,there will be mills and other manufacturing establishments idle1 because the manufactured goods can be laid down here from ,new ,england or ,old ,england cheaper than we can produce them4 ,there will be mines deserted1 unless white men are found to work at ,chinamen's wages2 for who wants to run off his gold-bearing dirt and thereby run himself off into bankruptcy8 ,the hundreds of little businesses which1 by the aid of the ,chinese1 yield men a small return1 must be abandoned1 for the higher wages will absorb the profits and the capital besides4 ,but1 it may be said1 white men have prospered elsewhere without the aid of the ,chinese1 why not in ,california8 ,no doubt they can prosper here1 but only as a new and lower level for ,american labor is found4 ,prices must fall1 and the work must be steadier and harder than now it is apt to be4 ,you see1 perhaps1 a good side to this in the frugality and industry to which it will compel our children2 but my expectation is1 that when this discipline begins to make us sore1 when the real facts are forced upon men's vision1 then these provisions of our new ,constitution will1 by common consent1 become inoperative1 and ,chinese labor or its equivalent will be welcomed back again4 ,i venture such predictions1 but whether they prove true or not1 this thing is certain1 the ,chinese still are here2 and while they remain our work remains4 ,if the time is short1 so much the more urgent must we be in pressing upon their attention the ,gospel of ,christ4 ,if the enmity against them rises with its opportunity and crowds them to the wall1 so much the more must they hear from us the voice of ,christian kindliness1 commending to them ,him who was the friend of publicans and sinners4 ,if they are to be driven back to their own land1 we must be the more earnest to let them know----not by our words only1 but by our deeds rather----that it is not ,christianity but the lack of ,christianity that has exiled them2 and we must see to it that as many as possible go to be self-sustaining missionaries1 telling the story of redeeming love4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,children',s ,,page4 ,,dear ,,little ,,ones3 ,i know you would all like to hear about a sweet little girl who moved a big1 big mountain out of my way a few days ago4 8,how did she do it80 8,was it a real mountain80 8,who was she8 and1 and ----0 ,if you all keep asking questions1 how can ,i get a chance to answer them8 ,and then you don't begin at the right end with your questions4 ,who was she8 ought to have been the first1 and it's the very last4 ,never mind1 we will take them backwards4 ,let's see how many there are4 ,there are three1 counting either way4 ,now if you all sit as still as nine little white mice all in a row1 ,i'll answer every question4 ,first1 who is she8 ,her name is ,clarissa ,smith1 and she is as black as a little blackbird1 and has to look just as the wee birdies do to our dear ,father in ,heaven for her daily bread4 ,i am sorry to say that she is not pretty to look at1 but it's a fact4 ,her clothing is old and ragged1 she has no shoes and no hat1 though the round basket she carries on her head1 peddling berries or vegetables1 makes a broad enough one1 for that matter4 ,now for question number two1 ,was it a real mountain8 ,yes1 it was a real mountain2 far more real than one of earth and stones4 ,it was one that has a habit of getting between us and the light of ,god's sweet love1 and its name is ,discouragement4 ,sometimes it gets between little girls and their sewing and makes them say1 8,oh1 dear me1 ,i can't do it60 ,sometimes it piles itself upon a little boy's book and makes him say1 8,i never can learn this lesson40 ,the third question is1 ,how did she do it8 ,with a song4 ,how was that8 ,well1 upon this particular morning ,i was feeling it weighing down upon my heart and making me wonder whether it was any good to visit people who were hungry and full of care1 unless ,i had the money to relieve their wants4 ,you see1 the mountain had made every thing so dark that ,i couldn't see ,jesus4 ,now1 as ,i walked on ,i heard a child's voice behind me calling1 8,strawberries----sweet1 ripe strawberries----fresh1 ripe strawberries10 going by2 and then1 after an instant's pause1 the voice came again1 but this time it said3 8,more love1 ,o ,christ1 to ,thee2 ,more love to ,thee40 ,i waited until she came up to me2 and then1 after we had spoken and shaken hands1 ,i asked her as we walked together1 why she put those few lines in her call4 8,cause it helps me and 'members me of ,jesus10 was her answer4 8,why do you want to be reminded of ,jesus80 ,i asked4 8,cause ,him died so ,i could go to ,heaven40 8,why do you want to go to ,heaven40 8,to see ,jesus10 was the prompt reply4 ,we parted at the corner of the street1 ,clarissa going on1 and ,i standing to listen until her song died away in the distance4 ,then ,i turned to find the ugly mountain gone and beautiful ,faith resting where it had been so lately4 ,how many of you1 ,i wonder1 are going to become mountain movers from to-day8 ,remember1 a loving word1 a gentle act1 a little bit of self-denial on your part1 may move some ugly mountain out of your brother's or sister's or companion's road1 and make the holy angels glad because you love ,jesus4 ,do not forget1 when you kneel down to pray1 to ask ,jesus to bless me1 and give me every day more love to himself1 so that ,i can have more and still more for all of you4 ,lovingly your friend1 ,,lillie ,e4 ,,barr1 ,missionary of the ,american ,missionary ,ass'n4 ,,receipts ,,for ,,may1 #ahgi4 ,,maine1 #aic4cd4 ,bangor4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 to const4 ,,rev4 ,s4 ,l4 ,b4 ,,spease1 ,l4 ,m4 #dj4dc ,bethel4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aj4jj ,brunswick4 ,marshall ,cram #aj4jj ,calais4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #h4cd ,dennysville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cj4jj ,east ,orrington4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #b4cf ,garland4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #i4jj ,gilead4 ,rev4 ,h4 ,r4 #a4jj ,newfield4 ,mrs4 ,n4 ,c4 ,a4 #a4jj ,portland4 ,plymouth ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,rev4 ,,herbert ,w4 ,,lathe and ,,james ,,crie1 ,l4 ,m's4 #fh4ca ,yarmouth4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ag4ij ,,new ,,hampshire1 #bca4je4 ,chester4 ,c4 ,s4 ,g4 #a4jj ,chichester4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 7ad'l7 #j4ge ,derry4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 for ,student1 ,hampton ,inst4 #bj4jj ,exeter4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #fg4ee2 8,member of ,first ,parish10 #aj #gg4ee ,hinsdale4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #f4hi ,keene4 ,miss ,e4 ,r4 #a4jj ,kingston4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #f4ge2 ,rev4 ,j4 ,chapman and wife1 #f #ab4ge ,laconia4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #c4gg ,milford4 ,peter and ,cynthia ,s4 ,burns #cj4jj ,orfordville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #g4jj ,pembroke4 ,rev4 ,d4 ,g4 #a4jj ,portsmouth4 ,north ,cong4 ,ch4 #ec4cd ,wakefield4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4jj ,wilmot4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4jj ,,vermont1 #cfa4fg4 ,bakersfield4 ,miss ,e4 ,m4 ,barnes1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ai4gi ,bellows ,falls4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ag4jj ,cambridge4 ,dea4 ,solomon ,montague #aj4jj ,clarendon4 ,mrs4 ,wm4 ,d4 ,marsh1 #ajj1 to const4 ,,miss ,,lucy ,n4 ,,bowen1 ,,miss ,m4 ,,newhall1 and ,,miss ,h4 ,e4 ,,gilbert1 ,l4 ,m's2 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #ab #aab4jj ,danby4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #a4bb ,dorset4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ae4jj ,east ,dorset4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #h4aj ,fayetteville4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #e4jj ,granby and ,victory4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #b4cg ,jericho4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #g4ff ,norwich4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #ab4ej2 and ,sab4 ,sch41 #aa4cj #bc4hj ,orwell4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ae4dd ,pomfret4 ,s4 ,c4 #a4jj ,saint ,albans4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,f4 ,stranahan1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #g4ej ,sharon4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #e4jj ,thetford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #bg4ed2 ,rev4 ,j4,m41 #a #bh4ed ,vergennes4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bj4jj ,waterbury4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 to const4 ,,fred ,c4 ,,graves1 ,l4 ,m4 #cj4jj ,wells ,river4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cb4be ,,massachusetts1 #c1jcg4gg4 ,amesbury4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4hb ,amesbury and ,salisbury4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ab4jj ,andover4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4bi ,ashfield4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #de4ce2 ,henry ,taylor1 #e #ej4ce ,barre4 ,e4 ,c4 ,sab4 ,sch41 to const4 ,,geo4 ,e4 ,,allen and ,p4 ,h4 ,,babbitt1 ,l4 ,m's #fj4jj ,beverly4 ,dane ,st4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student1 ,talladega ,c4 #aj4jj ,bolton4 8,a ,friend10 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u4 #cj4jj ,boston4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #dee4hb ,boston4 ,russell ,sturgis1 ,jr41 #be1 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u42----,mrs4 ,e4 ,p4 ,eayrs1 #aj2 ,union ,ch41 for ,freight1 #c2 8,a ,friend10 #a #ci4jj ,boston ,highlands4 ,eliot ,cong4 ,ch4 #ajd4ja ,braintree and ,weymouth4 ,union ,ch4 and ,soc4 #be4jj ,brimfield4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #ae2 ,ladies of ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 ,bbl4 of ,c4 and #b for ,freight2 ,mrs4 ,p4 ,c4 ,browning1 #aj2 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,s4 ,upham1 #c #cj4jj ,brookfield4 ,evan4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #fj4jj ,cambridgeport4 ,ladies' ,aux4 of ,pilgrim ,ch41 #b boxes of ,c4 for ,mendi ,m4 ,chelsea4 ,mrs4 ,m4 ,e4 ,j41 #ej;c42 ,mrs4 ,p41 #ej;c42 ---- #b ,bbls4 of ,c4 #a4jj ,conway4 ,cong4 ,soc4 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,catharine ,,adams and ,s4 ,,baxter ,,allis1 ,l4 ,m's #ff4dj ,curtisville4 ,c4 ,l4 ,d4 #a4jj ,east ,braintree4 ,circle of ,ladies1 #cf1 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u42----,r4 ,a4 ,f41 #ej;c4 #cf4ej ,east ,bridgewater4 ,union ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ah4hi ,east ,weymouth4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cj4ac ,everett4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ba4ff ,franklin4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #bd4af ,florence4 ,a4 ,l4 ,williston1 for ,john ,payson ,williston1 deceased #be4jj ,gardner4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aj4jj ,grantville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #dd4jj ,grafton4 ,evangelical ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #ac4aj and ,bedding1 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u4 #ac4aj ,hinsdale4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #fb4ce ,holliston4 ,s4 ,t4 #j4gb ,housatonic4 ,housatonic ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ba4ea ,ipswich4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ca4bg ,lancaster4 ,,estate of ,sophia ,stearns1 by ,w4 ,w4 ,wyman1 ,,ex4 #g4jj ,lanesville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #h4jj ,lee4 ,h4 ,m4 ,c4 #j4ej ,leicester4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ba4jj ,lowell4 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,j4 ,m4 ,moore 7of which #cjj for ,chinese ,m41 and #fj to const4 ,,albert ,,monroe ,,moore and ,,james ,,augustine ,,moore1 ,l4 ,m's7 #ejj4jj ,lowell4 ,eliot ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #e4cj ,littleton4 ,otis ,manning #be4jj ,millbury4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u4 #bf4cj ,milford4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cj4bb ,newburyport4 ,north ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #ba4bd ,north ,beverly4 ,mrs4 ,rebecca ,conant #e4jj ,northborough4 8,a ,friend0 #e4jj ,northbridge ,centre4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #c4be ,north ,easton4 ,miss ,helen ,ames1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #ej4jj ,norton4 ,young ,ladies of ,wheaton ,sem41 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u4 #ba4jj ,paxton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aa4jj ,pepperell4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #e4cg ,reading4 ,rev4 ,w4 ,h4 ,willcox1 for ,pupils1 ,atlanta ,u4 #ajj4jj ,rockport4 ,mrs4 ,nancy ,brooks #aj4jj ,salem4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #fh4he2 8,a ,friend10 #e #gc4he ,sherborn4 ,pilgrim ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 and ,sab4 ,sch4 #bj4jj ,somerville4 ,broadway ,cong4 ,ch4 #g4jj ,south ,dennis4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #i4gj ,south ,braintree4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #ab4jj ,south ,egremont4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #bb2 ,d4 ,d41 #a #bc4jj ,south ,framington4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #hf4jj ,south ,weymouth4 8,friend0 #j4ej ,spencer4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #aij4de ,sunderland4 ,j4 ,m4 #j4ej ,templeton4 ,j4 ,l4 #a4jj ,uxbridge4 8,a ,friend0 #b4jj ,warren4 ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,chas4 ,h4 ,,walker and ,,mrs4 ,,allen ,,burbank1 ,l4 ,m's #gj4jj ,watertown4 ,corban ,soc41 #b ,bbls4 of ,c4 ,west ,andover4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ai4jj ,westborough4 ,freedmen's ,miss4 ,ass'n41 ,bbl4 of ,c4 and #b for ,freight #b4jj ,west ,boxford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7proceeds of a ,fair7 #cc2 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 #ab4jb #de4jb ,west ,brookfield4 ,,mrs4 ,,harriet ,a4 ,,white1 to const4 herself ,l4 ,m4 #cj4jj ,winchendon4 ,north ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #hj4df ,winchester4 ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #if4hh ,worcester4 ,union ,ch41 #gg4de2 ,salem ,st4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 7,mon4 ,con47 #bb2 ,central ,cong4 ,ch4 7ad'l7 #hj;c42 ,mrs4 ,elizabeth ,grassie1 #aj2 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,e4 ,bailey1 #b #aab4be ---- 8,a ,friend0 #a4jj ,,rhode ,,island1 #cae4gd4 ,providence4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cjj4jj ,westerly4 ,pawcatuck ,cong4 ,ch4 #ae4gd ,,connecticut1 #a1aeg4dc4 ,birmingham4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7of which #be from 8,w4 ,e4 ,d407 #di4jb ,canaan4 8,a ,mite0 #a4jj ,cornwall4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #ae4he ,darien4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4jj ,east ,haddam4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc4 #cd4ej ,east ,woodstock4 ,,estate of ,miss ,hannah ,smith1 by ,john ,paine1 ,ex4 #bjj4jj ,enfield4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ad4ed ,gilead4 ,cong ,ch4 #ai4jj ,greenwich4 ,i4 ,p4 #j4ej ,guilford4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4jj ,hadlyme4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4jj ,hartford4 ,a4 ,w4 #a4jj ,hebron4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #bj4cb2 ,l4 ,w4 ,r41 #a #ba4cb ,killingworth4 ,a4 ,v4 ,e4 #j4ea ,middlebury4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ba4hh ,middletown4 ,third ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,william ,,southmayd ,l4 ,m4 #cj4jj ,new ,haven4 ,north ,ch4 #acg4ab2 ,college ,st4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #ea4hg #ahh4ii ,old ,saybrook4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4gd ,plainville4 8,a ,friend10 to const4 ,,charles ,w4 ,,moody1 ,,joseph ,,edmonds and ,,john ,,leopard1 ,l4,m's #ajj4jj ,putnam4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #ee4gg ,rockville4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch1 #aah4fd2----;,bible ,class ,second ,cong4 ,ch41 #bd1 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u42----,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ij4gj1 to const4 ,,dea4 ,,jackson ,,gordon and ,,chas4 ,e4 ,,harris1 ,l4 ,m's #bcc4cd ,saybrook4 ,second ,cong ,ch4 #aa4ge ,simsbury4 ,by ,mrs4 ,mc,lean1 for ,atlanta ,u4 #b4jj ,scotland4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4be ,suffield4 ,first ,cong4 ,soc4 #ab4ia ,thomaston4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #be4ef ,willimantic4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u4 #be4jj ---- 8,a ,connecticut ,clergyman0 #bj4jj ,,new ,,york1 #b1cie4eh4 ,antwerp4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4bj ,brooklyn4 ,central ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 ,e4 ,r4 ,kennedy4 ,supt41 for a ,lady ,missionary #ajj4jj ,brooklyn4 ,j4 ,davenport1 #ej2 ,park ,cong4 ,ch41 #e4ga #ee4ga ,bergen4 ,,estate of ,j4 ,m4 ,hitchcock1 by ,a4 ,e4 ,hitchcock1 ,ex4 #bhi4ed ,berkshire4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #ag4hj2 ,levi ,bail #b #ai4hj ,binghamton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ajj4jj ,buffalo4 ,miss4 ,i4 ,m4 ,s4 #j4ej ,champion4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4cd ,danby4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ab4jj ,east ,bloomfield4 ,,estate of ,miss ,phebe ,gauss1 by ,c4 ,w4 ,bradley1 ,adm'r1 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,horace ,,taylor1 ,,mrs4 ,,maurice ,,field1 ,,mrs4 ,,harry ,,goddard1 ,,mrs4 ,,james ,,collins1 ,,lorin ,h4 ,,brunson1 ,,augustus ,,buell1 ,,john ,a4 ,,gauss and ,,robert ,f4 ,,codding1 ,l4 ,m's #bej4jj ,fort ,edward4 ,w4 ,f4 ,g4 #a4jj ,greenwich4 ,proceeds of ,claim on ,cong4 ,ch4 ,property #ffh4dd ,groton4 ,storrs ,a4 ,barrows #cj4jj ,jamestown4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,a4 ,bly's ,sab4 ,sch4 ,class1 #d4bb1 and 8,friends0 in ,cong4 ,ch41 #d4jc #h4be ,lake ,george4 ,rev4 ,henry ,s4 ,huntington 7#e of which for ,chinese ,m47 #aj4jj ,lenox4 ,amos ,s4 ,johnson #e4jj ,mexico4 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,m4 ,brown1 #a4ej2 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,k4 ,s41 #a2 ,j4 ,d41 #ej;c42 ,g4 ,t41 #be;c4 #c4be ,newburgh4 ,,john ,h4 ,,corwin1 #cj1 to const4 himself ,l4 ,m41 also ,box of ,papers #cj4jj ,new ,york4 ,broadway ,tabernacle ,church #eca4ci ,nineveh4 ,reuben ,lovejoy #bjj4jj ,oak ,hill4 ,mrs4 ,caty ,hall #e4jj ,oswego4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 and ,h4 ,l4 ,hart1 #be1 for ,student ,aid1 ,straight ,u4----,cong4 ,ch4 ,m4 ,c4 ,coll41 #c4gi #bh4gi ,oxford4 ,presb4 ,ch4 #b4ab ,prattsburgh4 8,h4 ,a4 ,h40 #e4jj ,prottham4 ,f4 ,e4 #j4be ,wellsville4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ac4jj ,west ,farms4 ,rev4 ,a4 ,wood1 pkg4 of books and papers ,west ,yaphank4 8,mrs4 ,h4 ,m4 ,o40 #e4jj ,,new ,,jersey1 #aa4ej4 ,bound ,brook4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4ej ,montclair4 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,h4 ,pratt's ,class in ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for a ,student1 ,talladega4 ,c4 #f4jj ,,pennsylvania1 #adi4be4 ,hyde ,park4 ,thomas ,eynon1 to const4 ,,rev4 ,e4 ,b4 ,,evans1 ,l4 ,m4 #cb4jj ,north ,east4 ,b4 ,t4 ,spooner #e4jj ,philadelphia4 ,central ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,dea4 ,,william ,,campbell1 ,,dea4 ,,samuel ,a4 ,,johnson1 and ,,leonard ,o4 ,,smith1 ,l4 ,m's #aab4be ,,ohio1 #ehf4fj4 ,braceville4 8,s4 ,p4 ,i40 #a4jj ,bryon4 ,s4 ,e4 ,blakeslee1 for ,foreign ,m4 #e4jj ,burton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ah4eg ,claridon4 8,e4 ,c4 ,t40 #a4jj ,cleveland4 ,mrs4 ,s4 ,a4 ,bradbury #be4jj ,columbus4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 to const ,,prof4 ,,john ,,short1 ,,rev4 ,,john ,,jones1 ,,rev4 ,e4 ,i4 ,,jones1 ,,walter ,,crafts1 and ,,rev4 ,,henry ,f4 ,,tyler1 ,l4,m's #adi4jg ,columbus4 ,welsh ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4dd ,freedom4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #d4bj2 ,h4 ,k41 #e2 8,j4 ,c4 ,b410 #e #ad4bj ,huntsburgh4 8,friends10 by ,e1 ,l4 ,miller1 for ,ind4 ,sch41 ,talladega1 ,ala4 #c4jj ,leatherwood4 ,m4 ,d4 ,j4 #a4jj ,madison4 8,earnest ,workers10 for ,student1 ,aid1 ,tougaloo ,u4 #cj4jj ,mansfield4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,chas4 ,b4 ,,jameson1 ,l4 ,m4 #ca4ec ,marietta4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #gc4fe ,middlefield4 8,l4 ,s4 ,b40 #e4jj ,nelson4 ,mrs4 ,julia ,a4 ,clark #cj4jj ,newark4 8,a ,friend10 #fj2 ,mrs4 ,j4 ,c4 ,wheaton1 #aj1 to const4 ,,mrs4 ,,matilda ,,mccrory4 ,l4 ,m4 #gj4jj ,oberlin4 ,oberlin ,freedwoman's ,aid ,soc41 #ge1 by ,mrs4 ,w4 ,g4 ,frost1 ,treas4 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,atlanta1 ,ga42----8,a ,friend10 #e1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u42----,l4 ,f41 #a #ha4jj ,painesville4 ,ladies' ,soc41 by ,mrs4 ,cornelia ,h4 ,greer4 ,pres41 for ,missionary at ,miller's ,station1 ,ga4 #cj4jj ,saybrook4 8,friends10 for ,freight #a4jj ,springfield4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 and ,soc41 ,quar4 ,coll #f4ad ,willoughby4 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,k4 #a4jj ---- 8,a ,friend0 #a4jj ,,indiana1 #bj4 ,crawfordsville4 ,prof4 ,c4 ,mills and ,wife #bj4jj ,,illinois1 #a1cji4eb4 ,champaign4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #be4jj ,chicago4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #dgd4jj ,chicago4 ,south ,cong4 ,ch41 #aa4gi2 ,w4 ,s41 #ej;c4 #ab4bi ,elgin4 ,sab ,sch4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,galesburg4 ,first ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #cj1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u42----8,a ,friend10 #ae #de4jj ,kewanee4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,f4 ,l #a4jj ,morris4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7ad'l7 #a4jj ,normal4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4gj ,oak ,park4 8,a ,friend0 #aj4jj ,paxton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4jj ,polo4 ,robert ,smith #ejj4jj ,rockford4 ,second ,cong4 ,ch4 #abj4ch2 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #cf4be2----,ladies' ,aid ,soc4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #be1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #aha4ec ,tonica4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,,michigan1 #gj4gf4 ,almont4 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,r4 #a4jj ,benzonia4 ,rev4 ,d4 ,b4 ,spencer #c4jj ,detroit4 ,fort ,st4 ,cong4 ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #f4jj ,litchfield4 ,shining ,light ,mission ,band of ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #f4jj ,olivet4 ,miss ,p4 ,a4 ,stone1 #e2 ,cong4 ,ch4 ,mon4 ,con4 ,coll41 #d4bi #i4bi ,pentwater4 ,h4 ,r4 #a4jj ,salem4 ,summit ,missionary ,aux41 by ,mrs4 ,a4 ,vansickle #e4dj ,solon4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #a4jj ,vermontville4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4jj ,webster4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4jg ,,wisconsin1 #bba4 ,beloit4 ,second ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #ae4ij2 ,ladies1 for ,freight1 #b #ag4ij ,columbus4 ,olivet ,cong4 ,ch4 #ac4jj ,cookville4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4fe ,fulton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4ce ,hartford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 7ad'l7 #a4jj ,liberty4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4jj ,rosendale4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #cj4jj ,salem4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #h4ej ,wauwatosa4 ,cong4 ,ch41 to const4 ,,henry ,,payson ,,gillett and ,,miss ,,mary ,s4 ,,earls1 ,l4 ,m's #ga4aj ,watertown4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ag4jj ,west ,salem4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #af4jj ,whitewater4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for a ,pupil1 ,fisk ,u4 #be4jj ,wilmot4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #b4ej ,,iowa1 #agf4ji4 ,atlantic4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #g4jc ,burlington4 ,sab4 ,sch4 of ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #be1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u42----,miss ,m4 ,l41 #a #bf4jj ,davenport4 ,cyrus ,pitts #e4jj ,durant4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4jj ,fort ,madison4 ,francis ,sawyer #ae4jj ,gilmau4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #e2 ,rev4 ,f4 ,h4 ,magoun1 #b #g4jj ,keokuk4 ,woman's ,miss4 ,soc41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,nashville1 ,tenn4 #ca4ge ,manchester4 ,w4 ,g4 #a4jj ,mc,gregor4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ba4ca ,milton ,junction4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #f4jj ,waltham4 ,,estate of ,miss ,emeline ,williams1 by ,wm4 ,mason #ej4jj ,,missouri1 #bg4ej4 ,breckenridge4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,north ,springfield4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #ag4ej ,,kansas1 #aj4de4 ,atchison4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4de ,,minnesota1 #da4ce4 ,afton4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #e4jj ,mankato4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4ej ,minneapolis4 ,plymouth ,ch41 #ba4ej2 ,rev4 ,edwin ,s4 ,williams1 #aj1 by ,w4 ,williams #ca4ej ,morris4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #a4ce ,,colorado1 #ae4ej4 ,denver4 ,a4 ,r4 ,b4 #j4ej ,pueblo4 ,l4 ,sperry #ae4jj ,,utah1 #e4 ,uintah ,valley4 ,miss ,e4 ,c4 ,ayer #e4jj ,,oregon1 #f4 ,salem4 ,john ,j4 ,mc,farland1 #e2 ,r4 ,mc,c41 #ej;c42 ,a4 ,b41 #ej;c4 #f4jj ,,washington ,,territory1 #ac4ej4 ,s'kokomish4 ,cong4 ,ch4 of ,christ #ac4ej ,,tennessee1 #afh4fe4 ,memphis4 ,le ,moyne ,school1 #afh4ae2 ,prof4 ,a4 ,j4 ,s41 #ej;c4 #afh4fe ,,north ,,carolina1 #agf4ci4 ,raleigh4 ,washington ,sch4 #bj4ij ,wilmington4 ,normal ,sch41 #aej4hj2 ,cong4 ,ch41 #d4fi #aee4di ,,south ,,carolina1 #bfj4be4 ,charleston4 ,avery ,inst41 #beg4ej2----;,cong4 ,ch41 #b4be1 for ,african ,m42 ,a4 ,w4 ,f41 #ej;c4 #bfj4be ,,georgia1 #ebe4cc4 ,atlanta4 ,storrs ,school1 #bcc4ee2 ,atlanta ,university1 #ih4ej #ccb4je ,brunswick4 ,s4 ,b4 ,morse 7ad'l7 #i4jj ,macon4 ,lewis ,high ,sch4 #ch4ge ,miller's ,station4 ,miss ,e4 ,w4 ,douglass #aj4dg ,savannah4 ,beach ,inst4 #abi4he ,woodville4 ,pilgrim ,ch41 #b4ca2 8,sons and ,daughters of ,jerusalem10 #a4ij2 ,j4 ,h4 ,h4 ,s41 #a #e4ba ,,florida1 #cj4 ,saint ,augustine4 ,rent #cj4jj ,,alabama1 #cac4ib4 ,athens4 ,trinity ,mission ,soc41 for ,mendi ,m4 #d4gj ,mobile4 ,emerson ,inst4 #aja4je ,montgomery4 ,pub4 ,sch4 ,fund #age4jj ,talladega4 ,talladega ,college #cc4ag ,,mississippi1 #ci4ij4 ,grenada4 ,sab4 ,sch41 by ,miss ,a4 ,harwood1 ,supt4 #f4jj ,tougaloo4 ,tougaloo ,university #cc4ij ,,louisiana1 #acf4 ,new ,orleans4 ,straight ,university #acf4jj ,,income1 #be4hc4 ---- ,avery ,fund #be4hc ,,england1 #bd4dj4 ,bishop ,auckland4 ,joseph ,lingford1 #e #bd4dj ,,holland1 #ad4ej4 ,amsterdam4 ,g4 ,p4 ,ittmann1 ,jr41 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #d4ej ,scheidam4 ,missionary ,committee1 for ,student ,aid1 ,fisk ,u4 #aj4jj ------------------ ,total #ab1jga4gg ,total from ,oct4 #ast to ,may #cast #ajd1eih4ee ,h4 ,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,ass't ,treas4 ,,received ,,for ,,debt4 ,east ,woodstock1 ,conn4 ,john ,paine #e4jj ,mecosta ,co41 ,mich4 #aha4ej ------------------ ,total #ahf4ej ,previously acknowledged in ,april receipts #be1ecb4bb ------------------ ,total #be1gah4gb 99 99 99 99 99 ,,for ,,negro ,,refugees4 ,new ,haven1 ,conn4 ,amos ,townsend #bj4jj ,mexico1 ,n4 ,y4 ,edward ,halsey #a4ej ,newark ,valley1 ,n4 ,y4 8,a ,friend0 #aj4jj ,prottham1 ,n4 ,y4 ,joseph ,copps #a4jj ,xenia1 ,ohio4 ,mrs4 ,sarah ,s4 ,monroe #e4jj ,homer1 ,ill4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ac4aj ,lodi1 ,mich4 8,friends0 #ic4jj ,fulton1 ,wis4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #ae4jj ,college ,springs1 ,iowa4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4bh ------------ ,total #afi4hh ,previously acknowledged in ,april receipts #fg4jj ------------ ,total #bcf4hh ,constitution of the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,,incorporated ,,january #cj1 #ahdi4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,art4 ,i4 ,this ,society shall be called 8,,the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association40 ,,art4 ,,ii4 ,the object of this ,association shall be to conduct ,christian missionary and educational operations1 and to diffuse a knowledge of the ,holy ,scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them1 or which present open and urgent fields of effort4 ,,art4 ,,iii4 ,any person of evangelical sentiments1,a who professes faith in the ,lord ,jesus ,christ1 who is not a slaveholder1 or in the practice of other immoralities1 and who contributes to the funds1 may become a member of the ,society2 and by the payment of thirty dollars1 a life member2 provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting4 ,,art4 ,,iv4 ,this ,society shall meet annually1 in the month of ,september1 ,october or ,november1 for the election of officers and the transaction of other business1 at such time and place as shall be designated by the ,executive ,committee4 ,,art4 ,v4 ,the annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members of the ,society at the time of such meeting1 and of delegates from churches1 local missionary societies1 and other co-operating bodies1 each body being entitled to one representative4 ,,art4 ,,vi4 ,the officers of the ,society shall be a ,president1 ,vice-,presidents1 a ,recording ,secretary1 ,corresponding ,secretaries1 ,treasurer1 two ,auditors1 and an ,executive ,committee of not less than twelve1 of which the ,corresponding ,secretaries shall be advisory1 and the ,treasurer ex-officio1 members4 ,,art4 ,,vii4 ,to the ,executive ,committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds2 the appointing1 counselling1 sustaining and dismissing 7for just and sufficient reasons7 missionaries and agents2 the selection of missionary fields2 and1 in general1 the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies2 the ,committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries2 and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting1 which shall1 by a reference mutually chosen1 always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary2 and the decision of such reference shall be final4 ,the ,executive ,committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings2 to apply1 if they see fit1 to any ,state ,legislature for acts of incorporation2 to fix the compensation1 where any is given1 of all officers1 agents1 missionaries1 or others in the employment of the ,society2 to make provision1 if any1 for disabled missionaries1 and for the widows and children of such as are deceased2 and to call1 in all parts of the country1 at their discretion1 special and general conventions of the friends of missions1 with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit1 and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work4 ,five members of the ,committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business4 ,,art4 ,,viii4 ,this society1 in collecting funds1 in appointing officers1 agents and missionaries1 and in selecting fields of labor1 and conducting the missionary work1 will endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery1 by refusing to receive the known fruits of unrequited labor1 or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves4 ,,art4 ,,ix4 ,missionary bodies1 churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this ,society1 and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own1 shall be entitled to do so through the agency of the ,executive ,committee1 on terms mutually agreed upon4 ,,art4 ,x4 ,no amendment shall be made in this ,constitution without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting2 nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting1 or to the ,executive ,committee in season to be published by them 7as it shall be their duty to do1 if so submitted7 in the regular official notifications of the meeting4 ,,footnote3 ,a ,by evangelical sentiments1 we understand1 among others1 a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a ,saviour2 the ,supreme ,deity1 ,incarnation and ,atoning ,sacrifice of ,jesus ,christ1 the only ,saviour of the world2 the necessity of regeneration by the ,holy ,spirit1 repentance1 faith and holy obedience in order to salvation2 the immortality of the soul2 and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked1 and salvation of the righteous4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,aim ,,and ,,work4 ,to preach the ,gospel to the poor4 ,it originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless slaves4 ,since ,emancipation it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the ,,freedmen for their duties as citizens and ,christians in ,america and as missionaries in ,africa4 ,as closely related to this1 it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted ,,chinese in ,america1 and to co-operate with the ,government in its humane and ,christian policy towards the ,,indians4 ,it has also a mission in ,,africa4 ,,statistics4 ,,churches3 ,in the ,south----,in ,va4 #a2 ,n4 ,c41 #e2 ,s4 ,c41 #b2 ,ga41 #ab2 ,ky41 #g2 ,tenn41 #d2 ,ala41 #ac2 ,la41 #ab2 ,miss41 #a2 ,kansas1 #b2 ,texas1 #e4 ,africa1 #a4 ,among the ,indians1 #a4 ,total #ff4 ,,institutions ,,founded1 ,,fostered ,,or ,,sustained ,,in ,,the ,,south4----,chartered3 ,hampton1 ,va42 ,berea1 ,ky42 ,talladega1 ,ala42 ,atlanta1 ,ga42 ,nashville1 ,tenn42 ,tougaloo1 ,miss42 ,new ,orleans1 ,la42 and ,austin1 ,texas1 #h4 ,graded or ,normal ,schools3 at ,wilmington1 ,raleigh1 ,n4 ,c42 ,charleston1 ,greenwood1 ,s4 ,c42 ,macon1 ,atlanta1 ,ga42 ,montgomery1 ,mobile1 ,athens1 ,selma1 ,ala42 ,memphis1 ,tenn41 #aa4 ,other ,schools1 #ah4 ,total #cg4 ,,teachers1 ,,missionaries ,,and ,,assistants4----,among the ,freedmen1 #bca2 among the ,chinese1 #ag2 among the ,indians1 #ag2 in ,africa1 #ad4 ,total1 #bgi4 ,,students----,in ,theology1 #hh2 ,law1 #ag2 in ,college ,course1 #ajf2 in other studies1 #g1jah4 ,total1 #g1bbi4 ,scholars1 taught by former pupils of our schools1 estimated at #ajj1jjj4 ,,indians under the care of the ,association1 #ac1jjj4 ,,wants4 #a4 ,a steady ,,increase of regular income to keep pace with the growing work in the ,south4 ,this increase can only be reached by regular and larger contributions from the churches----the feeble as well as the strong4 #b4 ,,additional ,,buildings for our higher educational institutions1 to accommodate the increasing numbers of students2 ,,meeting ,,houses1 for the new churches we are organizing2 ,,more ,,ministers1 cultured and pious1 for these churches4 #c4 ,,help ,,for ,,young ,,men1 to be educated as ministers here and missionaries to ,africa----a pressing want4 ,before sending boxes1 always correspond with the nearest ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 office1 as below4 ,,new ,,york ,h4 ,w4 ,hubbard1 ,esq41 #ef ,reade ,street4 ,,boston ,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,woodworth1 ,room #ba1 ,congregational ,house4 ,,chicago ,rev4 ,jas4 ,powell1 #aab ,west ,washington ,street4 ,,magazine4 ,this ,magazine will be sent1 gratuitously1 if desired1 to the ,missionaries of the ,association2 to ,life ,members2 to all clergymen who take up collections for the ,association2 to ,superintendents of ,sabbath ,schools2 to ,college ,libraries2 to ,theological ,seminaries2 to ,societies of ,inquiry on ,missions2 and to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber1 and contributes in a year not less than five dollars4 ,those who wish to remember the ,,american ,,missionary ,,association in their last ,will and ,testament1 are earnestly requested to use the following ,,form ,,of ,a ,,bequest4 8,i ,,bequeath to my executor 7or executors7 the sum of ---- dollars 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 #8,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 purposes40 ,the ,will should be attested by three witnesses in some ,states three are required----in other ,states only two1 who should write against their names1 their places of residence if in cities1 their street and number4 ,the following form of attestation will answer for every ,state in the ,union3 8,signed1 sealed1 published and declared by the said ,a4 ,b4 as his last ,will and ,testament1 in presence of us1 who1 at the request of the said ,a4 ,b41 and in his presence1 and in the presence of each other1 have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses40 ,in some ,states it is required that the ,will should be made at least two months before the death of the testator4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,cheap ,,and ,,efficient ,,aid ,,for ,,colored ,,preachers4 7,from ,weekly ,witness1 ,june #aith1 #ahgi47 ,we ask the attention of our patriotic and philanthropic ,christian readers to the letters from colored preachers which we publish to-day4 ,these letters show the great acceptability and usefulness of the ,witness to colored preachers1 and we hope they will induce many to send them a gift so highly appreciated4 ,for every dollar sent to the colored ministers' fund1 we will send the ,weekly ,witness to a colored preacher for one year4 ,the first year of this effort we obtained the addresses of upwards of #b1jjj preachers1 to whom we sent the ,witness4 ,the whole number of preachers is said to be about #e1jjj4 ,the second year we only sent it to preachers who asked for it1 and only about #hjj did so4 ,several have since written regretting that the paper was stopped4 ,it would have been continued had they signified their desire to receive it4 ,we think it likely that with the present excitement concerning emigration1 many more could be reached1 besides renewing these #hjj as their time expires4 ,will our friends keep this fund supplied1 that we may again advertise for the addresses of colored preachers wishing to receive the ,witness8 ,the best and perhaps only way of reaching the colored people of the ,south with instructive and elevating reading matter is through their religious teachers2 and1 as will be seen from the letters1 they make a good use of the ,witness in that way4 99 99 99 99 99 ,to the ,editor of the ,witness4 ,,culloden1 ,,ga4 ,,dear ,,sir3 ,allow me space in your columns to acknowledge my thanks to our ,northern friends1 that they have interest enough in us to furnish the colored ministers here with the ,witness2 this is a grand way to diffuse ,christian intelligence among a down-trodden race4 ,may ,god bless them and you4 ,you shall have my prayers for your success4 ,i see that my subscription will expire on the #aeth2 please continue my paper for another year4 ,i am yours1 etc41 ,a4 ,j4 ,,wilson4 99 99 99 99 99 ,to the ,editor of the ,witness4 ,,anniston1 ,,ala4 ,,dear ,,sir3 ,i spent three sessions in ,talladega ,college and ,theological ,department4 ,during the three months' vacation of each year ,i taught school at ,anniston1 ,ala41 my present location4 ,during this time the ,president of the ,woodstock ,iron ,co4 had an eye upon my work4 ,they have shown their sympathy by the erection of a neat little cottage1 which has done its part as a parsonage4 ,besides1 they pay a portion of my salary for teaching4 ,i have charge of the colored school of this town4 ,i commenced labor here in ,april1 #ahge4 ,since that time many have reformed and become stalwart ,christian men and women4 ,i claim only to have been an instrument in ,god's hands to the salvation of souls4 ,now to the dear friend who sends me the ,witness4 ,you may rest assured that your donation has not been as pearls cast before swine2 it is as bread upon the waters1 and if it doesn't return to you in this life1 it certainly will greet you in the far better land4 ,i prize the ,witness next to my ,bible4 ,it has been to me strength in weakness1 light in darkness1 a means of peace in times of trouble2 in short1 it has been food to my soul4 ,the ,witness is valuable to me in a two-fold sense4 ,first1 the motive which prompted the giver2 second1 the vast amount of information it contains which ,i could not find or get elsewhere4 ,my only wish and constant prayer are that every colored preacher on the globe may have the ,witness4 ,i am fraternally yours in ,christ1 ,p4 ,j4 ,,mcentosh1 ,pastor ,first ,congregational ,church1 ,anniston1 ,ala4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,powers ,,shop1 ,,laurens ,,co41 ,s4 ,c4 ,,dear ,,editor3 ,i have been kindly furnished with your valuable paper since last ,august to the present time4 ,i am certainly grateful for the kindness of the friend that paid for it4 ,may ,god bless him ten-fold4 ,inclosed in this you will please find an order for your valuable paper1 ,the ,weekly ,witness4 ,i induced six young gentlemen to pay twenty-five cents each1 thereby raising the required sum4 ,may ,god bless you and your papers1 for they are doing much good4 ,i will do you the good ,i can4 ,let the friends in the pulpit who receive the ,witness work for it1 and work now4 ,yours in ,christ1 ,b4 ,f4 ,,martin 7,colored74 ,the above are samples of many letters that we receive4 ,single copies of ,witness sent free on application4 ,,john ,,dougall1 #g ,frankfort ,st41 ,n4 ,y4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a4 ,s4 ,,barnes ,,co4 ,,publish ,,the ,,only ,,songs ,,for ,,the ,,sanctuary4 ,,the ,,hymn ,,and ,,tune ,,book which stands the test4 ,revised and enlarged4 ,prices greatly reduced4 ,editions for 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,,family ,,worship4 ,the current version is strictly followed1 the only peculiarity being the arrangement according to the ,original ,parallelisms1 for convenience in responsive reading4 ,two sizes4 ,prices3 #cbmo1 ,limp ,cloth1 #cj cts4 per copy1 #be per #ajj2 #afmo1 ,cloth4 #gj cts4 per copy1 #ef per #ajj4 ,sent post-paid on receipt of price4 ,,taintor ,,brothers1 ,,merrill ,,co41 ,publishers4 #geh ,broadway1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,established ,a4 ,d4 #ahej4 ,,the ,,manhattan ,life ,insurance ,co41 #aef ,broadway1 ,new ,york1 ,,has ,,paid #g1djj1jjj ,,death ,,claims4 ,,has ,,paid #d1ijj1jjj ,return ,premiums to ,policy-,holders4 ,,has ,a ,,surplus ,,of #a1gjj1jjj ,,over ,,liabilities ,by ,new ,york ,standard of ,valuation4 ,it gives the ,best ,insurance on the ,best ,lives at the most ,favorable ,rates4 ,,examine ,,the ,,plans ,,and ,,rates ,,of ,,this ,,company4 ,,henry ,,stokes1 ,,president4 ,c4 ,y4 ,,wemple1 ,vice-,president4 ,j4 ,l4 ,,halsey1 ,secretary4 ,s4 ,n4 ,,stebbins1 ,actuary4 ,h4 ,y4 ,,wemple1 ,h4 ,b4 ,,stokes1 ,assistant ,secretaries4 99 99 99 99 99 ,brown ,bros4 ,co4 ,,bankers1 #ei #fa ,wall ,street1 ,new ,york1 #baa ,chestnut ,st41 ,philadelphia1 #ff ,state ,street1 ,boston4 ,issue ,commercial ,credits1 make ,cable transfers of ,money between this ,country and ,england1 and buy and sell ,bills of ,exchange on ,great ,britain and ,ireland4 ,they also issue1 against cash deposited1 or satisfactory guarantee of repayment1 ,circular ,credits for ,travellers1 ,in ,,dollars for use in the ,united ,states and adjacent countries1 and in ,,pounds ,,sterling1 for use in any part of the world4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,john ,h4 ,,horsfall1 ,,manufacturer ,,of ,furniture1 ,upholstery1 ,mirrors1 ,and ,,decorations4 ,,warerooms3 #f #g ,,east #bc;d ,,st4 7,kurtz ,building71 #c doors ,east of ,b'way1 ,madison ,square ,south4 ,you are respectfully asked to call and inspect my ,stock1 which1 for thoroughness of construction and quality of materials1 cannot be excelled in this city1 and at as low a price as good work can be made4 ,i have on hand many beautiful examples of ,drawing ,room1 ,dining ,room1 ,library and ,bedroom ,furniture1 and am prepared at all times to submit ,estimates and ,drawings for ordered work4 ,curtains1 ,lambrequins1 c41 c41 in great variety of ,styles4 ,exceptionally fine ,hair and ,spring ,mattresses and ,feathers4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,crampton',s ,,pure ,,old ,,palm ,,soap4 ,illustration ,for the ,laundry1 ,the ,kitchen1 ,,and ,,for ,general ,household ,purposes4 ,,manufactured ,,by ,,crampton ,,brothers1 ,cor4 ,monroe ,jefferson ,sts41 ,n4 ,y4 ,send for ,circular and ,price ,list4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,buy ,,the ,,best ,,goods ,,bogle ,,lyles1 ,nos4 #hg #hi ,park ,place ,,new ,,york1 ,dealers in ,,choice ,,canned ,,fruits ,,vegetables1 ,,potted ,,meats1 ,,etc41 ,sole ,agents for ,,richardson ,,robbins' ,extra ,yellow ,peaches4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,marvin',s ,,fire ,,burglar ,,safes ,,counter ,,platform ,,wagon ,,track ,,scales ,,marvin ,,safe ,,scale ,,co4 #bfe ,,broadway4 ,n4 ,y4 #fbg ,,chestnut ,,st41 ,,phila4 99 99 99 99 99 ,illustration3 ,,palam ,,qui ,,meruit ,,ferat ,,sui ,,generis ,mason ,hamlin ,cabinet ,organs4 ,demonstrated best by ,,highest ,,honors ,,at ,,all ,,world',s ,,expositions ,,for ,,twelve ,,years2 viz3 at ,,paris4 #ahfg2 ,,vienna1 #ahgc2 ,,santiago1 #ahge2 ,,philadelphia1 #ahgf2 ,,two ,,highest ,,medals at ,,paris #ahgh2 and ,,grand ,,swedish ,,gold ,,medal1 #ahgh4 ,only ,american ,organs ever awarded highest honors at any4 ,sold for cash or installments4 ,,illustrated ,,catalogues with new styles and prices1 free ,,mason ,,hamlin ,,organ ,,co41 ,,boston1 ,,new ,,york1 or ,,chicago4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,church ,,cushions ,,made ,,of ,,the ,,patent ,,elastic ,,felt4 ,for particulars1 address ,h4 ,d4 ,,ostermoor1 ,p4 ,o4 ,box #djjd4 #cf ,broadway1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,meneely ,kimberly1 ,,bell ,,founders1 ,,troy1 ,n4 ,y4 ,manufacture a superior quality of ,,bells4 ,special attention given to ,,church ,,bells4 ,catalogues sent free to parties needing bells4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,dudley',s ,,patent ,,diagonal ,,road ,,scraper ,,the ,,best4 ,,the ,,cheapest4 ,weighs but #ej lbs41 has ,steel ,cutter ,plate1 can be worked square or at any desired angle1 and is rapidly superseding all other ,scrapers where it is known4 ,illustration ,read the following3 ,one says3 8,it will do more work than two of the common kind40 ,another3 8,it is worth more than all the old kind that can be made40 8,i would not take #be dollars for mine1 if ,i could not get another40 8,with a yoke of oxen and boy to drive1 ,i can scrape and finish up in five hours as much road as ,i can with any scraper known to me in ten hours1 beside doing it better and easier both for myself and team40----,j4 ,,davis1 ,hartford4 8,for working roads it will soon supersede the old scoop4 ,i consider it one of the best simple inventions of the age40----,g4 ,p4 ,,belden1 ,dover ,plains4 8,leaves a road in better shape1 and is easier for man and team1 than any scraper ,i ever saw40----,j4 ,s4 ,,kinney1 ,washington4 ,send for circular4 ,s4 ,h4 ,,dudley1 ,bantam ,falls1 ,litchfield ,county1 ,ct4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,yesterday',s ,,work4 ,we point to the record of results of our work among the ,freedmen during the last fifteen years1 as indicating a degree of progress and an amount of fruitage rarely equaled in the same length of time4 ,we base our claims for generous gifts1 now and in the years to come1 upon this showing1 confident that this is the best argument we can make4 ,is it too much to claim to have been faithful over a few things1 or to ask that we be trusted with what may be needful for the many which are at hand8 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to-,,day',s ,,need4 ,the pressing need of to-day may be seen from the following appeal1 which has appeared in some of the religious papers3 8,the end of the school year of the ,american ,missionary ,association is near at hand4 ,its ,teachers and ,missionaries must soon return ,north1 and will need the balance of their small salaries to enable them to do so4 ,this necessary demand makes a special drain upon our treasury1 and we1 therefore1 earnestly appeal to our friends to enable us to meet it without debt4 ,we hope that churches whose collections occur now will make them as large as possible and remit promptly2 and we ask our friends1 in whose heart is a warm love for the cause1 to come to our relief with special contributions for this emergency4 ,in behalf of the ,executive ,committee1 ,m4 ,e4 ,,strieby1 ,cor4 ,secretary40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,to-,,morrow',s ,,want4 ,looking ahead1 we see that the coming claims upon us must be greater than those of the past4 ,the signs of the times indicate that the ,lord's work is to be done upon a larger scale in the near future2 the progress1 made and making1 in our schools1 and the call for enlargement in our church work1 will make increasing demands upon us1 until the time shall come when they shall be more largely self-supporting than it is possible for them to be now4 ,we have done much----we are doing more----we must expect to do a still greater work4 ,give us the means1 and plan large things for us in the days to come4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,advertising ,,department4 ,we invite special attention to this department1 of which our low rates and large circulation make its pages specially valuable4 ,our readers are among the best in the country1 having an established character for integrity and thrift that constitutes them valued customers in all departments of business4 ,to ,advertisers using display type and cuts1 who are accustomed to the 8,,rules0 of the best ,newspapers1 requiring 8,,double ,,rates0 for these 8,,luxuries10 our wide pages1 fine paper1 and superior priming1 with no extra charge for cuts1 are advantages readily appreciated1 and which add greatly to the appearance and effect of business announcements4 ,gratified with the substantial success of this department1 we solicit orders from all who have unexceptionable wares to advertise4 ,advertisements must be received by the ,,tenth of the month1 in order to secure insertion in the following number4 ,all communications in relation to advertising should be addressed to ,j4 ,h4 ,,denison1 ,adv'g ,agent1 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,new ,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,our friends who are interested in the ,advertising ,department of the 8,american ,missionary0 can aid us in this respect by mentioning1 when ordering goods1 that they saw them advertised in our ,magazine4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,david ,h4 ,,gildersleeve1 ,printer1 #aja ,chambers ,street1 ,new ,york4 ,transcriber's ,notes3 ,obvious punctuation errors were corrected4