American Missionary Association,

56 READE STREET, N. Y.

PRESIDENT.

Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.

VICE-PRESIDENTS.

Hon. F. D. Parish, Ohio.
Hon. E. D. Holton, Wis.
Hon. William Claflin, Mass.
Rev. Stephen Thurston, D. D., Me.
Rev. Samuel Harris, D. D., Ct.
Wm. C. Chapin, Esq., R. I.
Rev. W. T. Eustis, D. D., Mass.
Hon. A. C. Barstow, R. I.
Rev. Thatcher Thayer, D. D., R. I.
Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., N. J.
Rev. Edward Beecher, D. D., N. Y.
Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., Ill.
Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., D. C.
Hon. Seymour Straight, La.
Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, D. D., N. H.
Rev. Edward Hawes, D.D., Ct.
Douglas Putnam, Esq., Ohio.
Hon. Thaddeus Fairbanks, Vt.
Rev. M. M. G. Dana, D. D., Minn.
Rev. H. W. Beecher, N. Y.
Gen. O. O. Howard, Washington Ter.
Rev. G. F. Magoun, D. D., Iowa.
Col. C. G. Hammond, Ill.
Edward Spaulding, M. D., N. H.
Rev. Wm. M. Barbour, D. D., Ct.
Rev. W. L. Gage, D. D., Ct.
A. S. Hatch, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. J. H. Fairchild, D. D., Ohio.
Rev. H. A. Stimson, Minn.
Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., California.
Rev. G. H. Atkinson, D. D., Oregon.

Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., D. C.
Rev. A. L. Chapin, D. D., Wis.
S. D. Smith, Esq., Mass.
Dea. John C. Whitin, Mass.
Hon. J. B. Grinnell, Iowa.
Rev. Horace Winslow, Ct.
Sir Peter Coats, Scotland.
Rev. Henry Allon, D. D., London, Eng.
Wm. E. Whiting, Esq., N. Y.
J. M. Pinkerton, Esq., Mass.
E. A. Graves, Esq., N. J.
Rev. F. A. Noble, D. D., Ill.
Daniel Hand, Esq., Ct.
A. L. Williston, Esq., Mass.
Rev. A. F. Beard, D. D., N. Y.
Frederick Billings, Esq., Vt.
Joseph Carpenter, Esq., R. I.
Rev. E. P. Goodwin, D.D., Ill.
Rev. C. L. Goodell, D.D., Mo.
J. W. Scoville, Esq., Ill.
E. W. Blatchford, Esq., Ill.
C. D. Talcott, Esq., Ct.
Rev. John K. McLean, D.D., Cal.
Rev. Richard Cordley, D.D., Kansas.
Rev. W. H. Willcox, D. D., Mass.
Rev. G. B. Willcox, D. D., Ill.
Rev. Wm. M. Taylor. D. D., N. Y.
Rev. Geo. M. Boynton, Mass.
Rev. E. B. Webb, D. D., Mass.
Hon. C. I. Walker, Mich.
Rev. A. H. Ross, Mich.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D. D., 56 Reade Street, N. Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston.
Rev. G. D. PIKE, New York.
Rev. JAS. POWELL, Chicago.
H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Treasurer, N. Y.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, Recording Secretary.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Alonzo S. Ball,
A. S. Barnes,
C. T. Christensen,
H. L. Clapp,

Clinton B. Fisk,
Addison P. Foster,
S. B. Halliday,
A. J. Hamilton,

Samuel Holmes,
Charles A. Hull,
Edgar Ketchum,
Chas. L. Mead,

Samuel S. Marples,
Wm. T. Pratt,
J. A. Shoudy,
John H. Washburn.

COMMUNICATIONS

relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. C. C. Painter, at the New York Office.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of Thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.

THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

Vol. XXXV.

MARCH, 1881.

No. 3.

American Missionary Association.

We call attention to our new pamphlet (No. 6,) which contains the papers read at the woman’s meeting held at Norwich, Conn., Oct. 13th, in connection with our Annual Meeting. This has been published, and will be sent to those of our friends who express the wish to have it.

“Communion Sunday at Hampton,” by Miss Eustis, and Mrs. Chase’s “Sequel to a Begging Letter,” we are confident will each be read with very tender, almost tearful gratitude, and will thrill the reader with most sweet hopes of the triumphant success of our prayers and labors for the despised and wronged, but soon to be redeemed, races. The grace that is redeeming them is also sweetly touching the hearts of many with reference to them.

In this number of the Missionary, the W. H. M. Association announces the purpose of bringing and keeping before the Christian women of our land their relation to the great work in which this Association is engaged.

When the claims of the colored women of the South and of the Indian women of the West have been heard and recognized by their sisters of New England, we are confident that the work of elevating and saving them will receive a new and wonderful impulse. We call attention to the announcement and suggestions made.

The acceptance by Rev. Henry M. Ladd, of Walton, N. Y., of the position of Superintendent of the African missions of the A. M. A., and his readiness to enter upon the work by the 1st of February, was announced in the last number of the Missionary. Mr. Ladd sailed for the Mendi mission on the 12th of February, and was followed on the 16th by Rev. K. M. Kemp, a native of North Carolina, and a graduate of Lincoln University, who, with his wife, are to re-enforce that mission.

After a visit to our missions on the western coast, Mr. Ladd expects to enter upon an exploration of the Upper Nile basin for the purpose of locating the Arthington mission.

We have at once an interesting fact and practical suggestions in the action of the Ladies’ Missionary Society of Elgin, Ill. This society is a branch of the Woman’s Board for the Interior, and is equipped with two treasurers—one to receive contributions for the foreign, and the other for home work.

At the meeting referred to, papers were read on the work at Hampton, on the work at Fisk, and on the school and church work of the A. M. A., which gave great interest to the meeting, and awakened enthusiasm for this branch of home mission work.

W. E. Blackstone, of Oak Park, Cook County, Ill., has published a general directory of missionary societies of this and other lands, which will be a great convenience to those who wish to communicate with such, and a source of valuable information to those who would get a comprehensive view of the work the church of Christ is doing for the evangelization of the world. This pamphlet is neatly and compactly gotten up, and is well worth the 25 cents asked for it.

One who is spending his first year at the South writes as follows: “When I listen in the prayer-meetings to remarks and prayers, especially the latter, I cannot help wishing that the churches of the North could be present to be ‘edified,’ for they surely would be. I know those who have given largely to the A. M. A., both as men count largeness and as the Lord counts it (and His way is not always man’s way), and they would have more than felt satisfied with their investment just to have been present for one hour in some of the meetings at which it has been my privilege to be in the last two months. I am satisfied that we are building wiser than we know when we are seeking to introduce a ‘colored element’ into the Congregationalism of the Republic; but how much wiser, I do not profess to be able to measure even in imagination.”

The tone of Southern sentiment is changing toward the negro, in all parts of the South. In his recent message, Gov. Jarvis, of North Carolina, took occasion to speak in warm terms of the pleasant relations existing between the races, and adds: “I am glad to say negroes are becoming more industrious and thrifty.”

He refers, with satisfaction, to their industrial fairs held at Raleigh, and to the encouragement shown them by the whites, and urges it as an imperative duty that full and equal justice shall be done the blacks, and that they shall not be left to work out their destiny unaided. He favors greater provision for public schools, and recommends that the school tax shall be 2.5 mills on the dollar.

That was quite a love feast held in the Opera House, Lynchburg, Va., a few weeks since, when local politicians, United States officials and Northern business men of the city united, regardless of party prejudices, in tendering a supper to capitalists from Pittsburgh, and all joined in applauding the name of Blaine, from whom a telegram was received during the evening, “until the rafters rang again.”

Whatever opinion we may form as to the justice of the charges made by Senator Dawes or the sufficiency of Secretary Schurz’s reply, we can and do rejoice that they seem to vie with each other in demanding justice for the Poncas, and we would commend not alone to the Massachusetts Senator, but to all the members of Congress, the appeal of the Secretary of the Interior, and express the conviction that the American people will not hold them guiltless of a large share of the guilt incurred in that matter, if they fail, before adjournment, to carry out the recommendations of the President. Mr. Schurz concludes his letter to Senator Dawes as follows:

“Permit me now to make an appeal for the Poncas to you, Senator. Let these Indians at last have rest. Recognize their rights by giving them the indemnity they justly asked for and which I asked for them years ago. Let them quietly go about their farms and improve their homes and send their children to school, undisturbed by further agitation. That is the best service you can render them. They would probably be in a better condition already had that agitation never reached them.”