CHILDREN’S INFLUENCE.

MISS MARY BAILEY, VERMONT.

Children’s influence is too much overlooked in the Mission work. Parents, Sabbath-school teachers, and missionary agents do not take the pains they might to create in them a missionary spirit.

As soon as they “can speak and go alone” they should be “bent” into missionary workers. They can be taught to take as much interest in the condition of the Freedmen, Chinese and Indians, as in “Mother Hubbard,” “Jack and the Bean Stalk,” etc. Especially when they are called upon to give their pennies should it be explained to them for what purposes their moneys are solicited.

A little mite of a girl came to me and asked for a penny. “What would you do with a penny?” said I. “Carry it to Sunday-school.” “What do you carry it to Sunday-school for?” “To put it into the conniption box.” “What do you put it into the ‘conniption box’ for?” “For the man.” “What does the man do with it?” “He put it into his pocket!”

After that, when missionary papers came, I read them through to her. By glancing ahead I saw what the facts were, then I would read them in words she could understand. She was so charmed with that kind of reading she would take a toy book out of my hand and hunt up a missionary paper to be read to her instead.

When she saw me glancing along she would exclaim, “Don’t let your eyes zig-zag over the page; read every word!”

The Freedmen interested her very much. She said one morning, “I prayed for the colored people last night; I told Jesus they suffered.” At another time I read about a colored student who was anxious to become a minister, and she “told the Lord that he wanted to be a minister.”

Last Sabbath a missionary preached a very interesting sermon at our church, in the interests of the Freedmen. I hoped he would speak a few words to the children, but he did not.

I asked a little girl of nine years, who thinks she would like to be a missionary, how she liked the sermon? She replied that she could not understand it. I told her that he said the Catholics were sending more teachers among the colored people than we were, and they were fast becoming their converts.

She quickly replied, “Then we shall be slaves; we had better look out!”

If all children under religious instruction were engaged to do all they could in the cause of Missions, what an additional power would their praying and gleanings be against the enemies of Christian liberty.


[RECEIPTS]

FOR JULY, 1879.


MAINE, $158.27.
Castine. Mrs. Lucy S. Adams, to const. Mrs.Dorothy L. Stevens, L. M.$30.00
Dennysville. Mrs. Samuel Eastman5.00
Eastport. Cong. Sab. Sch. $5; Rev. G. A. P.50c.5.50
Kennebunkport. Second Cong. Ch., $8.25;First Cong. Ch., $7.0215.27
North Waterford. “A. J. H.”2.00
Portland. State St. Cong. Ch.75.00
York. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.25.50
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $450.38.
Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.68
Antrim. “Friends,” by Imla Wright105.00
Bennington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.22.01
Brentwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc.2.00
Concord. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.54.33
Greenville. E. G. Heald5.00
Keene. First Cong. Sch., $65.40; E. R., $166.40
Manchester. C. B. Southworth, to const.Minnie P. Southworth, L. M.50.00
Marlborough. Freedmen’s Ladies’ Aid Soc.7.00
Milford. Cong. Ch. and Soc.11.94
Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.19.97
New Market. T. H. Wiswall10.00
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.21.02
Northwood Centre. Cong. Soc.16.23
Pembroke. Mrs. Mary W. Thompson5.00
Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch.17.00
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.25.80
Windham. “A Friend” (thank offering)1.00
VERMONT, $248.32.
Cambridge. B. R. Holmes, Rev. E. Wheelock,S. M. Safford, J. G. Morse, and O. W.Reynolds, $5 ea.; J. W. T. and M. J. M.$1 ea.27.00
East Hardwick. Mrs. L. W. J. and Mrs. L.H. P.1.00
East Berkshire. S. J. B. 50c.; “A Friend.”25c.0.75
Enosburg. Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.56
Fair Haven. Cong. Sab. Sch. for Student,Atlanta U.30.00
Hartland. Union Coll.2.45
Manchester. Cong. Ch. to const. Dea. S. G.Cone, L. M.74.51
Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.05
Underhill. Cong. Ch. and Soc.9.10
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $32; “E.A. H.” $234.00
West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.15
West Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.9.81
Windham. Cong. Ch.9.10
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.84
MASSACHUSETTS, $2,265.03.
Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l),$3; S. P. L. 50c.3.50
Amherst. Church in Amherst College35.30
Andover. Chapel Cong. Ch. $75.39; “AFriend,” $10; Miss H. E. Whittier, bbl.of C.85.39
Beverly. Dane St. Ch. and Soc.8.15
Boston. Eliot Cong. Ch. (ad’l)20.00
Brimfield. Second Cong. Sab. Sch.5.00
Brockton. 2 bbls. C. by Lizzie F. Trow, forTougaloo U.
Brookline. Harvard Cong. Ch.97.29
Charlestown. Winthrop Cong. Ch. and Soc.for Hampton N. and A. Inst.70.00
Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.63.38
Curtisville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.14.75
Dover. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.4.00
East Hampton. Payson Cong. Sab. Sch.50.00
England. Miss S. L. Ropes10.00
Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.23.50
Fall River. Central Cong. Ch.1.50
Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch.24.50
Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
Georgetown. Memorial Cong. Ch.27.05
Hadley. Thomas P. Carleton2.00
Haverhill. John Kendrick, $10; Mrs. L.P. F., 50c.;—Industrial Soc. of North Ch.,bbl. of valuable bedding, for Tougaloo U.10.50
Holliston. Cong. Ch. and Soc.12.60
Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch.17.90
Hingham. Ev. Cong. Ch. and Soc.13.98
Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch.14.24
Lowell. Kirk St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.224.55
Lowell. High St. Cong. Ch. and Soc.15.83
Malden. Cong. Ch. and Soc.44.25
Maplewood. Free Christian Ch.2.25
Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.35.00
Millbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.56.49
North Adams. Cong. Ch.81.66
New Bedford. North Cong. Ch. (ad’l)10.00
Newburyport. Whitfield Cong. Ch.10.87
Newton. Eliot Ch.125.00
Newtonville. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.,$26.17; Mrs. J. W. Hayes, $2551.17
North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.50.00
Northbridge. Phebe S. Marsh5.00
North Somerville. “A Friend”2.00
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.34.70
Petersham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.25
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.35.47
Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, for EmersonInst.20.00
Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc.70.00
South Abington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.73
Southborough. P. E. Ch. and Soc.16.99
South Deerfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.50
South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.21.00
South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. andSoc., $40; Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.,$45, bal. to const. Mrs. Maria J. Loudand Frank W. Wallis, L. M.’s85.00
Springfield. First Cong. Ch., $39.85; SouthCh., $23.02; Mrs. Bowdoin, $10; Ira Merrill,$5; Mrs. A. C. Hunt, $582.87
Sterling. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.39
Sturbridge. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.45, andSab. Sch., $14.1546.60
Templeton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,$20.15; L. R. and C. C. Shattuck, $3; Mrs.W., $124.15
Waltham. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $82.74; N.Scamman, $284.74
Waverley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.23.66
West Barnstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ($5 ofwhich from Mrs. Samuel Griggs),12.31
West Boylston. Miss Polly Ames and Geo.W. Ames, $3 each6.00
West Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.72
Wilbraham.—by Chas. Marsh. Treas. H. B. A.10.70
Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc.22.52
Williamstown. First Cong. Ch., $15.57; A.M. M., 50c.16.07
Winchendon. “F. T. J.”5.00
Wollaston Heights. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
Worcester. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc.145.99
Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $50;—Cong.Sab. Sch., $10.07, for StudentAid, Fisk U.60.07
RHODE ISLAND, $85.65.
Central Falls. Cong. Ch.85.65
Pawtucket. Robert Cushman, Organ andfreight
CONNECTICUT, $1,500.26.
Berlin. Second Cong. Ch.19.79
Bethel. Cong. Sab. Sch.10.00
Bethlehem. H. B.0.50
Bristol. Mrs. J. R. H.0.50
Colchester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.4.00
Durham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.28.00
East Haven. Cong. Ch.30.00
East Hartford. First Ch.30.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch.40.08
Glastenbury. First Cong. Ch.125.00
Gilead. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Brown5.00
Goshen. Cong. Ch. and Soc.30.00
Granby. First Cong. Ch.6.50
Guilford. Daniel Hand100.00
Hanover. Cong. Ch., to const. James W.Cutler, L. M.37.52
Hartford. First Cong. Ch., $295; AsylumHill Cong. Ch., $135; Windsor Ave. Cong.Ch. $22452.00
Lebanon. First Ch.56.67
Meriden. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l)1.25
Millington. Cong. Ch.3.63
New Haven. Amos Townsend, $50; B. P.,$1; Third Cong. Ch., $24.7175.71
Northfield. Cong. Ch.28.75
North Stonington. Cong. Sab. Sch.2.00
Norwich. First Cong. Ch. (in part)112.00
Old Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.00
Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch.14.76
Poquonock. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.25
Salisbury. Cong. Ch.59.91
South Coventry. Cong. Ch.37.50
Terryville. Elizur Fenn and Mrs. ElizurFenn, $5 ea.10.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch.41.55
Vernon. Mrs. E. P.1.00
West Haven. Mrs. Kimball and Mrs. Coe,$5 ea.; Dr. Painter’s S. S. Class, $1.1311.13
Wilton. Cong. Ch.27.09
Windsor. Cong. Ch.50.00
Woodstock. First Cong. Ch.13.17
NEW YORK, $2,471.35.
Binghamton. Chas. A. Beach25.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $30,to const. Hon. W. W. Wheeler, L. M.,for Missionary at Charleston, S. C.; also $50for Rev. Geo. Henry, Fernandina, Fla.80.00
Camden. Cong. Ch., $23.61; and Sab. Sch.,$1033.61
Carthage. Cong. Ch.2.03
Champlain. Pres. and Cong. Ch.21.60
Columbus. Box of books and papers byO. S. Williams
East Bloomfield. Cong. Soc.39.00
Fairport. Cong. Sab. Sch.10.00
Freeport. Rev. C. F. Boynton, for EmersonInst.6.00
Gaines. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $27.21, andSab. Sch., $8.61, to const. Mrs. LeanderBidelman, L. M.35.82
Harlem. Cong. Ch.11.46
Kingsborough. J. W.1.00
Lima. Chas. D. Miner, Geo. Thayer andGeo. W. Thayer, $5 each; Mrs. A. E. M.,$1; Mrs. L. T. B., $117.00
Madison. Cong. Ch.7.00
Marcellus. “A Friend.”20.00
Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.50.18
New York. Tabernacle Ch. (ad’l), $1; J. A.V. A., 65c.; A Deceased Friend, by E. S.H., bag of C.1.65
North Bergen. Rev. S. Carver10.00
Onandaga Valley. A. L. G.1.00
Owasco. Mrs. A. S.1.00
Perry. “A Friend.”10.00
Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers25.00
Randolph. Mrs. Diantha C. Bush, deceased2000.00
Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.18.00
Spencerport. Sarah Vannest15.00
Syracuse. “An Old Friend,” to const. G. B.Doud, L. M.30.00
West Farms. Mrs. A. Woods, pkg. of books
NEW JERSEY, $29.35.
Newark. Belleville Av. Cong. Ch.19.35
Parsippany. Mrs. Jane W. Force10.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $131.
Canton. H. Sheldon5.00
Millbrook. Rev. G. S.1.00
Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester5.00
——“For Jesus”120.00
OHIO, $332.59.
Ashland. John Thompson.2.28
Berea. Cong. Ch.3.80
Charlestown. Cong. Ch.9.50
Cincinnati. Columbia Cong. Ch.14.10
Cleveland. Euclid Av. Cong. Ch.14.04
Cuyahoga Falls. Cong. Ch., $13.85, and Sab.Sch., $8.5122.36
Grafton. Mrs. Sally Tuttle5.00
Harmar. Cong. Ch.54.60
Hudson. By H. E. Riker4.95
Huntsburgh. Cong. Ch., for Emerson Inst.0.50
Jersey. Mrs. Lucinda Sinnet, $50; Mrs M.H., $151.00
Lodi. Cong. Ch., $9; Ladies’ Miss. Soc. $110.00
Mantua. Cong. Ch.4.00
Mesopotamia. S. O. Lyman15.00
Newark. “A Friend”1.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $30, forStudent Aid, Atlanta U.;—Second Cong.Ch. $10; Mrs. J. F. B. $141.00
Painesville. First Cong. Ch. (of which $1.50from Mrs. Albert Morley for Straight U.).30.21
Randolph. W. J. Dickinson10.00
Ravenna. Cong. Ch.22.67
Rootstown. C. S. S.0.51
Springfield. O. H. Anderson, $10; FirstCong. Ch. and Soc. $6.0716.07
INDIANA, $86.12.
Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.15.00
Michigan City. Cong. Ch.71.12
ILLINOIS, $919.97.
Belvidere. M. C. Foote2.00
Chesterfield. Cong. Ch.4.00
Chicago. Col. C. G. Hammond. for HowardU.500.00
Creston. A. B. McCrea5.00
Elmwood. Cong. Ch. $24.05; Mrs. I. B.Reede, $1034.05
Farmington. Cong. Ch.80.14
Greenville. Cong. Ch.2.00
Hennepin. Cong. Ch.10.00
Hutsonville. C. V. Newton2.00
Kewanee. Woman’s Miss. Soc. for TougalooU.2.00
Malden. Cong. Ch.20.00
Mendon. Cong. Ch.29.00
Newark. Horace Day and Wife5.00
Oak Park. Cong Ch., $45.10; Geo. Van Zant,$1055.10
Ottawa. Cong. Ch.35.28
Paxton. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Shaw5.00
Peru. First Cong. Ch.16.50
Port Byron. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.5.50
Providence. Benj. Dexter10.00
Saint Charles. Dean Ferson2.00
Sparta. P. B. Gault2.00
Sycamore. First Cong. Ch., $85.90; “AFriend,” $388.90
Wayne Station. Cong. Ch.4.50
MICHIGAN, $473.06.
Canandaigua. Cong. Ch.4.60
Homestead. Morris Case5.00
Jackson. “A Friend,” $300; Cong. Ch.,$38; Miss Eliza Page, $30, to const. MissS. Louise Oviatt, L. M.368.00
Littlefield. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.11.55
Morenci. Cong. Ch.6.00
Northport. Cong. Ch.5.08
Port Huron. First Cong. Ch.42.00
Saint Clair. Cong. Ch.15.83
Warren. Rev J. L. Beebe5.00
White Lake. Robert Garner10.00
WISCONSIN, $402.67.
Alderly. Mrs. E. Hubbard, $3; Mrs. AnnReid, $25.00
Appleton. Mrs. Ann S. Kimball25.00
Beloit. First Cong. Ch.170.57
Brant. Mrs. E. W. Scott4.45
Burlington. Cong. Ch.4.91
Clinton. Cong. Ch.23.75
East Troy. Cong. Ch.10.00
Genesee. Cong. Ch.10.00
Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch.12.00
Leeds. Cong. Ch.5.04
Madison. First Cong. Ch.50.00
Milwaukee. Spring St. Cong. Ch.22.58
New Richmond. First Cong. Ch.22.06
Racine. Mrs. E B0.51
Waukesha. First Cong. Ch.20.00
Windsor. Cong. Ch.16.80
IOWA, $466.02.
Bellevue. Cong. Ch.3.25
Davenport. Edwards Cong. Ch.100.00
Denmark. Cong. Ch., $28.37, and Sab. Sch.,$21.6350.00
Dubuque. Cong. Ch.13.00
Farragut. Cong. Ch.17.85
Franklin. Cong. Ch.5.37
Grinnell. Ladies, proceeds sale of lacework17.55
Keokuk. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $31;—N. N.M., 50c., for Student Aid, Tougaloo U.31.50
Manchester. Cong. Ch.21.00
McGregor. Women’s Miss. Soc.15.78
New Hampton. Women’s Cent. Soc.2.00
Orchard. Cong. Ch.4.30
Osage. Ladies’ Miss. Soc.5.53
Postville. Cong. Ch.13.89
Tabor. Estate of D. E. Woods, by Rev.John Todd165.00
KANSAS, $14.25.
Manhattan. Mrs. Mary Parker2.00
Onaga. Cong. Ch.7.25
Wildcat. Mrs. S. D. Pierce5.00
MINNESOTA, $261.93.
Austin. Cong. Ch.16.96
Minneapolis. “Friends,” $150; PlymouthCh., $22.11; Second Cong. Ch., $3175.11
Northfield. First Cong. Ch.52.66
Paynesville. By R. C. L.1.00
Spring Valley. C. W. M. and Wife, $9.20;Cong. Ch., $716.20
DAKOTA, $1.12.
Valley Springs. Jubilee Concert Exercise1.12
CALIFORNIA, $50.
San Francisco. Rev. J. Rowell50.00
WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $9.25.
White River. Cong. Ch.9.25
TENNESSEE, $156.
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch.156.00
NORTH CAROLINA, $55.10.
Dudley. Cong. Ch.10.00
Raleigh. Washington Sch.45.10
SOUTH CAROLINA, $265.90.
Charleston. Avery Inst.265.90
GEORGIA, $210.16.
Atlanta. Storrs Sch. $190.50; Coll. $1191.50
Macon. Lewis High Sch.8.30
Liberty Co. Judge A. E. Fulton $5; Sam’lOsgood $2; Dorchester Cong. Sab. Sch.$1.06; Others, $2.30, for Dorchester Academy10.36
ALABAMA, $466.70.
Athens. Pub. Sch. Fund158.00
Mobile. Emerson Inst.160.80
Montgomery. First Cong. Ch.100.00
Talladega. Talladega Coll.47.90
LOUISIANA, $1.50.
Carrollton. Mrs. C. J.0.50
New Orleans. Mrs. B. C.1.00
MISSISSIPPI, $35.75.
Durant. E. W. for Tougaloo U.0.50
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., $27.25; M. H. Scott,$5;—K. K. Koons for Student Aid, $335.25
MISSOURI, $46.54
Amity. Cong. Ch.4.50
Saint Louis. Mrs. Rebecca Webb, $25; FirstCong. Ch. $17.0442.04
INCOME FUND, $295.50.
Avery Fund195.50
C. F. Dike Fund50.00
General Fund50.00
CANADA, $1.
Guelph. Rev. J. H.1.00
SCOTLAND, $79.86.
Perth. North United Presb. Ch., Subscriptions,£14; “Friend,” 10s.; I. Balman, forChinese M. in Cal., £2, by D. Morton79.86
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Total11,970.60
Total from Oct. 1st to July 31st$129,247.32

H. W. HUBBARD,

Asst. Treas.


RECEIVED FOR DEBT.
Greenville, Conn. Cong. Ch.$25.00
Jersey City, N. J. “A Friend”20.00
Scotland. “A. P.”1,000.00
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Total1,045.00
Previously acknowledged in June receipts.25,848.72
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Total$26,893.72

FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.
Meriden, Conn. Centre Cong. Ch.$25.00
Paw Paw, Ill. First Union Ch.10.00
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Total35.00
Previously acknowledged in June receipts311.39
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Total$346.39