China for Christ.
REV. W. C. POND, SAN FRANCISCO.
A venerable Presbyterian minister of New York, to whom we are indebted for a generous gift to our mission, writes as follows: “I firmly believe that God in his providence is sending the heathen to our doors, in order that they may carry back the blessed news of the gospel to their own land; and if we turn them selfishly away, He will surely require their blood at our hands.”
The truth thus expressed is a chief source of our enthusiasm in our Chinese mission work. “China for Christ” is our motto. I wish to lay before the readers of the Missionary some of the facts in view of which we believe that we do reach China, though we are working here 10,000 miles away.
There is nothing improbable in the idea. Indeed, it scarcely could be otherwise. Hardly a steamer sails for China that does not carry one or more of our pupils back to his native land. Most of these are heathen still; but they are heathen with their eyes at least half-opened. These, even, cannot be exactly what they were. But many of them are Christians, as we confidently hope. Will these go there to be silent? When neighbors and friends gather about them, to hear the accounts they have to give of things in the Sunrise Land, will they forget to tell of the Saviour they have found? I do not believe it would be possible. The message to which they have listened will be as a fire in their bones, and they will feel that they must bear it on. Letters, too, are passing back continually; and these are not empty of gospel. A missionary at Canton writes me that the mother of one of our brethren lives near his mission-house. “She enjoys the money he remits, but is not pleased with his urging her to be a Christian.” I hear incidentally that the parents of another of our brethren have been visiting all the shrines near them, and, with wailings and prayers, have placed their votive offerings where they thought they would do good, hoping that thus he would be won back from Christian heresy to their ancestral orthodoxy. What passes here in this regard is not unknown at the old Chinese homesteads; and what is known is felt.
But we ought not to be content with these spontaneous and sporadic operations. We do not rise to the height of our great opportunity while we leave this thing to work itself. It ought to be worked energetically, systematically. Never was battery better placed for storming a stronghold than we are here, for pouring shot, hot with the love of Christ, into that empire-fortress of selfishness and superstition across the sea; but we need heavier guns, more ammunition, and a truer aim.
About four years ago, Wong Min died at Canton. He was spoken of after his death as “the distinguished native pastor of the Baptist Church in Canton.” It was said that, in the absence of American missionaries, he had carried the pastoral care of three Baptist churches, and all were flourishing. Wong Min was converted at Sacramento, in this State. Returning to his native land, he began to tell in the streets and elsewhere the good news of redeeming love. His work attracted the attention of Baptist missionaries, and they took him into regular mission work. He had been at it more than twenty years when the Master called him higher. But he has left a son walking in his father’s steps—a preacher of great promise. Why have we not by this time sent back to China a hundred Wong Mins? It might have been done; it ought to have been done. How large the blessing if it had been done! We are verily guilty in this matter.
You will think me extravagant. “One hundred,” you say, “is a large number; it would be a large proportion of the whole number reported as converted in California from the beginning of missionary effort to the present time.” I know it; but I do not flinch. It could have been done, and the doing of it would have reacted on the work here, and helped us to larger harvesting.
1. I observe that our Christian Chinese have a strong desire to do this work. One of them once wrote me as follows: “In China, those who live in the villages don’t know Jesus and never heard of Him. I am sorry I cannot go home. If I could fly I would go home immediately, and tell how good and how kind Jesus is. Then I think they would all learn to love Him also. I want all our people in China to be Christian, and our mothers and sisters and friends to get the key, so they will go to heaven when they die.” I shall never forget the joy that shone in the face of our Jee Gam when he told me, a few months since, that a mission had been established near his home. Soon after, I found him writing for other eyes than mine—“Oh, how glad I feel whenever I think of this mission-house in my own beloved district. How much I am indebted to the ever-living and merciful Father for sending these missionaries there!” In expressions like these, these brethren represent the almost universal feeling among our Chinese believers—not from San Francisco and Oakland alone, but from San Leandro, from Petaluma, from Santa Barbara, from Stockton. As conversions are reported, there comes again and again the suggestion that such or such a one wants to learn how to preach the Gospel in his native land.
2. They are doing this thing now. The missionary sent to Jee Gam’s district was converted in California. The story is full of interest, and I give it in Jee Gam’s own words. It illustrates well the truth I wish to state on more sides than one: “Six years ago, a Chinese fortune-teller, while in California, heard a Chinese missionary speaking to a crowd of his countrymen on the subject of superstition. His heart was deeply touched. Not long after he went home, and at once commenced to build a house for his family, without going to an appointer of days to ask him to select a lucky day to begin upon. And so his friends and relatives told him that he must have a day selected before he put a single man to work, or his house could never be built to stand, or somebody would be killed by evil spirits before the house was completed. He told his friends that he had done with that superstition, and that he would keep on building. Finding they could not persuade him, they left, saying they would have no more to do with him, for he had become a foreigner. Then he was not only despised by these friends, but by every one who lived in that village. They said the evil spirits would soon take his life, or some great trouble would surely visit his family. Finally, his house was completed. He moved in and lived in perfect safety. People then began to wonder why the evil spirits did not visit this house. Some said they were busy elsewhere; but others said they must have gone away, and, on their return, they would cause this home and this obstinate family to be desolated. So they waited, but in vain; for this man prospered, and in due time, in that very house, a son was born to him. When, now, the people saw the joy of this household, they said one to another, ‘He must have worshipped the foreign God, and so the spirits dare not touch him.’ He came back to California and went to fortune-telling again. This time he determined to learn more of Christ, and every opportunity he could find he attended the Chinese meeting, and searched for truth by reading the Bible. He was finally converted, gave up his profession, and was baptized by Rev. Mr. Loomis. He then went home the second time, and studied at Rev. Dr. Happer’s mission in Canton, where he was fitted to be a very able missionary, for he had a very good Chinese education before he became a Christian. When he got through his studies, he was sent to a large city, not far from his own home. There he labored successfully for about two years, and he had been the means of converting a number of his countrymen, among whom was one of his villagers, a professor of Confucius. He was on his way to a county examination; he visited the chapel where this missionary was preaching, not that he might learn about Jesus, but merely for curiosity. But the Lord’s design was otherwise. He sent him there to be converted by the Holy Spirit, and fitted for the great work which He intended to assign him.
“After his conversion, this missionary and a delegate were sent to visit Chuck Hum, a city about six miles from my home. When they reached there, great was their surprise to learn that a man named Quan Lang, who lived close by, had been Christianized in Australia, and had been preaching there, in the open air, for the last three months. They searched and found him earnest in the faith, glad and anxious to join himself with these missionaries. They consulted together about opening a chapel there. Then they wrote Dr. Happer about it. He consented, and they began. But oh, what a hard time they met! Opposition came upon them from every side. Even the whole city firmly united against them. After violent persecution, the governor was consulted. He sent proclamations to the head man of the city and the judge of the district, commanding protection to his person and property. Then this missionary could have as many police officers to protect him as he pleased. They even became burdensome to him, and he had to dismiss them. When the chapel was dedicated, it was crowded to its utmost capacity.” This brings the story down to the present time. The work in that district, it will be perceived, was begun by an Australian convert, and is now carried on by one from California.
Two of our Oakland brethren, Joe Jet and Lee Sam, have recently returned to China, and intend to commence at once their studies at a mission-school, in order to preach the Gospel. One of our San Leandro brethren, Jee Wee, started for China last October, and has just returned. On the westward voyage he fell in with some missionary families and a Chinese evangelist. The result was that at once, on reaching Canton, he began evangelistic work, opening a room for the distribution of Bibles, and preaching. He encountered opposition and persecution at first, but, on application at headquarters, was protected in the same manner with those of whom Jee Gam writes above. The crowds that listened sometimes numbered 300 or 400. More than twenty were hopefully converted, his own father and mother being among them. Another Lee Sam, who returned to China about three years ago, and who, though a Christian, had not at the time he left us been baptized, in his first letter to his brethren here, told of the conversion of his brother, an educated man and a sort of college professor, to whom he had been speaking of the way of life.
We have lost sight of this Lee Sam, of Lui Chung, also, a most hopeful convert and Christian worker, whom I ought to have retained in California, and many others likewise. It is not strange that this should be. Indeed, it could not be otherwise. We, 10,000 miles distant, could not possibly follow them, save with our prayers. But they ought to be followed, and nurtured and edified. And not only that, but set at work, as light-givers and soul-savers, where-ever they go.
It is easy to see that a Chinese, returning to his native land from California, would be likely to have special advantages for doing missionary work. In the first place, by a process of natural selection, they are picked men. It is not the dullards or the drones that undertake to cross the Pacific, and make their way to fortune in a land so strange to them as this. And by the same process it is, again, among those who come, the picked men that enter our schools. The great mass do not care enough about learning to follow up each hard day’s work with two hours of evening study. Those that come do care, and care so much that they brave bitter reproaches in coming, from those whom they leave behind.
Then, besides the limited education which they are able to get in our schools, there is an unconscious education, which they must be, all the while, unconsciously receiving, as they breathe the air of a free and Christian land. Their views are broadened; the old crusted conservatism is broken; and they can speak out, with a force and an authority which, it seems to me, no Chinese who had never left his native district could possibly use.
Then, there cannot but be an interest gathering about them, as having been in “the land of the golden mountains.” They have the story of this to begin with where-ever they go; they gather a crowd by means of it; they gain attention; and the gospel of Christ will come in after it as easily as if it belonged—as, indeed, it does—to the very theme.
Now, what have I to propose? It is this: We ought to have a mission at Hong Kong. It ought to be in close, vital relationship with our California Mission. It ought to be at Hong Kong, because there our steamers land their passengers, and from that point our brethren scatter. Most of them do not enter Canton at all. We ought to have, then, at least one American missionary—not necessarily a great man, but a man of earnest piety and business capacity, and sound common sense—a man who would give to his mission the atmosphere, which, I am sure, our brethren recognize in the mission here, of Christian kindliness and brotherly love—not that of a condescending benevolence, but that of a hearty Christian brotherhood.
He ought to meet every converted Chinese—at least, from our own mission (others, if they are willing)—and take him home to his mission-house; find out his destination, and arrange to keep track of him, and make use of him as an errand-bearer for Christ. And we, on our part, ought to be raising up and sending men who, educated either here or in China, may give themselves, under direction of this missionary, to district gospel work.
So far forth, I am confident. It is no new thought with me, and, in proposing it, I feel that I am walking on solid ground. I feel that I speak in God’s name when I say this ought, forthwith, to be done. Whether the proposed mission should be sustained by the A. M. A., or by the American Board; whether more than one efficient American missionary will ever be needed; what sort of mission work he should go about in Hong Kong itself—concerning these and other matters of detail, any suggestion I could make would be crude, and, likely enough, mistaken. But the proposal itself, as to its essentials, I stand in no doubt about, and I ask the prayers and co-operation of all who love Christ and souls, that it may be speedily fulfilled.
Let me add, as if by postscript, that a Chinese brother, Wun Ching Ki, a member of one of the London Missionary Society’s churches at Canton, who is in business at Hong Kong, has been doing something in the line above marked out; has kindly welcomed and aided our brethren on their arrival; has suggested that, in that English city of Hong Kong, mission work among the Chinese could be conducted most successfully, upon the very plan which we use here; and is very desirous himself to send native preachers into the neglected interior districts, asking whether our Chinese brethren here could not help him so to do. The emphatic testimony which these bear to his good judgment and general efficiency, as well as to his Christian character, makes both the work he has done, and the work he wants to do, confirm my confidence in the suggestion I have made.
THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.
We make the following extracts from letters of Mr. A. E. White, one of our missionaries to Africa, to his former teachers at Hampton Institute:
I have just returned from the Shangay Mission, where I have been for near two weeks (this mission is carried on by the United Brethren of Ohio.) The brother there sent for me to come and spend some time with him, and to give him some advice in regard to his work while I was there. This mission is on the mainland, and one can see more of the habits of the people than he can here. When their children have gotten up to be two or three years old they send them to the bush, called the Purroo and Bundoo. The Purroo is the place where they send the boys, and the Bundoo where they send the girls. They keep them there for a good many years, and cut on their backs the shape of a hamper-basket, and teach them the use of the country medicines and the way of worshipping the heathen’s gods, and all the heathen’s habits. If a man wants to marry, he can go to the Bundoo Bush and pay eight pieces of cloth, of two yards each, and take any girl he wants. After these boys have spent all the time which the chief says they must spend in the bush, they come out and go to whatever trade they have learned. Some are doctors, others teachers, and some are farmers. The doctors go around with their medicine, and sell it at a very high price; and when they attend the sick they carry a board about one foot long and nine inches wide, with a bottle of ink and brush. On this board they write, and then wash the ink off and give it to the sick to drink. Then they have various things to sell to keep away sickness and to give good luck. These children are taught all kinds of vice, and they think it is right—such things as lying and stealing. They are very easy to teach, and they put a great deal of faith in the person who teaches them, and whatever they are taught they believe. So one can see that the hope of this country lies in the children. It is a hard thing to get a heathen to turn from his god; and I believe you can only do this by prayer. The missionaries who want to do anything must use the weapon of prayer. The chief of Shangay is an educated man; he spent eight years in the high school of England. When you find one of the heathen educated, he is ten times worse than an uneducated one. This man was taken up and sent to England and educated there. If he had been trained under some good missionary, he might have been of use to the country.
I have given the school to Mr. Miller, one of the new comers, and I have taken other work. We had an examination, and all the people seemed to be pleased. We had, also, pieces recited on the stage, and a dinner for the children and the friends of the school. The people said that they never saw anything of the kind in Africa before. I think now we have about 140 pupils that are coming. We don’t have that many any one day, but they are in attendance. I have some fine boys in school, and one whom I want to send to Hampton next fall, if I can find a place there for him, and some one to help me pay for his board. Please ask the General if he can have a place there? He is the boy who has been with me since I have been here, and I have taken him and want to do all I can to educate him.
Last Sunday was the happiest day I have seen for many. We had thirteen new members to unite with the church—twelve on profession; and one who once was a member, and was shut out when the church was closed, came back and united the second time. And of this number, six were members of my Bible-class—four were my best boys, as I call them, and two I own as the fruits of my own labor. The young man whom I have already written you about was one. He has been trying ever since his brother became a Christian on the ship, and at last has made up his mind to follow Christ. You can imagine how I felt to see all these—my boys—standing up acknowledging Christ to be their Saviour. There was another of my class to unite with us, but he was sick and could not. I hope he will be able by the next Communion-day.
RECEIPTS
FOR JULY, 1878.
| MAINE, $153.75. |
| Cumberland Centre. O. S. T. 50c.; E. J. B. 25c. | 0.75 |
| Foxcroft and Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 20.00 |
| Newfield. Mrs. N. C. A. | 1.00 |
| North Yarmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.00 |
| South Berwick. J. B. Neally $5; Hugh andPhilip Lewis $5 | 10.00 |
| Windham. Rev. Luther Wiswall | 5.00 |
| Winthrop. Estate of Mrs. Mary Carr | 100.00 |
| Winthrop. Stephen Sewall 18,000 pages Anti-TobaccoTracts. |
| Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. | 13.00 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE, $460.88. |
| Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 18.75 |
| Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 3.35 |
| Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 45.82 |
| East Jaffrey. Eliza A. Parker | 20.00 |
| Exeter. Friends in Second Cong. Ch., for aTeacher, Wilmington, N. C. | 40.00 |
| Gilmanton Iron Works. Luther E. Page | 5.00 |
| Hebron. J. B. C. | 1.00 |
| Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $11.30; Dea.G. W. 50c. | 11.80 |
| Keene. A Friend | 50.00 |
| Lancaster. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.00 |
| Lebanon. Cong. Ch. | 25.66 |
| Manchester. Mrs. Kinsley (proceeds saleof pictures) | 3.00 |
| Mason. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 13.00 |
| Meredith Village. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 7.45 |
| Milford. Cong. Ch. | 50.01 |
| Nashua. W. P. Clark | 20.42 |
| New Market. T. H. Wiswall $10; Cong. Ch.and Soc. $9.36 | 19.36 |
| North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 13.35 |
| Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson, bal.to const. Miss Emily L. Griggs L. M. | 10.00 |
| Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.53 |
| South New Market. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.00 |
| Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 5.00 |
| West Lebanon. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 15.00 |
| Westmoreland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 31.13 |
| Wentworth. Ephraim Cook | 5.00 |
| Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 13.25 |
| Wolfborough. Rev. S. Clark and Wife | 10.00 |
| VERMONT, $201.70. |
| Brandon. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.Chas. M. Winslow L. M. | 30.00 |
| Danville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 20.00 |
| Greensborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.75;Rev. Moses Patton and Wife $17 | 22.75 |
| Lyndon. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 12.00 |
| Lyndonville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 11.00 |
| Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 39.56 |
| Newport. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 5.05 |
| North Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 23.81 |
| Sheldon. Cong. Ch. | 8.73 |
| South Hadley. First Ch. and Soc. | 8.00 |
| Townshend. Mrs. Nancy B. Batchelder | 2.00 |
| West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. | 17.80 |
| West Randolph. Mrs. S. W. | 1.00 |
| MASSACHUSETTS, $2,582.51. |
| Amherst. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 60.25 |
| Andover. Chapel Church and Soc. | 134.00 |
| Arlington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 12.50 |
| Auburn. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. Benj.F. Larned L. M. | 30.29 |
| Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc. | 35.60 |
| Boston. Mrs. E. P. Eayrs $10; “A Friend”$10 | 20.00 |
| Boston Highlands. Eliot Ch. $106.40; EmanuelCh. $50; “Friends” $1.25 | 157.65 |
| Boxborough. Mrs. J. Stone | 10.00 |
| Bradford. Mrs. S. Boyd, for Student Aid,Atlanta U. | 5.00 |
| Bridgewater. Central Sq. Sab. Sch. | 15.00 |
| Brookfield. Evan. Cong. Ch. | 18.00 |
| Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. | 62.50 |
| Canton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 24.74 |
| Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 45.91 |
| Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 20.00 |
| Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.25 |
| Easthampton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $25;“A Friend” $10 | 35.00 |
| Fitchburgh. Wm. L. Bullock | 5.00 |
| Framingham. E. K. S. | 0.50 |
| Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 20.00 |
| Hingham. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 26.50 |
| Hopedale. W. W. Dutcher, for Student Aid,Atlanta U. | 5.00 |
| Hopkinton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 52.25 |
| Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 27.49 |
| Lawrence. Lawrence St. Church | 141.00 |
| Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc. | 12.69 |
| Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc. | 14.36 |
| Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 55.31 |
| Marlborough. Union Cong. Sab. Sch. | 10.00 |
| Medway. Estate of Clarissa A. Pond, by A. Pond, Ex. | 145.00 |
| Melrose. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 31.42 |
| Methuen. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.34 |
| Middlebury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 37.68 |
| Middleton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.00 |
| Milford. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 24.22 |
| Millbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $57.88;M. D. Garfield $5.—First Cong. Soc., bbl.of C., for Atlanta, Ga. | 62.88 |
| Needham. Evan. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 4.65 |
| New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. and Soc.$100.01; First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30 | 130.01 |
| Newburyport. Henry Lunt | 5.00 |
| Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 137.66 |
| Newton Centre. “Friends,” by Mrs. Furber,for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 50.00 |
| North Adams. Cong. Ch. | 27.90 |
| North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 100.00 |
| Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. ($30 of which fromE. B. Wheaton, to const. Eliza R. BeaneL. M.) | 38.00 |
| Orange. Mrs. E. W. M. | 1.00 |
| Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 23.48 |
| Plymouth. Church of the Pilgrimage | 44.16 |
| Quincy. Even. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 54.00 |
| Reading. Bethesda Ch. and Soc. | 45.00 |
| Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. $65.77;“A Friend” $10 | 75.77 |
| Sandwich. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 10.00 |
| South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.00 |
| South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. | 8.11 |
| Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.J. W. Bowers, Chas. H. Johnson andWm. G. Muzzy L. M.’s | 115.21 |
| Templeton. Trin. Ch. and Soc. | 20.39 |
| Upton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $30, to const.Lyman L. Leland L. M.; Cong. Sab.Sch. $4.60; Mrs. E. F. S. $1 | 35.60 |
| West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.00 |
| West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., toconst. Myron W. Sherman L. M. | 32.56 |
| Wellesley. Cong. Sab. Sch. $25; CollegeMiss. Soc. $2 | 27.00 |
| West Medway. Cyrus Adams | 10.00 |
| West Roxbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 73.63 |
| Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 21.68 |
| Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. | 15.12 |
| Wilmington. Mrs. Noyes, box of C. and$2.70, for freight, for Wilmington, N.C.;“Friend” $1 | 3.70 |
| Winchendon. “A Friend” | 5.00 |
| Woburn. J. P. M. | 0.50 |
| Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $49.05,and bbl. of C. | 49.05 |
| RHODE ISLAND, $879.87. |
| Pawtucket. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 45.00 |
| Providence. Union Cong. Ch. | 734.87 |
| Providence. Beneficent Cong. Ch. | 100.00 |
| CONNECTICUT, $3,145.27. |
| Bennington. Cong. Sab. Sch., for StudentAid, Atlanta U. | 5.00 |
| Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Bethel. Cong. Ch. | 20.22 |
| Bristol. O. C. | 1.00 |
| Ellsworth. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Fairfield. —— | 5.00 |
| Farmington. Cong. Ch. | 56.79 |
| Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. L. Brown | 5.00 |
| Goshen. Sarah Beach, to const. John Beachand Joseph Beach L. M’s. | 60.00 |
| Greenfield. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Greenville. Cong. Ch. | 37.75 |
| Guilford. Mrs. Lucy E. Tuttle $50; FirstCong. Ch. and Soc. $24 | 74.00 |
| Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford $50; Jos. W.Hungerford $50; Cong. Sab. Sch. $20.40 | 120.40 |
| Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 20.00 |
| Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Ch. $92; SouthCong. Ch. $50 | 142.00 |
| Hebron. Mrs. Jasper Porter, for Woman’sWork among Women | 25.00 |
| Kent. First Cong. Soc. | 19.53 |
| Manchester. First Cong. Ch. | 15.00 |
| Meriden. First Cong. Ch. | 34.08 |
| Middletown. First Ch. | 19.75 |
| Morris. K. Goodwin | 10.00 |
| New Haven. Church of the Redeemer $164;O. A. Dorman $100; Dwight Place Cong.Ch. and Soc. $83; “A Friend in a Timeof Need” $50; Taylor Ch. $6.50 | 403.50 |
| North Guilford. S. R. Fowler $6; “AFriend” $2 | 8.00 |
| North Madison. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Norwich. Broadway Cong. Ch., in part | 200.00 |
| Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. | 10.09 |
| Orange. Mrs. E. E. Rogers | 10.00 |
| Portland. Miss Maria White | 2.00 |
| Prospect. Estate of David W. Hotchkiss,by Hervey D. Hotchkiss, Ex. | 1,000.00 |
| Rocky Hill. Cong. Ch. | 17.10 |
| Salisbury. Cong. Ch. | 35.30 |
| Terryville. Elizur Fenn and Mrs. ElizurFenn $5 ea. | 10.00 |
| Thomaston. Cong. Ch. | 72.76 |
| Torrington. Estate of Henry Colt, by H.G. Colt, Ex. | 500.00 |
| Union. Rev. Samuel I. Curtiss | 10.00 |
| Washington. Mrs. Rebecca Hine (of which$30 to const. Lizzie J. Pond L. M.) | 45.00 |
| Watertown. Truman Percy, to const. MissHattie E. Percy L. M. | 30.00 |
| West Killingly. Westfield Cong. Ch. andSoc. | 75.00 |
| Winsted. Mrs. M. A. Mitchell | 10.00 |
| NEW YORK, $876.49. |
| Brooklyn. A. Merwin $10; Church of theCovenant, M. C. Coll. $4.00; Mrs. T. C. F.$1 | 15.00 |
| Camillus. Isaiah Wilcox | 30.00 |
| Dryden. H. B. W. | 0.50 |
| East Wilson. Rev. H. Halsey $30; C. M.Clark $3 | 33.00 |
| Evans. Mrs. R. P. R. C. | 1.00 |
| Gloversville. Cong. Soc. $269.92 (of which$50 from Mrs. U. M. Place, for the debt),to const. Mrs. Seth C. Burton, AshleyD. L. Baker, John L. Getman and CyrusStewart L. M’s. | 219.92 |
| Lenox. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. $19.18;Amos S. Johnson $5 | 24.18 |
| Leyden. Estate of Mrs. Amanda K. Merwin,by Hon. M. H. Merwin, Ex. | 200.00 |
| Livonia. Estate of Mrs. Susan Fowler, byRev. S. M. Day | 124.62 |
| Lysander. N. Hart | 5.00 |
| Marion. “A Few Friends,” by M. M. Heslor,bal. to const. Mrs. Hattie A. DeWolfL. M. | 5.00 |
| Newburgh. Miss E. I. P. | 0.50 |
| New York. Mrs. J. A. V. A. | 0.75 |
| Owasco. Mrs. A. S. | 0.50 |
| Parishville. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 5.73 |
| Poughkeepsie. Cong. Ch. | 15.22 |
| Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.00 |
| Richville. E. J. S. | 1.00 |
| Riverhead. First Cong. Ch. | 6.00 |
| Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch. | 90.50 |
| Sherburne. “A Friend” | 20.00 |
| Syracuse. “A friend in Plymouth Ch.” $4;A. B. $1, for Mag. | 5.00 |
| Walton. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. | 31.60 |
| Warsaw. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 15.47 |
| West Groton. Cong. Ch. | 10.00 |
| West Yaphank. H. M. O. | 1.00 |
| NEW JERSEY, $64.70. |
| Englewood. C. T. | 0.50 |
| Montclair. First Cong. Ch. | 53.00 |
| Newark. “Jonah” | 1.20 |
| Raritan. Miss S. Provost | 10.00 |
| PENNSYLVANIA, $160. |
| Hermitage. W. F. Stewart $5; E. P. $1 | 6.00 |
| Philadelphia. James Smith | 100.00 |
| Prentissvale. Mrs. C. B. Lovejoy | 5.00 |
| Sharpsburgh. Joseph Turner ($5 of whichfor Indian M.) | 10.00 |
| Washington. Dr. F. J. LeMoyne, for LeMoyneInst., Memphis, Tenn. | 9.00 |
| West Alexander. Dr. R. Davidson $20;Thomas McCleery $10 | 30.00 |
| OHIO, $943.53. |
| Andover. O. B. Case $10; Mrs. O. B. Case$10 | 20.00 |
| Ashland. John Thompson | 2.28 |
| Bellevue. “A Little Band of Cheerful Giversin First Cong. Soc.,” by Mrs. H. L. Berry | 11.30 |
| Brownhelm. Estate of John Locke, byCyrus L. Whittlesey, Ex. | 300.00 |
| Cincinnati. Rent, for the Poor in New Orleans,$101.17; “A Friend” $5 | 106.17 |
| Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch. | 21.50 |
| Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch. | 9.12 |
| Hudson. Hiram Thompson | 20.00 |
| Lodi. Cong. Ch. $6.29; Woman’s Miss. Soc.$1.95 | 8.24 |
| Mesopotamia. Mrs. S. O. Lyman, bal. toconst. Rev. A. M. Pipes L. M. | 15.00 |
| Oberlin. T. W. W. | 0.50 |
| Painesville. First Cong. Ch. (of which $4.40from Mrs. A. Morley, for Straight U.) | 50.21 |
| Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, byA. L. Grimes | 359.00 |
| Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 7.21 |
| Wadsworth. George Lyman | 5.00 |
| Wakeman. Franklin Hale | 7.00 |
| Willoughby. Mrs. N. L. | 1.00 |
| INDIANA, $130.40. |
| Bremen. Cong. Ch. | 2.00 |
| Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. $7.35, and Sab. Sch.$5.65 | 13.00 |
| Indianapolis. Mayflower Cong. Ch. | 5.25 |
| Michigan City. Cong. Ch. | 110.15 |
| ILLINOIS, $625.32. |
| Amboy. Cong. Ch. | 26.85 |
| Canton. Cong. Ch. | 50.00 |
| Chesterfield. Cong. Ch. | 15.00 |
| Chicago. Leavitt St. Cong. Ch. $38.13; FirstCong. Ch. M. C. Coll. $13.58; Rev. E. H.$1 | 52.71 |
| Clifton. Cong. Ch. | 6.70 |
| Cobden. E. W. Towne | 10.00 |
| Fawn Ridge. “A Friend,” for Student Aid | 5.00 |
| Galesburg. Estate of Warren C. Willard,by Prof. T. R. Willard, Ex. | 9.55 |
| Hutsonville. C. V. Newton | 2.00 |
| Lamoille. Cong. Ch. | 8.35 |
| Lawn Ridge. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 13.00 |
| Malden. Cong. S. S. | 1.00 |
| Millburn. Cong. Ch. | 8.00 |
| Moline. Cong. Ch. (in part) | 61.27 |
| Oak Park. Cong. Ch. (in part) | 64.75 |
| Odell. Mrs. H. E. Dana | 10.00 |
| Peoria. Rev. A. A. Stevens | 10.00 |
| Peru. First Cong. Ch. | 13.22 |
| Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. | 31.00 |
| Providence. Cong. Ch. | 20.26 |
| Quincy. First Union Cong. Ch. $28.75; R.McComb $2 | 30.75 |
| Rochelle. W. H. Holcombe | 10.00 |
| Rockford. Thomas D. Robertson | 50.00 |
| Roseville. Cong. Ch. $6.25; Rev. A. L. Pennoyerand Wife $5 | 11.25 |
| Shirland. Mrs. J. G. L. | 1.00 |
| Sycamore. Cong. Ch. | 85.66 |
| Wayne Station. Cong. Ch. | 5.60 |
| Wyanett. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 12.40 |
| MICHIGAN, $176.53. |
| Adrian. Stephen Allen | 10.00 |
| Alpena. B. C. Hardwick, for Emerson Inst. | 71.10 |
| Salem. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| Churches Corners. A. W. D. and others | 1.00 |
| Concord. Henry Mann | 2.00 |
| Jackson. “A Friend” | 30.00 |
| Lamont. Cong. Ch. | 3.00 |
| Memphis. Woman’s Miss. Soc., for Missionary,Memphis, Tenn. | 3.00 |
| Michigan Centre. Centre Cong. Ch. | 3.10 |
| Oxford. Woman’s Miss. Soc., for a Missionary,Memphis, Tenn. | 5.25 |
| Portland. Cong. Ch. | 7.50 |
| Richland. J. B. | 1.00 |
| Romeo. “Mrs. E. F. F.” $1.50; Mrs. Dr. A.$1: Mrs. D. M. 50c., for a Missionary,Memphis, Tenn.—M. A. J. 50c | 3.50 |
| Union City. Cong. Ch. (in part) | 22.08 |
| Warren. Rev. J. L. Beebe | 5.00 |
| WISCONSIN, $320.13. |
| Beloit. First Cong. Ch. | 130.00 |
| Black Earth. Cong. Ch. | 1.15 |
| Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch. | 15.00 |
| Green Bay. First Presb. Ch. | 61.35 |
| Oak Grove. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5; Dea. D.Richard $2; Rev. W. E. S. $1 | 8.00 |
| Milwaukee. Mrs. E. F. Rice | 10.00 |
| Portage City. John Jones No. 4 | 2.50 |
| Rosendale. Cong. Ch. | 17.35 |
| Waukesha. First Cong. Ch. | 22.00 |
| Wautoma. Cong. Ch. | 4.28 |
| Wawatosa. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) | 48.50 |
| IOWA, $205.82. |
| Alden. Cong. Ch. | 7.75 |
| Burlington. Mrs. Hannah Everall $5; M.L. $1 | 6.00 |
| Chester Centre. Cong. Ch. | 32.00 |
| College Springs. Cong. Ch. | 8.60 |
| Farragut. Cong. Ch. $6; C. W. H. $1 | 7.00 |
| Green Mountain. First Cong. Ch. | 31.00 |
| Keokuk. Orthodox Cong. Ch. | 55.55 |
| Muscatine. Cong. Ch. | 26.35 |
| New Hampton. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. | 5.50 |
| Newton. First Cong. Ch. | 12.27 |
| Osage. Woman’s Cent. Soc. | 4.80 |
| Rockford. Woman’s Miss. Soc. | 2.00 |
| Rockford. Mrs. A. E. G. 50c.; Mrs. C. A.C. 50c. | 1.00 |
| Shenandoah. Rev. W. P. | 0.50 |
| Sloan. Mrs. R. W. F. S. | 0.50 |
| Toledo. Ladies’ Aid Soc., for Student Aid,Atlanta U. | 5.00 |
| MINNESOTA, $141.33. |
| Faribault. Cong. Ch. | 41.58 |
| Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. | 20.55 |
| Northfield. First Cong. Ch. | 49.95 |
| Spring Valley. Cong. Ch., quar. coll. $13.25;Rev. C. W. M. $1 | 14.25 |
| Walcott. Mrs. Mary Adams | 15.00 |
| KANSAS, $30. |
| Osawatomie. Rev. S. L. Adair, to const. H.H. Williams L. M. | 30.00 |
| CALIFORNIA, $100. |
| Oakland. S. Richards | 100.00 |
| OREGON, $54.55. |
| Albany. Cong. Ch. | 4.00 |
| Portland. First Cong. Ch. | 50.55 |
| NORTH CAROLINA, $241.16. |
| McLeansville. Pub. Fund $42; Miss E. W.Douglass $30 | 72.00 |
| Raleigh. Pub. Fund $150; WashingtonSch. $17.83.—Cong. Ch. $1.33, for IndianM. | 169.16 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA, $188. |
| Charleston. Avery Inst. | 188.00 |
| GEORGIA, $258.61. |
| Atlanta. Rent $104; Atlanta University $83;T. N. Chase $50 | 237.00 |
| Macon. Lewis High Sch. | 12.40 |
| Medway. Cong. Ch., for Mendi M. | 8.00 |
| Savannah. First Cong. Ch. | 0.71 |
| Woodville. Rev. J. H. H. S. 25c. for IndianM. and 25c. for Mendi M. | 0.50 |
| ALABAMA, $29.50. |
| Anniston. Rev. P. J. McEntosh | 0.50 |
| Athens. Trinity Sch. | 29.00 |
| MISSISSIPPI, $26.20. |
| Tougaloo. Tougaloo University | 26.20 |
| MISSOURI, $7. |
| Amity. Cong. Ch. | 3.00 |
| St. Louis. Mrs. M. P. Chapman | 4.00 |
| INCOME FUND, $101.50. |
| Avery Fund, for Mendi Mission | 101.50 |
| SANDWICH ISLANDS, $1,000. |
| Sandwich Islands. “A Friend” | 1,000.00 |
| ENGLAND, $253. |
| London. Freedmen’s Missions Aid Soc.,by Dr. O. H. White £50 | 243.00 |
| —— Miss S. L. Ropes | 10.00 |
| TURKEY, $5. |
| Van. Rev. H. S. Barnum | 5.00 |
| ————— |
| Total | 13,362.75 |
| Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st | $142,670.50 |
H. W. HUBBARD, Ass’t Treas.
| RECEIVED FOR DEBT. |
| Springfield, Vt. A. Woolson | 100.00 |
| East Hampton, Conn. E. C. Barton | 20.00 |
| West Haven, Conn. Mrs. Huldah Coe | 6.00 |
| Gilbertsville Academy, N. Y. Rev. A. Wood | 5.00 |
| Gloversville, N. Y. Mrs. U. M. Place | 50.00 |
| Malone, N. Y. Mrs. S. C. Wead | 100.00 |
| New Jersey. “Hearts Content” | 25.00 |
| Clark, Pa. Mrs. Elizabeth Dickson and MissEliza Dickson $5 ea. | 10.00 |
| Hyde Park, Pa. Thomas Eynon | 50.00 |
| Scranton, Pa. F. E. Nettleton | 10.00 |
| Fredericktown, Ohio. “A. H. R.” | 500.00 |
| Atlanta, Ga. Students and Teachers in AtlantaU. | 175.00 |
| Woodville, Ga. Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke | 0.75 |
| ———— |
| 1,051.75 |
| Previously acknowledged in June Receipt | 12,163.72 |
| ————— |
| Total | $13,215.47 |
The American Missionary Association.