CONTENTS.

EDITORIAL.
	Page.
Paragraphs	[129]
Benefactions	[130]
Concerning Endowments	[131]
Death of Rev. J. M. Williams	[133]
General Notes——Africa, Indians, Chinese	[133]
Cut of Modoc Funeral	[135]
Anniversary Announcements	[136]
THE FREEDMEN.
Revival News——From Tougaloo, Chattanooga,Macon, Atlanta, Hampton, Paris and McIntosh	[137]
Our Youngest, the Tillotson	[140]
Teacher’s Institute at Talladega	[140]
Hon. Wm. E. Dodge and Atlanta Univ.	[141]
atlanta Teacher at Macon	[141]
AFRICA.
Mr. Ladd’s Journal	[142]
Elephant Hunting (cut)	[143]
THE CHINESE.
Statistics for February——Chinese New-Year	[147]
Japanese Pleasure Party	[149]
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
The Grasshopper Teacher	[150]
RECEIPTS	[151]

American Missionary Association,

56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.

President, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

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

TREASURER.

H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston. Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., New York.

Rev. JAMES POWELL, Chicago.

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. G. D. Pike, D.D., 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, Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Dist. Sec., 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may be addressed to the persons above named.

FORM OF A 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.

The Annual Report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the Association and the By-Laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will be sent free on application.

THE

American Missionary.

Vol. XXXVI.

MAY, 1882.

No. 5.

American Missionary Association.

The friends of the A. M. A. who examine the receipts acknowledged in this number of the Missionary will be gratified to see a total of $31,976.58 for March, thus making up in some measure for the falling off in February. But too much encouragement must not be taken from this single item. Let it only stimulate our friends to a steady effort to round out the year with the $300,000 called for by the annual meeting and by the imperative needs of the work. To reach that sum $168,000 will be required for the remaining six months of the year, or $28,000 per month.

The most infamous enactments of the Congress of the United States have been made in response to the demands of caste prejudice; as for example in the Fugitive Slave Law. A parallel to this is found in the recent bill prohibiting Chinese immigration——an enactment injurious to this country, a wrong to China and a violation of the fundamental principles of the Declaration of Independence, and of the law of God. It is a shameful repudiation of our boast that this land is an asylum for the oppressed of all nations, and it is a cowardly acknowledgment that a hundred thousand inoffensive Chinamen can so excite and alarm a nation of fifty millions of people. It is with great gratification that we chronicle the veto of this bill by President Arthur. We only regret that he has not put the veto more squarely against the principle of such prohibition.

Popular virtue is spasmodic. It was a spasm of public righteousness that overthrew Wm. M. Tweed in New York. But the spasm soon passed and New York was again misgoverned. Sudden uprisings of enthusiasm in the temperance cause have given us prohibitory and other stringent laws, but soon again the tides of intemperance have swept onward. In missionary as well as reformatory work is the evil of these spasms felt. Some new developments of special need or of special encouragement arouse the churches, and unwonted streams of contributions pour into the treasuries of the Mission Boards. On the strength of these gifts the mission work is enlarged and new responsibilities are assumed, but ere long the decay of the special impulse leaves the Boards to face their newly-created obligations with an empty treasury.

This has been specially true in regard to the work among the Freedmen. On the proclamation of Emancipation, and the enactment of laws giving the ballot to the blacks, the popular enthusiasm knew no bounds. Liberal benefactions called into life the Freedmen’s Aid Societies and filled the treasury of this Association. At length, however, the Freedmen fell into the hands of the politicians, and the nation lost interest in the conflicts of parties and factions over them. The Aid Societies were abandoned and the A. M. A. with its vast machinery was left in debt. Now, again, within the last few years has the public attention been aroused to the education of the colored people as their only hope and the nation’s only safety. Presidents Hayes and Garfield have voiced the feelings of the North, and Senator Brown and Dr. Haygood have re-echoed the sentiment for the South. During these late years the treasury of the A. M. A. has felt the new impulse, and again it has ventured upon enlargement. Shall it once more be left on the sands of a retreating tide and the work for the Freedmen be again crippled? Nothing will avert such a result but conscience and Christian principle on the part of the friends of the colored race. If this work ought to be done, and what patriot or Christian doubts it, then the patriot and the Christian must give it their steady and generous support.