but comes in its logical place. When your machinery is all
educational, industrial and church-wise, the final and vital
question is one of power to move it. The supreme motive power in
your work is _spiritual life_.
Life is force, something capable of originating or resisting power
or motion. Physical life is that mysterious something no analysis
can detect, no alembic reveal, no power resist; which swells the
bud, opens the flower, sprouts the seed, ripens the harvest.
Spiritual life, through another plane, is also a force, capable of
originating or resisting power or motion. Its realm is the human
soul, and draws nutriment from the soil, which that cunning chemist
we call life builds up into strength and beauty.
Spiritual vitality performs a similar structural function. Once
made alive in Christ Jesus, the disciple seeks for spiritual
aliment.
1. Now, spiritual life, like natural life, possesses _structural
power_. It is a master builder. One main function of the vital
principle in nature is to lay hold of inert matter and convert it
into living organisms. The growing tree absorbs tons of carbon
from the air. The local church, if a live one, takes up into her
membership more or less of the outlying population, and from aliens
converts them into fellow citizens of the saints and members of the
household of faith.
The ability, then, of this noble Association, second to none in
the land, to advance the kingdom of Christ in the several fields
where it operates, will assuredly be conditioned upon the spirit
and vigor of the churches and individuals behind it, will be
determined, not so much by the amount of money it receives or the
number of workers it puts into the field, as by the prayers and
spiritual enthusiasm of its constituency.
Carlyle once said: “The American Republic is going straight to the
devil. No government can long exist that receives the refuse of all
the rest of the world into its midst and makes citizens of them.”
Our free institutions are to undergo a strain in the near future,
I am sure, that has never yet been put upon them. Our American
churches are also to be put to a similar strain. Nay, the pressure
is already upon them. Are they equal to it? I believe so. We must,
however, leaven the multitudes of the ignorant and unsaved with our
Christianity, or they will leaven us with their illiteracy. Our
ability to meet the emergency already upon us will depend, under
God, upon our spiritual vitality.
2. Another function of life is its expulsive power. What it cannot
use and assimilate it expels. It gathers the good and casts the bad
away. Strong, vigorous life depends as much upon the one function
as the other. The religious world is full of the germs and larvæ
of skepticism, theistic and atheistic assaults and criticisms. A
robust person can walk in the midst of pestilence unscathed, while
disease springs upon one whose vitality is depressed. Precisely the
same condition obtains in respect to the individual disciple, or
the church, or our missionary boards.
The one effective answer to skepticism, then, of every grade and
degree of virulence; the one sovereign remedy for worldliness,
apathy and avarice of God’s people, is a new enduement of spiritual
power. Our lips must be touched with celestial fire and our hearts
bathed in Christ’s great love.
3. Another quality of life is its expansive power. The mightiest
force in this world is life. It mocks at gravity; it defies
cohesion; bursts every band. The same expansive property inheres in
spiritual life.
You might as well shut up a growing chicken in its shell as to
shut up a live Christianity in the shell of the fathers. No. Where
there is life there must be expansion. She breaks through old
traditions and prejudices, and steps out into new departures and
broader methods, and pushes on into new regions of thought and
conquest beyond. She lays her hand on the colored man of the South,
saves, educates him, equips him for the life that now is, as well
as for that which is to come. She stands on the shores of the great
Pacific, where the shining waves lave her feet and chant their
mighty anthems of freedom, and, with open, arms and a catholic
heart, free of all race prejudices, welcomes the Chinaman. She
uncovers the cross in the wigwam of the red man and bids the dusky
sons of the forest look and live.
4. Once more spiritual life is the only complete bond of union.
Says President Hopkins, “It is on this that the whole method of God
in the restoration of man is based, and it is for the recognition
of this by men, and their adoption of God’s method of vitality and
unity, the tardy, laboring and discordant times wait. No partial
reform will do; no coming man. Everywhere men are divergent,
repellant. The bond of common humanity is but a string of tow to
bind the Samson of human selfishness and passions. There must be
a divine life, a divine centre. This center is Christ. He is the
life. The nexus which is to bind this selfish world in one, and
unite all races and nationalities in one common fellowship and
forward movement to disciple the world, is Christ in the souls of
all men. Amid every diversity of polity and people, He is the one
vivifying and unifying spirit.
5. The principal question, however, is one of means. How is this
life to be secured? To get fresh water we go to the spring. To get
information we go to the sources of knowledge. To get spiritual
vitality we go to Christ. Life in nature is the product of living
organisms in contact. The strength and continuance of that life
depends upon the closeness of the contact. The steel must touch the
magnet to receive and retain magnetism.
So spiritual life and zeal comes from contact with a living Christ.
The strength and fervor of that life is forever conditioned upon
the closeness of our contact with our living Head.
No one thing so lowers spiritual heat and light as distance from
Christ. Neptune has not a thousandth part of our light and warmth.
He is too far away from the central orb. We are just now too far
away from Christ; hence our comparative barrenness. We must sit
where the fire and inspiration of His eye kindle in ours; where his
glowing enthusiasm passes over into us; where the greatness and
grandeur of the work He has given us to do shall thrill us and grow
upon us. Then we shall mount to its accomplishment on the wings of
eagles, and run and not be weary, and walk and not faint.
Never had this Association more call for enthusiasm, never for
greater hopefulness. What did we see here last night—the black man
and red man, men from Asia and Africa and America, strangers and
proselytes, speak in their own tongues the wonderful works of God.
I cheer you on to the labor of another year. As we go down from
this mount let us go to our upper chambers and, whether for eight
days or as many weeks, let us tarry and pray until we are endued
from on high and receive the tongues of flame and the utterance of
the Spirit. Then let us, in our various fields, gird up our loins
and go forth to achieve for the Lord of Hosts, resolved that before
another anniversary of this Association comes round we will, God
helping us, see thousands housed and happy in Christ’s dear love
all over our beloved land of very race and color.
* * * * *
ADDRESS OF PROF. W. M. BARBOUR, D.D.
The topic assigned me is in the line of the theme just discussed
by Dr. Dennen. My friend and classmate Dr. Pike insisted upon my
coming over here and taking part in this evening meeting; and
he said, “Your theme will be: Spiritual Vitality the Crowning
Necessity in Missionary Work.”
I shall take it for granted that other means have been set before
you and insisted upon—the one nearest always, money. That is a
great necessity in missionary work. You have heard, I have no
doubt, a good deal about that, and I merely wish to honor it as a
means under God of the most pressing necessity. We can do nothing
to send the blessings that God has put into our hearts abroad among
our fellow men without means; and the first means is money. But all
the money in the world will not serve our end. What is the next?
We must have men. But all the men in the world won’t do missionary
work, although we had them all enlisted in that work. Suppose
we had all the money we could use and all the men that offered
themselves and that we could procure; we would only have gone so
far. What else is needed? We need fitness in the men as another
great means. This is as necessary as money and men, this culture.
But after we have the men, and after we have them qualified, there
is still room for what in my theme to-night is called “the crowning
necessity.” You may take Yale College as it stands, with all its
culture, and you may turn out all our hundreds of young men down
into the South this blessed night; what could they do in missionary
work to-morrow morning? So you see that it is not the money, or the
men, or the culture that alone is needed; something more is needed,
and that is “spiritual vitality.”
And now, beloved, to take the first step and to say the first thing
that must be said, in my judgment (since I am called here to give
my opinion), the first position that we must assume and which this
Association has assumed from its very start—although it is one of
the old things that Christ says a well-instructed scribe must take
out of his treasury—we must begin with God. We are to stand in
his presence, we are to summon him as our witness, we are to avow
ourselves openly and frankly, every day we live, as doing this for
him.
I should like to know where our modern unbelief is that is such
a distress to us in all our efforts and in our inward life, when
you reverently, and in the deep meaning of thought say, “As the
Lord liveth”? Look at it. There are two schemes of the universe:
one, the Christian scheme, with a belief in the living God as
the original of all things—a personal being who is personally
interested in his creatures, and who is desiring, since he has made
him in his own image, to have man hold communion with himself, and
who desires to have all men reconciled to himself from their sin
and their misery and their unhappy life. There is another scheme
where there is no God, or, what is the same thing to us, we do not
know whether there is or not. And what is the idea of the universe
that follows from that? Why, that it must move along as the blind
force behind it shall urge it. Where is it going to land? The day
is coming, brethren, when we will cry, “Oh for the doctrine of a
predestinating God”—God with his eye on an end, and with an end to
which he is turning all things and which shall be satisfactory to
all the creatures that he has made in his image.
Let us take a frank position here as a missionary society, and let
it be known that we openly and avowedly, by word and deed, take the
stand that we believe in God, and that we believe he is a living
God, and in his name and for his sake and to effect his purpose we
are going to the South, to the North, to the East, to the West, to
gain trophies that shall be to the glory of his redeeming grace,
since he has revealed to us, as we believe, the fact that he will
complete these ends through our agency.
RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1883.
* * * * *
MAINE, $391.80.
Banger. Hammond St. Ch., 100; First Cong. Ch.
20 $120.00
Bethel. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Brunswick. Mrs. S. C. F. Hammond, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Cumberland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. CAPT.
REUBEN BLANCHARD L. M. 40.00
Hampden. Charles E. Hicks. 7.00
Lovell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
North Anson. “A Friend” 10.00
Portland. Second Parish Ch. and Soc. 86.30
South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis. 6.00
Westbrook. Second Cong. Ch. to Const. REV.
EDWARD E. BACON L. M. 46.50
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$356.80
LEGACY.
Bethel. Estate of Sarah W. Chapman by A. W.
Valentine, Ex. 35.00
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391.80
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $69.02.
Amherst. Cong. Ch. 12.98
Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.04
Colebrook. “E. C. & W.” 2.00
Concord. Dea. McQuesten, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Concord. Miss Lancaster, _for Fort Berthold_. 2.00
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l. 9.00
Manchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 64.94 to
const. HOLMES R. PETTEE and H. W. HERRICK,
L. Ms. Incorrectly ack. in Nov. number from
Mass.
Tilton. A. H. Colby. 5.00
VERMONT, $540.02.
Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 90.72
Benson. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 5.00
Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. 39.58
Burlington. Winooski Av. Cong. Ch. 107.28
Castleton. W. C. Guernsey. 4.50
Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.25
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.00
Manchester. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., 2 Bbls. of C,
_for Raleigh, N.C._ 1 Bbl. _for Atlanta U._
Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Norwich. Ashley Blodgett. 5.00
Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. 168.00
Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
S. S. Work_. 26.00
Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.25
Westminster West. “A Friend.” 5.00
Weybridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.44
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$535.02
LEGACY.
Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray. 5.00
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$540.02
MASSACHUSETTS $3,528.10.
Agawam. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Ashby. “A Friend” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00
Boston. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 50.00
Boston. Miss Faxon, _for Fort Berthold_. 1.00
Boxborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.05
Brookline. S. C. Dizer, _for Student Aid,
Tougaloo U._ and to const. himself L. M. 100.00
Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 76.33
Buckland. Dea. S. Trowbridge. 10.00
Campello. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. ad’l to
const. REV. AND MRS. JOHN F. BLADES, LEWIS
D. DOTEN AND GEO. W. PACKARD L. Ms. 95.73
Charlestown. Winthrop Ch. and Soc. 66.48
Chelsea. Concert, under auspices of Ladies’
Union Home Mission Band, _for Student Aid,
Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 54.00
Chelsea. Miss Annie P. James, _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ and to const. W. H.
SINGLETON L. M. 30.00
Chelsea. “Friends” Books _for Library,
Chattanooga, Tenn._
Coleraine. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. McGee, 4; John
Gilchrist, 1. 5.00
Concord. Rev. H. M. Grout, D.D., and Others,
_for Atlanta U._ 40.50
Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Danvers. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const.
WILLIAM SINER, JR., HENRY A. WHITE and
GEORGE A. PEABODY L. M.’s. 100.00
East Boston. Mrs. Joseph Robbins, _Bdl. of
Goods, for Dakota M._
Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch. and Soc. 140.00
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Gloucester. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Granby. Cong. Ch., Children’s Mission Circle,
_for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. Building_. 45.00
Hadley. E. Porter. 10.00
Hanover Four Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.46
Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Harvard. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.50
Hyde Park. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Indian Orchard. Evan. Ch. and Soc. 19.22
Jamaica Plain. Cong. Ch. and Soc., in part. 160.00
Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc., ad’l. 10.00
Lincoln. George Ropes, _for Atlanta U._ 25.00
Lincoln. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 20.00
Lowell. First Cong. Ch., _for Atlanta U._ 13.75
Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 40.68; “A
Friend,” 1. 41.68
Medford. “A Friend.” 5.00
Millbury. Second Cong. Ch. to const. REV. JOHN
L. EWELL L. M. 30.00
Natick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
New Bedford. Miss Helen M. Leonard. 1.00
Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Newton Center. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 68.68
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.25
Northamption. A. L. Williston, 500; First
Cong. Ch., 247.68; Edwards Ch. Benev. Soc.
64. 811.68
North Leominster. Mrs. S. F. Houghton. 5.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.26
Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.36
Phillipston. Ladies Benev. Soc Bdl. C.
Pittsfield. Rev. C. V. SPEAR to const.
himself, GEO. N. SPEAR and MRS. ELLEN M.
SPEAR L. Ms. 250.00
Roxbury. Walnut Av. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for
Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 17.70
Roxbury. Mrs. P. N. Livermore. 1.00
Shirley Village. 500 copies “Youth’s
Companion” by Miss Nettie A. Dickson, _for
Marietta, Ga._
South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.6
Southampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.2
South Attleborough. Mrs. Harriet L. Draper, 2
and Bbl. of C. 2.00
Southborough. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.10
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00
South Sudbury. Ladies’ Home Miss’y Soc. Bbl of
C., val., 34.17, _for Atlanta U._
Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.40
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 51;
to const. AUGUSTINE LOUD and J. NEWTON DYER
L. Ms.; Ladies Mission Soc. of Second Ch.,
14. 65.00
South Weymouth. Mrs. Lysander Heald’s S. S.
Class., Second Ch., 10, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._; Marion Heald, 1 _for a little
girl_ 11.00
Spencer. Mrs. G. H. Marsh’s Class Cong. Sab.
Sch., 5; G. E. Manley, 5, _for Student Aid,
Talladega C._ 10.00
Springfield. South Cong. Ch. 32.38; First
Cong. Ch., 24.85 57.23
Stoneham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 17.00
Uxbridge. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
Wakefield. Mission Workers, 45; Cong. Sab.
Sch., 16, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 61.00
Walpole. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc., to
const. Dea. WILLARD LEWIS L. M. 35.30
Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, _for Chinese M._ 5.00
Westborough. “A Friend.” 43.00
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Westfield. Second Cong. Ch. Soc. 58.00
Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
West Granville. Cong. Ch. 8.00
Westhampton. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch. 2.12
Whately. Cong. Ch. 7.83
Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc., 139; Old South
Ch. and Soc. 41.63 to const. H. H. MERRIAM
L. M.; Central Ch. and Soc. 51.98; “A
Friend,” 25 257.61
Yarmouth. Roy A. Eldridge, D.D. 50.00
——— “A Friend.” 5.00
RHODE ISLAND, $1,063.18.
Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.00
Providence. Central Cong. Ch. 800; Pilgrim
Cong. Ch. and Soc., 115; “A Friend,” 50.00;
North. Cong Ch. 23.13 988.13
CONNECTICUT, $2,676.75.
East Windsor. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Elliott. Wm. Osgood 2.00
East Avon. Cong. Ch. 38.00
Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 19.97
Bozrahville. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Bridgeport. South Ch. Sab. Sch., Box S. S.
Books, _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._
Derby. First Cong. Ch. 30.00
Fair Haven. First Ch. 50.00
Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Santee
Agency, Neb._ 128.51
Farmington. Cong. Ch. 59.77
Franklin. Cong. Ch. 13.29
Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 150.00
Granby. First Cong. Ch. 8.95
Hebron. J. and Mary Porter _for Tillotson C. &
N. Inst._ 10.00
Jewett City. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. 75.00
Milford. Plymouth Ch. Sab. Sch. _for Tillotson
C. & N. Inst._ and to const. S. E. FRISBIE
L. M. 32.00
Mount Carmel. Mrs. J. M. Smith 10.00
New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. 17.50
New Hartford. Rev. F. H. Adams’ S. S. Class,
11; John Richards’ S. S. Class, 9, _for Fisk
U._ 20.00
New Haven. Third Cong. Ch., 23; Howard Ave.
Ch., 9.22 32.22
Norfolk. “A Friend,” _for Santee Agency_ 5.00
North Stonington. D. R. Wheeler 10.00
Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. 175.43
Plainfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.40
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 12.59
Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. 23.72
Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 103.59
South Killingly. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Stratford. “A Friend” 1.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 52.32
Thompsonville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
furnishing a room, Whitin Hall, Straight U._ 35.00
Torrington. Third Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.25
Wallingford. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson
C. and N. Inst. Building_ 60.00
Wapping. F. W. Gilbert, for _Tillotson C. and
N. Inst._ 12.07
Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.55
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 105.00
Winchester. “A Friend” 10.00
Wethersfield. Rev. G. J. Tillotson, _for
Tillotson C. and N. Inst. Building_ 150.00
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$1,590.13
LEGACIES.
Ellington. Estate of Maria Pitkin, by Edwin
Talcott. Ex. 190.00
Woodbridge. Estate of Mrs. Eliza Carrington 896.62
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$2,676.75
NEW YORK, $422.05.
Brasher Falls. Elijah Wood, $15; Mrs. Eliza A.
Bell, $3. 18.00
Brooklyn, E. D. New England Cong. Ch. 25.00
Deansville. Cong. Ch. 15.05
East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey, $30; Chas. E.
Clarke, $3. 33.00
Elmira. Miss Clara Thurston. 5.00
Hamilton. O. S. Campbell. 5.00
Homer. Cong. C., $132.50; B. W. Payne, $10. 142.50
Lysander. Cong. Ch. 26.00
Middletown. First Cong. Ch. 16.26
New Haven. Cong. Ch. 15.00
North Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 5.81
New York. American Bible Soc., Grant of
Scriptures, val. $307.50.
Nunda. “A Friend” ($5 of which _for Chinese
M._) 15.00
Pompey. Mrs. Lucy Child, _for Indian Youth,
Hampton N. & A. Inst._ 5.00
Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers, _for Emerson
Inst., Mobile, Ala._ 20.00
Pitcher. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Sinclairville. Earl C. Preston. 2.00
Syracuse. C. A. Hamlin. 12.25
Volney. Ludington Sab. Sch. 5.08
West Winfield. Cong. Ch., to const. AARON
ADELBERT LEACH L. M. 31.10
NEW JERSEY, $565.53.
Chester. First Cong. Ch., $21.89, and Sab.
Sch., $6.52. 28.21
East Orange. Trinity Cong. Ch. 137.32
Paterson. Mrs. Sarah A. Cook, _for Tillotson
C. & N. Inst._ 400.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $7.00.
New Castle. John Burgess. 5.00
Philadelphia. “M.” 2.00
OHIO, $791.41.
Berlin Heights. Cong. Ch. 4.26
Cleveland. T. P. Handy, $20; James Harmer,
$20; Misses S. and A. Walworth,
$30;—Whitney. $1; _for Parsonage, Topeka,
Kan._ 71.00
Columbus. Eastwood Cong. Ch. $10; and Sab.
Sch., $5.70. 15.70
Elyria. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $40; Cong.
Ch., “M. W. C.,” $10; Individual, $9. 59.00
Fort Recovery. Pisgah Cong. Ch. 3.00
Lafayette. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Medina. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 20.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. 35.60
Painesville. Woman’s Missionary Soc., $20,
_for Indian M._, and $10 _for Chinese M._
Incorrectly ack. from Mrs. L. A. M. Little
in Nov. number.
Pittsfield. A Friend. 12.00
Springfield. Mrs. Warren’s Sab. Sch. Class of
Young Men. 5.00
Steuben. Levi Platt. 1.00
Strongsville. First Cong. Ch. 10.00
Tallmadge. C. P. Parmelee. 5.00
Wauseon. Cong. Ch. 17.50
Wilberforce. Mrs. Joseph Morrow. 5.00
York. Cong. Ch. 20.35
Youngstown. Mrs. Whitney. 1.00
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$291.41
LEGACY.
Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, by John
G. Jennings, Ex. 500.00
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$791.41
INDIANA, $50.87.
Liber. Cong. Ch. 1.68
Michigan City. Cong. Ch. 37.00
Michigan City. Mrs. C. W. Peck _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00
Michigan City. “Ralph and Daisy,” 1.69;
“Golden Links,” 50c. _for Student Aid,
Storrs’ Sch., Atlanta. Ga_ 2.19
ILLINOIS, $819.54.
Albion. Olive Sab. Sch., $2.50; Mr. and Mrs.
James Green. $2. 4.50
Byron. Cong. Ch. 9.17
Carthage. Mrs. Sophia Miller. 1.50
Chicago. First Cong. Ch. $197.21; “A
Chicagoan,” 100; N. E. Cong. Ch., 79.83. 377.04
Chicago. Young Ladies Miss’y Soc., of U. P.
Ch., 17.79, _for Dakota M._; Miss Julia F.
White, 5, _for Printing Press, Santee
Agency_. 22.79
Chicago. Mrs. W. C. Kent, 5; Clinton St. Sab.
Sch., 4.37, _for Student Aid, Storrs’ Sch.
Atlanta, Ga._ 9.37
Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, 8 Pails of Paint,
_for Parsonage, Topeka, Kan._
De Kalb. Cong. Ch. 3.00
Elgin. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Evanston. Cong. Ch., ad’l. 10.00
Galesburg. Mrs. Julia F. Wells. 25.00
Galva. Cong. Ch. 22.45
Ivanhoe. Young Men’s Miss’y Soc. 2.00
Lombard. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. 1.44
Lisbon. Cong. Ch., _for Savannah, Ga._ 10.00
Mendon. Mrs. J. Fowler, _for Chinese M._ and
to const. REV. EDWARD C. CRANE, L. M. 30.00
North Hampton. R. W. Gilliam. 5.00
Oak Park. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Miss’y, Little Rock, Ark._ 52.50
Oak Park. Mr. Packard’s Sab. Sch., Boys, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 25.00
Paxton. Cong. Ch. 28.00
Port Byron. Mission Circle of Cong. Ch., _for
Lady Missionaries, Mobile, Ala., and Little
Rock, Ark._ 10.00
Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss ($10 of which _for
Chinese M._) 20.00
Prospect Park. Ladies of Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary at Mobile, Ala., and Little Rock,
Ark._ 6.00
Sheffield. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.33
Thomasborough. H. M. Seymour. 1.00
Waverly. Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.45
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$719.54
LEGACY.
Forrest. Estate of Mrs. Mary Stewart, by S. A.
Hoyt, Ex. 100.00
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$819.54
MICHIGAN, $242.08.
Adrian. A. J. Hood. 10.00
Almont. Cong. Ch. 25.30
Alpena. “A Friend,” $30; Woman’s Miss’y Soc.,
$30; E. K. Potter, $25., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 85.00
Benzonia. Amasa Waters. 10.00
Battle Creek. Miss Julia E. Williams. 5.00
Edwardsburg. S. C. Olmsted. 10.00
Frankfort. Cong. Ch. 2.39
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 35.77
Muskegon. Cong. Ch., $30; Woman’s Miss’y Soc.
$15. 45.00
Northport. Cong. Ch. 11.62
White Cloud. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. 2.00
IOWA, $607.46.