,,vol4 ,,xxxiii4 ,no4 #aj4 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 99 99 99 99 99 8,to the ,poor the ,gospel is ,preached40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,october1 #ahgi4 ,,contents3 ,,editorial4 ,,the ,,annual ,,meeting--,,paragraphs #bhi ,,worker ,,at ,,rest 7,,mrs4 ,,peebles7--,,death ,,of ,,father ,,jocelyn #bia ,,random ,,suggestions #bic ,a ,,strong ,,appeal #bid ,,language ,,of ,,equatorial ,,africa #bif ,,strange ,,but ,,true ,,story #big ,,items ,,from ,,the ,,field #bii ,,general ,,notes #cjj ,,the ,,freedmen4 ,,north ,,and ,,south--,,some ,,things ,,in ,,common #cjd ,,reminiscences--8,,it',s ,,the ,,color ,,that ,,tells0 #cjf ,,tennessee1 ,,nashville--,remarkable ,conversion and ,triumphant ,death #cji ,,georgia1 ,,byron--,first ,impressions #caj ,,the ,,chinese4 ,,the ,,beginning ,,of ,,harvest--,,ong ,,lune #caj ,,children',s ,,page4 ,,country ,,school-,,houses #cac ,,receipts #cad ,,constitution #cag ,,work1 ,,statistics1 ,,wants ,c4 #cah 99 99 99 99 99 ,,new ,,york4 ,published by the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,,rooms1 #ef ,,reade ,,street4 99 99 99 99 99 ,price1 #ej ,cents a ,year1 in advance4 ,entered at the ,post ,office at ,new ,york1 ,n4 ,y4 as second-class matter4 ,,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 ,ohio ,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 or when mote 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 ,,the ,,american ,,missionary4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,vol4 ,,xxxiii4 ,,october1 #ahgi4 ,no4 #aj4 99 99 99 99 99 ,american ,missionary ,association4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,our ,,annual ,,meeting4 ,the ,thirty-third ,annual ,meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association will be held in the ,first ,congregational ,church 7,rev4 ,dr4 ,goodwin's71 ,chicago1 ,illinois1 commencing ,october #bhth1 at #c p4 m4 ,the ,annual ,sermon will be preached by ,rev4 ,r4 ,s4 ,storrs1 ,d4 ,d41 of ,brooklyn1 ,n4 ,y41 service commencing at half-past seven in the evening4 ,a paper on the ,chinese question will be presented by ,rev4 ,j4 ,h4 ,twichell1 of ,hartford1 ,connecticut2 one on the ,necessity of the ,protection of ,law for the ,indians1 by ,gen4 ,j4 ,h4 ,leake1 ,united ,states ,district ,attorney1 ,chicago1 ,illinois4 ,other papers and addresses on timely and important subjects will be presented by able writers1 the announcement of which will be given in the daily press at an early date4 ,parties desiring entertainment during the meeting will write1 by or before ,october #hth1 to ,h4 ,g4 ,billings1 ,esq41 #bdb ,south ,water ,street1 ,chicago4 99 99 99 99 99 ,it will be seen that our communications from the ,southern field are very limited this month4 ,it is1 of course1 the time of vacation in all our ,southern institutions1 except a few of the public schools1 to the support of which we are contributing1 and from which we hear mainly through the larger schools of which their teachers are pupils or graduates4 ,soon the wheels will begin to revolve again1 we trust1 with greater effectiveness than ever before4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a confidential word from the ,editor to the members of the missionary and teaching force who occasionally write to the ,,missionary4--,your communications are always read in the most kindly and interested spirit4 ,their contents are always noted1 and if they contain any incident or item which even perhaps may be of general interest to our readers1 we use it4 ,do not be too greatly disappointed or grieved at us if we do not always use them in the form in which they are sent4 ,there are many things which must be weighed in the make-up of a magazine which no one but those who see it all can even know4 ,the ,editor's basket is not a waste basket1 even when it receives ,,mss41 for they do not go into it unread1 nor do we mean to let any wheat get lost among the chaff1 although doubtless we occasionally do4 ,sometimes an article must be squeezed into an item or be squeezed out4 ,please keep writing1 then1 not for your local audience1 but for all2 or1 if you please1 as though it were meant for the ,editor's ear alone4 ,don't be disappointed--much more1 don't be angry1 if all you write does not get into print4 ,and don't promise anybody1 that a certain thing you send will appear in the ,,missionary2 for1 after all1 the ,editor who must decide is in the ,new ,york office4 99 99 99 99 99 ,prof4 ,a4 ,k4 ,spence and wife arrived in ,august by steamer 8,bolivia10 from an absence of a year in their native ,scotland4 ,they have been for ten years connected with ,fisk ,university1 and have resumed their work in that institution4 ,by their visit they have been greatly refreshed in health4 ,they have been constantly engaged in private and public effort to interest their ,scottish people yet more in our work as related to the ,christianization of ,africa4 ,with their territorial and commercial interest in that dark continent1 ,british ,christians are all the more disposed to care for the religious welfare of the inhabitants of that country4 ,the many friends at the ,west who have heard the familiar talks of ,mrs4 ,spence1 will be prepared to believe that her recital of the ,freedman's story to the sisters of her motherland was greatly acceptable4 ,prof4 ,spence's mother1 who1 at the age of eighty-five1 recently contributed to the ,independent a poem on ,george ,mc,donald1 whom she had known from his childhood1 sent on the fee for her article to the treasury of the ,a4 ,m4 ,a4 99 99 99 99 99 ,revivals in ,summer ,time4--,the people of the ,north1 who are apt to be under the respite of vacation at this season of the year1 and who are addicted to special efforts for the promotion of revivals in the ,winter time1 are sometimes surprised to hear of such movements at the ,south during the heat of ,summer4 ,at first it seems quite creditable to the piety of our colored brethren that they should warm up to such service in dog days4 ,but the reason for selecting this season for such service is the same as that which at the ,north locates it in the ,winter4 ,that is the slack time of the year4 ,the corn and the cotton have been laid by1 and now there is leisure before the time comes for picking and harvesting4 ,the ,association of ,south-west ,texas meets at the middle of ,july1 and refuses to fix any other date for assembling1 desiring to use that 8set time0 for some revival effort1 and expecting to bless the entertaining church in that way4 ,we are hearing that nearly all of our churches in the ,south have been making more or less of special effort4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,southern ,sentinel1 a monthly1 published at ,talladega ,college1 under the new management of ,prof4 ,geo4 ,n4 ,ellis1 editor1 and ,p4 ,p4 ,green 7one of the students71 publisher1 is taking on more of freshness and of force4 ,a department of agriculture has been added4 ,this will be of great value4 ,in this we see the hand of the farm superintendent1 ,mr4 ,atkinson1 who went down from ,olivet ,college to help on in this part of the ,talladega movement4 99 99 99 99 99 8,what is that to thee8 ,follow thou me40--,this response of the ,master to ,peter's inquiry about the lot of ,john indicates the measure of consecration requisite on the part of those who are called to this missionary work among despised classes4 ,it is an unquestioning1 an unconditional obedience that is needed4 ,one may say3 8,others are staying at home and having easy times40 ,what is that to thee8 8,down there we may be sneered at and treated like pariahs40 ,what is that to thee8 8,it was easy up ,north to have been an abolitionist1 but to go and put yourself down by the side of and underneath the outcast ex-slave to try to raise him up1 that is another thing40 ,what is that to thee8 ,follow thou me4 ,follow my call2 follow my example in caring for 8these my brethren40 ,sympathy with the ,saviour in ,his love for souls1 in ,his self-forgetfulness while winning lost men to ,his ,gospel1 is the first qualification for this ,christly work4 ,it was a rigid scrutiny that set aside the few men that were to gain the victory of the ,lord at the hand of ,gideon4 ,a like carefulness of selection is necessary in this holy war4 ,it would enlist only those who give themselves to its cause with such alacrity that they stop not for personal ease1 but who lap their drink4 ,but the reward of those who thus follow the ,divine ,leader in this service is quick and ample4 ,they are a happy set of folks4 ,they love their work2 they love their people2 they have joy in their calling2 in this they are like returned foreign missionaries4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,worker at ,rest4--,mrs4 ,anna ,m4 7,day7 ,peebles departed this life at ,dudley1 ,n4 ,c41 on the #bhth of ,august4 ,educated at ,oberlin1 she had been one of our teachers in the ,washington ,school at ,raleigh1 ,n4 ,c41 serving also as teacher and leader of music4 ,something over a year ago she was married to ,rev4 ,david ,peebles1 of ,dudley1 ,n4 ,c41 where she took charge of the school1 becoming greatly successful and beloved in the same4 ,excelling as a teacher1 enthusiastic in the missionary aspect of her work1 and winsome among her associates and pupils1 her loss to our cause is greatly felt4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,death ,,of ,,father ,,jocelyn4 ,another ,christian hero has laid aside his armor and received his crown4 ,the ,lord did not break the dies when ,he made the last of the ancient ,martyrs or of the ,puritan heroes4 ,in great emergencies he reproduces them after their kind4 ,the anti-slavery struggle needed them and they came forth1 and among them there was no braver man than the gentle and amiable ,,simeon ,s4 ,,jocelyn4 ,it is a mistake to suppose that the bold and determined men who take front rank in great moral conflicts are destitute of kindly impulses4 ,father ,jocelyn was utterly uncompromising where duty called1 yet ,i have seldom known a man of more tender sympathies1 of quicker1 almost womanly sensibility to sorrow or suffering4 ,nor are all such men1 as is often imagined1 so intent on pushing forward their great reforms as to overlook the rights of others4 ,father ,jocelyn was most scrupulous in regard to the minutest claims of all men1 even of his opponents4 ,nor are all such seemingly rash and headlong men lacking in caution4 ,father ,jocelyn was the most cautious man ,i ever knew4 ,indeed this trait was1 in some sense1 a hindrance to his activity1 for he instinctively saw the many adverse bearings and possible misconstructions to the course contemplated or to the document to be published4 ,the marvel is that such a man could ever have become an abolitionist--that he could have risked reputation1 property1 and even life itself1 in an enterprise so doubtful of success and beset with so many dangers to the peace of the church and the nation4 ,the only explanation is in his clear perception1 through all glosses1 of the path of duty1 and the overwhelming impulse of conscience to pursue it in spite of all dangers4 ,of such stuff are moral heroes made4 ,the piety of ,father ,jocelyn was sincere1 deep and all-pervading4 ,he was a man of prayer and of close communion with ,god1 active in ,christian labors in public and private1 and of a beautiful simplicity and transparency of character--a saintly man4 ,a ,puritan by birth and conscientious conviction1 his religious life was after the strictest model1 yet his tender sympathies rendered him kind as well as faithful in counsel or warning1 while his broad ,christian charity made him liberal toward all who loved the ,saviour4 ,father ,jocelyn was born in ,new ,haven1 ,ct41 in #agii1 and was early converted to ,christ4 ,he began active life as an engraver1 but relinquished a prosperous business to preach the ,gospel to the poor1 devoting his ministry to a feeble colored church in ,new ,haven4 ,the anti-slavery cause from the beginning had his warmest sympathies and most earnest co-operation4 ,the ,american ,missionary ,association had no earlier or steadier friend4 ,when the ,amistad captives were landed in ,new ,london1 and prompt and persevering efforts were made to re-enslave them1 a committee of gentlemen was organized in ,new ,york to watch over their interests1 and at the head of that committee stands the name of ,s4 ,s4 ,jocelyn4 ,throughout the long struggle that secured their liberties and their return to their native land1 accompanied by a missionary and teacher1 ,mr4 ,jocelyn was constant in his active exertions2 and when at length that committee and other similar bodies were united in the formation of this ,association1 he was forward in founding1 and constant thereafter in sustaining the new organization4 ,he attended the meeting in ,albany when the ,association was formed4 ,he was its ,recording ,secretary from #ahdf to #ahec1 ,corresponding ,secretary with charge of the ,home ,department from #ahec to #ahfc1 and from that time till his death was a member of the ,executive ,committee4 ,we extract from an article in the ,advance1 by ,dr4 ,roy1 the following account of the funeral3 8,the funeral was held in the ,new ,england ,church of ,brooklyn1 ,e4 ,d41 where he had his membership4 ,in the large congregation there was a fine representation of colored people4 ,the ,executive ,committee and other officers of the ,american ,missionary ,association were present4 ,the pall-bearers were a squad of veterans of the old ,liberty ,guard4 ,the pastor1 ,rev4 ,mr4 ,hibbard1 presided4 ,a few words of affectionate sympathy with the brothers and sisters who had been bereaved of their father1 were spoken by ,rev4 ,j4 ,e4 ,roy1 whose father1 also at the age of eighty1 a few months before had been called away4 8,dr4 ,strieby spoke of the work of the departed in the ,american ,missionary ,association1 and especially with eloquent words depicted the tremendous moral courage1 the great cautiousness1 the womanly tenderness1 the transparent simplicity which were blended in his character4 ,strange that so sweet a man ever had the grit to take up the battle against slavery4 ,rev4 ,mr4 ,ray1 a colored minister1 who had known ,mr4 ,jocelyn1 and had been associated with him for forty years1 gave fitness to the occasion by his words of gratitude1 and by several telling reminiscences1--one of which was that1 in #ahci1 ,mr4 ,jocelyn came down from ,new ,haven to take up the gauntlet of debate upon the colonization question with ,mr4 ,robert ,finley4 ,the discussion was in a hall in ,nassau ,street1 and ,mr4 ,jocelyn's main reliance was the word of ,god4 8,rev4 ,mr4 ,lockwood1 a former pastor1 bore loving testimony4 ,dr4 ,edward ,beecher went back to an acquaintance of fifty years ago1 when a student in ,yale ,college1 under concern of soul1 he went to ,mr4 ,jocelyn4 ,he was such a spiritual1 faithful ,christian as a young man in passing that crisis would be apt to seek out4 ,dr4 ,b4 was associated with him in his ,sabbath-school and church work among the colored people1 and carried with him that same impulse when he went to ,illinois ,college1 and stood by ,elijah ,p4 ,lovejoy until they shot him down4 ,in closing1 ,dr4 ,beecher said that the words appropriate to the character of the departed were3 #8,in simplicity and godly sincerity1 not with fleshly wisdom1 but by the grace of ,god1 we have had our conversation in the world4'0 ,m4 ,e4 ,,strieby4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,random ,,suggestions4 ,will the ,exodus ,affect the ,work of the ,association in the ,south8 ,i answer without hesitation1 it will not4 ,to the present time the exodus movement has been confined very largely to the disturbed parishes1 or to certain exceptional cases where the conditions of labor have been oppressive4 ,in ,new ,orleans1 while conventions and open-air meetings have been held1 and the policy of emigration has been discussed1 but few of the ,freedmen have decided to leave the ,state and find a home in ,kansas4 ,there is a restless1 dissatisfied feeling among the masses of the negroes1 especially the poorer classes1 induced by the glowing appeals made to them2 but the exodus has not assumed1 and ,i believe will not assume1 large proportions4 ,the masses will stay on ,southern soil and abide in ,southern homes4 ,my opinion is based upon the supposition that their rights1 social1 educational and religious1 and their rights also as laborers1 will not be invaded or denied beyond what they are at present4 ,in ,new ,orleans #de per cent4 of the population is colored1 and in the ,state at large #ee per cent4 ,i do not believe that this ratio will be materially changed by the exodus4 ,and even if a few thousands of ,freedmen left the ,south in search of warmer hospitality1 an increased compensation for labor1 and a more equitable recognition of their rights as citizens1 it would not lessen the possibilities of good afforded to the ,association4 ,should a half million go away1 there would still be four and a half millions left to be instructed and helped in their race struggle for higher intelligence and a purer religious life4 ,press forward1 then1 the glorious work of education4 ,hasten the full equipment of the normal schools and colleges for the wider1 grander work before them4 ,let new churches be planted1 and the pure gospel of ,christ be preached all over the beautiful and fruitful ,south1 wherever the ,freedman has his home4 ,the work is not one of a generation1 but of a century4 ,student ,aid4 ,to secure1 at the earliest day1 one of the chief objects of the ,association--the thorough education of colored young men and women as teachers and ministers1 who shall be competent to lead the masses of their race to a higher civilization--special aid must be given to those whose minds and hearts give promise of usefulness4 ,a large number who propose to seek only an elementary education1 or those who reside in the city where a school of high grade is located1 do not require aid from abroad4 ,the wise policy of the instructors in our institutions is to search for young men and women of promise1 and encourage them to pursue a full course of study1 and to watch over them till the benefits they receive are made a valued possession not only to themselves but to their race4 ,what are the facts in the case8 ,the best material is often remote from the college1 and utterly lacking in pecuniary ability4 ,many of the brightest1 the most intellectual of the children of the ,freedmen1 who are intensely anxious for an education1 and have a praiseworthy ambition to be fitted for positions of responsibility and usefulness1 are denied the privileges of the college by reason of extreme poverty4 ,many others are able to meet a part of the cost of an education1 but without benevolent aid must stop short of a full course of study4 ,i am just now in receipt of a letter from a worthy and talented young man near ,new ,orleans4 ,i quote a sentence to show its import3 8,i have the same mind to work in the cause of ,christ and prepare to preach ,his word4 ,i think ,i have been called to engage in this work and cannot be satisfied unless ,i do4 ,dear brother1 ,i do now most solemnly appeal to you and the good brethren in the ,north to aid me to an education40 ,this is one instance of hundreds which could be cited4 ,another fact deserves earnest consideration4 ,we need to conserve and utilize for the general good the partial education which the graduates of our colleges have secured4 ,at the present time this is not done as it should be1 and as it might be1 if special student aid were available4 ,many graduates go forth from the college who are lost to view4 ,after so much patient labor has been bestowed upon them--and in some instances special pecuniary aid given--they should be encouraged in every way to devote themselves to the greatest good of their people4 ,take the last class in ,straight ,university as an illustration4 ,we graduated eight students1 all bright1 talented and promising1 and1 grandest of all1 ,christians4 ,all are poor--some of them extremely poor4 ,their education has cost them a hard1 patient struggle4 ,they desire to become teachers of the highest rank4 ,the young men are looking to the learned professions4 ,in order to attain what they desire1 and what we desire for them1 they should take a post-graduate course4 ,the young men1 if ,god calls them to the work1 should take a three years' course of theological instruction4 ,but left alone1 without outside aid1 they will be compelled to work for their daily bread1 and for them their school days will have forever passed4 ,is it not worth while to say to these young men3 8,come back to the ,university1 and the ,christian benevolence of the ,north will see you through one1 two or three years more of study1 and then we shall claim you for the college1 for the church1 and for the work of ,god4 ,henceforth you are not your own1 but must go wherever ,god shall call you1 and stand in the forefront of every great and good movement for the elevation of your race40 ,to-day1 if a worthy ,christian young man or woman appeals to us1 8,can you not aid me to keep on in my studies80 our answer is a sorrowful one1 8,there is no fund that can be appropriated to that purpose40 ,will not good men think of this and make a grand possibility of good a fact gloriously realized8 ,w4 ,s4 ,,alexander4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,strong ,,appeal4 ,we present below a forcible appeal for student aid4 ,such aid is essential1 and the question of obtaining it in sufficient amount to meet the demand lies at the bottom of the whole possibility of educating the colored youth of the ,south4 ,if scholarships and educational funds are important to the white students of the ,north1 how much more to the colored students at the ,south1 where employment is so poorly paid1 and the money so hard to be collected when earned6 ,this appeal is but a sample of the cry that comes from all our institutions--,atlanta1 ,talladega1 ,tougaloo1 ,new ,orleans1 and the rest4 ,an illustration may be seen in the foregoing article by ,rev4 ,w4 ,s4 ,alexander1 ,president of ,straight ,university4 ,but we must warn our patrons not to divert their contributions from our ordinary work to this special object1 for if this is done1 we might as well furnish this student help directly from our treasury4 ,then where would be the money to sustain the teachers8--and they must be sustained1 or the schools closed4 ,the only solution of the problem is for the friends of the ,freedmen to enlarge their contributions to meet both wants4 ,we most importunately urge our patrons not to starve the teacher in order to aid the scholar1 but help both4 ,what ,shall ,we ,do8 ,will a goodly number of the readers of the ,,american ,,missionary tell us8 ,the case can be best set forth by giving a single illustration4 ,on the ,saturday evening preceding the ,monday on which the new school year of ,fisk ,university was to begin1 a young man was brought to my room by one of our former students1 who introduced him as being from ,montgomery1 ,alabama4 ,i found on inquiry1 and from a letter which he brought from a prominent colored man of that city1 that he had determined to get an education1 and having but little money1 had made up his mind to walk from ,montgomery to ,nashville1 a distance of three hundred miles1 with the hope of finding some way by which he might be admitted as a student in ,fisk ,university4 ,fortunately1 a prominent citizen of ,montgomery was able to secure him a pass on the railroad1 one hundred miles1 to ,birmingham1 and a student of ,fisk ,university who happened to meet him at ,columbia1 ,tenn41 used the little spare money he had in his pocket to help him on his way twenty miles toward ,nashville4 ,what do the friends of education among the colored people of the ,south wish us to do with such cases8 ,the ,university has no means of its own with which to help such young people1 and this instance is but an illustration of very many similar cases which we are compelled to decide every year4 ,from the correspondence of teachers1 and through the cases known personally by the comparatively few of our old students who have already returned from their summer's work1 we could number up to-day1 which is only the fourth day after the opening of the school1 at least forty instances of young men and young women of known character and ability who are eager and anxious to come to ,fisk ,university to fit themselves for teaching and other ,christian work among their people1 who cannot come because they have not and cannot get sufficient money4 ,the number will be doubled by the time this article reaches our friends through the ,,american ,,missionary4 ,in many cases they can pay from five to seven dollars of the twelve dollars a month required for their board and tuition4 ,we find from actual experience that an average of fifty dollars will help at least one such struggling student to support for a year in ,fisk ,university4 ,the balance and the money necessary to purchase books they can generally provide for themselves4 ,we ask the readers of the ,,american ,,missionary what we shall do with these cases4 ,any one who will send us a thousand dollars will answer the question for at least twenty4 ,every fifty dollars will give the answer in the case of one4 ,our hearts ache when we are compelled to refuse1 for the want of money1 these eager applications4 ,every one who has an answer to give us can send it to ,h4 ,w4 ,hubbard1 ,assistant ,treasurer of the ,american ,missionary ,association at ,new ,york--and we know the answer will suffer no long delay in his hands--or to ,e4 ,p4 ,gilbert1 ,assistant ,treasurer of ,fisk ,university1 ,nashville1 ,tenn4 ,all students helped will in due time communicate by letter with those who thus befriend them4 ,will not every individual or ,sabbath-school that contributed last year to help aid students continue that help for the coming year1 and give us the earliest possible information of such intention8 ,e4 ,m4 ,,cravath1 ,pres4 ,fisk ,university4 ,,the ,,language ,,of ,,equatorial ,,africa4 ,great interest has been awakened in the geographical discoveries that have been made in ,central ,equatorial ,africa during the last twenty-five years4 ,this vast and newly-explored country is no doubt the choicest portion of the whole ,african continent4 ,the inhabitants1 with the exception of a few mixed tribes along its outer borders1 all belong to one great family4 ,a line starting from the ,cameroon ,mountains on the western coast1 second degree north latitude1 and drawn1 with some slight variations1 directly across the continent to the same degree of latitude on the east coast1 divides the negro race into two distinct families1 perhaps of nearly equal size4 ,the one1 occupying the country north of this line to the southern borders of the ,great ,desert1 is known as the ,nigritian stock1 from the fact that they are to be found mainly in the valley of the ,niger4 ,the other1 and the one to which our article mainly refers1 is known as the ,ethiopian or ,nilotic family1 from its supposed descent from the ancient ,ethiopians1 whose chief residence was the banks of the ,nile4 ,one general language1 with great divergence as to dialects1 prevails over this whole region of country4 ,there are not only verbal resemblances1 but there is a peculiar grammatical structure1 scarcely known to any other language1 that pervades and characterizes all the dialects of this one great family4 ,a very large number of words are common to the ,mpongwe dialect on the west coast1 and the ,swahili on the east1 as may be seen from a grammar of the ,mpongwe1 published by the missionaries at the ,gaboon years ago4 ,if the words used by three or four tribes along the coast of ,southern ,guinea could be fully collated1 they would be found to contain not less1 perhaps1 than four-fifths of all the words used over the whole of this vast region4 ,but apart from these verbal resemblances1 there are certain features of orthography that establish the relationship between these dialects quite as clearly4 ,to mention no others1 the use of m and n--as if they were preceded by a sort of half-vowel sound--before certain other consonants1 at the beginning of words1 is very peculiar4 ,m is constantly used before b1 p1 t1 and w1 as in the words mbolo1 mpolu1 mtesa1 and mwera4 ,so n is constantly used before k1 t1 y1 and gw1 as in the words nkala1 ntondo1 nyassa1 and ngwe4 ,the combination of ny occurs in the names of most of the great lakes1 as ,nyassa1 ,nyanza1 and ,tanganyika4 ,a still more striking feature of relationship between these dialects may be found in the combinations by which proper names are formed4 ,the names of a large proportion of the tribes encountered by ,stanley and ,cameron on their journeys across the continent commence with the letter u1 as ,uganda1 ,unyoro1 and ,ujiji1 c4 ,now1 by prefixing ma1 and dropping the initial u1 we have ,maganda1 a person or citizen of ,uganda2 ,manyoro1 a person or citizen of ,unyoro4 ,so by prefixing wa instead of ma1 we get ,waganda1 they1 or the people of ,uganda4 ,now1 in the ,mpongwe dialect1 ma is simply a contraction of oma1 person1 and wa or wao is the personal pronoun for they1 showing how these proper names are formed4 ,again1 many of the names of these tribes terminate in ana4 ,ana1 in the ,mpongwe dialect1 is an abbreviation of awana1 children or descendants4 ,if the names of ,bechuana and ,wangana could be analyzed1 they would be found to mean the children or descendants of ,bechu or ,wanga1 this being the way of giving names to any particular family that separates itself from the parent stock4 ,but the peculiar character of this language is more remarkable than its wide diffusion4 ,taking the ,mpongwe dialect as a specimen1 we have no hesitation in saying that it will be difficult to find any language1 ancient or modern1 that is more systematic or philosophical in its general arrangements1 more marked in the classification of its different parts of speech or their relationship to each other1 or in the extent of its inflections1 especially those of the verb4 ,the existence of such a language among an uncultivated people is simply a marvel4 ,as many as three hundred oblique forms can be derived from the root of every regular ,mpongwe verb1 each one of which will have a clear and distinct shade of meaning of its own1 and yet so regular and systematic in all its inflections1 that a practiced philologist could1 after a few hours' study1 trace up any of even its most remote forms to the original root4 ,it is not intended to convey the idea that all these forms are habitually used1 for that would indicate a much more extended vocabulary than could reasonably be expected among an uncultivated people4 ,but there is no form of the verb1 notwithstanding its extensive ramifications1 that would not be distinctly understood by an audience1 even if they had never heard it used before4 ,it will be seen1 therefore1 that the vocabulary may be expanded to an almost unlimited extent4 ,it is not only expansible1 but it has a wonderful capacity for conveying new ideas4 ,the missionaries laboring among these people1 after they had acquired a thorough knowledge of the structure of this wonderful language1 were surprised to find with how much ease they could use it to convey religious ideas4 ,in their native state the people had no knowledge of the ,christian religion1 and1 of course1 used no terms for saviour or salvation1 for redeemer or redemption1 etc4 ,they had1 however1 the terms sunga1 to save1 and danduna1 to redeem1 or pay a ransom4 ,now1 according to a well established law of grammar1 ozunge is a saviour1 and isungina is salvation2 similarly from danduna comes olandune1 the redeemer1 and ilanduna1 redemption3--so that they could at once get a tolerably correct idea of these terms1 and there was no need 7as there is in most unwritten languages7 to call in the aid of foreign words4 ,without multiplying illustrations of a similar character1 it will be seen that the language is not only flexible and expansive to a very remarkable degree1 but is suitable beyond almost any other known language to convey religious instruction to the minds of the people4 ,it has been preserved1 no doubt1 by a wise ,providence for this very purpose4 ,the providence of ,god towards this great family1 therefore1 seems to be very marked and significant4 ,they have been preserved for centuries in great numbers and vigorous manhood1 notwithstanding their perpetual intestine strifes and the cruel desolations that have been occasioned by the slave trade1 along both their eastern and western borders4 ,they are in possession of a country that is not only healthful and productive1 but whose navigable streams seem to have been traced out by the finger of ,divine ,providence for the twofold purpose of facilitating intercommunication among the people themselves1 and of furthering the rapid diffusion of the ,gospel wherever it has once gained a footing4 ,then their language1 with all its wonderful characteristics1 seems to have been kept by the ,divine hand as an easy channel through which the light and blessings of the ,gospel might1 in ,god's own good time1 reach their dark and benighted minds4 ,j4 ,,leighton ,,wilson1 in ,the ,catholic ,presbyterian4 99 99 99 99 99 ,a ,,strange ,,but ,,true ,,story4 ,,by ,,mrs4 ,h4 ,g4 ,,guiness4 ,a wealthy farmer who cultivated some thousands of acres1 had1 by his benevolence1 endeared himself greatly to his large staff of laborers4 ,he had occasion to leave the country in which his property was situated1 for some years2 but1 before doing so1 he gave his people clearly to understand that he wished the whole of the cultivated land to be kept in hand1 and all the unclaimed marsh lands to be enclosed and drained1 and brought into cultivation--that even the hills were to be terraced1 and the poor mountain pastures manured--so that no single corner of the estate should remain neglected and barren4 ,ample resources were left for the execution of these works1 and there were sufficient hands to have accomplished the whole within the first few years of the proprietor's absence4 ,he was detained in the country to which he had been called very many years4 ,those whom he left children were men and women when he came back1 and so the number of his tenantry and laborers was vastly multiplied4 ,was the task he had given them to do accomplished8 ,alas6 no4 ,bog and moor and mountain waste were only wilder and more desolate than ever4 ,fine rich virgin soil1 by thousands of acres1 was bearing only briars and thistles4 ,meadow after meadow was utterly barren for want of culture2 nay1 by far the larger part of the farm seemed never to have been visited by his servants4 ,had they been idle8 ,some had1 but large numbers had been industrious enough4 ,they had expended a vast amount of labor1 and skilled labor1 too2 but they had bestowed it all on the park immediately around the house4 ,this had been cultivated to such a pitch of perfection that the workmen had scores of times quarreled with each other1 because the operations of one interfered with his neighbor4 ,and a vast amount of labor1 too1 had been lost in sowing the same patch--for instance1 with corn fifty times over in one season1 so that the seed never had time to germinate and grow and bear fruit2 in caring for the forest trees as if they had been tender saplings2 in manuring soils already too fat1 and watering pastures already too wet4 ,the farmer was positively astonished at the misplaced ingenuity with which labor and seed and manure1 skill and time and strength1 had been wasted for no result4 ,the very same amount of toil and capital expended according to his directions1 would have brought the whole demesne into culture1 and yielded a noble revenue4 ,but season after season had rolled away in sad succession1 leaving those unbounded areas of various but all reclaimable soil1 barren and useless2 and1 as to the park1 it would have been far more productive and perfect had it been relieved of the extraordinary and unaccountable amount of energy expended on it4 ,why did these laborers act so absurdly8 ,did they wish to labor in vain8 ,on the contrary1 they were forever craving for fruit1 coveting good crops1 longing for great results4 ,did they not wish to carry out the farmer's views about his property8 ,well1 they seemed to have that desire1 for they were always reading the directions he wrote1 and said continually to each other1 8,you know we have to bring the whole property into order20 but they did not do it4 ,some few tried1 and ploughed up a little plot here and there1 and sowed corn and other crops4 ,perhaps these failed1 and so the rest got discouraged4 ,oh no6 the yield was magnificent2 far richer in proportion than they got themselves4 ,they clearly perceived that1 but yet they failed to follow a good example4 ,nay1 when the labors of a few1 in some distant valley1 had resulted in a crop they were all unable to gather in by themselves1 the others would not even go and help them to bring home the sheaves4 ,they preferred watching for weeds among the roses in the overcrowded garden1 and counting the blades of grass in the park and the leaves on the trees4 ,then they were fools1 surely1 not wise men8--traitors1 not true servants to their lord8 ,oh6 ,i can't tell6 ,you must ask him that4 ,i only know that the ,master said1 8,go ye into all the world1 and preach the ,gospel to every creature40 ,and eighteen hundred and seventy-seven years after they had not even mentioned that there was a ,gospel to one-half of the world6--,china's ,millions4 ,,items ,,from ,,the ,,field4 ,,memphis1 ,,tenn4--,thus far1 during the epidemic of this year1 none of the scholars of the ,le ,moyne ,institute and none of the members of the ,second ,congregational ,church 7colored7 have suffered4 ,,atlanta1 ,,ga4--,the ,storrs ,school was opened on the first of ,september1 with #bej scholars1 under the continued principalship of ,miss ,amy ,williams1 who is assisted by ,misses ,abby ,clark1 ,julia ,goodwin1 ,amelia ,ferris and ,f4 ,j4 ,morris4 ,miss ,m4 ,e4 ,stevenson has been transferred from the position of a teacher to that of lady missionary for the city1 representing the ladies of the two churches of ,oberlin4 ,,brunswick1 ,,ga4--,mr4 ,morse writes3 8,my school has been free the entire year4 ,we have averaged over ninety for the year of ten months4 ,i think many have been made wiser and better4 ,some have connected themselves with the churches there4 ,we are having a season of great ,christian interest in the ,congregational ,church of this city1 under ,brother ,clarke's care4 ,two of our ,sunday-school scholars1 and now supernumerary teachers1 have given their hearts to the ,saviour4 ,our hope is the schools2 take them away and ,i would not give anything for ,congregationalism among the colored people4 ,i had no idea of touching this matter when ,i began to write40 ,,macon1 ,,ga4--,rev4 ,s4 ,e4 ,lathrop1 who has been at ,atlanta for three months1 running down to supply his church meantime1 in a private letter1 describes a day of work as follows3 8,brother ,young wrote me from ,byron to come down there and baptize some candidates for him4 ,in the morning ,i went out from ,macon 7seventeen miles by rail71 rode three miles from the church to the creek in a lumber wagon with fourteen other colored folks1 getting caught in a shower on the way4 ,arrived at a grist-mill1 in which ,i changed clothes 7preparing for immersion71 with the flour-dust half an inch deep everywhere4 ,waded into the creek and immersed four candidates1 three men and one woman1 all of whom behaved excellently well1 without any shouting or gymnastics2 the seal of sprinkling being set upon us by another sudden shower just as we came out of the water4 ,rode back to the church1 preached1 administered communion1 received the four persons to membership1 and baptized an infant4 ,had just time for a good dinner of #8chicken fixins1' and took the train back to ,macon1 arriving at six p4 m4 of a close1 sultry day4 ,walked one and a half miles and back through the sweltering heat1 to see a sick girl who wants to join our church4 ,got back just in time for evening service1 and preached4 ,came back here yesterday1 and have felt #8bunged up' ever since40 ,,no4 #a ,,miller',s ,,station1 ,,ga4--8,on the #bgth of ,august1 one of the members of this church died2 or1 perhaps1 ,i should express it better if ,i said he fell asleep--for it seemed more like sleep than death4 ,the brother had not been a member of the church for one year yet2 but all who saw him before his death felt sure that he was a saved man4 ,he was over #gf years of age1 and was one of those who had left off drinking since ,i came here4 ,he was so determined on leaving it off that he would not take the communion with us the last time he was present at our services4 ,he said he was afraid it would lead him to rum drinking again4 ,in his case was shown the power of the ,gospel4 ,he had lived in sin for #ge years2 yet1 by the grace of ,god1 and the power of ,his word1 he was set free from the power of ,satan4 ,during his short ,christian life he was kept from the sin of strong drink1 and when he died he went to live with ,jesus4 ,a few hours before his death he said to me3 #8,all ,i want now is to see my dear ,jesus2 ,i have given up all for ,his sake2 do1 blessed ,jesus1 come and take me when you are ready4'0 8,,the ,,first ,,commencement ,,on ,,the ,,ogeechee0 is the way in which ,pastor ,mc,lean1 of ,ga41 announces the closing exercises of his parish school4 ,never before had those rice swamps caught the echoes of the children's eloquence4 ,in the twenty-eight orations and two dialogues there was not a failure4 ,and when the fathers and mothers had a chance to express their gratitude1 it was a burst of 8,god bless you1 brother40 ,best of all1 of the ninety-five who have been connected with the school during the year1 twenty-five have become the disciples of the ,great ,master since the school was opened4 ,,talladega1 ,,ala4--,the ,catalogue of the ,college for the last year reports #bad students in all the departments4 ,this number includes the dozen theological students who have been under the training of ,prof4 ,g4 ,w4 ,andrews4 ,their names are ,andrew ,j4 ,headen1 ,p4 ,w4 ,young and ,w4 ,s4 ,williams1 who were graduated this year2 and also these1 who are to study one year more1 though they have all been licensed1 ,j4 ,b4 ,grant1 ,byron ,gunner1 ,john ,w4 ,strong1 ,john ,r4 ,sims1 ,yancy ,b4 ,sims1 ,j4 ,w4 ,roberts1 ,h4 ,w4 ,conley and ,spencer ,snell4 ,,lawsonville1 ,,ala4--,while the people of this place are engaged in building a church1 they are enjoying a season of revival under their ,talladega minister1 ,rev4 ,j4 ,w4 ,strong4 ,,mt4 ,,spring1 ,,ala4--,rev4 ,alfred ,jones1 of ,childersburg1 having preached a week at the out-station1 ,mt4 ,spring1 was permitted to rejoice in the conversion of fourteen persons4 ,a half dozen have also united with his church at home upon profession4 ,,the ,,cove1 ,,ala4--,rev4 ,j4 ,b4 ,grant has been assisted at this place by his fellow theologues1 ,y4 ,b4 ,sim1 ,t4 ,t4 ,benson1 ,j4 ,r4 ,sims1 and by ,rev4 ,p4 ,j4 ,mc,entosh1 in a series of meetings which have resulted in great good4 ,,new ,,orleans1 ,,la4--,rev4 ,d4 ,l4 ,mitchel1 who is in charge of the ,presbyterian ,book ,depository in this city1 is supplying the ,central ,church 7,rev4 ,w4 ,s4 ,alexander's7 during the summer vacation4 ,he writes thus under a recent date3 8,the congregation is quite regular in attendance1 about seventy1 and the attention is excellent4 ,the prayer meetings are also well attended1 and the spiritual condition steadily improving4 ,i think this one of the most important fields in the ,south1 and one of the most hopeful4 ,may the blessing of our heavenly ,father abide with your corps of ,christian workers and give them abundant success in their self-denying labors40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,general ,,notes4 ,the ,freedmen4 --,of #adb cases of yellow fever reported at ,memphis during the week1 ,august #ahth to #bdth1 #gi were of colored people--about one-half4 ,about three-eighths of the total population are colored4 --,among the colored refugees in ,kansas is an entire ,baptist church of #cjj persons led by the pastor and deacons4 ,they were from ,delta1 ,la4 --,sojourner ,truth1 the famous colored woman1 who is now #ajc years old1 is at ,chicago1 en route to ,kansas1 to make a study of the colored exodus4 --,governor ,st4 ,john1 of ,kansas1 believes that the colored exodus has only begun2 that it is not unlikely that it will soon re-open1 and reach to hundreds of thousands in its numbers4 --,the current catalogue of ,howard ,university reports a total of #bcf students for the year4 ,of these1 #ba are in the ,theological department1 #fd in the ,medical1 #aj in the ,law1 #ag in the ,college1 #af in the ,preparatory1 and #hg in the ,normal4 ,this ,association for the third year sustains one-half the expense of the ,theological department4 ,rev4 ,dr4 ,craighead of this city1 many years connected with ,the ,evangelist1 has been appointed to the chair of ,theology1 made vacant by the death of ,prof4 ,lorenzo ,westcott4 ,dr4 ,craighead has accepted1 and is to enter upon duty this fall4 ,the ,law and ,medical departments are under the instruction of resident lawyers and doctors in ,washington4 ,rev4 ,wm4 ,w4 ,patton1 ,d4,d41 is ,president and ,professor of ,intellectual and ,moral ,philosophy1 ,natural ,theology1 and ,evidences of ,revealed ,religion1 also ,instructor in ,hebrew4 ,an appropriation of ten thousand dollars was made by the last ,congress exclusively for the benefit of the ,college2 not a dollar is to go to sustain the professional courses4 ,it is fitting that the ,government1 which1 through the ,freedmen's ,bureau1 did so much to found the institution1 should help it along in its straits4 ,prof4 ,r4 ,i4 ,greener1 of the ,law department1 before the ,american ,association for the ,advancement of ,science1 in session at ,saratoga1 joined issue with ,frederick ,douglass in the discussion of the exodus question4 ,he is a man of platform popularity4 ,it must have been a touching scene when ,col4 ,thos4 ,j4 ,kirkpatrick1 of ,virginia1 and ,frederick ,douglass1 in the meeting of the ,howard ,board of ,trust1 joined hands in mutual expression of regard--the ex-slaveholder and the ex-slave4 --,the ,marysville ,college in ,east ,tennessee1 founded before the war by the ,new ,school ,presbyterians1 now under the presidency of ,rev4 ,peter ,mason ,bartlett1 who has also a brother in one of the professorships1 received some of the funds of the ,freedmen's ,bureau1 upon the condition that its doors should ever stand open to colored as well as white students4 ,this provision has been carried out in spite of local prejudice1 so that all along there have been a few students of the ,african race among its numbers4 ,this institution is to be praised for fidelity to the bond4 ,some schools that received from the same fund1 on the same conditions1 have not stood to the contract4 --,aunt ,kelly1 now living at ,troy1 ,missouri1 at an advanced age1 but 8bred1 born1 and raised in ole ,virginny10 told the writer1 that1 when a young woman1 she sawed the lumber for the building of the ,state ,university4 ,for that matter1 the labor in building the mass of the literary institutions of the ,south was performed by the colored people4 ,it is1 then1 only a piece of reciprocity that the several ,states of that region should now provide public schools for that class of their citizens4 ,old ,virginia appropriates ten thousand dollars a year to the ,hampton ,institute2 ,south ,carolina aids the ,claflin ,university 7,methodist71 and other ,states are doing a like generous thing4 99 99 99 99 99 ,africa4 --,of the twenty-three new missionaries sent out by the ,church ,missionary ,society during the last year1 three were for ,west ,africa and five for the ,nyanza ,mission4 ,of the eighteen new this year1 two are for ,west ,africa and two for the ,nyanza ,mission1 to be stationed at ,mpwapwa4 ,mr4 ,price is1 for the present1 the only ordained missionary at the station4 ,mr4 ,cole is to devote himself largely to the industrial interests of the ,mission with a view to its self-support at as early a day as may be found possible4 ,dr4 ,baxter and ,mr4 ,last have already occupied the field for a year4 ,in the instructions given them at a farewell meeting it was said3 8,not only is it made more and more clear that ,mpwapwa is in a sense the key to the ,lake district1 and likely to remain so for many years to come1 and hence important with a view to the work carried on in the interior by other societies as well as the ,c4 ,m4 ,s41 but there is also no doubt that from it1 as a centre1 missionary work may be carried on both among the natives inhabiting the ,usagara ,mountains and amid the manly and numerous race inhabiting the ,ugogo country40 --,the same ,society reports that its work in behalf of the freed slaves in ,east ,africa is beginning to bear spiritual fruit4 ,the improved condition of the settlement at ,frere ,town1 materially and morally1 has been reported from time to time2 but the spiritual results hitherto have been comparatively small4 ,until lately no mention has been made of the gospel's taking root among the poor liberated slaves rescued by ,her ,majesty's cruisers1 and handed over to the ,mission in the ,autumn of #ahge1 to the number of nearly #cjj1 and perhaps another #ajj in smaller detachments since4 ,mr4 ,streeter now reports the baptism of thirty-two of them on their own confession of faith1 besides infants4 ,the ,rev4 ,a4 ,menzies reached ,frere ,town ,june #ast4 --,the ,free ,church of ,scotland reports the transfer of ,miss ,waterston to the new field at ,livingstonia4 ,miss ,w4 has for seven years been the successful superintendent of the female seminary at ,lovedale4 ,she is fully qualified as a medical missionary1 and carries the confidence and good wishes of all who know her4 ,says the ,monthly ,record3 ,she means to go first to ,lovedale1 where she will halt for a short time in order to select coadjutors from among her former pupils4 ,she hopes to induce some of them to accompany her to the sphere of her future labors1 where they will be employed as teachers1 and in other departments of the work4 ,when ,dr4 ,stewart first started for ,lake ,nyassa1 so many of the ,lovedale young men volunteered for service under their noble missionary's banner1 that he found it impossible to accept of half the number4 ,from what we have heard of the young women1 they are not likely to be behind in courage and zeal1 nor is ,miss ,waterston likely to be disappointed in her hope of volunteers4 ,her aim will be now1 as formerly1 to blend ,christian teaching with efforts to civilize and elevate1 and1 as opportunity offers1 to gather the young into boarding and industrial schools4 ,she will also help ,dr4 ,laws in his dispensary and other medical work among the women4 ,the only other lady who has gone to ,livingstonia is to be the wife of the well-known missionary1 ,dr4 ,laws1 who so ably conducts the ,free ,church ,mission there2 and at ,blantyre1 the station of the ,established ,church of ,scotland1 there already resides the wife of one of the missionaries--,mrs4 ,duff ,mc,donald4 --,when the missionary steamer owned by the mission of the ,free ,church of ,scotland was to be placed on ,lake ,nyassa1 the leader of the expedition applied to the chief of the tribe for reliable help to carry the craft around the ,murchison ,cataracts4 ,the chief responded by sending eight hundred women1--a compliment certainly to the trustworthiness of the sex4 8,some of them came fifty miles1 bringing their provisions with them4 ,these women were intrusted with the whole1 when if a single portion of the steamer had been lost1 the whole scheme would have failed4 ,they carried it in two hundred and fifty loads in five days1 under a tropical sun1 seventy-five miles1 to an elevation of #a1hjj feet1 and not a nail or screw was lost4 ,they #8trusted the ,englishman1' asking no questions of wages1 and receiving each six yards of calico2 and for the sake of being liberal1 each was given an extra yard40--,heathen ,woman's ,friend4 --,the sudden death of ,rev4 ,dr4 ,mullens1 of peritonitis1 at ,aden1 is announced4 ,he has been for some years a ,christian leader in ,great ,britain1 and his opinions have had great weight with intelligent ,christians throughout the world4 ,he has been the chief ,corresponding ,secretary of the great ,london ,missionary ,society during about twenty years--a position of great responsibility and usefulness1 and one of the most influential in the ,church of ,christ4 ,before he was called to this service he had been for many years a successful missionary in ,india4 ,two or three months ago1 by his own request--if memory serves us faithfully--he was appointed by the ,society to accompany a band of young missionaries to ,zanzibar1 and to go on1 if necessary1 if his judgment so decided1 to ,lake ,tanganyika1 in the heart of ,southern ,africa4 ,it was expected that his strong sense and remarkable executive ability would see and organize some method to overcome the serious obstacles and difficulties which lie in the path of missions to ,central ,africa4 ,on arriving at ,zanzibar1 ,dr4 ,mullens decided1 in the exercise of the discretion given him by the ,board1 to proceed onward1 in company with ,messrs4 ,griffith and ,southon1 to ,lake ,tanganyika4 ,the party left ,zanzibar on the afternoon of ,friday1 ,june #acth1 and having landed at ,saadani1 started for the interior4 ,letters dated ,ndumi1 ,june #afth1 report that all the members of the expedition were in excellent health1 and were well on their way westward4 ,news of his death on the #ajth of ,july has brought sadness to many hearts outside of the circle who will most deeply miss his counsels and mourn his loss4 ,he was not yet fifty-nine years of age1 and was one of the foremost men of the present time in foreign missions1 having been1 perhaps1 the most prominent leader in the ,basle ,missionary ,conference held in ,october last4 --,there is now an unbroken chain of communication by steam from ,england to the northern end of ,lake ,nyassa in ,central ,africa1 excepting seventy miles of the ,murchison ,cataracts in the ,shire ,river2 and it is ascertained that ,lakes ,nyassa and ,tanganyika are but #acj miles apart1 instead of #bej4 --,the ,london ,daily ,telegraph says3 ,among many interesting particulars of discoveries brought from ,africa by the gallant ,portuguese explorer1 ,major ,serpa ,pinto1 none is more absorbing than his story of the white people encountered between the rivers ,cubango and ,cuando4 ,serpa ,pinto found in these districts a tribe absolutely ,european in tint1 yet nowise of the ,albino type1 for the hair was black and woolly4 ,he described them as uglier than the plainest negroes1 and lower in civilization than any race met with1 having receding foreheads1 slanting eyes like the ,chinese1 prominent cheek-bones1 and hanging lower lips4 ,the appearance fails to do much credit to the white men whom they resemble4 ,who1 then1 and whence1 are these people1 so strangely recalling the tribe spoken of by ,mr4 ,stanley between the equatorial lakes8 --,late news from ,bishop ,crowther's mission1 on the ,niger ,river1 ,africa1 states that one of the chiefs1 ,captain ,hart1 who had been most active at ,bonny in the persecution of ,christian converts1 is dead4 ,on his death-bed he commanded that all his idols be destroyed1 warning his followers to have nothing more to do with idol worship4 ,the next day after his death the heathen fell upon the collection of idols with a will4 ,archdeacon ,crowther writes3 8,early this morning they began to destroy the jujus4 ,the work of destruction is great4 ,the poor gods and goddesses are having very hard times in late ,captain ,hart's quarters now4 ,they are handled in a most unceremonious and rough manner4 ,two canoe-loads1 it is said1 have found their resting-place in the deepest part of the river1 and those that float and will not sink are broken into ever so many pieces4 ,floating wrecks of idols made and worshiped since the days of ,captain ,hart's father are to be seen dotted all over the creek to the river in the shipping4 ,imprecations and abuses have taken the place of worship40 ,bishop ,crowther reports that1 after a long season at ,bonny1 in which1 owing to persecution1 there were no converts1 eight persons have been baptized4 --,dr4 ,john ,kirk1 the ,british ,consul-,general at ,zanzibar1 ,africa1 writes that ,keith ,johnson1 the leader of the expedition to explore the head of ,lake ,nyassa1 died of dysentery on the #bgth of ,june1 at ,berobero1 #acj miles inland from ,dar-es-,salaam4 ,the expedition will be continued by ,mr4 ,thomson1 the scientific assistant of ,mr4 ,johnson4 --,mr4 ,john ,s4 ,hartland reports his arrival at ,bonny1 and ,mr4 ,w4 ,h4 ,bentley at ,sierra ,leone1 on the ,west ,coast of ,africa4 ,they are both on their way to the ,english ,baptist ,mission on the ,congo or ,livingstone ,river4 99 99 99 99 99 ,the ,indians4 ,the following paragraph from the ,independent so fully expresses our view of the matter of the ,ponca ,indians1 that we both copy and endorse it3 ,the story which ,secretary ,schurz tells about the ,ponca ,indians1 while it corrects some misapprehensions in regard to the case1 nevertheless confesses that the ,government has treated the ,indians very unjustly4 ,this the ,secretary said in his first annual report4 ,after securing to the ,poncas #if1jjj acres of land in ,south-eastern ,dakota by the treaties of #ahag1 #ahbf and #aheh1 the ,government in #ahfh granted this very land to the ,sioux ,indians1 without any reference to the rights held therein by the ,poncas1 both by treaty and occupancy4 ,the ,sioux ,indians were unfriendly to the ,poncas1 and the collision between these tribes made it necessary for the ,government to seek the removal of the ,poncas to the ,indian ,territory4 ,all this was done before the present ,administration came into power1 and hence it has no responsibility for the wrong done4 ,secretary ,schurz says that 8no effort has been spared by the ,executive branch of the ,government to rectify all the wrongs that the ,poncas have suffered1 so far as these wrongs can be rectified40 ,he also says that 8a bill for their relief1 providing for payment for their lands in ,dakota1 and also providing for the payment for their new reservation1 with an appropriation of #eh1jjj to reimburse them for their losses1 has been sent to ,congress by the ,interior ,department40 ,we are glad to learn from so good an authority that the ,executive ,department of the ,government recognizes the wrong which has been done to these ,indians1 and shows a disposition to make an honorable amende therefor4 ,it is to be hoped that ,congress will sustain and concur with its efforts4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,freedmen4 ,,rev4 ,,jos4 ,e4 ,,roy1 ,d4,d41 ,,field ,,superintendent1 ,,atlanta1 ,,ga4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,north ,,and ,,south4 ,some ,things in ,common4 ,in efforts to promote the spirit of ,christian union1 it is always advised that we look for the things that we hold in common--the things that make us ,christians1 rather than those which make us of this or that church party4 ,in seeking to advance national good feeling1 may we not wisely pursue something of the same course8 ,if any persons can take up this line of talk without being accused of having been bulldozed by ,southern blandishment1 it may be those who were the early abolitionists1 and especially those who endeavor to prove their faith by their works in going down among the lowly and despised ex-slaves to try to raise them up by the appliances of education and of the ,gospel4 #a4 ,one such common possession is that of our ,english inheritance4 ,we are1 characteristically1 of the ,anglo-,saxon stock4 ,we speak the ,english language from ,south to ,north4 ,we have that glorious speech that swallows up and overmasters the ,babel of tongues that fall upon our ears4 ,we think that1 led by our incomparable ,webster and ,worcester1 we use our ,english with even more of correctness than does the mother country4 ,we inherit the great principles of constitutional government1 of trial by jury1 habeas corpus1 and of civil and religious liberty4 ,we are joint heirs to the matchless ,english literature1 and to a history that has made ,england the leading nation of ,christendom4 #b4 ,we hold in common the glories of our ,revolutionary period4 ,we share in the joys of the birth of a new nation4 ,we have the same traditions of patriotism4 ,we are mutually proud of the memory of ,washington and ,jefferson and the ,adamses1 and of the other fathers of the ,republic4 ,our ,national ,centennial gave occasion for a revival of our national feeling4 ,masses of our brethren who had been estranged were glad of the opportunity thus afforded to share in the thrill inspired by the world's recognition of our national greatness4 #c4 ,we share in the essentials of the ,reformed ,church life4 ,the ,pilgrims and the ,puritans settled in ,new ,england4 ,much of the blood by which the ,southern ,states were stocked was of the ,reformed quality4 ,in the celebration1 at ,chicago1 of the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the ,landing of the ,pilgrims1 ,dr4 ,bacon said that the ,presbyterians were ,puritans4 ,the ,south has had a large portion of this moral and theological leavening4 ,the ,scotch and the ,scotch-,irish element in that region has been large and largely influential4 ,through them ,puritan notions have been planted and propagated4 ,the ,huguenots1 who were the contribution of ,france to the ,reformation1 have had a large representation in the ,south4 ,sixty years before the ,pilgrims landed1 they made1 on the ,carolina coast1 two settlements1 which were annihilated by the persecuting power of ,rome that followed them to the wilderness continent4 ,they tried again and made a lodgment where ,charleston now stands1 and to this day 8,the ,huguenot ,church0 abides in its integrity of language and of character4 ,from this same source that city has received a large infiltration of blood and of principle4 ,out in the ,state1 and at other places in the ,south1 the ,huguenots have given names to towns and tone and caste to society4 ,the ,south has had but a small portion of the foreign emigration1 and so has felt less the influence of the ,continental views as to the ,sabbath4 ,one of our professors1 who has been many years in the ,south1 says that the ,holy ,day is more strictly observed in that part of the country than at the ,north4 ,the intellectual orthodoxy of the ,south is well known4 ,it may be because of the lack of activity in theological discussion1 but the fact is apparent to such a degree that a more ethical and practical preaching is what the ,christian people are hungering for thereaway4 #d4 ,we have a common sympathy in ,protestantism4 ,the early ,spanish and ,french occupation in ,louisiana and in ,baltimore has made those strong ,catholic centres4 ,but ,romanism is not so generally a prevailing power in the ,south as in the ,north4 ,the drift of foreign emigration has made this difference4 ,rome's chance at the ,south is now not with immigrants1 but with natives1 ,africo-,americans2 and she is bound to make the most of it4 ,but just here comes out our unity in ,protestant views4 ,southern ,christians are anxious lest the display and the mystery of the ,roman system should captivate these simple children of nature4 ,they are as solicitous as we that the same ,providence which delivered our land from the early domination of ,romish nationalities1 may save it from coming under the supremacy of that spiritual despotism4 ,when the ,catholic bishop at ,richmond opened his cathedral1 ,sunday nights1 to a free service in behalf of the colored people1 it made a tremendous stir among white as well as colored ,protestants4 #e4 ,have we not had a common responsibility for the existence of slavery8 ,striking in its upas roots at ,jamestown1 it was allowed to spread over all the colonies4 ,samuel ,hopkins1 thundering at the gates of the pens of the slave-trade in ,newport1 must yet reverberate among those empty dens still standing4 ,in #ahgb ,i saw in ,connecticut an aged disciple who had once been a slave in that ,state4 ,my childish ears tingled with my father's stories of slave life as known to him in ,new ,jersey4 ,the system1 by implication1 was recognized in the ,federal ,constitution4 ,the ,government allowed it to sweep out over yet other empire areas at the ,south and ,west4 ,we had ,federal laws1 resting upon ,northern public sentiment1 to protect the institution4 ,we allowed our churches and our literary institutions and our benevolent societies to come under the common paralysis of conscience4 ,without any interest in slaves as personal property1 we allowed our great commercial affairs to be brought under bondage to that system4 ,our measure of complicity in that national wrong was indicated in part by the awful retribution meted out in the sacrifice of half a million of precious lives and by the offering of billions of treasure4 ,we have had occasion to join our brethren at the ,south and say1 8,we are verily guilty concerning our brother40 #f4 ,have we not now a common obligation to make restitution to these new-made citizens8 ,we are not only by legislation to recognize their rights of manhood and of citizenship1 but to uphold them in the same4 ,we are to secure them in the enjoyment of the blessing of our ,american educational system and of the best ,christianizing processes4 ,as we have endowed them with the sacred elements of citizenship1 we must help them to the means of making them citizens worthy of the nation4 ,this common duty was indicated by ,hon4 ,john ,goode1 of ,virginia1 when he said1 in ,congress1 8,can the ,government bestow civil and political rights upon these wards of the nation1 and at the same time avoid the solemn obligation to provide for their mental and moral improvement80 ,that is the responsibility of citizens1 ,north and ,south1 as well as of the ,government4 ,and so let the people join hands1 irrespective of sectional lines1 in doing the just1 the right thing by these native ,americans1 the providential significance of whose existence in our country is a problem calling for solution4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,reminiscences4 8,it's the color that tells0--8,jes hear dem niggers read0--,candle and half-bushel--8,age up country10 c4--,sad words making glad--8,frosty arms40 ,after the full accounts you have been giving your readers of late of the ,commencement ,exercises1 with their attendant essays and orations1 brief reminiscences of a few years ago1 when the ,freedmen knew little of ,greek and ,latin1 but were intent upon 8blue-back0 spellers and the easy parts of the ,bible1 may not come amiss4 ,it happened once that in a dimly-lighted school-house1 about nine o'clock at night1 filled with men and women of various hue1 from white through brown to black1 there was one class of nine young men spelling words of three syllables4 ,they were very earnest1 and in real old-fashioned way were going 8up and down0 in the class4 ,at the head stood ,joseph1 very black2 then three nearly as dark1 followed by four light ones1 with the very darkest of the whole class at the foot4 ,all went well till the upper light one missed and the word passed down2 ,joseph1 seeing it likely to pass from the light ones to the very dark face at the foot1 in excitement and joy burst forth with1 8,spell it1 ,dave1 and cut up here2 it's the color that tells40 ,dave spelt it1 and the color did tell4 ,one man who made his appearance in night-school about the middle of the winter1 ,i shall never forget4 ,his entrance was quite overpowering--a big man1 big cane1 big hat1 and a big shawl thrown over his shoulder1 ,arab style4 ,i happened to be at leisure1 so ,i went at once to ask him if he intended coming regularly to school4 ,saying that he did1 my next question was1 8,what's your name80 8,i'm ,lucy's husband1 over there40 ,as ,i didn't know ,lucy1 ,i was not much the wiser1 and had to repeat the question with the emphasis on the your4 ,wishing to classify him1 ,i asked1 8,what book do you read in80 8,the ,bible mostly1 ma'am40 8,can you read in the ,first ,reader80 8,yes1 first1 second1 third1 fourth and all the other elementary books40 ,thinking ,i might gain some information where to assign him1 ,i looked at the books he had brought with him4 ,there were four3 a large family ,bible2 another book of some size1 but very fine print1 on 8,presbyterian ,ordination ,refuted20 a 8,child's ,scripture ,question ,book10 and a small geography4 ,but if the night-schools were amusing1 the afternoon schools for the women were not less so4 ,old women and young women1 many of them in fantastic attire1 with hats1 caps and dresses that would have been considered prizes by an antiquary2 the dark faces peering from under the white or speckled turban2 old women wiping their spectacles1 vainly endeavoring to get 8more light0 on the subject1 while picking away at the letters in some old ,primer1 as if they were to be transferred bodily to the head4 ,aunt ,chloe ,fisher must have been seventy-five or eighty years old1 but still she was bright and original4 ,she came into school one afternoon very anxious to learn to read 8de way1 de troof1 and de life40 ,seeing some women in another part of the room reading1 she exclaimed1 8,jes hear dem niggers read6 ,if dis nig can't read1 too1 won't she fight 'em80 and then she vigorously applied her finger to the pages of the ,gospel of ,john which she had with her1 finding the words ,lord and ,god1 which were about all she knew4 ,she believed in both faith and works1 for she used to pray most earnestly that ,god would help her know the words1 and then get up in the middle of the night and light a pine knot to see if she had a word right4 ,old ,aunt ,chloe was always happy4 ,i never saw her otherwise but once1 and then she was greatly troubled for fear she should lose her place in the grave-yard4 ,one special place she had chosen1 and young people were dying so fast she was afraid she should not die soon enough to lie there4 ,she would get happy over her wash-tub or anywhere else1 and her hands and her feet would keep time with some negro hymn in a most amusing manner4 ,one old ,aunty was reading the fifth chapter of ,matthew1 when she came to a passage1 which she read thus2 8,neither--do--men--light--a--half-bushe l--and--put--it--under--a--candle-stick4 0 ,on being stopped and told to look again1 pointing with her finger all along the lines of the page1 with a look of half despair she said1 8,bress you1 honey1 ,i can't find either candle or half-bushel now40 ,those simple words were quite a sermon for me1 and ,i've thought of them many a time since4 ,are not we1 as ,christians1 in danger of losing our candles8 ,our good ,aunty's candle was soon found for her2 but will ours1 once lost1 be as easily recovered8 ,in those days1 even in the day-schools1 there were many difficulties that could hardly be encountered now4 ,i remember hearing one teacher say that it was almost impossible to get the ages of her scholars4 ,they would say1 8,my age is up country20 or 8,ole missis has my age in the ,bible1 and she's gone away40 ,the trick of giving one name to one teacher and another to the next was practiced4 ,on giving a second name once1 one little fellow was brought up with1 8,why1 ,i thought your name was ,george ,johnson80 8,i done got tired of that name10 was his cool reply4 ,perhaps the most interesting prayer-meeting that ,i ever attended among the ,freedmen was in ,alabama1 where the ,ku ,klux outrages lasted so much longer than in other places1 and where the missionaries looked to their guns and their rifles before retiring4 ,i reached there just the evening of the weekly prayer-meeting at the school-house4 ',twas a stormy night1 but with waterproofs and umbrellas we ventured4 ,wholly unused to bullets1 ,i must confess there was a little trembling under one waterproof1 as we wended our way along the little path through the woods1 and across the one plank bridge over the ,branch2 but once within the building all fear vanished4 ,the room was filled with the finest looking colored people ,i had ever seen4 ,they had1 many of them1 been house servants in the best families in this aristocratic place4 ,the pastor opened the meeting1 and they carried it on with a liveliness that was truly refreshing4 ,two or three usually rose at once1 with words right on their lips4 ,this church had only been organized a little over a year1 and then numbered about eighty4 ,there had been much to dishearten all along4 ,they had no church building1 and had been striving hard to build2 but no sooner would they begin to see little light through the clouds than the white people1 fearing that the men with dark skins might acquire too great a hold on this world's goods1 would remove work from the most prosperous1 and thus the clouds would gather again4 ,referring to this method of keeping down1 one of the members once said1 8,no 'count niggers can rub along here well enough1 but smart niggers had better look out for other quarters40 ,even at that time the danger of their being obliged to disband from outside violence was hardly over1 and as they told of their love for their church1 one could hardly help thinking of the stories of the early ,christians1 when persecutions only increased their zeal4 ,there was an undertone of sadness through the remarks of several1 for they felt peculiarly uncertain as to what a day might bring forth4 ,but one suddenly rose and changed the key4 8,i was sad10 he said1 8when ,i first came in here1 but your words of sadness have made me glad1 for they have shown me how much we all love our church1 and such love1 with the love of ,god for us1 which is even much greater1 will carry us through fiery trials4 ,i never felt as strong as ,i feel to-night4 ',tis true1 ,i don't know what may come upon us1 but ,i do feel that the ,lord will help us through40 ,then he told what he hoped for the future1 in such cheerful words1 that as he sat down1 they burst forth almost with one voice in a song of praise1 and then one after another kneeled down1 and in the most simple words of faith asked their ,father to help ,his children in this their day of trouble1 and ,i do not think there was one present who had the slightest doubt of ,his doing so4 ,even before the ,kansas fever1 there were ,states in the ,north that were synonyms for all good things to the colored people4 ,i remember a ,thanksgiving ,day1 when a minister was addressing one of the schools1 and telling the children what they had to be thankful for1 that he burst forth with the question1 8,is there any other country so blessed as this80 8,yes1 sir10 said a little urchin before him4 8,why1 what one80 8,massachusetts10 was the reply4 ,i once heard a colored minister pray heartily for the teachers in this wise1 8,may ,god throw around this institution ,his frosty arms1 and bear the teachers from this to another vale of tears40 ,the good old days have gone2 the better ones1 perhaps1 have come4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,tennessee4 ,a ,remarkable ,conversion and ,triumphant ,death4 ,,miss ,,henrietta ,,matson1 ,,nashville4 ,how often have ,god's dealings with ,his children seemed strange and sad1 when those who were just ready to do valiant service for ,him1 here amid the need of a lost world1 are called up higher--called to rest1 rather than toil--to wear the crown1 rather than longer bear the cross4 ,but ,god's ways are not ours1 and since we know that ,he ever cares for ,his own cause1 we may believe that ,he calls the loved one to a higher usefulness4 ,such were some of the thoughts that came to our hearts when1 on a beautiful ,june morning during the summer vacation1 we read the words1 8,e4 ,j4 ,park died yesterday afternoon10 followed by an account of the triumphant death of a student of ,fisk ,university1 who had gone to ,texas to teach school4 ,eugene ,park came to ,fisk ,university several years ago1 a pleasant1 careless boy1 who had never bestowed a thought upon his eternal interests4 ,for a long time he was but little moved2 both the warnings and the entreaties of the ,gospel seemed to fall unheeded upon his ear1 and we often felt that he became only more careless and indifferent4 ,at last1 however1 the ,spirit strove with him1 and he began to ask1 8,what must ,i do to be saved80 though at first there was not in him that fixed purpose which would lead him to arise and go to his ,father4 ,and so he halted for months1 wavering and undecided1 until a mighty conviction seized him that he must find ,god1 and that speedily4 ,sin1 in all its enormity1 was revealed to him1 and he seemed indeed to realize that he was lost1 unless the ,saviour should interpose and deliver him4 ,he then gave himself entirely to seeking ,god4 ,he could not study1 and there were many long hours in which he could neither eat nor sleep1 so powerfully was he wrought upon4 ,one morning in ,chapel1 at devotional exercises1 while in this intense state of mind1 the reading of the ,scriptures so affected him that he sobbed aloud4 ,hoping to calm him1 and at the same time point him to ,christ1 the hymn was sung1 8,oh1 the blood1 the precious blood60 but he was so overcome that his friends were obliged to take him away1 and a few of us gathered and prayed with him4 ,still the light from the ,sun of ,righteousness did not break in2 the precious blood was not applied to his soul until the next day1 when ,jesus ,himself drew near1 and the ,lord of ,glory revealed ,himself as the ,one altogether lovely1 and the ,chief among ten thousand4 ,his soul seemed in a rapture of joy for days4 ,he came to the school with his ,bible always in his hand1 as though he could not be parted from it even for a moment4 ,then followed years of ripening in the ,christian life1 with frequent seasons of such blessing that he could not speak of ,christ without tears4 ,he early gave himself to the ministry1 feeling that to preach the everlasting ,gospel would be his highest joy1 and was pursuing his studies with this in view4 ,he was not1 however1 without temptations to a worldly life1 though we are assured that the dear ,saviour kept ,his own1 even unto the end4 ,his death was a beautiful illustration of the triumph of the ,gospel of ,christ4 ,far from friends and home1 yet he was not alone1 for that ,friend that sticketh closer than a brother was near4 ,he had been ill for several days1 and one morning he told those about him that he should go home at three afternoon1 and precisely at the hour named the summons came4 ,he had sent messages to his mother and friends4 8,tell them10 he said1 8that ,jesus is with me and saves me4 ,oh1 how sweet it is to die in the arms of ,jesus40 ,he then sung1 8,washed in the blood of the ,lamb10 8,safe in the arms of ,jesus10 and 8,sweeping through the gates to the new ,jerusalem40 ,and now we1 in our sorrow1 think of him as thus 8safe40 ,we hoped he would labor long and successfully for the ,master2 but he has been called up higher1 and is now1 we believe1 among the ransomed in the ,new ,jerusalem1 where he has learned the new song1 even praise unto our ,god4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,georgia4 ,first ,impressions4 ,,rev4 ,p4 ,w4 ,,young1 ,,byron ,i feel the necessity of writing you this morning concerning my work1 though my time is much occupied4 ,i am happy to say that ,i found some very earnest members here1 notwithstanding they were like sheep without a shepherd when ,i came4 ,there is an opportunity for a great deal of ,christian labor here1 as in many other places4 ,i preach on the ,sabbath at #aa o'clock and at #h o'clock in the evening4 ,we have a very good ,temperance ,society also4 ,its members manifest great interest in the cause4 ,the people are beginning to see that intemperance1 if continually practiced1 will bring them to degradation4 ,i delivered a lecture to the society last ,sabbath in the afternoon1 having about #bej persons present4 ,i told them in the plainest words of the great harm that had been done by intemperance among the colored people4 ,when ,i closed my remarks they said they wished ,i could speak an hour longer on the same subject1 showing their hearty approval of what ,i had said4 ,the religious interest seems to be good generally4 ,there are four converts to unite with the church4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,chinese4 99 99 99 99 99 8,,california ,,chinese ,,mission40 ,auxiliary to the ,american ,missionary ,association4 ,,president3 ,rev4 ,j4 ,k4 ,mc,lean1 ,d4 ,d4 ,,vice-,,presidents3 ,rev4 ,a4 ,l4 ,stone1 ,d4 ,d41 ,thomas ,c4 ,wedderspoon1 ,esq41 ,rev4 ,t4 ,k4 ,noble1 ,hon4 ,f4 ,f4 ,low1 ,rev4 ,i4 ,e4 ,dwinell1 ,d4 ,d41 ,hon4 ,samuel ,cross1 ,rev4 ,s4 ,h4 ,willey1 ,d4 ,d41 ,edward ,p4 ,flint1 ,esq41 ,rev4 ,j4 ,w4 ,hough1 ,d4 ,d41 ,jacob ,s4 ,taber1 ,esq4 ,,directors3 ,rev4 ,george ,mooar1 ,d4 ,d41 ,hon4 ,e4 ,d4 ,sawyer1 ,rev4 ,e4 ,p4 ,baker1 ,james ,m4 ,haven ,esq41 ,rev4 ,joseph ,rowell1 ,rev4 ,john ,kimball1 ,e4 ,p4 ,sanford1 ,esq4 ,,secretary3 ,rev4 ,w4 ,c4 ,pond4 ,,treasurer3 ,e4 ,palache1 ,esq4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,the ,,beginning ,,of ,,harvest--,,ong ,,lune4 ,,rev4 ,,wm4 ,c4 ,,pond1 ,,san ,,francisco4 ,our ,lord has begun--sooner than we desired and very suddenly to us--to gather from our harvest field ,his wheat into ,his garner4 ,the first-fruits went home on ,sunday1 ,aug4 #c;d1 at our ,bethany church4 ,i was in the act of baptizing and welcoming to ,christian fellowship on earth four of our more recently converted ,chinese brethren1 when our brother ,ong ,lune was welcomed to the fellowship above4 ,he was a young man of #ba years1 had been a ,christian1 as we hoped1 for nearly three years1 and a church member since ,december1 #ahgg4 ,his sickness was brief1 and he was supposed to be recovering till about twenty-four hours before his death4 ,he had greatly desired to become strong enough to be present at our ,august communion1 but1 instead1 he ate bread in the kingdom of ,god4 ,modest and unassuming1 but intelligent1 earnest and thoroughly consecrated to ,christ1 his absence from our mission work makes a void not easily filled4 ,a great majority of ,american ,christians might well have sat at the feet of this young ,chinaman and learned how to be co-workers with the ,saviour4 ,approaching his countrymen with a smile1 seizing every opportunity to 8speak a word in season10 he sought to bring them to our schools1 and then to lead them to his ,saviour4 ,a house-servant1 with little time that he could call his own1 he will wear no starless crown4 ,i know not how many times the question1 8,who told you to come to school80 has been answered by the utterance of his name4 ,the last service he was able to render was--in spite of pain and weariness from the disease which afterwards proved fatal--to act as my interpreter in the examination of three candidates for baptism1 one of them1 possibly1 his own child in the ,gospel4 ,his teacher--,miss ,florence ,n4 ,wooley--quotes him as saying that what he wanted was 8to bring more and more scholars1 and watch them1 and when they know about ,jesus1 must make them to be our brethren and try to keep them from temptation2 and ,i wish to do the best ,i can1 but am afraid of temptation myself40 ,she adds3 8,he succeeded in this2 and the secret of his success1 as told me by one of the scholars1 was this3 #8,he talked so nice to the boys1 and never got cross nor angry2 and so they all minded what he told them4' ,he had entered into the spirit of the word1 #8,go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in4' ,as soon as he came into school he was wont to speak of some one who had promised him to come that night4 ,if this promise was not fulfilled1 he went after the person again and again and brought him in4 ,he was getting on well in his studies1 especially in his study of the ,bible4 ,the last verses he recited were ,acts vii4 #ed1 #ee1 now happily fulfilled in his own experience40 ,,the ,,story ,,of ,,lee ,,foun1 ,,by ,,lee ,,haim4 ,lee ,haim1 one of our helpers1 had given me this account1 and ,i requested him to write it for the ,,missionary4 ,i give it as he wrote it1 word for word1 correcting only a few expressions to make the sense clear4--,w4 ,c4 ,p4 8,i am going to tell you something of our ,christian brethren when they go back to ,china4 ,last year one of our ,christian ,association went by the steamship with his own brother1 and when they both reached their old home1 his elder brother said to his wife3 #8,well1 to-morrow ,i will go tell my mother that my younger brother1 ,lee ,foun1 believes in ,jesus1 and was a member of the ,american ,association while he staid in ,california4 ,he does not want to worship our gods which sit in the temple1 nor worship our ancestors2 neither to keep the traditions which our fathers have handed down from generation to generation4 ,if ,i go and tell these things to my mother she will give him a good whipping4' 8,so his elder brother agreed to tell his mother in the morning2 and when the morning came he brought the whole affair before her4 ,she was exceedingly grieved when she heard it1 and she went and told some of her son's uncles4 ,then ,lee ,foun's uncles said to her3 #8,never mind that now2 your son now come back is like a stranger2 you need not to say any thing to him now2 but wait for two days1 until the first day of ,june is come2 then you may call him up and offer some tea1 and burn the incense in the morning1 and see if he do it or not4' ,this custom was known to ,lee ,foun1 for our ,chinese generally keep it twice each month--the first day of the month and the fifteenth4 ,it is considered a very important custom1 as much so as to serve their parents in their lifetime4 ,it is like the ,jews keeping the ,passover every year1 or as we keep the ,supper of the ,lord4 8,so his mother said nothing to him till the first day of ,june2 then she tried to wake him up to burn the incense and offer the tea to his great-grandfather2 but ,lee ,foun did not get up as early that morning as usual2 and when the time of offering tea and burning the incense had passed1 then he got up4 ,and when he met his mother she burst into tears4 ,he asked her presently1 #8,what is the matter1 mother8' and his mother gave no answer4 ,then he asked her the same thing4 ,his mother said to him3 #8,my son1 you ought to have got up early this morning and offered some tea and burned the incense before your ancestor2 but you got up so late1 and did not do it1 that makes me feel bad4' ,then ,lee ,foun said to his mother3 #8,if we go and offer tea and burn the incense before these stones1 wood1 clay and paper1 do you think they know it8 ,i don't believe that1 for they1 having eyes1 cannot see2 having ears1 cannot hear2 having noses1 cannot smell2 mouth1 cannot speak2 hands1 cannot handle2 feet they have1 but cannot walk2 and bodies have they1 but cannot move4 ,all these things are nothing but wood1 stone1 clay and paper4 ,what good have they done for men8 ,moreover1 those who serve images1 or serve the dead instead of the living1 sin against the living and true ,god2 for every thing is made by ,his own hands4 ,and ,he has commanded us not to worship images1 neither to serve the dead2 but only to worship the true and living ,god1 and to honor father and mother while they are living4 ,but those who take offerings of paper to be burned up1 and represent money1 are foolish1 and deceive themselves2 for the paper is nothing but paper1 and cannot represent money4' ,then his mother laughed when she heard that1 and ,lee ,foun's brother was angry at him1 because his mother was pleased with his younger brother1 ,lee ,foun4 ,he felt as ,joseph's brethren felt toward ,joseph when they saw ,jacob1 their father1 love him4 ,do you think they could injure ,joseph1 and that ,lee ,foun's brother can injure ,lee ,foun8 ,no4 ,why not8 ,because ,god is with them4 ,as ,paul said3 #8,if ,god be for us1 who can be against us8' ,oh1 how glorious and powerful ,god is6 8,after a while some of the ,chinese missionaries heard that a certain ,christian brother had come back1 so they went and inquired for ,lee ,foun1 and they entered into his village1 to visit him2 and when he saw the missionaries1 then he wept1 because of the persecution by his own brother1 and because of the ignorance of his relatives about ,god4 ,lee ,foun's mother was glad to receive them1 and invited them to come again to the feast of ,lee ,foun's marriage4 ,after this the marriage of ,lee ,foun was at hand2 so the ,chinese missionaries went to his village again to show him how the ,christian ceremony should be performed4 ,so ,lee ,foun did as ,christians do4 ,he did not bow his head before the idols1 nor before his ancestors1 and neither did he keep the traditions of men1 but the commands of ,god4 8,not only he did so1 but ,chan ,wen1 ,lee ,sam1 and also many of our brethren1 act in accordance with ,christianity when they go back to ,china4 ,i believe you have no doubt of that2 for if we are true ,christians here in ,california1 we will be true ,christians in ,china and elsewhere4 ,we will stand up for ,jesus and suffer for ,him1 and take up ,his cross in public4 8,dear friends1 we entreat that you will mention our names to the ,lord when you pray1 that we may have a faithful heart in our ,lord ,jesus2 that we may be strong in ,him2 and ask ,him to open the great door to us1 that the nation of heathen ,chinese soon may become a ,christian nation1 and they may understand the word of ,god and know ,christ is the ,creator and ,saviour of the world1 and all the creatures should be bowed down before ,him40 99 99 99 99 99 ,,children',s ,,page4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,country ,,school-,,houses4 ,,to ,,the ,,children3 ,i know you have heard much about the colored people1 but did you ever hear about their country school-houses8 ,let me tell you of two in ,alabama4 ,sunday-schools as well as day-schools are held in these same buildings4 ,one ,sunday1 a minister who was going twelve miles out into the country to visit one of these schools1 invited me to go with him4 ,after inquiring many times where the school was1 and going half a mile out of our way1 we at last spied1 at the right of the road1 some saddled mules hitched to trees4 ,we thought that might be the place1 and sure enough there1 right in the woods1 was a nice new school-house4 ,after fastening our horse to a sweet-gum tree1 we entered the little unpainted building4 ,the superintendent gave us seats at the head of the school--not armchairs1 but simply a board two feet from the floor1 answering for a bench4 ,as soon as we were seated ,i began to look about me to see what kind of a place ,i was in1 while the minister addressed the school4 ,the house was built of pine logs1 placed an inch apart1 consequently there were great cracks on all sides of the room1 which in summer must have been pleasant1 as they let in air1 but in winter1 think how cold they would be4 ,the house was full of old men1 women and children1 sitting on rude benches4 ,as ,i looked through the crack near me1 ,i saw outside a row of men seated on a log1 who left their places when they heard a stranger's voice inside and crowded into the house4 ,i saw them put their hats up on a beam over their heads4 ,those who couldn't find room inside looked through the cracks4 ,there was no window1 only a square hole cut over the door to let in light4 ,seeing the many cracks in the roof1 we asked1 when we came out1 if it never rained in upon them4 8,not much10 was the answer4 ,you see these people don't mind a bit of a sprinkle now and then4 ,after the minister had finished telling them how he had been in the very same land where ,jesus had lived1 the school sung1 8,we're going home to-morrow40 ,i wish you could have heard those children4 ,they sang at the top of their voices1 their white teeth showing more than ever in contrast with their black skin4 ,after the superintendent gave out the papers which we had brought1 the exercises closed1 and ,i was glad to be relieved of the sixty pairs of eyes which had been upon me4 ,another time ,i went with some teachers to a ,mission ,sunday-school4 ,this was in a most lovely place1 right in the thick woods1 far away from any houses or sounds of any kind1 except the songs of the birds4 ,we found we were early that day1 for neither the teacher nor scholars had come4 ,we went inside the school-house and waited4 ,perhaps you ask how we got in4 ,that was an easy thing to do1 for there was no locked door to keep us out1 and no door of any kind1 only an opening in one side of the house4 ,this was an old building1 built in the same way as the first one ,i visited4 ,in some places the logs were a foot apart4 ,here the benches were made of round logs split in two1 the flat part being the top1 and in each end of the rounded part were two legs4 ,and such queer looking seats as they were6 ,only one or two of them had backs4 ,before long the teacher and a few scholars came4 ,the school was small that day1 as there was a 8big baptizing10 as they call it1 not far away1 which always attracts crowds of colored people4 ,after the scholars had left1 and as we were preparing to go1 a terrible thunder shower came up which detained us there4 ,the rain came in1 drip1 drip1 at every crack1 till after a while there was only one dry corner in the house4 ,the teacher told us that when showers came in school time1 the scholars had to sit on their books to keep them dry4 ,the shower continued for some time1 and being very tired1 after a sixteen-mile drive over new-cut roads through woods1 we put on our water-proofs and lay down on the damp benches2 but finding the drops were falling into our faces1 we were obliged to put up umbrellas4 ,this was resting under difficulties4 ,there1 in that open building1 far away from any one1 with the rain coming in and standing in pools on the floor1 we fully realized what these poor country people have to go through to learn their ,a1 ,b1 ,c2 and those who continue their schools in the winter must suffer greatly from the cold1 as they only have a fire-place in one end of the room4 ,one teacher told us that his fire-place was so poor1 that in winter he built a fire out of doors1 while the children gathered around it sitting on stumps and logs4 ,there are not only these two schools ,i have spoken of1 but many such scattered all over the ,southern ,states4 ,now1 since ,i have been writing this1 ,i have thought what a nice plan it would be for you boys and girls to save some of your pennies1 and perhaps before long one of you would have enough to buy a small1 plain black-board1 and another enough to buy a box of crayons1 or a pretty motto for one of these old bare school-rooms4 ,if you couldn't send the things1 you could send the money for them2 and how delighted any teacher would be with a few such comforts6 ,what do you think of my plan8--,l4 ,p4 ,h4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,receipts ,,for ,,august1 #ahgi4 ,,maine1 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,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 #be2--,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 #e41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #cj4jj ,davenport4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #aj4jj ,durant4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #f4jj ,grinnell4 ,mrs4 ,day1 #e2 ,mrs4 ,b41 #a2 ,rev4 ,s4 ,l4 ,h41 #a2 ,others1 #a1 for ,miller's ,station1 ,ga42--,mrs4 ,magoun's ,sab4 ,sch4 ,class1 #e4aj #ac4aj ,hillsborough4 ,john ,w4 ,hammond #e4jj ,lyons4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #e4jj ,marion4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #cj4jj ,mason ,city4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #c4jj ,mitchell4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #e4be ,monticello4 ,miss ,n4 ,p4 ,s41 for ,miller's ,station1 ,ga4 #a4jj ,new ,hampton4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #e4jj ,orchard4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #d4fj ,osage4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #aj4jj ,quasqueton4 ,cong4 ,ch41 #e2 ,i4 ,h4 ,d41 #a #f4jj ,rockford4 ,ladies ,miss4 ,soc41 #c4gj2 ,mrs4 ,e4 ,d41 #a2 ,mrs4 ,a4 ,e4 ,g41 #a #e4gj ,stacyville4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #c4jj ,wayne4 ,d4 ,c4 ,s4 #a4jj ,wentworth4 ,ladies of ,cong4 ,ch41 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #c4jj ,wilton4 8,little ,gleaners10 for ,lady ,missionary1 ,new ,orleans #e4jj ,,wisconsin1 #fb4hd4 ,arena4 ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #e4jj ,fort ,atkinson4 ,mrs4 ,caroline ,snell #e4jj ,ripon4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch41 #bi4he2 ,w4 ,g4 ,b41 #ej;c4 #cj4ce ,river ,falls4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 #bb4di ,,minnesota1 #ee4dd4 ,excelsior4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aj4jj ,medford4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4be ,minneapolis4 ,plymouth ,ch4 #af4ai ,winona4 ,adna ,tenney #bj4jj ,worthington4 ,union ,cong4 ,ch4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #f4jj ,,kansas1 #aj4 ,mariadahl4 ,h4 ,h4 ,griffin1 for ,athens1 ,ala4 #aj4jj ,,nebraska1 #cf4fe4 ,butler ,co4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #d4jj ,crete4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #aa4fe ,iowa ,ridge4 ,cong4 ,ch4 #c4jj ,macon4 ,rev4 ,s4 ,n4 ,grout #ab4jj ,schuyler4 ,sumner ,free #f4jj ,,missouri1 #a4ej4 ,cahoka4 ,moses ,allen #a4ej ,,texas1 #a4 ,brenham4 ,mrs4 ,i4 ,h41 for ,athens1 ,ala4 #a4jj ,,california1 #aji4ej4 ,oakland4 ,s4 ,richards #ajj4jj ,pescadero4 ,miss4 ,band of ,cong4 ,sab4 ,sch4 #d4ej ,santa ,cruz4 ,pliny ,fay #e4jj ,,maryland1 #aj4 ,federalsburgh4 ,miss ,sarah ,a4 ,beals #aj4jj ,,tennessee1 #e4 ,nashville4 ,mrs4 ,e4 ,spence #e4jj ,,south ,,carolina1 #a4ej4 ,orangeburgh4 ,rev4 ,w4 ,l4 ,johnson #a4ej ,,georgia1 #agc4de4 ,athens4 ,j4 ,g4 ,hutchins1 for ,student ,aid1 ,atlanta ,u4 #fd4jj ,atlanta4 ,atlanta ,u41 #hj2--;,by ,mary ,e4 ,sand1 #e4ej2 ,storrs ,school1 #ah4de2 ,a4 ,simpson1 #e4ej #aji4de ,,alabama1 #ajd4ib4 ,selma4 ,first ,cong4 ,ch4 7of which #c4de for ,mendi ,m471 #hj4gj2 ,rental1 #b #hb4gj ,shelby ,iron ,works4 ,rev4 ,j4 ,d4 ,s4 #j4ej ,talladega4 ,talladega ,c4 #ba4gb ,,mississippi1 #a4ae4 ,tougaloo4 ,tougaloo ,u4 #a4ae ,,income ,,fund1 #eeb4af4 ---- ,avery ,fund #edi4gj ---- ---- #b4df ------------------ ,total #cd1adf4jd ,total from ,oct4 #ast to ,aug4 #cast #afc1cic4cf ,h4 ,w4 ,,hubbard1 ,asst4 ,treas4 99 99 99 99 99 ,,for ,,tillotson ,,collegiate ,,and ,,normal ,,institute1 ,,austin1 ,,texas4 ,gilead1 ,conn4 ,mr4 and ,mrs4 ,thomas ,l4 ,brown #e4jj ,new ,york1 ,n4 ,y4 8,a ,friend0 #ajj4jj -------------- ,total #aje4jj ,previously acknowledged in ,june receipts #b1cig4ag ---------------- ,total #b1ejb4ag 99 99 99 99 99 ,,for ,,negro ,,refugees4 ,marbletown1 ,n4 ,y4 ,john ,hulme #b4he ,previously acknowledged in ,july receipts #cdf4ci ------------ ,total #cdi4bd ,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 judgement 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 ,va41 #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 below3 ,,new ,,york ,h4 ,w4 ,hubbard1 ,esq41 #ef ,reade ,street4 ,,boston ,rev4 ,c4 ,l4 ,woodworth1 ,room #ba ,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 ,,architectural ,,designs4 ,illustration3 ,,old ,,style4 ,illustration3 ,,new ,,style4 ,,plans ,,and ,,specifications1 ,,with ,full ,detail ,drawings ,,for ,,churches1 ,,schools and ,,dwellings4 ,suburban ,dwellings a ,specialty4 ,reference3 ,rev4 ,dr4 ,strieby1 #ef ,reade ,street1 ,n4 ,y4 ,b4 ,j4 ,,schweitzer1 ,architect 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,,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 free4 ,,mason ,,hamlin ,,organ ,,co41 ,,boston1 ,,new ,,york1 or ,,chicago4 99 99 99 99 99 8,,important ,,to ,,clergymen40 ,prince's ,improved ,fountain ,pen4 ,illustration ,as now improved1 saves one-third the time4 8,if ,i were bereft of it1 ,i should feel myself bereft of my right hand40--,,rev4 ,,lyman ,,abbott1 ,ed4 ,ch4 ,union4 ,can be sent by mail in a registered letter4 ,send for circulars4 ,manufactured by ,,john ,s4 ,,purdy1 #bab ,broadway1 ,cor4 ,fulton ,st41 ,new ,york4 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 ,illustration3 ,,brook',s ,,prize ,,medal ,,trade ,,mark4 ,,spool ,,cotton ,,for ,,hand ,,and ,,machine4 ,,it ,,is ,,strong1 ,,even1 ,,and ,,elastic2 ,,regular ,,in ,,quality1 ,,uniform ,,in ,,color1 ,,and ,,the ,,lengths ,,are ,,guaranteed4 ,full assortments constantly on hand and for sale by the ,sole ,agents1 ,,wm4 ,,henry ,,smith ,,co41 ,p4 ,o4 ,box #ejb4 #hb #hd ,worth ,street1 ,,new ,,york4 99 99 99 99 99 ,every ,man ,his ,own ,printer4 ,excelsior #c ,printing ,press4 ,illustration ,prints cards1 labels1 envelopes1 c42 larger sizes for larger work4 ,for business or pleasure1 young or old4 ,catalogue of ,presses1 ,type1 ,cards1 c41 sent for two stamps4 ,,kelsey ,,co41 ,m'frs1 ,meriden1 ,conn4 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 ,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 ,,save ,,money ,,by ,,ordering ,fashionable ,custom ,,clothing ,,from ,,new ,,york4 ,illustration ,,elegant ,,suits1 ,,to ,,order1 #ah1 #bj and #be4 ,,dress ,,suits1 #bj to #ce4 ,,trousers1 #e to #h4 ,,sent ,,free4 ,samples of ,cloths and ,suitings1 and ,fashion ,plates1 with full directions for ordering ,gents' ,clothing and ,furnishing ,goods1 by mail1 with fit and satisfaction guaranteed4 ,send for samples and give trial order to ,,freeman ,,woodruff1 ,fashionable ,clothiers1 #agf ,,broadway1 ,,new ,,york 7,formerly of #bda ,broadway47 99 99 99 99 99 ,,our ,,annual ,,meeting4 ,the ,thirty-third ,annual ,meeting of the ,american ,missionary ,association will be held in ,chicago1 ,illinois1 by invitation of the ,congregational churches of that city1 commencing on ,tuesday1 ,october #bhth1 at #c ,p4 ,m4 ,the local ,committee of ,arrangements1 representing each ,congregational ,church in the city1 has already at a preliminary meeting decided to hold the meetings in the ,first ,congregational ,church 7,rev4 ,e4 ,p4 ,goodwin1 ,d4 ,d41 ,pastor71 which has been offered with most cordial unanimity for the use of the ,anniversary4 ,the sermon will be preached by the ,rev4 ,richard ,s4 ,storrs1 ,d4,d41 of the ,church of the ,pilgrims1 ,brooklyn1 ,n4 ,y4 ,further announcements of arrangements and programme will be made later4 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 ,,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 printing1 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 ,,david ,h4 ,,gildersleeve1 ,printer1 #aja ,chambers ,street1 ,new ,york4 ,transcriber's ,notes3 ,obvious punctuation errors and omissions corrected4 ,inconsistent hyphenation has been retained1 as there are several authors4