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Vol. XXXII. No. 12.

THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY.

“To the Poor the Gospel is Preached.”

DECEMBER, 1878.
 CONTENTS:

EDITORIAL.

Abstract of the Report of the Executive Committee of

the
A. M. A. 353
Anniversary of the American Missionary Association 356
Address of Rev. Sylvanus Heywood 371
Address on Chinese Missions in America: Rev. E. S.
Atwood 373
Address upon the African Mission: Rev. G. D. Pike 377
The Annual Meeting 379
Paragraphs 381
Items from Schools and Churches 382

THE FREEDMEN.

Atlanta, Ga.—Students’ Reports of Summer Work:

Mrs. T. N. Chase 383
Tennessee.—Woman’s Work among Women: Miss
Hattie Milton 385
North Carolina.—Students Want to “Batch”: Rev.
Alfred Connett 387
Talladega, Alabama.—The Story of Ambrose Headen 388
A Grateful Ward 389

AFRICA.

The Mendi Mission: Rev. A. E. Jackson 389

 THE INDIANS.

Sisseton Agency: E. H. C. Hooper, Agent 392

RECEIPTS 394

NEW YORK:
Published by the American Missionary Association,
Rooms, 56 Reade Street.

Price, 50 Cents a Year, in advance.

A. Anderson, Printer, 23 to 27 Vandewater St.

 American Missionary Association,
56 READE STREET, N. Y.

PRESIDENT.

Hon. E. S. TOBEY, Boston.

VICE PRESIDENTS.

Hon. F. D. Parish, Ohio. Rev. G. F. Magoun, D. D., Iowa

Rev. Jonathan Blanchard, Ill. Col. C. G. Hammond, Ill.
Hon. E. D. Holton, Wis. Edward Spaulding, M. D., N. H.
Hon. William Claflin, Mass. David Ripley, Esq., N. J.
Rev. Stephen Thurston, D. D., Rev. Wm. M. Barbour, D. D., Ct.
Me. Rev. W. L. Gage, Ct.
Rev. Samuel Harris, D. D., Ct. A. S. Hatch, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. Silas McKeen, D. D., Vt. Rev. J. H. Fairchild, D. D., Ohio.
Wm. C. Chapin, Esq., R. I. Rev. H. A. Stimson, Minn.
Rev. W. T. Eustis, Mass. Rev. J. W. Strong, D. D., Minn.
Hon. A. C. Barstow, R. I. Rev. George Thacher, LL. D., Iowa.
Rev. Thatcher Thayer, D. D., R. I. Rev. A. L. Stone, D. D., California.
Rev. Ray Palmer, D. D., N. Y. Rev. G. H. Atkinson, D. D., Oregon.
Rev. J. M. Sturtevant, D. D., Ill. Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., D. C.
Rev. W. W. Patton, D. D., D. C. Rev. A. L. Chapin, D. D., Wis.
Hon. Seymour Straight, La. S. D. Smith, Esq., Mass.
Rev. D. M. Graham, D. D., Mich. Rev. H. M. Parsons, N. Y.
Horace Hallock, Esq., Mich. Peter Smith, Esq., Mass.
Rev. Cyrus W. Wallace, D. D., N. Dea. John Whiting, Mass.
H. Rev. Wm. Patton, D. D., Ct.
Rev. Edward Hawes, Ct. Hon. J. B. Grinnell, Iowa.
Douglas Putnam, Esq., Ohio. Rev. Wm. T. Carr, Ct.
Hon. Thaddeus Fairbanks, Vt. Rev. Horace Winslow, Ct.
Samuel D. Porter, Esq., N. Y. Sir Peter Coats, Scotland.
Rev. M. M. G. Dana, D. D., Ct. Rev. Henry Allon, D. D., London,
Rev. H. W. Beecher, N. Y. Eng.
Gen. O. O. Howard, Oregon. Wm. E. Whiting, Esq., N. Y.
Rev. Edward L. Clark, N. Y.
J. M. Pinkerton, Esq., Mass.
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, 56 Reade Street, N. Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.
Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston.
Rev. G. D. PIKE, New York.
Rev. JAS. POWELL, Chicago, Ill.

EDGAR KETCHUM, Esq., Treasurer, N. Y.

H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., Assistant Treasurer, N. Y.
Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, Recording Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Alonzo S. Ball, Clinton B. Fisk, S. S. Jocelyn,

A. S. Barnes, A. P. Foster, Andrew Lester,
Edward Beecher, E. A. Graves, Chas. L. Mead,
Geo. M. Boynton, S. B. Halliday, John H. Washburn,
Wm. B. Brown, Sam’l Holmes, G. B. Willcox.
COMMUNICATIONS

relating to the business of the Association may be addressed to

either of the Secretaries as above.
DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when

more convenient, to either of the branch offices, 21 Congregational
House, Boston, Mass., 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill.
Drafts or checks sent to Mr. Hubbard should be made payable to his
order as Assistant Treasurer.
A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.
Correspondents are specially requested to place at the head of each
letter the name of their Post Office, and the County and State in
which it is located.
 THE

AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Vol. XXXII. DECEMBER, 1878.
No. 12.

American Missionary Association.

ABSTRACT OF THE THIRTY-SECOND REPORT

OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE A. M.
A.
The Report opens with an expression of thanks to God for the
general prosperity of its work, obituary notices of the Rev. Silas
McKeen, D. D., of Bradford, Vt., a Vice-President, and Mrs. Benjamin
James, of the Mendi Mission, and a brief review of the marked
progress of the last thirty-two years in the line of its aim and effort.

The Freedmen.

The educational work of the Association has been vigorously

sustained, with increasing numbers, and at the cost of great self-
denial on the part of both teachers and pupils. New buildings have
been erected for the Emerson Institute at Mobile, Ala., for the Lewis
High School and Norwich Chapel at Macon, Ga., for the Straight
University at New Orleans, La., and for the Beach Institute at
Savannah, Ga., under the supervision of Prof. T. N. Chase, of Atlanta.
They are simple but commodious, and admirably adapted for their
uses, better located than formerly, and cost no more than the
insurance received for the buildings which they replace. The
institutions of the Association are excellently located.
The early educational work was, of necessity, altogether primary. As
the States assumed the support of common schools, the Association
gave itself more and more to Normal teaching, and has always found
a demand for more teachers than its schools could furnish. A few
more each year are advancing into the collegiate and professional
courses. Its one Law and three Theological classes have been well
sustained, and it has also co-operated with the Presbytery of
Washington in the support of the Theological Department of Howard
University. The practical and moral importance of the Industrial
Departments is also referred to. During the year small amounts have
been added to the salaries of a number of common-school teachers,
graduates from its institutions, enabling them to extend the time of
their school-year from three or six to nine months.
The need of this work is emphasized by the fact that there are still
3,500,000 over ten years of age in the South who cannot read, over
1,135,000 of whom are legal voters. The need of permanent
endowments and of student aid are also dwelt upon. A depiction of
the influence of these institutions in the homes, the common
schools, the churches, and upon the sentiment of the people of the
South, and especially of the positiveness of their religious influence,
concludes this part of the Report.
The report of church work adds five new churches organized during
the year to its list. Judged by the measure of accessions to
membership by profession of faith, these sixty-four churches have
not been dead nor fruitless. Fifteen of them report from eleven to
fifty such additions each, making an average of over twenty-four,
and amounting to 368 in all. Indications of growth are also found in
increased efforts for self-support and for systematic giving. The
Sunday-schools of the churches not only are well sustained, but the
teachers go out into churches of other orders, and into mission
work, thus reaching many thousands of youth and children.
The cause of temperance has been advancing in these churches.
The six local conferences have, by their annual meetings, shown
progress and done good. The difficulties of a rapid extension of
church work in the South are referred to, and the hope expressed, of
surmounting such of them as may be overcome under the field-
superintendence of Rev. Dr. Roy, who will very soon be in his
headquarters at Atlanta.
In summing up the work among the Freedmen, encouragement is
drawn from the fact that some of the best pastors and teachers now
in the field were taken from the streets by the missionary teachers
of the Association, and have developed under its care to be its
fellow-helpers; also, that results appear to be more permanent and
substantial.

Africa.

Four missionaries were sent, Feb. 8, to the reinforcement of the five

who sailed the September before. The outlook was discouraging in
both its material and spiritual aspects. But they went to work
practically and hopefully, and have labored with good success.
Twenty-two new members have been received into the church at
Good Hope. Preaching services and Sunday and day-schools have
also been opened at Avery and Debia.
The missionaries desire increased facilities for taking the children
into their homes under their constant care, a work which they have
begun already. The industrial work at Avery has been revived. These
missionary families, numbering fifteen souls in all, have endured the
trying climate, and that through its sickly season, as well as could
have been hoped. All of them have been sick; one of their number
has died; none of them are in impaired health, so far as can be
learned.
The report speaks of the intention to strengthen this mission as it
may seem to demand, of the need of means with which to do it, and
of the missionary interest awakened in the South, and especially at
Hampton and Fisk.

The Indians.
The necessity of changing agents has made much unexpected work,
and the difficulties of supplying their places are referred to. The
work of Rev. Mr. Eells at S’Kokomish is spoken of. The Indians show
increasing interest in education, but the unsettled condition of their
affairs prevents the best success. The recommendations made by
the representatives of the various religious denominations to the
Board of Commissioners are recited. The possibility of a transfer of
the Indians to the War Department is alluded to, and deprecated as
a long step in retreat.

The Chinese in America.

The outcries against the Chinaman, and the abuse he receives on

every hand, are alluded to as having had already an influence in
diminishing the number of those coming to our shores.
The Association has sustained eleven schools during the year, with
1,492 pupils. The Chinese Congregational Association and the
Bethany Home have been kept up, with increasing usefulness.
Seventy-five have been hopefully converted during the year. The
indebtedness of the Association to Rev. Wm. C. Pond, its
superintendent in that work, is heartily acknowledged. The desire of
the Chinese converts for the conversion of their own people in their
native land is referred to as a convincing proof that they have
entered into the spirit of the Master. The new Chinese embassy to
this country is spoken of as full of promise in regard to all the
questions affecting that race.

Finances.

The receipts of the year have been $195,601.65; the expenses have
been $188,079.46, leaving a balance of $7,522.19. The current
receipts are not equal by $13,063.23 to those of the preceding year,
the falling off being mainly in legacies; and the $17,904.92 in cash
(and $6,950 in pledges) for the debt may have somewhat lessened
the regular gifts.
The debt, two years ago, was $93,000; one year ago it was
$63,000; what has been received and saved for it together this year
amounts to $25,427.11, which has reduced it to $37,389.79, and
pledges are held for $6,950, which, when redeemed, will further
diminish it to $30,439.79.
The Committee recognize the hand of the Lord, and the hearts of His
people in this good showing. The Report makes special mention of
the gifts from the field for this object, and yet the remaining debt is
deeply deplored as preventing the enlargement of the work. The
careful and wise use of the funds in its hands encourages the
Association to ask for the removal of this its last hindrance.

Sundries.

References to the co-operation of the Freedmen’s Missions Aid

Society in England, the return of the Jubilee Singers, the changes
successfully made in the form and editing of the AMERICAN
MISSIONARY, and the generous aid of the American Bible Society,
conclude the Report.

THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

Statistics of its Work and Workers—General Summary.

Workers.

Missionaries—at the South, 69; among the Indians, 1; in the Foreign

field, 9; total, 79.
Teachers—at the South, 150; among the Chinese, 17; among the
Indians, 10; Native helpers in the Foreign field, 6; total, 183.
Matrons, 9; in Business Department, 9. Total number of Workers,
280.
 Churches.

Churches—at the South, 64; among the Indians, 1; in the Foreign

field, 1; total, 66.
Church Members—at the South, 4,189; among the Indians, 19; in
the Foreign field, 44; total, 4,252. Total number Sabbath-school
Scholars, 7,517.

Schools.

Schools—at the South, 37; among the Chinese, 11; among the
Indians, 6; in the Foreign field, 3; total, 57.
Pupils—at the South, 7,229; among the Chinese, 1,492; among the
Indians, 245; in the Foreign field, 177; total, 9,143.

Details of School Work at the South.

Chartered Institutions, 8.—Hampton N. and A. Institute, Hampton,

Va.: Number of pupils, 332; boarding accommodations, for 180.
Berea College, Berea, Ky.: Number of pupils, 273; boarding
accommodations for 180. Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.: Number
of pupils, 338; boarding accommodations for 150. Atlanta University,
Atlanta, Ga.: Number of pupils, 244; boarding accommodations for
150. Talladega College, Talladega, Ala.: Number of pupils, 272;
boarding accommodations for 100. Tougaloo University, Tougaloo,
Miss.: Number of pupils, 193; boarding accommodations for 90.
Straight University, New Orleans, La.: Number of pupils, 287; no
boarding accommodations. Normal Institute, Austin, Texas: Number
of pupils, 146.
Other Institutions, 11.—Normal School, Wilmington, N. C.: Number
of pupils, 126; Washington School, Raleigh, N. C., 435; Avery
Institute, Charleston, S. C., 294; Brewer Normal School, Greenwood,
S. C., 58; Storrs School, Atlanta, Ga., 701; Lewis High School,
Macon, Ga., 93; Trinity School, Athens, Ala., 158; Emerson Institute,
Mobile, Ala., 117; Swayne School, Montgomery, Ala., 436; Burrell
School, Selma, Ala., 421; Le Moyne School, Memphis, Tenn., 184;
Common Schools, 18;—total, 37.

Pupils Classified.

Theological, 88; Law, 17; Collegiate, 106; Collegiate

Preparatory, 160; Normal, 1,459; Grammar, 1,016;
Intermediate, 2,048; Primary, 2,398 7,292
Studying in two grades, 63
——-
7,229
Scholars in the South, taught by our former pupils,
estimated at 100,000.
 THIRTY-SECOND ANNIVERSARY OF THE
AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.
The American Missionary Association held its Thirty-second
Anniversary in the Broadway Congregational Church, Taunton, Mass.,
commencing October 29, 1878.
President Edward S. Tobey called the Association to order at three P.
M. Rev. Edward H. Merrill, D. D., of Ripon, Wis., conducted the
devotional service, reading selections from the Scriptures, and
leading in prayer. Rev. Leverett S. Woodworth, of Campello, Mass.,
was elected Secretary, and Rev. Samuel Harrison, of Pittsfield,
Assistant Secretary.
The President appointed the following Nominating Committee: Rev.
Lyman S. Rowland, Rev. George M. Boynton, Rev. Thomas K.
Fessenden and J. E. Porter, Esq.
Rev. George M. Boynton presented the Annual Report of the
Executive Committee. On motion, the report was accepted, and its
various portions referred to appropriate committees.
The report of the Treasurer was presented by Henry W. Hubbard,
Esq., Assistant Treasurer, and was referred to the Committee on
Finance.
The Committee on Nominations reported the following list of
committees:
1. Committee of Arrangements.—Rev. Mortimer Blake, D. D., Rev.
Morton Dexter, Rev. E. S. Atwood, Chas. H. Atwood, Esq., Dea. E. H.
Reed, H. B. Palmer, Esq., Rev. T. T. Richmond.
2. Committee on Business.—Rev. S. M. Newman, Rev. C. L.
Woodworth, Eleazer Porter, Esq.
3. Committee, on Nominations.—Rev. Lyman S. Rowland, Rev.
George M. Boynton, Rev. Thos. K. Fessenden, Dea. Edwin Talcott.
4. Committee on Finance.—Hon. E. H. Sawyer, A. S. Barnes, Esq., A.
L. Williston, Esq., Geo. H. Corliss, Esq., S. D. Smith, Esq., Hon. Rufus
Frost, Abiel Abbott, Esq.
5. Committee on Moral and Religious Education (especially among
colored women of the South).—Rev. H. P. DeForrest, Rev. C. D.
Barrows, Rev. Albert H. Heath, Rev. Henry Hopkins, Rev. I. C.
Thatcher, Rev. E. W. Allen, Rev. Geo. A. Tewksbury.
6. Committee on Normal and Higher Education in the South.—Rev.
Wm. W. Adams, D. D., Rev. J. W. Wellman, D. D., Rev. Frederick
Alvord, Rev. E. H. Merrill, D. D., Rev. H. J. Patrick, Rev. R. K. Harlow,
Rev. Calvin Cutler.
7. Committee on Church Extension in the South.—Rev. Edward
Strong, D. D., Rev. Wm. L. Gaylord, Rev. A. H. Plumb, Rev. A. E.
Winship, Rev. D. O. Mears, Rev. O. T. Lanphear, D. D., Rev. M.
Burnham.
8. Committee on Chinese Missions in America.—Rev. E. S. Atwood,
Rev. E. H. Byington, Rev. G. R. W. Scott, Rev. J. D. Kingsbury, Rev.
Charles B. Sumner, Rev. Henry M. Grout, D. D., Rev. J. M. Bell.
9. Committee on Indian Missions in America.—Hon. A. C. Barstow,
Rev. Geo. F. Wright, Rev. Cyrus Richardson, Col. Franklin Fairbanks,
B. C. Hardwick, Esq., Rev. A. P. Marvin, Rev. Franklin P. Chapin.
10. Committee on African Missions.—Rev. Reuen Thomas, D. D., Rev.
Geo. A. Oviatt, Rev. G. R. Leavitt, Rev. Franklin Ayer, Rev. W. S.
Hubbell, Dea. Edward Kendall, Rev. John C. Labaree, Rev. G. D. Pike.
11. Committee on Religious Services and Prayer-Meeting.—Rev.
Horace Winslow, Rev. R. B. Howard.
I. Paper by Rev. M. E. Strieby, D. D. Subject—“The Work of Half a
Generation among the Freedmen.” Committee—Rev. Daniel T. Fiske,
D. D., Rev. Geo. E. Street, Rev. James H. Lyon, Rev. E. P. Blodgett,
Rev. Geo. E. Freeman, Rev. Henry A. Blake.
II. By Rev. Stacy Fowler. Subject—“The Element of Present Time all-
important in what we do to save this Country.” Committee—Rev.
Jacob Ide, Jr., Rev. W. W. Woodworth, Rev. Chester W. Hawley, Rev.
Davis Foster, Rev. Henry E. Barnes.
III. By Rev. Geo. Leon Walker, D. D. Subject—“The Denominational
Polity of the American Missionary Association.” Committee—Rev.
Samuel P. Leeds, D. D., Rev. Ephraim Flint, D. D., Rev. Henry W.
Jones, Rev. J. B. Clark, Rev. John V. Hilton.
IV. By Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D. Subject—“A Revival of
Righteousness in the Prosecution of Christian Work among the
Despised Races of America.” Committee—Rev. B. F. Hamilton, Rev.
Wm. V. W. Davis, Rev. H. D. Walker, Rev. Henry R. Craig, Rev. Wm. T.
Briggs.
V. By Rev. C. L. Woodworth. Subject—“America’s Opportunity the
World’s Salvation.” Committee—Rev. J. M. Green, Rev. Samuel Bell,
Rev. G. F. Stanton, Rev. Chas. P. Nason, Rev. Franklin S. Hatch, Rev.
J. K. Aldrich.
Rev. Stephen M. Newman reported the order of exercises for the
ensuing sessions. Secretary Strieby urged upon the Association the
need of prayer in the meetings. The President called upon the Rev.
E. B. Hooker to lead in prayer. After singing, the Benediction was
pronounced by Rev. E. H. Merrill, D. D. The Association then
adjourned until 7.30 P. M.

Evening Session.

At 7.30 P. M. the President called the Association to order. Scriptures

were read and prayer offered by Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D. Rev.
Samuel E. Herrick, D. D. delivered a sermon from I Peter, ii. 9.
Secretary Strieby offered the closing prayer. The Association then
adjourned until nine A. M. of Wednesday.

Wednesday, October 30.

At 8.15 a prayer-meeting was conducted by Rev. Horace Winslow. At
nine, the Association was called to order by Pres. Edward S. Tobey.
Prayer was offered by Rev. John O. Means.
Rev. Stacy Fowler, of Cambridge, read a paper on “The Element of
Present Time all-important in what we do to save this Country.”
Rev. George Leon Walker, D. D., read a paper on “The
Denominational Polity of the American Missionary Association.”
District-Secretary Chas. L. Woodworth read a paper on “America’s
Opportunity the World’s Salvation.”
After singing, the Association adjourned until two P. M.

Afternoon Session.

At two P. M. the Association was called to order by President Edward

S. Tobey. The session was opened with singing “How firm a
foundation ye saints of the Lord,” and with prayer by Rev. Stephen
H. Hayes.
Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D., of Worcester, read a paper upon “The
Revival of Righteousness in the Prosecution of Christian Work among
the Despised Races of America,” which was referred to a committee.
Hon. Amos C. Barstow, of Providence, R. I., read the report of the
committee on the Indians as follows:
The Committee to whom was referred so much of the
Annual Report as relates to the work of the Association
among the Indians, are glad to be able to approve the
action of the Executive Committee for the past year, both
with respect to its missions and its agencies. They beg
also to indorse and emphasize the sentiment—twice
repeated in the Report—that “the unsettled condition of
the Indians, growing out of their frequent and enforced
removal, sometimes for long distances, and at short
notice, continues to rob the efforts put forth in their behalf
of much of their rightful success.”
Like the dove sent out from the Ark, the Indian has found
no rest for the sole of his foot. Of the 275,000 Indians in
what is now our country, fifty years ago 130,000 were
east of the Mississippi River, where now but 25,000
remain.
At first we were content to crowd them beyond the
Mississippi, but our example at the East has proved
contagious among the settlers of the new States west of
the Mississippi, and now all these States, by their
influence over the General Government, are emptying
their Indians into the Territories. The Pawnees and
Poncas, and the great bands of Sioux Indians, under those
famous chiefs Red Cloud and Spotted Tail—in all 15,000—
have been pushed out of Nebraska within two years. The
great States of Iowa and Kansas have but 1,000 each
remaining in their borders, and Missouri has none. At the
present moment, Colorado is making an effort to push the
3,200 Ute Indians, who have always lived upon her soil,
either beyond her borders or up into the mountains, 7,000
feet above the sea level, and far above the possibility of
self-support.
The Stockbridge Indians, whose original home was amid
the beautiful valleys of old Berkshire, in Massachusetts,
and who, while there—130 years ago—enjoyed the stated
ministry of David Brainard, and afterwards of Jonathan
Edwards, were moved west as far as the State of New
York, ninety years ago. Since then they have been moved
five times, and now a remnant of the tribe occupy a little
reservation in Northern Wisconsin. Why should they have
been exposed to such perils as haunt a people, thus
violently and repeatedly torn up by the roots, and
compelled to make new homes far distant from the graves
of their sires? Or, rather, civilized and Christianized as they
are and were, why should they not long ago have come to
individual homestead rights of portions of their land in fee,
with citizenship, as do multitudes of foreigners, of far less
education? Instead of girding the Indians about with
bands of love, and holding them to their ancient homes,
where they could be easily reached by Gospel influences,
the nation has taken it for granted that the “wilderness
and solitary place” was the only fit home for them; and
therefore, in the expressive language of Red Cloud, has
“kept them on wheels.” We have been crowding them
before the ever-increasing column of our Western
emigration, and even now, the hand of the nation does
not spare, neither does its heart relent. The Santee and
other bands of Indians, fully civilized, are now petitioners
for the right to take up homesteads that shall cover the
present allotments, already cultivated and improved by
them. Their petition is indorsed by the Indian Bureau and
Interior Department, and though urged upon Congress
last winter by all the added influence of the Board of
Indian Commissioners, nothing was done. Congress has
always shown more willingness to feed the Indians than to
locate them. To secure progress in civilization, we must
locate them—give them permanent homes, with all the
motives for industry which they will inspire. To herd and
feed them from the public crib permanently, like cattle, is
to degrade and pauperize them, rather than to civilize and
bring them to self-support.
There is a feeling quite too common in the community,
that Indians, after all, are only outlaws, Ishmaelites,
savages, “having no rights which white men are bound to
respect,” and no elements of character which encourage
efforts for their improvement.
A popular encyclopædia affirms that, “as a race, the
animal propensities in the Indian strongly preponderate
 over the intellectual, and render their civilization, even
with the help of education and Christianity, an event
hardly to be hoped for.” Neither the experience of
Christian philanthropists, nor the facts of history, will
justify this sweeping assertion.
We do not claim that they have taken on them the nature
of angels. We only claim that they are men, and that our
Divine Master made no mistake in giving His Gospel to
enlighten them, His blood to redeem them, or His
command to us to publish that Gospel to them. If Eliot
and Brainard and Edwards found encouragement for
Christian efforts in their behalf, why may not the
Christians of this generation labor for them with hope? Are
we wiser or better than they? Or are the Indians worse
and their condition more hopeless, than in the days of our
fathers?
It is safe to affirm, in spite of all the obstacles in their
path, that, under the efforts put forth in their behalf, many
of the Indian tribes are making commendable progress in
civilization, and large numbers of them are bringing forth
in their lives the peaceable fruits of righteousness.
We, therefore, recommend not only that the Association
continue its work for the evangelization of the Indians, but
that it enlarge and extend it, as fast as God in His
providence may open the way.
A. C. Barstow, Rev. A. P. Marvin,
Col. Franklin Fairbanks, Rev. Geo. F. Wright.
On motion, it was voted that the report be accepted, and taken up
for discussion on Thursday forenoon.
The report of the committee on the paper of Rev. George L. Walker,
D. D. was read by Rev. Samuel P. Leeds, D. D., who opened the
discussion of the report, followed by Rev. Samuel Harrison, of
Pittsfield, and Rev. Addison P. Foster, of Jersey City. Secretary Strieby
was invited to speak upon the pending question. Rev. George Juchau
and Rev. David O. Mears continued the discussion.
On motion of Secretary Strieby, it was voted “That the papers read
before this body, together with the reports of the committees
thereon, be accepted and referred to the Executive Committee for
publication at its discretion.”
Rev. Benj. F. Hamilton, D. D., gave the report of the committee on
the paper presented by Rev. Ebenezer Cutler, D. D. The report was
discussed by Rev. Benj. F. Hamilton, Rev. Albert H. Plumb, Rev. Jesse
Jones, Rev. G. B. Willcox, D. D., and Rev. George F. Wright.
Rev. Jeremiah K. Aldrich, of Nashua, reported in behalf of the
committee upon the paper presented by Dist. Sec. Chas. L.
Woodworth. The report was discussed by Secretary Strieby, and Rev.
Geo. F. Stanton, of Weymouth. The report was accepted, and the
following resolution, appended thereto, was adopted:
Resolved, That, as God raised up His ancient people, and
made them the repository of the truth, to prepare the way
for the advent of the Saviour, when the fullness of time
should come, so He has raised up this nation to carry
forward that truth to its final consummation, and that it
becometh us to put forth every possible effort for
accomplishing this work, in humble reliance upon the
direct agency of the Holy Spirit, believing that God will
bless well-directed, earnest Christian effort, energize and
apply the truth by the personal presence and power of a
living Christ; and that we regard the American Missionary
Association as one of the most direct and efficient
agencies for securing this end, and would press its claim
upon our churches for an increase in benevolent
contributions, that its work may be enlarged and
prosecuted with increased vigor.
At 5.15 the Association adjourned to meet at 7.30 P. M. Benediction
by Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D.
 Evening Session.

7.30.—President Edward S. Tobey in the chair. Rev. Thomas T.

Richmond offered prayer. The evening session was occupied by
those who were formerly in the employ of the Association.
Addresses were made by Rev. Charles M. Southgate, of Dedham.,
Rev. Sylvanus Heywood, of N. H., Rev. Martin L. Williston, of N. Y.,
and Rev. Walter S. Alexander, of New Orleans, President of Straight
University.
During the evening the choir sang several Jubilee Songs.
Adjourned at 9.30 P. M. to meet Thursday morning at nine A. M.

Thursday Morning Session.

Rev. D. O. Mears conducted a prayer-meeting at 8.15 A. M. President

Tobey called the Association to order at 9.15 A. M. Prayer was
offered by Rev. William Mellen.
Rev. Davis Foster read the report of the committee on the paper
presented by Rev. Stacy Fowler.
Rev. Daniel T. Fiske, D. D., read the report of the committee on the
paper presented by Secretary Strieby.
Hon. Edmund D. Sawyer gave the report of the committee on
Finance as follows:
The Committee appointed to consider and examine the
Financial statement of the American Missionary
Association, covering the receipts and expenditures for the
year ending September 30th, 1878, respectfully submit
the following Report:
The receipts from all sources have been $195,601.65, or
about thirteen thousand dollars less than for the
preceding year. The expenses, including amounts paid for
church and educational work, publications, cost of
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