—The London Telegraph, of Oct. 22, says: “All alike will be interested in the following extract from a letter which has just been received from Mr. Stanley, the famous African explorer, by an intimate friend. The letter is dated from Banana Point, at the mouth of the Congo River, Sept. 13, and says: ‘All this year I have been very busy, and have worked hard. I have equipped one expedition on the East Coast; have reconstructed another—namely, the International—of whose misfortune we have heard so often, and have explored personally several new districts on the East Coast. Having finished my work satisfactorily to myself, my friends and those who sent me, I came through the Mediterranean and round to this spot, where I arrived two years and four months ago, on that glorious day on which we sighted old ocean after our rash descent of the Livingstone. * * * And now I begin another mission seriously and deliberately, with a grand object in view. I am charged to open—and keep open, if possible—all such districts and countries as I may explore for the commercial world. The mission is supported by a philanthropic society which numbers noble-minded men of several nations. It is not a religious society, but my instructions are entirely of that spirit. No violence must be used, and wherever rejected, the mission must withdraw to seek another field. We have abundant means, and, therefore, we are to purchase the very atmosphere, if any demands be made upon us, rather than violently oppose them. In fact, we must freely buy of all and every, rather than resent, and you know the sailor’s commandment—‘Obey orders if it breaks owners’—is easier to keep than to stand upon one’s rights.’”
THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOS. E. ROY, D.D.,
FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.
VACATION REPORTS.
PROF. T.N. CHASE, ATLANTA.
A stranger could hardly obtain a more vivid and correct idea of the far-reaching influence for good that one of the higher institutions of the American Missionary Association is exerting, than by listening to the reports of the students as they return from their summer’s work of teaching. At Atlanta University the first Sunday afternoon of the fall term is devoted to these reports, and to the teachers it is one of the happiest and most inspiring occasions of the whole year. We wish that many of the readers of the Missionary could have been with us on last Sunday, and seen with their own eyes and heard with their own ears, since the full rich tones of voice, dignified composure and simple earnestness of these student-teachers cannot be transferred to paper. But I did not see you present, and so will give you the benefit of some notes I took down, departing from my original plan of arranging and classifying the “testimony,” omitting quotation marks, and introducing the successive speakers simply by beginning on a new line.
I taught in Tatnal. Other pupils were afraid to go there because it was a democratic county. People did not want a teacher from outside of the county, because they did not want the money to go out of the county. They liked me very much. Colored people have from one acre to 2500 acres of land, and are about as well educated as the whites. Children are compelled by their parents to come to Sunday-school. I kept up a Sunday evening prayer-meeting. Several of the children acknowledged Jesus and turned over to the church. I made two or three speeches on temperance.