Part 6

Allentown. C. M. 0.50 Centre Road Station. J. A. Scovel 10.00 Cowdersport. Mrs. John S. Mann 5.00 East Brook. James H. Patton 5.00 Hermitage. W. F. Stewart, $5; Miss Ellen Porter, $1 6.00 Philadelphia. W. P. F. and Mrs. S. D. 1.00 West Alexander. John McCoy and Wife 5.00 Wurtemburg. Mrs. T. E. Liebendorfer, $2; Others, $2.12 4.12

OHIO, $428.24.

Ashland. John Thomson 2.28 Austinburgh. N. A. 1.00 Bellefontaine. Mr. and Mrs. John Lindsay 10.00 Bellevue. J. S. 1.00 Berea. James S. Smedley 5.00 Burton. Miss E. E. P. 0.50 Chatham Centre. Cong. Ch. 18.81 Claridon. Cong. Soc. 13.50 Cleveland. Franklin Ave. Cong. Ch., $13.20; John Foote, $10; Rev. H. Trautman, $5 28.20 Columbus. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 50.00 Elyria. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 40.00 Four Corners. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Geneva. Mrs. S. Kingsbury 10.00 Granville. Thomas D. Williams 10.00 Kingsville. M. Whiting 20.00 Lenox. Cong. Ch. 9.25 Lyme. Cong. Ch. 17.88 Madison. Ladies Benev. Soc., $14.75, _for Student Aid, Tougaloo U._; “Old Friend,” $5; W. H. S., $1 20.75 Moss Run. M. B. F. 0.50 Oberlin. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25.50, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._; Harris Lewis, $3. 28.50 Orwell. Rev. W. T. Richardson 5.00 Painesville. First Cong. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._; First Cong. Ch. $18.57 43.57 Parisville. Rev. D. D. 0.50 Ruggles. Mrs. J. T. 0.50 Saybrook. Rev. A. D. Barber and Family 20.00 Seville. Julia Hulburt 10.00 Sharonville. J. H. 1.00 Sicily. Julian F. Cumberland 5.00 Springfield. W. A. F. 1.00 Tallmadge. Mrs. Harriet Seward 5.00 Toledo. Mrs. Eliza H. Weed,$10; By E. P. B., $1 11.00 Wellington. E. W. 0.50 Willoughby. Miss Mary P. Hastings 10.00 Windham. First Cong. Ch. 23.00

INDIANA, $17.50.

Fort Wayne. Cong. Ch. _for Chinese M._ 6.75 Madison. G. W. Southwick 5.00 South Vigo. Cong. Ch. 2.75 Sparta. Mrs. L. R. 1.00 Versailles. J. D. Nichols 2.00

ILLINOIS, $1000.32.

Albion. Mrs. Martha Skeavington 5.00 Avon. Mrs. Cylinder Woods, $5; “A Friend,” $5 10.00 Aurora. New Eng. Cong. Ch., $9.65;—Mrs. J. D. Pike’s Sab. Sch. Class, $7; _for Student Aid, Fisk U._; N. L. J., 50c. 17.15 Batavia. “W. E. M.” 20.00 Belvidere. ESTATE of Olney Nichols, by H. W. Pier, Ex. 59.61 Byron. I. S. K. 1.00 Chicago. E. W. Blatchford, $112.50, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._;—Union Park Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._; —New Eng. Cong. Ch., $10 147.50 Danville. Mrs. A. M. Swan 5.00 Denver. Thomas Graham 5.00 Farmington. Phineas Chapman 44.00 Galesburgh. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $50, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._;—J. G. W., 50c. 50.50 Genesco. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 135.92 Hamlet. L. C. 1.00 Jacksonville. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 10.00 Lyndon. First Cong. Ch. 11.00 Kankakee. F. S. H. and J. H. 1.00 Kewanee. Cong. Ch., $102.73;—Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., $25, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 127.73 Knoxville. W. A., $1; Mrs. A. B., $1 2.00 Mendon. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. 16.00 Milan. By Mrs. J. M. L. D. 1.00 Oak Park. J. W. Scoville 100.00 Ottawa. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 35.00 Paxton. “A Friend” 20.00 Peoria. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Griswold, _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 100.00 Polo. Penny Contribution, _for Lady Missionary, Nashville, Tenn._ 1.00 Port Byron. A. F. Hollister, $6; Ladies’ Miss. Soc., $5.50; Emma Hollister, $2.00 13.50 Princeton. Mrs. P. B. Corss 10.00 Rockford. Mrs. A. H. Perry 20.00 Roseville. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad’l) 4.54 South Bend. R. Burroughs 10.00 Tonica. V. G. Lutz 5.00 Wauponsee Grove. Cong. Ch. 5.87 Woodburn. Nickel Miss. Soc., by Miss E. M. Hollister, Treas. 5.00

MICHIGAN, $112.61.

Calumet. Robert Dobbie 10.50 Covert. F. C. 0.57 Cross Village. Rev. A. A. C. 1.00 Detroit. F. M. S. 0.50 Dexter. Dennis Warner 10.00 East Saginaw. Mrs. Miriam Seymour 2.00 Flint. H. Whittlesey 2.00 Jackson. Mrs. R. M. Bennett 1.50 Kalamazoo. Mrs. M. J. Kent 5.00 Lowell. Mrs. E. A. Yerkes 5.00 Marshall. D. H. Miller 5.00 Olivet. “A Friend,” _for Talladega C._ 0.25 Owasso. Mrs. F. G. D. 0.50 Romeo. Miss T. S. C., $1; Miss M. A. J., $1 2.00 Saint Johns. A. J. B. 0.50 Somerset. Cong. Ch. 18.87 Stockbridge. W. B. C. 1.00 Summit. Missionary Society, by Mrs. A. Vansickle 6.67 Union City. First. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 24.75 White Lake. Robert Garner and wife 15.00

WISCONSIN, $227.26.

Appleton. First Cong. Ch. 20.20 Beloit. First Cong. Ch. $30, _for Student Aid, Talladega C._; Mrs. B. D. $1; W. P. 51c. 31.51 Brandon. Rev. H. W. C. 0.50 Bristol. Wis. Branch of W. B. M. S. 10.00 Cheboygan. A. D. and D. B. 50c., ea. 1.00 Clinton. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Selma, Ala._ 15.79 Fond du Lac. H. S. M. 0.50 Geneva. Presb. Ch. Quar. coll., $19.25; W. H. H., 50c. 19.75 Kenosha. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.27 La Crosse. First Cong. Ch. 15.44 Mazomanie. R. L. 1.00 Mukwanago. Cong. Sab. Sch. 3.00 Sparta. Cong. Ch., $52; Cong. Sab. Sch., $29.34; Mission Band, $8.96, to const. MISS LYNTHA FRANCK, MRS. O. L. IRWIN and J. R. SKILLMAN, L. M’s 90.30 ————. By L. S. Bingham 2.00 Racine. Mrs. D. D. N. 1.00 Rockland. Thomas H. Eynon 10.00

IOWA, $444.27.

Anamosa. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00 Bowensburgh. ESTATE of Eliza B. Spencer, by Richard Eells, Ex. 100.00 Big Rock. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Burlington. Cong. Ch. 70.36 Clay. Cong. Ch. 4.50 Cleveland. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 10.00 Des Moines. Plymouth Sab. Sch., $10; “Friends,” $13, _for Student Aid_; —T. E. Brown, $10; Mrs. A. W. Rollins, $5, _for Repairs, Talladega C._ 38.00 Dubuque. Mrs. S. N. M. and Mrs. J. B., 50c. ea. 1.00 Dunlap. Cong. Ch. 26.66 Grinnell. Cong. Ch. and Boys’ S. S. Class, $26.22; Miss S. Whitcomb’s S. S. Class, $5, _for Student Aid_, and A. Steele, $5, _for Repairs, Talladega C._ 36.22 Marion. Mrs. A. W. Shedd, $5, _for Student Aid_; J. T. S., 50c. 5.50 McGregor. Ladies’ Miss. Soc. 17.70 Monticello. Ladies of Cong. Ch. 5.00 Muscatine. Cong. Ch., $36.05, and a Sewing Machine, _for Talladega C._ 36.05 New Hampton. Dea. Gideon Gardiner, $5; Ladies’ Miss. Soc., Quar. Coll., $1.60 6.60 Newton. Rev. S. A. A. 0.50 Osage. Cong. Ch., $10.75; Woman’s Miss. Soc., $5.50; Mrs. G. W. Smith, $1.50 17.75 Rockford. Ladies’ Miss. Soc., by Mrs. O. J. Green, Treas. 2.68 Sherrills Mount. Rev. J. R. 1.00 Tabor. J. F. S. 0.50 Traer. Rev. C. H. Bissel, $5; Infant Class Cong. Sab. Sch., $2.25; Mrs. Ames, $2 9.25 Waterloo. Leavett & Johnson, _for Talladega C._ 40.00

KANSAS, $16.00.

Leavenworth. Prof. L. A. Stone ($1 of which _for Chinese Mission_) 3.00 Meriden. “A Friend of Missions” 10.00 Topeka. Justin Hillyer 3.00

MINNESOTA, $86.41.

Audubon. Cong. Ch. 2.40 Austin. Union Cong. Ch. 25.77 Excelsior. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Hamilton. Cong. Ch. 5.00 Medford. J. W. Powell’s Sab. Sch. Class 2.00 Minneapolis. Plymouth Cong. Ch., $19.64; Second Cong. Ch., $1.60 21.24 Northfield. “Friends,” $7, and Bbl. of C. _for Talladega C._; A. L., $1 8.00 Plainview. Primary Class Cong. Sab. Sch. 2.00 Saint Paul. Plymouth Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Fisk U._ 10.00 Spring Valley. Cong. Ch. (ad’l) 5.00

NEBRASKA, $29.00.

Freemont. Cong. Ch., $5; and Sab. Sch., $8 13.00 Lincoln. J. G. E. 1.00 Nebraska City. “A Friend,” $10; Woman’s Missionary Soc. of First Cong. Ch., $3.50; Individuals, $1.50 15.00

CALIFORNIA, $5.00.

Chico. Lewis H. Moss 5.00

WASHINGTON TERRITORY, $8.01.

White River. Cong. Ch. 8.01

TENNESSEE, $587.25.

Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. 117.15 Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition, $245.10; Prof. A. K. Spencer, $200, _for Fisk U._;—Soc. for Evan. of Africa in Fisk U., $25, _for a Pupil, Mendi M._ 470.10

NORTH CAROLINA, $131.36.

Dudley. Tuition 6.45 Raleigh. Washington Sch. Tuition 16.25 Wilmington. Normal Sch. Tuition, $82.50; Sales, $22; Cong. Ch. $4.16 108.66

SOUTH CAROLINA, $320.50.

Charleston. Avery Inst., Tuition, $317.50; —Plymouth Cong. Ch., $3, _for Mendi M._ 320.50

GEORGIA, $550.69.

Atlanta. Storrs School Tuition, $185.60; Rent, $3; Atlanta U., Tuition, $97; Rent, $16.50 312.10 Athens. J. G. H. 0.51 Hawkinsville. M. B. C. 0.50 Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition, $48.15; Rent, $4; First Cong. Ch., $8 60.15 Savannah. Beach Inst., Tuition, 118.50; Sales, $58.93; Rent, $10 187.43

ALABAMA, $418.14.

Mobile. Emerson Inst., Tuition, $179.45; Cong. Ch., $2 181.45 Montgomery. Public Fund 175.00 Talladega. Talladega Col., _Tuition_, $61.19; Rev. J. W. R., 50c 61.69

MISSISSIPPI, $57.97.

Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition, $47.77; Rent, $10.20 57.97

MISSOURI, $18.00.

Bridge Creek. I. R. W. 0.50 Index. W. B. Wills, $10; P. M. Wills, $5; F. P. M., $1; Others, $1.50 17.50

LOUISIANA, $96.25.

New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition 96.25

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Jubilee Singers, _for Dept. Natural Science, Fisk U._ 25.00

INCOME FUND, $195.50.

Interest _for Mendi M._ 45.50 Graves Library Fund 150.00

CANADA, $20.00.

Guelph. First Cong. Ch. 10.00 Sherbrooke. Thomas S. Morey 10.00

LABRADOR, $10.00.

Labrador. Rev. S. R. Butler 10.00

BULGARIA, $10.00.

Bulgaria, Samokov. “Wanderer” 10.00 ———————— Total 15,665.32 Total from Oct. 1st to Jan. 31st $58,823.19

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FOR TILLOTSON COLLEGIATE AND NORMAL INST., AUSTIN, TEXAS.

Exeter, N. H. Mrs. Augusta F. Odlin 100.00 Hartford, Conn. Mrs. Henry A. Perkins 100.00 Worcester, Mass. John B. Gough 50.00 New York, N. Y. Mrs. C. P. Stokes 100.00 —————— Total $350.00 Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts 867.00 ——————— Total $1,217.00

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FOR SCHOOL BUILDINGS, ATHENS, ALA.

Charlotte, Mich. Cong. Ch. 36.00 Minneapolis, Minn. “Friends” 300.00 —————— Total $336.00 Previously acknowledged in Nov. receipts 83.00 —————— Total $419.00

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FOR NEGRO REFUGEES.

Newton, Mass. Elliot Ch. and Soc. 117.50 Sing Sing, N. Y. Mrs. Harriet M. Cole, to const. REV. ALBERT P. MILLER, L. M. 30.00 Union City, Mich. Mrs. Sarah B. Clark, $5; Mrs. L. W. Clark, $5; Mrs. Lee, $3; Juv. Miss. Soc., $3 16.00 —————— Total 163.50 Previously acknowledged in Dec. receipts 17.00 —————— Total $180.50

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Receipts for January 16,514.82

Total from Oct. 1st to January 31st $62,255.03 =========

H. W. HUBBARD, _Treas._, 56 Reade St., N. Y.

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Constitution of the American Missionary Association.

INCORPORATED JANUARY 30, 1849.

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ART. I. This Society shall be called “THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.”

ART. II. The object of this Association shall be to conduct Christian missionary and educational operations, and diffuse a knowledge of the Holy Scriptures in our own and other countries which are destitute of them, or which present open and urgent fields of effort.

ART. III. Any person of evangelical sentiments,[A] who professes faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, who is not a slave-holder, or in the practice of other immoralities, and who contributes to the funds, may become a member of the Society; and by the payment of thirty dollars, a life member; provided that children and others who have not professed their faith may be constituted life members without the privilege of voting.

ART. IV. This Society shall meet annually, in the month of September, October or November, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, at such time and place as shall be designated by the Executive Committee.

ART. V. The annual meeting shall be constituted of the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from churches, local missionary societies, and other co-operating bodies, each body being entitled to one representative.

ART. VI. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-Presidents, a Recording Secretary, Corresponding Secretaries, Treasurer, two Auditors, and an Executive Committee of not less than twelve, of which the Corresponding Secretaries shall be advisory, and the Treasurer ex-officio, members.

ART. VII. To the Executive Committee shall belong the collecting and disbursing of funds; the appointing, counselling, sustaining and dismissing (for just and sufficient reasons) missionaries and agents; the selection of missionary fields; and, in general, the transaction of all such business as usually appertains to the executive committees of missionary and other benevolent societies; the Committee to exercise no ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the missionaries; and its doings to be subject always to the revision of the annual meeting, which shall, by a reference mutually chosen, always entertain the complaints of any aggrieved agent or missionary; and the decision of such reference shall be final.

The Executive Committee shall have authority to fill all vacancies occurring among the officers between the regular annual meetings; to apply, if they see fit, to any State Legislature for acts of incorporation; to fix the compensation, where any is given, of all officers, agents, missionaries, or others in the employment of the Society; to make provision, if any, for disabled missionaries, and for the widows and children of such as are deceased; and to call, in all parts of the country, at their discretion, special and general conventions of the friends of missions, with a view to the diffusion of the missionary spirit, and the general and vigorous promotion of the missionary work.

Five members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum for transacting business.

ART. VIII. This society, in collecting funds, in appointing officers, agents and missionaries, and in selecting fields of labor, and conducting the missionary work, will endeavor particularly to discountenance slavery, by refusing to receive the known fruits of unrequited labor, or to welcome to its employment those who hold their fellow-beings as slaves.

ART. IX. Missionary bodies, churches or individuals agreeing to the principles of this Society, and wishing to appoint and sustain missionaries of their own, shall be entitled to do so through the agency of the Executive Committee, on terms mutually agreed upon.

ART. X. No amendment shall be made to this Constitution without the concurrence of two-thirds of the members present at a regular annual meeting; nor unless the proposed amendment has been submitted to a previous meeting, or to the Executive Committee in season to be published by them (as it shall be their duty to do, if so submitted) in the regular official notifications of the meeting.

FOOTNOTE:

[A] By evangelical sentiments, we understand, among others, a belief in the guilty and lost condition of all men without a Saviour; the Supreme Deity, Incarnation and Atoning Sacrifice of Jesus Christ, the only Saviour of the world; the necessity of regeneration by the Holy Spirit, repentance, faith and holy obedience in order to salvation; the immortality of the soul; and the retributions of the judgment in the eternal punishment of the wicked, and salvation of the righteous.

The American Missionary Association.

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AIM AND WORK.

To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the FREEDMEN for their duties as citizens and Christians in America and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted CHINESE in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian policy towards the INDIANS. It has also a mission in AFRICA.

STATISTICS.

CHURCHES: _In the South_—In Va.,1; N. C., 5; S. C., 2; Ga., 13; Ky., 7; Tenn., 4; Ala., 14; La., 12; Miss., 1; Kansas, 2; Texas, 6. _Africa_, 2. _Among the Indians_, 1. Total 70.

INSTITUTIONS FOUNDED, FOSTERED OR SUSTAINED IN THE SOUTH.—_Chartered_: Hampton, Va.; Berea, Ky.; Talladega, Ala.; Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn.; Tougaloo, Miss.; New Orleans, La.; and Austin, Texas, 8. _Graded or Normal Schools_: at Wilmington, Raleigh, N. C.; Charleston, Greenwood, S. C.; Savannah, Macon, Atlanta, Ga.; Montgomery, Mobile, Athens, Selma, Ala.; Memphis, Tenn., 12. _Other Schools_, 24. Total 44.