Part 5

The third question is, How did she do it? With a song. How was that? Well, upon this particular morning I was feeling it weighing down upon my heart and making me wonder whether it was any good to visit people who were hungry and full of care, unless I had the money to relieve their wants. You see, the mountain had made every thing so dark that I couldn’t see Jesus. Now, as I walked on I heard a child’s voice behind me calling, “Strawberries——sweet, ripe strawberries——fresh, ripe strawberries,” going by; and then, after an instant’s pause, the voice came again, but this time it said:

“More love, O Christ, to Thee; More love to Thee.”

I waited until she came up to me; and then, after we had spoken and shaken hands, I asked her as we walked together, why she put those few lines in her call.

“Cause _it helps me_ and ’members me of Jesus,” was her answer.

“Why do you want to be reminded of Jesus?” I asked.

“Cause Him died so I could go to Heaven.”

“Why do you want to go to Heaven.”

“To see Jesus,” was the prompt reply.

We parted at the corner of the street, Clarissa going on, and I standing to listen until her song died away in the distance. Then I turned to find the ugly mountain gone and beautiful Faith resting where it had been so lately.

How many of you, I wonder, are going to become mountain movers from to-day? Remember, a loving word, a gentle act, a little bit of self-denial on your part, may move some ugly mountain out of your brother’s or sister’s or companion’s road, and make the holy angels glad because you love Jesus.

Do not forget, when you kneel down to pray, to ask Jesus to bless me, and give me every day more love to himself, so that I can have more and still more for all of you.

Lovingly your friend, LILLIE E. BARR, _Missionary of the American Missionary Ass’n_.

RECEIPTS

FOR MAY, 1879.

MAINE, $193.34.

Bangor. First Cong. Ch. to const. REV. S. L. B. SPEASE, L. M. 40.43 Bethel. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Brunswick. Marshall Cram 10.00 Calais. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.34 Dennysville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 East Orrington. Cong. Ch. 2.36 Garland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.00 Gilead. Rev. H. R. 1.00 Newfield. Mrs. N. C. A. 1.00 Portland. Plymouth Cong. Ch., to const. REV. HERBERT W. LATHE and JAMES CRIE, L. M’s. 68.31 Yarmouth. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.90

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $231.05.

Chester. C. S. G. 1.00 Chichester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l) 0.75 Derry. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Student, Hampton Inst._ 20.00 Exeter. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $67.55; “Member of First Parish,” $10 77.55 Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.89 Keene. Miss E. R. 1.00 Kingston. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $6.75; Rev. J. Chapman and wife, $6 12.75 Laconia. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.77 Milford. Peter and Cynthia S. Burns 30.00 Orfordville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 Pembroke. Rev. D. G. 1.00 Portsmouth. North Cong. Ch. 53.34 Wakefield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 Wilmot. Cong. Ch. 4.00

VERMONT, $361.67.

Bakersfield. Miss E. M. Barnes, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 19.79 Bellows Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 Cambridge. Dea. Solomon Montague 10.00 Clarendon. Mrs. Wm. D. Marsh, $100, to const. MISS LUCY N. BOWEN, MISS M. NEWHALL, and MISS H. E. GILBERT, L. M’s; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12 112.00 Danby. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.22 Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 East Dorset. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.10 Fayetteville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.37 Jericho. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.66 Norwich. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.50; and Sab. Sch., $11.30 23.80 Orwell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.44 Pomfret. S. C. 1.00 Saint Albans. Mrs. S. F. Stranahan, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 7.50 Sharon. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Thetford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $27.54; Rev. J.M., $1 28.54 Vergennes. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 20.00 Waterbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. FRED C. GRAVES, L. M. 30.00 Wells River. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 32.25

MASSACHUSETTS, $3,037.77.

Amesbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.82 Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 12.00 Andover. Cong. Ch. 3.29 Ashfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc., $45.35; Henry Taylor, $5 50.35 Barre. E. C. Sab. Sch., to const. GEO. E. ALLEN and P. H. BABBITT, L. M’s 60.00 Beverly. Dane St. Sab. Sch., _for Student, Talladega C._ 10.00 Bolton. “A Friend,” _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 30.00 Boston. Central Cong. Ch. and Soc. 455.82 Boston. Russell Sturgis, Jr., $25, _for Pupils, Atlanta U._;——Mrs. E. P. Eayrs, $10; Union Ch., _for Freight_, $3; “A Friend,” $1 39.00 Boston Highlands. Eliot Cong. Ch. 104.01 Braintree and Weymouth. Union Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Brimfield. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., $15; Ladies of Second Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. and $2 for _Freight_; Mrs. P. C. Browning, $10; Mrs. J. S. Upham, $3 30.00 Brookfield. Evan. Cong. Ch. 60.00 Cambridgeport. Ladies’ Aux. of Pilgrim Ch., 2 boxes of C. _for Mendi M._ Chelsea. Mrs. M. E. J., 50c.; Mrs. P., 50c.; —— 2 Bbls. of C. 1.00 Conway. Cong. Soc. to const. MRS. CATHARINE ADAMS and S. BAXTER ALLIS, L. M’s 66.40 Curtisville. C. L. D. 1.00 East Braintree. Circle of Ladies, $36, _for Pupils, Atlanta U._;——R. A. F., 50c. 36.50 East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc. 18.89 East Weymouth. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.13 Everett. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.66 Franklin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 24.16 Florence. A. L. Williston, for John Payson Williston, deceased 25.00 Gardner. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Grantville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.00 Grafton. Evangelical Cong. Sab. Sch., $13.10 and Bedding, _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 13.10 Hinsdale. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 62.35 Holliston. S. T. 0.72 Housatonic. Housatonic Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.51 Ipswich. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 31.27 Lancaster. ESTATE of Sophia Stearns, by W. W. Wyman, EX. 7.00 Lanesville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 Lee. H. M. C. 0.50 Leicester. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.00 Lowell. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Moore (of which $300 _for Chinese M._, and $60 to const. ALBERT MONROE MOORE and JAMES AUGUSTINE MOORE, L. M’s) 500.00 Lowell. Eliot Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.30 Littleton. Otis Manning 25.00 Millbury. Second Cong. Ch., _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 26.30 Milford. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.22 Newburyport. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.24 North Beverly. Mrs. Rebecca Conant 5.00 Northborough. “A Friend” 5.00 Northbridge Centre. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.25 North Easton. Miss Helen Ames, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 Norton. Young Ladies of Wheaton Sem., _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 21.00 Paxton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.00 Pepperell. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.37 Reading. Rev. W. H. Willcox, _for Pupils, Atlanta U._ 100.00 Rockport. Mrs. Nancy Brooks 10.00 Salem. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., $68.85; “A Friend,” $5 73.85 Sherborn. Pilgrim Cong. Ch. and Soc. and Sab. Sch. 20.00 Somerville. Broadway Cong. Ch. 7.00 South Dennis. Cong. Ch. 9.70 South Braintree. Cong. Sab. Sch. 12.00 South Egremont. Cong. Ch., $22; D. D., $1 23.00 South Framington. South Cong. Ch. and Soc. 86.00 South Weymouth. “Friend” 0.50 Spencer. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 190.45 Sunderland. J. M. 0.50 Templeton. J. L. 1.00 Uxbridge. “A Friend” 2.00 Warren. Cong. Ch., to const. CHAS. H. WALKER and MRS. ALLEN BURBANK, L. M’s 70.00 Watertown. Corban Soc., 2 Bbls. of C. West Andover. Cong. Ch. 19.00 Westborough. Freedmen’s Miss. Ass’n., Bbl. of C. and $2 _for Freight_ 2.00 West Boxford. Cong. Ch. (proceeds of a Fair) $33; Cong. Ch. and Soc., $12.02 45.02 West Brookfield. MRS. HARRIET A. WHITE, to const. herself L. M. 30.00 Winchendon. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 80.46 Winchester. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 96.88 Worcester. Union Ch., $77.45; Salem St. Ch. and Soc. (Mon. Con.) $22; Central Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 80c.; Mrs. Elizabeth Grassie, $10; Mrs. S. E. Bailey, $2 112.25 —— “A Friend” 1.00

RHODE ISLAND, $315.74.

Providence. Union Cong. Ch. and Soc. 300.00 Westerly. Pawcatuck Cong. Ch. 15.74

CONNECTICUT, $1,157.43.

Birmingham. Cong. Ch. (of which $25 from “W. E. D.”) 49.02 Canaan. “A Mite” 1.00 Cornwall. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 15.85 Darien. Cong. Ch. 30.00 East Haddam. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.50 East Woodstock. ESTATE of Miss Hannah Smith, by John Paine, Ex. 200.00 Enfield. First Cong. Ch. 14.54 Gilead. Cong Ch. 19.00 Greenwich. I. P. 0.50 Guilford. First Cong. Ch. 16.00 Hadlyme. Cong. Ch. 8.00 Hartford. A. W. 1.00 Hebron. First Cong. Ch., $20.32; L. W. R., $1 21.32 Killingworth. A. V. E. 0.51 Middlebury. Cong. Ch. 21.88 Middletown. Third Cong. Ch., to const. WILLIAM SOUTHMAYD L. M. 30.00 New Haven. North Ch. $137.12; College St. Cong. Ch., $51.87 188.99 Old Saybrook. Cong. Ch. 6.74 Plainville. “A Friend,” to const. CHARLES W. MOODY, JOSEPH EDMONDS and JOHN LEOPARD, L.M’s 100.00 Putnam. Second Cong. Ch. 55.77 Rockville. Second Cong. Ch, $118.64;——Bible Class Second Cong. Ch., $24, _for Student Aid, Straight U._;——First Cong. Ch. $90.70, to const. DEA. JACKSON GORDON and CHAS. E. HARRIS, L. M’s 233.34 Saybrook. Second Cong Ch. 11.75 Simsbury. By Mrs. McLean, _for Atlanta U._ 2.00 Scotland. Cong. Ch. 11.25 Suffield. First Cong. Soc. 12.91 Thomaston. Cong. Ch. 25.56 Willimantic. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Straight U._ 25.00 —— “A Connecticut Clergyman” 20.00

NEW YORK, $2,395.58.

Antwerp. First Cong. Ch. 16.20 Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., E. R. Kennedy. Supt., _for a Lady Missionary_ 100.00 Brooklyn. J. Davenport, $50; Park Cong. Ch., $5.71 55.71 Bergen. ESTATE of J. M. Hitchcock, by A. E. Hitchcock, Ex. 289.54 Berkshire. First Cong. Ch., $17.80; Levi Bail $2 19.80 Binghamton. Cong. Ch. 100.00 Buffalo. Miss. I. M. S. 0.50 Champion. Cong. Ch. 5.34 Danby. First Cong. Ch. 12.00 East Bloomfield. ESTATE of Miss Phebe Gauss, by C. W. Bradley, Adm’r, to const. MRS. HORACE TAYLOR, MRS. MAURICE FIELD, MRS. HARRY GODDARD, MRS. JAMES COLLINS, LORIN H. BRUNSON, AUGUSTUS BUELL, JOHN A. GAUSS and ROBERT F. CODDING, L. M’s 250.00 Fort Edward. W. F. G. 1.00 Greenwich. Proceeds of Claim on Cong. Ch. Property 668.44 Groton. Storrs A. Barrows 30.00 Jamestown. Mrs. S. A. Bly’s Sab. Sch. Class, $4.22, and “Friends” in Cong. Ch., $4.03 8.25 Lake George. Rev. Henry S. Huntington ($5 of which _for Chinese M._) 10.00 Lenox. Amos S. Johnson 5.00 Mexico. Mrs. J. M. Brown, $1.50; Mrs. J. K. S., $1; J. D., 50c.; G. T., 25c. 3.25 Newburgh. JOHN H. CORWIN, $30, to const. himself L. M., also Box of Papers 30.00 New York. Broadway Tabernacle Church 531.39 Nineveh. Reuben Lovejoy 200.00 Oak Hill. Mrs. Caty Hall 5.00 Oswego. First Cong. Sab. Sch., and H. L. Hart, $25, _for Student Aid, Straight U._——Cong. Ch. M. C. Coll., $3.79 28.79 Oxford. Presb. Ch. 2.12 Prattsburgh. “H. A. H.” 5.00 Prottham. F. E. 0.25 Wellsville. First Cong. Ch. 13.00 West Farms. Rev. A. Wood, pkg. of books and papers West Yaphank. “Mrs. H. M. O.” 5.00

NEW JERSEY, $11.50.

Bound Brook. Cong. Ch. 5.50 Montclair. Mrs. J. H. Pratt’s Class in Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Student, Talladega. C._ 6.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $149.25.

Hyde Park. Thomas Eynon, to const. REV. E. B. EVANS, L. M. 32.00 North East. B. T. Spooner 5.00 Philadelphia. Central Cong. Ch., to const. DEA. WILLIAM CAMPBELL, DEA. SAMUEL A. JOHNSON, and LEONARD O. SMITH, L. M’s 112.25

OHIO, $586.60.

Braceville. “S. P. I.” 1.00 Bryon. S. E. Blakeslee, _for Foreign M._ 5.00 Burton. Cong. Ch. 18.57 Claridon. “E. C. T.” 1.00 Cleveland. Mrs. S. A. Bradbury 25.00 Columbus. First Cong. Ch., to const PROF. JOHN SHORT, REV. JOHN JONES, REV. E. I. JONES, WALTER CRAFTS, and REV. HENRY F. TYLER, L.M’s 149.07 Columbus. Welsh Cong. Ch. 8.44 Freedom. Cong. Ch., $4.20; H. K., $5; “J. C. B.,” $5 14.20 Huntsburgh. “Friends,” by E, L. Miller, _for Ind. Sch., Talladega, Ala._ 3.00 Leatherwood. M. D. J. 1.00 Madison. “Earnest Workers,” _for Student, Aid, Tougaloo U._ 30.00 Mansfield. First Cong. Ch., to const. CHAS. B. JAMESON, L. M. 31.53 Marietta. First Cong. Ch. 73.65 Middlefield. “L. S. B.” 5.00 Nelson. Mrs. Julia A. Clark 30.00 Newark. “A Friend,” $60; Mrs. J. C. Wheaton, $10, to const. MRS. MATILDA MCCRORY. L. M. 70.00 Oberlin. Oberlin Freedwoman’s Aid Soc., $75, by Mrs. W. G. Frost, Treas. _for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga._;——“A Friend,” $5, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;——L. F., $1 81.00 Painesville. Ladies’ Soc., by Mrs. Cornelia H. Greer. Pres., _for Missionary at Miller’s Station, Ga._ 30.00 Saybrook. “Friends,” _for Freight_ 1.00 Springfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., Quar. Coll 6.14 Willoughby. Mrs. A. K. 1.00 —— “A Friend” 1.00

INDIANA, $20.

Crawfordsville. Prof. C. Mills and Wife 20.00

ILLINOIS, $1,309.52.

Champaign. Cong. Sab. Sch. 25.00 Chicago. First Cong. Ch. 474.00 Chicago. South Cong. Ch., $11.79; W. S., 50c. 12.29 Elgin. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00 Galesburg. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $30, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;——“A Friend,” $15 45.00 Kewanee. Rev. J. F. L 1.00 Morris. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00 Normal. Cong. Ch. 6.70 Oak Park. “A Friend” 10.00 Paxton. Cong. Ch. 3.00 Polo. Robert Smith 500.00 Rockford. Second Cong. Ch. $120.38; First Cong. Ch., $36.25;——Ladies’ Aid Soc. First Cong. Ch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 181.53 Tonica. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 25.00

MICHIGAN, $70.76.

Almont. Mrs. A. R. 1.00 Benzonia. Rev. D. B. Spencer 3.00 Detroit. Fort St. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 6.00 Litchfield. Shining Light Mission Band of Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.00 Olivet. Miss P. A. Stone, $5; Cong. Ch. Mon. Con. Coll., $4.29 9.29 Pentwater. H. R. 1.00 Salem. Summit Missionary Aux., by Mrs. A. Vansickle 5.40 Solon. Cong. Sab. Sch. 1.00 Vermontville. First Cong. Ch. 30.00 Webster. Cong. Ch. 8.07

WISCONSIN, $221.

Beloit. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. $15.90; Ladies, _for Freight_, $2 17.90 Columbus. Olivet Cong. Ch. 13.00 Cookville. Cong. Ch. 5.65 Fulton. Cong. Ch. 10.35 Hartford. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 1.00 Liberty. Cong. Ch. 3.00 Rosendale. Cong. Ch. 30.00 Salem. Cong. Ch. 8.50 Wauwatosa. Cong. Ch., to const. HENRY PAYSON GILLETT and MISS MARY S. EARLS, L. M’s 71.10 Watertown. Cong. Ch. 17.00 West Salem. Cong. Ch. 16.00 Whitewater. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for a Pupil, Fisk U._ 25.00 Wilmot. Cong. Ch. 2.50

IOWA, $176.09.

Atlantic. Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.03 Burlington. Sab. Sch. of First Cong. Ch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;——Miss M. L., $1 26.00 Davenport. Cyrus Pitts 5.00 Durant. Cong. Ch. 6.00 Fort Madison. Francis Sawyer 15.00 Gilmau. Cong. Sab. Sch., $5; Rev. F. H. Magoun, $2 7.00 Keokuk. Woman’s Miss. Soc., _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 31.75 Manchester. W. G. 1.00 McGregor. Cong. Ch. 21.31 Milton Junction. Cong. Ch. 6.00 Waltham. ESTATE of Miss Emeline Williams, by Wm. Mason 50.00

MISSOURI, $27.50.