send you account of my late visit in China; and what I doing while
there. When I sailed from San Francisco, two of our Sacramento mission
boys go with me on the ship. Every day we prayed together and talk
about Jesus. We take thirty-three days sailing to Hong Kong. Before we
landed, just as we casting anchor, we three gathered to hold prayer
meeting, that God keep us from evil and temptation in China, and help
us to work for Him. At the same time our heathen countrymen sacrificed
to the goddess of the sea. I met our Christian brother, Fung Affoo, in
Hong Kong; stayed there one day and two nights. Then I take Chinese
schooner, sail hundred fifty miles to my own town, which took two days
more before I get home. One year before I return to China I sent have
house built. When I arrived home, I found idols in some of the rooms
to worship: in the kitchen, to the god who takes care the cooking;
at the front door, the one who looks and guards the door to let no
evil spirits come in to trouble us; also, in the parlor I found the
one who watches the whole house. I found blocks of wood with names
of ancestors, carefully keep time of birth and death. All these they
expect me to worship on my return. I told them: “My father dead—gone
away. If he bad man when he live, God punish him now. He would be shut
up in prison; can he come? They say ‘No.’ I say: ‘If my father good
man, he happy now; he in a good place; he don’t want to come here, eat
anything.’ I tell them: ‘You put up the god to take care the cooking;
you sit down, do nothing; by-and-by you not have anything to cook.
Somebody else have no god in the kitchen; they go to work; by and by
they have something to eat!’ I say: ‘You place the idol by the front
door; you leave the door open, not watch; you think no thief come? God
made all things. He is the one to worship. Idols cannot help you.’
They say to me: ‘You no worship idol, by and by you have no house, no
children, no money.’ I answer: ‘Other nations that not worship idols
have more money and better houses than any we have in China. We go work
for them to get money. We do not have to worship idols to get money.’
I say: ‘Whomsoever worship gods made by men’s hands, it is transgress
to God.’ They say: ‘How is this our nation so great, so many wise
men all worshipping idols; are they all transgress to Him? Is your
experience higher than they?’ I say to them: ‘The idols and ancestors
have no spirit nor power to help them any.’ Once in a while the people
are crowded at my door. They shouted and said: ‘Well, if you dare to
destroy your gods and ancestors, and nothing happen to your family, we
will believe you.’ I then took a chair, got up in the parlor, took the
goddess which my wife put there, and most all the family help her. I
take a hatchet, chop it into pieces, and boil the tea with it. Oh! what
astonishment to them! So they disperse. After that, my wife and my son
both received the doctrine of the Bible, and every morning and evening
we all would offer prayer, and at our meals asked God’s blessing. My
wife more faithful than I. She willing to put away the idols, and like
to go from house to house, when she have a chance, to tell the people
about Jesus. My son attends school. All his school-mates laugh at him,
but still he pray to God that He give him more faith, that he not care
about the laughing. At the school they have a person’s name which they
required to worship, that he may help them study and learn; but my
son not want to worship him, after he believe in Jesus. He told them:
‘That’s nothing, only a piece of paper.’ The teacher compel him to do
like the others. One day a woman in my town came to me, and asked me to
pray for her son. He gone away from her. He send no money to support
her. She said: ‘Pray for me that he thinks what he doing now, and may
change his conduct, send something to help me.’ I knelt down with her,
and pray God that He answer our prayer and bless this woman. Not many
days after this God answered that prayer, and sent the money, and,
with it, a new heart, for she believe, and thank our Heavenly Father,
and came to be a Christian. Now a few others with her and my family
keep the holy Sabbath, and have a meeting together. Sometimes they go
to the mission station a few miles off, to hear the Gospel. Before,
when I went back to China [_i.e._, on his former visit to his home],
no Christian or missionary at that part of the province of Canton, but
last year I find several hundreds become Christians not far from my
home. Many times I go to hear the missionary talk about Christ. Oh,
how I thank the Lord that He sent the missionary over there to speak
the Gospel to them, and take away the darkness, that they may, by and
by, more and more come into the sheep-fold and glorify God! I stayed
at home seven months. Every day I work for Jesus while I there. When
the time come for me to say good-by, and return to California, I feel
I like great deal better to stay and work there for Christ. I promise
myself, as soon as I can gain enough to live upon, I will return and
give my whole time to work for my countrymen, and bring all I can to
bow down to the true God.”
When will the American Missionary Association be ready to keep such men
at work in their native land, preaching Jesus?
* * * * *
GLEANINGS.
—A friend has anonymously contributed the entire cost of the new steel
boat required for the Baptist expedition on the African Lakes, and it
is to be named the Plymouth.
—A Virginia negro has recently taken out a patent for a fire escape,
which is composed of lattice work that can be shut up into very small
space or extended into a safe ladder, and can also be used as a pike to
throw in tottering walls.
—The following plan for the abolition of slavery in Egypt has been
approved by Col. Gordon, and will probably be adopted by the Khedive’s
Government:
1.—Registration of all existing slaves in the Mudiriehs of the Soudan,
and of Cairo (Lower Egypt), by the Governors.
2.—Registers to be kept in each Government office of the names of
slaves and their owners, with description of each.
3.—Every slave to be free if not registered after expiration of six
months (the period given for registration). All slaves born after
signature of this decree to be free.
4.—Register books to be closed forever after the expiration of six
months.
5.—Owners of slaves thus registered to be bound to produce Government
certificates corresponding with the register books, when required to do
so by the Government of Egypt.
6.—The Governors of Egypt and of the Soudan to proclaim this throughout
the land.
7.—All purchases or sales of slaves from family to family are to be
endorsed on the registration papers and inscribed in the Government
books of registry.—_Anti-Slavery Reporter._
—One of the most successful and trustworthy farmers in Georgia is a
negro named Harper, who has just paid $32,000 for 2,100 acres of land
lying on Broad River, in Oglethorpe County. He is reported to be one of
the best farmers in the country. He is economical; his family all work:
most of his money was made by renting land and growing cotton.
—Prof. Wm. S. Scarborough, formerly a pupil at Atlanta University,
has published a neat volume of 150 pages, entitled “First Lessons in
Greek.” The work was designed to be an imitation of Jones’ “First
Lessons in Latin,” and to give a clear and concise statement of the
rudimentary forms of the language, with copious notes and references
to the grammars of Goodwin and Hadley. Under Part II. Mr. Scarborough
gives a few selections taken from the Anabasis and Memorabilia of
Xenophon. The work is a good indication of what may be expected from
the colored people when they shall have had the advantages of a higher
education.
—“Worship in Song,” edited by Jos. P. Holbrook, Mus. Doc., and
published by A. S. Barnes & Co., contains 450 pages, and is handsomely
bound and attractive. Those best acquainted with Dr. Holbrook recognize
his excellent judgment and taste, and the great attractiveness of his
compositions. The author and publishers invite a practical test of
their book, and it appears to quite meet the expectations of those who
may adopt it for public worship.
—Bishop Hurst, in the _Quarterly Review_, writes on this wise
respecting the work of the Methodist Episcopal and the Congregational
churches at the South:
The two churches which are pre-eminently American, which have grown out
of the ideas, convictions and the religious wants of the people under
the free institutions of this country, are the Methodist Episcopal
and the Congregational. They have laid foundations in the north and
west which will endure for all coming time, and both are now doing the
same in the South. If considered as antagonistic, which it is not, but
rather co-operative, the real rival of the Methodist Episcopal church
in the South is the Congregational, with its institutions of learning
sustained by the American Missionary Association. It moves upon those
lines which will give it a future, while other and older denominations
are sleeping, apparently unconscious of the mighty revolution that has
taken place, and indifferent to those principles which will inevitably
impress themselves upon the church of the next century. Intelligence
and morality are everywhere seen in that communion. That it is gaining
a foot-hold in the South is obvious to every observer—a fact for which
we are thankful. It is not carrying New England ideas into the cabins
of the colored people, but it is doing better by bringing them out of
their cabins and squalor and ignorance into the New England atmosphere
and society created among themselves and for their posterity. We do
not entertain a doubt that this denomination will become strong in the
South, and we shall rejoice to see the time when it will devote as much
attention to the white people as it now does to the colored. Southern
ecclesiastical bourbonism is sadly, if not hopelessly, fossilized,
and it is very desirable that various churches unite in bringing new
spiritual life to the masses in the South, both white and colored.
—Some have made a considerable ado about “Yankee school-teachers” in
the negro schools in the South, and in some cases our heathen have
acted much as the heathen of Canterbury Green (Ct.) acted in 1831.
Perhaps some of them have not been altogether to our taste; perhaps
some of them have mixed in with the “three R’s” some things not to our
edification. But what else could be done? Would qualified Southern men
and women have taken these places when the Northern teachers came?
Would they do it now? Not generally, though some of the best would,
as a very few of the best have begun to do. Suppose these Northern
teachers had not come—that nobody had taught the negroes, set free and
citizens! The South would have been uninhabitable by this time. Some
may resent this. Be it so; they resent the truth.—_From “Our Brother in
Black” by Atticus G. Haygood, D. D., Pres. of Emory College, Oxford,
Ga._
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CHILDREN’S PAGE.
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A MISSIONARY POTATO.
The missionary concert at the Congregational church, last Sunday night,
was interesting, and in some respects novel. There is a bit of history
connected with it. Two little girls belonging to the Sunday-school some
time ago became so inspired with missionary zeal that, after casting
about for ways to get money for the purpose, they devised a doll show,
and carried it through here last winter with considerable success,
netting five dollars. That money they sent to Fisk University, with
request for report concerning its use. A letter came back, enclosing
a letter from a Fisk student, written from Mississippi, where the
young man was teaching to earn money to continue his studies at the
University. That letter told of a colored boy, one of the pupils in
the student’s school, and made an appeal for him. The boy was the
son of his mother’s former master, and since she was emancipated the
mother had married. The step-father hired the boy to horse-racers and
saloon-keepers, and in various ways kept him under bad influences and
away from school. The boy and his mother were ambitious that he should
be educated; and when, a short time previous, the step-father had
sickened and died, one obstacle seemed removed.
Another obstacle was lack of means, and for that the student appealed,
in a letter written in answer to one from our people here, and it was
for that purpose that the concert of last Sunday night was given by the
Young People’s Missionary Circle of the Congregational Sabbath-school,
organized since the little girls’ doll show enterprise. But now the
enterprise is shared with them by the other churches, for they all
suspended their services on this occasion, and Messrs. Sanders, Walter
and Monroe participated in the devotional exercises, and their people
swelled the congregation. The exercises, recitations, essays and
Jubilee Songs were creditable and entertaining.
A collection was taken for the benefit of Master Walter, the ambitious
Mississippi boy, and then a novel feature was introduced. Mr. Dickinson
stated that last spring one of the boys in the congregation had noticed
for two Sundays, in one corner of the church, a potato, from some
source unknown. The thought came to the boy that he would take it home
and plant it, for the benefit of missionary interests. He had done so,
and now brought the proceeds, some twenty or thirty potatoes, big and
little, but mostly little, and desired them to be sold to separate
persons who would, make the same use of them next year.
The potatoes were thereupon offered for sale, and bought up, mostly at
ten cents apiece; and we may expect to hear more about that missionary
potato next year. Potatoes, $2.25.
The proceeds of the evening amounted to $15.05, which is forwarded
to the student at the University, where he has already taken the boy
Walter, trusting that the needed help will come. The student’s name is
McClellan.—_Cambridge (Ill.) Chronicle._
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RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1881.
* * * * *
MAINE, $241.91.
Bangor. First Cong. Ch. $20.17
Bath. Winter St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MICHAEL F. GANNETT, L. M. 35.10
Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 70.00
Dennysville. Peter E. Vose, $5; Mrs. Sam’l Eastman,
$5 10.00
Eastport. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5; G. A. P., $1 6.00
Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 29.59
Hallowell. Girls’ Sunday afternoon prayer meeting of
Classical Academy, _for furnishing a room, Atlanta
U._ 27.00
Hampden. Cong. Ch. 12.75
Machias. “A. R. T.,” $5; “A Friend,” $2 7.00
South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis 5.00
Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.30
West Auburn. First Cong. Ch. 5.00
Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Woolwich. “A widow’s gift” 1.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $315.37.
Amherst. Cong. Ch. 15.20
Colebrook. “E. C. W. and Wife” 2.00
Cornish. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const. REV.
JAMES T. JACKSON, L. M. 7.16
East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker 20.00
Francestown. AMASA DOWNS, to const. himself, L. M. 50.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.16; “A Friend,”
$30.00, to const. MRS. MARIA J. STOWELL, L. M. 62.16
Greenville. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.50
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.39
Pembroke. Cong. Ch. 18.31
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.40
Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00
West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.35
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 39.50
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296.97
LEGACY.
Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate, by Albert
E. Wellman, a Trustee 18.40
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315.37
VERMONT, $1,561.86.
Barton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.31
Brookfield. “A Friend,” _for Tougaloo U._, and to
const. REV. WM. M. GAY and MRS. WM. M. GAY, L.
M’s. 50.00
Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.33
East Hardwick. S. W. O. 0.52
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00
Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.81
Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, $45; Mrs. Cone, $15,
for _Student Aid, Talladega C._ 60.00
Montgomery. Heman Watkins 4.00
North Cambridge. M. K. 1.00
West Fairlee. Mrs. C. M. H. 0.50
West Glover. Cong Ch. and Soc. 9.25
Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
Woodstock. Cong. and Soc. 17.22
——— “L. G.” 25.00
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206.94
LEGACIES.
Charlotte. Estate of Salome Strong, by W. W. Higbee,
Admr. 1,095.30
Springfield. Estate of Dea. Charles Haywood, by Geo.
P. Haywood, Ex. 259.62
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1,561.86
MASSACHUSETTS, $3,454.31.
Abington. Mrs. H. P. 2.00
Amherst. Agricultural College, Class of 1882, _for
furnishing a room, Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala._ 30.00
Andover. Rev. Joseph Emerson, $10; West Cong. Sab.
Sch., $10 20.00
Berlin. Cong. Ch. 2.00
Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Goales, _for Macon, Ga._ 3.00
Boston. Mary R. Sturges, $15; Mrs. G. S. Curtis,
$10, _for Athens, Ala._ 25.00
Boston. “A. B. H. J.” 2.00
Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.05
Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.65
Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $224.43, to
const. MRS. B. F. SANDS, REV. CHARLES F. THWING,
M. L. WALTON, DAVID BOWIE, JOHN HARRINGTON and
FRANK FOXCROFT, L. M’s.; “A Friend,” $5 229.43
Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00
Chelsea. J. P. Payson, _for freight_ 2.00
Concord. “A Friend” 1.00
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc. 109.52
Danvers. Maple Leaf Mission Circle, _for Student
Aid, Talladega C._ 60.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00
Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.00
Grafton. Mrs. S. A. 1.00
Georgetown. A. H. 1.00
Greenfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C. _for
Union Point_
Haverhill. “Friend,” _for furnishing room, Tougaloo
U._ 1.00
Holden. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Holliston. D. B. Fitts 3.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 20.00
Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00
Lawrence. Cong Ch. and Soc. 100.00
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. 16.73
Lunenburgh. “Wilson family,” _for furnishing a room,
Stone Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc. 16.50
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, _for buildings,
Wilmington, N. C._ 1,500.00
Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. D. W.
WILCOX, L. M. 100.00
Monterey. Cong. Ch. 17.00
Natick. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bundle of C.
Newtonville. J. K. 1.00
Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. _for ed. of an
Indian, Hampton N. and A. Inst._ 20.00
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.80
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.35
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.01
Peabody. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 1.20
Pepperell. “Friends,” _for furnishing room, Stone
Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 54.43
Randolph. “Randolph,” _for furnishing room, Stone
Hall, Straight U._ 50.00
Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner 10.00
Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 112.00
Somerville. “A Friend” 1.00
South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.59
South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00
Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.
MRS. SARAH JANE TIRRELL, L. M. 44.00
Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.01; Sec.
Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.54; Ira Merrill, $3 85.55
Sunderland. “A Friend,” $5; “Friends,” $2 7.00
Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $130; H. H. Fish,
$25 155.00
Walpole. Mrs. C. F. M. 1.00
Waltham. N. S. and W. J. S., $1;—— Package of
Papers 1.00
Warwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00
Webster. First Cong. Ch. 20.00
West Boylston. Geo. W. Ames, $3; Polly Ames, $3 6.00
Westhampton. “A Friend,” 20.00
West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing a
room, Stone Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00
Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.50
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Woburn. Mrs. Simon Holden 5.00
Wollaston Heights. Mrs. Caroline C. Shaw 6.00
Worcester. Saml. R. Heywood, to const. HON. GEO. F.
HOAR, L. M. 30.00
——— Church of Christ, North Leominster, $7; Sab.
Sch., Shirley Village, $8.50; Sab. Sch.,
Lunenburgh, $9.50, _for furnishing a room, Stone
Hall, Straight U._ 25.00
———“A Friend,” _for furnishing a room, Stone Hall,
Straight U._ 50.00
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3,354.31
LEGACY.
Franklin. Estate of Mrs. Nancy C. Fisher 100.00
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3,454.31
CONNECTICUT, $1,744.67.
Berlin. “A Friend,” _for aid of a young man
preparing for Africa_ 50.00
Bridgeport. C. K. B. 0.50
Chester. Cong. Ch. 50.25
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. E.
THOMPSON, J. W. BACON, WM. J. RIDER and AMZI T.
ROGERS, L. M’s. 160.00
East Windsor Hill. Mrs. Ira Tracy 2.00
Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Colored
Children_, and to const. MRS. HARRIET W. BARBOUR
and ALBERT W. HART, L. M’s. 63.00
Goshen. “A Friend” 20.00
Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.21
Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, $100; Cong. Ch.,
$5.46 105.46
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00
Hartford. J. E. Cushman, $200; D. H. Wells, $25 225.00
Hebron. Rev. J. B. Cook 3.00
Huntington. Mrs. S. A. N. 1.00
Lebanon. First Ch. 68.53
Mansfield Centre. “A Friend,” $35, _for furnishing a
room, Stone Hall_; Cong. Sab. Sch. $10, _for
Needmore Chapel_; Mrs. B. Swift, $25; Chas.
Ramsdell, $2; Dea. G. S., $1; Mrs. W. T., $1, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 74.00
Middletown. “A. B. C.” 5.00
New Haven. Rev. J. J. Abbott, $20; “A Friend,” $20 40.00
New Preston. “S. A. W.” 2.00
North Stonington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 15.00
Norwich. First Cong. Ch. 120.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. 41.86
Salem. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 7.55
South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.75
Southington. “A Friend” 1.00
Terryville. Cong. Ch., to const. JOHN CORNELIUS
GREGGS, CHARLES I. ALLEN, SILAS A. GRIDLEY, GEORGE
T. WINSLOW, JUDAH W. CLARK, WILLIAM BATES, GEORGE
H. BATES, BURR S. BEACH and STEPHEN FENN, L. M’s. 303.80
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 50.80
Waterbury. Mrs. Chas. Benedict, _for Macon, Ga._ 3.00
West Chester. Cong. Ch. 8.50
Westville. Cong. Ch. 28.00
Winsted. First Cong. Ch. 38.17
West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch. 154.29
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00
———“Gratitude,” _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 15.00
NEW YORK, $5,246.32.
Amsterdam. Mrs. L. M. Bell, $25; “A few Members
Presb. Ch.” by C. Bartlett, $67 92.00
Auburn. S. B. O. 0.50
Brooklyn. “A Friend” 5.00
Chittenango. Mrs. Edwin Lewis, $10; Mrs. Amelia L.
Brown, $5 15.00
Copenhagen. Miss A. E. W. 0.25
Coventryville. Cong. Ch. 15.00
Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00
Elmira. Miss C. Thurston 5.00
Gerry. Mrs. Mary A. Sears 178.36
Goshen. “Friend of President Garfield” ($1 _of which
for Bibles and Testaments_) 2.00
Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean 7.00
Lebanon. Alfred Seymour, $6.50; Marvin Day, $6;
Thomas Hitchcock, $6; Thomas Williamson, $2; J. A.
Head, $1.50; G. A. Curtiss, $1.25; Others, $6.75,
by Rev. G. A. Curtiss 30.00
Milton. Miss F., _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 0.50
Nelson. Cong. Ch. 8.20
New York. Gen. Wager Swayne, _for repairs on Swayne
Hall_ 100.00
New York. N. Y. Colored Mission Sab. Sch. 135 West
30th St. 2.41
Onondaga Valley. A. L. G. 1.00
Oswego. J. G. 1.00
Owasco. Mrs. A. Stewart 2.00
Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers 20.00
Pratham. Edward Halsey 2.00
Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00
Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 19.44
Rome. John. B. Jervis 25.00
Sherburne. Joshua Pratt, $500; Lucius Newton, $2,
_for Talladega C._; Miss E. A. Rexford, $5, _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 507.00
Smyrna. H. M. Dixon, $5; Dea. C., $1, _for Needmore
Chapel, Talladega, Ala._ 6.00
Syracuse. Plymouth Cong. Ch. 48.91
Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel 10.00
Walton. Mrs. C. H. Ladd, $100, _for Mendi M._ “_John
Brown Steamer_”; “The Little Helpers,” Box of C.,
_for School at Avery Station, Mendi M._ 100.00
Walton. By Rev. H. M. Ladd, _for Mag._ 1.50
Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch. 3.25
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1,236.32
LEGACIES.
Coventryville. Estate of Mrs. Esther Reed, by Rev.
W. W. Warner 10.00
Palmyra. Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Woodward, by Daniel
C. Lillie, Ex. 4,000.00
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5,246.32
NEW JERSEY, $5.00.
Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., _for repairs, Talladega
C._ 5.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $525.00.
Mercer. Cong. Ch. 20.00
Worth. John Burgess 5.00
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25.00
LEGACY.
Philadelphia. Estate of A. Claxton, _for Mendi M._ 500.00
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525.00
OHIO, $1,255.94.
Berea. “Friends,” _for Talladega C._ 62.15
Adam’s Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith 10.00
Cleveland. S. H. Sheldon, $26.50, _for furnishing
room, Ladies’ Hall_; M. S. Hinman, $10, _for
furnishing room, Strieby Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._ 36.50
Claridon. Rev. C. C. Starbuck, _for Talladega C._ 3.00
Elyria. Heman Ely, _for Talladega C._ 50.00
Geneva. Mrs. H. A. W. 1.00
Gomer. Welsh Cong. Ch. 52.75
Hudson. C. E. H. 0.50
Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $37.30; Second Cong. Ch.,
$11.87; L. F., $1 50.17
Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of Second Cong. Ch., _for Lady
Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 75.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for furnishing
room, Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._ 25.00
Saint Clairsville. Wm. Lee, Sen. 3.00
Steuben. Levi Platt 1.50
Strongsville. Mrs. K. Pomeroy, $30, _for furnishing
room, Strieby Hall_; T. J. Bartlett, $5, _for
furnishing room, Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo, Miss._ 35.00
Sullivan. Cong. Ch., _for Mendi M._ 23.61
Windham. First Cong. Ch. 26.76
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455.94
LEGACIES.
Cherry Valley. Estate of Mrs. Fanny Slater, by W. W.
Hopkins, Ex. 100.00
Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, by John G.
Jennings, _for Mendi M._ 500.00
Geneva. Estate of Mrs. Amy Roberts, by Mrs. Harriet
A. Wood 200.00
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1,255.94
ILLINOIS, $992.37.