ago I didn’t know anything about the Bible. I didn’t know about
Christ. I had not heard of the true and living God; but I heard of
this land, where so many of my countrymen came and I come too, and
here I found Christian people who loved Christ, and for His sake
love me and show me the way of life. When I first hear of the Bible
I didn’t think I like it. I said: If no other books, I don’t care
for this one; I don’t want such a book as this. I thought I didn’t
need any more gods, for I said I have all kinds in the temple, and
I could see them if I go there, but the God I hear of in America
I cannot see! When I learn in the Bible what it says about the
heathen gods that are made of silver and gold, the works of men’s
hands—how they have mouth and cannot speak, eyes cannot see, ears
and cannot hear, noses cannot smell, and hands but handle not—I
learn also the God of the Bible made all things and sees us all
the time, every thing is ruled by His hands. We must fear him, for
He is powerful and glorious, but the idols is unwise. I am obliged
to leave the idols and come to worship the true God, and trying to
observe His law and commandments the Bible shows me how sinful I
am, and if Christ had not come to the world to save me I am sure
get lost.
After I was converted I study the Bible more and more and learn
great deal, great wonder to me. Now the Bible is a precious book. I
am glad I accept the Saviour for my Saviour and His God for my God.
“I pass from death unto life, from darkness and bondage of sin into
the glorious light and liberty of a new creature in Christ Jesus.”
What I expect to do if I still be a heathen? I must be bound to
worshiping idols, bow down to all kinds of gods; great fear to them
and not dare to touch them. Whenever I enter the temple, cannot
without three bow to the idols.
The people of China are great superstitious; they believe every
things whatever chance to hear or think. Let me tell you how some
of the people doing when any of the family getting sick: They have
a doctor, but they think some kind of spirit troubling them, it may
chance their ancient father or friends or enemies who died before.
They think they must offer something for them to eat that they
may go away, or some times they go into the temple to pray to the
idols. They hope the idols may tell what are the reason with the
sick that they find out how they may do and get well. How the idols
can tell them? Let me make known to you: A piece of wood has been
smoothen in the shape of a banana and cut in equal size the longest
way. This they throw down before the idols that they may give a
certain condition according which they request before; may be they
say: If this is the spirit of an enemy let this pieces of wood fall
both the same way, or some other way, they may choose, till they
find out what is the matter and offer sacrifice that the spirit may
leave off troubling and let the sick get well. The thief can pray
the idols that he may get help to steal! The gambler can ask that
he may win the money; the robber that he may be able to get what
he wishing for. If any kind of business going to be taken up the
idols must first be asked about it. Every one is sure to say, “Now,
idols, if you help me good, I going to bring you something nice to
eat when I get success.”
When I was coming over to Cal., suddenly a storm came up, the wind
violent sweeping over the great ocean; the water dashing high upon
the boat. The sailors all at work to make the ship more safe. The
passengers all trembling with fear and desperate to arrive in San
Francisco. Is there any chance to be rescued from the storm? Yes,
soon there was heard one of our number calling: “Whosoever man
in this ship have any money let us have some of it, that we may
sacrifice to the goddess of the sea that she may deliver us out of
the storm and let us arrive safe to the land of Cal.” I had a small
sum of money. I gave half of it; others gave also. The man cast it
into the water and asked the goddess that she let no harm come to
us, and we promise more sacrifice if we get here.
There are many reasons for going before the idols, but I have no
chance to tell so much as I like to. A few weeks since I was in San
Francisco. I found some of the people from the town near my home in
China, getting money to send and build a temple over there. Every
one who give to help build it can have their names hang up in the
temple, but if any one who give $20 to $50 they have a present, and
at the time of first worship or dedication a band of music to honor
them on their way home. Some of them asked me to give, but I said,
“No, I cannot, I rather put money in the missionary fund.” They
said, “Your parents will feel sorrow and disgrace if they not see
your name; but if you don’t want your name you can give and have
your parent’s name put there; no one of your Christian men know it;
you can be a Christian just the same.” I said, “I do not wish to
help my parents to sin; I don’t believe idol worship and I cannot
help about it. If I be a Christian I must try to live like one.”
There is a great difference in the religion taught by the Saviour
and that of the heathen. It is great change to me to try to be a
Christian, to know the true God who sees us all the time. I have
worked many things for the idols. I feel thankful I shall do so no
more. Before I come to the light my life was gloomy, miserable,
hopeless; always was fearing the evil spirit going to trouble me;
but I don’t fear them now.
Would I go back to idolatry? No; the Bible says, “Thou shall not
make unto thee any graven image, or likeness of anything that is
in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the
water under the earth. Thou shall not bow down thyself to them nor
serve them.” I cannot serve idols again; but I will try to serve
my heavenly Father, and bring all I can to bow down to Him. I wish
every one in China and America knew about the Bible. I thank all
Christian people that they led me to the true way. I hope you will
pray that I may always be faithful, and at last receive the crown
of life and dwell with God in the world to come.
* * * * *
WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
Room 20, Congregational House, Beacon St., Boston.
MISS NATHALIE LORD, _Secretary_.
MISS ABBY W. PEARSON, _Treasurer_.
* * * * *
We are glad to bring before our friends this month the work among
the colored people in Washington, D.C., as it has been carried
on there by Mrs. C. B. Babcock. In her field, as in that of our
other Southern missionaries, the industrial work occupies a
prominent position. Here the women and children learn lessons
of practical value to them, as they are taught to cut and make
their own garments and repair old ones, while at the same time
they are instructed in truths of the highest importance. In a
letter recently received, Mrs. Babcock writes of this work: “The
ladies of the Congregational church have given 180 yards material
for the industrial work, and a few of them gave a supper to the
women’s class, numbering fifty. The women have made 102 new
garments besides mending 100 old ones during these three months.
This has been of untold help to them and their families.” Her
girl’s sewing-school numbers 135. The natural outgrowth of these
schools has been prayer-meetings for the women and young girls
respectively. “The mother’s prayer-meetings have been deeply
interesting of late,” she tells us.
There is much need of temperance work all through the South, and it
is encouraging to read of the new Band of Hope in Washington. “It
has succeeded beyond my expectations,” Mrs. Babcock writes, “not
only interesting the colored churches about us, but also bringing
in, as officers and helpers, some of the colored public school
teachers and students from Howard University. There has been a good
deal of enthusiasm about our meetings. Of course, our exercises
must be made interesting, and I work hard for it, but _it pays_,
when I see such audiences as we’ve had. And then I know that our
Scripture readings and lessons from the Temperance Catechism must
do good.”
Mrs. Babcock has worked in Washington in connection with the
Lincoln Memorial church, which was organized January 10th, and
Rev. S. P. Smith installed as pastor. Of this church she writes,
under date of June 3d: “Our little church is prospering, having
now twenty-one members, some being added as fruits of our revival.
* * Rev. Mr. Smith is greatly encouraged. I have made over an
old carpet for the platform, helped to buy chairs, Bible and
communion table, so that when our pulpit comes we shall be nicely
fixed. Our hall is very large and rather _dreary_ without any
pulpit furniture. Nobody knows but those who have worked in the
field, how great are the obstacles in the way of forming a colored
Congregational church. We have the same jealousy and bitter feeling
from the _churches around_ us that there is farther South.”
Speaking of the sickness and suffering among the colored people,
Mrs. Babcock says: “I feel that I’ve been greatly blessed in
having friends at the North respond so nobly to my appeals for
help. I have sold a great deal of clothing, and the money received
for it has done much good.”
In connection with this allusion to the generosity of Northern
friends, it may be well to mention that in the last six months
boxes and barrels of clothing, sewing materials, etc., have been
sent through this Association to the amount of $1,674.00, and, in
addition, books and papers valued at $93.88.
Since the annual meeting in October, six of the auxiliaries alone
have contributed $1,228.70, the largest contribution being from the
Second church in Dorchester, of $445.70.
We would gratefully acknowledge, too, the hearty response to the
appeal for Sunday-school papers for the colored schools in the
South. We have on hand still a long list of Sunday-schools waiting
for supply.
Receipts of the Association from April 25th to May 31st, 1881:
From Auxiliaries $349.45
” Donations 174.50
” Life Members 60.00
” Annual Members 12.00
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$595.95
Donation of Case’s Maps of United States, British Provinces, etc.,
from S. M. H.
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CHILDREN’S PAGE.
* * * * *
THE STORY OF REBECCA.
BY REV. J. E. ROY, D.D.
The following incident in the life of a freedwoman affected me very
much. Let me tell you her history.
In the old times, Col. Holly, of Middle Tennessee, was known as a
kind master; but failing in business, his slaves had to be sold;
then, hoping to retrieve his fortune, removed to Arkansas, taking
with him two little slave girls, one of whom was Rebecca, four and
a half years old. Here she grew up in his family, and was married
to a man who belonged to another master, and who hired his time,
paying one-half his wages as a mechanic.
In Tennessee her mother was, of course, taken away to another
family. Her father, who had not belonged to Col. Holly, had already
been sold to the Red River country, where he soon after died.
Recently, at Little Rock, I was a guest for five days in the house
of Rebecca. Her husband owned his home, together with two other
places. Her only son and a son-in-law were teaching school, and she
was mothering the two little girls of her deceased daughter. On the
centre table were a large family Bible and a copy of Shakespeare,
both rich in binding and illustration; and on the walls were some,
not costly, but tasteful and suggestive pictures, one of which
represented Abraham Lincoln, Charles Sumner and John Brown. Her
deportment was that of a lady; her company enjoyable. She said she
remembered well the time and the scene when she was taken from her
mother. The screaming was yet ringing in her ears. She bore in mind
the last words of her mother, as she put a little red flannel shawl
round her neck: “God bless my child! God bless my child!” She had
in memory also her own crying and bursting of heart. So, too, was
fresh in her mind, her weeping of nights in the new home, until,
upon the imperative chiding of master and mistress, she was obliged
to repress that relief of hidden sorrow.
Her young mistress, who was of about the same age, upon growing up,
was sent to the High School of the city, and she herself was kept
at home, and not allowed even to learn to read the Bible, out of
which she was to be judged at the last day. She did experience a
keen sense of injustice and of murmuring; but all of that she was
obliged to suppress.
But what had become of her mother? “After freedom,” twenty-one
and a half years since the parting, she came over to look up the
daughter. But how shall there be an unmistakable recognition? Col.
Holly and his wife have both passed away. Fortunately, a woman,
who came over with the family, still survived. She brought the
mother to the home of Rebecca, and pointing to her said, “That is
your daughter.” Then such hugging, kissing, and shouting of joy
and weeping, as is the sensation of the neighborhood. I am sure
that I never heard a daughter speak with more enthusiasm of love,
concerning her mother, than did Mrs. Solomon. She thought she
would have known her anyhow; and her mother half came to the same
conclusion when with such accuracy she depicted the scene of the
parting.
And now she must go to visit the old family. Though the master
and mistress are gone, in their place is left the daughter, whom
she had nursed upon her own breast, and who is now married to a
Northern man. Old times and scenes and friends are talked over, but
soon she gives vent to the pent-up sorrows of the mother’s heart.
With all the intensity of a great nature, she told of the grief at
her separation from Rebecca. It was as though she had dropped blood
from her heart; she went weeping and mourning every where. “I wept
as I was making the bread, and _them that eat the most of my bread
eat the most of my heart_.” So David had said: “Thou feedest them
with the bread of tears.” The old colored people told her she must
pray and the Lord would remove all that. In her prayer it seemed as
though there were deep waters and high mountains between her and
her child, and that the Lord would have to send men and remove the
mountains, and make a way over the waters so that she could come
to her child; and now He had done it all, and brought her to tell
her story to the remnant of the old household. The young mistress,
while her husband walks the floor in deep and mute emotion, herself
bursts into tears, and as her only relief, declares: “My father was
such a man that he never would have done that thing if he had not
got broke.” “Oh,” said the sable matron, now rising up from the
crushing of her womanhood, “I never thought anything about what
_caused_ it.” As Rebecca came to freedom she tried to learn, but
her work for bread and the clumsiness of her unused powers were
so great, she desisted, and now her Bible is read to her by the
children.
Will you who have heard this true story help the American
Missionary Association with your pennies and prayers, in their work
of educating these poor people?
* * * * *
RECEIPTS FOR MAY, 1881.
* * * * *
MAINE, $132.04.
Auburn. Mrs. B. J. $1.00
Bangor. First Cong. Ch. 19.37
Bethel. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.60
Brunswick. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 20.00
Camden. “A Friend” 1.00
Falmouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Kennebunk Port. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.
$7.70; First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.50 13.20
North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.18
Orono. Cong. Ch. 1.73
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $6; Infant
Class, Cong. S. S., $2 8.00
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.96
Waterford. S. E. Hersey 2.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $446.29.
Acworth. Cong. Soc. 15.90
Bath. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Bedford. Mrs. S. French, _for Student Aid,
Williston Sch._ 2.00
Canterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.50
East Jaffrey. Benj. Pierce 5.00
Exeter. Second Ch. 5.00
Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.61
Hanover. Cong. Sab. Sch., by Chas. P. Chase,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 30.00
Lebanon. Miss Mary L. Choate, to const. MRS.
O. W. BALDWIN, L. M. 30.00
Mason. Ladies, by Anna M. Hosmer, _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 7.50
Manchester. C. B. Southworth 25.00
Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Orford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $20; Mrs. M. B.
Pratt, $10 30.00
Pembroke. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.13
Plymouth. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 85.08
Rindge. Cong Ch. and Soc. 2.17
Rochester. “J. M. and Sister,” _for
rebuilding, Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00
Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00
Walpole. Cong. Sab. Sch., to const. REV. FRED.
L. ALLEN, L. M. 30.00
Winchester. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.40
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$376.29
LEGACY.
Gilsum. Estate of Mrs. Eunice F. Downing, by
Sarah F. Hayward 70.00
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$446.29
VERMONT, $110.33.
Chelsea. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Danby. Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.30
Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.88
East Wallingford. Miss E. A. H., _for Student
Aid, Atlanta U._ 1.00
Hinesburgh. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Lunenburgh. Chas. W. King 5.00
Morrisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Pawlet. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.81
Pawlet. A. F. 1.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.34
MASSACHUSETTS, $6,091.39.
Andover. Francis H. Johnson, $100; C. L.
Mills, $20 120.00
Andover. G. W. W. Dove, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Ashfield. Henry Taylor 5.00
Attleborough. Ebenezer Carpenter, _for Fisk
U._ and to const. MRS. HATTIE E. CARPENTER,
L. M. 30.00
Barre. Evan. Ch. Sab. Sch. 10.84
Billingham. E. W., deceased, by J. T. Massey,
Ex. 0.75
Blackstone. Mrs. Hannah Hodgson 2.00
Boston. J. T. Bailey, $100; Mrs. E. C. Ford,
$25; “A Friend,” $10; Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, $5 140.00
Boston. Woman’s Home Missionary Association,
_for Lady Missionaries in Southern States_ 160.41
Brimfield. Bbl. of C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._
Brookline. S. B. White 10.00
Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Sew. Soc. of Pilgrim
Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., _for Refugees_
Charlemont. E.G. 1.00
Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.68
Chelsea. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc., $18.14;
Third Cong. Ch. and Soc., $7.50 25.64
Conway. Cong. Ch. 34.65
Clinton. First Evan. Ch. and Soc. 75.00
East Braintree. E. A. F. 0.50
East Bridgewater. Union Cong. Ch. 25.36
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.11
Franklin. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.78
Groton. Elizabeth Farnsworth 20.00
Halifax. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.06
Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Holliston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
Bbl. of C. _for Savannah, Ga._
Hubbardston. “A Friend.” 5.00
Hyde Park. Heart & Hand Soc., _for Athens,
Ala._ 25.00
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Lee. J. W. B. 1.00
Littleton. Mrs. James C. Houghton, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 7.00
Lowell. Leonard Kimball, _for Fisk U._ 100.00
Lowell. John St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 55.75
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for
Wilmington, N.C._ 3,500.00
Millbury. M. E. Bond 3.50
Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.51
Montague. Cong. Ch. 23.65
Natick. Mrs. S. E. Hammond, _for Tougaloo U._ 25.00
New Bedford. Mrs. I. H. Bartlett, Jr. 20.00
Newburyport. Prospect St. Ch. and Soc.,
$26.87; North Cong. Ch. and Soc., $22.31 49.18
Newton. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of First Cong.
Ch., to const. MRS. D. L. FURBER, L. M. 30.00
Newton Centre. Mrs. J. B. H. 0.50
Newton Highlands. Cong. Sab. Sch., Bbl. of C.,
and $1 _for freight, for Atlanta, Ga._ 1.00
Newton Highlands. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 25.00
Newtonville. “M. W. M.” 1.00
North Abington. Bbl. of C., by N. Noyes, _for
Tougaloo U._
Northampton. “A Friend.” 100.00
Northampton. Mrs. F. E. G. Stoddard, Box of
Books, _for Theo. Dept., Talladega C._, and
$7.80 _for freight_ 7.80
North Amherst. Friends, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 7.00
North Amherst. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. of Cong.
Ch., Bbl. of Bedding and C., _for Atlanta,
Ga._
Northfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.00
North Somerville. “A Friend.” 1.00
Norwood. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Orange. Central Ev. Cong. Ch. 10.35
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.78
Rehoboth. Cong. Ch., bal. to const. J. F.
MOULTON, L. M. 25.00
Rutland. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Salem. Geo. Driver 2.00
Sandwich. Mrs. Robert Tobey, _for Indian
Student Aid, Hampton Inst._ 5.00
Shelburne. Cong. Ch. 56.79
Somerville. A. R. 0.50
Southfield. Mrs. E. B. C. 1.00
South Framingham. So. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 204.00
South Natick. Young Eliot’s Miss. Circle, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
(ad’l) to const. MRS. JUSTINA A. TINKHAM and
MISS JANE ELLEN LOUD, L. M’s 46.00
Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 170.35
Springfield. Memorial Ch., $52.82; North Cong.
Ch. and Soc. $25 77.82
Springfield. Ira Merrill, $5; Mrs. Ira
Merrill, $5, _for rebuilding Tougaloo, Miss._ 10.00
Sunderland. Cong. Sab. Sch. $26.28
Taunton. Union Ch. and Soc. 9.80
Townsend. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Warren. Mrs. Joseph Ramsdell, $5: _for Chinese
M._, and $1 _for Mag._ 6.00
Westborough. Freedmen’s Miss. Assn., Bbl. of
C., _for Savannah, Ga._
West Gloucester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
Westminster. Bbl. of C. _for Tougaloo, Miss._
West Roxbury. South Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 66.06
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00
Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 109.00
Worcester. Salem St. Cong. Ch. 41.23
Worthington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.76
—— Three Bbl’s C., _for Marion, Ala._
—— “A Friend.” 100.00
RHODE ISLAND, $44.00.
East Providence. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Pawtucket. Mrs. C. Blodgett 10.00
Providence. Ladies, by Miss Marsh, _for Byron,
Ga._ 14.00
CONNECTICUT, $8,428.78.
Birmingham. W. E. Downes, _for Tillotson C.
and N. Inst._ 100.00
Brooklyn. “E. F. B.” 25.00
Colebrook. Cong. Ch. 17.05
Colebrook River. Miles Gillett 2.00
East Haven. Cong. Ch. 14.00
Ekonk. Elizabeth W. Kasson 10.00
East Windsor. Mrs. Sarah L. Wells 5.00
Gilead. Cong. Ch. 20.68
Hartford. Mrs. Ellery Hills, $350; A. S. K., $1 351.00
Hartford. George Kellogg, _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 100.00
Hartford. Benev. Soc. of Asylum Hill Cong.
Ch., 2 Bbls. and a Box of Bedding and New
C., and $3.90 _for freight, for Atlanta, Ga._ 3.90
Huntington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00
Kent. Cong. Sab. Sch. 21.00
Mansfield Centre. First Cong. Ch. 8.00
Mill Brook. Mrs. E. R. A. 1.00
Orange. Rev. E. E. Rogers, _for freight_ 2.00
New Britain. H. S. Walter, _for Straight U._ 70.00
New Haven. North Ch., $180.64; Mrs. S. A.
Thomas, $5 185.64
New Hartford. North Cong. Ch. 20.10
North Cornwall. Cong. Ch. 13.82
Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch. 100.00
Norwich. Second Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U., and to const._ ELIZABETH B.
HUNTINGTON, SUSAN D. HUNTINGTON and JOHN P.
HUNTINGTON, L. M’s 100.00
Plantsville. Dea. T. Higgins, _for Tougaloo U._ 25.00
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. 18.16
South Coventry. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 10.00
South Windsor. Second. Cong. Ch. 24.23
Rockville. First. Cong. Ch. 111.00
Roxbury. Hervey M. Booth 10.00
Warehouse Point. “Friend.” 10.00
Westford. Cong. Ch. 5.00
West Haven. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.29
Windsor. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Woodstock. Cong. Sab. Sch. 18.35
—— “A Friend in Conn.” 50.00
—— “A Friend in Conn.” 10.00
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$1,501.28
LEGACIES.
New Haven. Estate of Mrs. Mary A. Hotchkiss,
by Richard E. Rice, Ex. 470.00
Orange. Estate of Mrs. Huldah Coe, by Leman W.
Cutler, Ex. 6,457.50
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$8,428.78
NEW YORK, $878.82.
Baldwinsville. Howard Carter 10.00
Brooklyn. South Cong. Ch., ($30 of which to
const. SAMUEL S. MARPLES, L. M.) $86.48;
East Cong. Ch., $84.72; Church of the
Pilgrims, $72; “A Friend,” $50 293.20
Buffalo. Two Bbls. C., _for Tougaloo, Miss._
Cambria. Cong. Ch. $15.00
Candor. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00
Churchville. Union Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00
Columbus. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch. 4.50
Crown Point. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.41
Danby. First Cong. Ch., bal. to const. WILLIAM
E. CHAPMAN, L. M. 18.00
Eden. Mrs. H. McNett 2.00
Fairport. Mrs. Rev. J. Butler 10.00
Gainesville. —— 1.00
Gloversville. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 12.50
Groton. Dr. C. Chapman 6.00
Homer. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Lake George. “G. H.” 1.00
New York. Hon. Wm. E. Dodge, $200; Mrs. Wm. E.
Dodge, $100; Robbins Battell, $25, _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 325.00
New York. J. Goetschins 1.50
Orient. Miss H. M. W. 1.00
Parishville. Cong. Ch. 6.35
Penn Yan. Mrs. D. B. Prosser 15.00
Perry Centre. Cong. Ch. 20.76
Rome. John B. Jervis 25.00
Sherburne. Ladies, Bbl. of C., and $2.60 _for
freight, for Talladega Ala._ 2.60
Smyrna. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
Turin. Mrs. Martha Woolworth 5.00
Verona. Cong. Ch. 18.00
NEW JERSEY, $108.50.
Boonton. G. W. Esten Bbl. of Books and Papers.
Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 13.50
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