Vol. XXXII.
No. 6.
THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”
JUNE, 1878.
CONTENTS:
| EDITORIAL. | |
| Paragraphs | [161] |
| Principles and Plans | [162] |
| Departure of the Azor.—The Indian Boys at Hampton | [163] |
| A Sunday-School Concert | [164] |
| An Educated Ministry.—Atlanta and Fisk Universities | [165] |
| News from the Churches | [168] |
| Items from the Schools.—General Notes | [169] |
| THE FREEDMEN. | |
| Straight University | [172] |
| Virginia: Additions to the Church—An Indian’s Creed—A Good Beginning | [174] |
| South Carolina: History of “Avery” Graduates | [174] |
| Georgia: Pilgrim Church and Sunday-School—Bandof Hope—Twitchell School.—School Children Farming—Their ParentsBuying Farms.—A Growing School—A Literary Society | [175] |
| Mississippi: An Old School—Temperance Work—The Gourd Family | [176] |
| Theological Department of Howard University | [177] |
| The International Sunday-School Convention.—Annual Meeting of the South-western Conference | [178] |
| The Singers to the Missionaries, Greeting | [180] |
| AFRICA. | |
| Arrival of the New Missionaries.—First Impressions of Africa—A Sunday Service—A School Celebration | [181] |
| Advantages of Colored Missionaries | [182] |
| THE INDIANS. | |
| School Wants and Farm Work | [182] |
| An Indian Wants a Cow | [183] |
| THE CHINESE. | |
| Fung Affoo’s Bible Class—Visalia and Petaluma | [183] |
| THE CHILDREN’S PAGE | [185] |
| RECEIPTS | [185] |
| CONSTITUTION | [189] |
| WORK, STATISTICS, WANTS, &c. | [190] |
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PRESIDENT.
Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.
VICE PRESIDENTS.
| Hon. F. D. Parish, Ohio. Rev. Jonathan Blanchard, Ill. Hon. E. D. Holton, Wis. Hon. William Claflin, Mass. Rev. Stephen Thurston, D. D., Me. Rev. Samuel Harris, D. D., Ct. Rev. Silas McKeen, D. D., Vt. Wm. C. Chapin, Esq., R. I. Rev. W. T. Eustis, Mass. Hon. A. C. Barstow, R. I. Rev. Thatcher Thayer, D. D., R. I. Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., N. Y. Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., Ill. Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., D. C. Hon. Seymour Straight, La. Rev. D. M. Graham, D. D., Mich. Horace Hallock, Esq., Mich. Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, D. D., N. H. Rev. Edward Hawes, Ct. Douglas Putnam, Esq., Ohio. Hon. Thaddeus Fairbanks, Vt. Samuel D. Porter, Esq., N. Y. Rev. M. M. G. Dana, D. D., Ct. Rev. H. W. Beecher, N. Y. Gen. O. O. Howard, Oregon. Rev. Edward L. Clark, N. Y. | Rev. G. F. Magoun, D. D., Iowa. Col. C. G. Hammond, Ill. Edward Spaulding, M. D., N. H. David Ripley, Esq., N. J. Rev. Wm. M. Barbour, D. D., Ct. Rev. W. L. Gage, Ct. A. S. Hatch, Esq., N. Y. Rev. J. H. Fairchild, D. D., Ohio. Rev. H. A. Stimson, Minn. Rev. J. W. Strong, D. D., Minn. Rev. George Thacher, LL. D., Iowa. Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., California. Rev. G. H. Atkinson, D. D., Oregon. Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., D. C. Rev. A. L. Chapin, D. D., Wis. S. D. Smith, Esq., Mass. Rev. H. M. Parsons, N. Y. Peter Smith, Esq., Mass. Dea. John Whiting, Mass. Rev. Wm. Patton, D. D., Ct. Hon. J. B. Grinnell, Iowa. Rev. Wm. T. Carr, Ct. Rev. Horace Winslow, Ct. Sir Peter Coats, Scotland. Rev. Henry Allon, D. D., London, Eng. Wm. E. Whiting, Esq., N. Y. |
| J. M. Pinkerton, Esq., Mass. | |
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, 56 Reade Street, N. Y.
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Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, Recording Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
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Alonzo S. Ball, A. S. Barnes, Edward Beecher, Geo. M. Boynton, Wm. B. Brown, |
Clinton B. Fisk, A. P. Foster, Augustus E. Graves, S. B. Halliday, Sam’l Holmes, |
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THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Vol. XXXII.
JUNE, 1878.
No. 6.
American Missionary Association.
As will be seen elsewhere, our new missionaries arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone, March 23d, just one month from the date of their leaving New York by steamer for England. They had only the ordinary discomforts of a sea voyage, and reached their destination in good condition. Their first impressions of the new field seem to be quite favorable, and their desire to be to enter on the new work at once. We look to the Lord of the harvest for His blessing on the lives and labors of all those who have gone from us to the Mendi Mission.
We read with unfeigned regret of the disasters and delays which the English and Scotch missionaries have met with, in attempting to begin their new work in Central Africa. The expedition of the London Missionary Society was, from July to January last, trying to push its way with its supplies to its destination on Lake Tanganyika, but was obliged to encamp for the rainy season at Kirasa, only about one-third of the way. It is hoped that during the present year they may reach the lake, and establish themselves there. The mission of the Free and United Presbyterian Churches is in danger of being driven from its station at Livingstonia, on Lake Nyanza, by so insignificant an enemy as a fly. The bite of the tsetse, deadly to all domestic animals, has sadly impoverished them, impeded their industrial operations, and curtailed their usefulness in advancing the civilization of Africa. The station may have to be moved. A new site must be sought with great care, which will not be liable to this pest.
In South Africa another missionary institution has been endangered by the Caffre War, three English officials having been murdered not far away; while missionaries Smith and O’Neill, of the Church Missionary Society in Central Africa, have been killed by hostile natives, on their way back to Uganda, the capital of King M’tesa. We believe that our forces at Good Hope and Avery are not liable to any of these perils. The station is accessible and reached; no deadly venom is in the insect life around them, nor are there unfriendly nations near. Only the dangers common to such regions are there to threaten them. And yet we must not set our hopes too high, or base them too confidently on any of the uncertainties which the future still holds. In a land of delays we know not what may hinder; amid a thousand possibilities, we cannot tell what peril lurks. Our hope is in the Lord—that He will suffer no evil to befall them, but give them strength for patient continuance in well-doing.
Our friends at Talladega College miss their names from the Institutions we mentioned in the May Missionary, as needing greatly, and at once, enlarged accommodations. We did not mention their wants, as indeed we did not other important needs; and perhaps the reason was, as they suggest, because, appreciating the strain laid upon our resources this year, they have considerately refrained from pressing the case which, last year, they laid before us. They say “It is difficult for us to see how any institutions in the South can be in more pressing need than we of a new dormitory.”
Mr. Whidby’s fears that a colored delegate to the Atlanta Sunday-school Convention would be either “lionized or snubbed” to that extent that it would be better for him not to come, proved to be not well grounded. The warned man did not come; but, fortunately, another did, of similar complexion, and that from Texas. He was received and treated just as the others were, and he behaved as well. The fact is, they were much busier devising for Sunday-school work than applying a color metre to each other’s faces. We are very glad the Texas brother was there.