The American Missionary periodical

his. Mrs. V.C. Logie, for Student

Mee Tiligaeea-C.. v ei n. IO 00
ishville. C. E. Soc. of Fisk U., 4, jor
Student Aid, New Orleans, La.; 4, for
Hospital, OEE PACES INDI 3 pedo i 8 00
NORTH CAROLINA, $6.00.
Blowing Rock. Pkg. Aprons and Hold-
ers, from unknown source.
Raleigh. Beene. Ci eitens sie i ee 6 00
GEORGIA, $43.55.
Macon, E. H. Burrage,9; Eva F. Ches-
ley, 1.75; Clara A. Dole, 1.50, for Stu-
dent Aid, Ballard Inst., "Macon, Ga. I2 25
Mcintosh. Harriet E. Leach, to; Prof.
Fred. W. Foster, 4; S. Josephine Scott,
3, for Student A 7d. Janet Sy re
6.30, for Books Hes Dorchester Acad.. 23 30
MecTntosh: Cone. Cig 00 3 t ce 7 00
ae Pilgrim Ch.,6sc.; Rev. J. H. :
Fi ASCuostacke.(46'C, 2.046 ses ees. I 00
FLORIDA, $82.33.
Bernandina. A.Priend| 6.4, 75 00
Melbourne. A ae members Cong. Ch.,
by Mrs: AO, M. Phillips... - 7 33
N ALABAMA, $13.24.
Athens. Trinity Cone. CDs ie ecwn 2 20
Pile bs ONS SCs. tose see oi isee ys ess Uso
Jronatou. prev. P.O, Wailes.-...-.. 2. 3.00
Talladega. Rev. H. S. De Forest, D. D.,
POO eo Cee ices he Cee ee ee 4 54
Talladega. Migs F. A. Frew, for Stu-
dent A pee Piliadeca Ce, Ven es oS 2 00
MISSISSIPPI, $26.75.
Meriaian, -iirst Cong Ch... .50.5 0. 2 25
Moorhead. Miss S. L. Emerson, is
Student Aid, A. G. Sch. , Moorhead. . I5 00
Salem and Piney Grove. Churches... I 00
Tougaloo. Mrs. L. M. Sisson, 5 ; Frank
H. Ball, 2.50, or Student Aid, Tougaloo
ee. ele es ee oe 7 50
Westside. Rev. B.S. Ousley...... peas I 00
TEXAS, $8.00.
Austin. *Texas Freeman? * Fort Worth
Item and Rams Horn for Reading
Room, Tillotson C.
Polpene:.. Wirst ConeeCh 35.435, 8 09
Wem olisc os Oo ee ek $13,838.64
Estates..2..:... Teper eee as es eps 2,569.08
$16,407 72
INCOME, $2,690.00.
Avery Fund, for Mendi M....... 907 25
E..A. Brown, Schp. Fund, /or
DOLE COR 2 inte oe i 15 75
De Forest Fund, for President's
Chair, for Talladega Cece 125 00
Fisk University Theo. Fund..... I 12
General Endowment ap oe Joes "2250

dega Rie G84 wo 8 trees 8 Oe be siete 125 00
Hood Fund, for StraightU. 93 75
ech eee Schp.. Fund, jor Az-

PA PO. Ve aii a 6 25
se , Theo. Fund, /or How-
ee ee 851 88

Bg eee vie ib oo oie ge es 146 25

wire wna wse 8 8 6 81% 2) ee. 8 oe ele + eis &

Lake Memoria Pind. Jor Talla-
are 10 00

22 50

RECEIPTS,

Scholarship Fund, jor Straight

Bec Agag lass i) ay eae ems 60 00

wal 2 ee 25 00

Siraiene wie Schp. Fund. 11 25

Tuthill King Fund, for Berea C. 75 00

se sas King Fund, Jor Atlanta

ee a rn Ren 135 00

oe Wadham s Theo. Schp. Fund.. 22 50
J. and L. H. Wood Schp. Fund,

SOV AG Maa, oS 25.00
Yale Library Fund, or Tadla-
C20. Cas ae ees eae v ees 9.00

TUITION, $4,561.35. .

Cappahosic, Va. Tuition. ... 21 00
Lexington, Ky. Tuition........ 182 00
Williamsburg, Ky. Puttion. 5. 25 15
Grand View, Tenn. Tuition..... IQ 44
Knoxville, Tenn, Tuition....... 39 05
Memphis, Tenn. Tuition ... .. 540 45
Nashville, Tenn. Tuition ....... 506 2r
Pleasant Hill, Tenn. Tuition.. 54 95
Chapel Hill, N.C. Tuition...... 675
Beaufort, N.C. wed te, I5 10
Blowing Rock, N -C,. Tuition... 29 27
Enfield, (N.C. 2 Tuition IO 00
Hillsboro, N. Geo Tiition 2: 17 65

Kings Mountain, N.C. Tuition. a fore)
Saluda, N.C. Tuition

$64,209 85 -

14
Troy, N.C. ingons foi 5 4:
Whittier, Nv@ Paiion.; 5s) 6
Wilmington, Nv G.c Puition 3 204 50
Charleston? SS." tuition (35: 337 75
Greenwood, S.C Puitton 7. ICO 71
Albany, Ga: Panton .,..c7- 150 00
Andersonville, Ga. Tuition..... TiU 3s
Atlanta, Ga., Storrs Sch. Tuition 159 93
Macon, Ga. Tuition S27 es 253 06
' McIntosh, (ca: SEaIMON: 9g oe 97 17
Marietta, ea. Taihea 5, os Lt 23
Marshallville, Ga. Euition..u5. 29 25
Savannah, Ga. Tuition......... 162 11
Thomasville, Ga, Tuition. 2; 44 63
- Woodville, Ga. Tuition......... ao.
Joppa, Ala, Luition. 3... is See
Marion, Ala, Tuition. 66 05
Mobile, Ala. Puition,......., 5 74.75
Nat, Ala. Puthlow ee es 75. 25
Selma, Ala, Dutton. 102 25
Talladega, Alas Eaition : 3.3..... 265 72
Meridian, Miss. Tuition........ 98 50
Moorhead, Miss: Puition=...<... 25 25
Tougaloo, "Miss. WANION 3. as ss 7 00
New Orleans, EQ. Laition....- 482 15
Orange Park, Fla... Euition... <: 42 15
Austin, Texas. Tuition.......... I43 25
Totalfor December...:.:.....<:. $23,659 o7
SUMMARY
WONAHONS the ea ee yeess $42,071 23,
Estates.. Bt oor pen mp ee eo yaa 22,138 62:
INCOME io) et ek nee 3,465 00.
Wuition obese Vina, 20222 46-

Total from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31.

FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Subscriptions for December..... Vee - $78 82

Previously acknowledged.........s000008

Te mee creer errr renee veseerveece

H. W.. HUBBARD, Treas.,

4

2,690 (ored

4,561 35

.. $76,807 31

Bible House, N. Y-

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FEBRUARY, pbs eo a

"THE OUTLOOK.

lebt- estioging in our treasury has varied during the Tas few
At the close of August, 1895, it reached its highest point
a fiscal yest, ge ee to eh, 151.66. During the nex

Gick past. Discourse ae have been eden in every stag
progress in this connection. In the old anti- slavery days there
times of almost hopeless discouragement. wan the great strug
for the life of the nation and. athe emancipation of the sl
were days when only the bravest had hope.
last oa of reconstruction and OFF. the:
ae

34 _-.. LINCOLN MEMORIAL DAY.

- scientious liberality of his followers, we yet believe that this debt will
be removed and the means be furnished for the continuance and en-
largement of this great work. Hence, we repeat the call we have
already made to pastors, churches, Sunday-schools, Christian En-
deavor Societies, and to individuals, to make this our Year of Jubilee,
the time of emancipation and deliverance.

LINCOLN MEMORIAL DAY.

- Two years ago the American Missionary Association introduced a
- new day inthe church calendars. The pastors of our Congregational
fellowship were asked to observe the Lincoln Memorial Day on the
Sabbath nearest to the birthday of.our greatest President. This request
was generally responded to and sermons and responsive services were
held in commemoration of Abraham Lincolns birth. A Concert Exer-
cise was prepared by the Association which was used very largely.

This year Lincoln Memorial Day comes on Sunday, February 16,
and we trust will prove a day of wide observance among the Congrega-
tional churches. It is, as our readers all know, the Jubilee Year of the
American Missionary Association. Special collections are most appro-
priate this year and are being pledged by many of the churches in be-
half of the great work of the American Missionary Association among
the neglected millions of our own land and to roll up thisJubilee offering
on the Jubilee Year.

Special envelopes have been printed and will be furnished any
of the pastors who desire to celebrate Lincoln Memorial Day
in taking this special collection for the Association. The Concert

_ Exercise will be sent to the pastor or superintendent

+ in any Sunday-gchool who may desire to add their gift to awaken a wider
interest in this work. Abraham Lincoln was born on the edge
of the great region occupied by the mountaineers of the South, or
American Highlanders as we like to call them. Among these people
the American Missionary Association has established its churches,

-schools and missions, and they have loyally responded in codperation
in the spread of an intelligent gospel among the two and a half million
people.

The work among the Negroes must always be associated with the

name of Abraham Lincoln, who lifted them from slavery into freedom

and gave his life a willing sacrifice to the cause of their liberation and

the salvation of our country. oe
The work of no other society gathers so immediately about the name

* PATS MISSN BOX, 35

of Abraham Lincoln as does that of the American Missionary Associ-
ation, and we trust that Lincoln Memorial Day will be celebrated
by the churches throughout the land, and that es special oHenitigs
will pour into the Associations treas-

ury to bring emancipation from debt
and furnish the means for larger labor
this glad Jubilee Year.

PATS MISSN BOX.
BY MRS. E. C. READ.

In one of our Kansas missionary
societies a mulatto woman was em-
ployed as housekeeper. She has a
very bright and attractive little girl,
not yet three years old, whose full name is Alice May Lapsly.
By the young lady of the house she has been pet-named Pat,
and so is called little Pat by the ladies of the missionary
society. Little Pat became greatly interested in the young
ladys mission box, and wanted one for herself. The young
lady procured a little modern barrel for her, and the child
has saved all the money that has been given her for candy

c., putting it in her missn barral saying it was to help build
a chapel. She began putting her pennies in the barrel when two-and-a-
half years old. At the end of three months she brought it to the ladies
as they were preparing to send their money to the treasurer. On open-
ing, little Pats barrel was found to contain one dollar and two cents,
which the ladies have sent to the American Missionary Association for
the colored schools of the South. They hope the gift and_ story
of little Pat may bring courage to the workers and lead others
to save their pennies to help feed Christs lambs. " Little Pat is
not weary in well doing, but is again collecting money for missions.
Soon after the barrel was emptied a book agent called at the house.
Pat went up to him as he stood inthe door, clasped her arms about his
knees and looking up-said: If you dive me some money for my missn
box Desus will like you. The man looked at her and gave her half a
dollar, saying: The idea of a little thing like that asking for money |
for missions, and with a queer look on his face which Pats mother de- _
scribed by saying, he looked as if he was going to cry, he turned :
and walked off without describing his book. :

Truly, A little child shall lead them.

36 PROBLEM OF ILLITERACY.

THE PROBLEM OF ILLITERACY. |

The question of illiteracy among the peoples that come to us from
foreign lands is one of great importance. The large percentage of
those unable to read and write sent to us from Europe startles us.
When we come, however, to compare the percentage of illiteracy in the
lands represented by the larger body of immigrants with the illiteracy
in our own Southern States the insignificance of the former is at once
evident. The great body of illiterates are not those who come from
across the ocean, but those who are born and bred in our own land
native Americans. That this is most emphatically true the following
table gathered from the last census reports abundantly proves:

Ireland, percentage of illiteracy... ... 2.6... se eee tee ++. 23
France, Ss oe OSS teensy or) ass rR Ceara I5
Netherlands, ts dus Te ee "Gees 14
England, 2 ce OO Ie ae Hs aie Renn Oa Ge Deere cic OO 9
Scotland, a oY Bec Sc so sees eee 6
Switzerland, Se oe See es ok 5h tcceierene 5
- Germany, Bee e ee ee ec. sss Js eee:
Scandinavia, ~ a OSA ats oS EROS Gc 8

The following tables are compiled from the United States Census of
1890, and represent the condition in our Southern States:

Total Population. Native White.

Alabama... 2). 30s i 41% 18345%
Plorida: ij. . 2. see 270% 115%
Georgia: 65 ee ee 3075% 16335%
Kentucky <<. is= 2. on 21755% 16745%
Mississippi: <5 5 3 40% T14%%
South Garolinay 33-0 45% ~ 185%
North Carolina... 7 a = 357% 23.75%
Tennessee.) aes ee 2675% 184

Wireinia.) ss eee ee 30% 14%

Lowisianas:. 3903 oe ee 4575% 20745%

From this table it will te seen that no foreign country of all the list
given above equals in illiteracy any one of these Southern states with
the exception of Tennessee.

It will be also noted that eliminating the Negro faetor from the
South and taking simply our native white population the percentage of
illiteracy in North Carolina of this class is one-tenth of one per cent.
greater than the percentage of illiteracy in Ireland, the most illiterate
of all these given. :

This is an amazing fact and ought to startle us all into more earnest
efforts to lift up out of the darkness of ignorance and illiteracy this
great mass of people, black and white, in our Southern states. It abso-
lutely destroys the weight of the argument so often heard in presenting
the dangers threatening our country on account of the ignorance of for-

ee

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FIELD WORKERS. : S72

eign immigrants. This alarm bell is muffled when we hear the alarm
echo from Southern lowlands and mountains.

Another startling fact revealed by careful study of the census tables
of 1890 concerning illiteracy is this: In every case the percentage of
illiteracy of the native white population in these states is greater than
that of the foreign white population in the same states. To illustrate:
In Alabama the native white population is 18,45 a cent. 4 The
foreign white population show an a Or 7, percent. in
Louisiana the native white population has 20,3, per bed. illiteracy, the
foreign white 18,4, per cent. This irineiple nits good throughout.
It is becoming in (Hose of us who are patriotic not to boast too much
concerning the education of our own people, or to urge the ignorance
of those who come from abroad. The greatest problem before our
Chfistian patriotism of to-day is the removal of this dark cloud of
illiteracy in our own Southern states and the bringing in of the light of
an intelligent Christianity.

FIELD WORKERS.

We publish in this number of the Missionary the annual list of our
Field Workers. We wish our readers to follow them to their appointed
locations, where they are now busied in the peculiar toils and anxieties
incident to all who are engaged in their special callings. We say these
are peculiar, for we believe that the faithful preacher and teacher carry
special burdens of care and anxiety that tax not only the body and
mind, but weigh most heavily on the heart. When Paul enumerates
the great burdens which rest upon him, he names as last and greater
than all outer that which presseth upon me daily anxiety for all the
churches.

But beyond all this, the toilers in the South, laboring as they do
among the poorest and most ignorant in the land, have added trials in
meagre salaries and limited means for enlargement, and especially in
an environment if not hostile yet unsympathetic. The people for whom
they labor are held down under a severe race prejudice, and their
preachers and teachers must share the odium with them. We gladly
admit that the prejudice in the South against our workers is in many
places moderating, yet it remains as a trial and a hindrance felt in no
other part of our land. These discouraging features occur to some
extent in all parts of our fieldamong the mountaineers, the Indians,
and the Chinese on the Pacific Coast. Poverty and ignorance are
common to all, and the race prejudice that confronts the Indian and
the Chinese is scarcely less than that which rests upon the Negro in the

38 - ABRAHAM LINCOLN CENT SOCIETY.

South. But these burdens our workers are willing to bear as followers
of Him who spent His life among the lowly and gave as the greatest
proof of His divine mission that the gospel was preached unto the
poor. :

But the hearts of these self-sacrificing toilers may be cheered by the
sympathy and prayers of Gods people and by such liberal gifts as will

take away the continual fear of any further crippling of the work. We

ask that in the supplications in the pulpit, at the family altar and in the

closet, these consecrated men and women come in for a share in the

petitions, and we ask also that in this, our Jubilee year, our treasury be

remembered with so much liberality that it may be indeed for this great
work a year of release.

THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN CENT SOCIETY.
REV. SPENCER SNELL.

We at Talladega are doing what we can by our pennies toward get-
ting the American Missionary Association out of debt. The Abraham
Lincoln Cent Society, which grew out of our effort on Lincoln Memo-
rial Day last February to devise some organized plan by which we might
help a little, has been the means of putting a good many pennies col-

_lected from very poor people into the treasury at New York. Besides

organizing a cent society here an appeal was sent to other American
Missionary Association churches and schools among the colored people
asking that similar societies be organized. A number of them acted
upon the suggestion, some of them sending their money here to be for-
warded by the treasurer of our society to the New York office, and
others sending it direct.

The members of these societies are asked to give one cent daily,
weekly, or monthly, according to each ones financial ability. The
object is to give every colored man, woman and child who can be
reached by these societies an opportunity to do something for the
American Missionary Association, which has done, and is Bene, SO
much for them.

As the new school year begins we renew our efforts in the society
here, and shall try to stimulate others in the hope that much more may
be done this year than was done last year in this humble way for the
great cause.

Weare trying to have the colored people feel that they are members of
the American Missionary Association and that the work which the As-
sociation is trying to do is their work, and that the debt which burdens
the Association is their debt, which they are to share in common with
the other lowly peoples on whose account the debt has been incurred,

OUR FIELD WORKERS. 39

THE FIELD.

1895-1896.

The following list gives the names of those who are in the work
of the Churches, Institutions and Schools of the American Missionary

Association.

THE SOUTH.

Rev. Geo. W. Moore, Field Missionary.
James Wharton, Evangelist.
* Gilbert Walton, General Mountain Missionary.

WASHINGTON, D. C.

THEOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT, HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
fev. |. . Rankin, D.D.; LL.D, Washington, D.C

Heo}, owen. vx. M., 2 E
- eisane-Clam A.M... S .
* Sterling No Grown, A. M.. a ag eee
a. George Oe, 1... | u ge
. Charies Ho Butier, A. M,, : =
Teunis 8. Hamlin, D:D; : a oe
* Wilson A. Farnsworth, D.D., . se
7 soon 1. Jenifer, D.)., a eae
Eugene Johnson, i. a
Prof. Robert B. Warder, A.M., B.S. aS de
i Wint..j. Stephens, 7? fe

_WASHINGTON (LINCOLN MEMORIAL CHURCH).
17o% 41th St, N; We
Pastor and Missionary,
Rev B.A. Jo ohnson, Washington, D. C.
Mrs.B, A. Jo Facon. a ee
WASHINGTON (PLYMOUTH CHURCH).
Minister,

Rev. . N, Brown, Washington, D, C,

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OUR FIELD WORKERS.

WASHINGTON (PEOPLES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH).

Minister,
Rev. J. H. Dailey, Washington, D. C.
VIRGINIA. :
CAPPAHOSIC.

GLOUCESTER HIGH AMD INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Principal.Prof. W. B. Weaver, Cappahosic, Va.
Mrs, Anna B. Weaver, <S .
Miss Carrie E. Steele, Charleston, S. C.

Estelle 1. Sprague, Tacoma Park, D. @

Lucy . Wye Gloucester, Va.

* Julia K. Braxton, Wakefield, Mass.
Mr. David D. Weaver, Cappahosic, Va.

* Robert 1. White, v "

James Ht. Lockley, " ey

- NORTH CAROLINA,
WILMINGTON.
Minister,

Rey. F. G. Ragland, Wilmington, N. C.
GREGORY NORMAL INSTITUTE (613 Nun Street).

Principal.Prof. F. T. Waters, A.M., Oberlin, O.

Miss Florence A. Sperry, Rock: Creek, .
Susan M. Marsh, Northfield, Mass.
i, 9. Hansen Winthrop, Me.
* Georgia M. Belyea, Ashland, N. B.

* Carlotta B. Leonard, Detroit, Mich.
* Minnie T. Strout, Salem, Mass.

Katharine M. Jacobs,
Mary L. Thompson,

S. Hadley Falls, Mass.
Rouses Point, NY.

Emma J. Bryce, Springfield, Ont.
Mrs. Lucy M. Mellen, Oberlin, O.
BEAUFORT.
Mintster,
Rev. 1. Pe eims, Beaufort, N.C.

WASHBURN SEMINARY.
Principal.Prof. Fred. 8. Hitchcock, Cambridgeport, Mass.
Mrs. Fred. S. Hitchcock, See .
Miss Ella Louise Cheney, Oberlin, O.
* Rosa K. Schwarz, Belden, O.
* Elizabeth Cheney, Oberlin, O.

OUR FIELD WORKERS. At
DUDLEY.
Minister,
fev. S. P. Smith, Dudley, N. C.
RALEIGH.
Minister and General Missionary,
hey. A. W. Curtis, D.D., Raleigh, N. C.

OAKS, CEDAR CLIFF AND MELVILLE.
Minister and Misstonary,

Rev. Anthony Peden, _ Oaks, N. C.
Missionary at Oaks,

Miss A, E. Farrington, . Oaks, N. C.
Teacher at Cedar Cliff,

Mr. Wm. R. Hall, Raleigh, N. C.
Teacher at Melville,

- Swepsonville, N. C.
_ McLEANSVILLE AND GREENSBORO. _

Miss Fannie Forest,

Minister,
Rey, 5. S. Sevier, McLeansville, N. C.
Teacher at McLeansville,
Dick >, ). Sevier, McLeansville, N. C.
CHAPEL HILL. ,
Minister,
Rev. Paul L. LaCour, Chapel Hill, N. C,
Teachers,
Rev. Paul L. LaCour. te eopel Hill, N. C.
Mrs. Paul L: LaCour. . J ae
HILLSBORO.
Teachers,
Miss Bessie C. Bechan, Toronto, Canada.
julia HH. Curtis, Syracuse, N. Y.
HIGH POINT.
Minister,

Rev. E. W. Stratton, Hish Point, N.C.
STRIEBY AND SALEM.

Rev. Z. Simmons, .. ptereby, N.C.
TROY AND NALLS.
Minister,
Rey. O, Faduma, Troy, NOC.

42 | OUR FIELD WORKERS.
Teachers at Troy,
Mrs. O. Faduma, Troy, ee.
Miss Amanda F. Moore, Ocala, Fla.

DRY CREEK AND PEKIN.

Minister,
Rev. W. D. Newkirk, Dry Creek, N. C.
Teacher at Pekin,
Miss Malsie D, Green, Fekin, Wy. C.
Teacher at Nalts,

Mr. B. H. Saunders, Nalls, N. C.
HAYWOOD, DOUGLAS, BROADWAY AND CEDAR CREEK.
Minister,

Rev. J. E. McNeill, . Moneure, N.C.
LITTLE'S MILLS AND .MALEE.
: Minister,
Rev. Geo. R. Morris, Littles Mills, N. C._
BROWNS SUMMIT (Unioy).

Minister,

Rev. H. Dillard, McLeansville, N. C

PAW CREEK, LOWELL AND SOUTH POINT.

Minister,
Rey. A. L. De Mond, Chagiotte, NOC,
SANFORD.
- Minister,
Rev. Henry Williams, Sanford, N, .
CHARLOTTE AND INDIAN TRAIL.
Minister, :
Rev. Geo. Tt. Haines, Charlotte, N.

CARTERS MILLS.

Teacher and Preacher,
Rev. S. A. Stanford, Carters Mills.

ALL HEALING (Kincs Mountain P. O.).
LINCOLN ACADEMY.
Principal.Miss Lillian S. Cathcart, Minneapolis, Minn.

Miss May E. Newton, Springfield, Mo.
susie Ls CathCare, Tangerine, Fla.
* Isadore M. Caughey, North Kingsville, Ohio.
* Laura A. Dickinson, North Amherst, Mass.

. Carrie W. Parrott, a Orange Park, Fla.

OUR FIELD WORKERS. 43

LINCOLN ACADEMY CHURCH.
Lay Pastor,

Miss L. S. Cathcart, Minneapolis, Minn.
: - ENFIELD.

JOS. K. BRICK AGRICULTURAL, INDUSTRIAL AND NORMAL SCHOOL,
Principal.Prof. T. S. Inborden, Oberlin, Ohio.
Mrs. S. J. E. Inborden, + ba
Mr. L. J. Watkins, Nashville, Tenn.
Miss M. M. Jackson, Greenville, Tenn.

* Ella May Thomason, Athens, Ala.

BLOWING ROCK.
SKYLAND INSTITUTE.

Principal.Mrs. E. R. Dorsett, Oberlin, Ohio.
Miss A. R. Mitchell, Acworth, N. H.
| 1. L. Goar, Montevideo, Minn.
fe N. 5. Dennis, Salem, Mich.
SALUDA.
Pioneer Evangelist, |
Rev. E. W. Hollies, Topeka, Kan.

~ SALUDA SEMINARY.
Principal, Miss Mary C. Phelps, Ph.B., Nova, Ohio.

Miss Mary L. Baird, Mallet Creek, Ohio.
Minnie A. Hollies, Topeka, Kan.
Rev. E. W. Hollies, - 3
be Mrs. S. Hollies, Sas -
WHITTIER. 7
Minister,
Rev. Joseph Cadwallader, Waittrer, N. C.
Teachers,
Rev. Robert Humphrey, Whiter, N.C.
Mrs. Olive A. Humphrey, m =
BREVARD, DUNNS CREEK, GOLDEN VALLEY anp ISLAND
CREEK.
Minister,
Rev; W.- A. Hamet, Brevard, N.C.

HENRIETTA, McCLURDS, MOORHEAD AND PRIMS GROVE.

Minister,

ee SRR arene neem

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OUR FIELD WORKERS. OUR FIELD WORKERS. be 45
GEORGIA.
SOUTH CAROLINA. :
: 3 ATLANTA.
CHARLESTON, FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. *
Minister, Minister, ;
Rev. George C. Rowe, * . Charleston, S. C. Rev. H. H. Proctor, Nashville, Tenn.
AVERY NORMAL INSTITUTE (57, 59 Bull Street). ; STORRS SCHOOL (120 Houston St.).
Prigsial Prof. Morrison A. Holmes, Lee, Mass. Princtpal.Miss Ella E. Roper, Worcester, Mass.
Miss Mattie M. Marsh, A.B., eee Ohio. . ae I. Blowers: Westfield, N. Y.
| Mary W. Bryant, A.B., Deli Rapids, S. D. Laura Humphries : Marathon, Iowa.
* Adele B. Spemce, Snow Hill, Md. Alice A. Clarke North Hannibal, N. Y.
Mr. Edward A. Lawrence, Charleston, S. C. iia P. as New York, N. Y.
. . ? j
Miss Mary L. Deas, Se 6 Nina E. Mosher Painesville, Ohio.
* Marion R. Birnie, . . Mrs. A. S Webber Worcester, Mass.
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Ida C. Chapin, Gasport, N. Y. *Church Self-Supporting.
Mrs. M. A. Holmes, Lee, Mass. : MACON
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: Minister,
Minister, BALLARD NORMAL SCHOOL (806 Pine SS a
Rev. J. M. Robinson, Detroit, Mich. Principal.Prof. Geo. C. Burrage, Ph. B., Worcester, Mass.
BREWER NORMAL SCHOOL. : a Eva F. Chesley East Barrington, N. H.
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Sa Rev. J. M. Robinson, Detroit, Mich. - Ada M. Sprague (deceased), Keene, Ohio.
Mrs. J. M. Robinson, os ee Winona Graffam, Andover, Mass.
Miss Bessie L. Depew, Mallet Creek, Ohio. Ellen B. Scobie, Everett, Ohio.
Fannie E. Curtiss, Nevada, Ia. Tce Carrie E. Browne, _ -W. Broomfield, N. Y.
{~ Emily R, Bignop. Keene, .N.: H. ; Jean B. Butler, Newcastle, Pa.
** Clara S.. Boyd, Springfield, Ohio. M. Josephine Harper, Medina, Ohio.
Mary E. Hoover, - Rushville; No Via @ S Anne M. Woodruff, Roseview, N. Y.
Alice A. Holmes, Lansing, Mich. Lincolnia C. Haynes, Macon, Ga.
Mr. John Orr, _ Macon, Ga. :
COLUMBIA AND POMARIA. Miss Mary E. Simonds, : Hartland, Wis
Minister, Clara A. Dole, Parkman, ne
Rey. E. H. Wilson, Columbia, S. C. Mrs. George C. Burrage, - Worcester, Mass.
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Mr. Jefferson Miles, Columbia, S. C. | Rev. L. B. Maxwell,* Savannah, Ga.
BEACH INSTITUTE (30 Harris St.).
ee Morristown, N. J.
pelts a os ee oe Cramecrilie Mee
a iss Jennie Mathias ae
: Minister, My + cae S holean Kalamazoo, Mich.
Rev, 7. 12 Stanard, Newberry, S$: C. oy :

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Miss Julia A. Condict, | Adrian, Mich,
* Julia E. McMillan, Oberlin, Ohio.

* Nellie J. Arnott,

Florence L, Ellis,

= Louisa C. Holman,
* Self-supporting church.

Nashua, Iowa.
New Yoru, N.Y,
Vincennes, Iowa.

THOMASVILLE.
Minister and Mi tsstonary,
Thomasville, Ga.
ALLEN NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. -

- Rev. F. W. Sims,

Principal.Miss Amelia Merriam, Westboro, Mass.
Miss C. M. Dox, Kalamazoo, Mich.
~ Nellie D. Sheldon, Seattle, Wash.

~ C. E. Bishop, New Haven, Conn.
B. R. Parmenter, Rockford, Iowa.
Frances N, Williams, Orange, N. J.

* M. A. Kinney, Whitewater, Wis.
Mr. H. C, Sargent, Thomasville, Ga.

McINTOSH. z
Minister,
Rev. R. B. Johns, McIntosh, Ga.
DORCHESTER ACADEMY.
Principal,Prof. Fred. W. F oster, Castine, Me,
- Miss Janetta Knowlton, Creston, Ohio.

** Jennie Curtis,

S. Josephine Scott,
Emma J. Rosecrans,

Great Barrington, Mass.
Hamilton, Ohio.
Hammond, Ind.

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** Nellie I. Reed, Oberlin, Ohio
Carsie A: Whitaker, Franklin, Me.
*** Harriet E. Leach, Norwich, Conn.

Mrs. Mary W. F Oster, Castine, Me.
Mr. Jonathan Perkins, .

Bangor, Me. _
Mrs. Jonathan Perkins,

Bangor, Me.
CYPRESS SLASH. (P. O. McIntosh.)
7 oe Minister,

Rev. J. A. Jones, Talladega, Ala.
: MILLERS STATION.
: Minister,

Rev. Wilson Callen, Savannah, Ga.

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ATHENS.
: Minister,
Rey. C. S-taaynes, M.D, Athens, Ga.
KNOX INSTITUTE.

Principal.Prof. L. S. Clark, A.M., oo ae
Miss Emma S. Morton,
Eliza B. Twiggs,
A. M. Nicholson,

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Memphis, Tenn.

MARSHALLVILLE.
Teachers,
Mrs. A. W. Richardson, Marshallville, a
Miss Anna R. Magrath, Charleston, S.C.
| MM. Nettie Crump, Chreago, Ill.

WOODVILLE. (P. O. Savannah.)
Minister and Teacher,

Rey. J. H. H. Sengstacke, | scala oe
Me J. Loyd,
MARIETTA.
Minister, :
Rev. Calvin Lane, . Marietta, Ga.
Teacher,

Miss Anna S. Gibbes, Charleston, S. C.

CUTHBERT.

Mr. F. H. Henderson, Caer, ce
Mrs; Fo Henderson, :

ALBANY.

ALBANY NORMAL SCHOOL.
Principal.Prof. Jas. L. Murray, Palash, acu
Mrs. James L. Murray, cee

Alice Davis, ee
Mr. Isadore Martin, pa ios ae
Miss Laura Dickerson, Memphis, :
BAINBRIDGE.

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WHITTIER SCHOOL.

Teacher,

Mr. A. W. Bowman, Bainbridge, oe

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OUR FIELD WORKERS.

RUTLAND AND BYRON.
Minister,
Rev. H. T. Johnson, Tobesofkee, Ga.
Teacher at Rutland,

Mrs. E. L. Johnson, _Tobesofkee, Ga.

ANDERSONVILLE.
Minister,
Rev. J. R. McLean, Macon, Ga.
Teachers,
Principal.Miss M. E. Wilcox, Benson, Minn.
Miss Mabel Wilcox, mt

EUREKA, PORTAL, HAGAN AND ALFORDS.
Minister,

Rev. J. B. Fletcher, Hagan, Ga.

PINEY GROVE anp SHADY GROVE.
Lay Pastor.
Mr. W. K. Kennedy,

SWAINSBORO, PILGRIM AND BETHANY.
Lay Pastor.

Hagan, Ga.

Mr. H. H. Williams, Garfield, Ga.

FLORIDA.
ORANGE PARK.

Minister,

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Rev. T. S. Perry, Limerick, Me.

NORMAL SCHOOL.

Principal.Prof. B. D. Rowlee,
Mrs. Julia E. Rowlee, Ss
Miss Caroline Wandell,
Edith M. Robinson,
Helen S. Loveland,
A. Margaret Ball,
Mrs. Julia E. Titus,
Mr. O. S. Dickinson,

Moravia, N. Y.

MARTIN.
Principal.Miss Mattie J. Brydie, Athens, Ga.
Miss Esther F. Alston, Charleston, S. C.
* Ella N. Barksdale, Macon, Ga.

East Woodstock, Conn

Phoenix, N. Y.
Battle Creek, Mich.
Newark Valley, N. Y.
Orange Park, Fla.

West Granville, Mass.

OUR FIELD WORKERS,

Miss L. J. Blackmore,

POMONA.

Teacher,

ALABATTIA,

TALLADEGA.

Rev. Spencer Snell,

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Long View, Tenn.

Talladega, Ala.

TALLADEGA COLLEGE.

President.Rev. H. 8. De Forest, D.D., Talladega, Ala.
Rev. George W. Andrews, D.D.,
Rev. T. Newton Owen, A.M.,
Prof. William E. Hutchison,
Martin Lovering, A.B.,

Edwin C. Silsby,

Mr. Edgar A. Bishop, B.S.,

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George Williamson,
Miss Jane A. Ainsworth,

Esther A. Barnes,
Emma F. King,

Mary Emma Landfear,
Caroline E. Frost, A.B.,

H. E. White, L.B.,
Estelle Bloodgood,
Florence A. Frew,
Louie Savery,
Susan Sands, A.B.,
Lena A. Tucker,
Mary R. DeForest,
Ruth K. Kingsley,
A. B. Chalfant,

L. A. Pingree,

Mrs. A. E. Foote,

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Utica, N. Y.
Talladega, Ala.
Tuckahoe, N. Y.
Talladega, Ala.

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Hyde Park, Mass.
Tallmadge, Ohio.
Elmhurst, Ill.
New Haven, Conn.
Methuen, Mass.
Charlotte, Mich.
Huron, S. Dak.
Cleveland, Ohio.
Talladega, Ala.

~ Belmont, Iowa.

MOBILE.
Minister,

EMERSON INSTITUTE.

Principal.Prof. Geo. A. Woodard,
Miss Mary L. Nichol,

Lillian J. Beecroft,
May Lime,

Springboro, Pa.
Talladega, Ala.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Lebanon, S. Dak.
Denmark, Me.
Omaha, Neb.

Manly, N. C.
Neligh, Neb.

- Madison, Wis.

Port Carbon, Pa.

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Miss M. Elisabeth Messick,
* Mary E. McLane,
MARION.

Minister,
Rev. William J. Larkin,

OUR FIELD WORKERS.

Zanesville, Ohio.
New Haven, Conn.

Marion, Ala.

LINCOLN NORMAL SCHOOL.

Principal.Rev. William J. Larkin,
Mrs. Sophia Larkin,
Miss Nellie D. Cooley,

Lizzie Staplesan:

SoM Mo Gate

& Mary D. Hyde,

\ -Blarriet Mi. Smee,

* MONTGOMERY.
Minister,

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Marion, Ala.

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North Amherst, Mass.

Belle Plaine, Iowa.
Phoenix, N.Y.
Mazeppa, Minn.
Troy, Iowa.

ALCO AND BREWTON.

Minister,
Rev. J. J. Scott,
ATHENS.
Minister,
Rev. M. S. Jones,
TRINITY SCHOOL.
Principal,Miss Ada Louise Wilcox,
Miss Mary E. Perkins,
May Knox,
* Blanche L. Ashley,
Mrs. L. H. Williams,
SELMA.
Minister,
Rey. 4 J. Burnell,

Brewton, Ala.

Athens, Ala.

Monroe, Mich.

Norwich, Conn.
Chester, Mass.

Norwood, N. Y.
Athens, Ala.

Denver, Col.

BURRELL SCHOOL (366 Selma St.).

Principal.Rev. A. T. Burnell, Ph.D.,
Mrs. Mary A. Burnell, B.L.,
Miss Edith M. Thatcher,

* Mabel M. Jones,

to Ada A. Verri,

Myra J. Lamb,

Denver, Col.
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Oberlin, Ohio.

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Alexandria, N. H,
Ladoga, Wis.

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Rev.
Mrs.

Rev.

Rev.

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Rev.
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Rev.
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Rev.

Rev.

Rev.

Rev.

OUR FIELD WORKERS. 51

James A. Merriman, Selma, Ala.
Ts Jo Beil, " :
Mary A. Dillard, _ =
LA PINE.

Minister (Summer Supply),

R. J. McCann. Talladega, Ala.
KYMULGA.

Minister (Summer Supply),

R. W. Jackson, Talladega, Ala.
LAWSON AND COVE.

Minister (Summer Supply),

M. L. Baldwin, Talladega, Ala.

SYLACAUGA,

Minister,
J. I. Donaldson, Talladega, Ala.
IRONATON.
Minister and Teacher,

P. O. Wailes, Ironaton, Ala.

JENIFER.

Minister, :
J. B. Grant, Talladega, Ala.

SHELBY IRON WORKS.

Minister,

A. Simmons, Shelby, Ala.
CHILDERSBURG.

Minister,

W. P. Hamilton, Talladega, Ala.
ANNISTON.
Minister,

James Brown, Anniston, Ala.

GADSDEN AND FORT PAYNE.
Minister,
7 K. Sims, Talladega, Ala.
BIRMINGHAM AND PRATT CITY.

Minister,

James Bond, Painesville, Ohio

NEW DECATUR.

Minister,

R. K. Stetson, Chicago, III.

OUR FIELD WORKERS.

NAT (BENDING OAKS).
GREEN ACADEMY.
Principal.Prof. H. E. Sargent, Clearwater, Minn.

Mrs. H. E. Sargent, e
Miss Edith M. Hatfield,

*\ -Aabbie A. Hatield, Ze s
FLORENCE.
Minister,
Rev. William L. Johnson, _ Blorence, Ala.
CARPENTER HIGH SCHOOL.
Teacher,
Miss Mary Lucy Corpier, Florence, Ala.

COTTON VALLEY (P. O. Fort Davis).

COTTON VALLEY SCHOOL.

Principal,Miss Lilla V. Davis, | Boston, Mass,
Miss Corrie N. Johnson, Oberlin, Ohio.
Katherine C. Dowdell, . Albany, Ga.

JOPPA.

NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE.

_ Principal.Rev. John C. Campbell, Andover, Mass.

Miss Hattie M. Fairchild, Frankfort, Mich,
BLOCTON AND BELLE SUMPTER.
Minister,
Rev. D. M. Lewis, Blocton, Ala.
TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE.
Minister,
Rev. Chas. W. Dunn, A:M., B-D., Nashville, Tenn.

FISK UNIVERSITY.
President. Rev. E. M. Cravath, D.D., Nashville, Tenn

Rev, A. K. Spence, 4, 31. 6
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"< E.c. Stickel = 2

Prof. Charles W. Dunn, A.M., B.D., pee vi

Rev. Eugene Harris, A.M., B.D., ts oe

Prof. H. C. Morgan, A. M., : 6 a

Charlestown, Ohio.

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Prot. 1. Ho Wrisht, A.M.,
Miss Anna T. Ballantine,
- Dora A: Scribner, B.A.,
: Mary A. Spence, o1.A.,
~ Meaty A. Bye, B.5.,
| Alice M. Garsden,
Josephine Beard, B.A.,
Clara L. Blake, B. oe
Mrs. Eleanor J. Pond,
Miss Nellie F. onnnes
* Carrie B. Chamberlin,

Mary T. Richardson, B.A.,

@irs..Lucy R. Greene,
Miss Jennie A. Robinson,

Mary E. Chamberlin,
Mrs. Luretta C. Stickel, B.L.
Miss Anna S. Mueller,

Frances L. Yeomans,
Mrs. W. D. McFarland,

Miss Frances M. Andrews,

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Susan A. Cooley,
Mrs. Alice M. Brown,

Nashville, oe

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Gossville, N. H.
Nashville, Tenn.
Minneapolis, Minn.
Westmoreland, N.Y.
Andover, Mass.
Nashua, N. H.
Washington, D.C.
St. Paul, Minn.
Sharon, Vt.
Neponset, IIl.
Amherst, Mass.
Nashville, Tenn.

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Oberlin, O.
Danville, Il.
Granby, Conn.
Milltown, N.B.
Bavaria, Kan.
Rochester, N.Y.

NASHVILLE (HOWARD CHURCH).

Minister,

Rev. J. E. Moorland,

Nashville, Tenn.

NASHVILLE (THIRD CHURCH, JACKSON STREET).

Minister,
Bey. t.. EB. Scott, Nashville, Tenn.
GOODLETTSVILLE
Minister,

[Supplied from Fisk Theological Seminary. ]

MEMPHIS.
Minister,
Rev.George V_ Clark, Atlanta, Ga.
LE MOYNE INSTITUTE (294 Orleans St.).

Principal.Prof. Andrew J. Steele, A.M., Whitewater, Wis.
Miss Alice Harvey, Paw Paw, Mich.
* Ella A. Hamilton, Whitewater, Wis.
Luella Waring, Kalamazoo, Mich,
* Celestia S. Goldsmith, | SGhester, N..H;

54 OUR FIELD WORKERS.

Miss Louise B. Wright,
Rose Bigelow,

Mrs. Mary L. Jenkins,
Sy arcinia Co Logie,

Mr. O. R. Brown,

Mrs. O. R. Brown, .

Miss Mary E. Brereton,

Mr. Elias S. Webb,

Miss Emma O. Kennedy,
Cornelia E. Lewis,
s. Charlotte Rives,
Mary E. Johnson,

Quasqueton, Iowa.
Galesville, Wis.
Chautauqua, N. Y.
Wellston, Mo.

Downers Grove, Ill. |

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Acorn, Wis.
Memphis, Tenn.

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Bailey, Tenn.

OUR FIELD WORKERS.

Miss Mary B. Spencer, Pine River, Wis.

Po Hid daaae, Yorkville, Ill.
GP, Huntington, Grand View, Tenn.
< Maud Taylor, ls _ es

Mary L. Jewett, s 2

Mrs. Carrie Ferree, es 2

PLEASANT HILL.
Minister,
Rev. W. E. Wheeler,

PLEASANT HILL ACADEMY.

Principal.Rev. Warren E. Wheeler, Richfield, Ohio.
Mrs. Kate L. Wheeler, < &<

Pleasant Hill, Tenn.

JONESBORO.

Minister.
Rey, S. A. Paris,

WARNER INSTITUTE.
Principal.Miss Anna R. Miner, Lyme, Conn.

Brookfield Centre, Ct.

Miss F. A. Jackson,
* Lula M. Palmer,
- Ruth P. Harvey,
Emma F. Dodge,

Mrs. S. A. Hayes,

Hudsonburg, Tenn.
Union City, Mich.
Somerset, Ky.
Pleasant Hill, Tenn,
Wakeman, Ohio.

Miss Lucy E. Fairbanks,
Miss Belle F. Burr,
Miss Cordy Bayless, .

KNOXVILLE.
Minister,

Woodstock, Vt.
Toronto, Canada.
Jonesboro, Tenn.

SLATER TRAINING SCHOOL (606 Payne St).

Principal.Miss Ida F. Hubbard,

Miss Jessie B. Lyon,
Miss Emilie Weiss,
Mrs. Minnie L. Crosthwai*,

Ascutneyville, Vt.
Rockford, Iowa.
Jenkintown, Pa.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Gettysburg, Pa.

Mr. Chas. R. Blanks, Pine Bluff, Tenn.

POMONA AND CROSSVILLE.

Minister,

Rev. H. E. Partridge, Pomona, Tenn.

Teacher at Pomona,
Mrs. A. E. Graves, _ Pomona, Tenn.

MOSSY GROVE-AND WOLF CREEK.
Minister,

Rey. J. B. Cobble, Whetstone, Tenn.

Miss Lena H. Kalbfleisch,

CHATTANOOGA, TENN.
*Rev. J. E. Smith,

Chattanooga, Tenn.
* This church is self-supporting.

TENNESSEE MOUNTAIN WORK.

-GRAND VIEW.
Minister and Instructor in Biblical Department,

Rev. W. W. Dornan, B.D., Somerville, Mass.

GRAND VIEW NORMAL INSTITUTE.
Principal.Rev. H. W. Webb,
Rev, W, W. Dornan,

_ Andover, Mass.
Somerville, Mass,

DEER LODGE AND RUGBY.

Minister,

Rev. George Lusty,

GLEN MARY, HELENWOOD, ROBBINS AND MILL CREEK;

Minister,
Rev. M. N. Sumner,

Deet Lodge, Tenn.

Mill Creek, Tenn.

BON AIR AND ROCK HOUSE.

Minister,
Rey. E. N. Goff,

Bon Air, Tenn.

KINDERGARTEN SCHOOL.

Teacher.Miss Viola Young, -

Bon Air, Tenn.

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OUR FIELD WORKERS.

HARRIMAN.

Minister,

Rev.,C. B; Riggs, Harriman, Tenn.

JELLICO AND PROCTOR.

Minister,
Rey. LL. C.. Partridge, Jellico, Tenn.
Teachers,
Miss Kenada, Jellico, Tenn.
Bertha Davis, C a

PINE MOUNTAIN.

Mintster,

Rev. Samuel Sutton, Williamsburg, Ky.

BIG CREEK GAP.

Minister,
Rev. George Ames, Berea, Ky.
Teachers,
Miss Kate LaGrange, Feura Bush, N. Y.
Ollie batranve, a e .

CUMBERLAND GAP.

Mintster,
Kev, A. A. Myers,

~ HARROW SCHOOL.

Principal.Prof. A. D. Luethi, Chicago, Ill.
Cumberland Gap, Tenn
Rock Creek, Ohio.
Clifton, Ohio.

Waterloo, Iowa.

Miss Mabel A. Wightman,
Ey Belle Know
" 1oOla Akin,

TRACY CITY AND MOUNT EAGLE.

Minister,

Rev. Mo J: Saath, Tracy. City, Tenn.

KENTUCKY.

LEXINGTON.

Minister,

Rev. J. S. Jackson, Lexington, Ky.

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CHANDLER NORMAL SCHOOL (351 North Broadway).

Principal.Miss Fanny J. Webster,
Miss Mary J. Kuhn,

Susan I. Estabrook,

Margaret R. Spence,

Mary H. Ewans,

Emma J. Robinson,

. Susad. Breck,

* Mary S$. Larkin,

HAND PRIMARY SCHOOL,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
Columbus, Ohio.

Sacramento, Cal.
New Wilmington, Pa.
Olivet, Mich.

Snow Hill, Md.
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
Portland, Me.
Topeka, Kan.
Marion, Ala.

_ Miss Emily P. Jones,
Eva D. Bowles,

LOUISVILLE.

. : Minister,
Rev. E. G. Harris,

KENTUCKY MOUNTAIN WORK.

Washington, D. .

WILLIAMSBURG. |

Minister,

Rev. W. G. Olinger,
WILLIAMSBURG ACADEMY.

Principal.Prof. Chas. M. Stevens,
Miss Ella M. Andrews,
Amelia Eo Wertis,
M. Amelia Packard,
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A Julia B. Glines,
Nora Hill,
Minnie Ferree,
Rev. George Ames,

Williamsburg, Ky.

Williamsburg, Ky.
Frankfort, Mich.
Oneida, Il.
Brooklyn, N.Y:
Union City, Mich.
Elmira,.N. Y.
Williamsburg, Ky.
Harriman, Tenn.
Berea, Ky. :

ROCKHOLD, CORBIN, WOODBINE AND PLEASANT VIEW.

: Minister, :

Rez. C. Ws Green, Corbin, Ky.
Teachers,

Corbin, Ky.

Union City, Mich.

Rew ... Green,
Miss Lillian L. Warner,

CLOVER BOTTOM, GRAY-HAWK, COMBS AND MIDDLE FORK.

Minister,

Rev. Mason Jones, Combs, Ky.

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CARPENTER, MARSH CREEK AND LICK CREEK.

Minster,
Rev. Samuel Sutton, Williamsburg, Ky.
a? Teacher,
Mr. James Higginbotham, Williamsburg, Ky.
RED ASH.
Minister,
Rey. L. C. Partridge. Jellico, Tenn.

MORGAN AND WOLFE COUNTY MISSIONS.

SPRADLING, MAYTOWN, FLAT ROCK AND CAMPTON.

Minister,
Rev. J. W. Doane, Campton, Ky.
TOLIVER,
Minister,
Rev. J..W. Doane, Campton, Ky.
BLACK MOUNTAIN (P. O. Evarrs).
Minister,
Rev. Herbert Carleton, A.M., Evarts, Ky.
BLACK MOUNTAIN ACADEMY.
Rev. Herbert Carleton, A.M., Evarts, Ky.
Miss L. Middleton, co
SANDERS CREEK. .
Minister,
Rev. Samuel Sutton, Williamsburg, Ky.
ARKANSAS.

LITTLE ROCK.

Minister and Teacher.
Rev. Ye. Sims, Talladega, Ala.

HELENA.
HELENA NORMAL SCHOOL.
Principal.Prof. Chas. W. Driskell, B.S., Stanfordville, Ga.

-Mrs. Chas. W. Driskell, fer Be
Miss Lucy W. Parker, Marion, Ala.
Elnora Winter, Nashville Tenn.
OKLAHOMA.
GUTHRIE.
Minister,
Rev. Thomas J. Austin, Jackson, Tenn,

OUR FIELD WORKERS.
MISSISSIPPI.
TOUGALOO. |
Minister,
Rev. Frank G. Woodworth, D.D.,. Tougaloo, Miss.
TOUGALOO UNIVERSITY, MISS.
Rev. F. G. Woodworth, D.D., - Tougaloo, Miss.
Prof. E. C. Moore, A.M., New York, N. Y.
Mr. L: }) Catrier, Phoenix, N. Y.
oP, Ta, Worcester, Mass.
st A Hi. Bennett, Holden, Mass.
Miss Lillian Woolson, A.B., Boston, Mass.
Mrs. N. E. Woodworth, Tougaloo, Miss.
Miss Mary H. Loveland, Newark Valley, N. Y.
Blizabeth H. Plumb, B.S., Springfield, Mo.
Emma Redick, Mansfield, Ohio.
Carrie E. Parkhurst, Manchester, N. H.
Blizabeth Ainsworth, Hyde Park, Mass.
emma Robertson, =. ; Concord, N. H.
'# Mary P. Roberts, B.L., - . Jacksonville, Ill.
Tura s,. Hall, Rockland, Mass.
Dorothea Lummis, M.D., Los Angeles, Cal.
Etta V. Stone, Memphis, Tenn.
Mrs. H.C. Mecock, Elyria, Ohio.
Miss Alice M. Whitsey, Dover, Ohio.
Mrs. L. M.., Sisson, Windsor, Vt.
Miss Martha L. Shaw, Poughkeepsie, N. .
MERIDIAN. _
Minister,

Rev. C. L. Harris, Meridian, Miss.
LINCOLN SCHOOL (2703 I1TH STREET).
Principal.Mrs. H. I. Miller, Topeka, Kan.
Miss Maria Myers, Kidder, Mo.
Sadie Stimpson, Mittineague, Mass. _
* Hattie J. Lovewell, Willow Springs, Mo.
Ella C. Abbott, Winchester, Mass.

Carrie E. Kendall, Dunstable, Mass.
MOORHEAD.
ALMEDA GARDNER SCHOOL.
Principal.Miss S. L. Emerson, Hallowell, Me.

Miss E. L. Parsons, Mount Morris, N. Y.
By. Lime, Port Carbon, Pa.

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OUR FIELD WORKERS.
JACKSON.
Teachers,

Miss Mary Jane Gibson,
. ** $arah Jane Thomas,

MOUND BAYOU.
NORMAL INSTITUTE.

Jackson, Miss.
Summit, Miss.

Teachers,
Mr. Isaiah T. Montgomery, Mound Bayou, Miss.
Miss Mary V. Montgomery, & Gs

Mrs. Sallie P. Dozier, Vicksburg, Miss.
NEW RUHAMAH, PLEASANT RIDGE AND SALEM.

Misstonary,
Columbus, Miss.

LOUISIANA, |

NEW ORLEANS.
Minister (University Church).

Rev. George W. Henderson, North Craftsbury, Vt.

STRAIGHT UNIVERSITY (2420 Canal Street).

President.Prof. Oscar Atwood, A.M., Jeffersonville, Vt.
Rev. George W. Henderson, A.M., North Craftsbury, Vt.
Mr. Benjamin C. Miner, B.S., New Haven, Vt.

Miss Emily W. Nichols, Clinton: N. :

(Mary W. Culver, Buchanan, Mich.

Mary J. Oertel, B.S., Prairie du Lac, Wis.
Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, Simsbury, Conn.
Miss Alice A. Flagg, Jeffersonville, Vt.

" Mary KR. Bryant,A.M:, Olivet, Mich.

Mr. George L. Dewey, Norwich, Conn.
Mrs. George L. Dewey, Norwich, Conn.
Mr. Emerson C. Rose, New Orleans, La.

James D. Gordon, New Orleans, La.
Miss Grace H. Ashley, Oberlin, Ohio.

<> jenine Fyte, Lansing, Mich.

Belle C. Harriman, North Craftsbury, Vt.
Jeanne Forney, Madison, Neb.
Carrie E. Hodgman, Princeton, III.

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DANIEL HAND PREPARATORY SCHOOL.

Miss Louise Denton,
** Deborah B. Johnson,

Freeport, 1. I,
New Orleans, La,

aw &

Rev. John W. Whittaker,

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West Randolph, Vt.
Painesville, Ohio.
Greenville, Mich.

Miss Bertha D. Hodges,
Belle M. Whelpley,
Nellie B. de Spelder,

NEW ORLEANS (CENTRAL CHURCH) INSTITUTIONAL.

Minister,
New Orleans, La.

Assistant Minister,
Miss Bella W. Hume,
_ NEW ORLEANS (SPAIN ST. CHURCH).
Minister,
Rev. Cornelius W. Johnson,
NEW ORLEANS (MORRIS BROWN CHURCH).
Minister

New Haven, Conn.

New Orleans, La. ia

Rev. I. H. Hall, New Orleans, La.

NEW IBERIA.

Minster,

Rey. C. H. Claiborne, New Orleans, La.

THIBODEAUX.
Minister,
Rev. J. E. Smith, New Orleans, La.
HAMMOND.
Minister,
Rev. H. B. Bortel, Hammond, La.
ROSELAND.

Minister, :
Detroit, Mich.

BELLE PLACE.

Rev. W. Mitchell,

Minister,
Rev. M. W. Whitt, Belle Place, La. :
ABBEVILLE. ae a
Minister, le
Rev. J. A. Herod, Abbeville, La.
SCHRIEVER.
(MORNING STAR AND ST. MARKS CHURCHES. )
Minister, a
Rev. William Brown, Schriever, La.
LOCKPORT.
Minister,

Rev. Charles Sands, Lockport, La.

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OUR FIELD WORKERS.

ST. SOPHIE.
Minister,

Rev. C..W. Johnson, St. Sophie, La.
TEXAS.

AUSTIN.

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INDIAN MISSIONS. ,
SANTEE AGENCY, NEBRASKA.

NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL,

Superintendent and Minister,

Minister,
Rev. W. S. Goss,

Prestdent.Prof. W. S. Goss, A.B.,
Miss Charlotte M. Estabrook,
* Ida F. Hayden,
Edith Taylor, A.B.,
Margaret E. Reed,
Helen L. Robertson,
Sophia Crawford,
: $f Phebe.B.. Parsons,
Marie D. Holzinger,
..wlla AL Perley,
Maggie Portune,
* Martha J. Adams,
Mr. Fred R. Bush, A.B.,
James S. Bingham,

St. Johnsbury, Vt.

TILLOTSON INSTITUTE.

ot. Johnsbury, Vt...

West Lebanon, N. H.

Medford, Mass.

New Wilmington, Pa,

Princeton, Ill.
Churchville, N. Y.@
Schroon Lake, N. Y.
Marcellus, N. Y.
Olivet, Mich.
Portland, Me.
Cincinnati, Ohio.
Columbus, Wis.
Orion, Mich.

West Winsted, Conn.

CORPUS CHRISTI.

Minister,

HELENA AND GOLIAD.

Bey. A. i. Riggs, D.D.,
Teachers,
Mr. F. B. Riggs,
Miss Edith Leonard,
Mary A..Cody,
Mabel Egeler,
Native Teachers,
Mr. Eli Abraham,
Rev. James Garvie,
Mr. C. W. Hoffman,
Miss Susan Wambdisun,

. Matrons,
Miss S. Lizzie Voorhees,
(Boys Cottage.)

Miss Ella Worden,
(Whitney Hall.)
Miss Annie Willerton,
(Dakota Home.)
Miss Harriet A. Brown,
(Birds Nest.)
Mrs. E. J. Black,
(Dining Hall.)
Missionaries,
Mrs. A. L
C. R. Lawson,
W. H. Hamlin,
St FE Wold,
a Stone,
Miss Mary Morris (Clerk.)

Santee Agency, Neb.

Santee Agency, Neb.
Rochester, Mass.
Cleveland, O.
Wayne, Mich.

Santee Agency, Neb.

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Elbow Woods, N. D. .
Santee Agency, Neb.

Rocky Hill, N. J.
Santee Agency, Neb.
Wauwatosa, Wis.
Rocky Point, N. .

Santee Agency, Neb.

Santee Agency, Neb.

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Minister,
Rev. Mitchell Thompson, Helena, Tex.
PARIS.
Minister,
Rev. A. C. Garner, Chicago, Ill.
= Leachers,
Rev. A. C. Garner, Chicago, Ill.
Mrs. A. C.. Garner, 2g

DODD AND BODOC.
Minister and Teacher,

Rev. R. H. Henson, Paris, Texas.

DALLAS.
Minister and Teacher,
Rev. E. E. Sims, Dallas, Tex.
Mrs. E. E. Sims, a e

Industrial Department,

Iver P. Wold, Shoemaking, Santee Agency, Neb.

Charles R. Lawsoa, Printing, af i

Robert Y. Gray, Blacksmithing,

William H. Hamlin, Farm Supt.,

Homer L. Stone, Bakery,

\. iss Ella Worden, Cooking School, Santee Agency, Neb.
Jennie M. Lind, Sewing School, Yankton, S. D.

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Native Pastor, REMINGTON STATION, MOREAU RIVER. | :

ee ee pee oe ade Nee Mr. John Bluecloud, Sisseton Agency: S. D.
PONCA AGENCY, NEBRASKA. mn Mrs. Nora Bluecloud, : ee ee
oe eee Santee Agency, Neb. : HOPE STATION, MOREAU RIVER.
CHEYENNE RIVER AGENCY, S. D. a Mr. Daniel Yawa, Moreau River, S. D.

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Rev. T. L. Riggs, General Missionary. Mrs. Mary Yawa,

CENTRAL STATION, OAHE, SOUTH DAKOTA. THUNDER BUTTE, MOREAU RIVER,

Minister, 4 Mr. Daniel White-Thunder, Peslice: S. 1y-
Mr. David Lee, Bad River, S. D. eS Mrs. Elida White-Thunder, 2 ae
OAHE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. . .
Treasurer | : a
nic. tas Teconege ye q STANDING ROCK AGENCY, NORTH DAKOTA.
Sgn oe CENTRAL STATION.
Mrs. T. L. Riggs, Oahe, S. D. | Rev. George W. Reed, Springfield, Mass.
Miss Josephine E. Desmond, So. Framingham, Mass. | Mrs. Charlotte M. Reed, rt as
Ny :
* E. Jean Kennedy, Oahe, S. D. ELKHORN STATION. |
OUT-STATIONS. | Miss Mary C. Collins, Keokuk, Iowa.
; ' BAD RIVER. Mr. Huntington Wakutemani, Grand River, S. D.
Mr. Stephen Yellow-Hawk, Oahe, S. D. Mrs. Louisa Wakutemani, " ee y
ELIZABETH WINYAN MEMORIAL STATION, CHEYENNE RIVER. LONG Ee
Rev. Edwin Phelps, Collamer, S. D. Miss Mary P. Lord, Wellesley, Mass.
Mrs. Ellen Phelps, ae e OAK CREEK STATION.
*PLUM CREEK BOARDING SCHOOL, CHEYENNE RIVER. Mr. Elias Gilbert, Sisseton Agency, 8S. D. |
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Mr. William M. Griffiths, Chicago, IIl. } Mrs. Mary Gilbert, |
Mrs. Martha H. Griffiths, Ross, Ohio. : ROCK CREEK STATION.
CHERRY CREEK, CHEYENNE RIVER. | Me Sightla ones ae oo ae
Mr. Clarence Ward, Leslie, S. D. Mrs. J ulia ke
Mrs. Estelle Ward, sf - as THUNDER HAWK STATION. -
TOUCH THE CLOUD STATION, CHEYENNE RIVER. Mr. David Many-Buffalo, ae Be = D.
- cs -
Mr. Justin Black-Eagle, Leslie, 5. De. , Mrs. Martha Many-Buffalo,
{WHITEHORSE STATION, MOREAU RIVER. | Z
Mr Ansel Chapin Leslie 6 9) +Mr. Arthur Tibbetts, Cannon Ball, N. D.
? >. LU.
Mrs. Mary Chapin, s CANNON BALL STATION.

FORT YATES HOSPITAL. Mr. Arthur Tibbetts, Cannon Ball, N. D.

Physician, Miss Louisa T. Black, M.D., Zanesville, Ohio.
_ Assistant,Miss Jean Rodger, _ Escanaba, Mich.

*Supported by the Society for Propagating the Gospel.
{Supported by the Native Missionary Society.

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ROSEBUD RESERVATION, SOUTH DAKOTA.

ROSEBUD AGENCY.
Rev. James F. Cross,

Mrs. Stella P. Cross,
BURRELL STATION (P. O. Basin, Neb.).

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Rosebud Agency, S. D.
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CALIFORNIA.

FRESNO.

Teacher,

Mrs. J. H. Collins, Fresno, Cal.

LOS ANGELES.

Rev. Francis Frazier, |
Mrs. Maggie Frazier,

Santee Agency, Neb.
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PARK STREET CHURCH STATION (White River, P. O. Stearns).

Mr. Lot Frazier,
Mrs. Rebecca Frazier,

BLACK PIPE BRANCH.

Mr. Solomon B. Yellow-Hawk,
Mrs. Josephine Yellow-Hawk,

Rosebud Agency, S. D.

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Fort: Pierre, 5. VD.

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FORT BERTHOLD AGENCY, NORTH DAKOTA.

Superintendent and Mtsstonaries,

Rev. C. L. Hall,
Mrs. S. W. Hall,

Fort Berthold, N. D.

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Teachers and Matrons,

Miss A. Z. Powell,
* Annie R. Creighton,
Annette P. Brickett,
* Mary E. Field,

Mr. H. A. Hatch,

Miss Helen E. Smith,

Templeton, S. D.
Dundee, Scotland.
Haverhill, Mass.
Conway, Mass.
Lindenville, Ohio.
Cleveland, Ohio.

MOODY STATION, NO. 1 (Independence).

Miss Elizabeth Kehoe,

Chicago, II.

MOODY STATION, NO. 2 (Elbow Woods).

Miss Harriet B. Isley,

WASHINGTON.

Newark, N. J.

SKOKOMISH AGENCY.

Missionary,
Rev. Myron Eells, D.D., |
MONTANA.
CROW AGENCY.

Rev. J. G. Burgess,
Mrs. J. G. Burgess,

Union City, Wash.

Crow Agency, Mont.
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CHINESE [USSIONS.

Superintendent,

Rev. Wm. C. Pond, D.D.,

San Francisco, Cal.

Teachers,
Mrs. C. V. Rice, Los Angeles, Cal
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MARYSVILLE,
Teachers,
Miss Mattie A. Flint, Marysville, Cal.
Chung Moi, . dy
OAKLAND.
Teachers,
Mrs. H. E. Hibbard, Oakland, Cal.
Yip Bow, . oe
: OROVILLE,
Teachers,
Miss Blanche Reece, Oroville, Cal.
Quong Leong, a :
PETALUMA,
Teachers,
Volunteers, Petaluma, Cal.
RIVERSIDE,
Teacher,
Miss Helen Webber, Riverside, Cal.
SACRAMENTO.
Teacher,

Mrs. S. E. Carrington,

SAN BERNARDINO.

Miss Laura A. Curtis,

Mrs. E. M. Stetson,
Hom Goon,

Teacher,

SAN DIEGO.

Teachers,

Sacramento, Cal.

San Bernardino, Cal.

San Diego, Cal.

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SAN FRANCISCO (CENTRAL).

Mrs. R. E. Lamont,
M, A, Greene,
Miss J. G. Morrison,

Rev. Jee Gam,

Teachers,

San Francisco, Cal
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68 TEACHERS RESIDENCES.

SAN FRANCISCO (BARNES).
Teacher,

Miss Olive Patten,

San Francisco, Cal.

SAN FRANCISCO (WEST).

Teachers,
Miss V. W. Lamont, San Francisco, Cal.
Yip Bow, ne = ee
: SANTA BARBARA.
Teacher,

Mr. Eli Kimberly,

Santa Barbara, Cal.

SANTA CRUZ,

: Teachers,
Mrs. Kate V. Hall, Santa Cruz, Cal.
Pon C. Fang, 6s 66 GG

; VENTURA.
Teachers,
Miss Alma Bradley, Ventura, Cal.
Mrs. S. West, a -
VERNONDALE.
Teacher, :
Miss Ella Thomson, Vernondale, Cal.
WATSONVILLE. 2
Teachers,
Mrs. Martha Ellis, Watsonville, Cal.
Joe Dun,
UTAH.

SALT LAKE CITY.

Mrs. Marcus E. Jones,

Teacher,

Salt dlake City, Usa.

TEACHERS RESIDENCES.

MAINE.

Bangor.Mr. Jonathan Perkins, Mrs. Jonathan

Perkins.

Castine.Prof. Fred. W. Foster, Mrs. Mary W.
Foster.

Denmark.Miss L. A. Pingree.

Franklin.Miss Carrie A. Whitaker.

Hallowell.Miss S. L. Emerson.

Limerick.Rev. T.S. Perry.

Portland.Miss Ella A. Perley, Miss Emma J.
Robinson.

Winthrop.Miss L. J. Hanscom.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Acworth.Miss A. R. Mitchell.
Alexandria.Miss Ida A. Verrill.
Chester.Miss Celestia S. Goldsmith.
Concord.Miss Emma Robertson.

East Barrington.Miss Eva F. Chesley.
Gossville.Miss Dora A. Scribner, B. A.
Keene.Miss Emily R. Bishop.
Manchester.Miss Carrie E. Parkhurst.
Nashua.Miss Clara L. Blake.

West Lebanon.--Miss Charlotte M. Estabrook.

VERMONT.

Ascutneyville.Miss Ida F. Hubbard.

Jeffersonville.Prof. Oscar Atwood, A.M., Miss
Alice A. Flagg. :

New Haven.Mr. Benjamin C. Miner, B.S.

North Craftsbury.Miss Belle C. Harriman, Rev.
George W. Henderson, A.M.

Sharon.Miss Carrie B. Chamberlin.

St. Johnsbury.Rev. W. S. Goss, A. B., Mrs. W.
S. Goss.

West Randolph.Miss Bertha D. Hodges.

Windsor.Mrs. L. M. Sisson.

Woodstock.Miss Lucy E. Fairbanks.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Amherst.Mrs. Lucy R. Greene.
(Ee seers Seats Beard, B.A., Rev.
ohn C. Campbell, Miss Winona Graffam, 2
H.W. Webb) a
a ae Lilla V. Davis, Miss Lillian Wool-
on, A.B.
Cambridgeport.Prof. Fred. S. Hitchcock
Fred. Pitchesck, re =
Chester.Miss May Knox.
Conway.Miss Mary E. Field.
Dunstable. Miss Carrie E. Kendall.
Great Barrington.Miss Jennie Curtis.
Haverhill. Miss Annette P. Brickett.
Holden.Mr. A. H. Bennett.
Hyde Park.Miss Elizabeth Ainsworth, Miss
ane A. Ainsworth,
Lee.Prof. Morrison A. Holmes, Mrs. M. A,
Holmes.
Medford.Miss Ida F. Hayden.

Methuen.Miss Caroline E. Frost, A.B.

Mittineague.Miss Sadie Stimpson.

TEACHERS RESIDENCES. 69

North Amherst.Miss Nellie D. Cooley, Miss
Laura A. Dickinson. :

Northfield. Miss susan M. Marsh.

Rochester Miss Edith Leonard.

Rockland.Miss Lura S. Hall.

Salem.Miss Minnie T. Strout.

Somerville.Rev. W. W. Dornan, B. D.

South Framingham.Miss Josephine E. Des-
mond.

South Hadley Falls.Miss Katharine M. Jacobs.

SpringfieldRev. George W. Reed, Mrs. Char-
lotte M. Reed.

Wakefield. Miss Julia K. Braxton.

Wellesley.Miss Mary P. Lord.

Westboro.Miss Amelia Merriam.

West Granville.Mr. O. S. Dickinson.

Winchester.Miss Ella C. Abbott.

Worcester.Mr. F. H. Ball, Prof. George Cc
Burrage, Ph.B., Mrs. George C. Burrage,

Miss Ella E. Roper, Mrs. A. S. Webber.

CONNECTICUT.

Brookfield Centre.Rev. S. A. Paris. 2

East Woodstock.Prof. B. D. Rowlee, Mrs. Julia
E. Rowlee.

Granby.Mrs. W. D. McFarland.

Lyme.Miss Anna R. Miner. g

New Haven.Miss C. E. Bishop, Miss Bella W.
Hume, Miss Mary Emma Landfear, Miss Mary
E. McLane.

Norwich.Mr. George L. Dewey, Mrs. George
L. Dewey, Miss Harriet B. Leach, Miss Mary
E. Perkins. :

Simsbury.Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock.

West Winsted.Mr. James S. Bingham.

NEW YORK.

Brooklyn.Miss Dora B. Doige, Miss M. Amelia

Packard.

Chautauqua.Mrs. M. L. Jenkins.

Churchville-Miss Helen L. Robertson.

Clinton.Miss Emily W. Nichols.

Cranesville.Miss Jennie Mathias.

Elmira. Miss Julia B. Glines.

Feura Bush.Miss Kate LaGrange, Miss Ollie
LaGrange.

Freeport.Miss Louise Denton.

Gasport. Miss Ida C. Chapin.

Marcellus.Miss Phoebe B. Parsons.

Moravia.Mrs. Julia E. Titus.

Mount Morris.Miss E. L. Parsons.

Newark Valley.Miss Helen S. Loveland, Miss
Mary E. Loveland.

New York.Miss Florence L. Ellis, Miss Bena P.
Gummersbach, Prof. E. C. Moore, A.M.

North Hannibal.Miss Alice A. Clarke.

Norwood.Miss Blanche L. Ashley.

Phoenix.Mr. L. J. Carrier, Miss M. M. Gates,
Miss Caroline Wandell.

Poughkeepsie.Miss Martha L. Shaw.

Rochester.Mrs. Alice M. Brown.

Rocky Point.Miss Harriet A. Brown.

Roseview.Miss Anna M. Woodruff.

Rouses Point.Miss Mary L. Thompson.

Rushville.Miss Mary E. Hoover.

Schroon Lake.Miss Sophia Crawford. :

Syracuse.Miss Julia H. Curtis, Miss Ruth K.
Kingsley. - :

Tuckahoe.Prof. Martin San A.B.

Utica.Rev T. Newton Owen, A.M.

West Bloomfield._Miss Carrie E Browne.

Westfield.Miss Jennie L. Blowers.

Westmoreland.Miss Alice M. Garsden.

NEW JERSEY.

Morristown. Miss Julia B. Ford.
Newark.Miss Harriet B. ule.
Orange.Miss Frances M. Williams.
Rocky Hill.Miss S. Lizzie Voorhees.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Gettysburg.Miss Lena H. Kalbfleisch.
Jenkintown.Miss Emilie Weiss.

Newcastle.Miss Jean B. Butler.

New Wilmington.Miss Mary J. Kuhn, Miss
Edith Taylor, A.B.

Port Carbon.Miss May Lime, Miss S. J. Lime.

Springboro.Miss Lena A. Tucker.

MARYLAND.

Snow Hill.Miss Adele B. Spence, Miss Mar-
garet R. Spence.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Tacoma Park.Miss Estelle I.. Sprague.

Washington.Rev. Sterling N. Brown, A.M.,
Rev. Charles H. Butler, A.M., Rev. Isaac
Clark, AJM. Rev. J. HH. Dailey, Rev. JL.

_ Ewell, A.M., Rev. Wilson A. Farnsworth,
D.D., Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin, D.D., Rev. E.
G. Harris, Rev. John T. Jenifer. D.D., Rev.
Eugene Johnson, Rev. E. A. Johnson, Mrs. E.
A. Johnson, Rev. Geo. O. Little, D.D., Mrs.
Eleanor J. Pond, Rev. J. E. Rankin, D.D.,
LL.D., Prof. Wm. J. Stephens, Prof. Robert
B. Warder, A.M., B.S.

OHIO.

Belden.Miss Rosa K. Schwarz.
Bellefontaine.Miss Mary H. Ewans.
Bryan.Miss Mattie M. Marsh, A.B.
Charlestown.Miss Edith M. Hatfield, Miss
Libbie A. Hatfield.
Cincinnati._-Miss Maggie Portune.
Cleveland.Miss Mary A. Cody, Miss Florence
A. Frew, Miss Helen E. Smith.
Clifton.Miss L. Belle Knott.
Columbus.Miss Eva D. Bowles.
Creston.Miss Janetta Knowlton.
Dover.Miss Alice M. Whitsey.
Elyria.Mrs. H. C. Hecock.
Everett.Miss Ellen B. Scobie.
Hamilton. Miss S. Josephine Scott.
Keene.Miss Ada M, Sprague (Deceased).
Lindenville.Mr. H. A. Hatch.
Mallet Creek.Miss Bessie L. Depew, Miss
Mary. L. Baird.
Mansfield.Miss Emma Redick.
Medina.Miss M. Josephine Harper.
North Kingsville.Miss Isadore M. Caughey.
Nova.Miss Mary C. Phelps, Ph.B. |
Oberlin.Miss Grace H. Ashley, Miss Elizabeth
Cheney, Miss Ella Louise Cheney, Mrs. Alice
Davis, Mrs. E. R. Dorsett, Prof. T..S. Inbor-
' den, Mrs. S. J. E. Inborden, Miss Corrie N.
Johnson, Miss Mabel M. Jones, Miss Julia E.
McMillan, Mrs. Lucy M. Mellen, Miss Anna S.
Mueller, Miss Nellie I. Reed, Miss Edith M.
Thatcher, Prof. F.T. Waters. A.M.
Painesville.Rev. James Bond, Miss Nina E,
Mosher, Miss Belle M. Whelpley. :
Parkman.Miss Clara A. Dole.
Richfield. Rev. Warren E. Wheeler, Mrs. Kate
L. Wheeler.
Rock Creek.Miss Florence A. Sperry, Miss
Mabel A. Wightman. .
Ross.Mrs. Martha H. Griffiths.
Springfield.Miss Clara S. Boyd.
Tallmadge.Miss Esther A. Barnes.
Wakeman.Mrs. S. A. Hayes.
Zanesville.Miss Louisa T. Black, M.D., Miss M.
' Elizabeth Messick. :

INDIANA.
Hammond.Miss Emma J. Rosecrans.
ILLINOIS,

Chicago.Miss M. Nettie Aan Rev A.,
Garner, Mrs. A. C. Garner, Mr. William M.
Griffiths, Miss Elizabeth Kehoe, Prof, A. D.
Luethi, Rev. R. K. Stetson.

Danville.Miss Frances L. Yeomans.

Downers Grove.Mr. O. R. Brown, Mrs. O. R.

Brown. :
Elmhusest.Miss Emma F. King. ~
Jacksonville.Miss Mary P Roberts, B.L.

TO 5. _ TEA CHERS RESIDENCES.

Neponset. Miss Mary T. Richardson, B.A.

Oneida.Miss Amelia L. Ferris. :

Princeton.Miss Carrie E. Hodgman, Miss Mar-
garet E. Reed.

VYorkville.Miss E. J. Lane.

MICHIGAN.

Adrian. Miss Julia A. Condict.

Ann Arbor.Miss Emily P. Jones.

Battle Creek. Miss Edith M. Robinson.

Buchanan.Miss Mary W. Culver.

Charlotte.Miss H. E. White, L.B.

Detroit.Miss Carlotta B. Leonard, Rev. W.
Mitchell, Rev. J. M. Robinson, Mrs. J. M.
Robinson.

Escanaba.Miss Jean Rodger. :

Frankfort.Miss Ella M. Andrews, Miss Hattie
M. Fairchild.

Greenville. Miss Nellie B. de Spelder.

Kalamazoo.Miss C. M. Dox, Miss May Belle
Nicholson, Miss Luella Waring.

Lansing._Miss Jennie Fyfe, Miss Alice A.
Holmes. :

Monroe.Miss Ada Louise Wilcox.

Olivet.Miss Mary R. Bryant, A.M., Miss Susan
I. Estabrook, Miss Marie D. Holzinger.

Orion.Mr. Fred R. Bush, A.B.

Paw Paw.Miss Alice Harvey.

Salem.Miss N.S. Dennis.

Union City.Miss E. A. Buell, Miss Lula M.
Palmer, Miss Lillian L. Warner.

Wayne.Miss Mabel Egeler.

IOWA.

Belle Plaine.Miss Lizzie Stapleton.
Belmont.Miss Susan Sands, A.B.
Keokuk.Miss Mary C. Collins.
Marathon.Miss Laura Humphries.
Nashua.Miss Nellie J. Arnott.
Nevada.Miss Fannie E. Curtiss. :
Rockford.Miss Jessie B. Lyon, Miss B. R.
Parmenter.
Troy.Miss Harriet M. Smith.
Vincennes.Miss L. C. Holman.
Waterloo.Miss I. Ola Akin.

MISSOURI.

Kidder.Miss Maria Myers.

Montier.Miss Louise B. Wright. :

SpringfieldMiss Mary E. Newton, Miss
Elizabeth H. Plumb, B.S.

Welston.Mrs. Virginia C. Logie.

Willow Springs.Miss Hattie J. Lovewell.

WISCONSIN.

Acorn.Miss Mary E. Brereton.

Columbus. Miss Martha J. Adams.

Hartland.Miss Mary E. Simonds.

Ladoga.Miss Myra J. Lamb.

Madison.Miss Lillian J. Beecroft.

Pine River.Miss Mary B. Spencer.

Praizie du Sac.Miss Mary J. Oertel, B.S.

Wauwatosa.Miss Annie Willerton. :

Whitewater.Miss Ella A. Hamilton, Miss M.
A. Kinney, Prof. Andrew J. Steele, A.M.

: KANSAS.

Bavaria.Miss Susan A. Cooley.

Topeka.Miss Susa H. Breck, Rev. E. W. Hol-
lies, Mrs. S. Hollies, Miss Minnie A. Hollies,
Mrs. H. I. Miller.

MINNESOTA.
Benson.Miss M. E. Wilcox, Miss Mabel Wil-

cox.

Clearwater.Prof. H. E. Sargent, Mrs. H. E.
Sargent.

Mazeppa.Miss Doge ee Hyde.

Minneapolis.Miss Mary A. Bye, B.S., Miss
Lillian S. Cathcart.

Montevideo.Miss L. L. Goar.

St. Paul.Miss Nellie F. Comings.

NEBRASKA. *
Madison.Miss Jeanne Forney.

Neligh.Miss Mary L. Nichol.

Omaha.Mrs, A. E. Foote.

Santee Agency.Mr. Eli Abraham, Mrs. E. J.
Black, Rev. Artemas Ehnamani, Rev. Francis
Frazier, Mrs. Maggie Frazier, Rev. James
Garvie, Mr. William H. Hamlin, Mrs. Will-
iam H. Hamlin, Charles R. Lawson, Mrs.
Charles R. Lawson, Miss Mary Morris, Rev.
A. L. Riggs, D.D., Mrs. A. L. Riggs, Mr. F.
B. Riggs, Mr. Homer L. Stone, Mrs. Homer L.

Stone, Miss Susan Wambdisun, Mr. Iver P. .

Wold, Mrs. Iver P. Wold, Miss Ella Worden,
Mr. Robert Y. Gray.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Cannon Ball.Mr. Arthur Tibbetts.

Elbow Woods.Mr. C. W. Hoffman.

Fort Berthold.Rev. C. L. Hall, Mrs. S. W.
Hall,

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Collamer.Rev. Edwin Phelps, Mrs. Ellen
Phelps. :

Dell Rapids.Miss Mary W. Bryant, A.B.

Fort Pierre.Mr. Solomon B. Yellow-Hawk,
Mrs. Josephine Yellow-Hawk.

Grand River.Mr. David Many-Buffalo, Mrs.
Martha Many-Buffalo, Mr. Huntington Wa-
kutemani, Mrs. Louisa Wakutemani.

Huron. Miss Estelle Bloodgood.

Lebanon.Miss A. B. Chalfant.

Leslie.Mr. Justin Black-Eagle, Mr. Ansel
Chapin, Mrs. Mary Chapin, Mr. Clarence
Ward, Mrs. Estelle Ward, Mr. Daniel White-
Thunder, Mrs. Elida White-Thunder.

Moreau River.Mr. Daniel Yawa, Mrs. Mary
Yawa.

Oahe.Mr. Elias Jacobson, Miss E. Jean Ken-
nedy, Mr. David Lee, Rev. T. L. Riggs, Mrs.
T. L. Riggs, Mr. Stephen Yellow-Hawk.

Rosebud Agency.Rev. James F. Cross, Mrs.
Stella P. Cross, Mr. Lot Frazier, Mrs. Rebecca
Frazier.

Sisseton Agency.Mr. John Bluecloud, Mrs.
Nora Bluecloud, Mr. Elias Gilbert, Mrs. Mary
Gilbert, Mr. Simon Kirk, Mrs. Julia Kirk.

Templeton.Miss A. Z. Powell.

Yankton. Miss Jennie M. Lind.

MONTANA.

Crow Agency.Rev. J. G. Burgess, Mrs. J. G.
Burgess.

COLORADO.

Denver.Rev. A. T. Burnell. Ph.D., Mrs. Mary
A. Burnell, B.L. :

WASHINGTON.

Seattle.Miss Nellie D. Sheldon.
Union City.Rev. Myron Eells, D.D.

UTAH.
Salt Lake City.Mrs. Marcus E. Jones.

CALIFORNIA.

Fresno.Mrs. J. H. ( ollins.

Los AngelesMiss Dorothea Lummis, M.D.,
Mrs. C. V. Rice, Loo Ying.

Marysville.Miss Mattie A. Flint, Chung Moi.

Oakland.Mrs H. E. Hibbard.

Oroville. Miss Blanche Reece, Quong Leong.

Riverside. Miss Helen Webber.

Sacramento.Mrs. S. E. Carrington, Miss Fanny
J. Webster.

San Bernardino.Mrs. Laura A. Curtis.

San Diego.Mrs. E. M. Stetson, Hom Goon.

San Francisco.Mrs. M. A. Green, Mrs. R. E,
Lamont, Miss V. W. Lamont, Miss J. G. Morri-
son, Miss Olive Patten, Rev. W. C. Pond,
D.D., Rev. Jee Gam, Yip Bow.

Santa Barbara.-Mr. Eli ee

Santa Cruz.--Mrs. Kate V. Hall, Pon G. Fang.

Ventura Miss Alma Bradley, Mrs S. West.

Vernondale.Miss Ella Thomson.

Watsonville.Mrs. Martha Ellis, Joe Dun.

TEACHERS RESIDENCES. eat

TENNESSEE.

Bailey.Miss Mary E. Johnson.

Bon Air.Rev. E. N. Goff, Miss Viola Young.

Chattanooga.Rev. J. E. Smith.

Cees Gap.Rev. A. A. Myers, Mrs. A. A.

yers,

Deer Lodge.Rev. George Lusty.

Grand View.Mrs. Carrie Ferree, Miss G. D.
Huntington, Miss Mary L. Jewett, Miss Maud
Taylor. :

Greenville.Miss M. M. Jackson.

Harriman.Miss Minnie Ferree, Rev. C. B.
Riggs, Mr. Gilbert Walton.

Hudsonburg.Miss F. A. Jackson.

Jackson.Rev. Thomas J. Austin.

Jellico.Miss Bertha Davis, Miss Kenada, Rev.
L. C. Partridge.

Jonesboro.Miss Cordy Bayless.

Knoxville.Mrs. Minnie L. Crosthwait.

Long View.Miss L. J. Blackmore.

Memphis.Miss Rose Bigelow, Miss Laura
Dickerson, Miss Emma O. Kennedy, Miss Cor-
nelia E, Lewis, Miss Charlotte Rivers, Miss
Etta V. Stone, Mr. Elias S. Webb.

Mill Creek.Rev. M. N. Sumner.

Nashville.Miss Anna T. Ballantine, Miss Mary
E. Chamberlin, Rev. F. A. Chase, A.M., Rev.
E. M. Cravath, D.D., Rev. Charles W. Dunn,
Rev. Eugene Harris, A.M., B.D., Rev. J. E.
Moorland, Rev. George W. Moore, Prof. Helen
C. Morgan, A.M., Rev. H. H. Proctor, Miss
Jennie A. Robinson, Rev. E. E. Scott, Rev. A. K.
Spence, A.M., Miss Mary A. Spence, M.A.,
Rev. E. C. Stickel, A.M., Mrs. Luretta C.
Stickel, B.L., Mr. L. J. Watkins, Miss Elnora
Winter, Prof. H. H. Wright, A.M.

Pine Bluff.Mr. Charles R. Blanks.

Pleasant HillMiss Emma F. Dodge.

Pomona.Mrs. A. E. Graves, Rev. H. E. Part-

ridge.

Pulaski.Prof. Jas. L. Murray, Mrs. Jas, L.
Murray.

Tracy City.Rev. M. J. Smith.

KENTUCKY.

Berea.Rev. George Ames.

Campton.Rev. J. W. Doane.

Combs.Rev. Mason Jones.

Corbin.Rev. C. W. Green.

Evarts.Rev. Herbert Carleton, A.M., Miss L.
Middleton.

Lexington.Rev. J. S. Jackson.

Somerset.-Miss Ruth P. Harvey.

Whetstone.Rev. J. B. Cobble.

Williamsburg.Mr. James Higginbotham, Miss
Nora Hill, Rev. W. G. Olinger, Prof. Charles
M. Stevens, Rev. Samuel Sutton.

VIRGINIA.
Cappahosic.Mr. James H. Lockley, Mr. Robert
L. White, Mr. David D. Weaver, Prof. W. B.
Weaver, Mrs, Anna B. Weaver.
Gloucester.Miss Lucy C. Wyatt.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Beaufort.Rev. J. P. Sims.

Brevard.Rev. W. A. Hamet.

Carters Mills.Rev. S. A. Stanford.

Chapel Hill._Rev. Paul L. La Cour, Mrs. Paul
L. La Cour. :

Charlotte.Rev. A. L. De Mond, Rev. Geo. H.
Haines. :

Dry Creek.Rev. W. D. Newkirk.

Dudley.Rev. S. P. Smith.

High Point.Rev. E. W. Stratton.

Littles Mills Rev. Geo. R. Morris.

Manly.Prof. Geo. A. Woodard.

McLeansville.Rev. H. Dillard, Rev. S. S.
Sevier, Mrs. S. S. Sevier.

Moncure.-Rev. J. E. McNeill.

Nalls.Mr. B. H. Saunders.

Oaks.Miss A. E. Farrington, Rev. Anthony
Peden.

Pekin.Miss Malsie D. Green.

Ral A. W. Curtis, D.D.,, Mr: Wm.

. Hall. . :

Sanford.Rev. Henry Williams.

Strieby.Rev. Z. Simmons.

Swepsonville.Miss Fannie Forest.

Troy.Rev. O. Faduma, Mrs. O. Faduma.

Wilmington.Rev. F. G. Ragland.

Whittier.Rev. Joseph Cadwallader, Rev. Rob-
ert Humphrey, Mrs. Olive A. Humphrey.

SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charleston.Miss Esther F. Alston, Miss Marion
R, Birnie, Miss Mary L. Deas, Miss Anna S.
Gibbes, Mr. Edward A. Lawrence, Miss Anna
R. Magrath, Mr. Isadore Martin, Rev. George
C. Rowe, Miss Carrie E. Steele.
Columbia.Mr. Jefferson Miles, Rev. E. H.
Wilson.
Newberry.Rev. J. H. Stannard.

GEORGIA.

Albany.Miss Katherine C. Dowdell.

Athens.Miss Mattie J. Brydie, Prof. L. S. Clark,
A.M., Rev. C. S. Haynes, M.D., Miss Emma S.
Morton, Miss A. M. Nicholson, Miss Eliza B.
Twiggs.

Atlanta.Rev. George V. Clark.

Bainbridge.Mr. A. W. Bowman.

Cuthbert. Mr. F. H. Henderson, Mrs. F. H.
Henderson.

Garfield.Mr. H. H. Williams.

el eo J. B. Fletcher, Mr. W. K. Ken-
nedy.

Macon.Miss Ella N. Barksdale, Miss L. C.
Haynes, Rev. J.R. McLean, Mr. John Orr.

McIntosh.Rev. R. B. Johns.

Marietta.-Rev. Calvin Lane.

Marshallville.Mrs. A. W. Richardson.

Savannah.Rev. Wilson Callen, Mr. J. Loyd,
Rev. L. B. Maxwell, Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke.

Stanfordville.-Prof. Charles W. Driskell, B. S.,
Mrs. Charles W. Driskell. :

ba fsiingk baer H. C. Sargent, Rev. F. W.

ims
Tobesofkee.Rev. H. T. Johnson, Mrs. E. L.

Johnson.
FLORIDA.
Ocala.Miss Amanda F. Moore.
Orange Park.Miss A. Margaret Ball, Miss Car-
rie W. Parrott.
Tangerine.Miss Susie T. Cathcart.

ALABAMA,

Anniston.Rev. James Brown.

Athens.Rev. M. S. Jones, Miss Ella May Thom-
ason, Mrs. L. H. Williams.

Blocton.Rev. D. M. Lewis.

Brewton.Rev. J. J. Scott. ;

Florence.Miss Mary Lucy Corpier, Rev. Wa -
iam L. Johnson.

Ironaton.Rev. P.O. Wailes. .

Marion.Miss Mary S. Larkin, Rev. William J.
Larkin, Mrs. Sophia Larkin, Miss Lucy W.
Parker.

Selma.Rev. T. J. Bell, Mrs. Mary A. Dillard,
Prof. James A. Merriman

Shelby.Rev. A. Simmons.

Talladega.Rev. George W. Andrews, D.D.,
Rev. M. L. Baldwin, Mr. Edgar A. Bishop,
B.S., Rev. H. S. DeForest, D.D., Miss Mary
R. DeForest, Rev. J. I. Donaldson, Rev.
_J. B. Grant, Rev. W. P. Hamilton, Prof. Will-
iam E. Hutchison, Rev. R. W. Jackson, Rev.
J. A. Jones, Rev. R. J. McCann, Prof Edwin
C. Silsby, Miss Louie Savery, Rev. J. R. Sims,
Rev. Y. B. Sims, Rev. Spencer Snell, Mr.
George Williamson. :

MISSISSIPPI.
Columbus.Mrs. M, A. F. Tapley.
Jackson.Miss Mary Jane Gibson.
Meridian.Rev. C. L. Harris.

Mound Bayou.Mr. Isaiah T. Montgomery,
Miss Mary V. Montgomery.

Summit.Miss Sarah Jane Thomas.

Tougaloo.Rev. Frank G. Woodworth, D.D.,
Mrs. N. E. Woodworth.

Vicksburg.Mrs. Sallie P. Dozier.

72 : RECEIPTS.

LOUISIANA.
Abbeville-Rev. J. A. Herod.
Belle Place.Rev. M. W. Whitt.
Hammond.Rev. H. B. Bortel.
Lockport.Rev. Charles Sands.

New Orleans.Rev. C. H. Claiborne, Mr. James
D. Gordon, Rev. I. H. Hall, Rev. Cornelius W.
Johnson, Miss Deborah B. Johnson, Mr. Emer-
son C. Rose, Rev. J. E. Smith, Rev. John W.

Whittaker.
Schriever.Rev. William Brown.
St. Sophie.Rev. C. W. Johnson.

TEXAS.
Dallas.Rev. E. E. Sims, Mrs. E. E. Sims,

Helena.Rev. Mitchell Thompson.
Paris.Rev. R. H. Henson.

NEW BRUNSWICK.
Ashland.Miss Georgia M. Belyea.
Milltown.Miss Frances M. Andrews.

CANADA.
Springfield, Ont.Miss Emma J. Bryce.

Toronto.Miss Bessie C. Bechan, Miss Belle F.

Burr.
ENGLAND.

Barrow-in-Furness.Rev. James Wharton.

SCOTLAND.

Dundee.Miss Annie R. Creighton.

RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1895.

THE DANIEL HAND FUND
For the Education of Colored People.

Income for December ..:.......2.,.... aus
Previously acknowledged............. SSeS ShsGcemeae

Cece en scccosesece Cece ese eroccccesne ree ag

$ 2,730 00
6,460 oo

$19,190 00

ENDOWMENT FUND.

Estate of Daniel Hand, by Wilbur F. Day, Ex. Securities received, face value...... .. .. $305,025 00

: CURRENT RECEIPTS.

MAINE, $223.86.
Jor Freight to Blowing

Andover.
dock. IN (Cis
Augusta. S. S. Class of Boys, /or Stu-
dent Ard: Talladeed Cie 5). bss cee oak
Brewer. First Cong. Ch., 14; Sab. Sch.,
burst Cong. Chi. 156 sso isc ices
Castine. Rainbow Band, for McIntosh,
(GOES Er a Orn fees re
Eastport. S. S. Class Cong. Ch., 2;
Harold and Leon Reynolds, 1; jor

eee r cece re eervser cece es! sees

Student Aid, Dorchester Acad......-+ :
Ellsworth. one OH ees ee
_ Farmington. Y. P. S. C. E., Bbl. of Bed-
ding, etc., 2, for Freight, for Talladega
OO ete Re ere ak ere | nee
Gray. -Conge. Ch... 29 ie 5 che A ae
Limerick. Cong. Ch..-..... ee aes
Litchfield. , for Freight to Blow-
tne Rock, N. Cra vo abe pcse eee 5 ee
Machias. Cong. Ch., for Freight to
Blowing Rock, N. C., and to Anderson-
Uilles GAO cess ES Ser ewe es aes
Portland. A Christmas Gift, 10;

Maine Womans Indian Assn., by Miss
Jee Gres ga. oe BAG eres
Portland. Ladies of Wiliiston Ch., Bbl.
C.and Dishes, jor Blowing Rock, N.

Cc;
Rockland. W. M. Soc., Bbl. of Bedding,
etc., 2.08 for Hreight, for Talladega
ECW ss eels ee ee ons sa oe eS
south Freeport. Gong. Ghisi 225 i 5..
Thomaston. Cong. Ch.and Soc...... Mee
Vinal Haven. Kings Daughters, by C.
E. Leadbetter, for Student Aid, Dor-
chester Acad: sk one
Woitop.: Cong. Chi.) soe ee
Windham. Cons Ch. .0.2 ses
Yarmouth. First Parish S.S., Miss E. F.
Snow S. S. Class, 1.69; Mrs. E. E. Mc-
Kinley S. S. Class, 60c., for Indian M.,
Hort Berinold. Ne Dos a es
York: First Cone; Ch...
Womans Aid to A. M. A., by Mrs. Ida
V. Woodbury Treas. jor Woman's
Work:

a

15

co COU

uw

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67

14
co

50

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88 &

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15

29
03

somerset Conf. Coll.:.. ..... 3 co

HEXMELICK ocyeece. ss PERAD aS 5
Re 3 50
$t73 86
ESTATE.
Gorham. Estate of Rev. Joseph Bartlett,
by John A. Waterman, Administrator.. 50 00
$223 86
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $725.49.
Acworth. Jr. C. E. Soc., for Blowing
OCR INC ae ie CO ee eee r 5 00
Acworth. Bbl. Books, 2 Bbls. C., 7
Blowing Rock, N.C.
Alstead Center. Ladies M. Soc., Pkg.
C., for Tougaloo VU.
Alstead Center. L. M. Soc., Bbl. Bed-
ding and Patchwork, for Talladega C.
Bennington. C. E. Soc. of Cong. Ch.... I 00
Bethlehem. Cong. Ch., Stereop. Coll... 5 00
Candia. John !P: French <1... 33,3 I00 00
Chester. Ladies of Cong. Ch., jor
Freight to Blowing Rock, N. C.....cee I 25
Colebrook. Dea. E; C. Wilder..-.... I 50
Concord. A Friend, 30, fora L. M.;
SA Friends? 503. 0.22000. e.ee 35 00
Concord. First Cong. Ch., Box C., for
Andersonville, Ga.
Dunbarton. Cong. Ch., Stereop. Coll... 3 50
Durham. Cone. Cheers... RSs ios: 64 89
Francestown. Cong. Ch....... reiting 5 9 00
Gilsum, Cong. Chi. 20.3, ae 4.00
Goffstown. E.M. Hadley... ..;. 272... 5 00
Haverhill. EOnR. Ch., Stereop, Collz =. 2 40
Keene. Miss M. A. Wheeler, to const.
GEORGES. WHEELER, L; M,.......02-- 30 00
Keene. Mrs. DeBevoise's S. S. Class
Sec. Cong. Ch., for McIntosh, Gase++++ 15 co
Kingston, Cong. Ch... ...s.4a- eee 475
Manchester. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., /or
S. S. Work, McIntosh, Gd..occeeeee+ess 33 25
py ae Bbl. C., for Blowing Rock, NV.
Nashua: First Ch. 2s. eee stee a 50.00

*%

Newport. Y. P.

S: GE. by Geo, BP:

Bercy, Treas., for Church Building,
CL Sa es Gk Moree nae
an: Two Members Cong.
North Weare. S. E. Soc., by Rebecca
W. Madison, for Central Ch., New Or-
OIC FU ae ne acl Ga PAs we a
Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc...........
Salem. Cong. Ch
Seabrook and Hampton Falls. Cong. Ch.
Webster. Ladies Aid Soc. Cong. Ch.,
Bbl. C., Freight prepaid, for Williams-

burg Acad., Ky. j
West Manchester. South Main St.

New Hampshire Female Cent. Inst. and
Home Missionary Union, Miss Annie
A. McFarland, Treas., jor Womans

Ork : -

Chester Mission Circle....... 5 00
Concord. Cent. Union of

Wirst. Che cop ee 200 90

Hopkinton. A Friend.... 5 00
Tamworth. A Christmas Of-

ig ites em HBO AGE canned 25 00

VERMONT, $466.54.

Barer, Gong. Chic 23505 2% Bac Oks

Bellows Falls. First Cong. Ch........

Bennington. Miss H. D. Harwoods

Class of Girls, Sab. Sch. First Cong.
Wn yor (Indian Al... oe ee
Burlington. Ladies of College St. Ch.,
2.27 for Student Aid and 2.73 for
freight for Dorchester Acad..........
Chester. A Friend, for Indian M...
Coventry. Cong. Ch. and Soc:....... 7
Danville. Cong. Ch., Bedding, etc., or
Tillotson C.
East Hardwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
28.80; Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., 29.60......
Franklin, W.H.M. U., for Freight to
STE DESO CUE En
Gigten, Mis. B.A. Taft ea. ccs)
Guildhall. Cong. Ch., Stereop. Coll....
H@eetord. Cong. Ch. adi 2i..:. snc.
Jamaica. Cong. Ch., 6.75; Sab. Sch.
Wome Ch ee, 8 ee es a
Jeticho Center. First Cong; Ch...:.....
Manchester. .Y. P. S.C. E-of Cong: Ch.,
Jor Knox Inst., Athens, Ga.vei.k.<)s
Noga Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. ...3,..50.-
Olcott. Extra Cent a Day Band of Cong.

T. B. Parrott, Bbl. Apples, for
Kings Mountain, N.C.
Saint Johnsbury. Svuth Cong. Ch......
Saint Johnsbury. Arthur F. Stone, 2;
Miss W. M. Glims, soc.; Mrs. Moses
Huntley, 250.707 (7/lotson C...2... :
South Hero and Grand Isle. Cong. Ch.
Stockbridge, Rev. 7. S: Hubbard...
Swanton, Cone. Ch c2 3. econ:
Wallingford. 2 Bbls. C. and Cash, 2, for
Moorhead, Miss. oo. . 6 eee a See

Waterbury... Cong Cho 7s eee
bah Barnet. Y.P.S.C. W., by Marion
OU nee cee ie ee ce ees sea :
West Brattleboro. Miss Maria E. Sted-
ey 10; A Friend, soc., for Indian
West Brattleboro, Kings Sons........
Westfield. A. C. Hitchcock, for Wii-
WEUSEOU IN, COR et ss Se

Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc
Windham. Cong. Ch., 10; Sab. Sch.,
GOnSEAOR Bade ec sees
Wolcott Cong Gn ee
Womans Home Missionary Union of Vt.,
Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, Treas., jor

Woman's Work: .

Barnet. Jr. C. E., for [Indian

2) TB BSE HG NE Oeics eee 2 00

KRECEIFTIS,

32 00
35 00
2 00
IO 00

2I oo

16 95

235 00

34 00
63 47

5 00
2 00
25 00

58 40

I 0O
5 00

5 96
2.25

II 75
I2 40

10 00
6 14

20 00

3 13

2 75
4 00
IO 0O
II 47

2 00
10 73

2 70
IO 50
5 00

5 00
29 75

12 09
2 00

Brattleboro West. L.B.S..

. & Io 0O
Coventry. Busy Bees
Christmas Git}o. 3.22 4; 2) 500:
Proctor... ir. CuE:, jor In-
OA SCUD. eae eee 5 00
Saint Johnsbury. No. Ch. W.
NESS: So ccna, 25 00
Waterbury. W.H.M.S.... 1000

MASSACHUSETTS, $4,802.94.

Amesbury. Union Evan. Ch:.... 2.0.2.
Amesbury. Col. Y. M.C. A. Hall, 8.90;
Col. by Robert H. King, 5.50, for Glou-
cesterSch., Cappahostc, Vairs....0.-:-
Andover. Young Ladies Soc. of Chris-
tian Workers, 20, /or Blowing Rock,
NEGs? 20 Jor Iud an Mi isi icccis ccs cs
Athol Byan. Gh. fies. eta
Barre. Ladies H.M. Soc., Bbl. C.. 7or

Greenwood, S. C.
ba oe Cong. Ch., Stereopticon
OME ot ar cigs ce cai ee te ees
Boston. Mount Vernon Ch.....
Shawmut Cong. Ch., adl. ror oo
Benjamin F. Dewing, to
eer Miss M. L. Dewine

Be neon eee eee 50 00
Park St..Ch:,adl..:. 0.45.4. < 25 00
Miss M. E. Thayer........ Io co

W.L. Pierce, for Glouces-
__ ter Sch., Cappahosic, Va. 5 00
South Boston. Phillips Cong.

OT Gy Oe an Bawa ae 33 75
Brighton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,
Jor Grand View, Tenn.... 15 00
Dorchester. Rev. and Mrs. H.
Houston, Bbl.C., Freight,..
4,and 8, for Student A7d,..
Dorchester Acadsi.n veces 12 00
Dorchester. Harvard Cong.
Chee ee ee 7 00
Dorchester. Dea. (Thomas
Knapp and S. S. Class, for
Wilmington, Nos. i vecsss 8 00
Dorchester Vilage, Sab. Sch.
Cong. Ch., for Central
Ch., New Orleans, La.... 2000
Jamaica Plain. Central Cong.
Cheadle ak ie: Io 38
Roxbury. Immanuel Cong
Chive ete aoe 178 55
Roxbury. Extra Cent a Day
Band, Highland Ch........ I0 00

Roxbury. Humane Soc., Pkg.
Literature for Tillotson C.

Bradford. Friends, for Gloucester
SC COPPANOSIC, VG ese es

Bridgewater. Central Sq. Cong. Ch....

Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch., Bbl.C.,
Jor Meridian, Miss.

Brockton. Friends First Cong. Ch..

Cambridgeport. Sab. Sch. Pilgrim Cong.
Ch., for Central Ch., New Orleans, La.

Cambridgeport. Jr. C. E. Soc. of Pil-
grim Ch., for Student Aid, Pleasant

TALI CNM ial ae te es es eee :

Campello. Sab. Sch. South Ch., for

Williamsture Acad., RY civics exch
Chicopee Falls. Second Cong. Ch.......
Ciltonville Cone Cha, 2. .e oc es
Cliitondale:, Cone Cn 2 ee ee

| Dalton. Mrs. Louisa F. Crane, for Knox

LUSE.. AACHEUSs GO weno os ee as bat
Danvers. Y. P.S. C. E., First Ch., for

JOPPA, LO eer eee. tease
Dover. Cone CH ek ce Sees

Easthampton. Payson Cong. Ch. $147.52;

First Cong. Ch. $44.96
Easthampton. First Cone Ch., for San~
CEC THAIAM Dee eee

r

13

59 99

15 20 es
14 40

40 00
66 86

4.90

603 76
7 25
3. 93

5 25

Io 00

8 00

8 22
-3 97
I 00

26 14

Io 00

74

Everett. First Bapt. Ch., /or Glou-
GCSLCL SCH, CUPPANOSIO IVA? ee iia
vere VM he cote sie wees
Beene at. A Friend, for Indian
WCU Pe te. Be Pai Dees CNS wera e we Oe
Framingham. .S. Class, for Williams-
CULE) sie Pree Ae hs eG ee
Pranislime Cong. Cho). sce. ston
Gilbertville. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for
WEUOCHE Ald HIS OS oe ea ccics eee

Globe Wallace. BH. PeGh 2 Le

Granby. Cons. Ch..adl3 cc

Great Barrington. Mrs. Mary Atwood,
Material for Sewing Class, Val. 1.5<,
Jor Dorchester Acad.

Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch...........

Groveland: Cong: Chi 35.77 8

Groton. Union Cong. Ch... 32.0605: soe

Hadley-3 Hirst'Conge Ch Gin ie aces

Haverhill) West Cong, Chic. cos

Haverhill. Unitarian Ch., First Parish,
Jor Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va...

Haverhill. A. P. Nichols, for Hort Ber-
thold, Ni D:. Indian Me. 2. ses

Haverhill. Ladies Sew. Soc., Bbl. C.,
Jor Pleasant Hill, Tenn.

Holden. Cong. Ch.,2 Bbls. C.and papers,
Ae Tougaloo U.

Holliston. S.S. Class of Boys, for Stu-
dent Aid, Talliadesa Cycste ae

Holyoke. The Ladies Prayer Circle, Sec.
Cong. Ch., for Central Ch., New
Orlegns Tit cee, ee SL eles poe

Huntington. Second Cong. Ch.and Soc.

Hyde Park. First Cong, Chee 2h: 055552

Hyde Park. Friends, for Student
Aid, LAMA ACLAG 65 Seen ie a. ia tue

Lakeville. A Friend, for Indian Schs..

Lancaster: Cong: Gh. GG ee

lenox. Gone Ch cs ese ee ie

Leverett. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.. .

Ludlow. First Cong: Gh... 5... aioe

gard Center. Cong. Ch.,Stereopticon

Ole eae mete es cue aioe cnc Cees

Teyn: Central Gone. Chia, occu

Byunheld) Cong. Gh. sais coe:

Lyousville,. Mrs: PisB: Smith. 2:0 3752.5.

Malden. Mrs. R. P. Kemp, 50; First
Bapt. Ch., 10.03; Th2 Universalist Ch.,
12.03 3 Saint Paul Episcopal Ch., 8.16;

. C. Burns, 5; Forest Dale Mission,
5, for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va.

Merrimac; First Cone, Chi... 342: oe

Methuen, First Parish Cong. Ch., adl..

Milford. Daniel Steward .........6...4.

Millbury. First Conge@hw.. 3.52...

Millis. Churehsof Ghrist. 5s /s0..0 0

Mittineague: - Cong. Chics eso

Mittineague. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., /or
Indian Educational Work seeceecivees

Monson. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for Mec-
LULOSH, GOES Ae eee Ca ee ee

Newburyport. Prospect St. Cong. Ch.,
Jor Model Cottage, Grand View, Tenn.
and toconst. Dr. C..C. Day, L. M...

Newton. Miss Cora C. Hood, for Stu-
deme Ala. Nalladesa Cisccci. e

Newton Centre. First Cong. Ch.........

North Amherst) Cong, Ch... 2080 6. . Bo

North Amherst. Mrs. G. E. Fisher, 20;
Whatsoever Soc., 15, for Student Aid,
TLESPE MTEL 2 0 PTE WO tiaras eats tas

North Amherst. Ladies M.Soc., Bbl. C.,
Jor Fisk U.

North Amherst. Two Bbls, Apples, /or
Marion, Ala.

Northampton. Ebl. of Cloaks, for W2-
mington, N.C.

Northampton. Mrs. J. S. Lathrop, for
Student Aid, Chandler Sch., Lexing-
LOT TOY NOUR as ou, a ee a,

Northampton, _Edwards Ch., Kings
Daughters, 2 Bbls. Christmas Presents,
etc.; First Ch., Dorcas Soc., Box Christ-
mas Presents, etc., for Lexington, Ky.

KECEIPTS:.

Notion, rin: Cones Chive vie. 3:
Raynham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc....
Richmond. Kings Daughters, for Stu-
CEE ATL, ASR ccs Ri ae ee Re
Royalston. Y.P.S. C. E. of Cong. Ch.,
Box Papers, for Tougalov U.
Salem); Crombie St.Cong. Ch..........
Salem. Tabernacle Ch. and Soc., to
const. DaniEL A. SUTHERLAND, L. M..
Salem, Crombie St. Ch., 7; Crombie St.
Ch. and S. S., 2 Bbl. C., for Welming-
COMMING Covet es Na eR ns 4
Saxonville. Edwards Cong. Ch.........
Shelburne Falls, Cong. Ch., to const.
Mrs. Atsapa EtprtpGs, L.M.........
Shirley Village. Ortho. Cong, Ch.......
Southampton: Cone. Ch.) 343 2.7.0.2%
South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch.........
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch.....
South Weymouth. Mrs. Wm. Dyer, for
Student Atd,A.N.andl. Sch., Thomas-
TLC GO. See es ky ENO Cs a cea
Springfield. Olivet Cong. Sab. Sch., 17;
Memorial Ch., 16.67; A Grateful
Christian, 10; St. John Ch., Stereopti-
con Col. 320 a cee peg nase ee
Springfield. Rev. B. Gilman, D.D., 20;
K. D. of Ruth, Third Bapt. Ch., 3, or
Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va........
cockbridge,.-Cong.Otia 0. 2. ee
Stoneham. Cong. Ch., to const. Mrs. E.
I RAIGHARDSON Is. Mio ar ce, 6
Stoneham. By Mrs. Worthen, Half Bbl.
C., for McIntosh, Ga.
Sunderland. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch........
Sutton. Ladies Bbl. C., for Tougaloo U.
Tewksbury. Cong. Ch., Stereopticon Col.
Tewksbury. Ladies Aid Soc. of Cong.
Chior Toliver Kaye i a
pee Rivers. Cong. Ch., Stereopticon

fo)
Waypole. Second Cong. Ch.............
Ware. Jr.C.E.S., for Indian M., Fort
BeriKold, ND eyes ee
Ware. Children, pennies contributed
during the year, by L. A. Tucker, jor
LUDA NEO a ee Ot
Ware. Miss C. B. Cutler, from her S. S.
Class of little girls, for Indian Schp..
Ware. Miss Medora R. Howard, Bbl.C.,
Freight Paid, for McIntosh, Ga.
Ware. Sab. Sch. Classof Mrs. S. R.Sage,
Bbl. C. and Bedding, for Tougaloo U.
Warren. Y.P.S.C.E., for Student Aid,
Dorchester Acad.,8; L. B. Soc., Large
Case and Box C., for McIntosh, Ga....
Wayland. Y.'P. S-C. B.,.4,and Bol,
for Walminoton, NiO. oo ices canes
Wellesiey Hills; Cong. Chu 7.1.
Westboro. Ladies Freedmens Assn,
FOP LEO LE cea ae oe ee

- Westboro. Ladies Freedmens Assn,

BblvG.: :, lb. B. Sec.) Box of Coand
Christmas Presents, for Saluda, WV. C.
West Boxford. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Box
Sewing Material, for Lexington, Ky.
West Brockfield. Cong. Ch
Westfield. Second Cong. Ch oe
West Medway. Third Cong. Ch........
West Newton. Second Cong. Soc.......
West Newton. Miss A. M. Hobbs, for

Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va.......
Weston. Town Hall Col., 17.52; Mrs. E.
M. Knox, 5; Mr. Hastings, 5, jor
Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va....... 5
West Somerville. Day St. Cong. Ch....
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. .....
West Tisbury. First Cong. Ch......... 5
Williamstown. Ch. of Christ, in the
WE Oaks... cea aes se ee
Whitinsville. Cong. Ch. and_ Soc,
1,085.50; Estate of William H. Whitin,
200, by Edward Whitin; Sab. Sch.
Cong. Ch., by Arthur F. Whitin, Supt.,

LOA SGA aR aU re eas tee Sine Gat MSR POT SOC I,4I0 50

Worcester. Plymouth Cong. Ch., 74.983
Eadies (of Plym. Ch. Aux; to
const. Mrs. Mary Jane WILDER
TOaMes 30.00r0 So ede coi kia Be

Worcester. Plymouth Ch., Ladies M.
Aux... by M<s. RK: P. Beaman, jor
MOLT VO oe scent soca es neh

Worcester. S.S. Class No. 18, Plymouth
Ch., 1000, for Student Aid, Ballard
TUR MACON MGR. ik occa ok eet poe

Worcester. Logan, Swift and Brigham
Env. Co., Case Envelopes, er
Straight U. 5

Worcester. Friends, 2 Bbls.C., jor-
Raleigh, N. C.

Womans Home Missionary Association
of Mass. and R. I., Miss Annie C.
Bridgman, Treas., for Womans Work:

$4,697 94

For Salaries of Teachers.... 310 00

pear briend )) 5 22.3 acer sane os Io 00
ESTATES,

Enfield. Estate of J. B. Woods, by Rev.

Robert M. Woods, Trustee... .-....0: .

Lawrence. Estate of Mrs. Maria Ten-
ney Benson, by Mrs. Ada T. Brewster..
Southampton. Estate of Miss Susan S.
Edwards, by Rev. H. L. Edwards,
BXGGutOts A. cia cock ek Seeing acieieleloe sei

$4,802 94
CLOTHING, BOOKS, ETC., RECEIVED AT BOSTON

_ OFFICE.

Chester, N. H. Ladies of Cong. Ch.,
Bbl. C., for Blowing Rock, N.C.

Mason, N. H. Ladies of Cong. Ch., Bbl.
C., for Wilmington, N.C.

Duxbury. Mrs. Almeda Ellison, Box C.,
for Andersonville, Ga.

Marshtield. Kings Daughters, Bbl. C.,
Sor Joppa, Ala. :
Roxbury. Eliot Ch., Mrs. B. F. Hamil-
ton, Pkg. Toys, etc., for Remington

Sta., So. Dak.

Westboro. Ladies Freedmens Assn,
2 Bbls. C. for Wilmington, N. C., and
McIntosh, Ga.

RHODE ISLAND, $183.82.

Ceitrar Falls, Cong Chvs ... s Sr akies
Chepachet:) Cong Che iio. ice ee
East Providence. Newman Cong. Ch.
to const. Dr. ELMER E. Morse, L.M...
Provadence, VR. S, Cor, of Cong. Chi,
for Willtamsburg Acad., Ky.........-
Providence. The Ministering Children,
Central Cong. Ch., for Student Aid,
UBS ENE OMS RRA GE SRS PEC Ace
Providence. Central Cong. Ch., jor
EET CED ORSON oes le OMe ee iat
Providence. Highland Chapel S. S. and
VY Baes. .E., for indian W., Fort
BEREROLE INE D).. S. ECLES See ee ch
Providence. Mrs. Sophia S. Doe, 5;
Miss Mary Fields, soc.; Mrs. O. H.
Haywood, soc.; N. O. Bowlby, soc.;

H. Harrod, 50c., /or Gloucester

Sek. (Ne iG NST RN IE OF OPE Pe
Providence. Sab. Sch. Central Ch., Box
Christmas Gifts, for Raleigh, N.C.

CONNECTICUT, $3,740.24.

Andover Cone Chetty. iti...

Berlin. Second Cong. Ch., 14:70; Jr. Y.
P; SP@sE. for Togecioo U. 1.00 Fe

Blackrock, Comes Onn ics) ee:

Bloomfield. Cong Ch......... Siriaas

Branfords Cong Chvand VsP. S.C. E.,
Jor Central Ch., New Orleans, La....:

Branford. Bbl. Bedding, etc., jor
Talladega C.

RECEIPTS.

Bridgeport. Park St. Cong. Ch. to
const. S. R. Priest, and Mrs. Davip
W.0OSTERY EMu er ee

Bridgeport. Gleaners Circle, Park Cong.
Ch., for Student Aid, Williamsburg
ACOA RY cee dele eke eee en

Bridgeport; -Y. PSC. . and L. Ae
Soc., 2 Boxes C., for Greenwood, S. C.

Broad Brook. Cong Gave 2.05. 5..%

Brookfield. Cong. Ch........ es ati

Canterbury. First Cong. Ch, jor

Moya Wier = et

Cheshizes SACPricnd e023 o0 0.7.28

Chester. Primary Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch.,
Jor Central Ch., New Orleans, La....

Clinton. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., for Moun-
CAtH VOTE ec ce: Mes eons ssi

Colchester. Mrs. C. B. McCall, /or San-
tee Indian Sch., 5.00; Mrs. Ely Gil-
leben hvog es eS

Columbus] Gong. Ch > 655 3. cb ne

Danielsonville. Cong. Jr. Y. P. S.C. E.,
Jor Central Ch., New Orleans, La.....

East Haven. Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss
Lottie E. Street, or Central Ch., New
OLAS LEE Be ee

East Wallingford. Mrs. Benj. Hall....

East Windsor. First Cong. Ch., in part..

Granby: South Cong: Chis. 55.2... 3:
Griswold. First Cong. Ch........ eee
Haddam. Cong. Chad. 2. as ae

Hadlyme.: Cong, Chica. :. eC

Hartford. Pearl St. Cong. Ch., 77.08; S.
C. D., 60.00; Park Cong. ch. 49.453
Windsor Ave. Cong. Ch., 31.45..... eo

Hartford. ' Friends, 12; Jewell Hall
Col., 10.26; Rev. Dr. Moore, 2; :
Hersey, 2, for Gloucester Sch., Cap-
PANOSIC, Voce Bs hoci a sey ote old wees

De ae First Ch., for Wilmington,
LV.

Pee c eee eee reese sens see eesceseeesere

M
Hebron; cV Pi 7S; CB by, Inez:
Potter, Secy.:. 05 Coes cee eke
Higganum. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch., to
const. DANIEL Brarnarp L. M......
Ivoryton. Mrs. J. E. Northrup, jor
Wiglotpetany NGC ecu cees 0e ce et ne
Ditchheld: (Sab. Sch Cong Chic... 22;
yire,: 3 Scala oe ee os
Madison.. Cong. Gh: . 3.2.6: Seleeuistsls Soe
Middletown) = first Chic. o.. 508 eo
Mystic. Conm Ch aus ieeiee eek
New Britain. First Ch. of Christ, bal. to
const., Mrs. ELten B. Boarpman, Miss
Mattic E. Pecx, Miss BERTHA Ban-
croFT, ARTHUR C. BLAKE, CHAUNCEY B.
ANDREWS and Jamegs S. Nortu, L. Ms.
New Britain. South Cong. Ch., toconst.
Cuarctes W. MarsuHatit, E. ALLEN
Moore and Miss Lotrit B. Bassetrr
Te MBS ite e eis eee nee he Saale wes
New Haven. Dwight Place Ch.........
New Haven. Golden Links Soc.. Dwight
Place Ch.,. for Student Atd, Fisk U....
New Haven. Emmanuel Bapt. Ch , /or
Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va.......
New Haven. Mrs. J. H. Burton, Pkg.
Mats and Cards, for McIntosh, Ga.
Norfoik. Mrs. Mary A. Curtiss.:.......6
Norwich. Park Cong. Chico. Bo
New London. Second Cong. Ch.,2 Bbls.
and Box C. and Christmas Gifts, for
Raleigh, N.C.
Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch., Quar. Col...
Plainfield. Miss Sarah E. Francis, for
Student Atd, Normal Inst., Grand
VACUIMCNI Cora See tia ts Cae vais cat
Plymouth. (Cong. hi2s see eee
Pomfret. Womans Aux. First Cong.
Ch., Bbl. Bedding, for Talladega C.
Putnam.7; second Cous., Che tn... ce
Sound Beach. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. (1 of
Which for Talladega C.) oi vscus vi haves

75

81 40

11 08
18 87

13 00

I oo

5 00

Io oO

I0' 00
17 86

5 0

25 00

4050

II 50

II 00
18 41

L02

217 98

26 26

8 00
5 00

2 00

30 00
Io 00
20 00
20 00

28 24
21 43

I40 00

97 64
138 25

18 00

8 03

I oo
5 00

32 52

10 00
I5 00

62 39

I5 00

i Nia is ean

ies aia

76

Sound Beach. Jr. Y. P. S.C. E. of Pil-
grim Cong. Ch., Bbl. Goods, yor King's
Mountain, N.C.

RECEIPTS.

South Britain. Cong, Ch. 2012) T625
et Glastonbury. Cong Ch. and Sab.

CUR oye are tale Solera lee fons s sheen tare olme isles ccc fen I 2
South Killingly. Cong. Ch. and Soc.... ! =
South Norwalk. Cong. Ch... ....5.2.2 88 if
SOUCRMORE ae 20 00
Stamford. First Cong. Ch. Jr. V.P.S,

C.E, for Central Ch., New Orleans,

CEI cs ge oo ae 5 00
stratford. Cong. Ch... .:. . 14 00
Suitiela, 7 irst Cong: Ch... 7.56.25 18 15
Talcottville. Cong. Ch... wee 80 00
Thompson. Cong. Ch..... 2x 98
Mornington. 2First Cong. Ch...0...35) 5 42
Waterbury. W.B Soc. of Second Cong.

Ch., for A. N. and I. Sch., Thomas-

DHE GAO i Be ae ee i558. 2 25.00
Waterbury. Miss C. B. Hill, for W27-

winston, IN. CO. os. Safin Ube eee ce 8 00
Westchester. Gone. Cho. Il 45
West Hartford Pirst Ch, 2 2 G.10
Westville: + Cong7Gh. 3) 6 se eae 15 00
Whitneyville. Dorcas Soc. Cong. Ch., 2

Bbls. C., for McIntosh, Ga.

Windsor. {First Cone. Gh 7. 33> 5 00
Wolcott. Cons Ch 40. IO 00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch. and Soc... 15 50
Woman's Cong. Home Missionary Union

of Conn., Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, Treas.,

for Woman's Work:

Canton Centre. Aux........ I5 00

Danbury. Y. L. M. S., for

Student Aid, Williams-

buge Arad. Kyo. 3 00
Greenwich. Second Ch., Mrs.

Halls S.S. Class, jor Stu-

dent Aid, Conn. Indl. Sch., :

Thomasville, Ga....... es0 5 50
Nangatuck. L. A. S., Sor

Student Aid, Grand View,

CUTE ce cas a eee I00 00
Notiglks Aux 22) I5 00
Plantsville. Ladies Indl. Soc. 35 00
West Hartford. W. H. M.

Aux., for Student Aid,

Thomasville, Ga.......... 7 00

180 50
$1,826 16
ESTATES,
New Britain. Estates of Cordelia Stan-

leyand Sophia Stanley, by Mrs. Julia

a Loomis; Executrix: 45.8 5 546 58
Norfolk. Estate of Mrs. Mary Langdon :

Porter, Fred E. Porter, Executor.... 947 50
Rocky Hill. Estate of Rev. A. B. Smith,

by Rev. Elijah Harmon, Executor.... 120 oo
West Hartford. Estate of Nancy S.

Gaylord, F.H Parker, Executor... . 300 00

$3,740.24
NEW YORK, $1,282.26,
Alfred. Mrs. Ida F. Kenyon............ 5 00
Batavia. Mrs. F. P. Rice, for Moorhead,

DEES eee ee Ca asics sae as 5 00
Brockport. Intermediate Dept. State

Nor. Sch., for Marion, Ala...... ..... 4 00
Brooklyn. Lewis -Av. Cong. Ch., jor

indian MM, Oahe SD. 82 00
Brooklyn. Sab. Sch. Clinton Av. Cong.

Ch., for Student Aid, Pleasant fizll,

TON a Phe ne 50 00
Brooklyn. South Cong. Chi...).....5) 4I 04
Brooklyn, South Cong. Ch., Mission

Sab. Sch., for Central Church, New

OF ans, Lac Se aos 25 0c
Brooklyn. Y. P. S. C.E., Ch. of the

Pilgrims, 5; The Wallace Class, Ch.

of the Pilgrims, 5, for Deer Lodge,

LENT, aoe ere cs eo Io 00

Brooklyn. Y. P.S. C. E., New Eng. Ch.,
for Student Aid, Talladega C.........
Canandaigua. Bbl. and Box of C. and
-_ Supplies, for Kings Mountain,

Candor, Bbl. C., for Moorhead, Miss.

Castle iG ASDaviss sao 9 ee

Chataugay. Joseph Shaw... .... .....!

Clifton Springs. , Jor Kings Moun-
POURING Ce a eee ne

Corona. Rev. W. J. Peck, Pkg. Litera-
ture, for Beach Inst.

Coventryville. Children of S., S., for
Central Ch., New Orleaus. La... ok
East Bloomfield. Bi, CE. for
Central Ch., New Orleans, La.........

Elmira. Mrs. S. D. Jennings............ :
Honeoye. Y.P.S. C. E. of Cong. Ch.,
Jor Central Ch., New Orleans, La.....
Jamestown. C.E.Soc., by Mrs. S. A.
Baldwin, bal. to const. Miss Emity W.
PHOUMES [o20ME, foe en
Jefferson. Mrs. C. Nichols .............
Le Roy. Miss D. A, Phillips... -/:......
Little Falls. Miss F. D. Emerson, or
Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va.......

Lockport. East Ave. Cong. Ch. Y. P.
Sh . | a eR ioe ey ore
Middletown, First Cong. Ch............
Middletown. North St. Cong. Ch., for
Freight to Grand View, Tenn..+......

Mount Vernon. B.B. Adams....... ..
Napoli. Ladies H. M. Soc., Sab. Sch.
Penny Col., for McIntosh, Ga.... 06.04.
New York. W.E. Dodge, Educational
Duind 07 Vadladesra Ce ee
New York. Miss Phebe Ann Thorn, 100 ;
Mrs. I, S. Kennedy, 10, for Gloucester
Meee, CADPANOSIC VQ i Sr hoe
Boe ie Broadway Tabernacle Ch.,

RUSNG S204: 6 0. Ot) 90: Ne wining le 2 6.c0 16 6) 9% sania se eee e

Missi. 1. PARsonst le: Me ois
New York. Rev. John B. Devin, Sor
Jonesboro, Tenn...... Bo eee se se eas
New York. S.S. Class of Christ Cong.
Ch Mount Hope: 38. 4s oso
New York. Miss Grace H. Dodge,

Pkg., Cards and Calendars, for Beach
ast.

Northfield. Union M. Soc., Cong. Ch...

North Hannibal, , Sor Storrs Sch.,

AWANLA: Gdieincs Be ee
Orient, Sab. Sch Cone Ch: 422
Owego.

Cong. Ch., Ladies M., Soc.,
10, Y, BS. C.K. to, Sab, Sch. Cong.
Ch., 5, for Central Ch., New Orleans,

RS D9 6010) 86084 O10 0) 0 700s 0a ale le 6 las lee she gi cen

Le VY. P. S).C) Be jo:
Jr. .P. S.C. E., 70c., for Central Ch.,
New Orleans La. ee
Pekin. | Miss Oliva Root..:0J.-7) 32,3
Poughkeepsie. L. M. Soc., Box of C.,
Sor Williamsburg Acad., Ky.
Riverhead..; Congs@h <.o:: sn
Rushville. First Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls. Pota-
toes, for Greenwood, S. C.
Sag Harbor. Charles N. Brown, toconst.
Miss Vircinia O. B. KErEseE L. M......
Sidney. {Gongs Ch 44.55.55.
Sing Sing. Mrs. Cornelia E. Judd, 30;
Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, 30, for L. Ms...
Syracuse. Y.P.S. C. E. Goodwill Ch.,
Jor Central Ch., New Orleans, La.....
Troy.. Mrs. George Harrison, for Glou-
cester Sch., Cappahosic, Vae.e.creseaes
Utica. Bethesda Welsh Cong. Ch.......
Warsaw. Ladies of Cong. Ch. Bbls Ge
for Wilmington, N. C.
Westfield. Box of Bedding and Table
Linen for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.
Woodhaven. Goodwill Inst., First Cong.

Ch., Box of Papers and Mags., for Salu-_

da, N.

5 00

5 OO
4 50

10 00

5 00

2075
IO 00

IO 00
II 50

5 00
5 00

7 29
53 00

5 00
50

4 00

250 00

IIO 00

95 00

30 00
5 00

5 00

13 50

5 00
I5 00

25 00

10 70
I 00

Io 16

32 00
13 25

60 00

Io 00
5 00

uh

a3 ae

Germantown.

RECEIPTS.

Womans Home Missionary Union of N.
Y., by Mrs. J.J. Pearsall, Treas., /or
Woman's Work:

Brooklyn... Ea: Mi. 5.25... 955 00
Brooklyn. Ch. of the Pil-

eis: WE NM Th 1500
TIOMCE S29 25s vaceses ces occ 457
tomer: (AUX iu .05 63s. 2 se I7 50
Honeoye: Aux -......... +2 2: 12 00
Tthaca. W.M.S..... ae 20 00
Ithaca. W.M.S.,/or Central

te Ne OR... on eee 25 00
New York. Broadway Tab. :

Soc. for Wi W...2225.--25- 6 00
Poughkeepsie. S.S. for Cex-

Eeal CHA INs Ovoewe's sees 28 00
Syracuse. W.M.S., 14; Ged-
des Ch., Willing Workers, 5. 19 00.

NEW JERSEY, $441.45.

Cinnaminson. Mrs. A. Lippincott, 5;
Mrs. A. Wood, 5; Mrs. Wood, 5 ; Miss
Emily Harris, 1, for Elbow Woods
Chapel, N. D., Indian M

Haddonfield. Mr.and Mrs. B. M. Roads,
20; R.& S. Nicholson, 6; John J. Glo-
ver, 5; for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic,
Va .

cece coc et eee

a a
cece cette cee eee eee eee

ct
Jersey City. Mrs. Celia G. Dickinson, for
Tillotson C : :
Newark. First Cong. Ch. (of which Y.
P.S.C.E., by Miss Emma A. Camp-
field, to.

dian
Newark. Belleville Av., Y.P.S.C. E.,
for Central Ch., New Orleans, La....
Vineland. Jr. C. E.Soc., First Baptist
Ch., for Student Aid, TalladegaC...
Westheld: Cong. Ch........-...........
Westfield. Ladies Soc., 2 Bbls. Bedding,
or Macon, Ga.
Woodbridee: First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch.,
jor Central Ch., New Orleans, La ...

Womans Home Missionary Union of the

N. J. Assn, by a: Denison,
Treas., for Woman's Work:

Renae First Cong. Ch., W. H.

M. Soc., for Schp. Talladega C..

PENNSYLVANIA, $223.19.

Coudersport. Mrs. Mary W. Mann.....
Falbeaees: Mrs. P. R. Burgess jor
Gloucester Sch., Cappahoste,Va......+6
Second Presb. Ch., 153
Box of Books, 3.75 for Freight, for
Blowing Rock, N.C :
Guys Mills. Simeon O. Fitch ...... tee
Mount Carmel. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch....
Neath. Sab. Sch. sere Ch eo ee
i Iphia. James Burson, for Studen
i = : x 4) Friend, 20, for_ School
Books, A Friend, 1, jor Blowing
ROC ING Ce ives s ect en hc a cme ae oe
Philadelphia. Mrs. C. A. Corlies, 10; Miss
S. A. Robinson, 5; Miss Ann Fry, 5; C.
H. Ross, 50c.; i" S. Truman, 39c., /or
Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va.. ....
Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch.... ....
Scranton.
; Miss Sarah Newlin, for Gloucester
Sch., Cappahosic, Vad.errsererssecsiveee

OHIO, $626.72.

Akron, First Cong. Ch. to const. JosEPH
Batpwin L.
Bellevue. first Cong: Ch... 2s ee
Cincinnati. Miss Mary McEmery, /er
Tilloeon Coes c: Eh eee canes cet rae

see een e cers eee

era leeeeeagedae ne 6 5 60 oi, .

Sab. Sch. Plymouth Cong. ~

202 07

31 00
25 00
44 25
Io 00
5 00

4 00
220 00

2I 20

65 00

5 00
I oo
18 75
I 50

5 co
6 29

26 00

30 87
8 00

Cincinnati. Miss Dorothy Papenheimer,
2; Miss Maggie Portune, 1.50, for Tz/-
lotspn Cun Bawa. Be a oo oou Gees

Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch.........

Claridon. A. A. Witmort, 30, to const.
himself L.M;. Cong: Soc, 24.35: <1 .252-

Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch.,
118.25 ; Plymouth Ch., 54.26 ; Archwood
Ave. Cong. Ch., 8.05; R. J. Thomas, 4..

Cleveland. Hough Ave. Cong. Ch., /or
Central Ch., New Orleans, La.. ..+++-

Cleveland. Pilgrim Ch., for Central
Ch, NG, OZFCANS, eda aa aoe ss se

Elyria. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C., /or
Wilmington, N.C.

Genevar7Gong. Chu. .s.ciss... Ne

Lenox, 2V,-2.S. . B. Gong-Gh..... 2.

Marysville. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls.
C., for Andersonville, Ga.

Mount Vernon. First Cong. (Oil saree.

North Kingsville. Mrs. S.C Kellogg, 5,
Jor Indian M., and 5 for Beaufort,
WV. C.; Miss Eliza S. Comings, 5.--.....

Norwalk, Y.P.S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.,

ee i i i ee erry

Oberlin. - Second Cong. Ch... .. 2.2.3...
Oberlin, -YP:S.
Sor Student Aid, Talladega C..........
Oberlin. L.A. Soc., Second Cong. Ch.,
Box and Bbl. Household Linen and
C.; Mutual Benefit Soc., Bbl. C.; Roy S.
Dorsett, Box C., for Blowing Rock,
Cc

Painesville; Cone Ch. adl 3.2... sa:
Ruggles. Cong. Ch. to const. WiLson J.
STURTEVANT LO Miig oc eae
Saybrook. Ladies Missy Soc., Bbl. C.,
Jor Marshallville, Ga. :
Strongsville. Cong. Ch. for Alaska M..
Toledo. Central Cong. Ch., 40.25; Second
Cong: Ch., 6: Harriet C. Plage, 1; -..
Wakeman. Cong. Ch. and Soc..........
Wellington. Edward West..............
West Richfield. Miss Eunice Alger, 10 3
Mrs. Esther R. Alger, 2.50, for Boys

._ New Hall, Pleasant Hill, Tenn........

Ohio Womans Home Missionary Union,
by Mrs. Geo. B. Brown, Treas.:

Cleveland. Euclid Ave., for Student
Aid, Lincoln Acad., All

Flealing ON Cr ie oes 20 00
Mount Vernon. --S.5..5:... 5 00
North Olmstead. W.M.S... 5 00
Rochester. *A Friend.... I 90

INDIANA, $6.00.
Angola. Mrs. Quick and Friends,

Bbl. and Box dried Fruit and Carpet-
ing for Kings Mountain, N.C.
"Perr braute.: Mis Ps Noyes:... 32s ee.

Womans Home Missionary Union of
Indiana, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Treas., for
Womans Work:

Indianapolis. Mayflower Ch.........

ILLINOIS, $1,136.73.

Abingdon. Cong: Chis i co50 4c.
Alton,
Aid; Gregory [USE a tees ss bas
Belvidere. Cong. Ch.. noe
Chicago. Cash, 100; Leavitt St. Ch.,
6.84; First Cong. Ch., 101.02; New
Eng. Cong. Ch., 91; South Cong. Ch.,
60.62; to const. H. Russell Smith and
E. L. Burchard, L. M's; M.R., 25;
Rev. Henry Willard, 20; Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Kilner, 10; Brainerd Ch., 8.04
Union Park Ch., Mrs.G. S. F., 5; 1. N.
CAM, Si ertiia yee ee ee

IO 00

Chicago. Miss Emma Willard, for Stu-
dent: Aid. Valladesa Ce) he

Ci@ |, birst one. Ch.,

Mrs. I. D. Gilman, for Student.

184 56

IO 97
Ses

20 00
5 oo

I5 00
7 00
51 72

5 08

5 00
30 00
I 00
47 25

25 24
IO OO

I2 50

25 34

Io oO
5 00

78
Chicago. Mrs. A, Hulburd, for Judian
MM, Independent, N.D..cosccecssseess

Danville. C. M. Young, Sewing Ma--

chine jor Fisk U.
Dover. Sab. Sch: Cone. Ch ...........
Galva. Cong. Ch.........2+++se-0e- noe
Glencoe. Cong. CUNT STR Sa ae
Granville. heerful Workers......
dea Grange, Cons. Ch. 2.2... ccc c esos
Lee Center. Cone. Ch, adl ic. ies es
Howells Vv 1G, Lutz is os ee Sas
Moline birst Cong, Ch. 2.6.6. us
Morrison. Miss Ellen S. Brown........
Oalkslags, HirstCong. Ch. 3... i.4. :
Oak Park. "Mrs: J... M. Baker; Box
Brushes and Combs jor Blowing
Rock,
Payson. Cong. CRe See ei ee
Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens............
Princeton. ' A Friend, Sor Tillotson C.
Princeton. W. M. Soc, Box and Bbl.
Goods for eae U.
Ridgeland. on SC. fi5: Sab. 3seh;,
GONG OCD teste ites e's oss aces
rere Falls. facies s Soc., Box Bed-
ing for Lexington, Ky.

Rockford... First-Cong. Ch... ...22...2...
Sublette. Y.P.S.C.E., by Mrs. E. T.
Leith, Treas., for Santee Indian Sch..
Toulon. Y.P.'S.C.E. of Cong. Ch.....
Wheaton. College Ch. of Christ........
ia First ate Ch., 44.65; Mrs.
Co Dowd; 52-1 see 6s nce cee

fino Semmaira Bone Niedionacy

Union,. Mrs.. L. A. Field, Treas., for
Woman's Work +

Aurora New Eng. Ch. Jr.

Siatexetaue ip 0-4! Siete aaa: bicites s crane Oo 00
Chicago. New England Ch. :
Sy ena ien cameos be 5 00
Elgin. WoM Bo IO 00
Evanston. W. M.S... ic... I5 07
OakPark, Ws M. Seo .2..40 1525
Rantoul. WMS. 7. 5 00
Rockford, Second Ch.W. M.
De I coe ec hae 5 00
us Se First Ch. W. M.
Seas age See ee 5 00

MICHIGAN. $855.97,

Alpena. Mirst'Cone. Chistes.

Ann Arbor. First Cong. Che. ....24...,

Canton. Geo. R. Woodworth... .....

Charlotte. First Cong., Ch.

Charlotte. Carmel Cong. Chis Miss H.
E. White, 1.75, for Student Aid, Tal-
VARESE Co. COLA aa ae eee

Clinton. Cong. Ch., 8.79; Jr.C. E. Soc.,
by Thomas H. Warner, 2.50 ..s.seseees

Coloma, Cons. Chu, (i... 246... weeseeee

Detroit. First Cong. Ch ewete ae

Detroit. W. M. A. of First Cong. Ch. by
Mrs. Helen A. Clark, from sale of Coins,
the gift of Marie Kuchera, of Konig-
gratz, eae Bohemia...

Detroit. Y.P.S.C. E. of Fort St. Cong.
Ch., Bbl. C.: Woodward Av. Cong. Ch.,
Bbl. C. for Greenwood, SC.

Dexter, ennis Warner........+ eee
Grand Haven. First-Cong. Ch..... ABE
Greenville. Cong: (Ch 42.609. SA

Friend '-6 250005 (ea eres oe ee

Homestead. x P.S.C. E., by Mary A.
Sill, See o4a0n Sas ee ee

Manchester. Cong. Chr see
Nahma and Isabella. ee eases
Olivet: -W: G TU. Cong: Ch, se Stu-

dent Aid, Talladega Ci... s- 0.55

Olivet. Box Books, etc., jor Lexington,

Ky.
Pott Huron. First Cong. Ch mete ter wee
Romeo, Cons, Ghai ce. RH

RECEIPTS.

South Haven. S.S. Class Cong. Ch., for
Student Aid, Talladega C
Tecumseh. James Vincent..............

_ Traverse City. S. Anderson, Lot of S.S.

Papers Sor Talladega C.

Womans Home Missionary Union of
Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas.,
Jor Woman's Work

Addison. W.H. M. Sha ee ais
Wenzonia. Wo PS; C, Be... 3 00
Greenville; . WM. S....- 5 00

yr eceaey: Church Workers :
ties Vinten e ses Soe oe ee I5
Unio City. Wee McS:: 6 25

ESTATE.

Ann Arbor. Estate of Dr. Corydon Ford
by Sryant Walker, Admr...........34:

IOWA, $385.14.

Algona. Mrs. H. E. Stacy, 13; Miss
Clara Zahlton, 11, for Student Aid,
IGA OR ERA aa Bg A SRS

Belle;Plaine. Cons. Chui... 0... sae

Cedar Rapids. Band Willing Workers,
Box C., etc., by Mrs. L. R. Munger, for

CBeach Inst.
hester Center. -Y.P.5.C.H., by J. We
Wrener: Clive: toe. cere oo ee

Des Moines. A Friend, for Wilming-
Cape IN CeO ile ee Res ces uae Cee

Des Moines. Plym. Cong. Ch., 2 Bbls.
Material for Sewing Rom; Plym.
Rock Miss. Scc., Pkg. Hall Supplied
Sor Talladega pis

Dunlap... Cong. Chet... .... 65...) ee
Hativille, Cong. Ch. oi ..3.6cs ee
Eldora. Mrs. Hardin, 1; Jr. E. Soc., 1,

Jor Student Fhe Fisk G cee eee
alt. Cong) Ch fin. bee cee, ee

Grinnell. gen Sch. First Cong. Ch., to
const. Mrs. Appiz M. Preston L. M.
Independence. S.S. Class Cong. Ch., by
Miss Grace Potwin, for Student Aid,
Beach gist ee oe eee
Independence. Mrs. O. Potwin, Pkg.
te and Pkg. Literature for Beach
mst
Kingsley... YP. Ss: & E., by Mrs. Carrie
Snyder, for Pleasant Hill'A cad., Tenn.
Lansing. Rev. A. Kern ......-7-.-.-
Le. Grand. 2 WV. Craigs ee ee
Lincoln: Cong Ch. .2 o005. twee
McGregor... Cong, Ch i20 eS srs
Montour. Cong. Choi) .5..0 eee an
New Hampton. Y. P. S. C. E. Cong.
Ch., for Student Aid, Talladega C....

Oskaloosa: Cong;: Chu is. s5 ee
Red Oak. Cong. Ch. 20 sid. esc ae
Rockford. Cong. Ch. and Soc :.

Sionx City. Hirst. Cons. Ch. -.... ces

Sloan. Bbl. of C. and Bedding jor
Pleasant: Hill, Tenn
Postville. First Cong. Ch., for Student

Azad. Meridian, Missi Pe
Waterloo. Miss Lucy Leavitt, for Tad-
Ladeoa Cx issn dessa oe eee coe nes

Iowa Womans Home Missionary Union,
Miss Belle L. Bentley, Treas., for
Woman's Work:

Decorah. W.M. aged 995
Barvilies W.M:3S oa 5 00
Lewis. Jr. Y. Pp $ C. Ee yor,

Schp. Beach Inst.......... 6 00
Madison Co. First Ch., Mrs.

1; W. Brownell, 0.05.02: I 00
Magnolia, -W..MiS......3 I 25
Westfield. Mission Band. . 4 85

)

HoH
Hu NHNUDNDD

8

SH8838

oe 7

Beloit; Mirst Gone. Ch.cadl 22.2.4...
Beloit. Miss Hobart, for Tages Aid,
Talladega C1... 11. ences ce eee eee
, Ae Cong. Chios: B. . vy
Cong. Ch., 15...--..eee0es es
Evansville. Cong. Ch. A ose ec csib
Janesville. First Cong. Ch........---++
Madison. Pilgrim S.S., 2; Miss Bee-
croft, 1 ; Miss Hemwood, soc., for Stu-
dent Aid, Wg laaeea Cis. Ge aes
Milwaukee. oe iam Cong; Ghee...
Reaews, GConoi@h. 2.0... aes
Whitewater. Jr. c E. Soc. Cong. Ch.,
Jor Student Aid, A. N. and 1. Sch.,
Thomasville, 7 eee O38 seen

MINNESOTA, $139.76.

Beaver Creek. Christian End. Soc., 6;
Ellen R. aes 5.65, for Blowing
Je1G:8) NE ONS Rr USS te ene

Detroit. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch..

Faribault, See Gh,; 3: Sab. Sch.
Con, Ch., BNC G Sau cae a eA eee ee

&.
Graceville. ob Sch. Cong. Ch., for [x- |

LEED ELA Se oS Re
Minneapolis. Wm. H. Norris, ad; az
Fee Lake Ch., 5.80; Vine Cong. Ch.,
New Pend. Mrs. E. E. Sos ih

ndian M., ce east ND...
New Ulm. Cong. Che ee eae.
Northfield. First Gone. Ghie. 6.52...
Rochester. Sab. Sch. Cong. Ch..........
Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch........

MISSOURI, $72.40.

Cameron. Mrs. Hiram Smith............
Cameron. Rev. D. E. Todd, for Student
POT LOUSAOO Oo ke oe eee 68s Se

Kidder. one Chins a... ames :

Saint Joseph. Tabernacle C. E........
Saint Louis. Harlem Immanuel Cone
Ch., 6.55; Ch. of the Redeemer, 1 45..

ARKANSAS, $4.00.
Little Rock. First Cong. Ch.......+0+<-

KANSAS, $62.15.

Lawrence. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Goudy..
Leavenworth. Hirst Cong. @h..........
Smith Center. First Cong. Ch.. sees
Stockton: ;Gone. Ch.) sss
Topeka. Ladies First Cong. Ch., Bbl.
Bedding /or lee Miss.
Wakefield. Cong. C Rs. es obs

Ce $18.10.

New @Gastle.. Cone @iey 2.0... 22.
Santee. Pilgrim CES x Bier os,
Steelburg. Sab. ae Maer Oh ele:
Vork, [irst Cong Gn. =... -: Ati ogee

NORTH DAKOTA, $16r.68.-

Fort Berthold. S. W. and Rev. C. L
Hall, too; Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.,

29-18, for lee Woods Chapel, N. D.,

S. W. Hall, 30, for [ndependence, N. D.

Woman's Home Missionary Union of
North Dakota, by Mrs. Mary M. Fisher,
Treas., Sor Woman's Work :

Cummings. *Christian Soldiers.

SOUTH DAKOTA, $08.55.

Alexandria, 0A Priead....0..:2.5..
Clarks Gong: Che ie ace ce ee
Saint Johns. Miss F. E. Hunnewell,

FOr EUNAT ht Me oe ee ai
Yanktown. Cong. Ch............ + ee

t

Con

RECEIPTS.

COLORADO, $13.50.

Denver. Miss Caroline Danielson, or
Lndigh Wie er ee

OKLAHOMA, $4.20.
Guthrie. Plym. Cha 2 .... 2

UTAH, $5.00.

Salt Lake City. Ladies Missy Soc.,
Phillips Cone Ch. , for furnishing Chi-
nese Mission Home, Salt Lake City..

CALIFORNIA, $127.93.

Campbell Gono, Ch 8... se
Haywards >= A-Mriend 7)... 2......4%.
Los Angeles. Mrs. he Ce eddy. 3...

Martinez. irs. J. Mo Weeks............
Poway. Rev. H.C. Abernethy........ a
Ventura. Hirst Cone Chi... ...,-.-.

California Womans Home Missionary
S0c., by Mrs. J: M:, Haven, Treas.,
Sor Woman's Work:

ae WW Ee MSOC, 5 ac eee nes

OREGON, $3.50.
Forest Grove. First Cong. Ch..........

WASHINGTON, $34.00.

Garfield. Bertha M. Archer, for Moun-
LAT WOU Riche ess ede ie re
Seattle. Miss Lily M. Guion, Sub. to
* Golden Rule ve Talladega C.
Skokomish. -ConesCh. 3.3 gc
Tacoma, East Ch:, by Rev. A. J. Smith

Washington Womans Home Missionary
Union, by Mrs C. E. George, Treas.,
Sor Woman's Work:

Washington W.-M. U2 5... an.

DISTRICT.OF COLUMBIA.

Washington. Mary Buckman, Kinder-
garten Material /or Macon, Ga. :

MARYLAND, $80.09. _

Baltimore. First Cong. Ch., 75 ; Second
Cong. CRE ee iste

VIRGINIA, $183.34.

Freeshade. H. oa Jor Gloucester
SCh., CAPLENOSC VAT a Ss ae
Gloucester. Gloucester Educational
Club, for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic,
ae i ee te
Gloucester. Gloucester Sab. Sch. Quar-
terly Convention, 28.89; Morning Glory
Bap. Ch., 5; Bethel h. 4.20, for Glou-
cester Sa. Cappahos OV ass. aie
Mathews Co. Mr.and Mrs. B. W. Dab-
ney, for Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic,
LE PERS POON earciny Si Ne g a TRCE MU S) Pape ea
Sassafras. Mr. and Mrs: George Leigh,
Sor Gloucester Sch., Cappahosic, Va...

Roanes. James H. Brooks, for Glouces-

ter. Sch., Cappahoste, Va....... 4 aso

KENTUCKY, $2.co.
Red: Ash: Cons Gh ites. 7.2 ee: tees

TENNESSEE, $118.00.

Gtand View... W.: Ht Clark, Bbl. ot
- Apples for Andersonville, Ga.
Memphis. Mr. and Mrs. i, S. Minken,
Sor Ki tndergarien, mata Sos ison

American (Missionary Assoctation,
PRESIDENT, Rev. Amory H. BraAprorp, D.D., N. J.,

Member of Executive Committee, ex-officto.
Vice-Prestdents.

Rev. w. F. se teiue LL.D., Colo, Rey. Henry C. Kine, D.D., Ohio.
Assoc. Justice Davin J. BREWER, LL.D., Rev. H. H. Procror, B,D, Ga..
Washington, D.C. Judge Roperr R. Bisiop, Mass.

Recording Secretary, Rev. ASHER ANpDERSON, D.D., Mass.
Auditors, Epwin H. BAKrr, Conn. Joun E, Lescu, N. VY.
Executive Commtttee.

for Five Years. For Four Years. For Three Vears.
CuaArtes A. Hutz, Chatrman, James H. OLIpHANt, Joun B. CLark,
GrorcE E. Hatt, WILLIAM H, Warp, BENJAMIN F. BLarr,
_JOuN M. Hotcomnr. Epwarp P. Lyon. Puitie S. Moxom.
for Two Years. for One Year.

WILLIAM W. McLANgE, Lucien C. WARNER,

LEWELLYN PRATT, FRANK . FitTcH,

G. Henry Wuitrcoms. DEWITT S. CLARK.

CENTRAL OFFICE:
287 FourtH AvEenug, New York, N. Y.
Honorary Secretary and Editor, Rev. A. F. BEarp, D.D.
Corresponding Secretaries,

Rev. JAmEs W. Cooprr, D.D., Rev. CHARLEs J. Ryper, D.D.
. W. Hupparp, Treasurer.

Secretary of Womlin' 5s Bureau, Miss D. E. EMErson.
DISTRICT OFFICES:
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District Secretary, Rev. Grorcz H. GuTTerson.
field Representative, Mrs. IDA VosE Woopsury.
_| Cuicaco Orricr, 153 LA SALte Street, Cuicaco, ILL.
District Be ree, Rev. W. L. fein D.D.s
Emeritus, Rev. Jos. E. Roy, D.D.
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nd os new oneaehaid in Ns aan oe a

DECEMBER
1907

Ameriran
Missionary

Bike warp and woof all destinies

Are woven fast,

Linked int sympathy like the keys
Of an urgan vast;

Pluck one thread and the wel pe mar;
Break fut one

Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
Through all will run.

John Greenleaf Whittier, natus Dec. 17: 1807

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et

Paki omigeacat MONTHLY EXCEPTING JULY AND AUGUST - BY THE
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CONTENTS|

PacE
WHPTIER AND: DROTHERAOOD, (6ociescy-0) 5) cantare teens ay uaeninaaeces roueesegibuens ce et
PLD WHITTIER ANNIVERSARY cccce di ecetedgescursestrracucsupente Cee ipenNireiUunteiess cia he asun 307,
Pe Nome Ge 8 Dene ah anayueedes esc 308, 309
A Great Day, AT FIOWARD UNWERSITY..00..4 02002050 ae Pvseleiant doce Csss ead sper ishe 309
Tie EXPERIENCE OF A FAITHFUL GEORGIA PASTOR ii ioisscseseeoubiabesconsrsd 311

_ EXCERPTS FROM ADDRESSES AT THE ANNUAL MEETING... ..scceceeseecese eee eene 312-325
Minutes OF THE SIxTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING..cccscscsscssscsssssssssssessscssvsvsveess 326
Le LE Ea nia a ON ee 331
Wee ei rise Pas GaebinuS Chis ce Lveuvh el Gabi niemn pay sani shAyGMAMh en lan MWesrReyyAGubs) 335

WANTS.)

1. A steady INCREASE of income to keep pace with the

- imperative demand of work. This increase can be reached

only by vegular and larger contributions from the churches,
the feeble as well as the strong.

2. ADDITIONAL BurLpincs for our educational institu-
tions are needed to receive the constantly increasing num-
ber of students; Mrrtinc Houses for the new churches we
are organizing; More Munisters, educated and devoted,
for these churches.

3. Funps ror InpustriaL DepartMENTsto purchase
implements for agricultural training; to erect shops and
furnish tools and materials for instruction and use in the
mechanical arts, for carpenters, blacksmiths, tinmen, harness
and shoemakers; and to supply the girls industrial rooms.

4. Our work in Porto Rico calls for a school building at
Santurce. It is necessary to successful work. This is

- exceptionally important.

CHAUNCEY HOLT, PRINTER, 27 Vandewater St., N.Y,

THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Vor. LXI DECEMBER, 1007 No. 10

WHITTIER AND BROTHERHOOD

aw) | is no part of our purpose to celebrate Whittier as a poet.
We simply bring our chaplet of Forget-me-nots in re-
membrance of the Christian reformer and of the legacy
which he left for human brotherhood.

Country-born a hundred years ago this month, the son of hard-
working, upright Quaker parents ; country-bred, with a meager train-

ing at country schools, the young man inherited the spirit of earnest

sincerity which characterized his after years. Asa boy he wrote that
he would rather have the memory of a Howard, a Wilberforce anda
Clarkson than the undying fame of a Byron. When he was about
twenty years of age he left the farm and the plain New England
farm-house to work out his life. With journalism as his chosen call-
ing, for twelve years, when the duties of his vocation took him to
various places, he held fast in them all to the tranquil faith in which
he had been reared, while his love of freedom and justice and his
sense of the brotherhood of man grew with his growth. The wrong of
slavery made him its unwavering opponent, and his gentle, loving
and sensitive nature expressed itself in his holy wrath against all
oppression.

When he was twenty-six years of age he published an essay en-
titled Justice and Expediency ; or, Slavery Considered With a View
for its Abolition. At twenty-nine he became Secretary of the Ameri-
can.Anti-slavery Society, and soon after was editor of the Pennsyl-
vania Freeman. This was ten years before the American Missionary
Association came into life. At once he faced hostile forces. Riotous and
abusive mobs confronted him, but his courage stood like one of the
old oaks of his boyhood homestead in the stress of stormy seasons.
As an editor of an anti-slavery journal he was among the foremost
in advancing the claims of his despised little party, but it was when
he recognized that God had made him a poet to sing the songs of
righteousness and human brotherhood that he arrested the attention
of the nation and became an acknowledged former and. reformer of
MR. H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION,

287 FouRTH AVENUE, NEW YORK.

I enclose Fifty Cents for one years subscription to THE AMERICAN

MISSIONARY.

Town and State

Street and No

306 WHITTIER AND BROTHERHOOD

public opinion. With a divine fervor he consecrated his genius tc,
this end, and soon set the hearts of multitudes beating in unison with
-hisown. Quaker though he was, his verse was martial music. It
stirred the blood as it stirred the conscience. It was not the poetry
which called for students to discover its meaning, or for scholarly
elubs to ponder and puzzle over its mysterious possibilities. If
Whittier was a minor poet he never struck such a minor key as to

make commentators a necessity. His verse never got away from the

hearts of the people. Vigor and virility declared the poet to be
through and through a brother man. It was a song of the heart
when he sang for the slave:

My God, can such things be?
Hast thou not said that whatsoever is done
Unto the weakest and thy humblest one,
Is even done to thee?

In that sad victim then, -
- Child of thy pitying love I see thee stand
~ Once more the jest-word of a mocking band,
Bound, sold, and scourged again.

The great national crisis came, and the questions between freedom
and slavery could no longer wait. It was then in the heat of the first
conflict Whittier wrote : Ce

The storm bell rings, the tempest blows,
I know the word and countersign,
Wherever Freedoms vanguard goes,
Where stand or fall her friends or foes,

I know the place that should be mine.

Shamed be the hands that idly fold,
And lips that woo the reeds accord,
When laggard Time the hour has tolled
For true with false and new with old,
To fight the battles of the Lord.

*O brother blest by partial fate
With power to match the will and deed,
To him the summous comes too late
Who sinks beneath his armors weight
And has no answer, but God speed.

We wait beneath furnace blast, he wrote in the fearful struggle
of Civil War, but when the victory came, his inspired Laus DEo

came with it, which has been called one of the few really great and

lasting contributions to literature.

It is done! >
Clang of bell and war of gun,
Send the tidings up and down,

)

~~

A WHITTIER ANNIVERSARY 307,

How the belfries rock and reel !
How the great guns peal on peal!
Fling the joy from town to town!

With the nation saved and slavery dead, the next vital question
yet to be settled is that of human brotherhood. Here Whittier again.
sings the prophecies of the future:

Like warp and woof all destinies
Are woven fast,
Linked in sympathy like the keys
Of an organ vast ;
Pluck one thread and the web ye mar:
Break but one
Of a thousand keys, and the paining jar
Through all will run.
Just without the town where stood the plain little frame house
which was so long his home, beneath a dark cedar in Gods acre, his
mortal part was laid, but the immortal life in which he believed does
not rest there. His songs of freedom may be temporal, but the in-
fluences which Whittier set in motion and those which he accelerated
when destinies of men and of races were in question, have passed into
life and will go on repeating themselves in the generations of the
future as the heirs of the ages come to their inheritances of liberty
and universal brotherhood. No one can tell where nor how far these
influences may go. No one can measure them.
We who are committed to the unfinished work to which the
prophet-poet gave his genius may well pause upon his century birth-
day and gladly and gratefully cherish his memory.

A WHITTIER ANNIVERSARY

SECRETARY CHARLES J. RYDER

q HE American Missionary Association has prepared an in-
teresting and unique form of service in commemoration of
the One Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of JoHn
GREENLEAF WHITTIER. This occurs December 17, ek
We give the outline of the service in this magazine.

Whittier did much through his poetry and life to arouse the tation
to a sense of guilt for the crime of slavery and to sound the bugle
call of universal freedom under the Stars and Stripes. Perhaps no
man through literature did more than he to resist the encroachments
of the aggressive slave power and to touch the heart of the nation
with the feeling of sympathy for the oppressed. Whittiers poems did
much to prepare the way for the work of the American Missionary
Association. It seems especially appropriate, therefore, that this ae

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sociation which, through its schools, churches and missions, is doing
so much to secure the intellectual emancipation of this great mass of
our fellow citizens, should provide for this birthday celebration of the
poet of freedom.

In view of these facts, we suggest to the churches, literary clubs

and mission circles the celebration of this One Hundredth Anniversary

of the Birthday of John Greenleaf Whittier. The program and form
of service which have been prepared will be sent to any who may
desire it at the expense of five cents per copy. This simply covers
the price of publication, and we shall be very glad to furnish any
number that may be desired at this rate. Will not the friends de-
siring to use this service write as early as possible that their orders

may have immediate attention? Some other date may be selected for ~

the commemoration of this event. It need not synchronize with the
date of his birth. We shall be glad to furnish the programs at any

time when pastors or others who have charge of public ep eerings ean -

use them to the best advantage.
PROGRAM
_ Whittier Anniversary

1. Sketch of Whittier. y
Hymn: O Love, O Life, Our Faith and Sight.
2. Conditions of the Country in Whittiers Time.
Hymn: Immortal Love.
3. Lpoch-marking Poems of Whittier.
Epoch of Slavery.
Epoch of Heroism.
Epoch of Freedom.
4. The Inspiration of a Great Purpose.
Hymn: I see the wrong that round me lies.
5. Poems of Religious Fatth.
Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind.
* All as God wills Who wisely heeds.
. OQ Love Divine, whose constant beam.
fe
Our churches as a rule are preparing their
Preparing the Schedule list of benevolences for the coming calendar
year, The last of November and the month
of December are important periods in these adjustments for the years
work, The A.M. A. is surely worthy of a place on the schedule of

gifts from every one of our churches. Some can give but little, but |

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surely this great work among eight distinct races which mingle in our
body politic should receive some recognition and help from every
church in the land. If churches that already contribute and have the
A. M. A. on their list give with generosity to this work and the non-
contributing churches add their possible gifts, we shall hope to reach
the conservative amount suggested by the National Advisory Com-
mittee of $250,000. The appeal comes to every pastor and church to
see to it that the schedule of benevolence this year surely contains the
American Missionary Association.
st
NOTE
The printed slips enclosed in this number are simply reminders to
those whose subscriptions have expired and who would prefer to sub-
scribe for the magazine. Though the printer has enclosed it in all
the numbers, it is intended only for those who will be pleased to re-
ceive it. Weare glad to send the MissIoNArRy free to life-members,
pastors of contributing churches, and superintendents of contributing
Sunday-schools when requested to do so. We hope that many will
make the AMERICAN MISSIONARY glad at Christmas time by the re-
newal of their subscription for 1908.
st
Rev. Dr. Wilbur Patterson Thirkield was installed
A Great Day at = President of Howard University November the
Howard University 15thlast. Not many institutions could command
; such a distinguished gathering as honored this
reception. The Chief Executive, the President of the United States,
the British Ambassador James Bryce, Andrew Carnegie, James R.
Garfield, Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Elmer E. Brown, U. S..Com-
missioner of Education, Dr. Henry G. Satterlee, Bishop of Washing-
ton, were prominent with others in sharing the exercises. Nearly
all the speakers emphasized the remarkable progress which the colored
race has made in the forty years since tt enjoyed freedom.
We hear a wail from the North now and then that the Negro has
not made good. When the appeal is made to meet the greatest.
problem before the American people with the help that the strong
owe to the weak as a duty of nature and much more of grace, too
often the discouraged and pessimistic piping is returned, but the
Negro has been free forty years and he has not made good. This, of
course, is an imported echo of such patriots as. Tillman and Vardaman
et 1d omne genus, which by iteration and reiteration has secured a
310 5 A GREAT DAY AT HOWARD UNIVERSITY

hearing and to some degree an acceptance in the North by those who
know no better but who ought to know better. The President of the
United States, however, declares on the platform of Howard University
that the progress of the race has been better than good. Said he:
The colored citizens of the United States have accumulated property
until now in the short space of forty years they have $350,000,000
worth of taxable property, and during the same forty years have made
for themselves homes, until there are 500,000 owned and occupied by
the colored citizens of our country. Citizens! that is what President
Roosevelt calls the people whom the South has so largely disfran-
chised. Citizens who have made better than good.

Ambassador Bryce said that the progress sometimes seemed to
be slow, but that the upward movement of the race has been much
more rapid, owing partly to the environment of an enlightened civili-
zation, than that of the Anglo-Saxon race, which lived for centuries
in a savage state in the wilds of Western Europe. He added: Is it
not a supreme necessity for the race that there shall be the best
instruction provided for those who are to he its clergymen, its phys-
icians, its lawyers, andperhaps most of allits school teachers?
The men who fill these professions will very largely guide and mold
the coming generations. Through them, and better, perhaps, through
them than in any other way, the best American influences will find
their way among the masses of the South.

_ Andrew Carnegie, in earnest words, declared the same confidence
which Secretary Garfield, with the eloquence of his distinguished
father, reasserted. Each one testified to the remarkable and hopeful
advancement of the Negro since slavery, and pleaded for the higher
education for those who could secure and use it. :

President Thirkields inaugural was a noble argument for Chris-
tian education and privilege. Democracy, said he, bears witness
to the capacity of the downmost man. There are in American history
numberless examples of the fact that the common man has stored up
in him uncommon powers for highest life and service to man. Lin-
coln, Grant and Douglass are conspicuous examples.

This is the meaning of equality, not that every man in capacity
is the equal of every other man, or that there is any such thing as
equality of gifts and powers, for it is a truism that Liberty leads to
inequality peer on natural differences of capacity and application
among men. It is rather that in a democracy every man has a right
to equality of opportunity, may claim equal right with every other

man to a free enfoldment of all the powers and possibilities that are.

stored up in him; that there are diversities of gifts, but one spirit of

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freedom ; that no artificial barrier shall be placed in the way of any
man; that in civil life there shall be not a spirit of repression, but of
broad and generous recognition. Howard University stands for just
this.

The needs and claims of the Negro for such an education as will
draw forth the entire man to his best is grounded in his humanity, he
continued. The demands of modern sociology are for a social con-
sciousness that shall be characterized by a threefold conviction of
essential likeness of men, of the mutual influence of men, and of the
value and sacredness of the person. This means that all men should be
sons of God and brothers of their fellow-men; that no race is left
without witness of the divine in mental and moral capacity ; that men
are so bound up together that education must be for all, and that the
personality of every man is sacred.

The impressive exercises will long be remembered, and as a wit-
nessing and a testimony in behalf of the colored race were a complete
reply to the ignorant lament that the Negro has not made good.
The men on the Howard University platform knew well what they

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That five millions of the Negro people have been uplifted within
forty years, while thousands of them are now uplifting others, may
encourage us to carry the same kind of: salvation to five million more
who wait for it and sadly needit. These yet unreached need our light,
our Christianity, our patient, generous, saving help. We do not believe
that our Christianity will fail to respond to this need.

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: Seven years of effort here have begun, we
The Experience ofa _ believe, to show results. When we came
Faithful Georgia Pastor here there were only two persons going out
of town toschool. This year there are fifteen,
and every one of them has come directly under our influence, and in
all but three or four instances we have had the privilege of selecting
the school and making all arrangements. Most of these have gone
away to get what our school here could not give.

There is not a single family in our church that does not own its
own home and many of them have been bought within the past few
years. There is remarkable activity among the Negroes in securing
property. The leading real estate dealer recently told me that the
Negroes were buying property more rapidly than the whites. We
have preached incessantly along these lines.

The only letter carriers in BE four of them, are negroes and all

were saying.
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belong to our church. They secured their places under the Civil
Service Regulations, over many white competitors, and our school
and church influence ran through it all.

The real awakening in spiritual matter seems to have had to wait
upon the awakening along material and economiclines. I have often
become discouraged because I did not see our people coming more
rapidly to the ideals of the Gospel as I understood them and preached
them. The Negro people, to be sure, have always been spoken of as
very religious, and for many years I shared the belief of my race
that we would have heaven all to ourselves; but one does not work
long before he finds that so much religious zeal is lacking in knowl-
edge ; there has been little true conception of the relation of religion
and conduct.

My preaching, pastoral advice and correction have all combined to
further dissatisfaction with the old life and to produce a spiritual
awakening, and I firmly believe that our little membership is slowly
learning the meaning of the declaration, Righteousness exalteth a
nation.

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ear Caan maT the AnnuaL MEETING of the Association in Cleveland all of the addresses,
| without exception, were able and impressive. The excerpts and condensa-
tions below give but a partial idea of their value and power, but we are
sure they will command attention.

ihe first article discussed was,
President Amory H. Bradford, D.D. We believe in the universal
The Creed of a Philanthropist brotherhood. It was stated

that there is a tendency to be-
little and forget the standards which our fathers uplifted. The ease
with which the children of the Pilgrims allow the ideals of their
fathers to go down is pitiful. A strong plea was made for the fre-
quent emphasis of the universal brotherhood, for this is a compro-
mising generation,

The second article was, The best culture and opportunity is none
too good for the poorest in humanity. Believing this, we have gone
to the rice swamps and the sugar plantations with the same kind of
training which makes white men manly, and have never failed to find
in large numbers those who respond to our confidence. To the people

without education, religion or opportunity this Association has taken ~

schools, colleges and the potent influences of the noblest of American
men and women. They have given manual training, domestic arts,
languages, literature and ethical ideas. We have insisted that the
best is none too good for our poorest. If this Association is worthy

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of the praise it has received, it is because without fear or favor its
missionaries have believed and practiced the truth that the best in

training, religion and opportunity is none too good for the poorest in

humanity.

The third article was, The worst may sometime be made the best.
Every civilized people has had its era of barbarism. Civilization is
the monopoly of neither white nor black. The voices from the long
silent ages with no uncertain sound declare this. Our work is with
those who have never had opportunity. Those who have never tried
to uplift them have no faith in their possibilities, but those who
have had large experience are surest of success. Not yet fifty years
have elapsed since emancipation, and bad as many of the colored
people arethrough neglectas a whole, they have made more prog-
ress in the same time and have reached better conditions than England
had reached fifty years after the Roman conquest or than Germany |

had reached in the days of feudalism. Let the Negro, the Indian, the

Chinaman have an opportunityto be men; if they fail then, the
failure is theirs, not ours.

The fourth article was, America for all its people and all its people
for America. No nation can live and prosper when any large pro-
portion of its citizens feel themselves unjustly treated. Essential is
the consciousness of the enjoyment of equal rights and privileges.
One-tenth of the population of America is colored. It will never be-
come a majority, but it is large enough if antagonized to hinder im-
mensely the wheels of progress. They have faults and also great
possibilities. If they are treated unjustly they will be enemies, but
otherwise they make faithful friends. Ten million people smarting
under a sense of injustice would be an awful drag upon the progress
of any nation.

From its earliest days I have been familiar with the leaders of
this Association. Even as I speak I almost catch the light of their
faces and hear the echo of their voices. They seem to be addressing
those who have taken up and are carrying on the work which they
began. They ask us to be loyal to the ideals which they served and
to which they gave their lives. If their creed is our creed, and their
self-denying devotion is repeated in us, all the citizens of our Republic
may sometime realize their unity and be one. The articles of our
creed therefore I repeat, as follows: =

** We believe in universal brotherhood.

We believe that the best in training and opportunity is none too

good for the poorest in humanity.

We believe that the worst in men may be made the best.
314 JUSTICE DAVID J. BREWER

We believe in America for all its people, and in all its people for
America.
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spoke mainly of the race problem. The
Justice David J. Brewer uplift of the colored race through Chris-
tian education, though not the only object
of the interest and care of the American Missionary Association, was,
he said, its principal work, because of the numbers of the colored peo-

ple and their peculiar relation to the nation. The numbers attested

the value of the work, for surely anything which is uplifting one-
ninth of our population must be of profound interest to all. Many
of the vast multitudes pouring into this Republic, said Justice Brewer,
are racially cold-blooded and selfish. Not a fewcome tainted with the
spirit of anarchy and are willing to destroy all social order in the hope
of personal gain out of the wreck. These immigrants become citizens,
as we are citizens. Negroes, he said, were firm believers in social
order. Anarchists and assassins of the type of Czolgosz and Guiteau
were not found among them. In the struggle which may be ex-
pected to come between order and anarchy, may it not be that these
people, grateful to the nation for their liberty, and to the good people
of the land for their uplift in knowledge, purity and social standing,
will prove themselves a mighty force, upholding law, order and the
supremacy of the nation? Stranger things have happened than that
these people, crushed and wronged for generations, should become at
last strong defenders of the nation and the community at whose hands
they have hitherto received mainly injustice. They are here as citi-
_ zens. Whatever temporary restrictions may be placed upon their ap-
proach to the ballot box, the time will come when all barriers will be
broken down and they will enjoy everywhere the full rights of citizen-
ship. But ignorant citizens are the prey and the sport of every dema-
gogue who appeals to their passions, and if one-ninth of our citizens
are so exposed the whole life of the nation is.in peril.

TI do not know in what special manner the uplift of this people
will bring blessing tothe nation. I only know that until you blot out
the words of the Master, Unto one of the least of these my brethren
ye have done it unto me, the path of duty is plain, and the result
may safely be left with Him who holds the nations in the hollow of
Hishand. 5 7

God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
How good is coming from the uplift of the colored race may not
be obvious, yet it is clear that great injury will result from a failure

IS HUMAN BROTHERHOOD PRACTICABLE? V3r5

to uplift. They are here. They are here as citizens. Only the up-
lifting power of a Christian morality can be depended upon. The
principal work of the A. M. A. is religious. It is a Christian associa-
tion, and as a missionary among these people this Association is doing

a work of incalculable value in their uplift. If any one may say the.
work is too great for us, remember that the everlasting arms of the
Almighty are with us, and failure is an unknown word in the diction-
aries of heaven, and let the Masters words, Inasmuch as ye have
done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it
unto me, be kept ringing through the chambers of the soul, lest
we forget, lest we forget.

of

No one doubts that although the phrase
does not occur in the New Testament, yet
human brotherhood is a great fact, a
great law and a great passion which Christ
first brought to light and first awoke in the hearts of men. Nor can
it be denied that during the history of the Church of Christ the law
has been ardently and abundantly obeyed. There have always been
those, whether few or many, obscure or prominent, who have cherished
the love of humanity in Christs name and have put that love fully
and nobly into practice. It is true that the Roman Church believed it
necessary to segregate those who gave themselves ardently to the re-
ligious life from those whose hearts were touched with a cooler
flame or whose eyes had not seen the whole glory of the divine life.
The former were expected to be brothers and sisters, in the
whole meaning and measure of the word, to all human beings;
while the latter might still carry on, as a mundane necessity, the
arts of government and war, of commerce and culture, with their
rivalries and hatreds, their selfish greed and their sinister methods.
We of the evangelical churches deplore this arbitrary division among
believers in Christ. We urge that the moral law as Christ would have
us fulfill it, cannot be measured off into sections, all of which some

Is Human Brotherhood

Practicable?
Prof. W. D. ineken ne, D.D.

- may obey and only some of which all must obey. The law of love

can never be understood or carried into effect unless it is apprehended
as a universal principle, addressed to every will, and as a living prin-
ciple which spurns the petty rules of dead consciences and works in
freedom upon the facts before it. But, on the other hand, we must
acknowledge that we of the evangelical faith have, without saying
that any class was exempt from the full demands of the law of Christ,
at any rate learned to expect that certain classes will manifest their
obedience more openly and more fully. We are disappointed and in-
316 IS HUMAN BROTHERHOOD PRACTICABLE?

dignant if we hear of a foreign missionary whose attitude and habits
are not those of one who practices the law of universal brotherhood.
Hence, also, we deeply honor and admire those who become teachers
and missionaries among the Negroes of the South, who cut themselves
off from the society of white folks that they may bring the love of
Christ to their black brothers and sisters. That is to say, the ques-
tion, Is Human Brotherhood Practicable?? must be answered first
ofallina strong and triumphant affirmative. And the proof of it lies
here, in that since Christs day there always have been those who ap-
_ plied that principle to their own lives, with unimpeachable sincerity
and with uncalculating surrender of self. In our own day they are
actually more numerous and not less devoted than at any period in
the history of the Church. * ~- * = - * . a as
What then are we to do as practical men and men who in the
Church of Christ are striving to hasten the full day of the brother-
hood of man? What shall we do to hasten its coming? There are
great features in our programme about which I believe that the
Church of Christ must become absolutely clear and untiringly per-
sistent if it would fulfill its task. The first has reference to public or
political situations and actions. There the Church must insist on
justice. Some would use other words. They would plead first for
pity or sympathy or mercy. For me that is too sentimental and soft
and weak. Justice is apparently hard and cold and mechanical. But
it was a marvelous discovery of the Hebrew prophets when they came
to see that the righteousness of Jehovah was the basis and fountain-
head of His mercy. And they saw it so clearly that they appealed to
His righteousness for their own deliverance from guilt and sin and
national disaster. So is it always. Justice when stern, applied over
the whole field of public life, to every man of every race and condition
in life, will speedily spell itself out in syllables of charity and kind-
ness. It is only safe in dealing with the broad issues of public life to
act on great principles and let your feelings alone. Therefore, let
justice be demanded by the Church for every human being whose feet
touch American soil. And let us not be daunted by the argument
that justice begins at home, that we must be just to our own race, our
own people, our own class, our own family first. It may be that
charity begins at home, but I believe that justice always begins from
home. If a man is just to his own family at the cost of another man
and his family, he is not a just man. And ifa nation is just to its own
people at the cost of the honor and rights of another people, it is not a
just nation.
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and tangled woods of a dark world. It is not easily blown out : it is |

easily carried everywhere, and everywhere it helps you best to see
how things actually are and what roads lead to destruction. There-
fore let the Church of Christ stand always and in all things for sheer,
unmitigated, glorious justice. . * = - pe _

The third and last weapon which the Church of Christ must use to
promote the brotherhood of man is the preaching of the Gospel of
Christ. To some men that sounds weak, to others it means hypocrisy.
See, these last will say, here is the world dying for lack of
brotherhood. Classes are divided, nations at war, the world covered
with wrong. And then men utter the old, weak cry, preach Christ!
They do not mean to promote brotherhood. They are hiding their
cold and hollow hearts behind an ancient and dishonored mask. And
yet we say it is because we know that in the name and cross of Christ
the very power of God is still at work among the hearts of men. We,
too, are men of flesh and blood and of like passions with our brother

"men, but we have found this true and we have staked our lives upon

its truth. We have given up, each man his own career, to this one
great task. We believe that men are morally transformed when they
receive upon their minds and hearts the whole force of the redeeming
love of God in Jesus Christ. They become as new men. They must,
if the event has been typically real with them, they must love whom
Christ loves, and he loves all men. They must seek to save those
whom He seeks, and He seeks all men. They must do justice and
courtesy to all men towards whom He would do the righteous thing
and the gracious thing, and He would do that for all men. If, then, so
far as the Church can persuade men to come under the whole power
of Christ, so far the wondrous dream of a human brotherhood will be
brought out of dreamland into mans waking life.

It is in this sense, through these means, and with that end as

. hope, that we must answer our question, Is Human Brotherhood

Practicable, with a second and strong affirmative. Practicable because
God intends it, practicable because Christ died for it, practicable be-

- cause through a morality renewed by Christ in man, man can make

that brotherhood real. * - ic ia : ss ig ** -

The man who catches even a glimpse of what the brotherhood
means tastes in that very moment the bliss of Gods love and Gods
peace. And he who in the midst of all this weltering world of bitter
hearts and shattered hopes, lifts a hand to free one slave, or speaks a

- word to purify one darkened soul, or makes one real and costly gift to

bless mankind, he must feel in the holy spirit of that hour his kinship
with God the Father and Christ the brother of us all.

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knuckle down to the physical universe? We simply do not know yet
how far it will prove plastic to moral effect; therefore we will make

ideal. Within this new world we have seen the objet vision of the
Gospel which compels us to look beyond individual salvation to the
actual and active contacts of redeemed men in the Kingdom of God.: the hypothesis of faith, He hath put all things under His feet.

The impact of these two immediately forces race-feeling out of its a | Is there other ground of hope for anybody? Is Anglo Saxon sal-
naive instructive character and compels it to forge weapons. Slave- a vation based on the shape of the skull? Was science crucified for
holder theology believed in heaven for human chattels, mercantile phi- | you, or were you baptized into the name of anthropology ? dranstem
lanthropy thanked God for souls new-bornin India, the old mission- and futile in the universe, without a single demonstrable clue to its
ary evangelism converted a heathen and left the institutions of Turkey mystery, pleading Who shall change this vile body that it may be-
or China to stand the moral shock and take the social consequences ; come like to His owt glorious body according to the working whereby
but convert a heathen at home and American institutions have to . He is able even to subdue all things unto Himself, shall I falter at
stand the moral shock and take the social consequences. What these ~ the color of the skin ?-

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consequences are race-feeling clearly discloses. You cannot evangel-
ize a man and then shut the door of human fellowship in his face.
Within twenty-five years, I venture, no American with a shred of
honesty will dare engage in foreign missions unless race-feeling in
America is conquered. These comparatively insignificant race-con-
tacts will inevitably follow the spirit and fashion of the massive, per-
manent and significant contacts within the national life. We've got
to face the social consequences of asking men into the family of God.
The very missionary impulse is at stake in the struggle with ascend-
ant race-feeling ; for missions in the modern world must mean the
participation of men in common civilization. Whether we shall evan-
gelize at all is to be determined Zeveunder the stars and stripes. * *

We shall never understand the white South until we realize that
thousands of earnest Christians there believe that there are such inex-
orable processes, and that attempting to raise the Negro above his
natural station is contending against the purpose of God. They cling,
therefore, with desperation to the policy of social separation, fearing
that any relaxation of it will mean inter-marriage and the deteriora-
tion of the white race. Suppose that, scientifically, they were right.
What would we do about it ?

Well, some of us would go on doing just what we are doing. We
do not for a moment admit that the trend of natural processes has to
be identified with the purpose of God. We do not find complete
moral unity in the universe as it stands. Seems to us theres some
real evil in it. Admitting that, we do not feel under obligation to
worship anything which looks like evil. Ina universe in which one
slaps a mosquito he reserves the right to take issue with the law of
gravitation, if need be. A big mosquito is not God; a big evil is not
holy. The bigger the worse! If cruelty has entrenched itself in the
processes of nature so much the worse for them. We will follow
Christ against evolution as quickly as with it. Who says we must

If, then, the most unfriendly anthropology should triumph over
the lower races; if they were scientifically branded unfit; if it were
certain that their participation in our civilization meant a lowered
physical standing, a decreasing mental capacity, an increasing moral
tragedy for all, we would still carry out the programme of the Gospel
at any cost. We may be beside ourselves, but the love of Christ con-

- straineth us, because we thus judge that one died for all, therefore all

died, and He died for all, that they which live should no longer live
unto themselves, but unto Him who for their sakes died and rose
again. Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh.

I have held in my hand the diary of Snelling. With a dozen Mi-
cronesians, including women and children, he was lost while making
an evangelistic tour of scattered islands, and drifted in an open boat
for fifty-one days. With vivid simplicity the daily entries tell how
they starved to death and kept the faith. As the end approached the
few survivors are practically crazy and lie in a delirium of worship,
praising God and gasping life away. Ido not count that an inglori-
ousend. I would be willing to have humanity finish earth like that!

Humanity is out on the uncharted bosom of the universe in as frail

a boat, a huddle of black, white, red and yellow. They do not know

that any of them will get to land. Science, least of all, guarantees it.
We live by faith.

The white man might thtow the colored man overboardthough
since the Japanese-Russian war, its a question who'd go over first;
but craft might prevail against numbers; the white man might take
all the food for himself; it might sustain life until land appears ; he
might reach his desired haven. Suppose he did?

In the splendor of morning the super-man stands in blonde glory
on a fairer shore than ever mantrod. He builds his new life as far
above ours as ours above the brutes. Intellect is ennobled, beauty
perfected, gentleness enthroned. Women are more glorious than any

322 MR. JOHN R. ROGERS

dream, and all men walk in kingly freedom. They look into each
others faces, white and glowing, and are happyuntil they go out to
meet the silent and unwearied contempt of the stars, to hear all voices
of the sounding seas cry Where is thy brother? to know that the
finest breed of human animals may inhabit a moral hell. Id rather
be on the open sea, starving with a huddle of colored folks, with whom

it is sweet and worthy to dieas Christ for sinful men. For not idly -

is it written, It is better for thee to enter into life halt and maimed,
than having two feet and two hands to be cast into the hell of fire.
And what shall it profit the Anglo-Saxon if he gain the whole weed
and lose his own soul ?

sf

There is abroad in our land to-day a spirit of.

Mr. John R. Rogers laissez faire. It says, Let the South solve its

own problem. Let the Negro work out his own
destiny ; if he cant survive, let him perish. Even many good peo-
ple are saying, For goodness sake, give us a rest; are we never to
hear of anything but race problems and world needs? Itis the old
answer of Cain, Am I my brothers keeper? Is the old spirit of

sacrifice that was in our fathers dead? I do not believe it; but is not:

the great need of the hour a revival of that spirit? Can we not give
in proportion as they gave? Last year the A. M. A. unanimously
voted to raise $250,000 from living donors. Have we done it? We
have not. And it is not because hard-working secretaries have not
done their best. Nor is it because we have fared worse than our other
societies. We have done better. And yet less than one-half of our
churches contributed last year to this great Society, and probably not
more than one-quarter of the six hundred thousand members of our
churches had any share in the great work of Bag? up the backward
races in this great land of ours.

Near the close of the Civil War there was a call made by President
Lincoln for more men. The village in which I lived had already sent
its quota to every call, and many of them slept on Southern battle-
fields. But when the call came there was a public meeting, speeches
were made, enthusiasm was aroused, and another contingent of young

men came forward and signed the roll. A few days later they marched
away, singing:
* We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand more,
Shouting the battle cry of freedom. :

Though a lad only eight years old, I shall never forget that scene.
Strong men wept and cheered as the tears rolled down their cheeks.
After all, what is there that thrills the heart and fires the soul like the

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MRS. MARY CHURCH TERRELL 323

Sauk of genuine self-sacrifice. If men could cheerfully march to in-
evitable hardship and possible wounds or death for their country
in 64, can we not give a little money for it in our day?

Was not the sunburnt boy who shouldered the musket and carried
the knapsack as true a patriot as the general who rode at the head of
the column. It was because there were millions of such boys that
to-day we have our glorious country.

Oh, my friends, if, with the same devotion and Ea icafice as
those soldier boys we Congregationalists could sing: We arecoming,
blessed Master, six hundred thousand strong, a new army would go
marching through Georgia, but not to devastate, but to exalt, and
bless, and beautify that great commonwealth. Then the treasury of
the American Missionary Association would overflow in streams of
blessing to these needy of the land, and the Kingdom of God would
be at hand.

t

Naturally the question will be asked by the

Rey. A. V. Woodworth churches, What progress has been made

Principal of Grandview among the Southern Mountaineers?? Em-

Institute, Tenn. phatically I reply, the schools have been
: and are centres of permeating influence that
have been leavening the communities about them. I recall the words
of aman who came back to Grandview after an absence of twelve
years. It does not seem like the same place, said he. Every-
thing is changed. These changes are going on constantly. There
has been great progress in educational ideas, and many of those who
are now helping to shape public sentiment have received their train-
ing wholly or in part in our schools. The progress in home-life and

_ in outward conditions is most encouraging. The windowless cabins

are giving way to more suitable and comfortable homes in many
places. There has been decided progress also in temperance senti-
ment, in respect to the feud spirit and in individual character. The
movement is not too slow to be distinctly observable. Much has been
accomplished, and what has been accomplished is our plea for con-
tinuance and for greater things. The present time is our opportunity,

- and the opportunity is great and full of hope.

st

The eloquent address of Mrs. Mary Church

: Mrs. Mary Church Terrell Terrell cannot be understood by the brief

extracts which we make. In her plea,
The Strongest for the Weakest, she says, I sometimes think that

324. BISHOP CHARLES B. GALLOWAY, D.D.

it requires a higher grade of courage and completer consecration for
the white man and woman to work for the amelioration of the hard
conditions under which colored people all over this land live than it
did for their parents to plead the cause for the shackled slave before
the war, or to adminster to his spiritual and mental wants immedi-
ately after he was free. eo a The South has poisoned the

mind of the North against the colored man, and has actually alienated

the sympathy and support of thousands who were formerly our good
friends. Those who were once our strongest advocates have almost
nothing to say in our favor and to our credit now. In certain
sections of our country few are more unpopular than our good white
friends who insist upon pleading their colored brothers and sisters
ee * * * - * 2 * oe

The time has now come, if it never came before, when money
alone will not do. There are hundreds of men and women in this

country to-day who sympathize deeply with my unfortunate race, and

who would cheerfully give large sums of money for any good purpose
in its behalf, but who could not be induced to set an example which
would count in the long run far more than their cash. I verily be-
lieve if the generous-hearted, broad-minded white people of the coun-
try would only realize how much they could do to smooth the rough
path which their brothers and sisters of a despised race must travel
by only saying a good word at the right time, many of them would

cheerfully render this personal service. . * ba i . i

TI wish to appeal to the white women of the North, to whom the
colored people of this country owe such a great debt of gratitude for
valuable service in their behalf in the past. I have always felt that
the white women of the North have never received the credit due
them for the prodigious amount of work they accomplished, both
before and after the war. What a great power for good the mothers

of the present generation might become if they would both observe

themselves and teach their children to observe the lofty principles of
justice, equality of opportunity and liberty upon which this govern-
ment was founded, and in which, I am sure, they themselves believe.
I beseech my sisters of a fortunate race to do everything in their
power to teach their children to judge men and women by their intrin-
sic merit rather than by the adventitious circumstances of race and
color and creed.
st

Agreeing with the statement that
Bishop Charles B. Galloway, D-D. education is rather a part of re-
ligion, than religion is a part of
education, I cannot understand how any intelligent Christian can be

BISHOP CHARLES B. GALLOWAY, D.D. 325

indifferent to the cause of Christian education. And if Christianity
is a world religion, adapted to and adequate for the uttermost needs
of all men, the education that makes most intelligent and effective
the purity of its ethics, the sanctions of its imperatives, and the
inspirations of its eternal hopes, should not be withheld from a single
human soul, And as the Negro is a man and brother, embraced in
the divine scheme of human redemption, we cannot exclude him from

any of the privileges and agencies that may fit him for service in the

Kingdom of God. It rejoices me beyond measure to see a man of
gifts and education consecrate himself with apostolic zeal and courage
to the uplifting of the Negro and his better equipment for lifes
responsibilities. Not because he is a Negro, but because he is a
human being, and in sore need of Christian sympathy and support.
And, on the other hand, I deeply regret that any one should be indif-

_ ferent to a cause so righteous and a duty so urgent. * * * The

point I wish to make is this: any argument against the Christian
education of the Negro, based on the comparative failure of present
methods, would close the door of every schoolhouse in the land and
vacate the high commission of every teacher of American childhood.
* * * But it is asserted that education unfits the Negro for indus-
trial efficiency, that a knowledge of books degrades his productive |
capacity and disqualifies him for service in the army of labor.

Why a result so exceptional and illogical should occur is not
apparent, but the fact is asserted with emphasis, and by many who
have the best opportunity for wide and wise observation. Others,
with equal opportunities, are insistent that exactly the reverse is true.
I suppose the real fact is, that education affects the Negros relation
to manual labor and his preference therefor and his skill therein quite
as it does other people. The true theory of Negro education, as I
have seen it everywhere, is insistent in this: the rudiments of an
education for all, industrial training for the many, and a college
course for the talented few who are to be teachers and leaders. * * *

* #* * The Gospel is for the redemption of the world, but an
insidious skepticism is being taught the people that would exclude the
Negro from any part or lot in the great plan of salvation. A doc-
trine that shuts the door of earthly hope in the face of any human
being will also close to him the gates of Heaven. More to be
deplored than the complexity of any political question or racial
problem or industrial condition is the infidelity that would discrown
the Son of God and fatally limit His gospel as the hope of the world.

More pernicious than racial prejudice is the rank infidelity that
would exclude any human being from the possibility of salvation
326 SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING

through Jesus Christ. Our Lord is a world redeemer or He is no
redeemer. If He has not power to save to the uttermost? He has
no redeeming power at all. The Christ of a single race is not worthy
of the praise of a single heart and hasnt power to save a single soul.

ste

SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MIS-
SIONARY ASSOCIATION,

Pilgrim Congregational Church, Cleveland, O., October 14, 15, 1907.

The Sixty-first Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association was
held in affiliation with the National Council of Congregational Churches in Pil-
grim Congregational Church, Cleveland, O., October 14, 15, 1907, the sessions be-
ginning at 8.30 0clock Monday morning, October 14th.

The session was called to order by the President, Rev. Amory H. Bradford,
D.D., New Jersey.

The prayer service, in which all sections of the many missionary fields of the
Association united, was led by Honorary Secretary A. F. Beard, D.D., New York.
The Quartet sang.*

It was voted: That the Rules of Order of the National 1 Council be the Rules
of Order for the sessions of the Association.

The Financial Report for the preceding year v was read by the eo Mr.
Hi. W. Hubbard. The Auditors certificate was read by Rev. Asher Anderson,
Recording Secretary.

Summary of the Treasurer's Report for the Year Ending
September 370, 1907.
FOR DETAILS, SEE ANNUAL REPORT.
RECEIPTS.

Donations from Churches, Sunday Schools,
Y. P. Societies, Womens Societies and

Tndividuale ee ee $195,060 OI
Donations, Conditional Gifts released...... 0,479 30
04 539 31
Legacies for Current Work: ..4.:...3... 7 $123,287 97
Z ue E destenated 22. 1,910 93
125,198 90
Income,Sundty Bums, 8,568 31
Income from Funds held by Talladega College Trustees 4,000 00
Income from:Estate oF Mrs. Julia E. Brick. 2.2... 0.40. 7,335 98
Taio. 52 63,590 19
Slater Fund, paid to Institutions....... ees ae 4,500 00
17,738 6
Debt Balance, Otis tom a $67,912 61 :
Less Balance onwear, 1600-7. .9.20..-... 4 12,961 43
Debt Balance, Sept. 40, 4007.65 os Marcas a ey 54,951 18

$472,689 87
* The Fisk University Quartet was composed of Prof. J. W. Work, James H. Myers,
Tenors, and Noah W. Ryder, Alfred G. King, Bassos, and sang at all the services.

pi

SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING goer

EXPENDITURES.
TMB Sota ws oie fy eee $281,535 19
Indian Wissions..- 25,264 63
Chinese and Japanese Missions............ 19,500 68
Porto Rice, West dndtesi05655 os 16,669 72
Hawatian = Wiissions. 30. gs 8,000 00
a, Sasnure 22
PUBLICATIONS.
Cost of American Missionary
Nigsore. 3 22.3. $5,196 28
Less Amount received from
Subseripiiogs <.....3 ss.6% 603 24
$4,593.04

Annual Reports, Leaflets, etc. $6,668 22
Less Amount Received from

Sate Of Leanets...- <2. 243 - 14 43
eel Wes $11,246 83
AGENCIES.
Eastern District District Secrenen
Field Representative, Traveling Ex-
penses, Clerk Hire, Rents, etc....... 8,074 94
Central DistrictTraveling Expenses.. 3,181 05-
Interior DistrictTraveling Expenses. 676 95
Western District District Secretary,
Secretary Emeritus, Traveling Ex-
penses, Clerk Hire, Rent, etc........ 6,774 26
W omans BureauSecretaty and Clerk
ee ee ee se 1,740 80
; $20,448 00
HoNORARY SECRETARY AND FLDUIOR, (526s ave e ss os 23 2,000 OO
ADMINISTRATION. ;
Department of Correspondence........ $10,327 00
Treasurers Department......:.. ee 5,780 00
Rents, ete. oc a ee oe 77803 03
$23,970 63
Less paid from Daniel Hand Income for its
administration 37.34.25... 5,000 00 :
$18,970 63
Annual Meetine.: 23.05 20362 ae ee $702 QI
Expenses of Estates........eeseeeeeeeeees 432 67
. ae oe
$404,777 26
Debt Balance, Oct. 1, 1900;2...4-5-2-.- ais eke oes 67,912 61
$472,689 87

Tue DantreL Hanp EDUCATIONAL ee FOR COLORED PEOPLE.
Income ACCOUNT.

Plance On Hand, Woe fet) 1000... 6 cs $4,995 08

Taromie bole ce 1000007 ea se cee eee 75,804 35
$80,859 43

Amount expended for the South................-.-4-- $75,617 98

Balance on hand and appropriated...............- 5,241 45
$80,850 43

Income for African Missions, paid to the ABC MS Sas ey

Oo ates eee e i a ee ees 227 84

HE May AV CISILY.. 0506s cove enteeet cece A 501.25

$4,652 96
328 SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING
ENDOWMENT Funpns.
Brown Fund (Income for Colored People)............ $50 00
Clara E. Hillyer Fund (Income for General Purposes). 50,000 00
Mrs. P. A. Livermore Fund (Income for the Pleasant
Hill Academy, Tenn.)......... fet ee oes 1,350 00
Joseph K. Brick School Fund (Income for Enfield,
WN, Cl. aoe ee a ee oo B.Oeg aoe
$57,025 QI
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR.
Current Work........-2+-+.+eseees ee ee $417,738 60
Income not in: Current Receipts..../.:2.5% 9) 3: 4,052 96
4 Daniel Hand Fund, not in Current Receipts. . 75,804 35.
Endowment Funds not in Current Receipts............ 57,025 QI

$555,281 91
RESERVE Lecacy ACCOUNTS.

Amount for Current Work, 300705. 2.0.6 ec, . $76,571 07

. . TCL Sis ess cag a 37,808 35
RESERVE CONDITIONAL Girt ACCOUNTS.

Amount-ftor Current Wok, 1007-08... 2... 05). $9,479 30

fs Mo PIOUS 00M se hoe 9,000 00

The Annual Survey was read by Mr. Charles A. Hull, N. Y., Chairman of
the Executive Committee.

It was voted: That the report be approved and printed.

The report of the Finance Committee was presented by Mr. John R. Rogers,
N. Y., who also addressed the Association upon the Need of the Hour.

Your Finance Committee beg leave to report as follows:

We find that following the practice of former years all financial transactions
have been checked each month in detail by the certified public accountant under
direction of the auditors.

The system of accounting used in the treasurers office has been perfected
by long years of experience, and it would be difficult to improve on the present
methods which have safeguarded the funds of the Association all these years.

The report for the year just closed shows:

COrteie PeCRie eye as ee $417,738.69
Expendiiines a Se ea PO EG 404,777.26
Leaminge, palance Ol, a) ee ee $12,961.43

Which reduces the net debt of the Association to.... $54,951.18

It is gratifying to note that the income from donations shows an increase
of $14,231.22, to which add conditional gifts released during current year, $7,-
500.01, making an aggregate of $21,731.23 increase in income from the living, over
_ the previous year.

We also note with pleasure that the receipts ivoe: the schools for tuition
show an increase of more than $6,000 over last year.

SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 329

Legacies, always a varying source of income, show a falling off for the year
of $21,909.81, and we are again reminded of the wisdom of the Executive Com-
mittee in establishing the Reserve Legacy Fund. i.

The financial record of the year is encouraging, but there are numerous in-
sistent calls that can be met only by a largely increased income, and your Com-
mittee feels called upon to urge upon all friends of the Association that in plan-
ning their benevolences and making their wills they remember that a largely in-
creased income can be disbursed to meet such pressing calls effectively and with
economy. In a word, the Association has the organization and eo to do a
largely increased work without material increase in expenses.

Respectfully submitted,

GrorceE W. Heparp, H. CrarKk Forp,

B. H. FAncHer, Joun R. Rockers, Committee

It was voted: That the report and address be approved and printed.
Upon request of the President, the Hon. Justice David J. Brewer, Supreme

Court, D. C., Vice-President of the Association, took the chair.

The Years Record of the Bureau of Womans Work was presented by
Miss D. E. Emerson, Secretary, N. Y.

An address upon The Supreme Test was given by Dr. Florence M. Fitch,
Oberlin College, for the Federation of Womens Unions.

An address upon The Strongest for the Weakest was given by Mrs. Mary
Ce Vermrell 1) C:

The Presidents Address was given by the President of the Association, Rev.
Amory H. Bradford, D.D., N. J., who spoke upon the theme, The Creed of a
Philanthropist.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, TWO OCLOCK P. M.

The Secretarial Paper, The Inlook and the Outlook, was presented by
Secretary Charles J. Ryder, D.D., N. Y. a
~ An address, The Importance of the American Missionary Work to the
Nation, was given by Hon. Justice David J. Brewer, LL.D., D. C.

An address upon the subject, The Christian Education of the Negro, was
given by Bishop C. B. Galloway, D.D., Miss.

: Business Session.

The Business Session of the Association was held at 4 oclock.

The following officers were elected for the ensuing year:

PRESIDENTRev. Amory H. Bradford, New Jersey.

VicE-PRESIDENTSAssociate Justice David J. Brewer, District of Columbia;
Pres. W. F. Slocum, Colorado; Pres. Henry C.-King, Ohio; The Rev. H. H.
Proctor, Georgia; Judge Robert R. Bishop, Massachusetts.

RECORDING SECRETARYRey. Asher Anderson, Mass.

Honorary SECRETARY AND EpitorRev. A. F. Beard, New York.

CoRRESPONDING SECRETARIESRey. James W. Cooper, New York; Rev. Charle.
J. Ryder, New York.

TREASURERH. W. Hubbard, New York.

AvupitorsEdwin H. Baker, Connecticut; John E. Leech, New York.

EXECUTIVE CoMMITTEEFor five years: Charles A. Hull, New York; Rev.
George E. Hall, N, H.; John M. Holcombe, Conn.
A. V. Woodworth, Tenn.

330 SIXTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING

The following persons were elected members of the Finance Committee to
report at the annual meeting in 1908:

B, H, Fancher, New York; H. Clark Ford, Ohio; A
> > . of 4 lf d & 1, f po
Wood, Mass.; J. R. Rogers, New York. rel Wert Sonn Fae

Committee on Nominations for next Annual M eeting.

The following persons were elected: Re
: v. Ernest Bourner Allen, Ohio;
Rey. G. Glenn Atkins, Mich.; Rev. L. B. Moo i
; ak 1B: te, 4; Rev. H.R, ;
Bev. C. G. Murphy, Olle | ee
: The following Committee on Resolutions was elected: Rev. Frank S. Fitch
NY: 5 Rev. Jas. R. Smith, Ill, and Rev. J. Addison Seibert, Mo.
By a rising vote:
gratitude because of the re-election of the officers of the Association.

It was voted: That the matter of increasing teachers salaries in order to
maintain efficiency be referred to the Executive Committee, with power, in the

full confidence that the best course will be pursued.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 7.30 P.M

Church.

pe was made by Rev. H. H. Tweedy, Conn,
n address upon the subject, The Christian L Va
by Ex-Gov. W. J. Northen, Ga. ee
An address upon the subject, Is Human B i
n adc ; rotherhood Practicable?? was
given by Pres. Willi i i
a ae res. William Douglas Mackenzie, D.D., Hartford Theological Semin-

An address upon the theme, Pilgrim Principles and Ag Race Problem,

was given

was given by the Rev. Charles E. Jefferson, D.D., N. Y.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 8.30 A. M.

Prayer service was led by Rev. R. DeWitt Mallary, Mass.
Prayer was made by Rev. John R. Thurston, Mass.
The Quartet sang the hymn, Majestic Sweetness Sits Enthroned.
An address upon Progress Among the Highlanders was given by Prin.
a An address upon The Economic and Industrial Values of the American
Poe was given by Pres. Frank G. Woodworth, D.D., Miss
n address upon Evangelizing Through Education ; ;
H. Paul Douglass, D.D., N. Y. ee

An address upon Education Thr snd
ae ough Evangel - :
HH, Proctor; D0) Ga ee ey ee

It was voted: That the minutes of the sessions of the Association be
referred to the Executive Committee for approval and printing.
After the Benediction by the President, the Association aged:
ASHER ANDERSON,
Recording Secretary.

The delegates gave expression to their appreciation and

The evening session was begun with music by the chorus choir of Pilgrim

RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1907.

THE DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND

For Colored People.

fncome for October......-seee-eeee Poe eae

SEA Wowk goes ce eee sea ee's Sees ete see 530650

Nore.Where no name follows that of the town, the contribution is from the church
and society of that place. Where a name follows, it is that of the contributing church or
individual. S. means Sunday-school; C.means Church; C.E.,the Young Peoples Society
of Christian Endeavor; S. A. means Student Aid. = :

CURRENT REGEIPIS,

MAINE, $99.04.

Alfred, 5. Brewer, First C., 13.123 First S.,
ro, Cumberland Centre, 19.70. Farmington,

First, 15.72. Hampden, 2. Kennebunkport,

for Tougaloo U.,5._ Portland, C., Bbl. Goods,
Yor Athens, Ala. Searsport, First,8 South
Gardiner, C. E., 2. -

MAINE Womans Ap To A. M. A., Mrs.|

Helen W. Davis, Treasurer, $18.50
Camden, 18.50.

- NEW HAMPSHIRE, $102.72.

Bethlehem, 6. Concord, Miss Phillips, for
Trinity Sch., Athens, Ala.,1. Durham, W.M
S.,9-94. East Jaffrey, 18.93. Gilmanton, South,
2, Greenland, 20. Hampton, Aux. of the N.
H. Branch of the W.B.M.,26, Lebanon, Mrs.
Whitney, for Trinity Sch., Athens, Ala., 1.
Manchester, A Friendin First Ch.,x. Nel-.
son,14.20. New Ipswich, Forty-sixth Annual
Fair, 6.50. Rochester, First, 19.15. Tilton, 60.

West Lebanon, Kings Daughters, 6; S.S.,1,| ~

for Trinity Sch., Athens, Ala. ; Miss Hanchett,
Setof Encyclo ; Friends, Box Goods,
Sor Athens, Ala. : :

VERMONT, $236.38of which from
Estate, $4.00.

Ascutneyville, Mrs. Oliver Gage, for Trinity
Sch., Athens, Ala.,s; Mrs. James Hubbard, for
Trinity Sch., Athens, Alda., 2; Ladies Missy
Soc., Box Goods, for Athens, Ala. Bellows
Falls,Ladies Union,s. Brattleboro,CentreC.,
4s. Burlington,' Citizen, 10; A Friend, for
Straight U.,5.. Dorset,3t.10. East Berkshire,
6. Hartford, C., for Trinity Sch., Athens, Ala.,
8.16. North Craftsbury, 10. Post Mills, 8.
Randolph, Ladies Missy Circle, for Trinity
Sch., Athens, Ala.,2; *Friends, for Athens,
Ala.,4,50. Rutland,18. Underhill, Homeland
Circle, for Freight on Goods to Grand View,
Tenn.,socts. West Brattleboro, 18.11. West-
ford, Ladies Soc., for_Furnishing Room,
Grand View, Tenn., 6.50; H. M. Sewing Circle,
for Freight to Grand View, Tenn., 1.50. Wey-
bridge, C. E., for S. A., Grand View, Tenn.,
1s. Wilder, C.E., for Trinity Sch., Athens,

Ala., 6.01.

Womans HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
VERMONT, Mrs. C. H. Thompson, Treasurer,
$25.00.

Peacham, W. H. M.S. and C. E. Soc., for
Furnishing Room in New Dormitory at Grand
View, Tenn., to be called *The Mary Weitson
Room, 25.

EsTATEJericho, Estate of Hosea Spauld-
ing, by Helen M. Percival, 12 (Reserve Leg-
acy, 8) 4. : :

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,368.02of which?
from Estates, $418.51.

Attleboro Falls, Central, 40. Auburndale,
S.,15.25. Ambherst, Ch. of Christ in Amherst
Coll., 60.52. Andover, Rev. C. C. Starbuck,
for Printing Department, Talladega Coll., x.

-|Ballard Vale, Union Church, 31.24. Becket,

First, 2.06. Blandford, First, 10.15. :
Dorchester, Second, 62.67 (2.50 of which for
Am. Highlanders); Mr.and Mrs.Z. A. Norris,
for Bid Fund,Blanche Kellogg Inst.. Santurce,
Porto Rico, 100. Brookline, Harvard C., 23.103
Bethany C. E. Soc., for. Christian Endeavor
Hail, Blanche Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto

2605.5

Cambridge, Pilgrim C., 9.94. Centreville,
South, 11.75. Clinton, First, 100. Cumming-
ton, Village C., 5.66. Dedham, First, 53.403
Easthampton, C. E.in First Ch., for Santurce,
Porto Rico, 6. East Northfield, Trinity Ch.,
1.75. Enfield, W.M.S., to const, MIss ELLEN
F. PALMER, L. M., 40. Farley, Union C., 5.
Feeding Hills,1o. Gilbertville, 47.60. Granby,
11.42, Hadley, First S., for Am. Highlanders,
s. Haverhill, A Friend, 5.; Haydenville,
C. E., for Blag Fund, Christian Endeavor
Hail, Blanche Kellogg fnst., Santurce, Porto
Rico, 3. Hubbardston, Evan. Congl Ch., 9.
Lowell, Pawtucket C., 17.18; Pawtucket S.,
10. Mansfield, Class (No. 30) in Cong1S. &.,
for Demorest, Ga., 4._ Methuen, First Parish,
22.47. Middleboro, First, 21._ Mittineague,
Southworth Paper Company, Box Paper, for
Talladega Coll. Meas 2. New Bedford,
Trinitarian C., 23.65. Newburyport, Old
Town S. ., for 8. A. Talladega Coll., 12;
Whitefield C., 76.88; Mr. and Mrs, Wm. Moul-
ton, for S.A., Grand View, Tenn., 50. | New-
ton, First, 35.47; Eliot, 115. Newtonville, A,
E, Wyman, 1s.. Northampton, First Ch. of
Christ, 272.213 Edwards C., 85.04.. North Leo-
minster, C, E. of Ch. of Christ, for Christian
Endeavor Hall, Blanche Kellogg Inst. Santurce,
Porto Rico,2. Palmer, L. H. Gager, for S. A.

Talladega Coll., 100, Petersham, C. E., for
Bee RECEIPTS

Blanche Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto Rico,
20. Plympton, C.,5.50. Reading, 37.50. South-
boro, Pilgrim C.,5.76. Southbridge,g. South
Deerfield, 35.10. South Hadley, 15. Spring-
field, Hope. C:, 27.60% . B. of Hope Chins:
Olivet Ch., 9.50; Mrs. M. D. Chapman, for
Gloucester A. and I. Sch., Cappahosic, Va., 5.
Sterling, 8. Sunderland, S., 25. Taunton,
Winslow C., 22.41. Templeton, Trinitarian
S.S.,5.. Three Rivers, Union Ch., 2.50. West
Springfield, First, 13; Ladies Benevolent
Soc. of Park St. Ch., for Pleasant Hill Acad.,
Tenn., 63. Whitman, C., for Fajardo, Porto
Rico,6.75. Winchendon Centre, First Ch. and
S.5S., 23.60. Worthington, 10.34. Worcester,
Lake View C., 53 Pilgrim, 71.98; Union Ch.,
18; S.L.Shaw,10. Wrentham, Original Cong
Ch., 21.56. A Friend, x.

Womans HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
OF MASS. AND R.I., Miss Lizzie D. White,
Treasurer, $928.00,

Hamilton, Aux., for Linen for New Dormt-
tory, Grand View, Tenn., 18 West Somer-
Ville, Atix.. 53 C. Hs for. Ss Al 7 afiaders
Coll, W.H M.A..,900 (500 of which for Salary,
fajardo, Porto Rico, 300 for Salary, Tougaloo,
Mss.,and 100 for Chinese Work). i

ESTATES Plymouth, Estate of Amasa
Holmes, 2.50 (Reserve Legacy, 1.66) 84 cts.
Townsend, Estate of Walter J. Ball, by E.
Alonzo Blood, Exec., 1,252.99 (Reserve Legacy,
835.32) 417.67.

RHODE ISLAND, $10.00,

Kingston, Emily P. Wells, for Demorest,
@.,5. Newport, **Pax, 5.

CONNECTICUT. $1,315.17.

Berlin, Second S., for S. A. Tougaioo U., 60;
F.S. Wilcox, for Tougalico U., 50. Branford,
C. E. of First Ch., for Am. Highlanders, 5.
Bristol, First, 29.31.\,Brookfield, First, 45.01.
Clinton, Mrs. E. E. Post, for Grand View,
Tenn.,5; Mrs. L. 8. Woodworth, for Furnish-
ing Room, Grang View, Tenn., 35. Chaplin, |
C.E., for Black Mountain Acad., Evarts, Ky.,
5. Cheshire, C., for Furnishing Room at Grand
View, Tenn., 25. Ellington, 50.11. Ellsworth,
Ch. and S&S. 58., 7.80. Glastonbury, First Ch. of
Christ, 17.52. Goshen, Jr.C. E., for Thomas-
ville, Ga., 5. Granby, First, 5.80. Hartford,
First, 643; Center S. S., 16.04.. Killingworth,
9-31. Manchester, 240.02. Mount Carmel,
12.443 C. E., for Blag Fund, Grand View,
Tenn., 8. Mystic, Mystic Bridge C., 60.69.
Middlefield, Miss Edith M. Birdseys S.S.
Class, for Am. Highlanders, 6. Middletown,
Home Dept. of First Ch., for S. A. Talladega
Coll., 12.50. Morris, 6. New Britain, South,
50; M. Hattie and Sarah P. Rogers, 25, for
Chinese and Japanese Missions on the Pacific
Coast. New Haven, Church of the Redeemer,
add'l,1o; (A Priend,4. (New Canaan, C. H.,
for S.A., Grand View, Tenn.,15. North Bran-
ford, 12. North Madison, 3.76. Plainfield,
Prietd,? jor fousawo O..0 Ye eend. jor
Lougaloo U,, 1. ._Somers, , E., 16.. South
Windham, Branch Ch., 107. South Windsor,
Jr. Mission Circle. for Bld'g Fund, Blanche
Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Port? Rico,7. Stam-
ford, A Friend, for Blag Fund, Blanche
Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto Rico,13. Union,
5. Watertown, Primary Dept. of S. S., for

Grand View, Tenn., 25. Westbrook,C. E., for
Bla g Fund, Christian Endeavor Hall, Blanche
Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto Rico, 5. West
Goshen, Mrs. F.H. Sage, for Freight to Grand
View, Tenn., 1. West Haven, First, 11.45.

OF CONNECTICUT, Mrs. J. B. Thomson, Treas-
urer, $109.00,

Bridgeport, Ladies Union of Park St. Ch.,
for Thomasville, Ga., 25. Hartford, Mrs. F.
B. Cooley, for dndian Missions in Nebraska,
25: Mrs. F.B Cooley, for Grand View, Tenn.,
zac} Mrs. Adelaide S. Tomlinson, for Scholar-
ship, Gregory Inst., Wilmington, NV. C.,8.. New
Canaan, W.H.M.S., for Thomasville, Ga., 26.
Winsted, Golden Chain Mission Circle of
Second Ch., for Grand View. Tenn., 5.

NEW YORK, $2,128.20.

Albany, Mrs. J.C. Houghton,1. Brooklyn,
Central, 571.50; South, 77.21; A Friend, 25;
Miss M. D. Halliday, Bbl. Goods, for Mcin-
tosh, Ga. Churchville, 22.24. East Bloom-
field, Mrs. Eliza S. Goodwin, 5. Flushing,
First, 47.55, to const. REV. C. REXFORD Ray-
MOND L.M. Jamestown, First, 153.60. Lock-
port, First, 16.20. Lysander, 1.75. Moira, C.
E , for Blanche Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto
Rico,10. New York, C. E. of Broadway Tab-
ernacle, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn., 23; Manhat-
tan C., 63.65; Mrs. E. A. Sanger, for Demorest,
Gd@.7o. A Briend, 7. Rutland, C..B. for
Blanche Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto Rico, i.
Sag Harbor, Mrs. Charles N. Brown, 309, to
const. her sister, ELLEN S. BROWN L. M.
Sherburne, Friends, for Steam Heat, Tal-
ladega Coll.,1,000. Triangle, 6.50.

NEW JERSEY, $608.66,

Asbury Park, Miss Anna Genung, for Blag
Fund, Grand View, Tenn., 5. Bound Brook,
Good Cheer Club,s5. East Orange, Trinity
C.,. 100.05. Montclair, First! S., fon 77enity
Sch., Athens, Ala.,25. Nutley, St.Paulss.S.,
Ao, , Plainfield, S. S., x4. :

WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION, Mrs. Willard E.
Buell, Treasurer, $440.61.

Jersey City, W. H. M. S: of First Ch., 40,
Sor Work inthe Hawaiian Islands. W.H.M.
U. of the N. J. Assoc., 400.61 (5 of which for
Work tn Porto Rico).

PENNSYLVANIA, $252.48.

Milroy, White Memorial S. S., 30. Phila-
delphia, Central, 209.48; Kensington Ch., 3.
Pittsburg, Trinity C., 10.

OHIO, $361.21.

Akron, Mrs. Hattie Wright, for Talladega
Coll., 2. Berlin Heights, 6. Columbus, C. E.
of Mayflower Ch., for Christian Endeavor
Hall, Blanche Kellogg Inst., Santurce, Porto
Rica. 53 Plymouth .., 12.72; Mrs. Mary A;
Wright, for Grand View, Tenn.,10. Garretts-
vilie, Mrs. Betsy N. Merwin, (deceased), 10.
Huntsburs, S: S., 5. . lucas, x5: Oberlin,
Hirst. 40.07: sRhev. ti. bb. Hall, 253 S$. 73.673
Miss Susan J. Davis, for Blag Fund. Grand

Washington St. Ch., 7.75.

Womans Home Missionary UNION OF OHIO,
Mrs. G. B. Brown, Treasurer, $171.99.

Akron, West, W.M.S., 8.40. Alexis, W. W.,
5. Andover, W.M.S.,1.72,. Belpre, W. M.S..
50... Chardon, W.-M.S., 3.89.1. Cincinnati,
No. Fairmount, 350. Clarksfield, W. M. S.,
1.20, Cleveland, Archwood, 4.30; Euclid W.
A, 45 H. Madison Jr.C. B.icss) Rirst We Ay,
816. Park W. M.S., 1.05. Columbus, North
W.M.S.,3.34. Conneaut, W. M.S.,21. Hunts-
burg, K.-E. S., 6.27.. Ironton, W. M. S., 4.20.

Windham, C., 20.20. Windsor Locks, 105.21.

Lorain, W.M.S%., 3.403 C. E., for Grand View,

WOMANS CONGL HOME MISSIONARY UNION |

View, (enn. 25. Plain, 5 45. Poledo, . hoor

RECEIPTS : 933

Tenn..5. Madison, W.M.S.,2.40. Mansfield, |S., 32, for Pleasant Hill, Tenn, Roberts, 10.63.
First Jr. M. B., for Grand River, So. Dak., 1.50; Rosendale, S., 7.27. Wauwatosa, First, 100.
Mayflower, W. M., 3.62. Marietta, First W.| West Salem, Mrs. John E, Williams,5. West
M.S.,5.55. Marysville, W.M.S.,2.50. Mount|Superior, Pilgrim, 5.65.

Vernon, W. M.S., 14.58. Newark, Plymouth,

WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF

2.40. Norwalk, C. E., for Tougaloo U.. 2.50. WISCONSIN, Mrs. E. F. Hansen, Treasurer,

Oberlin, Second C. E., 4.32. Ravenna, W. M.

S., 7.60. Richfield, W. M.S., 1.80. Sandusky, $47.65.

L. G., 2.60. Sheffield, W. M. S., 1. Strongs-
ville, W. M. S., 1.40. Toledo, Central W.M.
S., 10; Plymouth W.M. S., 1.75; Second J. M.
C.,1.40. Wakeman, W.M.S.,1.40. Windham,
W.M.S., 7.40. Youngstown, Elm St., W. M.
S., 3.703 Plymouth W.M.S., 1.75.

INDIANA, $2.00.
Michigan City, Immanuel (German) Ch.,.2.

MICHIGAN, $252.71.
Allegan, First, 22. Benzonia, C., for Fisk

U., 63. Detroit, Brewster Ch. Friends, |

addl, 11; Fort St. Ch., 17.57; C. E. of North C.,
for Grand View, Tenn., 10. Douglas, Mrs.

Wo Mills, a. Grand: Blanc, . first, a1.
Grand Rapids, Park , Bbl. Goods, for
Athens, Ala. Hillsdale, John W. Ford, 5o0cts.
Kalamazoo, Mary J. Kent, 5. Laingsburg,
C.,addl,6octs. North Adams, Mission Union

of First C., Box and Bbl. Literature, for| jog

Athens, Ala. Otsego, 8.08. South Haven,
17.46. Traverse City, First, 15.45. Union City,
12,80. West Adrian, 12.25.

WoMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF MICH-
IGAN, Mrs. A. H. Stoneman, Treas. $45.00.
Benton Harbor, W.M.S., for S. A., Pleasant
Fitll, Tenn., 45.

dS
ILLINOIS, $291.29of which from
: Estates, $16.66.

Alton, Friends in Congl Ch., 5._ Brim-
field,1o. Buda, 32. Chicago, First C. E., 2.19;
Fifty-second Ave. C.,addl,2; Jr. C. E. of St.
pee Ch.,3; Union Park C. E., 4.50;

ev. Edwin N. Andrews, 10; Friend in
Sedgwick St. Ch.,25. Crystal Lake,1r, Earl-
ville, J. A. D., 25. Mazon, 6. Melvin, 6.10.
Mendon, 25. New Windsor, 8. Oak Park,
First, 15.20. Odell, 30. Peoria, Union Miss,y
Service, Three Churches, 8.25. Plymouth,
1.50. Stark, 10. Thawville, 7.31. Waukegan,
10.58. Wheaton, College Ch.,7. Winnebago,
Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Nevens, ro (5 of which for
Indion Misstons_and 5 for Black Mountain
Acad., Evarts, Ky.).

EsTATESycamore, Estate of Mrs. Eliza-
beth Wood, 50; (30 of which to const. her
daughter Emiry S..Woop L. M.) (Reserve
Legacy, 33.34) 16.66.

IOWA, $439.87.

Alden, 10.40. Ames, First, 19.04. Anamosa,
Cass Ch.,7.10. Cedar Falls,71. Charles City,
First, 18.07. Clear Lake, First, oe: Dubuque,
Spes et fides in First Ch,, 5. ldora, First,
52.70; C. McKeen Duren, for S. A., Gran
View, Tenn., 25. Gilbert Station, 6.26. Grin-
nell, 78.20. Jackson, 5. Oakland, 5. Oska-
loosa, 7. Pleasant Grove, 2.85. Red Oak,
35.55. Salem, 16.77. Sioux City, First, 55.45.
Webster City, F. A. Boyson, for Fisk U.,
13-71.

WISCONSIN, $302.44.

Ashland, 3.69. Bristol and Paris, C., 8.40.
British Hollow, 6.91. New London, First, ro.
New Richmond, 17.30. Plymouth, S., 5.. Po-

Hayward, 15.50. Sun Prairie, 4.65. West
Salem, 2.50. Whitewater, 25.

MINNESOTA, $58.75.

Fertile, 6. Marietta, 25. cts. Minneapolis
Plymouth, 40. North Branch, 3,50. Sleepy
Eye, 9.

MISSOURI, $270.35.

Cameron, First,15. St. Joseph, Tabernacle
Ci5430, St. Wouis, Prigrim CO. 13,27; Pilgrim
CC. E3.S06,; 20:05.

WoOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
MISSOURI, Mrs. A. D. Rider, Treas., $176.83.
Aurora, L. M.S.,3. Cameron, L. M. S., 3.50.
Cole Camp, L. M. S., 1.50; Mission Band, for
Birds Nest Home, Santee, Neb., 6. Kansas
City, Beacon Hill W. U., 1; First, Womens
ASsS0C:, 23.3935 . BP. S.C, E., 10; Ivanhoe Park
Mission Band, for Birds Nest Home, Santee,
eb., 2.65; Southwest Tabernacle L. A., 13
Westminster W. U., 28. Kidder, Jr. Band,
1.75. Maplewood, L.M.S.,1.50. Old Orchard,
W.A., 1.50. Pierce City, S., for Birds Nest
Home, Santee, Neb., 5.36. St. Joseph L.M.S.,
12; C.E., for Porto Rico,10. St. Louis, First
Sen. LM. S.,:8:35; Hope L. M:S.,6; Pilgrim
Womans Assoc., Sen. Dept., 30.37; Jr. Dept.,
8.20; Pilgrim Workers, for Birds Nest Home,
Santee, Neb., 4.25. Sedalia, First L. M. S., 2.
Springfield, First L. M. S., 2.70. Webster
Groves, W.A., 2.87.

KANSAS, $56.65,

Kansas City, First, 1. Paola, Womans
Missy Soc., 10. Seneca, 3. Stockton, W. M.
5.5.3:

W OMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF KAN-
SAS, Mrs. Emma W. Wallace, Treas., $39.65.
W. 4H. M. U. of Kansas, 39.65 (17 of which
he Nae eee for S. A. Saludg-Sem., Saluda,

NEBRASKA, $134.50.

Arlington, Ch. of Christ, 6. Doniphan,
South Platte, C., 5.91%. Franklin, 28. Hallam,
German C.,5. Lincoln, Butler Ave. C., 24.21.
Petersburg, 4.50. Plainview, 13. Scribner,
8.55. Springfield, First, 25. Sutton, German
Ca 14.33) :

NORTH DAKOTA, $22.12.

Buchanan, 6.

WomMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
NORTH DAKOTA, Mrs. E. C. Stickney, Treas-
urer, $16.12. : :

Parco, W.M. U. of Hirst Ch. 16.12."

SOUTH DAKOTA, $13.00.
Academy, Ward Academy C.E.,5. Orient,
Rose R. Gooder, 3; A. H. Robbins, 5.
WYOMING, $44.97.

Dayton, Girls Club, for S. A., Grand View,
Tenn., 25,

tosi, 11.60. Rhinelander, C., for Talladega| WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF WyY-
Coll. Farm Dept. 1. River Falls, C., 21.34;|OMING, Miss Edith McCrum, Treas., $19.97.
334 RECEIPTS

Cheyenne, W. M. S. of First Ch., 17.473 ees
Missy Soc., 2.50.

MONTANA, $6.00.
Great Falls, First C., 6.

COLORADO, 8215.42.

Colorado Springs, Philo Carpenter Hil-
dreth, 15,

WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF COLO-
RADO, Mrs. Joel Harper, Treasurer, $200.42.
Boulder, for Standing Rock Indian Mission,
5. Colorado Springs, First, 10; Denver,
- Boulevard, 43.87 (38.43 of which for Thunder-
. hawk Indian Mission); Harman,1; So. Broad-
wav, to; Ohio Ave., 18.75 (10 of which for
Thunderhawk Indian Mission); Ohio Ave. W.
M. S., for Grand River, So. Dakota, 32.80;
Plymouth, for Thunderhawk Indian Mission,
5; Plymouth, for Standing Rock Indian Mis-
ston, 12; Second, ts (5 of which for Standing
Rock Indian Mission); Third, 5, for Thunder-
hawk Indian Mission. Fruita, 5. Longmont,
C. E., for Thunderhawk Indian Mrsston, 15.
Montrose, 20 (10 of which for Thunderhawk
Indian Mission). Rye, 2. . :

CALIFORNIA, $1,135.00.

Belmont, Miss Harriet Reed, 10. Monrovia,
Mrs. F. E. Tracy, too. Santa Paula, Nathan
W. Blanchard, 1,000. Ventura, Primary S. S.
Class, for Grand View, Tenn., 25.

OREGON, $55.46.
Condon, 6. Hood View, 6.46.

WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF ORE-
GON, Mrs. C. F. Clapp, Treasurer, $43.00.

Beaver Creek, S. S., 1.25. Forest Grove,
Mrs. Clapps S. S. Class, 3. Portland, First
S.,10; Hirst C. H.,10. W.H. M: U. of Oregon,
18.75 (21.50 of the above amounts for Blanche
Hees 4 inst., Santurce, Porto Rico, and 21.50
Jor Pleasant Hill Acad., Tenn.)

WASHINGTON, $162.52.

Black Diamond, 1.50. Port Gamble, C. E.
Soc.,1. Seattle, Plymouth C., for Chinese and
Japanese Missions, 60.

WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
WASHINGTON, Mrs. Edward B. Burwell, State
Treasurer, $100.00. ;

W.H. M. U. of Washington, roo (30 of which
from juvenile givers of Sunday Schools, for
S. A.,at Moorhead, Miss.).

NORTH CAROLINA, $28.25.

Sch., Enfield, N. on 1.25. McLeansville, W.
M. U. of First Ch.,1. Wardsworth, Womans
Missy Union, 1. :

WOMANS MISSIONARY UNION OF NORTH
CAROLINA, Mrs. H. R. Faduma, Treas., 25.00.

WM Uot N. C., as.

SOUTH CAROLINA, $5.00.
Greenville, 5.

ALABAMA, $10.00.
Athens, C., for Furnishing, Trinity Sch., 10.

TENNESSEE, $86.40.

Grand View, C, H. Califf, for Bldg Fund,
Grand View, Tenn., 2.75; A. A. Hubbard, for
Llag Fund, Grand View, Tenn., 50; L. M.
Starring, for Blag Fund, Grand View, Tenn.,
25.65; A Friend, for Grand View, 20 cts.
Harriman, C. E.,3.45. Pleasant Hill, C., 4.35.

GEORGIA, $11.50. :

Macon, Mrs. Le Roy Monroe Felton, for
Demorest, Ga., 11.50. :

LOUISIANA, $8.42.

Hammond, S., 8.42.

FLORIDA, $10.25.

Hampton, B. E. Van Buren, 5. Pomona,
Pilgrim, 5.25.

TEXAS, $7.00.
Corpus Christi, C., for Tzllotson Coll., Aus-
tim, 1eXxas,7,

SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER, 1907.

Donations <3. bes eee ee $11,762.56
SUATES vases doc dees ence seme s aces oo. 430-07

Total Receipts........... $12,201.73

Expenditures for October.......... 27,204.74

Debt Balance on Current Neat. .: $15,003.01

FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Su bseriptions tor October, ...+......04455 $12.49

H. W. HUBBARD, Treasurer,
Congregational Rooms,
_ Fourth Ave. and Twenty-second St.,

Kuhns, William Kuhn, for Joseph K. Brick

New York, N. Y.

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Index of the American Missionary for 1907.

Action at 60th Annual Meeting on Of-
erings, I.

Advisory Committee, Action of, 34.

Agard, Pres. I. M., Austin Tex., 173.

Alaska, 56, 259, 201.

Allen, Rev. E. B., Toledo, O., 217.

Am.. Miss. Assoc. From Pilgrim
Teacher, 259. |

Among Our Constituents, 206.

Anecdotes, 39, 47, 103, 153, 164, 205, 243.

Annual Meeting Program, 195, 234, 273.

mtiiens, Ala. 242) 5 2

Athens, Ga., 52.

Atlanta, Ga. (Theo. Sem., Illus.),. 237,
230.

Avery Institute, Charleston, 237.

Bailey, Miss Edith F., Death of, 30.

Baker, Rev. Albert S. (Illus.), 18.

Barnes, Miss Esther A., 13, 214.

ene gece, A. 1, 00, 132, 206, 255. 248.

Black and White Problem, 77.

Black, Ex-Gov., Extract from, 199.

Blowing Rock, N. C., 242.

Bowman, Dr. Chas. E., Extract, 276.

Bradford, Pres. A. H., 245. Address, 312.

Brewer, Justice David J., Letter from,
35. Address, 314.

Bureau of Womans Work, 295.

Burrage, Prin. Geo. C., Macon, Ga., 174.

Butcher, Rev. Stephen G., 241.

Cappahosic, Va., Hubbard Hall, 40, 180.

Caste, Bishop Potter, 202.
Cathcart, Miss 1. S, Kynes Mi, NG:
' 178

Chase Hall, Nashville (Illus.), 113.

Chinese, The, 15, 254, 261, 201.

Christianity and Heathenism, 18.

oe Rev. George V., Charlotte, N. C.,
160.

Coan, Mrs. Wm. L., Death of, 98.

Collins, Miss Mary C. (Illus.), 119.

Colored Harvest, 243. BS

Colored Man on Rhodes Foundation,

2g. ;

Common Voice, 68.

Conditional Gifts, 106.

Cooper, Sec. J. W., ror.

Crosby, Dea. Charles, Death of, 260.

Cross, Rev. J. F., Alaska, 22.

Crow Indians as Farmers (Illus.), 85.

Curtis, Mrs. Chas. B., Death of, 38.

Demorest, Ga., 239.

Donaldson; Rev: J: 1., 216.

Douglass, H. Paul, Address, 319,

Easter, 98.

Editorial, 2; 5, 56, 57; 67, 68, 164, 186;

235.

Eells, Dr. Myron, Death of, 39.

Emerson, Miss 2D. 5. Porto. - Rico:
(ilius.), 37, ;

eo Miss S. L., Moorhead, Miss.,
Too.

Encouragement, Reason for, 251.

Enfield, N. C., Industries (Illus.), 135.
(illus) 267.

Eskimo Women, 22. Customs, 56.

Faduma, Rev. O., Paper by, 69.

F ssenden, Fla., 183, 236.

Financial, 65, 07, 120, 130, 161, 193,-104,
235, 274, 203.

First Six Months, Sec. Ryder, 131.

Fleming, Hon. W. H., Paper, 74.

Foster, Dr. A. P., Death of, 199.

Future Leader in the South, 166.

Galloway, Bishop, Address of, 324.

Galloway Hall, Dedication of, (Illus.),
PET,

General Survey, 281.

Georgia Justice, 200.

Georgia Pastor, 240.

Georgia Pastors Experience, 311.

Gratitude to A. M. A., Miss Bright, 42.

Gwine Back Home, 167.

Harris, Joel Chandler, 11.

diastines, (res. RC. New Orleans
(illus.), 12%.

Hawaii (Illus.), 18, 55; (Illus.), 82, 184;
(Illus.), 206, 258, 292.

Hendrix, Bishop, Extract from, 276.

Higher Education, Does It Pay? Pick-
ens, 48.

-Holmes, Prin. M. A., Death of, 81.

Howard University, Great Day, 309.

Howe, Julia Ward, Extract, 202.

Huntington, Dr. W. R., Extract, 52.

Hurd; Prin. Geo. B., Savannah, Ga.
(Illus.), 181.

Hurd, Mrs. Geo. B., Death of, 38.

Hyde, Miss Mary D., Death of, 38.

Inborden, T. S., Enfield, N. C. (Illus.),
135:

Indians, 14, 53, 64.795, 110, 252, 280.

Industrial Training in Our Schools, Sec.
Beard, 132.

Interesting Rural School, Savage, 50.

Japanese, G. T. Ladd, 185. Statistics,
291.

Japanese Undergraduates, 184.

Jefferson, Dr. Chas. E., Address, 318.

King, Pres, H, C., Letter from, 36.

336 INDEX

Kings Mountain, N. C., 178.

Lee, Henry W., Death of, 260.

Letters from Vice-Presidents, 35.

Life Members, Appeal to, 3. Answers,
34, 68.

Lincoln Memorial Day, 4, 33.

Louisiana, Illiteracy in, ro.

Lyman, Dr. A. J., Address, 9.

Mackenzie, Prof. W. D., Address, 315.

Macon, Ga., Ballard School (Illus.), 174.

Marion, Ala., Miss Phillips (Illus.), 178.

Martin, Isadore, Enfield, N. C., 207,

McIntosh, Ga., Industries (Illus.), 176.

Merrill, Pres. J. G., Nashville (Iilus.),

Li3.

Mid-Pacific Institute, 206.

Minutes of Annual Meeting, 326.

Mobile, Ala. (Illus.), 238.

Moore, Rev. George W., 162.

Moorhead, Miss., 182, 238.

Morgan, Prof. Helen C., 198.

_ Murderous Mob, 2309.
Nashville, Tenn., Industries (Illus.), 171.

- Nesro OF 1 O-day 1

New Year, 2.

Nichols, Miss Emily W., to.

Nixburg, Ala. (Illus.}, 210.

Northrop, Rev. Charles A., 240.
Obituary, 38, 39, 81, 98, 198, 199, 260.
Orange Park, Pla. 237. 7.

Orientals in America, Pond, 15.

Our Graduates, 280.

Our Teachers, 275.

Overcoming Difficulties, 80..

Peirce, Chas. P., Death of, 199.
Personal Responsibility, 67.

Pickens, Prof. William, Address, 48.
Prayer at Close of Year, 233.

Price, W. G., Cappahosic, Va., 180.
Problems of Expansion, 6.

_ Proctor, Dr, Ti. H.) Letter) 37, 244.
Pond, Dr: WS C., 15,. 254, 261.

Porto Rico, 256, 288.

Porto Rico, Sauturce, 4, 68, 87, 118,

(lihus.), 203, 247.

Porto Rico, Sec. Ryder (Illus.), 116.
Race Prejudice, Proctor, 244. Sec.
Beard, 248.

Race Problem in South, Fleming, 74.
Rankin, Rev. J. E., Poetry, 103.

Real Negro Problem, Pres. Bradford,
245.

" Receipts, 26, 58, 00, 422, 154, 187, 218
262, 299, 331.

Recent Discovery, 13.

Richards, Theodore, Hawaii, 82.

Riges, De Al Li g5e 933.

Rogers, John R., Address, 322.

Ryder, Seq C- Jai 119. aan roa.
Paper, 278.

ae Words from Southern Leaders,
276,

Santee, Neb., Industries, Riggs (Illus. )
33.

Sauturce, P. R., 4, 68, 241. 4
Savage, John R., Rural School, 50, 210.
Savannah, Ga., Beach Inst. (Illus.), 181.
Scheibe, Rev. Otto J., 203, 256.
Scudder, Dr. Doremus, Hawaii, 184, 206.
Be Glimpses in Porto Rico (Illus.),

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7.

Silsby, E. C., Talladega College in Af-
rida, 47.

Silsby, Mrs. John, Death of, 260.

South, Educational Work, 283; Church
Work, 287.

Statistics, 283, 287, 288, 280, 201.

Steps Forward (The South), Geo. V.
Clark, 1609.

Stevens, Prin. Charles M., McIntosh,
Gai 176:

Stevens, Elbert M. Charleston, 237.

Stowe, Rev. J. J., Extract, 276.

Straight University, New Orleans, 121;
Industries (Illus.), 140, 241.

Subscriptions to Magazine, 33. Slips, 309.

Strieby Club, Washington, D. C., 24t.

Talladega College, 13; in Africa, 47; In-
dustries (Illus.), 145; Fortieth Anni-
versary, 162, 214.

Teacher in a Girls School, 16s.

Terrell, Mrs. Mary C., Address, 222,

Thwing, Pres. Charles L., 258.

Tillotson College, Austin, Tex., 173, 216.

Tougaloo, Miss., Notes from, 43; First
Impressions, 45; Galloway Hall, 111:
Industries (Illus.), 149; Commence-
Ment; 217,

Tourist Party, 104; On board Elkmont,
to4.; (Cut), tos ; (ius), 110;'at Tou-
galoo, 111; Nashville, 113.

Treasurers Summary, 326.

Twenty-five years among the Sioux, 110.

$250,000, Sec. Teter 2.

Typical Mountain Cabin, 165.

Wakutemani, a Sioux Brave (Illus.),
252.

Walton, Rev. Gilbert G., 275.

Washington, Booker T., 250.

Way of the A. M. A., tor.

Which is Right? By Sec. Beard, go.

White, Rev. Frank N., Address, 6.

Whittier Anniversary, 307.

Whittier and Brotherhood, 305. ~

Wilcox, Miss Mary E., Death of, 108.

Wiley, J. L., Fessenden, Fla., 183, 236.

Williamsburg, Ky., Transfer of School,
197.

Woodworth, Rev. A. V., Address, 323.

Woodworth, Dr. F. G., Toulagoo, 111.

Womens State Organizations, 31, 231.
271.

Womans Work, 153.

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American Missionary Association.
EDUCATIONAL WORK IN THE SOUTH.
Superintendent of Education.Rev. H. PauL Doue.ass, D.D., 287 Fourth Ave., N.Y.

HIGHER INSTITUTIONS.Tenn.: Nashville, Fisk University. ALa.:
Talladega, Talladega College. Muss.: Tougaloo, Tougaloo University. La.:
New Orleans, Straight University. Trx.: Austin, Tillotson College. Ga.:

Demorest, Piedmont College. Atlanta, Atlanta Theological Seminary. D.C.:
Washington, Theological Department Howard University.

Normal and Graded Schools.Ata.: Athens, Trinity School. Florence,

Burrell Normal School. Fort Davis, Cotton Valley School. Kowaliga, Aca--

demic and Industrial School. Marion, Lincoln Normal School. Mobile, Emer-
son Institute. Nixburg, Cotton Grove Industrial Academy. Joppa, Normal and
Industrial Collegiate Institute. Nat, Green Academy. Fia.: Fessenden, Fessen-
den Academy. Orange Park, Orange Park Normal School. Ga.: Albany,
Albany Normal School. Athens, Knox Institute. Cuthbert, Howard Normal

School. Forsyth, Normal and Industrial School. Macon, Ballard Normal...

School. Marshallville, Lamson School. McIntosh, Dorchester Academy.
Savannah, Beach Institute. Thomasville, Allen Normal and Industrial School.
Ky, : Lexington, Chandler Normal School. Evarts, Black Mountain Academy.
Miss.: Clinton, Mt. Hermon Seminary. Meridian, Lincoln School. Moor-
head, Girls Industrial School. Mound Bayou, Normal Institute. N. C.:
Beaufort, Washburn Seminary. Skyland Institute, Blowing Rock. Enfield,
Joseph K. Brick Agricultural, Industrial and Normal School. Hillsboro. Kings
Mountain, Lincoln Academy. Lawndale, Clarkson Industrial and Douglass
Academy. Lynn, Troy, Peabody Academy. Wilmington, Gregory Normal
Institute. Saluda, Saluda Seminary. .C.: Charleston, Avery Normal Insti-
tute. Greenwood, Brewer Normal School. TEnN.: Memphis, Le Moyne Insti-
tute. Grand View, Grand View Normal Institute. Pleasant Hill, Pleasant Hill
Academy. V4A.: Cappahosic, Gloucester School. ae

Common Schools.Ga.: Andersonville, Beechton, Hagan-Eureka, Hagan-
Bethel, Marietta, Riggton, Rutland, Thrift, Trinity. N. C.: Burlington, Dock-
erys Store, Dry Creek, Evans, Exway, Haw Branch, High Point, Lilesville,
Malee, Mt. Gilead, Mt. Pleasant, Strieby, Wadsworth.

CHURCH WORK. :
General Field Missionary.REV. GEORGE W. MOooRE, Nashville, Tenn.
Mountain Field Missionary.REV. CHARLES NORTHROP, Harriman, Tenn.

Number of Churches.Alabama, 20; Arkansas, 1; District of Columbia, 33
Georgia, 31; Indian Territory, 1; Kentucky,.22; Louisiana, 15; Mississippi,
6; North Carolina, 58; Oklahoma, 2; South Carolina, 5 ; Tennessee, 34; Texas,

Ir; Porto Rico, 6.
INDIAN MISSIONS.

Educational Work.Ners.: Santee Normal School.

Churches and Stations.Santee Agency, 3; . Rosebud Reservation, 7s
Cheyenne River Reservation, 15; Standing Rock, Grand River District, 8;

Standing Rock, Fort Yates District, 6; Fort Berthold Agency,7; Crow

Agency, 3; Skokomish, 13; Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska.
: CHINESE AND JAPANESE MISSIONS.

Calzfornia Chinese Misstons.Berkeley, Fresno, Los Angeles (3), Marys-

ville, Oakland (2), Pasadena, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Francisco
(2), First Chinese Congregational Church, Santa Barbara, Sherman, Ventura.

Hawaiian Evangelical Assoctation. Hawaii, Kealakekua, Hilo; Maui,
Wailuku, Puanene; Oahu, Honolulu, Punaluu, Kukuihaele; Kauai, Makaweli.

PORTO RICO, W. I.
Educational Work.Santurce, Blanche Kellogg Institute.

Church and Mission Work.Fajardo and Out-Stations, Humacao and Out-_

Stations, Naguabo and Out-Stations. Luquillo, Yabucoa, Juncos, Las Cabezas.

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EDITORIAL:

Pa
TEACHERS LETTER whe WILLCOX ACAD-
pea VERNAL,

The Dawn A Pee ene DECORATION OFFER FROM

TOUGALOO COLLEGE

THE A. M.- A, TREASURY.
Treasurer

THE COMMISSION ON MISSIONS

THE WOMENS SHARE IN THE EVERY-MEM-
BER CANVASS. By Rev. William S. Beard... 450 :
THE CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS -
THE DWELLING PLACE OF THE SPIRIT.
Lewis T. Reed, D.D.

WHERE ROLLS i OREGON.
Seccaneee

THE COMMISSION ON EVANGELISM

THE USE OF THE. BIBLE FOR DEVOTIONAL
CULTURE. By Frederick L. Fagley..

THE PASTORS SECTION
THREE OPPORTUNITIES OF THE SPIRIT

THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY THE EDUCATION SOCIETY

EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS ...: 456 Ea.
HOW WOMEN ARE EDUCATING THEMSELVES
GO TO BLAZES. By Alfred E. Randell, D.D... 457 FOR CITIZENSHIP IN THE MODERN

A LITTLE MINISTERS EXPERIENCES. By Rey. _ CHURCH. By: Anna Estelle May

W. J. Davies .. 459 PROTESTANT MEN AND THE KU KLUX KLAN.
SOME NOTES FROM THE NATIONAL COUNCIL By Arthur E. Holt

MEETING 462 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSHIP

THE DURHAM COMMUNITY CHURCH AND . ie
THE CALL OF OPPORTUNITY. By Ralph D. LONE SSS ee

Paine
A SUMMER IN THE
THE VINITA RURAL WORK

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Treasurer .

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
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OUR SEVENTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING..

WHY SUPPORT THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY
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A PRELUDE. By Marion ie Cuthbert
CONCERNING BEGINNINGS

AVETAT 19: A COUULEGH tego een wictinn cole ee eres
PROBLEMS AS RESPONSIBILITIES
GETTING BETTER EVERY DAY

NEGRO MIGRATION AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE.
By George E. Haynes, Ph.D.

SOUTHERN EDITORS ON RACE RELATIONS...
TEACHERS LETTER FROM MOBILE, ALABAMA

THE SUNDAY SCHOOL EXTENSION
SOCIETY

SMOKE FROM THE TRASH PILE. By
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gs CHRISTMAS FUND OF THE BOARD OF

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A LAYMAN TO LAYMEN

THE NATIONAL COUNCIL AND THE MIN-
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COMMITTEE ON APPLIED CHRISTIANITY
POSTERS ..
CONFERENCES

Issued monthly, except August, at seventy-five cents per year. Ten cents a copy.

Clubs of five or more50 cents each subscription.

Clubs totaling one-fifth of the gross membership

in the church according to the last Year Book25 cents each subscription.
- Clubs of 100 or more25 cents each subscription.

Changes in mosisey must reach us by the 15th of the month in order to have change made for

the next months issue.

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Vol. 77, No. 11 : December, 1923 New Series, Vol. 15, No. 8

4 | The Dawn

HE Congregationalist begins its report upon the great Spring-
field National Council meeting by saying, The prediction that we

are entering upon a new, heroic epoch in religious life and fellowship
seems already coming to fulfilment. The dawn is here. Never have
the Congregationalists faced their world task with more seriousness or
more enthusiasm. The survey of that task in the wonderful Wednesday
program, culminating in its visualization in the Pageant, where the
whole world-wide work stood forth upon one stage, and then the com-
pletion of that survey by the several meetings of the several societies,
brought the whole delegate body of our Congregational churches face to
face with our total Congregational responsibility. It was this that in-
spired the following resolution which ought to be read in every pulpit.

The National Council, receiving the reports of its Mission Boards,
is impressed anew with their significant service, with the urgent need
of the men, women and children under our care, and with our opportunity
in and through these our agencies to build the Kingdom of God.

We therefore recognize the imperative call for the full apportion-
ment of $5,000,000.00 to accomplish our work. The budgets of the
societies are real budgets. The total budget is a real need. It is not one
penny less than our full share in the Christian work of the world.

We look forward with confidence to raising the full apportionment
in 1924 by the use of the Every-Member Canvass plans now in progress,
and we pledge ourselves and urge upon our fellow Congregationalists
the utmost loyalty and cooperation for the attainment of that objective.

But we will not wait for 1924. We here express our gratitude
for the inspiration we have received at this Council. We declare our
determined purpose to Take Jesus in Earnest. Facing the worlds
needs afresh, we now make our sacrificial gifts, and we call upon the
members and constituents of the Congregational churches throughout the

a country to join us in such gifts that we may achieve our full apportion-
2 ment aimster the current year. ~

= It remains for us ministers, churches, individuals to get behind our ~
= National Council and make good what it has been saying in our name.

Let us go to work and raise that five million dollars. Let every
man of us resolve that so far as he is concerned the Councils plan shall
not fail.

December ninth, with its Every-Member Canvass, is a day for turn-
ing words into deeds. What do you say? Will you follow through?
Will you help your church faithfully to support your Council?

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By Wiz1am S. Bearp, Secretary of Premotion
666 HO constitute the fourth group? you ask. That is another story.

Watch this space next month for the answer. So run the closing
words of an article in THE AMERICAN Missionary for November.

Here is the answer. The fourth group of the church forces who have

Every-Member Canvass responsibility comprises the women.
All over this land Congregational laymen have been asked to do two things
this fall: First, to get churches to make a thoroughgoing use of the Every-
Member Canvass, and, secondly, to urge their fellow-laymen to take the lead
in the set-up and conduct of the canvass.

The pastors share is counsel and dynamic. There are nearly 6,000 Con-
gregational ministers the country over, whose business it is to encourage
folks to attempt what many have thought to be unattainable.

The young peoples specific duty is the publicity end, with their posters,
charts, exhibits and dramatizations. :

The fourth group comprises the women. Do you women who are mem-
bers of the Congregational churches, and those, who though not members are
intimately connected with the church life, ask what you can do to help about
the Every-Member Canvass? Then read on.

1. You can see that the most responsible positions of leadership are
given to your very strongest women. I mean the women who have the
keenest minds, the biggest hearts, a sense of humor, balance, good judgment;

the most magnetic personalities, who respect the past but are willing to shatter

any precedents for the sake of progressthe sort whom every community
was constantly utilizing in war days. Only the very finest leadership is
good enough. The first thing you women can do is to take an inventory of
your resources and then push your best women to the front.

2. You can be literature specialists. Plan to be the skilled advisers
of your pastor and the Every-Member Canvass Committee in this particular.
Divide up your forces. Assign to one group investigation concerning the
literature about the local church. Have these people constantly on the search
not only for the newest but the most worth-while material.

Place in the hands of another group the Joint Catalog of the literature
of all the missions Boards. Urge this section to get and read every new

piece which any Board issues. Let the best be culled out and let the committee

be ready at all times with the facts for those who may have need thereof.
_ Assign to another group the study of the Commissions promotional
literature.

A fourth group may well become the circulation managers in the local
church for THe AMERICAN Missionary, THE Missionary HERALD, THE
CONGREGATIONALIST. Plans on a national scale, calling for a skilled and well-
considered handling of the problem of the distribution of literature at State
Conferences and Local Associations, should shortly be launched. It is entirely

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possible that this work may constitute another feature in the womens share.
3. You can pave the way for a successful canvass. In one of our

- largest churches, a few days prior to a recent canvass the women of the
- parish staged a preliminary canvass. They organized and zoned and districted

and called, but they asked no money. They simply told the story of the issues
involved. They presented the case for the local church and its world-wide
work. They left no cards, they asked no subscriptions. They told a story
wud they lett: ae

But the people had ten days to think about that story before the financial
canvassers came. When the results of the canvass were tabulated, it was
discovered that the visits of these women had made a difference in the results
of hundreds of dollars.

Why not a corps of pre-canvass visitors this year in every church in the
whole country! oe

4. You can be a gleaner. The one feature in a canvass, which after
all tells the story, is the follow-up. If you have read the story of the
Winnetka church written up in How To Raise Money For a Church, you
will recall that when the people went out for practically twice the sum
raised the previous year, less than one-half of the amount was secured the
first day. But when the returns were all in, the goal was almost reached.
This incident reveals the value of the follow-up. When the canvassers call
it is always true that some people are out, others are absent from town, some
havent decided what they want to do. I repeat, it is a thoroughgoing follow-
up which brings the subscriptions up 100 per cent to the goal.

Now in the churches where the canvassers are all men it is their part
to complete the follow-up. Many will do so, but there is a considerable
group where, with the best intentions on the part of the men, there will not
be any follow-up unless you take over this work. ao

5. You can help finance the whole undertaking. The day has come
when the several interests which should profit by the canvass can prosper only |
together. The local church cannot win a permanent success apart from its
devotion to its world-wide work. There can be no continuous world-wide
ministry without an adequate base of support. ee .
No one of the missionary agencies can thrive alone. They are too inter-
dependent.

We must talk about the work, one and all inclusive. We must talk
about the local church and the world-wide work not as if they represented
two separate issues but as if they were one, as they are.

Furthermore, the day has come when the surest way to secure the fullest
measure of support for any interest which may be especially dear is to give
ones enthusiastic support to the entire budget. Our combined efforts for
the $5,000,000 will bring us closer to securing the needed measure of support
for each one of the several Societies than concentrating attention on the needs
of one Society alone. You women believe this. You can be counted upon in
this particular.

The glory of the 1924 Every-Member Canvass Plan is that it plays no
favorites yet overlooks no interest. Its joy is to secure for each its full share,
and it has no joy apart from securing a full share for each.

Here then is the womens share. 543,540 women are members of Congre-
gational churches in the United States. That number remembers easily, does
it not? Out of every eight members of Congregational churches, five are
you women. No minority group, you.

WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR OPPORTUNITY?
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The Use of the Bible for Devotional Culture

By FrepericK L. FAGLEy

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IBLE reading has very great value as a means of grace in the develop-

ment of the spiritual life. In the first place, Bible reading will teach one
the language of devotion and give to the reader the means for expressing the
aspiration and hope of his soul. This is a most needed requirement for the
devotional life. The religious teachers recognize that one of the first steps
towards any progress in personal devotion is to learn the language used in
prayer and aspiration. The story is told of a correspondent of a large busi-
ness concern who had been invited out to dinner by a friend. At the table
the host asked him to say grace. It was a new experience, but he was not to
be found wanting. Dear Lord, he began, we thank Thee for all Thy favors
of recent date. Permit us to express our heartfelt gratitude. We trust that
we may continue to merit Your confidence and that we shall receive many
more blessings from You in the future. Amen. No doubt many readers
of this have found themselves in a like situation; and we all know how much
care is required to teach children the use of thee and thou, as well as scrip-
tural phrases which have been used through the ages as the vehicle of the soul.

_In the second place, Bible reading gives one a knowledge of the way in
which many men and women, through a long period of years, found comfort
in communion with God. Who can read the prayer of the life of David and
not feel encouraged to find for ones own self the source of divine comfort?
Who can read the prayer of Solomon at the dedication of the temple and not
feel the subtle appeal of the House of God to the mind of man? Who can
read the story of the Christian martyrs without desiring above all else to know
that source of power which gave them their strength? Who can read the
life of Christ and not have it borne in upon him continually how Christ found
strength in prayer? These and many other examples continually impress upon
the mind of the reader the ways in which other men in other ages found cour-
age and strength and peace in God, for the Bible is a great book of testimony
of the experiences of men in religion.

In the third place, the reading of the Bible gives one detailed instruction as
to how to proceed if one desires to know the secret of spiritual life, for as we
read the pages of the New Testament especially we find paragraph after
paragraph of instructionshow one is to seek God; how to follow Christ; how
to live at peace with his brethren; how to build his own life so that character
shall be developed and one find himself securely anchored to the enduring
realities of life. |

But above all theseand any one is sufficient in and by itself to cause one >

to be faithful in Bible readingthere is a fourth consideration which out-
weighs them all, and that is that the reading of the Bible is one channel by
which the Holy Spirit teaches the love of man. This is not a theory or a
doctrine, but is a fact attested by countless men and women who have found

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that as they read the words of the Book there has come into their being a new
power of the Spirit beyond the thought of the passage, beyond the circum-
stances surrounding the incident which is recorded, beyond the truth that it
recited. There is this mystical power of the Spirit which becomes effective in
human life as one reads the words of the Holy Book with ones soul open
toward God. How many have been strangely moved after reading the Bible,
how many have found their courage returning, the power of endurance
strengthened and faith renewed by reading the inspired words of the Holy
Bible! And this fact, attested by the common experience of mankind, is that
which makes Bible reading absolutely essential to spiritual help.

Encourage Habits of Bible Reading

There is no more insistent duty resting upon pastors than that they shall
encourage their people in habits of Bible reading. Some find strength in one
course of action and some in another. To a certain type of mind the greatest
good is had by setting aside some period in the day when a short portion of
the scripture shall be read, and day after day the soul is refreshed by this
period of reading and contemplation. There are others who find that to get
the greatest good from their Bible reading there must be a longer period of
reading. I know one devoted Bible student who is greatly helped by sitting
down with the Bible and reading perhaps for two hours at a time, and then
he may not read the Book again for some days or weeks perhaps. But in time
he returns to the Bible for a season of refreshment. Each one will know
how best to find strength in the practice of Bible reading. But we do need this
strength. There never was a time when the world needed more the calming,
strengthening influence of the presence of the Spirit; there never was a time
when the world needed more to know the secret of enduring grace. And here
is one means which pastors have at hand and which can be used by them for
strengthening the spiritual lives of their people and helping to open the way,
that the Holy Spirit of God may abide in the hearts of men.

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The Bible reports the high spots in the growing acquaintance with God
experienced by one section of the human race. Its outstanding feature is its
report of the religious experience of Jesus Christ and of men who followed
his lead. The comparative value of its very different parts, produced in widely
separated periods of time, and the extent to which it may incorporate erroneous
and transient ideas are matters which can be settled by critical study. Its
challenging feature is Jesus Christ and his wonderful way of living. This
challenge is insistent and unavoidable, a challenge that is involved in the very
nature of life. It stands out to be met in some way by every man, no matter
what he may think about the credibility or incredibility of some parts of the
Bible.

Tn the Churchs Bible School the long history of Gods will unfolding in
human experience is studied, and life grows stronger and deeper. The book
born out of life touched by the Spirit of God pours its message into the lives
of those who study it. It is the Book of Life.Bosworth.

The Congregational Hand Book for 1924 contains Daily Bible Readings
for the year. They are based on the International Sunday School Lesson
Topics for 1924. Copies can be obtained at 4 cents each, postpaid, from the
office of The Commission on Evangelism, 287 Fourth avenue, New York City.
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From a letter addressed to a beginner in the Christian ministry by an aged parson

I COULD give you advice by the barrelful, my dear fellow, good advice too;

and I am sorely tempted to do so; but, remembering that every man must |

work out his own problems, and that there is no wisdom like that which ac-
crues from experience, I forbear. I should like, however, to tell you about a
few things that I have found out in the course of my ministry from which
you may perhaps get a useful hint or two.

You must already have discovered that it is a ministers hardest job to
keep himself and his people keenly alive to spiritual realities, to stand strong
against the downward drag of materialism, for which the old-fashioned name
is worldliness. In this stupendous task I have found valuable allies in the three
holidays that cluster about the close of the year.

~ [m sure it is worth while to make much of Thanksgiving Day. Take the

Thanksgiving Proclamationin that great document the President of the
United States takes your pulpit; through his lips the Nation speaks, calling
her sons and daughters to reverent and grateful worship. To blunder and
stumble through a paper of such dignity is atrocious, to omit it altogether, as
some have done, is little less than a crime. It should be read distinctly and
impressively. Unless you are a better reader than I, you will do well to go
over it carefully beforehand. Late in my ministry I have discovered that
The Proclamation becomes doubly impressive when the people rise to their
feet and stand while they listen to this message from their Chief Magistrate,
and at its conclusion sing the hymn, America.

Ingratitude is the meanest of vices.

That man may last, but never lives
Who much receives and nothing gives,
Whom none may bless, whom none may thank
Creations blot, Creations blank.

No one deliberately intends to be ungratefulwe are thoughtless, that is
alland when you urge your folks to count their blessings one by one you
will find that they respond to the suggestion. All this should come as a
preparation before the feast day. As for public worship upon Thanksgiving
Day itself, what with visits and domestic duties Ive found it a hard matter
to get my people out to church. The most successful Thanksgiving services
I have known are union meetings, where all the churches of a town or neigh-
borhood come together, so emphasizing their common faith, and where an
attractive order of worship with music and addresses is arranged.

But Thanksgiving is, and has been for a long time, preeminently a home
and a family day; and this is well. One cannot put too great emphasis in these
homeless times upon family lifeupon the fact that every household is, or
ought to be,-a household of God. Nothing could be more absurd than a
Thanksgiving dinner where there is no giving of thanks. Yet I am afraid that
some of your folks will start in to carve the turkey without a word to him
from whom all blessings flow. You know how, in their dread of cant, many

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excellent people go far to the other extreme and are very shy about opening
their lips in prayer, even before their own family. What would you think of
printing on your church calendar a brief prayer to be used at the Thanks-
giving dinner?

Christmas is a great day for us all, but especially for children. I have
made a lot of it in my time. I have not taken pains to interfere with the Santa
Claus myth. It is not a lie, nor the cousin of a lie; it is a sort of fairy tale
and is usually so understood by the children. It is better than ordinary fairy
tales, for that beloved friend of little people has reality about him, being a
sort of personification of the Christmas spirit of kindness and goodwill which
is among the most genuine things in the world.

But the point to be emphasized with the children is the fact that Christmas
is the birthday of Jesus. You celebrate the natal day of one you love by
bringing him gifts. In the case of the Great Brother, you cannot give to him
directly, so you give to his friends for his sake. It is a beautiful custom,
when on the Sunday before your boys and girls bring a heap of gifts to be

sent to less fortunate children. Yet one must be careful not to give the im-

pression that Our Lords only friends are poor people. The truth is that the
distinction we make between rich:and poor cannot count for much in his eyes,
and that before him we are much more equal in station and estate than we
are apt to think. Every Christmas gift that is an honest expression of a
genuine love, whether it goes with the missionary barrel or is crammed into
one of the stockings that adorn the family mantel, every such gift is appro-
priate to Jesus birthday because it is bestowed on someone whom he loves.

All this is commonplace enough to you, my dear fellow, but you'll be
surprised to find how many of your folks never think of domestic affection for
what it is; about the best and noblest of the fruits of Christian Faith.

You'll find, as you get into the hearts and lives of your people, that to
many of them Christmastide, with its custom of giving and receiving, brings

intolerable burdens. It is a season that they anticipate with dread. I have

felt it my part to do everything in my power to relieve them of that load.
Make it simple, make it simple! Ive said. Remember that the thing of
real importance is not the gift but the spirit which the gift expresses.

New Years Day, as a time of spiritual opportunity, is not inferior to the

other two festivals. For old people its message may not be so impressive as
that of Thanksgiving, for children, not so impressive as that of Christmas,

but for men and women in the full tide of life, their burdens upon them and

the unseen future with all its hopes and fears stretching out before them,
it speaks with thrilling power. New Years Day is a great time for bringing
men to a sense of their dependence upon Almighty God.
_ At the turn of the year, I try with all my might to persuade my folks,
amid the hurly-burly of life, to stop and thinkto look before and after and
to look up. Which of us, if he would only take time, even a few moments, ~
for serious reflectionwhich of us would be willing to move forward into the
unknown reaches of the coming year without the help and blessing of God?
I have found the watch meeting of New Years Eve helpful; even more
helpful in localities where it is observed as a legal holiday, a little informal

prayer meeting on the first morning of the year. But the most helpful and

blessed of all New Years celebrations is the Lords Supper on the first Sun-
day in January, where we all meet the Master himself as guests at his table.
He looks into our faces, he takes our hands, he whispers to our hearts, he
sends us out upon our paths with the words, Be not afraid; but go forward,
for I go with you. :
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Rev. Fred P. Ensminger, Conference Superintendent in Tennessee, Ken-
tucky and the Carolinas, reports a busy summer in his bailiwick. The regular
preaching force was aided by twelve student workers of the Sunday School
Extension Society and one student pastor appointed by the Home Missionary
Society. In addition to doing the many tasks required of a general worker
in meeting present needs and planning for the future in this great border sec-
tion of the country, Mr. Ensminger has been interested in raising money for
the churches in North Carolina and Kentucky.

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January is one of the months of the year which the Sunday Schools of
the country devote to a study of the work of the Home Missionary Society.
The material has been prepared and sent to all the Schools enrolled as. World
Service Schools. Samples have also been sent to all superintendents of Con-
gregational Church Schools. There is a dialogue, entitled After Ellis Island,
and a story, called How the Minister Was Paid. This material, with a
pamphlet giving definite objects toward which the children may contribute,
will be sent out in quantity on application.

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Mrs. Pratt reports that there are a large number of children ~* Ellis
Island and very little material on hand with which to keep them busy during
kindergarten hours. She has asked specially for rubber balls; kindergarten
paper, sizes six by six and four by four; paper suitable for making chains ;
paste; drawing paper and pencils; paint boxes; pieces of wash materials, one
to two yards in length; thimbles, all sizes, but especially for small children;
articles from the ten cent store stamped for embroidery and embroidery cotton ;
blocks of all sizes; and games for boys. The Christmas season usually brings
a great deal in the way of toys and helpful material to Mrs. Pratt, but it
should be borne in mind that at certain times of the year there is a great rush
of foreign peoples to these shores and at such times the kindergarten is greatly
crowded. Right now is the opportunity for the young people in our Sunday
Schools to do a real missionary work. See that Mrs. Pratt has the equipment
necessary to carry on her work. Address Mrs. Jennie F. Pratt, Missionary
Room, Ellis Island, New York.

A very fine program was rendered by the Tennessee Womans Union and

Branch of the Womans Board of Missions of the Interior at Pilgrim Church,
Chattanooga, November 13-14. Dr. Mary E. George of Chattanooga presided
and Mrs. William Jeffries of East Lake had charge of the devotional period.
Mrs. Charles Kuster of Chattanooga, Mr. Charles Baumgart, Memphis, and
Miss Miriam L. Woodberry of New York, were among the speakers.

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By Atrrep E, RANvELL, D.D., Jamestown, N. Y.

OUTHWESTERN New York is

beautiful. Its inhabitants admit
it; its visitors sometimes shout. it.
True, its winters are rigorous, but its
summers are almost ideal; and when
Jack Frost takes up his paint brush
in the fall, he lavishes his most gor-
geous colors upon the wooded hills
with such superb skill that the va-
rieties of delicate shades and brilliant
hues fairly mock the futility of human
- speech.

The cities and villages of this dis-
trict are about a cen-
tury old. Two of them
celebrated their one
hundredth anniversa-
ries some months ago.
Pioneers, long dead,
are being publicly eu-
logized. Their cour-
ageous. enterprise,
their industry and
thrift, the pranks they
played upon one an-
other, their neighbor-
hood ideals, as well
as their community
quarrels, are being re-
called with such a
wealth of detail, that
even a comparative
stranger experiences
little difficulty in visualizing the past.

Congregationalism can claim only a
very modest share in shaping the life
of these communities. Our churches
are not numerous in this section of
the Empire State. We have fewer
today than we had twenty-five years
ago. Some of those that are still
functioning have had a very precari-
ous existence. The larger towns and

cities have made big draughts upon

the ambitious and enterprising youth
of the villages and rural communi-
ties. Here and there are villages al-
most deserted which, in former days,
were prosperous and flourishing cen-
ters. Wherever a village church has

REV. A. K. BLAZE

. weathered the changes of time, and

continues to hold high the torch that
lights the way in Christian living, it
takes but little scratching beneath the
surface to discover a record of in-
spiring devotion and heroic struggle
on the part of its members. The
story of one such church, emerging
from a period of discouragement into
an. experience of renewed life and
happy achievement, is a remarkable
and convincing testimony to the value
of wise and efficient home missionary
help.

Ellington is a small
village with a big rep-
utation. One glance
at its commodious,
well-built, well-
equipped school build-
ing gives a clue to the
character of its peo-
ple. Its few business
houses face in upon
the square village
green. The surround-
ing country is devoted
chiefly to dairy farm-
ing, with a little maple
sugar industry and
some fruit orchards
thrown in for variety.
The annual town pic-
nic is a rip-roaring affair. Clean sports,
races, good band music, speakers and
singers, baseball games, and all the
other usual attractions for such
occasions, bring together a good-
natured if somewhat boisterous crowd
of from three to five thousand people.

There are three Protestant churches
in the village, the oldest of which is
the Congregational. Out from that
church have gone from time to time,
men and women, who today are held
high in public esteem, stand well

-among their colleagues in professional |

and business life, and who are giving
generously of their time and money
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Church of Jamestown eighteen miles
away. What was Jamestowns gain
was Ellingtons loss. Yet through the
years the Ellington church maintained
its work and helped to leaven the life
of the community with its Christian
fellowship and service.

A very few years ago, days of dis-

couragement came to them. Prices
slumped after the war. Such leader-
ship as could be secured left much to
be desired. The
building of -good
roads and the ad-
vent of the auto-
mobile had already
subtracted from
the Sunday popula-
_ tion. of. the. coun
tryside. Meetings
dwindled. The pas-
tor moved out. The
church gave up its
morning and eve-
ning worship, but
continued to main-
tain its school and
Ladies Aid Soci-
ety, and made oc-
casional remit-
tances,* to... the
benevolences of the
denomination. For
nearly two years
things remained at
a low ebb.

Enter the new
minister, Rev. Ar-
tar: K..Blaze.. A :
spiritual climate must be felt to
be appreciated. Statistics may be help-
ful but they necessarily omit some

of the most vital items. Mr. Blaze

not only made nearly two hundred
calls during the first four months

of his pastorate at Ellington, but

established himself on a. footing
of real friendship with the people
in those homes, as well as with
every Tom, Dick and Harry he might
meet on the streets or in the postoffice.
The Farmers Grange wanted his
membership and got it. Social enter-
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
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sought his cooperation and he gave it
freely. The attendance at morning
and evening services grew. A prayer
meeting was organized and maintained
through the months that have ensued.
A Christian Endeavor Society meets
on a week night with an average at-
tendance of twenty-three. Eleven
new members united with the church
at the first communion service, eight
on confession of faith. Plans are un-
der way and money
pledged toward the
building and equip-
ping of a fine social
room beneath the
church auditorium.
A newly organized
Sunshine Class has
started a fund for
the purchase of a
church bell. Spe-
cial days like Eas-
ter and Mothers
Day have been ob-
served in such a

church with happy
and earnest wor-
shipers. :

Three. factar,
have combined to
bring about so de-
sirable a change in
the Ellington
church. First of all,
the State Confer-
ence Superintend-
ent, Dr Rola
gave his prompt and _ wise assis-
tance. Ellington is five hundred
miles away from headquarters. Yet
the Superintendent found it possible
to visit the little village in person,
driving through rain and mud to keep
an appointment with a group of ear-
nest people. Once the facts were in
his possession he made an arrange-
ment which strained the traditions of
the autonomy of the local church al-
most to the breaking point, but not
quite. He promised to recommend a
small grant to help them financially,
and asked for the privilege of send-

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ing them a leader, with the under-
standing that unless there were in-
superable difficulties in the way, they
would trust to his judgment and give
the man the call. Then he found the
man.

In the second place there was a
group of earnest Christian men and
women who were ready to make real
sacrifices in order to change defeat
into victory. When Mr. Blaze arrived
they gave him earnest and continued
-support. There may have been some
doubt as to the wisdom of some of
his plans and proposals; if so they
kept their doubts out of sight. They
followed where he led and discovered
before long, that they were actually
doing some things for their village
that they had supposed never would
be done. =

In the third place, Mr. Blaze won
his way into the affections of his peo-
ple by his indomitable good cheer and
sincere desire to be of help every-
where. An Ellington man said to the
writer a few weeks ago, Dr. Rollins
is surely some good picker. He could
not have suited us better in a hun-
dred years. A month before his ap-
pointed wedding day, Mr. Blaze fell
and sustained a badly fractured limb.
In the weeks of convalescence, neces-

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sitating the postponing of cherished
plans, the writer saw him repeatedly.
Propped up in bed, punching out sen-
tences by means of a typewriter, pre-
paring sermons for his people, ar-
ranging all the details of the work,
securing the consent of some of his
laymen to read what he so laboriously
wroteit is no wonder to me that
when his Sunday School class ob-

tained permission from the physician

to take him to church on Childrens
Day in a wheel chair, and surprised
him by coming for him on that morn-
ing, his entrance to the building was
the signal for the whole congregation
to rise and in grateful hymn and
prayer express their joy over his re-
covery and return to the work of his

heart. And that work is growing by _

leaps and bounds. |

The parsonage has been completely
renovated. Paint and paper, electric
lights and new heating apparatus have.
made the house so long empty look
cozy and inviting. In it live two peo-
ple who are supremely happy that it
has been given to them to be com-
rades in the gracious ministry of a
home missionary pastorate. If you
want to know more about it, follow
the directions given in the title of this
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A Little Ministers Experiences

By Rev. W. J. Davies, Eagle River, Wisconsin

HE emissary of the Kingdom

does not choose his field of ac-
tivity. He is sent and must regard
his parish as a place where the Lord
promised to go with him and
strengthen and inspire him.

When the writer first set foot in
Vilas County, he shared the feeling of
the Israelitesthat he was in the
wilderness without an idea of: what
the promised land was or where it
lay. There were cut-over lands,
marshes, burned areas, stretches ex-
tending miles without a habitation,
old camp sites and water, water,

water. The native seldom realizes the
feelings of the foreign-born on enter-
ing the country of. his adoption;
neither can the people brought up in
the surroundings just described under-
stand the feeling of loneliness and
dreariness that takes possession of the
newcomer when he begins to tread
the wilderness that is to become hi
promised land.
_ The first comforting assurance was
in finding that people are people wher-
ever they live. Lumber-jacks and
miners are alike human; their wives,
mothers and sweethearts are the same
WHERE THE SUNDAY SCHOOL WAS ORGANIZED

loving, self-sacrificing women that are
to be found everywhere. Men with
top shoes, stockings showing a few
inches higher, woolen shirts, stag
pants, and turkeys on their backs are
not dissimilar to the black-visaged
men who toil in the bowels of: the
earth, the paint-brush man, or the
medicine man. In all stations of life
the minister is the consoler in times
of tragedy and is often an amused
witness of unconscious comedy.

_ The diary of my first year on this
field is filled with experiences that it
is hard to believe are often duplicated.
I was called upon to hold a funeral
service at a certain point of the parish
and what did Iefind? No undertaker,
no hearse. The minister was also the
undertaker, and an ordinary farm
wagon, cleaned for the occasion,
served as hearse. Think of that cor-
tege as it wended its way from cut-
over surroundings to the village
church and thence to the cemetery.
Two cars for the clergyman and pall
bearers; the improvised hearse, and
three cars for the relatives and
friends.

An old Polish couple, too old to

earn their bread by the sweat of their

brow, must look to friends to keep the
wolf from the door. A bundle of
clothing is prepared and the pastor
proceeds to the little shack the old
couple call their home. Unconsciously
he resembled a peddler. The door
was opened by the old lady sufficiently
to allow her face to be seen and to
express, by a shake of her head, that
she wanted nothing. No money, she
said. By dint of a little pressure the
door was opened gradually and the
pack placed on the floor. A _ skirt,

apparently just the thing, was taken

from it. Again a shake of the head
said No money. So garment after
garment, from hat to shoes, was
brought from hve bundle and placed
on achair. No money was the only
answer. The peddler threw his
pack in a corner, left the clothing on
the chair and waved his hands to in-
dicate that all belonged to the old
lady. Then the significance of the
visit dawned upon her. She threw
herself into his arms and planted a
kiss on his cheek. The wet spots un-
der ie eyes had to be brushed away
wh he finally left the place. Would

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he go back to the city? Having seen
a human need and having been able
to supply it, would he run away from
another such experience? Having
been a medium of usefulness and
comfort at a settlers funeral, would
he quit? Not so long as the Lord sees
fit to permit him to stay.

What use is a Sunday School? One
community, where practically the en-
tire population made its living from
the summer tourist trade, had no time
for Sunday School. But it was dif-
ferent at another point in the parish
where Finnish and Bohemian settlers
prevailed. A good English mother
saw the need and we helped her to
organize a school. Sometimes we
took the folding organ to help with
the singing. How those kiddies gazed
at the suit-case-looking thing? when
the strains of Jesus Loves Me, and
Jesus Bids Us Shine poured out of
it. Good Mrs. Peters superintended
the school. The Bible was the text-
book. The superintendent did not
understand the new-fangled helps,
neither did she follow the lessons.
They devoted much time to finding
passages of scripture like the Twenty-
third Psalm and the Ten Command-
ments, reading them and committing
them to memory. Searching the
Scriptures was a law in that school
and one time the word vinegar was
sought for and a two-hour session
was necessary to find it. But all

. through that summer and most of the

following winter about thirty children
plodded to Sunday School and the
good superintendent, dressed practi-
cally in the same garb as her foreign
neighbors, trudged through snow and
water to keep the light burning at
the little schoolhouse.

To care for the eleven Sunday
Schools of the parish is too much for
one man on one Sunday. In the sum-
mer the State Conference gives as-
sistance and there is volunteer help
which is highly appreciated. At some
points preaching is the rule without
Sunday School. I make Boulder

Junction, forty-eight miles away, on
Wednesday nights, and the Anvil
Lake service is held on Sunday night.
Only the experienced know the diff-
culties of the long journeys and bad
roads.

The busiest time of the year for the
missionary and his good wife is the
Christmas season. Programs are in
preparation and Santa Claus must, di-
rectly or indirectly, do something for
every child within the borders of the
parish. Through the Sunday Schools
of down-state churches, hundreds of
toys are provided by the children of
the schools (not the Sunday Schools
only), be they Protestant or Catholic.
In the same way candy and nuts and
booklets are received. Then the old
fellow is impersonated in as many
programs as he can reach by horse
and sleigh.

Among the poorer settlers of all na-
tionalities much sickness prevails and
often the patients must have opera-
tions. To meet this difficulty the mis-
sionary has a fund, raised mostly by
himself, to pay transportation to hos-
pitals. In every case for at.least four
years when an appeal has been made
to him for such sufferers rooms have
been given free of charge and doc-
tors have donated their services.

Sometimes we are a labor bureau,
an information bureau, an advisory
board, and there is no end to the pos-
sibilities of the situation. We do not
claim to be efficient or sufficient for
all we are called upon to do. Once
when I explained my,job to a vener-
able teacher of preachers, he said,
You can only keep the light burn-
ing. That is true. Somehow, we
cannot explain it, but the waste places
seem to us to have blossomed, the
cut-over lands are the possible farms
of the future, the rough, uncouth set-
tler of foreign tongue has become a
brother American, the pines seem to
have put on symmetry, the waters are
now rivers and lakes of beauty and
the whole aspect of the country is
changed to a Gods country.
Some Notes from the National
Council Meeting

The Panorama

NE of the most outstanding fea-
tures of the program of the Na-
tional Council was the so-called Con-
crete Panorama, which was an ef-
fort within the space of an hour to
depict the whole work of our benevo-
lent Societies.

Dr. D. Brewer Eddy, of the Ameri-
can Board, acted as prolocutor and in
poetic and inspiring fashion gave an
introduction to the whole Panorama
and also explained the parts taken by
the various Societies as their work
was introduced.

First in order came the Education
Society and the Foundation for Edu-
cation, represented by Secretary Shel-
ton and President Nash. An old-
time Puritan presented to the audi-
ence, one by one, the various types
with which these organizations labor.
Then appeared in processional from
the rear of the auditorium the repre-
sentatives of the Church Extension
Boards. At the beginning of the line
marched the children, young people
and adults representing the Sunday
Schools of Congregationalism and the
hundreds of thousands of children
who at present are receiving no re-
ligious. instruction. Following them
were representatives of the workers
of the Home Missionary Society, in-
cluding home missionaries themselves,
student summer workers and Negro
pastors in the North. There were
groups, too, who stood for the pio-
neers themselves and. for the foreign-
speaking peoples constantly coming to
our shores. The Church Building So-
ciety was represented by four young
men who carried parts of a model
_church building which they proceeded
to assemble on the platform. The
American Missionary Association was
represented by groups of colored peo-
ple who sang melodiously as always,
and the Ministerial Boards by the

Secretary, Rev. Charles S. Mills,
D.D., who presented their claims most
felicitously.

The closing features of the Pano-
rama were the appearance of children
and young people clad in foreign cos-
tumes, who represented those for
whom the American Board and the
Womans Board are laboring. They
made a picturesque group as they
were assembled in the center of the
stage bearing the flags of many na-
tions. The entire Panorama served
not only to give visual representation
of our missionary work at home and
abroad, but was a telling testimonial
to the fraternal spirit of cooperation
which animates all our organizations.
All the societies recognize that they
are parts of a single army which is

-marching forward to win a common

victory.
The Saw-tooth Octet

What do those letters mean?
asked a visitor at the Council meeting,
as a tall man wearing a yellow badge
on which appeared the letters S. D.
D. Q. swung down the steps of the
auditorium.

Saw-tooth Octet, lady, said a lit-
tle fellow who was following the tall
chap and who had a similar badge at-
tached to his arm.

Saw-tooth Octet! echoed the puz-

zled visitor. How can those letters
possibly stand for Saw-tooth Octet ?

They dont, said a_ bystander.
They really mean South Dakota
Double Quartet. But since it is made
up of four very tall mensome over
six feet in heightand four shorter
ones of varying stature, they always
refer to themselves as the Saw-tooth
Octet. Just wait until you see them
all together and you will realize how
well the name fits.

When do they sing? eagerly in-
quired the visitor. I am so anxious
to hear them.

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West? i> Are: they all ministers?

They are, said the person who
was busy passing on information.
They are to sing on the twenty-sec-
ond at the meeting of the Church Ex-
tension Boards. They are all from
the section of the country we still call
frontier so far as missionary work is
COficerncd.:

I should like to know their names
and something about them. Has any-
thing been published ?

I can tell you their names and the
names of the places where they work,
but if you will come to the meeting
on Monday you will learn far more
than-I am able to tell you.

Let us take the tall men first, said
the visitor.

Well, Mr. Jamison, who just went
down the steps, is located at Newell,
and has been a missionary in South
Dakota for twenty-five years and
more. Then there is Alan Fairbank.
He has spent eight years in the state,
five of them at Edgemont. Rev.
George Williams is Assistant Superin-
tendent of the State, with special
charge of the work in the Black Hills
region. His headquarters are at

Rapid City. Mr. Whitcomb is pastor
at Pierred

And the little fellows?

Well, Rev. Fred Smiths address
is Isabel, but he really lives in a Ford
car; John .R. Paterson is stationed at
Canova; Carl Bast at Milbank and
A. C. Warner at Springfield. A very

- remarkable fact about this Octet is
that they live from one hundred to.
six hundred miles apart and as a rule
they meet only at State Associations
and similar gatherings. So, you see,
they can practice together only two or
three times a year.

How truly wonderful, murmured
the visitor, as she went down the
steps thinking over a new aspect of
the home missionary problem.

On the afternoon of October 22
the interested visitor sat in a front
row and afterward said: The saw-
tooth application was evident and I
would not have missed it for any-
thing. This has given me an entirely

new idea of home mission work.
Those men practically have given their
lives to work in hard frontier parishes
and music is their avocation ; missions
their vocation.

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Meeting of the Church Extension Boards

The program arranged for the
church Extension Boards was car-
ried out on the afternoon and eve-
ning of October 22nd. Necessary
_ business matters were first transacted,
after which Dr. Huget, the President,
introduced the South Dakota Double
Quartet, asking each member to say
a few words about himself and his
field. They sang a number of times
and the enjoyment of everyone in the
audience was evident.

Superintendent Heald, for thirty-
one years a commissioned worker of
the Home Missionary Society, and
who, at his own request, is retiring
from its service, told as much of his
work in the Border States as the ten
minutes allotted to those on the after-
noon program would permit. His
bailiwick for some sixteen years has
been the states of Arizona, New Mex-
ico and West Texas and his service
has been enlisted for both American
and Spanish-speaking groups.

Rev. William D. Barnes, pastor at
Collbran, Colorado, followed with a
speech on A Larger Parish in Colo-
rado. He was listened to with great
interest and several of his stories cre-
ated considerable amusement, particu-
larly the tale of the rodeo at which
he was to ride a steer and was pre-
vented from carrying out the plan by
an accident. He insisted that by
breaking his leg he had saved his neck.

Colonel John T. Axton, Chief of
Chaplains in the United States Army,
and Captain Evan W. Scott, of the
Navy, made a contribution that is un-
usual on missionary programs. Colo-
nel Axton told How the Churches
Can Serve the Men of the Army and
Captain Scott showed they can ren-
der the same service to the Navy.
Many persons in the audience re-
marked that they had not hitherto
known that the denomination made
any contribution toward providing re-
ligious care for enlisted men.

Rev. William I. Caughran, of Port
Arthur, Texas, told of The Mission

of Congregationalism in the South.
In this connection it may be said that
during his seven years of service in
this rapidly growing Southern city
there has been a seventy per cent net
increase in his church membership, a
nine hundred per cent increase in
benevolences and the church budget is
three times as large as when he en-
tered the field.

The force of summer student
workers was well represented. Miss
Madeline B. Walker spoke for those
who served with the Sunday School
Extension Society during 1923 and
Mr. Lee E. Deets, as the representa-
tive for the Home Missionary Society
workers, told of his work on the Red-
vale-Nucla-Paradox field in Colorado.

There was a splendid attendance at
the evening session. The speakers
were Rev. Kerrison Juniper, pastor of
the tourist church at St. Petersburg,
Florida; Lloyd C. Douglas, D2 os
the First Church, Akron, Ohio; Dr.
Lewis T. Reed of Flatbush Church,
Brooklyn, and Dr. Huget, the presi-
dent of the Church Extension Boards.

In the Exhibit Room

A number of charts showing vari-

ous types of work done by the Society

were shown under the topics Every
Hour a. Preacher and. In. @tier

Tongues. In the former booth a dis- |

play of baskets made by the Koasati
Indians attracted much attention. The
combination of colors was effective
and the workmanship excellent. A
moss saddle blanket also made by
these Indians was greatly admired.
The: pamaphlet "Phe ~Fiid of the
Trail, by Rev. Paul Leeds, who has

been the friend and guide of these_

people for a period of thirty years,
was eagerly sought after by folks who
wanted to know more about the bas-
ket-makers.

Posters showing the Negro Work
in the North, Collbran Larger Parish,
the City and the Frontier were
scanned by hundreds of visitors, all
anxious for information concerning

each department. The illustrations of

THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY : 465

the Womans Department and the
work at Ellis. Island were very
popular and one person was kept

busy explaining the work for which

they stood. Late on the afternoon of
October 22nd the chart showing how
the appropriation made to Army.and
Navy chaplains was used was sur-
rounded by people who had heard the
addresses of Colonel Axton and Cap-
tain Scott and were anxious to copy
all the information available.

The kindergartens at Evarts, Ken-
tucky, Hurley, New Mexico, and the
Montana Vacation Bible Schools had
supplied drawings and toys and hand-
work of various kinds, which were
used in chart form. These posters

%

were placed in. the Childrens Booth

and the work done by the little folks

was most favorably commented upon.
The Congregational Service Car

Probably no single feature of the
exhibit attracted more attention than
the missionary Ford. A map of the
United States was placed between the
front wheels and red cord extending
from points on the map to the spokes
of the wheels showed the fields which
are so fortunate as to have automo-
biles. Blue cords similarly attached
showed the places where they are
badly needed. - Autos do not cost as
much as missionaries, and one fron-
tier pastor with a car is equal to two

sometimes threewithout one.

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The Durham Community Church and the
Call of Opportunity

By Ratpyu D, PAINE

URHAM is a little town and
New Hampshire College is a
large institution still growing vigor-
Gusly. hese are the factors of 3
problem both interesting and impor-
tant beyond the boundaries of Dur-
ham. The town has one church and
is proud of the fact. Instead of va-
rious sects pulling every which way,
this community is pulling heartily to-
gether to show that religion does: not
have to be a decaying cause in rural
New England. Members of thirteen
different denominations meet under
the one roof of the white, steepled
church and have no quarrels over
creeds and doctrines. There are
things more essential.
Congregational in name and tradi-

~ tion, the Durham church society has

weathered more than two hundred
years. Even earlier than that, a log
meeting-house stood on the bank of
the Oyster river and the rugged pio-
neers gathered there with muskets
stacked against the forays of the In-
dians who, more than once, turned the
pleasant valley into a hell of murder

and destruction. For almost three
centuries, in fact, Durham has main-
tained a house of worship in lineal
descent to the thriving community
church of the present.

The village drowsed along, dream-
ing more of its past than facing the
future, until the college settled in its
midst. Yoday the college has a larger
population than the town. This puts -
it squarely up to the community
church. For the most part the college
is maintained by state appropriations.
These make no provision for a chapel
or for any form of religious and wel-
fare activity. This has to be so.

Durham has been studying the
problem for some time. Now she has
rolled up her sleeves and proposes to
expand her church organization to .
meet this responsibility. A campaign
is under way to raise $37,000 in or-
der to enlarge the capacity of the
church, to put in a new organ, and
to provide a parish house that will
take care of the numerous demands
of the students and the town. The
mere mention of this $37,000 is
466 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY

enough to make an old-timer faint in
his tracks. Nobody in the Durham
of other days could have imagined
such a project. It is a stiff yndertak-
ing for the present generation, but
there are no signs of dismay.

Throughout New Hampshire Dur-
ham is recognized as a strategic point
for religious effort. Fhe thousand
fine young men and women who
throng the campus come from every
nook and corner of the state. They
are making sacrifices to win educa-
Hon. lhey are mec
best stuff we have.
They deserve the
mest... Duraam
wants to do its
share in helping
them to get it.

For. these rea
sons the state and
national organiza-
tions of the Con-
gregational church
have been looking
over the ground.
Bne arguments
sound good to
mem. They are
ready to back up
their approval with
cash. They have
pledged a total of
$22,000 toward the
fund required. Of
this amount the
Church Building Society now stands
ready to give $7,000, and the New
Hampshire Congregational _Confer-
ence offers $5,000. In addition, it is
expected that $10,000 will be raised as
a special gift among the Congrega-
tional churches of the state and the
friends of the college who are directly
interested in this movement.

These pledges, $22,000 in all, are
conditional: The Durham church it-
self must find the balance of $15,000
to complete the grand total of $37,000.
Now $15,000 looks as big as Mount
Washington to this small community,
which, as you might say, has the col-

lege on its back. But it cheerfully
announces that it proposes to go and
get the $15,000. The spirit of the

church is not accustomed to failure.

Here is how President Ralph D.
Hetzel, of New Hampshire College,
sums 1p the situation:

There is no more important task

incident to the educational work
vested in our college community than

that of ministering to the religious

and moral needs of our student body.
The college is a public institution
and, consequently,
not free to make
formal provision
for this ministry. It
is essential, there-
fore, that our com-
munity church shall
assume this exceed-
ingly important
task.
t Dhe physies
plant of the church
is not now ade-
quately equipped to
accomplish this
task. The enroll-
ment at the college
has tripled in the
last decade and will
continue to in-
crease for some
Aime. Certainly

COMMUNITY CHURCH, puRHAM, N. Hu. 3S Safe to say

that within the
next three years we will have
about 1,300 students. A survey by

the registrars office of the col-

lege shows that 63. per cent of
these students are church members
and 76 per cent of the remainder have
indicated their interest by stating a
denominational preference. If these
young people who represent the fu-
ture leadership of our state and na-
tion are to be impregnated with the

true spirit of religion and impressed

with the tremendous importance of
the service of the organized church,
the work must be done, in the larg-
est possible measure, through the

THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY , 467

offices of the local community church.

I believe there is no greater op-
portunity for constructive religious
work in any community than obtains
here. I believe the Christian people
of our state and New England will
make a serious error if they fail to
provide in the most liberal way pos-

_ sible for the church facilities of our

community.

In connection with this physical ex-
pansion a most interesting program is
planned to coordinate the religious

development of the church and the

college. Funds are in sight to. sup-
port two workers on the campus,
probably a man and a woman. In a
way, although not officially, they will

_be like assistant pastors and as part

of their duties they will carry on
services in the neighboring towns of
Madbury and Lee and also in the
Durham outposts of Packers Falls
and Durham Point.

This is one way to solve the rural
church problem, a_ strong central
church organization radiating its vigor
to smaller and weaker communities
nearby. The active interests of the
students will be enlisted in serving
Lee and Madbury, which, at present,
are unable to maintain settled pastors
of their own.

This plan is largely the work of
Rev. Moses R. Lovell, pastor of the
Durham Community Church. He is
a young man and this his first parish.
He is ideally fitted for his task, in
personality, talent and a fine sincerity.
He is the sort of man needed in the

_ Christian ministry, but, alas, there is

no large supply of them. Durham has
been fortunate in its ministers. Mr.
Lovell succeeded Rev. Vaughan Dab-
ney, also youthful and enthusiastic,
whose four years in Durham were
brilliantly successful. Mr. Dabney is
enthusiastic over the expansion proj-
ect and sends this cheerful message
from his present parish in Boston:
This ambitious project breathesthe
spirit of true Christian statesmanship.
Both pastor and people are convinced

of the far-reaching influences of their
work in the state, the nation and the
world. The college students of to-
day are the builders of a better order
tomorrow. How imperative it is,
therefore, that a modern, well-
equipped church plant should sym-
bolize to them the vital power of the
Christian religion.

As one who spent four happy
years in the Durham pastorate, and
who still loves the place and its peo-
ple and feels the mighty pull of this
strategic parish, I am glad to send
along this word of hearty endorse-
ment and good will. Forward, march!

Another pastor who left a lasting
imprint in Durham was Rev. Wm. S.
Beard, who served from 1897 to
1908. He is now a prominent offi-
cial of the Commission on Missions
of the National Council of Congrega-
tional Churches, with headquarters in
New York. He has taken a lively in-
terest in the campaign for a bigger
community church and puts it straight
from the shoulder in these words:

The opportunity of a lifetime has
now come to Durham and to all who

love the Durham Church and are vi-

tally interested in the community.
Ours is the chance to present to the
youth of our time a vigorous Chris-
tianity, a church with a modern plant,
adequate, complete, adapted for a

ministry of worship through noble

music, through religious education,
through social efforts and interests,
with office quarters for a staff of work-
ers, both paid and volunteers, which
shall enable this church to reach out
to all the country round about.
Students do come to church of their
own free will. It is inspiring to see
them fill two-thirds of the seats
through the college year. If you hap-
pen to meet a Durham citizen during
the next month or so and he looks

broke and hungry dont feel too anx- |

ious. The church campaign commit-
tee has just finished combing him for
his dollars, whether he could spare
them or not. was
A Summer injthe Coeur DAlenes

This narrative of swmmer student work was obtained in an interview with

reports made by John R. Barton of Yale Divinity School. Mr. Barton devoted pe
vacation season this year to missionary work in the Coeur DAlene region in Idaho
and. was persuaded by the pastor and people of the field he served to remain two
months longer and place the work for boys and girls on a permanent basis. He was
enthusiastic about his experience and is planning to return to the same parish next

SUMMEY.

I EXPECT to go back to the Coeur
DAlenes next summer. The ex-
perience obtained during my five
months there last season has been in-
valuable and I would not have missed
it for anything. Then, too, I received
such a cordial welcome from pastor
and people that I begin to feel as
though I really belonged in that re-
gion. The folks out there have a fine
spirit of cordiality and friendliness,
and are coming to realize the impor-
tance of the church to the community
especially the church which stands
for community welfare. They are

SCOUTS IN THE SUMMER CAMP
468

very admirable people to work with.

My commission from the Home
Missionary Society was for the three
months which make up the summer
vacation periodJune, July and Au-
gust. I was delighted with the field
assigned meWallace and Mullan,
Idaho.

I found on my arrival that, in the
opinion of the pastor, Mr. Withing-
ton, it would be wise for me to con-
centrate largely on the work among
the boys and girls. I first looked into
the Boy Scout work, which I found
to be in fine shape at Mullan. I spent
a few days getting ac-
quainted with the people
and, as it was the time of
the year when the Scouts
go. camping at - Cosme
DAlene Lake, sixty miles
to the west, I took charge
of a patrol. Mr. Parker,
the Scout Assistant Execu-
tive, offered to help in the
Vacation Bible School if I
would serve as athletic and
playground man for a
week. I was glad to do this
and felt well repaid for the
eR 6 .

Hikes with the boys to
Stevens Peak, Lone Lake
and Gilded Lake were
taken after our return from
camp. A lot of hard climb-
ing was necessary, but I
found it well worth the
trouble. The boys enjoyed
these trips so much that
they voted thereafter to
spend every Wednesday in
the mountains. .

Another of my duties

was in connection with the

THE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY 469

Daily Vacation Bible Schools
in Wallace and Mullan. I
found there was a prejudice
against purely mechanical
pastoral calling and _ these
schools created opportunities
for visiting we should not
otherwise have had. -The
Wallace school closed on
August 24th, after what was
considered a very successful
term. I really believe that an
indelible impression was left
in the minds of the children.
After the school closed I
took two of the larger Mul-
lan boys and with the Sun-
day School superintendent
went 10 Fish Creek, some
ninety miles east. We stayed
in the mountain for four
days and had a wonderful
time trout fishing. We also
took a number of the boys
and girls on excursions and
the annual Sunday Schocl
picnic was held in Snow
Storm Gulch. It was on this
occasion that we ran across a
moonshiners still. The
young folks were quite ex-
cited over the find, which we
hauled to town and, after
photographing it, handed it
over to the sheriff.
Shortly after this Super-
intendent Baird, Mr. With-
ington and the people of the com-
munity urged me to stay with
them until the first .of the. year
and. rturn to. Yale. the second
semester. The arguments for my re-
maining were that I had been largely
instrumental in overcoming a preju-
dice against the work for boys which,
for one reason and another, had
arisen in the district, and that I was
in a fair position to reorganize the
scout movement, officer the troups
and get them started on a winter pro-
gram before I departed. Accordingly,
I began this rather intensive piece of
work on September Ist. It was a
somewhat difficult undertaking.

taking over the work.

A SCOUT FIND }

A morale had to be created among
the boys, so that the men who were
asked to officer the troups would be
able to feel some enthusiasm about
Then the
scoutmasters had to have some train-
ing and, in addition to meeting with
three troups, numbering about sixty,
in Wallace, and another big troup at
Mullan consisting of thirty-two boys,
I conducted a scoutmasters school.
I endeavored to outline a program
and to acquaint them with the pur-
poses of scouting. I laid particular
emphasis on the fact that Christian
citizenship was the real aim and end
of the organization. :
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An interesting work was started at
Mullan, which, if maintained, | be-
lieve will have far-reaching conse-
quences. Meetings of the Scouts
were held on Friday nights, and at the
same time meetings of the Camp Fire
Girls took place. These regular ses-
sions lasted for an hour and after-
ward the boys and girls assembled to-
gether for a half hour of Christian
training. Afterward there were games
and other social diversions for all the
young people. We always tried to
stress the fact that no boys or girls de-
served their good times until they
were. willing to live up to the re-
sponsibility their membership in the
organizations entailed.

This record of summer student
service would hardly be complete
without reference to the meeting of
the Washington Congregational Con-
ference which I was able to attend in

*

company with Mr. Withington of
Wallace, Mr. Yaltes of Kellogg, and
Mr. Sturtevant, the Y secretary at
the latter place. We enjoyed the in-
spiration of the Conference and_ the
personal contact with such men as
Superintendent Baird, Dr. Hawkins,
and other leaders. We returned to
the Coeur DAlenes with renewed en-
thusiasm for our duties.

I am going back to my work at
Yale Divinity School with the feel-
ing that my summer has been well
spent and that the people were as
sorry to see me go as I was to leave
them. Several highly prized tokens
of appreciation were given me by
friends in both Mullan and Wallace.
After such demonstrations of kindly
feeling it is needless for me to re-
peat that I certainly expect to return
to the Coeur DAlenes in the summer
of 1924.

*

The Vinita Rural Work

HE church at Vinita, Oklahoma,

is of peculiar interest, and the
fact that it is the oldest Congrega-
tional organization in the state adds
to that interest. If some one were to
write the story of this church and its
early days when Oklahoma was the
Indian Territory, there would be
brought to light a record of struggle,
hazard and achievement, human, vital
and compelling. A new pastor, Rev.
James R. Hewitt, has recently come
to this old church and he is deter-
mined that the present and future his-

tory shall compare favorably with

that of the past, and is devoting all
his energies to this end.

Within the last few years a very
outstanding feature of the Vinita

parish has been the rural outstation

work. The former pastor devoted
considerable time to its cultivation
and held evangelistic meetings at the
country places with a large measure
of success. Mr. Hewitt feels that
while his first responsibility is to serve

and build up the Vinita church, these ~

rural points must not be neglected and
he is visiting and looking after them
as he is able. Several villages, among
them White Oak, Dixon and Way-
side, have Sunday Schools, and
preaching services are held whenever

possible. Last summer it was decided

to employ a student to assist at the
outstations, and the results achieved
demonstrated what might be done if
a man were placed on the field who
could give his entire time to the rural
portion of the parish and cooperate
with Mr. Hewitt in developing it prop-
erly. Here is a real need and oppor-
tunity. It is to be hoped that the man
and the money will soon be forthcom-
ing, and that a spiritual and_ social
ministry will be provided which shall
meet the needs of the entire region.
Periods of discouragement have often
come to the Vinita church, but there
has been an invincibility of spirit that
has carried the work through. This
spirit may be depended upon to com-
plete a work which has been so well
begun.

THE CG. H. M. S. TREASURY

CHARLES H. BAKER, Treasurer

COMPARATIVE STATEMENT

October, 1923 This Year Last. Year Increase Decrease
Contributions 7... ee 11,797.42 1
Beam ate See: ep re? ee ee
Total see Bo ee a 15,688.08 16 56S.5460 4a Fe ee 875.46
Raid State, soe ctlese ect eae ce 3,258.47 Sho LL aes 464.70
Net Available for National Work......... 12,429.61 12,840.37 . See 410.76
Legacies and Matured Conditional Gifts... $9,939.92 $3,214.73 ae BOS 2D Oe Oe. cinco re
Seven Months from April 1, 1923 This Year Last \ear Increase Decrease
CN ee $78,308.48 78,227.42 81.06
From State Societies.............+000005 26,875.72 +73 032.69 3,043.03 ee
fare ae eR none 105,184.20 101,160.11 4500409. | a cra
Paid State SOCIEtICS... 3 ee. : 20,851.92 DORA OA ae alka VS eee sete a $1,412.10
Net Available for National Work........ 84,332.28 78,896.09 5,436.19 eee. oe
Legacies and Matured Conditional Gifts... $51,628.34 ZOE SOLO 7k eae ces : $28,191.53

T will be remembered that the Executive Committee found it advisable last
spring to take some $42,500 out of invested funds which were susceptible
to such use in case of emergency and turn this amount into current income in~
order to overcome the deficit which our books showed at the close of our
fiscal year, March 31, 1923. Attention was called at that time to the fact that
this was an extreme measure, justifiable only on the ground that there was no
other alternative if the Society were to be cleared of its debt. It was stated
then that such a diminution in our permanent funds would work a loss in in-
come from investments of more than $2,000 yearly for all time to come. It is,
therefore, a matter of great rejoicing that the Executive Committee has been
able because of additional receipts accruing from the investment of the Stone
legacy to return this $42,500 to the permanent funds from which it was taken.
The report, as it appears above, shows that for the seven months ending
October 31 there has been a gain in the receipts of the National Society, but 2
that during the last month a loss was reported. Moreover, the gain is com-
paratively small when considered in the light of the tremendous demands which
the national field is making on our income: Will not every church treasurer
who reads this endeavor at the earliest possible moment to remit whatever
moneys he may have on hand to the credit of this Society and do everything :
possible to stir up his church to the meeting of the full apportionment for 1923?

The Congregational Home Missionary Society h i in i i

: L j y has three main sources of income. Legacies furnish
approximately thirty-two per cent. Income from investments amounts to thirteen per irs Contribu-
tions from churches, societies and individuals afford substantially fifty-five per cent. For all but eighteen

- states the treasurer of the Congregational Home Missionary Society receives and expends these con-

tributions. In those eighteen states, affiliated organizations administer home missiona i
operation with The Congregational Home Missionary Society. Each of these Jrcaucas totes aa
percentage of its undesignated receipts to the national treasury. To each of these the national treasury
forwards a percentage of undesignated contributions from each state respectively. The percentage to
The Congregational Home Missionary Society in the various states is as follows:
California (North), 2; California (South), 5; Connecticut, 50; Illinois, 25; Iowa, 30; Kai ;
Maine, 5; Massachusetts, 35; Michigan, 15; Minnesota, 5; Missouri, Sy Nebraska, 10; Ney Hee
50; New York, 15; Ohio, 13; Rhode Island, 20; Vermont, 25; Washington, 3; Wisconsin, 10- :

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The Christmas Season is upon us, reminding us anew of the glad tidings
of great joy which came in the birth of him who brought the Grace of God
to mankind. The blessed influences which date from that day will stream
on forever to redeem humanity from the destructive forces of the sins which
afflict the world. In this faith we celebrate the day with our rejoicings. It
means to us that above the sins of the world, its degradations and its woes,
there is yet a Kingdom of Heaven on earth, in the fullness of which we
may believe and for which we can hopefully work and wait. Why should
we not celebrate the birthday of the Lord of souls and the Lord of life?
Those who make it merely a merry time, a conventional holiday, surely lose
the glory of it in their obliviousness of what the name above every name
means for mankind and what it is saying to the world. |

ko * *

When I become glum over the meager success of the section of the army
with which I am marching, I take down a book of statistics and read what
the Methodists are doing, and the Baptists, and the Lutherans and the Pres-
byterians and the Episcopalians and the Dutch Reformed and the Disciples
and the Adventists and the United Brethren, and a score of other regiments
all fighting heroically under the banner of Christ. I think of what the Roman
Catholics are doing and the Greek Catholics, and the Anglo Catholics, and
how many saints of God are found in all of these communions, and then I
allow my mind to wander outside all the communions of organized Christianity,
and I think of the great company of men and women who are not identified
with any religious organization, but are living clean and true lives, men and
women whose hands are clean and whose hearts are pure, who have not lifted
up their souls to vanity nor sworn deceitfully and who therefore have won
the right to stand in the hill of the Lord. And when I meditate upon this vast
company, and think of the contribution they are making every day to the life
of mankind, I thank God and take courage. The world always seems to be
going to the dogs, but it never goes. Why not? Because there are so many
good people in it. . Dr. CHaRLes E. JEFFERSON.

Thanks to Dr. W. E. Barton, ex-moderator of the National Council, for
one of the most important documents in the history of our Congregational
Churches. This deliverance on Christian Unity was greatly needed, and this
frank and clear statement will put an end to considerable nonsense. The
ecclesiastical folly of seeking a kind of Church Unity that never was possible
and never will be should now subside.

> &

It may be doubted whether anywhere in the world a more complete
illustration of cooperation can be found than in the present work of educa-
tion for the colored children of the South. And it is cooperation without con-
flict and, except in rare instances, without wasteful duplication. It is little
short of wonderful how the various agencies dovetail and support each other.

Dr. James H. Drirarp,

472

oe ei

Our Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting

Poe Seventy-seventh Annual Meeting of The American Missionary
Association was held in the First Congregational Church of Springfield,
Massachusetts, on Tuesday, October 23, 1923. After a devotional service
the meeting of the Association was called to order by the President, Rev.
Nehemiah Boynton, D.D. ae

The Annual Report of the Treasurer was presented to the Association
by Treasurer Gaylord. See

The Report of the Executive Committee was presented by Mr. John
R. Rogers, Chairman of the Committee.

The Report of the Department of Missions was made by Rev. Fred L.
Brownlee, Corresponding Secretary. :

An address upon Our Last Stand in the Mountains was given by
Rev. Ferd. Q. Blanchard, D.D.

An address upon Negro Womanhood was given by Mrs. Charlotte
Hawkins Brown Moses.

An address upon Latin-America and Christian Progress was given
by Secretary Samuel G. Inman. oe

An addtess was given upon Our Southern ChurchesProblems and
Progress by Rev. Alfred Lawless, Jr., D.D. ae

An address was given upon Negro Migration and Its Implications,
North and South by George E. Haynes, Ph.D. 2

The music was furnished by the Jubilee Quartette Singers of Fisk
University. oe

The afternoon session, Rev. Nehemiah Boynton, D.D., presiding:

The following officers were elected for the coming year: President,
Rev. William-Horace Day, Connecticut; vice-presidents, Rev. Carl S. Patton,
California; Rev. John Gordon, Illinois; Professor Isaac Fisher, Tennessee ;
Mr. F. J. Lowrey, Hawaii; Mr. E. Snell Hall, New York.

The direction of the American Missionary Association now stands as
follows:
PresidentRev. William Horace Day, D.D.

Members of the Executive Committee.
Term of Office Expires.

1925 1927 1929

Lucien C. Warner Ferd. Q. Blanchard Hugh E. Brown
Executive JG. Glenn Atkins Daniel C. Turner Mrs Lucius R. Eastman
Committee | J. R. Danforth Oscar E. Maurer James F. Halliday
George E. Haynes John R. Rogers Edward P. Lyon
LArthur B. Holmes Willis D. Wood Robert R. Wicks

The following were elected as the administrative officers:

Corresponding Secretaries, Rev. George L. Cady, D.D.; Rev. Fred L.
Brownlee.

Treasurer, Irving C. Gaylord.

The meetings of the Association were inspiring. Although our sessions
came on the last day of the National Council and were held in the midst of .
a pouring rain, the First Church was solidly filled in both sessions with an
attentive and interested audience. All of the addresses were to the point and
the influences which must go forth from such a gathering ought to tell influ-
entially upon the work of the Association for the coming year.

473

Why Support the American Missionary
| _ Association?

T no time within the last seventy-

seven years has America faced
such acute racial problems. Racial
differences have become accentuated
since the war because race conscious-
ness and race aspirations have re-
- ceived an unprecedented impulse. Fur-
ther, the stirring of race feelings and
race issues throughout the world,
which is so widely recognized, will
strongly affect race relations in our
country. The so-called backward
races now demand not merely an
equal place, but the opportunity to fit
themselves for responsibility and serv-
ice. The historic task of the Amer-
ican Missionary Association has been
to provide that opportunity through
Chiistian education.

Having prayed and served through
seventy-seven years to awaken in
handicapped races the God-given spark
of racial aspiration, should we not
welcome with joy and increased en-
ergy the success of our efforts, the
growing manifestation that the people
for whom we worked are becoming
aware of their own intrinsic worth?

The demand laid upon the Associa-
tion has been unprecedented, not so
much by the volume as by the quality
of training which is required. As a
race rises, standards automatically are
raised. The equipment which an-
swered for emergency uses after the
Civil War has long been outgrown,
but in only-a few cases modernized.
Better equipment is the immediate im-
perative necessity. More pupils can-

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Not Willing to Commit Himself

not be invited without more places tc
put them. More teachers cannot be
employed without more recitatior
rooms. And yet the present work witt
present equipment cannot be main-
tained unless receipts from _ the
churches largely increase. To accep
present receipts from churches as the
maximum to be expected would mear
shutting the door in the faces of no

less than 2,000 boys and girls, whc

have no other available opportunity
since each of our schools occupies <
field with little or no competition. Th
only accredited high school for Negrc
young people in the State of Georgia
with a population of a million, tw
hundred thousand Negroes, is ow
Knox Institute at Athens. Brewe:

Normal School, at Greenwood, Sout!

Carolina, is the only high school witl
all the grades, for a hundred thousanc
Negroes within a radius of fifty miles

The American Missionary Associa
tion admits that it is responsible for it
own present embarrassment. It ha
created a demand which it is no longe
able to keep up with. Major Moton
Booker Washingtons successor a
Tuskegee, wrote in a secular maga
zine that the schools planted by thi
Association have sent out graduate
into every state and section, so that to
day I doubt very much whether ther
is any school of consequence for Ne
groes that has not, at some time 1
its history, had on its faculty one 0
more teachers trained, at least in par
in some one of the A. M. A. schools.

*

The art of writing something that shall seem to be an answer withou
actually being one is not unknown among the school-going youth of this lanc
One boy who was a ready practitioner of the art was faced with the difficu.
question, Which was the greater general, Caesar or Hannibal?
~The boy, after some thought, produced this: When we consider the time
in which these great generals lived, the conditions under which they strugeglec
the people over whom they ruled, and the difficulties under which they fough
we are compelled to answer in the affirmative.

A474

A Piclade

By Marion V. CurHert, Burrell Normal School, Florence, Alabama.

T was the afternoon of the day I
left for Springfield. Being in that
state of excitement and last-minute
activity that leads inevitably to col-
lapse, I decided to forestall it in part
by a short rest, when there was a
knock at my door and I was told that
ladies from the Primitive Baptist
Church wished to see me. That is the
church where I teach Sunday School
and incidentally am being initiated
into the mysteries of a religion that
stresses certain pedal ablutions as
being of the highest importance.
The ladies entered in that shy and
deferential manner which the humble
people invariably adopt here toward
such exalted personages as teachers,
an attitude that invariably causes my
inward precipitation, for I have al-
ways found pedestals uncomfortable.
We began reminiscences of the sum-
mer. All that I could tell of home
and summer school was matched by
the doings in Florence. Did I know
that Lillian had married, that Grand-
ma Bates had had a stroke, that the
Evans had gone to Chicago, and that
the foundation for the new church
was being laid? Indeed, we got so
far afield that Mrs. Jones brought us
up with a jerk and announced rather
abruptly the object of their coming.
Did I have any articles from the
Missionary boxes that might be suit-
able for two or three young girls
whom the Esther Club was sending to
school? Now the Esther Club is the
Womens Club of the Primitive Bap-
tist Church. I remember my first in-
vitation, written, to a meeting in which
the simplified spelling of Esther, Esta,
gave me the feeling of being invited
to a gathering more or less exotic in
name at least. At the meeting, as the
good sisters warmed up in the fervor
of their spiritual and charitable zeal,
I mind that I almost got happy my-
self, a condition that was pleasantly
prolonged when we were served with

delectables that must have taken three
washings to pay for. ;
With such memories in mind I was
only too glad to see what I could find.
Certain good people of Appleton, Wis-
consin, have most graciously sent us
several boxes this fall, and one of
those was fortunately almost intact.
So we selected such things as the girls
could use, wash dresses, two good >
suits and a red blouse that we all had
to fondle for its bright appeal and
because we knew it would so take a
young girls fancy. We bundled all

the things up with comments on the

affluence of people who could afford
to give away such perfectly good and
lovely things. And to none of us was it
odd that that Primitive Baptist fold
should come to Congregational people
for help in their Missionary work.
Hadnt our A. M. A. been in the south-
land these many years doling out right
and left to all, asking no questions as
to creed, but comprehending need?
And something of this came back to
me in Springfield in the church on
A. M. A. daybut that is another
matter.

Will you all come and have dinnah
with us some time? said one of the
ladies. Ah aint fixed up like Ahd
like to be, an Ah knows you been ust
to bettah, but wed be so glad to have
you an the othah teachahs out some
day.

Indeed I'll come, I said with a
fervor that needed no forcing, for I
had experienced the hospitality that
can transform a cabin into a castle.

Their visit had taken away my fa-
tigue, and rested and buoyant I made
ready for Springfield. A chord was
struck that resounded as I listened to
the revelation of Congregationalism
by those men and women to whom an
understanding heart has been their
great asset with the lowly and those
who need. .

475
Concerning Beginnings

Yale

E have been reading The Be-

ginnings of Yale. The contrast
between the first days and the present,
and how this came to be, furnishes
many a lesson for struggling colleges
of today.

The calls for a learned ministry to
uphold and supply the Connecticut
churches became urgent before the
-year 1700. They, accordingly, pro-
posed to educate young men from
among themselves for the sacred min-
istry and for various departments in
civil life, and to diffuse literature and
piety more generally among the peo-
ple. They needed both. Rector Pier-
son, four months after the organiza-
tion of the Collegiate School in Say-
brook, Connecticut, had his first and
only student. He and the Rector con-
stituted the institution during the first
halt year: . The next year there were
four boys and, by the middle of the
third, some fifteen or twenty had come
together and were reciting in Rector
Piersons house. It took ten years to
count forty-two graduates who had
been instructed by Rector Pierson and
a tutor. The course of study was four
years. The curriculum was made up
of three languages, Greek, Latin and
Hebrew, with arithmetic for mathe-
matics, a taste of logic, metaphysics
and physics in the way of science.
What sort of science it was may be
imagined when we record that Rector
Pierson taught that the sun moves
around the earth. And yet his inter-
est in science was greater than could
be found in the colony at that time.
Good work, however, was done in the
languages. Candidates for admission
had to be expert in Latin and Greek
authors and in making good Latin.
The Assemblys Catechism in Latin
was to be recited weekly.

The hour came when it was appar-
ent that Saybrook Point was not a
good location for a college, and we
find it removed after great tribulation

and opposition to New Haven. Fif-
teen years had passed, and Yale was
without a building, without a library,
without, indeed, any educational appli-
ances, with a dozen or more students
boarding about the little village. But
when the extraordinary gift of Elihu
Yale of less than three thousand dol-
larsthe largest donation to the col-
lege for the next one hundred years
was received, a building was made
possible: A great college edifice, one
hundred and sixty-five feet by twenty-
two feet; three stories high, with fifty
studies in convenient chambers; built
of wood, and prophetically painted
blue. Yale today is better housed and
knows more than it did two hundred
plus years ago, but it took faith and
pluck to begin and sacrifice to hold on
through two decades of discourage-
ments. We do not have to say what
Yale is now, but it was Yale College
when it had no buildings, no library
and no science. It had teachers and
students and Latin and Greek gram-
mars. It is well for our struggling
colleges, now in their beginnings, to
consider this great example of the
faith and patience which has inher-
ited the promises.
Fisk University

The war for and against secession
had scarcely ended with our North-
ern armies still in control when an-
other college had its beginnings on
its uphill road. It contemplated the
possibilities of advanced education for
a race just out of slavery. Like its
great example, its beginnings were
powerfully weak. It had a shelter,
however, in deserted military barracks,
and in that respect had a better start
than Yale. When we come to the stu-
dents, however, the Connecticut boys
had the advantage of preparatory at-
tainments, for this new institution
which proclaimed itself a university at
its beginning had a majority of its
classes in the primary grades, and only
the text books of the students in the

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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 477

way of literary possessions. Those
who christened it named it for what
it was to be. George Washington had
a mans name before he was able to
take his daily food. Moses was Moses
in the bulrushes as truly as when he
refused to be called the son of Pha-
raohs daughter. Now, a trifle more
than fifty years of struggle for sur-
vival and growth finds Fisk Univer-
sity much nearer to its name than Yale
was to its name after a full hundred,
both in buildings and appliances and
resources for higher education. Yale
College was relatively primitive even
seventy years ago as the writer of this
can personally testify. It was plain
living for high thinking then. There
were no bathrooms in the dormitories
of the old brick row, no running
water, no steam heat, no modern con-
veniences of any sort. If one wanted
hot water, he heated it on his stove.
We recited in the winter mornings
by the light of oil lamps, and during

the entire year one-third of our daily
recitations were over before breakfast.

And college prayers in the chapel pre-
ceded these recitations.

When General Fisk gave the new-
born institution its ambitious name, he
said, It will, in time, be a first-class
college. It did not look that way, not
even a little, but it has arrived with a
present that can face the definitions
of education and the demands for rec-
ognition without asking for any con-
cessions. It has already achieved. It
is-achieving. It will win its name as
General Fisk said, in time. It is
now in sight.

Talladega

Two years after Fisk in the military
barracks, another educational child
was born. It had a better chance for
life than Yale had in its beginnings,
and it was not housed like Fisk in de-
serted barracks. It was a more fa-
vored child in a purchased brick build-
ing, which had been erected before the
war at the cost of more than thirty
thousand dollars, and which had been
used previously for the education of
white youth. This, with thirty-four

acres of good land for a campus, was

a send-off full of promise. Talladega

College began with three teachers,

and more students than could be

well cared for. They came to Talla-

dega, ten, twenty and thirty miles on

foot, with sacks of corn and bacon on
their backs for their living. With the

one building for study and recitations

there were no dormitories. Pupils
we cannot yet call them students

were obliged to sleep on the floors of

such cabins as could receive them and

give them a chance to bake their corn

bread by the fire. This they did. The

college curriculum began with the

alphabet, and proceeded to the Second
and Third Readers. Ex-slave boys

and girls at Talladega College!

The teachers of great faith worked
for salaries which barely sustained
them. They were willing to identify
themselves with a service which the
intelligent white people of the South
neither understood nor approved, with
a religious zeal and consecration that
are ever to be remembered. They
were beginning at the beginning.

It looks more like a college today
with its score of college buildings
clustered about the original campus,
and with its forty-five professors and
instructors and its genuine college
class graduating year by year. Within
this history, its graduates have gone to
Yale and won high honors, and some ~
are wearing the highest degrees that
students at Yale can win. Second and
Third Readers have evoluted into the
classics, into the sciences, into litera-
ture and into real college work. If the
college has not yet reached its goal,
it is moving toward it. Beginnings
are not endings. The Preacher in
Ancient Israel said, Better is the end
of a thing than the beginning thereof.

We have invited these youthful col-
leges into the procession with Yale,
but haud passibus aequis. It will be
some time before either of them may
have a Harkness Tower. If they must

say, not as though we have already

attained, either were already perfect,
they can also say, we follow after.
What Isa College?

N order to be recognized as a col-
lege by the members of the New

England Association of Colleges and

Secondary schools nine requirements
must be met, including curriculum,
number in classes and faculty, num-
ber of hours of instruction, size of
library and annual income, according
to a committee report adopted at the
annual meeting in Cambridge on Oc-
tober 20.

The committee proposed a list of
nine requirements as the minimum
requirements of a college of liberal
atts. In discussing the newly adopted
standards the report was adopted be-
cause there are so-called colleges con-
stantly springing up which do no more
than secondary school work. This is
true to a much greater extent in the
West than in New England, but the
action was taken to safeguard the rep-
utation of the institutions of higher
education in New England.

The report of the committee, as
adopted by the association, follows:

1. A college should demand for ad-
mission the satisfactory completion
of a four-year course in a secondary
school approved by a recognized ac-
crediting agency or the equivalent of
such a course. The major portion of
the secondary school course accept-
ed for admission should be definitely
correlated with the curriculum to
which the student is admitted.

2. A college should require the
equivalent of 120 semester hours for
graduation, with further scholastic
qualitative requirements adapted by
each institution to its conditions.

3. The college should be able to
prepare its graduates to enter recog-
nized graduate schools as candidates
for advanced degrees.

4. The college should have a fac-
ulty so large that the ratio of the
number of students to the number
of faculty members above the grade
of assistant should not exceed twenty
to one.

5. The training of the members of
the faculty of professional rank
should include at least two years of
study in their respective fields of
teaching in a recognized graduate
school. - It is desirable that the train-
ing of the head of a department

should be equivalent to that required

for the doctors degree or should
represent a corresponding profes-
sional or technical training or attain-
ment. A college should be judged
in large part by the ratio which schol-
atly achievement and successful ex-
perience as teachers bears to the total
number of the teaching staff.

6. The college should arrange the
teaching schedules so that the total
number of hours of teaching of any
due instructor shall vary according
to the subject taught, not exceeding
eighteen hours per week, including
extension work and work in other
institutions. The college should limit
the number of students in a recitation
or laboratory class to thirty to each
instructor.

7. The college should have at least
eight departments of liberal arts and

sciences in each of which at least one

teacher of professional rank devotes
his whole time to instruction.

8. The material equipment and. up-
keep of a college, including its build-
ings, lands, laboratories and apparatus
sufficient to insure efficient opera-
tion. A college should have a well-
distributed, professionally adiminis-
tered library of at least 8,000 volumes,
exclusive of public documents, bearing
specifically upon the subjects taught
and with a definite annual appropria-
tion for the purchase of new books,

9. The college should have an:an-
nual income of at least $100,000 in-
cluding tuition fees, but exclusive. of
other student charges. The income
from endowment, or other sources
exclusive of student fees, should be

at least $40,000. - A

478

Problems as Responsibilities

LL of .us can think of certain

words and phrases which are not

so much admired, nor so useful as

they once were. By dint of repetition

they have lost their fresh interest, ap-
peal and suggestiveness.

An especially superannuated speci-
men is the world problem. How
tired we are of it, and of the weari-
some, all-but-hopeless drudgery which
it suggests!. The labor problem, the
illicit liquor problem, the immigration
problem, the taxation problem, the
public-health problem, the problem of
the feeble-minded, the reparation
problem, the Near East problem
how familiar and how irritating they

-are! They are all many-sided,

complicated, baffling; they all
have a human factor; and none of
them are ever solved. May it not
be a wise and refreshing change of
attitude if we cease describing our

public tasks and difficulties in mathe- -

matical terms (since there is so little
about them that is exact and imper-

%

sonal), and think of them in terms of
adventure, opportunity and responsi-
bility? |
Notably would this seem to be ap-
propriate in the case of the so-called
interracial problem. It faces one all
the way round the world. It is apt
to turn up at any international confer-
ence. It is the heaviest part of the
white mans burdenthough he does
not always realize it; and it surely
cannot be solved by any kind of
mathematics. Regard it, however, as
an adventure in human brotherhood,
an opportunity for the social and
political genius of the race, a chance to
prove that noblesse oblige, a respon-
sibility of the strong to be considered _
for the weak, a challenge to our de-
mocracy and to our Christianity, and
ones feeling about it changes. There
is a lure about the quest of interracial
peace and goodwill which calls to the
best that is in us.
James FE. Gregg, in the
Southern Workman.

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Getting Better Every Day

17E are a long, long way from
solving the race problem in the
South, but we have made a hopeful
beginning. As interested, thoughtful
white men and women, we are seeking,
through our civic and religious organ-

izations, to meet in a spirit of coopera- -

tion the leading men and women of
the Negro race in the communities in
which we live. We are cooperating in
a study of Negro community life, in
housing and sanitation, better neigh-
borhood conditions, educational op-
portunities, and the needs of Negro
women and children especially. We
ate. becoming increasingly conscious
of the fact that, as those in authority,
our responsibility towards the Negro
cannot be evaded, and many of our

people are going forward with a de-
termination that no unfair advantage
shall be taken of the Negro, but that
he shall receive the justice and fair
treatment which are his due, and which
we cannot withhold if we wish to re-

tain our self-respect.

Above all, through this Commission
we are seeking to bring about a better
understanding and a greater helpful-
ness between the races, one to the
other, and as individuals and a Com-
mission to put into practice the words

of him who said, Whatsoever ye

would that men should do unto you,
do ye even soto them.

(From an address by Mrs. Thomas
W. Bickett, widow of Governor Bickett
of North Carolina.) ;

479
Negro Migration and Its Significance

By Gerorce E. Haynes, Pu.D.

Among the interesting and significant addresses given at our. Annual Meeting
we are able to present in abstract some portions of the one which was delivered
by Dr. George E. Haynes, who is Secretary of the Commission on Church and

Race Relations of the Federal Council of Churches.
Perhaps, however, what we are able to

tions of space permit only an abstract.

We regret that our limita-

publish will lead those who read it to call for the entire address which is here-

after to be published in pamphlet.

ET us look at some of the facts

about the migration of the Negro
population. This great movement is
but a part of the tremendous migra-
tion of people and races the world
over during the past half century.
Steam power transportation and
changes in the rural districts with the
human desire to seek something better
have put populations on the march in
many parts of the world.

In the second place, the migration
of the Negroes from the South is no
new thing. This movement of the
Negroes to the North and West has

been in progress for nearly fifty years. .

Again, we note that the movement
of Negro population has been toward
Southern as well as Northern cities.
There were fiity-six cities in the
United States in 1920 with ten thou-
sand or more. Neero inhabitants.
Thirty-six of these cities were in the
South and eighteen in the North. We
face the fact today that four out of
every ten Negroes in the United States
live in a town or city of twenty-five
hundred inhabitants or more, with the
closer contacts with white inhabitants
which town residence brings.

Another important point is that Ne-
groes have gained an economic foot-
hold in the cities upon which to build
a solid and permanent home and com-
munity life. Previous to the World
War their occupations in the North
were largely restricted to domestic
-and personal service. The World
War labor shortage, however, with
the revival of industry, brought thou-
sands of Negroes into cities like New
York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, De-
troit, Pittsburgh, Chicago and smaller
cities of the North, where they have

made an impression on many Northern
employers so favorable that there is
no longer a question of doubt as to
the Negroes being retained in North-
ern industry in large numbers.

When I was Director of Negro Eco- '

nomics in the United States Depart-
ment ..0f. labor;. we secured arom
thirty-eight employers in 1920 their

opinions of Negro workmen. These.

thirty-eight employers were employ-
ing 108,215 white workers and 6,757

Negro workers in 1918-1919. When

they were asked, Do the Negro work-
men show ambition for advance-
ment? thirteen gave an emphatic
ies, . one.of them, adding: to..a
mated degree: four said. Yes . but
qualified it with such expressions as
a few, not as much as might.be
wished for; two said the same as
whites; four replied with an unquali-
fied no; twelve gave such answers
as @0t-as a rule, in some cases,
not generally ; and from three there
was no reply. Eighteen employers said
they admitted Negroes to skilled occu-
pations without restrictions according
to their ability. Nineteen others lim-

ited their admission to such occupa-

tions.
When these employers were asked
what difference, if any, there was in

- the loss of materials due to defective

workmanship of white and Negro
workmen, twenty-five said there was
no difference; four said the same or

about the same; one said greater for:

colored ; and from eight there was no
report. When asked what difference
if any between the time required to
break in white and Negro workers to
the jobs, six replied equal time for
both; four. said the same } seyen

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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION 481.

said no difference ; four said longer
for colored or less for white; one
said depends upon person ; from thir-
teen there was no record.

From all facts available, so far as
we can see, the restrictions on immi-
gration will continue to some extent
for a long period, so that the Negro
will be called upon more and more to
play a part in Northern industry.

Perhaps the most outstanding change
that has come in the South is the sup-
port and endorsement which Southern
humanitarian and religious leaders and
agencies have finally obtained in their
efforts for justice and opportunity for
Negroes instead of former indiffer-
ence.

Today nearly all the Southern
churches and leading women have
lined up to work for a better day of
good will and understanding between
the races. In fifteen Northern cities,
already interracial movements are un-
der way. Never before have so many
thousands of white people in the North
come in contact with so many thou-
sands of Negroes. The multiplication
of points of contact between these two
diverse groups of American citizens

_ may be full of good or ill for both, de-

pending upon how wisely and well
these first experiences in the same
communities are led and guided.
Already in many cities the Negro
population has been largely isolated,
and in some places attempts at segre-
gation of Negroes have been made.
There have been exclusions from labor
unions and other attempts to exclude
Negro workers from industrial jobs.
Since the heavy migration from the
South they find themselves in many
cities generally crowded together by

the pressure of the white community,
and attempts made to restrict their
liberties. In nearly every Northern
community, particularly where Ne-
groes have come and settled in com-
pact neighborhoods largely to them-
selves, wholesome recreation facilities
are conspicuous by their absence.

In spite of all drawbacks, however,

-it is remarkable how many such dis-

tricts as Harlem in New York, Grand
Boulevard and Michigan Avenue in
Chicago, have. secured block after
block of substantial residences.

May we not consider some of the
responsibilities which come to us out
of these tremendous changes in racial
relations. In the first place, the North
now is certain to have a large perma-
nent Negro population andi this. will
be concentrated in the larger cities.
All the problems of health, education,
government, vice and crime, inter-
racial contacts and many others wil!
press for attention and solution North
as well as South. The matter can no
longer be regarded as a Southerners
problem or a Northerners question.
It is a matter that calls for the best
thought, the broadest feeling, the most
effective action, of the white North
and the white South, and the Negro
North and South.

The churches, through their mis-
sionary boards, have labored zealously
in the past to enlighten the intelligence
of the Negro and to arouse him from
the blighting lethargy of poverty. To-
day comes the challenge to help build
such conditions in industry and in com-
munity life that these rising restless

millions may find an American oppor-

tunity for life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness.

There is no substitute in the mere training how to do things for the
sharp mental discipline which develops the mind for whatever practical de-
mands. It is only when the ability to think clearly, consecutively and thor-
oughly is harnessed to the service of industries that these will ever rise to

-anything more than toil and drudgery. The education .which secures, uplifts

and permanently establishes the material standards of a race is that in which

the disciplined mind dominates.
Southern Editors on Race Relations
Stand for Mutual Helpfulness, Education, Justice and Abatement of Mobs

DITORS of leading daily papers
A. in six of the Southern states
. have united in a signed statement,
asking for mutual helpfulness and
cooperation between the white and
colored races in the South, for ade-
quate educational advantages for
colored people, for equality before
the law, and for the abatement of
mob violence. The paper was drafted
in a conference of Virginia editors
and has since been signed personally
by more than fifty other editors of
leading dailies in: North and South
Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Louisiana. Practically every man to
whom it was presented readily at-
tached his name. It is believed,
therefore, that with few exceptions
it fairly represents the attitude of the
Southern press as a whole. The
statement follows:

In the attainment and mainte-
nance of improved interracial rela-
tions in our Southern states we be-
lieve that a policy of cooperation be-
tween the more thoughtful of both
races is fundamental, this being the
antithesis of antagonism and polemic
discussion.

Mutual helpfulness between
whites and blacks should be encour-
aged; the better element of both
races striving by precept and exam-
ple to impress the interdependence
of peoples living side by side, yet
apart.

The Negroes of the South are
largely dependent upon the white
press for current news of the day.
It would be well if even greater ef-
fort was made to publish news of a
character which is creditable to the
Negro, showing his development as
a people along desirable lines. - This
would stimulate him to try to at-
tain to a high standard of living.

We do not believe that education
suited to the needs of the individual
of any race is harmful. It is a gen-
erally accepted fact that in both
races, if the entire mass were edu-
cated, industrial problms would ad-
just themselves automatically and
the less fit of either race would find
the work and place for which he was
best equipped. It has been authori-
tatively stated that the Negro de-
mand would absorb all teachers,
preachers, physicians and lawyers the
schools may turn out.

The influence of the thoughtful
men of both races should be invoked
in the effort to establish and assure
equality before the law for Negro de-
fendants in all criminal trials.

Abatement of mob rule and its

crimes is an aim to which all good

citizens should pledge their support.
Tn the harmonious cooperation of
the thoughtful and exemplary men
and women of both races lies the
prospect of larger understanding and
better interracial relations.

The teacher had told her pupils to write a short essay about Lincoln, and

one boy handed in the following:

Abraham Lincoln was born on a bright summer day, the twelfth of
February, 1809. He was born in a log cabin he had helped his father to

build.

A teacher in a New England grammar school found the subjoined facts
in a composition on Longfellow, the poet, written by a fifteen-year-old girl.

Henry W. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, while his parents
were traveling in Europe. He had many fast friends, among whom the fastest

were Phoebe and Alice Carey.

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Teachers Letter from Mobile, Ala.

) EAR Co-workers: How truly we

~ are co-workers. If it were not

for you the work of the missionary
would quite largely have to cease. On
the other hand, the fact that there are
missionaries who are longing to bring

a greater vision to:mankind gives the:

societies an incentive for efforts and a
reason for existence.

-. The schools in the southland are one
of the many forms of mission work.
Of these schools, Emerson Institute,
located at Mobile, Alabama, is one of
the most important secondary day
schools under the control of The
American Missionary Association.

This. year. we have an enrollment of

nearly four hundred.. Of this number
115 are in the four classes of the
senior high school, 80 in the two junior
high school classes, and 196 in the
six elementary grades. School opened
October 1, and there are many ad-
ditions to the enrollment coming in
right along. A

We have a faculty of fifteen; five of
this number are white, one from Mas-
sachusetts who teaches music, one
from New York who is head of the
Normal Training work, the Principal
and his wife, who is matron of the
teachers, and myself. The colored
teachers, all Southerners, are college
trained and fitted for their work. The
Domestic Science teacher is a gradu-
ate of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, and

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is working toward her Masters degree
at Columbia. Our Manual Training
teacher is a graduate of Tuskegee and
is an athletic enthusiast. We are one

large family and have. many good

times. together, 27" 2

Our, work is thoroughly graded and
is the best offered by any colored
school in this part of Alabama. We
give public school music to-all the pu-
pils: enrolled in the school. Private
lessons in vocal or piano are available

for a small extra:fee. The girls from :
the fifthgrade up are given sewing.

They have cooking through the junior
and senior high school classes. The

_ boys of the two high schools receive

shop work. Each girl furnishes her
own materials for sewing and the fin-
ished article is hers. This is true, also, -
of the boys in their work. Besides
these industrial classes we give a good
college preparatory and normal train-
ing course. Our certificate is -recog-
nized by the A. M. A.-colleges and-our
graduates are given satisfactory rcog-
nition at other schools. wa
Most of the pupils of our school are
comfortably situated, though we have
some who want to attend: Emerson
because of its high standards, but find
it hard to pay tuition, obtain books,
etc. For these worthy ones we wish
we had scholarships ; $25.00 would pay
the necessary extra expenses for'a high
school student. ee ;

Teachers Letter from Willcox Academy,
ae Vernal, Utah :

EAR Friends of the A. M. A.:
We are sure that the more our

missionary helpers in the East hear

about this most interesting school the

more will they recognize its impor-
ACe oe
Our school opened the first day of
October, and the large registration
has assured us that more students
than usual (90 to date) were availing

themselves of its advantages.

These students are not all from
Gentile homes. Nearly 60 per cent
of them have been reared in Mormon
homes, and their parents still adhere
to that faith. - ad a

I have been asked if any of our
students had ever renounced the er-
roneous faith taught by the Mormon
Church, and I am glad to say that
several of them have openly <re-
nounced their allegiance to: Mormon

483
VERNAL ACADEMY

doctrine and scorn the irrational as-
sertions of their spiritual leaders.
There are others who are not so pro-
nounced, but we who are with them
month after month see enough to as-
sure us that the influence of our
school is accomplishing just the work
that it was set to do. Moreover, some
of the parents have had their faith
decidedly shaken within a very few
years.

We have this year some of the most
interesting students that have ever at-
tended Willcox Academy, and we
think they will prove to be among the
most promising.

Some are from very humble homes
away out on the desert; homes that
offer almost nothing to inspire a de-
sire for education; and yet these chil-
dren come, and they are never the

same when they return. They have

caught a glimpse of a larger life
which they mean to reach. They gen-
erally do.

You ask me why I have so much to
say about those who come from Mor-
mon homes. I could say as much
about our Gentile students, but I am
so filled with the sense of what is

being done for Mormon children and
youth that my pen can hardly help
telling the story of its accomplish-
ments.

Why was this work started more

than twenty years ago? Was it simply _

to offer book-lore to the children in
this isolated inter-mountain country ?
If this were all, then might our Asso-
ciation begin to think that the finan-
cial support it has been placing
here should be given to more needy
fields if there are any such. If, how-

ever, our work was begun with the

prayerful hope that not only Gentile
families might be saved from the se-
ductive influence of Mormonism, but
also that Mormon youth might be
drawn toward and led into the Chris-
tian faith, then you must see that the
work of your own hands is estab-
lished, and that your prayerful hope
is being realized. Abandon this work?
No! Rather, lift up your eyes unto
the whitening fields for you are al-
ready reaping in the harvest. The
work was never more hopeful and
worth-while than at the present time.
You could not think to reap and then
cast to the winds.

484

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION c 485

Mormon missionaries are broad-
casting their doctrines all over the
country, from ocean to ocean, North,
South, East and West. I need not
tell you this; you may already know
it, but here is something that you may
not know. They select these mission-
aries, usually from among the most
promising young people, and often
students in the high school are chosen.
A certain young woman was con-
sidered as a prospective missionary.
Many persons were disappointed
when she entered Willcox Academy.
In three years she graduated, having

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completed her course. Did they send
her on a Mormon church mission?
Oh, no! Instead, she renounced Mor-
monism and left Utahwith the ap-
proval of her mother who had, until
recently, been a strong believerand
entered Wheaton College, Illinois,
where she is today much interested in
Christian service. I could tell you of
so many things that would quicken
your missionary pulse, but I have al-
ready leaped beyond my limited space
and must stop right now, while my
heart is brim full of things that I
want to write.

*

The Negro and His Schools

Elementary Schools Have Multiplied in South, But Much Remains
to Be Done in College Work

HE cause of Negro education in

the Southern States during the
last few years has been making rapid
progress. Elementary schools have
multiplied, a substantial number of
excellent grade schools have been
established, while the enrollment of
college students has more than
doubled.

For this notable growth several
causes are responsible.
lishment of trust funds by public-
spirited persons, such as the Jeanes
Fund and the Rosenwald Fund, has
contributed millions to the work; the
colored people themselves have shown
a praiseworthy willingness to contrib-
ute; sentiment among the whites is
rapidly crystalizing in favor of Negro
education.

Ten years ago there was a very
widespread feeling throughout the
South that schooling was not bene-
ficial to the Negro; that it put foolish
notions in his head, taught him noth-
ing worth while and often spoiled a

lot of good plow hands. Today it is -

recognized that the trained Negro is
not only a better and more efficient
worker, but a better citizen.

The schools are teaching the col-

The estab-

ored people to cultivate their gardens,
to cook what they raise, to keep their
homes tidy and clean, to mend their
clothes and repair their houses and
their fences. Such work as this dis-
arms suspicion and hostility. __
Equally important is the tide of
sentiment among the Negroes them-
selves, which in large part is inspired
by the migration to the North and
subsequent return of hundreds of
thousands of colored laborers. These
men and women come in contact with
better opportunities, are witnesses to
the advantages of education, and they
want the folks at home to have better
schools and better teachers. In the
erection of their new school buildings
in the South Negroes have contrib-
uted almost five times as much as
whites.
The greatest need is for elementary
schools in the rural districts. The
larger part of the colored population
in the South is still scattered through-
out the farm lands, where the schools
are small and poorly served. Only
too often they are mere shacks, where
one teacher, receiving perhaps $250
a year, conducts a three or four
months session. Yet within the last
486 THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY

few years remarkable progress has
been made in correcting this situation.

The trustees of the Rosenwald
Fund, which was created to assist in
the building of better Negro country

schools, reported at the recent Hamp-

ton Institute conference that up to
April 30, 1923, it had assisted in the
erection of 1,700 schools and forty-
nine teachers houses. These build-
ings were put up at a total cost of
$6,257,492. Of this sum half was ap-
propriated by the states and counties,
5.6 per cent was contributed by whites,
25.6 per cent by Negroes and 19.3
per cent from the Rosenwald Fund.
Most of these schools were designed
for one, two or three teachers only,
but 165 were to have four teachers,
fifty-six were to have five; fifty-five,
six, and twenty-five more than six.
The work is still going on vigorously
and its effect in wiping out illiteracy
among the colored population cannot
fail to make itself felt in the near
future.

But there is still a crying need for
larger appropriations for public edu-
cation among Negro children. For
the session of 1919-1920 seven South-
ern States -voted $9,171,000 for this
purpose, which although double the
amount given eight years ago is ob-
-viously inadequate to meet the needs
of hundreds of thousands of children.
Poor equipment with poorly paid
teachers will be the rule until more is
forthcoming. . :

In the matter of college work little
more than.a beginning has been made.
A recent:survey. of thirty-three lead-
ing Negro institutions showed only
3,264 students of college rank. Most
of these are-enrolled in-one or two of
the larger universities. Howard Uni-
versity, for: instance, having 895, or
27..per cent of the whole. Most of

the so-called colleges devote their ef-
forts to the lower grades of work,
and of their total enrollment of 14,905
non-professional students, 6,555 are
taking high school courses and 4,486
elementary courses.

It is probable that the number of
colored college students in the United
States, including those admitted to in-
stitutions primarily intended for
whites, is not in excess of 5,000. A
terribly poor showing this when we
consider that our colored population
is in excess of 10,000,000 souls. There
can be no efficient leadership among
the Negroes until more than one out
of every 2,000 can secure even the
semblance of a college education.

But colored educators themselves
and the disinterested philanthropists
who are aiding them with advice and
with funds both feel that for the pres-
ent the greatest need is for primary
training. The chief effort is being
expended therefore in establishing
country schools where the millions of
Negro children will be taught to read
and write and the high percentage of
Negro illiteracy cut down. When this
has been accomplished more attention
will be devoted to high schools and
colleges. Still the primary schools
will be inefficient without trained

teachers, and trained teachers cannot

be had without colleges.

All in all the situation, bad though
it is, constitutes a vast improvement
on the past and holds out bright hopes
for the future. This country cannot
afford, the South especially cannot
afford, to neglect the education of so
large a part of the people. Until the
ten or eleven million Negroes of the
United States attain their due share
of training there will continue to be
lost a vast potential force for efficiency

-and good citizenship.

Tt' seems that courts can do anything nowadays.

How come?

They just arraigned a deaf.man, and the judge asked him when he would

Tike to have his hearing.

TOUGALOO COLLEGE CAMPUS, SHOWING FOREST TREES DRAPED WITH GRAY

SPANISH MOSS. BOYS DORMITORY IN BACKGROUND

A Christmas Decoration Offer from Tougaloo College

-_ OUGALOO College will gladly
send to anyone who requests it,
a package of gray Spanish moss,
suitable for Christmas decoration.
The campus at Tougaloo is note-
worthy for the large quantities of this
moss that hang from its trees, mostly
forest trees still standing. The moss
is most effective for decoration when
used in light festoons, hanging from

chandeliers, or against dark back-

grounds, preferably of Christmas
greens. When used by itself in heavy
festoons the effect is disappointing.
Used lightly, in connection with
Christmas greens, one. pound will
serve for a parlor, three pounds for
a small church or Sunday School
room, six pounds for a medium-sized
church, ten pounds for a large church.
Both churches and individuals are in-

vited to ask for as much as they may

desire, without charge. And it is
asked and hoped that every church or
Sunday School accepting the moss
will clearly inform its membership, by
notice on printed calendar or from
the platform, or both, that this Christ-
mas greeting has come from Tougaloo
College, the A. M. A. institution for
advanced Negro education in Missis-
sippi, the only state, except South
Carolina, now having a larger Negro
population than white. That in these
days of expensive education it gives
Negro youth a year of tuition, board,
room, heat, light, laundry, books and
incidental fees for less than $155.00;
that its boarding department is filled
to capacity, and that it needs to en-
large its capacity. Requests for the
moss should be mailed early as posst-
ble to Rev. William T. Holmes, Tou-
galoo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi.

A school composition on Industry-Tt is bad for a man to be idol.
Industry is the best thing a man can have, and a wife is the next. Prophets
and Kings desired it long, and died without the site. The end.

487
THE A. M. A. TREASURY

IRVING C. GAYLORD, Treasurer

We give below a comparative statement of the receipts for October, also a
statement showing the amount available for regular appropriations and the
amount designated by contributors for special objects, outside of regular ap-
propriations : :

RECEIPTS. FOR OCTOBER

Womens eae Total ;

Churches Scciehes Individuals nee onc Legacies TOTAL
1922.42 3 | $13,628.46 | $3,540.13 $1,402.38- $18,570.97 5,423.88 23,994.85
O25 as cael - 12,931.89 5,067.36 2,866.92 20,866.17 Mh: peers
Increases. 6s] 2 see ces se $1,527.23 $1,464.54 2,295.20 2,507.09 4,802.29
Decrease...... SO865 7 ieee ae oe es mena a : Sigteee Pace . Bes

Available for Regular Appropriations:

Womens + Total ae
Churches atten Individuals ins Legacies TOTAL
1992.3 soe eG $13,751.55 $3,212.46 $620.38 $17,584.39 $5,423.88 $23,008.27
1923 ck eek ea 12,816.79 4,801.86 767.66 18,386.31 7,930.97 26,317.28
Incrase? ea aie eens $1,589.40 $147.28 $801.92 $2,507.09 $3,309.01

Decrease. 5732, SOSA Oe fe ice ioe ge ore

Designated by Contributors for Special Objects Outside of Regular Appropriations:

f Womens se Total A
Churches Societies Individuals Wanstions Legacies TOTAL
1922 ee. $74.58 $130.00 $782.00 S086. 58) er $986.58
TODS oes ees od 115.10 265.50 2,099.26 DAT OBC Bee ee 2,479.86
Increase......} $40.52 $135.50 $1,317.26 ~ G1 ,493,28 a Sc. $1,493.28
Decreas@ese: ili ue Gere 1 US es a a oe ee i
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER
! RECEIPTS 1922 1923 Increase | Decrease
Available for Regular Appropriations.......... eee: $23,008.27]. $26,317-28)| $3,309.01]... . .. 5%
Designated: by: Contributors: 2.030. 986.58 2,479.86) 1,493: 28|
TOTAL (RECEIPT Seo. 20 ee ee. $23,994.85) $28,797.14|| $4,802.29] ........

THE DANIEL HAND EDUCATIONAL FUND FOR COLORED PEOPLE

RECEIPTS FOR OCTOBER, 1923 ,
Income for October: from: Investments... <..0:00c 00s <0 cso ese veceb aces SS ET eI 8 sae $3,350.26

FORM OF A BEQUEST
ol give and bequeath the sum of 95: 05.5.. 2.3... dollars to The American Missionary Association,
incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New York. The will should be attested by
three witnesses.

CONDITIONAL GIFTS :

Anticipated bequests are received on the Conditional Gift Plan; the Association agreeing to pay

an annual sum in semi-annual payments during the life of the donor or other designated person, For
information, write The American Missionary Association.

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Holden, Massachusetts, is rejoicing in a new pipe organ recently installed,
which was dedicated at a morning service October 14,

Glendive, Montana, has'redecorated its church building, and installed a fine

Kimball pipe organ, obtained through the generosity of an eastern friend.
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Brewer, Maine, has made repairs and improvements on its church building
and parsonage at a cost of more than $7,000. It has also installed a fine
church bell. :

Hackensack, New Jersey, has recently enlarged its house of worship,
doubling its size, and adding Sunday School, social and recreation rooms. A
service of rededication was held on October Zz

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Southington, Connecticut, has renovated and redecorated its church
building, erected in 1830. The cost of the improvement was $8,000. A
rededication service was held on 14.

At Maywood, Illinois, our First Church laid the cornerstone of its new
house of worship on the second Sunday in August. The building, when com-
pleted, will cost about $100,000. On September 17 this church dedicated its
new parsonage, a gift to the cu trom ge sisters.

Hollis, New Hampshire, had the misfortune to lose by fire, on October
16, its fine old Colonial Church, which was erected in 1804. Insurance for

$9,000 on a loss estimated at $40,000 affords some consolation, but they

would be happier now if the nee had been three or four times as large.
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In West Calais, Vermont, just a hundred years ago, two men went to
the woods and cut and hauled to town wood enough to build a meeting-house
which still stands. On Sunday, September 9, people gathered to celebrate
the centennial anniversary of this ancient building. It still has the square
box pews and high pulpit of years ago. The building cost $2,000. Services
are still maintained in it curiae the sunmet

The annual meeting of the three societies federated in the Church Ex-
tension Boards (Home Missionary, Church Building, Sunday School Ex-
tension) was held in Springfield, Massachusetts, on Monday, October 22,
1923. It was one of the splendid series of meetings which made up the
program of the National Council. Reports were presented, officers and di-
rectors elected and addresses made. The Church Building Society had its
work signally emphasized by a white meeting-house on the platform, and by
an inspiring address by Dr. Lewis T. Reed, of Brooklyn, on The Dwelling
Place of the Spirit. The thousands who crowded the municipal auditorium
greatly enjoyed this address and other thousands who could not be there will
enjoy reading it in this magazine.

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FLATBUSH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BROOKLYN, N. Y.

The Dwelling Place of the Spirit

By Lewis THurston Reep, D.D., Brooklyn, N. Y,

A'S one looks back over the gen-

erations, it seems that as a na-
tion we have always been engaged, up
to within very recent years, in the
task of conquering the wilderness ; and
in that great undertaking we, of the
Congregational faith, have not been
backward. Out from the older settle-
ments of Massachusetts, Connecticut
and Vermont went our missionaries
125 years ago into a country beyond
the Hudson River that was still a
wilderness. There these emissaries of
the Gospel of Christ poured their
strength and their very lives into the

creation of Christian states all the way

from the Hudson River to the Pacific
Ocean. Their work endures in the
emphasis that these state constitutions

place on education and freedom of

opportunity. They also left their
mark in schools and colleges there.

_ They were pioneer people, dwelling
amid other pioneers and seeking to
meet the pressing needs of the hour.
The churches that they built were the
expression of a life that was eager
and restless and cognizant of the tem-
porary character of all its surround-
ings. Yet there were also traditions
of force, beauty and dignity that those

people had carried with them from>

the Atlantic seaboard. No people is
architecturally impoverished that stil]
possesses the Georgian tradition.
These pioneer people and preachers
that pushed out from the Atlantic sea-
board into the rich lands of western

* Address given at the National Council, Springfield, Mass., October 22, 1923, for the Congrega-

tional Church Building Society.

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THE CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY 491

New York and the Western Reserve
and the marvelous prairies east and
west of the Mississippi, carried with
them the remembrance of meeting-
houses in the homes of their fathers
that were the expression of a faith
that was simple, clear and serious. It
is interesting, as you follow the feet
of these emigrants during the first half
of the last century, to note how that
Georgian tradition, starting with them
from the eastern states, caused the
erection of meeting-houses of a simi-
lar style during the first quarter of the
last century and, finally, losing its
strength, disappeared for a time. In
such noble meeting-houses as those in

Canandaigua, New York, and Mari- -

etta, Ohio, you can still see that ideal
in the minds of the earlier pioneers.
When that period of remembrance
had passed, church building in the
United States passed through the val-
ley of humiliation. During that period
of architectural futility, which lasted
from the end of the second quarter of
the nineteenth century, almost down
to the end of the century, religion en-
dured all things at the hands of all
men. Churches which possessed
neither dignity nor worshipfulness
were foisted on the public in the name
of economy and cheerfulness and so-
ciability. The worship of God was
made secondary to the spirit of cheer-
fulness and the spirit of thrift. Dur-
ing that period were erected scores of
churches over which one would never
think of inscribing, Be still and know
that Iam God. Instead he would ac-
cept it only as an invitation to be cozy
or jolly or thrifty. This was the val-
ley of humiliation for church archi-
tecture in America, from which, please
God, we have now mainly emerged.
During the last twenty-five years the
Spirit has sought and found a new
expression. Protestant Christianity
has advanced somewhat in culture as
a result of the great increase in wealth.
Thousands of men and women have
brought home from their tours in Eu-
rope a remembrance of the great
churches that awed and silenced their

busy chatter and uplifted their hearts
with a new reverence toward God.
Hundreds of our young men from the
architectural schools, studying in the
Ecole des Beaux Arts, learned :to rev-
erence the fidelity and seriousness of
the great architects and builders of
generations past. These young men,

returning home, found here and there

in American churches a desire on the
part of those who had had larger op-
portunities, to create dwelling places
for the Spirit that would be to some
degree commensurate with our larger
knowledge of God and expressive of
the reverence we owe toward him.

I believe that one of the most strik-
ing phenomena in American religious
life is the widespread and serious im-
provement in church architecture dur-
ing the last twenty-five years. While
earnest Christians debate anxiously the
question whether we are more or less
religious than one or two generations
ago, there cannot be the least doubt
that we are declaring our religion in
visible forms that are infinitely more
beautiful and worthy than has ever
been the case before in American life.
For the benefit of those that fear and
those that doubt concerning the real-
ity of the religious life in America,
one is inclined to point to this mar-
velous increase in the appreciation of
architectural worth, and say: There
it stands, the indubitable embodiment
of a spirit that is pure and good. It
is right that men should worship God
in temples that encourage worship, and
we may be thankful that America has
responded to the instinct. |

The result has been some magnifi-
cent cathedrals, like St. Patricks, in
New York, and the Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, in process of build-
ing, and other cathedrals that are
either. in process or in contemplation
in other great centers in our country ;
Romanesque and Byzantine churches,
each with its historic power and ap-
peal; the development of the Mission
architecture in California that has
given that romantic state its own char-
acteristic style, faithful to tradition
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and the soil and at the same time
moving the heart toward God; and
the revival of Georgian architecture,
peculiarly our own, which began to
show marked strength here more than
fifteen years ago, but which has since
that time created churches of notable
_ worth in every section of our country.

We may be thankful to believe that

Congregationalism is sharing in this
noteworthy advance in taste and in
love of worship. The annual report
of the Church Building Society gives
from year to year examples of new
church structures that are not only
worthy of the study of every church
building committee, but ought to be a
source of deepest pride on the part of
every loyal Congregationalist. Men-
tion of individual churches may be in-

vidious, where the record of the year

contains so many splendid examples
of true church buildings ; but the pres-
entation of such a series of noteworthy
churches erected in our Congrega-
tional communion and the wide distri-
bution of this report ought to deprive
any church building committee of any
justification or excuse for the erection
of a church building that is tawdry,
flimsy and theatrical.

I am inclined to think that it ought
to become a regulation that on every
church building should be erected a
tablet containing the following in-
scription, This church was erected
under the direction of the following
committee; and there their names
would stand blazoned forth as long as
the church endures, a title to fame or
ignominy, according to whether they
built well or ill. I could imagine no
more exquisite revenge to be taken
upon some building committees than
to have their names thus inscribed on
the strange, individual monstrosities
that have been erected to try the pa-
tience of their brethren. The fact is
fiat an Amermta today we are (in
process of achieving standards of ar-
chitectural excellence, and no commit-
tee and no ingenious architect in the
small town can ask excuse or pardon
for failing to erect a building that has

some real worth and dignity in it.
I believe that I am well within
the truth when I say that the per-
sistent purpose of the Congregational
Church Building Society, in the year
1923,.-4s -to.. erect. a. dwelling place
for the Spirit expressive of the rev-
erence that is due to God and ade-
quate for the service of his cause.
There is laid upon ministers and
churches in these days a positive in-
junction to erect. churches that shall
first of all speak of God. When ones
eyes rests upon a church, whether it
be a simple frame meeting-house in

-the tiniest village: or a cathedral in

the greater city, the immediate effect
must be to lift the heart to the thought
of God; otherwise the whole building
is vain, its erection is a profanation,
and its adornment an indecency. Just
as the church service has no business
to remind you of the minister, but
only of the redeeming presence of
Christ and God, so the walls of a
church building ought always to con-
vince the beholder that here is a place
where God abides. Such church build-
ings are not the creations of wealth
necessarily. In our beloved New Eng-
land there are little white, frame meet-
ing-houses whose sole external beauty
and it is enoughis in their propor-
tions and in the loving care that has
been lavished upon their surround-
ings. Whoever passes by knows that
sometime a generation built here with
sincerity, devotion and minds that
were strong and pure. An ugly
church, like an ill-kept church, is an
indication of an indifferent, ignorant
and slovenly people.

Perhaps some are contemplating the
possibility of building a church. Let
me say that the rules of the business
of church building are known. They
can be learned by you if you will
make inquiry. There are men who
have been at this task for years.

The first rule is that an ugly church
is a poor investment from a purely
business point of view. In the end,
people of culture and reverence of
spirit are going to attend a church

where reverence and beauty reign,
whether that church be Congrega-
tional, Baptist or Episcopalian. Those
who hope to build up sustaining con-
gregations should erect churches true
to the best architectural principles.

The second rule is that the best site
is the cheapest site in the end. Those
who discount their religion by tuck-
ing their churches on a side street in
the city proclaim their own lack of
faith and lack of confidence in their
gospel. If church committees and
preachers hope for a quiet and pro-
gressive future, they should know that
the very foundations of the building
must be laid with sincerity, generosity
and humble docility. God defend a
church from the spirit of self-asser-
tion on the part of its committee.

Let me add that one cause of our
thankfulness is that fitness in church
architecture is not limited to one style,
especially in our Congregational body.
The freedom of which we boast, and
which is a freedom under law in the
realm of the spirit, ought to be a free-

' dom under law in the architectural

realm. We have freedom under those
accepted principles of true architec-
tural beauty and strength. It is still
true that the Georgian architecture is
admirably adapted to our Congrega-
tional form of worship. I suppose
that no one would maintain that the
Georgian is the last word in archi-
tectural glory, but when one studies
the magnificent design of the Union
Central Church in Honolulu he is
aware that there are possibilities in
Georgian architecture of which the
great builders in the first quarter of
the nineteenth century did not dream.

The spacious and imposing Second.

Church in Holyoke, standing like a
great cathedral in that. city, and the
graceful and exalting Park Avenue
Baptist Church in New York are in-

dications of the use that non-liturgical

churches can make of the Gothic. Any
lover of church architecture opens
every announcement from California
with an expectation of some new de-
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land of sunshine and of creative en-
ergy in our Congregational forces.
There may be many noble contests
among us, contests in eloquence, mis-
sionary zeal, and the spirit of sacri-
face; -but 1s. there any contest. that
would leave more permanent memo-
rials of the spirit of a devoted people
than a generous rivalry in the creation
of churches of our faith that should
be true dwelling places for the Spirit:
When a. mans work is done and his

ministry concluded, or when a genera----~

tion that has had an opportunity to
build a church has passed on, what
would cause a deeper feeling of grati-

tude than the conviction that, in the

providence of God, one had been able
to create a dwelling place for the Spir-
it into which the Most High might con-
descend to enter and where the She-
kinah glory might abide? Generations
still unborn will turn to these shrines
that have been created out of the
love and devotion of men and women
long gone, and though no one may
know the builder, the heart of man-
kind is lifted in thankfulness to the
Giver of knowledge and wisdom, who
inspired the minds, quickened the
hearts and trained the hands of those
who erected his blessed church.

It is a task to be approached with
humility and with courage, whether it
be in the city or in the country, for
every such meeting-house that we
erect is the very revelation of the spirit
in which we live. The spirit of prid:
reveals itself in the ostentation of the
edifice, the spirit of fear in its frailty,
the spirit of conservatism in its inabil-
ity to develop: any new form, the
spirit of radicalism in its departure
from the accepted canons. The spirit
that is wise and true and Christ-li'e

_ shows itself in the meeting-house that

is strong and simple and brave.

For out of Thoughts interior sphere,
These wonders rose to upper air;
And Nature gladly gave them place
Adopted them into her race,
And granted them an equal date
With Andes and with Ararat.
THE LADIES AID OF LEXINGTON, OREGON

Where Rolls the Oregon

By Rev. D. J. Gittanpers, Lexington, Oregon

CAME to Lexington from Ontario,

June Ist, 1922, with my little
family. My children are Kenneth,
nine; Bruce, eleven; Dorothy, thirteen,
and Donald, sixteen.

On our arrival in Lexington I oc-
cupied the Ladies Aid room in the
church and two small tents, leaving
my things packed as they had been
shipped from Ontario, Oregon.

We soon called a church meeting to
decide about a parsonage and all
agreed that we ought to build. So
we began at once. Inside of two weeks
the contract was let. I took charge
of the excavation work for a full
basement and with help given by
others I soon had it ready for the
cement. I helped the contractor with
the foundation also, and I gave the

outside two coats of paint, also doing
the painting and staining inside.
The parsonage is twenty-six feet by

thirty, with front porch eight by six-

teen. We have a full basement, six
feet, six inches in the clear. On the
main floor we have three rooms and
a bathroom. Upstairs we have three

bedrooms with a closet for each. We.

have light and water also in the par-
sonage. The house would be a credit
to any community and has given our
work a new standing in the town, and
without it the work could not live.
A parsonage is an absolute necessity.

The parsonage cost $2,700 with
possibly three hundred dollars of do-
nated labor. The money was raised
by subscription and by the efforts of
our Ladies Aid. Our women have

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done splendidly and with-
out them we could not
exist. There may be as
good workers elsewhere
but none better. To com-
plete the final payment we
came to the Congrega-
tional Church Building
Society for a loan, which
has been voted to our
church and our ladies will:
repay this loan. True,
the offerings for benevo-
lences and salary have
fallen behind, but I feel
sure they will catch up.
Lexington is quite a
pretty little town of about
three hundred, on Willow
Creek, in the center of
the great wheatfields of
Northern Central Oregon.
But with the low price of
wheat, farmers are going
behind. You ask why? It is a dry
farming belt and they have to culti-
vate one year, so as to get a crop the
next, so only about half the land is
in crop each year. The extra cultiva-
tion costs heavily, and debt is the re-

CHILDREN OF THE MANSE

REV. AND MRS. D. J. GILLANDERS,

LEXINGTON, OREGON

sult. In spite of this our people are
getting behind the church nobly.

The homes are scattered on account
of the large holdings, so an auto
should be used, but the pastor cannot
afford to buy one.

On my Collbran, Colo-
rado, field I preached six
times every week, and
often eight. I preached
at Collbran in the fore-
noon and evening every
Sunday, and at Molina,
nine miles distant, every
Sunday afternoon. Six
other points I reached
every two weeks, on week
nights, of course. Every
other week I reached
four other points. All but
seven months of this time
I used horse and buggy.
A Ford icar came >to be
used the last seven months
of my service there.

I want to thank the New
York office for their many
kindnesses ; also the many
eastern churches which
have helped us so much.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEEDED FOR THESE

At University Centers

HE passion for education has

seized American youth to an
amazing degree. High schools, acad-
emies, colleges, universities, technical
schools, professional schools are
crowded to the limit. We are glad
of it. A sound and well educated
citizenry will make Democracy safe.

These young people are in the
most plastic period of their lives.
Their minds are open and eager. If
they can be made to see religion as a

reasonable service they can be won
into Christian life and service. If
they can be helped to find God at the
heart of the universe and in their own
hearts they will have a transforming
conviction. There is no more stra-
tegic situation for a church than at
the gateway of a university.

Many of our Congregational young
people are in the great state institu-
tions. Already much is being done to
awaken and develop in them Chris-
tian faith. We are helping them to
grasp firmly the elemental truths of
the spiritual life which are as real as
the facts of physical science.

The Church Building Society is
being called upon more and more to
assist churches which are. organized
at these university centers, and it con-
siders no part of its work more im-
portant. What it has recently done
at Champaign, Illinois; Lansing,
Michigan, and Austin, Texas, will
have to be duplicated in other im-
portant educational centers.

One needs only to look into the
eager faces of a group of young
people to be stirred with a feeling of
the tremendous importance of, reli-
gious education. The earliest instruc-
tion and training should of course be
given in the home. The foundations
of character are usually laid in the
first seven years of life. Too many
homes, alas! are poorly fitted for this
task. But all the years of school life,
from six to twenty or beyond, should

be filled with teaching and training,

which will fill the young minds with
knowledge and ideals of the highest
sort, which will give spiritual vision,
right ethical principles, and the spirit

of the golden rule.

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Piss ey Are Educating Be aeclves for
Citizenship in the Modern Church

By ANNA ESTELLE May

N the modern church women have

been educating themselves along
many lines by many distinct organ-
izations. The missionary societies,
home and foreign, the adult Bible
classes, Ladies Aid, the Guilds, the
Young Womens Auxiliaries, the
Mothers Clubs and all the rest, have
contributed their share.

After more than a half century of
womens missionary societies in local
churches and nearby groups. of
churches, we meet in 1861, the first
Womans Missionary Union in Amer-
ica, organized in New York. Soon
after that, beginning with the Congre-
gational denomination, womens soci-
eties were formed auxiliary to the
Foreign Boards in all denominations.
So the great educational advance in
missions was started. This education
has been so thorough and so far-reach-
ing in its scope that if you wish to
know something of educational insti-
tutions or economic conditions in
China and Japan, you do. not go to a
leading educator or business man,
but to your neighbor who is a mem-
ber of the churchs missionary soci-
etv. If you are planning a trip abroad
and want to visit the most interest-
ing of interesting places of the Far
East or India or Africa, you may con-
sult a Travelers Bureau, but I ad-
vise you also to avail yourself of the
fund of information which your wom-

ens missionary society can supply.

With study and the acquisition of
knowledge there has come the oppor-
tunity for training in associated effort

within the missionary group which
has achieved most notable results.

The Ladies Aid Society has proved
itself one of the greatest socializing
agencies in the church. Here women
learned to take the arts of the home
and use them for the welfare of the
community. The women within the
group who prepared church dinners
and cut and made garments for the
poor, and did other things of like na-
ture together, received a valuable so-
cial experience.

In the organized Bible class in the
modern church, groups of women have
been brought together for the inten-
sive study of the Bible, missions, so-
cial service and have contributed much
to the solving of community problems
and to the realization of community
possibilities. Often the Bible class has
furnished instruction in Christian cit-
izenship, such as, perhaps, no other
organization within the church has
afforded.

While one society has offered in-
struction to a small group of women
in the church exclusively in foreign
missions, another society has offered
study to another small group in home
missions and so on throughout the list,
there has been little coordination or
correlation of effort. Religious educa-
tion ought to stand for the organiza-
tion of all material offered in such a
way as to eliminate waste and friction,
to give to each woman in the church
knowledge along lines of her special
interest, at the same time enlarging
her sphere of interest so that she may

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have some understanding and sympa-
thy with all the rest of the women of

the church in all the different projects.

in which they may be engaged. In
order to accomplish this, opportunity
must be provided for women from va-
rious groups and for women who are
not in any organized group to enter
a larger fellowship and _ training.
Broader contacts must be established
not only by intergroup association but
by interchurch and also intercommu-
nity association.
All the Women of the Church at All the
Work of the Church :
Unity of effort expressing itself in a
score of practical ways to build up
a spirit of friendship and human kind-
ness and to establish higher ideals for
individual and social righteousness,
must first be felt in the parish itself.
It is vastly easier for most of us to

pray for the daughters of an oppressed

race in some far-off country or in
some distant state in our own country
than it is to make the daughter of our
own washerwoman feel w
enjoy the fellowship of our own
church. But isnt that just what we,
as Christian women, must learn to do?

Working outside our own church
with women of all denominations, unity
of effort becomes extremely effective.
In the South a federation of wom-
ens clubswhose membership is ordi-
narily composed chiefly of church
womenfaces the question of race-
relationship and the education of the
colored people in its own state and
with the support of churchmen and
nonchurchmen forms a committee on
racial relationships, promotes legisla-
tion, which will require the state as
a matter of justice to its citizens to
offer increased educational advantages
to all of its Negro population. The
work of the federation is effective be-
cause it is not a society of one par-
ticular church or denomination, but
it is a neighborhood association inter-
ested in the solution of a problem in
which the entire neighborhood is con-
cerned.

Thousands of students from foreign

elcome and

countries are in our. universities.

Think of the stream going back. What

are they taking with them? A Chi-
nese girl who had received her early
education in one of our mission schools
came to the United States to finish her
studies. Upon returning to her own
land she said that she would never

_advise Chinese girls to come to Amer-

ica because their life here was too
lonesome and hard. They would find
no personal friends. Are we mterna-
tional friends? Do we invite as guests
to our homes and to our churches the
foreigners in our own neighborhood ?

It is reported that 56,000 girls dis-
appeared in the United States last
year. Is not this a matter of most
vital concern to us? What are we
going to do about it in our own par-
ishes, communities, states? The
church has a more direct responsi-
bility and interest in the problems of
delinquency than we would sometimes
like to admit. Out of the entire num-
ber of recorded cases of 6,000 delin-
quent women and girls studied in-
tensively by workers of the Interde-
partment Social Hygiene Board in
1918 and 1919, 63.8 per cent claimed
to have belonged at some time to a
Protestant Church.
Church Women at Work in the Com-

munity

I know of a city which has a girls
protective association conspicuous for
the personal service rendered by the
church women of the city. Worth
Cottage, the temporary detention home
for white girls, has received its sup-
port from the women of the various
church societies and the federated
clubs of the city. The two thousand
dollars which met the first payment on
Worth Cottage was given by a church
woman from her tithe. One church
society meets once a month in the par-
ish house to sew for the cottage. An-
other denominational group sends its
friendly visitor to the cottage for noon-
day services with the girls once a week.
A Bible class of young women which
has been interested in the home from
the time of its establishment sends a

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car each Sunday morning to take to
the church of their preference any
girls who wish to go to services. Any
coming to this class are cordially wel-
comed and assisted in finding their
normal place in the life of the church
and the community. Another class
looks after the recreational needs at
the cottage. Many church women are
interested in individual girls, helping

them to find homes, employment and

friends.

An Experiment in Real Sisterhood

In this latter Bible class there exists
a wonderful comradeship. Side by
side stand the college graduate and the
girl with the sixth grade education
who works in the laundry. A young
married woman whose children are in
the Church School stands beside the
girl from Worth Cottage whose ille-
gitimate child is cared for at the day
nursery while she herself works for
the support of them both, strengthened
and encouraged by this Christian
friendship. Stenographers and musi-
cians, girls of leisure and girls from
the poorest of homes find it worth
while to work together for the bring-
ing in of the kingdom of God. The
class is a tiny bit of leaven in a church
where class distinction is ever present.
Can we comprehend the power of
united effort with a social conscience
such as this? I refuse to believe that
Jesus ideal of the kingdom of God
was a dream. It is a very potent real-
ity. What share shall the women have
in ushering it in?
A Working Program for Community

Organization

The Womens Cooperative Alliance
of Minneapolis has a program for com-
munity organization in which sixty-two
churches have been actively helpful.
Briefly the program is as follows:

There are five departments: the Ad-
ministration Department, which pro-

vides interdepartmental coordination

and community cooperation; the Big
Sister Department, which plans to
meet the needs of the less privileged
girls of the community, giving them
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THE CONGREGATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY 499

employment, using the social agencies
and churches for meeting the prob-
lems which arise; the Research and In-

vestigation Department, which makes.

surveys and social investigation con-
cerning conditions which tend to pro-
mote delinquency; the Education and
Publicity Department, which is con-
ducted for the purpose of getting the
most helpful information to parents
concerning social hygiene, juvenile
laws, community conditions, etc.; the
Training Department, which provides
instruction along the following lines:
philosophy of social service, commu-
nity organization, big sister work, so-
cial hygiene education, research and
survey. The organization as a whole
is a community movement with an
educational program.

Women, in the Rural Community

A little church in Michigan has at-

tempted to work out through its

womens association a program which
adds the force of strong cooperation to
the task of making the rural commu-
nity a better place in which to live.
Under their plan of organization there
are four divisions, each meeting once a
month for the special work of its de-
partment, while the entire association
comes together for a community pro-
gram and forum with an outside
speaker at least one evening during
the month. The citizenship group
meets in connection with the Womens
League of Voters and takes a keen in-
terest in helping to secure better legis-
lation and better law enforcement in
its own county and state. The mis-
sionary division, or Opportunity

Club, as it is called, meets regularly

to study conditions and needs in both
the home and foreign fields and does
its share towards spreading the gospel
of missionary education. The devo-
tional group is chiefly interested in the
religious education program of the
Church School. It also takes its turn
at conducting the peoples night prayer
service. The fourth group is called
the agricultural division. It boasts of
a chicken club second to none in the
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which avails itself of extension service
of the state university and the help of
the landscape gardener. :

The men and women of another
rural community worked out a practi-
cal program for community service
and presented it in the form of New
Years resolutions. The pastor in his
book Fear God in Your Own Vil-
lage says of these, We made a re-
ligious ceremony of signing these reso-
lutions during the church service.
These resolutions were as follows:

Resolved
To cooperate with my neighbors this
year to the following ends:

To construct a large building for
such community purposes as public
recreation, library, concerts, lecture

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courses, gymnasium, club rooms and
fire department.

To properly maintain our roads.

To bring producers and consumers
in this vicinity closer together in some
sort of cooperative enterprise.

To secure cheaper lights.

To improve the appearance of the
neighborhood by proper disposal of
rubbish, by the construction of side-
walks, by planting, and by beautifying
properties in which I have interest.

To aid the school board and the pub-
lic school teachers in every progressive
effort.

To stick to these undertakings until
they are accomplished, giving of my
time and money as I am able, and
doing all for the public good.

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Protestant Men and the Ku Klux Klan

_ By ArtHur E. Horr

I T is the belief of the writer of this
article that the ultimate effect of
the Ku Klux Klan program will be the

solidifying of the Catholics and the

division of the Protestants. But no
one can thoughtfully consider the fact
that thousands of Protestant men have
been organized in the hooded klan
without recognizing that there is some-
thing woefully lacking in Protestant-
ism when this can be done. When one
sees on the one hand the marvelous
growth of the Rotary and Kiwanis
Clubs and on the other a secret or-
ganization recruited largely from the
ranks of Protestantism all growing up
alongside the church, he is compelled

to admit that the Protestant churches

and the Protestant ministers have
failed in the organization of these men
for constructive purposes.
There is just one clear and certain
message growing out of the Ku Klux
agitation upon which all of us ought
to agree. There should come into the
field an organization of Protestant men
whose activities and purposes should
be constructive, tolerant and frue to

the traditions of Protestantism. That
this has not happened before is largely
our own fault. We need a new and
constructively militant type of Protes-
tant churchmanship. It has been the
neglect of this which has caused the
present situation. Protestant men are
organizing on the basis of a prejudice
rather than on the basis of a great na-
tional service.

Such an organization of Protestant
men should be first of all a group of
men in a local church who are making
themselves intelligent about the things
in which the church has a right to ex-
pect its men to be interested. If there
are several such groups in a commu-

nity they should organize in an inter-

church association which will give the
added impetus which numbers always
bring in any kind of group organiza-
tion. On beyond the local community
there should be state and national or-
ganizations both denominational and
interdenominational, and thus a nation-
wide order of Protestant men can be
built up.

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What May Protestant Men Do?

Such an organization_must not try
to live on the basis of its antipathies.
It should state at the very beginning
that it is not organized to fight Jews
and Catholics. There is a real danger
that religious factionalism will be our
last and toughest piece of unbrotherli-
ness. If the policies of the Ku Klux
Klan obtain we may expect to see the
factionalism of Europe repeated in the
United States. It ought to be possible
for such an organization to be loyal to
Protestantism and to rise above fac-
tionalism. Speaking the truth in love
should be its watchword.

Such an organization of Protestant.
men could develop first of all a new.

and positive type of churchmanship.
There should be a new loyalty to the
church and all its activities. Altogether
too long the male membership of the
Protestant churches has been lacking
in any fine loyalty which makes it pos-
sible for the church to do good work.
This needs to be corrected.

Such an organization of Protestant
men should take a constructive atti-
tude toward the great problems of

American citizenship. Many of the

*

questions which the Ku Klux Klan
faces in a negative way should be
faced with a constructive and positive
program.
The Five Great Interests of Men
What does it mean to be a man so
far as the interests of life are con-

-*cerned? There are five great interests

which are very much to the forefront
in the life of men. Manhood means
the founding of a home, parenthood
and its responsibilities, providing for
wife and children. Manhood means
citizenship. At the age of twenty-one

_we are allowed to vote. There comes

to us the responsibility for taking part
in the planning of our government.
Manhood means earning a living. Vo-
cational activity and vocational honor
now come to be something more than
a theoretical affair. Religion enters
into a new phase in adult life. Some-
one has coined the phrase, the religion
of a mature mind, which indicates that
the adult is faced with the necessity of

having a rational religion. All these

great interests confront the adult man-
hood of America and organization of
Protestant men should concern itself
with all of them.

*

International Relationship
One of the Resolutions of the National Council at Springfield.

That it is the sense of the National Council of Congregational Churches
that our Nation should rise above all political partisanship in its international
relations; that the world situation demands that America proceed at once to
enter into the World Court, which was urged upon the people as a present
opportunity and duty by President Harding in his last journey.

We believe that the United States should either enter into the existing
League of Nations, or find some more effective way to take our part in bearing
the burdens of the world, solving its desperate problems and promoting peace

among men.

MONTHLY COMPARATIVE STATEMENT

October, 1923 This Year Last Year Increase Decrease
(GOSS NER Cis Cas eee eee ee aE Erbe cn to $7,612.00 $7,042.00 $570:00; |. oan eae
Wepacies. 26 i. ob is. Pe ee ea T21O C4 ale es, 1,210.84 eR eas

Five Months from June 1, 1923 This Year Last Year Increase Decrease
Gant wb tiGNS: ees sis siete veo ee $32,922.00 $29,401.00 $3 521.007 Wee alae
Ueracies #22 6205 o. :. ee es 7,243.84 16, S900 |. $9,648.16

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SCHOOL EXTENSION SOCIETY

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Smoke From the Trash Pile

By Dorotuy B. Rosprnson

uy oe Robinson is a graduate of Mt. Holyoke 22 and is now studying at Hartford
genet a She ts a member of Grace Church, Holyoke, Massachusetts, where
er father, Rev. Edwin Bradford Robinson, is pastor.

pes us journey
southward to Co-

lumbia, the capital city
of South Carolina. It
is not for us to linger
in the city proper, for
we are headed toward
a little community on
one edge of the town.
Here we are! We se
a row of dingy-looking
one-story houses on one
side of the street, a
field worked by men
from the penitentiary on
the other, a dusty clay
road in between. As we
turn the corner to our

left we see another row of squatty lit-
tle houses, and what is the source of
that cloud of smoke? And what is

that tiny little
building standing
by itself? The
smoke comes
from burning
trash in the city
dump heap, and
that little building
is a Congrega-
tional Mission
Church. Why,
that must be the
very... place: >for
which we are
looking! Lets
see if we can find
avkey.. No,-wes:
dont need one.
for the church

REV. EDWIN B. ROBINSON

THE FATHERS CHURCH
902

has already been opened
for tonights meeting.
We must peek in. Up
at the front. er tne
church is a small hand-
made pulpit, to the right

of which stands a par- |

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lor organ. Then we go
out again between rows
of. tude. beaches. ~ Ah,
here. .is the mam tor
whom we have been
lookingthe one who,
with his family, has
kept the church going
through thick and thin.
Tie tells us. he can
neither read nor write,

but he wants to work harder for the
Lord. Here comes a little procession
down the road (there is no sidewalk)

to the trash pile
church, bent on
seeing their new
missionary, for in
our party there is
a student sent out
by the Congrega-
tional Sunday
School Extension
Society. About
forty-five fathers,
mothers and chil-
dren came, and
we had an inspir-
ing meeting to-
gether.

Now that our
Daily Vacation
Bible School for

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THE SUNDAY SCHOOL EXTENSION SOCIETY 503 <2.

the children is well launched with an
average attendance of thirty or more,
let us take close-ups of some of the
homes. First let us go into a small
red house. Look out for that hole in
the step! Good morning, Mr. D.
He always likes us to
greet him before we go
in. He is an elderly man
who was hurt in a rail-
road accident last No-
vember and has been
confined to his bed most
of the time since. His
eldest daughter, now the
sole support of his wife,
the twins (twelve years
old) and himself, is
threatened with tubercu-
losis. Our words of
cheer are appreciated
here as well as in the
neighboring family
where the mother and
three small children are
dependent on the crippled fathers
woefully inadequate earnings. Though
sickness or some other form of trou-
ble or unhappiness seems to have en-
tered every home in our community,
yet we find among the people a su-
preme faith, and we see what a source
of comfort religion can be.

Now what is the place of the little
trash pile church in the lives of

these people? In the first place, it is

the only source of religious guidance
to many in the community. It stands
as a beacon in
the religious life
of the people,
and has as its
watchword the
winning of souls
to Christ. This
mission station
touches those
who would never
enter the more
fashionable up-
town churches,
and the Sunday
School attracts
children whose

DOROTHY B. ROBINSON

THE DAUGHTERS CHURCH

parents would be ashamed to send
them elsewhere on account of ragged
clothes, torn shoes or because they had
no shoes at all. There is the mens
Prayer Meeting every Tuesday night,
regular Prayer Meeting Wednesday
night, every Friday
night Prayer Meeting at
the home of the man
hurt in the railroad ac-
cident; Sunday School
every Sunday afternoon ;
regular church service
every Sunday night;
and this summer, for the
first time, regular Sun-
day morning service as
well. A spirit of great
consecration, of mutual
helpfulness in their
prayer life, and a desire
to serve are found here.
In the second place,
the church ministers to
the social and recreation-
al life of the community. A vacation
Bible School kept at least thirty chil-
dren off the roads two morning hours
of three days a week, for ten weeks
this past summer. Not only were these
children protected from harm, but
they were engaged in construction
work, and learned how to live together,
rather than quarrel, or, as they would
say, fuss at each other. Then we
organized a Mothers Club, which is
to meet once a month for recreation
and study. Our Fourth of July picnic
that was a glo-
rious day! Two
truckloads of fa-
thers, mothers
and children went
about seven miles
out in the coun-
try. Such lemon-
ade made by two
grimy - looking
railroaders; such
races, for every-
one, from grand-
mothers to kin-
dergartners! My,
it was great to
504 : THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY

see faces brighten with real joy in
living!

Then, too, our first Childrens Day
may properly come under the head of
recreation, for it meant coming to-
gether for rehearsals with games aft-
erward; it meant gathering flowers
and decorating the church together,

and that night the children and their
proud parents were nearly as excited
as they were over our picnic. Another
gala occasion was our Vacation Bible
School Exhibition and
church night, with free ice
cream afterward. One lit-
tle boy of eleven proudly
boasted he had consumed
ten ice cream cones, and
he was able to come to
Sunday School the next
day.

The recreation problem

DAILY VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL

in this community is a per-
plexing one. The movies
are the only cheap form of
amusement, and the people
in the little church who
have really given their lives
to Christ, at the same time
gave up the movies. So, for the most
of the people, their recreation and so-
cial life centers in the home, either:
just sittin, or talking with a neigh-
bor. Next summers program in-
cludes more organized play for the
children and more provision for the

social life of the grown-ups. Then,
too, it is hoped to devote some time
to training a choir. To be sure, it is
not very inspiring to sing with a
wheezy, poorly tuned, antiquated
house organ, but training in singing
together may help.

A revival meeting means much in
the lives of our people.
Those who feel rather dis-
couraged in their spiritual
lives seek strength, those
down and out yield to con-
version and often those
hesitating for one reason
or another to enter the
church come in at such a
time. During the past sum-
mer five new members
were added to the trash
pile church? roll, and
many expressed a desire to
fead more worthy Chris-
tian lives.

And our bell has been
our chief topic of conversation for
some time. Now it is hanging in the
new tower built by the men in the
churchan honest-to-goodness, twen-

A BIBLE DRAMA

ty-four inch church bell. And the city
has promised to cover the top of the
trash pile with dirt. However, the
smoke from the trash pilethe burn-
ing of the drosssuggests to the
Christian the refining and purifying
of his life.

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The Congregational Board of Ministerial Relief
and Thirteen Cooperating State Boards

The Annuity Fund for Congregational Ministers
The Pilgrim Memorial Fund

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The Christmas Fund of the Board of Relief

The State Boards Sharing in the Distribution

N object of our benevolent gifts
is more tenderly cherished in
the heart oi the church than. the
Christmas Fund of
ihe Board: of he.
het. In the back
sround is tie
sense of the aceu
of the bela@yved
men and women
who have given
their lives in the
Service Of (ict.
In the foreground
is the impulse akin
to that wh eh
Prompts Bae
Christmas gift to
members of the
family, including within the intimate
circle of affection these toward whom
we constantly feel such an overwhelm-
ing debt of gratitude. .

The gift has also the same double
significance to those who receive it.
On the one hand, it ministers to real
wants, compasses great emergencies,
buys the coal, secures the winter
clothing, pays the doctor, settles up
the grocers bill, gives an added touch
of comfort when life is a constant
struggle to make the ends meet. On
the other hand, there is an overplus
left when the bills are paid, the sense
of a heart that loves, of a generous
hand stretched out to bestow, of a
strong arm that tenderly supports.

Last year the fund permitted an
average gift of $40 on Christmas Day.
And then the subscriptions kept com-
ing in long after the Christmas festi-

val. These later offerings were suf-
ficient to carry the tender spirit of
Christmas giving through several
months, for they were used to meet
emergencies among the pensioners.
Among the gifts were these: a gift
of $100 to a beloved minister seventy-
five years of age, housed with a
broken leg; $100 to a widow in great
suffering in the hospital after a se-
vere operation; $50 to one, formerly
a college president, after a serious ac-
cident; $100 to clear up for a widow
the last bills involved in the death of |
her husband ; $115 to a minister in de-
spair over meeting a surgeons
charges; $100 for the care of a well-
known minister who in his age had
become mentally unbalanced; $50 to
help a widow watching over a dying
daughter; $100 for a beloved pen-
sioner who lost everything in the
Berkeley conflagration; $100 to meet
a terrible emer-
gency in the life of
a young minister
whose wife was
rescued from the
jaws of death by a
severe operation.
The list of pen-
sioners is much
longer than last
year. May we not
hope to distribute
an average of $50
in. spite of This
lengthened roll? or
Send your gift to the Congregational
Board of Ministerial Relief, 100 East
Forty-second street, New York.

505
Brothers in Arms

From an address at the National Council by Lewis T. Reed, D.D.

N the New York club house of one

of our college fraternities stands
a bronze group erected as a memorial
to the brothers of that fraternity,
American and Canadian, who fell in
the: World War. lt is: inscribed:
Brothers of the Alpha Delta Phi.
_ From the battle line is returning the
Canadian soldier. Sore wounded in
the attack, he staggers.with unsteady
feet and dazed sight. To his rescue
has sprung his Amer-
ican brother. One
arm is cast about
him. Half carrying,
half leading the
wounded man, he
flows around him
with his own un-
touched strength,
steadies the straying
steps and brings him
back to a place of
' peace. The figures in
their close embrace,
the tim: armced
brotherhood around
the stricken form,
symbolize both the.
fellowship of two na-
tions ina sacred cause
and the fraternal loyalty that many of
us learned to know and value in col-
lege days. Brothers in arms! Some
to win wounds and death! Some to
cast about the wounded the arm of
strength and rescue! Brothers all!

Soldiers of Christ

Is there not another battle equally
severe where some, once strong, have
found glory, but wounds as well?
Forty or fifty years ago some of you
who are here today went out from
school and college, some into busi-
ness, some into the ministry. Who
dares say that they who gave them-
selves to the ministry, enlisted under
the Captain of our salvation, have not
borne themselves well in the fight?
These sought not glory but their

LEWIS T. REED, D.D.

countrys good. They went into ob-
scure places, scorned ease and com-
fort, counted not the cost, followed
the white standard of the Christ
wherever he led. The bright face of

-Danger they knew, and love and serv-

ice, and now they straggle back from
that brave front. Little do they bring
save wounds and weakness and

cherished honor. Their steps are un-

steady and their sight is dim. At so
great a cost in human
life is the faith main-
tained. .

And some of you,
no more intelligent, no
more sound, followed
business. Rewards
have been yours, well
won. Strength is
yours, and home; and
power, the power that
money gives to help
and save. It is not
too much to ask that
around these brothers
of your souls who
have given their very
lives for Christ and
his holy truth you
cast the arm of your
strength, and lead them to the place
of peace.

Corporate Christian Love

The Congregational Board of Min-
isterial Relief preaches no sermons,
builds no churches, founds no schools.
Yet without what it stands for ser-
mons are vain, churches are a mock-
ery, education is futile, and expansion
is a denial of Christ. The Board of
Ministerial Relief is the corporate or-
ganization of Christian love. It is the
hand of Christ outstretched in com-
passion. It is the arm of strength that
bears up weakness. It is the loyal
host of noble men and gentle women
who are resolved that their brothers
in arms shall not die on a lonely field,
but shall come to a place of rest.

906

A Layman to Laymen

From an address at the National Council by Lucius R. Eastman, newly elected
president of the Ministerial Boards and president of Hills Brothers Company,
New York.

FTER paying an

earnest tribute
to the retiring presi-
dent, Dr. Henry A
Stimson, for his forty
years of devoted serv-
ice, and speaking of
the fascination of the
work in its wide reach
and profound signifi-
cance, the address
proceeded as follows:

Great causes and great movements
require great leaders. Some of us be-
lieve that Congregationalism is a
great cause and a great movement.
That in the next generation when the
young educated people demand an
outlet for their religious activities
they can and should find it iia de
lowship such as ours. But unless we
put our business house in order we
cannot expect to obtain really big men
to come in and take charge.

Everyone is familiar with the fact
that most business today is operated
through the machinery of corpora-
tions. That the demand for capable
young men is more than the supply.
Witness the efforts of some of the big
corporations to persuade the seniors
in our colleges to come into their con-
cerns. Study a little the methods of
recruiting which they usepecuniary
rewards, of courseand I will refer
to that in a minute. But remember
one thing right here that pecuniary
reward is not the only thing. -

The Keynote
With the man of character, the po-

tential leader, the keynote is service.

The argument of an opportunity to
render unselfish service and to carry
responsibility is almost as powerful as
any argument they use. I was talking
the other day with the sales manager
of a large corporation who in the
course of a year interviews many col-
lege graduate applicants for positions.
He told me that he could not remem-

ber an instance in the last year where
the question was askedwhat salary
will I receive? The question that the
college man was really interested in
washow soon will I have respon-
sible work to do? The time has gone
by when men will agree that the min-
istry is the only profession or work
that one is called by God to enter.
God calls us to use our talents where
they will count the most in the spirit
of humble service. All life is sacred
and no calling is more sacred than
another.
A Matter of Course

When these modern corporations go
out to recruit men for the bigger jobs; .
they stress the opportunities for lead-
ership and service, and then as a sec-
ondary consideration are prepared to
show what the financial prospects are.
And note this interesting factthey
will tell the young man of the group
insurance the company carries, of ac-
cident and disability provisions and
old age and retirement pension pro-
visions under which they will benefit.
They treat these things as matters of
course. They go without saying.
Every big concern does something like
that. As a bank official told me, when
referring to a young college man to
whom they had paid full salary for
two years or more while he was away
sickWe couldnt afford not tofor
the sake of our reputation. We
couldnt attract real worth-while:men
of character if we didnt treat them
fartly.
What Is the Reputation of Your Church?

Very well. Id like to ask you what
sort of a reputation your partictlar
church has. Do you think if you were
to lose your leader, the president of
your company, so to speak, that your
reputation is such that you will find it
easy to persuade a new man to come
to you? After you have shown him

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508 : THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY

the opportunity, will the rest be a mere
matter of formOf course we pay a
proper salary. It goes without saying
we protect you in case of disability
or old age. Here is our recordwe
have always done it.

Can you say that? Do you right
here now know that your home church
is doing these things? Are you pro-
viding for your leading officers old
age? Be ambitious enough for your
home church that it treats its em-
ployees at least as well as some of the
big corporations that you sometimes
speak of as soulless.

Make It Your Business

If you dont know will you find
out; and please dont ask your pastor.
Dont embarrass him and make him
feel that he is an object of charity.
Every business man knows that wel-
fare work carried on among the em-
ployees fails of its real purpose when
it attempts to assume a patronizing
attitude. No real, red-blooded, edu-
cated American minister will stand
being patronized. Every business
man of you knows you cant run your

business that way today, so why should
you think of using such outworn
methods in your church. No, dont
ask your pastor but go around to the
room of the Annuity Fund and see if
his name is on the list.

Immediate Action

And then let me make one or two
final suggestionswhen you return
home find out whether your church is
doing its proper part in providing for
the premiums, and, if it isnt, see to it
that your trustees put the item into
the budget for the next* annual meet-
ing, and when the annual meeting
comes see to it that the church adopts
the item in the proper spirit). For i
wonder how many young men have
been kept from going into the min-
istry because of the way they have
seen their own church treat the min-
ister.

* Tf the annual meeting of the church does not
occur until after the close of the year a special
meeting should he immediately called, for unless
a pastors membership be concluded before De-

cember 31, 1923, he would lose the credit from

the income of the Pilgrim Memorial Fund for
a0? which, it is estimated, will be not less than
80.

Ninety-eight per cent of Episcopal churches pay an assessment of the
entire dues of their rectors in the Church Pension Fund. Ninety-four per cent
of Congregational churches take no share in the pastors annuity.

debts, and other old-age pitfalls.

Mr. Roger W. Babson, Eminent Financial Statistician, at the National Council:

We laymen should actively back the Annuity Fund for ministers.
By this fund your church, for a small sum each year, can insure its
minister against poverty, physical debility, mental worry, distracting

The National Council and the

Ministerial Boards

The Pilgrim Memorial Fund

Oe years ago 107,000 Congre-
gationalists agreed to pay $6,500,-
000 over a term of five years to aid
our ministers in providing old age
annuities, disability and death benefits.
Doubtless some questioned whether so

_ big a promise would ever be fulfilled.

The friends of this cause, however,
have been as big in their performance
as they were in their promise. Two-
fifths of the pledges are already
closed. The total net collections had
reached, November 9, the impressive
sum of $4,208,403.33. Payments for
fhe first ten months of 1923 were

$486,593.23, which was $23,768.07.

more than for the same period in 1922.

\ve- must do better, however. In
spite of the fine record of progress,
we are behind our schedule in pay-
ments. Three-fifths of the pledges re-
main open. The amount unpaid or in
process of payment November 1 was
$1,725,647. In 1922, payments during
November and December aggregated
$134,554. This year we must have at
least $150,000 in these months if we

are to reach our minimum objective

of $5,000,000 in 1925.

Of this years receipts, $31,965 was
for subscriptions on which no previ-
ous payment had been made. We

must count on many others who have
made no payment to bring their sub-
scriptions up to date, if we are to have
the amount required by December 31.
The Annuity Fund

The Consultation Room of the An-
nuity Fund was one of the busy places
of the Council. Personal interviews
were held with 135 ministers. All
such are urged to take action as
promptly as possible. Delay until the
last days of the month may prevent
the consummation of membership, in-
volving the loss of the credit from
the Pilgrim Memorial Fund for 1924.
This, it is expected, will be, on the
average, not less than $80. No min-
ister can afford to forego the privi-
leges offered. Act now, brethren.
: The Board of Relief

The National Council took deeply
to heart the presentation of the needs
of the Board of Relief, showing the
meager grants to the pensioners and
the long distance between our stand-
ard and that of other great denomina-
tions. Even at the present scale, re-
sources are utterly inadequate. The
deficit, November 1, was approxi-
mately $25,000. Pastors and finance
committees are urged to see that every
dollar of the apportionment is prompt-
ly paid.

CURRENT RECEIPTSBOARD OF MINISTERIAL RELIEF

The credit from the Pilgrim Memorial Fund paid, in 1923, 90 per cent
of dues on salaries of $1,340 or less, 60 per cent on salaries of $2,000. _

A minister beginning membership at age thirty, paying dues on an average
salary of $1,500 until he is sixty-five, would have an accumulation to his credit,
of $6,894, of which he had contributed 3%4 per cent, the church 3% per cent,
the Pilgrim Memorial Fund 39 per cent and interest 54 per cent. He would
have a joint life annuity, provided his wife was about his age, of $600.

The assets of the Annuity Fund in 1915 were $41,797.23. In 1922 they
were $1,084,824.91. In 1915 there were 272 members; at the end of 1922,
1,784 members. Membership had increased 614 times while assets had in-
creased 26 times. The Fund grows apace in its scope and strength.

Comparative Statement: Ten Months Ending Oct. 31, 1922, and-Oct. 31, 1983.

Churches Raden. See cs
(Includes' Womens e908 att ! State tom Individ- :
Sociedes Seep cacte, | eects | caret | oasis | TORE
eee $24,878.68 $1,875.78 | $1,053.35 | $8,745.22 | $53,720
878. 875. 053. 745. 720.34 | $3,326.25 | $93,599.62
1923.2: 30,239.22 2,028.47 | 1,132.34 | 11,301.43 | 542552.07 erie 108'08.99
lieal $5,360.54 $152.69 $78.99 | $2,556.21 | $831.73 | $2,929.01 | $11,909.17

Note: Donations and Le

$4,859.86.

increase $10,348.31. Total income, not including Christmas Fund, 1922,

*nerease $27,117.34. Christmas Fund, 1922, $1,040.31; 1923, $2,138.91;

gacies designated for Endowment, 1922,

$2,607.00; 1923, $7,466.86; increase

Undesignated Legacies and Matured Conditional Gifts, 1922, $5,224.89; 1923, $15,573.20;

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$101,431.51;
increase $1,098.60.

1923, $128,548.85;
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For God and Home and Native Land

By Mrs. C. R. Wixson

S Congregational women, - with

Pilgrim traditions, we are com-
mitted to freedom of conscience in
the worship of God.

Our Federation represents the
Christian womanhood of America in
the churches of our
order. How may we
best conserve and
strengthen those high
sentiments which per-
tain. to~ aed: and
Home and Native
Land?

True worship is in-
herent in faith and
reverence. We need
to examine ourselves
to ask whether we
have a deepening and
abiding faith ina God
whose arm 1s. not
shortened, who still
guides the destinies
of men and of nations
and whose truth is
marching on. Is our faith something
potential in our lives, the center and
_ circumference of our choices and our
activities, is it so luminous and win-
some a thing as to attract others?

Does reverence, deep drawn from
our spirits like water from a clear
pool, stimulate in us a desire to wor-
ship, to express our loyalty in a cheer-
ful observance of the Sabbath? Do
we give the impression of unwillingly
submitting to compulsion? Let us
ever radiate a cheerful devotion to
God, to his church and to its enter-
prises.

MRS. C. R. WILSON

The word in the vocabulary of an
American which in its sacred signifi-
cance comes next to God is Home.
We have cherished the thought that
our Nations bulwarks were its homes.
Are we in danger of losing this funda-
mental institution?
The; complexity
of modern life tends
more .and more. to
take people out of
their homes. In the
cities where property
is so valuable, apart-
mnt life, with its
restrictions and
crowded quarters, is
not conducive to the
most homelike atmos-
phere.

Are we teaching the
youth of today that
even though marriage
is a.ctvil contract: it
should be considered
a sacramental thing
and that it should not be entered into
lightly, nor unadvisedly, but soberly,
discreetly and in the fear of God?

Public opinion is greatly divided as
to the wisdom or lack of wisdom in
easy divorce, but a right attitude on
the part of young people in making
choices for life companionships, with
no thought of breaking, on any pre-
text, vows as sacred as those spoken

-at the marriage altar might materially

lessen the revolting procession of ill-
fated persons who crowd our divorce
courts.

God, and Home and Native Land

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WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY FEDERATION Sit

ah, Pete Land!
been given a great new stewardship,
viz., citizenship. In the past, if we
had grievances, it has been easy for
us to lay them to the politicians. But

we have new responsibilities; if laws_

do not satisfy, the weight of obliga-
tion to effect right legislation rests
upon us along withthe men of our
nation. Law enforcement rests upon

sacrifice, the sacrifice of self for the

good of the whole human family.
Respect for law and its observance is

an obligation resting upon us women

as teachers and custodians of the
youth of our day.

Are we seeking breadth of vision
so that we shall have a national and
international viewpoint? We cannot
afford to be provincial. Do we study
and know the needs of the girl in the
cotton mills of Massachusetts or the
cotton fields of Alabama, or of the
man in the mines of Pennsylvania or
the lumber camps of Oregon? Do we
know the meaning of minimum wage,
of justice in working hours, of col-
lective bargaining, of equal pay for
equal work and their application in
the industrial world? Do we under-
stand a socialism that is Christian, de-

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We women have |

-ence?

slong for Peace,

fined by the application of the golden
rule?

Do we have the hospitality of Jesus
toward strangers in a strange land,
seeking to understand them, to dis-
cover their talents?

Are we free from race-prejudice,
so that we can help in the upward
struggle of a numerous people toward
education and economic independ-
Do we stand for their rights
in the way of trial by jury and pro-
tection from mob-violence? How we
for the coming of
the Prince of Peace in the world!
What, you ask, has all this to do with
our Home Missionary Federation?
We answer, everything, for we exist
in order that, with a common bond,
between all the States, of sympathy,
of insight, of aspiration and endeavor,
we may do all in our power to aug-
ment the constructive efforts of our
great Homeland Societies in bringing
in the Kingdom of God, in building
churches and parish houses, in pro-
moting the preaching of the Word and
Christian Education, in pointing the
upward path to those of alien birth
and of other races, in ministering to
the saints.

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Committee on Applied Christianity

HE great issue of Prohibition is
at the front nationally and inter-
nationally. Some of the advocates
and recognized authorities are not
from the more commonly acknowl-
edged lines of influence, but out of
the ranks of hard-headed business
men and large industries.
Follow the progress of Prohibition

Reformers:

by reading the timely articles in reli-
gious and secular press magazines.

How convincing it is to have a run-
ning tabulation of facts, fresh and
strengthened opinions on the subject,
shorter and more frequent articles of
weight, than to recommend compiled
volumes that cannot keep pace with
the fast accumulating facts.

The Congregationalist ; OutlookMarch 21, 1923, Sept. 5, 1923; Daily |

Papers; Current History MagazineAugust 23, 1923, Our Nation Menaced by the
Wets; star in the Fast (Maine. W.C. T. U.); Union SignalJune 28, 1923, describes
the present petition of 6,000 Egyptian women for Prohibition.

The Program Topic for January, 1924, is Saving America Through the
Children of New Americans.Psalm 78:4. Send to Congregational Home
Missionary Society, 287 Fourth avenue, New York, for literature.
Posters!

S announced in the last number

of THE AMERICAN MIssIONarRY,
the winning state in the Federation
Summer Conference Poster Contest
was Minnesota. This decision was
reached so near the time of the maga-
zine going to press that it was not pos-
sible to publish then any description
of the poster, or to give the name of
its designer. The poster was the
work of Miss Dorothy Mann of Min-
neapolis, Minnesota, representing the
Plymouth Young Womans Club of
Plymouth Congregational Church.
This group had met the first two of
the specified requirements, namely,
the sending of a gift to the treasury
of the Womans State Home Mission-
ary Union, and the packing of a box
for a homeland field. Since only one
of these points was necessary, the
group more than qualified for the
honor that it received. The poster it-
self is a beautiful one. In coloring
and artistic work it suggests the char-
acteristics of Maxfield Parish, while
its legend: Find God, Friends,
Work, Play at Young Peoples Camp
and Training School, Carleton Col-
lege, Northfield, Minnesota, June 19-
26, 1923, embodies the real spirit and
appeal of all our summer conference
work. This poster was prominently

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displayed as a part of the National
Council exhibit at the Auditorium at
Springfield, Massachusetts, with the
promised blue ribbon and gold seal
duly attached, as well as the name and
address of the designer, and was
much admired. The other posters
were exhibited at. Faith Church at the
time of the annual meeting of the
Federation, where they called forth
very favorable comment. They were
then taken to the Auditorium where

each was displayed for a short time,

the space at our disposal not per-
mitting us to keep up for the entire
time of the exhibit any except the
winning one. The Young Peoples
Committee of the Federation desires

_to thank all who took part in this con-

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test, and to congratulate all who sub-
mitted posters. Had it been possible
to award seven blue ribbons we should
have been glad to do so, as each poster
seemed worthy of recognition! The

Committee plans to repeat this con-

test another year and hopes that even
more states will enter it. Definite
plans will be announced soon and
fliers will be ready for distribution.
Let every state plan to push it vigor-
ously, and, profiting by the experience
of this year, secure an even larger re-
sponse from its local groups in 1924.

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Conferences

N the afternoon of October 20,
two conferences were held at
Springfield, Massachusetts, under the
direction of the Young Peoples Com-
mittee. It was a pleasure to greet

friends from long distances whom we -

all too seldom see. The conference on
Childrens Work centered around the
Rally, which formed the first part of
the program, and which illustrated
what could be done with a group of
children who had no previous prac-
tice in presenting the program given.
It was thought that this would be espe-
cially helpful to county workers, who

might want to do something of the
same sort at county or association
meetings. The Young Peoples Con-
ference dealt with the three Pass-
words. to success, Study, Work;
Giving. Under Study was empha-
sized the excellent material and helps
available this year in The Child and
Americas Future. Under Work,
the need for handwork, from the
point of view of the relief that such
supplies bring to overworked mis-

sionaries. Under Giving a plea was-

made for definite and concrete budgets
for our Young People.

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Associate SecretarySamuel Lane

THE CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Office: 287 Fourth Avenue, New York .

Rev. Ernest M. Secretary Womans Department
naps Pe ied dies Miss Miriam L. Woodberry. ;
Secretary of MissionsFrank L. TreasurerCharles H. Baker.

Moore, D.D

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION
Office: 287 Fourth Avenue, New York

Honorary Secretary and EditorAu- District SecretariesRev. Alfred V.

Bliss, Congregational House, Bos-
ton, Mass.; Frank N. White, D.D.,
19 So. La Salle Street, Chicago,
Ill.; George W. Hinman, D.D., 423
Phelan Building, San Francisco,
Cal.

gustus F. Beard, D.D
Corresponding SecretariesGeorge L.
Cady, D.D.; Rev. Fred L. Brownlee:

Loomis, D.D.
TreasurerIrving C. Gaylord.
Secretary of Womans WorkMrs. F.
W. Wilcox.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY
Office: 287 Fourth Avenue, New York

Rey E t M.. Assistant Field SecretaryMrs. Chas.
ie i mas vs a H. Taintor, Clinton, Conn.

Field SecretariesGeorge T. McCol-
Church Building SecretaryJames Cae. D.D., 19 So. La Salle St., Chi-
Robert Smith, D.D. Aes

cago, Ill.; William W. Leete, D:D,
Editorial SecretaryCharles H. Rich- Room 611, Congregational House,
-ards, D.D.

Boston, Mass.; Rev. Charles H.
Harrison, 219 Guardian Trust
TreasurerCharles H. -Baker.

Bldg., Denver, Colo.

THE CONGREGATIONAL EDUCATION SOCIETY
Office: 14 Beacon Street, Boston, Massachusetts
General SecretaryRev. Frank M. Student and Young Peoples Secre-
Sheldon. ae taryRev. Harry T. Stock.
Phe che oelianant J. re ae Social Service and Adult Education
sy 21 oh sD o 4 a \
Mico ca seapeiheng eebretanta SecretaryRev. Arthur, BE. Hien
Herbert W. Gates, D.D. PoP.

THE CONGREGATIONAL SUNDAY SCHOOL EXTENSION SOCIETY
Office: 289 Fourth Avenue, New York :

General SecretaryRev. Ernest M. Extension SecretaryW. Knighto:
Halliday. Bloom, D.D. .
t TreasurerCharles H. Baker.

THE ANNUITY FUND FOR CONGREGATIONAL MINISTERS
AND CONGREGATIONAL BOARD OF MINISTERIAL RELIEF
Office: 100 East Forty-Second Street, New York

General SecretaryCharles S. Mills, Western SecretaryF. L. Hayes, DD.
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19 South La Salle St., Chicago, Ill.

Financial SecretaryWilliam T. General Field RepresentativeRev.
~ Boult. Frank W. Hodgdon, 14 Beacon

TreasurerB. H. Fancher. Street, Boston, Mass.

THE CONGREGATIONAL WOMANS HOME MISSIONARY
FEDERATION
Office: 289 Fourth Avenue, New York

PresidentMrs. Hubert C. Herring. pense sic Aen John J.
earsall.
TreasurerMrs. Philip S. Suffern, 1014 Prospect Avenue, Plainfield, N. J. |