Part 5

Rev. T. M. Oviatt, whose missionary labors among the Chinese at San Leandro were attended with so rich a blessing, is now acting pastor of the Presbyterian church at Visalia. He has carried there his zeal for this good work; has already rented a small room, and opened a school. We shall aid him as far as we are able. Would that we had a hundred men like-minded with him touching this work!

Miss Anthony is obliged to relinquish the care of the school at Petaluma, and is succeeded by Miss Waterbury, whose Christian spirit is not unknown at No. 56 Reade St., New York. This school is quite small, but its members surpass those of every other school in liberality, and I cannot consent to abandon them. Christ, too, is becoming known to them. With increasing interest they study God’s word. And they _sing_, somewhat at random, it must be confessed, in the matter of time and of tune, but with an eagerness and a gusto that betoken a beginning both of the spirit and the understanding in their song. Miss Anthony writes: “Wah Yene is a good Christian as far as he understands. He told me, one evening, that he prayed ‘every morning, every dinnertime, and every night. Some people,’ he added, ‘not much good; likee go to church; make Mr. Hutchins [the pastor of the Congregational church] think they good. Some people very good, and pray to God. I likee be good—not much bad.’”

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THE CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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A TEACHER’S STORY.

The following letter is from a young girl who has not gone through the Middle Class at Hampton, but is showing much energy and tact, and doing good work as teacher in one of the rough places of the far South:

FLORIDA.

I will first say, I am a colored girl; my native home is in St. Augustine. I was raised by kind Northern friends. I am teaching school on the St. John’s River, about thirty or forty miles from St. Augustine. In giving my descriptions, I will first describe my school-house. It is made entirely of logs, with the exception of the door and windows, which were given by Miss M. The skies may be seen in any part of the room. The cracks in the floor are large enough to put your hands through. When it rains, it leaks in like water dropping from the trees. There is no fire-place, nor was there any way for keeping warm until, the past week, a young man got me a little stove. But the house is so open this does but little towards heating it up. We have had some cold days, and the only way I had to keep my scholars warm was, to build two large fires and have the poor little children set around them (out of doors). I rubbed their little cold hands and bare feet, and oh! how it made my heart ache to see the tears stand in their eyes, when I asked them why they didn’t put on shoes and warmer clothes, and the reply would be, “I have on all the clothes I got, and I ain’t got no shoes.” Sometimes, when I have on all I can to keep warm, most of my girls have only two garments on, the boys nothing but pants and shirt. Some of my pupils have to come between two and three miles, and then cross a creek. I have a sewing-school for my girls once a week. I read to them, and teach them things to sing while they are sewing. They are to keep what they make. I have been teaching three-and-a-half months. The age of my scholars is from three-and-a-half to twenty-four years. I have enrolled thirty scholars, most of them very good, all anxious to learn. The people are very, very poor, and have real hard times in getting clothing, and keeping from starving. They live in log huts, some of which leak, and are in a dreadful condition. I don’t know how to describe some of them. There are a few white settlers here; some of them, when the folks work for them, won’t pay. This makes it real hard, as the work they get from them is mostly their entire support.

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RECEIPTS

FOR APRIL, 1878.

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MAINE, $27.24.

Andover. S. W. Pearson 5.00 Bluehill. Mrs. S. D. and Mrs. P. C. 50c. ea. 1.00 Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Winthrop. Cong. Ch. $10.21; Mrs. S. B. $1 11.24

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $417.29.

Bristol. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.75 Deerfield. ESTATE of Stephen Brown, by Joseph T. Brown, Ex. 100.00 Exeter. “Friends in Second Cong. Ch.,” _for a Teacher_ 78.00 Fitzwilliam. H. H. W. and M. W. W. 1.20 Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. REV. AUSTIN H. BURR, L. M. 35.00 Hampstead. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Hudson. Mrs. B. F. Chase, bbl. of potatoes. Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5; Jacob Chapman $5 10.00 Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.75 Lyme. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 3.00 Manchester. C. B. Southworth $50; Rev. C. W. Wallace $25 75.00 Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 19.00 Nashua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.78 Stoddard. Rev. H. H. C. 1.00 Temple. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.81 Wilton. “Mistletoe Band,” _for Student Aid, Wilmington, N. C._ 17.00

VERMONT, $1,166.04.

Berlin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.25 Bennington. Mrs. M. B. K. 0.50 Bradford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.35 Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 0.50 Burlington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 165.36 Clarendon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (of wh. $3 from “Mrs. G. M. H.”) $17.40; Cong. Sab. Sch. $8.02 25.42 Danby. Rev. L. D. M. 0.50 Dorset. Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00 East Barnard. Levi Belknap 2.00 Montpelier. Bethany Ch., to const. REV. JOHN H. HINCKS, L. M. 32.00 North Walden. S. W. O. 0.50 Peacham. ESTATE of Ezra C. Chamberlin, by Wm. R. Shedd, Ex. ($60 of which to const. MISS JANE E. CHAMBERLIN and MISS JENNIE C. WATTS, L.M’s) 500.00 South Londonderry. “A Friend” 5.00 Springfield. “Springfield Mission Circle,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 150.00 Springfield. Mrs. F. P. 1.00 Swanton. Harry Smith 5.00 West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.46 West Fairlee Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. 14.10 West Rutland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $16.10; Mrs. L. W. $1 17.10 Westminster West. ESTATE of Almira Goodhue, by Homer Goodhue, Ex. 150.00 Westminster West. Cong. Sab. Sch. 11.00

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,959.55.

Agawam. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.71 Andover. Mrs. J. B. Clough $10; C. H. G., 25c. 10.25 Ashby. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00 Ashfield. B. H. 0.54 Ayer. Mrs. C. A. Spaulding, _for Theo. Student, Talladega C._ 70.00 Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 20.00 Boston. Walnut Ave. Cong. Sab. Sch. $132.16; Rev. Chas. Nichols $25 157.16 Braintree. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 Brocton. Joseph Hewett $5; Mrs. Baalis Sanford, box of C. 5.00 Brookline. Harvard Ch. and Soc. 69.21 Buckland. Cong. Ch. 9.55 Byfield. Mrs. Jerusha B. Root $30, to const. MARTIN NELSON ROOT, M.D., L.M.; Cong. Ch. and Soc. $5.75 35.75 Cambridge. No. Ave. Cong. Ch. 74.91 Charlton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 14.66 Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.22 Concord. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $20; Thomas P. Carlton $2 22.00 Dedham. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 87.02 Dorchester. Thomas D. Quincy 2.50 Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.16 East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. (of which $1.75 from “Carpenter Bees,” _for Colored Girls_) 21.00 East Longmeadow. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 1.00 East Medway. Mrs. M. N. M. $1; E. B. D. $1 2.00 Fall River. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 126.89 Feeding Hills. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.17 Framingham. Plymouth Cong. Sab. Sch. $14.40; Mrs. E. H. $1 15.40 Groton. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.02 Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 3.56 Hadley. Mrs. E. Porter $5; Mrs. Eliza Huntington $2 7.00 Holden. Cong. Sab. Sch. $15; Cong. Miss. Ass’n $6, _for Wilmington, N. C._ 21.00 Holliston. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 Holyoke. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.97 Hopkinton. First Cong. Sab. Sch. $121.87; Mrs. P. J. Claflin $100. 228.87 Hyde Park. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.88 Lexington. Hancock Cong. Ch. and Soc. 13.47 Lowell. Mrs. S. L. P. 0.50 Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 58.72 Manchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 Marshfield. Rev. E. Alden, 2 packages of books. Medway. ESTATE of Clarissa A. Pond, by A. Pond, Ex. 135.00 Medway. Mrs. A. D. Sanford, box of C. Melrose. E. N. C. 0.50 Methuen. ESTATE of Joseph F. Ingalls, by Samuel G. Sargent and Will. C. Sleeper, Ex’s. 959.09 Middleborough. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Middlefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., to const. OLIVER CHURCH and REV. CHAS. M. PEIRCE, L.M’s 60.71 Middleton. ESTATE of Mrs. Catharine Merriam Wilkins, by Francis P. Merriam, Ex. 100.00 Monson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.60 New Bedford. Miss H. M. L. 1.00 Newburyport. Mrs. J. B. 0.50 North Adams. Cong. Ch. 27.68 Northampton. First Cong. Ch. 47.06 Newton. Eliot Cong. Ch. and Soc. $150.64; Mrs. C. F. R. $1 151.64 Newtonville. Mrs. J. W. Hayes 25.00 North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 Oxford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $21.39; L. W. 50c 21.89 Pittsfield. James R. Jones 15.00 Princeton. H. N. M. 5.00 Quincy. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 37.00 Salem. Geo. Driver 5.00 Shelburne. Cong. Ch. 9.61 South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Southfield. W. H. E. 0.50 South Framingham. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 88.00 South Hadley. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 South Hadley Falls. First Cong. Ch. $42; Cong. Ch. and Soc. $41 83.00 South Plymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.13 South Weymouth. Union Cong. Ch. 30.00 Spencer. Ladies’ Benev. Soc. 20.00 Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. $38.55; Hope Cong. Ch. $21.55; South Cong. Ch. $12.96 73.06 Sudbury. U.E. Ch. and Soc. 25.50 Sutton. R. L. 1.00 Templeton. J. L. $1; L. M. 50c. 1.50 Tolland. Mrs. N. E. S. 0.50 Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 36.50 Warwick. Trin. Ch. and Sab. Sch. 12.00 Webster. First Cong. Ch. 25.00 Westborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc., M. C. Coll. $26.93; Cong. Sab. Sch. $56.02; Mrs. W. F. Morse $5 87.95 West Brookfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 26.75 Westhampton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.50 West Springfield. Park St. Ch. 15.00 Williamsburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.14 Williamstown. First Cong. Ch. 15.39 Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 41.80 Winchester. P.S. $1; “Two Children” 86c. 1.86 Worcester. Salem St. Ch. M. C. Coll. 19.10 —— “A Friend” 250.00 —— “A Friend” 20.00

RHODE ISLAND, 27c.

Providence. Rev. W. P. Doe, box of books. Slaterville. M. J. T. 0.27

CONNECTICUT, $2,583.80.

Ansonia. Cong. Ch. 26.71 Avon. Miss L. A. A. 0.50 Berlin. Second Cong. Ch. 10.00 Birmingham. Cong. Ch. 46.38 Bolton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Bristol. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.00 Broad Brook. Cong. Ch. 11.00 Darien. Cong. Ch. 35.50 East Hartland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.24 East Woodstock. ESTATE of George A. Paine, by John Paine, Ex. 646.15 Fairfield. Cong. Ch. 54.42 Farmington. Cong. Ch. 63.52 Groton. Cong. Sab. Sch. 10.44 Guilford. “Lea.” 10.00 Haddam Neck. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 4.15 Higganum. Mrs. R. Reed $1.25; Mrs. R. G. $1; Mrs. G. T. G. $1 3.25 Huntington. N. T. and D. L. $1 ea. 2.00 Killingly. Miss E. F. Jencks 5.00 Ledyard. Cong. Ch. 8.75 Mansfield. Second Cong. Ch. 7.00 New Haven. Howard Ave. Cong. Ch. and Soc. $22; College St. Ch. $10; Centre Ch. (ad’l) $5; A. T. $1 38.00 North Branford. Cong. Ch. 22.00 Norwich. Mrs. J. M. Huntington, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00 Plantsville. Mrs. E. Hotchkiss, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00 Plainville. Dea. L. H. Carter, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 Prospect. B. B. Brown $10: Andrew Smith $5 15.00 Putnam. Estate of Chandler A. Spalding, by Emily Spalding and Calvin D. Williams, Ex’s 1,046.63 Rockville. Second Cong. Ch. 118.65 Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 8.81 Sherman. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 22.75 South Coventry. Cong. Ch. 47.84 Southington. Cong. Ch. 18.17 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 31.94 Westford. Cong. Ch 5.00 West Hartford. Cong. Ch. 85.00 West Stafford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00 Windham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 14.00 Windsor Locks. Cong. Ch. 65.00 Woodbury. Mrs. E. L. Curtiss 10.50 Woodfords. Dr. E. C. 0.50

NEW YORK, $1,197,84.

Albion. L. S. 1.00 Binghamton. “A Friend” (ad’l) $12.50; Mrs. J. E. Bean $10 22.50 Brooklyn. Plymouth Church $329.15; Central Cong. Ch. $182.50; Mrs. Mary E. Whiton $15; Mrs. William Bane, packages books and C. 526.65 Cleveland. Rev. W. S. T. 0.60 Eagle Harbor. A. P. 0.48 Geneva. Mrs. G. F. Milton (of which $5 for Student Aid) 10.00 Himrods. Mrs. G. S. Ayres 5.00 Homer. Mrs. E. B. Dean 5.00 Hume. Mrs. L. H. P. and Mrs. J. H. 1.00 Ithaca. First Cong. Ch. 11.52 Martinsburgh. Mrs. W. Arthur 2.00 Medina. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. of Presb. Ch., by Lina Burroughs, box of C. and books. New York. Broadway Tabernacle Ch. $440.93. —“Pilgrim Band,” Broadway Tab. Sab. Sch. $11.41, _for Student Aid._—“A Friend,” package _for Memphis, Tenn._ 452.34 Norwood. “A Friend,” by Rev. C. H. Rowley 4.37 Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy 100.00 Oxford. Ass’d Presb. Soc. 9.58 Rome. John B. Jervis 25.00 Saratoga Springs. S. C. 0.50 Syracuse. Mrs. C. C. Clarke 6.80 Troy. Mrs. E. C. S. 1.00 Utica. Mrs. Cornelia Hurlburt 10.00 West Brook. T. S. H. 0.50 West Winfield. L. Bucklen 2.00 Wolcott. H. M. Hamilton, box of books.

NEW JERSEY, $101.50.

Montclair. First Cong. Ch. (in part) 100.00 Phillipsburg. H. P. M. 0.50 Trenton. Mrs. E. B. F. 1.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $15.

Philadelphia. Mrs. S. L. Chester 5.00 Pittsburgh. Sam’l Boyd 10.00

OHIO, $910.87.

Akron. Cong. Ch. 81.70 Andover. Cong. Ch. 9.71 Bellevue. Cong. Ch. 23.50 Cincinnati. Rent, _for the poor in New Orleans_ 78.72 Cleveland. Euclid Ave. Cong. Ch. 18.80 Deerfield. Mrs. Wm. Penn 10.00 Geneva. First Cong. Ch. 20.50 Huntington. First Cong. Ch. 23.25 Kent. First Cong. Ch. 15.50 Lenox. “A Friend” 5.00 Mallet Creek. Dr. J. A. Bingham 5.00 Marysville. Ladies’ Home Miss. Soc. of Cong. Ch. 6.50 Mechanicsburgh. Mrs. M. K. H. 1.00 New Richland. E. J. 1.00 North Benton. Mrs. M. J. H. 0.50 North Ridgefield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.15 Oberlin. ESTATE of Mary I. Hulburd, by Hiram Hulburd, Ex. 50.00 Oberlin. L. F. 1.00 Penfield. B. R. 1.00 Plymouth. Estate of Henry Amerman, by J. H. Packer 400.00 Richfield. S. R. Oviatt $3; Mrs. S. Townsend $2.50 5.50 Sandusky. First Cong. Ch., to const. REV. JOSIAH STRONG and L. H. LEWIS, L. M’s. 60.00 Steubenville. Woman’s Miss. Soc. of First Cong. Ch. 8.50 Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed 10.00 Wadsworth. Cong. Ch. $10; Geo. Lyman $5 15.00 Wauseon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.55 West Andover. Cong. Ch. 20.29 West Williamsfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.20 Youngstown. Woman’s Miss. Soc. 20.00

INDIANA, $21.67.

Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. 14.67 Liber. J. R. Wells 5.00 Sparta. John Hawkswell 2.00

ILLINOIS, $945.82.

Alton. “Church of the Redeemer” 30.00 Aurora. New Eng. Ch. 20.00 Bloomingdale. S. S. Harrison 2.00 Champaign. Mrs. A. O. H. 0.60 Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 473.78 Chicago. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._—Three Subscribers $1 ea.; Mrs. M. J. B. $1; Bethany Cong. Ch. 50c 29.50 Dunlap. Mrs. Elmira Jones 10.00 Galesburg. First Cong. Ch. 83.64 Geneseo. Cong. Ch. 143.80 Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. 14.00 Kewanne. Cong. Sab. Sch. _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 Lake Forest. Mrs. W. H. F. 1.00 La Harpe. Mrs. E. J. N. 1.00 Morris. Miss Narcissa Sample, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._ 2.00 Morrison. Mrs. S. T. $1; Mrs. A. P. $1; A. M. S. $1 3.00 Oak Park. Mrs. J. Huggins, _for Student Aid_ 10.00 Peru. Cong. Bible Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 12.50 Plymouth. Cong. Ch. 14.00 Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., _for Student Aid, Fisk U_. 25.00 St. Charles. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 5.00 Sparta. Bryce Crawford $5; Robert Stevenson $2 7.00 Tolono. Mrs. L. Haskell 10.00 Tonica. Cong. Ch. 23.00

MICHIGAN, $132.41.