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CONTENTS

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EDITORIAL.

ANNUAL MEETING—TWELVE MONTHS—THE HOUR 321 PARAGRAPHS 323 BENEFACTIONS 324 CHURCH AND PARSONAGE, ANNISTON, ALA. (cut) 325 GENERAL NOTES—AFRICA, CHINESE, INDIAN 326 CHINESE DRESSED FOR RAINY WEATHER (cut) 327

THE SOUTH.

VACATIONING 329 A WANT—READING ROOMS 331 GENEROUS WORD FROM THE SOUTH 333 APOSTOLIC SALUTATION—NOTICES ON THE OPENING OF SCHOOLS 334 ITEMS FROM THE FIELD 335

THE INDIANS.

VISIT TO FORT SULLY INDIAN MISSION 336 MISSION HOME, FORT SULLY (cut) 337

THE CHINESE.

REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT 339

BUREAU OF WOMAN’S WORK.

HELP AT PUBLIC MEETINGS—THE LORD’S GARDEN 340

CHILDREN’S PAGE.

THE STORY THAT SUBDUED HIM 341 BRING IN THE TITHES 342

RECEIPTS 343

CONSTITUTION 347

PROPOSED CONSTITUTION 348

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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

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THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

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VOL. XXXVII. NOVEMBER, 1883. NO. 11.

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American Missionary Association.

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ANNUAL MEETING.

We are happy to inform our friends that very satisfactory arrangements have been perfected for our Annual Meeting. Railroad facilities and steamboat accommodations have been granted at reduced rates and an able corps of speakers will be present and participate in the meeting. As this number of the MISSIONARY will reach our readers at an earlier date than usual, we give full particulars on the 4th page cover.

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_Twelve Months._—Receipts from collections and donations, $186,200.56, from legacies, $126,366.73, making a total of $312,567.29, an increase of $14,982.84 over the total for last year. This encouraging showing is to be credited to legacies which have been unusually large. Our payments for the year, less balance in hand at the beginning of the year, have been $312,018.97, leaving a balance in hand for the new year of $548.32. For this result we rejoice and give thanks to God. We have not been able to accomplish all that has been pressing upon us from our several mission fields, but our faith is strong and we ask for still larger gifts and more extended efforts in the fields now white for the harvest.

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THE HOUR.

The hour is at hand for the annual review of the work and wants of this Association. The rapid progress of events amid which its influence is a constant factor, necessitates vigilant study, wise deliberation, and prompt action. There are divine favors to seek, interests to hold, opportunities to embrace, and hindrances to overcome.

Possibly nothing is more to be feared among the latter than apathy. The belief that a work is well in hand, successful, hopeful, helpful, often gives a sense of rest that fosters unconcern, or little concern, for its entrenchment and enlargement. This condition weakens the intensity of prayer and relaxes effort. More than this, apathy among the friends of a work like ours is liable to give way for misconception or lack of comprehension of its place in the religious destinies of mankind.

We have a mission for the promotion of righteousness. Our success is not to be measured by the rule, or the balance, but by what it accomplishes in the establishment of right principles. It must be judged of by the tone it gives, and not by the zone it occupies. The business of this Association is not for one clime, but for all climes. It aims to suppress ignorance, oppression, misrule, poverty, sin and shame, and to plant and nourish those ennobling truths which yield peace, plenty and life everlasting. Our very fundamental principles debar us from doing anything less broad and catholic than that directed alike against caste, oppression and all injustice. We must be left free to apply our benefits where the evils we seek to destroy have their strongholds. We are bound to recognize moral conditions, but not color. Color is not guilt or essential misfortune.

Another hindrance to fear is the attention likely to be drawn to the political aspects of our work. These have their place and rightful claims. Good government is helpful to good learning and the interests of religion, but the object of a missionary society is primarily to promote pure Christianity. While it enters amid all shades of political opinions, it must contend with the unrighteousness of all alike. It must not be allured or guided by the possibilities of national events. Its kingdom is not of this world.

Akin to political aspects are denominational interests. These have their allurements also, which, if indulged excessively, only tend to part the garment of Christ. Forms and ceremonies well may serve the interest of missions, but woe be the day when missions are wrested to serve the interest of a form or polity.

Still another danger lies in the allurements of expedients. The constant fluctuations in human affairs serve to unsettle the faith and to relax the hold on the steady, enduring methods which alone can give success. It is never to be forgotten that while the surface may have the appearance of a refluent stream when contending with the elements, yet God’s cause is imbedded in the deep under-current and moves right on despite appearances. Great essentials, great faith, wisdom from above, and persistent action alone can overcome these hindrances, and advance our work as it should be advanced.

What is demanded most by the hour is a revival of missionary zeal. Let there be a fuller sense of our responsibility to Christ, and a greater realization of our duty to those without. Let there be more constant exercise of the power of prayer. Let the spirit come upon us that counts all things secondary to the grand triumph of the Redeemer’s kingdom. Let us be willing to lose all, to spend all, and to suffer all to hasten that, and God will not withhold His blessing, neither shall His coming be delayed.

Our readers will find in this number of the MISSIONARY a copy of our present Constitution, and also one of that proposed by the Committee appointed for that purpose at our last Annual Meeting.

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SUPT. SALISBURY has in press a pamphlet containing the new uniform course of study of the A. M. A. schools, with explanatory comment and general suggestions to teachers. It will be ready for distribution to the teachers some time in October, and will, it is believed, be of great utility to them in the partial reorganization of work proposed.

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THE WARNER INSTITUTE, located at Jonesboro, East Tennessee, was formed by the Friends, under the lead of Yardley Warner, for whom it was named. The building, of brick, upon a fine crest in that hill country, was formerly a ladies’ college for white people. Friend Warner having conducted the institute for several years, proposed to transfer it to this Association. This has been done, and the school is yet to carry along the good work begun by the founder. His many friends in this country and in England, who have aided him in the enterprise, may rest assured that the institute will be kept true to its original mission. Mrs. J. B. Nelson, who had formerly been employed by Mr. Warner, has been made principal, with the needed assistants.

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THE programme for a series of twenty-eight missionary meetings, which our agent for New Hampshire and Vermont had planned to be held in those States in August and September, under the auspices of this Association was carried out, in due time, with great completeness and success, the last of the course being held Sept. 28, afternoon and evening, in Manchester, N.H. The number of sessions, counting those held in different places on the Sabbath, was fifty-one. In almost every case the attendance, especially at the second or evening session, was large and enthusiastic. The addresses were varied, able and interesting. The brief but touching story of Philip Page, who often told in broken English, in a pleasing way, how and why he came to this country, what he had found here, what he is doing, and how he hopes to go back some day and tell his parents and others in Africa what Christ the Lord can do for them, and the address of Rev. Joseph E. Smith, graduate of Atlanta University, now pastor of the First Congregational Church in Chattanooga, were always listened to with much interest. The latter told of his bitter slave life, of his trials and struggles and triumphs, in coming over from bondage into freedom, from the slave pen and the auction block to the school, the college, the pulpit and pastorate; addresses were also made by Prof. Thos. N. Chase of Atlanta, Dr. Woodworth, of Boston, and by Rev. Mr. Grout, who conducted the meetings.

The ready and hospitable welcome with which the speakers and attendants from abroad were uniformly received by the churches visited, the hearty and efficient co-operation of the several pastors and other church officers, and the kindly notices of the meetings given the public, from time to time, by the press of the States and of the localities in which the conventions were held, are reported as very cheering and indicative of a deep interest in our great work.

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WE give in this number a cut of the church and parsonage at Anniston, Ala., Rev. H. W. Conley, pastor. This is the town of the Woodstock Iron Company, located ten years ago upon the bare red fields. Now it has two iron furnaces, a cotton factory, an immense machine shop, two railroads, a newspaper and a wonderful thrift. At the beginning the company gave the church lot, aided on the church and built the parsonage, helping also in the support of the pastor and teacher. The church and school have been a blessing to the families of the colored operatives of the place. This mission is a beautiful illustration of the work this Association is doing for the colored people South.

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BENEFACTIONS.

John Guy Vassar, of Poughkeepsie, has made a gift of $25,000 more to Vassar College.

The Sheffield Scientific School of Yale College has recently received a bequest of $20,000.

The will of the late David Gallup, of Hartford, Conn., gives $20,000 to aid the Woodward High School in Cincinnati.

Edward Clark, of New York, has given $50,000 to Williams College.

The widow of Senator Chandler, of Michigan, has given $1,000 to the Chicago Woman’s Medical College.

The sum of $2,000,000 has been subscribed for the new Catholic University in Milwaukee.

Kimball Union Academy, Meriden, N.H., receives $17,000 from the estate of the late James Boyd, of Antrim.

Mr. William Blackwell has endowed eleven scholarships of $1000 in the Baptist Louisburg University of Pennsylvania.

The University of Vermont is to have a new building for its medical department to cost $40,000, the gift of John P. Howard. This will make over $400,000 that Mr. Howard has given to the University and the city within ten years.

Mr. De Pauw, of Indiana, has made a conditional pledge of a million dollars for the endowment of Asbury University.

_It is hoped that the time is not far distant when endowment funds will flow into the treasuries of our educational institutions South as freely as they do into colleges in other parts of the country._

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GENERAL NOTES.

AFRICA.

—The Niger Mission reports 4,000 souls as under regular Christian instruction.

—Three of Arabi Pasha’s children are in the United Presbyterian Mission school at Cairo, Egypt.

—Mr. Stanley has discovered a lake on one of the tributaries of the Congo which he has named Lake Leopold Second.

—The London Missionary Society has two mission ships that sail between its stations in New Guinea, two in Africa, and one in the South Seas.

—An English Methodist missionary laboring in Africa reports that on going to the coast recently he was saluted by a trader with the remark: “There must have been a lot of heathen joining your church lately.” “Yes, it is so,” he was answered; “but how did you come to know it?” “Oh, because there have been a lot of heathen people here buying dresses, shawls, etc.”

—A new expedition, under German auspices, is being fitted out for the exploration of the Upper Niger and the regions adjacent. It starts out under competent leadership and promises good results in knowledge of a portion of Africa as yet little known, but supposed to be of large commercial importance.

—At the request of the Egyptian Mission, the last General Assembly directed the Board of Publication to contribute $2,000 to aid in the work of publishing a new edition of the Bible in Arabic in large type. In compliance with this the Board of Publication on the 5th of this month paid over the $2,000 to the American Bible Society, who have the work now under way.

—According to a proposed treaty between Portugal and the Sultan of Zanzibar, the two governments will engage that none of their subjects buy or sell slaves in their respective territories. Any one convicted of having violated the treaty will be delivered up to the government, punished in consequence and his slaves set at liberty.

THE CHINESE.

—The Hawaiian law prohibiting Chinamen from coming to the Islands has been repealed, and 3,000 Chinese laborers have recently contracted for their passage there.

—There is a Chinaman at work in Tahiti, in the South Sea Islands, who is said to be a whole Bible Society in himself, expending twenty dollars a month, out of a salary of twenty-five dollars, for Bibles to distribute among his countrymen there.

—M. Thiersant estimates the Mohammedan population of China to be between twenty and twenty-one millions, and says he has arrived at his figures from facts given by Mandarins, Romish priests, and other prominent individuals. Mr. Blunt, in “The Future of Islam,” allots fifteen million Moslems to China.

—According to Missionary Butler, of China, as Buddhism has no heaven for women, the Chinese damsels labor with might and main to lay up merits that they may prevail with the judges of the lower world to let them be born again as men, so that they may have a chance to get there.

—A Chinese Christian tailor thus described the relative merits of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Christianity:—

“A man had fallen into a deep, dark pit, and lay in its miry bottom, groaning and utterly unable to move. Confucius walked by, approached the edge of the pit, and said, ‘Poor fellow, I am sorry for you; why were you such a fool as to get in there? Let me give you a piece of advice: If you ever get out, don’t get in again.’ ‘I can’t get out,’ groaned the man. _That is Confucianism._

“A Buddhist priest next came by, and said, ‘Poor fellow, I am very much pained to see you there. I think if you could scramble up two-thirds of the way, or even half, I could reach you and lift you up the rest.’ But the man in the pit was entirely helpless and unable to rise. _That is Buddhism._

“Next the Saviour came by, and, hearing his cries, went to the very brink of the pit, stretched down and laid hold of the poor man, brought him up, and said, ‘Go, sin no more.’ _That is Christianity._”—_Rev. Canon Stowell._

THE INDIANS.

—There are 296 church buildings among the Indians, including the “five nations.”

—The religious bodies expended in 1881 the sum of $139,440 for education and missions among the Indians.

—Out of the 260,000 Indians, there are 100,000 who have discarded blankets and are wearing citizens’ dress, wholly or in part.

—The Ute Indians, who have steadily refused to send any of their children to school, now have twenty-five in the training-school at Albuquerque, New Mexico.

—The Indian reservations include 155,632,312 acres, of which 18,000,000 are tillable. Already the American Indians are cultivating more than half a million acres of this land.

—The Indian Mission School at Fort Wrangle, Alaska, in which Mrs. McFarland is teaching, has increased in numbers and interest the past year, and many of the pupils have become Christians. One of the oldest girls has been married to a Christian Indian, and gone as a missionary to Upper Chilcat, where they both are doing faithful service. Several more of the girls are prepared to engage in mission work in their tribes as soon as the way opens.

—The Albuquerque _Morning Journal_ says: “The best thinkers all now agree that education is the true solution of the Indian problem. We have tried fighting them and feeding them, and both these plans have signally failed, but education, in the few experiments we have tried with it, has been thoroughly successful, and if we can establish and maintain schools enough to educate the children that are now growing up, our Indian difficulties will be at an end, and the coming generation of Indians, instead of being savages, to be hunted down by troops, or ‘corraled’ like wild beasts and fed at the public expense, will be peaceful and useful citizens.”

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THE SOUTH.

REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., FIELD SUPERINTENDENT.

PROF. ALBERT SALISBURY, SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION.

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VACATIONING.

PROF. A. K. SPENCE, FISK UNIVERSITY.

“What did your students do during vacation?” Various things. But with few exceptions they did not rest. Quite a number are young and went to their homes in town and country—the girls to help their mothers, the boys their fathers. Some hired out for house and farm labor. One farms on his own account. One was head waiter in a summer hotel in Tennessee. Two worked on a farm in Minnesota and two, sons of a professor, on one in Ohio. Some ran on sleeping cars in the North, and made up the beds you lay on. One worked in the railroad exposition in Chicago. One kept store and studied law in West Tennessee. One preached in Florence, Ala., with the usual blessing of God on his labors. One was employed by the State of Texas in holding institutes. Former students of ours were also employed in the same way. But, as usual, the most of those advanced enough to do so taught school. Not to mention those of low grade, out of seventy-eight enrolled in the collegiate department last year, fifty-seven taught school. The colored man seems by taste and circumstances to be a school teacher. Occasionally a student teaches who ought to rest. It is the thing to do. It is rather a shame not to. The long-instructed desires to instruct. The young fledgling wants to try its wings, the Demosthenes his oratory, the Hercules his club. Long before vacation begins we teach thinning classes, and lament many an empty seat the first Monday in September. This is hard on scholarship, but necessary for the purse, and good for their own manhood and the people whom they teach.

Schools must be taught when they are held, and held when the children can be spared from the farms. This varies with latitude and the products raised. In the cotton region it is when the crop is “laid by,” that is after the last hoeing and before the first picking, and begins in April or May. In the wheat and grass regions schools commence in June, July or even August. Those whom we lose by early schools in the spring we get promptly in the fall, and the reverse.