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you that here, too, are homes and American enterprise. You are in
the midst of the cotton belt—a dry, light, almost sandy soil, level like
the bottom of a lake, showing signs (in beds of marl, with shells not
yet absorbed) of having been once under the sea, easily tilled; large
amounts of chemical fertilizers in use; plenty of work for both whites
and blacks; and, although some of both races are do-nothings,
numbers of both are industrious and reap the reward. The relations
between the two races here appear to the casual eye entirely
peaceful. Some blacks are leaving for Indiana, and a few are
returning; and the departure of those who go from this particular
section only gives more room and occupation for those who stay.

“A fragment of the conversation of two negroes I overheard on the

street sounded true and sensible: ‘My ’pinion is, one dat’s willin’ to
work, kin make a livin’ most anywhar; as fur —— he allus was too
lazy to live; he’s too lazy to die. I don’t b’lieve nuffin sech as he ses.’
They were talking of a bright but indolent mulatto, well known in the
place, who had lately exodusized and come back.

“The churches are Baptist, Episcopal, and Methodist, with ‘Hard-

shells,’ Campbellites, etc. The colored people have churches and
preachers of their own, and will never rise very high till they have
schools and better churches.

“The lack of schools is a great evil, felt and deplored by some of the
best people. There are private schools for the whites who can pay
for them, but no public schools for them, and none of any kind for
the blacks here yet. But times move forward and grow better.”

LE MOYNE INSTITUTE, MEMPHIS, TENN.

Training Nurses—Needle-Work—Preparation of Food, etc.

In the Missionary for March, 1879, Miss Milton gave some account of
the industrial department of the school at Le Moyne, and also
announced the purpose of giving attention to the training of nurses.

Prof. Steele writes that their plans have been more fully developed
with most gratifying results. During the year, about an hour each day
has been devoted to such work, without interfering with regular
studies, and with the effect of stimulating the students in all other
directions. The list of questions on the care of the sick, which
constituted a part of their examination at the close of the winter
term, indicates a varied and minute training, which must fit these
pupils to be angels of mercy, and most blessed ministers of comfort
and health in many cabins of the South.

Professor Steele reports a death-rate among the negroes of

Memphis that is simply appalling. He says in other cities of the South
it is about double that among the whites; in Memphis it is three
times as great. We are confident that this disproportion does not
prevail through the country. The blacks are gregarious, and crowding
into the cities, as they do, in ignorance and poverty, disease is
fearfully fatal among the children; but we do not believe the
forthcoming census will establish such a death-rate as the above
among the colored population at large.

Our teachers, wise and Christ-like in their spirit, are directing their
efforts to whatever affects the welfare of these poor people, and
their condition will constantly improve.

ANGLO-TURKISH CONVENTION FOR THE

SUPPRESSION OF THE SLAVE-TRADE.
The Queen of England announced at the opening of the last session
of Parliament, Feb. 5th, “That a convention for the suppression of
the slave-trade has been concluded between my Government and
that of his Imperial Majesty the Sultan.” This was very gratifying to
all who had so long waited the signing of the oft-promised and oft-
delayed treaty with Turkey. On the 9th of February, it was said by
the Under-Secretary of State that the treaty had been signed but not
ratified, and would soon be laid upon the table of the House of
Commons. In the meantime, what purports to be a copy of the
treaty has been published.

An examination of its several articles creates grave fears that astute

Turkish diplomacy has been too much for Sir Henry Layard in this
matter. It is all very well for English cruisers to have the right to
search suspected ships, sailing under the Turkish flag, for slaves; but
their officers cannot touch African slave seamen, and it will be easy
to so make out a ship’s papers that she can carry many more men
than she needs, and she can change her crew every voyage. All
slaves seized, another article provides, shall be turned over to
Ottoman authorities for the purpose of proclaiming them free, which,
we fear, will prove as effectual in accomplishing that result, as
throwing the turtle into the water by the simpleton was effectual in
drowning it.

When England made treaties with other slave-holding nations for the
suppression of the slave-trade, she provided that captured slaves
should be tried before a mixed Commission in which British officers
sat. In this treaty they take their chances for freedom before an
Ottoman Court.

In this connection we regret to announce that Pacha Gordon has

resigned, and his resignation has been accepted; and thus Central
Africa loses its noble Christian ruler. He went out in 1874 as
Governor General of Soudan, “to establish a regular government, to
create facilities for commerce, and to destroy the slave-trade in the
province entrusted to him,” and his resignation will bring dismay to
all who have the cause of humanity at heart. It was at first reported
that Ismail Eyoub Pacha had been appointed to take his place, who,
while not Gordon Pacha, was, it is said, as good a man for the post
as could be found in Egypt. But the Anti-Slavery Reporter now says,
“it is officially announced that the actual successor is one Raouf Bey,
of evil memory.”

This Raouf Bey is spoken of by Sir Samuel Baker in his “Ismailia” as

the bosom friend of Abou Saood, whom he describes “as the
incarnation of the slave-trade, and the greatest slave-dealer on the
White Nile.” Colonel Gordon thinks it certain that the slave-dealers
will at once resume their operations, and will be unmolested by the
new Governor. He estimates that at least 30,000 slaves have
annually, for the past twelve years, been brought down from the
Bahr Gazelle and Darfur; and Vice-Consul Wylde believes that not
less than 50,000 annually cross the Red Sea, who are taken to
Egypt, Turkey, and other Mohammedan countries. And now, it
seems, the Anglo-Turkish Convention provides that slaves captured
by the English shall be handed over to the Ottoman authorities to be
by them declared free, and a noted slave-hunter displaces the
Christian suppressor of that hellish traffic in the governorship of the
slave-hunting grounds.

MR. H. M. STANLEY ON THE CONGO.

[From the Field, March 12.]

As the recent movements of this well known African explorer have

not been given in detail, the following translation of a letter written
by Father Carrie, head of the Congo Mission, dated Landana,
December 3, 1879, and published in Les Missions Catholiques (No.
559), may not be without interest.

Father Carrie says: “Having just returned from a voyage through the
whole navigable portion of the Lower Congo, I take the first
opportunity of sending you the following particulars concerning Mr.
Stanley and his explorations. The party of the great explorer is
somewhat numerous. It consists, besides the leader, of a
superintendent, an engineer, a sea captain, several mechanics,
carpenters, etc., in all, twenty whites of different nationalities—
Belgians, Americans, English, Italians, and Danes. A French
naturalist, M. Protche, just come to Landana from Paris, and an old
member of the German expedition to Chinchoxo, near Landana, are
also about to join The ‘Society for the Investigation of the Upper
Congo,’ as this expedition terms itself.

“The blacks of the party consist of about one hundred men, Arabs
and natives from Sierra Leone and the Congo. The stores are very
considerable, comprising especially five small steamers and some
auxiliary craft, engines and trucks for land carriage, wooden houses
ready for erection, &c.

“Mr. Stanley, as I am informed by Mr. Greshoff, proposes to go up

the Congo to the Lualaba, where he hopes to meet his Arab friend
Tibu-tin. He will then explore the Western part of the Congo as well
as the countries near both of its banks, and will endeavor at the
same time to bring the ivory-trade to Emboma. When we arrived at
Vivi (four or five miles below the first cataract of the Yellala Falls),
Mr. Stanley was on his way across the mountains in the direction of
the great village of the same name, doubtless studying the start for
his route to the interior. M. Van Schandel, chief engineer of the
expedition, told us that the celebrated traveller habitually started on
such excursions without warning any one of his going or returning.
Soon, however, Mr. Stanley himself was announced; he returned
tired to death and covered with dust and perspiration.

“While waiting for the end of the rainy season, he is engaged in

firmly establishing his first station—the base of all his future
operations—and in maturing his plans for overcoming the gigantic
difficulties in his way.

“It is, indeed, a startling enterprise to traverse some two hundred

miles of precipitous, rocky mountains, piled up—so to speak—one on
the other, and almost without any intermediate passage, not only
with a numerous party, but a considerable weight of baggage,
wooden houses, trucks and steam vessels, which must be hoisted
over heights of from 1,000 to 1,300 feet, with extremely abrupt
rises; and this not once, or twenty, or a hundred times, but on
thousands of occasions.

“Happen what may, it will require some years’ work to reach the end
of this terrible chain of mountains at Stanley Pool, where the second
station is to be established.”

Making every allowance for the fears of the worthy ecclesiastic

whose letter we have here given, it is sufficiently evident that Mr.
Stanley has his work cut out in executing the Belgian international
programme. He will, apparently, have a land journey of three
hundred miles before he can make use of the river, and he himself
considers that it will take three years to carry out the project
successfully.

JESUS SAT OVER AGAINST THE TREASURY!

It is an assurance full of sweet comfort, especially to the poor, that
One sits over against the treasury who estimates at its full value the
widow’s mite, knowing as He does out of what love and self-denial it
comes. With a check for the last instalment of $100 from the estate
of a poor widow, comes a brief sketch of a life that was beautiful
and touching; a life that was full of struggle, and sorrow, and
benefaction; which closed in blindness after 88 years. After a brief
married life, she was left a widow with one child, in great poverty.
She won a home with her needle, in which she lived for forty-two
years, the last twenty-six of these entirely alone, as her daughter
had been taken from her by death.

She lived her brave, self-forgetful, helpful life; active in all good
words and works in church and neighborhood, economizing where
her own wants were concerned, keeping guard even over the use of
matches; liberal to the limit, not only of what she had, but of what
she could earn, where the needs of others were known. Intelligently
acquainted with the work of the Church, at home and abroad, from
a wide reading of all our home and foreign missionary journals, she
accepted it as the highest duty and most honored privilege of life to
fill up, according to her measure in her own body, what remains
behind of the sufferings of the divine Redeemer. Such gifts are as
precious ointment poured upon the head of the Master, and He
accepts them with the pledge that they shall not be lost. It were
almost a sacrilege to write a name upon our pages by way of eulogy
which the Master himself has pronounced with honor before His
angels: “Thou hast been faithful over a very little.” “Enter thou into
the joy of thy Lord.”

And He still sits over against the treasury, noting not alone the
widow’s mite, but the larger gifts of those who give, if not
abundantly, yet out, of their abundance.

GRADATIONS, NATURAL AND HELPFUL.

Can civilization reach the state of nature, that state which God
meant for it, until men know how to divide society equally, from top
to bottom? I do not mean by this that there will ever come a time
when two will not be more than one, when four will not be more
than two, and when eight will not be more than four; I do not mean
that we shall ever see the time when there will not be gradations in
society from the top to the bottom—gradations of power, gradations
of intelligence, gradations of wealth, gradations of refinement; but
there is to be in society just that which exists in households—
namely, a disposition, that runs from the top to the bottom, of love
and sympathy; and when you have so stratified society, and
organized it, and made every member of it, from the lowest to the
highest, feel, “My brother above me is pulling me up higher,” we
shall begin to realize our true relation, and fulfil our appointed duty
one to another. When in society it is as it is on the sides of
mountains, where men, being helped by those who are above them,
turn round and help those who are below them, and go on a few
steps and again are helped by those that are above them, and again
help those that are below them, and so on until they reach the top,
then gradation will not be an evil. Gradation is now an evil because
there is a stratum of prosperity, and a thick slice of selfishness; then
another stratum of prosperity, and a thicker slice of selfishness; and
so on, selfishness growing thicker and thicker as you go toward the
bottom. It has got to be broken up. The low places, the valleys, have
got to be exalted, the mountains have got to be brought down, and
men have got to mix and coalesce. In other words, the day has got
to come when that simple sentence, a million times repeated, and a
million times not understood, shall be fulfilled, and love to God and
love to man shall be the law of the universe, and of universal
conditions. We have got to come to it first or last.—Christian Union.

ITEMS FROM THE FIELD.

N. C., Lassiter’s Mills.—“The church is greatly revived; six converts
this week, and many more seeking the Lord.”

N. C., Raleigh.—“The revival still goes on. There have been over 200
conversions since Mr. Brown left us, and many are still anxious.
There are revival meetings in every colored church in the city every
night without the least rivalry. We have twenty-two converts in our
church already.”

S. C., Charleston.—“Miss Wells has organized a Band of Hope with

forty members, and there seems to be a good deal of enthusiasm.
The church has fixed on the 3d Sunday in April as the day for a
renewal of the covenant. The officers are now visiting every
member, urging them to come forward to renew their church
pledge.”
Ga., McIntosh, Liberty Co.—Mr. Snelson writes: “Our communion
season held yesterday was highly enjoyed by all. Six persons united
with the church. Four were promising young men. Two of the
candidates came out from Baptist families and were baptized by
immersion.”

Ga., Woodville.—Mr. Sengstacke writes: “I have been preaching every

night for six weeks. Our Sunday night meetings are crowded, and
the unconverted people are becoming alarmed. I am now reaching
the very class I have been longing after for some time—the young
people. In February I baptized two young people, in March three,
and last night one young woman professed conversion. Our Sunday
night contributions are increasing. We are having the church
repainted on the inside, and are trying to raise money for additional
seats. We cannot seat the people. Last Sunday night many turned
away, because we had no room.”

Ala., Florence.—Easter-Sunday was observed in an impressive

manner. The new church was full.

Ky., Berea.—Some persons have here recently professed faith in

Christ, and others are inquiring.
 THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOS. E. ROY, D. D.,
FIELD SUPERINTENDENT, ATLANTA, GA.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
Lincoln Mission.
REV. SIMON P. SMITH, WASHINGTON.

A great deal has been said recently about the Lincoln Mission in the
District of Columbia, and probably many would like to hear how the
work is progressing.

There is a very large Sunday-school at this mission, and has been for
several years. The teachers come from Dr. Rankin’s church, more
than fifty of them, and manifest great enthusiasm. The school
averages about three hundred scholars, and on some occasions,
during the cold weather, we had more than four hundred.

The majority of these children come from the poorest and most
illiterate colored families in the city. They have good training in the
day-schools, but bad home influences. Their parents do not bring
them up as they should, hence they are very rude. There is much
need of a lady missionary here to teach the mothers of these
children how to make homes happy.

It is said that there are about sixty thousand colored people in the
city, and from the appearance of loiterers standing on the streets,
there must be twenty thousand out of employment. Idleness is the
mother of mischief, and what an opportunity such people have to
enter into temptation! Some of the parents of the children who come
to the Lincoln Mission are among these idlers.

These children are very poorly dressed; they scarcely have sufficient
clothing to keep them warm. We hold prayer-meeting with them
every Wednesday evening, and we find it very difficult to keep them
away from the stove. This seems to indicate that they have but little
fire at home. We are always glad to have it cold on Wednesday
evenings, for, then, we are sure of a good audience; and we can tell
them about the words of eternal life. Many desire to be prayed for,
and we believe that some of them love the Lord Jesus.

General O. O. Howard was with us recently, and addressed the

children. While he was speaking, his words were so full of sympathy
and love that he held the attention of the rudest class of boys in the
city for more than an hour. The sheep know the shepherd’s voice—
even the lambs. We know that he loves our nation, because he built
us this synagogue, and we love him because he loves us. He is,
indeed, a true philanthropist.

NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington.

In place of a report from our teachers at this place, we are happy to

substitute a letter from a visitor from the North who happened to
reach Wilmington in time for the examinations. We have yet to hear
of the first visitor who has not become an enthusiastic friend of our
work. We do not wish a general decline in health among our friends,
but we do wish that all visitors to the South would make themselves
acquainted with this work.

REPORT BY A VISITOR.

Returning with my friend from our winter’s stay in Florida, we

embraced the opportunity to stop in Wilmington, and visit Mr. and
Mrs. Dodge, and see their work among the colored people. We
arrived the day previous to the exhibition which was to close the
winter’s term of school. Friday evening, March 26, at 8 o’clock, we
repaired to the pleasant hall of the building, where were gathered
over a hundred bright, interesting-looking boys and girls between
the ages of five and eighteen, well and neatly clad, and a fine
looking audience of expectant parents and friends, who filled the
room to its utmost capacity. The exercises were opened with singing
by the school, one of the ladies presiding most creditably at the
organ.

Then followed responsive reading from the Bible, led by Miss Warner,
and a prayer of thankfulness, by Mr. Dodge, for the possibilities now
opened to this once oppressed race. After devotions came
recitations, declamations, and dialogues, interspersed with music, in
which all participated, and the exercises from beginning to end were
conducted with a correctness and order that would have done credit
to any white school in the North. One of the pleasantest features of
the evening was the representation of the re-united States, in which
each scholar appeared wearing upon his or her shoulder the name of
one of the States, and repeating some appropriate motto or watch-
word. When all were gathered on the platform the Goddess of
Liberty took her place in the center, waving the stars and stripes as
they sang the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

I only wish more friends in the North could have seen in their faces,
and heard from their lips, the pride and gratitude which these
parents are already finding in the education of their children. Sunday
morning we attended service in the same hall, where Mr. Dodge
conducted the exercises much as he would those of a church at
home, with singing, responsive reading, and an exposition of the
Scripture appropriate to Easter. At two o’clock Miss Farrington, who
has this year joined the Home in the capacity of a missionary,
gathered in one of the lower rooms for instruction, what she calls
her mission school, made up of those outside the church. At three, a
large Sunday-school came together in the hall, and after devotions
were assigned to their respective teachers for work.

Again, in the evening Mr. Dodge presented Paul and his strivings to a
company of attentive listeners. No one can realize, who has not
been on the ground, the sacrifice and labors of this little band of
workers, who are so completely isolated by prejudice from their own
people, and are giving up everything to the elevation of this
unfortunate people. One of the saddest things about the work is the
lack of means to accommodate those who would be glad to avail
themselves of the advantages of this school. If we at the North could
only see how small would be our largest gifts compared with those
of these teachers, should we not do much more?

Raleigh.

Reverend George E. Smith sends an account of the refreshing, and

in every way helpful labors of Reverend Henry E. Brown, during a
few weeks’ visit to the churches of Raleigh. It will be remembered
that Rev. Mr. Brown was connected with our work at Talladega,
where, by his devoted and earnest labors, not only as Pastor and
Professor of Theology, but as a missionary to the regions about, he
established a number of churches and did much to ensure their
success. He is now in the employ of the colored Y. M. C. Association
of Raleigh, and is visiting the churches of the South under its
auspices.

He reached Raleigh at noon on the 9th of February, and with

characteristic zeal had visited every colored pastor of the city before
night, and arranged for a meeting held that evening in the
Congregational Church, which was crowded to overflowing. Three
delegates of the Y. M. C. A., white, were present, and after hearing
Bro. Brown’s plan of operations, cordially endorsed them, and
proffered their assistance in carrying them out. Meetings for workers
were held in the afternoon of each day; from this those who co-
operated in the work went out to prayer-meetings in different parts
of the city, and in the evening general meetings were held in the
various churches.

Bro. Smith adds: There is now a revival going on in every colored

church in the city, and we really feel that it is a revival of religion,
not mere excitement.

Since Brother Brown came in our midst, over one hundred souls
have been born into the kingdom of Christ. Many of the Sunday-
school scholars have been led to reflect, and to accept the Saviour
as their great head and teacher. Brother Brown’s labors among us
have been a blessing to all. One minister said the other day, “My
people have more religion than they used to have.” When asked why
he thought so, he replied, “Because they are living better.”

It may be gratifying to the many friends of our little church to know

that we have shared in this great blessing. At our next communion
season, which is the first Sabbath in April, we expect a glorious time,
as ten persons have already made application to unite with us at
that time. There may be more, as there are many anxious ones who
meet with us every night inquiring the way of salvation. Since
Brother Brown left, we have still carried on the meetings.

ALABAMA.
CONFERENCE OF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHES.

A Full and Delightful Meeting—Abundant and Most Courteous

Hospitality of the Citizens.

BY MISS A. E. SAWYER.

The fifth annual meeting of the Alabama Conference was held,

beginning Saturday evening, March 27th, and closing on the evening
of the 30th, at Selma, a city noted for wide streets, beautiful trees,
and pleasant homes. Rev. C. B. Curtis assured us of a hearty
welcome from the church, which had long been anticipating this
meeting, and Rev. O. W. Fay, of Montgomery, followed with the
opening sermon, upon Christian activity.

The sermon on Sabbath morning, by President DeForest, upon the

power of the Gospel, was given in concise, terse language, and
when, at the close, he pictured the scene at the last day, when
Christ should receive the redeemed from all kindreds and nations,
the “amens” from many hearers testified that their hearts had been
touched.

The children’s service in the afternoon opened with an earnest

address, by Prof. Ellis, upon temperance, followed by Mr. Y. B. Sims,
upon the same subject.

Dr. Roy preached in the morning in the First Presbyterian Church,

and at night, Pres. DeForest filled the same pulpit, both to the
edification of the hearers, as we judge from various remarks of the
members. The fame of the morning sermon came from thirty miles
“out in the country,” and one good man said of the other preacher,
“he ought to be an evangelist; we want to get him away from you.”
The prayer-meetings were full of interest.

Pastors and delegates from the fifteen churches were present. Some
spoke of special religious interest, others of neighborhood prayer-
meetings, one of a pastor’s class for brother ministers, some of
farms recently purchased to be carried on by different members for
the benefit of church or school; and various plans for the uplifting of
the people showed that the pastors of these little churches are
thinking and working, as one of their own members said, “still
holding on, though there are discouragements.”

Dr. Roy presented the “Past, present and future work of the A. M. A.”
in an able address, and those who have long taken part in this work
were thrilled as they heard what had been done, and realized the
magnitude of the work still before them. Through the providence of
God, the Dark Continent was to be made light by the labors of men
and women trained in these schools of the South. We are not only
home missionaries, but, through our pupils, foreign missionaries.
The fact that Prof. Silsby is the son of a foreign missionary of Siam,
gave additional interest to his discourse on “The duty of the
churches to foreign missions.”

One interesting feature of the Conference was the number and

variety of the papers by the students and pastors trained in the
Theological Department of Talladega College. Though greatly
regretting the unavoidable absence of Prof. Andrews, who has never
before missed one of these gatherings, all felt that he was well
represented by his students—his boys, as they like to call
themselves.

The discussion, “Shall our ministers encourage the Exodus?” by Rev.

P. J. McEntosh, must not be passed by in silence; for whatever were
the opinions of the audience as to the propriety of bringing forward
such a question at such a time, all must have been moved by the
eloquence of the speaker as he rapidly enumerated the
disadvantages of the colored people of the South.

The third annual meeting of the Woman’s Missionary Association,

conducted by Miss Adams, of Montgomery, was one of exceeding
interest. Reports from Selma, Marion, Montgomery, Mobile, and
Talladega told of lively working societies of the women and girls. The
work was much the same in all. Mothers’ meetings, Bible readings,
visitations of the sick, sewing-schools for the girls, all are helps in
this work of lifting up the women of the South. Miss Hardy’s paper
on “The word as a means of success in our work,” by its apt
quotations and earnest Christian spirit, touched all hearts. A letter
from Mrs. Ash, of Florence, who was educated in one of the A. M. A.
schools, was received with much interest, and the manner in which
it treated the question, “How shall we inspire a spirit of womanhood
in our young women and girls?” highly commended. The whole spirit
of the meeting showed that this subject was uppermost in the hearts
of the workers, and that they realized that the colored women must
be helped in their homes, if we would reach the entire community.

The Conference, after hearing an account of the meeting, passed a

resolution expressing great interest in it, and approving the advance
step connecting it with the new Home Missionary Association.

Time will not allow even a passing notice of many excellent

addresses, but we must note a capital one on temperance by Judge
Saffold, of Selma, considering the question in its legal aspect.

Tuesday night we assembled for the last time, and listened to an

eloquent missionary sermon by Mr. Crawford, followed by the
celebration of the Lord’s supper, Pres. DeForest and Dr. Roy
officiating. It was a tender, solemn service, the most precious of the
week. Then came the farewells, and we separated, feeling thankful
for the privileges we had so much enjoyed.

The meetings were marked by large attendance, and are spoken of

as unusually interesting.

We must not fail to mention the hospitality of the people of Selma,

particularly of the Presbyterian Church. They received us most
cordially, attended many of the exercises, expressing much interest
in what they heard, and greatly cheered us by their Christian
courtesy.

ALABAMA SUNDAY-SCHOOL CONVENTION.

Young Man with Backbone—Refreshing Gathering.
PROF. GEO. N. ELLIS, TALLADEGA.

We have just returned from the Fifth Annual Conference of the

Congregational Churches of Alabama and the first meeting of the
State Sunday-school Association held at Selma.
This Association was organized only last year at Montgomery, so this
was our first gathering. We had a glorious, a soul-stirring time. The
Convention opened Friday evening, March 26th, with a sermon by
President DeForest of Talladega.

I summarize reports as follows:

Thirteen schools were represented by delegates, four by written

reports, one by letter; their aggregate shows over thirteen hundred
teachers and scholars in attendance, seventeen hundred volumes in
libraries, one hundred and eighty dollars raised, and one hundred
conversions. This does not include the schools taught by our
students through the summer, although they are really a part of our
work. This brief sentence gives no idea of the interest with which
these reports were given and received, or of the amusing or
touching incidents connected with the giving.

Mission Schools.—It will not do to pass these by unnoticed. It is

marvelously surprising how quickly the love of Christ, once received
into their own hearts, inspires this people to go out and seek for
others.

We have three such schools about Talladega. Selma and Mobile

report one each. Childersburg has a county association.

The superintendent of the mission school at Selma gave an

interesting account of his experience in organizing and conducting it.
By the way, he is the young man recently mentioned in the Advance,
who refused a position, worth $25 per month, in a store, because
whiskey was sold there, which he might sometimes have to handle.
It takes moral backbone in this country to stand up for temperance.
I learned something of this young man’s history. He is making every
effort to educate himself and at the same time partially supports a
widowed mother with her large family. He will make his mark in the
world; moreover, what he is as to character is largely due to the
faithful efforts of a patient teacher.
A large number of visitors were present; among them Rev. Mr.
Woodsmall, Principal of the Baptist School at Selma, and others,
many of whom favored us with short addresses, which were spirited,
enthusiastic and pointed.

We feel that we may fairly call our first convention a success in

numbers, exercises, interest and results.

Busy Days—Health-talks—“Major Ann.”

MISS M. J. ADAMS, MONTGOMERY.

It often seems as if our work grew upon our hands, so that we have
no time to tell about it; with our nearly 400 pupils, with all the cases
of discipline that must arise, with interviews with parents and visits
to their homes, in addition to the full hours of school given to
instruction; then the school prayer-meetings, the special meetings
for Bible study, the Young Men’s Association of the school—a
condition of membership of which is a pledge to abstain from the
use of tobacco,—and the semi-monthly meeting of the Woman’s
Missionary Society, which we have of late devoted to “Health-talks.”

At our last meeting I sent an invitation to the mothers of our pupils

to come to the school-room on Monday at four o’clock. A large
number responded, and we gave them such instruction as we could,
regarding things they so much need to know for themselves, their
children, and their homes. The women listened earnestly, and
begged for another meeting of the kind.

We set apart a portion of the day of prayer for colleges for

appropriate exercises, and had a solemn meeting. Since that day,
some have been seeking Jesus. Our hearts are specially cheered
with the evident sincerity of two promising young men, who, we
trust, are now entering upon the new life.

We have a weekly school prayer-meeting, and meet on Tuesday

nights such pupils as we think will be specially helped in a small
social meeting.
I must tell you a little about “Aunt Ann,” a member of my Sunday-
school class, who has just died. She was in many respects a
remarkable woman. Of a giant frame, of strong practical common
sense, an imperious will, a contentious and often a bitter spirit, her
life full of tribulation, it was, indeed, a warfare. She was quite a
politician, and very fond of public speaking, so that she was known
throughout the city, by both the white and colored people, as “Major
Ann.”

She had learned to read in her old age, and had a great love for the
word of God. She always had her Bible by her in her market-stall,
and never failed of being in her place in the class, with her lesson
well learned, and at every Sunday-school concert or Christmas
festival she must say her “speech.” During the last of the year I
noticed with how much more of a tender and quiet spirit she
enjoyed the truths of the lesson, especially those about Heaven.
When visited during her long and painful sickness, she always called
for the reading of the 5th chapter of Revelation, adding, “Read it
right, for I shall know if you make one mistake.” That chapter and
the repetition of the twenty-third Psalm were a sure comfort to her
in her suffering, poverty, and loneliness.

Major Ann’s dying message to me was, “Meet me in glory; meet me

at the first trump.”

KENTUCKY.
The Land and the People—The Work at McKee.
REV. E. P. FAIRCHILD, BEREA.

A stranger passing through many portions of the mountains of

Kentucky would probably regard it as a waste, howling wilderness,
with no signs of habitation, save now and then the crow of a chicken
or bark of a dog off in some hollow. This is owing to a custom the
people have of settling away from the public roads. Then, too, the
highways often follow a narrow ridge, or deep valley, where there
would be but little room for building. The indication of a near
residence is a path leading off from the road, or possibly you may
see a corn-field on a distant hill-side. But the heavy timber and thick
underbrush generally obstruct the view.

The people, as a class, take but little pride in good or comfortable

houses. One often has to get quite near before he can see them, so
small are they, and so much the color of the timber, being made of
logs or poles. A person is regarded as “having a plenty” when he
owns a good saddle-horse or two, a pistol, a milch cow, a few
shoats, domestic fowls, and crop enough to last him through the
year. The idea is that man lives but a short time; he should be
satisfied with enough to eat and wear; that death, in a sense,
destroys his individuality; that one star doesn’t differ from another in
glory; that “in much wisdom is much grief,” and “what profit hath a
man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun?” Be contented
without knowledge, orchards and vineyards. What reason have we
for improving on the condition of our parents? Of course, there are
exceptions to those who hold these sentiments; and if their prophets
and priests had not promulgated these ideas, to keep them from
becoming wise above their instructors, probably none would have
cherished them; for it would be hard to find a people with as little
knowledge and culture, who are so honest, genial, frank, and ready
to receive instruction as they are. The trouble is, they have been
neglected. The Southern aristocracy have little sympathy, and do not
know what it is to reach a helping hand to the needy, though they
are regarded as very hospitable. The benevolent people of the North
and East are absorbed in aiding the growing West.

But let us go to the church. There is no bell to ring, though a bell

would sound beautifully among those hills and valleys. There is no
time-piece but the sun, and often no church or school-house to
enter; a private house or an arbor is sufficient, if there is a spring
near by. It is surprising to see the number that gather when there
are so few signs of habitations. All are very attentive, and seem
anxious to learn, save a few roughs, who gather at a distance,
provided with whiskey and pistols, ready to quell any fuss that may
chance to arise. Those who read the Bible and Almanac at all
generally read them very much, and are ready to quote Scripture,
but are less gifted in its construction and application; and if they
chance to get hold of any other reading, they are apt to become
very familiar with it, reading it over several times. They are not
afraid to sing loud, whether they know the song or not.

It is not one of their principles to give, unless it be a good meal of

bread, hog-meat and gravy. Many are not able, and none have been
taught, to give. Some hardly know how to account for the fact that
other people give to them.

The people might be divided into two classes—either “in all things
too religious,” or “full of fornication and drunkenness, with feet swift
to shed blood.” The hills rock-ribbed, the quiet valleys with moss-
covered stones, clear flowing brooks and running ivy, are not
adapted to engender lukewarmness. A talented man is apt to be a
preacher or desperado—sometimes both.

About four or five months ago I made my first visit to McKee, the
county seat of Jackson Co., Ky. I found a small village having a
court-house, jail, poor-house, two or three hotels, about the same
number of stores, several dwellings, and a small school-house, but
no church. It lies in a small basin-shaped hollow, with high hills on
all sides. On public days, citizens may be seen pouring in from every
valley until the streets are flooded with people, and some of the
people flooded with whiskey.

On inquiry, I found they had no Sunday-school, and preaching,

perhaps, only once in two or three months, when a circuit rider
might chance to be passing. I immediately helped them to the
organization of a Sunday-school, and made an appointment to
preach there every other Saturday and Sunday through the winter. I
have met the appointments, and we now have a Sunday-school with
a membership of over seventy-five, with a good library and lesson
papers. A Temperance Society has been organized with over five
hundred members. The Saturday and Sunday meetings are regularly
attended, and the people are now very anxious that a suitable
building should be erected for school and church purposes. A
subscription of over five hundred dollars has already been raised by
the citizens of McKee, and as soon as a thousand dollars can be
obtained from some benevolent source, we shall lay the foundation
for something permanent.
 AFRICA.

EXTRACT FROM A LETTER FROM PROF. CHASE.

Jos. Smith preached this morning a good plain sermon upon “The
Way of Life.” He had to speak through an interpreter, but got along
nicely. The congregation was a strange one. Only two of the women
had hats. Most of them wore turbans made of striped handkerchiefs,
wound around in artistic styles.

During the services a tithing-man passed around, a cane in hand,

keeping the children in order, and waking up those inclined to
drowsiness.

Avery Station.—This is rather a pleasant spot. The river makes three

bends here, and the mission house is so placed, that from the front
veranda we get a view about half a mile up and down the stream, of
water, rocks and green, the thick growth of trees, bushes and vines,
most of the way coming down to the water’s edge, and at some
points dipping into it. The yard is surrounded by a low well-kept
hedge, sprinkled with little pink blossoms. In front are cocoa-nut
trees, with their clumps of yellowish green nuts encircling the trunks
about twenty feet from the ground; an orange tree, a cinnamon tree
with its dark green fragrant leaves, and several pretty shrubs of
various kinds. Beyond the hedge, on a point sloping toward the river,
is the coffee “farm” (of three acres) covered with trees about four
feet high, looking very much like pear trees. In the rear is a clump of
banana trees with a few bunches of unripe fruit. In the distance is
the mill, whose irregular roof of bamboo is looked down upon from
the veranda. Nearer by is the chapel, an unpretentious yellow
structure with a school-room in the basement. The house is one-
story, raised several feet above the ground, having a wide veranda
on three sides, and containing six comfortable rooms, besides
kitchen, &c.

Mr. Jackson is pastor of the church; Mr. Anthony, from Berea, has
charge of the mill and farm; and Rev. Mr. Jowett, a native, educated
at Sierra Leone, teaches the school, and acts as interpreter. In the
family are ten little children who are just beginning to talk in English,
and work about the house and grounds. The plateful or platefuls of
rice the little things can put away is astonishing. The smallest one
will eat as much as can be piled on a dining-plate.

[Editorial Note.—A son of the Mr. Jowett, referred to in the above

letter, has just landed in this country, on his way to Fisk University.
Believing that he is to figure in the future history of missions in
Africa, we give a brief sketch of him, and a glimpse at life in an
African village, prepared by himself. This will be found in the juvenile
department. Just here we wish to say that Albert Miller shows his
appreciation of a liberal education and also his devotion to his divine
Master, two things very hopeful in a missionary. He found this young
man helpful as a Christian, and useful as an interpreter, and
believing he would make a good missionary, he has sent him to his
Alma Mater, and authorized the Association to pay his expenses out
of his own small salary. When such a spirit of self-denial and
thorough consecration characterizes the church, we shall have no
trouble either in getting or maintaining teachers and missionaries.

We wish also to say that this is a most hopeful movement; that of

the emancipated Christian and cultured African, with a constitution
which enables him to live there, going back with the blessings of the
Gospel to his fatherland; and that of the native, fully acquainted with
the language of that people, rescued from paganism, to this country
for Christian education. The meaning of slavery, under the Divine
administration, is beginning to unfold itself.]
 THE INDIANS.

INDIAN BOYS AT HAMPTON.

MISS ISABEL B. EUSTIS.

Mr. Hall’s account in the February Missionary of the departure of his

Fort Berthold boys for Hampton, was a vivid picture to us who
welcomed them here. We could almost see them bidding a sad
good-bye to their friends, waving their blankets from the deck of the
boat, and sympathized with their consciousness that they had “a
long way to go, and a long time to stay, and it would be hard.”

We wish the friends, who bade them good-bye that cold October
morning, could see them to-day. If they could hear their quick and
intelligent replies in the school-room, and watch them at their
trades, we think they would recognize the record which the new
thoughts and self-control of the year have left on their faces, and
would feel that they have already gone a long way and a good one.

Almka (White Wolf), would show them the blue farm-cart of which
he is rather shyly proud, because he made it, wheels and all, with
his own hands. White Breast would lay down the doors of a new
wardrobe, he is finishing neatly, and Karunach would come from
mending shoes, to tell them about Hampton, till their ideas out-
stripped their tongues, and the old Indian sign-language came to the
rescue. I think E-cor-rup-ta-ha would stop a minute, with a
nonchalant air, to polish lovingly the big Corliss engine, before he
shook hands even with them. Laughing Face and Ka-what would tell
them how much they have made of the new carriage-house, the
Indians are building. Tom Smith would throw away his plane, and
meet them with a joke and his merry boyish laugh; and little Ara-
hotch-kish would look up from his painting, with a quick shy glance
of welcome, going straight to the warmest place they have saved in
their hearts. Most of our Indians have gained a sufficient command
of English to receive any idea which can be put in simple words; and
if any reader of the Missionary is troubled with ennui or thinks of
searching for a new sensation, I advise him to come to Hampton,
and try telling the old children’s stories to Indians. Even
Washington’s little worn-out hatchet gets a new sharp edge.
Columbus on his voyage of discovery is followed with a slightly
incredulous but intense interest, and all the Bible record reveals
again a new force and fire.

Imagine telling the story of David and Goliath for the first time to a
school full of Indian boys and girls. The room is breathlessly still.
Only kindling eyes and fixed attention show that the courage of the
shepherd boy for his unequal contest, his cool disregard of his
brother’s scoffs, his disdain of Saul’s armor and spear, his dauntless
confidence in God, are meeting, one by one, a hearty response in
the minds of the boys, a more timid one from the girls. Scarcely a
suppressed Indian grunt or guttural disturbs the narrative, till the
first slung-stone lodges fairly in the giant’s forehead, when little Ta-
ta-ton-ka-skah on the back seat forgets all traditions of Indian
stoicism, jumps about a foot in the air, and claps his hands in an
ecstasy of delight.

The bell rings, and the scholars must go to their classes, and fight
their own giants, strong ones, that will by no means down at the
first blow. May God bless every one, and grant them His faith, and
courage, and patience, till “little by little” their enemies shall be
driven out.
 THE CHINESE.

“CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION.”

Auxiliary to the American Missionary Association.

President: Rev. J. K. McLean, D. D. Vice-Presidents: Rev. A. L.

Stone, D. D., Thomas C. Wedderspoon, Esq., Rev. T. K. Noble,
Hon. F. F. Low, Rev. I. E. Dwinell, D. D., Hon. Samuel Cross, Rev.
S. H. Willey, D. D., Edward P. Flint, Esq., Rev. J. W. Hough, D. D.,
Jacob S. Taber, Esq.

Directors: Rev. George Mooar, D. D., Hon. E. D. Sawyer, Rev. E.

P. Baker, James M. Haven, Esq., Rev. Joseph Howell, Rev. John
Kimball, E. P. Sanford, Esq.

Secretary: Rev. W. C. Pond. Treasurer: E. Palache, Esq.

A CHAPTER OF ITEMS.
Chinese New-Year’s.—Our Chinese brethren observed their national
New-Year’s festival very happily, in their usual Christian way. With
great pleasure do I remember my visit to the very comfortable head-
quarters which our Oakland brethren have established. It is a two-
story house, very neatly furnished with whatever is necessary to a
Christian home, except that the male sex alone is represented there.
It bears witness to the strength of the home impulse in Chinese
hearts, such of them, at least, as have been touched by the love of
Christ, and shows how soon—if only these immigrants were treated
as others are—Christian homes, in the full sense of that good word,
would spring into existence among them. When I reached the
house, the rooms were already full of Chinese, and their teachers
and friends. After greetings were over and refreshments tasted,
several hymns were sung, and then I spoke to them of the “new
commandment” which our Saviour gave us, and led them in prayer.
Just as I was leaving, Rev. Dr. McLean, their pastor, entered with
other friends. Before I had gone far, I met Rev. Mr. Condit, a
Presbyterian missionary among the Chinese, on his way to the same
place. And thus with greetings and exhortations, and good counsel
and prayer, the day passed away. At our Central Mission House and
the Bethany Home in this city, similar exercises were held, at which
the same duty of brotherly love—for us “the lesson of the hour”—
was pressed on their attention, and made the object of earnest and
united prayer—prayer to which I, at length, see the beginning of a
glad response.

Of this same festival, as observed at Sacramento, Mrs. Carrington

writes: “The rooms were very tastefully decorated, and called forth
much praise from the many who called. The scholars began the
week by holding prayer-meetings; and during the week, as friends
called, much of the time was spent in prayer and song. At a union
meeting on Thursday evening, Dr. Dwinell was present and spoke to
them.” Similar reports come from Stockton, Santa Barbara, etc. This
festival calls, of course, for a few days of vacation in the schools,
and involves a temporary diminution in attendance, but, in my view,
the religious uses to which it can be put, amply compensate for any
inconveniences it may involve.

Additions to the Churches.—Two of our pupils at Santa Barbara were

baptized and received to the Congregational Church in that city, at
its last communion. Three are expecting to be baptized and received
to the Congregational Church at Sacramento, and seven to Bethany
Church, San Francisco, at their April communions. Let me quote Mrs.
Carrington once more: “I cannot tell you how my heart has
sometimes been thrilled with joy at the faithfulness of those so
recently brought out from darkness into the marvelous light. If
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