A MISSIONARY POTATO.

The missionary concert at the Congregational church, last Sunday night, was interesting, and in some respects novel. There is a bit of history connected with it. Two little girls belonging to the Sunday-school some time ago became so inspired with missionary zeal that, after casting about for ways to get money for the purpose, they devised a doll show, and carried it through here last winter with considerable success, netting five dollars. That money they sent to Fisk University, with request for report concerning its use. A letter came back, enclosing a letter from a Fisk student, written from Mississippi, where the young man was teaching to earn money to continue his studies at the University. That letter told of a colored boy, one of the pupils in the student’s school, and made an appeal for him. The boy was the son of his mother’s former master, and since she was emancipated the mother had married. The step-father hired the boy to horse-racers and saloon-keepers, and in various ways kept him under bad influences and away from school. The boy and his mother were ambitious that he should be educated; and when, a short time previous, the step-father had sickened and died, one obstacle seemed removed.

Another obstacle was lack of means, and for that the student appealed, in a letter written in answer to one from our people here, and it was for that purpose that the concert of last Sunday night was given by the Young People’s Missionary Circle of the Congregational Sabbath-school, organized since the little girls’ doll show enterprise. But now the enterprise is shared with them by the other churches, for they all suspended their services on this occasion, and Messrs. Sanders, Walter and Monroe participated in the devotional exercises, and their people swelled the congregation. The exercises, recitations, essays and Jubilee Songs were creditable and entertaining.

A collection was taken for the benefit of Master Walter, the ambitious Mississippi boy, and then a novel feature was introduced. Mr. Dickinson stated that last spring one of the boys in the congregation had noticed for two Sundays, in one corner of the church, a potato, from some source unknown. The thought came to the boy that he would take it home and plant it, for the benefit of missionary interests. He had done so, and now brought the proceeds, some twenty or thirty potatoes, big and little, but mostly little, and desired them to be sold to separate persons who would, make the same use of them next year.

The potatoes were thereupon offered for sale, and bought up, mostly at ten cents apiece; and we may expect to hear more about that missionary potato next year. Potatoes, $2.25.

The proceeds of the evening amounted to $15.05, which is forwarded to the student at the University, where he has already taken the boy Walter, trusting that the needed help will come. The student’s name is McClellan.—Cambridge (Ill.) Chronicle.

RECEIPTS FOR AUGUST, 1881.

MAINE, $241.91.
Bangor. First Cong. Ch.$20.17
Bath. Winter St. Cong. Ch. and Soc., toconst. Michael F. Gannett, L. M.35.10
Brunswick. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.70.00
Dennysville. Peter E. Vose, $5; Mrs. Sam’lEastman, $510.00
Eastport. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5; G. A. P., $16.00
Gorham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.29.59
Hallowell. Girls’ Sunday afternoon prayermeeting of Classical Academy, for furnishinga room, Atlanta U.27.00
Hampden. Cong. Ch.12.75
Machias. “A. R. T.,” $5; “A Friend,” $27.00
South Berwick. Hugh and Philip Lewis5.00
Waterford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.8.30
West Auburn. First Cong. Ch.5.00
Wilton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.00
Woolwich. “A widow’s gift”1.00
NEW HAMPSHIRE, $315.37.
Amherst. Cong. Ch.15.20
Colebrook. “E. C. W. and Wife”2.00
Cornish. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const.Rev. James T. Jackson, L. M.7.16
East Jaffrey. Miss Eliza A. Parker20.00
Francestown. Amasa Downs, to const. himself,L. M.50.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $32.16; “AFriend,” $30.00, to const. Mrs. Maria J.Stowell, L. M.62.16
Greenville. Cong. Ch.11.00
Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.50
North Hampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.19.39
Pembroke. Cong. Ch.18.31
Rindge. Cong. Ch. and Soc.1.40
Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.00
Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.14.00
West Concord. Cong. Ch. and Soc.14.35
Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc.39.50
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296.97
LEGACY.
Cornish. Estate of Mrs. Sarah W. Westgate,by Albert E. Wellman, a Trustee18.40
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315.37
VERMONT, $1,561.86.
Barton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.31
Brookfield. “A Friend,” for Tougaloo U., andto const. Rev. Wm. M. Gay and Mrs. Wm.M. Gay, L. M’s.50.00
Craftsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc.16.33
East Hardwick. S. W. O.0.52
Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc.2.00
Ludlow. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.81
Manchester. Miss Ellen Hawley, $45; Mrs.Cone, $15, for Student Aid, Talladega C.60.00
Montgomery. Heman Watkins4.00
North Cambridge. M. K.1.00
West Fairlee. Mrs. C. M. H.0.50
West Glover. Cong Ch. and Soc.9.25
Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.00
Woodstock. Cong. and Soc.17.22
———“L. G.”25.00
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206.94
LEGACIES.
Charlotte. Estate of Salome Strong, by W.W. Higbee, Admr.1,095.30
Springfield. Estate of Dea. Charles Haywood,by Geo. P. Haywood, Ex.259.62
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1,561.86
MASSACHUSETTS, $3,454.31.
Abington. Mrs. H. P.2.00
Amherst. Agricultural College, Class of1882, for furnishing a room, Stone Hall, Talladega,Ala.30.00
Andover. Rev. Joseph Emerson, $10; WestCong. Sab. Sch., $1020.00
Berlin. Cong. Ch.2.00
Billerica. Mrs. E. R. Goales, for Macon, Ga.3.00
Boston. Mary R. Sturges, $15; Mrs. G. S.Curtis, $10, for Athens, Ala.25.00
Boston. “A. B. H. J.”2.00
Bradford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.25.05
Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc.19.65
Cambridge. North Av. Cong. Ch. and Soc.,$224.43, to const. Mrs. B. F. Sands, Rev.Charles F. Thwing, M. L. Walton, DavidBowie, John Harrington and Frank Foxcroft,L. M’s.; “A Friend,” $5229.43
Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.20.00
Chelsea. J. P. Payson, for freight2.00
Concord. “A Friend”1.00
Danvers. Maple St. Ch. and Soc.109.52
Danvers. Maple Leaf Mission Circle, forStudent Aid, Talladega C.60.00
Enfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc.35.00
Falmouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc.41.00
Grafton. Mrs. S. A.1.00
Georgetown. A. H.1.00
Greenfield. Ladies of Cong. Ch., bbl. of C.for Union Point
Haverhill. “Friend,” for furnishing room,Tougaloo U.1.00
Holden. Cong. Ch.10.00
Holliston. D. B. Fitts3.00
Hopkinton. Cong. Sab. Sch.20.00
Ipswich. South Cong. Ch. and Soc.30.00
Lawrence. Cong Ch. and Soc.100.00
Lexington. Hancock Ch. and Soc.16.73
Lunenburgh. “Wilson family,” for furnishinga room, Stone Hall, Straight U.25.00
Lynn. Central Ch. and Soc.16.50
Marblehead. Hon. J. J. H. Gregory, for buildings,Wilmington, N. C.1,500.00
Medford. Mystic Cong. Ch. and Soc., toconst. D. W. Wilcox, L. M.100.00
Monterey. Cong. Ch.17.00
Natick. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., bundle of C.
Newtonville. J. K.1.00
Northampton. Sab. Sch. of First Ch. for ed.of an Indian, Hampton N. and A. Inst.20.00
North Hadley. Cong. Ch. and Soc.3.80
Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.20.35
Palmer. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.01
Peabody. “Friends,” for Student Aid,Talladega C.1.20
Pepperell. “Friends,” for furnishing room,Stone Hall, Straight U.25.00
Pittsfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.54.43
Randolph. “Randolph,” for furnishingroom, Stone Hall, Straight U.50.00
Randolph. Miss Abby W. Turner10.00
Royalston. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.112.00
Somerville. “A Friend”1.00
South Attleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.4.59
South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.35.00
Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc.5.00
South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. andSoc., to const. Mrs. Sarah Jane Tirrell,L. M.44.00
Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.01;Sec. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $37.54; Ira Merrill,$385.55
Sunderland. “A Friend,” $5; “Friends,” $27.00
Taunton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $130;H. H. Fish, $25155.00
Walpole. Mrs. C. F. M.1.00
Waltham. N. S. and W. J. S., $1;—— Packageof Papers1.00
Warwick. Cong. Ch. and Soc.12.00
Webster. First Cong. Ch.20.00
West Boylston. Geo. W. Ames, $3; PollyAmes, $36.00
Westhampton. “A Friend,”20.00
West Medway. Cong. Sab. Sch., for furnishinga room, Stone Hall, Straight U.25.00
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc.21.00
Wilbraham. Cong. Ch. and Soc.9.50
Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
Woburn. Mrs. Simon Holden5.00
Wollaston Heights. Mrs. Caroline C. Shaw6.00
Worcester. Saml. R. Heywood, to const.Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, L. M.30.00
——— Church of Christ, North Leominster,$7; Sab. Sch., Shirley Village, $8.50; Sab.Sch., Lunenburgh, $9.50, for furnishing aroom, Stone Hall, Straight U.25.00
———“A Friend,” for furnishing a room,Stone Hall, Straight U.50.00
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3,354.31
LEGACY.
Franklin. Estate of Mrs. Nancy C. Fisher100.00
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3,454.31
CONNECTICUT, $1,744.67.
Berlin. “A Friend,” for aid of a young manpreparing for Africa50.00
Bridgeport. C. K. B.0.50
Chester. Cong. Ch.50.25
Danbury. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., toconst. E. Thompson, J. W. Bacon, Wm. J.Rider and Amzi T. Rogers, L. M’s.160.00
East Windsor Hill. Mrs. Ira Tracy2.00
Fair Haven. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., forStudent Aid, Fisk U.35.00
Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for ColoredChildren, and to const. Mrs. Harriet W.Barbour and Albert W. Hart, L. M’s.63.00
Goshen. “A Friend”20.00
Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch.10.21
Hadlyme. Richard E. Hungerford, $100;Cong. Ch., $5.46105.46
Hanover. Cong. Ch. and Soc.10.00
Hartford. J. E. Cushman, $200; D. H.Wells, $25225.00
Hebron. Rev. J. B. Cook3.00
Huntington. Mrs. S. A. N.1.00
Lebanon. First Ch.68.53
Mansfield Centre. “A Friend,” $35, for furnishinga room, Stone Hall; Cong. Sab. Sch.$10, for Needmore Chapel; Mrs. B. Swift,$25; Chas. Ramsdell, $2; Dea. G. S., $1;Mrs. W. T., $1, for Student Aid, Talladega C.74.00
Middletown. “A. B. C.”5.00
New Haven. Rev. J. J. Abbott, $20; “AFriend,” $2040.00
New Preston. “S. A. W.”2.00
North Stonington. Cong. Sab. Sch.15.00
Norwich. First Cong. Ch.120.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch.41.86
Salem. Cong. Ch.6.00
Saybrook. Cong. Ch.7.55
South Britain. Cong. Ch. and Soc.17.75
Southington. “A Friend”1.00
Terryville. Cong. Ch., to const. John CorneliusGreggs, Charles I. Allen, SilasA. Gridley, George T. Winslow, JudahW. Clark, William Bates, George H.Bates, Burr S. Beach and Stephen Fenn,L. M’s.303.80
Thomaston. Cong. Ch.50.80
Waterbury. Mrs. Chas. Benedict, for Macon,Ga.3.00
West Chester. Cong. Ch.8.50
Westville. Cong. Ch.28.00
Winsted. First Cong. Ch.38.17
West Winsted. Second Cong. Ch.154.29
Wolcott. Cong. Ch. and Soc.9.00
———“Gratitude,” for Student Aid, Fisk U.15.00
NEW YORK, $5,246.32.
Amsterdam. Mrs. L. M. Bell, $25; “A fewMembers Presb. Ch.” by C. Bartlett, $6792.00
Auburn. S. B. O.0.50
Brooklyn. “A Friend”5.00
Chittenango. Mrs. Edwin Lewis, $10; Mrs.Amelia L. Brown, $515.00
Copenhagen. Miss A. E. W.0.25
Coventryville. Cong. Ch.15.00
Eaton. Cong. Ch. and Soc.11.00
Elmira. Miss C. Thurston5.00
Gerry. Mrs. Mary A. Sears178.36
Goshen. “Friend of President Garfield” ($1of which for Bibles and Testaments)2.00
Hamilton. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,for Student Aid, Fisk U.10.00
Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean7.00
Lebanon. Alfred Seymour, $6.50; MarvinDay, $6; Thomas Hitchcock, $6; ThomasWilliamson, $2; J. A. Head, $1.50; G. A.Curtiss, $1.25; Others, $6.75, by Rev. G.A. Curtiss30.00
Milton. Miss F., for Student Aid, Talladega C.0.50
Nelson. Cong. Ch.8.20
New York. Gen. Wager Swayne, for repairson Swayne Hall100.00
New York. N. Y. Colored Mission Sab. Sch.135 West 30th St.2.41
Onondaga Valley. A. L. G.1.00
Oswego. J. G.1.00
Owasco. Mrs. A. Stewart2.00
Poughkeepsie. Mrs. M. J. Myers20.00
Pratham. Edward Halsey2.00
Rensselaer Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc.7.00
Rochester. Plymouth Cong. Ch.19.44
Rome. John. B. Jervis25.00
Sherburne. Joshua Pratt, $500; LuciusNewton, $2, for Talladega C.; Miss E. A.Rexford, $5, for Student Aid, Talladega C.507.00
Smyrna. H. M. Dixon, $5; Dea. C., $1, forNeedmore Chapel, Talladega, Ala.6.00
Syracuse. Plymouth Cong. Ch.48.91
Union Valley. Wm. C. Angel10.00
Walton. Mrs. C. H. Ladd, $100, for MendiM. “John Brown Steamer”; “The LittleHelpers,” Box of C., for School at AveryStation, Mendi M.100.00
Walton. By Rev. H. M. Ladd, for Mag.1.50
Westmoreland. First Cong. Ch.3.25
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1,236.32
LEGACIES.
Coventryville. Estate of Mrs. Esther Reed,by Rev. W. W. Warner10.00
Palmyra. Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Woodward,by Daniel C. Lillie, Ex.4,000.00
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5,246.32
NEW JERSEY, $5.00.
Orange Valley. Cong. Ch., for repairs, TalladegaC.5.00
PENNSYLVANIA, $525.00.
Mercer. Cong. Ch.20.00
Worth. John Burgess5.00
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25.00
LEGACY.
Philadelphia. Estate of A. Claxton, for MendiM.500.00
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525.00
OHIO, $1,255.94.
Berea. “Friends,” for Talladega C.62.15
Adam’s Mills. Mrs. M. A. Smith10.00
Cleveland. S. H. Sheldon, $26.50, for furnishingroom, Ladies’ Hall; M. S. Hinman,$10, for furnishing room, Strieby Hall, Tougaloo,Miss.36.50
Claridon. Rev. C. C. Starbuck, for Talladega C.3.00
Elyria. Heman Ely, for Talladega C.50.00
Geneva. Mrs. H. A. W.1.00
Gomer. Welsh Cong. Ch.52.75
Hudson. C. E. H.0.50
Oberlin. First Cong. Ch., $37.30; SecondCong. Ch., $11.87; L. F., $150.17
Oberlin. Ladies’ Soc. of Second Cong. Ch.,for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga.75.00
Oberlin. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., forfurnishing room, Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo, Miss.25.00
Saint Clairsville. Wm. Lee, Sen.3.00
Steuben. Levi Platt1.50
Strongsville. Mrs. K. Pomeroy, $30, for furnishingroom, Strieby Hall; T. J. Bartlett,$5, for furnishing room, Ladies’ Hall, Tougaloo,Miss.35.00
Sullivan. Cong. Ch., for Mendi M.23.61
Windham. First Cong. Ch.26.76
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455.94
LEGACIES.
Cherry Valley. Estate of Mrs. Fanny Slater,by W. W. Hopkins, Ex.100.00
Cleveland. Estate of Brewster Pelton, byJohn G. Jennings, for Mendi M.500.00
Geneva. Estate of Mrs. Amy Roberts, byMrs. Harriet A. Wood200.00
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1,255.94
ILLINOIS, $992.37.
Chicago. “A Friend,”200.00
Chicago. Ladies of South Ch., for Lady Missionary,Mobile, Ala.5.50
Galesburg. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., forStudent Aid, Fisk U.50.00
Galva. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., for Student Aid,Fisk U.25.00
Geneseo. Cong. Ch.75.00
Highland Park. Mrs. Elisha Gray, $10;Fred. Fisher, $5; Mrs. H. McD., $1, forStudent Aid, Fisk U.16.00
Kewanee. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for LadyMissionary, Savannah, Ga.20.00
La Harpe. Cong. Ch.23.00
Moline. Charles Atkinson, for President’sHouse, Talladega C.100.00
Moline. Thomas Jewett, for building Ladies’Hall, Tougaloo, Miss.75.00
Naperville. A. A. Smith5.00
Oak Park. Cong. Ch.56.45
Oak Park. Girls’ Mission Circle, for StudentAid, Fisk U.50.00
Prospect Park. Mrs. Emma Floyd5.00
Rochelle. C. F. Holcomb12.00
Rochelle. W. H. H., Sen., for Student Aid,Fisk U.1.00
Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of SecondCong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U.50.00
Rockford. Sab. Sch. of Second Cong. Ch.,for Student Aid, Fisk U.25.00
Rockford. “Rockford Lamplighters,” forIndian M.11.79
Streator. Samuel Plumb, for Student Aid,Fisk U.50.00
Sycamore. J. H. Rogers, for Student Aid,Fisk U.104.00
Wataga. Cong. Sab. Sch.9.00
Woodstock. Cong. Ch.11.13
Wyamet. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for StudentAid, Fisk U.12.50
MICHIGAN, $366.53.
Alpena. First Cong. Ch.134.00
Detroit. Woodward Ave. Cong. Ch., $65.25;E. P. B., 56c.65.81
Frankfort. First Cong. Ch.3.40
Grand Rapids. Mrs. E. G. Furness5.00
Hillsdale. J. W. Ford2.00
Leland. Cong. Ch.6.31
Litchfield. Mrs. J. B. S.0.50
Mankato. Cong. Ch.2.23
Moline. Sab. Sch. of Cong. Ch., for StudentAid, Fisk U.25.00
Olivet. Cong. Ch.8.05
Romeo. Miss Mary A. Dickinson, for rebuilding,Tougaloo U.100.00
Summit. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch.3.40
Warren. “A Friend”5.00
Whitehall. First Cong. Ch.5.83
IOWA, $130.64.
Atlantic. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch.27.57
Denmark. Isaac Field15.00
Grinnell. T. P. Carleton2.00
Keokuk. Mrs. E. M. Wilson5.00
Iowa Falls. Cong. Ch.9.90
Marshalltown. G. W.0.50
Maquoketa. Cong. Ch. and Soc.23.82
McGregor. Woman’s Miss. Soc.16.40
Muscatine. Dr. I. L. Graham, for furnishingroom, Stone Hall, Talladega, Ala.5.00
New Hampton. Ladies’ Cent. Soc.2.45
Stacyville. Woman’s Miss. Soc.3.00
Traer. Cong. Ch.20.00
WISCONSIN, $160.68.
Arena. Ladies of Cong. Ch., for Lady Missionary,Talladega, Ala.2.00
Beloit. Mrs. S. M. Clary, $5, and Box of C.,for Macon, Ga.5.00
Cooksville. Edward Gilley5.00
Delavan. Cong. Ch.45.00
Grand Rapids. Cong. Ch.1.75
Leeds. Cong. Ch. (ad’l)0.50
Madison. First Cong. Ch.50.00
Pewaukee. Cong. Ch.7.00
Racine. First Presb. Ch.33.43
Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon10.00
Stoughton. Cong. Ch.1.00
MISSOURI, $19.40.
Breckenridge. Rev. T. A. H.0.50
DeKalb. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Athens, Ala.5.00
Kidder. Cong. Ch.7.50
Saint Louis. Cong. Ch.6.40
MINNESOTA, $71.21.
Austin. Mrs. S. C. Bacon10.00
Minneapolis. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., forStudent Aid, Fisk U.20.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch.24.46
Spring Valley. Cong. Ch.16.75
KANSAS, $3.00.
Brookville. Rev. S. G. Wright, $2.50; Mrs.E. E. S., 50c.3.00
NEBRASKA, $28.45.
Omaha. “K. and C.”10.00
Weeping Water. Cong. Ch.18.45
CALIFORNIA, $3.00.
Rocklin. Cong. Ch.3.00
OREGON, $20.00.
Portland. First Cong. Ch.20.00
DELAWARE, $1.00.
Wilmington. Mrs. N. T. J.1.00
NORTH CAROLINA, $15.00.
Wilmington. Cong. Ch.15.00
SOUTH CAROLINA, $11.25.
Almeda. “Friends” by R. G. Holmes, forAlmeda, S. C.11.25
TENNESSEE, $8.00.
Memphis. By Prof. A. J. Steele8.00
GEORGIA, $256.60.
Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, $253.60;Rent, $3256.60
ALABAMA, $214.20.
Athens. Trinity Sch., Tuition50.50
Marion. Cong. Ch.2.05
Montgomery. Cong. Ch.120.00
Selma. First Cong. Ch. ($2.35 of which forMendi M.)21.65
Talladega. Rev. H. B. De Forest, $10; Prof.Geo. N. Ellis, $10, for Needmore Chapel, Talladega,Ala.20.00
MISSISSIPPI, $13.10.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition13.10
TEXAS, $57.75.
Austin. Tillotson C. and N. Ins., Tuition57.75
INCOME FUND, $120.50.
Avery Fund, for Mendi Mission85.50
Greenwich, N.Y. Town Bonds, for Straight U.35.00
SCOTLAND, $63.73.
Perth. No. United Presb. Ch., £9; “Friend,”by D. Morton, 5s.; J. Balman, for ChineseM., £2; “Friend,” for “John Brown Steamer,”£263.73
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Total16,906.79
Total from Oct. 1st to Aug. 31st$207,731.58
FOR TILLOTSON C. & N. INSTITUTE, AUSTIN,TEXAS.
Bridgeport, Conn. S. C. Kingman100.00
West Haven, Conn. Mrs. Emeline Smith10.00
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Total110.00
Previously acknowledged from Oct. 1stto July 31st4,974.71
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Total$5,084.71
FOR MISSIONS IN AFRICA.
From Oct. 1st to July 31st$26,289.62

H. W. HUBBARD, Treas.,
56 Reade St., N. Y.

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 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, counseling, 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 to 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 toward the Indians. It has also a mission in Africa.

STATISTICS.

Churches: In the South—In Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 6; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 13; Kentucky, 6; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 4; Texas, 6. Africa, 2. Among the Indians, 1. Total, 76.

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.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn.—12. Other Schools, 31. Total, 51.

Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 284; among the Chinese, 22; among the Indians, 11; in Africa, 13. Total, 330. Students—In Theology, 102; Law, 23; in College Course, 75; in other studies, 7,852. Total, 8,052. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.

WANTS.

1. A steady increase of regular income to keep pace with the growing work. 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 YorkH. W. Hubbard, Esq., Treasurer, 56 Reade Street.
BostonRev. C. L. Woodworth, Dis’t Sec., Room 21 Congregational House.
ChicagoRev. Jas. Powell, Dis’t Sec., 112 West Washington Street.

MAGAZINE.

This Magazine will be sent gratuitously, if desired, to the Missionaries of the Association; to Life Members; to all Clergymen who take up collections for the Association; to Superintendents of Sabbath-schools; to College Libraries; to Theological Seminaries; to Societies of Inquiry on Missions; and to every donor who does not prefer to take it as a subscriber, and contributes in a year not less than five dollars.

Those who wish to remember the American Missionary Association in their last Will and Testament are earnestly requested to use the following

FORM OF BEQUEST.

“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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Annual Meeting.

The American Missionary Association will hold its Thirty-fifth Anniversary in the city of Worcester, November 1-3.

On Tuesday, at three o’clock p. m., the Executive Committee will render their Annual Report.

At 7.30 o’clock, Tuesday evening, the Annual Sermon will be preached by Rev. C. D. Hartranft, D. D., of Hartford, Communion following.

On Wednesday morning, papers will be read on topics of special interest relating to the work.

Wednesday afternoon and Thursday will be occupied with Reports of Committees and addresses thereon.

On Wednesday and Thursday evenings, there will be addresses from Senator George F. Hoar, Gen. O. O. Howard, President M. H. Buckham, and other distinguished speakers.

The Committees on hospitality, reduction of railroad fares, and other matters of detail pertaining to the meeting, will be duly published in the religious papers.

The Executive Committee proposes the following amendments to the Constitution of the American Missionary Association to be submitted to the Annual Meeting for action thereon, viz.:

Art. III. Any person who contributes to the funds of the Association may become a member thereof for the current year by requesting to be enrolled as such at the time such contribution is paid into the treasury of the Association, and any contributor to the amount of thirty dollars, at one time, may, on request to that effect, be enrolled as a Life Member.

Art. V. The Annual Meeting shall consist of the Officers, Life Members who have been such prior to the first day of October preceding the time of such meeting, such persons as have been enrolled as members within one year prior to that date, and of delegates from churches that have within the year contributed to the funds of the Society, and from State Associations and Conferences, each of such churches, associations and conferences to be entitled to one delegate.

Art. VI. The officers of the Association shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, Corresponding Secretaries, (who shall also keep the records of the Association,) Treasurer, Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve members.

Art. VII. After “dismissing,” omit the parenthesis. Omit Art. VIII., and number Arts. IX. and X. respectively VIII. and IX.

DAVID H. GILDERSLEEVE, PRINTER, 101 CHAMBERS STREET, NEW YORK.

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:

Page number 283 changed to [289] on title page.

[Totals] for Massachusetts changed to agree with heading.

Gratton changed to [Grafton] in receipts for Massachusetts.