is a true statement of the manner in which the colored people here,
of the Baptist connection, worship. The so-called “King David’s
Dance” would remind one more of the war-dance of some savage tribe.
Several other churches in the neighboring settlements carry on
these performances.—_The Southern Sentinel._
* * * * *
NEGRO RELIGION.
Negro religion is as varied as the character and grade of its
professors: some as dignified as African princes, others as wild
as children playing at church. And yet, who shall say that either
extreme is the more acceptable to Him who looks through outward
demonstrations at the hearts of worshippers? One of their own
utterances perhaps best expresses the idea:
“We has our own ways ob doin’ things; white folks don’t allus
understand us, but de Lord seems to get along with us putty well,
an’ dat’s all we need care fur.”
White folks do not understand, and certainly cannot but be amused
at seeing an old black woman, whose gray wool is bound up in a
brilliant turban, moving in slow, undulating waves of a mystic
dance up and down the church aisles, and round its altar, as
she chants forth her testimony to “de leadin’s of de Lord all
dese eighty years”; but they can quite appreciate the reverence
which sends every one to his knees at the words, “Let us pray,”
and sometimes wish that the custom might prove possible of
transplantation. Quaint and racy words sometimes come from these
colored preachers. “Ta’n’t no use dodgin’,” said one the other day;
“yer may poke yer head dis way and stick yer feet dat way, but yer
can’t go round yer grave; yer may shut yer eyes and make b’lieve
yer don’t see it, but ye’s got to tumble inter it, after all. Dere
it is, right in yer path. Is yer all ready?”
“I can’t read much,” said a preacher; “I can’t say all dem long,
hard names. I couldn’t read a word when the good Lord Jesus found
me, in the South Caroliny cane-brake; but I taught myself to spell
out de name ob Jesus, and now I can read all ’bout how He carries
sinners to heaven; dat’s ’nough.”
We were present at a communion service in which there was nothing
calculated to draw a smile. Tears of apparently genuine earnestness
stood in many eyes, and suppressed sobs mingled with the rich,
quaint hymns in many parts of the room. The preacher was a young
man, who drew a moving picture of the crucifixion, which, in its
pathos, simplicity, and correct diction, would have done honor
to any white preacher in the land. But one point, that of the
substitution of _w_ for _r_, marked the speaker as one of that
subject race, which, in thus slowly rising from barbarism, while
it loses much that is amusing to the merely curious observer, is
steadily gaining in what pertains to the dignity of manhood, and
the well-being of immortal souls.—_Illustrated Christian Weekly._
* * * * *
RECEIPTS
FOR MAY, 1878.
* * * * *
MAINE, $111.42.
Augusta. John Dorr 15.00
Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 31.42
Brewer. First Cong. Ch. $6.40, and Sab. Sch.
$2.50; Dea. J. Holyoke $5.10 14.00
Hallowell. Miss Mary Flagg $10; Hon. H. K.
Baker $2, _for Printing Press, Talladega
C._; “A Friend” $1, _for Student, Tougaloo,
Miss._ 13.00
Houlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
Oak Hill. —— 30.00
Wells. “A Friend” 5.00
Wild. Rev. D. D. T. 1.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $254.02.
Concord. R. P. S. 1.00
Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for a
Teacher, Wilmington, N. C._ 70.00
Greenland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.85
Hanover. Cong. Ch. Dartmouth Col. 50.00
Henniker. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00
Hooksett. Union Soc. 3.87
Littleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.00
Marlborough. “Ladies’ Freedmen’s Aid Soc.” 16.00
New Boston. Ladies, bbl. of C. and $2, _for
freight, for Wilmington N. C._ 2.00
New Ipswich. “Hillside Gleaners,” _for
Memorial Inst., Wilmington, N. C._ 16.00
West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.30
VERMONT, $259.62.
Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Brownington and Barton Landing. Cong. Ch. and
Soc. 13.25
Clarendon. Mrs. N. J. Smith 5.00
East Arlington. Rev. Chas. Redfield 10.00
Jericho Centre. Miss J. Graves 2.00
New Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.37
North Springfield. Chas. Haywood 5.00
Peru. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Rochester. Cong. Soc. 15.00
St. Albans. Mrs. J. Gregory Smith 10.00
Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 69.00
Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30; C. W.
Eastman $10 40.00
Westminster West. Mrs. A. S. G. 1.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
MASSACHUSETTS, $4,078.34.
Andover. Free Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30.81, to
const. CHARLES W. CLARK, L. M.—“Friends”
$25, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 55.81
Ashby. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.25
Ashburnham. M. W. 1.00
Belchertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.00
Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.
$600.40.—“Howard” $500, _for two
Chapels_.—Mrs. N. B. Curtis $200; Mrs. S. A.
Bradbury $25.—Juvenile Class of Phillips
Cong. Ch. $18.75, _for Student, Talladega C._ 1,344.15
Brocton. —— 15.00
Brookline. Howard Ch. and Soc. 92.50
Cambridge. Geo. H. Fogg 20.00
Charlestown. Ivory Littlefield (of which $25
_for Chinese M_) 50.00
Chelsea. Mrs. P. N. P. 1.00
Conway. Cong. Soc., to const. DEA. EDWIN
COOLEY and Mrs. L. L. LEE, L. M ’s 70.45
East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc. 25.09
Easton. Cong. Sab. Sch. $30, to const. EVERETT
C. RANDALL, L. M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc. $10.70 40.70
Egremont. Cong. Ch. 19.50
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 33.88
Florence. Florence. Ch. 108.88
Foxborough. D. Carpenter 80.00
Framingham. Mrs. T. F. $1; Mrs. S. M. B. $1 2.00
Georgetown. “A Friend” 10.00
Greenfield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of First Ch.
$18, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._—Ladies,
Box of C. 18.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $66.40; J. H. $1 67.40
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Lancaster. ESTATE of Miss Sophia Stearns, by
W. W. Wyman, Ex. 7.00
Leominster. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.62
Linden. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
Lowell. M. Moore and wife $20.—Ladies of First
Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. and $1 _for freight,
for Wilmington, N.C._ 21.00
Lynn. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.47
Malden. Mrs. C. F. Belcher, pkg. of papers.
Mittineague. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.35
Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond 10.00
Needham. N. S. R. 0.50
Newburyport. Mrs. T. C. Tyler $10; Miss P. N.
50c. 10.50
North Andover Depot. F. D. F. 0.50
North Beverly. Mrs. Rebecca Conant 15.00
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.48
North Orange. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.00
Norton. Wheaton Fem. Sem., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 21.00
Norton. ESTATE of John Hunt, by E. T. Jackson,
Ex. 804.75
Orleans. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.50
Phillipston. Mrs. J. L. 0.50
Plainfield. Albert Dyer 2.00
Pittsfield. JAMES H. DUNHAM, to const. himself
L. M. 30.00
Rochester. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 30.00
Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc. $46.13; South
Cong. Sab. Sch. $21.32 67.45
South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.07
Somerville. Broadway Ch. and Soc. 12.25
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. $55; Second
Cong. Ch. and Soc. $36, to const. MRS. ELLEN
A. CHANDLER, L. M. 91.00
Springfield. Olivet Cong. Ch. and Soc. 27.67
Ware. East Cong. Ch. and Soc. $313.85; First
Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21 334.85
Watertown. Phillips’ Ch. and Soc. $37.50;
Phillips’ Sab. Sch. $10 47.50
West Cummington. Rev. J. B. B. 0.25
Westfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of which
$5 from the late Mrs. Dickinson and $5 from
Miss Lizzie Dickinson) 31.40
West Newbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
West Newton. Ann Miller 5.00
West Springfield. Prof. M. S. Southworth, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 101.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 101.31
Woburn. Mrs. G. A. B. 0.25
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.
$55.56.—Plymouth Ch. $15, _for printing
press, Talladega_,—Mrs. C. M. F. and Dr. W.
D. 50c. ea. 71.56
RHODE ISLAND, $81.15.
Little Compton. Cong. Ch. to const. REV. WM.
D. HART, L. M. 81.15
CONNECTICUT, $698.87.
Bristol. By Mrs. H. L. Bartholomew, _for Ind.
Dept. Talladega C._ 20.00
Berlin. Rev. J. Whittlesey 10.00
Bozrahville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.50
Buckingham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 8.50
Cheshire. G. K. 1.00
Colchester. Mrs. C. B. McCall, _for Tougaloo
U._ 5.00
Cornwall. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 20.00
East Hartford. First Cong. Ch. 32.00
Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson 10.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 11.40
Guilford. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle $50; First Cong.
Ch. $20 70.00
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.95
Hartford. D. R. Howe $30, _for Ind. School,
Talladega C._—Mrs. L. C. Dewing, $20; “Armor
Bearers” in Talcott St. Cong. Sab. Sch. by
M. K. Stevens, $3 53.00
Harwinton. EVELINE S. BARKER to const. herself
L. M. 30.00
Meriden. Box of papers, by Edmund Tuttle.
Middletown. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.96
Mt. Carmel. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Student,
Atlanta U._ 26.71
New Haven. North Church $118.—Rev. Wm. Patton,
D. D. $25 (ad’l), _for Howard U._—College
St. Ch. $10; Mrs. Julius Gale $5 158.00
North Branford. J. A. P. 1.00
North Haven. Elihu Dickinson 2.00
Norwich. Broadway Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 100.00
Rocky Hill. Mrs. U. C. D. 0.25
Rockville. G. P. 0.55
South Killingly. Rev. W. H. Beard 4.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 29.58
Wallingford. Mrs. C. P. Hall 2.00
Washington. Cong. Ch. 20.00
West Haven. Cong. Ch. 19.32
West Stafford. Cong. Sab. School 1.15
NEW YORK, $1,282.03.
Antwerp. First Cong. Ch. 24.05
Binghamton. First Cong. Ch. 151.00
Brooklyn. Mrs. M. E. W. $1; J. E. $1 2.00
Gilbertsville Academy. Rev. A. Wood 15.00
Goshen. F. E. C. 1.00
Greigsville. Mrs. S. J. C. 1.00
Hamilton. O. S. Campbell, Mrs. M. Tompkins and
Mrs. S. K. Bardin $5 ea. 15.00
Harris Hill. ESTATE of Thomas Hutchinson, for
_Freedmen Foreign and Home M.,_ by John Berry 18.00
Irvington. Mrs. R. W. Lambdin 5.00
Lisle. Cong. Ch. 5.34
Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Morrisville. Cong. Ch. 30.14
New Lebanon Centre. Ladies, by Miss E. W.
Frary, Bbl. of C.
New York. ESTATE of Edwin S. Dewing, by Mrs.
L. C. Dewing 250.00
New York. Mrs. Hannah Ireland $50; Miss J. F.
$1 51.00
Niagara. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bbl. of C., _for
Tougaloo_
Orwell. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Oneonta. Mrs. H. Slade and others 1.90
Philadelphia. W. C. 0.75
Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers 30.00
Rochester. Emily Boardman, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 20.00
Rodman. Cong. Ch. 17.25
Sag Harbor. Mrs. A. E. Westfall 10.00
Syracuse. Mrs. S. J. White 10.00
Union Valley. Sab. Sch., by Dr. J. Angel, Supt. 1.25
West Brook. T. S. Hoyt 3.00
Westmoreland. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.85
Williamsburgh. ESTATE of Lewis Chichester, by
John M. Stearns and E. C. Wadsworth,
Executors 594.00
Windsor. Mrs. Julia Woodruff 5.00
Wyoming. H. S. S 0.50
NEW JERSEY, $128.40.
Newark. Belleville Ave. Cong. Ch. 38.39
Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 70.01
Trenton. Misses A. P. and S. T. Sherman, _for
Indian pupil_ 20.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $47.75.
Farmers’ Valley. Mrs. E. C. O. 1.00
Pittsburgh. E. P. 0.50
Prentiss Vale. Rev. M. W. Strickland $20; C.
L. Allen $10.25, to const. MISS ABBIE L.
SPILLER L. M. 30.25
Providence. E. Weston 5.00
Sewickley. Miss Lucy Bittinger 6.00
Washington. Mrs. H. H. Templeton 5.00
OHIO, $368.71.
Berea. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.30
Belpre. Cong. Sab. Sch. 16.50
Cincinnati. Western Tract and Book Soc., Books
and Tracts val. $45.18, _for Savannah
Mission_
Cleveland. S. W. Pierson 5.00
Clifton. J. K. 1.00
Collinwood. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 21.00
Eagleville. E. M. T 0.50
Elyria. First Presb. Ch. $61.28 and Sab. Sch.
$40 101.28
Fredericktown. A. H. Royce 10.00
Madison. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.66
Marietta. Rev. I. M. P. 0.25
Martinsburgh. Church Property 74.62
Norwalk. Cong. Ch. 8.55
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 12.02
Paddy’s Run. Cong. Ch. 20.25
Ravenna. Young People’s Miss. Soc. $10, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._—Howard Carter $10 20.00
Seville. Mrs. Julia Hulburt 5.00
Sharon Centre. Mrs. R. A. 0.25
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. 10.50
Springfield. First Cong. Ch. (Quar. Coll.) 7.03
Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings 10.00
INDIANA, $25.
New Corydon. George Stolz 5.00
Orland. Union Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 5.00
South Bend. R. Burroughs 15.00
ILLINOIS, $1,243.29.
Aurora. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk
U._ 25.00
Batavia. Cong. Ch. 36.93
Bondville. “A Friend,” _for Mendi M._ 10.00
Chicago. Plymouth Ch. $83.57; Mrs. M. C. S.
50c. 84.07
Chillicothe. R. W. Gilliam 5.00
Cobden. E. W. T. 0.50
Danvers. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.63
East Waupaunsee. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Evanston. J. M. Williams, _for Fisk U._ 25.00
Galesburg. Mrs. Julia T. Wells $20.—“Friends”
$15; Mrs. D. Hurd $5, and Box of C., _for
Ind. Dept., Talladega C._ 40.00
Galesburg. ESTATE of Warren C. Willard, by
Prof. T. R. Willard 17.00
Galva. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 30.00
Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton, _for Ind. Sch.
Talladega C._ 5.00
Hampton. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Lisbon. G. K. 0.50
Macomb. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 5.80
Morris. Cong. Ch. $14.45 and Sab. Sch. $4.05 18.50
Morrison. Mrs. E. H. 1.00
Nora. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 2.26
Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_ 20.00
Onargo. Mrs. L. C. Foster 150.00
Payson. Cong. Ch. 50.00
Polo. Robert Smith 500.00
Port Byron. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 16.50
Princeville. Mrs. Olive L. Cutter 20.00
Quincy. Mrs. E. T. Parker $30, to const. MRS.
GEORGE T. HOLYOKE L. M.;“A Friend” $5 35.00
Rockford. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $20, _for Fisk
U.;_ Ladies of First. Cong. Ch. $13, _for
Ind. Dept, Talladega C._ 33.00
Rock Island. “A Friend” 10.00
Sparta. P. B. Gault 2.00
Tonica. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch, _for Fisk U._ 26.50
Wheaton. First Church of Christ 14.00
Winnebago. Cong. Ch. 5.10
Woodburn. A. L. Sturges, bal. to const. MRS.
CLARISSA E. STURGES L. M. 10.00
MICHIGAN, $202.75.
Benzonia. “Friends” $10 bal. to const.
CHAUNCEY BUSH, L. M.; “A Friend” $1 11.00
Chelsea. John C. Winans 5.00
Clinton. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.00
Covert. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Talladega_ 8.00
Detroit. Rev. C. C. Foote $25; J. C. H. $1 26.00
Flint. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 10.00
Grand Rapids. T. B. W. 0.25
Hillsdale. Mathews Joslyn 100.00
Lansing. Ag’l Coll., Mrs. R. C. K., Mrs. W. J.
B., Mrs. G. T. F., Mrs. A. J. C. and Mrs. R.
G. B. $1 ea.; Mrs. C. L. I. 50c. _for a
Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 5.50
Oceola. B. F. Batchelder and Mrs. Sarah E. A.
Batchelder $2.50 ea. 5.00
Romeo. Cong. Sab. Sch. $20; Mrs. J. T. $1,
_for Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 21.00
Royal Oak. Cong. Ch. $5.—Mrs. C. S. C. $1,
_for Missionary, Memphis, Tenn._ 6.00
IOWA, $215.85.
Ames. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.50
Bowen Prairie. —— 7.00
Clinton. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $15, _for
Fisk U._—H. R. W. 50c. 15.50
Cincinnati. Wm. T. Reynolds 2.00
Cresco. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.65
Denmark. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Fisk U._ 22.00
Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. 0.50
Genoa Bluff. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 4.27
Grinnell. Cong. Ch. $37.50; “Friend,” gold
ring and 43c. 37.93
Hampton. “A Friend” 2.00
Kellogg. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid_ 5.00
Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson 5.00
Mason City. First Cong. Ch. 5.70
McGregor. Cong. Ch. $12.42; Woman’s Miss. Soc.
12.01 bal. to const. MISS CATHARINE
GILCHRIST, L. M. 24.43
Monticello. Cong. Ch. 16.50
Muscatine. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 25.00
Oskaloosa. Rev. Asa Turner 10.00
Stuart. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Tipton. William Coutts 5.00
Traer. Mrs. C. H. B. 1.00
Williamsburg. Welsh Cong. Ch. 1.87
MISSOURI, $35.
St. Louis. First Cong. Ch. 35.00
WISCONSIN, $266.40.
Albion. S. G. A 0.25
Arena. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Fon du Lac. Cong. Ch. 42.93
Hartford. R. F. 1.00
Keshena. S. J. Marshall, M. D. 6.00
Madison. Cong. Ch. 68.47
Mazo Manie. Cong. Ch. $8.10; Cong. Sab. Sch.
$2.40 10.50
Menomenee. “A Friend” 50.00
Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Oconomowoc. J. S. Kenyon 5.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch. $37.—Cong. Sab. Sch.
$10.25, _for Student Aid_ 47.25
MINNESOTA, $25.43.
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. $22.80; Pilgrim
Cong. Ch. $1.38 24.18
Morris. Cong. Ch. 1.25
KANSAS, $1.
Burlingame. A Friend 1.00
NEBRASKA, $14.65.
Linwood. Union Sab. Sch. 1.00
Weeping Water. Cong. Ch. 13.65
COLORADO TER. 50c.
Littleton. H. C. W. 0.50
CALIFORNIA, $30.
Madison. MRS. TYLER THACHER to const. herself
L. M. 30.00
OREGON, $32.
Salem. Cong. Ch. to const. DEA. JOHN J.
MCFARLAND, L. M. 32.00
MARYLAND, $50.
Baltimore. Rev. Geo. Morris, _for Fisk U._ 50.00
TENNESSEE, $193.50.
Covington. H. C. Gray, _for rebuilding S. U._ 1.00
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 119.65
Nashville. Fisk University 72.85
NORTH CAROLINA, $231.22.
Raleigh. Washington Sch. 126.22
Wilmington. Normal Sch. $98.73; Cong. Ch. $6.27 105.00
SOUTH CAROLINA, $228.50.
Charleston. Avery Inst. 223.50
Orangeburgh. Ladies’ Miss. Ass’n of Cong. Ch.,
_for Mendi M._ 5.00
GEORGIA, $214.20.
Atlanta. Atlanta University $103.—M. Blanche
Curtiss $5, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 108.00
Columbus. R. P. Lewis, _for Atlanta U._ 5.00
Macon. Lewis High Sch. 51.20
McIntosh. Rev. Jos. E. Smith, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
MISSISSIPPI, $65.55.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U. 65.55
LOUISIANA, $152.75.
Houma. Rev. A. E. P. A. 0.50
Lake Peigneur. Cong. Ch. 2.00
New Iberia. Cong. Ch. 5.25
New Orleans. Straight University $144.50; W.
A. C. 50c. 145.00
TEXAS, 50c.
Goliad. S. M. 0.50
ALABAMA, $746.
Mobile. Emerson Inst. 154.75
Montgomery. Pub. Fund 420.75
Selma. Cong. Ch. 11.35
Talladega. Talladega Col. $126.15.—Cong. Sab.
Sch. $30; B. L. $1, _for Farm_; Willis Ferry
$2, _for Ind. Dept. Talladega C._ 159.15
INCOME FUND, $3,511.82.
Avery Fund, _for Mendi M._ 2,286.82
Le Moyne Fund 770.00
Hammond Fund 350.00
ESTATE of Dr. M. C. Williams 35.00
ESTATE of Sarah J. Nason 35.00
ESTATE of A. Miner 35.00
CANADA, 16.08.
Guelph. Rev. J. H. 1.00
Sherbrooke. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 15.08
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Total 14,812.30
Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st $118,122.26
H. W. HUBBARD
_Ass’t Treas._
RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
Amherst, Mass. Mrs. R. A. Lester 50.00
Barnstable Co., Mass. “A Traveler” 5.00
Holbrook, Mass. Mrs. C. S. Holbrook 100.00
Holbrook Mass. Miss Sarah J. Holbrook 25.00
North Abington, Mass. Mrs. A. S. Reed 20.00
Hartford, Conn. “A Friend” 500.00
Brooklyn, N. Y. Julius Davenport 25.00
Goliad, Texas. Rev. Mitchell Thompson 5.00
Helena, Texas. Cong. Ch. 5.00
—— Payment on Land in Mich. 150.00
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885.00
Previously acknowledged April receipts 9,637.72
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Total $10,522.72
* * * * *
Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.
* * * * *
ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
ASSOCIATION.”
ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct
Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a
knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries
which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent
fields of effort.
ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the
practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds,
may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty
dollars, a life member; provided, that children and others who have
not professed their faith may be constituted life members without
the privilege of voting.
ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of
September, October or November, for the election of officers and
the transaction of other business at such time and place as shall
be designated by the Executive Committee.
ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular
officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting,
and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies,
and other co-operating bodies—each body being entitled to one
representative.
ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice
Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries,
Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less
than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be
advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting
and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining
and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and
agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the
transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the
executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies;
the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the
missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision
of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually
chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or
missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.
The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies
occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings;
to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of
incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all
officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the
Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and
for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call,
in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and
general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the
diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous
promotion of the missionary work.
Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for
transacting business.
ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing
officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields
of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor
particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the
known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment
those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.
ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to
the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain
missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the
agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
ART. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without
the concurrence of two thirds of the members present at a regular
annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been
submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in
season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if
so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a
belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a
Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice
of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity
of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy
obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and
the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the
wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
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_THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION._
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AIM AND WORK.
To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with
the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its
main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens
and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely
related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE
in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane
and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in
AFRICA.
STATISTICS.
CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 11;
Ky., 5; Tenn., 4; Ala., 12; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 4.
_Africa_, 1. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 62.
INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.
_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta,
Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and
Austin, Texas, 8; _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington,
Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.;
Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.; 11; _Other
Schools_, 7. Total 26.