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Most of us know it by pretty thorough experience. We know what a dollar costs, how hard it is to get, how hard it is to keep, how little we are liable to receive for it when it goes. And, let me say it, I believe there are no people on this Western Continent who have any more exact, definite, clearly defined comprehension of what a dollar is, what it will do, and what it will not do, than the managers of our missionary enterprises.
Then, it is sometimes thought and sometimes said that these men who conduct church work and missionary work do not know much about dollars; that a dollar, a thousand dollars, or a million dollars, is a very indefinite thing; and that they ask for a million dollars, or half a million dollars, with a great deal of nonchalance, as if it were merely a matter of asking. It is not so. When this Finance Committee indorse the recommendation of the National Council that half a million of dollars be raised for the work of this Association during the coming year, they do it from a business point of view, and when the officers and managers of this Association second this demand, they know what it means. They know better than anybody else in the world knows how hard it is to get half a million of dollars. For some years I went up and down through the South and West in the service of this Association. I went in and out of the rooms at No. 56 Reade Street, New York, and I must have been very dull not to know pretty well the inside workings of this Association. I have been among workers on the field. I know how closely everything is reckoned, how carefully every penny is spent; and I know how the demands of the work and the needs press upon the workers in the field, so that they look back to those rooms in New York with the feeling that somehow there is not a very great deal of liberality there, that those officers pare very closely. But these workers in the field have no such experience after all as the officers there at the centre of things. Those members of the Executive Committee, those Secretaries and the Treasurer, sitting there together, and facing the demands of the old work and the new, have rolled upon them every day a sense of the value of money and of the need of economy such as even the workers in the field can not comprehend. I have been there, I am now outside, and I am free to say whatever I please; and I make bold to say to you here that the work which is alive and growing must have the most money. Increased demands must cost. It is a law of nature. Now, then, when this Finance Committee come forward to indorse this recommendation that $500,000 instead of $375,000 be raised for the coming year, they do not at all reach the measure of the need.
There is only one thing necessary to get this money and more. It is a pretty comprehensive thing. If upon the members of our churches in this land as clear a sense of the need of what ought to be done and can be done could be brought as comes to those in contact with the work, the money would be forthcoming. How to make our people realize the facts in this matter is the problem. Money will come when our people know how much it is needed, how profitably it is spent, and how grandly it pays dividends.
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ADDRESS OF REV. WM. M. TAYLOR, D.D.
Last Wednesday evening at the Prayer and Conference Meeting of the Broadway Tabernacle, one of the office-bearers of the church put this question to me: "Can we hope to be instrumental in the conversion of the Jews, so long as the present prejudice against God's ancient people exists among us?" And that inquiry, taken in connection with the fact that the Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association was to be held here this week, led me to examine the Word of God, that I might discover what incidental light is thrown on the subject of pride of race by its histories and other contents, and I mean to-night to put the result of my examination before you.
The first and most striking instance of its manifestation which we come upon in Scripture is the treatment given by the Egyptians to the Israelites. "Every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians," so they counted themselves superior to the Hebrews, and subjected them to the greatest indignities, grinding them under the harshest oppression, and exacting from them, by the lash of the task-master, the most arduous labor. But mark how their pride was rebuked and their cruelty punished, under the moral and retributive government of God. Their land was desolated by a series of plagues culminating in the death of the first-born, and the people whom they had oppressed made their escape from the most powerful empire then existing in the world, without themselves striking a single blow. The Lord fought for them. Each of these ten plagues was a Divine protest against that national pride which arrogated to itself the exclusive right to power, privilege, immunity and possession, and which met its merited punishment that day, when "the Lord saved Israel out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the seashore."
But the mention of the Hebrews in this connection may seem to some to be most inappropriate. Were not they, it may be asked, virtually created into a separate and exclusive nation, and taught to look upon themselves as God's peculiar people? Did not they become proverbial for their pride of race, and for saying on every occasion, "We have Abraham to our father," and were they not especially the Pharisees among the nations? Now it must be confessed that all these questions must be answered in the affirmative, but when we widen our view and take into consideration the great purpose of God in the formation and conservation of the Hebrew commonwealth, we may see reason somewhat to modify our opinion. For the settlement of the Jews in Canaan and their restriction within its limits were not ends in themselves, but only means for the attainment of higher ends which were to affect the moral and spiritual condition of "all people that on earth do dwell." The promise made to Abraham was in this wise: "In thee and in thy seed shall all nations of the earth be blessed;" and it was for the purpose of securing the fulfilment of the latter part of that promise that a special and peculiar hedge was planted around the vine which God had brought out of Egypt. It was not meant to be a permanent arrangement, but was designed merely for a temporary emergency, until, as Paul has said, "the Seed should come" to bless the world with his great salvation. It cannot, therefore, be quoted as furnishing a universal example, or as giving any divine approval to that pride of race of which we have been speaking. Moreover, even when the Hebrews were selected by God for this purpose, they were told over and over again that they were not chosen for anything in themselves, and that they had no reason to plume themselves on the fact that they were chosen. And when they degenerated into self-conceit on the ground of their having been so highly privileged, they were finally cast out of the land of promise. Nor is this all. In the system under which they were placed by Moses, they were taught to look with kindliness on those who came to sojourn among them, of whatever race they might be. They were not, indeed, to be a missionary people, or to seek to induce others to settle among them, but if others came to dwell beside them, hear how they were to treat them: "Thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." "And if a stranger sojourn with thee in the land, ye shall not vex him. But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself; for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt. I am the Lord your God. Love ye therefore the stranger, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt." (Exodus xxii. 21; Levit. xix. 33; xxv. 35; Deut. x. 19). Lay these commands alongside of recent legislation among ourselves with reference to the Chinese, and then see what God must think of that blot upon our statute book in this age of our boasted enlightenment.
Take, again, the account of the singular retribution that came upon the people in the days of David because of Saul's treatment of the Gibeonites. These aborigines belonged to the ancient Canaanitish tribes, and were so astute as to impose even upon Joshua, and to obtain from him a treaty on false pretenses. Still an agreement was made with them on the terms that they should be permitted to live in the land, but that they should be "hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of the Lord." This contract was faithfully observed on both sides until the days of Saul, who sought to slay them "in his zeal to the children of Israel and Judah." And what was the result? A famine lasting for three years, which was only removed at last by the giving up, according to the ancient practices of the Gibeonites, of seven of Saul's sons for execution. Now there is much in that old history that is difficult for us at this distance of time, and ignorant as we are of the customs that prevailed among these tribes, to understand. But no one of us can read it without being reminded of our treatment of the Indian tribes that linger among us still. Have we not broken almost every treaty that we ever made with them? Have we not said, unpityingly regarding them, that their destruction before the advance of civilization is inevitable? And have we not forgotten that the God of the Gibeonites lives to be the avenger of the Indians? If the hewers of wood and drawers of water were not beneath his notice long ago, think you he does not see and chronicle the wrongs of the Indians to-day, and shall not he render to every man according to his works?
Before passing from the Old Testament to the New, I merely mention the fact that among the ancestors of the Lord Jesus Christ we find two belonging to alien races, namely, Rahab of Jericho, and Ruth the Moabitess, whose very presence in that noble line is a prophecy of the glorious truth that the Son of David was to be also the Son of man, the Saviour of sinners of every name and nation, the kinsman of all races, the brother of humanity, and that as he represents them all in his priestly intercession yonder, so in each of them we may see a representative of him here and now upon the earth.
But now what may we learn from Christ himself in the New Testament? It is true that his personal ministry in the world was almost entirely confined to the Jews. It had to be so limited at first, if his gospel was to gather force for its triumphant march over the world at a later day; but even during his life in the world he came repeatedly in contact with men and women of races other than that of the Jews, and always in such a way as to show his sympathy with them and love toward them. I remind you of his long and earnest conversation with the woman of Samaria, at the well of Sychar, and of the fact that she was a descendant of that mixed nationality which sprung from the amalgam of those heathen colonists that were sent by the King of Assyria to take the places left vacant by the ten tribes whom he had carried away captive. I recall to your recollection, too, his eulogy on the Roman centurion, and his constant exposure of the contemptuousness of the Pharisees in their attitude not only toward the publicans and sinners of their own nation, but also toward Gentiles of every description. Think of his dealing with the Syrophoenician woman. She was a Canaanite of the old race, and, though at first he seemed to turn her away, yet ultimately he gave her all she asked and more: and even his apparently abrupt treatment of her in the beginning, if I read the history aright, was meant to be an exposure and condemnation of the feelings commonly cherished toward those of her nation by the Jews of his day. No doubt it tested and strengthened her own faith. But we must not forget that the whole conversation with her was meant to teach a lesson to his disciples also. It was part of their training for their future life work. It was a portion of their preparation for carrying his gospel to all nations. And so he spoke out their own thoughts about the women, holding up a mirror before them in which they might see themselves, when he said, "It is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to dogs;" and he ultimately showed them that she was better far than many who would have spurned her from their presence. So from the kindness showed to aliens by the Lord himself, we may learn not only to beware of this leaven of the Pharisees, but also to deal kindly and truly with men of every race, and make them sharers with us in the blessings of the gospel.
But thus far we have not come upon any case where the difference was one not only of race but of color. Even here, however, we are not without scriptural instances to guide us. You remember that of Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian. Jeremiah was, by the cruelty of his enemies, imprisoned in a dungeon or water tank, and was sunk in the mire at the bottom. Ebed-melech, learning his condition, went and informed King Zedekiah of the real state of the case, and obtained a command to take an escort of thirty men with him and deliver him from the dungeon lest he should die. So with great tenderness the Ethiopian threw down rags to put under the ropes which he let down, and by which he was to soften the pressures of the cords under his arms as they drew him up therewith from his filthy prison; and after they had thus delivered him there came to the prophet this message of God concerning him; "Go and speak to Ebed-melech, the Ethiopian, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will bring my words upon this city for evil, and not for good; and they shall be accomplished in that day before thee. But I will deliver thee in that day, saith the Lord; and thou shalt not be given into the hand of the men of whom thou art afraid. For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord." Here we have a kindness done by a colored man to Jeremiah, and a message sent from God to the colored man acknowledging and rewarding that kindness; but O! how many debts of that sort owed by men among ourselves to the colored people have been forgotten or repudiated! In the agony of the war, colored people fought in the ranks of the Northern armies; and I have heard those who have belonged to the Confederate side declare with tears in their eyes that the faithful watch kept by their colored servants over their wives and families while they were absent with the troops was beyond all praise. And yet in these days we read every now and then of colored people shot down like dogs on the slightest provocation, and prevented on the merest pretext from exercising the rights of citizens of this free Republic, and men look on and do nothing. But God may say something by and by, and when he speaks men's ears shall tingle! We have another illustration of God's treatment of a colored man in the case of the Ethiopian treasurer. He was returning from Jerusalem, where he had been at one of the great annual Jewish feasts, and as he was riding in his chariot he was reading aloud to himself the book of the prophet Isaiah, when the evangelist Philip, specially sent thither for the purpose by God's Spirit, addressed him, and on being asked to come into the carriage with him expounded to him the meaning of the passage which he was reading, and preached the gospel from it unto him with such good effect that he was forthwith baptized on the confession of his faith, and afterward went on his way rejoicing to found that Ethiopian church which claims to this day to be one of the most ancient Christian churches in the world. He was a man, for he was moved by the truth as you and I have been, and he became a Christian—"the highest style of man"—to show us that, as Peter said, "In every nation they that fear God and work righteousness are accepted of him." That which is highest in any man is his appreciation and acceptance of the gospel! of Christ, and wherever we see that appreciation we have not only a fellow man but a brother Christian, to be treated by us as Paul requested Philemon to treat Onesimus—as "a brother beloved." Nor let any one suppose that there is a single race upon the earth that can not be so transformed and gladdened as this Ethiopian was. Even Charles Darwin declared that after the Patagonians it could not be said that any race is too degraded for the gospel to elevate, and so he gave new emphasis, unwittingly, perhaps, but, if so, all the more strongly, to the words addressed to Peter on the housetop: "What God hath cleansed that call not thou common;" or those of Paul in one of his epistles: "For there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female, for ye are all one in Christ Jesus."
This topic is at present greatly occupying the attention of the Christian churches in our land. It was before the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in May last, and has been again discussed at the meeting of the Council of Congregational churches in Worcester three weeks ago, and in the Triennial Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which has just closed its sessions in New York. I will not seek to criticise or to characterize the decisions at which these bodies have arrived, save to say that in my judgment the Presbyterian Assembly faced the difficulty more thoroughly, and disposed of it more courageously, than either of the others. But I will say that there is only one solution of a question of this sort. Every Christian, when he comes to think on it seriously, must feel that to be the case. No compromise will satisfy either party to it or will please God, and any settlement to be permanent must be in harmony with the inspired statement that "God hath made of one blood all the nations that dwell upon the face of the earth." But such a result can not be brought about either in the state or in the churches merely by legislation. You can not compel either by physical or moral constraint the different races to meet on terms of social equality. No doubt you can, and you ought to see to it, that men of all races stand precisely on the same platform before the law and have the same protection from the law. But to get rid of a prejudice you must take a different method. You can not uproot that all at once. The removal of that must be the result of education and of spiritual growth. But when I speak of education I must add that it is not the colored people alone that need to be educated here. The white people of all our cities, whether North or South, require education as well. They need to be taught that the Negro is a man, for at bottom that is not more than half believed by multitudes. They need to be taught that the Negro may become a Christian, and that there are possibilities of Christian missionary enterprise in his race that are absolutely incalculable. They need to be taught to look upon the different races of Indians, Chinese and Africans among us as dignified and ennobled by Christ's incarnation, and as purchased by his sacrificial blood equally with themselves. They need to look upon the Christianized among them as brethren in Christ, and then the rest will come of itself.
There has been great progress in these recent years toward the result of which I speak. The present agitation concerning the color-line, as it is called, is itself an indication of progress, and the day assuredly will dawn when men of all nationalities and names shall come from the East and from the West, from the North and from the South, and sit down with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob in the kingdom of our Father. But if we as a Nation cultivate the spirit of the Pharisees, and continue to despise those who are "guilty of a skin not colored like our own," we may be sure that he who visited the Hebrew nation for their treatment of the Gibeonites will send also some nemesis on us.
I can not but feel, beloved brethren, that in these meetings which to-night come to a close, something has been done to help forward that result which under the guidance of the Scriptures we all believe to be the right one. We have had a series of most delightful conferences. Now let us go back to our homes determined to take the seminal truths which have been presented to us here, and scatter them wherever we are called to labor. The seed may seem to be but a handful, and the soil may seem unpromising as the rocky mountain tops—but be sure the result will be a harvest that will shake like the cedars of Lebanon. And though it may seem a little incongruous to quote from the Scottish poet—would that everything he wrote were of as pure and lofty an inspiration—I will venture to conclude with his well-known lines:
"Then let us pray that come it may, As come it will for a' that, That man to man the world over Shall brithers be for a' that."
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BUREAU OF WOMAN'S WORK
MISS D.E. EMERSON, SECRETARY.
The Annual Meeting of the Bureau of Woman's Work of the American Missionary Association, held on Thursday afternoon in the church during the session of the business meeting in the chapel, was one of unusual interest. Following the Report of the Secretary, there were interesting addresses by missionaries, and a very effective address by Mrs. Geo. M. Lane, of Detroit, Michigan, who presided.
The Report and some of the addresses will be published in separate leaflets, and may be had by application to Miss Emerson at 56 Reade St.
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REPORT OF SECRETARY.
A look backward over the twelve months since our last annual gathering reveals much of interest and encouragement, that should fill our hearts with gratitude that our woman's work has had such an influence in bringing light and gladness to thousands of women and children, whose lives have been cast in the dark portions of our Christian land. So large an element of Woman's Work enters into the plan upon which the field of the American Missionary Association is operated, and it is so interwoven with the entire structure of its missions, that any report of it as separate and distinct can be only partial. And yet with the more systematic organization of woman's work in the raising of funds, we have been able to assign special woman's work on mission ground, with most satisfactory results, for to have a particular school or missionary has stimulated the givers, and has brought courage and comfort to the missionaries who have been thus sustained.
Our Woman's Work. What is it? Whom is it for? Who should do it?
What is it? It is to take to heathen mothers and sisters here in our own country the glorious news of salvation for them; to bring the light and truth of the Gospel to those who are groping in the fog of superstition and a wrong conception of Bible truth; to plant the Christian school; to establish the Christian home as an object lesson; to show mothers how to train their children to honor and obedience, to mingle with the needy and helpless, and by sympathy and tact secure such changes in the homes as will lead to their permanent improvement; in a word, to follow the example of our Lord Jesus, by living and teaching the blessings of intelligence and godliness among those in our home-land for whose improvement and well-being we are peculiarly responsible. The American Missionary Association has ninety-four schools, and in most of these more women than men are engaged. It is the duty of the missionary teacher to avail herself of every opportunity which her relation with her scholars affords, either in day or boarding school, to inculcate Christian truth, to warn against the evils which she finds common among the people, to teach by example and precept the living Word, as manifested in the life of Christ. The wonderful change wrought in those who are brought under the influence of such consecrated missionaries, testifies to the value of woman's work in missions.
But who are these for whom we are peculiarly responsible, and why is there so especial need of woman's work?
They are our eight millions of negroes, of whom probably not more than one-fourth may be said to have felt the corrective influence of the Gospel upon their lives. Perhaps only those who have come in contact with these people for the sole purpose of helping them to manhood and womanhood, can comprehend the tremendous incubus of bad habits, stunted growth, blunted susceptibilities, with which they struggle. It is painful to note the limitations of those even who have had the best advantages. Yet they are ever reaching upward, and the struggle is bringing out noble qualities of character, showing the possibilities of the race. We have had a goodly recompense for Christian labor among them, and does not this increase our responsibility for the three-fourths that are yet to be helped to a good understanding of themselves and their duty toward man and God? And no one will question that in the development of the best womanhood there rests the surest hope of the elevation of this wronged, and even now, greatly oppressed people.
But our woman's work finds also its mission among the needy whites of the South. It seems almost incredible that there should be found, within thirty-six hours' ride of our Northern towns, so dotted with schools and churches and Christian homes, a section of our country where there have been in hiding, in the ravines and on the mountain sides, two or more millions of our American people, in gross ignorance and superstition. But such is the case, and as always, the women are the greatest sufferers. Doubtless the Negroes have the largest claim upon us, because of their past history, their present wrongs, and their great numbers, which have become so startling as to make it imperative that we yield no jot of advantage gained, but rather increase our efforts every year for their intellectual and moral improvement. Yet the work for the mountain whites is just now especially urgent. A missionary of much experience expresses the view, that if we can bring the forces of Christian education to bear mightily upon these mountain people for the next ten years, they will themselves become a power as our allies in the great battles of the future against immorality and false doctrines. A few weeks since I met in North Carolina near the Great Smoky Mountains a mother and daughter, the latter about eighteen years old. A school for mountain girls had been opened there, and the daughter had attended the last year. On entering she could not read a word, but now was in the Fourth Reader, and studying arithmetic and geography. The rich, soft color that came to her cheeks, and the kindling light of her eyes, told of the brightness this school had brought into her life; this Christian school, for here too, she had learned the way of eternal life. Even the mother's eyes sparkled like stars as she looked with admiration upon her "learned" daughter.
But our door stands wide open also towards the Indians and Chinese, and all the arguments that appeal to us so strongly for the disenthrallment of women in heathen lands, appeal with equal, yea greater force for the heathen in our own land, whom the Gospel only can make free.
Such is our great and urgent call for work for woman in the field of the American Missionary Association. Who should do it, and how? Who but the Christian women of our churches, either directly or by substitutes? Some can go, of those who have prepared themselves for the highest and best quality of Christian service. They should be thoroughly trained and disciplined teachers, but not this alone. Every teacher should be a careful and intelligent Bible student, able to instruct from the word of God, practical and earnest, self-sacrificing and co-operative, ready to do what seems most necessary, even though it should not call into action her finest mental qualities. Let those who cannot go, send a substitute, but let none fail to seize the opportunity for a part in this blessed work, for the salvation of our country, and its protection as a Christian land.
There are now twenty-six State organizations for Woman's Work in our own country through our Congregational Churches, which co-operate in the work of the American Missionary Association. Some have increased their contributions during the past year; others have not fallen below the standard they had fixed for this field, but have not made any annual advance. With a very few, co-operation has not yet extended beyond a study of our work. But a study of the field is encouraging, for a knowledge of the need brings responsibility to do all possible to meet it, and soon we trust these also will be contributing Unions. To facilitate the study of our field, our monthly magazine has been sent free to many ladies' societies, our literature has been distributed, and more than sixteen thousand copies of missionary letters have been circulated among the ladies. Would not the value of organization be shown in the larger flow of funds annually for a work of such pressing necessity as this? We rejoice that some have already demonstrated this value of united effort. More than one State Missionary Union, recognizing the importance of this work and remembering that in drawing upon the benevolence of all the Congregational Ladies' Societies in the State, it should not do a small thing, has raised the support of four or more missionary teachers for an entire school. And the officers of the Union have taken pains to stir up the pure minds of the ladies in each auxiliary by way of remembrance of this particular field.
But there are those not in the State organizations, whose help we record, as Sunday-schools and Christian Endeavor Societies. Many such have during the year asked for a special object for their contributions. What can the Secretary do? The particular things that can be accomplished with forty or fifty or seventy dollars are indeed few, but these sums combined may sustain a missionary for a year. So each such contribution is made a share of the four hundred dollars necessary for the purpose, and something definite is accomplished. What is it? This. A faithful Christian woman is sent to the field, where, in a neat cottage, she makes her home life an object lesson to the colored people or the mountain whites or the Indians for many miles around. Their homes begin to improve. Her day school, held in the little church near by, attracts not only children, but young men and women, and even young married people. A Christian Endeavor Society is formed. The Sunday-school and church take a new start under her teachings. Other Sunday-schools and Christian societies are maintained through her influence, and so the small contributions accomplish a large work.
Private individuals also have aided us. What a blessed privilege to be able out of one's own income to put worthy missionaries into such a field.
There has been an increase in aid rendered in sewing, a form of help that is very valuable in keeping our boarding schools and mission homes furnished, our sewing schools provided with basted work, and clothing ready for worthy but needy students. As with money, so with sewing, we could use wisely very much more than has been received.
We acknowledge also the kindness of ladies in furnishing books and papers adapted to the need. The young people, especially among the Negroes, are acquiring a taste for reading, and with their emotional and excitable natures, they take readily to sensational literature, with its startling illustrations. A neighborhood or society collection of books and papers will usually contain some of such a stamp, and you maybe sure they will not always discriminate in favor of the most instructive reading. Therefore select for them as you would for your own sons and daughters, what is attractive and healthful, and withhold all else.
And now we are just starting upon a new year. Four hundred and seventy-six laborers have been called into the missionary ranks of the American Missionary Association. One hundred and ninety missions are in operation, with their widening influence and ever growing needs. Of our one hundred and forty-two churches there are fifty-seven which have not at present any Northern missionary associated with them. The difference in the development of these churches, as contrasted with those which have the influence and help of Northern teachers, is so marked, as to constitute a most urgent appeal for more missionaries—faithful women—to gather in the young people, interest and instruct them, to live among them, an example of economy and thrift in housekeeping, of neighborly kindness, of faithfulness in church obligations and of consistent Christian life. I do not hesitate to affirm that in the field of the American Missionary Association such provision is next in importance to the preached word. Neither can take the place of the other. Either is at a disadvantage without the other. And yet there are fifty-seven of these mission stations this year, now, without such beneficent woman's ministry, waiting only for additional funds, the new money necessary to provide reinforcements.
I appeal to you, Christian women, in your organized capacity as State Unions; and as individuals—stewards to whom perchance our Lord has entrusted a goodly inheritance—for help to the American Missionary Association in this almost overwhelming responsibility. Send us the missionaries for these needy fields.
I appeal to you in behalf especially of the wronged and helpless women and girls of these ten millions of our own countrymen, American born, whose only hope is in the sympathy and the help of the Christian people of our own land. We do not live in the day of small things, but of great needs and large opportunities. Surely now, if ever, is the time to "enlarge the place of thy tent and stretch forth the curtains of thy habitation. Spare not, lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes, that thou mayest spread abroad on the right hand and on the left, and possess the nations of our land."
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WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.
CO-OPERATING WITH THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
MAINE.
WOMAN'S AID TO A.M.A.
Chairman of Committee—Mrs. C.A. Woodbury, Woodfords, Me.
VERMONT.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. A.B. Swift, 167 King St., Burlington. Secretary—Mrs. E.C. Osgood, 14 First Ave., Montpelier. Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.
MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.[1]
President—Mrs. Alice Freeman Palmer, Cambridge, Mass. Secretary—Miss Nathalie Lord, 32 Congregational House, Boston. Treasurer—Miss Ella A. Leland, 32 Congregational House, Boston.
CONNECTICUT.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. Francis B. Cooley, Hartford. Secretary—Mrs. S.M. Hotchkiss, 171 Capitol Ave., Hartford. Treasurer—Mrs. W.W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St., Hartford.
NEW YORK.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., Brooklyn. Secretary—Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 6 Salmon Block, Syracuse. Treasurer—Mrs. L.H. Cobb, 59 Bible House, New York City.
OHIO.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. J.G.W. Cowles, 417 Sibley St., Cleveland. Secretary—Mrs. Flora K. Regal, Oberlin. Treasurer—Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, 95 Monroe Ave., Columbus.
INDIANA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. C.B. Safford, Elkhart. Secretary—Mrs. W.E. Mossman, Fort Wayne. Treasurer—Mrs. C. Evans, Indianapolis.
ILLINOIS.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. B.F. Leavitt, 409 Orchard St., Chicago. Secretary—Mrs. C.H. Taintor, 151 Washington St., Chicago. Treasurer—Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Champaign.
IOWA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. T.O. Douglass, Grinnell. Secretary—Miss Ella E. Marsh, Box 232, Grinnell. Treasurer—Mrs. M.J. Nichoson, 1513 Main St., Dubuque.
MICHIGAN.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. George M. Lane, 47 Miami Ave., Detroit. Secretary—Mrs. Leroy Warren, Lansing. Treasurer—Mrs. E.F. Grabill, Greenville.
WISCONSIN.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. H.A. Miner, Madison. Secretary—Mrs. C. Matter, Brodhead. Treasurer—Mrs. C.C. Keeler, Beloit.
MINNESOTA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President—Mrs. E.S. Williams, Box 464, Minneapolis. Secretary—Miss Gertude A. Keith, 1350 Nicollet Ave., Minneapolis. Treasurer—Mrs. M.W. Skinner, Northfield.
NORTH DAKOTA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President—Mrs. A.J. Pike, Dwight. Secretary—Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood. Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Fisher, Fargo.
SOUTH DAKOTA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. A.H. Robbins, Bowdle. Secretary—Mrs. T.M. Jeffris, Huron. Treasurer—Mrs. S.E. Fifield, Lake Preston.
NEBRASKA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. T.H. Leavitt, 1216 H. St., Lincoln. Secretary—Mrs. L.F. Berry, 724 No. Broad St, Fremont. Treasurer—Mrs. D.E. Perry, Crete.
MISSOURI.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. C.L. Goodell, 3006 Pine St., St. Louis. Secretary—Mrs. E.P. Bronson, 3100 Chestnut St., St. Louis. Treasurer—Mrs. A.E. Cook, 4145 Bell Ave., St. Louis.
KANSAS.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President—Mrs. F.J. Storrs, Topeka. Secretary—Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka. Treasurer—Mrs. J.G. Dougherty, Ottawa.
COLORADO AND WYOMING.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. J.W. Pickett, White Water, Colorado. Secretary—Miss Mary L. Martin, 106 Platte Ave., Colorado Springs, Colorado. Treasurer—Mrs. S.A. Sawyer. Boulder, Colorado. Treasurer—Mrs. C.T. Goodell, 24th and Eddy Sts., Cheyenne, Wyoming.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. Elijah Cash, 927 Temple St., Los Angeles. Secretary—Mrs. H.K.W. Bent, Box 426, Pasadena. Treasurer—Mrs. H.W. Mills, So. Olive St., Los Angeles.
CALIFORNIA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
President—Mrs. H.L. Merritt, 686 34th St., Oakland. Secretary—Miss Grace E. Barnard, 677 21st. St., Oakland. Treasurer—Mrs. J.M. Havens, 3329 Harrison St., Oakland.
LOUISIANA.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. R.D. Hitchcock, New Orleans. Secretary—Miss Jennie Fyfe, 490 Canal St., New Orleans. Treasurer—Mrs. C.S. Shattuck, Hammond.
MISSISSIPPI.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. A.F. Whiting, Tougaloo. Secretary—Miss Sarah J. Humphrey, Tougaloo. Treasurer—Miss S.L. Emerson, Tougaloo.
ALABAMA.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. H.W. Andrews, Talladega. Secretary—Miss S.S. Evans, 2612 Fifth Ave., Birmingham. Treasurer—Mrs. G. Baker, Selma.
FLORIDA.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Mrs. S.F. Gale, Jacksonville. Secretary—Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park. Treasurer—Mrs. L.C. Partridge, Longwood.
TENNESSEE AND ARKANSAS.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION.
President—Miss M.F. Wells, Athens, Tenn. Secretary—Miss A.M. Cahill, Nashville, Tenn. Treasurer—Mrs. G.S. Pope, Grand View, Tenn.
NORTH CAROLINA.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION.
President—Miss E. Plimpton, Chapel Hill. Secretary—Miss A.E. Farrington, Raleigh. Treasurer—Miss Lovey Mayo, Raleigh.
[Footnote 1: For the purpose of exact information, we note that while the W.H.M.A. appears in this list as a State body for Mass. and R.I., it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.]
We would suggest to all ladies connected with the auxiliaries of State Missionary Unions, that funds for the American Missionary Association be sent to us through the treasurers of the Union. Care, however, should be taken to designate the money as for the American Missionary Association, since undesignated funds will not reach us.
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RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1889.
THE DANIEL HAND FUND,
For the Education of Colored People.
FROM
MR. DANIEL HAND, GUILFORD, CONN.
Income from October, 1889, $960.00
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CURRENT RECEIPTS.
MAINE, $165.76.
Alfred. Cong. Ch. 11.56
Bangor. Corelli W. Simpson. Engravings for Hospital, Fort Yates, Dak.
Ellsworth. Mrs. Phelps, for Teachers' Home, Lexington, Ky. 1.00
Fryeburg. Cong. Ch. 10.54
Greenville. Cong. Ch., 15.55, and Sab. Sch., 12 27.55
Island Falls. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. 12.00
New Castle. Second Cong. Ch., to const. S.D. WYMAN and MRS. AURANUS MILLEE L.M's 60.00
Patten. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Portland. George C. Frye, Chemist, Medicines, val. 15.06, for Hospital, Fort Yates, Dak.
South Bridgton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 17.11
Wells. "A Friend." 1.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $274.05.
Alstead. Cong. Ch. 9.00
Canaan. Mary A. George 5.00
Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Great Falls. Ladies' Home Miss'y Soc. 10.00
Hanover. Dartmouth College Cong. Ch. 67.20
Mason. Cong. Ch. 5.30
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
New Ipswich. Proceeds of Children's Fair (2 of which for Indian M.) 10.80
Pelham. Cong. Ch. 35.00
Pembroke. First Cong. Soc. 18.25
Peterboro. Union Evan. Ch. 31.50
Portsmouth. "In as much Circle" of King's Daughters of North Ch., for furnishing room, Girl's Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 30.00
Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
VERMONT, $217.20.
Benson. Cong. Ch. 16.80
Bethel. Cong. Ch. 2.56
Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Brattleboro. Center Cong. Ch. 81.00
Essex Junction. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00
Guildhall. Cong. Ch. 3.50
Hubbardton. D.J. Flagg 5.00
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.50
Sharon. A Friend, 1; "X.", 1 2.00
Sharon. Communion Service, for Jonesboro, Tenn.
Springfield. F.V.A. Townsend, to const MRS. ISABELLA WATERMAN L.M. 30.00
Townsend. Mrs. H. Holbrook 1.00
West Brattleboro. Cong. Ch. 14.84
Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Westminster. West. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for McIntosh, Ga. 16.00
MASSACHUSETTS, $4,599.69.
Amherst. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Andover. Phillips Academy for Boys' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 25.00
Andover. "Pansy Band," for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 16.72
Beverly. Sab. Sch. of Dane St. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.12
Boston. Woman's Home Miss'y Soc., 400, for Woman's Work; 35 from Shawmut Mite Soc., for Indian Sch'p. 435.00
"A Friend In Boston," for Building Fund, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 250.00
Woman's Home Miss'y Ass'n 30.00
Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. 95.87
Mrs. Walter Baker, 30, Mr. Hardwick, 10, Mrs. Means, 10, Mrs. Wales, 5, Miss Carruth, 5, Miss Salmon, 5 65.00
"Friends," by A.C. Hopkins, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 60.00
Harvard Cong. Ch. 37.40
Mrs. Eliza Bicknell 4.00
Roxbury. Highland Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 15.00
Ladies of Immanuel Ch., for Freight on Bbl. to Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 2.00
Im. Ch., Mrs. M.M. Graham 1.00
West Roxbury. South Evan. Ch. 24.51
———- 1,019.78
Brimfield. First Cong. Ch. 8.64
Brookline. Harvard Ch. 57.38
Brockton. Porter Evan. Ch. and Soc., to const. CHAS. H. REYNOLDS, SIDNEY E. NICKERSON and MRS. JANE B. JENNINGS L.M's 104.48
Cambridge. Mrs. C.A. Phelps' S.S. Class, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 10.00
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim Ch., 97.14; First Cong. Ch., 1 98.14
Campello. Mrs. S.A. Southworth, for Freight on Boxes to Chapel Hill, N.C. 3.00
Charlestown. Winthrop Cong. Ch. and Soc. 66.12
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch., 38.50; Sab. Sch. of First Cong, Ch., 15 53.50
Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. 22.54
East Cambridge. Miss M.F. Aiken, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 4.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. 39.74
Fitchburg. Rollstone Cong. Ch. 80.00
Framingham. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Guernsey, for Mountain Work 1.00
Franklin. Y.P.S.C.E. of First Cong. Ch., for Grand View, Tenn. 15.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch., to const CHAS. F. READ and MRS. SETH HEYWOOD L.M's 60.00
Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 58.95
Groton. Union Cong. Ch. 145.80
Harvard. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Haverhill. Mary Merrill, Package Patchwork, for Sew. Sch., Sherwood Tenn.
Holliston. "Bible Christians," 47; Cong. Ch. and Soc. 40.50 87.50
Housatonic. Cong. Sab. Sch. 50.45
Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. 24.00
Lawrence. Trinity Ch., for Freedmen and Indian M. 32.19
Lawrence. United Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lee. "Friendly." 1.50
Ludlow Center. First Cong. Ch., Ladies' Soc., for Tougaloo U. 10.00
Mansfield. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. 10.00
Medfield. Second Cong. Ch. 78.38
Milton. First Cong. Ch. 30.50
Middleboro. Central Cong. Ch., 46.73; First Cong. Ch., 13.14 59.87
Newton. Eliot Ch., 120; First Cong. Ch., 75.08 195.08
Newton Center. Mrs. Sarah C. Davis, for Indian M. 200.00
Norfolk. Union Cong. Ch. 5.60
North Attleboro. Frank Bennett, for Mountain Work 5.00
North Brookfield. Union Cong. Ch. 13.18
North Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch. 21.00
North Leominster. Ch. of Christ 21.43
Northampton. A.L. Williston, 170; "A Friend," 9, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 179.00
Northampton. Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc. 160.00
North Middleboro. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.65
Oxford. Woman's Miss'y Soc., for Freight on 3 Bbl's. to Kittrell, N.C. 6.50
Oxford. "Oxtord." 5.00
Peabody. Second Cong. Ch., 5; West Branch of Second Cong. Ch., 2.75 7.75
Reading. Cong. Ch. 18.00
Randolph. Miss MARION BELCHER, to const. herself L.M. 30.00
Rockland. Miss Cordelia Shaw, for Freight on Bbl. to Fisk U. 2.00
Salem. Crombie St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 67.00
Saxonville. Edwards Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.93
Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 30, to const. J.W. PERRY L.M.; Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 10 40.00
Somerville. Day St. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 15.00
Southampton. L.C. Tiffany's S.S. Class, Cong. Ch., for Theo. Student Aid Fund 20.00
South Egremont. Cong. Ch. 14.06
South Deerfield. Cong. Ch., 34.15; Sab. Sch., 12.93 47.08
South Framingham. South Cong. Ch., (50 of which for Mountain Work) 174.54
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. 23.50
Springfield. Miss Carrie H. Bowdoin 10.00
Springfield. Y.P.S.C.E., First Ch. of Christ, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 5.00
South Weymouth. Miss S.B. Tirrel's S.S. Class, Second Cong. Ch. 4.82
Townsend. Mrs. Ralph Ball, for Freight on Bbl. to Sherwood, Tenn. 2.00
Wakefield. Y.P.S.C.E., for Mountain Work 3.00
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. 8.85
Westhampton. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 18.78
Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.58
West Medford. —— for Boys' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 30.00
West Springfield. Ladies' Mission Circle of Park St. Ch., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 50.00
Winchendon. First Cong. Ch., 13, and Sab. Sch., 17.30 30.30
Winchester. Ladies' Western Miss'y Soc., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 90.00
Winchester. S. Elliott 10.00
Worcester. Mary A. and Joanna F. Smith 50.00
Yarmouth. Rev. John W. Dodge, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 50.00
Hampden Benevolent Association, by Charles Marsh, Treasurer:
Agawam 20.25
Holyoke. Second 83.31
South Hadley Falls 9.91
Springfield. South 46.30
———- 159.77
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$4,249.69
ESTATES.
Dunstable. Estate of Mary Wilson, by Wm. P. Proctor, Ex. 50.00
Enfield. Estate of J.B. Woods, by Rev. R.M. Woods, Trustee, to const. MISS CHARLOTTE A. LATHROP L.M. 50.00
Groton. Estate of Samuel C. Rockwood, by George S. Gates, Ex. 300.00
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$4,599.69
CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON OFFICE.
Kennebunk, Maine. Mrs. Mary P. Smith, Box of C., for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.
Campello, Mass. Mrs. S.A. Southworth, 2 Boxes, for Chapel Hill, S.C.
Cambridgeport, Mass. By Mrs. R.L. Snow, Box of Bedding, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.
Gardner, Mass. Y.P.S.C.E., Package of Papers, for Jellico, Tenn.
Hopkinton, Mass. King's Daughters, Bbl. of C., val. 50, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.
Oxford, Mass. Woman's Miss'y Soc., 3 Bbls., for Kittrell, Ala.
Rockland, Mass. Ladies' Sew. Circle of Cong. Ch., Bbl., for Fisk U.
Roslindale, Mass. Miss F.H. Wiswall, Box Hymn Books, etc., for Talladega, Ala.
Roxbury, Mass, Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Immanuel Ch., Bbl., val. 31.54, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn.
Townsend, Mass. By Mrs. Ralph Ball, Bbl., for Sherwood, Tenn.
RHODE ISLAND, $730.96.
Little Compton. Mrs. Antrace Pierce 5.00
Newport. United Cong. Ch. 30.00
Providence. Central Cong. Ch. (25 of which for Girls' Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. and 10. for Talladega C.) 625.00
Providence. North Cong. Ch. 44.71
Providence. Sab. Sch. of Beneficent Cong. Ch., 25, Miss Burrows' Class, 1.25, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 26.25
CONNECTICUT, $2,705.00.
Berlin. Mrs. Sophia Savage, for Tougaloo U. 10.00
Bridgeport D.H. Terry, 10., L.B. Silliman, 5, for Tougaloo U. 15.00
Bristol. Cong. Ch. 19.27
Buckingham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.29
East Granby. Cong. Ch. 3.65
Ellington. Cong. Ch. 148.70
Granby. South Cong. Ch., 13; First Cong. Ch., 6.12 19.12
Hadlyme. Cong. Ch., 4.; Mrs. E. Geer, 1. 5.00
Hartford. Students' Association of Hartford Theo. Sem., 34.81; Mrs. Charles T. Hillyer, 30.00 64.81
Hartford. D.R. Howe, for Tougaloo U. 25.00
Lisbon. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. REV. Q.M. BOSWORTH L.M. 7.00
Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 10.01
Monroe. Mrs. F.A. and H.L. Curtiss 10.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 46.00
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 53.20
Portland. First Cong. Ch. 6.91
Preston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 20.94
New Britain. Prayer Meeting Coll. Center Ch., for Tougaloo U. 34.24
New Britain. Normal Class of South Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Normal Inst., Grand View, Tenn. 7.31
New Haven. United Ch., 268.52; College St. Ch., 10.00 278.52
New London. First Cong. Ch. 50.06
Newington. Cong. Ch. 79.95
New Preston. Mrs. Henry Upson, 4; Mrs. Stanley Williams, 1, for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 5.00
Northford. Cong Ch. 15.00
North Madison. Cong. Ch. 12.00
Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. 211.88
Rockville. Union Cong. Ch. (65 of which for Tougaloo U.) to const. MISS LUCINDA BAILEY, MISS ELLEN. L. WILSON, MISS CELIA E. PRESCOTT, LUTHER H. FULLER and ISAAC M. AGARD L.M.'s 168.05
Stamford. First Cong. Ch. 16.61
Terryville. Elizur Fenn 10.00
Thomaston. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Sch'p, Santee Ind. Sch. 17.50
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 12.65
Tolland. Cong. Ch. 5.02
Wallingford. Mrs. Clara Beebe Darling, ad'l, for Chapel, Darling Station, Fort Yates, Dak. 100.00
Wallingford. H.L. Judd, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 70.00
Wapping. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 7.27
Watertown. Cong. Ch. 24.79
Watertown. Sab. Sch. Class, by Mrs. Fred. Scott, for Student Aid, Fort Berthold, Ind. Sch. 15.00
West Hartland. H.L. Wilcox, for Conn. Ind'l Sch., Ga. 6.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Woodbury. North Cong. Ch. 11.25
Woman's Home Missionary Union of Conn., by Mrs. Ward W. Jacobs, Treas., for Woman's Work:
Bridgeport. L.H.M. Soc. of North Ch. 50.00
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$1,705.00
ESTATE.
Plymouth. Estate of Eliza Bull, by Ira B. Bull and Geo. M. Welles, Executors 1,000.00
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$2,705.00
NEW YORK, $838.67.
Albany. "E.M.E." 10.00
Amsterday. Mrs. Chandler Bartlett 2.00
Aquebogue. Cong. Ch. 3.20
Brooklyn. Tompkins Ave. Cong. Ch. 400.00
Churchville. Cong. Ch. 31.05
Clifton Springs. Mrs. W.W. Warner, Box of C., Val. 46.65, for McLeansville, N.C.
Deansville. Y.P.S.C.E., for Student Aid, Avery Inst. 10.00
Hudson. Mrs. D.A. Jones 15.00
Ithaca. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., for ed. of a girl, Santee Ind. Sch. 35.00
Jamestown. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch. 10.39
Kelloggsville. Miss C.L. Taylor 50.00
Lebanon. Thomas Hitchcock, 5; Ladles Aid Soc., 5; Alfred Seymour, 5; Mrs. Servilia G. Childs, 2; Mrs. J.H. Wagoner, 1; J.A. Head, 1; G.G. Grosvenor, 50c.; C.P. Day, 50c. 20.00
Munnsville. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Napoli. Cong. Ch. 7.32
New Lebanon. "A Friend" 4.00
New York. Broadway Tab., J.T. Leavitt 100.00
New York. Mrs. H.B. Spelman, for Student Aid, Atlanta U. 25.00
New York. J.H. Washburn, Pkg. of C.
Syracuse. Plymouth Ch. 26.00
Utica. Miss Caroline E. Backus, for Mountain Work 5.00
Warsaw. Cong. Ch. 14.71
Woman's Home Missionary Union of N.Y., by Mrs. L.H. Cobb, Treas., for Woman's Work:
Binghamton. Helpers H.M. Soc., to const. MRS. J.L. MESEREAU L.M. 30.00
Geddes. Ladies Aux. 5.00
Lyssander. Ladies' Aux., to const. MRS. DESIRE A. FULLER L.M. 30.00
———- $65.00
NEW JERSEY, $185.00.
Montclair. Womans' Home Miss'y Soc. of First Cong. Ch. for Marshallville Sch., Ga., and to const. MRS. LUCIA P. AMES, MARY B. AMES and LULU AMES L.M's 180.00
Paterson. P. Van Houten 5.00
Point Pleasant. Rev. S.Y. Lum, Box of Books, for Talladega C.
PENNSYLVANIA, $10.00.
Cambridge. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Ridgway. Bible Class by Minnie J. Kline, for Oaks, N.C. 5.00
OHIO, $1,706.04.
Cincinnati. Sab. Sch. of Walnut Hills Cong. Ch., for Grand View, Tenn. 30.00
Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., 30.21; Rev. W.L. Tenney, 15; Plymouth Ch., 5.85 51.06
Columbus. First Cong. Ch. 191.60
Columbus. "A Friend" Box of Bedding, for Grand View, Tenn.
Conneaut. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., 20; H.E. Pond, 5., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 25.00
Fort Recovery. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 5.50
Lorain. "Wide Awake Soc." for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. 3.55
Medina. Friends in Cong. Ch., by Mrs. E.F. Leach, for furnishing a room, new boarding hall, Macon, Ga. 50.00
North Bloomfield. Prof. F.O. Reed 5.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 68.29
Oberlin. Rev. C.V. Speare, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 50.00
Oberlin. Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc., for Student Aid, Pleasant Hill, Tenn. 25.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch., for Jewett Memorial Hall 11.55
Pittsfield. Ladies' Benev. Soc., Bundle of Carpeting, for Tougaloo U.
Newark. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Strongsville. Elijah Lyman 10.00
Toledo. First Cong. Ch. 50.00
Wakeman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.75
York. Cong. Ch. to const. MILO E. BRANCH L.M. 32.00
Ohio Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. Phebe A. Crafts, Treasurer, for Woman's Work:
Chagrin Falls. Aux. for Miss Collins 7.50
Chester Cross Roads. St. Paul's Miss. Band, for Dakota Indian M. 3.00
Cleveland. First Cong. Ch., Y.P.S.C.E. 4.13
Conneaut. W.H.M.S., for Miss Collins 5.00
Hudson. L.H.M.S. 7.16
"Friends" 24.95
Painesville. M.S. Home Dept. 25.00
——— $76.74
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$706.04
ESTATE.
Ashtabula. Estate of Miss E.G. Austin, by Henry Fassett, Adm'r 1,000.00
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$1,706.04
ILLINOIS, $743.83.
Atkinson. Cong. Ch. 10.20
Aurora. N.L. Janes 10.00
Buda. Cong. Ch. 114.86
Chicago. Mrs. F.E. Brush, for Student Aid, Fisk U. 104.00
Chicago. Ladies of South Park Ch. 2.50
Crete. Phineas Chapman 50.00
Elgin. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., for Mountain Work 9.41
Elgin. "A Friend" 5.00
Elmwood. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 3.00
Mattoon. "Friends," by Mrs. A.F. Cushman, for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U. 15.00
Morrison. William Wallace 10.00
Lawn Ridge. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 19.48
Lee Center. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Straight U. 12.75
Marseilles. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 9.00
Payson. J.K. Scarborough 100.00
Peoria. Miss Etta Proctor's S.S. Class, Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. 3.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 11.71
Princeton. Rev. F. Bascom, D.D., Box of Books, for Talladega C.
Prospect Park. Cong. Ch., for Indian M. 20.04
Oak Park. Young People's Miss'y Soc., for Sch'p Endowment Fund, Fisk U. 50.00
Turner. Cong. Ch. 3.13
Illinois Woman's Home Missionary Union, by Mrs. C.E. Maltby, Treas., for Woman's Work:
Ashkum 0.56
Atkinson 5.00
Buda 3.50
Chebanse 5.00
Chicago. Park 22.75
Elgin 5.00
Oak Park 24.00
Peoria 50.00
Rockford. First 15.00
Rockford. Second 20.00
Sterling 8.50
Toulon 2.00
Warrensburg 14.44
———— 180.75
MICHIGAN, $9,417.64.
Detroit. Parke, Davis & Co., Chemists, Medicines, Val. 17.31. for Hospital, Fort Yates, Dak.
Grand Rapids. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00
Hart. Cong. Ch. 6.02
Litchfield. First Cong. Ch. 8.16
Manistee. First Cong. Ch. 26.00
New Haven. First Cong. Ch. 4.11
South Haven. First Cong. Ch. 1.05
Wheatland. Cong. Ch. 25.00
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$95.34
ESTATE.
Olivet. Estate of William B. Palmer, by Geo. W. Keyes, Ex. 9,332.20
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$9,417.54
WISCONSIN, $82.66.
Beloit. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., 11.86; First Cong. Ch., 5.50 17.36
Beloit. Sab. Sch. First Cong. Ch., Sewing Machine, for Straight U.; 2 for Freight 2.00
Bristol and Paris. Cong. Ch. 24.62
Emerald Grove. Cong. Ch. 6.50
Madison. Clarissa L. Ware's S.S. Class, Birthday Box, for Lathrop Library 0.93
Madison. Clarissa L. Ware, Package Patchwork, for Sew. Sch., Sherwood, Tenn.
New London. Ira Millerd, Sr., for Lathrop Library 1.00
Rosendale. Mrs. H.N. Clark, for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn. 2.00
West Salem. Mrs. Anson Clark 2.00
Whitewater. First Cong. Ch. 25.00
Viroqua. Mrs. J.R. Casson, for Freight to Sherwood, Tenn. 1.25
IOWA, $226.60.
Atlantic. Cong. Ch. 9.22
Blairstown. MRS. J.H. FRENCH, to const. herself L.M. 30.00
Burlington. First Cong. Ch., to const. LUKE PALMER, JR. L.M. 36.50
Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 13.98
Genoa Bluffs. Boys' Intermediate and Primary Classes, Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Straight U. 8.00
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. 23.25
Marcus. "A Life Member." 1.00
Oldfield. Highland Cong. Sab. Sch., for Indian M and Mountain Work 8.75
Sherrills Mound. German Cong. Ch. 4.00
Strawberry Point. First Cong. Ch. 12.15
Wittemberg. Cong. Ch. 9.00
Woman's Home Missionary Union of Iowa, for Woman's Work:
Central City. Y.P.S.C.E. 2.00
Clay. W.M.S. 2.00
Des Moines. W.M.S. 22.02
Harlan. W.M.S. 1.65
Independence. Aid Soc. 5.00
Lyons 5.61
Miles. L.M.S., "Thank Offering." 5.00
McGregor. W.M.S. 8.65
Onawa. S.S. Birthday Box 6.40
Osage. W.M.S. 2.90
Rockford. L.M.S. 0.05
Shenandoah. W.M.S. 5.55
Wells 0.50
——— 67.33
MINNESOTA, $93.55.
Hutchinson. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Lake City. First Cong. Ch., for Williamsburg Academy 23.02
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. 45.65
Saint Paul. S.S. Class, for Talladega C. 2.25
Worthington. Union Cong. Ch. 4.38
Waseca. Cong. Ch. 5.25
MISSOURI, $40.00.
Kansas City. Clyde Cong. Ch. 40.00
Laclede. Clara Seward, Package Patchwork, for Sew. Sch., Sherwood, Tenn.
KANSAS, $12.00.
Manhattan. W.E. Castle 12.00
NEBRASKA, $113.26.
Cortland. "H.C.H." 5.00
Cowles. G.A. Harris 2.48
Hay Springs. First Cong. Ch. 2.25
Irvington. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Kearney. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Nebraska City. Woman's Miss'y. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 5.00
Omaha. First Cong. Ch. 78.53
NORTH AND SOUTH DAKOTA, $113.19.
Buffalo Gap. Cong. Ch. 6.25
Buxton, N.D. Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of Cong. Ch., for Mountain Work 80.00
Custer. Cong. Ch. 4.10
Lake Henry, S. Dak. Cong. Ch. 4.71
Yankton, S. Dak. Cong. Ch. 18.13
WASHINGTON, $5.50.
Roy. Mrs. Eliza Taylor 5.50
OREGON, $45.00.
Canyon. E.S. PENFIELD, to const. himself L.M. 30.00
Forest Grove. Cong. Ch. 15.00
CALIFORNIA, $3,190.15.
Belmont. Mrs. E.L. Reed and Miss Harriet Reed, for Woman's Work 17.50
Redlands. First Cong. Ch. 19.25
San Francisco. The California Chinese Mission (See Items Below) 3,138.40
Tustin. "Busy Bees" by Miss Mary Buss, 15, and Package C., for Student Aid, Normal Inst., Grand View, Tenn. 15.00
NORTH CAROLINA, $43.85.
Blowing Rock. F.W. Van Wagenen, for Blowing Rock, N.C. 25.00
McLeansville. Rev. A. Connet, for Talladega C. 14.60
Willmington. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 4.25
TEXAS, $25.00.
Dallas. Cong. Ch. 25.00
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Donations $13,862.30
Estates 11,722.20
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$25,584.50
TUITION, $466.01.
Lexington, Ky. Tuition 171.35
Wilmington, N.C. Tuition 6.00
Jonesboro, Tenn. County Fund 50.00
Jonesboro, Tenn. Tuition 1.00
Nashville, Tenn. Tuition 192.35
Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Public Fund 40.00
Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition 3.00
Austin, Texas. Tuition 2.31
———— 466.01
United States Government for the Education of Indians 1,017.98
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Total for October $27,068.49
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FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Subscriptions for October $81.86
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RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION, from April 20th to October 16th, 1889. E. Palache, Treas.
FROM LOCAL MISSIONS.—Los Angeles, Chinese Mon Off's. 34.80. Annual Mem's and other gifts, 20.50.—Marysville. Chinese Monthlies, 27.80; Annual Mem's, 6.—Oakland, Chinese Monthlies, 40; Annual Mem's, 24.—Oroville. Chinese Monthlies, 15.85; Annual Mem's. 34.—Petaluma: Chinese Monthlies, 10.50; Anniversary Coll., 5.75; Annual Mem's and other gifts (6 of which from Dea. A.B. Case) 56.50.—Riverside, Chinese Monthlies, 17.55; Annual Mem's 15.—Sacramento, Chinese Monthlies, 36; Annual Mem's, 30.25.—San Buenaventura, Chinese Monthlies, 14,10; Annual Mon's, etc., 31: Chinese Special Offerings, 91.85—San Diego, Chinese weekly offerings, 86; Annual Mem's and other gifts, 53.45; J.A. Rogers, 10; QUON NEUEY, 25, to const. himself L.M.; Rev. and Mrs. J.B. Silcox, 10; Col. E.F. French, 5; Moses Frick, 2.50; Others. 3.—Santa Barbara, Chinese Monthlies, 14.05; Annual Mem's and other gifts, 43.75; Pon Dan, 5; Yee Ock, 5; Gin Chow, 5; Mrs. E.M. Shattuck, 3.50, balance to const. REV. C.T. WEITZEL L.M.; "Lady Friend," 5; Mrs. Josiah Bates, 4; Cong. Ch., 32.25; Collection at Social, 10.50.—Santa Cruz. Chinese Monthlies, 36.10; Anniversary Coll., 10.80; Annual Mem's, etc., 63.50.—Stockton, Chinese Monthlies, 8.75; Annual Mem's. 35.—Tucson, Chinese Monthlies, 7; Annual Mem's, 18; "A Friend," 1.35 $964.95
FROM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.—Bethany, (San Joaquin Co.) 4.—Byron, 6.—Crockett, 2.50.—Lorin, 6.40.—Los Angeles, First, Woman's Home Missionary Soc,. 43.10. Y.P.S.C.E., 4.50.—Murphys, 4.—Oakland. First, Annual Off's, 120.85; Fellowship Fund, 22; Sab. Sen., Primary Class, 19.25; Mrs. H.G. Noyes, 15, "Other Friends." 25; First Ch., Market St. Branch, 5.50, Plymouth Ave. Ch., Dr. Geo. Mooar, 6.50; Dr. I.E. Dwinell, 5; Dr. J.A. Benton. 5; Mrs. A.B. Sargent, 5; Mrs. C.F. Whitton, 2.50; Mrs. M.L. Merritt, 2.50; Mr. and Mrs. F.A. Armstrong, 2.50; Others, 3.—Ontario, 47.—Redwood, 7.—Rio Vista, 15.15,—San Diego, Second, Rev. F.B. Perkins, 5.—San Francisco, First. Mrs. Hutchins, 5; Miss Hutchins, 1.50; Mrs. Perkins, 1.80; "Other Friends," 7; Third Church, 63.90.—Bethany Ch., from Americans Annual Mem's, 67.50. Mrs. H.A. Lamont, 14; "W.C.P." balance to const. REV. J.B. SILCOX and MRS. A.E. NOBLE L.M's, 9.50; Dr. R.B. Hall, 10; J.M. Stockman, 10; Mrs. S.C. Hasleton, 10; W. Johnstone, 5; T.S. Sherman, 5.—From Chinese Central Mission, Monthly Off's, 46.90; Annual Mem's, etc., 95.60; Barnes Mission, Monthly Off's 8.25; Annual Mem's, etc., 8; West Mission, Monthly Off's, 27.60; Annual Mem's. 29; San Francisco Branch Ass'n 7.55, (25 of which from Chinese to const. REV. J.F. MASTERS L.M.).—Saratoga, 10.—Woodland, 7.70 834.95
FROM INDIVIDUAL DONORS.—Messrs. Balfour, Guthrie & Co., 500; Mrs. A.J. Styles, 250.; Frank J. Felt, 50.; John Jackson, 25.; Rev. Joseph Rowell, 10. Rev. J.C. Holbrook, D.D., 10.; Mrs. E.G. Chaddock, 5.; Rev. and Mrs. H.H. Wickoff, 5 855.00
FROM EASTERN FRIENDS.—Bangor, Me., Hon. E.R. Burpee, 100.—"A Friend," 10.—Brewer, Me., Mrs. Hardy, 100.—Norridgewock, Me., Mrs. Benjamin Tappan, 2.—North Conway, N.H., First Cong. Ch., 10.; Rev. R. Henry Davis, 10.—Amherst, Mass., Mrs. R.A. Lester, 100.—South Braintree, Mass. Rev. J.B. Sewall. 25.—Marlboro, Mass., Miss H.J. Alexander, 1.50.—New Haven, Conn., Mrs. Henry Farnum, 100.—Colebrook, Conn., Miss Sarah Carrington, 20.—Cincinnati, Ohio, Miss L.B. Sherwood, 4.—Richfield, Minn, T.N. Spaulding, 1. 483.50
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Total $3,138.40
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H.W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
56 Reade N.Y.
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