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THE
American Missionary

REMOVAL.

The office of the American Missionary Association has been removed from the Bible House to the Congregational Rooms, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York City.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, NOW A QUARTERLY.

Some of our friends write us, saying that they do not receive the "American Missionary" regularly. Perhaps these friends have not noticed the announcement that our magazine is now a quarterly and not a monthly. The last number was issued December, 1897, and this number will appear March, 1898.

LIST OF FIELD WORKERS.

We publish in this number of the magazine the annual list of our Field Workers. We take pleasure in presenting this list, believing that it will be valued, not only by the friends of these faithful workers, but by many others who will be glad to trace their names and locations. Our workers have been epoch makers. They entered upon the work during the first year of the war and followed the advance of the Union armies, and when at length the slaves became freemen, these teachers and preachers were their guides in the paths of industry, knowledge and piety. The work was opportune, for it needed a strong influence to direct their uncertain steps in the new life that broke so strangely upon them. Many of these workers have devoted well-nigh their active life to this work, and gray hairs are adorning the temples of some who[Pg 2] entered the service in their early and vigorous youth. Their achievements are the ample reward for their self-denying and useful labors and are found in neat homes, family purity, skilled industry in shop and on farm, in well-prepared teachers and in educated and pious ministers of the gospel. Their work is multiplied by the successful toil of hundreds and perhaps thousands who have been trained by them. May God bless these workers and the peoples among whom they toil—the Emancipated Slaves, the Indians on our Western border, the Highlanders on our Southern mountains, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the heroic family in far-off Alaska.

OUR INDUSTRIAL WORK.

The American Missionary Association was a pioneer in introducing industrial training and work among the freedmen of the South. In May, 1867, the Association purchased a tract of land on which the buildings at Hampton, Va., are now located, and agricultural and industrial pursuits were immediately inaugurated. In 1872 a charter was obtained and the property was turned over by the Association to a Board of Trustees, and Gen. Armstrong, with his remarkable enthusiasm and administrative skill, pushed the institution forward in its marvelous career.

At Talladega, Ala., in 1867, the Association purchased a large building, with forty acres of land attached, and the young men were set to tilling the soil under systematic training. In 1877 the Winsted Farm, of 160 acres, was secured, and ten years later the Newton Farm was added, the whole tract now containing 270 acres. On this large farm is carried forward every variety of agricultural industry in the preparation of the soil, in drainage and irrigation, rotation of crops and the raising of stock. An institute for farmers of the county is statedly held under the College auspices, and annual meetings of several days' length are conducted in three or four of the counties of the State. The varied industries of the shop are kept up with the home industries of cooking, laundry, sewing and nursing. A printing office publishes a little monthly which is very creditably printed. Similar periodicals are published in nearly all our large institutions.

At Tougaloo, Miss., the Association purchased 500 acres of land in 1869 and subsequently added another tract, until now the whole domain embraces 650 acres. A great feature of the institution is its industrial work. Here has been developed the full range of farming industries, stock raising and the cultivation of the various crops adapted to the soil, together with shops for mechanical work, embracing[Pg 3] carpentry, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, steam-sawing, sewing and other branches of domestic economy. Strawberries are raised and shipped to the Chicago market.

Our normal schools at Memphis, Tenn., Macon, Ga., and Williamsburg, Ky., have carpentry, printing and other industrial training for young men, and training in the various arts of home life for the young women. At Wilmington, Savannah, Thomasville, Athens, Marion, Mobile, Pleasant Hill and other normal, graded and common schools, the young women are trained in all things needed in making comfortable and pleasant homes.

In our Indian schools industries are taught and practiced. At the Santee Agency a tract of nearly 500 acres gives room that is well used for farming and stock-raising, and well-arranged shops give employment in carpentry, blacksmithing and printing and other avocations. The "Word Carrier," a monthly publication, is not surpassed in neatness of printing by any paper that comes to this office. In other Indian schools various industries are taught, especially those that relate to the care and improvement of homes.

As evidence that this industrial work is pushed forward, we may mention that in our most recently established school in the South, that at Enfield, N. C., the farm of more than a thousand acres of land (the gift of a generous Christian lady of Brooklyn, N. Y.), a large portion of which is under cultivation, gives ample employment to the student. Cotton, corn, potatoes, and the products of the field, the garden and the orchard are cultivated, while in the shops the boys are taught in blacksmithing and in carpentry, and the girls in the various kinds of domestic work, sewing, cooking and housework.

BOTH ARE RIGHT.

Mr. Booker T. Washington has written two very able articles in The Independent, setting forth the supreme importance of industrial training and work among the colored people of the South. On the other hand, Dr. T. J. Morgan, Secretary of the Baptist Home Missionary Society, has published in the same paper a carefully prepared article, emphasizing the absolute necessity of the higher education of the leaders of that people. Both these writers are correct. No people can rise unless they have the guidance and inspiration of highly educated ministers, teachers, thinkers and writers, and no people can rise if its masses are idle and unthrifty. The American Missionary Association aims, in its great work, to give due and impartial importance to both aspects of this great problem.[Pg 4]

THE FIVE CIVILIZED TRIBES.

A peculiar history is that of the five civilized tribes of Indians. It was supposed for a time that they had given the brightest example of the success of the Indian on his reservation. These tribes had forms of government modeled after that of the States. They had governors, legislators, and judges, schools and churches. Many of the members were highly educated. But the outcome has been a failure. The laws are inadequately administered, and crime has been rampant and unpunished. But now the general Government has taken the one decisive and initial step in the matter by directing that the United States courts should have civil and criminal jurisdiction over all cases arising in the Indian Territory, irrespective of race. Thus the wedge has entered, and the reservation system and the dream of Indian autonomy—an empire within an empire—will happily soon be a thing of the past.

CHINA AND THE CHINESE IN AMERICA.

China, with her vast population, has stood almost unmoved for thousands of years. But now disintegration threatens, and the nations of Europe may yet divide that great country among themselves, and a new world may arise. In such a change, the influence of Christianity must be a vital force, to guide and strengthen.

The coming of the children of China to our Western coast may be a providential element in this change and the importance of the work of the Association among these peoples on our Pacific Coast, so ready to learn, and many of them so ready to return to their native land as missionaries, may be a very significant factor in the future.

ALASKA.

In 1847, California was almost as little known and valued as Alaska was last year. But the discovery of gold in Sutton's mill-race changed the whole aspect of affairs in California, and it is now a State with a large and thrifty population, and its western shore is connected with the Atlantic seaboard by railroads, towns and cities. The discovery of gold made the change. The recent discoveries on the Yukon River in Alaska are sending hundreds and thousands of people thither, and while Alaska may never become a California in population, yet a wonderful change is taking place, the end of which no one can predict. But the native population of that distant land must not be neglected nor crushed under the pressure of hordes of gold hunters. The work at our mission station at Cape Prince of Wales should be enlarged and made more effective.[Pg 5]

American Missionary Association,

CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS,

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THE FIELD.

1897-1898.

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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

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VIRGINIA.

KENTUCKY.

TENNESSEE.

NORTH CAROLINA.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

GEORGIA.

FLORIDA.

ALABAMA.

MISSISSIPPI.

ARKANSAS.

OKLAHOMA.

LOUISIANA.

TEXAS.

INDIAN MISSIONS.

CHINESE MISSIONS.

Teachers' Residences.

The figures refer to the pages in the List of Field Workers on which the names and locations will be found.

ALABAMA.

Andrews, Rev. G. W., D.D., Talladega. 17.
Ballard, Miss Sarah, Montgomery. 21.
Bell, Rev. T. J., Selma. 18.
Bishop, Mr. Edgar A., B.S., Talladega. 17.
Brown, Rev. James, Anniston. 19.
Childs, Miss Mattie F., Marion. 18.
Corpier, Miss Mary L., Florence. 19.
Dillard, Mrs. Mary A., Selma. 18.
Goss, Prof. Winfield, S., A.B. 17.
Goss, Mrs. W. S., Talladega. 18.
Grant, Rev. J. B. Talladega. 19.
Hambleton, Rev. Ira G., New Decatur. 20.
Hamilton, Rev. W. P., Talladega. 19.
Hutchison, Prof. Wm. E., Talladega. 17.
Jackson, Rev. R. W., Talladega. 19.
Johnson, Rev. W. L.;
Johnson, Mrs. Emma K., Mobile. 18
Jones, Rev. M. S., Athens. 18.
Lewis, Rev. D. M., Blocton. 20.
McCann, Rev. R. C., Florence. 19.
Merriman, Prof. James A., Selma. 18.
Porter, Rev. H. W., Talladega. 19.
Savery, Miss Louie, Talladega. 17.
Scott, Rev. E. E., Shelby. 19.
Scott, Rev. J. J., Montgomery. 19.
Scott, Mr. Will C., Birmingham. 8.
Silsby, Mr. Edwin C., Talladega. 17.
Simmons, Rev. A., Birmingham. 19.
Simms, Rev. J. R., Talladega. 19.
Simms, Rev. Y. B., Talladega. 21.
Snell, Rev. Spencer, Talladega. 17.
Williams, Miss Annie B., Jacksonville. 14.
Wilson, Rev. L. L., Talladega. 19.

ALASKA.

Lopp, Rev. W. T.;
Lopp, Mrs. W. T., Cape Prince of Wales. 26.

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Bryant, Miss M. Winifred, A.M., Rogers. 13.

CALIFORNIA.

Bradley, Miss Alma, Ventura. 27.
Button, Mrs. E. H., Petaluma. 26.
Carrington, Mrs. S. E., Sacramento. 26.
Caughey, Miss Sarah, San Francisco. 26.
Chase, Miss Estella, Oroville. 26.
Culver, Miss Mary W., Los Angeles. 21.
Dun, Mr. Joe, Fresno. 26.
Ellis, Mrs. Martha, Watsonville. 27.
Fang, Mr. Pon G., Santa Cruz. 27.
Findley, Mrs. J. J., Los Angeles. 26.
Flint, Miss M. A., Marysville. 26.
Forbes, Mrs. Cora E., Santa Barbara. 27.
Gam, Rev. Jee, San Francisco. 26.
Green, Mrs. M. A., San Francisco. 26.
Hall, Mrs. Kate V., Santa Cruz. 27.
Harwood, Miss Clara H., Los Angeles. 23.
Healy, Mrs., Oroville. 26.
Hibbard, Mrs. H. E., Oakland. 26.
King, Mr. Gin Foo, Santa Barbara. 27.
Lamont, Miss N. W., San Francisco. 27.
Leong, Mr. Quong, Oroville. 26.
Ling, Mr. Fong, Sacramento. 26.
Morrison, Miss J. G., San Francisco. 26.
Orton, Miss E. Josephine, Berrycreek. 9.
Palmer, Mrs. Amanda, San Bernardino. 26.
Pond, Rev. W. C., D.D., San Francisco. 26.
Quong, Mr. Chin, Oakland. 26. 27.
Reading, Mrs. Jennie F., Santa Cruz. 27.
Srack, Mrs. Grace P., Riverside. 26.
Stetson, Mrs. C. M., San Diego. 26.
Thomson, Miss Ella. Vernondale. 27.
Thomson, Mrs. Janet B., Fresno. 26.
Webster, Miss Fanny J., Pasadena. 6.
Won, Mr. Fong, Marysville. 26.
Ying, Mr. Loo, Los Angeles. 26.

COLORADO.

Burnell, Rev. A. T., Ph.D.;
Burnell, Mrs. Mary A., B.L., Denver. 18.

CONNECTICUT.

Avery, Miss Marjorie, Ledyard. 22.
Bingham, Mr. Jas. S., Winsted. 22.
Burwell, Miss H. Rosa, New Haven. 17.
Dewey, Mr. Geo. L.;
Dewey, Mrs. Geo. L., Norwich. 21.
Downs, Mrs. M. A. C., New Haven. 17.
Hatch, Miss Frances M., Danbury. 18.
Hitchcock, Mrs. L. St. J. Simsbury. 21.
Knapp, Miss Amelia, Greenwich. 18.
Landfear, Miss Mary E., New Haven. 17.
[F]McLane, Miss Mary E., New Haven. 18.
Miner, Miss Anna R., Lyme. 14.
Perkins, Miss Mary E., Norwich. 18.
Rowlee, Prof. B. D.;
Rowlee, Mrs. Julia, East Woodstock. 10.
Sheldon, Miss Irene, New Britain. 13.
Thomson, Miss Annie L., New Haven. 13.
Waterman, Mr. W. G., B.A., Southport. 7.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Brooks, Rev. W. H., D.D., Washington. 5.
Brown, Rev. Sterling, N., A.M., B.D., Washington. 5.
Butler, Rev. Chas. H., A.M., Washington. 5.
Butler, Rev. J. G., D.D., Washington. 5.
Clark, Rev. Isaac, D.D., Washington. 5.
Cummings, Prof. Geo. J., A.M., Washington. 5.
Dailey, Rev. J. H., Washington. 5.
Duncan, Rev. Geo. S., Ph.D., Washington. 5.
Ewell, Rev. John L., D.D., Washington. 5.
Garner, Rev. A. C., Washington. 5.
Hamlin, Rev. T. S., D.D., Washington. 5.
Harris, Rev. E. G., Washington. 6.
Little, Rev. Geo. O., D.D., Washington. 5.
Miller, Rev. Albert P., Washington. 5.
Newman, Rev. S. M., D.D., Washington. 5.
Rankin, Rev. J. E., D.D., LL.D., Washington. 5.
Satterlee, Rt. Rev. H. Y., D.D., Washington. 5.
Stephens, Prof. Wm. J., Washington. 5.
Tade, Miss Elsie M., Washington. 14.
Warder, Prof. R. B., A.M., B.S., Washington. 5.

FLORIDA.

Baldwin, Miss Christina E., Marshville. 17.
Cathcart, Miss Susie T., Tangerine. 10.
Parrott, Miss Carrie W., Orange Park. 10.
Wilkerson, Miss Daisy L., Flemington. 17.

GEORGIA.

Blount, Miss Julia J., Haddock. 4.
Bowman, Mr. A. W., Bainbridge. 15.
Braswell, Miss Olivia S., Macon. 15.
Brooks, Rev. R. B., Hagan. 16.
Brown, Rev. W. L., Brinson Hill. 16.
Byrd, Rev. J. F., Alpha. 16.
Chance, Rev. J. B., Clito. 17.
Clark, Prof. L. S., A.M., Athens. 15.
Clemens, Mr. Richard, Standford. 14.
Coleman, Rev. A. L., Swainsboro. 17.
Curry, Rev. J. J., Lamar. 16.
De Mond, Rev. A. L., McIntosh. 14.
Elder, Mr. J. Ira, Athens. 15.
Fletcher, Rev. J. B., Hagan. 16.
Harris, Rev. J. J., Groveland. 17.
Hausley, Rev. W. D., Dean. 16.
Haynes, Rev. C. S., M.D.;
Haynes, Mrs. C. S., Athens. 15.
Henderson, Mr. F. H.;
Henderson, Mrs. F. H., Cuthbert. 15.
Johnson, Rev. H. T.;
Johnson, Mrs. E. L., Tobosofkee. 15.
Jones, Rev. J. A.;
Jones, Mrs. J. A., Cypress Slash. 15.
Kennedy, Rev. W. K., Hagan. 15.
Lottahaw, Rev. David, Wadley. 16.
Martin, Miss Priscilla, Macon. 13.
Maxwell, Rev. L. B., Savannah. 14.
McIntosh, Rev. J. W., Hagan. 16.
McLean, Rev. J. R., Macon. 13. 15.
McLoud, Rev. C. H., Swainsboro. 17.
Montgomery, Rev. G. W., Portal. 16.
Morton, Miss Susie F., Athens. 15.
Murphy, Rev. J. A., Bartow. 16.
Nixon, Rev. T. M., Thomasville. 13.
Paris, Rev. S. A., Marietta. 15.
Payson, Rev. R. L., Endicott. 16.
Proctor, Rev. H. H., Atlanta. 14.
Richardson, Mrs. A. W., Marshallville. 15.
Sengstacke, Rev. J. H. H., Savannah. 15.
Shuman, Rev. J. S., Hagan. 16.
Smith, Rev. M. C., Hagan. 16.
Turner, Miss Mattie L., Covington. 15.
Williams, Rev. A. W., Kemp. 16.
Williams, Rev. H. H., Garfield. 16.

ILLINOIS.

Crane, Mrs. Kate J., Danville. 7.
Crump, Miss M. Nettie, Chicago. 19.
Dorsett. Mrs. E. R., Oak Park. 12.
Ferris, Miss Amelia L., Oneida. 6.
Herbert, Rev. Ebenezer, Rosemond. 22.
Hodgman, Miss Carrie E., Princeton. 21.
House, Miss Jessie M., Chicago. 20.
King, Miss Emma F., Elmhurst. 18.
Luethi, Prof. A. D.;
Luethi, Mrs. A. D., Chicago. 20.
Parker, Miss Anna G., Rock Falls. 22.
Reed, Miss Margaret E., Princeton. 8.
Roberts, Miss Mary P., B.L., Jacksonville. 17.
Smith, Miss Ulellah N., Chicago. 6.
Snow, Miss Kate L., Freeport. 21.
White, Mrs. M. E., Chicago. 15.
Yeomans, Miss Frances L., Danville. 7.

INDIANA.

Shearer, Rev. Herman A., Hobart. 22.
Miller, Miss Mary E., Elkhart. 14.
Noble, Miss Clara E., Coburg. 6.

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Arnott, Miss Nellie J., Nashua. 20.
Chapman, Miss Marian, Independence. 7.
Collins, Miss Mary C., Keokuk. 24.
Curtiss, Miss Fannie E., Nevada. 13.
Fullerton, Miss Jeanette, Rockford. 20.
Holman, Miss L. C., Vincennes. 13.
Humphries, Miss Laura, Marathon. 14.
Kennedy, Miss E. Jean, Montrose. 23.
Parmenter, Miss B. R., Rockford. 14.
Sands, Miss Susan, A. B., Belmond. 17.
Townsend, Miss Mary L., Cedar Falls. 8.

KANSAS.

Cooley, Miss Susan A., Bavaria. 7.
Hollies, Rev. E. W.;
Hollies, Mrs. Sarah. Topeka. 12.
Hollies, Miss Minnie A. Topeka. 12.
Miller, Mrs. H. I., Topeka. 20.
Rogers, Miss Eva M., Eureka. 21.

KENTUCKY.

Dizney, Prof. E. Frank;
Dizney, Mrs. E. F., Evarts. 7.
Doane, Rev. J. W., Campton. 7.
Green, Mr. C. C., Williamsburg. 6.
Greene, Rev. C. W., Corbin. 6.
Jackson, Rev. J. S., Lexington. 6.
Jones, Rev. Mason, Combs. 6.
Olinger, Miss Jean B., Williamsburg. 9.
Olinger, Rev. W. G., Williamsburg. 6, 9.
Stevens, Prof. Chas. M.;
Stevens, Mrs. Chas. M., Williamsburg. 6.
Sutton, Rev. Samuel, Williamsburg. 6, 9.
Turner, Mr. William, Evarts. 7.

LOUISIANA.

Brown, Rev. Wm., Schriever. 22.
Claiborne, Rev. C. H., New Iberia. 23.
Gordon, Mr. Jas. D., New Orleans. 21.
Hall, Rev. I. H., New Orleans. 22.
Herod, Rev J. A., Abbeville. 22.
Planving, Rev. L. A., New Orleans. 22.
Sands, Rev. Charles, Lockport. 22.
Smith. Rev. J. E., New Orleans. 22.
Whitt, Rev. M. W., Belle Place. 22.
Whittaker, Rev. John W., New Orleans. 22.
Wood, Rev. S. J., New Orleans. 22.

MAINE.

Emerson, Miss S. L., Hallowell. 21.
Foster, Prof. Fred. W.;
Foster, Mrs. Mary W., Castine. 14.
Parker, Miss Mary C., Southwest Harbor. 14.
Woodworth, Rev. Frank G., D.D.;
Woodworth, Mrs. Ellen E., Eggemoggin. 20.

MARYLAND.

Spence, Miss Margaret R., Snow Hill. 23.

MASSACHUSETTS.

Abbott, Miss Ella C., Winchester. 18.
Ainsworth, Miss Jane A., Hyde Park. 20.
Armstrong, Miss Agnes M., Sunderland. 18.
Armstrong, Miss Mary F., South Amherst. 20.
Beard, Miss Josephine, B.A., Andover. 7.
Blake, Miss Ethel W., B.L., Westfield. 13.
Boynton, Miss Clara R., Andover. 15.
Boynton, Miss Myra L., Lawrence. 20.
Brickett, Miss A. P., Haverhill. 25.
Burrage, Prof. Geo. C., Ph.B.;
Burrage, Mrs. Geo. C., Weston. 13.
Curtis, Miss Jennie, Great Barrington. 14.
Dickinson, Miss Laura A., A.B., N. Amherst. 10.
Field, Miss M. E., Conway. 25.
Forbes, Miss Lillian A. G., Chicopee Falls. 8.
Gage, Miss Alice M., Boxford. 13.
Goodrich, Miss Julia L., A.B., Springfield. 17.
Graffam, Miss Winona E., A.B., Andover. 13.
Greene, Mrs. Lucy R., Amherst. 7.
Hitchcock, Mr. F. S., Boston. 20.
Holmes, Prof. Morrison A.;
Holmes, Mrs. M. A., Lee. 13.
Humphrey, Miss Mary K., B.L., Amherst. 18.
Kendall, Miss Carrie E., Dunstable. 20.
Leonard, Miss Edith, Rochester. 23.
Leonard, Mrs. Eva F., Dunstable. 12.
Lord, Miss Mary P., Wellesley. 25.
Marsh, Miss Susan M., Springfield. 10.
Merriam, Miss Amelia, Westboro. 14.
Moore, Miss Cora L., Northfield. 10.
Reed, Rev. Geo. W.;
Reed, Mrs. Charlotte M., Springfield. 25.
Rogers, Miss Mary L., West Newbury. 21.
Roper, Miss Ella E., Worcester. 14.
Rose, Mr. Emerson C., Hyannis Port. 21.
Shelden, Miss Fidelia, Beverly. 12.
Stewart, Mrs. Georgia F., Boston. 19.
Stimpson, Miss Sadie, Mittineague. 20.
Strout, Miss Minnie T., Salem. 10.
Van Deusen, Miss Mary E., Ashley Falls. 13.
Webber, Mrs. A. S., Worcester. 14.

MICHIGAN.

Andrews, Miss Ella M., Frankfort. 6.
Bush, Mr. Fred Roys, Upton Works. 22.
Childs, Miss Alma C., Ann Arbor. 13.
Condict, Miss Julia A., Adriau. 14.
De Spelder, Miss Helen B., Greenville. 21.
Douglas, Miss Minnie L., Church. 12.
Dox, Miss C. M., Kalamazoo. 14.
Estabrook, Miss Susan I., Olivet. 22.
Farlin, Miss Leila H., Ann Arbor. 13.
Fyfe, Miss Jennie, Lansing. 21.
Grimes, Miss L. Mabel, Wayland. 13.
Hoag, Miss Katharine E., Saginaw. 10.
Hunnewell, Miss Florence E., Olivet. 8.
Littlefield, Miss Anna M., Olivet. 20.
Lockwood, Miss Leone F., Utica. 15.
Mitchell, Miss Margaret, Breckenridge. 8.
Nicholson, Miss M. B., Kalamazoo. 14.
Obenauer, Miss Emma, Detroit. 13.
Robinson, Rev. J. M.;
Robinson, Mrs. J. M., Detroit. 13.
Russell, Miss Frances M., Union City. 9.
Shepherd, Miss Maud A., Stanton. 14.
Slanker, Miss Alice J., Stanton. 10.
Waring, Miss Luella, Kalamazoo. 8.
Wilcox, Miss Ada Louise, Monroe. 18.
Willett, Miss Genevra A., Stanton. 18.

MINNESOTA.

Bye, Mrs. Harriet N., Minneapolis. 13.
Bye, Miss Mary A., B.S., Minneapolis. 7.
Case, Miss Ellen L., Owatonna. 20.
Cathcart, Miss Lillian S., Minneapolis. 10.
Comings, Miss Nellie F., B.S., St. Paul. 7.
Duncanson, Mr. C. A.;
Duncanson, Mrs. M. V., Stewartville. 25.
Hyde, Miss Mary D., Mazeppa. 18.
Jones, Miss Dora M., B.S., Spring Valley. 7.
Lewis, Miss Cornelia P., St. Paul. 18.
Wilcox, Miss M. E., Benson. 15.

MISSISSIPPI.

Bowles, Miss Eva D., Columbus. 6.
Cox, Mr. B. F., B.S., Columbus. 14.
Gibson, Miss Mary J. Jackson. 21.
Hamlin, Rev. Cyrus, D.D.;
Hamlin, Mrs. Lydia H., Tougaloo. 20.
Harris, Rev. C. L., Meridian. 20.
Larkin, Miss Mary S., Tougaloo. 6.
Larkin, Rev. Wm. J.;
Larkin, Mrs. Sophia, Tougaloo. 20.
Montgomery, Mr. Isaiah T., Mound Bayou. 21.
Montgomery, Miss Mary V., Mound Bayou. 21.
Thomas, Miss Sarah J., Summit. 21.

MISSOURI.

Myers, Miss Marie, Brookfield. 20.
Newton, Miss May E., Springfield. 10.

MONTANA.

Burgess, Rev. J. G.;
Burgess, Mrs. J. G., Crow Agency. 26.

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Abraham, Mr. Eli, Santee Agency. 23.
Black, Mrs. E. J., Santee Agency. 23.
Ehnamani, Rev. Artemas, Santee Agency. 23.
Foote, Mrs. A. E., Omaha. 18.
Forney, Miss Jeanne, Madison. 21.
Frazier, Mr. Albert, Santee Agency. 24.
Frazier, Rev. Francis;
Frazier, Mrs. Maggie, Santee Agency. 25.
Garvie, Rev. James, Santee Agency. 23. 24.
Gray, Mr. Robert Y.;
Gray, Mrs. Robert Y., Santee Agency. 23.
Hamlin, Mr. Wm. H.;
Hamlin, Mrs. Wm. H., Santee Agency. 23.
Lawson, Mr. Chas. R.;
Lawson, Mrs. Chas. R., Santee Agency. 23.
Nichol, Miss Margaret F., Neligh. 17.
Nichol. Miss Mary L., Neligh. 17.
Riggs, Rev. A. L., D.D.;
Riggs, Mrs. A. L., Santee Agency. 23.
Riggs, Prof. F. B., A.M., Santee Agency. 23.
Saunders, Miss Olive, B.A., Aten. 23.
Slothower, Miss A. M., Norfolk. 14.
Spees, Miss Helena C., Norfolk. 13.
Stone, Mr. Homer L.;
Stone, Mrs. H. L., Santee Agency. 23.
Zimmerman, Mr. Ben.;
Zimmerman, Mrs. Ben, Santee Agency. 25.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Bishop, Miss Emily R., Keene. 13.
Estabrook, Miss Charlotte N., West Lebanon. 22.
Goldsmith. Miss Celestia S., Chester. 8.
Gordon, Miss Harriet D., New Ipswich. 14.
Hook, Miss Carrie A., Grantham. 20.
Parkhurst, Miss Carrie E., Manchester. 17.
Richardson, Miss Abby M., Francestown. 22.
Scribner, Miss Dora A., B.A., Gossville. 7.

NEW JERSEY.

Chandler, Miss Alice A., Vineland. 14.
Conk, Miss Edith F., Montclair. 22.
Pfeiffer, Miss G. Eugenie, Hightstown. 13.
Voorhees, Miss S. Lizzie, Rocky Hill. 23.

NEW YORK.

Althen, Miss Florence E., Lyons. 18.
Brown, Miss Harriet A., Rocky Point. 23.
Clark, Miss A. A., North Hannibal. 14.
Curtis, Miss Julia H., Syracuse. 11.
Dodge, Miss Dora B., Brooklyn. 25.
Fisher, Mrs. Ellen M., Sinclairville. 12.
Garsden, Miss Alice M., Westmoreland. 7.
Gates, Miss Minnie M., Phœnix. 8.
Glines, Miss Julia B., Horsehead. 6.
Houghton, Miss Grace M., Syracuse. 10.
Jenkins, Mrs. M. L., Chautauqua. 8.
Koehler, Miss Margaret B., B.L., Penn Yan. 7.
La Grange, Miss Kate C., Albany. 9.
Loveland, Miss M. H., Newark Valley. 18.
Nichols, Miss Emily W., Clinton. 21.
Packard, Miss M. Amelia, Brooklyn. 6.
Parsons, Miss Emma L., A.B., Le Roy. 7.
Parsons, Miss Phebe B., Marcellus. 22.
Phillips, Miss Clara, Oswego. 6.
Stone, Miss Louise, Le Roy. 8.
Thompson Miss Mary L., Rouse's Point. 21.
Woodruff, Miss Anna M., Roseview. 18.

NORTH CAROLINA.

Artopé, Mrs. J. H., Troy. 11.
Baldwin, Mr. J. W., Nalls. 12.
Baldwin, Rev. M. L.;
Baldwin, Mrs. M. L., McLeansville. 11.
Clemmons, Mr. J. J., Jr., Navassa. 11.
Curtis, Rev. A. W., D.D., Raleigh. 11.
Dillard, Rev. H., Strieby. 11.
Faduma, Rev. O.;
Faduma, Mrs. O., Troy. 11.
Gibbs, Mr. J. Ulrich, Whittier. 12.
Haines, Rev. Geo. H., Charlotte. 12.
Hall, Mr. Wm. R., Raleigh. 11.
Johns, Rev. R. B.;
Johns, Mrs. R. B., Dudley. 11.
La Cour, Rev. Paul L.;
La Cour, Mrs. Paul L., Chapel Hill. 11.
Lane, Rev. Calvin, Lowell. 12.
McKay, Rev. S. A., Red Springs. 12.
McNeill, Rev. J. E., Moncure. 12.
Meriam, Mr. Morrison E., Whittier. 12.
Newkirk, Rev. W. D.;
Newkirk, Mrs. Emma C., Beaufort. 10.
Peden, Rev. Anthony, Oaks. 11.
Ragland, Rev. F. G., Wilmington. 10.
Sevier, Rev. S. S., Greensboro. 11.
Simmons, Rev. Z., Malee. 12.
Sims, Rev. J. P., High Point. 11.
Stratton, Rev. E. W., Sanford. 12.
Torrence, Miss Dulcina, McLeansville. 11.
Washburn, Miss Maud M., Brown's Summit. 11.
Whittington, Mr. Fernie, Beaufort. 10.
Woodard, Prof. Geo. A., Southern Pines. 10.

NORTH DAKOTA.

Hall, Rev. Chas. L.;
Hall, Mrs. S. W., Elbowoods. 25.
Ilsley, Miss H. B., Elbowoods. 25.
Kehoe, Miss Elizabeth, Independence. 26.
Tibbetts, Mr. Arthur, Cannon Ball. 25.

OHIO.

Adams, Miss Julia May, Perrysburgh. 22.
Barnes, Miss Esther A., Tallmadge. 18.
Black, Miss Annie E., Oberlin. 14.
Boyd, Miss Clara S., Greenfield. 13.
Brintnall, Miss Bertha N., Medina. 20.
Carey, Miss Anna N., Oberlin. 7.
Caughey, Miss Isadore M., N. Kingsville. 10.
Cheney, Miss Ella L., Oberlin. 13.
Davis, Mrs. Alice L., Oberlin. 10.
Estill, Miss Sarah M., Mansfield. 21.
Evans, Miss Mary H., Bellefontaine. 6.
Frew, Miss Florence A., Cleveland. 17.
Gough, Miss Florence H., Sheffield. 20.
Grass, Miss Alice M., Bryan. 7.
Griffiths, Mrs. Martha Gorbold, Ross. 24.
Harger, Miss Lizette, Oberlin. 14.
Hicks, Miss Emma, Kalida. 22.
Inborden, Prof. T. S., A.B., Oberlin. 10.
Jenkins, Miss Minnie V., Oberlin. 15.
Johnson, Miss Corrie N., Oberlin. 19.
Jones, Miss Julie E., Oberlin. 18.
Jones, Miss Mabel M., Oberlin. 18.
Keyes, Miss Bertha W., Oberlin. 10.
Knowlton, Miss Charlotte J., Creston. 14.
Knowlton, Miss Jessie M., Creston. 14.
Latham, Prof. Ernest R., A.B.;
Latham, Mrs. Olga O., A.B., Huntsburg. 17.
Laughlin, Arthur P., A.B., Oberlin. 17.
Lyon, Miss Lorena A., Oberlin. 21.
Marsh, Miss Mattie M., A.B., Bryan. 13.
Mead, Miss Cora B., A.M., Burton. 20.
Mellen, Mrs. Lucy M., Oberlin. 10.
Merrill, Miss E. Maude, Cleveland. 21.
Messick, Miss Elizabeth M., Marietta. 18.
Metcalf, Rev. John M. P., A.M., Elyria. 17.
Parsons, Miss Myrta A., Hyram. 18.
Persons, Miss Flora E., Oberlin. 8.
Pinney, Mrs. Lucy D., N. Bloomfield. 7.
Price, Miss Jeannette, Oberlin. 20.
Redick, Miss Emma C., Mansfield. 20.
Schwarz, Miss Rosa K., Belden. 18.
Scobie, Miss Ellen B., Everett. 13.
Scott, Miss S. Josephine, Hamilton. 14.
Seymour, Miss Julia P., Rootstown. 10.
Steele, Miss Lida M., Oberlin. 20.
Summers, Miss Maude, Cleveland. 12.
Wandell, Miss Caroline, Phœnix. 18.
Waters, Prof. Francis T., A.M., Oberlin. 18.
Wheeler, Rev. W. E.;
Wheeler, Mrs. Kate L., Richfield. 8.
Whelpley, Miss Belle M., Painesville. 21.
Whitsey, Miss Alice, Dover. 20.
Wright, Rev. G. W., B.D., Oberlin. 8.

PENNSYLVANIA.

Carpenter, Miss Sara, Buckingham. 14.
Kalbfleisch, Miss Lena H., Gettysburg. 8.
Kuhn, Miss Mary J., New Wilmington. 6.
Lime, Miss May, Port Carbon. 20.
[Pg 31] Lime, Miss S. J., Port Carbon. 21.
Nesbit, Miss Clara, Utica. 14.
Phillips, Miss M. L., Canonsburg. 18.
Taylor, Miss Edith E., New Wilmington. 22.
Tucker, Miss Lena A., Springboro. 18.

SOUTH CAROLINA.

Barrett, Miss Naomi P., Charleston. 13.
Clark, Rev. Geo. V., Charleston. 12.
Deas, Miss Mary L., Charleston. 13.
Gregory, Lewis G., A.B., Charleston. 13.
Jones, Rev. S. L., Winnsboro. 13.
Martin, Mr. Isadore, Charleston. 10.
Moates, Rev. John D., Newberry. 13.
Myles, Mr. Jefferson, Lykesland. 13.
Scott, Miss Monomia R., Charleston. 13.
Steele, Miss Carrie E., Charleston. 6.
Wilson, Rev. E. H., Columbia. 13.

SOUTH DAKOTA.

Black-Eagle, Mr. Justin;
Black-Eagle, Mrs. Justin, Cherry Creek. 24.
Bloodgood, Miss Estelle, Huron. 17.
Bluecloud, Mr. John;
Bluecloud, Mrs. Nora, Sisseton Agency. 24.
Conger, Miss Alice C., Greenwood. 23.
Cross, Rev. James F.;
Cross, Mrs. Stella P., Rosebud Agency. 25.
Driver, Mr. Garfield;
Driver, Mrs. Rebecca, Grand River. 25.
Frazier, Mr. Lot;
Frazier, Mrs. Rebecca, Rosebud Agency. 25.
Gilbert. Rev. Elias;
Gilbert, Mrs. Mary, Sisseton. 25.
Kirk, Mr. Simon;
Kirk, Mrs. Julia, Sisseton Agency. 25.
Lind, Miss Jennie, Yankton. 24.
Morris, Miss Mary T., Porcupine. 23.
Nordvold, Miss Stella B., Pierre. 24.
Phelps, Rev. Edwin;
Phelps, Mrs. Ellen, Sisseton Agency. 24.
Pond, Miss Arlie B., Pierre. 24.
Riggs, Rev. Thomas L.;
Riggs, Mrs. Thomas L., Oahe. 24.
Spotted-Bear, Mr. Eli;
Spotted-Bear, Mrs. Ellen, Oahe. 24.
Wakutemani, Mr. Huntington;
Wakutemani, Mrs. Louisa, Grand River. 25.
Ward, Mr. Clarence;
Ward, Mrs. Estelle, Cherry Creek. 24.
Whiteshield, Mr. John;
Whiteshield, Mrs. Lottie, Grand River. 25.
Yawa, Mr. David;
Yawa, Mrs. Mary, Thunder Butte. 24.
Yellow-Hawk, Mr. Solomon B.;
Yellow-Hawk, Mrs. Josephine, Pierre. 25.
Yellow-Hawk. Mr. Stephen;
Yellow-Hawk, Mrs. Stephen, Oahe. 24.

TENNESSEE.

Austin, Rev. Thos. J., Jackson. 21.
Ballantine, Miss Anna T., Nashville. 7.
Blanks, Mr. Chas. R., Pine Bluff. 9.
Bond, Rev. James, Nashville. 7.
Chamberlin, Miss Mary E., Nashville. 7.
Chase, Prof. F. A., A.M., Nashville. 7.
Cravath, Rev. E. M., D.D., Nashville. 7.
Crawford, Miss Carrie G., Nashville. 17.
Crosthwait, Miss Minnie, Knoxville. 8.
Deloss, Mr. John, Jacksboro. 9.
Denny, Miss Attie, La Follette. 9.
Dodge, Miss Emma F., Pleasant Hill. 9.
Dowdell, Miss Katherine C., Nashville. 10.
Dunn, Rev. Chas. W., A.M., B.D., Nashville. 7.
Ferree, Miss Minnie, Harriman. 6.
Franklin, Miss Lydia J., Grand View. 8.
Franklin, Miss Mabel, Grand View. 8.
Goff, Rev. E. N., Bon Air. 9.
Griffiths, Mr. Wm., M., Pioneer. 24.
Harris, Rev. Eugene, A.M., B.D., Nashville. 7.
Hawn, Mr. M., Lansing. 9.
Jackson, Miss F. Annette, Hudsonburg. 9.
Jennings, Rev. R. D., Knoxville. 8.
Jewett, Miss Mary L., Grand View. 8.
Johnson, Miss Mary E., Memphis. 8.
Keeble, Miss Janetta N., Nashville. 10.
Lewis, Miss Cornelia E., Memphis. 8.
Lusty, Rev. Geo., Deer Lodge. 9.
McAdams, Prof. J. C., A.B., Shelbyville. 17.
McClelland, Rev. Geo. M., Memphis. 8.
Myers, Rev. A. A., Cumberland Gap. 9.
Moore, Rev. Geo. W., Nashville. 5.
Morgan, Prof. Helen C., A.M., Nashville. 7.
Murphy, Miss Belle A., Knoxville. 8.
Murray, Prof. Jas. L.;
Murray, Mrs. Ida B. Nashville. 14.
Partridge, Rev. H. F., Pomona. 9.
Post, Rev. Geo. H., Jellico. 9.
Rivers, Miss Charlotte, Memphis. 8.
Robinson, Miss Jennie A., Nashville. 7.
Rutherford, Mr. Calvin, La Follette. 9.
Smith, Rev. Joseph E., Chattanooga. 8.
Smith, Mrs. M. J., Tracy City. 9.
Spence, Rev. A. K., A.M., Nashville. 7.
Stickel, Rev. E. C., A.M.;
Stickel, Mrs. Luretta C., B.L., Nashville. 7.
Sumner, Rev. M. N., Mill Creek. 9.
Taylor, Miss Mary E., Grand View. 8.
Walton, Mr. Gilbert, Harriman. 5.
Watkins, Mr. L. J., A.B., Nashville. 10.
Winkler, Mr. R. B., La Follette. 9.
Wright, Prof. H. H., A.M., Nashville. 7.

TEXAS.

Donaldson, Rev. J. I., Paris. 23.
Gaines, Prof. Marshall R., Austin. 22.
Henson, Rev. R. H., Davis. 23.
Smith, Rev. G. H., Paris. 23.
Thompson, Rev. Mitchell, Helena. 23.
Turner, Rev. G. B. M., Dallas. 23.

UTAH.

Jones, Mrs. Marcus E., Salt Lake City. 27.

VIRGINIA.

Baytop, Miss Ada, Ark. 6.
Price, Mr. W. G., Priddy's. 6.
Weaver, Mr. D. D., Cappahosic. 6.
Weaver, Mrs. E. Sprague, Cappahosic. 6.
Weaver, Prof. W. B., Cappahosic. 6.
White, Mr. R. L., Cappahosic. 6.

VERMONT.

Atwood, Prof. Oscar, A.M., Johnson. 21.
Chamberlin, Miss Carrie B., Sharon. 7.
Crane, Miss Flora M., Middlebury. 9.
Fairbanks, Miss Lucy E., Woodstock. 14.
Graham, Miss Mertie L., E. St. Johnsbury. 14.
Henderson, Rev. Geo. W., D.D., No. Craftsbury. 21.
Hodges, Miss Bertha D., Randolph. 21.
Hubbard, Miss Ida F., Ascutneyville. 8.
Miner, Mr. Benj. C., New Haven. 21.
Sisson, Mrs. Lucy M., Windsor. 20.

WASHINGTON.

Eells, Rev. Myron, D.D., Union City. 26.
Sheldon, Miss Nellie D., Seattle. 6.

WISCONSIN.

Beecroft, Miss Lillian J., Madison. 18.
Brereton, Miss Mary K., Acorn. 8.
Campbell, Rev. John C., Steven's Point. 20.
Carrier, Miss Frances M., Beloit. 14.
Kinney, Miss M. A., Whitewater. 14.
Oertel, Miss Mary J., B.S., Prairie du Sac. 21.
Patton, Miss Aura E. E., Waupun. 17.
Steele, Prof. Andrew J., A.M., Whitewater. 8.
Washburn, Miss Hester A., Delevan. 10.

CANADA.

Bechan, Miss Bessie C., Toronto. 11.
Burr, Miss Belle S., Goderich, Ont. 8.
Walbridge, Miss Lena, Mystic, Que. 10.

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The South.

A BLESSED SEASON.

BY PROF. L. S. CLARK.

This has been a blessed season spiritually for Knox Institute, Athens, Ga. We observed the "week of prayer." We exerted ourselves in every way to lead our pupils to Christ. God heard our prayers and he is still hearing and blessing us. We have had many a hopeful conversion. About fifteen took a stand for Jesus on the last day of the "week of prayer;" two on the following Monday; thirty-nine asked for our prayers on the following Friday; seven more gave themselves to Jesus last Friday, and we expect that more will come forward, for the spirit of God is with us. The work moves on smoothly.

ORANGE PARK, FLA.—A WONDERFUL DAY—CONVERSIONS.

BY REV. ERNEST R. LATHAM.

Yesterday was a wonderful day for us. We observed the day of prayer for schools and colleges, devoting the whole time to religious services. In the forenoon I preached from Eccl. 12:1, "Remember thy Creator in the days of thy youth," urging upon the students the importance of accepting Christ at the beginning of life. After the sermon we had a prayer and testimony meeting, in which a large number took part with great earnestness and deep feeling. At the close all but two of our boarding students rose either to indicate a desire to be given up more fully to Christ's service or to say that they wished to become Christians at once.

In the afternoon a meeting for the girls was held in the Girls' Hall, conducted by the lady teachers. The boys had two meetings in their own rooms. All these meetings were very helpful.

In the evening in the chapel I preached on the "Rich Young Ruler" and urged immediate decision and full surrender to Christ. The meeting for testimony following the sermon was one of the most remarkable I have ever attended. Several of our brightest students came out clearly for Christ and nearly every one of those who were not Christians spoke voluntarily of their desire to enter the new life. The meeting was very quiet, but many were weeping, and there seemed to be a deep sense of sin.

Every student above the eighth grade is now a Christian, I believe, with possibly one exception, and that one is a young man of fine promise, who said publicly last night that his supreme desire was to be a[Pg 33] Christian, and that a great burden had been upon him, night and day, for many weeks. We think that his only difficulty is that he desires the experience he has seen in others and does not see that faith is the door by which he must enter that experience.

I know that you will rejoice with us in this great blessing.

SELF-SUPPORTING CHURCH.

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ATLANTA, GA.

BY REV. H. H. PROCTOR.

The first Congregational Church of Atlanta was founded in 1867 by Rev. Frederick Ayer and wife, of Wisconsin, the former of whom has entered into his rest, but the latter is still living at a ripe old age in her native State. The church grew out of the Storrs School, the pioneer educational institution of Georgia for the colored race, and was a response to the conscious need of a more enlightened Christianity.

The chapel of the Storrs School was its first place of worship, but there was soon felt a need for a regular meeting house. By the aid of the American Missionary Association and of the C. C. B. S., a handsome and substantial structure was built at the corner of Courtland avenue and Houston street. The $2,000 contributed by the people for this building represented no little sacrifice. All of the work on the building was done by colored men, and the neat, slate-covered brick structure, most appropriate in architectural design, is an ornament to that elegant portion of the city in which it is prominently located. A well-appointed eight-room parsonage stands hard by the church, built by students of Atlanta University. The funds for the erection of the parsonage came in part from a benevolent Northern lady, but the greater part was contributed in pennies and nickels and dimes by the people themselves. The church building and parsonage are located in a community settled chiefly by white people. Once they made vigorous protest, but since they found it is not a "shouting" church, no complaint is heard. They often listen to the services from their verandas, and not a few worship with us from time to time, and express themselves highly pleased.

The church has been blessed in having such an excellent line of pastors from New England. The first was Rev. C. W. Francis, now a pastor in Connecticut. Then came Revs. E. E. Rogers, C. W. Southgate, S. S. Ashley, C. W. Hawley, Evarts Kent, and S. H. Robinson. All of these brethren are remembered for their sterling character and their faithful labors. The present pastor finds living monuments to the toil of every one of them. They have written their names individually on the hearts of the people.[Pg 34]

This church has not had an easy road to travel. At first it was despised by the whites and misunderstood by the blacks—despised because of its doctrine of equality; misunderstood because of its newness in these parts. But it was not to be kept back by hatred on the one hand, nor by ignorance on the other. True and tried spirits rallied to its standard, and to-day, in a large measure, it has overcome these things. It bravely stood out for an enlightened Christianity, and its Sunday-school supplied workers for every other school in the city. It espoused the cause of temperance, and has been always an uncompromising foe to strong drink. It held up the standard of Christian citizenship and has stood for an upright Christian life and has been rigid yet loving in its discipline.

Its members make themselves felt in the practical occupations of the community. A sociological investigation reveals some interesting facts. They are engaged in about fifty different occupations; 85 are housewives, 85 are in the schools studying, 31 are household servants, 28 are teachers, 19 are porters, 9 are waiters, 4 are grocerymen, 5 are postmen, 7 are professional nurses, 4 are shoemakers, 2 are blacksmiths, 2 are politicians, 3 are seamstresses, 4 are washerwomen, 4 are postal clerks, 3 are Government clerks at Washington, 12 are tailors, 3 are janitors, 2 are draymen, 2 are carpenters, 3 are barbers, 3 are carriage drivers, 3 are carriagemakers, 2 are cotton samplers, 2 are professional cooks, while the following occupations are represented by one each: upholster, elevator conductor, stonemason, piano tuner, sleeping car porter, dairyman, dentist, bricklayer, restaurant proprietor, photographer, ice cream maker, insurance agent, coal dealer, baker, jewelry clerk, bridge builder, packer, hackman, editor and postmaster (of South Atlanta). May they not say, as Paul: "These hands ministered unto my necessities"?

This church has furnished not a few excellent men who are doing conspicuous service. Among these are Prof. R. R. Wright, president State College, Savannah, Ga.; Rev. J. E. Smith, pastor First Congregational Church, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Rev. George V. Clark, pastor Congregational Church, Charleston, S. C.; Rev. John W. Whittaker, pastor Central Congregational Church, New Orleans, La.; Mr. Butler R. Wilson, attorney at law, Boston, Mass.; Rev. E. J. Penny, chaplain Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee, Ala., and others.

The present pastor is the first of his race to be honored with the pastorate of this church. He is a product of the American Missionary Association, having received his college training at Fisk University. He began his labors here immediately upon the completion of his theological course at the Yale Divinity School, in 1894. With his coming the church entered upon a distinct era of its life. Not without some[Pg 35] misgivings on the part of many, the church bravely launched out to assume self-support. For some time it had been without a regular pastor, and the flock was divided and scattered. After three years the membership has been doubled and the contributions trebled. Last year it contributed a share of the "Jubilee Fund" of the American Missionary Association. The church is now united and progressive. There is a growing Christian Endeavor Society, a Working Men's Club for financial aid, a Woman's Aid Society for general church work, a Young Men's League for increasing the attendance at the Sunday evening services (printed bulletins of the services being distributed weekly). The church issues the Parish Visitor, a monthly church paper which forms a bond of interest by unifying the various forces of the church.

The prayer meetings are well attended and the Sunday-school is thriving. New members are received at every communion. The week of prayer is followed by a large number of conversions. The membership now numbers 403, making this the largest Congregational Church in the South. Great stress is laid on the quality of the membership, but quantity is not despised, and within the next seven years it is the aspiration of the church to enroll a thousand members. With a continuance of the spirit of unity and work, why, under God, should not this end be realized? The possibilities of a thoroughly organized Congregational Church of a thousand members in a community like this are untold.

COLORED MINISTERS OF THE BLACK BELT OF ALABAMA—EVIDENCE OF PROGRESS.

BY REV. GEORGE W. ANDREWS, D.D.

The so-called Black Belt of Alabama is a wide tract of land extending across the central portion of the State, from east to west, embracing twenty counties, more or less. In general it is level, differing widely in this respect from the hilly and mountainous region lying directly north of it. It is the great cotton producing section of the State. The soil is either sandy or a black loam, and some of it is exceedingly fertile. Here you will find the canebrakes and cypress swamps, as well as the prairies and the vast fertile regions. Here also are cities and towns of importance, such as Montgomery, Selma, Marion, Greensboro, Demopolis, Tuskegee, Eufala and the like. In the rural sections of the belt are the vast plantations and imposing mansions of ante-bellum days. Here slavery was at its best and its worst.

This part of Alabama came to be called the Black Belt because into it were gathered so many people of African descent—about 400,000—to till the soil and harvest the crops. Some say the name originated [Pg 36]from the character of the soil. At the present time the ratio of colored people to white people varies in the different counties from two to six of the former to one of the latter. Averaging the twenty counties, the ratio is about three colored to one white, while the ratio in the State, as a whole, is about one to one. It is thus seen that the Black Belt has an interest and a character of its own, and problems somewhat more pronounced than similar problems in other parts of the State. This was far more the case thirty or even twenty years ago than now. It is doubtful whether any other section of Alabama has made more rapid progress along intellectual and moral lines the past twenty-five years than the Black Belt. Here multiplied schools and colleges and missionary efforts have been doing their utmost, and great has been the result.

Just about twenty-seven years ago the writer came from New England into this Black Belt, curious to see and to hear. One Sabbath afternoon it was noised abroad that a famous colored preacher was to speak in one of the large town churches. His text was, "And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels." Rev. 12:7. A very difficult text. The sermon, however, was almost wholly about John the "revelator," and not on the text at all. The preacher began by informing his hearers that John was a very wonderful man, and the Romans wanted to kill him, so they put him into a kettle of oil and boiled him and boiled him, but could not kill him. Hence they determined to banish him to Patmos, so they put him on board a ship and sailed for three months over the great ocean, and then they got out the telescope and looked for three thousand miles further over the mighty waters, and there they saw the tip of a great mountain coming up out of the sea, and the great serpents were coiled around the top and were sliding down the sides into the waters, and there was not a cracker there for John. And so, with scarcely a grammatical sentence and with most unfitting words, he went on for an hour with a discourse full of wildness and weirdness, and full of untruth, while the people looked on with amazement at the wonderful knowledge and power of the man. Twenty or thirty years ago you might hear many similar sermons. But now, were you to go into the churches in the cities and larger towns of the Black Belt, you would find no place for the old-time preacher or the old-time sermon, but instead you would find in the pulpit a man of considerable education and refinement, preaching good gospel truth to an attentive audience.

Some of the causes and evidences of progress in the Black Belt, both of preachers and people, may well pass in review at this point.

In the first place, at the close of the war there were no schools for[Pg 37] colored people; now you will find at least twelve hundred common schools for them in the Black Belt alone, besides a goodly number of select and higher schools of different denominations, while just up out of the Belt, in a most beautiful and healthful region, is Talladega College, well patronized by the people of the lower and less healthful parts of the State. These many schools could not fail to set in motion great changes affecting the homes, heads and hearts of the people. The ministers have powerfully felt their influence and in large numbers have been drawn into them or have been driven from the public leadership which they once had. The American Missionary Association schools and churches are at the foundation of all that has been accomplished. Others have patterned after these.

Again, previous to the time when the Christian missionary work began in the South, I cannot learn that there was more than one regularly ordained colored minister in the region under consideration, or that there were any regularly organized churches among them. At the present time there are at least sixteen hundred such churches in the twenty counties, and probably nearly as many ordained ministers—not to mention the five thousand licensed preachers, many of whom are hoping for ordination. These ministers and churches are working out a great problem. It is true that much of the work is of a low grade, but it is equally true that much of it is intelligent, earnest and effective. There are only a few college and theological graduates among them—perhaps not more than half a dozen. There are many more who have had normal and theological training, and a still larger number who have had a partial course of Bible study and who can manage a church fairly well. Of the more than six thousand ministers and preachers of the Black Belt, perhaps it would be a generous estimate to say that one hundred are in a measure educated. These are the leaders of the unschooled thousands counted among the preachers of the gospel.

Other evidences of progress in learning and piety are such as these: All over the State, as well as in the Black Belt, the churches are calling loudly for a more intelligent ministry. Not a few churches have been rent asunder by this issue, the more progressive part going out to organize a new church and secure a more acceptable minister. Scarcely an important church can be found where the subject of a competent ministry has not been agitated. There have also been erected within the past ten years a surprising number of new and greatly improved church edifices. Those whose "care of all the churches" has led them up and down through the Black Belt declare with emphasis that the quality of the preaching has greatly improved; that more books are bought and read; that the churches are better organized; that the conferences, associations and conventions of the ministers and churches[Pg 38] are immeasurably in advance of what they were even ten years ago; that the subjects discussed in these gatherings are of a higher order and more intelligently and spiritually handled, and that there is a growing sense of responsibility and an earnest desire to meet it. I have been in many of these gatherings, especially among our American Missionary Association people, where the sermons and papers were excellent.

Also, it should be noted as a hopeful sign that the preachers and many of the pastors are greatly desirous of a more complete literary and theological education. Those who seek such an education are numerous. We sometimes have at Talladega applications from fifty such in a single year. It is often pitiful to hear their appeals to be admitted to school, when denial is forced upon them, since there is neither room nor money. Still, there are many who secure books, seek help, and blindly plod on.

Let no one suppose the work in the Black Belt or the State is finished. It is only gloriously begun. The Black Belt is probably better provided with schools, churches and ministers than any other part of the State. The mining regions about Birmingham and in North Alabama are more destitute and the condition of the people quite as deplorable. There are hundreds of preachers and not a few ordained ministers who cannot read or write, and many more who know very little of God's Word. One such recently sought ordination, and when asked to find the book of Jude, he replied, after a fruitless search, "That book is torn out of my Bible and I can't find it." He was ordained just the same. Our friends may be sure, however, that the leaven has been cast into the meal, and in due time will leaven the mass. But, oh, the darkness, the moral corruption, the sorrow and ruin that comes from the long delay. Where we can put one good minister into the field we need a score, and where one boy or girl is in school there should be a dozen. May the dear Father open our eyes to see His work and to know the joy of self-denying service for Him!

Obituary.

DEACON SAMUEL HOLMES.

The death of Deacon Samuel Holmes takes from active career in life one who has been prominent and useful in many forms of Christian work in the local church and in broader efforts for the extension of the Redeemer's kingdom. He was for many years a member and officer in the Broadway Tabernacle, New York city, and on his removal thirty years ago to Montclair, N. J., he was one of the[Pg 39] charter members of the growing Congregational Church organized there. He was the first man elected as its deacon, and to the day of his death was its senior deacon. At the time of his death, Dec. 9, 1897, he was a member of the Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association and the oldest in age and in date of appointment, having held that position for the third of a century. He was a corporate member of the American Board and a vice-president of the Congregational Education Society. He was an officer in the National Congregational Council held in Boston in 1865, and was one of the committee which convened the National Congregational Council in Oberlin in 1871. He was also a delegate to the International Congregational Council held in London in 1891. His memory will be warmly cherished in the many circles of Christian service in which he was actively engaged.

MISS MARY E. McLANE.

The painful intelligence of the death of a most useful and highly esteemed teacher, Miss Mary E. McLane, of New Haven, Conn., which is received by us, will be seriously felt in our missionary work.

Miss McLane died at Mobile, Ala., on the 2d of February. Appointed in the year 1887 to St. Augustine, Fla., Miss McLane had taught in Fisk University, Tennessee, had been principal of a school at Anniston, Ala., for four years; was then transferred at her own request to Athens, Ala., where she was principal, and after three years service there was appointed as matron in the Teachers' Home of Emerson Institute, at Mobile, Ala. In a missionary service of more than ten years Miss McLane obtained a good report as a most faithful and earnest teacher, thoroughly imbued with the missionary spirit and always actuated by a missionary purpose.

MISS ANNA COFFIN.

The death of Miss Anna Coffin occurred at her home in Haverhill, Mass. At the age of 18 she was graduated from the Salem Normal School. Having a desire to serve the needy colored people, she accepted a commission from the American Missionary Association to teach in Burrell School, at Selma, Ala. She threw herself into the work with all the ardor and enthusiasm so natural to her, and for the two years of her stay proved a devoted teacher and faithful servant of Christ. Later, for four years, she was connected with Tougaloo University, at Tougaloo, Miss., where her unselfish, consecrated life was powerful for good. With grief softened by joy, we count her among the "happy saints that dwell in light, and walk with Jesus in white."

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RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1897.

Note.—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 People's Society of Christian Endeavor; S. A. means Student Aid.

CURRENT RECEIPTS.

RECEIPTS FOR DECEMBER, 1897.

RECEIPTS FOR JANUARY, 1898.

Jubilee Year Fund, Additional Shares.

Congregational Association of North Carolina, Raleigh, N. C., Two Shares.

Mrs. A. Betsey Taft, in memory of her husband, Emmons Taft, and children, deceased, Lisbon, N. H.

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WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS.

• MAINE.
• Woman's Aid to A. M. A.
• State Committee—Mrs. Ida Vose Woodbury, Woodfords;
  Mrs. L. J. Thomas, 115 So. Main St., Auburn;
  Mrs. Helen Quimby, Bangor.
• NEW HAMPSHIRE.
• Female Cent. Institution and Home Miss. Union.
• President—Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
• Secretary—Mrs. N. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St., Concord.
• Treasurer—Miss Annie A. McFarland, Concord.
• VERMONT.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. W. J. Van Patten, 386 Pearl St., Burlington.
• Secretary—Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
• Treasurer—Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johnsbury.
• MASS and R. I.
• [G]Woman's Home Missionary Association.
• President—Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 9 Shailer St., Brookline, Mass.
• Secretary—Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congregational House, Boston.
• Treasurer—Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congregational House, Boston.
• CONNECTICUT.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New Britain.
• Secretary—Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St., Hartford.
• Treasurer—Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 530 Farmington Ave., Hartford.
• NEW YORK.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Green Ave., Brooklyn.
• Secretary—Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Syracuse.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 153 Decatur St., Brooklyn.
• NEW JERSEY.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union of the N. J. Association.
• President—Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
• Secretary—Mrs. Frank J. Goodwin, Glen Ridge.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. H. Dennison, 150 Belleville Ave., Newark.
• PENNSYLVANIA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgway.
• Secretary—Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
• Treasurer—Mrs. T. W. Jones, 511 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia.
• OHIO.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. C. W. Carroll, 48 Brookfield St., Cleveland.
• Secretary—Mrs. J. W. Moore, 515 The Ellington, Cleveland.
• Treasurer—Mrs. G. B. Brown, 2116 Warren St., Toledo.
• INDIANA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, Indianapolis.
• Secretary—Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart.
• Treasurer—Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
• ILLINOIS.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
• Secretary—Mrs. A. O. Whitcomb, 463 Irving Ave., Chicago.
• Treasurer—Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
• MISSOURI.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St., Kansas City.
• Secretary—Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave., Kansas City.
• Treasurer—Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave., Kansas City.
• IOWA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. L. F. Berry, Ottumwa.
• Secretary—Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
• Treasurer—Miss Belle L. Bentley, West Grand Ave., Des Moines.
• MICHIGAN.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Isaac Platt Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave., Grand Rapids.
• Secretary—Mrs. E. N. Thorne, 212 S. Union St., Grand Rapids.
• Treasurer—Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
• WISCONSIN.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
• Secretary—Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
• Treasurer—Mrs. L. E. Smith, 140 Gorham St., Madison.
• MINNESOTA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Miss Katherine W. Nichols, 230 East Ninth St., St. Paul.
• Secretary—Mrs. A. P. Lyon, Minneapolis.
• Treasurer—Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
• NORTH DAKOTA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. M. M. Lander, Wahpeton.
• Secretary—Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
• SOUTH DAKOTA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. C. E. Corry, Columbia.
• Secretary—Mrs. B. H. Burtt, Huron.
• Treasurer—Mrs. F. H. Wilcox, Huron.
• BLACK HILLS, SOUTH DAKOTA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City.
• Secretary—Mrs. C. W. Brown, Rapid City.
• Treasurer—Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood.
• NEBRASKA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
• Secretary—Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
• Treasurer—Mrs. Charlotte C. Hall, C St., Lincoln.

• KANSAS.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. F. E. Storrs, Topeka.
• Secretary—Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 West Twelfth St., Topeka.
• Treasurer—Mrs. E. C. Read, Parsons.
• COLORADO.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St., Denver.
• Secretary—Mrs. Chas. Westley, Box 508, Denver.
• Treasurer—Mrs. B. C. Valantine, Highlands.
• WYOMING.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. P. F. Powelson, Cheyenne.
• Secretary—Mrs. J. A. Riner, Cheyenne.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. M. Brown, Wheatland.
• MONTANA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Victor F. Clark, Livingston.
• Secretary—Mrs. H. J. Miller, Livingston.
• Treasurer—Mrs. W. S. Bell, Helena.
• IDAHO.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
• Secretary—Mrs. C. E. Mason, Challis.
• Treasurer—Mrs. G. L. Cole, Mountain House.
• WASHINGTON.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. A. J. Bailey, 1614 Second Ave., Seattle.
• Secretary—Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St., Tacoma.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth St., Seattle.
• OREGON.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. F. Eggert, The Hill, Portland.
• Secretary—Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 N. E. Twelfth St., Portland.
• Treasurer—Mrs. C. F. Clapp, Forest Grove.
• CALIFORNIA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Society.
• President—Mrs. E. S. Williams, Saratoga.
• Secretary—Mrs. F. B. Perkins, 546 24th St., Oakland.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St., Oakland.
• SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Warren F. Day, 253 S. Hope St., Los Angeles.
• Secretary—Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena Ave., Los Angeles.
• Treasurer—Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, Riverside.
• NEVADA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
• Secretary—Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
• Treasurer—Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
• UTAH (Including Southern Idaho).
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. Clarence T. Brown, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Secretary—Mrs W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth St., E., Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Treasurer—Mrs. Dana W. Bartlett, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Secretary for Idaho—Mrs. Oscar Sonnenkalb, Pocatello, Idaho.
• NEW MEXICO.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
• Secretary—Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
• Treasurer—Mrs. M. McClusky, Albuquerque.
• OKLAHOMA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher.
• Secretary—Mrs. L. E. Kimball, Guthrie.
• Treasurer—Mrs. L. S. Childs, Choctaw City.
• INDIAN TERRITORY.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. John McCarthy, Vinita.
• Secretary—Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.
• Treasurer—Mrs. R. M. Swain, Vinita.
• NORTH CAROLINA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. S. S. Sevier, Greensboro.
• Secretary and Treasurer—Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
• GEORGIA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave., Atlanta.
• Secretary—Mrs. H. A. Kellam, Atlanta.
• Treasurer—Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
• FLORIDA.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
• Secretary—Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
• Treasurer—Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
• ALABAMA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. M. A. Dillard, Selma.
• Secretary—Miss E. M. Landfear, Talladega.
• Treasurer—Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
• TENNESSEE, KENTUCKY and ARKANSAS.
• Woman's Missionary Union of the Tennessee Association.
• President—Mrs. G. W. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Univ., Nashville.
• Secretary—Miss Mary L. Corpier, Florence, Ala.
• Treasurer—Mrs. J. C. Napier, 514 Capitol Square, Nashville.
• MISSISSIPPI.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• Secretary—Mrs. Edith M. Hall, Tougaloo Univ., Tougaloo.
• Treasurer—Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3012 12th St., Meridian.
• LOUISIANA.
• Woman's Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal St., New Orleans.
• Secretary—Mrs. Matilda Cabrère, New Orleans.
• Treasurer—Miss Mary L. Rogers, Straight Univ., New Orleans.
• TEXAS.
• Woman's Home Missionary Union.
• President—Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
• Secretary—Mrs. H. Burt, Lock Box 563, Dallas.
• Treasurer—Mrs. C. I. Scofield, Dallas.