A TOUR AMONG THE CLALLAM INDIANS.
REV. MYRON EELLS, S’KOKOMISH, W. T.
The last month has been spent in a tour among the Clallam Indians. Wishing to go further, and be absent from home longer than has been usual on such trips, my family, who had not been six miles away from home for more than two years, concluded to accompany me. Although steamers run the whole route of our travel, yet as they stop at but few of the places where the Indians live, and on the main part of the route go only once a week, it was impracticable for us to travel in that way, so we took a canoe from the Reservation with an Indian man and his wife, looked out for our own food, carried house and bed, stowed in the three babies, and away we went.
Our first call on Indians was at Port Gamble, fifty miles from home. Here are about one hundred, and they asked me to talk on temperance. During the last year and a half they have reformed in this respect. After pointing them to Christ as the source of their help, they had their talk. They said that one thing now troubles them. They live across Port Gamble Bay, an eighth of a mile from the saw-mill and town, in a village by themselves, on land owned by the mill company. They can manage the Indians as well as could be expected, but there is near them a white man with a black heart, who with his Indian wife often gets drunk, sometimes remaining so for a week at a time. They also tempt the weaker Indians; and now how to get rid of him is the question. As both he and they live on land belonging to the company, the only way I saw was for them to petition the superintendent to remove him. So after nine o’clock at night I wrote out a petition, which the chiefs and policemen and others signed, stating all the facts, and asking for this man’s removal. I was obliged to leave early the next morning, and so left them to present it. I have known of whites petitioning to have worthless Indians removed, but have never before known Indians to petition to have a white man removed because he was so low that they did not wish to have him near them. Two years ago they would not have done this, as many of them were glad to have an opportunity so convenient where they could obtain the liquid poison.
My next congregation was at Port Discovery, thirty-five miles farther on, and very much the same routine was observed at a number of places. My business with them was to preach; theirs with me was to talk about how and where to procure land in the best way. This was true at Port Angelos, Elkwa, and two settlements at Clallam Bay. For several years they have been urged to procure land so that they could feel warranted in erecting good houses, and thus leave the old ones, full of grease, dirt and smoke; but with the exception of those at Dunginess, very few have done so; now they begin to realize the benefits of it and have “land on the brain.” But they move cautiously, for it is easy for them to be deceived, and it is talk, talk, talk as to what is best. Two parties traveled to the Reservation about the time I was beginning my journey—a trip of two or three hundred miles—to consult about land.
At Dunginess a troublesome case begins. Four Indians, living fifty miles farther on, had been here three or four weeks previously, anxious to obtain the land on which their houses stood. They had been sent to the clerk of the Probate Court, who knew nothing about it, but told them it was Government land, and offered to get it for them for the usual fees, nineteen dollars each. They paid him the seventy-six dollars, and he promised to send it to the land office at Olympia, and have their papers for them in two weeks. They waited the two weeks, but received no returns. In the meantime others told them that the man could lawfully do the business, but he was not to be trusted, for the land had been owned by private individuals for fifteen years. He, too, by the time I met him, had written to the land office and found the same to be true. My business is, if possible, to get the money back. It is useless to sue him, as he has no property which the law can touch. One of the four Indians returned with me to get his money, but was satisfied that it was useless for him to go farther, so he went home. He had already spent three weeks, and the three others two weeks each in trying to recover it. Yet this same man is Postmaster, Clerk of the Probate Court, U. S. Commissioner, Deputy Sheriff, and lately offered fifty dollars to the County Treasurer to be appointed his deputy. I was not disappointed at the result, but handed the business over to the agent to settle in Court.
Let us contrast the action of the Indians with this. I felt very sorry for them. For four years we have been advising them to obtain land, and now they were swindled in their first attempt. Fearful lest they should become discouraged, I offered them ten dollars to divide amongst them, saying, “If you never get your money I will lose this with you, but if you do you can then repay it.” One-tenth of my income has long been given to the Lord, and I felt that it would do as much good there as anywhere. When I first mentioned this they refused, saying that they did not wish me to lose my money, if they did theirs, but two weeks afterwards, when I left the last one he took it; yet shortly afterwards I found that he would not spend any of it, although he wanted some articles very much, saying that it was not their money after all.
This lower part of the Sound is very like the ocean, with nothing to break the winds, so I procured for that part of the journey a very large canoe, thirty-six feet long, two and a half deep and six wide. The children can play in it, and at night we anchored it out in some good harbor like a small schooner.
Hospitality was very generous. I thought that there were too many of us to go into anybody’s house; but at Dunginess, where we remained two or three days in connection with each of two Sabbaths, a woman said, in the absence of her husband, “You must all come in. If you pitch your tent I will set fire to it and burn it down.” We submitted. The agent at Neah Bay was just as hospitable, notwithstanding that his house already seemed to be full, and also the superintendent of the mill at Seabeck.
The weather was generally pleasant, but sometimes it rained hard. No one caught cold, however, on account of it. Camping on the sand is not so pleasant. Fresh water is so scarce as only to be used for drinking. We boil our potatoes in salt water, but get it near shore, and forget to let it settle. The potatoes crack, and the sand is all through them. Then baby crawls along and tips the rice over into the sand, and we all tramp the sand on to the beds, and into them, until our better half wishes herself at home, as it blows into the food-box and clothes-boxes and everywhere.
A WEDDING.
An Indian, who had been married Indian fashion for several years, but who had homesteaded a farm, thought it best to be married in a civilized way. He had never seen such a performance, so I explained all to him beforehand. But when I was going through the ceremony and had just said, “You promise to take this woman to be your wife,” he interrupted me, saying, “Yes, of course I do. You do not suppose I am going to put away my wife now, after I have lived with her so long? See, here are my children, the oldest fifteen years old. It would be foolish for us now to separate.” I told him, “All right,” kept very sober, laughed in my sleeve, made a note of it, and proceeded to say, “You promise to love and honor her,” etc.
Twenty religious services were held during the journey, including one communion service, and one very pleasant prayer-meeting preparatory to it. Thus we spent the month of August, enjoyed it, and have enjoyed home all the more since reaching it.
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
CABIN PRAYER-MEETINGS—WHICH WAS THE HERO?
LILLIE E. BARR, ATLANTA, GA.
Dear Teachers and Children:
I wish I had space, so I could tell you all of the beautiful, interesting and helpful things that happen day by day in my work; but as I have not, I must content myself with giving you one or two incidents. First, let me tell you about an impromptu prayer-meeting held in one of the many cabins which dot the hills all over. A few nights ago I went to see a sweet old Christian, who for three years has not known an hour’s rest from pain, and yet is as merry as a cricket, receiving the little offerings of food and shelter which her poor neighbors bring her with cheerful gratitude as from her God. One day I asked her how she could be so patient and so gay. “Why, chile, it’s all on de journey, an’ I don’t know no reason why the way should be made easier fur me than it was fur the Master,” she answered. While I was trying to make her more comfortable, several women came in, none of whom could read, and after we had talked a little while about our sweet Lord Jesus, one said: “Please read the chapter where Jesus says: ‘I pray not for these alone, but for all of them who shall believe on me through their word.’” A little tin lamp was brought, and as I opened my Bible I glanced at the living picture before me. The lamp threw its feeble light over the patient sufferer, and lit up the dusky faces of the women bending eagerly forward as I read those blessed words. No sooner had I finished the chapter than one began that beautiful slave song, “Steal away, steal away, steal away to Jesus.” Instantly it was caught up. Our hearts had touched the heart of Christ in this grand prayer chapter. As soon as it was ended, another chapter was asked for, and then another, and another, intermingled with prayer and song. It was just such a prayer-meeting, I imagine, as the one held by the disciples when, being gathered together, Jesus stood in their midst and said, “Peace be with you.” I knew, I felt that I had been with Jesus.
With the light and grace of this prayer-meeting still about us, we came down an alley and into a court known as Campbell’s Block. It is a square, built round with cabins of one or two rooms without windows. A large wash-shed and well occupy the centre of the court. Look now into the rooms; everywhere dirt and filth, crying children, quarreling children, women smoking, women dipping snuff, women idling, women washing, women fretted with care until they are prematurely old, and not one woman in the block able to read, and so gain strength from the blessed word of God. And this block is one out of four in our field. One house only shows any sign that for the poor there is anything beautiful; but that, like a grand sermon, stands amid this misery and sin, from ground to roof a mass of flowers. I could not help thinking what a joy they must be to the ministering angels, as they pass through this place of suffering and sin. To me they were the promise of redemption for the block. Like a pure thought in a sinful heart we found old Mr. and Mrs. Pleasant in one of the rooms. He is blind and helpless with paralysis, consequently the providing of rent, food and clothes devolves upon his aged wife. After reading them the two last chapters in Revelation, the old man cried out: “It’s worth while being blind to know the first thing I shall see will be the New Jerusalem.” “Yes indeed, George, now we must work harder than ever to win home,” answered his wife, as she brushed the tears away. We have begun a prayer-meeting in this block, and I ask your prayers for its success. To these cases I might add ever so many more; but if I give you big folks any more room, I shall crowd my story to the children out, and that wouldn’t be one bit fair—would it, little ones?
I shall introduce my story by asking the boys to pay particular attention, as I want them to decide whether Jesse Dobbs or Jim Prescott—the two boys whom this story is about—is the true hero.
“Who minds de cold? Come on, Jesse; de boys is going to make up a company and have heaps of fun down by Big Bethel.” I must explain that Big Bethel is the name of a church.
Jesse glanced out at the sunshine and called, “Mammie, mayent I go with Jo down to Big Bethel?”
As the answer was yes, the two bounded away and soon joined several boys, the leader of whom, from his coarse, bloated face to his heavily booted feet, was the very picture of a young ruffian. As Jesse and Jo came up he was saying, “Dare aint a fatter roost to pick den old Judge Gibbs’ in de world; ’sides dat, you ken git 15 cents a piece fur every chick’n. Den you brings de money to me, and I gibs you so much out of it. ’Stand what I say?”
“Yar, yar,” came from the other boys.
“’Sides dat, dares heaps of fun clearing off a chick’n roost, and I, fur one, aint feared to go into nobody’s yard. Now is you gwine to be ready to-night to follow your captain? I’s your captain.”
“Captain of what?” asked Jesse.
“Captain of the roost-clearing brigade; dat’s what. Is you going to jine us, Dobbs? If you aint I’ll most kill you fur coming here to spy into our plans.”
Jesse paused an instant, then he said, “No.”
“Why not, I’d jist like fur to know?” demanded Jim, angrily.
“Because I aint going to jine no thieving company.”
The words were hardly spoken before Jim lifted his foot and kicked him in the side. Kick followed kick in such rapid succession, that Jesse was almost senseless before Jim could be pulled off; and when I formed his acquaintance he had been in bed nine months, a large tumor having formed in the side where he had been kicked. When I asked him about lying so long in bed, he answered:
“At first the time was awful long, but by-and-by I began to take notice how mother worried when I ’plained of de pain and de tiredness, so I took to trying not to ’plain fore her, and that kinder drawed off my ’tention from de pain.”
For nine months he had been trying to help his mother by being patient. Three weeks ago he died from the effects of that cruel kick—died forgiving all who had injured him, and bearing his cross of suffering like a noble little Christian to the end.
Which was the hero—Jim, who boasted he wasn’t afraid to steal from any man, or Jesse, who wasn’t afraid to say no, although forewarned that he would be almost killed if he said it?
I say Jesse was.
What do you all say?
From this story I hope you will all try to be more gentle and loving, for we never know what months of pain and suffering, not only to others, but also to ourselves, one rude action may cause.
RECEIPTS
FOR SEPTEMBER, 1879.
| MAINE, $215.61. | |
| Bangor. Hammond Street Ch., $100; WestBangor Chapel, $6 | $106.00 |
| Bluehill. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.00 |
| Brewer. First Cong. Ch., $4.95, and Sab.Sch., $2.60; J. Holyoke, $5 | 12.55 |
| Brunswick. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 7.00 |
| Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives | 3.00 |
| Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 10.00 |
| Machias. Centre St. Cong. Ch. | 7.56 |
| Minot Centre. Mrs. B. J. | 1.00 |
| Northport. “A Friend” | 0.50 |
| Orland. “A Friend” | 5.00 |
| Orono. F. A. M. | 1.00 |
| Portland. State St. Cong. Ch. | 50.00 |
| Woolwich. Mrs. Jotham P. Trott | 2.00 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE, $639.43. | |
| Acworth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 22.55 |
| Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 3.85 |
| Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 22.00 |
| Candia. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 24.90 |
| Concord. Miss Alma J. Herbert, $3; S. S.,$1; Others, $2 | 6.00 |
| Dover. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 82.29 |
| Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 30.00 |
| Francestown. Mrs. A. H. Kingsbury | 3.00 |
| Fitzwilliam. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $8.75;Mrs. L. Hill, $5 | 13.75 |
| Hampstead. Ann M. Howard | 5.00 |
| Hanover. Dartmouth Religious Soc. | 50.00 |
| Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 11.04 |
| Northwood. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) | 1.00 |
| Orfordville. “A Friend” | 1.00 |
| Pelham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 46.40 |
| Pembroke. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 16.88 |
| Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 16.75 |
| Raymond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 18.00 |
| Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.11 |
| Swanzey. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 8.00 |
| Temple. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 20.91 |
| Thornton’s Ferry. Individuals, by Mrs. H.N. Eaton | 2.00 |
| Troy. Estate of Dea. Abel Baker, by A. W.Baker and J. S. Parmenter, Ex’s. | 150.00 |
| Walpole. F. Kilburn, $50; W. G. Barnett,$5 | 55.00 |
| Wilton. Second Cong. Ch. | 25.00 |
| VERMONT, $480.21. | |
| Alburgh. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., by Mrs. E. M.Hicks, Sec. and Treas. | 1.00 |
| Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. | 28.82 |
| Burlington. “A Friend” | 5.00 |
| East Arlington. Rev. Chas. Redfield | 5.00 |
| Greensborough. Rev. Moses Patten andWife | 15.00 |
| Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 2.30 |
| Jamaica. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 5.61 |
| Putney. Mr. and Mrs. Foster | 5.00 |
| Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 143.00 |
| Wardsborough, North. Union Col. | 4.00 |
| Wardsborough, South. Ch. and Soc. | 3.48 |
| Wells River. Estate of Mrs. Chloe Brock,by F. Deming, Ex. | 250.00 |
| West Brattleborough. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 7.00 |
| Westminster West. “A Friend” | 5.00 |
| RHODE ISLAND, $90.37. | |
| Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 37.18 |
| Little Compton. United Cong. Ch. | 38.00 |
| Westerly. Pawcatuck Cong. Ch. | 15.19 |
| CONNECTICUT, $2,194.26. | |
| Branford. H. G. Harrison | 5.00 |
| Chaplin. Cong. Ch. | 10.50 |
| Chester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 32.25 |
| Cheshire. Cong. Ch. | 17.34 |
| Coventry. B. T. Preston | 5.00 |
| Durham. Estate of I. Parmelee, by W.W. Fowler, Ex. | 100.00 |
| East Hampton. Cong. Ch., to const. Mrs.Wilbur F. Starr and Mrs. Herman E.Rich, L. M.’s | 77.75 |
| Greenwich. R. B. Carpenter, to const.himself L. M. | 30.00 |
| Griswold. Cong. Ch. | 50.00 |
| Hadlyme. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 12.72 |
| Hanover. Hanover Ch. and Soc. | 25.00 |
| Hartford. Thomas H. Smith, $100, for Theo.Dep’t Howard U.;—John R. Lee, M. D.,$50;—C. C. Lyman, $20, for Fisk U.;—“I.W.” $5 | 175.00 |
| Harwinton. Cong. Ch. | 41.00 |
| Higganum. Cong. Soc. | 12.00 |
| Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 4.48 |
| Manchester. Second Cong. Ch. | 19.31 |
| New Britain. Estate of Rev. Charles Nichols,by John B. Smith, Ex. | 1000.00 |
| New Haven. “A Mere Crumb,” $10;Erwin Shelley, $5 | 15.00 |
| New London. First Ch. | 66.80 |
| Norwich Town. “G. M.,” for Memphis, Tenn. | 5.00 |
| North Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 30.33 |
| Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. | 13.03 |
| Putnam. Mary T. Howe, $10;—Mary A.Keith, $5, for Athens, Ala. | 15.00 |
| Rocky Hill. Mission Circle, “FragmentGatherers,” by Miss Sarah D. Baldwin | 20.00 |
| Stafford. Mrs. Thomas H. Thresher | 5.00 |
| Terryville. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const.Homer W. Griswold, Chas. Purringtonand Mrs. Mary Smith, L. M’s | 144.83 |
| Thomaston. Cong. Ch. | 28.25 |
| Unionville. First Cong. Ch., for Talladega C. | 41.46 |
| Warehouse Point. Roxana K. Porter | 5.00 |
| Washington. Mrs. Rebecca Hine, $30, toconst. Edward Robert Pond, L. M.; S.J. Nettleton, $5 | 35.00 |
| Washington. Legacy of Miss Julia Canfield,by Chas. L. Hickox, Treas. Cong. Ch. | 20.00 |
| Watertown. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 32.54 |
| West Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. Miss E.E. Lay, L. M. | 35.90 |
| Wethersfield. Horace Savage | 2.00 |
| West Winsted.—— | 10.00 |
| Woodstock. Estate of Geo. A. Paine | 51.77 |
| NEW YORK, $626.24. | |
| Amsterdam. Chandler Bartlett | 10.00 |
| Berryville. S. W. | 1.00 |
| Bergen. Mrs. F. D. Kingman | 5.00 |
| Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, byGeo. H. Shirley, for Rev. Geo. Henry;—Sab.Sch. of Church of the Mediator, $20 | 45.00 |
| Brooklyn, E. D. J. W. S. | 1.00 |
| Camden. “A Friend” | 2.00 |
| Carthage. Mrs. Agnes Vrooman | 5.00 |
| Crown Point. Mrs. L. J. Murdock | 5.00 |
| Deansville. Mrs. P. M. Barton | 40.00 |
| Gerry. Mrs. M. A. Sears | 128.36 |
| Gouverneur. Mrs. E. M. | 1.00 |
| Harpersfield. Cong. Ch. | 7.00 |
| Jamestown.—— | 5.00 |
| McDonough. Miss C. Sawtelle | 2.00 |
| Medina. Estate of Allen Bacon, by A. E.Bennett, Ex. | 51.48 |
| Nelson. J. L. Bishop | 7.00 |
| Newark Valley. Legacy of a deceased sister(in part), by Mrs. A. B. Smith | 7.45 |
| Newark Valley. Cong. Ch. | 28.00 |
| New York City. S. T. Gordon | 100.00 |
| Norwich. Miss M. H. Northup (Smyrna,N. Y.), and Mrs. R. A. Barber | 10.00 |
| Oneonta. Mrs. H. Slade, $1.50; Mrs. W.McC., 50c. | 2.00 |
| Oswego. Cong. Ch. | 2.08 |
| Poughkeepsie. First Cong. Ch. | 12.50 |
| Sacket’s Harbor. Mrs. Anar H. Barnes | 30.00 |
| Sherburne. Cong. Ch., $90.37;—C. H. Fuller,$10, for Athens, Ala. | 100.37 |
| Sinclearville. Earl C. Preston | 2.00 |
| Syracuse. Rev. J. C. Holbrook | 10.00 |
| Walton. First Cong. Ch. (ad’l) | 5.00 |
| West Milton. I. K. | 1.00 |
| NEW JERSEY, $20.92. | |
| Chester. Cong. Ch., $17.66, and Sab. Sch.$1.26 | 18.92 |
| Paterson. Mrs. W. F. | 1.00 |
| Rahway. Mrs. B. T. | 1.00 |
| PENNSYLVANIA, $12. | |
| Washington. H. H. Templeton | 5.00 |
| West Alexander.—— | 5.00 |
| Worth. John Burgess | 2.00 |
| OHIO, $523.95. | |
| Andover. O. B. Case | 10.00 |
| Ashtabula. First Cong. Ch. | 20.00 |
| Bellevue. First Cong. Ch. | 13.00 |
| Clark’s Corners. Mrs. Urania Haviland | 2.00 |
| Cleveland. Rev. H. C. Hayden | 15.00 |
| Elyria. J. M. H. | 0.50 |
| Galion. Mrs. E. C. Linsley | 5.00 |
| Lindenville. Mr. and Mrs. L. Bearss | 10.00 |
| Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. | 21.55 |
| Olive Green. Mrs. A. C. Brown, $3; Mrs.M. Callum, $2 | 5.00 |
| Medina. First Cong. Ch., $58.08; AlbertBates, $5 | 63.08 |
| Moore’s Saltworks. Robert George | 2.00 |
| North Eaton. M. Oakes | 2.00 |
| North Kingsville. E. J. Comings | 10.00 |
| Norwalk. Thomas Hagaman, $10; FirstCong. Ch., $7.22 | 17.22 |
| Pittsfield. Cong. Ch. | 16.00 |
| Savannah. J. H. Patterson | 5.00 |
| Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 5.60 |
| Wadsworth. George Lyman | 300.00 |
| ———— | 1.00 |
| INDIANA, $10. | |
| Dunreith. David Maxwell and Mrs. LydiaMaxwell | 5.00 |
| Winchester. Mrs. C. R. Commons | 5.00 |
| MICHIGAN, $400.30. | |
| Adrian. Stephen Allen | 10.00 |
| Almo. Julius Hackley | 10.00 |
| Chelsea. Cong. Ch. | 29.26 |
| Clio. S. C. R. | 1.00 |
| Comstock. “A Friend of the Freedmen” | 100.00 |
| Detroit. First Cong. Ch. | 179.04 |
| Dexter. Mrs. E. L. Farrar | 10.00 |
| East Riverton. Mrs. Josephine Barnes | 5.00 |
| Flint. Cong. Ch. | 14.53 |
| Milford. Wm. A. Arms, to const. ClaraWells Arms, L. M. | 30.00 |
| Pontiac. Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. $2.36, andSab. Sch. $1.51 | 3.87 |
| Wacousta. Cong. Ch. | 7.60 |
| IOWA, $198.22. | |
| Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 9.56 |
| Belle Plaine. J. P. Henry, $5; Freddie andJosie Henry, $1 | 6.00 |
| Chester Centre. Cong. Ch. | 23.63 |
| Clinton. Cong. Ch. | 50.00 |
| Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. | 1.00 |
| Green Mountain. First Cong. Ch. | 22.70 |
| Grinnell. Cong. Ch. | 46.50 |
| Marion. Adaliza Daniels | 5.00 |
| Newton. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. | 10.58 |
| Red Oak. Cong. Ch. | 10.00 |
| Reinbeck. Cong. Ch. ($3 of which for LadyMissionary, New Orleans) | 7.25 |
| Stacyville. Woman’s Missionary Soc., forLady Missionary, New Orleans | 3.00 |
| Wayne. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 3.00 |
| WISCONSIN, $120.95. | |
| De Pere. Cong. Ch. | 38.00 |
| Fort Howard. Cong. Ch. | 25.00 |
| Geneva Lake. Presb. Ch. | 21.95 |
| Janesville. J. W. | 1.00 |
| Shopiere. J. H. Cooper | 5.00 |
| Sparta. Bryce Crawford, $5; J. H., R. H.,J. H. G. and R. H. W., $1 each; J. and S.H. A., $1 | 10.00 |
| Racine. First Presb. Ch. | 20.00 |
| MINNESOTA, $35.97. | |
| Afton. Cong. Ch., M. C. Coll. | 3.00 |
| Hastings. D. B. Truax | 5.00 |
| Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. | 22.97 |
| Saint Peter. Mrs. Jane A. Treadwell | 5.00 |
| KANSAS, $20. | |
| Lawrence. Second Cong. Ch. | 4.00 |
| Lawrence. Rev. A. M. Richardson | 2.00 |
| Leavenworth. Mrs. Thomas Cutts | 5.00 |
| Osawatomie. Cong. Ch. | 9.00 |
| NEBRASKA, $2. | |
| Strahmburg. Pilgrim Ch. | 2.00 |
| OREGON, $6.20. | |
| The Dalles. First Cong. Ch. | 6.20 |
| MARYLAND, $100. | |
| Baltimore. “A Friend” | 100.00 |
| WEST VIRGINIA, $3. | |
| Elm Grove. Mrs. B. D. Atkinson | 3.00 |
| TENNESSEE, $766.60. | |
| Chattanooga. Rent | 100.00 |
| Nashville. Fisk University | 666.60 |
| GEORGIA, $99.10. | |
| Atlanta. Rent | 99.10 |
| ALABAMA, $10.75. | |
| Selma. Cong. Ch. | 10.75 |
| TEXAS, $148. | |
| Corpus Christi. Cong. Ch. | 148.00 |
| CANADA, $10. | |
| Toronto. Mrs. J. Thom | 10.00 |
| SOUTH INDIA, $15. | |
| Madura Mission. Rev. T. S. Burnell | 15.00 |
| INCOME FUND, $5,722.29. | |
| —— —— Avery Fund | 3,885.64 |
| —— —— Le Moyne Fund | 1,090.82 |
| —— —— Hammond Fund | 545.83 |
| —— —— General Fund | 50.00 |
| —— —— Graves Library Fund | 150.00 |
| ———— | |
| Total | 20,044.62 |
| Total from Oct. 1st to Sept. 30th | $183,437.98 |
H. W. HUBBARD, Asst. Treas.
| RECEIVED FOR DEBT. | |
| Manchester, N. H. Rev. C. W. Wallace ($50of which from Hanover St. Cong. Ch.) | 70.00 |
| North Raynham, Mass. E. B. Towne | 25.00 |
| South Sudbury, Mass. Rev. G. A. Oviatt | 25.00 |
| West Medford, Mass. Rev. C. B. Smith | 50.00 |
| Hartford, Conn. John R. Lee, M. D. | 25.00 |
| Stanwich, Conn. William Brush | 200.00 |
| New York, N. Y. A. S. Barnes | 850.00 |
| New York, N. Y. “H. W. H.” | 50.00 |
| Newark, N. J. Rev. M. E. Strieby | 100.00 |
| Jersey City, N. J. “A Friend” | 50.00 |
| Chicago, Ill. Rev. James Powell | 100.00 |
| Ripon, Wis. Pres. E. H. Merrill | 25.00 |
| Washington Heights, Ill. Estate of Rev.L. Foster (sale of land) | 344.95 |
| ———— | |
| Total | 1,914.95 |
| Previously acknowledged in July receipts | 26,893.72 |
| ———— | |
| Total | $28,808.67 |
| FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMALINSTITUTE, AUSTIN, TEXAS. | |
| North Hampton, N. H. Ladies of Cong. Ch. | 26.35 |
| Hopkinton, Mass. Mrs. J. C. Claflin | 50.00 |
| Mendon, Ill. Mrs. J. Fowler | 125.00 |
| Onarga, Ill. Mrs. C. L. Foster | 10.00 |
| Rockford, Ill. L. S. Swezey | 21.00 |
| Greenville, Mich. M. Rutan | 400.00 |
| Oakville, Cal. A. A. Bancroft | 50.00 |
| ———— | |
| Total | 682.35 |
| Previously acknowledged in Aug. receipts | 2,502.17 |
| ———— | |
| Total | $3,184.52 |
| FOR ARTHINGTON MISSION. | |
| Green Mountain, Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart | 10.00 |
| Previously acknowledged in June receipts | 35.00 |
| ———— | |
| Total | $45.00 |
| FOR NEGRO REFUGEES. | |
| Deer Isle, Me. “A Friend” | 5.00 |
| Northville, Mich. D. Pomeroy | 1.00 |
| ———— | |
| Total | 6.00 |
| Previously acknowledged in Aug. receipts | 349.24 |
| ———— | |
| Total | $355.24 |
Constitution of the American Missionary Association.
INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.
Art. I. This Society shall be called “The American Missionary Association.”
Art. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and to diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.
Art. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slaveholder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.
Art. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.
Art. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.
Art. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.
Art. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.
The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.
Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.
Art. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.
Art. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.
Art. X. No amendment shall be made in this Constitution without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.
FOOTNOTE:
[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.
The American Missionary Association.
AIM AND WORK.
To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the Freedmen for their duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted Chinese in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the Indians. It has also a mission in Africa.
STATISTICS.
Churches: In the South—In Va., 1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 12; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 13; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 5. Africa, 1. Among the Indians, 1. Total 66.
Institutions Founded, Fostered or Sustained in the South.—Chartered: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss., New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8. Graded or Normal Schools: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 11. Other Schools, 18. Total 37.
Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 231; among the Chinese, 17; among the Indians, 17; in Africa, 14. Total, 279. Students—In Theology, 88; Law, 17; in College Course, 106; in other studies, 7,018. Total, 7,229. Scholars, taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 100,000. Indians under the care of the Association. 13,000.
WANTS.
1. A steady increase of regular income to keep pace with the growing work in the South. This increase can only be reached by regular and larger contributions from the churches—the feeble as well as the strong.
2. Additional Buildings for our higher educational institutions, to accommodate the increasing numbers of students; Meeting Houses, for the new churches we are organizing; More Ministers, cultured and pious, for these churches.
3. Help for Young Men, to be educated as ministers here and missionaries to Africa—a pressing want.
Before sending boxes, always correspond with the nearest A. M. A. office, as below:
| New York H. W. Hubbard, Esq., 56 Reade Street. |
| Boston Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Room 21 Congregational House. |
| Chicago Rev. Jas. Powell, 112 West Washington Street. |
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“I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars in trust, to pay the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.”
The will should be attested by three witnesses [in some States three are required—in other States only two], who should write against their names, their places of residence [if in cities, their street and number]. The following form of attestation will answer for every State in the Union: “Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said [A. B.] as his last Will and Testament, in presence of us, who, at the request of the said A. B., and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.” In some States it is required that the Will should be made at least two months before the death of the testator.
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The Thirty-third Annual Meeting of the American Missionary Association will be held in the First Congregational Church (Rev. Dr. Goodwin’s), Chicago, Illinois, commencing October 28th, at 3 p. m. The Annual Sermon will be preached by Rev. R. S. Storrs, D. D., of Brooklyn, N. Y., service commencing at half-past seven in the evening. A paper on the Chinese question will be presented by Rev. J. H. Twichell, of Hartford, Connecticut; one on the Necessity of the Protection of Law for the Indians, by Gen. J. B. Leake, United States District Attorney, Chicago, Illinois; one on the Providential Significance of the Negro in America, by Pres. E. H. Merrell, of Ripon College, Ripon, Wisconsin. Addresses may be expected from Rev. Drs. Goodell, Roy, Corwin, Dana, Ellsworth, and other able speakers on timely and important topics.
Parties desiring entertainment during the meeting, who have not already applied, will please write at once to H. G. Billings, Esq., 242 South Water Street, Chicago.
Railroad Reductions.—The following railroads will make special rates to those attending the meeting. Mich. Cent. R. R., Excursion Tickets, 2cts. per mile; Ill. Cent. R. R. Excursion Tickets, 1⅕ fare; L. S. & M. S. R. R., Excursion Tickets, 1⅕ fare; C. B. & Q. R. R., full fare in, ⅕ fare out; C. & A. R. R., do.; C. & E. I. R. R., do.; C. & N. W. R. R., do.; C. & Pacific, do.; C., R. I. & P. R. R., do.; P., C. & St. Louis, Excursion Tickets, reduced rates; C. & Paducah, from Streator and Pontiac, fare and ⅕; Wis. Cent. R. R., full fare in, ⅕ out; Bur., C. Rap. & North., do. in, ⅓ out; St. L. & S. W., full fare in, ⅕ out; C., M. & St. Paul R. R., do.; P., Ft. W. & C. R. R., do.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
Spelling and puntuation were changed only where the error appears to be a printing error. Capitalization and punctuation in the Receipts section is inconsistent, and was retained as printed. The remaining corrected punctuation changes are too numerous to list; the others are as follows:
For consistency, “Jessie” changed to “Jesse” on page 345 ([As Jesse and Jo came up]) and page 346 ([or Jesse, who wasn't afraid]).