[Illustration: FEBRUARY, 1883.
VOL. XXXVII.
NO. 2.
The American Missionary]
CONTENTS
PAGE.
EDITORIAL.
AMERICAN MISSIONARY—SOUTHERN M. E. CHURCH 33
WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE 34
FINANCIAL 36
NATIONAL LEGISLATURE AND NATIONAL ILLITERACY.
BY PROF. C. C. PAINTER 37
CONNECTICUT CONVENTIONS 38
BENEFACTIONS 39
ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 40
LIST OF MISSIONARIES AND TEACHERS 41
EDUCATIONAL WORK FOR FREEDMEN. BY SECRETARY STRIEBY 47
THE SOUTH.
THE HEMENWAY FARM. BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG 49
CUT OF HEMENWAY FARM 51
REVIVAL IN CENTRAL CHURCH, NEW ORLEANS 52
WORK AT FAYETTEVILLE, ARK. 53
THE CHINESE.
MISSION WORK—GOOD RESULTS 54
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
MISSIONARY MUSIC 56
RECEIPTS 57
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WILLISTON.
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Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, _Boston_.
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COMMUNICATIONS
relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the
Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields,
to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the
“American Missionary,” to Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., at the New York
Office.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York,
or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21
Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street,
Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a
Life Member.
FORM OF A BEQUEST.
“I BEQUEATH to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in
trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person
who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the
‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied,
under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association,
to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should be attested
by three witnesses.
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WANTED
$375,000,
Efficiently to prosecute the work in hand.
CO-OPERATION
Of every Congregational minister, and of every office bearer in
our Congregational churches to secure (_a_) an annual presentation
of the work, and claims of the A. M. A. in every Congregational
church; and (_b_) an annual contribution from every Congregational
church in the country for this great work.
HELP
Of every Congregational Sunday-school superintendent to secure from
his school a contribution to our “Student Aid Fund.”
AID
Of every Ladies’ Missionary Society to sustain our work among the
colored women and girls.
ENDOWMENTS
For Professorships and Scholarships in our schools. The time has
come when in our larger institutions the chairs of instruction
should be endowed, that the Association may be left to enlarge its
missionary work in other directions.
GIFTS
For the improvement of schools and churches already built, and the
erection of additional buildings, imperatively needed.
A SUBSCRIBER
In every family for our monthly magazine,
THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
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THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
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VOL. XXXVII. FEBRUARY, 1883. NO. 2.
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American Missionary Association.
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We are encouraged by the request for the renewal of the AMERICAN
MISSIONARY for 1883, and by the subscriptions already received.
The price is 50 cents. We aim to secure subscriptions sufficient
to meet the cost of the magazine, and this is a reminder to such
of our readers as desire to assist us in this object. We do what
we can to make it worth the price asked. Nearly all the articles
it contains are written expressly for the MISSIONARY, and pains is
taken to give variety and freshness to each number.
Upon annual application, the following persons are entitled to
receive the AMERICAN MISSIONARY free: life members, ministers
whose churches take an annual collection for the Association,
Superintendents of Sabbath Schools, and donors who contribute in a
year not less than five dollars.
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We wish to congratulate the Southern Methodist Episcopal Church
on her growing helpfulness to the colored people. A recent and
most timely gift in this direction was that of Dr. Haygood, as the
agent for the disbursing of the John F. Slater Fund. His broad
liberality, his intimate knowledge of the Southern field, and
his honest impartiality make him just the man for that place. We
anticipate a most effective administration of the Slater Fund under
his care. Another event in the history of the Methodist Episcopal
Church South was the inauguration, in May last, at the General
Conference, of a plan for founding a school of high grade for the
training of teachers and preachers among the colored people. A new
and crowning impulse to this was given at the recent meeting of the
North Georgia Conference, in the appointment of Dr. Morgan Galloway
as the President of the new institution, which is to be located in
Augusta, Ga., and named “Paine College.” All honor to our Southern
Methodist friends for these movements in so important a matter, and
all success to them in these and every other like endeavor, which
their hearts may prompt them to plan and their hands to execute.
REVIVALS HOW AND WHEN, is the title of a very timely and useful
volume by Rev. Wm. W. Newell, D.D. The following subjects with
others are discussed: Why use the word revival, Evangelistic
meetings, Household revivals, Bible class and Sabbath-school
revivals, Revival preaching, Fixed laws for the promotion of
revivals, Temperance revivals, When should we have revivals. Dr.
Newell speaks from a rich experience of many years and enforces
his views with copious incidents and pertinent quotations from the
words of eminent men. The whole subject is discussed in a clear,
comprehensive and interesting manner. The book was prepared to
help ministers and laymen, and contains an abundance of suggestive
and available information. There is no work more dear to this
Association than revival work, and no volume has recently come to
our knowledge apparently more fitted to promote it.
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WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE AGE.
There is nothing like it in any land—the opportunity of the
Christian women of America to labor for the uplift of womanhood the
world over. The call, however, for woman’s work in America during
the past twenty years seems to us to have been peculiarly urgent,
and yet we think the majority of the noble Christian women in our
churches have, up to this time, seen only dimly the demands upon
them in this regard. How loving, pitying woman, whose labors and
sacrifices are so abounding in behalf of women, should have seen
with so little responsive interest the necessities for work among
the colored women of this land, is among the marvels of Christian
ethics.
If women, anywhere, are under obligation to help women, it seems to
us the women in our churches are indebted, beyond words to tell,
to the negro women in the South. Their condition is what we have
_made_ it, and remains what we _will_ it.
But let us not convey the impression that Christian women have been
wholly indifferent to the wants of their colored sisters. On the
other hand, we affirm that there is not a brighter page in modern
missions, than that which records the labors and sacrifices of
Northern women for the lowly dwellers in the cabins of the South.
We only speak, comparatively, of the great body, who need to be
stirred and mastered, as have been the few who have hurried with
the medicine of light and love to relieve the stricken and the
despairing. These have sacrificed youth and beauty, and the hope of
family love and joy, in the attempt to serve a race. With a calm
and reverent step they have gone into the darkest homes of poverty
and suffering to clothe the naked, to minister to the sick, to
comfort the dying, and to save the perishing.
Twenty-one years ago, when this Association called for teachers
and missionaries to submit to reproach, and obloquy, and ostracism
for the sake of these needy ones, these _rare_ women, in numbers
beyond our ability to send, answered the call. And during all the
years they have stood at our doors, as they stand to-day, saying
“Send me.”
The work they have done in school building, in church building,
in home building and in character building, cannot be matched in
the history of this generation, certainly, and probably not in the
history of the world.
When it is remembered, that in 1863 the slaves in the South did not
own an acre of ground and had not a cent of taxable property—that
they had no right to know a letter of the alphabet, and that there
was not a legal marriage among them: but that in 1880 they were
taxed for a hundred millions of dollars—that some 800,000 of them
had learned to read, and that purer churches were teaching purer
and better morals, one can but exclaim, “What hath God wrought!”
This is, largely, due to the Christian teachers and missionaries of
the American Missionary Association. No society has sent so many
of them to the field, or has so signally demonstrated the quality
and the value of their work. If the history of many of the most
promising and useful of our graduates could be written up the story
would read like romance.
The draught upon mind, and heart, and body has been heavy and
exhausting. Not a few have left the service broken in health for
life, and others have paid the penalty of overwork in early graves.
All this they have not complained of; but their keenest anguish has
come from lack of that fullness and warmness of sympathy which they
had a right to expect from the whole Christian sisterhood of the
North. They ask for it now, and we ask for it in their name!
Will not our Christian women re-examine this question of their duty
with reference to the elevation of the colored race, and especially
of the women of that race? There can be no sure and lasting
elevation of that people without refined and intelligent homes; and
there can be no such homes without pure and intelligent colored
women to build them. Such women can be brought forward, only as
they have pure models to imitate, and refined teachers to instruct
and guide them.
Fortunately, Northern homes are full of such models and of such
teachers; and they only need the supporting word and hand of their
sisters to go forth in larger numbers, and to lay, more broadly and
grandly, the foundations of a regenerated South. They _know_ that
the colored woman can be elevated by the gospel of Christ, they
_know_ that she can take on culture like a garment, and be made a
power in redeeming her race.
May we not, then, once more call the attention of Christian women
to this work, so peculiarly theirs, and laid upon them by so many
providential tokens?
It will be of interest to a large circle of friends on both sides
of the water to learn of the marriage at Prof. Geo. L. White’s
residence, Fredonia, N.Y., of Miss Ella Sheppard, pianist of the
original Jubilee Singer Company, to Rev. Geo. W. Moore, of Oberlin.
Mr. Moore is a graduate of Fisk University and acted as pastor of
the Howard Chapel at Nashville for some time, where his labors
were much appreciated. He has recently been connected with the
theological department of Oberlin College and has preached with
acceptance to churches in Ohio.
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A FALLING OFF OF 17 PER CENT. IN DONATIONS FROM THE LIVING.
The receipts from living donors for the first three months of our
fiscal year amounted to $39,528.77, against $48,174.97 for the
corresponding months of the previous year, showing a falling off
of more than 17 per cent. The receipts from legacies, however,
amounted to $15,486.65, against $7,029.65 of the year before. The
total receipts for the three months ending Dec. 31st amounted to
$55,015.42, against $55,204.62 for the previous year.
The Committee on Finance at Cleveland estimated that for this
year $375,000 would be wanted, against $300,000 for the year then
closed, an increase of 25 per cent. If this gain had been realized,
we should have received for the first quarter $93,750 instead
of $55,015.42, a difference of $38,734.58. The friends of this
Association will see from these figures that if the plans suggested
at our Annual Meeting are carried out, not only must the smaller
sources of contributions be augmented, but the churches having the
means to give must contribute more largely. With this in view we
take the liberty of making the following suggestions:
1. That in localities where money is raised by solicitation from
a few old friends who have already taken a deep interest in the
Negroes, efforts for collecting funds be made immediately.
2. In parishes where the benevolent organizations connected with
the church give no assistance to the Freedmen, we suggest that
special efforts be made in Sabbath-schools, the monthly concert
and at the annual collection, so that the amount raised for this
Association may be in due proportion to that given to the other
missionary societies supported by the Congregational churches.
3. In churches that do not follow a fixed system as to time for
taking collections, we suggest that the claims of our work be
explained and urged at least once a year, and that contributions be
forwarded to us at the earliest date possible.
We commend these suggestions to that thoughtful and prayerful
consideration which we believe is justified and demanded by the
necessities of the great work in which we are engaged.
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THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE AND NATIONAL ILLITERACY.
BY PROF. C. C. PAINTER.
Broad questions of Statesmen receive tardy attention from the
average legislator because they receive but little from his
constituents, while such matters as the imposition or removal of a
tax upon cigars is to him of pressing interest, because it concerns
the “boys” who run the caucases. This is perhaps well, as questions
of policy are tentatively settled and affect only passing and
limited interests; issues that are fundamental and vital, which are
to be settled for all time, come to a full recognition slowly.
Statutes are enacted as average intellects may decide, or the
balance of selfishness allow, but laws are not made, but discovered
as God has enacted, and related them to permanent interests. The
making or unmaking of the one is the facile work of charlatans
when by some mysterious providence they find their way into our
legislative halls; the discovery of the other is work for seers and
statesmen which once done is done forever.
The Revised Statutes of this Congress make obsolete those of the
last, not necessarily because superior wisdom has devised better,
which must prove a permanent gain; but when a law of human society
has been recognized and so enunciated that it becomes a regulating
force, civilization has taken a forward step. The race is not
simply less disturbed and more comfortable because temporary
adjustments have been made of conflicting interests, but it is
richer and stronger because of an enduring possession, and we can
afford to labor and wait for such.
Each new application of an old principle calls for a fresh
statement of the principle. That man’s personal rights are
modified by the fact of his social relations, is a truth old as
the beginning of civilized life, but that he may not suffer his
children to grow up in ignorance, is a proposition startling to
many, and practically asserted by but few of our State governments,
though it is well-known that our government itself as well as all
our social interests are put in jeopardy by the ignorant citizen
who becomes a voter.
That the constitutional duty of the President to execute the laws,
and of Congress to provide for the safety of the Republic involved
the right to levy war against states, to blockade their harbors, to
emancipate their slaves, to dictate the Constitutions under which
they could resume their autonomy as States in the union, this was
recognized only in face of fearful dangers and admitted only when
established on many bloody fields of a desolating war, but is now
so familiar, so axiomatic that no one doubts the nation’s right to
defend its own life by all means which do not of themselves subvert
that life.
That the safety of the Republic requires a general diffusion of
intelligence no sane man will deny, and yet some assert that it
will subvert the fundamental principles of this government if it
practically secured this prime condition of its own life—that it
must delegate to other hands the control of conditions and facts
vital to its life, with no power or right to enforce attention to
them. The right and capacity of self-government are found only
in the virtue and intelligence of the people. If this be so, the
obligation of a free government to enforce the education of its
citizens is involved in its right to live.
This obligation is recognized, or should be, in the constitutional
guarantee of a Republican form of government to each State, for
the guarantee of such a form of government carries with it the
conditions essential to it, one of which, and a prime one, is the
intelligence of the citizen. This cannot be secured by the military
arm of the nation, but by the school-master alone, who thus becomes
a constitutional officer of the republic. The proposition that a
republican form of government may be maintained by force over a
people too ignorant to maintain it for themselves is too absurd for
serious debate.
The right of the national government to interfere in case a State
neglects the education of its children, seems clear on the ground
of self-protection. The duty to aid the States struggling to
accomplish this work, but unable to do it, because of its vastness,
and of its own poverty, seems also clear, and has now become urgent
in view of the appalling facts revealed in the last census.
Our national Congress is constrained to hear the cry that is coming
up from all parts of the country calling attention to this duty.
Let not those who feel an interest in this, relax effort or lose
heart. It is not a measure to be adopted in a moment. It means
much; it involves much. It will bring with it new and seemingly
revolutionary conceptions of the functions of the government when
it reaches out its strong arms to defend its life, not in the sad
work of shooting down ignorant and brutalized parricides, but in
the better work of helping to qualify for their children, who are
to be charged with duties, the gravest which fall to men, and for
positions the highest to which ambition can impel them—the duties
and position of a citizen of this free republic.
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Arrangements have been made by the Missionary Society of
Connecticut to hold thirty conventions in the State, at which the
following benevolent societies supported by the Congregationalists
will be represented; American Board, American Congregational Union,
American Home Missionary Society, American Missionary Association,
American College and Education Society, New West Education
Commission, Congregational Publishing Society. The meetings for the
first month will be held as follows: Tuesday, Feb. 6, Stamford,
morning and afternoon; Wed. the 7th, Danbury, 1st Church, morning
and afternoon; Thursday the 8th, Hartford, Park Church, afternoon
and evening; Tuesday the 13th, Bridgeport, 1st Church, morning and
afternoon; Wednesday the 14th, New Milford, morning and afternoon;
Thursday, the 15th, Bridgeport, Park st. Church, morning and
afternoon; Tuesday the 20th, New Haven, 1st Church, afternoon
and evening; Wednesday the 21st, Ansonia, morning and afternoon;
Thursday the 22d, Hartford, South Church, afternoon and evening;
Tuesday the 27th, Middletown, 1st Church, morning and afternoon;
Wednesday the 28th, New Haven, College st. Church, morning and
afternoon.
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BENEFACTIONS.
Liberty E. Holden has given $150,000 to Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio.
Mr. John I. Blair has given $15,000 to Iowa College for building
purposes.
Atlanta University and Berea College have received $5,000 each for
endowment purposes from Mr. Tuthill King, of Chicago.
The University of Pennsylvania has received $20,000 towards the
endowment of a veterinary school in connection with the University.
John R. Buchtel has sold $200,000 worth of stock in the Buckeye
Works to Lewis Miller and his three sons, in order to make an
additional gift of $100,000 to Buchtel College.
James McLaren, a brother of Professor McLaren, of Toronto, Canada,
has subscribed $50,000 to endow a chair of Systematic Theology in
Knox College, Toronto.
Mrs. L. A. Messenger has given $25,000 in addition to her previous
large gifts to Buchtel College, Akron, Ohio.
Williams College is to receive $50,000 from the estate of J. B.
Jermain, as a memorial to his son, Barclay Jermain.
The gift of $10,000 from the late Tracy R. Edson, which his
trustees are now ready to pay, to the General Theological Seminary
for “The Tracy R. Edson Foundation,” makes over $160,000 received
by the Seminary in the last three years. The interest of Mr.
Edson’s gift is to be used in instructing students in the church
service.
_The number of persons over ten years of age among the colored
people who could not write, in the sixteen old slave states,
according to the census report of November, 1882, was upwards of
three millions; the number of native-born whites who were equally
illiterate was upwards of one and a half millions. We believe there
is no more imperative necessity than endowments for educational
institutions sustained for the purpose of ridding the country of
this illiteracy._
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ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
PARIS, Texas.—Rev. Byron Gunner is about to make his paper “The
Informer” a weekly.
FLORENCE, Ala.—Rev. S. G. Norcross, of North Conway, N.H., desiring
to spend five months in the South, is to take the place of the
lamented pastor, Rev. W. H. Ash, and Mrs. Norcross will have charge
of the school.
NEW ORLEANS, La.—In the Central Church, (Dr. Alexander’s) a series
of meetings held by the pastor, has resulted in some thirty hopeful
conversions. A friend from the North, who fell in upon them,
reports a quiet and deeply impressive service.
HELENA, Texas.—Pastor Mitchell Thompson rejoices with his people
in a revival of unusual seriousness and spirituality. Eight or ten
persons were joined to the company of believers. That the people
should attend through freezing weather was a thing almost unknown
before. They commonly hold such meetings in midsummer. The church
has been painted, the pastor doing the work.
SODDY, Tenn.—At the recent meeting of the Central South Conference
at Florence, Rev. W. H. Thomas and his Welsh Church at Soddy were
received, upon application, into the fellowship of the body. Rev.
Robert D. Thomas, of the Welsh Church at Knoxville, has been a
member for some time. He is now retiring from his charge and a
pastor will be sought who can preach in English a part of the time.
ATLANTA, GA.—Miss Ella W. Moore, a teacher in the Atlanta
University, has, by the special aid of friends, been able to
employ a teacher in a private school opened under her auspices. In
addition to the receipts in money, she has recently received (for
which she makes grateful acknowledgment) from Mrs. John B. Gough,
Worcester, Mass., patchwork, pictures, cards, tracts, etc.; from
Mrs. J. B. Shaw, Paxton, Ill., and Miss Amy Blatchford, Chicago,
valuable Sabbath-school papers and periodicals.
MERIDIAN, Miss.—By a council on the 15th of Dec., Mr. J. L. Grice,
a graduate of the college and theological department in Howard
University, a member of Dr. J. E. Rankin’s church, was ordained as
pastor after a most satisfactory examination. Sermon and right-hand
of fellowship, by Superintendent Roy; charge to the candidate, by
Rev. E. C. Stickel; address to the church, by Rev. C. B. Curtis;
and prayer of ordination, by Bishop Turner of the African M. E.
Church, the members of the council joining him in laying on of
hands. As the Bishop was holding a Conference in the city, he
attended both the afternoon and evening services of the Council,
after the members of that body had waited upon the Conference in
the morning. The Bishop stated that in attending a great many
examinations, he had never come upon a better one.
Owing to the space occupied by the list of our appointments for the
year we have been obliged to omit the publication of General Notes
and to hold over other matters of interest.
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NEW APPOINTMENTS.
1882-1883.
The following list presents the names and post-office addresses of
those who are under appointment in the Churches, Institutions and
Schools aided by the American Missionary Association, among the
Freedmen in the South, and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast. The
Berea College and Hampton Institute are under the care of their
own Boards of Trustees, but being either founded or fostered in
the past by this Association, and representing the general work in
which it is engaged their teachers are included in this list.
THE SOUTHERN FIELD.
REV. J. E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent.
PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, Supt. of Education.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON.
_Theological Department, Howard University._
Rev. W. W. Patton, D.D., Washington, D.C.
Rev. J. G. Craighead, D.D., Washington, D.C.
Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D., Washington, D.C.
Rev. John G. Butler, D.D., Washington, D.C.
LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH.
_Pastor._
Rev. S. P. Smith, Chicago, Ill.
_Special Missionary._
Mrs. C. B. Babcock, Newburyport, Mass.
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VIRGINIA.
HAMPTON.
_Minister._
Rev. H. B. Frissell, New York City.
NORMAL AND AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Gen. S. C. Armstrong, Hampton, Va.
Gen. J. F. B. Marshall,
Treasurer, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Albert Howe, Farm Manager, Hampton, Va.
Mr. F. C. Briggs, Business Agent, Hampton, Va.
Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Engineer, Hampton, Va.
Mr. C. W. Betts, Printing Office, Wilmington, Del.
Lieut. G. Le R. Brown, Com., Hampton, Va.
Miss Mary F. Mackie, Newburgh, N.Y.
Miss Charlotte L. Mackie, Newburgh, N.Y.
Miss Mary T. Galpin, Stockbridge, Mass.
Miss Helen W. Ludlow, New York City.
Mrs. Edwin F. Coolidge, Boston, Mass.
Miss Jane E. Davis, Troy, N.Y.
Miss Myrtilla J. Sherman, Brookfield, Mass.
Miss Phebe C. Davenport, Quaker Street, N.Y.
Miss Sophia L. Brewster, Brookfield, Mass.
Miss Margaret Kenwell, Mechanicsville, N.Y.
Miss Anna E. Kemble, Camden, N.Y.
Miss Emma H. Lothrop, Pittsfield, Mass.
Miss Mary F. Dibble, Seymour, Ct.
Miss Martha M. Waldron, South Otselie, N.Y.
Miss Caroline Alfred, Ellington, Ct.
Miss Belle F. Small, Amherst, N.Y.
Miss Emma F. Marsh, Worcester, Mass.
Miss Mary W. Clock, Islip, N.Y.
Miss Margaret A. Guillon, Petersburg, Va.
Miss Mary A. Wheeler, Boston, Mass.
Mr. R. H. Hamilton, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Dudley Talbot, Boston, Mass.
INDIAN DEPARTMENT.
Mr. J. H. McDowell, Chg. Workshop, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Edwin F. Coolidge, Boston, Mass.
Mrs. L. A. Seymour, Hampton, Va.
Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.
Miss Laura E. Tileston, Boston, Mass.
Miss Josephine E. Richards, Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. Geo. W. Brandom, Clarksville, Va.
Miss Lovey A. Mayo, Raleigh, N.C.
Miss Cora A. Folsom, Boston, Mass.
Mr. Geo. J. Davis, Hampton, Va.
Miss Jacobina Koch, Natick, Mass.
Miss Mary E. Merritt, Hampton, Va.
Miss Georgia Washington, Norfolk, Va.
BUTLER SCHOOL.
Miss Elizabeth Hyde, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mr. Benj. F. Jones, Hampton, Va.
Miss Mary A. Boner, Salem, N.C.
Miss Louise K. Day, Elizabeth, N.J.
Miss Lucy J. Boulding, Burkeville, Va.
Mr. Boswell S. White, Matthews C. H., Va.
Mr. Orpheus M. McAdoo, Greensboro, N.C.
CLERKS.
Mr. F. B. Banks, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Wm. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. H. Daggs, Hampton, Va.
Miss Jessie P. Morgan, Hamburg, Ct.
Miss Emily Kimball, Boston, Mass.
Mr. Fred N. Gilman, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Geo. A. Blackmore, Hampton, Va.
Miss Ruth G. Tileston, Boston, Mass.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207).
_Minister._
Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N.H.
NORMAL SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Rev. W. H. Thrall, Derby, Ct.
_Assistants._
Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N.H.
Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.
Miss Ella F. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss Ernestine Patterson, Providence, R.I.
Miss Mary D. Hyde, Zumbrota, Minn.
Miss Kate A. Shepard, New York City.
Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N.H.
_Special Missionary._
Miss A. E. Farrington, Portland, Me.
* * * * *
RALEIGH.
_Minister._
Rev. Geo. S. Smith, Raleigh, N.C.
_Special Missionary._
Miss E. P. Hayes, Limerick, Me.
* * * * *
DUDLEY.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. J. E. B. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Mrs. J. E. B. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
* * * * *
McLEANSVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.
* * * * *
CEDAR CLIFF.
_Minister._
Rev. J. N. Ray, Cedar Cliff, N.C.
* * * * *
WOODBRIDGE.
_Teacher._
Mrs. G. A. Rumbley, Phila., Pa.
* * * * *
BEAUFORT.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N.C.
_Assistant._
Miss Lydia Hatch, Beaufort, N.C.
* * * * *
LASSITER’S MILLS.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Islay Walden, Lassiter’s Mills, N.C.
Mrs. Islay Walden, Lassiter’s Mills, N.C.
* * * * *
TROY AND PEKIN.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Wm. H. Ellis, Southfield, Mass.
* * * * *
DRY CREEK.
_Teacher._
Miss C. E. Smitherman, High Pt., N.C.
* * * * *
SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON.
_Minister._
Rev. E. T. Hooker, Castleton, Vt.
AVERY INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N.Y.
_Assistants._
Miss Hattie E. Dowd, Oswego, N.Y.
Miss E. A. Huntoon, Wallingford, Vt.
Miss Addie M. Phelps, Moravia, N.Y.
Miss Lizzie S. Hayward, Red Bank, N.J.
Mr. J. C. Whittaker, Charleston, S.C.
Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S.C.
Miss Etta E. Abbey, Hamlet, N.Y.
Miss M. H. McKinley, Charleston, S.C.
Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N.Y.
Mrs. E. T. Hooker, Castleton, Vt.
Mrs. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N.Y.
* * * * *
ORANGEBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. T. T. Benson, Orangeburg, S.C.
* * * * *
GREENWOOD.
BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N.Y.
Mr. Wm. Clark, Greenwood, S.C.
* * * * *
LADIES’ ISLAND.
Miss M. H. Clary, Conway, Mass.
* * * * *
GEORGIA.
ATLANTA.
_Ministers._
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Evarts Kent, Chicago, Ill.
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. A. Ware, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. T. N. Chase, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. Horace Bumstead, D.D., Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. H. M. Sessions, Hampden, Mass.
Mr. Chas. P. Sinnott, Marshfield, Mass.
Prof. Wm. M. Aber, Newark, N.J.
Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.
Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.
Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.
Miss Ella W. Moore, Chicago, Ill.
Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.
Miss Mary L. Santley, Wellington, Ohio.
Miss Rebecca Massey, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miss Sarah E. Marsh, Lake Forest, Ill.
Miss Margaret Neel, Livonia, N.Y.
Mrs. Lucinda F. Vache, Harrisburg, Pa.
Miss Jessie E. Smith, Northfield, Mass.
Miss Virginia F. Smith, Northfield, Mass.
Mrs. A. S. Newman, Deerfield, Mass.
STORRS SCHOOL (104 Houston St.).
_Principal._
Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N.Y.
_Assistants._
Miss Julia A. Goodwin, Mason, N.H.
Miss Amelia L. Ferris, Oneida, Ill.
Mrs. C. G. Ball, Palermo, N.Y.
Miss Alice M. Field, Bachellorville, N.Y.
Miss Nellie L. Cloudman, South Windham, Me.
Miss Carrie J. Parrey, Chicago, Ill.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Lizzie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, O.
* * * * *
MACON.
_Minister._
Rev. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Mr. W. A. Hodge, W. Rosendale, Wis.
_Assistants._
Mrs. W. A. Hodge, W. Rosendale, Wis.
Miss Alice W. Lindsley, Avondale, Ill.
Miss Jennie M. Woodworth, Clyde, O.
Miss Ella B. Pickett, Norwalk, O.
Miss Emma L. Sprague, Fitchville, O.
Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
* * * * *
MARIETTA.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. E. J. Penney, Marietta, Ga.
* * * * *
FORSYTH.
_Teacher._
Mr. O. A. Combs, Atlanta, Ga.
* * * * *
AUGUSTA.
_Teacher._
Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.
* * * * *
THOMASVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.
* * * * *
ALBANY.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. C. Greene, Albany, Ga.
* * * * *
HAWKINSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. E. P. Johnson, Hawkinsville, Ga.
* * * * *
WASHINGTON.
_Teacher._
Mr. E. J. Stewart, Washington, Ga.
* * * * *
CUTHBERT.
_Teacher._
Mr. F. H. Henderson, Cuthbert, Ga.
* * * * *
STONE MOUNTAIN.
_Teacher._
Mr. Eugene Martin, Atlanta, Ga.
* * * * *
BAINBRIDGE.
_Teacher._
Mr. H. H. Williams, Atlanta, Ga.
* * * * *
ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. Geo. V. Clark, Atlanta, Ga.
_Teacher._
Mr. P. E. Spratlin, Athens, Ga.
* * * * *
BYRON.
_Minister._
Rev. N. B. James, New Orleans, La.
* * * * *
SAVANNAH.
_Minister and Sup’t of Missions._
Rev. Dana Sherrill, Forrest, Ill.
BEACH INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Mr. H. H. Wright, Oberlin, O.
_Assistants._
Miss Ida M. Beach, Vernon, Ct.
Miss Edna F. Connor, Henniker, N.H.
Miss A. F. Daily, Fredonia, N.Y.
Miss Georgiana Hunter, Brooklyn, N.Y.,
Miss Mary F. Lord, Fredonia, N.Y.
Mrs. Dana Sherrill, Forrest, Ill.
_Special Missionary._
Miss J. S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.
* * * * *
WOODVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.
_Assistant._
Miss E. A. Thompson, Savannah, Ga.
* * * * *
MILLER’S STATION.
_Minister and Teacher._
———— ————
* * * * *
LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
_Minister._
Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.
* * * * *
EAST SAVANNAH.
_Minister._
Rev. J. H. Stephens, East Savannah, Ga.
* * * * *
McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
THE GROVE.
_Minister._
Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.
_Teachers._
Miss Rose M. Kinney, Oberlin, O.
Miss Carrie I. Gibson, Boston, Mass.
CYPRESS SLASH.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
FLORIDA.
FERNANDINA.
Rev. George Henry, Brooklyn, N.Y.
* * * * *
ALABAMA.
TALLADEGA.
_Minister._
Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. H. S. De Forest, D.D., Muscatine, Ia.
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Rev. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
Mr. Geo. H. Howe, Orwell, Pa.
Mr. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Mr. C. B. Rice, W. Brattleboro, Vt.
Mr. W. L. Hunter, Elizabeth, N.J.
Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.
Miss M. E. Carey, Huntsburg, O.
Mrs. Clara S. Rindge, Homer, N.Y.
Miss F. M. Andrews, Milltown, N.B.
Miss J. C. Andrews, Milltown, N.B.
Miss Frances Yeomans, Danville, Ill.
Mrs. H. S. De Forest, Muscatine, Ia.
Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Mrs. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Mrs. O. W. Fay, Geneseo, Ill.
Mrs. Geo. H. Howe, Orwell, Pa.
* * * * *
KYMULGA.
_Minister._
Rev. Spencer Snell, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
SHELBY IRON WORKS.
Rev. J. R. Sims, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
CHILDERSBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
ANNISTON.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. H. W. Conley, Talladega, Ala.
_Assistant._
Mrs. H. W. Conley, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
LAWSONVILLE AND COVE.
_Minister._
Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
ALABAMA FURNACE.
_Minister._
Rev. J. B. Grant, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
TECUMSEH.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Milus Harris, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
MOBILE.
_Minister._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N.Y.
EMERSON INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Miss Emma R. Caughey, Kingsville, O.
_Assistants._
Miss Josie Miller, S. Saginaw, Mich.
Miss Isadore M. Caughey, Kingsville, O.
Miss Carrie E. Ferris, Passaic, N.J.
Miss Ruby A. Smith, Belmont, N.Y.
Miss Helen D. Barton, Terre Haute, Ind.
Miss Mary F. Felt, Temple, N.H.
Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N.Y.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Eunice M. Clark, Elgin, Ill.
* * * * *
MONTGOMERY (P. O. Box 62).
_Minister._
Rev. R. C. Bedford, Watertown, Wis.
_Special Missionary._
Miss R. G. Jillson, Providence, R.I.
* * * * *
SELMA.
_Minister._
Rev. C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Mary K. Lunt, New Gloucester, Me.
* * * * *
MARION.
_Minister._
Rev. A. W. Curtis, Crete, Nebraska.
_Teacher._
Miss Elizabeth Plimpton, Walpole, Mass.
* * * * *
ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.
TRINITY SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Miss Helen M. Woodward, Albion, N.Y.
Miss Mary E. Wolverton, Easton, Pa.
* * * * *
FLORENCE.
_Minister and Teacher._
[A]Rev. W. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.
Rev. S. G. Norcross, North Conway, N.H.
Mrs. S. G. Norcross, North Conway, N.H.
* * * * *
TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
FISK UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. H. S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. F. A. Chase, Nashville, Tenn.
Prof. J. M. McPherron, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.
Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, O.
Miss Anna M. Cahill, Binghamton, N.Y.
Mrs. L. A. Shaw, Owego, N.Y.
Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Juliet B. Smith, Scotland, Mass.
Miss Mary E. Edwards, Westhampton, Mass.
Miss Hattie Curtis, Vermontville, Mich.
Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio.
Miss Martha A. Perry, Holden, Mass.
Miss Margaret M. Foote, Norwich, N.Y.
Miss Addie L. Clark, Amherst, Mass.
Miss Fanny Gleason, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Mrs. A. K. Spence, Nashville, Tenn.
Mrs. E. M. Cravath, Nashville, Tenn.
HOWARD MISSION.
_Minister._
Rev. Wm. A. Sinclair, Washington, D.C.
* * * * *
CHATTANOOGA.
_Minister._
Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
_Special Missionary._
Mrs. A. S. Steele, Revere, Mass.
* * * * *
MEMPHIS.
_Minister._
Rev. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, O.
LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.
_Assistants._
Rev. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, O.
Miss Frances D. McNair, Brodhead, Wis.
Miss Ruth E. Stinson, Woolwich, Me.
Miss L. Ada Lyman, Oconomowoc, Wis.
Miss M. M. Miller, Madison, Wis.
Miss Mary A. Cornes, Medina, N.Y.
Miss Minnie A. Fowle, Milwaukee, Wis.
Mrs. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, Ohio.
* * * * *
WHITESIDE.
_Teacher._
Mr. G. W. Jackson, Tougaloo, Miss.
* * * * *
KENTUCKY.
BEREA.
_Minister._
Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
BEREA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. E. H. Fairchild, D.D., Berea, Ky.
Rev. John G. Fee, Berea, Ky.
Prof. L. V. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
Prof. Walter E. C. Wright, Berea, Ky.
Prof. P. D. Dodge, Berea, Ky.
Rev. B. S. Hunting, Sublet, Ill.
Miss L. A. Darling, Akron, O.
Miss Kate Gilbert, W. Brookfield, Mass.
Mrs. H. F. Woodruff, Grand Rapids, Mich.
Miss E. F. Moore, Wattsburg, Pa.
Miss Annie M. Johnston, East Trumbull, O.
Miss Jennie Lester, Berea, Ky.
Miss Ida M. Clark, Berea, Ky.
Miss Eurie J. Hamilton, Berea, Ky.
Miss Maria A. Muzzy, Romeo, Mich.
* * * * *
LEXINGTON.
NORMAL SCHOOL.
_Instructors._
Prof. Geo. F. Jewett, Peperell, Mass.
Mr. Charles H. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss Hettie C. Minton, Bowling Green, O.
Mrs. G. F. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
* * * * *
CAMP NELSON.
_Teacher._
Miss Juan R. Kumler, Oberlin, O.
* * * * *
LOUISVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. J. D. Smith, Louisville, Ky.
* * * * *
WILLIAMSBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. A. A. Myers, Williamsburg, Ky.
_Teachers._
Mr. W. E. Wheeler, Marshfield, Wis.
Mrs. W. E. Wheeler, Marshfield, Wis.
* * * * *
CLOVER BOTTOM.
_Teacher._
Miss M. R. Barton, ——, Ohio.
* * * * *
BEATTYVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. A. W. Titus, Berea, Ky.
* * * * *
KANSAS.
TOPEKA.
_Minister._
Rev. R. F. Markham, Twelve Mile, Kan.
_Missionary._
Miss Alice Braman, Wayland, Mass.
* * * * *
LAWRENCE.
_Minister._
Rev. H. R. Pinckney, Lawrence, Kan.
* * * * *
EUREKA.
_Minister._
Rev. W. W. Weir, Eureka, Kan.
* * * * *
ARKANSAS.
LITTLE ROCK.
_Minister._
Rev. Y. B. Sims, Talladega, Ala.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Elizabeth M. Keyes, Unionville, Ct.
* * * * *
FAYETTEVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. B. F. Foster, Fayetteville, Ark.
Mrs. B. F. Foster, Fayetteville, Ark.
* * * * *
MISSISSIPPI.
TOUGALOO.
_Minister._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.
TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.
Rev. E. C. Stickel, Oberlin, O.
Rev. Azel Hatch, Oberlin, O.
Miss Kate K. Koons, Sulphur Springs, O.
Miss Mary H. Scott, Amherst, Mass.
Miss Fannie J. Webster, Berlin, Wis.
Miss H. M. Hegeman, Island City, N.Y.
Miss Josephine Kellogg, Clyde, O.
Miss Jennie L. Hollegreen, Fredonia, N.Y.
Mrs. G. S. Pope, Strongsville, O.
Mrs. E. C. Stickel, Oberlin, O.
Mrs. Azel Hatch, Oberlin, O.
Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.
Miss Anna Coffin, Haverhill, Mass.
* * * * *
CALEDONIA.
_Minister._
Rev. M. J. Witherspoon, Caledonia, Miss.
* * * * *
MERIDIAN.
_Minister._
Rev. J. L. Grice, Washington, D.C.
_Teacher._
Miss Rosa McCutcheon, Tougaloo, Miss.
* * * * *
LOUISIANA.
NEW ORLEANS.
_Ministers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D., Pomfret, Ct.
Rev. Isaac H. Hall, New Orleans, La.
Rev. Henry Ruffin, New Orleans, La.
STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. W. S. Alexander, D.D., Pomfret, Ct.
Mr. R. C. Hitchcock, Thompsonville, Ct.
Mr. W. J. McMurtry, Wayne, Mich.
Mr. J. B. Cannon, West Suffield, Ct.
Miss Florence L. Sperry, Topeka, Kan.
Miss Katherine T. Plant, Minneapolis, Minn.
Miss Thirza J. Miller, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss M. M. Jewett, Pepperell, Mass.
Miss Flora A. Austin, Nashua, N.H.
Mrs. Hannah A. Lord, Centre Lebanon, Me.
Mrs. R. C. Hitchcock, Thompsonville, Ct.
_Special Missionary._
Miss A. D. Gerrish, Leetonia, O.
* * * * *
NEW IBERIA.
_Minister._
Rev. W. R. Polk, New Iberia, La.
* * * * *
FAUSSE POINT.
_Minister._
Rev. William Butler, New Iberia, La.
* * * * *
TEXAS.
AUSTIN.
TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. W. E. Brooks, W. Haven, Ct.
Mr. W. L. Gordon, Austin, Tex.
Mrs. W. L. Gordon, Austin, Tex.
Miss Helen C. Montague, Kalamazoo, Mich.
Miss Adelia Hunt, Elkhorn, Wis.
Miss Alice F. Topping, Olivet, Mich.
Mrs. M. E. Garland, Austin, Tex.
Mrs. W. E. Brooks, W. Haven, Ct.
* * * * *
GOLIAD.
_Minister._
Rev. B. C. Church, Goliad, Texas.
_Teacher._
Mr. J. R. S. Hallowell, New Orleans, La.
* * * * *
HELENA.
_Minister._
Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Helena, Tex.
* * * * *
CORPUS CHRISTI.
_Minister._
Rev. J. W. Strong, Talladega, Ala.
* * * * *
FLATONIA AND LULING.
_Minister._
Rev. Thos. E. Hillson, New Orleans, La.
_Teachers._
Miss M. E. Green, Flatonia, Tex.
Miss H. Cunningham, Tougaloo, Miss.
* * * * *
PARIS.
_Minister._
Rev. J. W. Roberts, Savannah, Ga.
_Teacher._
Rev. Byron Gunner, Talladega, Ala.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] Deceased.
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AMONG THE CHINESE.
Berkeley— Miss A. M. Fulton
Marysville— Miss M. A. Flint. Joe Jet.
Oakland— Miss Clara M. Fisher.
Miss Mattie L. Sanford.
Miss Margie L. Brewer.
Petaluma— Mrs. Carrie L. Ross.
Wong Ock.
Sacramento— Mrs. S. E. Carrington.
Lem Chung.
San Francisco Central, No. 1— Mr. D. F. Sheldon.
Jee Gam.
Miss J. S. Worley.
Miss Anna L. Snook.
San Francisco, Central, No. 2— Miss M. C. Waterbury.
Miss E. D. Worley.
Lee Sam. Yong Jin.
San Francisco. Barnes— Mrs. C. A. Sheldon.
Miss J. M. Sheldon.
Lu D. Luce.
San Francisco. Bethany— Mrs. J. C. Snook.
Hong Sing.
San Francisco. West— Miss F. A. Worley.
Lon Quong.
San Francisco. North— Mr. J. J. Mason.
Chung Won.
Santa Barbara— Mrs. H. C. Hough.
Woo Young.
Santa Cruz— Mrs. M. Willett.
Stockton— Mrs. M. B. Langdon.
Him Wong.
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RESUMÉ OF EDUCATIONAL WORK BY BENEVOLENT ORGANIZATIONS FOR FREEDMEN.
EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE OF SECRETARY STRIEBY IN THE FORTHCOMING
VOLUME OF THE SCHAFF-HERZOG ENCYCLOPÆDIA OF RELIGIOUS KNOWLEDGE.
WORK OF A. M. A.
The first school for the Freedmen was established by the American
Missionary Association. On the 17th of September, 1861, only five
months after the beginning of the war, that school was opened at
Hampton, Va., where many fugitive slaves had congregated under the
protection of the guns of Fortress Monroe. The spot overlooked
the waters on which the first slave ship entered the American
Continent. The Association steadily extended its work, until
it had founded chartered institutions in every large Southern
State;—Berea College, Berea, Ky.; Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.;
Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.; Fisk University, Nashville,
Tenn.; Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.; Tougaloo University,
Tougaloo, Miss.; Straight University, New Orleans, La.; Tillotson
Collegiate and Normal Institute, Austin, Texas. Land has also been
purchased for the Edward Smith College, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
It has 49 other schools of different grades. Connected with some
of its chartered institutions are Theological, Law and Industrial
Departments. Those at Hampton, Talladega and Tougaloo, have large
farms. Chartered Institutions, 8; Normal and High Schools, 11;
Common Schools, 38; Total, 57; Teachers, 241; Students, 9,608.
Howard University, Washington, D.C., established by the Freedmen’s
Bureau, in 1882 had 29 teachers and 349 students. The theological
department is sustained mainly by the A. M. A.
FREEDMEN’S AID SOCIETIES.
The “Freedmen’s Aid Societies” were early organized. The first
was formed in Boston, Feb. 7th, a second in New York, Feb. 23d,
1863. Others followed rapidly—in Cincinnati, Chicago, Cleveland,
and elsewhere throughout the North, and in 1865 the teachers
employed by all the societies numbered 634. With a view to economy
and efficiency they were consolidated in 1866, in the “American
Freedmen’s Union Commission.” These societies devoted themselves
in large part at first to physical relief and the organization
of labor. But ere long, the education of the Freedmen became
their chief endeavor and they accomplished much good in the line
of secular education. But the several branches were at length
abandoned or became absorbed in the societies of the religious
organizations. The Commission itself closed in 1869.
THE BAPTISTS.
The Baptists, who conduct their work, both educational and church,
among the Freedmen, through their Home Missionary Society, entered
early into the establishment of schools; beginning in the Spring of
1862 with schools at St. Helena and Beaufort, S.C., and afterwards
adding others at Fortress Monroe, Washington, Knoxville and New
Orleans. Missionaries were appointed to preach, and to teach
day-schools, and assistants, both male and female, were sent out;
from 3,000 to 5,000 pupils were taught yearly, until about 1872,
when the secular or day-school system was given up, and efforts
concentrated on permanent or higher institutions, some of which
had been planted in 1865. In 1882, the Society has under its
care 12 schools as follows: Wayland Seminary, Washington, D.C.;
Richmond Institute, Richmond, Va.; Shaw University, Raleigh, N.C.;
Benedict Institute, Columbia, S.C.; Atlanta Seminary, Atlanta,
Ga.; Nashville Institute, Nashville, Tenn.; Leland University, New
Orleans, La.; Natchez Seminary, Natchez, Miss.; Alabama Normal
and Theological School at Selma, Ala.; Florida Institute, Live
Oak, Fla.; Bishop College, Marshall, Tex.; Louisville Normal and
Theological School, Louisville, Kentucky. Normal instruction is
given in most of the schools; industrial education in several; and
Biblical instruction in all. In four institutions a collegiate
course is pursued. Five are chartered institutions. In 1882,
Schools, 12; Teachers, 79; Pupils, 2,397. The Free Will Baptists
have an excellent institution, Storer College, at Harper’s Ferry,
W. Va., with 5 Teachers and 245 Students.
THE FRIENDS.
The Friends, true to the principles of the founder of their
denomination, George Fox, entered at once the opened door for
relieving the physical necessities of the Freedmen, and at length
established schools among them; but when the public schools
furnished the education, they gradually withdrew. They now maintain
Southland College, Helena, Ark., with 277 Pupils, a school in
Maryville, Tenn., with 13 Instructors and 211 Pupils, and one in
Philadelphia with 291 Pupils, with the supervision of 22 other
schools in the South sustained for several months in the year. The
Friends (Hicksite), entered the work in 1862, furnishing supplies
at first, afterwards sustaining schools numbering at one time 25.
They now have one school with 150 scholars.