VOL. XXXV. NO. 2.
THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
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“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
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FEBRUARY, 1881.
_CONTENTS_:
EDITORIAL.
PARAGRAPHS 33
VALUE OF DR. TANNER’S EXPERIMENT 34
FREEMASONRY 35
NATIONAL EDUCATION--APPEAL OF THE EXODUS 36
NOVEMBER REPORT TO EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE: Rev. J. E.
Roy, D. D. 37
GENERAL NOTES--Africa, Indians, Chinese 38
ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 41
NEW APPOINTMENTS 43
THE FREEDMEN.
GEORGIA, MARIETTA--Christmas Offering 48
GEORGIA, SAVANNAH--Beach Institute 48
ALABAMA--Missionary Work in Selma 49
LOUISIANA, NEW ORLEANS--Revival in Central Church:
Rev. W. S. Alexander, D. D. 50
TENNESSEE--Methods of Revival Work in Fisk
University: Prof. A. K. Spence 51
TENNESSEE, MEMPHIS--Sanitary Reform, Business,
etc.: Prof. A. J. Steele 52
THE INDIANS.
LETTERS FROM INDIAN BOYS 53
THE CHINESE.
HOW SPEEDS THE WORK? Rev. W. C. Pond 54
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
BILL AND ANDY’S LARK 56
RECEIPTS 57
CONSTITUTION 63
AIM, STATISTICS, WANTS, ETC. 64
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VICE-PRESIDENTS.
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Hon. E. D. HOLTON, Wis.
Hon. WILLIAM CLAFLIN, Mass.
Rev. STEPHEN THURSTON, D. D., Me.
Rev. SAMUEL HARRIS, D. D., Ct.
WM. C. CHAPIN, Esq., R. I.
Rev. W. T. EUSTIS, D. D., Mass.
Hon. A. C. BARSTOW, R. I.
Rev. THATCHER THAYER, D. D., R. I.
Rev. RAY PALMER, D. D., N. J.
Rev. EDWARD BEECHER, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. J. M. STURTEVANT, D. D., Ill.
Rev. W. W. PATTON, D. D., D. C.
Hon. SEYMOUR STRAIGHT, La.
Rev. CYRUS W. WALLACE, D. D., N. H.
Rev. EDWARD HAWES, D. D., Ct.
DOUGLAS PUTNAM, Esq., Ohio.
Hon. THADDEUS FAIRBANKS, Vt.
Rev. M. M. G. DANA, D. D., Minn.
Rev. H. W. BEECHER, N. Y.
Gen. O. O. HOWARD, Washington Ter.
Rev. G. F. MAGOUN, D. D., Iowa.
Col. C. G. HAMMOND, Ill.
EDWARD SPAULDING, M. D., N. H.
Rev. WM. M. BARBOUR, D. D., Ct.
Rev. W. L. GAGE, D. D., Ct.
A. S. HATCH, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. J. H. FAIRCHILD, D. D., Ohio.
Rev. H. A. STIMSON, Mass.
Rev. A. L. STONE, D. D., California.
Rev. G. H. ATKINSON, D. D., Oregon.
Rev. J. E. RANKIN, D. D., D. C.
Rev. A. L. CHAPIN, D. D., Wis.
S. D. SMITH, Esq., Mass.
Dea. JOHN C. WHITIN, Mass.
Hon. J. B. GRINNELL, Iowa.
Rev. HORACE WINSLOW, Ct.
Sir PETER COATS, Scotland.
Rev. HENRY ALLON, D. D., London, Eng.
WM. E. WHITING, Esq., N. Y.
J. M. PINKERTON, Esq., Mass.
E. A. GRAVES, Esq., N. J.
REV. F. A. NOBLE, D. D., Ill.
DANIEL HAND, Esq., Ct.
A. L. WILLISTON, Esq., Mass.
Rev. A. F. BEARD, D. D., N. Y.
FREDERICK BILLINGS, Esq., Vt.
JOSEPH CARPENTER, Esq., R. I.
Rev. E. P. GOODWIN, D. D., Ill.
Rev. C. L. GOODELL, D. D., Mo.
J. W. SCOVILLE, Esq., Ill.
E. W. BLATCHFORD, Esq., Ill.
C. D. TALCOTT, Esq., Ct.
Rev. JOHN K. MCLEAN, D. D., Cal.
Rev. RICHARD CORDLEY, D. D., Kansas.
Rev. W. H. WILLCOX, D. D., Mass.
Rev. G. B. WILLCOX, D. D., Ill.
Rev. WM. M. TAYLOR, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. GEO. M. BOYNTON, Mass.
Rev. E. B. WEBB, D. D., Mass.
Hon. C. I. WALKER, Mich.
Rev. A. H. ROSS, Mich.
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VOL. XXXV. FEBRUARY, 1881. NO. 2.
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American Missionary Association.
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By the time this number of the MISSIONARY reaches our readers our
Annual Report for 1880 will be through the press. We shall be happy
to forward it to any of our friends who will send us their name and
address, signifying their desire to have it.
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This number of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY contains a complete list
of the names of the persons appointed for the current year to the
different fields where this Association carries on its work at home
and abroad. We commend the work and the workers to the great Lord
of the harvest, and to all those who utter the prayer He has taught
us to offer, “Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, in earth, as it
is in heaven.”
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It is the belief of this Association that conversion is the proper
door into the kingdom of science, as well as to the kingdom of
Heaven. Our teachers and pastors, therefore, seek to bring those
who come under their instruction to a knowledge of the truth as it
is in Jesus, in order that they may be qualified to know aright
and properly appropriate all knowledge. We are glad, therefore, to
be able to refer our readers to letters from the field, in this
number, as evidence that revival work is going on at different
points throughout the South.
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Letters from our various stations at the South remind us, as we
would remind our friends, that this winter is a hard one for the
colored people, and that our missionaries really need more money
and more clothing to distribute than in ordinary winters. We quote
from one letter, which must serve for all: “As I write, the ground
is covered with snow to the depth of about six inches, the first
we have seen since 1876. By reason of the unprepared condition of
the poor people here, living in open shanties and scantily supplied
with clothing and food, this season of excessive cold is especially
hard to endure.” Contributions of money and clothing to relieve
this pressing and immediate want may be sent to the care of H. W.
Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade street, New York City.
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We are glad to know that the Rev. A. D. Mayo, one of the editors
of the _Journal of Education_, is making an extended tour of the
South, and will hold Teachers’ Institutes and deliver courses of
lectures in its chief educational centres. We shall await with
great interest the report of what he sees and learns during his
visit, and expect valuable suggestions from one who, to his wide
experience as an educator shall add an accurate knowledge of the
present condition of that part of the country.
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At the Annual Meeting in Norwich, the Committee on foreign work
recommended that a superintendent of African missions be secured
at once. The Executive Committee, after careful inquiry, made
selection of Rev. H. M. Ladd, a much beloved pastor of Walton, N.
Y., who has written:
“I hereby accept the position, praying the Great Head of the church
for His blessing upon the arduous work undertaken in His name,
looking for His help, without which we can do nothing, but with
which we can do all things. I shall endeavor to enter upon the work
of the Association on the 1st of February.”
We sympathize with his people in their great loss and congratulate
them on the valuable gift they make to the cause of the Master.
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_The Southern Workman_, published at Hampton, Va., is,
mechanically, a fair and most creditable specimen of the work done
in the industrial department of the Hampton school; its editorial
management proves that men good for something else are devoting
their talents to negro education, while its columns show that
intelligent minds giving promise of future usefulness are being
trained in the school, and the paper, as a whole, gives an adequate
idea of the work being done and yet to be done in such schools. Our
friends who would at once have a very readable paper, keep informed
on all phases of the Hampton work, and contribute something to
support a most worthy enterprise, can do all this by sending to
Gen. Armstrong the price of the _Southern Workman_.
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“An Old Friend,” of Sag Harbor, New York, sends $30 for a Christmas
certificate of Life Membership for one of his friends, the
twenty-sixth Life Member of this Association which he has made. He
has earned the right to say: “Urge others to make their friends
Life Members, and thus add to the friends of the Society, and
increase the number of those who will take an interest in the good
work.”
Another “Old Friend” who has celebrated his eighty-fifth
Thanksgiving, sends $30 as a very suitable wedding present of
a Life Membership to his son’s wife, having made all _his_ own
children members.
These are happy suggestions for happy occasions.
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VALUE OF DR. TANNER’S EXPERIMENT.
This is not to be found in the fact that after all a man must eat
or die; this we more than suspected before the Doctor’s experiment;
neither has he settled how long a man may do without food; but he
has shown conclusively that starvation, as a mode of living, is not
economical, and that a life thus sustained is not worth anything.
It cost a great deal to keep him alive, and the utmost he could do
was to be driven out for a daily airing.
This lesson constitutes the sole value of his elaborate and painful
experiment: A man who is to do anything must be properly nourished;
plenty of good, wholesome food is cheaper than a diet of ice-water.
Good friends, we need not repeat the Doctor’s experiment to prove
that the policy of starvation is a mistaken policy, and is every
way expensive and hurtful. The question is not how long can a life
be sustained at the point of starvation, which is also the point of
utter worthlessness, but how much can a life properly nourished be
made to accomplish?
Our parable needs no explanation. Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars is the least sum that should be named as at all adequate to
the highest efficiency of our school and church work. We can _live_
on less, but by so much as we fall short of this by so much are we
hampered and crippled.
The work we have to do is a work that must be done, and we, the
churches of the country, have it to do. It becomes, of course, a
question of wise economy in the expenditure of means. We point
again to the lesson taught us and reiterate it: Starvation is not
economy! The condition of greatest efficiency is that of abundant
life blood; and for the work of the A. M. A. for 1881, this means
at least three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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FREEMASONRY.
In the MISSIONARY for October, 1880, an item appeared, copied
mainly from an Atlanta paper, giving some statistics in regard
to the colored people of that city. It named the amount of their
taxable property, their industrial pursuits, and benevolent and
charitable institutions--the Odd Fellows and Masonic lodges being
mentioned among the number. Of all these institutions the article
quoted said that they have encouraged the people “to form habits of
sobriety and economy, and imbued them with feelings of charity and
benevolence.”
It has been thought by some of our friends that quoting this
remark was an endorsement by us of Masonry and Odd Fellowship. We
wish explicitly to deny the correctness of such an inference. The
executive officers of this Association have no sympathy with secret
oath-bound Societies, and the MISSIONARY, on fitting occasions, has
spoken plainly on the subject. Thus in 1873, the present Secretary
of the Association wrote, and, with the hearty concurrence of his
fellow-officers, published, in the August number of that year, the
following article:
“Attention has been called anew to this subject, by the refusal of
an ecclesiastical council at the West to ordain a young man to the
ministry, for what was regarded as a too tenacious adhesion to the
Lodge. Of the merits of that case we are not well enough informed
to pronounce a judgment, but it is clear to us that the growth
and power of Masonry is no light matter. The principle of secret
organization is unsuitable to a Republican government, and contrary
to the open spirit of Christianity. Among the colored people the
prevalence of Masonry would be a great evil--involving a waste of
time and an expenditure of money they are little able to bear, as
well as exposing them to undue political influences, and diverting
their attention from an intelligent and pure Christianity--their
only hope. Our teachers and ministers at the South already see
these effects beginning to appear, and deprecate them.”
Nothing has occurred since that time to modify, except to
intensify, these convictions, and the attitude and influence of our
schools and churches in the South have been wholly and decidedly
opposed to these secret societies, as many facts, if necessary,
would testify.
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NATIONAL EDUCATION--PREPARATION FOR IT.
In connection with the educational bill, which passed the Senate
last week, a word concerning the American Missionary Association.
Are we to have a national uprising of popular sentiment and
legislative action with reference to the education of all peoples
within our borders, but especially in the South? How signally, in
the providence of God, did this Association forecast the need, and
how wonderfully has it, these years past, been preparing the way.
If it had done no more, it has proved to all the world, past all
cavil, this--the cultivability of the negro, the practicability of
education for the poor blacks and also for the “poor whites” of the
South. Its Christian schools of all grades, planted here and there
in all the States, have led the way and established beginnings
of the utmost importance. These schools, by the sheer force of
their own excellence, and results so signal as to arrest universal
attention, have lived down the most desperate prejudices, and
commanded the most emphatic testimonials from all classes and from
those highest in authority. Never has a grand Christian enterprise
shown itself more certain of good results; never did a benevolent
undertaking more remarkably manifest its self-perpetuating,
self-propagating force. It has given a new complexion to the entire
“negro problem” in this country. It has successfully asserted the
right of the lowliest of all citizens to share in the benefits
and advantages of education. The Association, by the largeness of
its plans, the boldness of its project, the manifestation on the
spot of its work, by its public advocacy throughout the North, has
served to press constantly upon the public attention the exact
nature of the great emergency in the field of popular education.
When were ever before the wisdom of a measureless benevolence and
the audacity of a glorious faith more manifestly justified in their
results?
But will not the new Congressional scheme for promoting popular
education in the States of the South, render somewhat less urgent
the work and the claim of the American Missionary Association? By
no means! Just the reverse is true. Money alone will not educate
anybody. If the first need be that of more money, at least the
second necessity will be that of _suitable teachers_. Precisely
here, to meet this necessity, is seen the almost prophetic,
certainly the providential, anticipatory work of the Association,
getting things ready for the great stroke of truly national
statesmanship now proposed.
To say that the American Missionary Association _should_ have, at
once, placed at its disposal five times its present resources to
meet the new exigency, would be to make a statement altogether
temperate, considerate and reasonable. The opportunity is one that
is transcendently inviting.--_Rev. S. Gilbert in The Advance._
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THE APPEAL OF THE EXODUS.
We have kept a close watch upon this strange inter-State migration,
the causes of which will make a blushing page in the history of our
country. Its sad story should be a strong appeal to all who have a
heart to feel for the wrongs and sufferings of the helpless.
After many urgent solicitations, and repeated investigations, we
felt, despite all hindrances from lack of funds, that the time
had fully come for action, when we were informed that the General
Association of Kansas had appointed its Superintendent of Home
Missions, the President of its College and others, a Committee, to
confer with us in regard to this work.
The Corresponding Secretary and the Field Superintendent went up
from the National Council to consult with this Committee and
inaugurate such a movement as might seem best.
At Topeka, which has a large colored population, were found the
General Committee of Relief, and a committee of Refugees, whose
duty it is to take charge of arrivals, departures, etc., and watch
the subsequent course of these people. It was decided to purchase
lots in Tennessee Town, a suburb of this city, and erect a house
at a cost of $1,000, under the superintendence of our old, tried
worker, Rev. R. F. Markham, and we are glad to announce that,
despite the cold weather, it is nearly ready for occupancy.
This is to be the home of our night school for adults under charge
of Mr. and Mrs. White, of Oberlin. The pupils of this school
are excluded from the public schools because of their age, and
because they are necessarily occupied through the day. In it also
will be sheltered the vigorous mission Sunday-school which Pastor
Blakesley’s church has sustained, and which will be under charge
of Mr. A. J. De Hart, a young colored man from Washburn College,
recently ordained by a council at Cleveland, Ohio.
We have also located one of our Southern colored preachers--a young
man--in the Second Congregational Church of Lawrence, where there
is also a large colored population. Other points on this frontier
of colored population will be kept in view.
Of the $2,500 which this work will cost for the year the citizens
of Topeka have raised $700, and we have on hand a Kansas fund of
$450. This leaves still $1,350 to be raised as a special sum, as
this work is not provided for in the regular appropriations for the
year.
The Executive Committee, urged as it has been, both by our friends
and by the pressing need of this much abused and suffering people,
has ventured on this expenditure, confident that it is a duty which
must not be neglected, also that our friends will meet the exigency
by sending in promptly the amount needed.
“These children of the dispersion,” peeled and torn, stretch
out their hands to us again! Shall we not hear in their cry the
pleadings of the Saviour for these, the weakest of his suffering
children, and account this extra gift as but a small portion of the
double recompense due them for their redoubled wrongs?
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NOVEMBER REPORT TO THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
REV. J. E. ROY, D. D.
On the day after the election, I left my home at Atlanta to attend
in Memphis the Central South Conference and the Council for the
installation of a pastor, Mr. B. A. Imes, of Oberlin Seminary.
In the Conference I drew up the memorial which was presented to
the National Council in behalf of a re-statement of our Creed and
Catechism, urging the peculiar need of our Southern work, and
preached on the Lord’s day, once in our Second church and once in
the Second Presbyterian, lately that of Dr. Boggs. As moderator
of the installing council, I led in the examination and delivered
the charge to the people. Both bodies I reported daily in the
_Memphis Appeal_; wrote them up in a “Pilgrim” letter to the
_Congregationalist_, and gave their items to the _Advance_ and
_Christian Union_.
As a delegate from Georgia in the National Council at St. Louis,
your field superintendent nominated as assistant moderator Rev.
J. D. Smith (colored), of Alabama, who was elected on the first
ballot, and secured the appointment of Rev. Drs. Sturtevant and
Goodell to offer fellowship to the Presbyterian General Assembly
South, hoping for some incidental benefit to our work.
At Dr. Strieby’s request I went on with him to Kansas for the
purpose of initiating our Refugee mission, for which a lot was
bought and a house contracted for at Topeka.
Thence I went down to Paris, in Texas, to assist in the ordination
of two of our Talladega men, J. W. Roberts as pastor in that city,
and J. W. Strong to take the pastorate in Corpus Christi. Spending
five days there, I preached for our church in Paris, also for
the white Congregational church which I had organized six years
ago, planned for a new church site and building, and visited and
preached for our country church at Pattonville, twelve miles out,
arranging for the supply of this and two other little churches by
local preachers.
At Little Rock, Ark., I explored and found the fit material for a
Congregational church to be organized as soon as we can have the
money. In time we must have for Arkansas one of our first-class
institutions at this beautiful capital, which has seven or eight
thousand colored people, and which is the centre of a large
population of Freedmen.
In three days, at Tougaloo, I inspected the Institution; counselled
with the managers as to building schemes; lectured on “How to make
money,--by labor, economy, education, investment;” and delivered
a missionary address and a sermon, being permitted to rejoice
that day with the teacher in the conversion of one of their most
interesting young men.
The tour, which was one of 2,804 miles, occupied a month. The cost
of travel was $88.15, unusually large, even for so long a trip, as
I had to use the two great roads leading to Texas, which decline
the usual ministerial courtesies. With five nights of riding, and
only two of those in sleeping cars, with a steady push in travel
and in work, it was a wearying tour. The postage of the month,
$4.55, shows the amount of correspondence kept up along the way
with the “field.”
In contrast with the two railroads referred to, I wish to
report that I have in hand the annual _half-fare_ permits of
_twenty-eight_ railroad companies in the South, nearly all that
I have occasion to use, besides an _annual free pass_, held now
for two years, on Senator Joseph E. Brown’s road from Atlanta to
Chattanooga, which I use a great deal. Having received marked and
unvarying courtesy from the officials of all of these companies
(and, indeed, from everybody South as yet, without exception), I
count it a testimony to the recognized position of the American
Missionary Association in the South that these favors have been
granted so generally and so cheerfully.
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GENERAL NOTES.
Africa.
--In South Africa, where Dr. Moffat waited years for a conversion,
there are 50,000 Christians.
--In almost every leading town in Egypt, from Alexandria to Assouan
on the First Cataract, mission stations have been founded by the
United Presbyterians.
--Four persons have offered to take up the mission work in the
field left vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Bushnell, of the
Gaboon, Africa.
--From their possessions in Algeria, the French are projecting a
trans-Sahara railroad from the Mediterranean coast to Timbuctoo, on
the Niger; and another from Senegal to the Niger. The English are
planning four other railways to the interior of Africa. If these
plans are carried out, new districts of the vast continent will be
brought within easy reach of the Christian missionary.
--_Mr. Arthington at a breakfast meeting in Leeds._--At a
convention of the Baptist Churches in Leeds, England, the following
minute was passed unanimously: “Resolved, that this meeting, on
behalf of the Leeds Churches, pledges itself to raise a sum not
exceeding £500, which shall be employed in supplementing Mr. Robert
Arthington’s gift of £1,000 for the purchase of a steamer to be
placed on the Congo River.” Mr. Arthington himself was present, and
delivered a most interesting address on the claims of mission work
in Africa.
--At the Livingstonia Mission Dr. Laws has already trained one
native of the country to be a teacher among the Angoni, and has
two others in preparation. Mrs. Laws has received a sewing-machine
from Glasgow, and has taught two native girls to work it. Money has
been introduced to the country, as have also the rites of Christian
marriage.
--On August 22d, Archdeacon D. C. Crowther baptized 27 converts at
Bonny, in the presence of a congregation numbering no less than 842
persons. One of the candidates was Orumbi, the rich woman who has
been holding daily family worship for all her dependents.
--Bishop Crowther was recently visited by a wealthy chief from
Okrika, a town of 10,000 people, 40 miles from Bonny, who informed
him that his people had built a church for Christian worship, to
hold 500, which was filled every Sabbath to listen to the reading
of the service by a school boy from the Brass Mission.
--Mr. Felkin has fulfilled his commission in seeing the Waganda
envoys safe to Zanzibar, and in paying a visit to Frere Town. At
the latter place, the missionaries have been instructed with regard
to runaway slaves, and the disturbances threatened recently are
likely to be avoided.
--There is said to be a marked difference between the tribes on
the eastern and those on the western shore of the Tanganyika Lake.
The former have neither images nor idols, while the latter have
both, in great numbers. An image is found at the entrance of every
village, and of nearly every hut. These are carved in the shape of
human figures. The art of carving exists in great perfection among
some of the tribes.
--R. M. Wanzer, of Hamilton, Ontario, is running his immense sewing
machine factory largely with gold received from Africa, from the
sale of more than 100,000 of his machines in that country. It
is not until we have seen orders from the agents of one great
manufacturing establishment like this, that any adequate idea is
formed of the extent to which our civilization is being introduced
into that dark continent. We may well hope that when the native
African is royally clad in long, flowing robes, made from American
prints, on American sewing machines, that he will be ready to
listen to the Gospel from the lips of him who represents these
material blessings.
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The Indians.
--“If you want to civilize the Indians you must keep from them
schools and churches.”
If you want to civilize the Indians you must keep from them
intelligence and morality.
If you want to civilize the Indians you must keep from them
civilization itself.
The first remark above was made by a somewhat celebrated scientist
at a great meeting of scientific people in Boston, last summer.
The last two we simply intended to give emphasis to the first. We
think the biggest argument that we can make against this scientific
conclusion is to say nothing about it.--_Exchange._
--On the 6th of November, the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.,
welcomed fifteen new students: four boys and three girls from the
Menomonees at Green Bay Agency, and four boys and four girls from
the Sisseton Sioux Agency; an exceptionally bright and promising
delegation. An Apache boy, captured by the 4th Cavalry in Arizona,
six years ago, has also been admitted to the school, thus making
the total number 212.
--Recently, at the Cheyenne Agency, Walter Matches, one of the
Florida boys, was married to Emma, formerly a scholar at the
boarding-school. The teachers of the school, where the wedding took
place, prepared an entertainment to which all the Florida boys
were invited, and the occasion is described as having been a very
pleasant one. The newly married couple are to live at the school,
where they are both employed, and we wish for them a life of great
happiness to themselves and usefulness to their people.
--On the 6th day of October, the Carlisle Indian Training School
completed the first year of its history. At a little impromptu
gathering of the school and its teachers and helpers, on the
evening of that day, the children were asked to vote for, or
against, continuing the school work. Every hand went up in favor
of continuing it, and some of the boys even stood up and held up
both hands. Speeches were in order. Everybody was happy and many
reminiscences were brought out with much incentive to continued
effort.
--That a great wrong has been done the Poncas, all parties agree.
Who is responsible for this wrong is not at present so important
as the question whether as Bright Eyes asserts, and the Boston
Committee believe, a still greater wrong is attempted in the effort
now making to have them relinquish their title to their own homes
in Dakota on the false pretence that it is their own desire to
do so. That the Hon. Carl Schurz, so far from being a friend of
the Indian, is the most unscrupulous enemy he has ever had, we
shall believe only when the proof is overwhelming. The delegation
which has gone out to investigate, goes with some very decided
convictions on this subject, but its report, whether favorable or
adverse, will doubtless be accepted as just to all concerned.
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The Chinese.
--Our Chinese brethren on the Pacific coast have organized a
society called the “Congregational Association of Christian
Chinese.” They have a General Association and several branch
Societies. Mr. Jee Gam, the Secretary, reports the following
interesting facts and figures:
The Central has 107 members, of whom 11 were received, and 11 have
been baptized, the past year. Six are now absent in China. Total
contributions, $265.55.
Bethany Branch, San Francisco, has 23 members, of whom 6 were
received the past year, and 4 baptized. One member expelled.
Contributions, $112.00.
Marysville--Eleven members; all received the past year. Two have
been expelled. Contributions, $98.00.
Oakland--Thirty-two members; 2 received, and 2 expelled the past
year. One baptized. Three gone to China. Contributions, $643.25.
Oroville--Six members, all added the past year. Contributions not
known.
Petaluma--Two members, of whom one has recently been received.
Contributions not known.
Sacramento--Thirty-two members; of whom 9 have been received, 5
expelled, and 7 baptized, during the year. Two have gone to China.
Contributions, $225.35.
Stockton--Nine members; 3 received, 2 expelled and 1 baptized
during the year. Contributions, $157.25.
Besides the contributions noted above, a general collection has
been taken, amounting to $137.50. In the effort to free Bethany
Church, San Francisco, of debt, the Chinese members and friends
of that church contributed $212.50--of which $30.50 given in
Sacramento, and $13.00 in Stockton, are included in the amounts
given above.
The total of gifts and offerings by the Chinese connected with our
Mission daring the past year cannot be less than $1,957.40. The
total membership, as above reported, is 222. Added the past year,
38. Baptized (including 2 at Santa Barbara), 26. Expelled, 10.
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ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.
HAMPTON, VA.--Twelve students united with the church on the 1st
Sabbath of January, nearly all of them on profession of faith.
Seven of these were Dakota Indians. It was a beautiful sight.
WASHINGTON, D. C.--The Lincoln Mission of this city has blossomed
into the Lincoln Memorial Church, which was organized by council
on the 10th of January with Rev. S. P. Smith installed at
the same time as pastor. The sermon was preached by Dr. Roy,
Field Superintendent, and the other parts were by Dr. Patton,
Dr. Chickering, Dr. Rankin, Rev. Mr. Grimke, of the Colored
Presbyterian Church, Rev. T. J. Holmes, of Baltimore, and Prof.
Fairfield. Music by the organist of Dr. Rankin’s church and his
superb choir.
Mrs. Babcock, of Newburyport, Mass., has commenced missionary labor
with this church with every prospect of wide usefulness. She is
supported by the W. H. M. A., of Boston, under commission of the
A. M. A. This mission, in its Sunday-school work, runs back to the
day of the Nation’s martyr, whose name it bears. It has done a vast
deal of good, which has been garnered up in other churches round
about, and now it turns to care for its own. It has been sustained,
as it is now, mainly by Dr. Rankin’s people. The colored population
of the district is 60,000, with only 3,000 outside of the city. The
National Capital carries its share of the “wards.”
AUGUSTA, GA.--Some of the colored people drew off from one of the
large churches to form a new one, and have been taking monthly
collections to build a church edifice. A little girl six years old
said she must have a nickel, for next Sunday was “throwing in”
Sunday, and she wanted to see that church built. Her mother said
she shouldn’t give her one, for she spent the last for candy and
she ought to have saved that. So she went off with a basket on
her arm, picked up bones and sold them for the five cents. Then a
friend gave her another and she remarked: “I believe I’ll put this
in, too, for _that church must be built_.”
MACON, GA.--There seems to be a growing spirit of harmony among
the members. The Sunday-school has had an average attendance of
116, and is in a good state of efficiency and progress. It had
a very successful Christmas concert and “fruit tree,” and its
other occasional concerts have been interesting. Mr. and Mrs.
Lathrop have done as much missionary work as they could, and have
distributed quantities of clothing, etc., to the poor, among whom
there has been much real suffering from the severe weather.
ATLANTA, GA.--It is refreshing to one’s soul to get into a live
prayer-meeting like ours last night. One good brother said, “This
thing what you call Christianity is no small thing. It starts
small, but it grows and grows and grows till it reaches out of
this world into the land we call Heaven.” Another faithful brother
always prays much, and especially for our school, and in his
remarks last evening gave as his opinion--“If ’twan’t for what’s
ben done on this yere block this city would be ten times worser’n
it is in ignorance ’n superstition. I hain’t no chillun o’ my own
and I dunno much about dealin’s with chillun, but I know dealin’s
with chillun ain’t no funny thing.” This evidently showed his
appreciation of our labor, and our hearts echoed his sentiments,
while we smiled at his quaintness and originality.
SELMA, ALA.--The school is larger at this time than it has ever
been during the same months since my connection with it. The
enrolment for the present month is 339. We have this year quite
a number of young men in attendance, from our own and adjoining
counties. A course of lectures, intended mainly for the parents
of the scholars, has been determined upon, and two lectures have
been delivered by the pastors of the Methodist and Baptist churches
respectively. Others are purposed for each month of the school year.
On Friday evening, 31st inst., there was a re-union of the Church.
The first hour was spent in preparatory exercises, for the coming
Communion service, after which greetings by letter were read by
the pastor and others, from those who had been connected with the
church as pastors, and absent sisters and brothers, all showing
a deep interest in the welfare and growth of the church. Then
followed remarks from those present, who had come from other States
and from Talladega College, giving us a description of their work
in the day and Sunday-schools, showing how much they appreciate the
advantages they have received and enjoyed, and are anxious to help
raise others to the same standard in spiritual and intellectual
advancement.
MONTGOMERY, ALA.--This is a week of prayer and we are observing it.
While the weather has thus far been very unfavorable, afternoon
meetings have been excellent; though not large as to number, the
spirit of them has been very encouraging. We are laboring and
praying for a “quickening.” I think quite a number are seriously
thoughtful. We expected to receive two last Sabbath on profession,
but the terrible cold and snows of the week prevented us from
having our church preparatory service on Wednesday evening. There
has been a very decided advance in intelligent appreciation of the
Gospel and in spirituality, within the past year, although no real
increase in numbers.
MEMPHIS, TENN.--The religious interest in the school has brought
great blessing and refreshing. On Thursday and Friday ten students
were led to give clear, whole-hearted testimony to an entire
change of heart and life. The school is moved through and through.
Scarcely a pupil of any age but is anxiously inquiring, as are many
of their friends outside. Some wonderful scenes and experiences are
given us and the entire work goes on most quietly, and, we trust,
thoroughly. We pray for the _whole school_.
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NEW APPOINTMENTS.
1880-1881.
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, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast,
the Indians, and the Negroes in Western Africa. The Theological
Department of Howard University is supported jointly by the
Presbytery of Washington and the American Missionary Association.
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.
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. Alexander Pitzer, 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. C. D. Cake, Industrial Works, Hampton, Va.
Mr. J. B. H. Goff, Engineer, Hampton, Va.
Mr. C. W. Betts, Printing Office, Wilmington, Del.
Capt. Henry Romeyn, Mil. Dept., Hampton, Va.
Mr. Thos. T. Brice, 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.
Miss A. A. Hobbs, Bangor, Me.
Miss Lucy D. Gillett, Westfield, Mass.
Miss Jane E. Davis, Troy, N. Y.
Miss Abby E. Cleveland, Nyack, 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 Carrie L. McElway, New York City.
Miss Julia P. Brown, Farmington, Conn.
Miss Annie Emerson, Boston, Mass.
Mr. R.H. Hamilton, Hampton, Va.
INDIAN DEPARTMENT.
Mr. J. H. McDowell, Chg. Workshop, Hampton, Va.
Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Springfield, Mass.
Mrs. Lucy A. Lyman, Hampton, Va.
Miss Grace Harding, Longmeadow, Mass.
Miss Lovey A. Mayo, Hampton, Va.
Miss Cora M. Folsom, Boston, Mass.
Mr. B. T. Washington, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Geo. J. Davis, Hampton, Va.
Mr. J.P. Harding, Asst. in Workshop, Longmeadow, Mass.
BUTLER SCHOOL.
Miss Elizabeth Hyde, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss Rosetta Mason, Hampton, Va.
Mr. B.S. White, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Orpheus M. McAdoo, Hampton, Va.
CLERKS.
Mr. F. B. Banks, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Wm. M. Reid, Hampton, Va.
Mr. W. H. Daggs, Hampton, Va.
Mr. Geo. A. Blackmore, Hampton, Va.
CARRSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. A. Andrus, Riceville, Pa.
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NORTH CAROLINA.
WILMINGTON (P. O. Box 207.)
NORMAL SCHOOL.
_Minister and Superintendent._
Rev. D. D. Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
_Principal._
Mrs. C. G. Ball, Palermo, N. Y.
_Assistants._
Miss E. A. Warner, Lowell, Mass.
Miss H. L. Fitts, Candia, N. H.
Mrs. Janet Dodge, Nashua, N. H.
_Special Missionary._
Miss A. E. Farrington, Portland, Me.
RALEIGH.
_Minister._
Rev. George S. Smith, Raleigh, N. C.
DUDLEY.
_Minister._
Rev. David Peebles, Dudley, N. C.
_Teacher._
Miss Alice M. Conley, Shelby, Ala.
McLEANSVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. Alfred Connet, Solsberry, Ind.
WOODBRIDGE.
_Teacher._
Mr. William Ellis, Southfield, Mass.
BEAUFORT.
_Minister._
Rev. Michael Jerkins, Beaufort, N. C.
LASSITER’S MILLS.
_Minister._
Rev. Islay Walden, Salem, N. C.
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SOUTH CAROLINA.
CHARLESTON.
_Minister._
Rev. Temple Cutler, Ipswich, Mass.
AVERY INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Prof. W. L. Gordon, Jefferson, Wis.
_Assistants._
Prof. Harlan P. Townsend, Athol, Mass.
Miss Clara Eastman, Wells River, Vt.
Miss Nellie L. Cloudman, So. Windham, Me.
Mrs. J. F. Steere, Greenville, R. I.
Mr. E. A. Lawrence, Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. M. L. Brown, Charleston, S. C.
Miss Monimia McKinlay, Charleston, S. C.
Mrs. Temple Cutler, Ipswich, Mass.
_Special Missionary._
Miss H. E. Wells, Middletown, N. Y.
ORANGEBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Thornton Benson, Talladega, Ala.
GREENWOOD.
BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL.
Mr. J. D. Backenstose, Geneva, N. Y.
ALMEDA.
Mrs. A. S. Steele, Revere, Mass.
LADIES’ ISLAND.
Miss M. H. Clary, Conway, Mass.
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GEORGIA.
ATLANTA.
_Ministers._
Rev. C. W. Francis, Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. C. W. Hawley, Amherst, Mass.
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, Atlanta, Ga.
Prof. Wm. M. Aber, Newark, N. J.
Prof. Frank W. Smith, Lincoln, Mass.
Prof. A. W. Farnham, Hannibal, N. Y.
Miss Emma C. Ware, Norfolk, Mass.
Miss Emma W. Beaman, Amherst, Mass.
Miss Mary E. Sands, Saco, Me.
Mrs. Lucy E. Case, Millbury, Mass.
Miss Carrie H. Loomis, Hartford, Conn.
Miss Mary L. Santley, New London, Ohio.
Miss E. F. Moore, Chicago, Ill.
Miss M. K. Smith, N. B., Canada.
Miss Rebecca Massey, Oberlin, Ohio.
Mrs. J. F. Fuller, Atlanta, Ga.
_STORRS SCHOOL_, (104 Houston St.)
_Principal._
Miss Amy Williams, Livonia Sta., N. Y.
_Assistants._
Miss Julia Goodwin, Mason, N. H.
Miss Amelia Ferris, Oneida, Ill.
Miss F. J. Norris, Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Abbie Clark, Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Effie Escridge, Atlanta, Ga.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Lizzie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
MACON.
_Minister._
Rev. Stanley E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
LEWIS HIGH SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss Christene Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss J. A. Raynor, Syracuse, N. Y.
Miss Caroline Park, West Boxford, Mass.
Mrs. S. E. Lathrop, New London, Wis.
MARIETTA, GA.
_Minister._
Rev. E. J. Penney, Marietta, Ga.
_Teacher._
Mr. Cosmo P. Jordan, Atlanta, Ga.
AUGUSTA.
_Teacher._
Miss S. A. Hosmer, Ashley, Mass.
ATHENS.
_Teacher._
Miss J. G. Hutchins, Atlanta, Ga.
CUTHBERT.
_Teacher._
Mr. P. A. Dennegall, Savannah, Ga.
FORSYTH.
_Teacher._
Mr. William F. Jackson, Augusta, Ga.
HAWKINSVILLE.
_Teacher._
Miss M. B. Curtiss, Chattanooga, Tenn.
THOMASVILLE.
_Teacher._
Mr. W. H. Harris, Savannah, Ga.
SPARTA.
_Teacher._
Mr. R. H. Carter, Atlanta, Ga.
PERRY.
_Teacher._
Miss Maria Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
ALBANY.
_Teacher._
Mr. William C. Greene, Albany, Ga.
STONE MOUNTAIN.
_Teacher._
Mr. Eugene Martin, Atlanta, Ga.
SAVANNAH.
_Minister and Supt. of Missions._
Rev. B. D. Conkling, Whitewater, Wis.
BEACH INSTITUTE.
_Principal._
Mr. H. H. Wright, Oberlin, Ohio.
_Assistants._
Miss L. F. Partridge, Holliston, Mass.
Miss Adelaide Daily, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Georgiana Hunter, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Miss E. H. Twichell, Saratoga Spgs., N. Y.
Miss E. B. Willey, Andover, Mass.
Mrs. B. D. Conkling, Whitewater, Wis.
_Special Missionary._
Miss E. W. Douglass, Decorah, Iowa.
WOODVILLE.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke, Savannah, Ga.
_Assistant._
Miss E. A. Thompson, Savannah, Ga.
MILLER’S STATION.
_Minister and Teacher._
Rev. John R. McLean, McLeansville, N. C.
LOUISVILLE AND BELMONT.
_Minister._
Rev. Wilson Callen, Selma, Ala.
McINTOSH, LIBERTY CO.
THE GROVE.
_Minister._
Rev. Floyd Snelson, McIntosh, Ga.
_Teachers._
Miss Rose Kinney, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miss E. P. Hayes, Limerick, Me.
CYPRESS SLASH.
_Minister._
Rev. A. J. Headen, Talladega, Ala.
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FLORIDA
FERNANDINA.
Rev. Geo. Henry, Brooklyn, N. Y.
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ALABAMA.
TALLADEGA.
_Minister and Superintendent of Missions._
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
TALLADEGA COLLEGE.
_Instructors and Managers._
Rev. H. S. DeForest, Muscatine, Iowa.
Rev. G. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Prof. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Prof. Ira M. Buell, Geneva Lake, Wis.
Mr. A. A. Southwick, Blackstone, Mass.
Miss Fannie Andrews, Milltown, Me.
Miss M. E. Cary, Huntsburg, O.
Mrs. Clara S. Rindge, Homer, N. Y.
Miss Anna K. Willey, Andover, Mass.
Mrs. H. S. DeForest, Muscatine, Iowa.
Mrs. H. W. Andrews, Collinsville, Ct.
Mrs. Geo. N. Ellis, Olivet, Mich.
Miss J. C. Andrews, Middletown, Me.
_Special Missionary._
Miss H. D. Fisk, Beloit, Wis.
ALABAMA FURNACE.
_Minister._
Rev. J. R. Sims, Talladega, Ala.
KYMULGA.
_Minister._
Rev. Byron Gunner, Talladega, Ala.
THE COVE, AND LAWSONVILLE.
_Minister._
Rev. Barbour Grant, Talladega, Ala.
TECUMSEH.
_Minister._
Rev. Y. B. Sims, Talladega, Ala.
SHELBY IRON WORKS.
_Minister._
Rev J. D. Smith, Talladega, Ala.
ANNISTON.
_Minister._
Rev. Peter J. McEntosh, Talladega, Ala.
CHILDERSBURG.
_Minister._
Rev. Alfred Jones, Talladega, Ala.
MOBILE.
_Minister._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
EMERSON INSTITUTE.
_Supt. and Teachers._
Rev. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
Miss Emma Caughey, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss Ella F. Grover, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss Clara Boynton, Andover, Mass.
Miss May Hickok, Kingsville, Ohio.
Miss Ruby A. Smith, Belmont, N. Y.
Miss Ruth E. Stinson, Woolwich, Me.
Mrs. O. D. Crawford, W. Bloomfield, N. Y.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Jennie Stevenson, Bellefontaine, Ohio.
MONTGOMERY, (P.O. Box 62).
_Minister._
Rev. O. W. Fay, Genesco, Ill.
SWAYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
_Assistants._
Miss Jane S. Hardy, Shelburne, Mass.
Mrs. M. W. Martin, Worthington, Minn.
Miss Mary Scott, Amherst, Mass.
Mrs. M. Hardaway Davis, Montgomery, Ala.
Miss Anna Duncan, Montgomery, Ala.
Mrs. O. W. Fay, Genesco, Ill.
SELMA.
_Minister._
Rev C. B. Curtis, Burlington, Wis.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Mary K. Lunt, New Gloucester, Me.
MARION.
_Minister._
Rev. A. W. Curtis, Crete, Neb.
ATHENS.
_Minister._
Rev. H. S. Williams, Wetumpka, Ala.
TRINITY SCHOOL.
_Teachers._
Miss M. F. Wells, Ann Arbor, Mich.
Miss Mary A. Maxcy, Hyde Park, Mass.
FLORENCE.
_Minister._
Rev. Wm. H. Ash, Florence, Ala.
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TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE.
_Ministers._
Rev. Henry S. Bennett, Nashville, Tenn.
Rev. Geo. W. Moore, 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.
Rev. C. C. Painter, Gt. Barrington, Mass.
Mr. Edward P. Gilbert, Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. John Burrus, Nashville, Tenn.
Miss Helen C. Morgan, Cleveland, Ohio.
Miss Anna M. Cahill, Binghamton, N. Y.
Miss Henrietta Matson, N. Bloomfield, Ohio.
Miss E. M. Barnes, Bakersfield, Vt.
Miss Genevieve Gifford, New Haven, Vt.
Miss Irene E. Gilbert, Fredonia, N. Y.
Miss Sarah M. Wells, Big Rapids, Mich.
Miss Mary Farrand, Ypsilanti, Mich.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Alice Carter, Franklin, Mass.
MEMPHIS.
_Minister._
Rev. B. A. Imes, Oberlin, Ohio.
LE MOYNE SCHOOL.
_Principal._
Prof. A. J. Steele, Whitewater, Wis.
_Assistants._
Miss Laura A. Parmelee, Toledo, Ohio.
Miss Emma Rand, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Ella Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Mary Magoun, Grinnell, Iowa.
Mrs. M. E. Bunce, Clarksfield, Ohio.
Miss Zulu Felton, Memphis, Tenn.
_Special Missionary._
Miss Hattie E. Milton, Romeo, Mich.
CHATTANOOGA.
_Minister._
Rev. Jos. E. Smith, Atlanta, Ga.
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KENTUCKY.