Part 4

New hymns have been made in the Twana and Clallam languages, the native languages of the Indians. Hitherto we have used hymns in the Chinook language, which is generally understood by most of the Indians, yet it is by no means so good a language to convey religious truth as the native languages.

The average attendance at Sabbath-school at S’kokomish is 47, on church prayer meetings 30, on other prayer meetings among the Indians 36, on public worship 67. Families under pastoral care 52. Total contributions for benevolence $451.05.

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SCHOOL AT LEECH LAKE.

BY REV S. G. WRIGHT.

Twenty-seven children were boarded and clothed about eight months of the year, and fifteen attended very regularly as day scholars. The text books used were elementary speller, model reader, first, second and third readers, mental arithmetic. Several of the most advanced pupils are also familiar with the four ground principles of written arithmetic. Nearly all made good progress in their studies. There is no lack of ability in the Indian child to comprehend any branch of learning. The only obstacle in his way is that all his knowledge of books must be acquired through a strange language. The lessons must be explained all through the second and third years of his schooling in his own tongue; otherwise he gets no new ideas from his books, though he may read and spell and write ever so well. I explain the meaning of the words they spell, and translate the lessons read in the different readers. Much religious instruction is given in the school-room and in the morning and evening worship. I returned to this place a year ago, after being absent about two years, and was very happy to find the little company of earnest, devoted Christians whom we left still faithfully pursuing their work for God. I meet with them every week on Thursday afternoon for prayer. They are truly the salt of the earth, burning lights in this great darkness.

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THE CHINESE.

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REVIEW OF THE YEAR.

REV. WM. C. POND.

Our fiscal year closed Aug. 31. I will state in the briefest way the main facts as to our last year’s work. I group them under three heads: the field, the fruit, the finances.

I. The field. This is larger than ever before in the fact that we have one-fourth more Chinese in our country to-day than we had a year ago. And the work—though far from covering the field and far from being equal to the opportunity—has increased at a per cent. equal to more than twice that of the increase of Chinese population. Fifteen schools have been sustained, eleven of them throughout the entire year. Thirty-one workers are employed, eleven of them being Chinese. The total number of months of service is 356, exceeding that of last year by 70 and of any year preceding the last by 110, that is, by more than _nine years_. During the year no less than 2,567 Chinese were enrolled as pupils, an increase upon the previous year of 935, or more than 57 per cent. Let it not be understood that we had this number at any _one_ time; but for longer or shorter periods in the course of the year, this number have come under the influence of our schools, and have heard something about a Saviour from sin. The _average_ membership month by month was 728, and the average attendance 401. But the membership increased steadily through the year. In August it was 1,022, and the average attendance 459. This represents our opportunity, our special _field_.

II. The fruits. I am not able yet to state accurately the results in hopeful conversions, but I feel safe in saying that about 30 have given evidence to our Chinese brethren that they have passed from death to life. This would make the total number of whom we have cherished this hope, from the beginning of the mission, about 355. I dare not say that in all cases this hope has proved to be well founded. Some have gone back to idolatry and taken to themselves, I fear, seven devils worse than the one that seemed to be exorcised. Some seem to have left their first love, though maintaining still a reputable exterior. Of many we have lost sight altogether. They are in China, or in the Hawaiian Islands, or on the frontiers in our own country, or in the Eastern or interior cities. It is simply impossible, at least with our present working force, to maintain our hold upon them by correspondence. We leave them to the care of the Great Shepherd, Who is not compassed with our infirmities and Who knows His sheep and is known by them. But, allowing for all these drawbacks, I feel it safe to say that no evangelizing agency in California with which I am acquainted has been fraught, on the whole, with larger or better results than our Chinese mission.

III. The finances. This large increase in the work accomplished has involved inevitably some increase of expenditure. Our total resources—on current expense account—have been $10,043.70, of which $3,623.70 were contributed directly to our work and $6,420 came through drafts on the treasury in New York.

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CHILDREN’S PAGE.

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LETTER FROM AN INDIAN BOY.

MY DEAR FRIEND:

I can tell how I get along. I was working in the shop, and I try to work very good, but sometimes I too late go in workshop. I am the wheel-wright. I come from Dakota Territory, and I have been school at Saint Paul’s school at Yankton Agency, and I try to learn how to read English. And so many Indian boys school over there, and to many Indian boys are like to study, and some boys are don’t like to go to school. And same is the Indian, too. They did not work at all, but when they want something, then go into the agent’s and ask for food. But some Indians are work very hard, like a white people, and they did not live in the reservation. I like to work in the field much. And few Indians work very hard, and listen the agent’s what he says to them; but some Indian won’t—but dancing all the time, but eating and sleep, that all they can do. And there is another tribe come back from northwest; they came back into Yankton Agency in Fort Randall, those Indian whole tribe are call Sitting Bull. I think those people are very wild. Sitting Bull is a great many children and big tribe, and cannot get any food, so the Yankton Indians try to help them, and carry some corn or potatoes gave to them. And that time I stay at my home. And that time the Hampton boys come back from Virginia to this school, and we are all glad to see them. And I came from Yankton Agency, and now I stay here at Virginia. I am stay here for three years, then I go back my home again. I receive a letter from my friend; he says the governor school was finished, everything inside or outside. And when I heard that the ten boys get from Sitting Bull I am very glad. I think those people going to learn how to work. So many of them do not know anything at all, I sometimes think those people all the time wild and poor; but now I think the Sitting Bull learn how to work, and even the other places just the same. When I came from Dakota, I saw a great many things, cars, and steam-boat, and every wonderful thing. I saw those things, I don’t know how to go and stop. I did not see how to make, and I never saw the cars before. When I go back to my home I going tell all this are. A great many Indian boys are here; we are all try to learn how to work the white men way, and sometimes we have a prayer-meeting in every Saturday night, and all the Indian boys are doing very well. I think the Indian try to do how to work; when they know how to work, then they cannot stop. That is all I am going to say. We are all well here, and I think you are well, too. Some boys has going to work, and those boys going to school this afternoon. I thank you very much.

Yours respectfully,

DAVID STRICKER.

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RECEIPTS FOR. SEPTEMBER, 1882.

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MAINE, $468.57.

Alfred. Mrs. NATHAN DANE, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._, and to const. herself L. M. $30.00 Bethel. Second Ch. and Soc. 10.00 Brewer. Cong. Ch., 10, and Sab. Sch., 6.20 16.20 Calais. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Castine. Rev. A. E. Ives 5.00 Eastport. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., 5; G. A. P., 50c. 5.50 Falmouth. First Cong. Ch. 20.00 Hallowell. M. E. W. 1.00 Litchfield Corners. Cong. Ch. 10.00 Machias. Centre St. Ch. and Soc. 9.34 Portland. Second Parish Ch. 129.03 Union. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 5.00 Winthrop. SILAS BLANCHARD to const. himself L. M. 30.00 Woolwich. “Thank Offering,” 5; J. C. S., 50c. 5.50 York. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 7.00 ——————— $308.57

LEGACY.

Hallowell. Estate of Miss Susan Parsons, by Justin E. Smith. Exr. 160.00 ——————— $468.57

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $273.60.

Atkinson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 17.00 Bennington. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 5.00 Brookline. W. J. R. 0.50 Campton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 16.00 Colebrook. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.63 Epsom. “A Friend.” 5.00 Hancock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Hanover. Dart. College Ch., 89.46; “A Thank Offering,” 1. 90.46 Hanover. Rev. S. P. Leeds, _for Chinese M. in Cal._ 10.00 Hebron. Rev J. B. Cook and family 5.00 Hillsborough Centre. Rev. A. B. P., _for John Brown Steamer_ 1.00 Littleton. Cong. Ch. 6.96 Lyme. T. L. Gilbert 2.00 Milford. Cong. Ch., 25.29; Nathan Jewett, 5; D. S. Burnham, 5, to const. D. MILTON HEALD L. M.; R. M., 1 36.29 Milton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 10.36 New Ipswich. Leavitt Lincoln 20.00 Peterborough. Cong. Sab. Sch. 6.40 Salem. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Wentworth. Ephraim Cook 5.00

VERMONT, $902.06.

Bakersfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 9.58 Brattleborough. “A Friend” 1.67 Burlington. Miss Sarah Parker 2.00 Cambridge. M. and G. Safford, 38.52; O. W. Reynolds, 5; Mrs. Nancy Howe, 5; S. M. Safford, 5; B. R. Holmes, 5; Others, 11.75 70.27 Cambridge. Mrs. M. Safford, 5; J. K., 1, _for John Brown Steamer_ 6.00 Charlotte. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 43.21 Chester. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 12.00 Dummerston. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.32 East Saint Johnsbury. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.25 Enosburgh. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 23.00 Granby and Victory. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 2.00 Island Pond. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 11.50 Londonderry. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Talladega C._ 5.00 Ludlow. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00 Middlebury. Hon. John W. Stewart, 10; A Friend, 4; Miss Susan Parker, 2; Rev. C. H., 51c. 16.51 Newbury. Mrs. D. J. 1.00 Newfane. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 3.06 Putney. Rev. and Mrs. Foster 5.00 Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 34.52 Saint Johnsbury. North Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Parsonage Building_ 20.00 Springfield. F. V. A. Townsend, to const. AURELIA K. TOWNSEND L. M. 30.00 Springfield. “Member Cong. Ch.,” _for Avery Inst., Charleston S.C._ 15.00 West Brattleborough. Cong. Ch. and Soc. to const. HIRAM WEATHERHEAD L. M. 31.05 West Dover. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.63 West Westminster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 17.40; “A Friend,” 15 32.40 Wilmington. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 6.10 Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch., 5.20; “A Friend of the Colored Man,” 10 15.20 Windsor. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 75.50; Mrs. John Freeman, “thank offering,” 25; G. F. H., 1 101.50 Woodstock. Frederick Billings 100.00 ———————— $624.77

LEGACIES

Royalton. Estate Mrs. Welthia D. Skinner, by Geo. M. Dewey 200.00 Wilmington. Estate of Mary Ray, by Israel Haynes 77.29 ———————— $902.06

MASSACHUSETTS, $5,826.17.

Abington. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.58 Andover. South Ch. and Soc. 100.00 Attleborough. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 Bernardston. Cong. Soc. 2.00 Boston. REV. C. L. WOODWORTH, 30, to const himself L. M.; Mrs. H. H. Hyde, 20; “A Friend,” 5 55.00 Boston. Mrs. E. B. Hooker, books _for Freedmen’s Library, Macon, Ga._ Buckland. Dea. S. Trowbridge, 10; C. W. Thayer, 5; “A Friend.” 5 20.00 Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const. REV. THOMAS A. EMERSON L. M. 5.00 Braintree. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 21.46 Brimfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 Brockton. Mrs. Mary E. Perkins 5.00 Cambridge. Mrs. J. D. S. 1.00 Campello. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 Centreville. Cong. Sab. Sch. 5.00 Charlton. Cong. Ch. and Soc. (ad’l), to const. H. W. WAKEFIELD L. M. 20.00 Chelsea. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., _for Lady Missionary, Chattanooga, Tenn._ 50.00 Chelsea. T. E. G. 1.00 Concord. Trinity Cong. Ch. and Soc. 28.85 Dorchester. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 848.55; and Sab. Sch., 51.85 900.70 Dunstable. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.00 Duxbury. Mrs. R. R. Holmes 2.00 East Bridgewater. Union Ch. and Soc. 6.89 East Charlemont. Cong. Ch. 23.82 Everett. Mrs. C. K. Farrington 2.00 Falmouth. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00 Fall River. Central Ch. 10.25 Fitchburgh. Rollstone Cong. Ch. and Soc. 100.00 Foxborough. Orthodox Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.02 Grafton. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 62.13 Granville Corners. Mr. and Mrs. C. Holcomb 10.00 Greenfield. Second Cong. Ch. 49.56 Greenfield. Miss E. F. Osgood’s S. S. Class, _for Ind. Dept., Atlanta U._ 10.00 Hatchville. V. N. H. 1.00 Hatfield. Rev. R. M. Woods, Trustee 25.00 Haverhill. North Cong. Ch. and Soc. 200.00 Holland. “Friends” 5.00 Hyde Park. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 10.00 Hyde Park. Mrs. L. S. Sanderson, _for Chinese M., Cal._ 5.00 Jamaica Plain. R. W. Wood, M.D. 100.00 Lancaster. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.33 Lawrence. E. F. E. 0.50 Littleton. “A Friend” 20.00 Lowell. Juvenile Dept. of High St. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 10.00 Malden. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 53.98 Malden. “Friends,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 5.00 Middleborough. Central Ch. and Soc., 53.63; First Cong. Ch., 12.67 66.30 Millbury. Tyler Waters 5.00 Miller’s Falls. The Langdon Mitre Box Co., one new Langdon mitre box, with saw and joiner gauge, _for Atlanta U._ North Amherst. North Ch. and Soc., to const. MRS. S. A. LAMB and MISS PRISCILLA COOLEY L. Ms. 60.00 North Brookfield. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 7.52 Northborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.80 North Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc., 100; Union Ch. and Soc., 75 175.00 North Chelmsford. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc. 42.00 Northfield. Miss. M. L. H. 0.50 Northampton. A. L. Williston, 500; Edwards Church, 54.34; Dea. Jerry Clark, 10 564.34 North Weymouth. Pilgrim Ch. and Soc. 17.00 Norton. Trin. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.50 Newton. Eliot Ch. and Soc. 185.00 Newton Centre. “L. R. T.,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 Phillipston. Ladies’ Benev. Soc., Bundle of C. Quincy. Evan. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 25.00 Revere. Collected by Mrs. Steele _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._, and to const. MISS KATE B. DAVIS, MISS LIZZIE ELKINS, DANIEL DAVIS and REV. JOSEPH E. SMITH L. Ms. 120.00 Rockland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 83.47 Roxbury. Immanuel Ch. and Soc. 3.00 Sandwich. Miss H. H. N., 1; “A Friend” 1 2.00 Saundersville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 Shelburne Falls. E. Maynard 5.00 Somerville Falls. Franklin St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 50.00 South Amherst. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.17 Southbridge. “A Friend,” _for Parsonage, Talladega C._, and to const. EDWIN S. SWIFT, SAMUEL L. MORSE and EZRA B. WELD L. M’s. 100.00 South Hadley Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 30.00 Southville. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 8.00 South Weymouth. Second Cong. Ch. and Soc., 51 (16 of which from Ladies’ Mission Soc.), to const. FRANK BLANCHARD and HORACE SPEAR L. Ms.; Union Ch. and Soc., 50, to const. MRS. JOSIAH REED L. M. 101.00 Springfield. “H. M.,” 500; A. C. Hunt. 10; Mrs. Edward Clarke. 5 515.00 Springfield. “A Friend,” _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 1.00 Stockbridge. Miss Alice Byington, _for Student Aid, Atlanta U._ 50.00 Sunderland. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 75.00 Taunton. Winslow Cong. Ch. and Soc. 44.09 Topsfield. Charles Herrick 20.00 Upton. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 48.26 Upton. Cong. Sab. Sch. (ad’l.), _for John Brown Steamer_ 5.00 Warren. Mrs. Joseph Randall (5 of which _for Chinese M., Cal_) 6.00 Webster. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 12; G. W. F., 1. 13.00 Wellfleet. First Ch. and Soc. 40.00 Wenham. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 5.00 Whately. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 15.39 West Barnstable. Cong. Sab. Sch., _for John Brown Steamer_ 3.75 West Boxford. First Cong. Ch., _for Student Aid, Macon, Ga._ 9.07 West Boylston. Polly W. Ames, 3; Geo. W. Ames, 3 6.00 West Brookfield. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. 35.00 Westfield. Mrs. C. W. Fowler 2.00 Westford. Cong. Ch. and Soc. 18.00 West Medford. D. H. B. 0.50 Westport. Pacific Union Sab. Sch. 1.93 Winchendon. First Cong. Sab. Sch. 32.00 Worcester. Union Ch. and Soc., 179.25; Hiram Smith and Family, 30; “A Friend,” 1 210.25 ———————— $5,174.91

LEGACIES.

Boston. Estate of Rev. Dr. H. B. Hooker, by A. W. Tufts. 200.00 Woburn. Estate of Dea. Thomas Richardson, by L. G. Richardson, Agt. 451.26 ———————— $5,826.17

RHODE ISLAND, $1,423.21.

Bristol. Mrs. M. De W. Rogers, 250; Miss. C. De Wolf, 250; “A Friend,” 2 502.00 Central Falls. Cong. Ch. 89.50 Providence. Central Cong. Ch., 800; North Cong. Ch., 10; “A Friend in Camp St.,” 10. 820.00 Westerly. Pawcatuck Cong. Ch. 11.71

CONNECTICUT, $4,779.21.