Chapter C: W. ANDERSON, General Agent, (2)

This year we are making an even larger amount of material for the Indian Department, but at prices which little more than cover cost of material. An outside private trade would be much more desirable. We were paid for men’s brogans “extra” good leather, $1.22½ per pair, boxed and delivered in New York City. Carlisle does even more than Hampton in supplying Indians, and with excellent success.

Owing to bodily ailments, Indian labor is more unsteady than that of Negroes. While in their own life they have endurance, a steady routine of industry is new to them, and they are for our purposes a rather feeble race: they find digging exhausting, but on the hunter’s trail or on the warpath they are tireless when we would soon be weary.

Unless every Indian child is educated to some occupation, teaching is of little account. Hard work rather than the higher studies gives them the best drill. As for all, so for Indians, home influence is a great thing. After the best practical education they are not fit for the loose, idle, dirty life of Indian camps any more than any other children. What is to be done? The best success with the thirty Sioux children who returned in October, 1881, to their agencies (five of them girls) has been with those to whom the agents gave separate rooms near the agencies, having their food cooked and their life led separately. An efficient agent will, by the care he takes, save four-fifths of our Indian graduates to decent lives; a careless, weak agent (and not a third of the sixty U.S. Indian Agents are first-class men) will lose four-fifths of them. We cannot make men of them in three years, but can give them a start in that time that a good agent can keep up, and lead them to true success.

Here, more and more, we find the real trouble; not with the Indian, but in our miserable system of paying so small salaries to Indian agents that a competent one is the exception. The boy or girl who goes home finds no strong, kind friend to advise and help; the current of influence is against a Christian life. Here the missionary is needed; never more than now.

Hampton, Carlisle and the many schools that are educating Indians need to be supplemented by good agents and wise missionaries who will help them to stand against the odds that would make the new life they have chosen nest to impossible. Here is the point of chief anxiety. Public sentiment must be felt at Washington before it shall remove the chief stumbling-block to Indian progress—poor agents. As Secretary Teller says in his last Report, the Indians are chiefly on reservations, and must for the present be treated there; to be gradually pushed upon lands of their own, individually, by the efforts of wise men and the influence of Christian education.

REVIVAL WORK AMONG INDIANS AT HAMPTON.

Miss Isabel B. Eustis, in giving an account of the revival meetings at Hampton, writes as follows of the Indians:

Meanwhile at one end of the chapel there sat a company of one hundred who took no part in the service. The Indian students watched with wondering and wistful eyes the scenes around them. “Pass me not, O Gentle Saviour,” they sang often in their own services during these days, and the Lord heard their cry and turned aside and called them too. Stago, our fiery little Apache boy, heard his voice, and set hard to work to conquer his temper and self-will. The quick-witted, ambitious, head-strong girl, whose influence over the other scholars we dreaded, listened, and her hard expression softened, and the stubborn will yielded, and with gentleness and humility she met the daily requirements which had often roused her rebellious spirit before. Shallow natures grew earnest and proud, and we knew that there was one walking with the Indian students too who could purify and inspire and help.

On Wednesday evening our senior Indian boy, of his own accord, left his class and took his seat with the other Indian scholars. Waiting his opportunity, he rose and called the attention of the school to those who sat behind him. He reminded me of the darkness out of which they had come, and of the dangers to which they must return. He told us that they longed for a share in the blessing God was giving the school, and asked our patience while they prayed to the Father, and spoke of Him in a language we could not understand.

Kamnach rose first. Kamnach came to the school four years ago, directly from his wild Indian life. His hair was uncut; he wore Indian clothes; he had been always familiar with scenes of bloodshed, and placed little value on human life. After three years he went back to his home, a changed man we thought in appearance and heart. But it was hard to stand among his savage comrades. He plead to come back to school. He was a happy boy, when, less than a year ago, he placed his foot again on Hampton soil. Poor boy! he had yet to learn that always his worst temptations would come from his own distorted heart. Some misunderstanding of his position as a returned student, some distrust of those who were over him, and he fell into passionate hatred, and was ready to commit a deliberate and deadly crime. We thought his repentance would be quick and deep, but not so. The first Sunday of the new year, the anniversary of the day on which he confessed Christ, he had no heart to meet the Lord, whose first command was to love and forgive. But the passing Saviour’s voice reached him now. He stood before the crowded school, and with the help of an interpreter acknowledged his sin, and renewed his allegiance to the Saviour, and begged the Indian students to follow the Lord Jesus, though they would find many things in His religion hard to understand and difficult to do.

After Kamnach’s confession a Sioux boy made a prayer. He spoke in another tongue, but more than one felt his heart was lifted to the Father’s heart by the earnestness and pathos of the stranger’s voice. Another tried to speak in broken English. Missing the words he wanted to say, waiting and struggling for confession, he acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Saviour of his soul. Our hearts were knit together in love. We knew that we belonged to one common family and nothing could separate from the love of Christ. Evidently the son of God who came to save the lost finds nothing in the Indian nature he cannot soften and subdue. Evidently the Indian is able to place his confidence in such a Saviour and yield himself in glad obedience to Him.

CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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THE LITTLE INDIAN OF CLEAR LAKE.

ABRIDGED FROM GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS.

Did you ever see an Indian—a real, live Indian—in bead-embroidered buck-skin coat and breeches, girded with a curiously wrought wampum belt, shod with moccasins, his face painted black and red, his hair bristling, like a porcupine’s back, with a gay forest of feathers—as he dashed through the woods or over the prairie, on a wild horse, or strode along proudly on foot, with bow and arrows in his hands, and a large tomahawk and scalping-knife in his girdle?

You have seen him in the pictures, at least, and thought him a fine sight; and perhaps you felt in your heart that it must be fine to live such a wild, daring life, hunting, fishing and roaming in the woods and over the fields.

But all Indians are not like him. Tribes differ very much in their character and habits. Besides, they are never quite so brave and fine in real life as they are in pictures. Most of them are poor miserable creatures; and if you should go into one of their wigwams of sticks and barks, and see their naked bodies, filthy faces and tangled hair, as they squat in the smoke and stench around a little fire, on the bare earth, in the middle of the shanty, snatching at poor food with dirty fingers, like a pack of ravenous wolves. I do not believe you would think it very fine, ever after have the least desire to live like an Indian.

The little boy of our story was born and lived on the shores of Clear Lake, a fine sheet of water among the mountains, thirty or forty miles north of Napo Valley.

Like all his mates, he was so short and thick that he seemed to be about as broad as he was long. His skin was not copper-colored like that of most other Indians, but black. His face was broad and round, his lips thick and pouting, and his nose wide and flat. His long coarse hair, all tangled and matted, dangled around his high cheek-bones and above his naked shoulders, like the shaggy mane of a Canadian pony, and half hid his coarse, brutal features: a pair of small, round, dull eyes, like leaden bullets, made the treacherous expression that slept in every line of his features seem ten-fold more revolting.

His wigwam, or lodge, was nothing but a rude screen of bushes or skins to break the force of the wind. You would not think it very nice or comfortable, but he did, and could sleep just as well there, or on the ground beside a large stone, or behind the stump of a fallen tree as you do on the softest feathers. But he never slept two nights in the same place, for fear of being discovered by an enemy and murdered.

It is a hard and cheerless life which those little Indian children lead, as you can easily see, but the life of this little Indian was especially so; for his father and mother had both been murdered, and he had no friends to care for him any more kindly than they would care for a dog; and even the _Hias Tyee_, or Big Chief of the tribe, whose duty it was to see that this little waif on the stormy sea of Indian life was provided for, thought only to get some advantage out of him; and so, when he saw a white man camping one day on the shores of the lake, he brought down the boy and offered to sell him for ten dollars. It proved to be a kind, good-hearted man, who saw that the little fellow was friendless and forlorn, and so the bargain was soon closed, and he became servant to the “pale-face” till he was twenty-one years old, on condition of receiving his food and clothing.

On reaching home, the first thing, of course, was to clip off his dangling locks, give him a thorough scrubbing with soap and brush, and cover his black nakedness with decent clothing.

That afternoon, when the pigs were fed, he was found with his nose in the trough eating sour milk with the animals as if he had been one of them. At night nothing could persuade him to sleep in a room or on a bed; and after dark, when the family had retired to rest, he stole out of the house as slyly as a cat, and hid himself away in the tall weeds beside the fence. Every night for many weeks he did the same, and was so fearful of being murdered in his sleep that he changed his nest every night, never daring to sleep twice in the same spot.

His tongue was constantly telling lies, and he would steal everything he fancied that came in his way. He seemed to have no idea of right and wrong. He could not comprehend what such words as love and duty and kindness meant. Fear was the only motive which had the least influence in controlling him. Even the difference between cleanliness and dirt was a thought too sublime and profound for his understanding.

But he could believe in ghosts and haunting spirits of dead men, like most other ignorant and barbarous people; and he thought they lingered around every stump and tree, and followed him wherever he went. He could hear them fluttering in the leaves, or rapping on the limbs and trunks of the trees, or whispering in the wind. He supposed they took possession of the bodies of men and animals, and caused them to sing and dance, and do all sorts of silly tricks, by a kind of inspiration. He had some notions of the Great Spirit, it is true, but they were confused and indistinct, and had little power over him, while a slavish fear of the inferior spirits and other such ghostly nonsense tormented him night and day, and made him a timid, miserable, degraded, creature.

Had you seen him in that condition you would have thought it impossible to make anything good out of such a stupid little animal. You would have said it was of no use to try to teach a creature so brutal and superstitious anything about God and heaven, and a higher life, or even about the decencies of civilized society.

But a kind lady took him under her care. She taught him to read and write. She showed him the folly of believing in ghosts, and talking with the spirits. She told him the story of Jesus, and made him learn the ten commandments, and the precious words of the Saviour, and explained to him how God made him, and fed, and clothed, and kept him, day by day, and that he ought to love Him, and do right in return for His kindness. She impressed him with the thought that God is angry with wicked boys and girls every day, and that only the pure in heart, whose lives are good, can be happy on earth, or go to heaven when they die.

At first he was stupid and stubborn, and unwilling to learn; but after a little while his stolid face began to brighten, his dull eyes sparkled with unusual interest, and he was more and more attentive, till his coarse, animal features wore an entirely new expression. One day he came in with a very serious look, and said in an earnest tone:

“Mistress, oh me got bad heart! Ask Great Spirit to give me better heart.”

He was told to ask for himself; and then the poor little child of the Great Father went into his own room alone and shut the door, and kneeled down beside the bed and prayed, oh! so earnestly, that God would forgive his sins for Jesus’ sake, and take away his wicked feelings, and show him how to be good. From that moment he was a changed boy. His bad habits were all laid aside. He ceased to be stupid and stubborn and inattentive. He told no more lies, and pilfered no more. His face glowed with kindly feeling, as if a ray from heaven were sleeping on it. His coarse features lost their repulsive expression and became rather pleasant to see. I am sure there was rejoicing in heaven that day over this little stray lamb from the wilderness; and I do not doubt that when God gathers up his jewels from the earth the poor Indian boy will be a precious gem in the Saviour’s crown of glory.

RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1883.

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MAINE, $261.26.

Augusta. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., 55 (30 of
which from Barrett E. Potter to const. REV.
HENRY V. EMMONS L. M.); “A Friend,” 5 $60.00
Blue Hill. Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._
Brownsville. Cong. Ch. 18.00
Brunswick. Bbl. of C., val. 20, and 2.56 for
freight, _for Selma, Ala._ 2.56
Camden. E. D. Mansfield, 6; A. Howe and Wife,
3; J. H., 1 10.00
Gardiner. Two Bbls. of C., and 4.25 for
freight, _for Selma, Ala._ 4.25
New Sharon. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Portland. Rev. I. P. Warren, D.D., 50, to
const. MISS E. A. STANWOOD L. M.; Plymouth
Ch., 43, to const. C. S. D. GRIFFEN L. M. 93.00
Scarborough. “Friend in Cong. Ch.” 50.00
Skowhegan. “Friends,” by Mrs. L. W. Weston,
_for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 8.00
South Berwick. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc.,
Bbl. of C., _for Wilmington, N.C._
Union. Bbl of C., _for Selma, Ala._
West Falmouth. Bbl. of C. and 2.25 _for
Freight, for Selma, Ala._ 2.25
Woolwich. “Morning Glories” 3.20
——. “A Friend.” 5.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $419.05.

Claremont. “Friends,” by Miss L. D. Fairbank,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 16.00
Concord. North Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. _for
Tougaloo U._
Exeter. “A Friend” 30.00
Fisherville. “Friends,” to const. JOHN C.
PEARSON L.M. 30.00
Francestown. Cong. Ch., 20; Aaron Fisher, 5 25.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch., Box of C. _for Marion,
Ala._
Lancaster. Cong. Ch. 10.13
Littleton. Mrs. B. W. Kilborn 5.00
Londonderry. C. S. P. 1.00
Lyme. —— 11.00
Manchester. First Cong. Ch., to const. GEO. W.
O. TEBBITTS L. M. 58.16
Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. 6.72
Newport. Cong. Ch. 77.11
Pittsfield. Cong. Ch., 20.93; Dr. John Wheeler
and Wife, 10 30.93
Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. 15.00
——. “A Friend” 3.00
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$319.05

LEGACY.

Londonderry. Estate of Josiah Sleeper, by
James C. Taylor, Admr. 100.00
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$419.05

VERMONT, $289.64.

Barnet. Sab. Sch. Scholars 5.00
Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. 73.67
East Corinth. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.18
Essex Center. Mrs. L. C. B. 0.50
Greensborough. Cong. Ch. 17.00
Hubbardton. Mrs. James Flagg, _for John Brown
Steamer_ 5.00
McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch. 13.00
Morgan. L. L. 0.50
Pittsford. Cong. Ch. 48.50
Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. 65.25
Strafford. Cong. Ch. 25.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C.,
1.65, _for Freight, for Tougaloo, Miss._ 1.65
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. 6.22
Wilton. Cong. Ch. 2.50
Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch. 4.20
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.47
Ladies of Benson, Greensborough, New Haven,
Rochester and West Townshend, Basted
patchwork, _for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga._

MASSACHUSETTS, $1,842.51

Adams. Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch., by W. B.
Green 12.00
Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and
Soc. 4.07
Amherst. “A Friend,” by Miss E. W. Beaman,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
Andover. Free Ch., _for furnishing, Straight
U._ 40.00
Auburndale. Rev. Calvin Cutter, _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00
Bernardston. Ladies, Patchwork, _for Storrs
Sch., Atlanta. Ga._
Billerica. Orthodox Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 4.50
Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtiss, 200; “Boston,” 1 201.00
Boston. Cong. Pub. Soc., Pkg. Singing Books,
_for Macon, Ga._
Curtisville. Mrs. Frances M. Clarke 2.00
Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 50.00
Dracut. Center Cong. Ch. 10.00
East Somerville. Mrs. Buswell’s S. S. Class,
Franklin St. Ch., _for Santee Agency, Dakota
M._ 10.00
East Somerville. Young Ladies’ Mission Circle,
Franklin St. Ch., _for Student Aid, Dakota
M._ 50.00
Fall River. Third Cong. Ch. 21.80
Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch., Bbl. Stores, _for
furnishing room, Straight U._
Gilbertville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
Great Barrington. E. P. 0.50
Hadley. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 15.62; Mrs. D. H.
Dickinson, 4.50 20.12
Harwich. “Ready and Willing Band,” 2 Bbls. of
C., one Val., 25, _for Atlanta, Ga._; one
Val. 35, _for Marietta, Ga._
Haverhill. West Cong. Ch. 7.56
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C, _for Atlanta
U._
Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. (_Special_) 50.00
Leverett. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.00
Littleton. “A Friend” 50.00
Littleton. “Friends,” _for Student Aid,
Atlanta U._ 10.00
Lowell. Eliot Ch., 60; L. Kimball, 50 110.00
Maplewood. Ladies’ Social Union, Bbl. of C.
and 1 for freight, _for Wilmington, N.C._ 1.00
Maynard. Pkg. Papers
Millbury. M. D. Garfield 5.00
Newburyport. Miss Tyler, 5; S. S. Class, 1,
_for Washington, D.C._ 6.00
Newton Highlands. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2.95,
and Eleven Comforters, _for Fisk U._ 2.95
New Salem. Cong. Ch. 10.02
Northampton. A. L. Williston 500.00
Northfield. W. S. E. Shaw, Box C. and 1, _for
Macon, Ga._ 1.00
North Beverly. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00
Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. 7.00
Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 10.79;
Rev. G. A. P., 1 11.79
Southborough. Pilgrim Evan. Ch. 13.09
South Boston. E. St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.00
South Braintree. A. P. W. 1.00
South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. 12.12
South Wellfleet. Second Cong. Ch. 2.00
Springfield. Memorial Ch., 44; Mrs. R. K., 50c 44.50
Sterling. Cong. Ch. 3.15
Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. 11.00
Townsend. Cong. Ch. 8.72
Upton. A. W. Aldrich 4.70
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. 44.34
Watertown. “Friends” 5.00
Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. 84.75
Wellesley Hills. Ladies Charitable Soc. of
Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., Val. 54, _for
Talladega C._
Westminster. —— 10.00
Worcester. M. Wheeler, Pkg. Pamphlets
Westborough. “Friends,” by Freedmen’s Aid
Soc., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. 6.00
Westfield. “Girls’ Guild” of Second Cong. Ch.,
_for Dakota Home_ 31.50
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 31; Park
St. Ch., 15 46.00
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$1,649.18

LEGACY.

Woburn. Estate of Sarah H. Holden, by Geo. H.
Holden, Adm. 193.33
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$1,842.51

RHODE ISLAND, $72.56.

Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 66.56
Newport. D. B. Fitts 5.00
Providence.——-, _for Washington, D.C._ 1.00

CONNECTICUT, $1,394.10.

Andover. “A Friend.” 11.50
Berlin. “J. W.” 10.00
Canton Center. Wm. G. Hallock 5.00
Colchester. “A Sister in First Cong. Ch.,”
_for John Brown Steamer_ 3.00
Durham. Dea. Gaylord Newton, 5; H. N. Fowler, 5 10.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch., _for Library,
Straight U._ 25.00
Glenville. “A Widow.” 0.50
Hartford. Mrs. E. Hills 400.00
Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Atlanta U._ 25.00
Hebron. “A. H. P.,” _for Student Aid, Tougaloo
U._ 10.00
Ledyard. Cong. Ch. 15.30
Meriden. Ida Pinks’ Class. First Cong. Ch.
Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 1.00
Meriden. Homer Curtiss, 1 Doz. Table Forks,
_for Atlanta U._
Middle Haddam. Second Cong. Ch. 21.20
New Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 12.60
New London. “P. O. H.” 2.00
Newtown. Cong. Ch. 10.00
Northville. Miss E. R., _for Lady Missionary,
Atlanta, Ga._ 1.00
Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. Miss’y
Soc., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00
Norwich. First Cong. Ch. 5.05
Plantsville. Dea. T. Higgins, _for Atlanta U._ 100.00
Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Tillotson
C. and N. Inst._ 15.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. 53.00
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. 53.97
Terryville. A. G. Gaylord, _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 50.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 36.88
Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.60
Tompsonville. T. I. Pease, _for Library
Straight U._ 33.50
Unionville. First Cong. Ch., _for Talladega C._ 27.98
Warren. First Cong. Ch. 40.25
Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. 206.40
West Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. ERNEST E.
SPENCER L. M. 37.37
West Suffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for S. S.,
Straight U._ 5.00
Woodbury. Mrs. J. E. B. S., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 1.00
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$1,294.10

LEGACY.

New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven,
_for Furniture, Straight U._ 100.00
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$1,394.10

NEW YORK, $2,836.72.

Auburn. John F. Hemenway 2.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., _for
Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla., and
Ladies’ Island, S.C._ 175.00
Brooklyn. “An Oberlin Student of 1835,” _for
Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 10.00
Brooklyn. “A Lady, by Aunt Patience,” 5 and
bundle of patchwork, _for Lady Missionary,
Wilmington, N.C._ 5.00
Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 57.28
Clarkson. Oliver Babcock 5.00
Clifton Springs. Mrs. H. L. C 1.00
Comstock’s. Russell Ranney 5.00
Greenville. F. H. W. 0.50
Hamilton. Second Cong. Ch. 17.48
Homer. Cong. Ch., 153.10; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10 163.10
Honeoye. Cong. Ch., 42.40; Sab Sch., 10 52.40
Lockport. First Cong. Ch., 7; and Sab. Sch.,
75, to const. MRS. L. A. DIETRICKS and MISS
JENNIE DUQUETTE L. Ms 82.00
Maine. Cong. Ch., 11.35; Sab. Sch., 4.50;
“Pastor,” 4.15 20.00
Mexico. G. W. French, _for Student Aid, Lewis
High Sch._ 2.00
Morristown. Cong. Ch. 4.27
Munnsville. T. B. Rockwell 5.00
New York. F. P. Shumway 5.00
New York. D. Appleton & Co., 75 Copies Fourth Reader
Ovid. David W. Kinne 4.50
Parma. Mrs. Anna Hathaway, _for Lady
Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 3.00
Union Falls. Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan, 10.,
Francis E. Duncan, 10 20.00
Volney. First Cong. Ch. 18.00
Walton. First Cong. Ch. 61.33
Warsaw. Cong. Soc., 24.77, and Sab. Sch., 33.14 57.91
Waterville. Ladies Benev. Soc., 19.35 and Box
of C., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 19.35
West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.60
West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C., _for Fisk U._
West Chazy. Daniel Bassett 3.00
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$836.72

LEGACY.

New York. Estate of Francis P. Schoals, by
Trustees 2,000.00
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$2,836.72

NEW JERSEY, $46.00.

Newark. “A Friend” 5.00
Newark. Benev. Assn. of Park Presb. Ch., _for
furnishing Room, Straight U._ 35.00
Newark. Mrs. M. G. B., _for John Brown Steamer_ 1.00
New Brunswick. Mrs. S. L. Chester 5.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $25.50.

Coudersport. “Friends” 5.00
East Springfield. Mrs. C. J. Cowles 1.50
Hermitage. W. F. Stewart 5.00
Summersville. Horace Summers 11.00
Wurtemburgh. Mrs. M. Lacey, 2; Mrs. D. U. L., 1 3.00

OHIO, $131.50.

Atwater. Ladies, by Mrs. J. M. White, _for
Books, Straight U._ 6.50
Bellefontaine. Mrs. J. L., _for Lady
Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._ 1.00
Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers” _for Student
Aid, Tougaloo U._ 10.00
Cincinnati. F. W. C. Crane 2.00
Columbus. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of First Cong.
Ch., 15; Mrs. James L. Bates, 5 20.00
Columbus. C. Coit, _for Library, Macon Ga._ 5.00
Harrison. Dr. John D. Bowles 5.00
Newark. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jones 4.50
Norwalk. “A Friend” 15.00
Oberlin. Harris Lewis 5.00
Pittsford. “D.” 1.00
South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer 5.00
Tallmadge. Rev. L. Shaw, Pkg. Bibles and
Testaments
Toledo. Edson Allen, _for Lady Missionary,
Raleigh, N.C._ 5.00
Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Fisk U._ 38.50
West Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.00
Youngstown. J. D. W. 1.00

INDIANA, $1.00.

Michigan City. “Golden Links of Cong. Ch.”
_for Student Aid, Atlanta, U._ 1.00

ILLINOIS, $653.54.

Aurora. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid,
Fisk U._ 25.00
Avon. Mrs. C. W. 1.00
Batavia. C. N. Cooper 5.00
Belvidere. M. C. Foote 2.50
Camp Point. Mrs. Anna Reynolds 50.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 142.06; New Eng.
Ch., 62.55; Mrs. E. F. Rice, 5 209.61
Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 7.75
Freeport. L. A. Warner 25.00
Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ 26.70
Knoxville. W. A. 1.00
Millburn. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Lady
Missionary, Mobile, Ala._ 5.00
Moline. Thomas Jewett, 50 _for Agricultural
Implements_, 50 _for Student Aid, Tougaloo
U._ 100.00
Morris. Cong. Ch., 18; Sab. Sch., 2.25 20.25
Nora. G. W. Warner 5.00
Oak Park. Boys’ Class in Sab. Sch., _for
Student Aid, Talladega C._ 19.10
Paxton. “A Friend” 25.00
Paxton. Cong. Sab. Sch., 1.50; “A Friend,” 9,
_for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.50
Quincy. Joshua Perry 10.00
Sheffield. A. W. Boyden (New Year’s Offering) 100.00
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 5.13

MICHIGAN, $271.82.

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Detroit. Woodward Av. Sab. Sch. 67.00
Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Rev. J. H.
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Hubbardston. Cong. Ch. 4.00
Kalamazoo. J. W. S., _for John Brown Steamer_ 1.00
Lansing. Prof. R. C. Kedzie 10.00
Muskegon. Cong. Ch. 30.00
Olivet. Cong. Ch., 25.35; Mrs. M. R., 50c 25.85
Parma. Mrs. M. B. Tanner 2.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 5.00
Portland. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., _for Student
Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00
Saint Johns. First Cong. Ch. 18.85
Utica. “Member of First Cong. Ch.” 10.00
Vermontville. Mrs. H., _for Tillotson C. & N. Inst._ 1.00

IOWA, $253.97.

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Clinton. First Cong. Ch. 40.00
Denmark. Cong. Sab. Sch. 46.93
Dubuque. First Cong. Ch. 60.50
Grinnell. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. of Plym. Ch.,
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Lansing. Lizzie H. Avery 5.00
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Fox Lake. Cong. Ch. 10.88
Green Bay. First Presb. Ch. 20.47
Kenosha. R. M. 0.50
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Menomonee. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
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Garden City. Cong. Ch. 2.75
Great Bend. Second Cong. Ch. 5.25
Manhattan. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 17.40

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Williamsburgh. Tuition 88.75

TENNESSEE, $468.30.

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Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition 255.80

NORTH CAROLINA, $216.30.

Raleigh. Tuition 0.80
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GEORGIA, $719.10.

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Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 52.50
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Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 153.86; Rent,
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McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition 32.45
Marietta. First. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., _for
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Savannah. Beach Inst., 145.35; Rent, 10; Cong.
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Selma. Cong. Ch. 18.20
Selma. Tuition 9.50

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LOUISIANA, $125.00.

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TEXAS, $281.50.

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Belden Scholarship Fund, _for Talladega C._ 30.00

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London, Stratford. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. _for
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York. Mrs. L. H. R. Clark, _for Cottage,
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CHURCHES: _In the South_—In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 2; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 5; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 3. _Among the Indians_, 2. Total, 88.

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TEACHERS, MISSIONARIES AND ASSISTANTS.—Among the Freedmen, 336; among the Chinese, 31; among the Indians, 6; in Africa, 16. Total, 389. STUDENTS.—In theology, 72; law, 38; in college course, 104; in other studies, 9,404. Total, 9,608. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.

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