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 CONTENTS.

Page.

EDITORIALS.

This Number—The W. H. M. A. 321

Lady Missionaries—Lady Missionary in New Orleans 322
Paragraph—Missionary Campaign 323
Christianization of our Country for the Sake of the
World 324
Paragraph—Benefactions 326
General Notes—Africa, Indians 327

THE FREEDMEN.

Livingstone Missionary Hall 328

Livingstone Missionary Hall (Cut) 329
Hygienic Department of Fisk University—Student
Teaching 330
Permanent Temperance Work 331
Work in Topeka 333

AFRICA.

Dr. Ladd’s Journal 334

THE INDIANS.

Farming at Fort Berthold 340

Religious Interest at S’Kokomish—School at Leech
Lake 341

THE CHINESE.

Review of the Year 342

CHILDREN’S PAGE.

Letter From an Indian Boy 342

RECEIPTS 343

Constitution 349

Proposed Constitution 350

 American Missionary Association,
56 READE STREET, NEW YORK.

President, Hon. WM. B. WASHBURN, Mass.

CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

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

TREASURER.

H. W. HUBBARD, Esq., 56 Reade Street, N.Y.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES.

Rev. C. L. WOODWORTH, Boston. Rev. G. D. PIKE, D.D., New

York.
Rev. JAMES POWELL, Chicago.

COMMUNICATIONS
relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding
Secretary; those relating to the collecting fields to the District Secretaries; letters
for the Editor of the “American Missionary,” to Rev. G. Pike, D.D., at the New York
office.

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS

may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when
more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, Rev. C. L. Woodworth. Dist. Sec.,
21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or Rev. James Powell, Dist. Sec., 112
West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time
constitutes a Life Member. Letters relating to boxes and barrels of clothing may be
addressed to the persons above named.

FORM OF A BEQUEST
“I bequeath to my executor (or executors) the sum of —— dollars, in trust, to pay
the same in —— days after my decease to the person who, when the same is
payable, shall act as Treasurer of the ‘American Missionary Association’ of New
York City, to be applied, under the direction of the Executive Committee of the
Association, to its charitable uses and purposes.” The Will should be attested by
three witnesses.

The Annual report of the A. M. A. contains the Constitution of the Association and
the By-laws of the Executive Committee. A copy will be sent free on application.
 THE

American Missionary.
Vol. XXXVI. NOVEMBER, 1882.
No. 11.
 American Missionary Association.

This number of the Missionary will reach our readers about the time
of the assembling of our friends at the Annual Meeting. With the
sum of $300,000 so nearly reached, with no debt upon our treasury,
with a year of most successful work, with the addition of many large,
commodious and much needed buildings, and with the dew of divine
grace resting upon many of our churches and schools, we shall meet
in our annual gathering with abundant causes of gratitude towards
God for the past, and hope and courage for another year. Prayer is
the vital breath of the Christian life, and none the less of missionary
endeavor. We ask a place evermore in the prayers of God’s people.
At our Annual Meeting it is our custom to spend a season of
devotion on Tuesday afternoon in concert with all our workers in the
field, who gather in their homes and schools and churches to lift up
their voices in thanks and supplications with us for the blessing of
God upon our work. We ask those of our Christian friends whose
eyes may rest upon this page at that hour of worship to unite with
us in it; and may we not hope that this suggestion, though received
later, may stimulate to earnest supplication in behalf of our work?
 THE WOMAN’S HOME MISSIONARY
ASSOCIATION.
The arrangement for co-operation between the A. M. A. and the
W. H. M. A. has ceased. A few words of explanation are proper. From
an early period of our work among the Freedmen, we have
employed lady missionaries, and found them exceedingly useful.
When the W. H. M. A. was formed, we entered into co-operation
with it in the hope that a larger number of such missionaries might
be sent into the field. It was found, however, that with the office of
one society in New York and the other in Boston, it was impossible
to have such constant consultations as to appointments, places and
work as would avoid all misunderstandings and complications. We
have, therefore, felt it our duty, though with reluctance and with all
respect for the zeal and earnest Christian purposes of the
W. H. M. A., to sever our connection with it.
As we now return to our old plan of selecting the lady missionaries,
and of supporting them from our treasury, we most earnestly solicit
the aid of the noble women of our constituency who sympathize
with our endeavor to lift up the lowly of their sex, and to bring into
their homes the refining and elevating influences of the Gospel.
Whether this aid shall be rendered by individual gifts or by united
efforts on the part of ladies of given churches or localities, we most
cheerfully leave to their good judgment to decide. The work we
know is promising, the opportunities are abundant, and the blessings
two-fold to those who give.
 LADY MISSIONARIES
As we intend to increase the number of our lady missionaries in the
South, it is fitting that we explain our aim in sending them and the
methods of their work. Their services are mainly in the home with
the mothers and the children. We regard the home, the school and
the church as the pivots of the Christian life, each most effective
when working with the others. A home that is not neat, attractive
and pure, cripples the efforts of the school and the church. If a child
spends six hours in a school and eighteen hours in a disorderly and
immoral home, or if a man attends service in a church on Sunday
and spends all the rest of the week in that same home, the progress
of both boy and man in the Christian life will be slow indeed. We aim
to build up character, and if the school, the church and the home,
co-operate in harmony “according to the effectual working in the
measure of every part,” the product will, under God, be men and
women of intelligent minds and pure hearts, happy themselves,
useful to their race and the nation, and ornaments to the church of
Christ.
 LADY MISSIONARY IN NEW ORLEANS.
We have appointed Miss A. D. Gerrish as lady missionary in New
Orleans, and she entered upon her work there Oct. 1. She will
devote her energies with special reference to aiding our work in
Straight University and in Central Church, in accordance with the
principles laid down in the foregoing article. There is much
benevolent and Christian work to be done in that great city, and the
A. M. A., unable, of course, to do it all, must make choice. For the
Chinamen in America, we are doing our great work on the Pacific
Coast, and those who float into Eastern and Southern cities seem to
have been brought providentially to the doors of the large and
wealthy local churches, whose duty and privilege it is to lead these
strangers to the Saviour. As to the maintaining of orphanages, our
experiment, thoroughly tried in the opening of our work in the
South, when such asylums were more needed than now, proved to
us that our broadest and best work for the colored people could not
be done in them. We are persuaded that a given sum of money will
do more for the effectual elevation of the colored people in
connection with our regular work in church, school and home than in
any other way. The lady missionary, aiding to make the home of the
pupil and parishioner neat, intelligent and pure, will not only
brighten that spot, but will render the school and the church more
effectual.
Miss Gerrish is no stranger to our work. She has been eminently
successful as missionary in Topeka, Kansas, where her remarkable
musical gifts, her magnetic enthusiasm, and her earnest Christian
character, have won all hearts within her influence. We bespeak for
her a share in the sympathies and prayers of the faithful Christian
women of the North and West, who toil for the elevation of women
who are depressed by poverty and ignorance.
We publish in consecutive pages in this number of the Missionary the
Constitution of the A. M. A. as it now stands, and the Proposed
Constitution as it will be reported at our Annual Meeting for action.
They will be convenient for reference and comparison.

That missionary campaign in Central and Western New York became

a success. Meetings, of three sessions each, were held in eighteen
places: Penn Yan, (Pa.), Norwich, Walton, Utica, Antwerp, Norwood,
Sandy Creek, Oswego, Elmira, Ithaca, Canandaigua, Fairport,
Lockport, Homer, Binghamtom, Schenectady, Poughkeepsie.
Secretary C. C. Creegan, the manager, represented the work of the
A. H. M. S. in all the country, as well as in his own State, using his
huge map of the United States. His experience as former
Superintendent of Colorado and adjacent mountain country, fits him
well for this service, in which he is enthusiastic. Dr. L. H. Cobb, out
of his ten years’ experience as Superintendent in Minnesota, and
brief work in the New West as Missionary Secretary of the
A. H. M. S., was able to say, we speak what we do know in pleading
for the housing of the new churches on the frontier. He also makes a
forceful appeal for helping them to parsonages as a piece of policy in
the economy and efficiency of home mission work. Dr. H. C. Hayden,
of the American Board, with singular felicity, earnestness and
variation, poured out his soul in behalf of the outlying regions. He,
too, had maps; they were of China, Japan and Africa, and right
eloquent were they in their appeals to the head and heart through
the eye. Dr. O. H. White, Secretary of the British Freedmen’s Aid
Society, co-operative with the A. M. A., in behalf of Africa, for the
first half of the tour represented our cause, portraying the interest of
English Christians in this work, delineating from his ample study the
country, the people, and the prospect of missions in Africa, and also
reporting the condition and progress of our schools and churches in
the South. For the last part of the course our Field Superintendent,
as a “returned missionary” made report of his field, representing also
our work among the Indians, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and
the Mendi people in Africa. It was interesting to observe the
harmony and inter-play of all the addresses, and so of the several
causes. At each meeting there were representatives from
neighboring churches, up to seven or eight in number, so that, in all,
the words of the brethren were heard by messengers from one
hundred churches, by one hundred of our own ministers, by thirty-
five pastors in other denominations, and, through an estimate, by
seven or eight thousand people. These, too, were representative
people; they would report what they had heard; and when they told
the non-attendants how much they had lost, this, too, would be a
valuable testimony. Pastors not unfrequently announced a quickened
interest, and promised to be yet more diligent in presenting these
related interests of all the churches; they found that the calling in of
these brethren was of the nature of using experts in behalf of the
respective modes of Christian propagandism. The men of the corps
were delighted with the heartiness of their reception everywhere,
and came back with an increased love for the Lord’s dear people
whom they had met and tried to serve. Doubtless good was done in
sowing seed, which will appear in future fruitfulness in prayer and
sympathy and contributions for these several causes, which are one.
As the huntsman looks for his game after the fire, we shall be
looking for the A. M. A. bagging out in that country, which one of
our representatives says is the finest part of the United States.
 THE CHRISTIANIZATION OF OUR COUNTRY
FOR THE SAKE OF THE WORLD.
That is the loftiest argument for home missions. God evidently
intended that this should be made a great missionary nation. If it
had been discovered and settled much earlier we should have had
simply a transference of the old world civilization, with all of its
spiritual despotism. As it was, South America and Mexico did receive
that inheritance, and our territory, once claimed by the Pope, and
actually recognized as belonging to the Catholic countries France
and Spain, as appears from old maps and globes, has barely
escaped by the overruling of Providence, which has given it to the
English-speaking Protestantism, and by the evangelism developed
through American Christianity.
Prof. Phelps was right when he wrote: “Were I a missionary in
Canton, my first prayer every morning would be for America in
behalf of Canton.” This idea gives a grandeur to the march of the
American Home Missionary Society across the continent. The course
of missionaries is now largely changed. Once they set sail from our
shores eastward, now they cross our national domain to go
westward. We cry, all hail, to that right wing of Immanuel’s army
that is sweeping the land from ocean to ocean. Already our own
American Board is finding the West its best hunting-ground for
missionaries to go abroad. It is even going into the cabins of the
frontiersmen, as well as to the Western Theological Seminaries, to
find its consecrated men and women. And this is proving to be
choice material to make our Lord’s world-conquerors out of. Men
who have lifted up axes upon the thick trees, and have come into
contact with affairs, have the hardy stuff needed in the work abroad.
So the American Missionary Association is the left wing of the
Congregational corps that is seeking to subdue this realm to our
King, the Christ. To this end was its former work at the West, where
it had its seventy-nine home missionaries. To this end is its scheme
for helping in the evangelizing of the Aborigines, who have made
way for us to build up our nation. To this end is our movement in
behalf of the six millions of our colored fellow-citizens; a movement
which, as we are humbly grateful to be able to say, God has made
great. To this end is our mission among the Chinese, whom God has
wondrously brought to our door to receive the Gospel.
Now, all of this, primarily for the sake of our country, is clearly, in the
divine purpose, also for the sake of the world. Why did God just now
make such a junction as that of the marvelous opening of Africa to
science, commerce and the Gospel, along with the emancipation of
the African slaves in our country? Everybody says, it must have been
that these Christianized Africo-Americans might have an open way
for carrying back to their native land, as pilgrims, the same blessings
which the original pilgrims had brought to this new world from the
old. Nothing could be grander than this process of helping our
brethren of the South on to a degree of attainment that will fit them
to become the Puritan element that may yet leaven that dark
continent. Not simply may we send over there the cultivated
professional men and helping women, but who knows but that, by
and by, as Ireland has been emptied several times into this country
—live freight being easier of shipment than dead—so may masses of
our “Americans falsely called Africans,” as Lewis Tappan used to say,
go over with intelligent purpose to take Africa for their home, almost
transporting civilization in bulk.
So our whole work on the California coast is a grand training school
to fit native missionaries for China, not simply to raise up nominal
preachers and teachers to go back to father land, but to make
Christians of the many, who, by virtue of their discipleship, shall be
commissioned of the Lord to go forth bearing the Gospel, even as
the early Christians went forth everywhere preaching the Word. Such
an infusion of Gospel leaven will be one of the most hopeful features
of the Christian propaganda in the Celestial Empire.
And so here we find the confirmation of the field and the work of
this Association. We are put in trust with the care of these three
depressed races dwelling by our side—in trust for their good, for our
country’s welfare—in trust for the sake of Africa and China and all
the world. As these three peoples are here to stay, and as they will
ever need the foster care of their more favored brothers of the
common family, we find herein the justification and the demand for
far-sighted and long-continuous plans on the part of this body for
the lifting up of all these three classes of lowly poor, in order to their
own elevation, in order to the evangelization of our country, in order
to the salvation of the world.
Equally clear providential indications may yet point the way to a
work among the Southern white people, as soon as the caste
prejudice shall melt away under the benign influence of Gospel light
and love. And thus all the races—as in Christ Jesus there is neither
Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free—shall be united not
only in Christian sympathy and fellowship at home, but in the
blessed work of carrying the pure Gospel of Christ to all the lands
and peoples of the world.

A gentleman, who for a dozen years has been a member of the

Senate of Maryland, drops in at our rooms occasionally from interest
in our work. The last time he was in he spoke of a colored young
Catholic, who was among the number of those who were taken over
to London to be educated for the priesthood and to be returned to
labor among the freedmen in that office. The Doctor said that the
young man had returned with a fine education, but had abandoned
the idea of taking orders. He was now teaching school, but his
highest ambition was to become a porter in a large library. As this is
the first and only one of those young men, of whom so much was
said at one time, to be identified by us, we are glad to hear from
him. Of course, this one case does not carry the whole, but surely it
does not augur much for a Romish propagandism among our colored
fellow citizens.
 BENEFACTIONS.
John Francis Clapp of the firm of Simpson, Clapp & Co., of New York,
remembered his native town, Belchertown, Mass., in his will by the
gift of $40,000 for a public library and a building for the same.
Mr. George I. Seney has presented $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female
College, to finish the college buildings.
Mrs. Shaw, of Boston, the daughter of the late Professor Agassiz,
supports 33 kindergartens in that city and vicinity, at an expense of
$25,000 per annum.
President Peter McVicar has lately received a gift of $10,000 for
Washburn College from a friend in Massachusetts.
Not only has Rev. H. O. Ladd’s University of New Mexico at Santa Fe
received $5,000 from the estate of the late Deacon J. C. Whitin, but
other gifts are promised for the building now going up.
Bowdoin College has received $1,000 from Dr. Goodwin to found a
commencement prize, $4,000 from the estate of Mrs. Noah Woods,
of Bangor, to establish the Blake Scholarship, $1,000 from John C.
Dodge, of Cambridge, for library purposes. $3,500 was pledged
towards a new gymnasium and $1,000 for a new laboratory.
The man who gave the $20,000 named at this place in our last
issue, calls it “stewardship.” The man who gave the $10,000 there
indicated calls it not a donation, but an “investment.” We have some
such investments to offer, with this indorsement, “He that hath pity
upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord”—an investment of $1,000 for
a scholarship, $10,000 for a library, or $25,000 for a professorship in
any of our chartered institutions.
 GENERAL NOTES.
—The Italian government will shortly send a messenger to the king
of Abyssinia, charged with giving him presents from King Humbert,
and renewing at the same time friendly relations between the two
countries.
—M. Antoine, who has been some time in Abyssinia, reports that the
natives endure with impunity the malaria of the lower regions,
pernicious to Europeans, and attributes their freedom from sickness
to the daily use of fumigations of sulphur.
—At the request of M. Price, founder of the establishment at Frere
Town for the freed slaves, the Committee of the Church of England
Missions has decided to send two new missionaries, a teacher, and,
if possible, a physician. The agents of the society will endeavor to
extend the work to the interior.
—The Universities’ Mission to Africa has now three great centres of
operation—Zanzibar, the Usambara country north of Zanzibar, and
the Rovuma District. It has about 1,000 natives under its care, has
transformed the old slave-market of Zanzibar, where formerly 30,000
slaves were sold annually, into mission premises, with a church,
mission-house and school, and established a chain of stations from
the coast to Lake Nyassa. The income for 1881 was £11,000 and the
mission has 34 European missionaries and 26 native evangelists. The
mission was started in 1859 at the suggestion of Dr. Livingstone, and
looks to the universities for its supply of clergy.
 THE INDIANS.

—Five new Indian students have arrived at the Hampton Institute—

one, whose position in the school is not yet defined, as it is difficult
to find a class for him. This is Hampton’s first experience in training
married people in homes. Miss Fletcher brought from Omaha two
families, in one of which there is a fine-looking baby of 18 months.
—At Hampton, in the tin shop, over 7,000 pieces of tinware have
been made for the Indian Department since the 20th of June, in
addition to the tin work done on school grounds. All the contracts for
the Interior Department are completed, and 55 cases nicely packed
have been shipped to the different agencies.
—Mr. Cowley writes from Spokan Falls that he returned recently from
session of District Court, having been summoned as interpreter in an
action of the U.S. Marshal against four white men for selling whiskey
to Indians. Two were sentenced to penitentiary, one broke jail before
trial, and the other cannot yet be found. It will break up the traffic
for a time. The jury in the last case brought in a unanimous verdict
of guilty, on the testimony of one Indian, which gives a hint as to the
intelligence and absence of race prejudice on the part of the whites,
and of the reputation of the Indians in that region for veracity.
 THE FREEDMEN.
REV. JOSEPH E. ROY, D.D., Field Superintendent, Atlanta, Ga.

LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL

Was so far completed that it was ready for occupation at the
beginning of the scholastic year, Sept. 4. The dedication has been
fixed for Monday, Oct. 30, so that persons in attendance upon the
annual meeting of the A. M. A. the previous week in Cleveland can
go on to Nashville and spend the Sabbath and be present at the
dedicatory exercises.
The Hall is 203 feet in length and 52 feet in width. The central part
is ten feet wider, and the whole building is four stories, with a
basement. The building contains a chapel, a large library room,
museum, scientific lecture room 40 by 30, Treasurer’s office,
President’s room, thirteen class and lecture rooms and sixty-six
dormitory and living rooms. It is heated by steam.
The completion of this new Hall nearly doubles the capacity of Fisk
University. The movement for the erection of this building was begun
in England in 1876, and its final success is due to the munificence of
Mrs. Stone, who gave, for the erection and furnishing of the Hall,
$60,000. It is expected that the exercises connected with the
dedication will be of great interest, and a cordial invitation is
extended to the friends of our Southern work to be present.
LIVINGSTONE MISSIONARY HALL, NASHVILLE, TENN.