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THE
HOME MISSIONARY
FOR THE YEAR ENDING
APRIL, 1897.
Go, . . . Preach the Gospel. — Mark. xvi. 15.
How shall they Preach, except they be sent? — Rom. x. 15.
VOL. LXIX.
NEW YORK :
CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE,
1897.
INDEX TO THE HOME MISSIONARY
Volume LXIX
PAGE
After Souls 347
After the Young- Folks 5°6
Against Wind-and Sand 355
Among the Lumber Camps 63
Annual Conference of Secretaries 462
Annual Meeting (70th) 231 74
Annual Meeting of Woman's Unions 212
Annual Report of the Treasury no
Annual Report of Work by States : Alabama,
137 ; Arizona, 142 ; Arkansas, 138 ; Black
Hills, 152; Colorado, 154; Connecticut,
122 ; District of Columbia, 132 ; Florida,
134 ; Georgia, 136 ; Idaho, 156 ; Illinois,
126 ; Indiana, 143 ; Indian Territory, 140 ;
Iowa, 131 ; Kansas, 144 ; Louisiana, 141 ;
Maine, 114; Maryland, 133; Massachu-
setts, 117 ; Michigan, 127 ; Minnesota,
148 ; Missouri, 138 ; Missouri (St. Louis),
139 ; Montana, 155 ; Nebraska, 145 ;
Nevada, 158 ; New Hampshire, 115 ; New
Jersey, 133 ; New Mexico, 142 ; New York
(State), 123; New York (City) and vi-
cinity, 124 ; Northern California, 158 ;
North Carolina, 134 ; North Dakota, 149 ;
North Wisconsin, 147 ; Ohio, 124 ; Okla-
homa, 140 ; Oregon, 162 ; Pennsylvania,
132 ; Rhode Island, 121 ; Southern Cali-
fornia, 160 ; South Dakota, 150 ; Ten-
nessee, 134 ; Texas, 141 ; Utah, 156 ; Ver-
mont, 116 ; Virginia, 133 ; Washington,
163 ; West Virginia, 134 ; Wisconsin, 130 ;
Wyoming 152
An Open Letter 601
Another Good Book Offered 73
Another of the Iowa Band Gone Home 440
Another Way to Help 6
Answer to Letter About Boxes 416
A Sorrowful Heart 20
As We Have Therefore Opportunity 348
Baby's Funeral 493
Between Seed-time and Harvest 447
Blessed Year's Work 10
Brightening Prospects 73
Brought to Self-support 310
Busy Bees 355
Busy to Good Purpose 10
Called Further East 529
Call from the South 323
Calling a Church and Housing It 1
Casting Self and People on God's Care 599
Chadron, Neb 481
Change in the Magazine 608
Chapter of Home Missionary Work in New
York City 455
Children Brought in '. . 505
Christian Earnestness and Missions 545
Christian Endeavorers Awake 12
Christian Matron's Gift 606
Christmas Offerings 414
Church Awakened 596
Church Built on Dime Contributions 605
City Auxiliaries in Illinois 127
Clippings from Reports , . . . 504, 595
Colorado Revisited 509
PAGE
Comity 409
Comparative Results no
Compulsory Sunday Labor 410
Conclusion of Annual Report 170
Congregationalism in Ohio 55
Crisis in Oregon 205
Cuban Mission in Tampa, Fla 300
Curious Device '. 305
Cutler, Rev. Manasseh 51
Dangerous Delay .... 399
Dangerous Native Classes 368
Day Among the Pagans 308
Decease of Rev. H. Adams, 440; Mr. H. M.
Dixon, 322 ; Rev. W. H. Evans, 22, 108 ;
Rev. G. C. Hall, 108, 147 ; Rev. J. W.
Harding, 361, 506 ; Rev. William Kincaid,
556 ; Rev. W. A. McGinley, 407 ; Rev.
A. G. Petterson, 551 ; Mrs. W. H. Thrall,
72 ; H. M. Voorhees, 108 ; J. B. Williams, 108
Denominational Loyalty 324
Dying Church Revived 555
Early Home Missionary Experiences 18
Eight More Converts n
Election of Officers 104
Eleven Gathered in n
El Paso (Texas) Jail Work 271
Encouraged 506
Evangelistic Work 73
Evans, Rev. W. H., Decease of 22
Executive Committee 106
Father Nichols 413
Fellowship League of Prayer 503
Fifteen Received 348
First Fruits of Our Consecration to Oregon. . 603
Five Added 10
Five More Converts 12
Florida 7
Foreign Work in Connecticut 122
Foreign Work in Massachusetts 118
For Our Army Boys and Girls 417
Forty Accessions 10
French College, Springfield, Mass 118
Fresh Attraction 356
From a Worker in Alabama 439
From Bar to Pulpit 543
From Home to Foreign 17
From Our Alabama Superintendent 541
From Southern Missouri 397
From the East Coast, Florida 363
Frontier Service 21
Gaining 11
Gain of Five 12
German College 201
German Congregational Churches 201
German Department 168
Getting Home Again 446
Giving for Missions 458
Go Forward 607
Go, Preach ! 227
Gracious Outpouring 12
Grateful Acknowledgment and Request 69
IV
Index
PAGE
Grateful for Help 354, 505
Great American Desert 337
Greatly Revived 11
Hammond, Rev. E. P., Book Offered 73, 274
Hanging on by Their Finger Nails 596
Happy Results 504
He, Being Dead, Yet Speaketh 298
His Labors Blessed 505
Home Missionary (Magazine), Change in 608
Home Missionary Boxes 113
Home Missionary Grit 364
Home Missionary Rally Day 371
Home Missionaries Deceased 108
How a Man Looks at It 463
Howard Roll of Honor : 24, 77, 116, 120, 178,
228, 275, 373 ; Woman's Share in 197, 210
How a Western City Grows 56
How Christian Endeavor Helps 175
How Give to Home Missions This Year 303
How Malcolm Solved the Problem 495
How One Church Did It 59
How the Gospel Entered the Cordilleras 449
How the Gospel Entered the Great Basin. . . . 497
How to Do It 302
How to Help Home Missionaries 264
How We Increased the Collection 299
Illustrations : At the Gold Mine, 243 ; Bird's-
eye View of Chadron, Neb., 482 : Bross,
Mrs. Harmon, 485 ; Bross, Rev. Harmon,
485 ; Canon of the Arkansas, 292 ; Chilli-
cothe, O., Congregational Church, Tem-
porary, 54; Cleveland, O., Swedish
Church, 51 ; Cleveland, O.. Union Church,
50 ; Colorado College and Pike's Peak, 338 ;
Colorado Springs in 1894, 340 ; Colorado
Springs in 1878, 342 ; Congregational
Church, W. Denver, Colo., 5 ; Cross, Mrs.
R. T., 3 ; Cross, Rev. R. T.. 2 ; Dayton,
O., Congregational Church, 53 ; Diagram
(Michigan), 14 ; First Bank of Chadron,
Neb., 483 ; Mount of the Holy Cross, 296 ;
On Biscayne Bay, Fla., 388 ; On the Miami,
Fla., 386 ; Platte Canon and River, Colo.,
242 ; Portrait of Dr. William Kincaid, =577 ;
Ricker, Mrs. A. E., 487; Rev. A.' K.
Ricker, 486 ; Springfield, U., ha.cn.-. ,j
Avenue Church, 52 : The Clerical " Coast,"
297 ; The Gospel Tent, 387 : The Little
Grave, 389 ; The Seven Lakes, Pike's Peak,
245 ; Typical Section of Grand Canon. . . . 291
Immanuel (Cuban) Mission, Florida 300
Immigrant Population in Illinois 127
In a Great Trial of Affliction 17
In a Hard Field 314
In a Logging Camp 60
Incidents in Home Missionary Life 310, 360
Individual Back of Organization 204
Infidel Politeness 595
In God's First Temple 504
In Montmorency County, Mich 13
In Need of Christian Work 412
In Southern Florida 400
Instructing Young Converts 539
In the Cyclone's Sweep 354
Iowa Band, Work of 247
Items from the Field : California, 12, 356,
410, 411, 412, 555 ; Colorado, 505 ; Florida,
506, 596 ; Georgia, 596 ; Idaho, 11, 73 ;
Indiana, jo, 13, 505; Indian Territory,
12, 70 ; Iowa, 62, 504 ; Kansas, 12, 13, 347,
348, 355, 504, 505; Maryland. 12, 600;
Michigan, 73 ; Minnesota, 12, 63, 347, 412,
505 ; Missouri, 10, 347, 355, 399, 507, 541 ;
Montana, 554 ; Nebraska, 10, 505, 506, 595,
597 ; New Mexico, 597 ; New York (L. I.),
539; North Carolina, 314 ; Ohio, 354 ; Okla-
homa, 10. i2, 347, 554 ; Oregon, 10, u,
3S5, 400 ; Pennsylvania, 11, 347, 348, 354,
399, 410, 506; South Dakota, 10. 11, 13, 60,
301, 354, 356, 596; Washington, 11, 12,
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346, 595, 597; Wisconsin, 60, 504, 595 ;
Wyoming 595
It Was a Sin of Ignorance 176
Kincaid, Dr. William : His Decease, 556 ;
His Portrait, 577 ; His Funeral, 578 ; Dr.
Judson Smith's Tribute, 579 ; Dr. J. B.
Clark's Tribute, 582; Dr. T. B. McLeod's,
585 ; His Dying Message, 587 ; Mis.
Sangster's Poem, 588 ; Executive Com-
mittee's Resolutions 589
Led by Their Children 348
Lengthening the Cords 505
Letters and Articles from Contributors :
Ephraim Adams, 247, 440; E. H. Ash-
mun, 547 ; F. Bagnall, 73 j Mrs. D. R.
Barber, 205, 366, 493 ; S. E. Bassett, 541 ;
Boston Giver, 466 ; D. M. Breckenridge,
506 ; Miss A. C. Bridgman, 215 ; A. A.
Brown, 446 ; T. A. Brunker, 540 ; C. W.
Bushnell, 543 ; Mrs. Busybody. 225 ; Mrs.
H. S. Caswell, 194 ; J. W. Chandler, 6 ;
E. P. Childs, 20 ; Cinereus, 409 ; Mrs.
Cinereus, 544 ; C. F. Clapp, 208 ; J. B.
Clark, 582 ; O. C. Clark, 262 ; Dr. S. B.
Coe, 323 ; J. Coit, 491 ; Connecticut, 465 ;
Connecticut Lady, 466 ; R. T. Cross. 1. 56,
241, 289, 337, 390. 433, 488, 509 : S. Deakin,
68 ; Mrs. E. R. Drake. 458 ; M. E. Eversz,
201 ; Far-Western Superintendent, 454 ;
S. V. S. Fisher, 257, 551 ; J. G. Fraser,
D.D., 49 ; Mrs. C. L. Goodell. 220, 414 ;
H. M. Grant, 322 ; H., 409: G. W. H.,
72 ; J. C. H.. 605 ; J. W. Harding, 363 ;
R. H. Harper, 363 ; T. K. Harrison, 344;
J. Hayes. 273 ; J. H. Heald, 532 : Mrs.
H. H. Heinzelmann, 197 ; E. P. Herrick,
300; H. W. Houlding, 271 : Illinois Lady,
466 ; Kansas Home Missionary. 303 : B. F.
L., 314 ; Lady in Maine, 466 : D. L. Leon-
ard, 401, 449, 497, 533, 590 ; V. E. Loba,
397 : A. J. Lyman, 252 : Dr. T. B. Mc-
Leod, 585 ; Miss K. MacNaughten, 495,
549 ; Massachusetts Giver, 465 ; Massa-
chusetts Lad;' 465; Massachusetts Man,
466; W. C. Mcrritt, 503 ; Michigan. 465 ;
Elizabeth H. Miller, 364 ; Emily H.
Miller, 357 : Missionary of the A. B. C.
F. M., 463.: Missouri Pastor. 466: W.
Moore. 22 ; W. H. Moore. 462 ; Mrs. E. M.
Mcrse, 607 ; New Hampshire Pastor, 466 ;
One Who Did It. 302 ; P., ^9 : Pastor, 299 ;
" Phebe," 601; Mrs. J. W. Pickett. 69;
Plantation Missionary, 324 ; N. Plass,
385 ; Miss C. A. Potter, 201 ; J. A. Prin-
cell, 542 ; W. G. Puddefoot. 263, 368 ;
Mrs. F. K. Regal, 416 ; Representative
in Congress 465 ; A. E. Ricker, 266 ;
Mrs. A" H. Robbins, 72 : Mrs. C. Row-
land, 213: H. N. S.,298; S. M. S.. 350;
C. M. Sanders. 310, 3,60 : J. P. Sanderson,
1 3 ; Mrs. M. E. Sangster, 204. 588 ; Mrs.
R. T. Shelton, 7 ; A. D. Shockley, 18;
Dr. Judson Smith, 579 ; Mrs. C. F. Swift,
315 ; W. A. Tenney, 447 ; Mrs. H. M.
Union, 61, 65, 224, 350, 395, 554 ; W. C.
Veazie, 265 ; Veteran Churchgoer, 442 ;
M. B. W. (Iowa), 62 ; Mrs. Joseph Ward,
597 : Washington (D. C.) Lady, 465; F.
C. Wellman. 17 ; White Oaks, 348 ;
Whitley 545
Light from Four Quarters 13
Little Missionary 208
Looking on the Bright Side 301
Lost in the Woods 366
Marked Growth 11
Meeting of Woman's Department 193
Message from Asiatic Turkey 463
Metamorphoses 395
Mexican Fiesta 547
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Migratory Class 600
Minutes of Annual Meeting 97
Miss Henry's Meetings 13
Missing Links 549
Missionary Pastors and Evangelists in Illinois 126
Missionary Spirit and Christian Character . . . 313
Missionary Work Among Boys and Girls 312
Mission of " the Freeze " 7
Mission Work Among Indians 304
" Mixum Gatherum " 596
Month's Work of an Evangelist 265
More Holes in the Busybody Purse 225
Mountain Stage Ride 390
Mrs. Goodell's Bible Reading 220
li Mysterious Mrs. B." Again 554
Neglected Corners 491
New Lot in a New Sodom 354
New Sermon on an Old Text 597
Not Discouraged in Frontier Work 272
Notes by the Way 350,481
Notes of Long Service in Colorado, 1, 56, 241,
2S9, 390, 433, 4S8, 529
Notes of Woman's Department Meeting 210
Novel Entertainment 224
Number of Germans in this Country 201
Ohio and Home Missions 49
Ohio's Congregational Centenary 49
One Week with a Home Missionary 266
One Woman 350
Open Air Meetings 507
Open Letter to Phebe's- Pastors 601
Our Family Supplies 113
Our Great Hindrance : . . . 504
Our Publications 112
Our Society a Debtor 252
Our Sunday-schools 112
Our Woman's Department 111
Our Work Among Scandinavians 257
Paradise of Sects 49
Parting Word 17
Pastoral Incidents 488
Patience in Tribulation 596
Personal Experiences in German Work 197
Personal Letter from Rev. J. Hayes 273
Personal Messages 603
Personal Tribute to H. M. Dixon 322
Petterson, Rev. A. G , 551
Phebe, a Servant of the Church 601
Pickett, Rev. J. W., Remembered 298
Pioneering Experiences 554
Poor and Neglected 354
Profitable Chastening 597
Reconnaissance in the Rockies 533
Reconnaissance Completed 590
Reports of Religious Awakening, 10, 11, 12,
13, 73, no, 272
Responsible Partners 357
Revival in Oklahoma 540
Revival Meetings 347
Revival Work 347
Revived Religious Interest, 10, n, 12, 13, 15,
21, I43, I48, I58, l6o, 163, l68, 347, 348
Rev. John Wheeler Harding 361, 506
Rhinelander, Wis., Church, Self-supporting. . 6
Roll of Members at Annual Meeting 98
Sacrifice 216
Scandinavian Department 163
Scraps from Reports 354, 504
Self-denial for the Debt 411
Seventieth Annual Meeting 23
Seventieth Report Presented 107
" Sick, and Ye Visited Me" 412
Six Added n
Sixteen or More Added 10
Sixty-three Added n
Slavic Department 164
Spanish Work in Minneapolis 542
Spanish Work in New York 74
Speakin' in Meet'n' 355
Special Notice 227
Spiritual Improvement 12
Spiritual Progress 597
Spiritual Uplift 595
Spiritually Quickened 347
Still on the Frontier, in Spots 68
Straitened, but Plucky 60
Summary of Results 109
Sunday Base-ball Clubs 356
Superintendent's Vacation 344
Tables : Distribution of Missionaries by Sec-
tions, 171 ; Distribution by States, 172,
173 ; General Comparative Results 174
Temporary Sunday Rest 410
Ten Weeks of Tent Work 385
That Circular Letter 61
That Indian Orphanage 363
That Silver Circle 356
That Year of Destiny, 1846 401
The Cape Cod Chaise 304
The Closing Year 557
The Cyclone's Work 399
The Home Missionary, Change in Issue 608
The Memory of the Just 506
The Missionary Pig 21
Then and Now 360
The New Year 558
The San Juan 433
The Silver Circle 65, 224, 356, 395
The Treasury 27, 76, 177, 227,
27S, 325. 372, 418, 419, 464, 465, 507, 557, 558, 608
Thirteen Converts 595
Thirteen Days of Refreshing 12
Thirty five Happy Converts 10
Those Helpful Boxes 454
Three Fruitful Years 355
Three Questions Answered 201
Timely~and Welcome Missionary Box 62
To the Friends of Home Missions 419
Transformed 12
Tribute to Rev. W. A. McGinley 407
Twelve Converts Received 505
Twenty Converts 10
Twenty-five Additions 347
Two Weeks' Fruits 13
Typical Western Mining Camp. . . . ; 262
Utah and the Mormons 590
Vacation Excursions 289
Visit to a Home Missionary Church 263
Waiting for the Barrel 544
Weakened by Removals 595
Weed, G. L., Book Offered 73
Week in the Clouds 241
What Lack of Money Does 540
Wiser Beneficence 215
With the Missionary Wife 65
Woman's Clubs 211
Woman's Department Number of Magazine
193-227
Woman's Share in Howard Roll of Honor.. 197, 210
Women and the Treasury 210
Word of Explanation 194
Word to Home Missionaries and Other Preach-
ers 442
Work in Arizona 532
Working Amidst Trials 400
Working for a Parsonage 505
Working in the Cold 16
Work of the Iowa Band 247
Wyoming 18
Yet Another Good Book, Free 274
Young Infidel 306
Young People and Home Missions on Pacific
Coast 201
Zaccheus, Lessons from His Story 220
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The Home Missionary
Vol. LXIX MAY, 1896 No. 1
NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XII. — Calling a Church and Housing it
N February, 1881, my attention was called by the superintendent
to an opening for a new Congregational church in Denver.
Corner lots had been selected in a good location, near a new
school building. It was later learned that ex-Governor Hunt had given
these lots to his mother-in-law, an active member of the Central Church,
and she had offered them to that church if they would start a new enter-
prise there. But the Central people declined the offer, fearing that the
support of the proposed enterprise would be too great a burden. Then
the good lady offered us the lots, on condition that we build a church on
them within a year. This she did all the more willingly because her de-
ceased husband had been a Congregationalist. Then came a letter from
the Home Missionary Society seconding the superintendent's urgency
that I take pastoral charge of the new work. The pang of even con-
sidering the question of parting with a people that had become so dear —
a church that had grown up for five years under one's unceasing labor
and prayer, with its Sunday-school, prayer-meetings, young people's
circles, etc. — only those can understand who have passed through similar
experience. I had come to this people because the Lord had plainly led
me, so plainly that when he called on us to bury two children and a
mother on the journey, and to tremble for the life of another child, we
took it, not as a rebuke for coming, but as a preparation for the peculiar
field. And the Lord visibly prospered us. New members had been wel-
comed at every one of the twenty-seven communion services. About 240
had been received to the church ; its house had been built and paid for,
and a new church had been started at Manitou. But I had come, not
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May, 1896
merely for this church, whose interests were constantly on my heart and
in my prayers. The work in all the New West was on my heart also ;
and among all the good qualities of my people none impressed me more
than did their willingness to pray and give for the work in all this region
and in " the regions beyond."
The outcome of much thought, study, conference, and prayer was the
conviction that the Lord called me to the new field in Denver, and then
came the buying of a lot and die building of a house before moving the
family. While the house was going up a thief stole nearly thirty dollars'
worth of nails bought and stored in the temporary tabernacle used for the
new church enterprise — show-
ing conclusively that a church •
was needed in that section.
Not wishing to have his lumber
stolen also, the pastor for many
nights slept with his clothes on
in the cold tent on a pile of
shavings or a row of chairs.
It was not exactly comfortable,
but necessary. A brother in-
sisted that the missionary take
a revolver with him at night.
Not knowing how to use it, the
preacher returned it after one
night, saying he preferred to
use moral suasion.
One night, hearing a noise
at his lumber pile, he saw a
man making off with some
boards. He remonstrated, and
the man said he was only get-
ting a board to lie down and
sleep on — a new proof that a church was needed there. But in the course
of time the house was ready, and the new work begun in earnest.
The call to this new field had come from the Home Missionary Society.
Instead of being called by a church, the missionary proceeded to call a
church. It remained to be seen whether a church would come together
in response to his call. All there was to start with was three vacant lots
in an open field, open because there was no church nearer than about half
a mile, and open, too, because beyond it to the south stretched a level
plain. It was a mile from the center of the city, and on the edge of the
built-up portion, a ragged edge, however. No street cars ran out in that
direction, and there was no mail delivery.
REV. R. T. CROSS
May, 1896
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Three lots in an open field ! No, that was not all. The superintend-
ent said there was one family, a man and his wife, with no means, who
would help, and possibly one or two women besides, and he promised to
move to Denver himself, which would be more central for his work, and
go into the new church and help it all he could. The good woman who
had given the lots would also give her presence and influence, but prob-
ably not her church letter. Then back of the enterprise was the grand
old Home Missionary Society, mother of so many churches ; and back of
that was a denomination, not many but much, which was just awaking to
the importance of pushing its work in growing cities. And back of all
• was the Bible, the glorious
Gospel, prayer, a divine Savior,
and a mighty God. Surely the
enterprise must succeed.
A tabernacle, with a board
floor, forty-five by twenty-five
feet, was put up in two days at
an expense of $248, which was
contributed by friends in the
city. April 10th a Sunday-
school was started in it with an
attendance of eighty. In the
afternoon 150 persons assem-
bled, most of them from the
First and Second churches, and
the pastor of the First church
preached an eloquent sermon
on " Immanuel, God with us."
The pastor began work in May,
and organized a church, May
28th, of nine members, of whom
five were from his and the
superintendent's families. Only five of them were present at the organi-
zation. The pastor of the Second church preached and gave the right
hand of fellowship. All the Christians present were asked to rise as an
expression of sympathy with, and good wishes for, the new church.
The following week the pastor called at 120 houses in that part of the
city. All nations and all denominations seemed to be represented among
the people. Many were glad to have a church near them, but most of
them were poor and could not help much. Fifty were at church the next
Sunday morning, one-third of the number being children. Ninety-three
were at Sunday-school, and sixty at the evening service. There were seven-
teen at the first prayer-meeting, which was full of good cheer and hope.
MRS. R. T. CROSS
4 The Home Missionary May, 1896
In July only two more were added to the church, and in September
one more. Then the superintendent, upon whose help the pastor had
counted so much, resigned to accept an important position at the East,
and soon the excellent Sunday-school superintendent, who had expected
to come in with all his family, decided to locate in another part of the
city. Things looked discouraging, but they only looked so. The only
man on the ground to go into the enterprise at first had to fill the offices
of deacon, trustee, clerk, member of building committee, also Sunday-
school treasurer, clerk, and teacher.
The pastor had been back and forth between Denver and his family,
who were still at the old field, and it so happened that when he finally
took his family to Denver there was no one at the depot whom they knew
except the liquor seller to whose vote he had objected in a prohibition
caucus. A reception was given to the pastor and his family in the
tabernacle. In his remarks the pastor said that his wife was going to give
all the wedding fees for a time to the new church. In a few minutes he
was called to his house to marry a couple, and soon returned with five
dollars for the new church.
In August he organized a society among the boys of the Sunday-
school, similar to the one at the other place. As their fathers were all
employed on the railroad, he got passes for the boys and took them for
two or three days to Manitou to visit the cave and other places of interest.
They slept two nights on the floor of the new church there. The boys
enjoyed the trip hugely, but it was not very restful to the pastor.
The tabernacle would answer only for the summer, and even in sum-
mer it was very uncomfortable on hot days. A church must be built at
once, and upon the pastor fell the work of raising funds and paying bills.
A building committee was appointed, but the members of it were all
busy men and could not give much time to the work. It was decided to
build a brick chapel, to cost about $3,000. But where was the money
coming from ? Of course the Building Society would give about $500
" to pay last bills," but the remaining $2,500, or, as it proved, rather, the
remaining $3,000, where was it ? The First and Second churches were
straining every nerve to build, and not much could be expected from them.
The pastor made an appeal through his paper, and in response many
sums came from all over the land, none of them large, but all of them
encouraging. Five dollars came from a missionary in Turkey, who
believed heartily in Home Missions in America. Six hundred and eighty-
five came from friends and churches at the East. Seven hundred and
seventy-four from friends in East Denver, of which the First church gave
$446. One thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars was raised in the
vicinity of the church, one man giving $500 of it. The pastor, being a
comparative stranger in the city, labored at a disadvantage in solicit-
May, ic
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ing funds. Many hot days he walked the streets and called on one and
another with his subscription paper. He had some pleasant surprises and
some sore disappointments. The rebuff of one man of his own denomi-
nation so hurt his feelings that during an eight years' residence he never
felt like doing any trading with that man.
Another store he never cared to enter again because of the profanity
he heard from the proprietor, though it was not addressed to him. There
were in all 258 donors to the building fund, besides many hundred more
in twelve churches and Sunday-schools that helped.
The pews, cushions, and other furniture of a dead church in the
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, WEST DENVER, COLORADO
mountains, the first of our order in Colorado, were bought for thirty
dollars. They originally cost six or eight hundred. Stoves were bought
at auction, and the ladies worked hard to get a new carpet. The church
was finished in eight weeks after the corner-stone was laid. The pastor
paid all bills and took receipts. One of the contractors was unduly
urgent for his pay. He was not willing to wait a few days for a remittance
from the Building Society. The pastor went to a bank, stated his case,
and received a loan of $500 with no security but his own name. It was
desired to dedicate on October 16th. Eight hundred dollars was still to
be raised before that day, as some objected to dedicating the church
before the money was all pledged. On the Tuesday before that date the
6 The Home Missionary May, 1896
lady who gave the lots, Mrs. Kellogg, put into the pastor's hands $500 in
gold, given by her son-in-law, ex-Governor Hunt, as a memorial gift for
his deceased wife, whose home had been in that vicinity. That heavy
load in the pastor's hands took a heavier load from his heart. Three
hundred dollars more had to be raised, and it was raised. The church
had to be cleaned, seats painted and put in, and various other things
done, all of which were done. The pastor and his helpers finished the
work at nine o'clock Saturday night, and on Sunday the church was
filled at the dedication service, at which only a collection for church
expenses was taken. The pastor believed in throwing at once upon the
church a responsibility for the salary and other running expenses. Al-
though there were so few to give and they so poor, yet mainly by Sunday
collections and weekly pledges $500 was raised the first year for the
salary, and $200 of it was raised in the six months while they were build-
ing the church. The first year was closed without debt, and after that
the church made it a rule to close every year free of debt. Whatever
arrears there might be were made up on the last two Sundays.
Getting that church started and the building erected and paid for was
the hardest work, the pastor thought, that he had ever done. It took a
good deal of prayer and shoe leather. When some one asked him after-
wards the secret of success in the New West, his answer was, " You must
work all day and pray all night."
ANOTHER WAY TO HELP
Rev. Joseph H. Chandler, of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, takes evident
delight in sending to the Society a copy of a resolution passed by the
church there. He says : " The vote was taken on Sunday evening, No-
vember 8th. Superintendent Grassie was present, and gave the church a
fitting charge in response to the resolutions.
" For one reason I regret that the time of my service as a Home Mis-
sionary has expired. The relation of a missionary to the Society which
is ' the mother of churches ' is a help to patient continuance in well doing
when local conditions are disheartening.
"After nearly ten years of nurturing care by the Society the church is
now on pretty secure foundations. It was organized in August, 1886.
After some six years of work under various pastors the church had only
about twenty resident members, but had a good house of worship, with
$2,000 debt. During the pastorate of Rev. W. L. Bray, about two years,
the resident membership was increased to thirty-three, but the building
debt was increased. During the past two years the resident membership
has been doubled, sixty-six being the number now on the ground ; the
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building debt has been reduced the past year $i,8oo, and the remaining
$1,000 is secured as a five-year loan from the Church Building Society.
The debt was increased from $2,000 to $2,800 by repairs and accrued
interest. The church is still weak, but the critical period is passed and a
good future is reasonably secure."
The resolution, passed by a standing vote, is as follows :
Whereas, The Congregational Church Society of Rhinelander ceased,
on the first day of the present month, to be a missionary church, and has
determined to be from that time and henceforth self-supporting and inde-
pendent ; and
Whereas, We recognize the great and permanent benefit conferred
upon this church and congregation by the kind and generous aid fur-
nished to us by the Congregational Home Missionary Society when we
were young and weak, and which has given strength and preserved life
and cleared away almost limitless difficulties, until to-day this church
stands alone and firm in its young manhood ;
Therefore, Resolved, by the church and congregation at Rhinelander,
that our gratitude is due to the Congregational Home Missionary Society,
.and to Rev. T. G. Grassie, its efficient superintendent in this field." At
the hands of both we have ever received kind consideration, with faithful
and wise counsel.
Resolved, That we put on the harness, "not boastingly but hopefully,"
with a strong determination to go on faithfully, to run the course cou-
rageously, and so to do the work of the church in this community that our
'• foster-mother " shall not regret the loving care bestowed upon our
infancy.
*
THE MISSION OF "THE FREEZE" .
By Mrs. Rosa T. Shelton, Derby, Connecticut
Perhaps the section of the country giving promise of most rapid
advance along avenues of worldly prosperity and growth in Christian
grace at the present time is Florida, " frozen Florida," as it is called since
its sudden freeze of a year ago. One would naturally think the State in a
well-nigh hopeless condition. Her sad, dead orange groves reach out
their stiffened limbs as if in appeal to the passer-by, and the somber gray
moss adds to the general tint of mourning, covering in masses the gaunt
branches of her old live-oaks, leaving only palmettos and palms to prove
the life left in her, with here and there a sickly rosebush which has
defied the frost, or a sweet yellow jasmine, to prove that there is still vir-
tue in Florida's frost-bitten sand.
The beauty of Florida, her glory in the past, is gone for a time, and
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the tourist who is still loyal to her balmy air must turn his attention to
more subtle charms than golden oranges and delicate perfumes. He must
expect to find the sunshine dull and cold without that yellow glow over
all her landscape which Florida has boasted in times gone by, and now
the sleepy alligator, the soft breeze, and the despised scrub-palm must
testify alone to her semi-tropical latitude, and alone must they give prom-
ise of better days that will surely come.
But in this very death must Florida place her hope of a resurrection.
In this terrible calamity lies her greatest good. The orange industry has
been such an all-absorbing one that it seems not to have occurred to the
Floridian that any other might be necessary or desirable. All thought
has been concentrated on the growing of oranges, and orange culture has
paid. Abundant returns have been the result. But while carrying on
this industry the people of Florida have been living on canned food and
condensed milk. Few fresh vegetables, little fresh meat, and almost no
milk have been known to form the ordinary bill of fare, because few had
ever attempted to raise such luxuries, and apparently few could. To be
sure, cows were sometimes kept wandering about among the unpalatable
undergrowth of the " hummock land," but they were lean and poor, and
one of the Florida jokes runs to the effect that if a cup of milk is desired
some one goes out and drives in the herd !
Florida's sandy soil, reminding one everywhere of a sea beach, is after
all much more fertile than one would suppose, and it is said to be possi-
ble to raise small fruits and vegetables with very great success if intelli-
gent means are used for their cultivation. So that healthy food, fresh
from the soil, may easily be provided for the people of the State, and such
possible crops would be the means of great income.
It is true that our New England grass does not grow in pure sand,
and cows have at present a hard outlook there ; but there is a variety
called wire-grass, which is inured to such surroundings, and may be culti-
vated easily, upon which cattle would thrive, and the use of which would
do away with the expensive importation of hay from the north.
Besides the products of the soil, which care and study and perhaps
irrigation would make possible, those people in Florida who have remained,
and have risen above the terrible depression of " the freeze," tell us that
many industries hitherto urithought of there are coming to men's minds,
and an energetic effort is even now about to be made in many lines.
Then, even though the frosts come, as they may come from time to time,
there will still be left in Florida full means of support.
Had it not been for this sudden wiping out of property the State
might never have felt the necessity of a broader interest and a wider
field of industry. The calamity, dreadful as it was, bringing extreme
poverty and suffering to hundreds of people, may yet be recognized as
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one of those events in a country's history which have helped to work out
that country's salvation, bitter though the experience has been. It has
opened the eyes of the people of Florida to possibilities which are boundless.
But this is not all. It is a sad truth that character needs adversity at
times for its better development and strength, and there is scarcely a sec-
tion of the country in this whole United States which has not had its
peculiar disaster, through which its people have grown stronger and bet-
ter prepared to meet new ills. Such is the effect of " the freeze " on
Florida. Somewhat unconsciously there has grown into the hearts of
the people a more definite feeling of trust and of responsibility, and their
own trouble has brought the trials and needs of others nearer to them.
Florida is making sacrifices in these days for the home missionary work,
within her borders and without, which few other sections of country can
equal. There seems to have been borne in upon her own consciousness,
simultaneously with her great misfortune, a crying need of moral and
spiritual work in this country which has left a deep impress and is bring-
ing about substantial results. Florida is poor, yet out of her poverty she
is giving generously to help along her sister States.
At the recent Florida State Association meeting there was a decided
atmosphere of earnestness and interest in all things pertaining to real
work. People gathered from all parts of the State, from Palm Beach and
Lake Worth in the south, Tampa in the west, Jacksonville in the north,
and even from the far west of Florida — the strip which extends so far
toward the setting sun — until Winter Park, the place of gathering, was
filled with the delegates. One might naturally expect among such a large
number of representative people to find concentrated discouragement
under the condition of things, but little was said of " the freeze," and no
discouragement could be detected. The whole atmosphere promised
only strong effort toward pushing all good work untiringly, and when
church after church quietly made known its own effort toward lifting the
Home Missionary Society's debt, and helping along expenses in this try-
ing time, one could not but feel surprised at the generous spirit shown.
One little church down on the Indian River, in the midst of the deso-
late frozen district, a church of only twenty-six members, had raised one
full share for the Howard Roll of Honor, and here and there another
share had been the outcome of pure self-sacrifice.
In these ways, and many others, have the people of Florida grown
out of their calamity into a state of stronger purpose and of greater con-
secration. Who knows, after all, what may prove to be the real mission
of " the freeze " ?
" Things that hurt and things that mar
Shape the man for perfect praise ;
Shock and strain and ruin are
Friendlier than the smiling days,"
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REPORTS OF RELIGIOUS AWAKENING
A Blessed Year's Work. — Here ends another year's work, one of
the most blessed and satisfactory years I ever devoted to the Master's
cause. I have suffered much with rheumatism, but on the whole, I believe
it has been the happiest and best year of my life. I have seen over 200
souls turn to the loving Christ, and the most of them came into our church.
I have just closed a twelve days' meeting at Choctaw City, a town of about
T50 inhabitants, with eighteen or twenty hopeful conversions, and go to-day
to Tecumseh County to hold a ten days' meeting. — Oklahoma.
Busy to Good Purpose. — I have been busy most of the time in spe-
cial meetings, here and at two out-stations, with cheering results and fifty
conversions. We yesterday closed a three weeks' series of meetings at
another out-station with the reception of thirteen members. — Nebraska.
Thirty-five Happy Converts. — I conducted revival meetings here
in Hubbard for four weeks, which resulted in fifteen or eighteen hopeful
conversions and a general quickening of the church. Six of the number
united with us, with more to come in at our next communion. Then I
held special meetings at Smyrna church for two weeks, where we had
twenty conversions. In these meetings I had no outside help whatever.
— Oregon.
Forty Accessions. — The revival of which I gave you a somewhat
detailed account, closing last December, resulted at last in forty acces-
sions to church membership, important additions to our Endeavor Socie-
ties, Sunday-school, etc., and new life and resolution all around. — Mis-
souri.
Twenty Converts. — We have just closed a two weeks' meeting with
twenty conversions and eighteen good accessions to our little band. I
believe we have as good a church for its size as any in the Territory. —
Oklahoma.
Five Added.— Our Sunday-school is doing better work now than ever
before, our prayer-meetings are more spiritual, and our congregations
are very good. At our communion service we received five good mem-
bers.— Indiana.
Sixteen or More. — When Rev. A. E. Thomson came here, the
first week in March, to hold a three days' Christian Convention, he found
a responsive people. Christians were ready to make complete surrender,
and a goodly number, sixteen or more, turned to God, resolved hereafter
May, 1896 The Home Missionary 1 1
to live Christian lives. The whole community has been roused to a new
sense of responsibility and of privilege. To comfort, lead, teach, and
inspire them in their daily work for the Master is my duty, more fully
realized and more keenly felt than ever before. — South Dakota.
Eleven Gathered In. — Since the preaching on Sunday evenings,
the Sabbath-school, and most of the prayer-meetings have been conducted
in English, the attendance has gradually increased. The beginning of
this month we held English services every night for two weeks, and as a
result eleven are to be received into the church next Sabbath, most of
them young people. — Pennsylvania {Welsh).
Marked Growth. — Our revival services have been blessed of the
Lord and many precious souls are saved. Three years ago, Congrega-
tionalists were not known here, but during the three years 142 have been
received into the church, of whom 128 still hold their membership here.
During this time seven Sunday-schools have beeen organized. — Oregon.
Gaining. — Special meetings held for two weeks yielded fairly good
results. Some six or eight united with us on the first of April. Our
Christian Endeavor has been reorganized on stronger and more hopeful
lines and now numbers close upon fifty members. — South Dakota.
Greatly Revived. — We are now in the midst of a great revival con-
ducted by C. N. Crittenden, evangelist. — Idaho.
Eight More Converts. — We held a two weeks' meeting in January,
in which much good was done. Eight professed conversion ; ten more
expressed a desire to become Christians. — Washington.
Sixty-three Added and Generously Working. — We have had a
most successful revival meeting under Evangelist J. H. Elliott, resulting
in the addition of sixty-three to the church ; of these additions thirty-one
are heads of families, twenty-two are young men and young women, ten
are children ranging in age from nine to twelve years. We feel able to
reduce our claim upon the Society to $500 for next year. — Washington.
Six Added. — At our communion yesterday we had six additions, all
adults, three on confession. Among the latter was a man, a life-long
cripple from curvature of the spine, who was raised as a Romanist, but
was alienated from that church by the promulgation of the infallibility
of the Pope, and since then had never found a church home till he be-
came acquainted with us. He is a true Christian in spirit, earnest and
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thoughtful. Another, also, a lady, I believe was once under Romish
influences. By letter came a physician and his wife, temporarily in the
city, a man of ability and noble character. — Maryland.
Five More. — We have received five on confession of faith, all adults,
and have baptized three adults. — California.
Transformed. — We have been greatly blessed, especially at Spring-
dale. A revival there has resulted in over twenty additions to our church.
The revival has changed the character of the entire community, and the
good work is still going on. — Washington.
Spiritual Improvement. — There is marked improvement spiritually.
This is the fourth and last week of a protracted meeting in our church.
There has been good attendance and growing interest, with four very
hopeful conversions and others seriously moved. We trust we shall yet
see more conversions and additions. — Oklahoma.
Christian Endeavorers Awake. — "Praise the Lord!" At the
Christian Endeavor meeting last Sunday evening, four young men testi-
fied for Christ for the first time, and many others renewed their consecra-
tion in unmistakable words. This we hope is the beginning of better
things. One young man, the ablest in the place, has already been admit-
ted into membership by vote of the church, but not yet by baptism. —
Minnesota.
A Gain of Five. — I have one new preaching point about nine miles
west of McAlester, where there have been five hopeful conversions. —
Indian Territory.
Gracious Outpouring. — Our church, with several others here, has
been greatly blessed. Throughout the whole community a profound
religious interest has been awakened, and nearly one hundred souls have
been converted. We held a two weeks' protracted meeting, conducted
one week by Rev. W. C. Veazie, our State Evangelist, who gave us strong
spiritual truth which strengthened, enlightened, and built up the church.
We were also kindly assisted by Rev. Mr. Davis, of Plevna, who took a
loving interest in the children. — Kansas.
Thirteen Days of Refreshing. — We held a series of revival meet-
ings the first of this month, lasting thirteen days. Great good resulted ;
the church was revived, Many who had openly spoken against the
church and religion were brought to respect both. Four people, all heads
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of families, were converted, and united with the church. Many others
were reached, and at our next communion we expect to receive quite a
number. I have at present thirteen names on my list, ail adults, and
some of the best people of our town. — Mimiesota.
Two Weeks' Fruits. — Two weeks' service, from February 8 to 22,
awakened the church and some were converted. Four professed Christ,
and others will not be received until later ; two removed to another city.
Our services were combined with another movement, to reach by personal
visitation other families in the parish, not as yet converted. — Indiana.
Miss Henry's Meetings. — Gospel meetings held here by Miss E. K.
Henry in February greatly helped the church and made a good impres-
sion on the community. At our next communion we receive eight new
members on confession, all under twenty-five years, four young men and
four young ladies. — South Dakota.
Light from the Four Quarters. — Opposition has ceased, and we
have now the best feeling that ever existed in the town between the
denominations, shown by a hundred coming to a union prayer-meeting.
People came six miles from all directions, and the whole county was
moved. Meetings have been held four miles east of us with some twenty
conversions, west with seven conversions, and south with several conver-
sions. I am holding meetings at a schoolhouse, five miles southeast, with
eight conversions. The house is full, good work is done, and God is with
us. — Kansas.
*
IN MONTMORENCY COUNTY, MICHIGAN
By Rev. J. P. Sanderson
One of the most interesting of our home missionary fields in Michigan
is that of the Vienna and Briley churches in Montmorency County, in the
northeastern part of the Lower Peninsula. Covering a territory of twenty
miles, the missionary has two classes of people to which to minister : the
new settlers, locating upon the hardwood land, and who are steadily
developing what will be a good agricultural district, and the lumbermen
in the camps in the pine woods.
The Vienna church consists of three stations — Hetherton, Vienna, and
Fairgrieves ; the Briley, or Big Rock church ; also of three stations — Big
Rock, Chamberlain Schoolhouse, and Atlanta. The accompanying dia-
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gram illustrates the relative location of these stations and the distances
between them.
Hetherton
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Chamberlain Schoolhouse
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Big Rock Atlanta
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2 miles 4^ miles
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Vienna
The missionary writes : At Hetherton, which is the strongest place
on the field, we have just closed a series of meetings with eight conver-
sions and a great interest among the people. At Vienna we have just
started a series of meetings and are hopeful of good results. There is a
good interest among the people. At Fairgrieves there are only twelve
families and one camp, but we have nine members among them. At Big
Rock we have just started a singing school ; there is a large group of
young people. Atlanta is the county seat.
On the 7th of November we had a very heavy snow storm, and I
found it very hard traveling to Hetherton. When I got there I found
one man outside ; the door was locked, and I at once went for the key ;
but the old teacher had gone and another had taken charge who lived a
mile away in another direction. When I returned there were some eight
or ten gathered, and when the key was finally secured there were about
twenty of us, and it gave me great encouragement to see some that had
come- two miles through the storm, and several had walked over a mile
and stood out in the storm more than half an hour. I was sorry that I
had to make the service short to enable me to get to my next appoint-
ment, which was eight miles distant.
Here I found only four men, but was glad to see any. I was not in
the least discouraged, for I think it was the most enjoyable service I held.
I sat and -talked to these men on the First Psalm, and felt that it was a
very profitable service. Only one was a Christian, and I trust that that
service will be a great factor in leading the other three to Christ. The
evening service was better attended.
We are living in our new parsonage, which the Vienna church are
purchasing ; all the arrangements for its purchase we trust will be com-
pleted in a few days. We expected to do considerable repairing and
intended to put on a new wing this fall, but winter came earlier than we
anticipated. From the second to the sixteenth of November it snowed
nearly every day ; so we shall leave the building until spring.
During our special meeting at Hetherton there were eight conversions ;
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two men who were over fifty, and another about forty, now a member of
the church, and it seems to me the happiest man in the whole township.
I had had several conversations with him at his home on the subject, and
for a time he was under deep conviction, his wife and many friends pray-
ing for him. The other men have both given testimony several times, as
have also the women.
My wife is giving lessons on the organ to the young people, so that
we hope to have a number of organists in the future. It is hard work to
find one now in any part of the field. We shall start a singing school at
Hetherton in a few weeks.
We have purchased a horse and buggy this quarter, and, thanks to our
Cincinnati friend, have been able to harness the one into the other. Now
we have to purchase a cutter and robes for the winter. It has caused us
a little self-denial in several ways, but we still go marching on.
We have had several experiences in traveling which older and wiser
heads would have avoided, and some which could not have been avoided.
We carried an ax for some time. It is new business to me to come out
from a preaching service and before traveling two miles have to take off
my coat and cut a large tree out of the way. I suppose the orthodox
Jew would have drawn the line there.
In a later letter the missionary writes :
I have been looking up a second-hand cutter, and I think I am fairly
on. the track of one. Since my last we have had four conversions, one
an old man near sixty, and an old lady about the same age, and a man
and his wife for whom we have long been praying. Four others raised
their hands for prayer to-night, and I know right well that there will be a
breaking down in a few days. There are three or four men waiting for
others to take the lead.
I am truly happy on account of the prospect before us, but I am very
tired in body. One of our members I have heard is dying, but my horse
is too tired and I am too weary to go to-night, but we will go in the
morning. I am weak and tired and feel very lean spiritually ; it seems to
me I need a warming up in my own soul. I lack the touch of fellow
ministers and Christian workers, and it is a sore need. I ask an interest
in your prayers.
Under date of December second he writes : I wrote you last week
that I would let you know how many we received into church fellowship.
There were nine in all, seven on confession of faith and two by letter ;
there would have been more only for the fact that I was a prisoner all the
week. On Tuesday the snow was two feet deep and in many places four
feet, so I am not able to use my buggy. Winter has come to stay, and I
am a prisoner without a cutter. I went to Lewiston to buy one on Satur-
day, but did not succeed. I shall try to-morrow at Gaylord.
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The rest has done me good, as I was very tired when I wrote you
last. We have had a meeting every night, with grand results. On
Thanksgiving night we had six conversions, and there were several others
during the week, so that I am feeling very happy. There are bright
prospects before us for a good winter's work. The people who have
confessed Christ are mostly heads of families, and from the best families.
We have had our meeting in the town hall, and it has been full several
times. On Sunday a great many men from the camps could not find
seats. We have made seats of planks, rough and hard, with no backs,
but they come from miles distant and fill them.
We had Thanksgiving service in the morning, but only twenty-four
came out ; in the evening there were a hundred, and our having the hall
saved it from a big dance, and we hope now that there will not be enough
interest to have any more dances.
[The letter closes with a practical illustration of the happy blending
of law and Gospel in the missionary's hands, as he reports that he has
appealed to the Governor of the State to interpose in preventing the
selling of liquors in the community by those who are doing so without a
license.]
WORKING IN THE COLD
The past three months, the most severe during the season, with their
full complement of blizzards and storms, have given but little opportunity
for outside work. The fact that we have often been unable to keep com-
fortably warm in a room, nine by twelve feet, with a large sixteen-inch
fire-pot stove in it going at full blast, will show the kind of weather we
have had.
On New Year's Day I was unable to attend a funeral ( it was of a man
I had married only five weeks previously), on account of a severe storm
which lasted four days. The funeral had to be postponed for six days, and
then it was so bitterly cold that only a few men could attend the services
in the little shanty.
I am pleased to record one noteworthy conversion. A man who has
been " under conviction" for some time accepted Christ at his home and
at once commenced family worship. His wife has since professed to find
Christ. He has united with the church and is a faithful and fearless wit-
ness for Jesus.
It is very difficult managing in the winter in the small houses we have
to live in, and it is a marvel that there is not more sickness, though there
has been not a little. Our house, which is considered of good size, meas-
ures twenty-four by twenty feet, and has but four rooms. One is used for
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a store-room, so that we live actually in three rooms, one of the three being
a bedroom, the others dining-room and parlor, a corner of which latter is
my " study." The latter rooms are separated only by curtains, and as the
children cannot go out much during the cold weather they have to play
in them all day long. But I hope for the best, and if I can get a parsonage
here I shall feel in better shape for work. — North Dakota.
" IN A GREAT TRIAL OF AFFLICTION "
During the quarter I have personally suffered serious trials. My
wife was eight weeks in bed with typhoid malarial fever. When she began
to mend, my youngest daughter came down with the same fever, which
left her with a serious nervous malady, making us very anxious. By
advice of our physician I sent her, with her mother, on a visit to Fort
Worth and Dallas, Texas ; we having a married daughter in Fort Worth
and a married son in Dallas. During their absence a son who was an
attendant in the Insane Asylum in Osawatomie, Kansas, was struck a
heavy blow on the head by an insane patient, that slightly fractured his
skull. He had to be trephined, and twice his life was despaired of.
Both times I was summoned by telegraph. The last time, the skillful
asylum physicians said he had not one chance in a hundred for recovery.
I stayed the last time till I could bring him home with me, and now he is
recovered, thank the Lord ! He is a strictly temperate Christian young
man, and that was in his favor ; but I think his recovery is in answer to
prayer. My daughter has also recovered. With the utmost economy
these things have necessarily involved me in heavy expense. — Oklahoma.
A PARTING WORD
I closed my work here, March 29th, and sail on the 1st of May for
West Central Africa.
It is with something of sadness that I write this last report to the
Society to which I owe so much. Although my time in your service has
been short, yet for more than twenty years my father has been a home
missionary, and my earliest recollections and most precious lessons are
closely connected with the work of the American Home Missionary
Society ( now the Congregational Home Missionary Society ) and her
missionaries.
It is encouraging to see the work here beginning to take on a settled
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form, the Sunday-school workers, church officers, etc., beginning to as-
sume some of the responsibility for its progress. The church building is
a mere shell and very uncomfortable. I hope to hear that they are to
have another building soon. -Two joined us this week, both strong
workers. Indeed, the personnel of the church is much above the average
of home missionary churches. The one great drawback is the finances.
The community is desperately poor, but times will change, and my hopes
for the work here are bright. — Rev. F. C. Wellman, Enid, Oklahoma.
>
EARLY HOME MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES
By Rev. A. D. Shockeey, Wyoming
My first work was emphatically missionary work. The field was one
in which other ministers had seen nothing encouraging, and so had
" passed by on the other side." The "call" which invited me to this
field pledged the churches for the sum of $400 for nine months. Two
churches and four out-stations were associated in the call and the pledge.
The pastor was younger than now by twenty-five years, and, undaunted
by the miles that numbered a score or more between preaching places,
entered with enthusiasm upon his herculean task.
There were prairies that seemed boundless ; streams harmless at low
tide, but full of terrors when, like the Jordan, they overflowed their banks.
There were days when the sun seemed a veritable ball of fire, blistering
the aching head of the unprotected pilgrim ; other days when the flood-
gates of heaven seemed to have been thrown open, and the drenching
rain came rushing and roaring upon the pastor's " store clothes " and ran
in torrents down his back. Still other days there were when the death-
dealing blizzard peremptorily halted the dominie and caused him to right
about face ! and seek safety in some hospitable shanty till the violence of
the storm abated. I will not stay to give pen portraits of notable men
and women who inhabited the 1,200 miles of country embraced in my field.
I may, however, give a sample or two, that the reader may understand
the situation more fully, I was preaching, one Saturday evening, to a
fair house, and everybody seemed attentive and interested. I incidentally
spoke of the Pope — not as one who had usurped authority, or who was
not worthy of reverence, but simply mentioned his name — when one of
my hearers sprang to her feet, and, with an oath on her lips, while she
devoutly crossed herself, flounced out of the house, to be followed by
three-fifths of the congregation. Outside an indignation meeting was
held, and only the coolness and courage of one of the pastor's friends (a
Catholic) saved us from violence at the hands of the excited mob.
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At one of my appointments it was decided to have a " grove meeting,"
beginning on Saturday and continuing over the Sabbath, on which day
three services were to be held. As this was to be an extraordinary meet-
ing, it was thought best to have an extraordinary preacher to attend and
conduct it. The services of the superintendent were secured and the
meeting began. Saturday's services were spiritual and uplifting. Only
those attended who came in a worshipful spirit. The Sabbath dawned
beautifully bright and pleasant. It was to be " a high day " to the people
of two or three counties, and everyone was anxious not to lose a moment
of the day.
The morning service would have been more helpful to this congrega-
tion but for the boisterous talking of a young gentleman (?) who persisted
in standing on a stump just at the outer edge of the crowd, or walking
back and forth on a log which lay some distance from the ground, one
end resting on the stump -from which it had been cut, and the other
hetween two trees that stood so near together as to prevent its reaching
the ground. This " log walk " was just a short distance to the right of
the pulpit from which the superintendent was trying to pour a stream of
eloquence that should interest and attract the congregation, or at least
should divide the honors with the "man up the tree." It is greatly to be
feared that neither of the contestants felt overpoweringly spiritual during
the morning service !
At three p. m. the congregation reassembled, and the poor pastor was
to be pitted against the Son of Belial who had so hurt the morning ser-
vices. The foe was on hand, and after a few preliminary jokes, mingled
with oaths, which everybody could hear, he came marching through the
center aisle, turned to the left of the pulpit and walked out on a tree that
had been partially uprooted by the waters of the creek. It lay almost
horizontally for ten or fifteen feet from the bank, and then rose to a
nearly perpendicular position, having been divided into forks by some
freak of nature. Between the two limbs there was room for a good-sized
person to sit and lean back against another small limb, which had possibly
started in the race for treehood with the others, but, getting discouraged,
had quit growing and so had died. (Aren't there other things than trees
that must grow or die ?)
Up to this inviting seat proudly marched our rival. He turned pom-
pously, sat down, and threw himself back against the dead branch. There
was an ominous crack, a sudden plunge backward, and my opponent was
placed hors du combat. He was baptized, if complete immersion consti-
tutes baptism. He waded down the stream till the sheltering bank hid him
from our sight, before he left the water. But he did not trouble that congre-
gation further. Everybody laughed, and the pastor acknowledged the feel-
ing of a little " Adamic " satisfaction over the discomfiture of his adversary.
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Once, after having preached three times on the Sabbath, and traveled
twenty-five miles between services, we found it necessary to reach our
home, twenty-eight miles distant, after the evening service. There had
been heavy rains, and small streams were rivers; but as we had never yet
met death by drowning, and the case being somewhat desperate, we
started. The first eighteen miles we had moonlight, and only one stream
to pross, besides a further blessing in the shape of a plain road. Here
ended the moonlight, the road, and the pleasure of the ride. The pony
team, however, needed neither road nor moonlight, as they had traveled
across the country often. The next eight miles were gone over safely,
and we were now approaching a small, heavily wooded stream, within two
miles of home. The ford across the creek was shallow, but wide, and
the road wound its way through the timber which, in daylight, seemed
bent on crushing passing vehicles between its towering walls. There was
a feeling of dampness in the air, and a sound as of rushing waters dis-
tinctly audible, and — it was so dark !
We were too near to our home, and too far from any other human
habitation, to entertain a motion to postpone the crossing till daylight
should make the crossing less dangerous. The wise little ponies felt
their way cautiously, bracing themselves against the current, which struck
them almost squarely in front as the road turned up stream to secure an
easy ascent from its bed. Soon we were afloat, horses, buggy, and driver.
Trusting in God and the team, we reached the bank safely, and in a few
minutes the crowing of the lords of the barnyard at home announced the
approaching day, and the speedy end of our journey.
The time for which I had engaged to do such work having now ex-
pired, I declined another unanimous " call " from the same field, lest the
rapidity with which I was growing rich might lead to pride and a love of
the world. During the nine months I had traveled 4,000 miles, preached
156 times, and received for these services forty-seven dollars and twenty-
five cents !
A SORROWFUL HEART
This has been the most trying period of my life ; the awakening of my
greatest hopes, the experience of my greatest sorrows. On the 9th of
January my beloved wife, Gertrude Grant, passed over the river. She
died after six hours of unconsciousness, during which time our son was
born. I saw her die without a sigh, a groan, or a struggle, without know-
ing her child was born, or recognizing any of us. I did not dream of
such a possibility, and I am crushed by it. I know she is in Jesus' keeping,
for her life was one of faith in him and lovins: service in his cause. She
May, 1896 The Home Missionary 21
was to me the strongest proof of the reality of his power, and her trust and
confidence were a sheet anchor to me in this trying and difficult work.
But I never knew before what lonesomeness meant. For she was my best
companion in thought and word and deed, and our life together was begun
and ended in Christian love. It seemed as if our tastes, aims, and hopes
were all truly one. To separate after nearly seven years almost tears my
heart out. I have prayed honestly and earnestly to be kept from sinning
in asking to be taken with her, and I know now h'ow weak and dependent
I am. Join with me in prayer that I may be made a better servant of our
Lord by this loss, and do better preaching and work. My boy lives, and
my heart is anxious that he may grow up a Christian worthy of his beloved
mother. We prayed that he might be a godly child. Thus my hopes are
dashed and others given in their place. I believe I shall come to a deeper
faith and love in our blessed Lord and Master, because he holds my
greatest earthly love and treasure. — Rev. E. P. Childs, Oregon.
V
FRONTIER SERVICE
I am preaching all through the Montezuma Valley and have to travel
over two of the Indian Reservations. I have learned to talk some in their
language. It is frontier life and a very rough class of people, made up of
cowboys and old frontiersmen. But they are good-hearted, if a person only
has the faculty of gaining their affections. The Lord has wonderfully
blessed my work here and has given me many souls. There is a great
awakening in the valley and my meetings are well attended. Cowboys
and others come into them with guns and knives strapped around them,
and I have some great experiences. But God is with me. All the people,
including the Indians, are very good to me. I receive from them no
salary, as the country is at present very poor, but in time the people will
be able to support a minister. — Colorado.
THE MISSIONARY PIG
The preacher had said to his little country congregation that tne par-
ents must train their children to be interested in missionary work. " Let
them do something themselves to earn money for missionary work," said
he, among many other suggestions
In talking the subject over at home, one farmer decided to give his
22 The Home Missionary May, 1896
boys a little pig to raise for Home Missions. The boys were delighted,
and at once named the little rooter "The Missionary Pig."
Every day when the boys fed the pigs, they took good care to select the
finest of the corn and the richest of the slops for "the Missionary." In
fact, this particular pig was often called away from his companions and
given an extra morsel of some kind. So it came to pass that " the Mis-
sionary pig " became more fair and well-favored than his companions, and
also became very much attached to his little masters. The father often
said to the boys in a laughing way that he believed they showed partial-
ity for "the Missionary."
At length a "hog buyer" came around and the pigs were sold. The
boys did not like to give up their pet, but found comfort in the thought
that "the Missionary pig " brought more money than any other pig in
the lot, and they had nearly nine dollars to send to the Home Missionary
Society !
What multitudes of missionary pigs, calves, sheep, turkeys, chickens,
etc., could be raised by farmers' children, if they were encouraged to do
it ! And what a large amount of money would so find its way into the
home missionary treasury !
But, best of all, what deep and lifelong interest in missionary work
would be awakened in the children who gather the money !
DECEASE OF REV. W. H. EVANS
The Rev. W. H. Evans died at Big Lake, Minn., on January 26,
1896, of congestion of the brain, after an illness of less than a week. Mr.
Evans was born in London, England, in 1848, and was therefore in his
forty-eighth year. He was left an orphan before he was five years old,
his father dying on shipboard while coming to this country. His mother
died about two years after.
He was then cared for by friends, and in 1863, when less than fifteen
years old, he enlisted on the United States war ship "Argosy," and served
in the operations before Vicksburg and other Southern ports. He was hon-
orably discharged in 1865, and for several years sailed on lake and ocean
vessels. At the age of eighteen he was converted at a revival meeting
conducted by an Evangelical Association Church. Feeling caMed to give
himself to the ministry, he prepared himself by careful study, and was
ordained by the United Brethren Conference of Ohio in 1880.
Mr. Evans entered the Congregational ministry in 1892, his first and
only charge being with the Big Lake church. His work there was emi-
May, 1896 The Home Missionary 23
nently successful in strengthening the cause, in winning souls to Christ,
and in caring for the outlying districts. At one of these points, Onocks,
a church was formed which promises to be a great blessing in that com-
munity.
The leading characteristics of Mr. Evans's ministry were unbounded
enthusiasm and consecration, conscientiousness, a faithful presentation of
the truth, and a geniality which won the good will and sympathy of all.
The esteem in which he was held was shown in the immense audience
which gathered at the funeral, many driving over sixteen miles to be pres-
ent. The funeral services were conducted by Rev. Messrs. J. H. Morley,
State Superintendent of Missions, G. E. Soper, R. S. Cross, and William
Moore.— W. M.
THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING— 1896
The seventieth annual meeting of the Congregational Home Mission-
ary Society will be held in the First Church of New Haven, Conn., on
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, June 2, 3, and 4, 1896. The Annual
Sermon will be preached by Rev. Daniel Merriman, D. D., of Worcester,
Mass., on Tuesday evening, and there will be morning, afternoon, and
evening sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. The programme of
services, the railway fares, and other particulars will be given in the June
issue of The Home Missionary, and in the religious and secular papers.
Arrangements are not yet completed, but there is reason to expect that
substantially the same reduction of railway fares will be granted this year
as heretofore.
Below we give a partial list of hotels and boarding-houses that have
agreed to receive guests in our anniversary week at prices in most cases
materially reduced from their regular charges. The list may be increased
later.
Persons writing to the New Haven House, and mentioning the Home
Missionary Anniversary, may receive special rates if convenient at the
time. Those desiring special information as to rooms and board may
write to Mr. Ernest F. Hill, East Divinity Hall, New Haven, Conn.
HOTELS
New Haven House, $4.00 per day ; Majestic, $3.00 per day ; West-
moreland, $2.00 per day ; Elliott House, $2.00 per day ; Tremont, $2.00
per day ; Winthrop, $1.50 per day.
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BOARDING-HOUSES — AT $1-75 AND $2.00 PER DAY
Mrs. Smith, 316 Crown street.
AT $1.50 PER DAY
Grove Hall, 33 Grove street ; Mrs. Thompson, 94 York Square ; Mrs.
C. K. Nichols, 90 Whalley Avenue ; Mrs. Herrick, 92 York Square ; Mrs.
Lombard, 74 Lake Avenue.
AT $I.OO AND $1.25 PER DAY.
Mrs. Forbes, 339 Orange Street ; Mrs. E. S. Burt, 61 Prospect Street :
Mrs. Cameron, 254 Crown Street ; Mrs. Beckwith, 108 Howe Street ; Mrs.
Briggs, 636 State Street ; Mrs. Hayden, 514 Chapel Street; Mrs. Lyon,
552 Chapel Street; Mrs. Cowles, 16 Olive Street ; Mrs. Fowler, in Edge-
wood Avenue ; Mrs. Haight, 99 Howe Street.
ROOMS WITHOUT BOARD AT 75 CENTS PER DAY.
Mrs. Mix, 138 College Street ; Miss Smith, 289 George Street ; Mrs.
Hewlett, 120 College Street ; Divinity Hall,/w men only.
THE GENERAL O. O. HOWARD ROLL OF HONOR
Previously acknowledged 732
Subscriptions added below , 87
Total number of shares 819
[In reporting the following list of additional pledges on the General O. O. Howard
Roll of Honor, we are gratified to be able to state that all of the Society's obligations for
the fiscal year, ending March 31st, have been met from current receipts. Eighty thou-
sand dollars have also been paid upon the heavy debt with which the previous year
closed. There now remains a balance of some fifty-two thousand dollars upon that
debt, for the payment of which the General Howard Roll of Honor was inaugurated at
the Annual Meeting in June last. This is a noble response to the call of the honored
President of the Society. For the completion of this monument to the name of General
Howard and the wiping out of the entire debt with which the seventieth vear opened, the
Society looks to the friends of the work— more than eight hundred of whom have already
responded. Let five hundred more have a share in the Howard Roll of Honor. The
subscription books will be kept open until the Annual Meeting at New Haven, Conn.,
in June next, unless the Roll shall be completed before that date.]
First Church, Sunday-school and Ladies' Guild, Middle-
town, N. Y.
Mr. Frank A. Ferris, through Congregational Church, South
Norwalk, Conn
Woman's Association, Cong. Church, Westfield, N. J.
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The First Congregational Church, West Hartford, Conn.
" M. E. C," Bloomfield, N. J.
Rev. H. L. Chase, Minneapolis, Minn.
Ladies' Union Meeting, First Church of Christ, New Lon-
don, Conn.
First Church, Albany, N. Y.
Florida East Conference.
Woman's H. M. Society, First Church, Keene, N. H.
Rev. Burton W. Lockhart, by Ladies' H. M. Society, Frank-
lin St. Church, Manchester, N. H.
Mrs. Peter McCartee, by W. H. M. S. of Church of the
Pilgrims, Brooklyn, N. Y.
L. B. S. of South Church, New Britain, Conn.
Ellen Tyler Chapman, New London, Conn.
Sunday-school of South Church, Middletown, Conn.
Mrs. Arthur E. Childs, Boston, Mass.
Old South Church, South Weymouth, Mass.
First Cong. Church, Great Barrington, Mass., two shares.
In Memory of Mrs. Maria H. Clark, by High Street Church,
Lowell, Mass.
Plymouth Church Sunday-school, Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. Cynthia S. Campbell, Hartford, Conn.
First Congregational Church, Keene, N. H.
William S. Carter, Lebanon, N. H.
Westfield Congregational Church, Danielsonville, Conn.
Rev. S. L. Blake, D.D., by A Friend, New London, Conn.
Y. P. S. C. E. of Beneficent Church, Providence, R. I.
South Congregational Church, collected by Mrs. Cordelia
Caswell, St. Johnsbnry, Vt.
The Tabernacle, Jersey City, N. J.
First Congregational Church, Merrimac, Mass.
Margaret A. and Annie L. Leavitt, Cambridgeport, Mass.
Woman's Association of First Church, Detroit, Mich.
Stevens Home Missionary Society, Stoneham, Mass.
Congregational Church, Mansfield, Mass.
In Memory of Elizabeth G. Thurston, by Y. P. S. C. E.,
Whitinsville, Mass.
In Memory of Frank G. Fox, by His Mother, Ware, Mass
Ten Men in Valley Congregational Church, Orange, N. J.
Congregational Church, Hampstead, N. H.
A Friend, Windsor County, Vt.
Center Church, Meriden, Conn.
Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater, Colo., by A Helper, Conn.
Mrs. C. Coonce, Todd, Minn., by A Helper, Conn,
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Edward Northrup Chapman, Worcester, Mass.
" Germantown, Pa."
Home Miss. Band of Beneficent Church, Providence, R. 1.
First Congregational Church, Oxford, N. Y.
A Friend, Boston, Mass.
James S. Stone, Brookline, Mass.
Memorial to Mrs. Wm. C. Cristy, Hyde Park, Mass.
Mrs. F. E. Sturgis, Natick, Mass.
First Congregational Church, Ottawa, 111.
Mrs. R. A. W. Bowen, New York City.
In Memory of Rev. J. H. Stearns, D D., of Epping, N. H.
L. M. Society, Cong. Church, South Glastonbury, Conn.
Mr. H. D. Hale, South Glastonbury, Conn.
Ladies of the First Church of Christ, New London, Conn.
Rally at Plainfield, Conn.
Rev. Pearse Pinch, by L. H. M. Society, Springfield, Mo.
Cong. Church and Sunday-school, Housatonic, Mass.
Pilgrim Congregational Sunday-school, Providence, R. I.
The Women and the Woman's H. M. S., North Congrega-
tional Church, St. Johnsbury, Vt.
In Memory of Deacon David C. Camp, Windsor Ave. Church,
Hartford, Conn.
Two Congregational Churches, Georgetown, Mass.
Rev. and Mrs. E. H. Byington, Newton, Mass.
Mrs. J. Taft, Uxbridge, Mass.
First Church, West Tisbury, Mass.
New Bedford Aux. of W. H. M. A.
Congregational Church, Kent, Conn.
Tompkins Ave. Church Sunday-school, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A Few Ladies, South Church, Hartford, Conn.
L. H. M. Society, First Church, Hartford, Conn.
First Cong. Church, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., by L. H. M. S. and S. S.
W. H. M. Society, Cong. Church, Canandaigua, N. Y.
Ladies' H. M. Society, Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. Edmund Gale, by Y. P. S. C. E., Fairibault, Minn.
Hiram E. Barber, Eliot Church, Newton Mass.
Henry E. Cobb, Eliot Church, Newton, Mass.
Andrew B. Cobb, Eliot Church, Newton, Mass.
Charles A. Haskell, Eliot Church, Newton, Mass.
Wollaston Cong. Church, Quincy, Mass., two shares.
Allen Y. P. S. C. E., First Cong. Church, Dedham, Mass.
Charles J. Holmes, Central Church, Fall River, Mass.
Sunday-school of Second Cong. Church, Westfield, Mass.
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Second Congregational Church, Putnam, Conn.
Ladies' Society of Pilgrim Church, New York City.
First Congregational Sunday-school, Farmington, Conn.
First Congregational Church, Meriden, Conn., erroneously
reported before.
Mrs. Hammond Brown, West Brookfield, Mass., erroneously
reported before.
V
THE TREASURY
The timely receipt of the Stickney legacy enables us to report the
Society free from debt for the work of the year just closed, and if, as is
expected, the debt of the previous year shall ultimately be fully provided
for by the Howard Roll of Honor, also to reserve a goodly portion of the
legacy to be used in meeting future exigencies, or in a safe and gradual
expansion of the work. This plan, however, presupposes a vigorous push-
ing of the Howard Roll of Honor, which has already proved so popular
and so successful. It is believed that the friends of General Howard
and of the work will not suffer this scheme, which lies so near his heart,
to fail of complete realization. The detailed statement of the Treasury
receipts of the year is as follows :
CONTRIBUTIONS
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
THE DEBT
1894-95.
1895-96.
1895-
-96.
April
$i8,936 34
$14,173 4°
$29 05
April
May
18,608 21
12,749 55
May
240 50
Tune : . .
15,248 46
10,958 78
4,268 07
June
July
18,908 65
13,452 53
July
7,595 71
July
August ....
7,886 18
16,364 55
August . . .
3,486 15
September.
12,707 28
15,027 82
September
3,291 95
September.
October. . .
9.S23 °4
30,174 92
October ...
8,999 41
October. . . .
November
13,683 01
13,741 72
November
10,176 43
November .
December.
17,727 67
24,733 36
December.
9,058 13
December .
January. . .
30,322 17
29,323 63
January. . .
9,300 65
January . . .
February .
13,699 46
' 10,860 64
February .
11,952 70
February. .
March
41,506 61
33,°95 21
March
12,040 89
March
LEGACIES
1894-95. 1895-96.
$8,701 36
$13,972 96
6,113 58
30,288 94
35,027 52
8,058 65
10,695 22
7,766 13
35,28o 76
6,560 21
. 15,045 CI
4,901 85
5,3fc9 02
3,973 40
6,672 70
7,166 73
• IO,575 52
2,474 5°
. 14,4*5 46
7,027 36
16,324 14
26,457 85
J9,779 51
114,862 00'
$218,757 08 $224,656 II $80,439 64 $183,999 80 $233,510 58
* Including $72,677.16 from the Stickney legacy, appropriated by the Executive Committee to the
work of the year.
1894-95. 1895-96.
Contributions $218,757 08 Contributions $224,656 11
Legacies 183,99980 Legacies 233,51058
Contributions for debt 80,439 64
$402,756 88
$538,606 33
DEBT STATEMENT.
Net debt reported March 31, 1895 $132,140 05
Received on Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $73,256 58
" in other special gifts for debt 7,183 06
80,439 64
Net debt remaining to be liquidated by Roll of Honor and other special gifts $51,700 41
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APPOINTMENTS IN MARCH, 1896
Not in commission last year
Ablett, John C, Tomahawk, No. Wis.
Arnett, Samuel G., St. Paul, Minn.
Atcheson, William H., Bloomer and Cleveland,
No. Wis.
Backus, Jabez, Palm Beach, Fla.
Bjorklund, Ernst V., Mankato and Kasota, Minn.
Blackburn, John F„ Ft. Valley, Ga.
Buck, C. L., Cortez, Colo.
Cleworth, Wm. C, Willow Lakes and Pitrodie
So. Dak.
Cressman, Abraham A., Fairmount, Neb.
Drake, Ellis R., Denver, Colo.
Flook, Jacob, Omaha, Neb.
Halbersleben, H. C, Linwood, Neb.
Hassell, Richard B., North Yakima, Wash.
Hayes, Francis L., Manitou. Colo.
Harwood, Clement M. G., Minneapolis, Minn.
Holway, John W., Drummond, Cable and Mason,
No. Wis.
Irwin, John, Bachelor, Colo.
Mackay, Charles C, Andrews. Ind.
Moore, Mrs. Julia P., Ybor City, Fla.
Pettibone, Luman A., Tucson, Ariz.
Ritchie, George, Missionary at Large in Utah.
Simmons, Daniel A , Portland, Fla.
Smith, Wm. E., Rock Ledge, Fla.
Re-com m issioned
Baumann, Henry, Hosmer, Immanuel, Hoff-
nungsfeld, South Cassel and Salem, So. Dak.
Beede, Aaron, Athol and Ashton, So. Dak.
Bormose, Niels N., Philadelphia, Penn.
Brown, Henry M., Mt. Hope, N. Y. City, N. Y.
Butler. Elmer W., Melbourne, Fla.
Chambers, Alex., Prentice, No. Wis.
Cobleigh, Mrs. Elvira, Walla Walla, Wash.
Dick, Jeremiah M., Hubbard, Smyrna and Elliott,
Prairie, Ore.
Flawith, Fred, San Francisco, Cal.
Fripp, Edgar T. R., White City, Fla.
Griffith, David Baines, Kansas City, Kan.
Haines, Oliver S., Sprague, Wash.
Hanksmeyer, Nathaniel W., New Rockford, No.
Dak.
Hayes, James, Coal Bluff and Cardonia, Ind.
Hindley, George, Ridgeville, Ind.
Huelster. Anton, Detroit. Mich.
Hughes, Evan P., Hillsboro, Ore.
Hutchinson, William A., Montrose, Colo.
Ingham, John E., Mazeppa and Zumbro Falls,
" Minn.
Keller, Lewin H., Minneapolis, Minn.
Lydgate, John M., Steilacoom and Lakeview,
Wash.
Mack, Chas. A., Cando, No. Dak.
Melvin, John G., Dunbar and North Crandon,
No. Wis.
Seibert, J. Addison, Steele Plant, Ohio.
Spencer, John A., Alturas and Likely, Cal.
Richards, Emanuel, White City, Kan.
Thirloway, Timothy, Buffalo Gap, So. Dak.
Thompson, Hiram F., Sullivan. Ohio.
Wallace, Louis, Sierra Valley, Cal.
Walton. Richard C, Rogers, Ark.
Wells, J. Lester, Jersey City, N. J.
Williams, Samuel, Riverton, Neb.
Woth, Frederick, Germantown and Oak Grove,
Neb.
RECEIPTS IN MARCH, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 41 to 44.
MAINE— $68.00.
Received by J. L. Crosby, Treas. Me.
Miss. Soc. '
Gardiner, Mrs. H. A. Ballard
New Castle, Second, by J. P. Hus-
ton
Phillips, by A. M. Greenwood
South Freeport, by A. Smith..
Topsham, F. E. Purinton, for the
debt
15 00
6 00
44 00
NEW HAMPSHIRE-$8,435.i8; of
which legacies, §6,193.29.
N. H. H. M. Soc, by Hon. L. D.
Stevens, Treas. :
Of which $300, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 663 39
N. H. H. Mis;. Soc, by Hon. L. D.
Stevens, Treas :
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor, $ 100 :
debt, $5.32 105 32
F. C. I. and H. M. Union,
Miss A. A. McFarland,
Treas $50 00
Concord, Clara Howe Circle
of King's Daughters of
South Ch., Gen Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Keene, First, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, to const.
Mrs. M. C. C Ripley and
Miss K. F. Leverett L.
Ms $100 00
Manchester. Franklin Street
Ch., to place the name of
Rev. B. W. Lockhart on
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
^$35° °°
Amherst, by A. S. Wilkins 3 00
Concord, Friend 500
East Derry, First Parish Ch.. by Rev.
J. L. Evans, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Hampstead, Mrs. E. P. Ordway, to
place the Cong. Ch. on the Howard
Roll of Honor and to const. Rev. R.
P. Gardner and P. S. Ordway L.
Ms 100 00
Hinsdale, by C. E. Savage 4 52
Keene, T. Grimes 1 00
Lyme, by D. A. Grant, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor and to coast. G.
Melvin and Mrs. O. M. Flint L.
Ms roo 00
Manchester, Estate of Mrs. Adaline
Hartshorn, I. W. Smith, Ex., by
Hon. L. D. Stevens, Treas. N. H.
H. M. S 6,120 65
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First, by J. A. Goodrich, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor $200 00
Woman's Union Meeting-, by Mrs.
B. W. Lockhart, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Milford, Estate of Mrs. Caroline B.
Harris, by J. E. Foster, Adm 42 69
New Hampshire, L. F. B 150 00
Peiham, A Friend, for the debt 10 00
Rochester, Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Jor-
dan, Gen. H&ward Roll of Honor,
by L. A. Jordan 100 00
Tilton and Northfield, by Rev.| C. C.
Sampson, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor ico 00
Walpole, by C. E. Sparhawk 34 66
West Hampstead, N. Ordway 10 00
West Manchester, South Main Street
Ch., by W. J. Ayer, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Westmoreland, A Friend, for the debt 5 00
Wilmot, add'l from .the Estate of
Stephen Felch, by G. E. Shepard,
Adm. , by F. H . Wiggin 29 95
VERMONT— $2,040.31 ; of which leg-
acy, $1,156.61.
Vermont Domestic Miss. Soc, by W.
C. Tyler, Treas., of which for Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, $100 ;.debt,
$4* ■ 175 20
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. R. P.
Fairbanks, Treas $2500
Barton, Y. P. S. C. E., for
Salary Fund 10 00
Berlin 4 00
Burlington, First, for Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. . . 100 00
St. Albans, Mrs. Camneld.. 15 00
154 00
Cornwall, add'l, by Rev. S. H. Bar-
num, for the debt 1 00
East Hardwick, by C. S. Montgom-
ery 31 00
Hartford, Church 15 00
Lyndon, Fiist, by P. B. Fisk 5 00
Newfanei by Rev. S. Norton 1 50
Norwich, Bequest of Mrs. B. M. Til-
den, by N. S. Huntington, Ex 1,15661
St. Johnsbury, South Ch., Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, "collected by
Mrs. Cordelia Caswell," through
H. Fairbanks 100 00
Woman's H. M. Soc. and Ladies of
the North Ch., by L. K. Hazen,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
North Ch., " March 17" 200 00
Wallingford, Mrs. A. Edgerton 1 00
Windsor Co., A Friend, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor and to const. Rev. C.
Hazen and Dea. N. C. Harvey
L. Ms 100 00
MASSACHUSETTS - $21,276.71 ;
which legacies, $9,778.18.
of
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treas 1,000 00
For work among foreigners in the
West 4,50000
By request of donors, of which
for Gen. Howard Roll of Honor,
$2,500: debt, $173.52; special for
the debt, $120; from A Friend,
Barre, Vt, $1 2,956 37
Woman's H. M. Assoc, Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas. :
For Salary Fund $428 56
Dorchester, Miss A. B. Pike,
for Silver Circle 5 00
Greenwich, A Friend 1500
Ware, for Salary Fund 140 00
Westboro, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 5 00
$593 56
Amherst, Students of Amherst Col-
lege, toward the debt, by E. S.
Hall 47 00
" Fresh Air Fund Soc," by Mrs.
M. Henshaw, for the debt 20 00
A Friend 10 00
A Friend 1 00
Andover, C. E. Curtis, for the debt.. 10 00
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary
Fund 50 00
W. G. Means 125 00
Cambridge, A. A. Steele 50 00
Cambridgeport, Margaret A. and
Annie L. Leavitt, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Charlemont, A Friend 75
Dorchester, Second, by Miss E. Tol-
man 11003
Pilgrim Ch., G. R. Chapman 5 00
Dudley, Y. P. S. C. E., by H. Baker. 6 93
Easton, S. S., by E. B. Hayward, for
Salary Fund 16 48
Hatfield, Estate of J. B. Woods, by
R. M. Woods, Trustee 80 00
Haverhill, A Friend 30 00
Holyoke, First, by J. H. Wylie, Jr.. . 103 35
Housatonic, Ch., of which $100 from
Ch. and S. S., Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor ; Y. P. S. C. E., $2.50, by
H. B. Turner, to const. Amos Olds
and Mrs. A. Kinney L. Ms 151 65
Lee 20 00
Lowell, Lucinda R. Parker, by J. F.
Savage and S. P. Hadley, Exs 3,000 00
Ludlow, Ladies' Soc. of the First, by
I.T.Jones 700
Massachusetts, A Friend 200 00
Mattapoisett, by M. L. Hathaway 27 50
Merrimac, First, by F. O. Davis, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Middleborough, by Dr. E. S. Hath-
away 118 28
Mitkineague, by E. H. Shepard 36 30
Natick, Estate of Mrs. Augusta
Smith, by W. Nutt, Ex 40 20
Needham, S. S., for Salary Fund, by
Rev. C. W. Shelton 3 00
New Bedford, Trin. Ch., by J. C.
Briggs 22 00
Newburyport, A Friend, for the debt. 50 00
Northampton, A. L. Williston 300 00
North Chelmsford, Second, by A. H.
Sheldon 23 35
North Attleboro, Oldtown, Mrs. J. C.
Brown, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Phillipston, Estate of Ellsworth Saw-
yer, by Samuel Lee, Ex 4,632 83
Pi'ttsfield, Miss M. E. Salisbury's
School, by Rev. C. W. Shelton 5 00
Reading, Silver Circle, Mrs. C. Scott. 5 00
Salem, Tabernacle Ch., by J. H. Phip-
pen 79 02
Saugus, " A King's Daughter " 10 00
Shirley, Boys of the Jr. C. E. Soc, by
Rev. J. Torrey 200
Somerville, Estate of Ephraim Stone,
by L. K. Lovell, Adm 2,025 15
South Hadley Falls. In His Name 20 00
Springfield, Faith Ch., by W. I. Morse 12 06
Sunderland, S. S., by A. T. Montague 35 00
Yarmouth, First, by Rev. C. W. Shel-
ton, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor... 100 00
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Ware, " Silver Circle," by H. S. Hyde $1000
Webster, First, by E. L. Spalding 50 00
Worcester, Central Ch., by E. Whit-
man 75 °°
Plymouth, S. S., by S. I. Wall, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Edward Northrop Chapman, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
RHODE ISLAND-
80.83.
Woman's H. M. Assoc, Mass., Miss
A C. Bridgman, Treas.:
Providence, Y. P. S. C. E. of
Beneficent Ch., by Miss
E.W. Olney, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, and
to const. A. E. Stafford
and Miss J. C. McLeod
L. Ms $100 00
Home Mission Band of
Beneficent Ch., Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
Pawtucket, Ch., E. R. Bullock.Treas. :
In memoriam— Mrs. Harriet Newell
Bates
Providence, Pilgrim Cong. S. S., Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, $100;
special for debt, $1.11, by F. D.
Arnold
Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Union Cong.
Ch., Gen. Howard Roll of Honor,
with previous don. to const. Mrs.
W. Nutting, Mrs. S. S. Doe, Miss
C. A. Robinson, and Miss J. R.
Tingley L. Ms
Woonsocket, Rally, by Rev. C. W.
Shelton
CONNECTICUT— $10,732.26; of which
legacies, $12,426.68.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., W. W. Jacobs,
Treas., by Rev. W. H. Moore,
Sec
Brooklyn, First $4000
Glastonbury, South Ch.,
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 200 00
Hartford, First, of which
$100 from Daniel Phillips,
in memory of Mrs. Daniel
Phillips, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 449 60
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas.:
East Hartford, First, Rev.
S. A. Barrett, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, by
members $10000
Hartford, Poquonock Ave-
nue, by Mrs. F. M. Case,
for Salary Fund 30 00
First, Mrs. C. T. Millard,
Salary Fund 21 00
Middletown, First, Mrs. G.
W. Lane, by Mrs. J. H.
Bunce 5 20
New Britain, L. B. S. of
South Ch., by Mrs. S. H.
Wood, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
New Britain, So. Ch. L. B.
S., by Mrs. S. H. Wood,
Annual Thank-offering,
for Salary Fund and to
const. Mrs. G. Hays and
Mrs. I. J. Steane L. Ms... 4650
689 60
Ansonia, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev. C.
W. Shelton $768
Canton Center, Y. P. S. C. E., $5;
S. S., $5 ; Dea. Lamphier, $5 ; Dea.
H. Humphrey, ^5 ; W. G. Hallock,
$5, by W. G. Hallock, for the debt. 25 00
Collinsville, by Rev. C. E. Cooledge,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
By I. S. Heath 40 00
Connecticut, Friends 1,200 00
" A Helper," Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
"A Helper," Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
A Friend 50 00
Darien, Mrs. N. E. Gleason 40
East Hartford, Rally, by Rev. H. D.
Wiard 11 27
East Haven, by Miss L. E. Street 42 50
East Windsor, Y. P. S. C. E., by C. E.
Spencer, for the debt 2500
S. S., by W. W. Thompson, for the
debt 25 00
East Woodstock, by J. M. Paine, for
the debt 35 63
Enfield, Estate of S. C. Reynolds, by
D. W. Coon, Ex 5,35° °°
First Ch., $93 : Ladies' Benev. Soc,
$25; Y. P. S. C. E., $7, by F. A.
King, of which $100, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 125 00
Gleaners' Mission Circle of Wallop,
by Mrs. L. P. Abbe 20 00
Fairfield, First, of which $100, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, by E. Os-
born, in full to const. F. H. Brewer,
E. Osborn and W. O. Burr L. Ms . . 109 80
Hartford, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First,
by E. B. Ellsworth 10 00
A few ladies of So. Ch., by Mrs. G.
Moore, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
First, by Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Windsor Avenue Ch., Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, to the memory of
Dea. D. C. Camp, by H. H. Pease. 100 00
Mrs. C. S. Campbell, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, to const. Mrs. Gil-
bert W. Chapin and Mrs. E. W.
Storrs L. Ms 100 00
D. Phillips, freight 502
Kent, by B. M. Wright, for the debt. 89 00
Lisbon, by Q. M. Bosworth, for the
debt 18 00
Madison, First, by F. A. Kelsey, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Rally, by Rev. H. D. Wiard 10 65
Ladies' Charitable Soc, by F. A.
Kelsey 20 40
Meriden, Center Ch., Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, by Miss M. A. Wood. 100 00
Middletown, Estate of Miss Susan C
Clark, on account of Legacy of
$5,000, by R. W. de Forest and
H. W. de Forest, Exs 4,576 68
First Ch., $80; Y. P. S. C. E., $20,
by E. P. Augur, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
South Cong. S. S., by O. E. Stod-
dard, Jr., Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Mystic, H. M. Rally, by Rev. J. R.
Danf orth 20 85
Naugatuck, by Miss E. Spencer 150 00
New Haven, Grand Avenue Ch.,
$150; S. S., $21.62, by W. Hem-
ingway 171 62
Add'l, from a member of College Ch. 10 00
S. S. Woolsey, for the debt 25 00
R. A. Benham 15 00
A Friend, for the debt 5 00
M. J. C, a Thank-offering for the
debt 2 00
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New London, Legacy of C. D. Boss,
by Mrs. E. M. Boss, Ex $1,500 00
Ladies of the First Ch. of Christ,
by Rev. S. L. Blake, of which
$100, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor. 159 60
A Friend, by Rev. C. W. Shelton,
to place the name of Rev. S. L.
Blake, D.D., on Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Ellen Tyler Chapman, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, by W. H.
Chapman 100 00
Norfolk, by S. A. Selden 238 19
Norwalk, Mrs. T. K. Noble's Bible
Class, by Mrs. F. Y. Curtis, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor and to const.
Mrs. J. E. Fitch and Mrs. A. E.
Johnson L. Ms 100 00
Norwich, Park Ch., of which $131.56
for Salary Fund, by H. L. Butts. 1,372 57
Rally of Cong. Chs., for Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
Plantsville, of which $96.04, for the
debt, by E. P. Hotchkiss 127 04
Putnam, S. S. Class of F. D. Sargent,
by Rev. C. W. Shelton 5 00
Rockville, Judge L. D. Phelps 1 00
Salisbury, Estate of Maria H. Will-
iams, by H. Williams, Ex 1,000 00
Miss S. Norton's class, 75 cts. ; A
Friend, 25 cts., by Rev. J. C.
Goddard 1 00
Sharon, First, Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
Reed, by R. E. Goodwin 10 00
Sound Beach, First, by Mrs. G. A.
- Heusted 25 00
South Norwalk, Frank A. Ferris, by
Rev. G. H. Beard, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor . . 100 00
Suffield, First, by W. E. Russell, to
const. Miss C. L. Strong a L. M. . . . 50 00
Torrington, Mrs. E. C. Hotchkiss,
Silver Circle 5 00
West Avon, Mrs. O Thompson 40
Westbrook, Rally, Rev. H. D. Wiard. 21 n
West Hartford, First, by E. S Elmer,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor and
to const. Mrs. Mary E. Flagg and
Mrs. L. M. Ellsworth L. Ms 100 00
First, by E. E. Elmer 33 29
Westport, Saugatuck S. S., by H. C.
Wood worth, for the debt 10 00
West Winsted, Y. P. S. C. E„ of the
Second, by E. E. Lord 2 25
Willimantic, Ladies' Miss. Soc, by
Mrs. C. E. Conant, special 12 00
Windsor, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First,
by Miss M. H. Barber, for Salary
Fund 6 00
Winsted, First, by J. P. Cook 144 42
Woodstock, First, by H. T. Child 16 20
NEW YORK— $17,328.12; of which leg-
acies, $12,530.75.
Received by William Spalding,Treas. :
Carthage $30 00
Crary Mills, Y. P. S. C. E.. 130
Fairview "11 00
Homer 15 60
Syracuse, Good-Will Rally. 4 cj
62 27
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall. Treas. :
Albany, Home Circle Silver
Bank $5 00
Binghamton, Helpers, to
const. Mrs. E. H. Thomp-
son a L. M 50 00
Brooklyn. Bush wick Ave-
nue Ch., King's Daugh-
ters, special 2 00
Ch. of the Pilgrims, to
place the name of Mrs.
Peter McCarteeon Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. $100 00
Tompkins Avenue King's
Daughters, to place the
name of Society on Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
Candor, S. S. Silver Circle. 5 10
Holland Patent 6 25
Ithaca, Silver Circle 10 00
New York City, Broadway
Tabernacle, S. W. W 67 00
Oxford, L. S 25 00
Phcenix 6 00
Port Leyden, C. E. S 500
$381 35
Berkshire, First, by S. L. Ball 112 70
Brooklyn, Puritan, by H. A. W. Goll. 154 64
Ch. of the Pilgrims, add'l, by J. E.
Leech 200 00
Parkville Ch., by Rev. W. A. Kirk-
wood 3 60
Lewis Avenue, by F. E. Idell 5 00
Willoughby Avenue S. S. branch of
Clinton Avenue Ch., by G. R.
Beard 75 00
S. S. of Park Ch., by L. Van Val-
kenburgh 32 00
Friends, Ladies' Benev. Soc. of
Tompkins Avenue Ch 550 00
Silver Circle of the Tompkins Ave-
nue Ch., Mrs. S. L. Petrie 5 00
Beecher Memorial C. E. Soc, by J.
W. Root 13 13
Nazarene Ch., by Rev. A. J. Henry. 2 00
Buffalo, Plymouth Chapel, Silver Cir-
cle, by A. L. Grein 5 30
Candor, by H . Henderson 10 81
Castile, Mrs. H. A. Southworth and
daughter , 100 00
Clifton Springs, Mrs. F. W. Spauld-
ing, in memory of Rev. J. H.
Stearns, D.D., late of Epping, N.
H., Gen. Howard Roll of Honor. . . 100 00
Crown Point, Second, by J. A. Pen-
field 20 00
East Albany, by Rev. Mr. Handen-
dop 6 50
East Rockaway, Bethany Ch., of
which $5 from Jr. C. E. Soc, by
Rev. D. S. Braithwaite 16 55
Fairport, A. M. Loomis 5 00
Franklin, by G. Mann 54 50
Gainesville, by H. L. Ensign 1 80
Gloversville, Estate of Mrs. Sarah B.
Place, by W. H. Place and W. B.
Judson, Exs 12,473 75
ByD. H. Tarr 6443
Individuals, by Rev. W. E. Park,
D.D 6 24
Howells, Y. P. S. C. E., by J. N.
Mapes 9 36
Jamestown, First, add'l, by F. R.
Moody 33 15
Jordanville, by Mrs. C. F. Waterbury,
for Salary Fund 25 00
Middletown, First Ch., S. S. and La-
dies' Guild, by Rev. W. A. Robin-
son, D.D., Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Mt. Sinai, by S. H. Miller 13 00
New Lebanon, ' ' Mother " 4 20
New York City, Broadway Taberna-
cle, by N. C. Fisher 1,801 n
Pilgrim Ch., by E. K. Billings 105 65
Y. P. S. C. E. of the Pilgrim Ch.,
by H. Lewis, for the debt 25 00
Camp Memorial, by F. E. Fran-
cisco 10 00
Rev. J. M. Lopez-Guillen, in behalf
of the Spanish Ch. of New York
and Brooklyn, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
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" Cash " $100 00
Mrs. R. A.W. Bowen, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
M. E. Clark, for the debt 1 00
Mrs. W. E. Dodge, Sr., special 50 00
C. I. Fisher, M.D 1000
Northfield, by W. M. Hoyt 8 00
North Lawrence, Miss A. Williams... 5 00
Mrs. N. Williams 5 00
Orient, by M. B. Brown 9 71
Oxford, First, of which $100, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, by J. W.
Thorp 105 50
Oswego, Mrs. L. A. Burnham, a
Thank offering 50 00
Port Chester, First, by C. S. Whitney 14 35
Rodman, by Rev. J. Kincaid 31 10
Saratoga Springs, New England Ch.,
by C. L. Haskins 42 57
A. J. Holmes 2 00
Summer Hill, by G. H. Allen, for the
debt 10 00
Syracuse, Jr. C. E. Soc. of Plymouth
Ch., by Miss E. Totman, special.. 5 00
W.E.Abbott 500
Warsaw, by F. W. Relyea 28 85
Willsborough, Estate of Mrs. S. A.
Stower, by A. J. B. Ross 57 00
NEW JERSEY— $795.51.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Assoc, Mrs. J„ H. Denison,
Treas. :
In memory of Rev. D. Deni-
son, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor $100 00
Closter, " Do Something
Band." for the debt 2500
Westfield, Woman's Assoc.,
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
225 00
Bloomfield, M. E. C, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Cedar Grove, by Rev. B. F. Bradford 8 75
East Orange, K 100 00
Trinity Ch., by R. D. Weekes 221 00
Newark, Belleville Avenue, by Rev.C.
W. Shelton 15 76
Orange, Ten Men in Valley Ch., by
Rev. C. A. Savage, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Vineland, Y. P. S. C. E., by T. A.
Gardner 500
Westfield, Ch. of Christ, by J. R. Con-
noly 1000
Y. P. S. C. E., by E. Williams 10 00
PENNSYLVANIA— $157.81.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. T.
W. Jones, Treas.:
Lindsey $3 00
Riceville 2 75
5 75
Albion, by Rev. D. H. Christy 6 25
Allegheny, F. E. Youngs, $2.50; M.
E. Youngs, $2.50, by S. M. Youngs. 5 00
Bangor, First, by Rev. T. W. Jones,
D.D 8 00
Centerville, A Friend, for the debt. . . 5 00
Germantown, "A Friend," Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Glen Lyon and Wanarie, by Rev. J. J.
Jenkins 13 50
Philadelphia, Mt. Airly, Prof. G. L.
Weed, freight 56
Plymouth, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev W. L.
Evaiis id 00
Puritan Ch., by Rev. T. McKay.... 3 75
MARYLAND— $72,677.16 ; legacy.
Baltimore, Legacy of J. Henry Stick-
ney, in part $72,677 16
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-$476.35.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Asso., Mrs. J.H. Denison, Treas. :
Washington, D. C, First Ch., of
which for the debt, $62 ; Salary
Fund, $25
Washington, First, $235 ; Gen. E.
Whittlesey, $50, by'W. Lamborn.
People's Ch., by H. W. Chase
Mt. Pleasant Ch., by W. D. Quinter
Mt. Pleasant Ch., by G. M. Nichols
NORTH CAROLINA-$i3.oo.
Tryon, by Rev. A. Winter. . . .
GEORGIA— $36.24.
Woman's H. M. Union, Miss V.
Holmes, Treas.:
Atlanta, Central Ch $10 00
Demorest 316
Meansville 5 00
Baxley, Friendship Ch., by Rev. G.
N. Smith
Clara, Pleasant Hill, by Rev. H. E.
Newton
Ft. Valley, by Rev. J. F. Blackburn..
Hoschton, by Rev. J. C. Forrester
Juno, by Rev. H. M. Gober
Powersville, by Rev. W. C. Carter
Suches, Si. 50; 'Friends, So cts., by
Rev. S. C. McDaniell
Erratum: Ebenezer, Ga., S3; Zoar,
$3; Liberty, S3; Concord, $1.10; by
Rev. M. G. Fleming, $10.10. Errone-
ously ack. under Ala. in March Home
Missionary.
ALABAMA— $9.80.
Gate City, by Rev. T. B. Haynie
Haleyville, Union Grove, and Liberty
Grove, by Rev. W. J. Thrasher.. ..
Henderson, Wesley Chapel, $1.10;
Rose Hill, New Hope Ch., $1.15 ;
Hilton, Antioch Ch., 75 cts., by Rev.
T. A. Pharr
Phoenix City, Bethany Ch., by Rev. J.
M . Gipson
South Calera, 25 cts.; Clanton, Mt.
Springs Ch., 75 cts.; Verbena, Shady
Grove Ch., 50 cts., by Rev. J. R.
Crowson
LOUISIANA-$i9.22.
Clear Creek, by Miss C. W. Carra-
dine
Hammond, by J. Q, Adams
Iowa, by Rev. C. F. Sheldon
New Orleans, A Friend
Vinton, by Rev C. F. Sheldon
Walnutlane, Union Ch., by Rev. C.
F. Sheldon
ARKANSAS^-$2o.oo.
Rogers, Rev. J. W. Scroggs
By Rev. R. C. Walton
3 50
7885
15 00
1 00
1 5<J
4 00
2 50
3 78
3 00
2 30
2 50
1 55
3 °°
1 2-;
2 25
3 40
3 80
I 00
6 57
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FLORIDA-$2s6.g2.
Bushnell, Mrs. L. W. Bigelow, for the
debt $200
Daytona and Port Orange, by Rev. C.
M. Bingham 20 00
Florida East Conference, by Rev. J.
C. Halliday, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Key West, First, by Rev. C. W. Fra-
ser 10 co
Moss Bluff, by Rev. E. D. Luter 4 00 ARIZONA— $12.40
Oakesdale, Pilgrim, by Rev. F. V.
Hoyt 1 66
Ormond, Union Ch., by Rev. J. W.
Harding 1906
Philips, 355 ; Anniversary coll. of Fla.
H. M. Soc, $18.50, by Rev. S. F.
Gale 23 50
Portland, Black Oak and Rocky
Bayou, by Rev. D. A. Simmons. ... 1 50
Potolo, Carmel Ch., and Coatsville,
Pleasant Hill Ch., by Rev. E. A.
Buttram 1 00
St. Petersburg, First, by Mrs. D. Fer-
don 520
Warnell and Panasoffkee, by Rev. J.
J. Melton 400
Warsaw, Rev. G. Lee 10 00
West Palm Beach, $1 ; Orange City,
$50, by Rev. C. W.'Shelton 55 00
South Enid, Plymouth Ch., by Rev.
F. C. Wellman
Stillwater, First, by Rev. I. A. Hol-
brook _
Tecumseh, by Rev. L. B. Parker
Waukomis. $4 ; Donly, Mt. Calvary
Ch., $4, by Rev. F. Foster
West Guthrie, by Rev. A.M. Lennox.
TEXAS-$34.45.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. H.
Gray, Treas. :
Dallas, First Ch., for Salary Fund..
Cleburne, Trinity Ch., by L. M. Lay-
ton
Tallassee, Kent, Mt. Olive Ch.,
Cowles Station, Union Ch., and
Central Equality Ch., by Rev. A. C.
Wells
INDIAN TERRITORY— $5.50.
McAlesier, First, by Rev. W. H. Hicks
Trinity Ch., by Rev. T. E. Holley-
OKLAHOM A— $192.05.
Received by Rev. J. H. Parker :
Alpha, Y. P. S. C. E $500
Arapahoe, Y. P. S. C. E. . . . 2 50
Bethel, Y. P. S. C. E 1 00
El Reno, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Independence, Y. P. S. C. E. 2 50
Kingfisher,Y. P. S. C. E. . . . 5 00
Mt. Zion, Y. P. S. C. E 2 50
N. Enid, Y. P. S. C. E 2 50
Oklahoma City, S. S 2 00
Perkins, S. S 1 00
Alpha, by Rev. J. F. Roberts
Alva, by Rev. J. H. Parker
Bethel, by Rev. J. M. Evans
Darlington, Plymouth, by Rev. R. H.
Harper
El Reno, Pilgrim, by Rev. W. M.
Wellman
Guthrie, Plymouth Ch., by Rev. C. N.
Queen
Minneha, by Rev. L. B. Parker
Mt. Zion, by M. Abercrombie
By O. Childers
Okarche and Mt. Pisgah, by Rev. J.
S. Murphy
7 55
18 15
8 75
5 00
50
2
20
25
00
3
80
4
00
37
00
16
00
3
65
7
25
2
00
OHIO— $1,285.92 ; of which legacy, $50.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. :
Ashtabula, Swedish, by
Rev. C. A. Widing $500
Brownhelm, Ch., $8.50; S.
S., $4, by S. Bacon 12 50
Chardon, Legacy of Mrs.
Eliza L. Manley, by Rev.
T. D. Phillips, in full to
const. Myron G. Manley
a L. M 5000
Charlestown, by Rev. D. L.
Leonard, D.D 313
Chatham, by M. W. Pack-
ard, in full to const. Mrs.
H. G. Packard a L. M. . . . 36 63
Cleveland, Archwood Ave-
nue 13 95
Franklin Avenue 20 00
Bethlehem Ch. and S. S.,
by Mrs. T. Piwonka 53 60
Park, by Rev. E. S. Roth-
rock 5 00
Cyril Chapel, by Rev. J.
Musil 10 00
Theodore M. Bates, spe-
cial . 5 00
A Friend 25 00
Collinwood, by Rev. O.
Jenkins 19 00
Dayton, by Rev. C. W.
Choate 25 00
Edinburg, by Rev. D. L.
Leonard, D.D 1900
Garrettsville, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by C. A. Snow, M.D 1000
Geneva, Y. P. S. C. E., by
A. E. Cowles it 00
Greenfield, by J. McLane.. 5 00
Kirtland, Ch.-, $2.60; S. S.,
$6.20, by E. M. Woodard. 8 80
Lafayette, by Rev. D. L.
Leonard, D.D 15 43
Madison, Central, by A. S.
Stratton n 23
Mansfield, First, by Rev. J.
W. Hubbell, D.D 13203
New London 7 00
Newport, Ky., Y. P. S. C.
E., by M. C Woodard 500
North Amherst, by Rev. P.
E.Harding 1000
Oak Hill, branch of Rich-
field Ch. S. S., by S. Vrall,
for the debt 2 10
Oberlin, Prof. A. H. Cur-
rier, D.D 500
8 00
13 65
Tucson, First, $5.70; S. S., $5.70 ; A
Friend, $1, by Rev. L. A. Petti-
bone , 12 40
TENNESSEE-$3.54.
Harriman, Y. P. S. C. E., by M. A.
Hawkes
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May, 1896
Dudley Allen, M.D., to
const. Rev. Richard
Hicks a L. M $50 00
Peking, China, Rev. W. S.
Ament 10 00
Plain, by Rev. S. B. Crosby 3 00
Radnor, S. S., by G. N.
Davis 600
Rootstown, W. J. Dickin-
son, in part to const. Rev.
S. C. Dickinson a L. M . . . 20 00
Springfield, Lagonda Ave.,
by J. H. Johnson 500
L. M. S., by Mrs. J. Rey-
nard 1 00
Steuben ville, H. G. Dohr-
man, by Rev. D. L. Leon-
ard, D.D 500
York, by Rev. E. F. Baird.. 24 00
Youngstown, Elm Street
Ch., $12 ; Y. P. S. C. E.,
S16.10, by Rev. J B. Davis 28 10
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Columbus, Rev. B. Talbot.. $1 00
Geneva, Jr. C. E., by Mrs.
E.J.Hart 500
Mansfield, First S. S., by
Rev. J. W. Hubbell, D.D. 15 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
G. B. Brown, Treas.:
Brecksville 3 00
Burton, Mrs. A. E. Hitch-
cock 5 00
Cuyahoga Falls 4 13
Geneva, L. I. and H. M.
S., for Salary Fund 5 00
Greenwich, for Salary
Fund 4 00
Madison 7 00
Mansfield, First, for Sal-
ary Fund 8 00
Mayflower, for Salary
Fund 5 00
Marietta, Harmar 5 00
North Ridgeville, Y. P. S.
C. E., for Salary Fund. 9 45
Oberlin, First, L. A. S 15 00
Tallmadge 7 00
Toledo, Washington Street 10 00
Central 5 35
Unionville, S. S., for Salary
Fund 7 64
Wellington 5 00
Zanesville 5 00
Mrs. Pool, for debt $5 00
Medina, dime banks, Rev.
J. H. Nichols, Mrs. M.
H. Coulter 10 00
Dime bank of Rev. J. R.
Michol's S. S. class 5 00
New Oberlin, Y. P. S. C. E.,
dime bank 1 50
Oberlin, First, L. A. S., dime
banks of Willis Hart,
P. Kenney, Mrs. Rock-
well, and Minnie Pay. . 20 00
Second, L. S., of which
$25 for Salary Fund ;
dime bank, $5 30 00
Springfield, First, Primary
Class, dime bank 5 00
Toledo, First, Working
Band, Mrs. O. A. Bost-
wick's dime bank 5 00
Washington Street, banks,
Mrs. H. Veysey, $2.50 ;
$677 50 Miss M. P. Whitney and
Mrs. L. E. Johnson,
$9.50; Mrs. E. Davis,
Mrs. E. H. Rhoades,
$10 22 00
Wakeman, for the debt n 00
Wellington, L. B. and H. M.
S., for Salary Fund 5 00
$228 50
Ashtabula, Finnish Ch., by Rev. F.
Lehtinen 2 00
Brecksville, First, by H. M. Rinear.. 12 76
Castalia, First, add'l, by J. O. Pren-
tice 1 35
Centennial, by Rev. F. S. Perry 4 04
Cincinnati, Walnut Hills, by E. J.
Wood, to const. Miss E. J. Wood
a L. M 59 28
M. E. Lindsley, Silver Circle 5 00
Cleveland, The Bohemian C. E. Jun.
Soc. of Madison Avenue Ch., by
Miss S. R. Merrell 5 co
Columbus, Mayflower Ch., by M. B.
Rose 870
Fairport Harbor, $8 ; L. A. S., $5 ; Y.
P. S. C. E., $8, by Rev. M. B. Morris. 21 00
Oberlin, First, by A. H. Johnson 74 98
Second, by N. Huckins 25 84
Russia Township, S. S. Dist. No. 4
East, by S. H. Gray 5 00
St. Mary's, by Rev. J. W. Davis 7 50
Tallmadge, Mrs. C. Treat 40
Thompson, by Rev. W. O. Town 10 00
Toledo, Plymouth Ch., by Rev. A. E.
Woodruff 4 50
Windham, T. Wales 1 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas. :
Akron, Arlington, for Salary
Fund $300
Chardon, to const. Rev. T.
D. Phillips a L. M 5000
Cincinnati, Vine Street,
dime banks of Mrs. W.
Hunt, Mrs. C. D. Palmer,
and Miss E. A. Sanders.. 15 00
Cleveland, Hough Avenue,
for Salary Fund 3 00
Lake View, for Salary
Fund 5 00
Columbus, Eastwood, Mr.
Collin's dime bank 5 00
Geneva, L. I. and H. M. S.,
dime banks of Mrs. J. E.
Cooke, Mrs. J. C. Ford,
and Mrs. S. F. Higly 15 co
Madison, for Salary Fund.. 8 00
Mansfield, First, Mrs. Tol-
man's bank 5 00
INDIANA— $313.91.
Received by Rev. E. D. Curtis, D.D.:
Angola $9 85
S. S 1 70
Ft. Wayne. Union Miss.
Soc. of Plymouth Ch., to
const. Rev. James S. Ains-
lie a L. M 5025
Hobart 3 00
Hosmer 10 00
Kokomo 5 40
Michigan City, First, to
const. Rev. W. C. Gordon
a L. M 53 00
Terre Haute, Second 21 00
Two Friends of Home Mis-
sions 20 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. H.
Ball. Treas. :
Dunkirk, Willing Workers. $3 00
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May, 1896
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East Chicago $6 00
Fort Wayne, Ladies 15 00
Indianapolis, Ladies, Fel-
lowship Ch 3 50
People's Ch., Ladies 500
Plymouth, Ladies' Union.. 5 00
King's Daughters 10 00
S. S 5 75
Portland, Ladies 1 50
$54 75
Coal Bluff, by Rev. J. Hayes 2 00
Ft. Wayne, South Ch., by Rev. E. E.
Frame 5 00
Indianapolis, People's Ch., by Rev. O.
D. Fisher 50 00
Fellowship Ch., by Rev. F. M. Whit-
lock 11 66
Michigan City, Sanborn Memorial
Scand. Mission, by Rev. A. Lund-
berg 5 00
ILLINOIS— $286.67 ; of which legacy,
$6.67.
Illinois Home Mission Soc, A. B.
Mead, Treas.:
Of which $100, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor ; salary fund, $ no 225 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. L. A.
Field, Treas.:
Elgin, Prospect Street Silver Cir-
cle, by Miss G. Ingalls 5 00
Batavia, by Mrs. S. S. Coffin, for the
debt 10 00
Buda, Estate of J. F. Hyde, by H. T.
Lay, Trustee 667 MICHIGAN— $101.00.
Chicago, California Avenue Ch., A.
E. Bunker, $10 ; Ladies' Soc, Mrs.
A. E. Bunker, $10, by A. E.
Bunker 20 00
M. R. Blackburn, for the debt 10 00
John Mabbs 10 00
St. Joseph, Tabernacle... $20 75
St. Louis, First . . . . , 28 00
Immanuel 1 00
Pilgrim 73 40
Y. P. S. C. E 1000
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E 15 00
Compton Hill 4500
Y.L.M.S 1200
Plymouth 5 00
Central 21 50
Webster Groves 19 24
$869 24
Less expenses 43 46
$825 78
Bevier, First, by Rev. J. R. Adams.. 3 co
Green Ridge, Y. P. S. C. E.,by J. P.
Baker 3 00
Grandin, by Rev. J. Brereton 13 37
Kansas City, First, by M. B. Wright. 236 81
Clyde Ch., $35 ; S. S., $10, by W.
W. Fiudlay , 45 00
S. W. Tab. Ch., by Mrs. L. G. Jeff-
ers 8 16.
Meadville, by Rev. J. W. Eldred 10 68
Mine La Motte, by Rev. D. C. Mc-
Nair 3600
St. Louis, First German, by Rev. M.
A. Krey 1773
Swedish Ch., by Rev. A. G. John-
son 2 50
Springfield, Pilgrim Ch., by J. H.
Reeve 10 00
German Ch., by Rev. J. F. Graf. . . 2 00
Verdella, by Rev. R. T. Marlow 3 50
Detroit, Woman's Asso. of First Ch.,
by Miss A. E. Coe, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor
Whitehall, A Friend
MISSOURI-$i,2i7.53.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. K. L.
Mills, Treas. :
Bonne Terre $25 00
Cameron, for the debt 4 15
De Soto 10 00
Hannibal, Pilgrim 3 08
Iberia, Y. P. S. C. E 250
Kansas City, Olivet 5 00
First, for Salary Fund ... 12 50
Kidder 50 00
Lamar, Y. P. S. C. E 305
Old Orchard, Y. P. S. C. E. 29 37
St. Louis, Pilgrim 93 10
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E., for the
debt 500
First 171 50
Plymouth 6 50
Aubert Place 1 00
Springfield, First, to place
the name of Rev. P. Pinch
on Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Salary Fund :
Kansas City, First, Y. L.
M. S 25 00
Y. P. S. C. E 12 50
Y. P. S. C. E. of Olivet
Ch 7 50
Y. P. S. C. E., of Clyde
Ch 10 35
So. W. Tabernacle 13 00
Lebanon 17 00
New Cambria. L. H. M. S. 6 25
Y. P. S. C.E 500
WISCONSIN-$s33.os.
Received by Rev. T. G. Grassie :
Antigo $94 05
Ashland 149 00
Bloomer 10 35
Butternut 12 co
Clear Lake . . 5 00
Scand 5 00
Cleveland 14 25
Clintonville 10 85
Drummond 18 00
Embarrass 7 59
Fifield 4 60
Grantsburg 2 00
Green River 16 00
Hayward Ch., $10.34;
Ladies, $6.70 ; Y. P. S. C.
E., $17.66; Jr. Y.P. S. C.
E., $2.50 3720
Merrell 2 58
Maple Valley 258
Mason 2 00
Norrie 2 00
395 °5
Bruce, $5 ; Apollonia, $5.40, by Rev.
D. L. Sanborn 10 40
Clintonville, Scand. Ch., by Rev. H.
F. Josephson 1 00
Cumberland, First, by Rev. J. Parsons 5 00
Doctor's Lake, $1.10; Wood Lake,
$1.05, Swedish Chs., by Rev. N. I.
Nelson 215
Dunbar and North Crandon, by Rev.
J. G. Melvin 20 00
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May,
Fond du Lac Co. , A Friend Ss oo
Glenwood, Swedish Ch., by Rev. O.
Ohlson 2 20
Prentice, by Rev. A. Chambers 12 00
Rhinelander, First, by Rev. J. H.
Chandler 45 00
Tomahawk, First, by Rev. J. C. Ab-
lett 25 25
West Superior, Hope Ch., by Rev. J.
Kimball 10 00
IOWA— $48.66 ; of which legacy, $42.66.
Grinnell, Y. P. S. C. E., by A. G.
Graves 3 00
Iowa Falls, Estate of Alfred Woods,
by E. Nuckolls 4266
Lansing, German Ch., by Rev. A.
Kern 3 00
MINNESOTA— $527.65.
Received by Rev. J. H. Mor-
ley :
Brainerd, $5 ; C. E.,$5 $1000
Detroit. Ch. and S. S 663
Elk River, $11 ; C. E., $4.. 15 00
Ham Lake 2 00
Hutchinson 1 96
Little Falls 8 90
Minneapolis, Pilgrim 27 35
Plymouth 37 75
Vine 10 00
Oak Park 415
Rev. H. L. Chase, special
for debt and to com-
plete payment of Roll of
Honor Pledge 60 00
New Paynesville, C. E 2 00
Owatonna 18 00
Princeton 817
Rochester 36 13
Sauk Rapids 2 16
St. Paul, South Park 300
Cyril Chapel 7500
328 20
Clearwater, by Rev. J. L. Jones 3 00
Faribault, of which $100, to place the
name of Rev. E. Gale on Howard
Roll of Honor, by A. Young 108 00
Lake Park, Mrs. A. G. Upton, for the
debt 5 co
Mazeppa and Zumbro Falls, by Rev.
J.E.Ingham 960
Moorhead, First, by F. Goodsell 25 60
St. Cloud, W. F. Hicks 5 co
Verndale, by Rev. A. McAllister 4 00
Wadena. Ch., $10.25 ; Jr. C. E., $1.50,
by Rev. J. H. B. Smith 20 75
West Minneapolis, Mizpah Ch., by
Rev. M. A. Stevens 3 50
Worthington, Mrs. E. M. Porter, for
the debt 15 00
KANSAS— $1,830.73.
Received by Rev. L. P. Broad :
Independence, Ingraham
Memorial Fund $4 00
Y. P. S. C. E., Ingraham
Memorial Fund 1 50
Kansas City, Bethel Ch 600
Milford 6 00
Ocheltree 2 09
St. Francis 3 00
Scatter Creek 2 60
25 19
Received by Rev. J. G. Dougherty,
Treas. :
Alma, C. E 2 30
Alton $1 10
C.E 380
Arkansas City 16 15
Burlington 34 00
Centralia 32 65
C.E 1000
Chelsea Place, C. E 500
Council Grove 1827
Douglass 8 45
Dover 250
Downs 17 00
Eureka 35 20
Fowler 2 50
Great Bend 25 35
Hill City 4 00
Independence 5 00
Kansas City, First 50 00
Lawrence, Pilgrim 352
Leona 22 50
Lenora 8 00
Linwood 5 00
Muscotah 24 15
C.E 500
S. S. Harvest Festival... 3 00
Neosho Falls 6 00
North Topeka 357
Ocheltree 2 09
Oneida 200
Osborne 1847
Ottawa 26 93
Overbrook 5 00
Plevna 4 05
Ladies' Miss. Soc 2 00
Ridgeway 1 84
Russell 8 34
Smith Center 12 50
Stockton 30 43
Strong City 2 32
Tonganoxie 16 00
Twelve Mile 9 81
Udall 30 00
Valley Falls, C. E 500
Wellington 2747
Rev. H. F. Markham 10 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. E. C.
Read, Treas. :
Alma $30 00
Atchison 800
Argentine. Jr. Y. P. S. C. E. 1 00
Blue Rapids 4 00
Burlington 15 00
Centralia 10 00
Council Grove 15 00
Chapman 1000
Clay Center 4 50
Emporia 3000
Eureka 21 62
S.S. Class No. 10 5 00
Garnett, Thank-offering 955
Gooaland 1 25
Hiawatha 1 1 00
Kansas City, Pilgrim Ch. .. 4 00
First 25 00
Kensington 2 00
Kiowa 8 00
Lawrence, Plymouth 10 00
Leona 4 00
Y. P. S. C.E 5 00
Leavenworth 40 50
Neosho Falls 300
Nickerson. Mrs. M. E. Scott 1 00
Mrs. Reed 25
Olathe 2 00
Osawatomie, Dime Bank. . . 5 00
Jr. C.E 3 00
Osborne 5 00
Ottawa 5 00
Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Parsons 7 65
Russell 4 00
Sabetha 5 80
May, iS
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Seneca, in full to const. Mrs.
E. P. Tullera L. M.... $1570
Jr. C. E 325
Sedgwick 10 00
Smith Center 4 00
Sterling 5 00
Stockton 5 00
Topeka, First 79 03
Mount Union S. S 3 40
Valley Falls 21 00
Wakefield 1 50
Wellington 5 3S
Jr. C. E 600
Wellsville ' 3 00
Wichita, Plymouth Ch 15 00
$503 35
Less expenses 9 69
$493 66
Almena, by Rev. R. F. Markham 14 01
Atchison, First, by Rev. O. C. Hel-
ming ... i3 25
Atwood, by Rev. J. J. A. T. Dixon... 3 00
Brookville, by E. H. F. Wright 5 00
Buffalo Park, $6 ; Collyer, $6, by Rev.
I. M. Waldrop 12 00
Carson, $7.90 ; Fairview, $17, by Rev.
D. Dunham 24 90
Comet, by E. Barnes 8 74
Cora, by G. W. McArthur 2 85
Diamond Springs and Six Mile, by
Rev. G. M. Pfeiffer 3 23
Garden City, First, by Rev. L. Hull.. 17 65
Garfield, by Rev. E. L. Hull 14 00
Hiawatha, by S. Bierer 51 35
Kansas City, Chelsea Place, by Rev.
W.B.Fisher 100
Kinsley, by Rev. J. Winslow 4 00
Kiowa. Ch., $14.80; Juniors, for Sil-
ver Circle, $5, by Rev. J. E. Ever-
ett 19 80
Lawrence, Plymouth Ch. and S. S.,
by C. L. Edwards, to const. Mrs.
H. H. Hazen, Mrs. M. M. Wilcox
and Miss V. S. Edwards L. Ms — 150 00
Plymoufh Ch., -$21.50 ; Wallace, $5 ;
Macon, $10, by Rev. W. C. Vea-
zie 36 50
Little River, by. Rev. C. T. Young... 2 00
Longton, by Rev. J. D. Moore 5 75
Newton, First, by Rev. F. W. Hem-
enway 31 67
Osawatomie, First Y. P. S. C. E., by
T. S. Roberts 20 00
Parsons, First, by Rev. A.W. Bishop, 29 00
Powhattan, $14.22 ; Netawaka, $5.19,
by Rev. W. S. Bixby 19 41
Sabetha, Class A of the S. S., by Rev.
L. P. Broad, for Salary Fund 1 50
By Rev. A. C. Hogbin 2 00
Sterling, by C. A. Stubbs 17.59
Topeka, First, by H. C. Bowman 174 '52
North Ch., by E. Shutz 500
Valeda, $5.70 ; Brookville, $2.50, by
Rev. W. C. Veazie 8 20
Vienna, by Rev. E. Pratt. 5 00
Wabaunsee, First, by J. F. Willard.. 18 60
White City, by Rev. E. Richards 3 61
Wichita, Plymouth Ch., by Rev. A.
A. Brower 13 49
NEBRASKA— $871.58.
Received by Rev. H. Bross :
Arlington $5 70
Cambridge 13 90
Friend . .'. 3 55
Wahoo 725
Received by H. G. Smith, Treas.:
Alvo $1 05
Ashland 25 00
Aurora 5° 37
Berlin 1 00
Bertrand . 5 00
Burwell 8 32
Butte 1 90
Camp Creek 5 00
Clarks 1 15
Clear Wafer 135
Creighton 15 71
Douglass 1 33
Exeter 5 90
Fremont 27 75
Gloversville ... 1 05
Grafton 3 70
Harvard 527
Hastings, German 5 26
Inland 3 85
Irvington 20 20
Lincoln, Vine Street 25 00
Naponee , 4 00
Omaha, First 20 00
Park 2 40
Salem 316
Sargent 1 10
Silver Creek 12 15
Spencer 1 05
Springfield 6 30
Steelburg 12 00
Stockville 100
Talmadge 115
Upland 1 50
Wallace 570
West Cedar Valley 400
Willowdale, Rev. G. T.
Noyce 1 00
W. E. Jillson 5 00
Rev. C. S. Billings 13 42
W. H. M. U., Mrs. J. W.
Dawes, Treas 243 99
$554 °S
Less expenses 2 33
$55i 75
Arborville, by F. N. Recknor 5 00
Butte and Naper and Fairfax, So.
Dak., German Chs., by Rev. G. B.
Baumann 461
Crawford, by C. Hoevit 4 00
Dodge and Howells,by Rev.A.Farns-
worth 13 21
Doniphan, West Hamilton and North
Hastings, by Rev. E. Cressman 8 50
Ft. Calhoun, by Rev. S. A. Parker 5 00
Franklin, by Rev. H. Bross 5 00
Gilead, C. E. Soc, by W. Shaw 40
Hyannis and Reno, by Rev. O. E.
Ticknor 5 00
Indianola, by Rev. A. S. Houston. ... 10 27
Lincoln, First, by W. L. Fairbroth-
er 21 75
German Ch., by Rev. J. Lich 10 00
Linwood, by Rev. H. C. Halbersle-
ben 2500
Long Pine, by Rev. W. J. Paske 16 22
McCook, German Ch., by Rev. J. Sat-
tler 5 54
Monroe and Wattsville, by Rev. H.
A. Shuman 2 50
Norfolk, First, by J. J. Parker, to
const. Mrs. A. M. Bogle a L. M 80 44
Omaha, Cherry Hill Ch., $11.55;
Saratoga, $11.45, by Rev. E. L.
Ely 32 00
Hillside Ch., by F. M. Hamling 9 29
Palisade, $6 ; Hayes Center, $1.40 ;
Hayes Co., First, $2.85, by Rev. T.
C. Moff att 1025
Taylor, First, by F. A. Wirsig 4 47
Trenton, by Rev. D. Donaldson 15 00
Urbana, by Rev. R. S. Pierce 5 00
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NORTH DAKOTA— $186.90.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
M. M. Fisher, Treas.:
Armenia $5 00
Dexter 5 60
Caledonia, by Rev. W. Griffith
Jr. C. E.,by J. Clark
Dawson, $2.93 ; Cando, $16.64 ; Ob-
eron, $17.10; Wimbledon, $9.78;
Fessenden, $8, by Rev. W. H.
Gimblett
Dawson and Tappan, by Rev. T. W.
Thurston
Dwight and Antelope, by Rev. D. T.
Jenkins
Fargo, First, by Rev. H. C. Simmons
Foroan, Rutland and Cayuga, by
Rev. J. H. Kevan
Hillsboro, by Rev. N. P. McQuarrie..
Inkster, by Rev. C. Y. Snell
New Rockford, by Rev. N.W. Hanke-
meyer
Rose Valley, by Rev. M. J.Totten...
Sanborn, Central Ch., by Rev. J. R.
Beebe
Wimbledon and Kensal, by Rev. W.
R. Whidden
$10 60
S 00
2 50
17 58
23
81
10
00
9
CO
20
00
10
00
6
21
8
75
In full, to const. Rev. B. H. Burtt
and wife L. Ms, by Rev. W. H.
Thrall
Meckling, Ch.. $15.25; Y. P. S. C. E.,
$1, by Miss E. K. Henry
Plankinton, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev.
C. R. Bruce
Spearfish, by Rev. T. W. C. Cheese-
man
Templeton and Logan, by Rev. Mrs.
A. T. Huntley
Vermilion, First, by G. E. Paddock.
Watertown, by Rev. H. S. Williams..
Wessington Springs and Anina, by
Rev. S. F. Huntley
COLORADO-$23.25.
Denver, Manchester Ch., by Rev. W.
B. Robb
Flagler, Seibert and Claremont, by
Rev. G. E. Tuttle
Lyons, First, by D. D. McAlpine
Ward, by Rev. H. Sanderson
WYOMING— $8.
Manville, by Rev. A. D. Shockley. .
16 25
43 77
3 00
6 50
6 00
3 75
SOUTH DAKOTA-$382.79.
Woman's H. M. Union ; Mrs. A. M.
Wilcox, Treas. :
Alcester $ 5 00
Academy 2 on
Armour . .'. 3 20
Aurora, Y. P. S. C. E 3 00
Ashton 3 00
Badger Lake 12 80
Chamberlain 2 00
Columbia 2 40
Jr. C. E 250
Deadwood 360
Firesteel 126
Howard 2 00
Huron 10 00
Iroquois, S. S., Infant Class 25
Lesterville 1 35
Letcher 1 00
Myron 81
Pierre 4 00
Redfield 9 25
Santee, Neb 5 20
Wakonda 5 00
Yankton 12 20
Academy and Kirkwood, by Rev. L,
E. Camfield *
Bruce, by Rev. J. Kidder
Buffalo Gap, by Rev. T. Thirloway. .
Chamberlain, $17; White River, $6.50;
Pukwana, $1.50, by Rev. E. W.
Zenney
Columbia, Rev. I. R. Prior
Erwin, $20 ; E. H. Tomlin, $5, by
Rev. D. R. Tomlin
Friedens, Ch., $2.50; Jakobs, $6, by
Rev. H. Vogler
Gann Valley, Duncan, Pleasant Val-
ley, Ree Heights, Greenleaf and
Spring Hill, by Rev. P. B. Fish. . . .
Gothland, by Rev. W. J. Marsh
Hot Springs, First. $3.65 ; S. S.,
$5.36, by Rev. H. V. Rominger.
Huron, Rev. W. H. Thrall, $25 ;
Pierre Birthday Box, $3.95 ; Wa-
tertown, $2.50, by Rev. W. H.
Thrall
91 82
3 75
10 00
5 °°
8 50
2 50
7 00
MONTANA— $118. 10.
Helena, Rev. W. S. Bell, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor
Helena, First, for the debt, $5 ; Horse
Plains, $1.77 : Thompson Falls,
$1.33, by Rev. W. S. Bell
Red Lodge, by Rev. W. H. Watson..
UTAH-$2i.
Ogden, Lynne Ch.. $5 ; Slaterville,
$3 ; Echo, $5 ; Coalville, $2, by
Rev. G. H. Perry
Salt Lake City, Coral Workers, by
Rev. D. W. Bartlett
IDAHO— $1.60.
Hope, by Rev. V. N. Roth.
CALIFORNIA-$5,8o8.5o.
Received by Rev. J. T. Ford :
Los Angeles, Plymouth $31 00
Monrovia 600
Pasadena, First 10470
Y. P. S. C. E 2000
Paso Robles 13 20
San Miguel 2 55
San Jacinto 3 05
Sierra Madre 22 45
Received by John D. McKee,
Treas. :
Alameda $70 54
Y.P.S.C.E 5900
Berkeley, Misses Sprague,
for the debt 2 00
Campbell 4000
Corralitos ... 10 00
Decoto j 20
Grass Valley 21 40
Green Valley 2425
Kenwood 10 00
Lincoln r 08
Lockwood 6 20
May, 1896
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Martinez $46 45
S. S 1 Po
Mission San Jose 645
Nevada City 9 55
Niles 33 5°
Oakland, First 200 00
Miss Hawley's S. S. Class 10 00
Plymouth 73 80
Pacific Grove 7 00
Petaluma 30 00
Redwood City 415
Rio Vista 25 35
San Francisco, Bethany 17 60
Sunbeams 5 00
Plymouth 130 00
Olivet 13 35
San Jose, Woman's Soc... 31 30
San Juan g 00
San Leandro, Five Cents a
Week Band 27 50
Santa Rosa 175°
Stockton, First 82 15
Suisun 10 00
Tipton 12 50
Vacaville 16 05
Rev. J. D. Foster 5 00
Woman's H. M. Union,
Mrs. J. M. Haven,
Treas. :
To const. Mrs. C. H. Dres-
ser, Mrs. E. A. Eldridge,
Mrs. C. K. Harris, S. M.
Howard, Mrs. G. B.
Hatch and Mrs. G. T.
Hawley L. Ms 500 00
Received by J. D. McKee :
Alturas $ 5 00
Benicia n 00
Berkeley, First 355°°
Crockett 5 00
Cloverdale 20 00
East Oakland, Pilgrim Ch. . 25 00
Eureka 6 60
Fitchburg 820
Glen Ellen 385
Green Valley. 15 85
Haywards n 30
S. S 5 00
Kenwood 5 00
Little Shasta 35 5°
Los Guillicos, Ladies' Soc. . 6 00
Nevada City 7 00
Oakland, Market Street.... 23 00
Pilgrim 675
Oakland, Rev. G. Mooar 22 50
Oleander 16 45
S. S 5 60
Miss'y Soc 22 95
Oroville 17 55
Paradise 10 00
Pescadero , 11 00
Redwood 13 50
S. S 2 40
Sacramento 75 00
San Francisco, Park 43 80
First 27745
J. K. Harrison 1 20
Third, W. H. M. Soc. . . 23 00
Ch : 85 10
Rev. J. Rowell 20 00
San Jose 130 15
Santa Cruz 50 00
San Mateo 62 25
Santa Rosa 2 00
Miss Nellie Burney, $1 ;
Mrs. Deyo, 50 cts. ; Mrs.
Kabro, $1; Mrs. Gill, $1. 3 50
Saratoga 64 25
S. S 1 80
Y. P. S. C. E 320
Sebastopol , . 16 00
$ii574 67
Tulare $26 00
S. S 5 00
Woodside 4 50
Woman's H. M. U., Mrs. J.
M. Haven, Treas 230 00
1,801 20
Less expenses 1 20
Woman's H. M. Union, South-
ern Cal., Mrs. M. M.
Smith, Treas.:
Alpine, $5.33 ; Y. P. S. C.
E., $1.18 $ 6 51
Avalon 7 00
Y. P. S. C. E 300
Claremont 52 50
Compton 10 00
East Los Angeles 25 00
Escondido 20 00
Highland 5 00
Highland, " Royal Miss.
Soc" 1 00
Los Angeles, First 38 00
For Salary Fund 30 00
Central Avenue 2 00
Park Ch 10 45
West End 16 50
Bethlehem 500
Plymouth 5 50
Mentone 5 00
Y. P. S. C. E 200
National City 30 00
Ontario 13 50
Pasadena, First 56 35
S. S 20 00
Jr. C. E 2 50
Perris 34 00
Pomona, Pilgrim 51 go
Poway 5 00
Redlands, First 1000
Young Ladies of the First 5 00
Terrace 11 00
Riverside 100 00
San Bernardino 10 00
San Diego, First 25 00
S. S. of the First 10 25
San Jacinto 29 55
Santa Ana 7 00
Santa Barbara 30 00
Sierra Madre 5 50
South Riverside 1150
Ventura goo
Vernondale ig 00
S. S 5 75
Whittier 10 00
Bakersfield, First, by Rev. J. W.
Phillips, for the debt
Belmont, E. L. Reed
Compcon, First, by Rev. S. H. Wheeler
Claremont, by O. H. Dewall
Daggett, by Rev. L. N. Barber
Fresno, German, by Rev. J. Legler. .
Lodi and Gait, by Rev. D. Goodsell..
Lorin, Park Ch., by Rev. J. D. Foster
Los Angeles, Third, $12 ; East Ch.,
$62.74; Y. P. S. C.E., $5; S. S.,
$2.26; $70, by Rev. J. T. Ford ....
Park Ch., by Rev. J. T. Ford
Bethlehem Ch., by Rev. J. J. Find-
lav
West End Ch., $4.08 ; Y. P. S. C.
E., $3.26, by Rev. G. Morris
Needles, by Rev. J. F. Brown
Ontario, by Rev. A. E. Tracy
Pasadena, Mrs. H. D. Lyman, $25 ;
Miss N. H. Lyman, $25
Pasadena, " G. L."
Perris, First, by Rev. W. N. Burr
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Pico Heights and Hyde Park. by Rev.
J. M. Schaefle $ 24 70
Pokegama, Rev. B. F. Moody, $5 ;
Hornbrook, $5, by Rev. B. F.
Moody ,000
Pomona, Pilgrim Ch., by J. A. Dole. 355 00
Poway, by Rev. H. C. Abernethy .. .. 10 00
Redlands, First, by Rev. J. T. Ford. 122 00
Redlands, A Friend z 5Q
Riverside, First, $12.15 ; Y. P. S. C.
E., $11.85, by Mrs. B. Morse 10400
Rocklin. by Rev. E. D. Haven 27 00
Rosedale and Poso, by Rev. A. K.
Johnson 7 00
San Diego, by H. W. Brewer 127 00
San Francisco, Bethlehem, by Rev.
W. H. Tubb 2SOO
Santa Ana, First, by M. Cotter 21 00
Santa Barbara, by H. R. Hitchcock.. 19 30
Santa Paula, N. W. Blanchard 100 00
Santa Rosa, E. F. Woodward, by
Rev. G. A . Jasper 20 00
Sierra Valley, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev.
L. Wallace ,- GO
South Riverside, S. S., by J. S. Je'w-
e^ 17 00
Vernondale, by W. Wight 10 00
Weaverville, $28.65 ; Lewiston, $?„ by
Rev. H. H. Cole... « 65
West Saticoy, A Friend \ 00
Whittier. Plymouth Ch., $ro ; Y. P
S. C. E., $1 ; Buena Park, First,
Ssso, by Rev. G. Willett ^50
OREGON-$io9.83.
Received by Rev. C. F. Clapp :
Condon, P. McPherson $ 5 00
Forest Grove 1565
Portland, Y. P. S. C. E. of
the First 5 00
Yaquina 8 55
Beaverton. Bethel Ch. and Tualitin,
by Rev. W. Hurlburt
Beaver Creek, $1.10 ; Leland, 65 cts.;
Oswego, $1.25, by Rev. R. M.
Jones
Eugene. First, by Rev. H. F. Giit....
Forest Grove, Ladies' Miss. Soc,
for the debt. $32.20 ; Yaquina Bay
add'l. Si. 45. by Rev C. F. Clapp...
Hood River, Riverside, by Rev. f. L.
Hershner
Hubbard, German Ch., by Rev. E.
Grieb .
Pleasant Hill. Mrs. E. Y. Swift ..... [
Weston and Free Water, bv Rev. A
R. Olds
3 00
6 07
33 65
2 00
5 00
WASHINGTOxM- $127.02
Ahtamun and Tampico, $1.75: Rev.
D. W. Wise, $2.25, by Rev. D. W.
Wise 4 oo
Blaine, by Rev. C. T. Whittlesey. ... 7 5o
Edmonds, bv Rev. T. C. Butler, for
the debt g qq
Ellensburg, First, by Rev. S. D. Belt,
for the debt n 50
Everett. First, for the debt, by Rev F
W. Butler 8 00
Genesee. Idaho and Uniontown, by
Rev. W. C. Fowler , 00
Hillyard, Pleasant Prairie and Trent,
by Rev. J. Edwards 23 00
New Whatcom. First, for the debt,
Rev. H. Ailing 40 00
Snohomish, First, by Rev. W. C Mer-
„ r>« l8 2
Spnngdale. by Rev. H. M. Mobbs, for
the debt 2 ro
Home Missionary '.'.' I23 04
$159,998 10
Contributions in March, excluding contributions for the debt c
Legacies in March 9>33-0,P5 21
Contributions for the debt in March".' "4.862 00
1 2,040 89
Total receipts in March "T "
i $159,998 10
Contributions in twelve months, excluding contributions for the debt *,,„ firfi T,
Legacies in twelve months 5-224,050 n
Contributions for the debt to April 1st 233>5i° 58
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor.'.'.'.'. '^'.k'lh '43° 4
Special for the debt *73,2g6 58
7.183 06
Total receipts in twelve months ~i 7TZ
§53°. 606 33
Donations of Clothing, etc.
Aurora. 111.. First Ch., by Mrs. Chas.
Wheaton, box
Corban Asso. of New England Ch
by Mrs. D. W. Hurd. barrel. ...
Bridgeport, Conn., Ladies of Kind's
Highway Chapel, by Mrs. E. E. Hub-
bell, barrel
Bristol. Conn., H. M.Aux.. by Mrs T
H. B. Smith, barrel..
Concord. N. H., Aux. of H. M. S. and
Cent. Union of South Ch., by Mrs C
B. Bancroft, box
Glen Ridge, N. J., by Ella C. Langs'tro'tn,
box
Hanover, N. H., 'Mrs'. Susan A. Brown,
box.
$12
Hartford. Conn , Legacy of Mrs. Mary
M. Phillips, by Donald Phillips,
trunk.
Ladies' Sew. Soc. of First Ch.. by Mrs.
E. C. Curtis, two boxes and two
barrels . $254 ^
Second Ch., by Mrs. M. H. Graves,
barrel . , ^
Haverhill, Conn., Miss. Circle, by Mrs.
Alice M. R. Skinner, box 47 x,
Lakeville, Conn., Sew. Soc, by Mrs
Geo. B. Burrall. barrel I28 „
Marietta, O., Mrs. Douglas Putnam
package ^
Middletown, Conn., L. H. M. S. of First
Ch.. by Mrs. Crittenden, two barrels. 145 00
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New Britain, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc.
of South Ch., by Mrs. S. H. Wood, box.
New Haven, Conn., L. A. S. of United
Ch., by Mrs. J. Evarts Pond, two
boxes
New York City, Hospital Book and
Newspaper Soc, two packages.
North Hampton, N. H., Ladies' Dorcas
Circle, by Miss R. M. Chapel, box
Orford, N. H., Ladies' Sew. Soc, by
Mrs. Isaac Willard, barrel and freight.
48 62
Portsmouth, N. H., North Ch., by
Katherine H. Upton, box $128 00
Sharon, Conn., Mrs. F. A. Hotchkiss,
box.
Stafford Springs, Conn., L. H. M. S., by
Mrs. Ellen J. McLaughlin, box 230 00
Toledo, O., Second Ch., by Florence
M. Nants, box 1700
Tulare, Cal., Junior Endeavor Soc, by
Mrs. E. D. Weage, box 20 00
Donations of Clothing, etc. , received and reported at the rooms of the Woman' s Home
Missionary Association in February, 1896. Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg,
Secretary
Boston, Old South Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
W. B. Garritt, two boxes and two
barrels $313 64
Brookline, Harvard Ch., Aux., by Mrs.
G. Proctor, four barrels 1,001 93
Cambridgeport, Pilgrim Ch., Aux., by
Mrs. F. H. Hayes, barrel 50 00
Prospect St. Ch., Aux., by Mrs. Curtis
C. Nichols, box 1 17 00
Dalton, L. S. C, by Miss Clara L.
Crane, box and barrel 119 70
Dedham, L. B. S., by Mrs. A. T. Wight,
barrel 56 60
Essex North Alliance, Newburyport,
Belleville, M. S., by Miss A. E. Wig-
gin, barrel 112 91
Fall River, First Ch., L. B. S., by Miss
Sarah H. Kingsley, barrel
Hopkinton, Ladies, by Mrs. S. B.
Crooks, barrel
MHlbury, Mrs. Abby C. Kloss, package.
Providence, Central Ch., Aux., by Mrs.
T. B. Stockwell, box
Somerville, Franklin St. Ch., Aux., by
Mrs. A. C. Hill, two barrels
Springfield, First Ch., Aux., by Mrs. C.
A. Graves, five barrels
Hope Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. E. H. Cut-
ler, two barrels
Whitinsville, L. B. S., by Miss Lila S.
Whitin, box
75 00
25 00
231 65
i54 48
264 55
13S °°
156 22
$2,923
Received in March, 1896
Auburndale, Ladies, by Mrs. H. A.
Hazen, barrel $65 14
Brookline, Mrs. Wm. T. Shapleigh,
package 15 00
Campello, Ladies, by Mrs. N. H. Wash-
burn, barrel 50 00
Chicopee, Third Ch., Ladies, by Miss
Ella M. Gaylord,' cash, $7, and barrel. 27 00
Dorchester, Harvard Ch., Ladies, by
Mrs. K. S. Deane, barrel 75 00
Second Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. J. M.
Phipps, two barrels 137 00
Lynn, Central Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. J.
L. Parker, two barrels 90 00
New Bedford, Ladies, by Mrs. N. Free-
man ,box 100 00
Peabody, Ladies, by Mrs. Mary E.
Trask, barrel 130 17
Pittsfield, First Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
R. W. Adam, two boxes and barrel. .. 276 08
Providence, Beneficent Ch., Ladies, by
Mrs. T. Bemis, box and three bar-
rels $240 94
Central Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. T. B.
Stockwell, box 125 09
Union Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. Wm.
Knight, six boxes 468 03
Randolph, Ladies, by Mrs. A. L. Chase,
box 34 00
Somerville, Prospect St. Ch., Ladies,
by Mrs. E. S. Tead, box 25 00
Springfield, First Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
C. A. Graves, rag carpet 1625
Westerly, R. I., Ladies, by Miss Julia
E. Smith, box 120 co
Westhampton, L. B. S., by Miss Louisa
J . Montague, barrel 40 00
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in March, 1896.
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev. Edwin
Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor :
Attleboro, Second, by C. E. Bliss,
balance
Bernardston, one-quarter share of
pledge of " Four Franklin Co.
Churches," by H. L. Crowell
Boston, Childs, Mrs. Arthur E $100 00
N. E. P., A Friend 100 00
Bradford, First, by S. W. Carleton,
two shares, to const. R. G. Rob- ,
erts, L. A. Drury, Wallace H. Kim-
ball, and E. J. Bonette L. Ms. of
C. H. M. S 20000
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Brookline, Harvard, Stone, Jas. S., by
Jas. H. Shapleigh $10000
Gardner, First, by D. H. Rand, i^f0
shares 148 00
Georgetown, Two Cong. Chs., by
Henry Hilliard and H. Howard
Noyes ico 00
Great Barrington, First, by Clarence
K. Sabin, two shares, to const. Ellen
M. Pixley, Frances L. Girling, R. J.
Logan, and C. R. Sabin L. Ms. of
C. H. M. S 200 00
Greenfield, Second, by Miss Lucy A.
Sparhawk 100 00
Hadley, First, by John N. Pierce 100 00
Hyde Park, Memorial to Mrs. Wm.
C. Cristy and to const. William
Cristy Perry and Merrill Cristy
Hill L. Ms. of C. H. M. S 100 00
Lowell, High St., in memory of Mrs.
Maria H. Clark, of Tewksbury,
Mass., by S. A. Chase 100 00
Mansfield, by Rev. Jacob Ide 100 00
Montague, Turner's Falls, by Rev.
H. C. Adams 100 00
Newton, Auburndale, by C. C. Burr,
to const. Eugene Francis Clark
and John Foote Norton L. Ms. of
C. H. M. S 100 00
Byington, Rev. and Mrs. Ezra H... 100 00
Northbridge, Whitinsville, Y. P. S.
C. E., in memory of Elizabeth G.
Thurston 100 00
Shelburne Falls, Young Ladies' Mis-
sion Circle, one-quarter share of
pledge of Four Franklin Co.
Churches," by L. M. Packard, Ch.
Treas 25 00
Uxbridge, Taft, Mrs. J., in memory
of her parents 100 00
Ware, in memory of Frank Gilbert
Fox, by his mother 100 00
West Tisbury, First, by U. E. May-
hew 103 40
Weymouth, South, Old South, by
Rev. H. C. Alvord 100 00
Woman's Home Miss. Asso., by Miss
A. C. Bridgman, Treas. :
Natick, First, Sturges, Mrs.
F. L $100 00
New Bedford, Aux., to
const. Miss Emily F.
Leonard and Mrs. L. H.
Gibbs L. Ms. of C. H. M.
S 100 00
Stoneham, Stevens Mission-
ary Society 100 00
,637 85
Amesbury, Union, by John T. Bassett..
Andover Chapel, by W. F. Draper
Students of Theo. Sem., by Warren
F. Draper, add'l to Roll of Honor.
Attleboro, H. M. Rally, for debt, add'l.
Bank Balances, February interest on..
Barnstable, Hyannis, by Rosie C.
Bearse, Taft thank offering
Baker, Mrs. W. C, Taft thank offer-
ing ...
Leavitt, Miss Marion F., Taft thank-
offering
Bedford, S. S. class of E. G. Loomis. . .
Belmont, Waverly, Jewett, Mrs. Wil-
liam
Boston. A friend. "W."
Boylston, add'l, by G. E. S. Kinney. .
Burnham, Everett
Dorchester, Second, Barry J. L., by
Miss E. Tolman
Village Ladies' H. M. Soc, by Mrs.
Reuben Swan, w. p. g. to const.
Mrs. Rufus L. Mason a L. M
"M. T. A."
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2
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1
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2
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15 76
10 00
Norwegian Ch., by Julius Rude $9 10
Jorgensen, Miss Mary, by Rev. M.
Olsen 1 00
Park St., by E. H. McGuire,to const.
Mrs. Nellie M. Greenwood, Liza-
beth E. Benson, Isabella B. Pratt,
and Myra G. Frenyear L. Ms. of C.
H. M.S 20000
Roxbury, Highland, by John W. Hall 166 00
E. C. A. Day Band, by J.W.Hall.. 2500
Boxboro, by A. W. Wetherbee 20 00
Bradford, Ward Hill, by H. P. Waldo. 16 57
Braintree, First, Ladies' Home Miss.
Soc, by Miss S. L. Thayer, to const.
Mrs. Mary L. Jennings a L. M 35 00
South, by H. B. Whitman 6 00
Brookline, Harvard, by Jas. H Shap-
leigh, add'l to Roll of Honor 534 91
Hall, Mrs. Josephine L., by Jas. H.
Shapleigh 100 00
Cambridge, Oliver, Matilda, Est. of,
through Prospect St. Ch., by S. H.
Fuller, for C. H. M. S 25 00
Cambridgeport, Pilgrim, by N. H. Hol-
brook 61 40
Prospect St., Snow, Russell L 7500
Deerfield, Orth., A. Friend 1000
Dracut, First, by Chas. L. Hodge 8 00
Dunstable, by Wm. P. Proctor 5 00
Easthampton, First, by W. H. Wright.. 66 61
Everett, A Friend 40
Mystic Side, by Geo. W. Lewis 13 18
Falmouth, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Miss A. P. Jones, for Rev. A. G. Nel-
son or debt 10 50
Woods Holl, Y. P. S. C. E., by H.
W. Bowles 5 35
Fitchburg, Calvinistic, by Leslie A.
Holden 127 17
Foxboro, Bethany, Tracy Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Ida F. Carpenter 10 00
Framingham, South, Grace, by G. M.
Amsden 154 00
Franklin, by J. Herbert Baker 8 00
H. M. Rally, by Rev. C. W. Longren,
add'l for debt 2 00
Georgetown, Memorial, by Henry Hil-
liard, add'l to Roll of Honor ig 00
Great Barrington, Langdon, E. J 5 00
Greenfield, Second, by Miss L. A. Spar-
hawk, add'l to Roll of Honor 47 68
Greenwich Village, by W, E. Glazur,
Taft thank-offering , 1300
Groton, A Friend 100 00
Hanson, by I. C. Howiand, Hartshorne
service 10 00
Hardwick, Calvinistic, S. S., by Rev.
Harlan Page 5 00
Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev. Harlan Page. 5 00
Hinsdale, Stowell, Harriet B„ Mrs., Est.
of, by Milo Stowell, Ex 30384
Holland, Ladies' H. M. Soc, by L. E.
Blodgett 15 50
Hyde Park, Clarendon Hills, by John
Holden 11 15
Lakeville, Precinct, by T. P. Paull 35 00
Lawrence, Trinity, by Wilbur E. Row-
ell 43 62
Leicester, White, Cynthia E., by J. W.
Robinson 7 50
White, H. A., by J. W. R 21 00
Leominster, " E. C. A. Day Coll.," by
F. J. Lothrop . 13 30
Leverett, by C. F. Frary 20 38
Mansfield, by Rev. Jacob Ide, add'l to
Roll of Honor, L. Ms. to be named. 74 00
Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Alice Cole... 11 75
Marlboro, Patch, Mrs. Lucy A 40
Medway Village, Adams, Mrs. Peter,
by Rev. R. K. Harlow 1 00
West. Spencer, Mrs. E.J 1 00
Middleboro, North, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Miss Mabel Richmond 5 00
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Montague, Miller's Falls, by Mrs. D. L.
Cushman $4 25
Natick, South, John Eliot, Y. P. S. C.
E., by Oscar Hart 5 00
Newburyport, Prospect St., by Chas.
W. Bliss 29 05
Newton, Eliot, "A. A. S.," by Geo. N.
Putnam 100 00
For Armenian Work, by G. N. P... 25 00
North, Evan., S. S., by William E.
Lowry 15 00
Norfolk, Union, by.W. E. Mann 15 00
Northampton, A Friend 5 00
Northboro, Evan., by Miss A. A.
Adams 24 15
Northbridge, First, by Rev. J. H.
Childs 2100
Rockdale, by Rev. J. H. Childs 13 00
Whitinsville, Paine, Mrs. Anna L.,
in memory of her daughter, Lillian
Paine, for the debt 10 00
Palmer, Three Rivers, Union Evan., by
E. F. Shaw 13 32
Pittsfield, South, by F. E. Peirson 85 20
Plainfield, by Rev. John A. Woodhull. . 7 04
Plympton, Silver Lake, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by H. W. Clemons , 2 00
Prescott, by W. A. Witherell 10 00
Quincy, Evan., by James S. Baxter 68 00
S. S. Prim. Dept., by Mrs. Hattie B.
Merrill 5 00
Reading, by Dean Peabody 25 00
Reed, Dwight Fund, Income of 30 00
R. I. Home Miss. Soc, Compensation
for Armenian Service 10 00
Rochester, East 2 00
North, by A. K. Small 300
Rockport, Pigeon Cove, Swede Ch., by
H. M. Petterson 2 00
Sharon, by D. W. Pettee 22 05
Hill, A. H., add'l 3 00
Shelburne Falls, by L. M. Packard, for
C. H. M. S 5000
Shirley, Orth., by Rev. J. Torrey 11 00
Shrewsbury, by Henry Harlow 21 00
Southbridge, Globe Village, Evan. Free,
by A. L. Hyde 13 52
South Hadley, A. Friend 1 00
Springfield, Merriam, Mrs. Chas 12 00
North, by C. H. Rust, to const. Plumb
Brown, M.D., and Miss Alice A.
Wheeler L. Ms 80 00
Sutton, by C. E. Hutchinson , 15 07
Taunton, Union, by Herbert S. Lane. . . $28 61
Walpole, " G." 25 00
Orth., by S. E. Bentley 46 00
Orth., Job, Mrs. D. W., $5 ; Job, Bes-
sie, $1, for debt 6 00
Orth., Silver, W. A., for debt 1 00
Waltham, Garfield, Phebe S 1 40
Ware, East, by D. W. Ainsworth, to
const. MissC. A. Fair bank, George E.
Holmes, Ernest F. Marsh, Matie K.
Eddy, Ellen M. Gould, Thomas P.
Studd, Henry E. Fisher, and Mrs.
Lizzie M. Sturtevant L. Ms. of C. H.
Weliesley Hills, EL M.' Raliyi by Rev. 431 °4'
P. T. Farwell, for debt 50 02
Special, for Rev. E. A. Paddock, Wei-
ser, Idaho, by L. V. N. Peck 7 00
West Boylston, by E. B. Rice 5 07
West Newbury, First, by H. M. Good-
rich 24 12
West Springfield, Park St., by Samuel
Smith 40 54
Weymouth, South, Old South, add'l to
Roll of Honor, by Rev. H. C. Alvord. 15 00
Whitin, J. C, fund, Income of 25 00
Williamstown, Fernald, Prof. O. M., for
C. H. M.S i5 co
Lathrop, Mrs. L. A., for C. H. M. S. . 5 00
Winchester, First, by Eben Caldwell,
Treas., with for Evang. C. acct.. 15 00
First, D. W. Skillings, Annuity, by
W. D. Middleton 100 00
Woburn, North, Y. P. S. C. E., by B. F.
Kimball 1 82
Worcester, Old South, by Edward
Jerome 104 08
Plymouth, by F. W. Chase, L. Ms. to
be named 55 13
Woman's H. M. Asso., by Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas. :
Grant to French Prot. College $214 28
Boston, Roxbury, Walnut Ave.
Aux., toward Salary of Rev.
Samuel Deakin, Cowles,
Neb 86 00
300 28
Home Missionary.
>325 63
10 20
7-335 83
RHODE ISLAND HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Rhode Island Home Missionary Society from January 1 to March 31,
1896. Joseph William Rice, Treasurer
Central Falls, Cong. Ch
Little Compton, United
Newport, United, $54.37 ; A. McLeod,
$5° '••■
Peace Dale, R. Hazard
Providence, Beneficent $237 05
Central 940 00
Pilgrim, of wh. $200 for
the Roll of Honor 274 58
f«o 00
46 25
i°4 37
50 00
Plymouth $35 27
Union 141 45
Slatersville, Cong., S. S.
Interest
$1,628 35
26 26
60 00
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in March, 1896. Ward W, Jacobs,
Treasurer
Brooklyn, First, by M. W. Crosby,
Young Mission Workers and Y. P.
S. C. E
Brooklyn, for C. H. M. S. to const. Miss
Marion E. Pray, of Brooklyn, a
L-M §400Q
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Canaan, Falls Village, by Rev. C. W.
Hanna $3 25
Canterbury, First, one-sixth of income
from Estate of Emblem L. Williams,
by L. B. Morgan, Trustee 10 99
By Rev. Andrew J. Hetrick,for C. H.
M. S 2100
Chaplin, by Frank C. Lummis 18 13
For C. H. M. S 18 12
East Haddam, First, bv E. W. Chaffee,
forC. H. M. S 7 83
East Hartford, South, by Alfred I. En-
sign 13 44
East Haven, by Rev. D.J. Clark 1 00
Ekonk (see Voluntown).
Exeter (see Lebanon).
Falls Village (see Canaan).
Farmington, First, by R. H. Gay 100 00
Glastonbury :
South Glastonbury, Ladies' Miss. Soc,
by H. D. Hale 5 00
Ladies' Miss. Soc., for Gen. O. O.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
H. D. Hale, personal, for Gen. O. O.
Howard Roll of Honor and to
const. Mrs. Emma S. Hale, Mrs.
Margaret G. Crane, Mrs. Julia T.
Clark, and Miss Florence J. Hol-
lister L. Ms 100 00
Glenwood (see Hartford).
Greenwich, North Greenwich, by B.
Close 5 00
Haddam, First, by Rev. E. E. Lewis... 17 00
Higganum, by R. J. Gladwin 15 00
Hanover (see Sprague).
Hartford, First, by C. T. Welles, for C.
H. M. S 349 60
Daniel Phillips, for Gen. O. O. How-
ard Roll of Honor, in memory of
Mrs. Daniel Phillips 100 00
Park, by Willis E. Smith 29 54
Glenwood, by H. M. Smith 5 71
Higganum (see Haddam).
Lebanon, Exeter, by Charles C. Loomis. 36 00
Middlebury, by Robert M. Fenn 23 25
Middletown, First, A Member of the
Home Missionary Society $30 00
Morris, by Samuel A. Whittlesey 28 00
Naugatuck, by Miss Ellen Spencer 100 00
North Canaan, East, by A. B. Garfield . 511
North Greenwich (see Greenwich).
North Windham (see Windham).
Plainfield, Wauregan, by Rev. S. H.
Fellows, to const. Mrs. E. M. Collins
a L. M 70 00
Poquonock (see Windsor).
Rockville (see Vernon).
Somers, Somersville, by H. L. James,
forC. H. M. S 8 15
South Glastonbury (see Glastonbury).
Sprague, Hanover, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Jennie C. Gallup 3 00
Stonington, First, by Rev. J. O. Bar-
rows 39 82
Thompson, by J. W. Dike, for C. H.
M. S 39 25
Trumbull, by Sterling H. Booth 15 15
Vernon, Rockville, by H. L. James 100 00
Voluntown, Ekonk, by Rev. John Elder-
kin 1665
ForC. H. M. S $1 50
Rev. John Elderkin and fam-
ily, for C. H. M. S., for part
of share in Gen. O. O. How-
ard Roll of Honor, taken
by Plainfield Cong. Ch 6 00
7 5°
Wauregan (see Plainfield).
Winchester, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H.
M. S., by Harrie E. Starks 1 54
Windham, North Windham, by O. E.
Colburn 4 so
Windsor, Poquonock, by L. R. Lord ... 5 66
Wolcott, by H. L. Andrews 8 00
$1,513 19
New Haven, United, "Ladies' Aid So-
ciety," box $132 91
ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Illinois Home Missionary Society in February, 1896.
Aaron B. Mead, Treasurer
Algonquin $13 19
Amboy 119 19
Aurora, First 48 16
Bunker Hill 76 45
Bureau 8 00
Chesterfield 13 00
Chicago, Plymouth Church 77 26
Union Park Y. P. S. C. E 25 00
Englewood, Pilgrim 46 42
Grand Avenue Y. P. S. C. E 2 50
Dundee, Y. P. S. C. E 2 00
Earlville, J. A. D 25 00
Elmwood, ( Y. P. S. C. E., $2.00) 17 44
Geneseo 43 84
Hampton 4 44
Jacksonville, Y. P. S. C. E 20 00
Lawn R idge 50 00
Marseilles 6 50
May wood 27 70
Moline, First 4 00
Nora 26 41
North Aurora 50
Oak Park, First 16182
Ottawa, ($100 for Roll of Honor) 101 61
Paxton 1 78
Payson 12 70
Peoria, Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E 3 62
Riley, Mrs. M. J. Sears 1 00
Sandoval J $10 42
Seward, Second 3 20
Springfield, First, Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Shaw 10 00
Stark, Y. P. S. C. E 1 50
Thawville 2 00
Waukegan, First 25 00
Winnebago, S. School 5 00
Woodstock, Y. P. S. C. E 4 00
Wyoming n 80
Woman's Home Missionary Union :
Canton 6 65
Chicago, New England 18 77
Leavitt Street 853
Bethlehem 2 00
Evanston 10 00
Oak Park, First 4 70
Ottawa 25 00
Rockf ord, Second 31 So
Rosemond 11 00
118 15
Rev. J. D. McCord 16 66
A Friend in Illinois 10 00
Rev. S. Penfield 7 00
Cash 13 40
Prompt Relief Fund 678 00
$1,865 66
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis, So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 26 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President-, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
St., St. Paul. Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court, Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 132 N. Col-
S. E., Minneapolis. lege Ave., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield. Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary , Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treasttrer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. D. D. DeLong, Arkansas City.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
House, Boston. Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega- Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, The Morris,
tional House. Boston. Cleveland.
Treasttrer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre- Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
gational House, Boston. St., Toledo.
3. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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g. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave.,
Brooklyn.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St.,
Syracuse.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave.,
Brooklyn.
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackmail, Whitewater.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. Bowles, Fargo.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert, The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
'Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
./OMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
. Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June, 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
ig. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. AH. Robbins. Ashton.
Secretary, Mrs. W. H. Thrall, Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary,
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Edith M. Hall, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, igoo Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Miss Bella Hume, corner Gasquet and
Liberty Sts., New Orleans.
Secretary, Miss Matilda Cabrere, 152 North Gal-
vez St., New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, West Brattleboro.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley , Box 508, Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith, 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 1214 Grundy St.,
Nashville, Tenn.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary )
and > Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, \
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F.W. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple, Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. H. F. Burt, Lock Box 563, Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., preS!-dent, Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.
„, „, Helena. Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston. Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones, 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher.
Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Piatt, Guthrie.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. J. D. Hagerman, Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37- UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. H. K. Warren, 508 Third South
Street, Salt Lake City.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President, Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. Peter Simpkin, Gallup.
Treasurer, Mrs. Samuel Dilley, White Oaks.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage. Rapid City, Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
Treasurer, Mrs. D. L. Travis, Pocatello.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, is3 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, III.
ReV. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schaufkler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio,
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak,
Kev. P. F. Gale Jacksonville. Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H< Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. Rev. W. S. Hawkes , . .Salt Lake City, Utah,
Rev. L. P. Broad , Topeka, Kan. Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. E. H. AsHMOfc Albuquerque, N. M. Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
Rev. A. Judson Bailey Seattle, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapi' Forest Grove, Ore.
Rev. T. G. Grassie Ashland, Wis. -p ^ w jn„„~ Tin J 511 Woodland Terrace,
Rev A A Rmw» J Black Hills and Wyoming. Kev. ±. w. Jones, D.D } phiIadelphiat pa_
Kev. a. A. brown. . . -j Hot springs, South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama) .. Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John L.Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hillman, Secretary New Hampshire Home Miss. Society. . . .Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " " ....Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " " ....St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " " " " .... St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " .... I g Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " "....( Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " ... .Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer. . j>. " " " " ... .Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary '....Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " " " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer " " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D., Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary Illinois '* " " | 153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " . " " " ( Chicago, 111.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " " " Grinnell, Iowa.
J. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " " '.' " Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. William H. Warren, Secretary Michigan " " " Lansing, Mich.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Communications
relating to general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.
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Contents for June, 1896
PAGE
Ohio and Home Missions 49
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XIII. — Howa Western City Grows 56
How One Church Did It 59
In a Logging Camp 60
Straitened, but Plucky 60
That Circular Letter 61
Timely and Welcome Missionary
Box 62
Among the Lumber Camps 63
For the Silver Circle :
With the Missionary Wife 65
PAGE
Still on the Frontier, in Spots 68
Grateful Acknowledgment and Re-
quest 69
From Worcester Academy 70
Decease of Mrs. W. H. Thrall 72
Brightening Prospects 73
Evangelistic Work 73
Another Good Book Offered 73
The Spanish Work 74
The Seventieth Anniversary 74
The Treasury 76
The Howard Roll of Honor 77
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Vol. LXIX JUNE, 1896 No. 2
OHIO AND HOME MISSIONS
By Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D., State Secretary
HIO is a paradise of sects. There are in the State, according
to the census of 1890, eighty-four different kinds of religious
people, comprising one-third of the entire population. Of these,
seventy are more or less evangelical, while the rest rank all the way from
the debatable ground of Unitarians, Universalists, and Friends, through
Latter-Day Saints Reorganized, Christian Scientists, Shakers, and Christa-
delphians to Theosophists and Jews. Among these many religious folk
are some queer ones. Indeed, in a rather monotonous and uncomfortable
way, the dealer in figures is apt to wind up the story of any especially
pestilent and peculiar sect with the statement that their chief stronghold
is Ohio. For instance, the churches in Christian Union, organized on the
basis of opposition to the war in 1864, have 103 of their 294 organiza-
tions in this State ; Missouri coming next, but with only about half as
many. The Primitive Baptists, anti-mission, anti-Sunday-school, anti-
all-things-new, report 139 churches ; and even the Old Two-Seed-in-the-
Spirit Predestinarian Baptists have their representation ; while the Re-
organized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or Josephite or
anti-polygamous Mormons, hold the old Mormon temple at Kirtland, and
have eighteen organizations in Ohio.
This religious composite is perhaps best explained by the mixed char-
acter of the early population. Senator Sherman has written of Ohio that
in 1787 it was the only land subject to sale by the United States, and
" the result was that all the States established settlements in Ohio, and
for the first time in our history the descendants of the Puritans of New
England, the Dutch of New York, the Germans and Scotch-Irish of Penn-
sylvania, the Jersey Blues, the Catholics of Maryland, the Cavaliers of
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CLEVELAND UNION CHURCH
Virginia, and the loyal refugees of Canada united their blood and for-
tunes in establishing a purely American State on the soil of Ohio."
Into this territory came Congregationalists, at the very first, and some
years before Ohio became a State ; to Marietta in 1788, under the counsel
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of that Rev. Manasseh Cutler, himself a Congregational minister, who
had so large a part in the shaping of the Ordinance of 1787, which made
all the great Northwest free ; and to northern Ohio, the Connecticut
Western Reserve, beginning in 1796, to be followed in 1800 by Rev.
Joseph Badger, the first of that long procession of self-denying and labo-
rious missionaries sent by the Connecticut Missionary Society to the sons
of Connecticut on " New Connecticut " soil. The Ohio Company, in
1788, under the lead of Mr. Cutler, sent $200 to Marietta "to pay
SWEDISH CHURCH, CLEVELAND, OHIO
preachers and schoolmasters for the present." Dr. Dickinson says,
" This was the first home missionary grant made to Ohio." In the first
twenty years of the century the Connecticut Society sent thirty-five men
into northern Ohio, who aggregated 175 years of missionary service.
Later the National Society was equally generous, commissioning in one
year as many as 1 10 men for Ohio. This work from the very first went
largely into Presbyterian fields, so that prior to 1872, when the State
Auxiliary was organized, as much home missionary money had gone into
churches then Presbyterian as into churches then Congregational ; giving
occasion for somebody's description of Congregationalism as " a stream
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that rises in New England, flows south and west, and empties into Pres-
byterianism."
Congregationalism is provincial in Ohio. On the Western Reserve,
containing about one-sixth of the area of the State, are found two-thirds
of the 38,500 members and five-eighths of the 257 churches. While in
New England a black list contains the names of those towns, mentioned
with bated breath, which contain no Congregational church, Ohio has no
such church in thirty-eight of its eighty-eight counties ;. while nineteen
more have only one church each. Of eighty-eight county seats, fifty-
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I.AGONDA AVENUE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH AND rARSONAGE, SPRINGFIELD, OHIO
seven are unoccupied, and this although five have been occupied within
the last ten years.
Of fifty-two towns having in 1890 over 5,000 inhabitants, twenty-
seven, or one more than half, are without Congregational churches, and
among those are several with a population of over 10,000. One Ohio local
conference has churches in three States, and its extreme outposts are
about 250 miles apart by the ordinary lines of travel. There are solid
blocks of a half-dozen counties without a church ; and one may travel
for hours along trunk railway lines without passing a town containing a
Congregational church. Of course the field is occupied by other reli-
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, DAYTON, OHIO
gious bodies. There are in the State 2,340 Methodist Episcopal churches,
found in every county ; more churches — though with fewer members —
than in any other State. There are 1,000 United Brethren churches ;
600 each of "regular" Presbyterian and Baptist churches, with 500
" Disciple " churches. But still the question arises whether we, who
were first on the ground, ought not to be doing our fair share toward
evangelizing our own Commonwealth. And this, added to the mighty
mass of foreigners, the multitude of cities, the growing ore-ports on
Lake Erie, makes Ohio, even in this centennial year of Congregational-
ism, still home missionary territory, with all the home missionary prob-
lems : the country, the city, the foreigner, the frontier, the down-town
church, the institutional church, side by side.
This last category may represent with sufficient accuracy the present
forms which home missionary work takes in the State.
The New England problem of the " hill town " is reproduced in
Ohio, with variations. The Western Reserve is laid out in townships five
miles square, and into these, through the dense forests, the pioneers were
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making their way, beginning in 1796 and in the first quarter of the cen-
tury. Soon at "the center," alike for business, social, political, and
religious life, arose the " meeting-house," large and square and solemn ;
built on the sacred pattern of the dry-goods box. And these country
churches have been strong, and have had great share in the world-wide
work of the kingdom, furnishing missionaries and ministers and teachers
and money. But railroads were built, cities grew, the great West beck-
oned, farming became less profitable ; and so the census of 1890 told the
story that four-sevenths of all the townships on the Reserve had lost in
population during the decade, and the old pioneer county had decreased
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CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (TEMPORARY), CHI1.LICOTHE, OHIO
by 1,500, even while its county seat gained 1,000. The country
churches are still the quarries for the city, the West, and the ministry,
and they must have help ; and that in rather increasing numbers.
Meanwhile Ohio had gained fifteen per cent, even while this tide was
ebbing from the country ; and that means that " the city fever " is gath-
ering great masses of people, Cleveland gaining sixty-three per cent.,
and some of the smaller cities much more. So that one-fifth of the
inhabitants in 1890 were in the four largest cities, and one-half of the
entire population of the State now lives in cities and villages of over
1. 000 population. This plastic material, sometimes representing thou-
sands of people with absolutely no church, is rather more easily molded
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into the simple forms of a Congregational church than into any other. So
Cleveland, under the efficient touch first of Dr. Ladd and his church, and
later of an efficient City Missionary Society, has increased the roll of its
churches by nine in ten years, and is now third in the number of our
churches of the cities of this country. During the same time Columbus,
under Dr. Gladden, has added three ; Toledo two ; Springfield, Mansfield,
and Akron each one; and the important cities, all over 10,000, of Chillicothe,
Dayton, Hamilton, Lima, and Portsmouth have been occupied in some
cases by the Society, in others by a movement originating in themselves.
Of some of these younger churches the history is striking. The whole
religious and social atmosphere of communities has been changed, until
the men who at the first came in drunk and broke up the meetings are
now the officers of the church. Types of home missionary churches in
Ohio cities are Cleveland, Union, set for the evangelizing of a whole
community of wage-earners ; Mansfield, Mayflower, with almost half a
city for its parish, and the First Church to help it ; and Dayton, well lo-
cated to do its work as the only Congregational church in a wealthy city
of 70,000.
The foreigner is much in evidence in Ohio, third in the States in its
German population. Cleveland has two Welsh churches, one Swedish,
one Bohemian, with four preaching stations, one church composed of
colored people, one of English and Canadians, with fifteen more or less
American ; while preaching services in connection with the churches are
regularly conducted in Polish, German, and Italian. The Swedish
Church in Cleveland, with its beautiful and suitable house of worship, is
a model of faithfulness, consecration, sound piety, and earnest endeavor
to care for itself at the first possible moment. The same can be said of
the little handful at Ashtabula, composing what was for years the only
church organization, save the Lutheran, among the Finns in this country,
and striving, with the faithful pastor who has been with them from the
first, to preach the Gospel not only to the r,ooo of that nationality there,
but also to their countrymen in a half-dozen places in Eastern Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania.
Of the magnificent Bohemian work in Cleveland, with its three
houses, four Sunday-schools, and fully organized life, it is needless to
speak here, although it stands to the Ohio Home Missionary Society in
the relation of an aided church, because Dr. Schauffler has already told
its thrilling story in The Home Missionary.
Ohio and the frontier are words which seem at first unfitly coupled.
But besides the larger cities of the State, with their perennial frontier,
there are to be found in such lake ports as Fairport and Ashtabula, in the
new town springing up in the woods about the greatest steel works in the
country, and in the mining and oil towns of the State, all those conditions,
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good and bad, outbreaking sin and intense life, which make the frontier
a field of especial need and especial hope.
Home Missions and the institutional church seem likewise, at first,
mismated phrases. But they unite beautifully in a church in an Ohio
city of 35,000, without helper or competitor in the form of a church
within a mile, with thousands of people to look after, most of them
skilled laborers of intelligence, and which, with half its support coming
from the Society, has built, under the lead of a most devoted pastor, a
house neat, complete, thoroughly workable, by which it seeks to touch
and help men at every point.
Ohio comes to this centennial year of Congregationalism within its
bounds and west of the Alleghanies, with very much land yet to be pos-
sessed, and but beginning to awaken to the possibility and the promise
of its New Century.
NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XIII. — How a Western City Grows
We all like to see things grow. A frost crystal on the window, a
house plant, a garden vegetable, a tree, a child, a church, a college — we
enjoy watching them and marking their growth moment by moment, day
by day, year by year. Especially is this so if the growing thing is in any
sense ours, or if we are to be benefited by its growth. It is exceedingly
interesting to watch the progress of a rapidly growing Western city. Old
settlers are around you who remember back from five to fifty years, when
the ground on which the city is growing was nothing but a barren plain
over which roamed those twin savages whose names are so strangely
blended in the great West, the buffalo and the Indian. Strangers are
shown with pride the first poor cabin erected on the site of the city, or
the place where it stood, and also the tree on which some poor wretch or
wretches were hung in the days of the Vigilance Committee. Early set-
tlers never tire of telling how they pastured their cows and horses on the
ground where the post-office or courthouse now stands. They seem to
delight in constantly making themselves miserable by telling for what
ridiculously low sums they could have bought, or did actually sell, land
that now commands fabulous prices.
You, yourself, have built a house out on the very edge of the city, in
order to get fresh air and country quiet, or perhaps in order to start a
new church enterprise in a growing suburb. You look out of your win-
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dow some morning and see a load of brick dumped on the level prairie
beyond you. In the afternoon some men dig a cellar ; the next day the
masons come, and in a few weeks a house is completed and you have
some neighbors. Then another house is built near it, and still another,
perhaps a dozen just alike at one time, until finally, like the branch of a
frost crystal on the window pane, a new street has been formed as if by
magic. And in those houses children will be born, and will grow up to
remember them as home. In them there will be wedding feasts, and on
their doors crape will hang — bliss and sorrow, joys and tragedies succeed-
ing each other through coming centuries.
Some one starts a little corner grocery near you in which the chief
commodities are bread, candy, and tobacco. Then comes a drug store,
then a meat market, then — or perhaps first of all — a saloon, and finally a
new business street a mile long grows up in your vicinity, and through it
there rolls the endless rumble of trade.
You look out of your back windows and see a hundred men digging
and shoveling as for dear life, only two blocks away. " What does it
mean ?" you ask of your neighbor. " Why, haven't you heard ? They are
building a circle railroad to run to the suburbs and ultimately to extend
around the city." "Sure enough, I did see something about it in the
paper the other day," you answer. In a few days the track is laid and
a motor car is running, before the astonished and indignant property
owners on that street can get out an injunction. " A circle road to run
around the city " sounds plausible, but probably it only covers the scheme
of some sharp men to get a valuable franchise which sooner or later will
be sold for a large sum to some railroad seeking an entrance to the city.
" Where are all those wagons going that for several days have been pass-
ing the house, loaded with heavy timbers and railroad ties ? " You soon
learn that they are for a new railroad which some capitalists have begun
to build. It is projected to run a thousand miles to the Gulf of Mexico.
It will make a large region tributary to the city and will add immensely
to the city's wealth. Far-sighted business men have been studying geog-
raphy, and they expect to create new and change old channels of -com-
merce. A rival road is fighting the new road and will not allow it to
cross its tracks, and hence they are drawing all that heavy material by
your door. " Husband, what are those queer-looking, lumbering coaches
that pass the door every few minutes ? " " Those, my dear, are the new
line of herdics that has been put on our street. You can ride to the city
now for five cents instead of walking or begging a ride. And very handy
they are until something better comes." You go away for a week's vaca-
tion and on your return you are surprised to find a street-car line laid by
your door and a half-mile beyond. You feel that you are no longer in
the remote suburbs of the city. You soon learn, however, that street-car
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lines are helpful to two very different classes of people : dealers in out-
side real estate and pastors of inside churches. " What big tent is that
that was put up over there yesterday?" "Oh, that is another new
church enterprise. A Sunday-school will be organized there next Sunday
and a church the Sunday after, and in a few months a brick church will
take the place of the tent."
If you have already started a similar enterprise, the first one in that
part of the city, and are having a hard struggle to build a church and
gather a congregation, you are apt to feel a trifle sorry, especially if
within a year three such new enterprises come and form a circle round
you and within a few blocks. But you know that while it makes your
own pioneer work harder, the time will come when all will be strong
churches and will all be needed. And so with as good a grace as you
can you bid the new pastors Godspeed in their work.
Out on the very edge of the city, or a little beyond it, a large, sub-
stantial building grows day by day. It is not in quite so much of a
hurry as some of the other buildings, but it must be finished by the first
of September. It is an eight-roomed school building, and when it is
ready it will be promptly filled, for some of the older buildings are accom-
modating two sets of scholars daily, and a host more of youngsters are
on their way to that locality from all over the world. Into that educa-
tional mill will pour children of every nation and denomination to be
made into good American citizens. You know that the business men on
the school board have studied the matter carefully, and you feel that it is
safe to plant a church near where they plant a big school building. You
happen to visit the freight depot and you find it crowded with the house-
hold goods of people who can find no home to rent. New houses are
rented in advance, or even sold, as soon as the foundations are laid.
You go to a distant part of the city and can scarcely find your way, so
many have been the changes since you were last there. Your own house
was the first one in the block, and the open plain was beyond you. You
thought you would have breathing room for a long time to come, and a
chance to pasture your cow on the vacant lots around you. But almost
before you know it there is a house close up to yours and a bedroom win-
dow within six feet of your own. A part of Europe is at your next door.
Over on that hill across the creek huge derricks are rising into the air.
Slowly and in a dignified way there rise the walls of a million-dollar
State Capitol. On a central site foundations are laid for a United States
Government building. A few years pass and they are still there. Haste
does not become the dignity of a great nation. Many jokes are passed
about those " old ruins," and speculation is rife about what their origin
was. Old settlers notice a slight change, as the years go by, but long
before the building is finished the city clamors for a far larger and cost-
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Her one. You go to call on a church member who lives on a farm a few
miles out in the country, and find that speculators have bought the farm
at a high price and staked it off into town lots ! And so it goes.
What must the Church of Christ do in such a growing city ? Must
she build her institutions as rapidly as people build their houses, or as
slowly and substantially as a great nation erects its buildings ? She must
combine the two methods ; and how that is done may be shown later.
HOW ONE CHURCH DID IT
It had been stated many times from the pulpit that the home mission-
ary collection ought to be doubled. The pastor had prayed and preached
about it ; but his congregation of farming people always said : " We have
so little money we cannot give more." At last a happy thought came to
that pastor, and he said one Sunday : " Brethren, let us make an offering
of 'first fruits' for Home Missions. Bring to the church next Tuesday
anything you have, that you are willing to give to the home missionary
cause. All kinds of fruits, grains, and vegetables ; chickens, turkeys, pigs,
calves, sheep ; and anything else, either animal or vegetable, will be re-
ceived. The ladies have arranged to give ' a family tea ' on Tuesday
evening ; so bring all the members of your family, and after tea we will
dispose of the gifts in some way." The scheme worked like a charm.
Early Tuesday morning the gifts began to arrive. Sacks of potatoes,
onions, popcorn, beans, cabbages, squashes, pumpkins, beets, and turnips,
with coops of chickens, several pigs, a calf, turkeys, eggs, etc.
But very soon the articles presented began to be in demand. Said
Farmer Jones, " Who owns these onions ? Mine didn't do well ; I want
to buy a sack." " All right," said the man in charge ; " you can have the
onions for one dollar." The money was paid. Another wanted some cab-
bages ; another some squash ; another some beans, and so on. The coops
of chickens brought good prices, and there were not half enough turkeys
to supply the demand. The pigs sold readily, one bringing five dollars.
Before the people gathered for " tea," nearly all the things contributed had
been sold for cash ! After " tea " all the remaining articles were " auctioned
off" at a fair price. And what was the result? One of the grandest
" social times " the church had ever enjoyed, and more than o?ie hundred
dollars for the home missionary treasury— three times as much as the
best " collection " had ever reached ! Hundreds of "country" churches
can by this plan put a great amount of money into the depleted treasury
and never feel one cent the poorer. Try it. P.
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IN A LOGGING CAMP
When I came here there were but three or four log shanties, with a
log boarding-house in which I preached to about thirty men and three
or four women. Now, after six months, we hold service in a nice frame
schoolhouse.
Yesterday I had our first funeral, in a little cottage of four rooms,
two below and two above. The remains of the dead husband and
father were taken to the woods in the lumber company's delivery
wagon; two of the fatherless children rode with the driver, while the
poor widow and the other child walked behind with the pall bearers.
Only one other grave marred the unbroken ground; but nearly forty
cases of typhoid fever, in our population of 300 to 400, make it likely
that broken woods and fresh earth will soon mark the spot where
others must shortly be laid.
A large class of those who come to work in the woods — especially of
those who follow camp-life in summer and winter — do not wish to be
"tormented before their time;" they only ask "to be let alone" in
their sins. I am the only minister within fifty miles. — Wisconsin.
*
STRAITENED, BUT PLUCKY
Only those who have seen a Dakota parish can realize what we all
have just been through with — through with the worst now, we hope. In
many a parish the people could not pay their subscriptions, for they had
no money, though glad to help us with articles from their farms. The
help we get from the Home Missionary Society has been a boon whose
blessings no one can tell. What could we have done without it ?
I have in one of my congregations eighteen, formerly German Luther-
ans, drawn to me by my ability to speak with them in their own tongue.
For the past two months I have been in Germany improving my use of
the language. To speak German well is a powerful help for the Master's
work here. I went and returned in " the steerage," because I had no
money for going otherwise. Both of my fields are promising. If we can
only have good crops, these churches can soon be self-supporting.
The work of preaching the Gospel in a hard Dakota field is so agreeable
to me that I should feel like a soldier trying to sleep in a bed — out of
which he climbs and lies down on the floor — if I were to return to a self-
supporting well-paying parish of the East. This work is full of inspira-
tion.— South Dakota,
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THAT CIRCULAR LETTER
By Mrs. H. M. Union
I am much interested in the Woman's Homeland Unions of this coun-
try, and greatly enjoy attending their annual meetings. It was at one of
the inspiring meetings of the Kansas Woman's Union that I heard about
"that circular letter," from a much perplexed vice-president. She said :
" This is my second year as vice-president, and perhaps some of you
will remember listening to my tale of woe last spring, when I told some
of the experiences and disappointments of the new vice-president of a
conference. You know the new vice-president has great confidence that her
new plans are going to work. She thinks with great complacency of the
surprise of more experienced vice-presidents at her remarkable success.
The letters that she will get ! The mail will be so packed with responses
to her appeals that really she will need an amanuensis. The old story of
writing to the secretaries of auxiliaries for reports of their work, and then
watching daily for the postman to bring the letters that never come, is all
unknown to her ; but there comes a day, all too soon, when the conceit is
taken out of her. Her dreams of power have vanished.
" But there is one comforting thought left us. If we can only be hum-
ble enough to let these disappointments be known, we find that every sis-
ter in this official position has passed through the same fire. Now that I
have confessed so much, please allow me to tell you of just one of my
bright plans for the year.
" This thought came to me at the close of last year. Well, now, if
those secretaries paid so little attention to me this year, how do I know
that they will do anything for me next? — and I do want to have a good
report to present the Union at the next annual meeting. So I tried to
think of some plan, new, of course, although it might have been tried a
hundred times for all I knew, because I had never known anything about
the work or how it had been carried on. It didn't occur to me, however,
that any one else could have thought of my plan.
" Well, this very original thing that I had planned to do — somehow it
doesn't seem original at all now — was to start a ' circular letter.' I decided
that it should go, first, to the secretaries of our Topeka societies, and that
they would each write a letter of interesting items and methods connected
with their society, and let it pass on, each secretary adding her letter as
the package reached her, and sending it on to the next place on the list.
After this letter had gone the rounds, each society reading all that had
been written, it was to come back to me to be used in my report.
" It seemed to me that my plan was admirably arranged, and I was
very particular about the little explanatory note that went along with this
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'circular letter.' It started on its way before the summer vacation, and
during the summer I very often thought of that letter with such a comfort-
able assurance that I had been able to arrange it all so nicely, and that it
was helpfully going on its way, taking its words of encouragement with it.
"When fall came, and I began writing to the secretaries, I thought I
would inquire and find out just how far the letter had gone. I had given
plenty of time for its journeyings, thinking that each society might wish
to keep it to be read at the next meeting.
" I really think I needed the sympathy of all my friends when, one
after another, the replies came, incidentally mentioning the fact that the
'circular letter,' from which I had hoped so much, had never reached
them. I tried in vain to find it ; it was lost and gone, and with it went
all my conceit. A great many things might be imagined concerning that
letter, but the most reasonable supposition, to my mind, is that it is still
circulating around the inside pocket of some good man's coat. In my
grief over this loss, I must not fail to render thanks that my fears of neg-
lect from the secretaries this year have been groundless, for many of them
have stood by me most royally."
So much for the Kansas confession. To me, the plan of this officer is
suggestive, and in the hope that it may prove suggestive to others, I pass
it on.
TIMELY AND WELCOME MISSIONARY BOX
You will be interested to know about our missionary box. We find it
an interesting subject still, it was so thoughtfully chosen to suit our
needs, and contained so many delightful surprises.
Husband and I were both quite ill when the box came. We had
the influenza in a rather exaggerated form, probably on account of the
bad water. Our well gave out, and we had a sand pipe put in. Since
then we have plenty of water, but it is not good. Some persons say we
are drinking lake water. Whatever the cause, we had two weeks of
what seemed like malarial fever, and with it the influenza. Although
there was illness in nearly every family, our friends took, good care of us,
coming by turns to bring us dainties and help us. One very poor woman
brought us a quail which her husband had shot for her.
When the box came I was beginning to wonder what we should do if
husband had a long sickness, for his wardrobe was in a very ragged con-
dition. That very morning the dray came to the door with a barrel and
a box. We had received a letter from Mrs. G., of the Old South Church,
asking for information concerning our work here, and for a further list of
our wants.
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I wanted to see the unpacking, so husband carried the things where I
could watch him. " Which shall we open first ? " " I'm interested in
underclothes." "There are books in this box, or I'm mistaken." Of
course I had to yield to books. And indeed there were books in the box
— forty volumes, a third of them perfectly new, and all valuable and just
what we most needed. There were only one or two that we had already,
and those we can make good use of.
The barrel contained -more than I supposed even a missionary barrel
would hold. There was a warm blue cloth suit, a very nice winter over-
coat, and, best of all, a heavy chinchilla storm coat. That met one of our
greatest needs, and the coat was all that could be desired. There was a
generous supply of socks — cotton, fleece-lined, woolen, and silk ; shirts,
collars, and cuffs, three suits of warm underclothing, and three night-
shirts. There were thread, soap, pins, beeswax, mittens, neckties, and
towels. There were sheets and a nice red tablecloth.
I never saw my husband more pleased, and I think the books had a
good deal to do with his recovery. — M. B. W., Iowa.
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AMONG THE LUMBER CAMPS
OF NORTHERN MINNESOTA '
I am writing this from a new town just started in the northern part of
this great State. It is in the very heart of the pine region of this north-
western country. We are away up very near the British possessions ; in
fact, so near that I presume if there were a direct road a good team would
land us there in ten or twelve hours. Until a few weeks since, when the
town site was plotted as the result of the Brainerd and Northern Railroad
having reached this point, there were no white settlers in these parts.
Indians are here in plenty, but no white men except those who are living
in the various lumber camps scattered all over this vast forest. The
place will undoubtedly be for some time headquarters for the immense
business that is being done by the Minnesota Logging Company. This
company is a kind of combination of all, or nearly all, of the large lumber
firms of Minneapolis. The object of this fusion has been to move the
many millions of logs from the woods to Brainerd, where they are put into
the Mississippi River and floated to the mills. For a time this will also
be the terminus of the Brainerd and Northern Railroad, which will com-
pel a large number of railroad men to make this their place of abode.
Then it seems likely that when this county, one of the largest in the State,
is organized, the county seat will be located here. The considerations
to which I have referred, then, were sufficient to justify our wide-awake
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Superintendent of Home Missions in seeing that the place must be at once
occupied, and, if possible, preempted for Christ. Accordingly I was asked
to come up, for three months at least, and commence operations. I had
to think this over quite a little before I said yes, for past experience in
similar work assured me of the many difficulties and much exposure to be
met, and the unusual amount of grace and tact that would be required to
be in any degree successful. Despite these impressions, however, it was
laid on my heart to come. I have been here now some weeks, and all
that I anticipated and much more has been already experienced. Yet,
having come and opened fire against the enemy, I am not going to be
easily discouraged. Many of those who may read this article have possibly
but little idea of the immorality and terrible disorder always attendant on
the starting of a new town in the woods. Saloons, gambling houses, and
worse, are always the first to start business. There are always hundreds
of men in the woods at the lumber camps ; sometimes thousands are
within easy reach of where the town is started, so that the material for
such places as have been mentioned to work upon is in the woods await-
ing their arrival. When I came here I found all this machinery at work.
At that time, with the exception of the depot, only three buildings were
far enough along in construction to be used. Two of these were doing a
thriving business as saloons ; the other, a hotel, was having an annex
built where the same business was to be carried on. I at once made
known who I was, and arranged to have preaching twice in the office of
one of these buildings. When the time of service came, crowds of men
were sitting around three or four card tables in the large office, playing
what to them, I suppose, were very fascinating games. It required some
courage to stand up and say, " Boys, wouldn't you just as soon have the
programme changed for about fifty minutes, and let me conduct a short
preaching service ? " As soon as the request was made all the cards were
stacked on the tables and general respect was manifested. Of course,
here and there a smile could be seen on the countenances of some
because of the apparent incongruousness of my position. To be faithful
to God and yet not to arouse unnecessary antagonism on the part of such
men in such circumstances severely taxes the skill of an ordinary mortal.
An injudicious step or an incautious expression at the commencement of
such a mission might necessitate one's having to take the next out-going
train. The service passed off pleasantly, but as soon as I was through
the tables were again arranged and the card-playing was resumed. I had
to interpolate the programme in the same way in the evening.
Since my coming I have been very active, not only here, but in going
around to the lumber camps and preaching the everlasting Gospel to the
many who gather in them to eat and sleep. Usually in this way I can
get a congregation of from fifty to a hundred men every night in the
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week, if I could stand the hard strain on one's physical strength. I have
never before seen the opening that is here presented to our Home Mis-
sionary Society to do good. But two men should go together in this
work — one who could lead the singing and see to much of the detail of the
work, the other to preach. To go into these large camps and manipulate
the peculiar class of men you meet there, lead the singing, do the read-
ing, praying, and preaching, and perhaps have to walk from five to ten
miles to get to camp, is too much for one. Yesterday I walked ten miles
to two camps, conducted service in each, came back home and preached
in the evening. After doing this I could not have said, as I heard B. Fay
Mills, the evangelist, once say in Minneapolis, that he never felt tired
after his day's work. To say that I was tired last night would have been
putting it very moderately.
Will the readers of The Home Missionary pray that God's blessing
may be upon this work, and that this new town may be one in which God
will be recognized, and where the Gospel will become a mighty power?
FOR THE SILVER CIRCLE
By Mrs. H. M. Union
With the Missionary Wife
It is not a large town, neither is it a new town, so I cannot tell you
any thrilling tales nor hairbreadth escapes ; but I wish I might take you
over this field in the missionary wagon, drawn by two strong horses which
make up in faithfulness what they lack in beauty. But first I wish I could
paint for you the change that has come over the whole valley since work
began here two years ago. The missionary wife is our charioteer, and,
while guiding the horses, gives us a glimpse of the past. Let us listen :
" My husband began work here in a dirty, dark dance hall. I used to
look at such pictures in The Home Missionary with a complacent feeling
that I didn't have to go to church in such a place. He worked here a
year before he would allow me to join him. He came on East to get some
money for a church building, and I returned with him. My feelings are
better imagined than described, when I stepped from the train and saw
this place for the first time. There were days when I could not bear to
see or hear the East-bound train, as it rushed through the town.
" And my first Sabbath in that dance hall will always stand out in my
memory like a nightmare. When I am inclined to be discouraged, I com-
pare the condition of things as they were then with what they are now,
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and can say : ' Surely, it is the Lord's doings, and marvelous in our eyes.'
We remained in that dance hall until January, 1 894. The audience steadily
grew, and the Sunday-school nearly outgrew the whole."
She was silent, but we judged from her shining face that the pretty
new church occupied her thought just then. Would that you, dear East-
ern friend, might look into this beautiful little church, complete in every
detail, which has taken the place of the old dance hall. It is painted on
the outside a neat stone color ; the graceful steeple is occupied by a
sweet-toned bell that reaches the ears of people ten miles away. The
main room is large and convenient, seated with chairs ; the windows are
of cathedral glass, presented by the young people of the East. A prayer-
meeting room and ladies' parlor open off from the main room, separated
by glass doors. A convenient kitchen, fully furnished, opens off the par-
lor, and from it is a room occupied on Sunday by a large adult Bible-class.
The walls of the church are tinted a delicate lavender, done by the pastor ;
the woodwork is oak finish, oiled and varnished. The whole effect is
restful to the eye ; and really, if you could walk into that church some
bright Sunday morning, and look over the thoughtful, well-dressed people,
you would hardly believe that this work was begun only two years ago
with a few indifferent, rude people, in a dirty dance hall. Please remem-
ber that this work could not have been done but for the Congregational
Home Missionary Society and dear Eastern friends who believe in Home
Missions.
Let us look over the church membership. One of the adults is a re-
formed drunkard, whom the preacher found in the gutter. Another was
a saloon-keeper's wife. She had been a gay, frivolous woman, but came
to Christ wholly. She soon began to see the sin of her husband's business,
and with womanly tact set to work to get her husband on to their ranch.
It took her a year to accomplish it, and she said : " My husband is very
slow in deciding a matter, but when he decides, the matter is settled."
She succeeded as she deserved to ; worked with him in the field, lived un-
complainingly in two little rooms through all the hot weather, but is re-
warded by a good crop, and by hearing her husband say : " I've sold my
last glass of liquor." She has developed into an earnest Christian, and a
refined, intelligent woman. If nothing else has been accomplished here,
is not the transformation of that woman and that home worthy of the
effort that has been put forth ? In the evening we gleaned one more bit
of experience from the preacher's wife :
" In order to really understand the work, you should go touring with
me. Imagine a hot day in August, the thermometer marking 108 degrees.
Your courage wavers a little. Well, never mind ; put on your coolest dress,
a broad-brimmed hat, climb into the missionary wagon, and away we go.
Now we are speeding along over the hot sage-brush plains. The dust is
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terrible, isn't it ? It fills your eyes and ears and nose and hair, and spoils
your freshly ironed dress. Do I get used to it ? No, I do not ; and I
don't believe I ever shall,
" We have come ten miles to a little shanty in the midst of the sage-
brush, the dreariest shrub that grows — not a tree to give shade. We are
warm, soiled, and tired. Knocking, the door is opened by a little woman
whom we recognize at once as a lady. Entering the tiny parlor, our eyes
light on a beautiful piano tha.t fills one corner, a well-filled bookcase in
the other. Glancing into the kitchen, which is immaculate in its neatness,
our eyes rest on the fresh, green house-plants that are full of blossoms.
We sink into our chair, feeling sure that we shall thoroughly enjoy this
call. Imagine our delight to find that this lady is from Chicago, and that
we have mutual acquaintances. How our tongues fly ! As a result of
this call, the lady joins our Missionary Society, comes to church with her
husband, and has promised to learn to drive alone and hitch the horses, if
he will not bring her.
" We tear ourselves away, and go to the next place, where there are
many children and a number of adults, all living in three rooms. As we
enter the apology for a gate, we wonder if we can reach the door in safety :
cats and dogs, pigs and chickens, and dirty, half-clad children hurry and
scurry hither and thither. A discouraged-looking, unkempt woman appears
wonderingly at the door, and with a martyr-like air bids us 'come on in.'
We enter a wretched room ; bare, little furniture, no curtains, and not a
picture on the soiled board wall. We occupy the one chair, and inwardly
wonder if it will hold us, while the lady of the house stands and stares.
One by one the children gather about her with curious eyes ; the chickens
get familiar and come into the living-room, while flies threaten to devour
us. There we sit, so warm, so tired, so dusty, wondering what we can
say to wake up this poor woman before us. We are at our wits' end to
know how we may win her poor, benighted soul. After exhausting every
topic we can think of, an inspiration causes us to buy some fruit. This
touches the heart of the man of the house, and he brings in an enormous
watermelon, and I tell you it tastes good. Now that the ice is broken, the
poor woman owns that " back East " she was a church member, and she
and her husband know that it isn't right to work on the Sabbath ; he
promises to 'hitch up' and take the family to church. When I get home,
I look over my supplies from the last missionary box, and perhaps find a
good garment that the mother can use. This warms her heart, and finally,
inch by inch, she lets me into her confidence, and I am able to exert some
influence over her for good.
" Oh, the people here seem so ignorant, so asleep, and so perfectly con-
tent with their condition. I come home utterly worn out — these country
roads are not boulevards — discouraged, and, yes, I'll own it, a good deal
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disgusted that any one in these United States, in this glorious century,
can be content to merely exist.
" 'Well,' my good husband says, 'we are here for the very purpose of
waking these people up.'
" But I say, ' I doubt if anyone, short of Gabriel, can put life into these
dead bones.' Yet we have only to look back and exclaim again : ' What
hath God wrought ! ' and to say from our hearts, Home Missions do
pay."
STILL ON THE FRONTIER, IN SPOTS
There are large portions of this great State of Nebraska which in
many respects may still be regarded as on the frontier. Anyone visiting
only the eastern line would be likely to form far too exalted views of the
whole State. The eastern portion, feeling the first touch of the advanc-
ing tide of immigration, has very naturally developed more rapidly along
all lines. Within the eastern belt the principal cities are found, and, as
may be expected, the social, educational, and religious conditions have
developed with the growth of population.
The State University at Lincoln affords great advantages in the way
of education to even the poorest, and is bidding fair to become in the
near future one of the best educational centers of the West. Still the
claim so frequently and loudly made by interested boomers of the State,
that " Nebraska has the smallest percentage of illiteracy," must at present
find its foundation in imagination rather than fact. In the general settle-
ment of these vast rolling prairies various nationalities have had a large
share. All through the State colonies of Germans, Dutch, Swedes, Swiss,
and other foreigners are to be found.
One of our boys, Willie, aged eighteen, is now teaching a district school
a few miles away where the people are nearly all Dutch. At first he
could make very little headway with the children, because they would per-
sist in using their Dutch language during recess. Gradually, however,
he has trained them into keeping their vernacular for home use. In such
cases ignorance along many lines may be expected. It is not among for-
eigners exclusively, however, that the Home Missionary has to contend
with ignorance and vice. I have met with glaring examples of gross
ignorance among the purely American element. Let me give you a few
cases.
Three years ago some of the people in this little village thought it
would be a good thing to have a Fourth-of-July celebration. Accord-
ingly, a committee of the principal business men, old settlers, were
appointed to prepare a programme. It was readily decided that it would
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be in order to have the time-honored Declaration of Independence read.
Then the question arose as to what book it was to be found in. One man
in all seriousness bet another ten dollars that it was either in the Old or
the New Testament. He was sure it was in the Bible.
A few weeks since, in a district schoolhouse north of us, a discussion
arose between the director and the treasurer as to who planted the first
church in America. One of the men was Protestant, the other Catholic.
The latter was sure that the Catholics were here first ; the former declared
the Protestants planted the first church in this country, and, further, he
believed that Martin Luther came over to do it ! The discussion waxed
so warm that finally they came to blows, in which Luther's champion
came off victorious.
Quite recently I was talking to one of the neighboring farmers, when
he informed me that his wife was English. Said he : " She came over
from New England in one of them big steamboats." You may imagine
how difficult it was for me to look serious, especially when he added,
knowing that I was English, " I suppose you were born in New England."
I informed him as politely as I could that I was born in Old England,
but the poor man evidently thought the places were identical. I readily
concluded there was still work for Home Missionaries and teachers to do.
I am finding more and more that it is not well to take too much for
granted in my work. Last Sabbath evening, at the close of our Christian
Endeavor meeting, the subject having been " Heroes of Missions," I said :
" We will sing that grand old missionary hymn, ' From Greenland's Icy
Mountains,' " and was surprised to find that only a few joined in the
song. Subsequently I learned that the hymn was quite new to most of
the young people. This has given me an idea. I am now going to have
song services, which will afford me an opportunity of presenting the his-
tory of some of our most prominent hymns and hymn writers. I have
always found that it makes a hymn so much more real and helpful to
know something of its history. — Rev. S. Deakin, Cowles, Neb.
GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND. REQUEST
I cannot express how deeply my heart was touched this morning by
the word from our dear Congregational Home Missionary Society that
" a helper in Connecticut " had made me a member of the Howard Roll
of Honor. It is so kindly thoughtful of someone, whom I would dearly
like to be permitted to thank, myself. May I not know who the " helper "
is ? An Easter offering indeed, from an unselfish heart, making glad
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many whose desire is to see the debt removed, and giving joy unspeak-
able to a lone heart shut away from the great world and its blessed
Christian activities — a heart longing to lend a hand in the canceling of
the debt, and whose one desire is to do more in bringing His kingdom
to the hearts of men everywhere. This beautiful unselfish remembrance
gives me new hope, and makes me know that, notwithstanding my
isolation, I am still remembered. May God abundantly bless the donor
and "give them richly all things to enjoy," is my prayer, and that the
debt may soon be wholly removed I most earnestly pray.
When I showed the certificate of membership to my sons, they also
were very happy that I had been thus remembered, and our united thanks
go out to the donor, and to God for all his loving-kindness unto us.
It is rather a late date to tell you that we have dedicated here a very
neat church, with reading-room attached. My excuse for the delay is,
that I waited, hoping to have a picture of the building to send you. I
feel that it is due to the friends of Home Missions to send this word to
your magazine, because of the many generous gifts which came to me for
this church. A public vote of thanks was tendered to all the friends, East
and West, whose kindly gifts enabled us to have this comfortable church
home and parsonage — the latter built some years ago. The good work
prospers among us. The little church of eleven members has grown to a
membership of forty-one, and has the sympathy and support of many who
are yet outside. It is still the only church in a region of several miles
circuit. While there are not quite so many cowboys as a few years ago,
because the industries are more agricultural, there is need and use for our
library and reading-room.
We use for our hymn-books Dr. C. S. Robinson's " Spiritual Songs
for Social Worship," with " Psalter arranged for Responsive Readings in
Public Worship," and are greatly in need of about two or three dozen
more copies. If any church having them, wishes to dispose of some to
a home missionary church, this is an opportunity.
Yours in the service ''for Christ and Humanity,"
Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater, Colorado.
FROM WORCESTER ACADEMY
A few weeks ago a box of framed certificates were sent us from the
rooms in New York. On these certificates we found the names of friends
in the East, who had so kindly contributed toward the building of Aldrich
Cottage. I thought that possibly it might be of some interest to you to
hear a word or two from Worcester Academy and what we are doing out
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here. Just let me say that the certificate bearing the name of your soci-
ety hangs in the bedroom occupied by the two little daughters of the
principal, Mr. L. A. Ellis. I wish very much that I might tell you of our
work here instead of writing about it, for then, I am sure, I could awaken
your interest. The Academy is in better condition to-day than for many
years. The standard is being raised every year a little, and the students
are beginning to realize that there is something for them to do, and that
they must make some effort to do something themselves. We have no
"full bloods" (Indians) in school, and if you were to come into chapel
some morning, when all are in the room. for opening exercises, you would
probably say, " Where are your Indians ? " You would not be able to
pick out half a dozen whom you would suspect of being any other than
pure white, but the drop of Indian blood is there, and they are very proud
of it. The school has been full this past year, one hundred and sixty
being the attendance. I am going to send you a little booklet we had ar-
ranged in the fall, which will give you some idea of the school, and also
cuts of the two buildings. The frame structure is what we call the
Academy building, and in that are all the recitation-rooms, music-rooms,
and boys' sleeping-rooms on the third and fourth floors. The teachers
and girls live in Aldrich Cottage, which is one of the best buildings in the
Cherokee Nation. It is comfortable and convenient, and will accommo-
date forty girls. The girls' bedrooms are furnished with iron beds, good
springs and mattresses, plain washstand and study table. If at any time
your society feels as if it would like to do something for the girls'
rooms, it will be very acceptable in the way of some kind of bureau — any-
thing that has drawers. It is hard for a girl to live in her trunk all the
year. The Indian girls are no harder to get along with than any other
girls, and I have been delighted with my experience with them. Of course,
they don't like to work ; but then I am not at all sure I was very fond of
it myself when I was their age. They can be led to do almost anything
you wish to have them do, when you start in the right way ; but if you don't
start right, then woe be unto you !
The Academy stands well in Vinita and we have the children from the
best families in town ; I do not mean by that the people who have the
most money, but I mean the best Christian families. We have every
reason to feel proud of the work accomplished this year, and we only hope
and pray that we have been building for the future, strong, noble charac-
ters, men and women fit for the Master's use. It is the earnest prayer of
those who labor here that the men and women who have given of their
means toward Worcester Academy may be blessed in the giving.
I wish we could interest some church or society to give us some things
we need very much just now. Our table linen is in poor shape, and we
do need a little more furniture in the girls' bedrooms to make them really
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comfortable. The work in the school was never more promising, and
the same can be said for the church. The last penny of debt on the church
has been paid, and we are rejoicing over that. — G. W. H., Viniia, I. T.
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DECEASE OF MRS. W. H. THRALL
Just now the Lord has called home our much loved and most
efficient secretary, Mrs. W. H. Thrall. She had worked heroically with
slender strength but great energy. She had been twice secretary of our
South Dakota Union. She was elected its secretary at its organization,
and reelected on her return after some years' absence from the State.
She had served most faithfully and efficiently. She took a personal
interest in every society, however small or weak. She had a sympathy
and affection for every officer she corresponded with, bore them all on
her heart, and yearned to be of service to each one. She often asked
her fellow officers to suggest ways in which she could be helpful to the
auxiliaries. A rare life has gone out from among us. A blessed spring
of influence stopped, except as her works follow her.
" This learned I from a shadow of a tree,
That to and fro did sway upon a wall :
Our shadow selves — our influence — may fall
Where we can never be."
A year ago she wrote that since the latter part of February she had
had enough clothing pass through her hands to help, and in some degree
to clothe, over one hundred families. Much of the clothing was second
hand, sent by Eastern friends for distribution. Money was used where
needed to purchase such articles as shoes, underwear, etc., which were
not supplied by these friends. In some cases money was used to buy
provisions. Fifty families were helped in this way.
Whittier's words will fitly describe her :
" And many a poor one's blessing went
With her beneath that low green tent
Whose curtain never outward swings."
She will leave a large place vacant in the church, Sunday-school, and
missionary society in the city where she lived, and one impossible to fill
in our Union. In the Lord's wise plans she has been fitted for a larger
sphere and is now gone to occupy it. " The workers fall, but the work
goes on." We do not see how we are to do without her, but the Lord
may make our weakness strength. May his grace be made perfect in
our weakness. It is but a sad report I can give you, but we hope that it
may be a brighter one in the Lord's time.— Mrs. A. H. Robbins, President.
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BRIGHTENING PROSPECTS
God's blessing has been with us and on his Word, preparing many for
his kingdom. There are many Christians here of various denominations
upon the point of giving us their influence by uniting with us. The
church has had less of a Congregational than of another stamp, owing
to the previous circumstances of the people. Of course we do busi-
ness according to Congregational principles, but the real Congregation-
alists are outnumbered by others, making the work difficult ; but it
nevertheless moves on, and our congregations are increasing in number.
Many are awakened, and we look for a gracious gathering in of the
harvest. How much we need the outpouring of God's Spirit ! For this
may we not have the prayers of our Eastern brethren ? — Idaho.
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EVANGELISTIC WORK
As intimated in my previous note, I visited Iroquois with Mr. Brother-
ton. We rode twelve miles with Brother McGregor's missionary pony and
box sleigh, visited the people in their homes until dark, and held an even-
ing meeting in the log church. It was crowded, and my heart was greatly
touched in seeing so many boys and girls present who were very atten-
tive through the service. The Lord was with us and his power was mani-
fest, for several decided to become Christians. It would have done your
heart good to see the eagerness of the people for spiritual help. Mr.
Brotherton is preaching every Sunday at this place and is doing a good
work. If I can arrange I will help him a few days in special meetings.
I took a photograph of the church and hope it will be good, so that in
the near future I can send you one. Within the last month I have visited
St. Ignace, Allenville, Bay Mills, Pine Grove, and Payment, and have
helped in meetings. The outlook at the " Soo " is promising, and I
believe we have the turn for the better, and that we shall see before long
blessed results. The Lord is with us and he is blessing now. " There
shall be showers of blessing." I have spoken thus of our work for the
reason that you are all interested in us, and we want you to share our
joys. — Rev. F. Bagnall, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
ANOTHER GOOD BOOK OFFERED
Rev. Edward Payson Hammond, "the Children's Evangelist," has
kindly placed at our disposal a number of copies of his small but useful
book of 174 pages on " The Conversion of Children."
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The questions answered concerning children are these: Can their con-
version be effected ? How young ? Will they remain steadfast ? What
means to be used ? When to be received, and how trained in the church ?
The positions taken are fortified by wide and long opportunities for
experience and observation, and are sustained by the testimony of Presi-
dent Rankin of Harvard University — who writes a commendatory intro-
duction to the book — and of other distinguished educators and pastors in
this country and Europe. Ministers, parents, and Sunday-school teachers
will find the work particularly helpful in their dealings with the young.
So long as the supply lasts, copies will be sent without charge to our
brethren in the field, in response to applications addressed to the officers
of the Society, Bible House, New York.
A few copies still remain of Mr. George L. Weed's " Great Truths
Simply Told," which may be gratuitously obtained in like manner.
THE SPANISH WORK
It is a pleasure to announce that the school and home carried on for
a number of years by Miss Caroline E. Strong (now Mrs. Selden) among
the Spanish-speaking people of New York City and Brooklyn has, by
recent action of the Executive Committee, come into auxiliary relation-
ship with this Society. A committee of ten, approved by this Society, is
henceforth to supervise this interesting work, presenting annual estimates
of receipts and expenditures to the Executive Committee, and receiving
the full indorsement of the Society as it goes before the public to solicit
funds. It is hoped that this step will impart a stability and assurance to
the enterprise to which it is justly entitled after so long an experience of
usefulness and success. Mrs. Selden, assisted by her sister, Miss S. S.
Strong, will continue to conduct the work, and these faithful laborers are
earnestly commended to the favor of the churches, and of individual
friends of Home Missions, wherever they may come.
SEVENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CONGRE-
GATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
The seventieth anniversary of the Congregational Home Missionary
Society will be held in the Center Church, New Haven, Conn., Rev.
Newman Smyth, D.D., pastor, opening on Tuesday evening, June 2.
Major-General O. O. Howard will preside ; Rev. Daniel Merriman, D.D.,
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of Worcester, will preach the annual sermon Tuesday evening ; salutations
will be offered by the pastor of the church and by President Dwight of
Yale University, to which General Howard will respond.
Wednesday and Thursday will be devoted to papers by the secreta-
ries, anniversary of the Woman's Department, reports from the Maine,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, and Michigan Auxiliaries,
anniversaries of the Church Building Society, Sunday-School and Publish-
ing Society, Education Society, and to addresses from distinguished
speakers from different parts of the country, including Doctors Fitch of
Buffalo, Beach of Minneapolis, Stevens of New Haven, Lyman of Brook-
lyn, Barton of Boston, Patton of Minnesota, Nutting of Rhode Island,
Cordley of the Kansas Band, Rev. Ephraim Adams of the Iowa Band,
President Penrose of the Washington Band, Doctors Daniels and Beard
of the American Board and the American Missionary Association, Dr.
Whittlesey of the Ministerial Relief Association ; Rev. R. A. Rowley of
Oregon, Rev. William Shaw of Georgia ; by the superintendents of the
Scandinavian Department, California, Indiana, Washington, Black Hills,
Colorado, and Utah ; also from Mrs. H. S. Caswell, Mrs. H. S. Heinzel-
man of Indiana, Miss Caroline A. Potter of California, Rev. Dora Read
Barber of Oregon, Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster of New York, and Field
Secretaries Shelton and Puddefoot.
The New England Passenger Association, the Trunk Line Association,
and the Western Association, will pass over their roads for one-third fare
in returning, all certified attendants on the meeting who paid full fare in
going. N. B.— Certificates are required in all cases to secure this reduc-
tion. They are not kept at all stations. If the ticket agent at a local
station is not supplied with certificates, he can inform the delegate of the
nearest important station where they can be obtained. In such case the
delegate should purchase a local ticket to such station, and there take up
his certificate and through ticket to the place of meeting. The certifi-
cates, duly filled in on both sides, are good within three days, Sunday
excepted, after the adjournment of the meeting. Delegates and others
availing of the reduction in fare should present themselves at the office for
certificates and tickets at least thirty minutes before departure of trains.
HOTELS AND BOARDING HOUSES
At $4.00 per day, New Haven House ; $3.00 per day, Majestic Hotel ;
$2.00 per day, Elliott House, the Westmoreland, the Tremont, Gardes'
Hotel. Winthrop House, $1.00 per day.
Sea View Hotel, Savin Rock, twenty minutes' ride by electric car,
$1.50 per day, one in a room ; $1.00 per day, two in a room. Will
accommodate 200.
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Boarding Houses at $2.00 per day : Mrs. Smith, 316 Crown St. ; $1.50
per day : Grove Hall, 83 Grove St. ; Mrs. George Thompson, 94 York
Square ; Mrs. Herrick, 92 York Square ; Mrs. C. K. Nichols, 90 Whalley
Ave. ; Mrs. Lombard, 74 Lake Place ; Mrs. Forbes, 339 Orange St. ;
Mrs. Cameron, 253 Crown St. ; Mrs. Briggs, 636 State St. ; Mrs. Lyon,
552 Chapel St. ; Mrs. Fowler, in Edgewood Ave."; Mrs. E. S. Burt, 61
Prospect St. ; Mrs. Beckwith, 108 Howe St. ; Mrs. Hayden, 514 Chapel
St. ; Mrs. Cowles, 16 Olive St. ; Mrs. Haight, 99 Howe St. ; Mrs. H. W.
Thomson, 145 Edward St. (two in a room) ; Mrs. Burwell, 123 Park St. ;
Mrs. Blot, 136 College St.
At $1.00 per day : Mrs. M. H. Buckingham, 557 Howard Ave. (two
in a room) ; Mrs. H. A. Street, 397 Temple St., for one (meals near) ;
Mrs. J. A. Gillette, 163 York St. ; without board, Mrs. Thompson, 438
Elm St. (for two). Mrs. F. A. Jones, 1 Howe St., 50 cents a day for one
(meals next door), 75 cents for two.
Divinity Hall, for men only, without board, will accommodate one
hundred ; 75 cents a person.
Persons desiring further information about boarding-house accommo-
dations may address Rev. Newman Smyth, D.D., Chairman of Commit-
tee, and their inquiries will receive attention.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DEBT LEGACIES TOTAL
April $11,428.79 $5,093.08 $2,687.84 $19,209.71
Of these receipts $4,700 were from subscribers to the General Howard
Roll of Honor, and $393.08 were " specials for the debt." At its May meet-
ing the Executive Committee voted that this amount ($5,093.08) be paid
upon the debt of April, 1895, reducing the amount still due thereon to
$46,607.33.
The Treasurer's report at the forthcoming annual meeting in New
Haven will show the expenses of the seventieth year fully met by its
receipts, and two-thirds of the debt reported at the close of the sixty-
ninth year canceled by contributions to the General Howard Roll of
Honor and specials for that object. It is confidently believed that the
friends of Home Missions at that meeting will devise ways and means for
the speedy blotting out of the comparatively small remainder. Then,
with the early revival of business sure to come, this grand work of our
country's evangelization will move on, under God, with a spirit and to a
success beyond even the most glorious of its achievements hitherto.
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THE GENERAL O. O. HOWARD ROLL OF HONOR
Previously acknowledged 819
Subscriptions added below , ,. 33
Total number of shares 852
Mrs. Martha C. Kincaid, by Rev. William King aid, D.D.,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Congregational Church, by W. H. M. U. and S. S. Miss. Cir-
cle, Churchville, N. Y.
Congregational Church, Thompson, Conn.
First Congregational Sunday-school, Thomaston, Conn.
G. E. P. Dodge, Chicago, 111.
Ladies of the Union Soc, South Church, Middletown, Conn.
Mrs. H. R. Coffin, Windsor Locks, Conn.
Bethany Sunday-school of Broadway Tabernacle Church,
New York City.
Mr. Truman Adams, Bangor, N. Y.
Henry Mills, Binghamton, N. Y.
Mrs. Sarah E. Whitin, Whitinsville, Mass.
Congregational Church, South Norwalk, Conn.
Messrs. H. Lovell and A. B. V/hiffee, Worcester, Mass.
Mrs. S. R. Mann, Oberlin, Ohio.
Sunday-school of Central Church, Lynn, Mass.
Mrs. C. M. Southworth, Boston, Mass.
Caroline Winthrop Southworth, Boston, Mass.
Ladies' Auxiliary of First Church, Windsor, Conn.
Mrs. John Catlin, Northfield, Conn.
Mrs. Thomas B. McLeod, by L. B. S. of Clinton Ave. Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. William Kincaid, by L. B. S. of Clinton Ave. Church,
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Ladies' W. M. Society, First Church, Manchester, Mass.
W. H. M. Auxiliary and Friends, Arlington, Mass.
A Friend, Maine.
Woman's Home Missionary Union of Vermont.
Plymouth Congregational Church, St. Paul, Minn.
Ladies' H. M. S. of First Church, Middletown, Conn
W. C. A. of Plymouth Church, Syracuse, N. Y.
Woman's Home Missionary Society, Warsaw, N. Y.
Helpers' Society, First Church, Binghamton, N. Y.
Robert D. Benedict, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Mrs. Elizabeth N. McPherson, Pasadena, Cal.
Auxiliary in Broadway Church, Norwich, Conn.
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APPOINTMENTS IN APRIL, 1896
Not in co?nmissio7i last year
Corbin, Oliver L., Douglas, Wyo.
Dibble, William L., Winona, Minn.
Dole, Charles J., Cleburne, Texas.
Essig, Gottlieb, Friend and Turkey Creek, Neb.
Foster, John, Wisner, Neb.
Griffith, Thomas H., Brooklyn Hills, N. Y.
Kershaw, C. H., Park and West Cedar Valley,
Neb.
Leeds, Paul, Clear Creek, Whiskey, Chitto, and
Darbonne, La.
Lindquist, N. J., Tacoma, Wash.
McCroskey, John A., St. John and Endlcott,
Wash.
Manville, Addison G , Ironton, Ohio.
Moya, Miguel M., Cubero, San Jose, and Rin-
conada, New Mex.
Preiss, J. M., Sioux Falls, So. Dak.
Rogers, William, Green Valley, Cal.
Sacken, Frederick O., Rockville Center, N. Y.
Shaw, G. W., Ortonville, Minn.
Smith, J. Arthur, Avoca and Berlin, Neb.
Taggart, George A., Freewater and Ingles
Chapel, Ore.
Van Luven, Sanford A., Granada, Minn.
Van Wagener, Allen J.. Carthage, Mo.
Wainwright, George W., Ainsworth, Neb.
Woolworth, William S., Morrisania, N. Y. City.
Re-com m issioned
Anderson, Emil A., Winona, Minn.
Ball, Albert H., Anderson, Ind.
Becker, James A., Keystone, So. Dak.
Beebe, J. R., Sanborn and Eckelson. No. Dak.
Bente, Christopher H., St. Louis, Mo.
Bigelow, Frank E., East Chicago, Ind.
Bolin, Nels J., Cleveland. Ohio.
Brown, James M., Wheatland, Ore.
Cotton, Harry A., Graceville, Minn.
Crane, Edward P., Pelican Rapids and West
Dora, Minn.
Crawford, O. C, Iron River, Wis.
Dickson, J. W., Croton and Lock, Ohio.
Dobbs, J. Hervey, Sherman, Texas.
Drew, James B., St. Paul, Minn.
Edwards, John, Pittsburg, Penn.
Eldred, John W., Meadville and Chillicothe, Mo.
Farnsworth, Arthur, Dodge and Howells, Neb.
Fellows, W. W., Hamilton, Mo.
Fisher, Herman P., Crookston, Minn.
Funk, George N., El Paso, Texas.
Gray, David B., General Missionary in Portland
and vicinity. Ore.
Gridley, Albert L., Kidder, Mo.
Griffiths, Thomas, Petersburg, Neb.
Hampton, W. S., Ogalalla, Neb.
Hancock, Joseph J., Kennewick, Paseo, and
Wallula, Wash.
Harding, William F., Terre Haute, Ind.
Heinzelman, Henry W., Michigan City, Ind.
Henderson, John H., Anthonv, Kan.
Hollars, John A., White Oaks. New Mex.
Isakson, Andrew J., Titusville, Penn.
Jenney, E. Winthrop, Oacoma and White River,
So. Dak.
Johnson, Andrew G., St. Louis. Mo.
Johnson, Lorentz C, Minneapolis, Minn.
Jones, Robert G., Stewartville, Minn.
Jones, Samuel, Carroll, Neb.
Lemmon, Charles H., Cleveland, Ohio.
Lyman, Henry M., Maple Creek, Neb.
Lyman, William A., Pierre, So. Dak.
McCallin, T. S., East Lake, Tenn.
Mannhardt, E. G. L., Wilton Junction, Iowa.
Moore, George W., Frostburg, Md.
Nelson, Andrew P., East Orange, N. J.
Nutting, John D., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Ohlson, Olof, Glenwood, Wis.
Okerstein, John F., General Missionary work
among the Scandinavians in Minn, and E.
Wis.
Parsons, Henry W., Walker, Minn.
Paske, William J., General Missionary in Neb.
Perry, George H., Lynne and Slatersville, Utah.
Petterson, Andrew G., Upsala, Minn.
Pollard, Samuel W., West Indianapolis, Ind.
Powell, Richard, Elwood, Ind.
Prucha, Miss Theresa, St. Louis, Mo.
Roberts, Thomas S., Osawatomie and Indian-
apolis, Kan.
Robertson, Albert A., Willow Springs, Mo.
Scott, George, Lead, So. Dak.
Sherman, Miss Ella A., Cheyenne, Wyo.
Simpkin, Peter A., Gallup, New Mex.
Smith, Richard, Porter, Ind.
Smith, Samuel A., Cambridgeboro, Penn.
Soderstrom, J. M., Grantsburg, Wis.
Storm, Julius E., Springfield, Neb.
Wadsworth, George, Big Horn, Wyo.
Wattenbarger, O. T., Haven, Kan.
Wells, Charles W., Rainier, Ore.
Winter, Alpheus, Tryon, N. C.
Winter, Paul, Burdette, So. Dak.
Zercher, Henry J., Corvallis, Ore.
RECEIPTS IN APRIL, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 85 to 93
MAINE— $1,142.19 ; of which legacy,
$1,000.00.
Augusta, Mrs. C. C. S
Cumberland Center, by Rev. F. W.
Davis
Kennebunkport, South Ch., by Mrs.
D. G. Stone
Maine, A Friend, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor
Norridgewock.S. S., by M. S. Hopkins.
Orono, Estate of Edward Mansfield .
NEW HAMPSHIRE-Sigi.54^
Andover, " Extra Missionary," for the
debt $500
Canterbury, by G. E. Wiggin 5 00
Gilmanton, Mrs. M. E. H. '5 00
Littleton, First, by D. C. Remick.... 31 54
Manchester, First, by J. A. Goodrich,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Nashua, a S. S. Class, by Mrs. A. K.
Woodbury, special 10 00
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Peterboro, Union Ch.,by C. S. Pierce.
Portsmouth, M. J. Lowd
Tamworth, S. S., Easter Offering, by
Mrs. L. D. Blake
Webster, Mrs. L. F. Baxton, $2 ; A
Friend, $1
VERMONT— $1,243.00; of which lega-
cies, $667.58.
Vermont Domestic Miss. Soc, W. C.
Tyler, Treas. :
Brattleboro, West $5 00
Cornwall 26 38
)<23 00
S °°
3i 38
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. R. P.
Fairbanks, Treas. :
Cabot, for the debt $7208
Cambridge, for Salary Fund 5 co
Craftsbury, North, Y. P. S.
C. E., for Salary Fund. . . 1 40
Hardwick, East, Y. P. S. C.
E., for Salary Fund 9 00
W. L. Delano 5 00
Milton 5 00
Norwich, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 1 36
Salisbury, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 5 00
Shoreham, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 3 40
A Friend, for Salary Fund 1 00
Wells River, Ch., $22.33 ; w-
H.M.S.,$42;Y.P. S.C.E.,
$25.67 ; Junior C. E., $10.. 100 00
Windsor, Mrs. A. Butler,
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
For Salary Fund 10 00
318
Essex, Legacy of Amasa Osgood, by
A. A. Slater, Ex 267
Montpelier, Rev. Norman Seaver,
D.D.,by Bethany Ch., Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, and to const. Mrs.
L. J. Bradshaw and Mrs. J. Poland
L. Ms., by J. Poland 100
Morrisville, Mrs. J. T. Jewett
Pittsford, Legacy of Mrs. O. C.
Nourse, by R. C. Smith, Ex 400 •
Putney, S. S., by Miss N. N. Clarke. . 7
South Royalton, by E. Foster 12
Thetford, Miss J. Colburn, toward the
debt 1
Underhill, by E. S. Whitcomb, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100
West Brattleboro, Mrs. W. H. Bige-
low 5
MASSACHUSETTS — $7,556.33 ; o f
which legacy, $500.00.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E.
B. Palmer, Treas. :
By request of donors, of which for
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor,
$1,700 ; debt, $139.30 ; Salary Fund,
$14 6,474 91
Woman's H. M. Asso., Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas.:
Auburndale, Jr. C. E. Rally.. $500
Newburyport, Prospect
Street Aux. Rally 4 00
Andover, Susan B. Richards, to const.
herself a L. M 50 00
Attleboro, S. S. of the Second, by W.
Marble 1970
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary Fund . 50 00
Miss E. S. Fiske ' io 00
Brookfield Conference, by Rev. H. G.
Hale $10 00
Cambridge, Mrs. W. H. Hidden 1 00
Chelsea, Estate of Elvira L. Harding,
by E. D. Sibley, Adm 500 00
Chester, Mrs. E. C. Kingsbury 1 00
Chicopee Falls, Mrs. C. S. Ferry 40
Dedham, " Extra Cent a Day Band "
of the First Ch 32 25
Enfield, by L. D. Potter 40 00
Fitchburg, Mrs. C. P. Dickinson 1 00
Haverhill, J. Underhill 40
Ipswich, " Family Dime Box " 5 00
Lee, I. N. H 500
Monson, E. F. Morris 26 37
Natick, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First
Ch., by C. F. Robinson 5 00
Northampton, Dorcas Soc. of the
First, by Mrs. J. E. Clarke, for
Salary Fund 62 50
Norton, Trin. Cong. Ch., $14.74 ; Mrs.
E. B. Wheaton, $50, by S. H. Cobb. 64 74
Pepperell, Ladies' Benev. Ch. Aid
Soc, by Mrs. C. H. Miller r8 36
Pittsfield, First, by F. W. Dutton .... 24 20
Sheffield, by Dr. A. T. Wakefield .... 10 50
Springfield, Mrs. H. O. Harris ,.. 1 00
Templeton, Trinitarian S. S., by J. F.
Winch 400
Whitinsville, Mrs. Sarah E. Whitin,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor, by
Gen. O. O. Howard 100 00
Mrs. M. F. W. Abbott, of which $2
for the debt 1800
Worcester, C. O. Bachelor 10 00
A member of Plymouth Ch., by F.
W. Chase 2 00
RHODE ISLAND— $74.56.
Providence, Elmwood Temple, by J.
W. Rice, Treas. R. I. H. M. Soc,
for the debt 39 56
Beneficent Ch.. An absent member. 20 00
Rev. N. W. Williams 15 00
CONNECTICUT-$2,243.62.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas. :
Bridgeport, West End Cong.
Soc, by Miss C. Abbott,
for Salary Fund $10 00
Canaan, Pilgrim Ch., by
Miss S. W. Adams, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor.. . 100 00
East Hartford, for Salary
Fund 1 00
Ellington, Ladies' Benev.
Soc, by Mrs. S. T. Kim-
ball, for Salary Fund 25 00
Enfield, Ladies' Benev.
Soc, by Miss K. C. Abbe,
for Salary Fund 35 00
Fairfield, Member of H. M.
Silver Circle 5 00
Fair Haven, Second, by Mrs.
G. Black, for Salary Fund. 23 65
Greenfield Hill, by Mrs. J.
B. Kettle, for Salary Fund. 420
Greenwich, Second Ch.,
Stillson Benev. Soc, by
Miss K. M. Mead, for
Salary Fund 3 00
Hartford, So. Ch., by Mrs.
G. W. Moore, Friends,
for the debt 10 00
Y. P. S. C. E. of the Pearl
Street Ch., by Leon P.
Brown, for the debt... 50 00
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Middletown, Mrs. A. M.
Colegrove, in First Ch.,
by Mrs. J. H. Bunce,
contents of Dime Bank. $5 00
First Ch., Mrs. C. Bacon,
by Mrs. J. H. Bunce,
contents of Dime Bank. 5 50
New Britain, So. Ch. Au.x.,
add'l, Thank-offering,
Mrs. S. H. Wood, Salary
Fund 1 50
Newington. by Mrs. F. C.
Latimer, for Salary Fund. 26 10
New Milford, W. H. M. U..
by Miss M. B. Hine, for
Salary Fund 35 00
North Guilford, Second,
Ladies' Aid Soc, by Miss
R. D. Chittenden, for
Salary Fund 4 00
Norwich, Greenville Ch., by
Mrs. E. P. Gardner, for
Salary Fund ... 5 00
Stamford. First, by Mrs. H.
P. Willcox, for Salary
Fund . . . , 3 00
Willimantic, by Miss M. S.
Elliott, for Salary Fund.. 10 00
Windsor, First, by Mrs. J.
B. Wilbur, for Salary
Fund 11 50
$373 45
{Erratum : Hartford, First, by Mrs.
S. M. Hotchkiss, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor. $100.
Hartford, A few ladies of South Ch.,
by Mrs. G. Moore, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor, $100.
Norwalk, Mrs. T. K. Noble's Bible
Class of the First, by Mrs. F. Y. Curtis,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor, and to
const. Mrs. J. E. Fitch and Mrs. A. E.
Johnson L. Ms., $100. Should have
been credited to the Woman's H. M.
Union, Conn.— acknowledged in May
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Miss. Soc. of Conn., W. W. Jacobs,
Treas., by Rev. W. H. Moore,
Sec. :
Of which $10. special for debt, and
$100, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor. 196 06
Andover, Y. P. S. C. E.,by E. K. Post. -5 68
Bridgeport, Second, by O. H. Broth-
well 48 60
Bristol, by L. G. Merick 33 14
Cheshire, by F. N. Hall 33 25
Chester, by Rev. A. Hall 17 00
Danbury, First, by A. I. Gordon, of
which $100, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 10800
Danielsonville, Westfield Ch.. by C.
Phillips, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Derby, Mrs. C. T. Beardsley ... 2 00
Enfield, First, by F. A. King, to const.
Mrs. K. Pease a L. M 70 00
Farmington, S. S. of the First, by H.
W. Barbour, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Guilford, First, by E. W. Lcete. to
const. Mrs. C. G. Elliot a L. M 50 00
Hartford, Warburton Chapel S. S., by
MissE. F. Mix 18 00
Park Ch, by W. E. Smith 3902
Mrs. L. H. Bacon 5 00
Mrs. M. W. Hooker 2 00
Mrs. A. C. Jewell 200
Mrs. W. W. Converse 1 00
Eva Gaylord 40
Harwinton, by A. W Buell 1756
Huntington,, by F. H. Wells 14 00
Middletown, Ladies of the Union Soc.
of South Ch., by Mrs. W. W. Wil-
cox, Jr., Gen. Howard R o 1 1 of
Honor $100 00
New Haven, Ch. of the Redeemer, by
W. L. Phillips, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
New London, First Ch. of Christ, by
H. C. Learned 157 75
Northfield, Laura H. Catlin, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 co
By H. C. Peck 20 78
Norwich, Ladies of Mrs. Morrow's
S. S. class of the Second, by Mrs. J.
H . Bushnell, for the debt 519
Plainville, Mrs. J. O. Judd 2 00
Pomfret, by Rev. W. B. Greene, for
the debt . 10 00
Putnam, Second Ch., by E. V. Whet-
more, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
Salisbury, by T. F. Dexter 71 06
Woman's Board of H. M., by Mrs.
A. B. Robbins 28 10
South Norwalk, by G. H. Beard, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 co
Stafford Springs, by W. H. Heald 23 58
Stamford, by E. M. Goulden 28 50
Stratford, S. S. by E. H. Judson 15 00
Thomaston, First, by H. A. Welton.. n 06
S. S. of the First, by E. C. Root,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Thompson, bal. of coll., by G. S.
Crosby 40
Westbrook, by T. D. Post, for the
debt 33 95
NEW YORK- .83,293.25 ; of which leg-
acy, $395-26.
Received by William Spalding, Treas.:
Binghamton, Plymouth $62 50
Buffalo, Pilgrim 20 00
Cambridge, Rally 30 00
Canandaigua 17 27
Chenango Forks 8 25
East Ashf ord 1 00
Grand Island 36 00
Harpersfield . 3 50
Lockport, First Ch. Rally.. 9 20
Millville 16 25
Oswego Falls, in memory of
Mrs. C. Olmstead 30 83
Rochester, Rev. H. C.
Riggs 26 00
Sherburne, " A Friend.". .. 600
Willsborough n 20
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. 1. J.
Pearsall, Treas. :
Albany, First, Silver Circle,
Miss M. Thompson and
Mrs. Catharine Baldwin., f 10 00
Antwerp 42 35
Binghamton, First Ch.,
Helpers' Silver Circle.... 5 00
Brooklyn, Clinton Avenue
L. B. S., to place the
name of Mrs. T. B. Mc-
Leod on the Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
Clinton Avenue L. B. S.,
Rev. W. Kincaid, D.D.,
to place the name of
Mrs. W. Kincaid on Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
Clinton Ave. Y. L. G., of
which $50, special 65 00
Central Ch. L. B. S., for
Salary Fund 259 70
Zenana Band, Gen.
Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Special 18 00
278 00
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Tompkins Ave. C. E., of
which $10, special $2000
Puritan, L. W. A 25 00
Mrs. S. V. White, for
Salary Fund 200 00
Buffalo, People's Ch 1 r 00
Camden 20 00
Candor, Y. L. G., for Salary
Fund 10 00
Churchville, $40 ; S. S.
Mission Circle, $60, to
place the name of the
Ch. on Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Silver Circle 5000
Clayton, M. S 1400
Eldred 2 00
Hamilton, L. S., for the
debt 2 00
Homer, Mrs. A. F. S.
Stover 3 00
Java Village 10 00
Little Valley 6 00
New York City. Broadway
Tabernacle, S. W. W 43 50
Oswego Falls .10 00
Poughkeepsie 25 00
S. S. of the First, $50 ; L.
H. M. S., $50, to place
the name of First Ch.on
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Riverhead 25 00
S. S goo
Sherburne 33 50
Dime Bank 5 00
Walton 10 00
Warsaw, S. S. Inter. Dept. 3 50
Woodville 600
$1,443 55
Albany, First, by G. W. Pierce 51 75
Antwerp, First, by A . Hoyt 23 21
Aquebogue, by G. L. Wells 7 50
Bangor, Truman Adams of Cong. Ch.,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor, by
Rev. R. E. Andrew, to const. Tru-
man Adams and Mrs. O. Adams L.
Ms 100 00
Binghamton, Henry Mills, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, and to const.
O. A. Bursiel and G. L. Huntoon
L. Ms 100 00
Mrs. E. Taylor 10 00
Brooklyn, South Ch., by E. D. Ford.. 206 41
Y. P. S. C. E. of Puritan Ch.. by W.
S. Childs, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
. A Friend to the cause 60 00
Buffalo, Y. P. S. C. E. of Niagara Sq.
People's Ch., by L. E. Cook 35 00
Candor, E. A. Booth 100 00
Clifton Springs, Mrs. L. D. Lyman,
for Salary Fund 20 00
County Line, A. D. Foote 5 00
Eaton, Estate of James H. Maydole,
by J. T. Brinckerhoff, Adm 395 26
Elmira, Birth-year gift 70 00
Hamilton, "Thank-offering" 5 00
O. S. Campbell 14 00
Homer, Whatsoever Silver Circle, by
Miss R. Perry - 2 00
Java, Y. P. S. C. E., by L. G. Smith.. 6 00
Mt. Sinai, V. P. S. C. E., by E. L.
Randall 3 00
Napoli, S. S.. by A. Bliss 3 00
Newark Valley, Mrs. S. B. Davidge.. 1 00
New Village, by J. B. Gould 8 20
New York City, Bethany S. S., by F.
M. Robinson, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Christ Ch., Mt. Hope, by Rev. H.'
M. Brown 12 50
C. E. B , ,..,....,.... 5 00
Salamanca, First, by W. H. Hazard . . $9 05
Smyrna, First, by H. M. Dixon 4 22
Walton, First, by G. W. Fitch no 41
Woodville, Y. P. S. C. E., by J. H.
Wood 4 19
NEW JERSEY- $426.37.
Bloomfield, R. P. C, $50; M. E. C,
$TO 60 OO
East Orange, First, by C. H. Nevins. 56 06
Swedish Ch., by Rev. A. P. Nelson. 5 00
Jersey City, Tabernacle Ch., by Rev.
J. L. Scudder, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Nutley, St. Paul's S. S., by E. Clem-
ents 1 6 40
Orange, Mrs. E. G. Heald 2 00
Plainfield, by G. W. Rockfellow 154 00
Mrs. H. M. Dwight 2 00
Upper Montclair, Christian Union
Ch., by F. W. Dorman. . . . ; 30 91
PENNSYLVANIA-$ii4.i6.
Received by T. W. Tones, D.D. :
Pittsburg, Fifth Avenue Welsh
Delta, Welsh Ch., by T. J. Williams..
Kane, Ch., $18.50; S. S., $17.50 ;
Mission Band, $10 ; W. H. M. Soc,
$4, by W. H. Davis, to const. J.
Davis a L. M
Lansing Ridge, German Ch., by Rev.
A. Kern
Minersville, S. S. of the First, by
D. W. Rowland
Mt. Carmel, S. S., by M. Davis
Neath, by W. S. Davis
Wilkes-Barre, Fourth Avenue, by
Rev. E. G. Heal
MARYLAND-
Baltimore, Canton Ch.
Beadenkoff
by Rev. T. M.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-$3i.oo
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Asso., Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas. :
Washington, D. C First, of which
$25 for Salary Fund
NORTH CAROLINA-$5oo.
Woman's H. M. Union, Miss A. E.
Farrington, Treas. :
Oakes, Miss A. E. Farrington
GEORGIA-
NS-
Atlanta, Duluth, by Rev. W. F.
Brewer
Columbus, Americus, and Hunting-
ton, by Rev. G. W. Cumbus
ALABAMA— $22.55.
Catalpa, Carr's Chapel, by Rev. N. H.
Gibson
Clanton. by Rev. J. L. Busby
Echo, Christian Hill Ch., $1.85 ;
Wicksburg, Bascom Ch. , $1, by Rev.
M.V.Marshall
Edwardsville, Salem, and New Har-
mony Chs , and Chullafinne, Fair-
view Ch., by G. W. Vaughn
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Lightwood, Union Ch.,and Kingston,
by Rev. W. C. Culver
Millerville, Bethel and Oak Hill Chs. ;
Linerville, Mt. Grove, and Moun-
tain Meadow, Shady Grove Ch., by
Rev. T. Wright
Oxford, Smith's Chapel, by Rev. J. V.
Watkins
Perote, Corinth Ch., by Rev. L. J.
Biggers
River Falls, New Home Ch. ; Brant-
ley, Oak Grove Ch., by Rev. W. S.
Jones
Spio, Union Hill Ch.; and Echo,
Friendship Ch., by Rev. S. Weath-
erby
LOUISIANA-$5.oo.
Lake Charles, Rev. C. F. Sheldon. . .
FLORIDA— $66.40.
Bonifay, Mary Esther, and Vernon, by
Rev. G. Lee
Interlachen, by Rev. W. D. Brown...
Lake Helen, by Rev. M. Noble
Longwood and Palm Springs, by Rev.
G. W. Hardaway
New Effort, $2.15; Carry ville, $5;
Westville, $2.35, by Rev. P. G.
Woodruff
Palm Beach, Royal Poinciana Chapel,
by Mrs. E. N. Dimick
Sanford, Mrs. M. Lyman
Winter Garden, Rev. S. J. Townsend
TEXAS— $24.:
J. H.
Woman's H M. Union, Mrs.
Gray, Treas. :
Dallas, First Ch., $6.75 ;
Ladies' Aux., $11.50;
Rally, Si. 45, for Salary
Fund $1970
Paris, First, for Salary Fund 5 15
INDIAN TERRITORY— $10.00.
Vinita, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First, by
Rev. N. Forrest
OKLAHOMA-S53.53.
Carrier, Glenela, Alvaretta, Spring-
dale, and Hillsdale, by Rev. J. S.
Hawks
Darlington, by Rev. M. D. Tenney..
Kingfisher, by Rev. J. Collins
Parker and Otter, by Rev. W. Kelsey
Seward, Si. 50; Oak Ridge, S3. 25 ;
Brighton, $1, by Rev. L. S. Childs.
Tohee, Soldier Creek, and Pleasant
Valley, by Rev. O. G. Legrande...
Waynoka, by Rev. J. W. McWilliams
OHIO— $558.73 ; of which legacy, $125.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.:
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by Justin Snow $44 70
Pilgrim, by H. C. Holt... 6000
Glen Roy. by S. A. Williams 1 30
Greenwich, by Rev. D. L.
Leonard, D.D 8 44
Hudson. byMissE.E. Met
calf 11 00
$0 25
1 5°
5 °°
2 50
9 45
6 36
13 00
10 00
10 00
4 3°
2485
8 00
4 00
17 5°
10 00
Kingsville, Miss E. S. Com-
ings $8 00
Litchfield, by Rev. R. Cha-
pin 5 00
New London, by Dr. J. L.
McElhinney 1 00
North Monroeville, by Mrs.
H. S. Caswell 4 00
Tallmadge S. S., by H. N.
Bierce 22 22
Thomastown, Miss R. Da-
vies 500
Wauseon, by J. L. Gray. ... 13 05
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, Treas.
Bohemian Board, Cleveland :
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by J. Snow $1942
Pilgrim, by H. C. Holt. . . 90 00
Mrs. Vorel 1 00
ILLIXOIS-$i5o.oo.
Chicago, G. E. P. Dodge, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor
Fall Creek, Friends, to const. Mrs. M.
Keil a L. M, by Rev. G. L. Brake-
meyer
MISSOURI-$84.53.
Honey Creek, $4.15 ; Anson, $4.65, by
Rev. J. F. Malcolm
Kidder, by Rev. A. L. Gridley
Lamar, by H. C. Timmonds
St. Paul, Bethany Ch., by Rev. S. G.
Arnett . . ;
Springfield, Central Ch . by Rev. G.
S. Brett
MICHIGAN-$3.2o.
Detroit, Mrs. J. A. Baylis
$183 71
no 42
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Cleveland, First, for Sal-
ary Fund $25 00
Painesville, Enterprise
Mission Circle, for Sal-
ary Fund 1 00
26 00
Bellevue, First, by Mrs. W. C.Walter. 4 97
Castalia, by J. C. Prentice 25 00
Cleveland, Mrs. D. T. Thomas 5 00
Dayton, estate of Thomas S. Babbitt,
on account by W. T. Herman, Ex. . 125 00
Nebo, by R. Isaacs 7 23
New Knoxville, Reformed German
Ch., by Rev. M. E. Eversz 7 55
Painesville, J. W. Culver 250
Palmyra, by Rev. B. Harris 3 65
Tallmadge. by J. W. Seward, to const.
Dea. C. A. Sackett a L. M 57 65
INDIANA— $80.59.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. H.
Ball, Treas. :
Amboy $1 25
Elkhart 3431
Glezen 10 00
Michigan City 12 53
Terre Haute, First 2000
Second 2 50
80 59
15 42
5 06
5 55
18 50
40 00
3 20
une, i<
1VISCONSIN-I9.75.
Amery, by Rev. W. J. Stewart
Birnamwood and Norrie, by Rev. G.
S. Biscoe
Washburn and Bayfield, Scand. Chs.,
by Rev. H. Peterson
The Home Missionary
OWA— $10.00.
Wilton Junction, German Ch., by Rev.
E. G. L. Mannhardt
1INNESOTA-$iq4.28.
Received by Rev. J. H. Morley :
Groveland $3 35
Hutchinson, S. S 500
Minneapolis, Plymouth 37 45
Pilgrim 1 00
A Friend 5 00
Oak Park, 50 cts. ; S. S.,
$2-65 315
Montevideo 3 15
Round Prairie 217
St. Paul, Plymouth, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor,
and to const. Rev. W. B.
Millard and Rev. R. Hall
L. Ms 100 00
Wadena 1 70
Wayzata 4 20
Erratum : Elk River, Ch., $4 ; should
be credited to the S. S. ; erroneously ack.
in April Home Missionary.
Benson, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. J. S.
Hay ward
Edgerton, by Rev. E. Carter
Monticello, by Rev. R. S. Cross
St. Cloud, First, by W. T. Clark
Sauk Rapids, Swedish Ch., by Rev. J.
Rood
Worthington, Union Ch., by G. O.
Moore
KANSAS— $74.96.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. E. C.
Read, Treas :
Arkansas City $12 94
5 00
2 00
5 i°
1 50
8 00
Chanute, C. S. Miller.
Fairview
Fort Scott, Mrs. Bissell.
Goodland
Goshen
Wellington
Less expenses .
$38 62
77
Diamond Springs and Six Mile, by
Rev. G. M. Pfeiffer
Enterprise, by Rev. L. P. Broad
Hiawatha, by S. Bierer
Salina, by Rev. T. V. Davies
Seabrook, by Rev. J. E. Kirkpatrick.
White City, by Rev. E. Richards
NEBRASKA— $75.11.
Alma, First, by Rev. R. M. Travers..
Culbertson, Hayes Co., McCook, and
Trenton, German Chs., by Rev. A.
Hodel
De Witt, First, by C. H. Culdice
166 17
2 50
1 75
6 57
37 85
1 30
2 00
10 92
Germantown and Oak Grove, Ger-
man Chs., by Rev. F. Woth
Santee Agency, Pilgrim Ch., by F. B.
Riggs
Sutton, $7; McCook, $1, German Chs.,
by Rev. J. Sattler
West Point, by Rev. S. Pearson
NORTH DAKOTA— $34.48.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. M.
Fisher, Treas.:
Buxton, " Pearl Gleaners " $3 75
Caledonia 9 58
Fargo, First 5 00
Fort Berthold, Teachers and
Pupils 7 20
Jamestown 3 45
Lisbon 1 50
6 56
5 77
Oberon, by Rev. O. P. Champlin...
SOUTH DAKOTA-$72.g6.
Aberdeen, Plymouth, by Rev. T. J.
Dent
Alpena, German Ch., by Rev. P.
Bechtel
Armour, by Rev. W. B. Hubbard
Badger and Hetland, by Rev. D. E.
Armitage
Buffalo Gap, by Rev. T. Thirloway. .
Clark, by Rev. T. G. Langdale
Frankfort and La Prairie, by Rev. C.
H. Dreisbach
Hermosa and Rockerville, by Rev. J.
A. Becker
Lead, First, by Rev. G. Scott
Letcher, $2.11 ; Bethel, $4.55, by
Rev. Miss E. K. Henry
Mitchell, by Rev. W. H. Thrall
Mound City, Rev. H. Vogler, by Rev.
M. E. Eversz
Wakonda, by Rev. J. M. Bates
COLORADO-$36.oi.
Boulder, by Mrs. H. D. Harlow
Denver, German Ch. of Globeville,by
Rev. A. Trandt
Globeville, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Sattler
Littleton, Mrs G. S. Bruner
New Castle, by Rev. I. McRae
Steamboat Springs, by Rev. E. I.
Grinnell
WYOMING— $22.55.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. H.
N. Smith, Treas.:
Rock Springs
Big Horn, by Rev. G. Wadsworth . . .
Cheyenne, South Ch., by E. Sherman
Green River, by Rev. W. S. Wash-
burn
UTAH-$i2.75.
Ogden, First, by Rev. C. W. Luck.
NEVADA— $14.00.
Reno, First, by Rev. T. Magill....
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CALIFORNIA— $459.87.
Received by J. D. McKee :
San Francisco, First $100 00
Adin, by Rev. J. A. Jones 5 00
Alessandro, $3.50 ; Moreno, $16.20, by
Rev. S. G. Emerson 19 70
Auburn, by Rev. H. F. Burgess 13 50
Black Diamond and Stewartville, by
Rev. F. H. Wales 15 00
Cherokee, $27.20 ; Thermalito, $10.60 ;
Oregon City, $7. 35, by Rev. A. S.
Parsons 45 15
Eagle Rock, by Rev. D. L. Jenkins .. 10 00
Etna, Oro Fino, and Callahan's, by
Rev. A. S. McLellan 19 46
Lodi and Gait, by Rev. D. Goodsell.. 80
Los Angeles, First, by W. R. Black-
man 133 09
Mokelumne Hill and San Andreas, by
Rev. W. C. Day 15 00
Nordhoff, by Rev. J. A. Milligan 4 50
Palermo and Wyandotte, by Rev. W.
H . Robinson 10 60
Perris, First, by Rev. W. N. Burr 20
Porterville, First, by Rev. M. Z.
Fenenga 1700
Railroad Flat, $5 ; Murphy's and
Douglas Flat, $7, by Rev. M. J.
Luark 1200
San Francisco, Richmond and Pierce
Street Chs., by Rev. P. Combe 14 50
San Diego and La Mesa, by Rev. T.
R.Earl 2437
OREGON-$46.05.
Arapahoe and Independence, by Rev.
R. P. Brown
Condon and Lexington, by Rev. U. S.
Drake
Forest Grove, Mrs. D. Staver
Gaston and Hillside, by Rev. J. M.
Beauchamp
Hillsboro, First, by Rev. E. P.
Hughes
Oswego, Leland, and Beaver Creek,
by Rev. R. M. Jones
WASHINGTON- $64.50.
Cheney, by Rev. O. T. Thayer
Cowlitz Bend, by Rev. W. A. Arnold.
Hillhurst, by Rev. W. H. Atkinson ..
Ritzville, German Ch., by Rev. G.
Schenerle
Seattle, Taylor Ch., by Rev. G. H.
Sultan,' jr.! Y.' P." S.C.E., by Rev. H.
W. Mercer
Washougal and Mt. Pleasant, by Rev.
G. Baker
Wenas, $1.15 ; Nachez, $2.70, by Rev.
R. G. Hawn
Home Missionary
$7»5°
4 60
10 00
4 3° I
17 15 ft
68 75
$18,589 49
Contributions in April, excluding contributions for the debt $11,428 79
Legacies in April .' 2,687 84
Contributions for the debt in April 5, 093 08
Total receipts in April $19,209 71
Contributions for the debt to May 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor , $77,956 58
Special for debt 7,576 14
$35,532 72
Donations of Clothing, etc.
Baltimore. Md., W. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. T. S. Brown, box $75 00
Bennington, Vt., L. H. M. S. of Second
Ch.. by Julia A. White, box 134 18
Bridgeport, Conn., Ladies of South Ch.,
by Mrs. A. D. Lewis, barrel 88 50
Brooklyn. N. Y., Ladies' Benev. Soc. of
Tompkins Ave. Ch., by Sarah M.
Higgins, four boxes and two bar-
rels 303 84
Ladies of Tompkins Ave. Ch., by Mrs.
J. B Clark, box.
Chicago, 111., Ladies of South Ch , by
Mrs. A. C. Whittaker, three boxes . . . 353 70
Clifton Springs, N. Y., Mrs. Z. Eddy,
barrel.
Elgin. 111., Ladies' Guild of First Ch.,
by Mrs. E. A. Johnson, box 8000
Ellington. Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc,
by Mrs. S. T. Kimball, barrei 67 80
Glen Ridge, N. J., Ladies, by Mrs. E.
C. Langstroth, box no 00
Hartford, Conn., Pearl St. Ch., by Mrs.
H. K. Lee, box and barrel 180 97
Montclair, N. J., W. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. W. M. Brown, two
barrels 240 00
New Haven, Conn., Benev. Soc. of
Dwight Place Ch., by Mrs. H. P.
Downs, two barrels $116 00
L. H. M. S. of Ch. of The Redeemer,
by Mrs. W. A. Hotchkiss, box 94 00
New London, Conn., Mizpah Circle of
First Ch., by Nancy L. Brown, box
and barrel 100 00
New York City, Broadway Tabernacle,
by Mrs. H. W. Seamans, fourteen
trunks and two boxes 2,089 35
Hospital Book and Newspaper Soc,
two packages.
South Manchester, Conn., L. B. S. of
First Ch., by Antoinette B. Spencer,
box and sewing machine 108 84
Stratford, Conn., Ladies' Sewing Soc,
by Mrs. R W. Bunnell, barrel 7600
Waterbury, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc
of First Ch., by Mrs. Mary D.
Griggs, box 65 50
Mission Circle of First Ch., by Mrs.
F. L. Adams, box 150 00
Windsor Locks, Conn., Friend, two
silver collection plates.
Woodbury, Conn., Ladies, by Mrs. J.
A. Freeman, barrel 91 00
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Donations of Clothing, etc., received and reported at the rooms of the Woman's Home
Missionary Association in April, 1896. Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg,
Secretary
uburndale, Ladies, by Mrs. H. A.
Hazen, package $25 00
oston, Old South Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
W. B. Garritt, box and barrel 141 05
lalton, Ladies, by Miss Clara L. Crane,
two barrels 154 00
lorchester, Second Ch., by Mrs. J. M.
Phipps, barrel 75 00
imaica Plain, Central Ch., Ladies, by
Mrs. Lucy J. Ward, barrel 59 67
eicester, Ladies, by Mrs. Corwin F.
Palmer, barrel 85 70
owell, High St. Ch., Ladies, by Miss
Emma J. Fuller, barrel 57 95
ittsfield, First Ch., Ladies' F. W. S.,
by Mrs. Mary B. Davis, barrel 83 75
.oyalston, L. B. S., by Miss Lizzie W.
Chase, barrel 4153
Dmerville, Prospect Hill Ch., Rev. E.
S. Tead, package.
Springfield, First Ch., Aux., by Mrs. C.
A. Graves, package $7 00
Memorial Ch., Aux., by Mrs. B. F.
Peirce, four barrels 210 70
Park Ch., King's Daughters' Circle,
barrel 109 51
South Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. M. L.
Wilcox, six barrels 38620
Ware, Aux , by Miss Emma T. Eaton,
barrel 115 00
Woburn, L. C. R. S., by Mrs. Minerva
R. Bryant, barrel 76 00
Worcester, Central Ch., W. A., by Mrs.
Carrie G. Leland, box 166 59
Spencer, L. C. S., by Mrs. Gecrge P.
Ladd, barrel 90 00
$1,889 65
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Maine Missionary Society from January 15 to April 13, 1896.
John L. Crosby, Treasurer
£ton, by Rev. John A. Lawrence
Indover, by Rev. F. V. Norcross
uburn, High St. Ch., by James F. At-
wood
ugusta (special), by Rev. J. S. Wil-
liamson
angor, First Ch. and Soc, by W. P.
Hubbard
Hammond St. Ch., add'l, by E. F.
Rich
Central Ch..bv Rev. J. S. Penman, $6 ;
S. S., by R. J. Sawyer, $31.92 : Y. P.
S. C. E., by Miss Jessie Mitchell,
$7-n
Legacy of N. Kittredge, add'l, by B.
B. Thatcher and F. A. Wilson, Exrs.
ith, bequest of Eleanor Tallman, by
Weston Thompson, Adm
anchard, Jacob Blanchard
rewer, First, by G. A. Snow
•unswick, First, by R. H. Stanwood..
icksport, Elm St. Ch., by Edward
Swazey
ixton, Bar Mills, by Mrs. S. F. M.
Rich
imden, Elm Street Ch , H. J. Heming-
way, by Rev. D. P. Hatch
rniden, Y. P. S. C. E., for church build-
ing at Ashland, by G. A. Pool
lerryfield, for debt, by J. W. Camp-
bell
er Isle, First, by Rev. J. S. Richards.
sering. Free, by A. H. Small
nnysville, for debt, by Rev. C. S.
Holton
:>ver, Junior C. E. S., by George B.
Fernald
Isworth Falls, by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier
irmington, " Old South,"' by Rev. J. C.
Young
1,20
00
IO
00
57
00
32
00
42
44
25
00
45 °3
525
42
119 92
5 00
27 50
65 39
45
79
16
44
9
00
10
00
10
2
6
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18
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12
40
3
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7
49
4
73
Gorham, First Ch. and Soc, for Grove-
ville Ch $50 00
For chapel at Windham 10 00
To const. William P. Kimball, William
M. Dyer, William Cressey, Charles
W. Harding, John A. Waterman,
Henry W. Hale, L.Ms 125 00
Gray, by Mrs. Emeline Merritt 3 00
Legacy of Mrs. Charlotte Gibbs, by
J. F. Hancock, Adm 980 79
Hallowell, Legacy of Mrs. MaryFifield,
add'l, by G. A. Safford, cashier 63 70
Hampden, by Mrs. Kate B. Whitmore. 13 30
Harrison, by Rev. A. G. Fitz 3 20
Island Falls, to const. Rev. H. H. Noyes
a L. M 20 06
Kennebec Conference, by Rev. James
Richmond 4 69
Kittery, by Rev. H. V. Emmons 5 00
Lewiston, A Friend 50 00
Limerick, add'l, by Rev. J. A. Water-
worth .... 50
Litchfield Corners, by Rev. James Rich-
mond 2 00
Machias, for debt, by Rev. C- S. Holton. 18 21
Minot, by Mrs. S. F. M. Rich 10 52
New Gloucester, by Rev. H. G. Mank. 85 00
No. Bridgton, by Rev. A. G. Fitz 5 00
No. Ellsworth, by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier 3 20
Oxford, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev. A. Var-
ley 225
Orono, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev. D. P.
Hatch 5 90
Phillips, Cong'l Ch., A. M. Greenwood. 24 81
Princeton, Ch., Rev. C. H. Leverton,
by Rev. D. P. Hatch 3 76
Red Beach, Ch., by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier 7 71
Robbinston, Ch., by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier 13 00
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Searsport, First Ch. and Soc, by Mrs.
Hannah T. Pendleton $22 00
Solon, Ch., by Leon S. Merrill, for P.
S. Longley 630
South Gardiner, A Friend 3 00
Veazie, Ch.. by H. E. Lombard, with
previous donation to const. Miss Clara
L. Davis a L. M 1500
Washington Conf., balance on debt, by
Rev. Charles S. Holton 20 60
Wells. B. Maxwell, Esq 12 50
Westbrook, Ch., by H. P. Murch 50 75
Wil'son"s Mills, Rev. S. S. York, by Rev.
D. P. Hatch 1 00
Woodford, Ch., by J. H. Clark 105 31
Woman's Me. Miss. Aux., by Rose M.
Crosby $216 63
Income from Investments 350 00
Total from Jan. 15 to April 13, '96.. . 3,413 97
Previously acknowledged 5,770 02 .
Total from Sept. 21, '95, to April 13, '96 $9,183 99
The above receipts are divided as fol-
lows :
From churches and individuals $3,539 98
" Woman's M. M. Aux 58013
Income on investments 1 ,424 05
Legacies 3,639 83
$9,183 99
NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society from February 1 to May I,
1896. Hon. L. D. Stevens, Treasurer
East Brentwood, Ch. and Soc $6 00
North Weare, Union Y. P. S. C. E 3 00
Hillsborough Center, Y. P. S. C. E 3 00
Atkinson, Ch. and Soc, $18.88 (for Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, $100^ 118 88
Keene, Elisha F. Lane, to const. Mrs.
Harriet P. Lane a L. M. of N. H.
M. S., and Henry W. Lane L. M. of
C. H. M. S., $80 ; First Ch. and Soc,
for Gen. Howard Roll of Honor, - nd
in full to const. Mr. Leonard Withing-
ton, Miss Lucy Dow and Mr. Luther
C. Dean L. Ms. of C. H. M. S., $in.. 191 00
Alstead, Ch. and Soc 5 00
Concord, Swedish Bethel Ch. and Soc,
$25; South Ch. and Soc, $67.64: for
special work of Rev. H. D. Wiard,
$10 : Sunday-school, for Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor. $100.32 202 96
Hanover, Cong. Ch., and Soc. at Dart.
Col., to place the names of Wm. J.
Tucker, D.D., and Dr. Wm. T. Smith
on the Gen. Howard Roll of Honor.. 249 66
Franconia, Ch. and Soc n 64
Newington, V. P. S. C. E 5 00
Amherst, Mrs. J. G. Davis 10 00
East Alstead, Second Ch. and Soc 5 43
Pembroke, Ch. and Soc. . 6 60
West Lebanon, Ch. and Soc 2751
Wolfborough, income of Trust Fund of
Nancy H. Lord 4 00
Dover, First Ch. and Soc 1S8 09
Greenland, Ch. and Soc, $18 ; for C. H.
M. S., $12 3000
Newmarket, Ch. and Soc 12 00
Manchester, First Ch. and Soc, $37.69;
Franklin St. Ch. and Soc, for C. H.
M. S ., $233.82 ; for Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor, $100; Y. P. S. C. E., for
C. H. M. S., $25 ; income of Abigail
S. Knowles's estate, $67.20 463 71
Gilmanton, Ch. and Soc 5 00
Charlestown, Ch. and Soc
Winchester, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M.
S., for work at San Rafael, New
Mexico
Northampton. Ch. and Soc, $31.50; J.
L. Philbrook, for C. H. M. S , $6
Hopkinton, Legacy of Mrs. Gracia T.
Runnells
Haverhill, Ch. and Soc, in full to const.
Mrs. M. E. Currier a L. M
Tilton, Jr. Y. P. S. C. E
Alton, Ch. and Soc
Chester, Y. P. S. C. E of Ch. and Soc,
for Gen Howard Roll of Honor
Rindge, Ch. and Soc
Swanzey. Ch. and Soc
Marlborough, Ch. and Soc
Derry, Ch. and Soc, to const. Mrs.
Katherine L. Hall a L. M. of C. H.
M. S
Hancock, Ch. and Soc
Newport, Ch. and Soc
Chichester, Ch. and Soc
Rye, Ch. and Soc
Fitzwilliam, Ch. and Soc
Hampstead, Ch. and Soc
Bennington, Y. P. S. C. E
Chesterfield, Ch. and Soc, an Easter
Offering
Portsmouth, North Ch. and Soc
Conway, income of Estate of Abby K.
Wentworth
Lancaster. Ch. and Soc
New Ipswich, Legacy of Dea. Leavitt
Lincoln
Plymouth, Ch. and Soc
Dublin, Legacy of Lucy B. Richardson,
in part
Orford, Y. P. S. C. E
New Hampshire Cent Union
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$3-923 93
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from January 20 to February 20,
1896. Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Barnct, S. S
Barton, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M. S..
Bradford, for C. H. M. S., Howard
Roll of Honor
Brattleboro, Mary L. Hadley
$642 Brookfield, Y. P. S. C. E $500
737 Burlington. First Church 18200
Hartford, West, " E. M. C," for C. H.
100 00 M.S 100
25 00 Jamaica 13 75
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Newbury, West $2 00
Newport, First Church 13 go
Northfield 16 33
Norwich, A Friend 2 00
Pawlet, West, A Friend 2 00
Putney 23 10
Townshend, West n 25
Troy, North, A two-year-old boy 1 00
Waterbury 13 34
Y. P. S. C. E 2 19
C. H. M. S., Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
Woodstock, C. H. M. S., Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Interest from invested funds 60 00
Vermont Missionary
W. H. M. U.:
Burlington, First Church, W.
H. M. S S35 00
Chester, W. H. M. S 1050
Fairfax, Mrs. A. B. Beeman. . 3 00
Mrs. E. Purmont 2 00
Rutland, W. H. M. S 50 00
Springfield, W. H. M. S. ... 14 00
St. Johnsbury, North Church 50 00
164 50
Receipts from February 20 to March 20, 1896
Bennington Center, Old First Church.
Old First Church, Y. P. S. C. E. . . .
Brookfield, First Church
ForC. H. M.S
Second Church
ForC. H. M. S
Brooklyn, N. Y., Dr. W. H. Williams..
Burke, for Women Evangelists
Burlington, Members of First Church. .
College St. Church
Chester, Mrs. Abby Collins
Cornwall, for C. H. M. S
Essex Junction
Fairfield. East, Junior Y. P. S. C. E....
Glover, West
Hartford
Hinesburgh, for C. H. M. S
Lamoille County, A Friend
Orwell
$62 50
15 00
5 5°
5 5°
2 50
2 50
25 00
26 64
11 00
85 00
10 00
22 60
22 40
5 °°
6 80
4 60
3 6°
200 00
37 85
St. Johnsbury, North Ch., S. Mar. 12.. .
Sa'xton's River
Shoreham, for C. H. M. S. debt
Victory, Geo. A. Appleton
Victory and Granby, Y. P. S. C. E., for
Women Evangelists
Westminster West, Howard Roll of
Honor, to const. Jos. P. Ranney and
Arthur L. Harlow L. Ms. of C. H. M.S.
Woodstock
Vermont Missionary
W.H. M. U
St. Albans, W. H. M. S
Income from invested funds
t>5° °°
8 00
41 00
15 00
3 00
100 00
26 09
is 85
25 00
20 00
5S °°
Received for East Dorset Parsonage
Pittsford, S. S
$25 00
Receipts from March 20 to April 20, \\
Braintree E. and Brookfield W., for
Women Evangelists
Brattleboro, West
ForC. H. M.S
Cornwall, for C. H. M. S
Derby
Marlboro
Newbury
Quechee
Rochester, by request Mrs. E. A.Chaffee
St. Johnsbury, South Church
Thetford, Mrs. L. S. Lord
Mrs. John Kinsman
Tunbridge
Vershire
Westford, Y. P. S. C. E
Windsor
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W. H. M. U.:
Barre, W. H. M. S
$15 00
Brattleboro, Ladies' Asso....
25 00
Burlington, First Ch. W. H.
M. S
15 00
Fairlee, Y. P. S. C. E
3 24
Orwell, W. M. S...
10 00
Rutland, W. H. M. S
50 00
Waterford, Lower, Mrs. H.
N. Ross
1 00
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MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the. Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in April, 1896.
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev. Edwin
Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor :
Attleboro, Horton, Mrs. Eliza D., by
C. E. Bliss, Treas. Second Ch f 100 00
Boston, Southworth, Carrie Win-
throp 100 00
Southworth, Mrs. Caroline M 100 00
Dedham. First, Allin Y. P. S. C. E., by
F. E. Morse 100 00
Fall River, Central, Holmes, Chas. J.,
by R. B. Borden 100 00
Framingham, Plymouth, Balance, by
Rev. L. R. Eastman 50 00
Greenfield, First. Y. P. S. C. E., by
Rev. C. H. Watson, part of pledge
of four Franklin Co. Chs $25 00
Lowell, High St., Sunday-school, by
Samuel N. Wood 100 00
Lynn, Central, Sunday school, by H.
P. Emerson 100 00
North, Balance, by Rev. W. A.
Hadley 2330
Mann, Mrs. Sarah R., from Oberlin,
O 100 00
Newton, Auburndale,by C. S. Roberts. 100 00
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Eliot, Baker, Hiram E., by G. N.
Putnam $100 oo
Cobb. Andrew B., by G. N. Put-
nam IOO oo
Cobb, Henry E., by G. N. Put-
nam IOO oo
Haskell, Chas. A ., by G. N. Put-
nam IOO oo
Quincy. Wollaston, by E. L. Robbins,
two shares 200 00
Westfield, Second, Sunday-school, by
C. E. Hadsell 100 00
Worcester, Old South, Lovell, Henry,
and Whipple, Albert B., $50 each,
and to const, donors L. Ms. of C.
H. M . S too 00
$1,798 30
Abington. First, by E. M. Nash $14 75
A Friend, for C. H. M. S 15 00
Amherst, South, by J. F. Gleason 13 72
Andover, Students of Theo. Sem., by
W. F. Draper, add'l, for debt of C. H.
M. S 1 00
Ashfield. by Mrs. A. Hall, to const.
Henry Taylor a L. M of C. H. M. S . 82 00
Ashland, by Edwin Perry 25 00
Ayer. Bacon. Mr. and IVlrs. [acob. Taft
Thank-offering, by Rev. R. M. Taft. . 5 00
Bank Balances. March interest n 83
Boston, Dorchester, Fullarton, Mrs.
Jacob 7 00
Dorchester, Village, Ladies' H. M.
Soc, by Mrs. Reuben Swan 15 55
Jamaica Plain, Jewett, Sam'l W., Est.
of, add"l, by Executors— entered on
special account, $1,300.
Mt. Vernon. Two Friends, by E. A.
Studley 100 co
Neponset, Trinity, Y. P. S. C. E., by
H. G. Dixon 14 11
11 T. G." 30 00
Thomson, Geo. N., M.D.. Estate of,
by Mrs. Lydia P. Thomson. E.\ 500 00
Boxford. West, by Rev. C. L Hubbard. 3 00
Braintree, First, by A. B. Keith 4 03
Ladies' Home Miss. Soc, by Miss
Sarah H. Thayer, to const. Mrs. H.
W. Gore and Miss Emma L. French
L. Ms 6000
Brockton. Porter Evan., by Geo. C.
Cary 84 40
H. M. Rally 16 56
Brookline, Harvard, by Jas. H. Shap-
leigh 103 77
Special for Italian Mission, by J. H. S. 31 15
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim, by N. H. Hol-
brook 32 82
Prospect St.. by S. H. Fuller (of which
$96.61 for C. H. M. S.> 118 30
Charlton, by F. O. Wakefield 15 o5
Chelsea, Central, by R. R. VVyllie 90 74
Harding, Mrs. E. L., Est. of. by E. D.
Sibley, Adm 50000
Chicopee (Falls), Second, by Chas. A.
Taylor 37 32
Clinton. Evan., by Rev. W. W. Jordan. 30 10
Concord. Trinitarian, by Thomas Todd 24 41
Dal.ton. First, bv H. A. Barton, to const.
Mrs. H. F. Sk'illinger. Mrs. Geo. Pike
and S N. Torrey L. Ms. of C. H M. S. 150 00
Dana, by N. L. Johnson 8 00
Deerfield. South Church, $27.91 ; S.
School, $7. 03. by C. B. Tilton 35 00
Fall River. Central, by R. B. Borden,
W. P. G. to const. Rev. W. W. Tubb,
D.D.. R. B. Borden, Chas. J. Holmes,
and Henry H. Earle L. Ms 113 67
Frankhn, Home Miss. Rally, by Rev.
C. W. Longren. add'l 2 00
Frost. Rufus S.. Chapel Trust Fund, In-
come of 16 OO
Gurney, R. C, Fund, Income of 44 25
Haile, Sab. W., Fund, Income of $62 so
Hale, E. J. M., Fund, Income of 25 co
Hanover, South, Hartshorne, Rev V.J.. 7 00
Harwich, Y. P. S. C. E., by Annie P.
Smith 2 50
Haverhill, Elliott. Miss Mary R., for
debt, and with gift below to const.
herself a L. M . of C. H. M. S 25 00
Fourth, Elliott, Miss Emma S., for
debt of C. H. M. S 25 00
North, A Friend 15 00
Holbrook, Winthrop, by F. W. Blan-
chard 30 40
Holland, Ladies' Home Miss. Soc, by
L. E. Blodgett 1 00
Holliston, A Friend, "R." 5 00
Hopkinton, by J. D. Stewart, to const.
C. Isabelle Baker and Mrs. L. R. Hav-
en L. Ms. of C. H. M. S 137 00
Huntington, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Mrs. Anna Bartlett 3 00
Ipswich, First, S. School, Easter Con-
cert, by Miss A. L. Newman 18 43
Jessup, C. A., Fund. Income of 150 00
Leominster, Orth., by A. O. Wilder 145 64
Lowell, High St., S. School (add'l, to
Roll of Honor 1, by S. N. Wood 25 00
Lynn, Chestnut St., by Geo. E. Sar-
gent 3 00
Maiden, Maplewood, by A. D. Crombie,
Taft Thank-offering from Easter Con-
cert 15 00
Manchester, Woman's Miss. Society, by
Mrs. L. F. Allen 30 00
Marion, by D. M. Dustan 30 00
A Friend, for C. H. M. S 10 00
Ladies' Sewing Circle, by D. M. Dus-
tan 5 00
Massachusetts, L. Ms. to be named.. .. 100 00
Montague, Turner's Falls, by D. M.
Bowman 17 65
Newton, Auburndale, by C. C. Burr — 342 03
(Center) First, byJ.E. Rockwood ... 221 61
Eliot, by Geo. N. Putnam. . . 781 88
For local Armenian Work, by G. N.
Putnam 25 00
North Andover, by Frank W. Frisbee. 50 00
Northboro, add'l, by Miss A. A.
Adams 2 00
Northbridge, Whitinsville, by Edward
Whitin 1,627 73
E. C. a Day Band, by Mrs. C. E.
Whitin 17 92
Whitin. W. H., Est. of, by Edward
Whitin 500 00
North Brookheld, First, by John S.
Cooke 29 60
Peppcrell, by Chas. Crosby 50 00
Pittsfield, First, by Frank W. Dutton.. 73 27
Plympton. Silver Lake, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Harry W. Clemons 1 oo
Princeton, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev. Chas.
A. White 431
Reed, Dwight. Fund. Income of 64 oo
Rochester, East, by Geo. P. Morse 3 00
North, by A. K. Small 2 00
Shelburne, Stone, Miss P. J., Thank-
offering 2 00
Southbridge. Globe Village, Evan. Free,
by A. L. Hyde 38 52
South Hadley Falls, by A. N. Chapin.. 11 16
First, by L. M. Gaylord 175°
Springfield. Emmanuel, by H. V. R.
Schermerhorn (of which $3.41 Taft
Thank-offering) 10 54
First, by Henry G. Camp 200 00
Stoughton, by Mrs. E. J. S. Rose 6 37
Sturbridge. by H. D. Haynes 37 7°
Taunton, East, by Geo. A. King 10 00
Winslow, by Tos. H. Hastings 84 43
Wakefield, by W. P. Preston 25 98
Wall Fund, Income of 32 00
Waltham, Swede Ch., by Gottfried Isak-
son 287
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Trinitarian, by T. W. Temple $30 09
iVare, East (add'l), by D. W. Ainsworth. 5 00
Yatertown, Phillips, individuals in, for
local Armenian Work 10 00
Vestboro, Evan., by Harriet E. Brig-
ham 7487
Vest Boylston, S. School, by E. D. Rice,
forC. H. M. S. debt iS 00
Vestport, Pacific Union, S. School, by
J. C. Macomber 15 00
Veymouth, North, Heights, by Rufus
Bates 68 28
South, Old South, by Rev. H. C.
Alvord 1200
Vhitcomb, David, Fund, Income of . . . . 142 50
Amount of Bank Stock surrendered
for reinvestment 1,00000
Vhitin, J. C., Fund, Income of 337 50
Vhitman, First, by Bela Alden 28 10
Villiamstown, South, by Rev. Jas. A.
Ly tte 10 00
Winchester, First, by Eben Caldwell,
Treas $250 00
P. E. N., Special 1000
Windsor, by Rev. S. M. Andrews 2 50
Woburn Conference, by Rev. Geo. E.
Lovejoy, for Montvale Ch 1600
Worcester, cash, to const. Mrs. Maria
A. Smith a L. M 30 00
Piedmont, by Alfred W. Burrill 37 00
Union, by C. B. Greene 144 29
Woman's Home Miss. Asso.,by Miss A.
C. Bridgman, Treas. :
Boston, Roxbury, Wal. Ave. Aux.,
towards salary of Rev. Saml. Dea-
kin, Cowles, Neb 14 00
Home Missionary
53 41
6 00
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in April, li
Treasurer
Ward W. Jacobs,
Jridgeport, Second, by O. H. Brothwell
Sristol, by L. G. Merick
ilroad Brook, see East Windsor.
irookfield, by Alfred Somers, for C. H.
M. S,
p)erby, First, by Luzon Hubbell
Sastford, by Rev. J. P. Trowbridge, for
C. H. M. S
iast Norwalk, see Norwalk.
Jast Windsor, Broad Brook, by S. B.
Adams
kanby, First, by M. C. Hayes
lampton, by J. W. Congdon, for C. H.
M. S
tillingly, South Killingly, by Rev.
William H. Beard, for C. H. M. S.,
for part of share in Gen. O. O. How-
ard Roll of Honor, taken by Plainfield
Cong. Ch
Tew Haven, Redeemer, by William E.
Rowland
few London, First, by H. C. Learned..
Torth Haven, Ladies' Benevolent Soci-
ety, by Mary Wyllys Eliot
H° 35
25 00
33 83
'8 33
7 07
7 00
15 26
43 60
Norwalk, East Norwalk, Swedish, by
Conrad Molandar $3 00
Orange, West Haven, First, by Rev. S.
J. Bryant 2552
Rockville Union, see Vernon.
Stafford, West Stafford, by Rev. J. A.
Solandt 10 00
Staffordville, by Rev. H. M. Vaill. . . . 6 00
Vernon, Rockville, Union, by H. L.
James 47 27
Warren, by A. B. Camp, for C. H. M. S. 18 00
West Hartford, by E. S. Elmer 15 83
West Haven, First, see Orange.
West Stafford, see Stafford.
Wethersfield, by S. F. Willard 65 07
Winchester, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M.
S., by HarrieStarks 130
Windsor Locks, Mrs. H. R. Coffin, for
C. H. M. S., Gen. O. O. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
$ 530 38
BOXES
Cromwell, box $110 00
ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Illinois Home Missionary Society in March, 1896.
Treasurer
Aaron B. Mead,
ibingdon $84 50
Ubion, Mrs. P. W. Wallace 2 00
tlto Pass 10 05
vmboy 40 00
innawan 7 20
lustin 5° 00
Won, Y. P. S. C. E 3 00
iatavia, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Sunker Hill 12 65
Cambridge 34 20
"anton 26 29
Chicago, First (S. S., $17 ; Ladies' Soc,
$45) 226 17
! Plymouth 3 00
, New England 1 00
. Leavitt Street 48 15
j Lincoln Park 55 00
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South $15752
University 12 35
Englewood, Pilgrim 44 70
Central Park, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
South Chicago (Y. P. S. C. E., $s> 15 00
Chillicothe 31 05
Crescent City 10 00
Crete 11 00
De Kalb 64 20
De Long 5 45
Earlville, J. A. D 25 00
Elburn 452
Elmhurst 30 00
Godfrey 29 00
Griggsville 12 00
Harvard 10 00
Hennepin (Y. P. S. C. E., $10) 13 50
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Highland $8 36
Hinsdale, S. S 50 00
Hume 15 00
Kangley 5 00
Lacon 961
La Salle 5 00
Mendon (S. S., $12.75) 28 75
Metropolis 14 00
Morton Park ... 2 42
New Grand Chain 6 35
Newtown 2 00
Nora 2 85
Oak Park. First 100
Forest Ave. Branch Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
OlneyfY. P. S. C. E., $5) 10 00
Oneida (S. S., $1 ; Y. P. S. C. E.,$2.so). 28 50
Pana 5 00
Pecatonica 6 50
Payson, J. K. Scarborough 5 00
Pit'tsfield" 49 n
Plainfield (Y. P. S. C. E., $2) ' 26 75
Piano 5 00
Rantoul 2 25
Ridgeland 38 76
Riley n 00
River View 8 00
Roberts, S. S., $10 ; Y. P. S. C. E., $4.20. 14 20
Rockefeller 9 28
Rockford, First 89 35
Second, S. S 1884
Rollo, Y. P. S. C. E 2 00
Roscoe 14 00
Sandoval 29 00
Seward, First 912
Second 13 20
Shabbona, Y. P. S. C. E 15 20
Sheffield 137 50
Stillman Valley, Lovejoy Johnson, $15 ;
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Clayton, $2 17 00
Streator, Bridge Street 5 77
Sycamore 100 00
Ton ica 10 00
Wataga 16 37
Waverly (Y. P. S. C. E., $2.93 ; S. S.,
$9-75) 37 99
Wayne $2000
Western Springs 5 00
Wheaton (S. S., $3) 53 30
Winnebago 20 80
Woman's Home Missionary
Union :
Aurora, New England $29 77
Chicago, New England 9 50
Lincoln Park 525
Evanston 5 00
Mrs. Lucy Shuman, $50 ;
Bequest of Mrs. Cloe B.
Wells, $5 55 00
Glencoe 37 80
Griggsvillel young ladies, $30). 60 00
Highland 1000
Marshall 7 05
Metropolis 2 36
Oak Park 2000
Paxton 75 00
Pittsfield, Clare and Edward
Doocy 20
Quincy, First Union 25 00
Rockford, First 18 10
Second 115 00
Rogers Park 14 00
Sheffield, Y. P. S. C. E 1200
Sycamore 50 00
Waverly 2 36
Winnebago 5 00
558 39
Winslow, Berean Ch 25 58
Woodburn 345
Yorkville 681
Miscellaneous :
Cash 25 00
Interest on Investment 178 85
Supply Fee 10 00
Rev. Henry Willard 25 00
Rev. Jno. B. Davies, Chenoa 16 66
J. D. McCord, Chicago 8 33
Prompt Relief Fund 843 58
$3,779 32
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in March, 1896.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer
Alba
Ann Arbor
Armada
Y. P. S. C. E
S. S
Baldwin
Baroda
Batavia, S. S
Bradley
Bridgman
Carmel
Carson City
Clare
S. S
Clarksville
Columbus
Cooper
Copemish
Detroit, Woodward A\
Fort Street
Mt. Hope
S.S
Y. P. S. C. E
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E...
Brewster
S. S
Dexter
Eastport ,
522 45 Eaton Rapids
24 55 Edmore
29 15 Freeport
10 00 Galesburg
5 00 S. S
15 00 A Friend
1 00 Gilmore
2 25 Grand Rapids, First
1 25 Second. S. S
1 00 Smith Memorial
633 Grass Lake
6 50 Y. P. S. C. E
9 00 Hancock
5 00 Homestead
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Olivet 100 00
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Oxford 14 85
Pittsford, Y. P. S. C. E 100
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Wayland 1 25
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Williamston 8 11
Ypsilanti 32 00
S. S 5 00
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Interest on Permanent Funds 150 00
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$2,959 13
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SENIOR SOCIETIES
Almont, W. M. S
Allendale, W. H. M. U
Ann Arbor, W. H. M. U
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Battle Creek, Mrs. Eliza Allen
Benton Harbor, W. M.U
Benzonia, W. H. M.S
Bridgman, W. H. M. S
Bronson, W. H. M. S
Cadillac, W. M. S
Charlotte, L. B. S
Cheboygan, W. H. M. U
Clinton, W. H. M. S
Coloma, H. and F. M. S
Cooper, W. H. M. S
Covert, W. M. S
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Brewster, W. H. M. S.'
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Douglas, W. M. S
Eaton Rapids, W. H. M. S
Flint, W. H. M. S
Frankfort, W. H. M. U
Galesburg, W. M. S
Grand Bianc, W. H. M. S
Grand Haven, W. M. S
Grand Ledge, W.H. M.U
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South Ch., W. H. M. S
Hancock, W. M. S
Harrison, W. H. M. S
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Muskegon, Grand Av., W. H. M.S.. 50
North Adams, W. M. S 22 00
Olivet, L. B. S 25 00
Onekama, W. H. M. S 500
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Pontiac, W. H. M. S 9 00
Port Huron, W. H. M. S 500
Portland, W. H. M. S 1 05
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Rondo, W. H. M. S 5 25
St. Joseph, W. M. S , 6 90
Saginaw, W. S 128 27
Salem, First. W. H. M. S 500
Saugatuck, W. M. S 12 50
Shelby, L. A. S 500
Solon, W. H. M. U 5 00
Somerset, W. H. M. S 18 00
South Emmett, W. M. S 50
South Haven, W. M.S 23 00
South Lake Linden, W. H. M. S 5 00
Tipton, W. H. and F. M. S 10 00
Union City, W. H. M. U n 50
Vermontville, W. H. M.S 1575
Vicksburg, W. H. M. S 1500
West Adrian, W. M. S 5 00
Whitaker, W. H. M. S 8 00
Williamston, H. H. Soc 1 38
Wyandotte, W. M. S 20 00
Ypsilanti, W. H. M. S 21 25
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For Salary of Rev. Joel Martin :
Ann Arbor, Y. P. S. C. E
Bay City, Y. P. S. C. E
Bethel, Y. P. S. C. E
Bronson, Mission Band
Cadillac, Y. P. S. C. E
Cooper, Y. W. M. S
Frankfort, Y. P. S. C. E
Grand Rapids, Smith Memorial, Y. P.
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Hopkins Station, H. H M. Band
Litchfield, Y. P. S. C. E
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Owosso, Y. P. S. C.E
Oxford, Y. P. S. C. E
Richmond, Y. P. S. C. E
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Edmore, by Mrs. Henry Marsh.
Grass Lake, W. H. M. S
Jackson, W. H. M. S
Leslie, First, W. H. M. S
North Leoni, W. H. M. S
Owosso, W. M. S
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Union City, W. H. M. S
Vestaburg, L. A. S., by Mrs. Henry
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Allendale 17 80
Allenville . .' 3 71
Almont 47 00
Y. P. S. C. E 2 30
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Alpine an >1 Walker 2500
Armada, Y. P. S. C. E 500
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Baldwin 5 00
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Bay City 18 00
Belding 4 23
Benzonia 60 00
Big Prairie 5 00
Big Rock 2 65
Bradley 12 50
Cadillac 176 69
Cannon 5 00
Carmel 2 38
Carsonville 5 00
Cedar Springs 27 75
Central Lake 15 00
Charlevoix 14 00
Charlotte 25 00
Chase 300
Cheboygan 12 12
Chesaning 23 98
Chesterfield 17 00
Chippewa Lake 5 50
Clarksville 1 75
Clinton 40 50
Clio 700
Coloma 3 60
Columbus 997
Constantino 14 36
Cooks. 57
Coral 1 00
Crystal 6 00
Custer 7 55
Detroit, Woodward Avenue 93 75
Plymouth 926
Brewster, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Canfield Ave 11 50
East Gilead 3 08
East Nelson 5 25
East Paris 4 00
Eastport 646
Eaton Rapids 27 00
Edmore 950
Ellsworth 7 35
Ensign 1 45
Ewen 5 00
Fenwick 3 25
Flat Rock 4 co
Flint 35 ir
Garden 2 85
Gaylord 23 25
Gladstone 12 00
Grand Rapids, First 200 00
Second 20 60
South 19 10
Plymouth 3 50
East 7 25
Greenville 81 91
Hancock. S. S 100 00
S. S. Home Dpt 2274
Harrietta 81
Hilliards 10 06
Harrison, Y. P. S. C. E 200
Hart 25 00
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Imlay City 2 00
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Jackson. First 60 3s
Johnstown and Barry 4 00
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New Baltimore
New Haven
North Leoni
Northport
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Pine Grove
Pittsford
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Rapid River
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Rochester
Romeo
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Saginaw
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Sand Lake
Saranac
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Shingleton
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Sugar Island
Tawas City
Three Oaks
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Union City
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Wyandotte 30 00
Ypsilanti, Y. P. S. C. E 300
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Rev. Joel Martin 5 00
A Friend 1 00
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Benzonia, W. H. M. S $2 80
Columbus, W. M. S 500
Detroit, Woodward Av., W. U 50 00
First Ch., W. A" 50 00
Ellsworth, W, H. M. S 50
Grand Rapids, Park Ch., W. H. M. S 84 00
Greenville, W. H. M. S 9 50
Hancock, W. M. S 1460
Hartland, W. H. M. S 13 00
Highland Sta., W. H. M.S 4 25
Jackson, First, W. H. M. S 20 55
Lansing, Plymouth, W. H. M. U
Mulliken, W. H. M. U
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Ovid, W. M.S
Rapid River, W. M. S
Middleville, W. H. M. S
Red Jacket, W. H. M. S
Rochester, W. M. S -.
Union City, W. B. M. S $400
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Lansing, Plymouth Guild
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant. Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House, Boston.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis. So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
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7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, The Morris,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
St., Toledo.
9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave.,
Brooklyn.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St.,
Syracuse.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave.,
Brooklyn.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
n. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. W. H. Boals, Fargo.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert, The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June, 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle,
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. A. H. Robbins, Ashton.
Secretary,
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., Nev
Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.
Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Hartford.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City. s
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Clafiin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President, Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross. 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
^resident, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasjcrer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
'resident, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary,
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
president, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
reasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 152 North Gal-
vez St., New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
^resident, Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, West Brattleboro.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith, 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 1214 Grundy St.,
Nashville, Tenn.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
'-Ion. Pres ■., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
t MDe?^eri -m .id o r, President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508, Denver. Secretary )
rreasurer,Mrs. B. C.Valentine, Highlands. andJ lMiss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treaszirer, )
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
president, Mrs. F. W. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple, Cheyenne.
Treaszirer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas,
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave.
Helena.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.
Secretary, Miss Louise Graper, Vinita.
Treastirer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. J. H. Parker. Kingfisher.
Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Piatt. Guthrie.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. J. D. Hagerman, Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes. 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President, Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City, Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
Treasurer, Mrs. D. Q. Travis, Pocatello.
ongregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, III.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio,
.ev. Edw, D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
ev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville. F'la. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
.ev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
ev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. Rev^ W. S. Hawkes Salt Lake City, Utah.
ev. L. P. Broad Topeka, Kan. Rev. J. K. Harrison .San Francisco, Cal.
ev. E. H. Ashhun,.,<| Albuquerque, N. M. Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
ev. A. Judson Bailey Seattle, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapp .Forest Grove, Ore.
ev. T. G. Grassie Ashland, Wis. Rev T W Tones' D D J 511 Woodland Terrace,
a a t> «, ,*r (Black Hills and Wyoming. * * ' J > 1 Philadelphia, Pa.
,ev..A. A. BROWN.„iHot. Springs, South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
ev. Harmon Bross Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
ev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama). .Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
lev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
ohn L.Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " " Bangor, Me.
lev. A. T. Hillman, Secretary New Hampshire Home Miss. Society. . . .Concord, N. H.
Ion. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " " ....Concord, N. H.
Lev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " ** ....St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Vm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " " " " ....St. Johnsbury, Vt.
lev. Joshua Coit, Secretary .Massachusetts Home " *' . ) 9 Cong'l House,
lev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " " ...,f Boston, Mass.
lev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " . ...Pawtucket, R. I.
OS. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " "' Providence, R. I.
lev. William H. Moore, Secretary .Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Vard W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " " " Hartford, Conn.
(lev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
Villiam Spalding, Treasurer " " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
lev. J. G. Fraser, D.D., Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Vm. B. Howland, Treasurer " " " " New York City.
lev. James Tompkins, D.D., Secretary Illinois " " " | 153 La Salle St.,
Laron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " " " " f Chicago, 111.
lev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
'. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
lev. T. O. Douglass, D.D., Secretary Iowa " " " Grinnell, Iowa.
. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Des Moines, Iowa.
lev. William H. Warren, Secretary Michigan' " " " Lansing, Mich.
lev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Jeo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
lev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent "' " " " St. Louis, Mo.
-.ewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Communications
elating to general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.
Communications relating to the Editorial Department of The Home Missionary may be addressed to Rev.
Vlex. H. Clapp, D.D. Correspondence of the Woman's Department may be addressed to Mrs. H. S.
"aswell, Bible House, New York.
Donations and Subscriptions
n Drafts, Checks, Registered Letters, or Post-Office Orders may be addressed to Wm. B. Howland.
Treasurer, Bible House, Astor Place, New York.
A PAYMENT OF $50 CONSTITUTES A LIFE MEMBER
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I bequeath to my executors the sum of dollars, in trust, to pay over the same,
n months after my decease, to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
)f the Congregational Home Missionary Society, formed in the City of New York, in the year eighteen hundred^
ind twenty-six, to be applied to the charitable use and purposes of said Society, and under its direction.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Bible House, Astor Place, New York
Major-Gen eral Oliver O. Howard
President
Rev. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, D.D., Honorary Treasurer
Secretaries for Correspondence
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
Rev. William Kincaid, D.D.
Rev. Washington Choate, D.D
Mr. WILLIAM B. Howland, Treasurer
Executive Committee
Wm. Ives Washburn, Esq., Chairman
Asa A. Spear, Esq., Recording Secretary
Mr. Charles H. Parsons
Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D.
Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D.
Mr. Joseph Wm. Rice
Mr. Herbert M. Dixon
Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D.
Mr. George P. Stockwell
Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D.
Rev. John D. Kingsbury, D.D.
Mr. George W. Hebard
Rev. Henry A. Stimson, D.D.
John H. Perry, Esq.
Rev. Thomas B. McLeod, D.D.
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Contents for
SEVENTIETH ANNUAL
MEETING:
Roll of Members Present 98
Election of Officers, etc 104
Resolutions 103, 104, 106
Howard Roll of Honor 104
SEVENTIETH REPORT:
Summary of Results 109
The Treasury no
Comparative Results no
Our Woman's Department... n 1
Our Sunday-schools 112
Our Publications 112
Our Family Supplies 113
AUXILIARIES AND MISSION-
ARY FIELDS:
Maine Missionary Society. . . 114
New Hampshire Home Mis-
sionary Society 115
Vermont Domestic Missionary
Society 116
Massachusetts Home Mission-
ary Society 117
Rhode Island Home Mission-
ary Society 121
Missionary Society of Con-
necticut 122
New York Home Missionary
Society 123
New York City, Brooklyn and
Vicinity 124
Ohio Home Missionary Society 124
Illinois Home Missionary So-
ciety 126
Michigan Home Missionary
Society 127
Wisconsin Home Missionary
Society 130
Iowa Home Missionary Society 131
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc. 132
Tennessee and North Carolina 134
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Auxiliaries and Missionary Fields —
Continued.
Florida 134
Georgia 136
Alabama 137
Missouri and Arkansas 138
Cong. City Missionary Society
of St. Louis 139
Oklahoma and Indian Territ'y 140
Texas and Louisiana 141
New Mexico and Arizona. . . . 142
Indiana 143
Kansas ... 144
Nebraska 145
North Wisconsin 147
Minnesota 148
North Dakota 149
South Dakota 150
Wyoming and Black Hills
(South Dakota) ... 152
Colorado. 154
Montana 155
Utah and Idaho 156
Northern Californiaand Nevada 158
Southern California 160
Oregon 162
Washington 163
Slavic Department 164
Scandinavian Department. . . 166
German Department 168
Conclusion 170
Distribution of Missionaries by
Sections 171
Distribution of Missionaries by
States 172, 173
Tables : — General Comparative
Results 174
How Christian Endeavor Helps in
Home Missions 175
It was a " Sin of Ignorance " 176
The Treasury 177
The Roll of Honor 178
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Vol. LXIX JULY, 1896 No. 3
MINUTES OF THE SEVENTIETH ANNUAL MEETING'
OF THE CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY
SOCIETY
The Congregational Home Missionary Society convened for its
Seventieth Annual Meeting in the First Church, New Haven, Conn., at
7:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 2, 1896, with a Vice-President, the Rev. Edwin
B. Webb, of Massachusetts, in the chair.
The devotional services were led by the Rev. Edward L. Smith, of
Washington.
The Rev. Daniel Merriman, of Massachusetts, preached the annual
sermon from Acts ii, 17, " Thy sons and thy daughters shall prophesy."
The Rev. Newman Smyth, Pastor of the First Church, and the Rev.
Timothy Dwight, President of Yale University, presented salutations
and welcomes; and the Vice-President made response.
After singing, the benediction was pronounced by the Vice-President,
and at 9:30 the body adjourned till 9 a.m., Wednesday.
Wednesday Morning, June 3. — At 9, the body spent half an hour
in devotion, led by the Rev. Charles H. Williams, of Connecticut.
At 9:30 the Vice-President took the chair. After singing, the Rev.
William H. Moore, of Connecticut, and James T. Brinckerhoff, of
New York, were appointed Assistant Recording Secretaries.
The following committees were appointed :
On Local Arrangements. — Rev. Newman Smyth, Rev. Theodore T. Munger, Rev.
Watson L. Phillips, F. Stanley Bradley, Charles E. P. Sanford, Lyman M.
Law.
On Nominations. — Rev. Joshua Coit, of Massachusetts; Rev. Watson L. Phillips,
of Connecticut; Rev. Edward L. Smith, of Washington; Charles W. Osgood, of
Vermont; John W. Danielson, of Rhode Island.
The Auxiliary Societies were represented in addresses, as follows: The
Maine Missionary Society, by the Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary , the
New York Home Missionary Society, by the Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secre-
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tary ; the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, by the Rev. Joshua
Coit, Secretary; the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society, by the
Rev. Alfred T. Hillman, Secretary.
At 10:30, the time was given to the fourteenth annual meeting of the
Woman's Department, Mrs. Harriet S. Caswell, Secretary, presiding.
After singing, the Secretary presented a statement of the year's work.
Addresses were made by Mrs. Henry W. Heinzelman, of Indiana,
and Miss Caroline A. Potter, of California.
Prayer was offered by Mrs. Washington Choate, of Connecticut ;
Mrs. Ella Sheppard Moore, of Tennessee, sang " Swing Low, Sweet
Chariot ; " and an address was made by Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster,
of New York.
Mrs. Isaac P. Powell, of Michigan, conducted a responsive exercise.
The Rev. Dora R. Barber, of Oregon, made an address, and a
collection amounting to $212 was taken for her work.
Mrs. Joseph Ward, of South Dakota, led in prayer; the benediction
was pronounced by Mrs. Barber, and at 12:15 a recess was taken till 2 :3c
Wednesday Afternoon. — At 2:30, after singing, and prayer by the
Rev. Henry A. Stimson, of New York, the roll was reported in part, and
approved, and the Assistant Recording Secretaries were authorized to
complete it. When completed it was as follows :
ROLL
ANNUAL MEMBERS
Officers
Oliver O. Howard,
Rev. R. R. Meredith,
George P. Stockwell,
Rev. Edwin B. Webb.
Delf.catf.s from Churches
Connecticut
Bloomfield Mrs. (Rev.) E. H. Jenkyns.
Branford, Stony Creek E. J. Keyes.
" Mrs. (Rev.) G. A. Pelton.
Bridgeport, Black Rock Miss M. Alice Gould.
King's Highway Mrs. Frederick W. Storrs.
Cornwall, First Mrs. C. YV. Everett.
Second Rev. John Pierpont.
Mrs. I larriet F. Rogers.
Eastford Rev. John P. Trowbridge.
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East Windsor, first Mrs. Sarah L. Wells.
Fairfield, First Mrs. J. A. Kippen.
Greenfield Oliver Ff. Meeker.
Glastonbury, South Glastonbury Mrs. George Hale.
Griswold, First Rev. Frederick E. Allen.
Jewett City . Rev. Horace E. Morrow.
Mrs. (Rev.) H. E. Morrow.
Guilford, Third E.G. Bishop.
" S. E. Cruttenden.
Hartford, Fourth Rev. Kingsley F. Norris.
Killingly, Danielson Frederick S. Sibley.
Killingworth Lauren L. Nettleton.
Litchfield, Northfield Howard C. Peck.
Madison Sherman E. Griswold.
Middletown, First ..Mrs. O. V. Coffin.
" South Edward Payne.
" Mrs. Nellie A. Douglas.
New Haven, Plymouth William M. Parsons.
" Howard Avenue George H. Butricks.
Newington Jedediah Deming.
" Mrs. Francis H. Belden.
Norwich, Broadway Mrs. Sherman B. Bishop.
Mrs. Wm. R. Burnham.
Southbury, First Mrs. Alice C. Barrows.
Stonington, First Miss Emma A. Smith.
Suffield, West Suffield Benjamin Sheldon.
Mrs. (Rev.) J. B. Doolittle.
Thomaston, First Rev. Robert W. Sharp.
Torrington, Torringford ... Rev. Austin H. Norris.
^Trumbull Rev. William F. White.
Mrs. (Rev.) W. F. White.
Wallingford W. H. Goddard.
" Noah Linsley.
Waterbury, First Frederick Sims.
" Third Rev. Frank P. Waters.
" " Burton Benson.
Watertown Rev. Robert Pegrum.
Westport, Second J. E. Taylor.
" Rufus Wakeman.
Winchester, First Horace Burr.
" " Mrs. Horace Burr.
West Winsted Mrs. J. J. Whiting.
Windsor, Poquonnock Rev. Nathan T. Merwin.
Kansas
awrence, Plymouth Rev. Richard Cordley.
Mas sac h usetts
Agawam Mrs. Ralph Perry.
Amherst, North . . , Rev. Charles R. Dickinson.
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Boston, Jamaica Plain Mrs. Nathaniel Greene.
Chester, Second Rev. Thomas D. Murphy.
" Mrs. (Rev.) T. D. Murphy.
Conway Henry Billings.
" J. C. Newhall.
Hardvvick, Cilbertville Rev. Dwight C. Stone.
A. H. Richardson.
Haverhill, Center Albert Emerson.
Union Rev. George Benedict.
Littleton Rev. Amelia A. Frost.
Melrose Mrs. Henry C. Brown.
North Brookfield, Union Rev. Joseph J. Spencer.
Royalston, First Rev. Francis J. Fairbanks.
Somerville, Broadway Miss Maria S. Higgins.
South Hadley Falls Rev. Richard L. Swain.
Springfield, North Rev. Frank B. Makepeace.
Hope Rev. Ralph Brokavv.
" " F. W. Kemp.
Emmanuel Henry A. Giroux.
Uxbridge Rev. Frank L. Bristol.
Ware, East Henry B. Anderson.
West Boylston Rev. Charles J. Villiers.
Westfield Mrs. Marie E. Heywood.
West Springfield, Mittineague Rev. A. M. Spangler.
Park Street Ethan Brooks.
New Hampshire
Alstead, Second Rev. William E. Locke.
Hinsdale Rev. William E. Renshavv.
Keene William H. Jones.
" Mrs. Priscilla B. Jones.
New Jersey
Jersey City, First Rev. J. Lester Wells.
Plainfield Mrs. C. L. Goodrich.
New 3 'ork
Brooklyn, Plymouth R. G. Brown.
Puritan Rev. Robert L. Wensley.
New York, Camp Memorial Rev. Henry G. Miller.
Orient, L. I Rev. Jay N. Taft.
" John H. Young.
Sherburne Francis Rexford.
" Mary Rexford.
Washington
Seattle, Plymouth Rev. Amos J. Bailey.
Walla Walla Mrs. Mary A. Elliott.
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California
Miss Caroline A. Potter.
Connecticut
Rev. Joseph Anderson,
Rev. Jabez Backus,
Albert A. Baldwin,
Mrs. Albert A. Baldwin,
Rev. John W. Ballantine,
Rev. George W. Banks,
Strong H. Barber,
Eliza J. Barnes,
Mrs. Charlotte B. Barnum,
Miss Charlotte C. Barnum,
Mrs. Henry V. Barton,
Rev. Gerald H. Beard,
Mrs. Frederick Belden,
Mrs. Philo Bevin,
Mrs. B. P. Bishop,
Rev. John J. Blair,
Rev. S. Leroy Blake,
Gaius N. Booth,
Rev. Frank S. Brown,
Miss Elizabeth W. Brown,
Rev. Herbert S. Brown,
Mrs. L. P. Buell,
Mrs. Henry T. Buckley,
Mrs. James H. Bunce,
Mrs. M. B. Burger,
David N. Camp,
Miss Ellen R. Camp,
Rev. Washington Choate,
Mrs. Grace W. Choate,
Rev. Daniel J. Clark,
Rev. George L. Clark,
Miss Henrietta E. Clark,
Rev. Charles F. Clarke,
Mrs. Owen T. Clarke,
Mrs. Turner Cowles,
Mrs. R. H. Cowles,
Rev. Geo. H. Cummings,
Rev. Joseph Danielson,
Rev. John G. Davenport,
Rev. George S. Dickerman,
Rev. John B. Doolittle,
Miss M. Janette Elmore,
Rev. Thomas A. Emerson,
Mrs. Charles L. Fabrique,
LIFE MEMBERS
Mrs. George Follett,
Rev. Joseph A. Freeman,
Mrs. Henrietta Frisbie,
Mrs. Randolph Frisbie,
Rev. John C. Goddard,
Miss H. L. Goodrich,
Miss Alice H. Goodwin,
Rev. Frederick W. Greene,
Rev. Winthrop B. Greene,
Mrs. Martha C. Hadsell,
Rev. Alexander Hall,
Mrs. Emma S. Hall,
Rev. Russell T. Hall,
Mrs. (Rev.) R. T. Hall,
Rev. Samuel Harris,
Mrs. Samuel A. Hart,
Rev. William D. Hart,
Mrs. Margaret B. Harvey,
Mrs. M. A. Hemingway,
Mrs. Harriet Higgins,
Rev. Lucius H. Higgins,
Mrs. (Rev.) L. H. Higgins,
Miss Clara E. Hillyer,
Edwin N. Hinckley,
Rev. William H. Holman,
Mrs. Rebecca J. Hopson,
Mrs. William A. Howe,
Rev. James P. Hoyt,
Miss Sarah E. Hubbard,
Rev. Henry L. Hutchins,
Rev. Joel S. Ives,
Jesse B. Jacobs,
Rev. D. Melancthon James,
Rev. Edwin H. Jenkyns,
Rev. David E. Jones,
Aaron C. Keeler,
Rev. Luther M. Keneston,
MissS. Elizabeth Kilbourn,
Mrs. Amanda T. C. King,
Rev. Charles M. Lawson,
Rev. William G. Lathrop,
Donald B. MacLane,
Rev. Charles B. McLean,
Rev. Henry G. Marshall,
Rev. Sanford S. Martyn,
Rev. Sylvanus P. Marvin,
Rev. Frederick H. Means,
Rev. Oliver W. Means,
Mrs. M. T. Mellett,
Rev. I. C. Meserve,
Mrs. (Rev.) I. C. Meserve,
Rev. Thomas M. Miles,
Charles M. Minor,
Mrs. S. E. Minor,
Miss Elise F. Mix,
Rev. William H. Moore,
Horace B. Morse,
Rev. Theodore T. Munger,
Rev. William J. Mutch,
Mrs. Caroline G. Newton,
Mrs. (Rev.) T. K. Noble,
Rev. B. G. Northrop,
Rev. Charles Ray Palmer,
Rev. L. E. Pangburn,
Miss Harriet A. Parsons,
Charles Peck,
Mrs. Charles Peck,
Rev. George A. Pelton,
Albert R. Pierce,
Mrs. A. R. Pierce,
Rev. Watson L. Phillips,
Mrs. J. Evarts Pond,
Rev. Charles H. Pope,
Hezekiah L. Reade,
Mrs. Mary J. Rice,
Richard E. Rice,
Mrs. Susan M. Rice,
Mrs. Susan M. Roberts,
Daniel O. Rogers,
Mrs. D. 0. Rogers,
Mrs. Robert A. Rouse,
Mrs. H. M. Rowell,
E. A. Russell,
Rev. Frank Russell,
Mrs. Jane E. Sanderson,
Mrs. W. H. Scott,
Mrs. K. M. Sedgwick,
Mrs. Richard Seymour,
Benjamin Sheldon,
Rev. Charles W. Shelton,
Rev. Arthur Shirley,
Rev. James D. Smiley,
Mrs. Jabez W. Smith,
Rev. Newman Smyth,
Rev. Frederick E. Snow,
Edwin Talcott,
H. Gardner Talcott,
Mrs. George W. Taylor
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H. C. Thompson,
Mrs. Nathan Thresher,
Mrs. Caroline Tibbals,
Mrs. B. L. Tuttle,
Rev. Justin E. Twitchell,
Mrs. (Rev.) J. Howe Vorce,
Harry A. Warner,
Ernest A. Wells,
Herbert C. Wells,
Rev. Robert F. Wheeler,
J. J. Whiting,
Rev. Nathan II. Whittlesey,
Henry S. Wilcox,
Rev. Charles H. Williams,
Mrs. Laura A. Williams,
Miss L. Maria Williams,
J. S. Wooster,
Rev. J. L. R. Wyckoff.
Indiana
Rev. Edward D. Curtis.
Iowa
Rev. Ephraim Adams.
Maine
Rev. Frank A. Fuller,
Rev. James G. Merrill.
Alas sack it setts
Mrs. A. M. D. Alexander,
Rev. J. W. Ballard,
Rev. Henry C. Barnes,
Rev. William E. Barton,
Mrs. E. D. Batcheller,
Rev. George A. Beckwith,
Rev. Arthur J. Benedict,
Miss Carrie E. Bowdoin,
Miss A. C. Bridgman,
Rev. S. W. Brown,
Rev. Joshua Coit,
Rev. Charles H. Daniels,
Miss S. M. Duncklee,
Miss Mary T. Dutton,
Mrs. (Rev.) C. L. Goodell,
Rev. Frank L. Goodspeed,
Mrs.(Rev.)F.L.Goodspeed,
Rev. John A. Hamilton,
Mrs. Joshua C. Hatch,
Edmund Hobart,
Mrs. Lora B. Hoit,
Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg,
Rev. John 1). Kingsbury,
Mrs. C. M. Kingsbury,
Rev. John II. Lockwood,
Nelson Lombard,
Rev. John A. MacColl,
Rev. E. L. Marsh,
Herbert E. Miller,
Miss Emma L. Morgan,
Edward F. Morris,
Mrs. Pauline Munson,
Rollin D. Newton,
Mrs. Clara S. Palmer,
Mrs. Marshall Pease,
Rev. William G. Tuddefoot,
George C. Richmond,
Rev. L. S. Rowland,
Mrs. M. T. F. Rugg,
Ezra Sawyer,
Mrs. Ezra Sawyer,
J. H. Shedd,
Miss Anne M. Sill,
Rev. Rufus M. Taft,
Mrs. Lydia S. Thayer,
Mrs. M. M. Tibbetts,
Almon O. Williams.
Michigan
Rev. William II. Warren.
Minnesota
Rev. Cornelius H. Patton.
New Hampshire
Rev. T. Eaton Clapp,
Rev. D. W. Morgan,
Mrs. R. R. Morgan,
Miss M. A. Page,
Mrs. Frances S. Spencer.
New Jersey
Rev. Charles L. Goodrich,
Rev. Charles A. Savage.
New ) rork
Rev. Henry P. Bake,
Rev. Augustus F. Beard,
Rev. Howard Billman,
James T. Brinckerhoff,
Rev. Joseph B. Clark,
Rev. L. H. Cobb,
Rev. Charles C. Creegan,
Rev. Franklin S. Fitch,
George W. Hebard,
Rev. Jesse J. Hough,
Mrs. (Rev.) J. J. Hough,
William B. Howland,
Rev. Henry W. Hunt,
Rev. William Kincaid,
Mrs. (Rev.) W. Kincaid,
Miss Kate J. Kincaid,
Mrs. G. A. Low,
Rev. Albert J. Lyman,
Charles L. Mead,
Miss Emily K. Miller,
Rev. F. B. Richards,
Rev. James G. Roberts,
Asa A. Spear,
Mrs. George C. Stebbins,
Rev. Henry A. Stimson,
Rev. William A. Trow,
Mrs. (Rev.) W. A. Trow,
Rev. Samuel II. Virgin,
Mrs. Isadora T. Virgin,
William Ives Washburn,
Rev. Charles T. Weitzel,
Rev. James M. Whiton.
Pennsyh'a>iia
Rev. Thomas W. Jones,
Rev. Charles H. Richards.
Rhode Island
Tohn W. Danielson,
Rev. Alexander McGregor,
Mrs. Emily A. Rice,
Jos. William Rice.
Utah
Rev. W. S. Hawkes.
Vermont
Rev. Charles O. Day,
Rev. Allen Hazen,
Rev. Charles H. Merrill,
Rev. John L. Merrill,
Charles W. Osgood,
Mrs. C. W. Osgood.
Washington
Rev. S. L. B. Penrose,
Rev. Edward L. Smith.
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The Report of the Executive Committee was presented and ac-
cepted.
The Rev. William W. McLane, of Connecticut, on behalf of the
Committee on the Report of the Executive Committee, presented a
report, which was accepted.
It was voted 'that the thanks of the Society be given to the Rev. Daniel
Merriman, of Massachusetts, for his exceptionably valuable sermon, and
that a copy of the sanie be requested for publication.
It was voted that the minutes, the sermon, and the report of the Execu-
tive Committee, including the papers of the Secretaries, be printed ; and
also other papers, addresses, and reports, at the discretion of the Execu-
tive Committee.
The Rev. William E. Park, of New York ; the Rev. James W. Bixler,
of Connecticut ; Washington I L. Adams, of New Jersey ; the Rev.
David Beaton, of Illinois ; and G. Henry Whitcomb, of Massachusetts,
were appointed a committee to which shall be submitted the Report of
the Executive Committee for 1897.
The Committee on Nominations made a report, which was ac-
cepted.
It was voted that the Executive Committee be instructed to present at
the next annual meeting an amendment to Article 5 of the Constitution,
which will render members of the Executive Committee ineligible for
reelection until one year after the close of their service ; the amendment
to take effect at that meeting.
The time from 3:45 to 4:30 was given to the Congregational Church
Building Society.
Addresses were made by the Rev. Levi H. Cobb, of New York, Sec-
retary, and the Rev. Wallace Nutting, of Rhode Island.
After singing, at 4:30, the Congregational Sunday-School and Publish-
ing Society was represented in addresses by the Rev. George M. Boyn-
ton, of Massachusetts, Secretary ; the Rev. Ralph A. Rowley, of Ore-
gon ; and the Rev. William Shaw, of Georgia.
At 5, the Rev. Nathan H. Whittlesey, of Connecticut, spoke on
Ministerial Relief.
At 5:15, addresses were made by the following representatives from
the field : the Rev. Horace Sanderson, of Colorado ; and the Rev.
Amos Judson Bailey, of V/ashington.
After singing, and the benediction by the Rev. Thomas W. Jones, of
Pennsylvania, at 5:45 a recess was taken till 7:30.
Wednesday Evening. — At 7:30, President Oliver O. Howard, of
Vermont, took the chair. After singing, and prayer by the Rev. Samuel
H. Virgin, of New York, the following officers were declared elected :
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PRESIDENT
Maj.-Gen. Oliver O. Howard, of Vermont.
VICE-PRESIDENTS
Joseph R. Hawley, of Connecticut,
Rev. John K. McLean, of California,
Jeremiah H. Merrill, of Iowa,
Rev. Edwin B. Webb, of Massachusetts,
William H. Alexander, of Nebraska,
Nelson Dingley, Jr., of Maine,
Rev. Edward P. Goodwin, of Illinois,
Cornelius D. Wood, of New York,
Rev. Edward D. Eaton, of Wisconsin,
H. Clark Ford, of Ohio.
RECORDING SECRETARY
Rev. William H. Holman, of Connecticut.
AUDITOR
Caleb B. Knevals.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.— TO SERVE FROM 1S94 to 1897 (To fill Vacancy)
John F. Anderson, Jr., of New York.
TO SERVE FROM 1S96 to 1S99
Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D., of New York,
Joseph William Rice, of Rhode Island.
Rev. Thomas B. McLeod, D.D., of New York.
Rev. Robert R. Meredith, D.D., of New York.
David A. Thompson, of New York.
The time and place of the next annual meeting were referred to the
Executive Committee.
After singing by Mrs. Ella S. Moore, the Rev. Washington Choate,
of Connecticut, Secretary, read a paper entitled "The Seventieth Year."
The following resolution was unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That the Congregational Home Missionary Society, in its Annual Meeting
in New Haven, notes with devout gratitude to God the generosity of churches and indi-
viduals in swelling the "General Howard Roll of Honor," so that 835 shares of
$100 each have been paid into our treasury, in addition to usual contributions, and fifty
more shares have been pledged, thus meeting an urgent need of our work ;n a critical time.
And that we now appeal to our churches and members, whose servant we are, to
finish the work so splendidly begun, and pledge and pay as quickly as possible the 420
shares still needed to complete this noble memorial to our gallant Soldier-President.
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Addresses interspersed with singing were made by the Rev. Cornelius
H. Patton, of Minnesota ; the Rev. William H. Warren, of Michigan ;
and the Rev. Albert J. Lyman, of New York.
After the doxology, the Rev. Samuel Harris, of Connecticut, pro-
nounced the benediction, and at 10 the body adjourned till 9 a.m.,
Thursday.
Thursday Morning, June 4. — At 9 the body spent half an hour in
devotion, led by the Rev. George W. Moore, of Tennessee.
At 9:30 the President took the chair and conducted a brief devotional
service.
The minutes of Tuesday and Wednesday were approved, and the
Recording Secretary was authorized to complete the minutes at the close
of the day.
The Rev. Joseph B. Clark, of New York, Secretary, read a paper
entitled "A Look Backward."
Addresses were made by the Rev. Ephraim Adams, of the Andover-
Iowa Band ; the Rev. Richard Cordley, of the Andover-Kansas Band ;
the Rev. Charles W. Shelton, of the Yale-Dakota Band ; the Rev.
Stephen B. L. Penrose, of the Yale-Washington Band, and the Rev.
George B. Stevens, of the Yale Divinity School.
At 11 :45 the salutations of kindred societies were presented as follows :
Of the American Board, by the Rev. Charles H. Daniels, of Massa-
chusetts, Secretary ; of the American Missionary Association, by the Rev.
Augustus F. Beard, of New York, Secretary.
After singing, the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Charles
Ray Palmer, of Connecticut ; and at 12:30 a recess was taken till 2.
Thursday Afternoon. — At 2, after singing, and prayer by the Rev.
Justin E. Twitchell, of Connecticut, the following were made a Com-
mittee on Nominations for next year: The Rev. Henry Fairbanks, of
Vermont ; the Rev. Newman Smyth, of Connecticut ; the Rev. Lyman
S. Rowland, of Massachusetts ; Lucien C. Warner, of New York, and
Samuel S. Marples, of New York.
Addresses were made by the following representatives from the field :
The Rev. Samuel V. S. Fisher, of Minnesota ; the Rev. Edward D.
Curtis, of Indiana ; the Rev. James K. Harrison, of California ; the
Rev. Amasa A. Brown, of South Dakota, and the Rev. Winfield S.
Hawkes, of Utah.
After singing, the Congregational Education Society was represented
in addresses by the Rev. John A. Hamilton, of Massachusetts, Secre-
tary, and the Rev. William- E. Barton, of Massachusetts.
After singing, and the benediction by the Rev. Daniel L. Furber, of
Massachusetts, at 4:30 a recess was taken till 7:30.
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Thursday Evening. — At 7:30 the devotional services were led by
the Rev. John D. Kingsbury, of Massachusetts.
The following resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That the thanks of the Congregational Home Missionary Society are
hereby extended to the precentor who has so kindly led our services of song, and to the
organist and choir of this church for valuable aid in worship ; to the Center Church of
New Haven and its pastor for the invitation that brought us hither, for the generous use
of their house of worship and chapel, and for their ceaseless attention to every want ; the
ladies of the church for ample provision for social fellowship, and to the Congregational
churches of the city for the abundant preparations made for the comfort of those attend-
ing this seventieth anniversary.
Resolved, Further, that we express our thanks to the officials of the railroads for
their courtesy shown in the issue of certificates for the use of delegates, with reduction of
rates of travel, thus adding largely to the success of the anniversary. Also, to the press
of the city, for their faithful and accurate reports of the meetings.
Resolved, That the thanks of the Woman's Department of the Congregational Home
Missionary Society are hereby heartily rendered to Mrs. T. H. Sheldon and those ladies
associated with her, for the efficient aid given at the Woman's Meeting. Also, to -the
kind and gracious sexton of the church, whose anticipation of the needs of the meeting
and quick response to every suggestion contributed so much to the pleasure of all.
The Rev. William Kincaid, of New York, Secretary, read a paper
entitled " A Look Forward."
After singing, addresses were made by the Rev. David N. Beach, of
Minnesota ; the Rev. Franklin S. Fitch, of New York ; the Rev.
Albert H. Currier, of Ohio ; and the Rev. William G. Puddefoot, of
Massachusetts.
President Howard led in prayer ; the hymn, " From age to age they
gather," was sung ; the benediction was pronounced by the Rev. Theo-
dore T. Munger, of Connecticut ; and at 10 the meeting was dissolved.
William H. Holman,
Recording Secretary.
William H. Moore, ) Assistant
James T. Brinckerhoff, \ Recording Secretaries.
The Executive Committee is constituted as follows :
TO SERVE FROM 1894 to 1897
George P. Stockwell, of New York.
Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D., of New York.
Asa A. Spear, of New York.
Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D., of New York.
John F. Anderson, Jr., of New York.
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 107
TO SERVE FROM 1895 to 1898
George W. Hebard, of New York.
William Ives Washburn, of New York.
Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D., of Pennsylvania.
Rev. John D. Kingsbury, D.D., of Massachusetts.
John H. Perry, of Connecticut.
TO SERVE FROM 1896 to 1899
Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D., of New York.
Joseph William Rice, of Rhode Island.
Rev. Thomas B. McLeod, D.D., of New York.
Rev. -Robert R. Meredith, D.D., of New York.
David A. Thompson, of New York.
The Committee met in the Bible House, New York, on Monday, June
8, 1896, and reelected the Executive Officers who served through the
previous year, and whose names will be found on the fourth page of the
cover of The Home Missionary and of the Annual Report.
SEVENTIETH REPORT
Once more the Executive Committee must begin its report with a
record of Death's doings in the ranks of its co-workers in official over-
sight and in active operations upon the wide field.
Austin Abbott, Esq., of New York City, Recording Secretary of the
Society from 1864 to 1878, and one of its Vice-Presidents from 1878 until
his decease, departed this life on the 19th of April, 1896. He was born
in Boston, December 18, 1831, was graduated from the University of the
City of New York in 1851, was admitted to the Bar in 1852, and soon
became prominent for his legal learning. Few works have been more
useful to the members of his profession than are his series of Digests of
the Laws of New York, his Legal Forms, his Trial Evidence, Briefs for
the Trial of Civil Issues, for the Trial of Civil Cases, and other volumes
which rank high among the text-books of the profession throughout the
land. The just issue of some of the most important legal trials in the
country was due to his learning, skill, and well-known integrity.
He was one of the founders and active supporters of the Young Men's
Christian Association of this city, for more than twenty-five years a
deacon in the Broadway Tabernacle Church, was Dean of the University
Law School, and filled other positions of great influence for good. As
Counselor of this Society for many years, he patiently devoted to the
adjustment of not a few of its difficult cases of contested legacies and
other matters involving legal questions, much precious time, the ripe fruit
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of his ample learning, and the full power of his personal influence with
high legal tribunals. For these and many other personal services, for
the dignity, courtesy, and impartiality with which he from time to time
presided over its annual and other important meetings, as well as for his
long-continued practical interest in its work, this Society will hold the
name of Austin Abbott in grateful and lasting remembrance.
Of the workers in the vast field under the care of the Society and its
Auxiliaries only four have been called within this year from their earthly
labors to their heavenly reward.
Rev. William H. Evans died at Big Lake, Minn., on the 26th of Janu-
ary, 1896. He was of English birth, came to this country in his fifteenth
year, served in the navy in the war of the Rebellion, came into the Con-
gregational ministry in 1892, organized a church at one of his preaching
points, and died in the service of his first and only parish. " Enthusiastic,
consecrated, conscientious, faithful, genial, loving, and true," are the
words by which his brethren describe him.
Rev. George C. Hall, since 1892 pastor of the Congregational Church
of Nebraska City, Neb., died there on the 25th of March, 1896, after
ten years of ministerial life. He preached in his pulpit, as usual, March
15, and ten days after ceased from his earthly labors. Those who knew
him best describe him as an effective preacher, a faithful pastor, well
beloved by Christian people, and worthily held in high esteem by the
entire community.
Rev. Henry M. Voorhees died at Claremont, California, November
20, 1895. He was born July 4, 1840, in New Jersey, was graduated from
Rutgers College and New Brunswick Seminary, served several Reformed
churches in New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, sought to recruit
his health in Southern California in 1893, became pastor of the Congrega-
tional church of Escondido, and served it faithfully, constantly planning
new pastoral and Sunday-school work, until laid aside a few weeks before
his lamented death.
Rev. J. Benyon Williams, from Wales, took charge of the united
churches of Coalville, Slatervillc, Ogden, and Lynne, Utah, on the 1st of
February, 1895. Ill-health both of himself and his helpful wife compelled
them to leave the field in July following for Southern California. But
the change of climate failed to bring the hoped-for relief. Both died
within three months, leaving a precious memory. Mr. Williams was a
preacher of unusual power, delivering his sermons without writing, after
careful study of the Bible, and with an originality, vigor, and unction
which caused them to abide in the memory and to permanently affect the
lives of his hearers.
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SUMMARY OF RESULTS
The number of missionary laborers in the service of the Society the
last year, ending March 31, 1896, whose names are found in the General
Table in the full Report, together with those engaged in superintending
the work, is 2,063. (Deducting 25 reported in more than one State, 2,038.)
Of these, 1,345 were in commission at the date of the last report, and
693 have since been appointed.
They have been employed in 44 States and Territories, as follows
In Maine, 116 ; New Hampshire, 54 ; Vermont, 73 ; Massachusetts, 141
Rhode Island, 12 ; Connecticut, 60 ; New York, 92 ; New Jersey, 10
Pennsylvania, 45 ; North Carolina, 2 ; Maryland, 4 ; West Virginia, 1
Louisiana, 8 ; Georgia, 23 ; Alabama, 35 ; Arkansas, 6 ; Florida, 38
Texas, 8 ; Indian Territory, 8 ; Oklahoma, 44 ; Tennessee, 2 ; Ohio, 47
Indiana, 30 ; Illinois, 154; Missouri, 54; Michigan, 88 ; Wisconsin, 84
Iowa, 91 ; Minnesota, 116 ; Kansas, 60 ; Nebraska, 101 ; North Dakota
36 ; South Dakota, 95 ; Colorado, 55 ; Wyoming, 15 ; Montana, 10
New Mexico, 9 ; Utah, n ; Nevada, 1 ; Idaho, 8 ; Arizona, 3 ; California,
105 ; Oregon, 29 ; Washington, 79 ; in all, 2,063. Of these, 25, having
labored in more than one State, are in this enumeration twice counted.
The total number of individuals employed is 2,038.
This distribution, retaining the twice counted, gives, to the New Eng-
land States, 456 ; Middle States, 151 ; Southern States, 109 ; South-
western States, 120; on the Pacific Coast, 213; Western States and
Territories, 1,014.
Of the whole number in commission, 1,125 have been pastors or stated
supplies of single congregations ; 645 have ministered to two or three con-
gregations each ; and 293 have extended their labors over still wider fields.
The aggregate of missionary labor performed is 1,509 years.
The number of congregations and missionary districts which have been
fully supplied, or where the Gospel has been preached at stated intervals,
is 4,110.
The number of those who have preached in foreign languages is 208 :
54 to German congregations, 94 to Scandinavian congregations, 24 to
Bohemian congregations, 4 to Polish congregations, 1 r to French congre-
gations, 1 to Mexican congregations, 2 to Italian congregations, 3 to
Spanish congregations, 3 to congregations of Finns, 2 to congrega-
tions of Danes, 3 to congregations of Armenians, 1 to a congregation of
Greeks, and 6 to congregations of Welsh.
The number of Sunday-school and Bible-class scholars is not far from
186,343. The organization of 241 new schools is reported, and the num-
ber under the special care of "missionaries is 2,483.
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One hundred and seventeen missionaries make mention of revivals of
religion during the year, some of them reporting 154, 104, 100, 93, 92, 90,
88, 80, 70, 68, 60, and 57 hopeful conversions. In 287 instances the
number of reported converts exceeds 10, and the number reported by 778
missionaries is 9,607.
The additions to the -churches, as nearly as can be ascertained, have
been 12,138, viz.: 8,153 on confession of faith, and 3,985 by letters from
other churches.
One hundred and twenty-three churches have been organized in con-
nection with the labors of the missionaries within the year, and 24 have
assumed the entire support of their own gospel ordinances.
Ninety-six houses of worship have been completed, and 162 materially
repaired or improved. Three chapels are reported as having been built
within the year, and 69 parsonages have been provided. One hundred
and twenty-six men, in connection with the missionary churches, are
reported as in different stages of preparation for the gospel ministry.
THE TREASURY
The Society began the year with a net debt of $132,140.05. The
receipts of the National Society during the year, from contributions,
legacies, and other sources, were $538,606.33, and the Auxiliaries raised
and expended on their own fields $239,141.62, making the total income
for the year (including $11,070.43 cash in hand for drafts payable on the
first of the year) $788,818.38.
The expenditures of the National Society for missionary labor and
expenses during the year have been $460,713.74, and the Auxiliaries have
expended $239,141.62 on their various fields, making the total expendi-
tures for the work (including $8,523.38 cash in hand for drafts payable
at the end of the year) $708,378.74.
The net debt of the Society at the close of the fiscal year, March 31,
1896, is $51,700.41.
The " Roll of Honor " plan, proposed by General Howard at the
annual meeting of 1895, has met with general favor, more than two-thirds
of the amount called for having been realized during the fiscal year.
The shares are still being freely taken in such numbers as to encourage
hope that the remaining portion of the debt will soon be canceled.
COMPARATIVE RESULTS
The number of commissions is more by 38 than that of the sixty-
ninth year ; the years of labor were 70 more ; the number who have
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preached in foreign languages, 208, has been decreased by 19 ; 6 more
preaching stations have been statedly supplied. The additions to the
aided churches were, by letter, 362 less, and on confession 540 less, than
last year. The number of Sunday-schools under missionary care has
been decreased by 21, with 5,530 more scholars reported.
OUR WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT
The fourteenth year of this Department has been one of harder work
and healthier growth in practical interest than was either of its prede-
cessors. But a single State Union, that of Idaho, has been added to the
list, nearly all the territory covered by the Society's operations having
been already covered also by Woman's Unions.
Almost all the working weeks of the year have found the untiring
secretary, Mrs. Caswell, busy in the field, leaving the office work in the
care of Miss Anna A. Pickens, formerly with the Woman's Home Mis-
sionary Association (Boston). The time of the secretary was chiefly
given to the " rallies " held in many of the larger towns of New Hamp-
shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Illinois, and
Michigan, and to meetings with the woman's organizations of Indiana,
Missouri, and other States of the Interior and the West, to counsel,
quicken, and cheer therein the devoted women who are seeking newer
and more effective ways of advancing the cause they have so warmly at
heart. The chief outlay of time and strength in this line has naturally
been given to the swelling of the General Howard Roll of Honor, for five
hundred shares of which the Society was encouraged to look to the
women of our churches. Four hundred and eighty-two shares are
claimed to have been taken directly by the women of our State Unions
or brought in through their efforts.
The Unions in this year of business prostration and general dejection
have raised no less than $104,507.96 for the six national Congregational
societies. Of this sum $58,091.31 came into our home missionary
treasury — $10,000 more than the generous offerings of the sixty-ninth
year ! In ten years the offerings of these woman's organizations have
amounted to $777,860.49, of which $402,562.34 were paid into the treas-
ury of the Congregational Home Missionary Society — showing what
wonders may be wrought by consecrated women.
For a fuller statement of the work of the Woman's Department the
reader is referred to Mrs. Caswell's annual report, which may be had,
free of cost, by addressing her at the Bible House, New York City. For
particulars as to its work in securing and distributing " missionary
boxes," see paragraph on " Our Family Supplies," further on.
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OUR SUNDAY-SCHOOLS
The hearty devotion of the missionaries of this Society to the organ-
izing, fostering, and elevating the character of Sunday-schools continues
unabated — rather it increases year by year. No one understands more
fully than does the Home Missionary how largely the permanent success
of his work depends on the Christian care and training of the children and
youth under his spiritual oversight. Everywhere our Sunday-schools
are, in increasing numbers, becoming the seeds of churches, and of
churches the intelligence and earnestness of whose members give assur-
ance of perseverance and spiritual efficiency.
The missionaries report the organization of 241 new schools within
the year. The number of schools now under their personal oversight is
2,483. The aggregate of scholars taught in the infant, intermediate, and
Bible classes is 186,343 — a gain of 5,500 over the number reported a year
ago. Once more our missionaries are hearty in their thanks for the aid
received from the Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society
in the way of libraries and other aids, without which the work could not
be effectively carried on.
OUR PUBLICATIONS
The continued demands upon the treasury for missionary service in
fields that but for the Society's aid must be without the preached Gospel,
pastoral care, and Sunday-school instruction, have compelled a temporary
stop in the issuing of new leaflets, helpful as these have been found in
awakening interest and stimulating giving in our churches, Sunday-
schools, and Woman's State and local Unions. It is the hope of the
committee and officers, that with the revival of business and replenishing
of the treasury, the list of these useful leaflets may be enlarged, and their
wide distribution resumed.
Of Dr. Strong's " Our Country," and the late Superintendent Mont-
gomery's work, " A Wind of the Holy Spirit from Sweden and Norway,"
copies are still at our disposal, at prices given in the catalogue of the
Society's publications, Leaflet No. 70.
The Home Missionary began its sixty-ninth volume in May. Of the
sixty-eighth volume the average monthly issue was 29,612. The need of
money for work in the wide antd ever-enlarging field, near the close of the
year, led to the cutting down of the mail list to 25,000. This was mainly
done by the dropping of names of life members of very long standing,
from whom nothing had been heard for years, they having failed to comply
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 113
with the rule in such cases that, if a continuance of the magazine is
desired, request to that effect be made annually. A postal-card request
Will renew its monthly visits to any desiring and entitled to the magazine,
whose names may have been dropped, and a yearly renewal of the request
will insure its continuance for life.
OUR FAMILY SUPPLIES
During this year of continued pecuniary stringency the call has been
loud and incessant for those precious " home missionary boxes " for which
Dur active Women's Aid Societies have for many years been known through-
Dut the land, and to the increase and enrichment of which our Woman's
State Unions have so freely given themselves for these latest eleven
years. And nobly have the " devout women " of our churches responded.
Though they have cheerfully swelled by $10,000 their money offerings (of
158,091.31) to the treasury, they have not withheld this other form of
personal help to the missionary families, nearly all of them restricted in
the use of many things commonly regarded as necessary to decent family
life, and some of them compelled to exercise painful self-denial, by the
inability of their people to make good their pledges for their share of the
missionary's support.
The number of barrels, trunks, and other packages forwarded, and of
which notice has been sent to the Society, is 855. These have been sent
by fifty-seven more working circles than took part in the supply in the
previous year. The value set upon 798 of them by the donors is
$61,608.42. Valuing the remainder at the average rate of these, we have
the generous sum of $66,008.42. Besides these, there have been sent
out, as usual, a large number of unreported offerings in money, books,
clothing, and household supplies, of which the donors — often kindred or
near friends of the recipients — prefer not to render definite, account to
the Society. For these, as for the acknowledged helps, all thanks.
The acknowledgment of these family supplies, since the annual
account of them began to be kept, is $2,218,811 — a vast sum indeed, but
how small when compared with the reflex good brought to the hearts of
the givers, the comforts conferred on missionary homes, the spiritual
profit ministered to thousands now in heaven ! As long as Christian fel-
lowship and sympathy hold their place in the hearts of God's people, and
by their practical manifestation lighten the burdens and cheer the lone-
liness of workers on the far outposts of our home missionary fields —
yea, as long as there is need of Home Missions, so long we know we
may rely on this form of truly Christian helpfulness.
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AUXILIARIES AND MISSIONARY FIELDS
MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Galen C. Moses, Esq., President ; Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary, Ban-
gor ; John L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer, Bangor. Office in Bangor
The receipts of this Auxiliary, within the year ending February 28, were :
From churches and individuals $9,031 22*
From legacies 5,205 57
Income from invested funds J.0-^ 45
$16,152 24
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies, in
Maine, for the national work, within the year ending March 31 3,102 96
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions . . $19,255 20
The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, from surplus
and by request of donors, in cash, for the national work, within the year
ending March 31 $89 50
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 $17,187 47
The Secretary writes : During the year ending March 1, 1896, one
hundred and twenty-three missionaries have been employed under the
Society, including four ladies engaged in general missionary work, and
one general missionary for Eastern Maine. Seventy-six of the number
are regularly ordained ministers, while the others are licentiates and
student workers engaged in summer service. Seven new churches have
been organized and three church buildings completed.
Financially, the year has been a hard one, nearly all the pastors hav-
ing had their appropriations reduced from twenty-five to fifty per cent.
Yet in many cases the rule adopted by the trustees has been carried out
which requires the aided church to make good to the pastor the defi-
ciency in appropriation, or otherwise the entire grant shall be withheld.
This has resulted in a considerable number of churches meeting the
emergency readily, which indicates that larger grants have been made in
some cases than was absolutely demanded. In the administration of the
Society there has been a forced reduction of expenses, the office of Field
Secretary, of two years' standing, having been abolished. The student
workers during the summer were commissioned for eleven weeks only, as
compared with fourteen in previous years. In spite of these limitations,
the year has been marked by good spiritual results in many fields.
Revivals in quite a number of the churches have been reported through
the winter. The financial embarrassment through which the Society has
been passing has brought home to many of the churches the true relation
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 115
which they sustain to it, and there have been called forth renewed ex-
pressions of loyalty to the Society in not a few instances.
Seven important points have been occupied during the year, and some
of the newly organized churches mentioned already are situated at these
strategic points. A few churches also have come to self-support, while
others have approached more nearly to that point than before. On the
whole, the missionary churches supplied with regular pastors are excel-
lently manned, while the work done at those fields where occasional, or
summer, preaching services are held is subject to the uncertain results
attending such work. In very many cases most excellent work is done
by the body of -student preachers, quite enough to justify the expenditure
of the appropriations for that purpose. The great question in the State
is regarding the feeble churches in the sparsely settled and decaying
regions. In most of these the student work is all that is possible, or at
least apparently so ; while in one or two instances it has been proven
that a consecrated pastor can occupy one of these seemingly hopeless
fields with most gratifying results. The problems of the Maine Mission-
ary Society are not all simple.
The office of Secretary has been vacated and filled during the year.
1 Dr. Adams, who so faithfully and efficiently has occupied the place for
nineteen years, owing to advancing years and uncertainty in health
1 resigned his office in September, and his resignation was reluctantly
1 accepted. His wide acquaintance with the field, and his untiring efforts
. in behalf of the small churches throughout the State, have made his
place a difficult one to fill. His interest in the work will continue as long
[ as he lives, and will be of value in many ways. This report, under the
necessity of the case, is more general than a wider knowledge from per-
sonal visitation would render possible, had the new Secretary been able
to enter largely into the field.
NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Hon. George A. Ramsdell, President ; Rev. Alfred T. Hillman, Secretary ;
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer. Office in Concord
The receipts of this Auxiliary, within the year ending February 28, were :
From churches and individuals $14,025 35
From legacies 2,150 00
Income from invested funds 3,671 15
$19,846 50
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies in
New Hampshire, for the national work, within the year ending
March 31 15,74498
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $35,59! 4^
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The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, in cash, for
the national work, from surplus and by request of donors, within the
year ending March 31 $3,525 86
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 $15,949 68
Secretary Hillman says : Fifty-six missionaries have been in commis-
sion the whole or a part of the year, supplying sixty-eight churches and
thirty-five out-districts, and performing fifty years of labor. The average
grant is $169, and the average salary, not including rent of parsonage,
$600.
Six missionaries have been ordained and two installed. Two churches
assumed self-support. The spiritual results are gratifying, the total
number of additions to the churches being in excess of those reported in
any single year since 1838, and exceeded but twice in the history of the
Society. The work of our District Visitors has been maintained, with good
results and increasing favor. The work of the National Society received
special attention, a series of rallies being conducted through much of
November and December, resulting in adding about $5,000 to the General
Howard Roll of Honor.
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Hon. Henry Fairbanks, Ph.D., President; Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secre-
tary ; Wm, C. Tyler, Esq., Treasurer. Office in St. Johnsbury
The receipts of this Auxiliary, within the year ending February 28, were :
From churches and individuals $8,727 15
From legacies 1 , 784 46
Income from invested funds 1,190 18
$11,701 79
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies in
Vermont, for the national work, within the year ending March 31 11,845 9^
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $23,547 75
The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, from surplus
and by request of donors, in cash, for the national work, within the year
ending March 31 . . $1,654 88
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 ' $10,521 24
Secretary Merrill reports : The year has been marked by some nota-
ble ingatherings in fields long cultivated with little apparent result, and
by church buildings and endowments. As we had occasion to remark a
year ago, one evidence of the thoroughness and vitality of our work is
that for several years no church has been dropped from our list, of now
more than 200 Congregational organizations in the State.
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In one field where the church had been waning for more than twenty
years under constant and faithful ministrations, until its membership had
been reduced to one man and a few women, a remarkable awakening has
brought into the organization more than forty adults ; and the property,
formerly owned and put in thorough repair by one individual not then or
now a church member, has been deeded in trust to the Missionary Soci-
ety. Another old church, not so far reduced in membership, but in a
scattered farming community and with a smaller population, witnessed an
ingathering nearly as large. Both these were in fields where there was
no other Protestant service. Still another church in its large ingathering
numbered many noteworthy cases of reformation.
The instrumentalities used in securing these results have been the
same as in the past. Some of the pastors have been aided by evangelists
independently secured. More have called in the assistance of our young
women, whose work still commends itself to both pastors and churches.
The desire in many fields to retain the services of these women perma-
nently seems to be increasing, and in a few instances this has been met.
As yet none have been ordained. The intent has been to emphasize per-
sonal work, a visitation and social services, rather than strictly evangelical
meetings or pulpit address.
The churches have in some measure felt the financial depression of
the time, and receipts have been affected accordingly. Considering all,
there has been no occasion for fear or regret. The response to the appeal
for the General Howard Fund last fall was prompt and liberal. Thus far it
has not perceptibly decreased the regular contributions. With a hopeful-
ness which comes from a live and growing work, there is the promise that
Vermont will still continue to render a good account of her stewardship.
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Franklin Carter, LL.D., President; Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary; Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treasurer. Office in Boston
The receipts of this Auxiliary for Home Missions, within the year ending
February 28, were $139,380 06
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies, in
Massachusetts, for the national work, within the year ending March 31. 72,020 78
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $211,400 S4
The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, from surplus and
by request of donors, in cash, for the national work, within the year end-
ing March 31 $94,012 09
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 $67i428 93
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One hundred and thirty-eight stations have been occupied during the
year by missionaries of this Society. Eleven general missionaries have
been employed, and one hundred and twenty missionaries ; in all, one
hundred and thirty-six. Of the one hundred and thirty-eight stations
eight were "double" and one hundred and twenty-two were "single."
Of the one hundred and thirty-eight churches and missions occupied,
sixty-seven may be called "permanent," thirty-five "new," twenty-nine
"foreign," and seven are evangelistic enterprises. To the sixty-seven
"permanents" the total grant was $15,353; average grant, $226. To
the thirty-five "new" the total grant was $12,375 ; average grant, $365.
To the twenty-nine "foreign" the total grant was $14,745; average
grant, $508. To the seven "evangelistic" the total grant was $7,510 ;
average grant, $1,073.
Says Secretary Coit : Of our foreign work, that among the Canadians
easily takes the first rank, as indeed it should, in view of the fact that the
French, now about one-twelfth of the population of the State, are still
increasing among us. Yet, because of the near approach of the end of
the $100,000 set apart from the Swett legacy for foreign work in our
State, we have diminished our working force among the French this year,
as we did last year. Since there is no probability of our opening new
fields at present, we have taken our general missionary from that work
and put him in charge of the church in Lowell. The eight churches and
two missions are all now well manned, and the results of the year have
been good. In some places there has been a marked change in the atti-
tude of the Romanist toward our ministers. A respect is shown to them
which is as novel as it is agreeable. In one instance the priest has
become so friendly to our minister as to ride through the streets with him,
to the great surprise of the priest's people. In many ways the unnoticed
but powerful influence of his environment in this free land is raising the
Frenchman from Lower Canada to higher, broader views of life. He
cannot much longer be held in hand by the Romish hierarchy. He
begins to think and to act for himself. He wants to know why he should
not read the Bible, and now and then he reads it, although forbidden
by his priest. And, betimes, the experience of the Ethiopian Treasurer
is repeated. The Spirit sends some one so to guide him that he under-
stands. And when he understands, then good-by to the Romish
Church.
The influence of the French American College at Springfield is being
more and more felt. It should be more generously supported by our
churches and patriotic citizens. It is noticeable that Roman Catholic
parents send their children to it with the certainty, almost, that they will
become Protestants. Of the eighty students at the college, nearly one-
third are from Roman Catholic families. The paper published at the
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ollege is widely read by Romanists and exerts its powerful influence in
he right direction. A change in the editorship of the French part of it
his year has proved a decided advantage.
We are extending aid now to twelve churches and one mission among
he Swedes, and to four Norwegian churches, and have two Missionaries
mong the Finns. We may well do what we can for this Scandinavian
copulation. We receive to our land no better class of foreigners, no class
lhat more readily assimilate and become true Americans. And for our
eligious work we get no better returns among any people. The atrocities
n Turkey give special interest to the Armenians among us. Our gen-
eral missionary for them, Rev. Mr. Hitchcock, has continued his work
his year with good success. He has lately sent over $30,000 to Turkey
or the Armenians, who try in this way to help their suffering families.
Besides providing a general missionary for the Armenians, we have aided
n the support of four Armenians who preach to their countrymen
lere.
There has been no change in the Italian Mission. It is conducted, as
rom the beginning, by Mr. and Mrs. May, who have done much to spread
iiot only the knowledge, but also the comfort and enlightenment, of the
pospel among the ten thousand Italians in this region. Mr. and Mrs.
Vaitses, in their labors abundant among the Greeks, commend themselves
nore and more to the churches. They report sixteen of their country-
men who, on confession of faith, have joined our churches this last year.
We have taken on their full support.
Our two German pastors in Fitchburg and Clinton have been faith-
fully at work during the year. At Fitchburg the new church has been a
great help in the work, and good gain has been made.
There is nothing new or strange to report as to the work among the
pld churches in the hill towns and on the Cape. It may be well, though,
to call attention to the fact that in this year of hard times no class of
people have suffered more than our farming population. It has been for
them a year of small crops and low prices. This has made the support of
the institutions of religion more burdensome than usual. Greater sacrifice
is made, as a rule, in these churches than in our stronger churches. The
payments for the support of the church bear a larger proportion to their
total payments for the year. In view of this, it is pleasant to notice the
effort made by many of them to increase their gifts to Home Missions
this year. One church that has in it only three persons with an income
over $600 has just completed successfully an effort to raise $100 for a
share in the Howard Roll of Honor. Another sent a gift of $25. This
amount was made up in the following way : First, a collection was taken
amounting to $6.05 ; then $6.00 from potatoes raised on the missionary
lot ; then $4.75 earned by the young men for sawing four cords of hard,
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dry wood ; then $1.20 from the Woman's Working Association. The
balance came from the returns of five-cent pieces. The pastor in report-
ing adds, " The Lord's blessing go with the gift." It surely will. There
is little danger that such a church as that will be pauperized by a grant
from the Home Missionary Society. Yet some good people are very
much afraid that our grants are doing harm in that way.
The fund set apart for special evangelistic work in cities being nearly
exhausted, we have extended the time of its usefulness by transferring
three enterprises, the churches at Roslindale, Field's Corner, Dorchester
(Central Church), and the Broadway Church in Fall River to our regular
list. These churches, being well established, belong there. We have
also diminished our grants to the enterprises remaining on the list. It
is hoped that when, in the near future, this fund is gone, the work we
have done through these churches will be provided for in some other
way.
A more serious problem confronts us, which is, What shall be done
about our foreign work, not alone in Massachusetts, but also that done by
the National Society through the grant of $18,000 a year from our foreign
fund ? This also is nearly exhausted. Either we must take from our
remittances to New York for the regular work in the West, or the churches
must increase their gifts.
That there has been no diminution in the interest in this State in the
National work is apparent. Our regular gifts have been larger, and of
the shares taken in the Howard Roll of Honor more than one-third have
been taken in this State. We have sent from our treasury to New York
some $30,000 more than last year. The " rallies " that have been held
in many places doubtless account for much of this addition. The density
of the ignorance of many of our church members and of some of our pas-
tors is marvelous. It is also humiliating. There seems to be no better
way of dispelling it than by the testimony of the living voice. Printed
matter is well, and has its important part to play in the enlightenment of
the people. But by its very abundance in these our days it sometimes
defeats its own end. There is nothing that can take the place of the burn-
ing words of one who himself has "been there," and reports what he has
seen, done, and rejoiced in. Some careful ones deprecate the expense of
our rallies. But in the long run there can be no question but that it is a
wise expenditure of funds.
Massachusetts sends greeting to the National Society, in the hope and
with the prayer that — the current expense of this year met and the old
debt largely paid and in the way to be provided for — the Congregational
Home Missionary Society may be able, in the coming year, to make the
advance that has so long been needed in her grand work of evangelizing
the new places in our boundless West.
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RHODE ISLAND HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. Rowland Hazard, President ; Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary,
Pawtucket ; Joseph William Rice, Treasurer. Office in Providence
The receipts of this Auxiliary, within the year ending December 31, were :
From churches and individuals. ". $3,785 53
Income from invested funds 148 56
$3,934 o9
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies, in
Rhode Island, for the national work, within the year ending March 31. . 3,916 33
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions. ....... $7,850 42
The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, by request of
donors, in cash, within the year ending March 31, 1896 $300 00
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending December 31 $4,622 99
Secretary McGregor reports : The Society has during the year em-
ployed twelve missionaries for a shorter or longer period. In four of the
stations a change in the personnel of the missionary took place, but in no
case was there a break in the regular preaching services. In some of the
fields there has been much encouragement, and whilst it would be matter
of rejoicing had there been more visible success in others, nevertheless,
on the whole, we cannot but feel there is ground for devout gratitude for
that which has been accomplished.
Finally, the churches have generously responded to the appeals for
help for local and national work. To Mr. Joseph William Rice, our
esteemed treasurer, much credit is due for renewed interest in the pros-
perity of the treasury, through Life-memberships, General Howard Roll
of Honor, and other methods of giving. On prudential grounds, the ser-
vices of the State Missionary, employed for a number of years past, were
dispensed with last October, materially reducing current expenses, so that
now our local administration costs us less than $100 per annum. A new
station with a new small church building and a new pastor, Mr. Small,
have all materialized in course of the year, at Wood River Junction, a
religiously destitute community in the vicinity of Westerly. Whilst there
is little scope for the romance of " the minute man on the frontier," in
these older States, still there is little danger of the life of our missionary
pastors becoming a humdrum one, as there yet remain demands enough
for their persevering, faithful, and courageous work. And though not as
large as Texas or California, our State is large enough to afford room
for the best work of many more earnest souls thoroughly consecrated
to the Master's service.
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MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Rev. William II. Moore, Secretary ; Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer.
Office in Hartford
The receipts of this Auxiliary, within the year ending February 28, were :
From churches and individuals $13,026 83
From legacies 10 92
Income from invested funds 160 00
$13,197 75
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies in
Connecticut, for the national work, within the year ending March 31. . . 86,215 87
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $99,413 62
The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, from surplus
and by request of donors, in cash, for the national work, within the year
ending March 31 $2,715 89
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 $15, 191 99
Secretary Moore writes : Of our 318 churches 213 made offerings in
1895 to this Society, 217 to the Congregational Home Missionary Society,
138 to both, and twenty-eight to neither. The contributions of the living,
in money, to carry on the regular operations of the two Societies, were
$51,115.81, an advance over the year 1894. The entire amount received
by both Societies, from Connecticut, makes an average of $1.59 for each
church member ; but this amount includes boxes which pay none of the
expenses of either Society and also legacies. The contributions of the
living, in money, to carry on the regular operations of the two Societies,
average eighty-three cents for each church member, and of this sum
twenty and a half per cent, was paid to this Society for its use in Con-
necticut, and seventy-nine and a half per cent, to the Congregational
Home Missionary Society.
Of the fifty-two churches to which grants were voted in 1895, one was
served by an unlicensed layman, five by licentiates, three by ordained
preachers not pastors, thirty-two by pastors, and eleven by installed
pastors. In three cases one man served two churches. The average
salary proposed to be paid by these churches by the aid received was $666.
These aided churches had, January 1, 1896, an average of $3,161. In
1895 the additions to these churches were 338, while the removals by
death or letter, or revision of rolls and discipline, were 242.
FOREIGN WORK IN THE STATE
This work has been carried on during the year among the Danes, the
Germans, the Italians, and the Swedes. It is among the latter nationality
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:hat the largest volume of foreign work is done, labor among this people
)eing carried on by nine men who, in addition to the care of the organized
Scandinavian churches, gathered and addressed congregations in thirty-
hree places which had no Congregational church of their language. One
)f these Scandinavian churches will ask no further help. As fruits of this
oreign work we have now eighteen churches, one German, two Danish,
tnd fifteen Swedish, whose total membership, January 1, 1896, was 1,062.
-Ve spent on this department, in 1895, $5,496.35.
NEW YORK HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
^ev. William A. Robinson, D.D., President; Rev. Ethan Curtis, Syracuse,
Secretary ; William Spalding, Esq., Treasurer
The cash receipts within the year have been $70,015.61, including
[142,647.20 in legacies. Eighty-three missionaries have been employed
luring the whole or a part of the year in connection with ninety-three
:hurches and stations.
Eighty-one Sunday-schools report a membership of 10,350.
Secretary Curtis reports : The year has been one of faithful labor
ilong regular lines. Every department of work has been well sustained.
jreat care has been taken to direct vacant churches to the best possible
nen, with the result that there are few vacancies at present in the State,
tnd the pastors have been so efficient and faithful that encouraging
eports come from nearly every field. As usual, the Lord has visited his
)eople with revival influences ; several churches have been greatly
efreshed, and many have had some degree of quickening. Among those
o be specially mentioned are Corning ; Plymouth Church, Binghamton ;
Driskany Falls, Carthage, and Norfolk. The work at Gasport, so favor-
ably commented on last year, has continued to prosper under the same
)astor, with conversions .and additions. Several fields vacant for some
ime have been supplied by efficient men. Some were in almost a lapsed
:ondition, and anxiety was entertained for their future.
The two general missionaries have done faithful work, as their reports
.how. Rev. Lemuel Jones has visited during the year thirty-one fields,
lixteen of which were pastorless home missionary churches. To six of
he fields second visits were made. He took charge of Pilgrim Chapel,
Syracuse, for six weeks ; South Avenue, in the same city, for eleven
veeks ; and Model City, on the Niagara River, four weeks. He made a
ix weeks' visitation to the churches in Essex Association, in which sixty-
sight preaching and Bible-reading meetings were held. Conversions
iccurred in every church. Twenty-six new members were received into
hese churches at the next communion.
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Rev. Frank Nilson, the Swedish general missionary, reports labors in
thirty or more places, holding evangelistic and regular services. He
believes that more than forty persons have been brought to Christ through
his instrumentality. In carrying forward this work he has preached 295
sermons and has traveled 7,324 miles. He has built one church, working
eighteen days with his own hands on the building.
The State has been favored with a brief home missionary rally, the
speakers being Rev. H. D. Wiard and Mrs. H. S. Caswell. Some thir-
teen places were visited, and in nearly every case a hearty response was
made. The stereopticon illustrations and the earnest addresses will
surely continue to bring forth good fruit.
NEW YORK CITY, BROOKLYN, AND VICINITY
Rev. Wm. T. Stokes, Brooklyn, Superintendent
Superintendent Stokes reports : Within the bounds of the six coun-
ties which comprise this department are sixty eight churches, branch
churches, and missions. Seventeen of these, or one-fourth of the whole,
have been under the care of this Society during the past year. A com-
parison of their condition with that of the previous year shows a gratify-
ing aggregate increase in the value of church property, in home expendi-
ture, and in the amount given for benevolent objects. There has been a
growth of eight per cent, in Sunday-school enrollment and of twelve per
cent, in church membership — a very encouraging exhibit. This upward
tendency applies to five-sixths of the churches which have been aided.
A tentative work among the Italians was undertaken for a short
period in the summer, with interesting results.
Five churches have assumed self-support. The handsome new edifice of
the Bushwick Avenue Church, Brooklyn, has been dedicated free of debt.
A new movement in Upper New York City has been undertaken and
others are waiting. No more promising or needy field for the operations
of this Society exists. Results can soon be seen. Human souls are con-
gregating here rapidly and in vast numbers. The apportionment for this
department was $6,500.
OHIO HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. Henry M. Ladd, D.D., President; Rev. John G. Fraser, D.D., Cleve-
land, Secretary ; William B. Howland, New York City, Treasurer
Secretary Fraser says : There are limitations of the Fnglish
tongue which make it difficult to tell at once accurately, forcibly, and
kindly the story of Home Missions in Ohio, for the year just ended, from
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the standpoint of the gifts from living sources. Two years ago the
special committee said that " Ohio can never heartily respect herself until
she makes and maintains a record of $10,000 a year from ordinary
sources, with normal increase from year to year." One year ago it was
said, "The gifts here reported from the living are nearly $1,000 behind
the figures which caused and seemed to justify such words." And now,
in this Centennial Year, the gifts of the living have fallen off $500 more,
and stand at $7,803.81, the lowest point reached in ten years.
The expenditures for the year were $11,877.39, an excess of expendi-
tures over receipts of $62.58, an increase of expenditures over last year
of $64.75, and about $1,125 within the estimate approved by the appor-
tionment convention of the National Society and its auxiliaries, of
$13,000 for Ohio. There was expended in the States of West Virginia
and Pennsylvania $292.50, and $66.04 was received from those two
States and Kentucky.
Of forty-one missionaries employed, nine represent the force of the
Cleveland Bohemian Mission. Of the whole number, fifteen have been in
service a full year, while four more have served eleven months. For
various reasons there have been far more than usual changes and resigna-
tions of missionaries. Fifty different places have been reached regularly
with the Gospel by these workers.
Thirty-eight churches report 2,822 members, in numbers ranging from
Inineteen to over 300, with sixteen under fifty, eight over 100, and two
over 200. Twenty-three churches report 257 conversions, and thirty-one
churches report 338 accessions on confession of faith.
The Society has attempted to follow the policy, rendered compulsory
by its financial condition, of taking on no new work, but it has been
practically compelled to take upon its list some names which did not
appear last year.
For various reasons, the plan for union of work and organization
with the Cincinnati Congregational Missionary Society failed, and the
agreement was terminated, with the understanding that the Society would
consider applications from that part of the State on the same basis as
from elsewhere. The same thoroughly pleasant but informal relations
subsist as in the past with the efficient Cleveland Congregational Mis-
sionary Society. In Chillicothe, Dayton, Mansfield, Springfield, and
Toledo the work of the aided churches is prosperous.
This completes one hundred years of Congregational life and history in
Ohio, and on July 1, 1896, the Ohio Home Missionary Society will enter
upon its twenty-fifth year. The situation which confronts the Home
Missionary Society, which means the denomination, is as grave as any
it ever encountered. The work was never more urgent, more insistent,
nor more hopeful.
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ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. Edward P. Goodwin, D.D., President ; Rev. James Tompkins, D.D„, Sec-
retary ; Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer. Office in Chicago
The receipts of this Auxiliary for Home Missions, within the year ending Feb-
ruary 29, were $51,814 10
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies, for
the national work, within the year ending March 31 2,614 5°
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $54,428 66
The Auxiliary paid into the treasury of the National Society, from surplus and
by request of donors, in cash, for the national work, within the year end-
ing March 31 $1,589 91
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 29 $51,310 51
Says Secretary Tompkins : The missionary force employed has been
as follows : one State Superintendent, two City Missionary Superinten-
dents, five evangelists, 131 pastors, three Gospel singers and Bible readers,
and twenty-two unclassified, who have performed temporary service with-
out commission, and in some cases without compensation.
One hundred and seventeen churches have been aided in support of
pastors, besides which forty-nine missions have been supplied with services;
also ninety-two churches or communities have been aided by missionary
evangelists.
Missionary Pastors. — In spiritual results the year has been as fruit-
ful as the average. An unusually large number of pastors have conducted
evangelistic services, either alone or with the aid of some brother pastor.
Several churches have enjoyed marked " times of refreshing " in connec-
tion with such labors, and accessions to the membership of the churches
have brought joy to the hearts of the laborers. In some cases a " Gospel
singer" has aided the pastor in public services and in the personal work,
which has proved very helpful.
An increased number of our pastors are reaching out in Christ-like
manner in efforts to help " the regions round about." In manufacturing
villages and cities such methods as are termed " institutional " have been
employed with gratifying results, and country districts have been visited,
occasional services held, and Sunday-schools organized where heretofore
the regions were destitute of religious influences.
Missionary Evangelists. — The evangelistic force has been much
reduced by the policy of stringent retrenchment. But it should be said,
to the honor of these laborers, that those who remained in the service have
sought to prevent loss to the work by the most heroic exertions and great
personal sacrifice. They have averaged over one service a day for each
evangelist during the entire year, including all periods of rest and of
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vacation. Several communities report the most remarkable religious
awakening in their entire history. One church writes : " For thirty years
we have had nothing worthy of being called a revival when compared
with that which the Lord has bestowed in connection with the labors of
these faithful servants." The year has been more fruitful in results than
the previous one. This is especially true in the upbuilding of weak and
discouraged churches and in bringing aided churches to self-support.
Immigrant Populations. — Some progress has been made in bring-
ing the Gospel of Christ to the "stranger within our gates." Three
Scandinavian and two German churches have been welcomed into fellow-
ship. One of the latter has a membership of nearly 100, and is destined
to exert a strong influence among the people of that nationality. A gen-
eral missionary was employed near the close of the year. His energies
will be mainly devoted to the German population of Chicago.
City Auxiliaries. — The plan of organizing auxiliary societies in the
larger cities, which this State has adopted, works very satisfactorily. It
couples the Congregational principle of local responsibility and local con-
trol with the broad, but equally orthodox, Congregational idea of unity of
action for the general good of the whole land. In the practical applica-
tion of this principle the Chicago Auxiliary has relieved the State and
National treasuries of paying upwards of $5,000 for mission work in the
metropolis of the Interior. But the new interest and new feeling of
responsibility do not allow the work to suffer loss.
The Peoria Auxiliary has made as great progress relatively. It is
caring for seven missions. One of these, having an organized Sunday-
school and preaching services, is' conducted in a Gospel boat called
" Glad Tidings." Hundreds of the neglected who live along the shore of
Peoria Lake have been reached with the blessed Gospel proclaimed on
board that humble boat, and Christ has again, through human lips,
invited fishermen to follow him.
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. Wm. H. Davis, D.D., Detroit, President ; Rev. Wm. H. Warren, Lansing,
State Superintendent ; Rev. John P. Sanderson, Lansing, Treasurer
The receipts of this Auxiliary for Home Missions, within the year ending
March 31, were $18,015 89
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies, in
Michigan, for the national work, within the year ending March 31. ... 681 06
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $18,696 95
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending March 31 $17,768 17
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Says Secretary Warren : Ninety-three men have been employed in
T24 churches during the year. Five churches have been organized
during the year and three have disbanded. Four churches have assumed
self-support, while a number of churches have temporarily dropped from
the home missionary roll because our financial resources are insufficient
to provide the needed aid. Five church buildings and four parsonages
have been erected by home missionary churches.
In order to a clear understanding of the condition, necessities, and
resources of Michigan in its home missionary work, several facts should
be kept in mind. This has been and still is the leading State in its
lumber interests, as the statistics of last year show. But throughout
large sections the pine forests are now gone. No inconsiderable portion
of the products of these forests have been taken out of the State and have
enriched other portions of the country.
To-day Michigan is passing through a transition period between lum-
bering and agricultural interests. Once prosperous lumbering towns in
the pine-growing districts have lost the thrift of former days and are now
known as sawdust towns ; deserted mills and lumbermen's cabins with
huge piles of sawdust are prominent features. Recently, while driving
along the banks of one of our streams, an island of several acres was
pointed out to me which was made exclusively from slabs and sawdust
from two or three now deserted mills near by.
True, in the aggregate, there are large quantities of pine still in
Michigan, though the amount is small as compared with the original
supply. There are also immense tracts of hardwood timber which are
still " the forest primeval." These hardwood sections of the State are
the very best of farming lands. Settlers are rapidly occupying them.
But these men are generally of very limited means, and it is a herculean
task to clear such farms. They must be helped to plant and maintain the
institutions of the Gospel.
Our western borders, within a few miles of Lake Michigan, from the
extreme south to quite a distance north of the Grand Traverse region, is
destined to be one of the most prosperous fruit-growing sections of our
country. This is the famous peach belt. But after the sawmill has done
its work it is a long and tedious process to remove the stumps and bring
fruit-trees to a bearing condition.
The product of the copper mines in the extreme north in large meas-
ure controls the price of copper for the country. But these mines are
largely owned in Boston, and the profits of them enrich grand old New
England. Michigan profits by the amount expended in working the
mines. True, this is a considerable sum, but small compared with that
which goes East.
The southern portion of Michigan, which is the oldest and most pros-
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>erous, is hardly more than fifty years old. As Mr. Puddefoot indicates in
)is book, the tide of emigration swept westward after this region was
fettled, leaving the northern half, or two-thirds of the State, to be genuine
rontier after whole States much farther west had been settled.
Vast tracts of " stump country " are as truly virgin soil as if the region
lad been just discovered. Potatoes, usually the first crop raised after
learing the forests, were so abundant last season that many acres of
hem were left unharvested, and thousands of bushels harvested, though
>f the best quality, could not be sold for more than eight or ten cents a
mshel. Then in many places, for the last two years, droughts nearly
lestroyed the earlier crops, greatly limiting the resources of communities
o visited.
These facts explain why Michigan has sucn a large frontier missionary
vork to-day. They also demonstrate the noble, self-denying heroism of
ler people, as those in our fellowship have been attempting to do all this
pork alone, for four years, without aid from the treasury of the National
Society. They have thus saved more than ten thousand dollars of that
Society's funds each year to be devoted to the work farther west. This
tas been done notwithstanding the fact already indicated that the
esources of nearly all the churches, both self-sustaining and home mis-
ionary, have been greatly diminished.
But with all these untoward circumstances, Michigan is one of the
grandest of our great sisterhood of commonwealths, both in her present
.enlevements and in her prospects for the future. We have a noble com-
lany of heroic, self-denying men and women who are standing faithfully
.t their posts of duty, and who are doing a blessed work without flinching
>ne iota. Accounts of thrilling interest and of a marked work of grace
n many of these outlying districts reach us. The figures given above
ndicate a healthful and vigorous growth. It is a blessed fellowship to
Vhich the secretary is warmly welcomed by these faithful workers. It is
'. privilege to be permitted to be God's messenger of blessing, carrying, so
ar as possible, cheer and encouragement.
Notwithstanding that there are wide-open doors, no new work has been
mdertaken during the last year except in a few special cases. Most of
hese have been where the work could be yoked with that in other fields.
^ few of the less hopeful fields have of necessity been dropped. While
he expense of the work has been largely reduced, from $30,000 annually
o less than $20,000, the reduction has been made in such ways as to
iripple the work as little as possible.
The general conviction is that, if we hold on and hold fast until these
rying times are over, a larger and grander work than ever lies before us,
aid that, in the not distant future, Michigan can join with the older
Hates of the East in sending men and money to the more distant West.
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WISCONSIN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Rev. C. W. Camp, President ; Rev. Homer W. Carter, Beloit, Secretary ; C. M.
Blackman, Esq., Whitewater, Treasurer
The receipts of this Auxiliary for Home Missions, within the year ending
February 28, were :
From churches, individuals, legacies, and income $22,646 42
The National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies in
Wisconsin, for the national work, within the year ending March 31. . . . 14.053 45
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $36,699 S7
The Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 $14,204 50
Forty missionaries have been in the employ of this Auxiliary in con-
nection with sixty churches and twenty stations.
Secretary Carter writes : After years of struggle with debt, legacies
have brought relief and the Society is free from all indebtedness, with an
investment to meet, in some measure, future extras and emergencies.
Before this relief came, in the way named, the officers of the Society, with
the indorsement of the representatives assembled in annual meeting, had
determined to pay all debts and incur no others for the current year, even^
at the sacrifice of the work. There is still that settled policy to make
current receipts cover current expenses, and the churches are responding
nobly in spite of the past straining, affording the hope that the special
legacy of $10,000, already invested for a series of years, will prove not a.
curse but a rich blessing. The policy of the Society is also settled and
emphasized in the line of cultivating the State, district by district, for
greater productiveness, both spiritually and financially. An additional!
district missionary, Rev. F. N. Dexter, has been secured and assigned to I
the Eastern District, while our Western missionary, Rev. R. L. Cheney, il
has been assigned to the Western District, for the furtherance of this
policy. Our evangelistic and quartette work, with two tents a part of the
summer, has been richly blessed as heretofore.
Freed from hampering debt, with settled plans of cultivating the State
for greater productiveness, and with a hopeful response in current receipts
from our constituency, our faces are set joyfully to a speedy relief of the
Mother Society from the burden which she has generously borne for us in
carrying for a series of years the expense and care of the northern half of
our State, and at the same time sharing with her and her allies in building
the highway of righteousness unto the uttermost parts of the earth, that
the vivifying beams of the Sun of Righteousness may reach all hearts
everywhere.
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IOWA HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
R.ev. Truman O. Douglass, D.U., Grinnell, Secretary; J. H. Merrill, Esq.,
Des Moines, Treasurer
rhe receipts of this Auxiliary for Home Missions, within the year ending
February 28, were :
rrom churches, individuals, legacies, and income $17,763 97
rhe National Society received from churches, individuals, and legacies in
Iowa, for the national work, within the year ending March 31 991 88
Total amount raised in the State, in cash, for Home Missions $18,755 85
Phe Auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary labor and expenses,
within the year ending February 28 $17,806 67
Eighty-six missionaries were in the employ of this Society during the
vhole or a part of the year ending March 1, 1896. These missionaries
applied ninety-four churches and about sixty communities where there
veve no organized churches. The time of service performed by this
nissionary force amounted to a little over sixty-seven years.
Secretary Douglass reports : Financially the year was a hard one.
rhe receipts were equal to the bills, but we cut down expenditures by
nore than $2,000 as compared with the previous year, by cutting down
he salaries of the missionaries and by reducing the missionary force and
he volume of the work somewhat.
In some respects the work of the year was unusually prosperous. The
:ongregations gathering from week to week on the missionary fields were
musually large ; revivals were numerous, and there were many and large
ngatherings. Fayette, Rev. J. E. Snowden, the missionary, on a single
>abbath received 117 to membership. The church will not again ask
or aid.
It is now sixty years since the American Home Missionary Society
>egan its work in Iowa, sending Rev. Cyrus L. Watson to labor at the
)ubuque Mines, Michigan Territory, as this part of the world was then
ailed. What marvelous changes there have been in these regions during
these sixty years ! The wilderness has become a garden. The Indian
rail has broadened and straightened out into crowded highways. The
ngwam has been transformed into a cabin, that into a cottage, and that,
tere and there, into a veritable mansion. The stage-coach has given
)lace to the rushing railway train. The few hundreds of pioneers that
yere found in settlements along the Great River in 1836 have grown to a
>opulation of over two millions, established on farms, and in villages,
owns, and cities, all over the State. Churchless, Godless communities,
>y the scores and hundreds here, have been transformed by the power of
he Gospel and made great intellectual, moral, and spiritual forces in the
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kingdom of God. In these intellectual, moral, and spiritual transform
mations the American Home Missionary Society has borne a conspicuous!11
part. In the frontier fields especially, "How shall they preach except '
they be sent ? " They were sent by the Home Missionary Society, those
pioneer preachers, Asa Turner, Reuben Gaylord, Julius A. Reed, John C.
Holbrook, the illustrious Iowa Band from Andover, and scores of others
of like faith and consecration. By these and such as these, our Home
Missionaries, more than by any other human agencies, have these deserts
been made to bud and blossom as the rose. New England put about half
a million of dollars into the foundation of our Congregational churches in
Iowa. These churches now number 325, with 30,000 members, and
nearly 40,000 children and youth in our Sunday-schools. The missionary
contributions of these churches now amount to $50,000 a year. This
great moral and spiritual force in the kingdom of God cost only half a
million of dollars, outside of the plant itself. Did New England ever
make a better investment ?
PENNSYLVANIA, NEW JERSEY, MARYLAND, DISTRICT OF
COLUMBIA, AND VIRGINIA
Rev. T. W. Jones, D.D., Philadelphia. Pa., Superintendent
The contributions from this district have been $10,775.89.
Pennsylvania. — Forty-four missionaries have been employed during
the whole or a part of the year in connection with sixty-six churches and
stations. Two churches have been organized.
New Jersey. — Ten missionaries have been employed during the
whole or a part of the year, serving fifteen churches and stations.
Maryland. — Four missionaries have been in service during the whole
or a part of the year in connection with three churches. Four Sunday-
schools report a membership of 600.
Superintendent Jones reports his separate fields as follows :
PENNSYLVANIA
In the past year, the progress that might have been made was checked
through inadequate means to take advantage of opportunities opening to
us ; still the work, as a whole, has gone encouragingly forward, new church
edifices, without endangering debts, being dedicated at Rochester, Plains,
and Taylor, churches capacious and modern in structure — a credit to the
denomination ; debts being paid, lessening financial burdens at German-
town (Fifth Avenue), Pittsburg, Rochester (Pilgrim Church), Plymouth)
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Lansford (Second), Coal Dale (Second), and others in smaller amounts ;
nd a number of churches blessed in renewal of spiritual strength, and
pcrease of members. This great State, with a population of nearly or
[uite 6,000,000 at this time, and growing at the rate of a million a decade,
nd having a larger number of industrial centers than any State in the
[jnion, is certainly a field into which Congregationalism has a right to
nter, and in which it has a duty to perform — for a large population, rep-
esenting from thirty to forty nationalities, cannot be given over wholly
o other denominations, which, all combined, have not half the force
tecessary for the urgent spiritual needs .of the unevangelized masses.
Che immense growth of this State, gaining 60,000 on the State of New
fork, by the last census, has never been fully appreciated as a great mis-
ionary field by our denomination.
NEW JERSEY
This State, so near to New York City, has a population entirely unlike
Pennsylvania. Of the nearly 800,000 people from the Hudson River to
he Orange Mountains, the vast majority are Irish and German. Hence
here is not the same chance for planting Congregational churches in
STew Jersey as in Pennsylvania, which represents so many foreign people
|o whom Congregationalism is not a stranger. There are but few real
lerseyites in the Congregational churches of New Jersey. Their wealth
md culture came to them from across the Hudson.
MARYLAND
Maryland is in a better condition Congregationally than ever before.
Baltimore has added a Fourth Church, located on Locust Point, a popu-
lous industrial center. This church, formerly Independent Methodist,
pame over to us with unanimous consent of the members, bringing with
:hem a house of worship with accommodation for 500 people, suitable for
[he location and population. The churches of Baltimore work together
n perfect harmony and with helpfulness to each other. The church at
Frostburgh, the only Congregational church in the State outside of Balti-
more, is gaining in spiritual strength and numbers. This is one of the
pnost isolated churches of our denomination in the United States. It is
ocated about 2,000 feet above tide, and distant from Baltimore about 150
niles.
VIRGINIA
The cause in Virginia, through the faithful labors of Rev. Dr. Mason,
Df Herndon, and Rev. S. S. Jenkins, of Falls Church, is more than main-
lining its own. Both of these churches, to relieve the Home Missionary
Society, assumed self-support.
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WEST VIRGINIA
West Virginia, which is an empire of hidden wealth coming to the sur
face as never before, is beginning to open rapidly to settlers. It is th(
peer of Pennsylvania in its mineral resources, which in the near future wil
cover the State, as Pennsylvania is covered, with industrial centers, new!
openings, and opportunities for Congregationalism.
TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA
The contributions from this district have been $181.61.
Tennessee. — Two missionaries have been employed within the yeai
in connection with two churches. Two Sunday-schools report a mem
bership of 146.
North Carolina. — Two missionaries have been in commission dur-
ing the whole or a part of the year, serving three churches. Three Sun-
day-schools report a membership of 126.
Nothing has been done in this division of the field towards the occu
pation of new points, though many such giving promise of growth
present themselves.
Knoxville, Tenn., is holding its own and a little more. Hard time
have brought changes and have carried off families and members whost
help has been greatly missed. The pastor, Rev. Dr. Frazee, has made
for himself a large place in the esteem and love of the community outside
of his own church. Few churches in Knoxville are better known thar
the Pilgrim Congregational, and none has warmer friends.
At Chattanooga there have been convulsions and changes which have
weakened the enterprise that could ill afford to lose any of its strength
Matters have now settled down, and the future looks more promising.
At Tryon, North Carolina, Rev. Mr. Winter has steadily held the -for'
and developed the church beyond any previous result. Rev. R. E!
Brookshier, our faithful general missionary since the work in North Caro-
lina began, has been retired after a fruitful service, and with the respeel
and love of the Society. Some economy must be practiced, and it is less
destructive to curtail general missionary service than to reduce loca!
grants.
FLORIDA
Rev. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville, Superintendent
The receipts from this State within the year have been $1,180.04.
Thirty-seven missionaries have been employed during the whole or a part
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of the year in connection with fifty-four churches and twenty-two stations.
Forty-eight Sunday-schools report a membership of 2,094.
Says Superintendent Gale : The year has been full of courage and
hope, and has abounded in fortitude and perseverance.
In March came the dedication of the beautiful house of worship in
Tavares. In April the ordination and installation of the missionary
pastor at St. Petersburg, Rev. F. D. Jackson, by council, furnished the
unusual occasion for the month and was, indeed, a very happy incident
in the church life of our people on the Gulf side. Far down the East
side, at Palm Beach, the Royal Coinciana Chapel, a commodious and
beautiful house of worship, was erected in the summer and has been fully
furnished and occupied. And on the west side of Lake Worth, at West
Palm Beach, the house has received a very considerable addition and has
been fully furnished. The Panasoffkee church, in the very heart of the
much damaged, even almost destroyed, orange belt, resolved to arise and
build, and at the end of the year was gathering the material and begin-
ning the work. In a word, in the very midst of the destruction which
the great freeze early in 1895 had wrought, the record of the Society's
year, if told in detail, would be seen to be one of large construction.
Only two missionaries have gone from the work in this State, and they in
obedience to the paramount call, not to escape the trials of the service
here. Others have come into the field, either for a part or a whole of the
year, so that the year's working force has been up to the average of recent
years. The increase in our ministerial ranks, and the new churches
added to our now goodly list, show that the ratio of growth for the recent
years has been maintained. One of the best indications, one of the most
precious things that signal this year, is the pervasive revival spirit that
has been among the churches ; and very noticeably manifest was this
spirit in all the seven Annual Conference meetings, which were in every
case, more than ever, three or four or five days of holy convocation and
most hearty fellowship.
In West Florida an association formed for the better care of licentiates
and for advancing the attainments, particularly the literary and theolo-
gical attainments, of the ministers has been put into effective operation.
It is one of the many elements of promise for that section of the State.
The extension of the East Coast Railroad to far-off Biscayne Bay, to
a point where the Miami River empties into the bay, a distance of 367
miles from Jacksonville, has greatly stimulated the settlement of the
lower East coast, and promoted all the material interests of that region.
New communities have sprung into being along the coast and the rail-
road, in several of which our missionary work has been opened with so
good promise as to greatly hearten the missionary force in all the State.
A cluster of churches is thus coming into being, which, with those on
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Lake Worth at the north and that at Key West on the south and west,
will very soon associate themselves in the Gulf Stream Conference ; that
is, if the conference should take the name of the great " stream " that
gives most character to that country. As to the disaster that last year
overtook the orange industry and so brought a temporary blight to the
whole State, and threatened a great freeze-back to many of our churches,
it should be added that the calamity, in its terrible losses and suffering,
has not been exaggerated, and a braver, more determined people, and
self-reliant, has not in our country and this time been more clearly
revealed by their misfortunes. In many ways the loss by disaster is being
retrieved, business is reviving, confidence for the future is being recov-
ered ; and in all, so far as the material basis of our church enterprises is
concerned, they also are sharing in the revival of hope and in the general
improvement. A year very dark in the outlook has become a bright one
in retrospect.
GEORGIA
Rev. S. C. McDaniel, Atlanta, Superintendent
The contributions from this State have been $332.07. Twenty-two
missionaries have been employed during the whole or a part of the year
in connection with thirty-six churches and stations. Twenty-one Sun-
day-schools report a membership of 1,066.
Superintendent McDaniel says : We have gained in some directions,
while in others we have barely held our own. Our gains have not been
of such a marked or decided character as to be observable by one not|
familiar with the field. And yet they have been of a substantial char-
acter. Our people are becoming more familiar with Congregational
usages and more interested in Congregational institutions. Contribu-
tions have increased materially and there is a decidedly better tone
among the churches generally. We are still very far behind where we
ought to be. Much yet remains to be done. The tangled hank has yet
many knots and hitches before we can go smoothly along. And patience
and perseverance, as well as prayer and faith, will be needed to push us
over the bar.
I am able to report but one church which has come to self-support
during the year, but I feel that during such a trying year even that
much is cause for thankfulness. I am glad to say that there is a great
interest in this direction among most of the churches now receiving aid.
They are looking earnestly forward to the time when they will no longer
lean upon the Congregational Home Missionary Society for aid, but
when they can carry their own burdens and at the same time help just
a little to lift some feebler sister on her feet financially. And amid their
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Embarrassments they are struggling manfully to be able to reach that
point as early as possible.
Two new churches have been organized, one at Hoboken and the
other at Dole's. Both give promise of increase and usefulness. Many
other churches could have been organized, but it was not deemed best to
enter fields where ultimate success seemed doubtful, especially while we
have fully as many churches as we can at present well care for. Looking
back upon the past, with profound gratitude, I feel bound to say, " Thus
far the Lord hath led us on." Looking around me at the present, I
realize that we have much for which to be thankful. And looking toward
':he future, I feel inspired to hope that there is a better day to come
for us.
The consolidation of the Presbyterian Church at Demorest with our
organization there, which occurred just before the close of the last year,
in which we not only absorbed nearly all the membership but also their
pastor, a worthy and excellent minister, has proved a blessing to that
town as well as to us as a denomination.
We are in sore need of help to build meeting-houses for several of
our congregations, but our people are struggling patiently and hopefully.
ALABAMA
Rev. S. E. Bassett, Fort Valley, Ga., Superintendent
The receipts from the State have been $178.28. Thirty-four mission-
aries have been employed during the whole or a part of the year in con-
nection with eighty-six churches and stations. Five churches have been
organized. Four houses of worship have been built. Sixty Sunday-
schools report a membership of 2,280.
The superintendent remarks : Notwithstanding the stringency of the
times in the rural districts where but little money circulates, this has been
a successful year, considered from a spiritual standpoint. We feel much
gratified that our Northern brethren are not unmindful of the importance
and promise of home missionary work among the white people of this
South land. The masses of our race here are quite poor and, in many
instances, uneducated. This illiteracy obtains more among the young
and rising generation than among those raised in ante-bellum days.
Generous measures should be taken for the education of such young
men as feel called to preach the Gospel. I know of several at this time
who are thus impressed, and are casting about in their minds what to do.
Our Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian, and Campbellite brethren are not
j slow to appropriate these young men, although they are Congregational-
ists at heart and would be towers of strength to us. Granting that the
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Southern people made a mistake and did not act wisely in seceding from
the Union, shall the children's teeth be put on edge because the fathers
ate sour grapes? "As I live, saith the Lord God, ye shall not have
occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel " (Ezek. xviii. 2, 3). Those
that are suffering from the results of secession are those born in the last
thirty years, especially those born in the last fifteen years, for times are
much harder here than during the first fifteen years after the war. All
the products of the farm have depreciated in value more than one-half,
and the masses have no money even to clothe their children, much less
to send them to school. This applies particularly to the agricultural class
in the country. Travelers passing through this section on the cars are
not competent to judge of these things unless they leave the railroad and
travel through the rural districts privately.
MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS
Rev. A. K. Wray, Kansas City, Missouri, Superintendent
The contributions from this missionary district within the year have
been $3,393.27.
The Superintendent reports : Thirty-six missionaries, including four
teachers, have borne the commission of the Society, and thirty-four
churches and stations have been supplied. It has been a year of good
results. One hundred and ninety have been added to the dependent
churches on confession of faith, and 109 have been received by letter.
Two churches have declared self-support and two churches have been
organized, both of which came into our fellowship by the front door,
being properly recognized by council. Three new houses of worship
have been built and two churches are building. We have raised nearlj
five hundred dollars more for Home Missions this year than last.
Rev. John Brereton was engaged for a few months as a general mis-J
sionary in the Ozarks, and as a result of his labors we have the church a
Grandin, organized last July and recognized by council in September
This is a vigorous plant in a needy field, and already takes rank witl
many of the older churches in South Missouri. It has built and paid fo
a splendid and well-equipped house of worship which will be dedicated ir
a short time. This is an illustration of what might be done in man]
places if we only had the money.
Rev. V. E. Loba, who has served the church at Noble faithfully fo
nearly five years, gave it up March 1, 1896. Rev. W. D. Stevens com
menced work as pastor, April 1st. He arrived on the field just in tim<
to perform the solemn service of laying to rest the body of Brother Loba
who died on April 19th, surrounded by his people, for whom he ha<
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labored and sacrificed and by whom he will be more sorely missed than
they realize. A true missionary hero has fallen. A memorial chapel
ought to be built to commemorate his loving, self-forgetful life, which he
literally gave for the establishment of the kingdom of righteousness in
that dark and isolated section of our State.
The work in both Rogers and Worcester academies has been well
sustained during the year. Rogers will graduate the largest class in its
history — over twenty. The finances in both institutions are in better
shape than for some time, and each has demonstrated its ability to carry
on the work at its usual high grade of efficiency with the contemplated
reduction of aid from the Society. Rogers is in great need of a suitable
chapel.
During the last few years a significant change has been taking place
in the movements of the population west of the Mississippi River.
Between the years 1870 and 1890 emigration poured at flood-tide into
the States of Kansas, Nebraska, and the Dakotas. Those who crossed
our beautiful and fertile prairies full of hope to locate elsewhere have
been struggling against unequal odds for a quarter-century. The soil
has been unfruitful, the fierce, hot winds have burned their green fields
and growing crops into cinders, and the windows of heaven have literally
been closed. For the past five years the tide of emigration has been
refluent. The prairie schooner is again a familiar sight. The occupants
are for the most part as poor as they were when they took up their claims
on the plains of Kansas or Nebraska. The Society followed them with
the Gospel when they settled, twenty-five years ago. She has stood faith-
fully by them during all these weary, disheartening years. They and
their children are now settling among us in ever-increasing numbers.
They are in as great need of help, and as worthy of it, as they have ever
been. The painful problem now is how to meet and satisfy these needs.
SAINT LOUIS
The receipts of this auxiliary within the year ending February 29
were $5,699.24. The auxiliary expended in its own field, for missionary
labor and expenses, $7,149.47 within the year ending February 29.
The Rev. A. L. Love, Superintendent of our St. Louis Auxiliary,
reports as follows : Spiritually our work has been most successful, with
over 160 hopefully converted, the majority over eighteen years of age,
while additions on confession have been 123, and by letter fifty-seven.
Work has been conducted in nine churches under our care, three of them
having been blessed with revivals during the year, and these churches
now have upwards of 850 members. Besides this, two outlying schools
have been carried on by individual churches, and a new field, Valley Park,
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has been entered by the Superintendent, where probably a church will
soon be organized. Still another field of considerable promise in the
county has been visited several times, and may develop into an important
work.
In ministering to the poor we have done more than ever before, 2,500
garments having been distributed. As to buildings, two have been
erected by the Superintendent : the Maplewood Church, an attractive and
commodious house of worship, at an actual cost of $5,200, although under
ordinary methods of construction it would have been cheap at $6,500,
and a chapel erected at a cost of $800 in Valley Park, a suburb eighteen
miles from the city, though but three beyond the electric cars. This
makes nine buildings erected by the Society in the last five years. All
the real estate of these churches is held in fee simple by this Society, and
now aggregates upwards of $70,000, with encumbrance of $24,400. This
does not include property valued at $15,000 which has already been trans-
ferred as a church becomes self-supporting.
St. Louis has added 162,000 to her population in the last four years,
during which time we have not dared start a single new enterprise for
lack of funds. Electric-car lines are reaching out in all directions with
amazing rapidity, scattering the population and opening choice fields, a
dozen of which ought at once to be occupied. We need not look further
west for gospel destitution, since here we find people now thirty and forty
years of age, children of New England parents, who have never heard a
sermon. Congregationalists can do a work in Missouri possible to no
other denomination. We are the feasible and happy common factor to a
dozen denominations, frequently organizing churches with representatives
of eight and sometimes of eleven and thirteen denominations.
OKLAHOMA AND INDIAN TERRITORY
Rev. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher, Oklahoma, Superintendent
The contributions from this missionary district have been $437.33.
Oklahoma. — Forty-three missionaries have been employed during the
whole or a part of the year, in connection with ninety-seven churches and
stations. Seventy-nine Sunday-schools report a membership of 4,838.
Indian Territory. — Eight missionary laborers, including three
teachers, have been in commission during the whole or a part of the
year.
The Superintendent writes : Prominent among our discouragements
is the financial one, though this cloud has a bright lining. There has not
been any suffering of man or beast for lack of food. The winter, too,
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ias been mild, so that those persons who have only scanty clothing have
lot suffered as often as they would. Money has been very scarce, there
ias been but little to sell, and the salable articles have brought small
eturns. But little has been raised towards salaries or in benevolent con-
ributions, largely on the above account. Another discouraging feature
ias been defection in some of our missionaries. Three have been under
harges. One has been expelled. The other cases have not been acted
lpon. We are flooded in this new country with the unworthy class. In
;pite of vigilance and good credentials, we have been imposed upon. In
i few cases it looks as though other States have been too ready to get rid
)f difficult subjects, to our discomfort.
A third difficulty is the slow process of unification in our church mem-
Dership. The diverse elements do not fuse as readily as we could wish.
Only time and the Holy Spirit will accomplish this much-desired result.
Over against this darksome background are gain, and growth in grace.
More blessed revivals have marked the year than ever before. The
people have heard and heeded more readily the gospel call. While our
gain in churches has not been as large as last year, we have gained pro-
jportionately more in membership. The dropped churches have been, in
every case but one, yoked churches, where we were not needed. In the
one case a rival town killed ours. " The Band," supported by our dear
brother Pierce, has been a great blessing.
TEXAS AND LOUISIANA
Rev. Luther Rees, Paris, Texas, Superintendent
The contributions from this district have been $259.64.
Texas. — Eight missionaries have been employed during the whole or
a part of the year, in connection with six churches. Sixty-two additions
to church membership and seventy-seven conversions have been reported.
Four Sunday-schools report a membership of 543.
Louisiana. — Eight missionaries have been in commission within the
year in connection with eleven churches and stations. Six Sunday-
schools report a membership of 547.
Says Superintendent Rees : Referring to our work in Texas and
Louisiana, I can only say, in the words of the Master, The harvest truly
is great, but the laborers are few. The conditions are about as they were
last year. Notwithstanding many difficulties, the Lord has blessed the
work of the Society. Nearly all, if not all, the churches have increased
in membership. Ten revivals are reported, with 132 conversions.
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Our work in Texas is suffering because so little is being done. We
have six cities in this State, with populations ranging from 20,000 to
60,000, where we have no organizations. From the smallest of these a
friend writes that he knows of between fifteen and twenty families ready
to enter a Congregational church. In another I learn that we have
between seventy-five and one hundred members. As time goes on, these
become attached to other churches and are lost to us.
Our work in Louisiana has suffered from the depression in the rice
market, but looks hopeful. Many of our churches are becoming interested
in country work, going out into destitute places and organizing Sunday-
schools, with occasional preaching services. Here we have an open field
and one that must be occupied before our work becomes permanent. I
am praying that we may be able to occupy some of these needy fields
during the coming year.
ARIZONA AND NEW MEXICO
Rev. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Superintendent
The contributions from this missionary district have been $355.70.
Eleven missionaries have been employed during the whole or a part of
the year in connection with fourteen churches and stations. Ten Sun-
day-schools report a membership of 672.
Superintendent Ashmun writes : The year's work has been character-
ized more especially by plans and efforts to get the churches in shape for
more effective work than anything else, perhaps, though taken as a whole
satisfactory results have been secured.
The Mexican work has been enlarged somewhat by the opening of a
new school at San Mateo. This is entirely under the management of the
Education Society, but I look after its interests as well as may be. The
need of increase in this work is very pressing. We are losing every day
that the work is compelled to go on without an increase in the working
force. That is imperative. We need two more men for the places already
entered, to say nothing of the open doors which we might enter at once
if we had the money. What are American Christians thinking of, that
they allow these thousands of American citizens whose votes are as potent
as those of their American neighbors to go on without Christianizing or
educating ? For without Protestant schools and missions the most of
them are without adequate educational opportunities and virtually with-
out any religious instruction. I should mention in this connection the
fact that Mexican work has been opened in Tempe by Rev. Stephen
Edwards, who has other means of gaining a livelihood, and so is putting
in what time he can spare in this work without remuneration, the Young
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People's Society of Christian Endeavor of Tempe furnishing the neces-
sary supplies. The beginning has just been made.
During the year covered by this report, the churches of this field,
which were formerly united in one association, have separated themselves
into two bodies, the Arizona Congregational Association and the New
Mexico Congregational Association. This is greatly to the advantage of
the churches, as owing to the great distances they were practically barred
from getting together in one body.
INDIANA
Rev. E. D. Curtis, D.D., Indianapolis, Superintendent
The receipts from this State within the year were $1,769.76.
Superintendent Curtis reports : Twenty-nine missionaries have been
employed a whole or part of the year, supplying thirty-four churches
and seven out-stations, and performing over twenty-two years of labor.
Thirty-seven Sunday-schools report an aggregate membership of 3,485.
Two churches were organized and four additional centers of work formed.
The year has been one of unusual activity in church erection, about
one-fifth of our total number of churches having been engaged in the
work of building or general repairs.
SELF-SUPPORT
It is gratifying to note the. prosperity which has attended Plymouth
Church, Fort Wayne,during the five years, ending June 17, 1895, in which
it has been aided. Commencing with less than 100 members, and with
only a small frame church standing upon a leased lot in the western part
of the city, the church, after five years, assumed self-support, having
meantime secured a central property costing some $30,000, largely paid
for, and now with 400 members, and one of the best equipments for Chris-
tian service in the city, is going forward to win new conquests for the
Master. Already it has become the mother of a new and vigorous off-
shoot, the South Church, which has a fine field, a convenient edifice, and
over which Rev. Ezra E. Frame was installed, October 1st, as missionary
pastor.
REVIVALS OF RELIGION
Because of the lack of necessary funds the Society has not assumed
the support of an evangelist. The churches have held protracted ^services,
and the pastors have generally helped each other during special seasons
of religious interest. The Jamestown church, which has occupied in much
feebleness a peculiarly hard and sterile field, was visited during the winter
with a powerful revival. The reformation extended to many families
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heretofore opposed to the Gospel, and inaugurated an era of faithful
Bible study, with profound reverence for its teachings and spirit. Forty-
one were added to the church, more than doubling its membership. The
revival extended to other churches in the vicinity, and under the faithful
preaching of the pastor, Rev. Claude E. Grove, one of the young men of
the Jamestown church gave himself to the gospel ministry, for which he is
now preparing. The churches at Fort Wayne were blest by union services
held under Dr. Chapman, Plymouth Church adding 109 to her member-
ship during the year, mostly on confession. Many churches have received
considerable accessions in their regular work, admissions taking place at
nearly every regular communion season.
KANSAS
Rev. L. P. Broad, Topeka, Superintendent
The contributions from this State within the year were $4,183.79 ;
legacies, $500. Fifty-nine missionaries have been in service during the
whole or a part of the year in connection with 115 churches and stations
(eighty-five churches and thirty stations). Eighty-seven Sunday-schools
connected with these missionary fields have a total membership of 6,516.
Superintendent Broad writes : The condition of the missionary churches
is almost uniformly hopeful. They are growing in spiritual life, stability,
and self-reliance. Hard times have increased rather than diminished
their zeal. They have never been, as a whole, so really churches instead
of mere aggregations of Christian people. In proportion to their means
they have never, in my judgment, paid so much, or more willingly.
They are patient and active when left without pastors, and adapt them-
selves to trying conditions in a most creditable way. Two-thirds of them
have held special revival services during the year, and in only a few
instances did our ever busy State evangelist render help.
They have evangelistic pastors who lead their own revival efforts and
help each other. Very few of the missionary churches are in debt, except as
by agreement to the ever-generous Building Society. The few that owe
small floating debts are paying them, and are planning henceforth to keep
wholly free. Indeed, as a denomination, we compare favorably with all
other denominations in the State as to freedom from debt. Our churches
would rather do without a pastor, or even church building, than incur a
debt which they have not the means in sight to pay. Too much credit
cannot be given to our noble band of intelligent, devoted, and progres-
sive missionary pastors, who have suffered reduction of salaries and ex-
tension of their fields, and who with great wisdom and energy have
labored to develop their churches in all departments of modern Christian
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endeavor. And this commendation should include pastors of churches
only recently taken from the missionary list, who have resolutely refused
to allow their churches to apply for missionary aid for their salaries,
sharing the people's burdens in maintaining self-support. Churches, too,
long self-supporting, but brought suddenly and calamitously into mission-
ary conditions, again deserve honorable mention for resolutely declining
to ask home missionary aid ; or else for taking the least possible amount
temporarily. As a general fact when churches, missionary and self-sup-
porting, have become weakened through the recent financial stress, they
have not sought relief by seeking to get more home missionary money,
but by doing without what they formerly thought they must have — such
as the full service of a pastor, or even a pastor at all. The self-support-
ing principle is popular ; exceedingly few churches ask for more aid than
that estimated in the yearly schedule, and, in a larger degree, even, than
I have heretofore observed, missionary aid is taken with regret that it is
needed, and with marked gratitude to the Home Missionary Society.
The spirit of evangelizing neighborhoods contiguous to missionary, as
well as self-supporting, churches, is growing.
PASTORLESS CHURCHES
There are some, but only a few of them feel able to pay a salary.
Some churches have delayed getting a pastor for a year or more for want
of sufficient funds, but are now awakening to the necessity of having one.
Among these are some old self-supporting churches, whose financial
weakness has caused anxiety, and numerous visits to prevent them from
getting discouraged, and perhaps requesting home missionary aid once
more. As a whole, the missionary churches that can do their part to-
wards supporting one are quite well supplied with pastors to-day.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONARY
SOCIETY
We have used the best means that seem to be at hand to increase
knowledge of Home Missions, and benevolence for the Society. We fear
that we shall fall below our estimate, but I have never found a more will-
ing response by the churches where the cause and needs of the Home
Missionary Society have been presented than during this year, and know
that many have given with sacrifice and real devotion.
NEBRASKA
Rev. Harmon Bross, Lincoln, Superintendent
The contributions from this State have been $2,657.45.
The Superintendent reports : There have been employed by the
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Society within the State during the year ending March 1st eighty-one
different workers. A few of these have served for a short time only, but
for the most part they have occupied their fields for the full year. These
missionaries have supplied 128 churches and preached with more or less
regularity at fifty out-stations.
The year has been one of severe retrenchment in every direction. No
effort has been made to provide a general missionary for southwestern
Nebraska since Rev. George E. Taylor left the work to accept the finan-
cial agency of Doane College. We have been able to retain our general
missionary for Northern Nebraska only by having him supply some
churches statedly, and using toward his support the amounts originally
estimated for these churches. In the same way we have kept our State
evangelist, Rev. C. S. Billings, by making combinations with the self-
supporting churches, and raising part of his salary in that way. Severe
cuts have been made with some churches, and in other cases several
churches have been combined in a single field.
But with all these limitations the year has been one of great progress.
The sacrifices and self-denial on the part of the ministers and people have
brought all nearer together, and nearer to the great Source of all strength.
It has been a year of revival interest and of ingathering both in our home
missionary fields and our self-supporting churches.
We have been emphasizing in Nebraska for the last few years the work
of rural evangelization. The tendency has been for all churches and
ministers to gather in the villages and leave the country neighborhoods
without gospel privileges. But the history of all Christian work, espe-
cially among our Congregational churches, shows the importance of culti-
vating these country neighborhoods. In these the Gospel has a ready
hearing, and from these very largely must be recruited our churches in
towns and cities, and the ranks of our ministry. As we have neither the
men nor the money to take care of a large number of churches in these
country places we are establishing out-stations in connection with central
churches, and in this way are trying to do our part in this work of rural
evangelization. Those who are converted in these places unite with the
central church for the most part, but maintain their own neighborhood
work. Some of these country neighborhoods have been almost revolu-
tionized this winter by meetings of religious interest. Many young people
have been converted, and gathered into Endeavor Societies, and Sunday-
school work has been greatly strengthened, especially along spiritual lines.
With the exception of two or three practically extinct, all of our
churches have been supplied with more or less regularity during the year.
While there have been more changes within the State than we like to see,
very few of our pastors have gone beyond our bounds. They have pre-
ferred to remain with their people on reduced salaries and with added
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labors rather than to leave their flocks unshepherded. One brother whose
salary has been $700 heretofore, offered to reduce it to $550 if his people
would come to self-support, and they met him on his own proposition.
Another brother is living on $400 rather than to ask aid of the Society,
and there has been a cutting down of salaries all along the line. We are
earnestly hoping that with the close of this home missionary year the debt
may be paid, so that there may be enlargement and progress.
Since this report was commenced, one of our faithful home missionary
pastors, Rev. Geo. C. Hall, of Nebraska City, has passed away from his
work to the crown beyond. He fell with his armor on. He was in his
pulpit March 15th, and on Wednesday, March 25th, in the early morn-
ing, his spirit took its flight. -He was an effective preacher, a faithful
pastor, a man well beloved by his church and much esteemed in the
community. Mention should be made here also of the death of Rev. W.
P. Bennett, pastor of our church at Crete for nearly twelve years. He
had been for several years chairman of our home missionary committee
for the Blue Valley Association, and was prominent in the educational
work of the State ; and while the Crete church had reached self-support
some years before he came to the pastorate, he made his influence felt
among our home missionary churches in that region.
NORTH WISCONSIN
Rev. T. G. Grassie, Ashland, Superintendent
The contributions received from this district have been $ 817.95.
Superintendent Grassie says : During the year we have employed
thirty-five different missionaries, who have labored in twenty-nine
churches and twenty-seven other stations — fifty-six stations in all.
Three new churches have been organized. Every church and mission
station on our list is npw, and for most of the year has been, supplied
with a minister, and is in active living and running order.
It has been a debt-paying year. Hard times have driven us to the
necessity of getting rid of financial encumbrances, so that at this hour
there is not in the district a missionary church but is free from debt.
Our churches have for the most part done very nobly in the way of self-
support.
Nearly all the churches in the district — namely, twenty-nine out of
thirty-seven — are so weak as to need home missionary help and super-
vision. Before these churches come to self-support the most of them
have to go through a trying experience while the towns are changing, as
they all have to, from lumbering to more permanent industries. During
these crises, when one industry is gone and another not yet developed,
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it requires more money and care to sustain a church than to start it
at first.
Yet it is of urgent importance to stand by these churches in their
years of crises, for in a few years these communities will be populous and
wealthy. Sound economy of means, as well as loyalty to the cause of
Christ, demands that, even at increased cost if need be, we maintain such
churches through their time of transition. We must persist in shaping
the character of the communities to righteousness, for if we do not they
will inevitably take their firm and permanent set in unrighteousness.
MINNESOTA
Rev. J. H. Morley, Minneapolis, Superintendent
The contributions from this State have been $5,843.75. One hundred
and fourteen missionaries have supplied 130 churches and 67 stations ;
caring also for 250 Sunday-schools, with an aggregate membership of
*4>335- These churches have received 774 members, of whom 464 came
by confession. Six churches have been organized ; six have been brought
to self-support ; six meeting-houses and three parsonages have been
built, and thirty-one Sunday-schools organized.
Superintendent Morley writes : The financial stringency, which affects
Minnesota far more severely than States further East or South, has been
the discouraging feature of our work, reducing contributions, making
the manning of our churches with efficient pastors a serious problem, and
making the opening of new work as difficult as it is imperative.
The method by which many of our churches and ministers have
adjusted themselves to their environments deserves commendation. Two
yoked churches came to self-support through the self-sacrifice of the
pastor and his wife, who received a small salary for the sake of relieving
the Society ; a reduction, however, which the church will not allow to
continue. Another, through the ministry of an efficient man who took a
smaller field than he deserved, was lifted to assured self-support ; was
enabled to reach the surrounding community ; was blessed with a revival
which doubled its membership ; made substantial improvements upon its
property, and has something more than a name to live.
Revivals, some of them of much power, have strengthened our
churches. Our pastors have the power so to preach the Gospel as to
convert men to Jesus Christ. Four communities along the line of one of
our railways, all of them foreign, with a sprinkling of Americans, none of
them supplied with an American church, none of them having an
adequate conception of spiritual religion, have felt the touch of the
Maker through our missionary, and two of them have been blessed with
revivals.
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New work has been somewhat neglected. As we look at a dozen
Sunday-schools which ought to~be organized into churches, and which we
must neglect ; as we see the Red Lake Reservation shortly to be thrown
open for settlement ; as we survey the Iron Region of the Northwest,
where new towns call for work, and the saloon enters but the church
halts ; as we behold the possibilities of Northern Minnesota now opening,
and calling for men and money, as other sections of the country have
opened, and called for men and money, and have not called in vain ; and
reflect that we have not a dollar for any of this work, except as we save
by scrimping our old work, we feel appalled at the greatness of the oppor-
tunity and the slender resources with which we must meet it.
Along all lines, except those of contributions to benevolence, our
Minnesota churches have made marked advance. We expect even here
soon to make advance and slowly approach our old standard. But in the
years of financial depression there has been a solidifying of our work, a
liquidating of indebtedness, a growing appreciation of the truth that man
does not live by bread alone, but by the Word of God, the results of
which will appear. We can wait until they do appear.
NORTH DAKOTA
Rev. H. C. Simmons, Fargo, Superintendent
The receipts from this State have been $2,871.02. Thirty-five mis-
sionaries have been employed during the whole or a part of the year in
connection with eighty-seven churches and stations. Four churches have
been organized, and sixty-six Sunday-schools report a membership of
M99-
In his annual report, Superintendent Simmons says: North Dakota
is able to report a year of excellent work carried on amid difficulties and
discouragements to some extent, and yet a work that is full of encourage-
ment so far as spiritual results are concerned.
Never in the history of our work has the condition of our churches
been better, with the exception of the financial distress caused by the
continued hard times. The pastors are an excellent and devoted band of
ministers, all of them doing cheerfully and with earnestness the work to
which they have been called. Never has there been greater unity as a
whole among our churches. In some cases there have been large addi-
tions. The church at Cooperstown has, under its new pastor, Mr. Shaw,
more than doubled its membership, and the work is in a very prosperous
condition.
The employment of Rev. W. H. Gimblett as evangelist has proved to
be a very wise movement. The meetings that he has conducted have in
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every case produced excellent results, the work at Forman being one of
the most far-reaching in the State. Revival meetings have also been
carried on by the pastors with great success.
The German work in the State is prospering and growing. A large
field is here open for home missionary work. Thousands of Dunkards
have also come into the State. While they are not of " our way," they
are a great addition to the sturdy, religious element in the State.
Our Scandinavian work, too, has prospered. All that is needed now is
that more missionaries should be provided, to make this a very important
work in the near future. We find, too, that not only by this special work
in their own languages are we reaching the foreign population, but in
some of our churches there is a large attendance of the children of these
people upon our Sunday-schools. Their young people are growing up in
connection with our churches.
The outlook in North Dakota for the future is excellent ; the energy
and thrift of the people, the great agricultural resources of the State, its
fine climate, all go to make it one of the most hopeful fields for mission-
ary work in the country. The character of the agricultural people is dif-
ferent from that of the mining State, where population is less stable.
They are an earnest, law-abiding people, having a fixed and determined
purpose in life, which makes them a sure precursor of great advantages to
the State and the Nation. There is a hopeful feeling among the people
for the future ; and when the long-continued depression slrall have passed,
we may look for a large advance, not only in material things in North
Dakota, but also, we trust, in its spiritual development and its far-reach-
ing influence upon the life of the nation.
Home missionary work never will produce larger results than in North
Dakota ; and while the strain may seem to be large upon the resources of
the Society, yet the investment is one that must be made now, and, being
made, will bring large interest in the future. It is surprising that with so
small an expenditure in these home missionary fields such large results
have been obtained.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Rev. W. II. Thrall, Huron, Superintendent
The receipts from this State have been $1,815.43. Ninety-four mis-
sionaries, including the foreign workers, have labored for the whole or a
part of the year. They have supplied one hundred and thirty-one
churches and thirty-five out-stations. Five churches have been organized,
and one hundred and forty Sunday-schools report a membership of 7,772.
Says Superintendent Thrall : The rains came to us with a promise of
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large harvests, until July 4, but a rainless interim of twelve days blighted
the green fields of grain in some parts of our State. The subsoil was so
dry that a few days told sadly and rapidly on the growing crops. So
that while parts of our State were abundantly blessed with unusual har-
vests, other parts were destitute. Some churches have lost some of their
best supporters who have gone in search of "greener pastures." Some of
these wanderers have already returned, wiser though poorer. Some
bring the word from older fields, "You don't know anything about hard
times in South Dakota."
By sharing each other's burdens most of the old work of. the Home
Missionary Society has been kept alive notwithstanding the " cut-down."
This has often been done at a great sacrifice — so great that often I have
not had the heart to urge the workers to remain. Some few, very few,
have felt obliged to leave. I know of but two who gave up their fields
on account of the cut-down in salaries, and their places have been filled.
If friends in the East could have the experience of a home missionary
superintendent in such times as these they would have abundant rea-
sons to know that Christian heroes are as ready to-day to sacrifice to
save America as when our Pilgrim Fathers first came to Massachu-
setts.
Notwithstanding the year's trials, Garretson has dedicated a church
building costing $2,500, free from debt. Vilas has purchased a church
building. Gettysburg has finished the edifice, nearly completed one year
ago. Carthage has secured the building at Esmond, and is now moving
it to Carthage, where it is much needed. Valuable repairs or improve-
ments have been made on church buildings at Milbank, Ft. Pierre, Aber-
deen, Lebanon, Howard, South Shore, Willow Lakes. Tyndall has broken
ground for a new building. Beresford has completed a parsonage.
Frankfort has lifted an indebtedness on the parsonage. Mission Hill has
paid the last of a Congregational Building Society loan. Aberdeen has
secured a site for a building.
Plankinton has lost as seriously as any point in South Dakota from
removals — perhaps one third of the membership — but they have paid
$joo toward a Church Building Society debt.
Christian Endeavor Societies are multiplying in our State and many of
them are doing practical work. Hudson and Chamberlain Societies are
sustaining free reading-rooms. The Chamberlain Society has sustained
outside mission services, through volunteer mission bands, two such going
out every Sunday afternoon and paying their own livery bills. The
pastor of that church has, besides preaching twice every Sunday in his
own pulpit, where he is the only pastor in the city, attended and helped
usually in the other church services and held afternoon services in some
outlying villages, east, west, and south, and he has held mid-week services
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at a point fifteen miles west. No other American minister is within
twenty miles radius. Mr. Fisk is still supplying six churches, the two
extreme church appointments being over fifty miles apart.
It is worthy of note that many of our home missionary pastors report
young men in their churches preparing for the Christian ministry — e.g.,
Armour, Centerville, Garretson, and Plankinton, one each ; Burnside and
Howard, two each ; Aberdeen, three ; Redfield, twenty. Revivals have
been reported by thirty-six of our home missionary churches, with four
hundred and thirty-seven reported conversions. One of the most serious
losses which could come to our work has finally been yielded to by our
State Home Missionary Board in the giving up of our lady evangelist,
Miss Emma K. Henry, who will have labored for our churches inces-
santly for three years at the expiration of her present commission, and
General Missionary Tomlin, who left a pastorate in our State to accept
this position nine years ago next autumn. Both of these have done very
important work for our weak as well as for our stronger churches. By
economy and sacrifice we have succeeded in retaining their services until
now, but the new " retrenchment " finally made it seem to our Board inev-
itable to give them up. Our pastors could not sacrifice any further, and
our churches, as a rule, are doing all that is possible. Churches have
been yoked wherever possible.
Some reports show silver linings to the clouds, by increased member-
ship : e.g., Academy, 31, Beresford and Pioneer, 24, Bowdle, 14, Canova,
11, Carthage, 26, Centerville, 15, Chamberlain, 15, Myron, 16, De Smet,
41, Elk Point, 14, Erwin, 11, Howard, 13, Iroquois, 18, Pierre, 39, Red-
field, 17, Webster, 17, Willow Lakes 48.
Notwithstanding difficulties and hard times there are several scores of
God's noblemen and their wives who are again facing an unwritten future,
determined to act the part of men and women, and to work as your mis-
sionaries to help take South Dakota for Christ, that that unwritten future
shall be written somewhat in the blood of Christ and by his life.
WYOMING AND BLACK HILLS (SOUTH DAKOTA)
Rev. A. A. Brown, Hot Springs, So. Dak., Superintendent
The contributions from this district have been $376.08. Twenty-six
missionaries have been employed during the whole or a part of the year
in connection with thirty-one churches and stations. Three churches
have been organized. Twenty-nine Sunday-schools report a membership
of 1,652.
Superintendent Brown reports : My territory is very large, necessitat-
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ing much travel, and making it difficult to keep in touch with the missiona-
ries and their fields except by correspondence. I have traveled nearly
12,000 miles and have written over 1,200 letters during the year, and have
delivered about 150 sermons and addresses. I have been from home over
three-fourths of my time, and yet have not been able to meet the expecta-
tions of the missionaries and churches, It is not unfrequently that I
receive letters, in the same mail, chiding me for not being at home more,
and urging me to come to a distant point in the district at once.
Wyoming is having quite a mining excitement just now. Gold has
been discovered in almost all of its mountain ranges and spurs within the
last two years, and development work is being done at many points.
Many experienced prospectors and miners claim the promise to be equal
to any other contiguous field. Should this prove true, Laramie, Lander,
Sheridan, Douglas, and Wheatland may be counted in the boom, while
many other towns will doubtless spring up near the operating camps.
This will give Wyoming an importance more than equal to Colorado.
It is not prophecy to say that Wyoming will cease to be known as the
great cattle and sheep State within the next five years ; not that there will
be fewer cattle and sheep, but because her mining interests will overshadow
these. The church has little understood the vast wealth that underlies
these unattractive and rugged mountains. She has been too easily
attracted to the arid plains where a beginning is apparently easy, while
she has disregarded the gateways to the wealth of the continent.
The Black Hills in South Dakota constitute a prominent part of this
missionary district, and not more prominent than important. Six years
ago, the Homestake Mines at Lead were the only gold mines being
worked in the Hills. This group of mines were then yielding about
$3,000,000 per year. The working of the refractory ores was considered
an unsolved problem. To day railway tracks have been built under every
producing mine at Bald Mountain, Ruby Basin, and in Nevada Gulch,
and four large smelters are reducing these ores. Already other smelters
are projected, as these are insufficient to work the output. This interest
is giving new importance to this section of country, and the towns are
beginning to grow and business to revive.
The new church at Keystone is of very great importance. The town
in little more than a year has reached 800 inhabitants. The camp is free-
milling ore, and several mills have been built and others are in course of
erection. This is doubtless the coming town of the central hills. Our
church there is of great importance and must have a church home erected
this coming summer. We have our church site and about $1,000 sub-
scribed.
In the little more than six years' acquaintance with the Black Hills
there has been a marked growth in all departments of church work — -
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attendance, membership, Sunday-schools, young people's societies, etc.
And the advance is very marked in the number and quality of church
buildings. Four church buildings have been erected, an addition of sixty-
six per cent. Four parsonages have been built, an increase of 400 per
cent.
In Wyoming, in three years and nine months, six church buildings
have been erected, an addition of 120 per cent. Three parsonages have
been secured, an addition of 300 per cent. When compared with the
twenty-four years since work began in Wyoming, the fourteen years since
work began in the Black Hills, the ratio is seen to be very rapidly increas-
ing. There is certainly nothing discouraging in the later history of this
field. The only cloud upon the horizon is the lack of missionary aid to
carry on the work so auspiciously begun. We ought to occupy at least
six new fields in Wyoming and three new fields in the Black Hills the
present year. The necessity of fellowship and the economy of early
plants demand it. But with a greatly reduced grant and the necessities of
work already in hand, advance movements are impossible.
May the Lord open the way for these new movements by warming
the hearts of his people !
COLORADO
Rev. Horace Sanderson, Denver, Superintendent
The receipts from this State have been $1,768.61.
The Rev. Horace Sanderson, who was last year reported as acting
superintendent in this State, has since been appointed Superintendent in
full. He sends these items:
Sixty laborers have been employed during the year in fifty-nine preach-
ing stations. Two churches (Ariba and Bethel Church, Denver) have
been organized. Two have assumed self-support — Ward and Pueblo,
First. There have been 646 reported conversions, 300 have been added
to the churches on confession of faith, and 161 by letter. Two houses of
worship have been built, one at Cripple Creek and one at Whitewater.
The year has been one of progress. We have a band of most earnest,
wise, consecrated home missionary pastors. This is proven by the above
results. The low price of silver has brought about lower freight rates and
smelter rates, and also reduced the price of labor. This enables some of
the mines to ship that run in low-grade ore. Cripple Creek continues to
be one of the greatest camps in the world. Our church, under the leader-
ship of pastor Ray, is growing, and souls are being saved. Creede has
had a temporary set-back on account of the closing of some of the leading
mines. The indications are good for a revival of business in Creede as
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spring opens. The shipment of fruit from the Grand Junction district is
reaching such proportions that it will probably be necessary for the rail-
road company to put on a fast fruit train daily from Grand Junction to
Denver. Colorado College has received a blessed outpouring of God's
grace this past winter, and a number of souls were born again.
The Colorado Woman's Home Missionary Union are doing a grand
work in helping our society.
One of our greatest needs is money — first, that we may have a State
evangelist who will spend all his time in soul-saving work ; second, that
we may be able to enter new and promising fields where there is no
Sunday-school or preaching service. We have places of several hundred
inhabitants where there is no religious service of any kind. Who will be
held responsible ?
MONTANA
Rev. W. S. Bell, Helena, Superintendent
The contributions from this State have been $271.95. Nine missiona-
ries have been employed during the whole or a part of the year in con-
nection with twenty-one churches and stations. Two churches have been
organized and one assumed self-support. Twenty-three Sunday-schools
report a membership of 905.
Says Superintendent Bell: In spite of most adverse conditions, the
past year has been one of progress. About a year and a half ago we
opened up a new field in the Yellowstone Valley, between our churches
at Big Timber and Billings, and contiguous to a newly opened Indian
reservation. This was placed in charge of Rev. Joseph Pope, who had
previously done such good service at Big Timber. As the result of his
faithful efforts two churches, one at Laurel and one at Columbus, have
already developed, and more openings for preaching stations present
themselves than can possibly be entered. At Laurel a church building is
already going up, and at Columbus substantial gains have been made.
This whole field, which is well nigh equal in area to the State of Rhode
Island, is practically occupied by ourselves alone, and is full of rich
promise for the future.
The churches at Laurel and Columbus were organized by council on
successive days in the third week of May last. By an interesting coin-
cidence, the same week a church was organized at Wibaux, the most
eastern station in Montana on the N. P. R. R., thus giving us the unpre-
cedented record of three Congregational churches organized in Montana
in a single week. The Wibaux church was the outgrowth of the earnest
labors of Rev. John Orchard, pastor of the Congregational church at
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Dickinson, N. D., eighty miles east of Wibaux, and has since its organiza-
tion been supplied in connection with that point. Although far removed
from other Congregational churches in Montana, this little band is gladly
welcomed to our fellowship.
During the year the work at Great Falls, which twelve months ago was
so completely prostrated, has been again taken up, and is now on a sub-
stantial basis. A neat chapel has been built, and all the forms of church
activity are in operation. These results are very largely due to the per-
sistent efforts of Rev. O. C. Clark, of Missoula, to whom the task of
gathering the scattered fragments was committed.
Great Falls is destined in time to be one of our most important centers
of influence. Horse Plains, though still compelled to be content with
only a monthly visit from the superintendent, has bravely undertaken the
erection of a house of worship, which is now nearly ready for dedication.
Livingston, after a considerable period of vacancy, secured a pastor in the
person of Rev. W. A. Waler, who came to us from the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. Under his leadership rapid progress has been made
and a precious revival has been enjoyed; and while no formal action has
been taken, the church, having received no missionary aid for the past six
months, has practically come to self-support.
The only shadow thrown upon the work of the year is caused by the
disbanding of the church at Butte. But even this cloud has its silver
lining, as the Society is thus relieved of the support of a very expensive
enterprise and enabled to give additional aid in more promising fields.
Nor is the hope abandoned that in the future we may yet have an effective
organization in that important mining and commercial center.
Of the work as a whole it may be said that a greater degree of per-
manency has characterized the pastorates than in previous years. Seven
of the nine missionaries employed have been in the service throughout
the entire twelve months. Substantial progress has thus been secured
which could not have come in any other way. Recent reports show the
Sunday-school work to be in an especially prosperous condition. Possibly
this may be taken, in a measure at least, as indicating the wisdom of a
joint superintendency.
UTAH AND IDAHO
Rev. W. S. Hawkes, Sal! Lake City, Utah, Superintendent
The contributions from this district have been $373.81. Eighteen
missionaries have been in commission during the whole or a part of the
year, in connection with thirty-two churches and stations. Twenty-two
Sunday-schools report a membership of 1,468.
The superintendent says : Another year of harmony, devotion, fruit-
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fulness, and joy. Each church and mission has had a pastor ; nearly all
have enjoyed spiritual quickening, and the lengthening pastorates show
their results in more prosperity. The general business depression of the
country has sorely tried our work and workers, and" in Utah it has been a
very heavy load. All but one of the Idaho churches have increased their
pledges toward self-support. In Utah the growth of Christian work is
extremely slow, but in Idaho it is more like home missionary work in other
States.
The missionary spirit is increasing in these churches, and our mission-
ary work in all parts of the world is receiving attention. Our woman's
work is becoming well organized and yielding more fruit ; the lack of
these things here in the past has been evident ; the beginning and growth
of interest has been painfully slow, but now a decided advance is visible ;
the hindering conditions in this field cannot be understood by those who
have not had personal contact with them.
The two self-supporting churches in this field aire both in Utah, and
they and their pastors have been in close sympathy with the home mis-
sionary churches and ministers, as have also the representatives of the
Education Society. The Sunday-School and Publishing Society and the
Church Building Society have, as usual, been our most valued helpers.
And the woman's department of our own Society has continually given us
timely and highly valued aid in several directions. The " missionary
boxes " have been unusually valuable, the thoughtfulness shown in their
preparation has caused them to come to the self-respecting missionaries
and their wives as testimonials of appreciation, and not as charity.
In past years a considerable number of good books have been secured
for individual ministers. Only those who have seen the able men and
women on this field, living on small salaries, frequently living scores, and
sometimes over a hundred, miles from a brother minister and his library,
and hundreds of miles from any good public library, who hunger for the
much-talked-of new books, can understand what a denial they endure. A
plan to partially supply this need has been devised for this field. One
who fully understood the need placed a sum of money in the hands of the
superintendent with which to buy books. The Congregational Publish-
ing Society has offered to make large discounts from list prices, and a
good number of recent and valuable books has been secured for a " Home
Missionaries' Circulating Library," which will be circulated by the super-
intendent while making his visits. Besides this a considerable number of
Congregational authors have contributed copies of their publications, and
the cordial notes of presentation accompanying some of these gifts have
made them doubly appreciated. The quality of the books suggested by
the missionaries for this library, revealing their mental tastes and the
drift of their thoughts, makes it evident that they are likely to worthily
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support historic Congregationalism in standing for a pure Gospel and
religious liberty. It is probable that the books will be finally deposited
with either the Salt Lake or the Weiser College Library. Thus the pres-
ent gift has a permanent value.
After so many years of waiting, Utah is a State in full fellowship in
the Union. Most of the Christian laborers preferred to have admission
still further delayed ; but so many reasons were advanced for it that few
felt like opposing it openly. In various ways the leaders of the Mormon
people have made such solemn promises on their behalf that there is a
disposition to trust them, if we can thus hasten the Americanizing of this
fair portion of our country. It is the prevailing opinion that the Mormon
people are honest in these professions, and that the old forms of strife and
opposition are forever past.
The past year has been one of spiritual blessing ; some excellent
revivalists have been with us, and several of our churches have been gra-
ciously quickened. One church, which had been considerably rent and
weakened by internal troubles, has been largely blessed by the spirit of
the Lord softening the hearts of some of those arrayed against each other,
and its future now looks hopeful.
Financially it has been a hard year ; not one of the home mission-
ary churches has been able to meet its pledge towards its pastor's support ;
if some have not done all we think they ought to have done, others have
done more than was reasonably expected of them, and all taken to-
gether have done as well as we could demand, when the peculiarities of
this field are considered.
We have only five churches in Southern Idaho ; but each one is strong
and in an important center, exerting a wide influence, and we are ready
to organize churches in several other places as soon as funds will allow
placing missionaries with them. The large Fremont County, southwest
of the Yellowstone Park, is still, so far as I can learn, without religious
services, except Mormon.
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
Rev. J. K. Harrison, San Francisco, Superintendent
The contributions from this missionary district have been $7,790.25.
Says Superintendent Harrison : During the past year sixty-nine mis-
sionaries have preached to 125 churches and out-stations. They have
organized eight new churches, all but one in communities where there
was no other church. They report 310 conversions and 746 additions to
the churches. During the three years past our home missionary appro-
priations on forty fields have been reduced $5,500. Seven out of the forty
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have assumed entire self-support. The past year has been no excep-
tion in this respect. Our hardest work has been not the preaching of the
Gospel, but rather the painful task of trying to carry on an increasing work
while the missionary appropriations have been decreasing. And yet our
work has gone forward and the credit of it all lies with the devoted, unsel-
fish, and hard-working missionaries on the field.
I cannot forbear to quote from a letter just at hand. The pathos of
it lies in the fact that the wife of our missionary is an invalid, who has not
walked a step for ten years. The husband writes : " We continued the
week of prayer for five weeks, as the weather would permit, with an
increasing degree of interest, but I found it necessary for me to stop ; the
mental strain was too much, my mind refused to work, and I was so con-
fused that I could not finish the last sermon. Rest has partially restored
me, but I am not right yet. As the result of the meetings, seven united
with the church, three by letter, four on confession. These were all
adults but one, a little girl of thirteen, whose confession is very decided.
We have not dropped work entirely. My wife and I hold seven services
on the Sabbath. Sunday-school and preaching in the morning. Junior
Endeavor by my wife at 2:30 p.m. in the parsonage. From two to four
o'clock, Sunday-school at the K District. Christian Endeavor and
preaching in the evening. Monday I have the family washing to do.
This is about the hardest thing of all. Tuesday I meet the boys or young
people.- Wednesday afternoon, a Bible reading at two o'clock. In the
evening, regular prayer-meeting. Thursday afternoon my wife has a
Bible reading with the ladies. Friday I meet the Sunday-school teachers
in Bible reading on the lesson, and sometimes a cottage prayer-meeting on
Friday afternoon. There has come a great change over the community.
My wife's rheumatism is worse ; she is a great sufferer, in constant pain
day and night. This climate does not agree with her."
The devotion of this faithful missionary is not beyond that of many
others whom we have.
In addition to our regular services we have this year, through the
special contributions of the Woman's Home Missionary Union, been
enabled to begin a much needed work among the Italians, of whom there
are over 100,000 in the State. Mr. La Franchi is doing faithful mission-
ary work among them and has already met with gratifying success.
We must by all means maintain the lines already advanced. Indeed,
we shall be recreant if we do not push forward into unoccupied commu-
nities. Fifteen counties remain unentered by our Congregational hosts.
A call has just come to go into a mining town, with a population of 1,000
people with no church or Sunday-school. In another county are eight
small towns, averaging 300 people in each, without a church or Sunday-
school. In many places where churches and out-stations have been yoked
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under one missionary, the work has simply grown beyond the ability of
one man to care for them properly. There are still several places where
we have church property which must be re-occupied at the earliest
possible moment.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Rev. James T. Ford, Los Angeles, Superintendent
The receipts from this district have been $5,611.45.
Our veteran superintendent in this field sends the following suggestive
report : Thirty-seven missionaries were employed last year, ending March
1st, who ministered to forty-five churches and not less than seventeen
out-stations. Three churches were organized — Alessandro, La Mesa,
and Los Angeles (Central Avenue); two were disbanded (San Bernar-
dino Bethel, and Westminster). The latter has received occasional
home missionary aid, but none during the past two or three years. One
church, South Riverside, has reached self-support. Five others have
ceased to receive aid, because their ministers have declined to accept it.
These are not self-supporting, but are rather supported in considerable
part by their ministers. Seventeen Sunday-schools have been organized
through the efficient work of Superintendent Case. The aggregate mem-
bership of Sunday-schools cared for by our home mission churches is about
4,500. Two houses of worship have been built, one purchased, and two
repaired. During the calendar year 1895 there were received to our
aided churches on confession 1 70 members ; by letter, 236. The number
of attendants on public worship at all churches and stations is estimated
at about 5,000. One missionary whose work among us has been greatly
blessed, Rev. Henry M. Voorhees, of Escondido, has ceased from his
labors here, called to " Come up higher."
Some of our missionaries report considerable additions to their
churches on confession of faith, as a result of the ordinary services of the
church ; others have held extra meetings. Perhaps five may be said to
have been blessed with revivals of religion. We have been unable to
enlarge our work in any direction requiring pecuniary aid, for our appor-
tionment was insufficient to sustain the work already begun, except by
reduction of the already meager support of our missionaries. Of the
three churches organized, two were already out-stations of mission
churches and require no additional aid. The other receives the aid here-
tofore granted to one of the disbanded churches. We are confronted
with a like inability to enlarge our work for the coming year, yet there is
no lack of calls for enlargement. For the advancement of the work
already begun we greatly need the services of the home missionary evan-
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gelist. Vast neglected regions with scattered population call for the
labors of itinerant missionaries. Rev. H. P. Case, superintendent of our
Sunday-school work, reports sixty mission schools that need pastoral care
to give them permanent value. Most of these are beyond the reach of
missionaries already employed. We are still compelled to report no work
begun by our Society for the thousands of strangers of other tongues
within our gates. A missionary of the American Board in Mexico must
needs for his family's sake come to California, and wishes to do a much
needed work among our numerous Spanish-speaking inhabitants, but we
cannot assure him of a living in such a mission. We fail to occupy
promising openings for churches in our more populous districts, because
we cannot give them the aid they are sure to need at the outset of their
work. We fear that more of our churches must be disbanded because we
cannot continue the assistance they require.
Not only is there much work waiting to be done, but many men wait
here who would gladly do it, yet must turn to other employments for an
honest livelihood. Our obvious need is more consecrated money to con-
nect the men with the work. For the past three years we have been
unable to rely for the starting of new work upon money released from
aided fields by their approach to self-support. The condition of many of
these has been such that they have needed more aid rather than less, and
our forced reductions have fallen mainly upon the missionaries. Never-
theless the year has been one of progress If the gain has been small in
the number of churches, of members, and of houses of worship, it has
been greater in the interior life of the churches. They are generally
better organized, more harmonious, more firmly established, and more
influential in their several fields.
Looking back over a period of fifteen years, the progress appears so
rapid and the change so great that we exclaim with wonder, " What hath
God wrought ! " Then we had six churches, now seventy-five ; then 417
members, now 5,844. Then the average attendance at Protestant churches
was scarcely more than one-twentieth of the population ; now it is esti-
mated at about one-fifth. Then the church-goer was singular, and often
an object of ridicule ; now custom moves churchward and carries with it
many of the form'er neglecters of the sanctuary. Then a revival of reli-
gion, moving the whole community, was rarely, if ever, heard of in Southern
California ; now crowds gather to hear the evangelist, and he finds a sus-
ceptibility to religious impression not exceeded in favored places at the
East. Then church members were an unfashionable few ; now in several
of our more prominent towns more than one-third of the inhabitants are
counted in the church lists. This change is due largely to a new immi-
gration from the best elements of Eastern society ; but it is due even more
to the fact that when the new rapid movement hitherward began, the mis-
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sion boards of our several denominations of Christians sent their money
without stint to help build churches and support ministers, so that every
new settlement might begin with the Gospel.
OREGON
Rev. C. F. Clapp, Forest Grove, Superintendent
The contributions from this State have been $412.06. Twenty mis-
sionaries have been employed during the whole or a part of the year in
connection with sixty-three churches and stations. Four churches have
been organized and two houses of worship built. Fifty-five Sunday-schools
report a membership of 3,350.
Superintendent Clapp says : The year has been one of much spiritual
growth and uplift. While cramped for funds very greatly, yet the Spirit
brooded over the churches, and special meetings were not only more
numerous than in previous years, but resulted in more conversions.
Fewer changes occurred in the pastorates than for many years, and about
the usual number of church buildings were built. The religious tone of
the communities in which our churches are planted is much higher than
it was one year ago. Congregationalism has risen in the estimation of
almost every place where services have been held. The character of the
ministry, the kind of work done, the cupport of the Missionary Society,
and the solid foundations laid, have impressed these communities that the
type of religion displayed was something far different from anything
which had before been shown there.
It is difficult to conceive of the destitution which exists in some of the
mountainous and upland regions of Eastern Oregon. This religious des-
titution means not simply that no Christianity is preached there, but it
means that all sorts of irreligious and ungodly isms and doctrines are pro-
mulgated. Infidelity in its most blatant forms, corrupting and unholy
literature, Sabbath desecration, and gambling, drinking, and carousing —
in fact, all the forms of vice grow like weeds in a neglected garden.
In many of our home missionary fields a stream of young men and
women has already started for Pacific University, Whitman College, and
other similar institutions, to get the long desired education which was
made possible by the missionary in his encouragement and planning as to
ways and means. And more than one Home Missionary has taken the
overcoat which should have covered his own back, or the money to buy
it, and sent some promising boy or some struggling girl to the nearest
school, taking them there, and arranging for their shelter and tuition, and
starting them in to "light housekeeping" that the few dollars might buy
as many months of opportunity with books as possible.
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I have never known a more consecrated and self-sacrificing set of men
than cmr missionaries. They have had " converting " power and have
been men of earnest faith in the Gospel. On the whole I am greatly
encouraged, and I see far better things in the immediate future than we
have ever known in the past. The " missionary boxes" have come like
angels of mercy, and only the "leaves of the Judgment Book will ever
unfold" all that they have been to these prophets of the Almighty during
the times of need.
WASHINGTON
Rev. A. Judson Bailey, Seattle, Superintendent
The contributions from this State have been $2,353.03. Seventy-eight
missionaries have been in commission during the whole or a part of the
year, in connection with 168 churches and stations. Seven churches have
been organized and nine houses of worship built. One hundred and nine-
teen Sunday-schools report a membership of 6,821.
Says Superintendent Bailey : It is with a degree of sadness that I
place a blank where we ought to have the names of some of our churches
coming to self-support. We have only six self-supporting churches in the
State, and two of these are really not such.
Some of the churches have enjoyed precious revivals. " I have given
such facts as have come to me, but these figures do not do our churches
justice. More than a score of churches have enjoyed revived conditions
and have gathered fruits of regular and special work for the saving of the
people.
Six missionaries have left the State during the year. Some may return
some time, though they are not in work elsewhere. But the increase for
the year is nine. We have more men in the field than last year.
We are now brought face to face with some new and startling problems.
Some of our pastors have been working for a long time to secure an evan-
gelist for the State. They have at last persuaded the Young People's
Society of Christian Endeavor to take up the matter and to pledge $600
for this work. With this vote of our young people, indorsed by the
churches indirectly, we are planning for this experiment this year. But
it comes at a time when other States are dropping such work, and when
we need, more than ever, every dollar for pastors in the regular work.
With the reductions in the apportionment we have come down to starva-
tion salaries. Never has there been more need of expansion and nevermore
opportunity to expand. The men are here, wanting to work somewhere,
and the work is here for them to do ; but the money is not here. To
drop small churches at this time is to drop men who have given themselves
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to the work of the Lord in this kind of missionary service, and to leave
them without employment in the churches anywhere. The evil of " too
many weak churches in small communities " is greatly increased by the
withdrawal of any church from the community where it has existed unless
the withdrawal be because of the insufficiency of the church to supply the
needs of the people. A large part of the value of a church is its perma-
nence. The church must stay by the people if it would expect the people
to stay by the church. And hastening to the conclusion of the argument,
hence if we are to plan to be a power in this State we must plan to go
where we are needed, to gather up the people who belong to us, and to
plant churches where they are needed to Christianize the people of the
State. We must plan not merely for communities, but for the whole State.
It is a source of pleasure to us to see that we are recognized as a
strong denomination in this State. The smaller denominations are look-
ing to us to take their weak churches which they cannot longer sustain.
When the coming of a church means simply more support, we need not be
in haste to encourage the movement. But when it means, as is often the
case, a desire for larger and better fellowship, we feel like reaching out
our hands in welcome if we can. Many of the hardest missionary prob-
lems are solved by planning for efficient and permanent work where it is
needed. But we have reached our limit of ability, and so our limit of
responsibility, unless we can have relief. We hear the cry of destitute
communities on the one hand, and the cry of inadequately supported mis-
sionaries on the other, and as we cannot answer both we must choose
which to answer. At present we must listen to our missionaries and help
them. But there are many communities which are being neglected. We
are not doing all that might be profitably done. I think, however, that
we are doing well the work that we have in hand. Everywhere there are
signs of increased permanence in the work. The churches are becoming
more self-reliant, even where they cannot make much advance towards
financial self-support. They need less nursing, less " careful handling."
More of them really want to live, and are planning to live.
SLAVIC DEPARTMENT
Rev. II. A. Schauffler, D.D., Cleveland, Ohio, Superintendent
During the year 28 missionaries (16 male, 12 female) have been at
work, most of them all the time (besides 12 wives of missionaries), labor-
ing in 7 States and 25 stations and out-stations, for 10 churches and
branch churches with 537 church members. Additions during the year,
80; conversions, 78 ; Sunday-schools, 13, with membership of 1,957 ; an
attendance at 27 preaching services, 919.1 ; and at 64 other meetings (in-
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 165
eluding Sunday-schools), 2,278 ; total, 3,197.1 ; contributions to mission-
ary societies, $652.42; calls and visits made, 16,074; Scriptures circu-
lated : Bibles, 329; New Testaments, 252 ; pages of tracts, 163,204.
In addition Dr. Schauffier says : In the Cleveland Bohemian Mission
the average weekly attendance at all services was smaller than the year
before (1,611 against 1,781), while the number of conversions was larger
(35 to 17), and also of additions to the church (31 to n). Two young
men and six young women are preparing for missionary work. Cyril field
shows the greatest progress, all the services and meetings but one having
been larger, and the church much more active and fruitful.
In Chicago, " wholly in charge of the Chicago City Missionary Society,"
the average weekly attendance at 16 services and meetings was 1,602
against 1,236 at 14 meetings the year before. Nine were added to the
church and 48 intending to join at Easter. Dr. Adams reports : " I have
never seen so interesting a state of things in our whole country."
In Milwaukee some headway is being made against great difficulties
and strong opposition. The addition of a Bible reader to the missionary
force has been a blessing.
In La Crosse Bohemian services have been kept up once a month.
In St. Paul two severe trials have been met — one from a rival Lutheran
service and church, which came to grief through dissension ; the other
from the destruction of the steeple of our chapel by lightning, which,
however, was restored through gifts of friends. Average weekly attend-
ance at services, Christian Endeavor meeting, and Sunday-school, 109.
The Silver Lake (Minn.) church has 87 members and average weekly
attendance of 223. Many members are realizing more than ever their
calling as a church to improve the opportunities for reaching those among
them yet strangers to the Gospel.
In Iowa City, since Rev. F. T. Bastel's departure, only the Bohemian
Mission Sunday-school is kept up by the Congregational church.
In Vining, Iowa, the church has 22 members, having added 6 ; aver-
age weekly attendance, 59. The obstacles are great, chiefly indifference
and bigotry. The small colony of Bohemian farmers in Luzerne is vis-
ited over Sunday once a month.
From St. Louis the report is cheering. The church numbers 26, to
having been added ; average weekly attendance, 368 ; attendance at al-
most all services was better than the year before. The Sunday-school is
in better condition, and the Christian Endeavor Society has been reorgan-
ized. A church building is to be put up immediately.
In Nebraska, the work in Crete, Wilber, and Olive Branch is encour-
aging, the attendance growing, as is the favor shown by Catholics and
the spiritual life of converts.
1 66 The Home Missionary July, 1896
The Polish work in Cleveland looks decidedly more encouraging, the
seceders from the St. Stanislaus Roman Catholic Church becoming more
liberal in their views and more friendly to our work.
In Detroit the church (Polish branch of the First Congregational) has
grown from 16 to 27 members. The average attendance at services has
increased from 1 1 at two services to 16. The difficulties do not diminish,
and yet about 500 new faces have appeared in our place of worship.
In Toledo no Polish preaching service can yet be held, but children
are gathered into a Saturday sewing-school and taught Christian truth,
and men into a class for learning English.
In the Slovak work in Braddock, Duquesne, and McKeesport, there
has been steady and encouraging growth. Services are better attended
than ever, the average weekly attendance being 420 against 362 the year
before. The church numbers 96, 17 having been added, all formerly
drunkards. The bitter opposition of the Braddock Catholic and Lutheran
priests has ceased, these men having been driven away by their own
people. There never was a time when the hearts of the people were more
accessible to our missionaries.
In Johnstown the number,of church members has increased from 9 to
13, and counting absentees, to 18.
The little church of Poles and Germans in Winburne, Pa., has grown
to 18 ; they hope to build a little chapel next summer.
The Magyar work in South Norwalk, Ct., wholly supported by the
South Norwalk Congregational Church, has had a prosperous year and
earned the renewed praise of the authorities for its excellent influence on
a formerly turbulent community.
The Oberlin Slavic Department has had ten students connected with
it. The spiritual condition has been very satisfactory.
The Bethlehem Bible Readers School has also had 10 pupils — 1 Ger-
man, 1 Slovak, 8 Bohemians, of whom 3 are preparing for Polish work.
Their faithfulness in study and missionary work has been marked.
THE SCANDINAVIAN DEPARTMENT
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Minneapolis, Minn., Superintendent
Superintendent Fisher says: Three years have passed since the Society
has had a report from the superintendent of this department. It might
surely be expected that, after so long an interim, there would be such an
accumulation of material as to insure a full report, and one of unusual
interest. But the present superintendent may well hesitate to break the
silence. Great must be the contrast between what he can give and the
comprehensive, energetic, hopeful summaries and outlooks which that
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 167
many-sided, keen-eyed, broad-minded Marcus W. Montgomery, who ini-
tiated this work, and for ten years gave all his large abilities to its guid-
ance, was accustomed to spread before you.
There have been few changes among the churches which are aided by
the Society, during the past year. The pastors remain at their posts with
a good degree of pluck and hopefulness. The increasing stability of
churches and pastors in this regard is certainly a good sign. The
Scandinavians are by nature rovers. They take kindly to change of place,
and easily become pilgrims with no abiding city. Congregations among
them, as among the Americans, are not averse to new voices and'new ways
of setting forth truth. It is a matter of congratulation that our ministers are
not as desirous as formerly they were of new fields and fresher streams.
And the churches are more willing to encourage permanency in the pas-
toral relation.
A new thing in our work is the joint employment of Rev. J. F. Oker-
stein by the Congregational Sunday-School and Publishing Society and
the Congregational Home Missionary Society. His field has been, thus
far, Eastern Minnesota and Western Wisconsin, but may well be enlarged
to cover North Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota. His work is to
visit churches, to assist pastors in preaching, holding special services, and
house-to-house visitation; to look well to the Sunday-school interests, try-
ing to give the Sunday-school, if there is one, greater efficiency, and if the
church has no Sunday-school, to assist in starting one. He has also had
it in mind to see if it were feasible to form a new church in some district
not remote, which might be yoked with the one he is visiting, and so to
aid in the support of the preacher as to give relief to the Society. Our
Scandinavian churches need new life and vigor in the Sunday-school.
They are weak here, and must needs suffer loss in a few years if they do
not find how to improve their condition in this matter. Our Sunday-
schools average forty, as may be seen from the statistics. This is not
owing to a scarcity of children in Scandinavian homes. In some cases
the church does not seem to value the Sunday-school at its real worth, and
so fails to use it as it might. In other cases the neighboring American
churches draw the children to their schools.
While but few churches report a revival, there has manifestly been a
healthy spiritual state in most or all of them. There is large reason for
giving thanks for the number of those who have heard Christ's call and
have accepted him. Our ministers have not labored without results. All
our churches, with perhaps one exception, tell of conversions and of ad-
ditions to their membership.
The time is not yet far past when Mr. Montgomery found it no easy
thing to obtain men with a theological education to minister to the churches;
perhaps not yet are there enough trained men to serve all the churches
i68 The Home Missionary July, 1896
that offer a promising field to laborers of the right sort. But the supply of
competent and well-equipped men is constantly increasing. Our Chicago
Seminary graduated sixteen Scandinavian students this spring, three Nor-
wegians and thirteen Swedes. The providing suitable men for ministers
is one of the least of our troubles nowadays. Neither is the difficulty to
find bodies of earnest believers who would gladly receive the services of
these who have been trained to minister. Two of our general missionaries,
Rev. C. J. Hansen of South Dakota, and Rev. A. G. Nelson of Minnesota,
report excellent openings for new work, places calling loudly for preachers.
So great is the need, and so little are we able to meet it, that Mr. Hansen
is about to become a resident minister, as well as a traveling missionary, so
taking upon himself double labor. Mr. Nelson also is striving to keep a
goodly number of beacon fires blazing. He visits Sandstone as frequently
as possible, but not as frequently as the people would have him come.
We used to have a church in Sandstone before the awful scourge of fire
swept over that district. Rev. E. A. Anderson, now of Winona, Minn., was
its minister. He lost all his belongings, save what he had on. For some
months there was no call for a settled pastor and regular services. Many
of the people who did not perish in the flames took themselves away; they
had nothing to move. Those who remained had to have time to recover
somewhat from their losses. They have now done so in a measure. Others
have moved in; we ought if we could, and would like nothing better than,
to man the church there. But with our present resources we can do so
now only by an occasional ministry. We have trained men, and we have
calls from needy places, but the means to place the men whom we have
been educating and to keep them at work is the thing we have not.
There are ripening fields, there are willing workers, but we lack the ability
to say, " Go ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right, that shall ye
receive."
GERMAN DEPARTMENT
Rev. M. E. Eversz, D.D., Chicago, III., Superintendent
Superintendent Eversz summarizes his review of the year as follows :
Among the reasons for gratitude, and evidences of progress, we mention
the following :
1. An unusual number of revival meetings and of conversions. Our
missionary, the Rev. John Sattler, whose services we are able to continue
by the aid of the Sunday-School and Publishing Society, has devoted sev-
eral months to revival work. It was our privilege to join him in some of
these meetings, and to witness some of the manifest tokens of divine favor
in the awakening of the church and the conversion of sinners.
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 169
2. A long step forward has been taken in the appointment of Rev. C.
■A. Paeth as professor in Chicago Seminary. He will devote his entire
time and strength to our German Department. As he has already given
good proof of his gifts as an instructor and comes with a warm desire
to promote evangelical, aggressive Christianity, coupled with a Congre-
gational love of liberty, we anticipate a steady improvement in the
training of young men for the difficult work of the German- American
ministry. But all this would be of little avail if we must continue
with an inadequate supply of candidates for our seminary. We therefore
rejoice :
3. At the steady progress made in our school at Wilton, Iowa. With
more than 100 students enrolled, of whom thirty-six are sturdy young
Germans, twenty-three having consecrated themselves to the ministry, we
look for a steady supply of students for Chicago Seminary. During the
week of prayer a quiet work of grace was developed, in which I was per-
mitted to bear a part. All of our young Germans began to call upon the
Lord, and eight young men gave clear evidence of conversion. As most
of the meetings were carried on in the German language, their influence
was chiefly confined to their own number. Under the able leadership of
Professor Mannhardt our teaching force is growing in strength and unity
of purpose and has attained a high degree of efficiency. If our friends
will enable us to meet the obligations of this school, we expect that its
influence will not alone be felt in our German work as such, but that many
a field, now regarded as doubtful by reason of the diminution of the
American population, will respond to a ministry doubly trained, and
prove successful and profitable by reaching both Americans and Ger-
mans.
4. We also rejoice to report that our papers are believed to be on a
self-supporting basis. While the circulation of the " Kirchenbote " has
slightly diminished on account of the hard times for a few years past, the
" Segensquelle" and "Sunday-school Quarterly" are steadily gaining
friends. We gratefully record the generous cooperation of our Publish-
ing Society, without which we could hardly have gained the present pros-
perity of our publications.
We are thus able to sum up the work of the year with abundant
reasons for gratitude, and yet our psalm of praise contains one or two
minor chords. In order to hold the fields already occupied and absolutely
necessary, we have been obliged to trench seriously upon the patience and
self-denial of our missionaries. In many cases the appropriation is too
small, but any one of them would rather suffer much than see our work
curtailed. Let not the strings be strained too hard. We hope that our
churches will enable our Society to restore at least some of the reductions
which we felt constrained to make.
170 The Home Missionary July, 1896
CONCLUSION
The story of the seventieth year, as it is told in the preceding pages,
will impress its readers anew with the conviction that devotion to a great
cause, fidelity to the Master, and self-sacrifice for the sake of the nation's
redemption are still living forces in many hearts. The noble band of mis-
sionary pastors, East and West, North and South, have never manifested
the quality of heroic endurance more clearly than in this the third year of
financial stress. It needs no repetition to convince us that the money
stringency which has been so keenly felt among our older and stronger
churches has rested heavily upon those to whom the hand of help has
been extended through this Society. In these recent months the effects
of droughts, fires, low market prices, interruption of mining industry, pro-
longed stagnation in the business world seem to have culminated ; and
the crisis has borne heavily on many a young and suffering church and in
many a missionary home.
At headquarters, also, the treasury has been foremost in thought and
effort, in study and apprehension, during the past twelve months. Enter-
ing the year with the great burden of nearly $134,000 of indebtedness,
and $449,000 of obligations for the current work, it was only by a coura-
geous faith that the Executive Committee went forward.
The General Howard Roll of Honor, for the payment of the debt of
the two previous years, proved an appeal which deeply moved the hearts
of the people, and more than 700 names were inscribed upon that roll in
the nine months between the Saratoga meeting of June, 1895, and March
31, 1896, and $80,439, inclusive of special gifts outside the Roll of
Honor, were put into the treasury for the extinguishment of that debt.
The seventieth year is also marked by the successful issue of the pro-
longed litigation over the great Baltimore legacy — the bequest of Mr. J.
Henry Stickney, of $150,000.
This is the largest bequest in the history of the Society ; and its com-
ing into the treasury at a time when prolonged and unprecedented finan-
cial depression' had seriously impaired all missionary work is a clear mani-
festation of providential favor. By this consecrated gift the year closed
with every obligation for the work of the year canceled. The hand of
the dead wrought our deliverance.
We stand on the threshold of a new decade, the needs and opportuni-
ties of which will exceed those of any decade in the past. In the inspir-
ation of a grand history, of great possibilities, of divine favor upon us,
may we go forward to take America for Christ and for humanity.
( Joseph B. Clark, ) Secretaries
In behalf of ) „. T. f r
. { William King a id, V for
the Executive Committee : j ,,r ^ I „ . ,
( Washington Choate, J Correspondence.
DISTRIBUTION OF MISSIONARIES BY SECTIONS
The following Table gives the number of missionaries, each year of the Society's operations, the
geographical divisions of Eastern, Middle, Southern, and Western States ; and also in Canada.
Society's Year,
beginning 1826.
New England
States.
Middle
States.
Southern and
Southwestern
States.
Western
States and
Territories.
Canada.
Total.
1 —
26-'
27
1
129
5
33
1
169
2 —
27-'
28
5
130
9
56
201
3 —
28-'
29
72
127
23
80
2
3°4
4—
29-'
3°
107
147
13
122
3
392
5-
30-'
31
144
160
12
i45
2
463
6-
3i-'
32
163
169
10
166
1
509
7—
32-'
33
239
170
9
185
3
606
8-
33-
34
287
201
13
169
6
676
9-
34-'
35
289
216
18
187
9
719
10 —
35"
36
3r9
2iq
11
191
15
755
11 —
36-'
37
331
227
11
195
22
786
12 —
37-'
38
288
198
8
166
24
684
J3—
38-'
39
284
198
9
160
H
665
14—
i9 -
40
290
205
6
167
12
680
!S —
40-
41
292
215
5
169
9
690
l6—
41-
42
3°5
249
5
222
10
791
17—
42-
43
2<38
253
7
291
9
848
l8 —
43"
44
268
257
10
365
7
907
19 —
44-
45
285
249
6
397
6
943
20
45-
46
274
271
9
417
971
21
46-
47
275
254
10
433
972
22
47'
48
295
237
18
456
1,006
23—
48-
49
302
239
15
463
I,ci9
24 —
49"
5°
301
228
15
488
1,032
25—
5°-
5i
311
224
i5
5i5
1,065
26 —
51"
52
305
213
14
53°
1,065
27—
52-'
53
313
215
12
547
1,087
28 —
53-
54
292
214
11
53°
1,047
29 —
54-'
55
278
207
10
537
1,032
3° —
55-
56
276
198
8
5°4
g86
31 —
56-
57
271
191
6
506
974
32-
57-
58
291
197
3
521
1,012
33—
58-
59
319
201
534
1,054
34—
59-
60
327
199
58i
1,107
35—
60-
61
308
181
573
1,062
36-
61-
62
295
87
481
863
37—
62-'
63
281
48
405
734
38-
63-
64
289
44
423
756
39 —
64-
65
293
58
45i
802
40-
65-
66
283
64
4
467
818
41-
66-
67
284
66
5
491
846
42
67-
68
307
73
7
521
908
43—
68-
69
327
73
8
564
972
44—
69-
70
3"
71
6
556
944
45—
70-
71
296
69
5
57°
940
46-
71-
72
308
62
3
588
961
47—
72-
73
312
49
3
587
95i
48-
73"
74
310
58
7
594
969
49—
74-
75
292
67
7
586
952
5°-
75-
76
3°4
72
8
595
979
5i—
76-
77
3°3
70
6
617
996
52—
77-
78
316
70
6
604
996
53—
78-
79
312
57
10
567
946
54—
79-
80
327
57
9
622
1. 01 5
55-
80-
81
321
62
9
640
1,032
56-
81-
82
328
56
17
669
1,070
57—
82-
83
326
68
6t
695
1,150
58-
83-
84
334
77
63
868
1,342
59—
84-
85
349
93
123
882
i,447
60—
85-
86
368
99
*34
868
1,469
61—
86-
87
375
103
M3
950
1,57!
62—
'87-
88
387
no
144
979
1,620
63-
'88-
89
414
109
127
1. 109
i,759
64-
89-
90
441
121
*50
1,167
1,879
65-
90-
91
446
141
186
i^93
1,966
66—
'91-
92
437
151
196
1,202
1.986
67-
92-
93
437
!53
203
1,209
2.002
68—
93-
94
458
167
230
1,174
2,029
69— '94-
95
484
J54
220
1,167
2,025
70— '95-'96
456
I51
229
1,227
2,063
DISTRIBUTION OF MISSIONARIES BY STATES
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40...
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41...
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42...
17—
42-
43...
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43"
44...
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20 —
45"
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21 —
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22 —
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61...
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62...
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62-
63...
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63-
64...
39—
64-
65...
40—
65-
66...
41—
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67...
42-
67-
68...
43—
68-
69...
44—
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70...
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70-
71...
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71-
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73
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74-
75- •■
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70...
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77...
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77-
78...
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80...
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80-
81...
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82...
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82-
83...
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84...
59—
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79
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68
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64
61
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8
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73
141
12
60
92
10
45
4 ••
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8 638
S
8 4
♦ 9 3
Each State is here given credit for services of minister, though he may have served in other States.
Remarks on the Tables. — 1. At the organization of the American Home Missionary Society, in
1826, the missionaries of the United Domestic Missionary Society, whose responsibilities it assumed,
were transferred to it, and the greater portion of them were in commission in the State of New York.
1. The Massachusetts Home Missionary Society, the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society,
and the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society became integral parts of the National Society in the
second year of its operations ; the Maine Missionary Society in the third year, and the Connecticut
Missionary Society in the sixth year.
3. In 1845, the missions of this Society in Canada were, by an amicable arrangement with the Brit-
ish Colonial Missionary Society, transferred to the care of that institution.
DISTRIBUTION OF MISSIONARIES BY STATES
South'n
Sta^s.
Western States and Territories.
Society's
Year,
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a
$
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2
4
16
3
2
3
4
2 — '27-'28.
2
4
27
9
3
5
s
3 — '28-'29.
3
3
43
12
8
6
5
4— '29-'3o.
7
5
64
18
12
6
10
s— ?>-,&•
5
9
74
23
17
5
12
6—31- 32.
7
13
74
24
20
12
16
7— '32"'33-
11
13
80
26
23
12
20
8— '33- 34 •
10
9
68
29
24
13
16
9— '34-35 •
J3
7
85
26
29
10
16
10— '35- 36.
12
9
80
24
32
12
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I
2
11— '36-37.
12
7
72
31
31
9
29
I
2
12— '37- 38.
7
64
29
27
14
22
2
1
13— '38-39 •
6
1
56
26
31
12
22
3
3
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7
54
25
39
9
24
6
3
15— !4°-,4I-
8
53
21
42
5
26
8
6
16 — 41- 42.
8
66
24
5°
6
36
19
12
17— '42 -'43.
6
1
75
33
65
20
46
28
16
18— '43-44-
4
3
91
36
87
21
63
30
29
19~ '44-45 •
3
7
99
46
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20
65
34
28
20— 45- 46.
21 — '46-'47-
22 — '47-' 48 .
23— '48-' 49.
24— '49-50.
25— 'So-.S1-
26— '51-52.
27— '52-53 •
28— '53-54.
29— 54-55-
6
6
6
8
103
95
102
94
97
93
96
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51
59
52
5i
50
59
63
58
43
35
98
92
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25
21
67
77
80
73
74
80
36
44
49
58
63
72
84
83
24
29
35
33
37
4i
5°
55
56
63
2
7
7
6
6
9
7
7
6
21
25
33
29
29
30
29
24
2
114
119
117
118
2
4
3
4
2
2
5
5
3
4
6
77
80
6
3
6
6
4
6
105
102
76
77
87
100
8
7
12
5
1
IOI
10
3
5
30—55-56.
2
1
80
36
93
21
72
87
73
H
3
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13
8
31—56-57.
1
1
76
33
88
16
68
84
87
24
3
2
15
8
32—57-58.
1
76
38
82
5
65
93
96
33
12
2
10
8
33—,58-59-
1
77
29
93
65
102
102
34
14
4
6
7
34—59-60.
2
79
29
100
68
108
115
41
Tl
5
10
7
35— 60-61.
3
75
21
89
2
71
100
127
46
16
5
12
6
36 — '6i-'62
37— '62-63 .
54
38
15
83
83
2
59
62
82
103
81
45
18
4
12
4
5
2
76
34
12
3
5
4
38-' 63-' 64.
39— '64-'65.
38
37
5
7
94
95
2
62
73
79
98
38
15
15
5
1
8
3
4
70
68
35
7
2
10
3
40 — 65- 66.
2
33
7
78
J9
67
72
104
35
J7
9
3
1
!7
3
41 — '66-'67.
2
38
4
78
25
71
7i
103
41
J9
10
4
1
18
6
42 — '67-'68.
1
43
5
86
3i
73
64
no
40
23
12
1
4
25
4
43— '68-69.
1
40
7
86
32
85
68
125
4i
33
11
2
3
26
5
44— '69-' 70.
1
34
9
72
36
77
76
124
4i
P
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1
1
1
26
5
45— '70- 71 .
1
3°
10
71
42
67
77
112
40
60
18
2
2
1
30
6
1
46 — '71- 72.
2
32
10
66
40
69
77
112
43
62
25
4
2
2
1
I
36
6
1
47— '72->3-
1
3°
9
59
35
78
70
100
48
67
35
5
5
1
1
1
I
35
6
48— '73-74.
2
37
5
53
35
80
69
100
49
70
44
4
5
1
2
2
I
30
4
49-'74-,75.
1
39
6
5i
33
78
67
94
56
69
41
6
6
1
1
I
3i
4
5o— 75" 7°-
1
27
10
54
28
76
72
92
60
75
40
9
8
1
1
1
33
4
4
51— '76-V7.
1
21
8
45
30
85
69
83
61
85
67
10
6
1
2
1
33
4
5
52— 77- 78.
2
26
8
44
32
85
66
89
55
9i
52
8
6
1
2
1
27
6
3
53—78- 79-
2
1
23
7
43
28
75
56
86
55
90
49
12
10
1
1
24
3
3
54— >9- 80.
1
1
25
7
55
21
87
59
85
60
102
52
*7
11
1
1
28
4
7
55— '8o-'8i.
1
21
8
48
3°
95
54
76
58
107
59
3
20
15
2
1
29
8
56— '81-82.
1
26
8
44
27
93
57
67
70
93
56
10
27
23
5
2
6
2
35
13
57-'82-'83.
1
1
33
9
45
36
112
57
62
71
89
61
17
38
26
3
4
6
1
I
36
10
15
58-'83-'84.
2
4i
13
51
45
130
51
62
98
102
83
37
"5
25
2
10
7
1
2
45
*3
25
59-'84-'85.
2
39
13
60
5i
135
64
74
87
105
91
28
82
24
5
6
12
2
I
58
15
28
60— '85-'86.
2
43
9
54
54
126
46
78
IOI
97
87
33
77
26
6
8
*3
1
I
62
12
32
61— '86-'87.
3
38
8
60
54
123
56
79
102
105
113
34
86
26
11
5
3
1
I
76
r3
38
62— '87-'88.
3
47
11
60
48
131
72
80
92
102
90
34
74
29
8
4
12
1
I
76
20
35
63— '88-89.
2
1
43
25
63
56
148
83
90
115
98
95
34
92
36
7
5
9
1
2
86
20
42
64 — '8g-'9o.
2
1
46
31
68
56
149
89
105
133
79
go
39
90
43
7
6
11
1
4
96
18
52
65— '90-V.
1
2
49
40
72
62
124
87
108
121
78
89
36
93
61
10
11
r3
1
6
94
22
66
66 — '9i-'92.
1
1
41
36
76
64
126
100
114
141
65
97
38
99
49
8
10
15
1
6
IOI
28
67
67— '92-'93.
2
1
44
26
86
58
126
91
123
108
67
104
42
93
42
12
T3
J5
1
8
104
3°
62
68— '93-'94.
4
47
34
79
46
119
82
114
112
61
108
4P
96
37
12
14
9
2
7
99
28
66
6g— '94-'95-
3
44
29
75
47
136
87
109
IOI
59
94
35
97 5i
12
n|io
2
8
94
31
71
7°— '95-9° •
2
47
30 1
154 1
54
88
84 1
9i 1
116
60
IOI
361951 55
15 |io|n| i| 8
105
29
79
4. In the Table will be seen the progress which has been made year by year, in the newer States
of the West, as they have severally come into being, and presented fields of peculiar promise for mis-
sionary culture. When this Society was formed, Indiana and Illinois were in their infancy, Michigan
was, at that time and for ten years subsequent, a Territory ; in 1825 it had but one Presbyterian or
Congregational minister, and he was a missionary. Wisconsin remained, eight years after the organiza-
tion of this Society, the almost undisputed home of the Indian. Iowa was not organized as a Territory
till 1838. Oregon was reached by our first missionary there in the summer of 1848, after a voyage of
many months by way of the Sandwich Islands. Our first missionaries to California sailed from New
York in December, 1848. Our first missionary to Minnesota commenced his labors at St. Paul, in July,i849.
5. It should be borne in mind that the number of missionaries in these newer States and Territo-
ries, as well as those that have been longer cultivated, gives but an imperfect idea of the ground that
has been occupied by missionary enterprise. Churches, every year, become independent, and others
are taken up in their stead.
GENERAL COMPARATIVE RESULTS
Society's
Year,
beginning
Receipts.
Expendi-
tures.
•5 en
0 a
S i> »«
gun)
S au
0 V ^
U.c ho
1- " c
No. of Congre-
gations and
Missionary Dis-
tricts.
hi
0
.0
►J
0
O
tfl cu
.2 °
. - 3
"o
•0 C O
t/3
W V..O
* v w
* n si
1826.
.0
6 '53
■Sg3
o'S 0
u
V
> 1) m
1 —
26-
27
$18,140 76
$13,984 17
169
68
196
no
not rep.
not rep.
127
38
2 —
27-
28
2°>°35 78
17,849 22
201
89
244
133
1,000
306
134
89
3—
28-
29
26,997 31
26,814 96
304
169
401
186
1,678
423
144
88
4—
29-
3°
33,929 44
42,429 50
392
166
500
274
'.959
572
155
108
5—
3°-
31
48,124 73
47,247 60
463
164
577
294
2.523
700
160
102
6—
31-
3a
49,422 12
52,808 39
509
'58
745
361
6,126
783
146
104
7 —
32-
33
68,627 17
66,277 96
606
209
801
417
4,284
1,148
159
109
8—
33"
34
78,911 44
80,015 76
676
200
899
463
2.736
Pupils.
172
118
9—
34"
3S
88,863 22
83,394 28
719
204
1,050
490
3.300
52,000
170
116
10 —
35-
JO
101,565 15
92,188 94
755
249
1,000
545
3.75o
65,000
169
122
11 —
36-
37
85,701 59
99.529 72
786
232
1,025
554
3.752
80,000
180
123
12 —
37-
38
86,522 45
85,056 20
684
123
840
438
3.376
67,000
194
124
13 —
3S-
39
82,564 63
82,655 64
665
201
794
473
3,920
58,500
'75
124
14 —
39-
40
78,345 20
78,533 89
680
194
842
486
4,750
6c, 000
162
"5
is—
40-
41
85,4^ 34
84,864 06
690
178
862
501
4.618
54,100
169
123
16—
41
42
92,463 64
94,300 14
791
248
987
594
5.5H
64,300
'59
119
17—
42-
43
99,812 84
98,215 11
848
225
1,047
657
8,223
68,400
'49
116
18-
43-
44
101,904 99
104,276 47
907
237
1,245
665
7,693
60,300
'57
"5
19-
44-
4S
121,946 28
118,360 12
943
209
1,285
736
4,929
60,000
160
126
20 —
45-
46
125,124 70
126,193 15
971
223
1.453
760
5,3"
76,700
166
130
21 —
46-
47
116,717 94
119,170 40
972
189
1,470
7'3
4,400
73,000
167
123
22—
47
48
140,197 10
139,233 34
1,006
205
i,447
773
5,020
77,000
180
138
23—
48-
49
145,925 91
I43,77x 67
1,019
192
1,510
808
5,55°
83,500
.78
141
24—
49-
50
157,160 78
145,456 09
1,032
205
1.575
812
6,682
75.000
'79
141
25 —
50-
5i
150,940 25
123,817 90
1,065
211
1,820
853
6,578
70,000
180
144
26-
51-
52
160,062 25
162,831 14
1,065
204
1,948
862
6,820
66,500
189
'53
27—
52-
53
I71'734 24
174,439 24
1,087
213
2,160
878
6,079
72,500
199
160
28-
53 -
54
191,209 07
184,025 76
1,047
167
2,140
870
6,055
65,400
212
176
".g—
54-
55
180,136 69
177.717 34
1,032
180
2.124
8i5
5,634
64,800
218
171
3o—
55-
56
J93.548 37
i8j,6ii 02
986
187
1,96s
775
5,602
60,000
241
189
31—
56-
57
178,060 68
180,550 44
974
201
1.985
780
5,550
62,500
23 1
'85
32~
57-
58
x75,97i 37
x9o,735 7°
1,012
242
2,034
795
6,784
65,500
240
188
33-
58
59
188,139 39
187,034 41
1,054
250
2,125
810
8,791
67,300
231
178
34—
59-
60
185,216 17
192,737 69
1,107
260
2,175
868
6,287
72,200
222
'74
35-
60
61
183,761 80
183,762 70
1,062
212
2.025
835
5,600
70,000
220
'73
36-
61-
62
J63,852 51
'58,336 33
863
'53
1,668
612
4,207
60,300
259
'83
37-
62-
63
164,884 29
'33,843 39
734
'55
1.455
562
3,io8
54,000
240
184
38-
63-
64
I95<537 89
'49 325 58
756
176
iiS'8
603
3.902
55,20°
248
198
3<3-
64-
65
186,897 50
189,965 39
802
199
i.575
63S
3,820
58,600
299
237
40-
65-
66
221,191 85
208,811 18
818
186
i'594
643
3,924
61,200
325
255
41 —
60-
67
212,567 63
227,963 97
846
208
1,645
655
5.959
64,000
348
269
42—
67-
68
217.577 25
254,668 65
908
250
1.710
702
6,214
66,300
364
282
43—
68-
69
244,390 96
274,932 55
972
246
1.956
734
6,470
75,3°°
374
283
44—
69-
7°
283,102 87
270,927 58
944
246
1,836
693
6,404
75,75°
390
287
45—
7°"
71
247,567 26
203,617 19
940
227
1*957
716
5.833
7', 5°o
368
280
46-
71"
72
294,565 86
281,182 50
961
236
2,011
762
6,358
76,50°
369
293
47—
72-
73
267,691 42
278,830 24
951
217
2,145
7i4
5,725
74,000
39'
293
48-
73-
74
290,120 34
287.662 91
969
241
2.195
726
5,421
74,700
395
297
49-
74-
75
308,896 82
296,789 65
952
214
2,223
701
6,361
80,750
423
3"
5°—
75-
7b
310,027 62
309,871 84
979
240
2,274
734
7,836
85,37o
422
3'7
51—
76-
77
293,712 62
310,604 11
996
234
2,196
727
8,065
86,300
442
312
52 —
H~
78
284,486 44
284,540 71
996
209
2,237
739
7,578
91,762
385
286
53—
78_
79
273,691 53
260,330 29
946
199
2,126
710
5,232
87.573
3°7
275
54—
79-
80
266,720 41
259,709 86
1,015
256
2,308
761
5.598
96,724
34'
256
55—
80-
81
290,953 72
284,414 22
1,032
255
2,653
783
5,922
99,898
363
276
56-
81-
82
340,778 47
339,795 04
1,070
262
2.508
799
6,032
104,308
425
3*8
57—
82-
83
370,98i 56
354, IQ5 80
1,150
301
2.659
817
6,527
106,638
433
308
58-
83-
84
385,004 10
419,449 45
1,342
401
2.930
962
7,907
"6,314
436
312
59 —
84
85
451,767 66
460,722 83
i,447
380
2.990
1,017
8,734
118,000
453
3'8
60—
85-
S6
524,544 93
498,790 16
1,469
372
3,005
1,058
9,050
120,000
47'
324
61—
86-
87
482,979 60
507,988 79
i,57i
392
3,063
1,117
10,031
129,350
454
312
62—
87-
88
548,729 87
511,641 86
1,620
361
3,084
'.173
10,012
129,462
436
3'6
63-
88-
89
542,251 00
597,049 «
',759
478
3' '55
1,249
10,326
'34.395
478
34°
64-
89-
90
67I,i7i 39
603,978 31
1,879
452
3'25'
1,294
10,650
141.975
467
322
65-
9>~
91
635,180 45
671,297 23
1,966
496
3,270
1,318
11,320
154.722
509
34'
66—
91-
92
662,789 28
686,395 01
1,986
441
3.389
1,360
9,744
159,206
505
346
67-
92-
93
738,081 29
689,026 12
2,002
464
3,841
1. 391
11,232
159,300
494
343
68—
93"
'.'4
621,608 56
701,441 16
2,010
547
3,930
'.437
12,784
164,050
488
349
6q — '94-
95
627,699 14
678,093 50
1,997
655
4,104
',439
13,040
180,813
472
340
70— '95-'96
777,747 95
699,855 36
2,038
693
4,110
1,509
12,138
186,343
464
343
1. The total receipts for the sixty-nine years is $16,785,252.69.
2. The total of years of labor is 53,236.
3. The whole number of additions to the churches is 421,298.
4. The average expenditure for a year of missionary labor includes the entire cost to the Society of
obtaining the missionary, defraying his expense to his held, and sustaining him on it, as well as'the
average proportion of all the expenses in conducting the institution.
5. The amount paid bank on loan account not included in expenditures.
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 175
HOW CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR HELPS IN HOME
MISSIONS
When I was at a district temperance meeting a young man from the
church at C came to me, after I had made an address, and asked me
whether I could not visit that church and preach for them. He said they
had but two sermons in eighteen months. It had once been a fair-sized
church, but a railroad going seven miles south of it, the town had gone
to the junction, and many of the people had moved to it. For a time the
minister from there had preached to them on Sunday afternoons ; but he
had gone away, and the new. man, taking no interest in them, had left
them out in the cold. There were a good many people there and quite a
large Union Sunday-school. He was superintendent, and wished I would
do something for them. It was fifty miles from my parish. I said to
him, I cannot come on Sunday, but I will come up next Tuesday and visit
the people and preach in the evening. I did so and was well received.
When the congregation gathered it nearly filled the building. I was both
pleased and surprised to see the number of young men and women. I
went down from the desk and asked the superintendent whether they had
a Young People's Christian Endeavor Society. He said, No. So after
preaching I talked Christian Endeavor, took preliminary steps of organi-
zation, and told them I would send pledges and constitution and they
could fully organize at a meeting next Sunday evening. They did so,
making a large Society, and from that on having large interest in their
meetings. Having more work than I could do, I was not able to visit
them again for some time, but the Christian Endeavor Society nourished.
A few weeks after the missionary superintendent asked me whether I
could not use a student to advantage in my manifold work. On my reply-
ing in the affirmative he sent me a young man from Oberlin, and I
arranged that he should spend each alternate Sunday at C , and have
his home there. He found the young people ready to take right hold
with him, and it put new life into the old church. In the few weeks that
he spent there, he took in about twelve members. On his return to
Oberlin we persuaded Father Litts, one of the best pastors we have in
Iowa, to add it to his other fields, and in a few months he built them a
church worth $1,500, and added quite a number to the church. Now
it is a church of ninety-two members, with church building and pastor,
active in the Lord's work. It was resuscitated by the Christian Endeavor
Society. Why may not many more churches in all our States be helped
by judicious use of the same youthful workers ? Experience is daily show-
ing that thereby not only are the causes helped that are best worth helping,
but these young givers are themselves doubly blessed. — Cinereus.
176 The Home Missionary July, 1896
IT WAS A "SIN OF IGNORANCE"
The Home Missionary was rustling for funds to provide church and
school privileges for the children and young people of a frontier commu-
nity. He went to a man in the East said to be worth $5,000,000, and
asked him to " chip in " a little to help the good cause along. He met
with this reply : " Why do you Western people come here for money ?
You must take care of your own schools and churches. We of the East
have al) we can do to take care of our own institutions. I can't do a
thing for you ; good day ; hope you'll be successful." The missionary
bowed himself out of that grand mansion on one of the most fashionable
streets of the great city, and as he walked away through the rain to the
cheap restaurant where he took his meals he talked thus with himself :
" That poor rich man doesn't know what he is talking about. He thinks
that because the wheat, meat, wool, hides, gold and silver which enrich
the Eastern people come from the West, the people of the West must be
rich. It is true that the wheat that feeds this whole country comes
mainly from our Northwestern States. But the man who sells the flour in
this city to the baker who makes the bread upon which that rich man
feeds makes ten times as much profit as the poor farmer who raised the
wheat of which the flour is made. I go to the West to help that poor
farmer and his children, and what do I find ?
" That farmer living in a ' shack,' tent, or dugout, his family clothed
in rags, perhaps. There is no church, no Sunday-school, and possibly
no day-school in his neighborhood. He has no money to send his chil-
dren away to school ; in fact, he has hard work to ' keep the wolf from
his door.' So, too, the beef and hides out of which many Eastern men
are made rich come mainly from the West. But how about the cowboys
whose lives are given to develop the cattle industry ?
" Go with me to the homes, if they can be called homes, in which these
men live. The boys during the larger part of the year literally live in
the saddle. Some of them have families somewhere — probably in a log
cabin in some mountain village. The family lives in poverty. In many
cases their children have never attended a religious service, and very few
of them can hope to educate their children beyond the limited range of
the old-fashioned district school. Millions of pounds of wool are
shipped to the East every year from the great West — and those who
handle and manufacture that wool and sell the products get rich ; but
the poor sheep-herder and his family have few or none of the ordinary
comforts of life, and their children are doomed to ignorance and want.
So, too, the thousands of men who go down into the bowels of the earth
and bring up the silver and gold which enrich every city of the East,
July, 1896 The Home Missionary 177
live in the most primitive way. More often than otherwise they have no
hope whatever of educating their children, and many of them have no
opportunity to attend church and Sunday-school, no such institutions
being within their reach. Now, I go among those people who are really
giving their lives to make it possible for the people of the East to become
rich and have homes of comfort and luxury, and I see their need of
schools, churches, and other civilizing institutions. But how shall I
supply this need ? The people cannot do it. Is it unnatural or wrong
that I should follow the wheat, cattle, wool, silver and gold, to their des-
tination, and endeavor to persuade those who have become rich directly
or indirectly through the traffic in these products to help me in giving
to the people on the frontier the things needed for their mental, moral,
and spiritual advancement ? "
What think you, gentle reader ?
P.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DEBT LEGACIES TOTAL
April $11,428.79 $5,093.08 $2,687.84 $19,209.71
May 5,866.47 3,834.45 6,180.76 15,881.68
Of these receipts, $3,400 were from subscribers to the General How-
ard Roll of Honor, and $434.45 were " specials for the debt." At its June
meeting the Executive Committee voted this amount ($3,834.45) be paid
upon the debt of April, 1895, reducing the amount still due thereon to
$42,772.88.
We earnestly ask the attention of the Society's giving friends to the
resolution offered by Dr. Richards, of Philadelphia, and seconded by Dr.
Stimson, of New York, concerning the completion of the Howard Roll of
Honor, a copy of which will be found in the minutes of the late annual
meeting in New Haven, page 104 of this issue. The resolution evi-
dently met the hearty approval of the audience, and without debate was
passed unanimously. We cannot doubt that the same spirit will pervade
the Society's entire constituency, and that the remaining shares will be
taken with the same alacrity as has been shown in this matter from the
start. Let that Roll be completed in honor of our valiant Christian
soldier, and as a willing thank-offering to the Prince of Peace. Then will
the army of the Lord go forth with new courage and zeal to the conquest
of our land for God.
178 The Home Missionary July, 1896
THE GENERAL O. O. HOWARD ROLL OF HONOR
Previously acknowledged, 852 ; subscriptions added below, 35 ; total number, of
shares, 887.
A Friend, Lowell, Mass.
Broadway Church, Somerville, Mass.
Cradle Roll of W. H. M. U. of First Congregational Church,
Hyde Park, Mass.
Mrs. T. D. Murphy, by A Friend, Chester, Mass
Central Congregational Church, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Woman's Miss. Union of Minneapolis Churches, Minn.
Miss Anna A. Pickens, by A Friend, New York, N. Y.
Mrs. Sarah B. Capron, by A Friend, Boston, Mass.
In Mem. of Deacon S. \V. Kent, by Mrs. S. W. Kent, Worces-
ter, Mass.
North Congregational Church, Providence, R. I.
Rev. Cyrus Richardson, D. D., by First Church, Nashua, N. H.
Dea. Newell Greenwood, by First Church, Nashua, N. H.
Mrs. P. L. Alcott, Columbus, Ohio.
Rev. S. E. Bassett, Fort Valley, Ga.
Congregational Church and S. S., Francestown, N. H.
Congregational Church and Auxiliaries, Medina, Ohio.
Y. P. S. C. E. of Congregational Church, Orange Valley, N. J.
A Friend, Plymouth, N. H.
Maple Street Church and S. S., Danvers, Mass.
Union Sunday-school, Marlboro, Mass.
Ladies of First Church, Chelsea, Mass.
Newman Congregational Church, East Providence, R. I.
Miss Ann E. Shorey, by Newman Congregational Church,
East Providence, R. I.
Mr. Ethan Brooks, West Springfield, Mass.
Congregational Church, Jacksonville, 111.
In Mem. of Dea. B. W. Payne, by Mrs. L. A. Payne, Homer, N. Y.
Two Friends, Hartford, Conn.
Miss Margaret C. Hackett, Providence, R. I., two shares.
First Congregational Church, Rockford, 111.
Mrs. Eli C. Smith, Bridgeport, Conn.
Mrs. Elizabeth McFarland, In Mem., by the Merrimac Con-
ference of the N. H. F. C. I. & H. M. U.
Y. P. S. C. E. of Puritan Church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Rev. S. A. Barrett, by Members of Congregational Church,
East Hartford, Conn.
Rev. William A. Patten, Kingston, N. H.
July, 1896
The Home Missionary
179
APPOINTMENTS IN MAY, 1896
Not in commission last year
Akeson, Ludwig, Dover, N. J.
Beman, Albert M., Aurora, Mo.
Biggers, Lorenzo J., Catalpa, Ala.
Brady, Alexander, Rickreall, Ore.
Collins, Josephus, Kingfisher, Okla.
Cornwell, Stanton A., Cortland, Ohio.
Cragin, Charles C, Sebastopol, Cal.
Cudd, Wayman C-, Hemphill, La.
Dobbs, James M., Porterville and Ten Broeck,
Ala.
Fisher, Jesse L., Minersville and Camp Creek,
Neb.
Flawith, Frederick, San Francisco, Cal.
Harris, Benjamin, Palmyra, Ohio.
Hawkes, A. S., Starkville, Colo.
Izard, John, Cleburne and Bala, Kan.
Kevan, James H., Custer, So. Dak.
Mathison, Elias, Echo, Ala.
Mathiss, Joel, Dadeville, Ala.
Niemeyer, H. W. A., Curtiss, Wis.
Oehler, Frederic H., New Richland and Hartland,
Minn.
Reed, Rev. Mrs. M. G., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Reeve, John C, Springfield, Mo.
Rose, Win. F., Steilacoom and Lakeview, Wash.
Simmons, Henry C., Millerville, Ala.
Sjoberg, C. O., Perth Amboy, N. J.
Smith, Edwin B., Pittsburg, Kan.
Smith, Rev. Mrs. Esther, Park Rapids, Minn.
Thrasher, George W., Courtland, Ala.
Tibbals, Rev. Mrs. W. H., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Tornblom, August F., Pittsburg, Penn.
Turner, Tell A., Hazel Park, Minn.
Watt, T. Edgar, Alva, Okla.
Welsh, John W., Hammond, Ind.
Re-comm issioned
Anderson, Gustav, Ham Lake, Minn.
Atherton, Isaac W, Spring Valley, Jamul, and
Lemon Grove, Cal.
Banham, Henry E., Fresno, Cal.
Barber, Leman N., Turlock, Cal.
Bennett, Albert L., Denver, Colo.
Berry, Edward A., Chattanooga, Tenn.
Beauchamp, Jethro M., Gaston, Hillside, and
Greenville, Ore.
Biggers, Lorenzo J., Perote, Ala.
Bissell, Frank A., National City, Cal.
Bollinger, Edward S., Astoria, Ore.
Bowden, Henry M., Braddock, Penn.
Briesh, Samuel R., Dawson, Minn.
Brown, Aurelian L., Dayton, Wyo.
Brown, Frank J., Aitken and Mud Lake, Minn.
Brown, John F., Needles, Cal.
Brue, James, Longstraw, La.
Brunker, Thomas A., Wakita, Manchester, and
Stella, Okla.
Bumstead, Mary G., Highland Lake, Colo.
Burgess, Hubert F., Auburn, Cal.
Busby, Joseph L., Clanton and South Calera, Ala.
Bushell. Jonas, Leavenworth, Wash.
Butler, Thomas W., Vancouver, Wash.
Carroll, W. Irving, Dallas, Tex.
Carter, William C, Powersville, Ga.
Clarke, Almon T., Shelby, Ala.
Cheadle, Stephen H., San Juan, Cal.
Cheeseman, T. W. C, Spearfish, So. Dak.
Cherrington, F. B., Spokane, Wash.
Cibula, Jan, Johnstown, Penn.
Cleworth, Wm. C, Willow Lake and Pitrodie,
So. Dak.
Cone, James W., Ellis, Kan.
Combe, Philip, San Francisco, Cal.
Connet, Alfred, Auburn and Whitehouse, Okla.
Cooper, John H., Santa Ana, Cal.
Crowson, John R., Verbena and Clanton, Ala.
Cunningham, William B., Niagara, No. Dak.
Dahlgren, John A., Warren, Penn.
Davies, William C, Minersville, Penn.
Davis, Chas. H., Etiwanda, Cal.
De Groff, Charles F., Letcher, Firesteel, Bethel,
and Lisbon, So. Dak.
De Kay, George H., Santa Monica, Cal.
Dent, Thomas J., Aberdeen, So. Dak.
Dessup, John J., Cleveland, Ohio.
Dickerson, Chas. H., Newark, N. J.
Dickinson, Samuel F., Grand Junction, Colo.
Doyle, Amos A., Seattle, Wash.
Drake, Ellis R., Denver, Colo.
Drake, Ulysses S., Condon, Lexington, and lone,
Ore.
Eaves, George, Creede, Colo.
Edwards, Nicholas T., Los Angeles, Cal.
Embree, Jehu H., Brookville, Kan.
Emerson, Stephen G., Allesandro, Cal.
Evans, John G., Vandling and Forest Valley,
Penn.
Farquhar, Robert W., Pullman, Wash.
Field, Frederic A., Redondo, Cal.
Fisher, Oren D., Indianapolis, Ind.
Fiske, John B., Bonne Terre, Mo.
Forrester, James C, Hoschton, Ga.
Foster, Festus, Waukomis and McCalvary, Okla.
Foster, Guy, Whitewater, Colo.
Foster, Jesse D., Kenwood and Glen Ellen, Cal.
Foster, Richard B., Perkins, Okla.
Frost, Wilfred B., Pillsburyand Swanville, Minn.
Frazee, John H., Knoxville, Tenn.
Gallagher, Geo. W., Dickinson and Gladstone,
No. Dak.
Gibson, Nelson H., Clio and Henderson, Ala.
Gilchrist, Howard H., Kinsley, Kan.
Gipson, Jacob M., Bluff Spring and New Site. Ala.
Grinnell, Eugene I., Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Gross, Miss Anna A., Cleveland, Ohio.
Gunn, Elberry B., Jackson's Gap, Ala.
Hannah, William J., Bigtimber, Mont.
Hardy, James W., Carbondale, Kan.
Hardy, Wm. P., San Rafael, Cal.
Harger, Chas. H., Lyons, Colo.
Hayes, Francis L., Manitou, Colo.
Harper, Richard H., Darlington, Okla.
Haynie, Thos. B., Gate City, Ala.
Heal, Edward G., Wilkesbarre, Penn.
Henderson, Thomas H., Paso Robles and San
Miguel, Cal.
Hicks, George E., Indianapolis, Ind.
Holbrook, Ira A.. Payne Co., Okla.
Holt, J. S., Opelika, Ala.
Houlding, Horace W., Evangelist in Western
Wash.
Huffman, William N., Tipton, Cal.
Hull, Ellsworth L., Garfield and Jetmore, Kan.
Hutchinson, William A., Montrose, Colo.
Jackson, Preston B., Billings, Mont.
Jamison, Henry W., Beresford and Pioneer, So.
Dak.
Jelinek, Jan, Braddock, Penn.
Jensen, Chas. J., Wausau, Wis.
Johnson, Orrin H., Eagle Harbor, Wash.
Jones, Burton H., Windsor and Sedalia, Mo.
Jones, Richard, Highmore, So. Dak.
Jones, Richard M., Oswego, Beaver Creek, and
Leland, Ore.
Jones, William L., General Missionary in Ga.
Jones, Winfield S., River Falls, Bradley, and
Brantley, Ala.
Judd, Hubert O., Coolville. Ohio.
Kelsey. Wm., Alpha, Mt. Pisgah Otter, and
Parker, Okla.
Krause, Frank O., Sheridan and Willamina, Ore.
Lawson, Frances, Guernerville, Cal.
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Le Bar, W. H., Wilcox, Hildreth,and Freewater,
Neb.
Lee, George H., Seattle, Wash.
Le Grande, Otis G., Soldier Creek and Pleasant
Valley, Okla.
Legler, Jacob, Fresno, Cal.
Lennox, Alex. M., West Guthrie, Okla.
Lopez, J. M., New York City, N. Y.
Lumpkin, Wilson, Carney and Lincoln, Okla.
Lundquist, Carl J., Chandlers Valley, Penn.
Luark, Marcellus J., Murphy's, Douglas Flat, and
Sheep Ranch, Cal.
Mc Arthur, William W., Coal Creek, Colo.
McCain, Andrew J., Central and Kidd, Ala.
McCune, Wm. C, Pond Creek, Okla.
McKay, Thomas, Plymouth, Penn.
Mcintosh, Rocliffe, Washington and Cannels-
burgh, Ind.
McRae, Isaac, New Castle, Colo.
McWilliams, John W., Waynoka and Belleview,
Okla.
Mackay, Charles C, Andrews, Ind.
Madge, Walter W., San Luis Obispo, Cal.
Magill, Thomas, Reno, Nev.
Marshall, Martin V., Art, Blackwood, and Wicks-
burg, Ala.
Mata, Jan, Braddock, Penn.
May, Edwin M., Cleveland, Ohio.
Merrill, William H., Gaylord, Cora, and Twelve
Mile, Kan.
Mobbs, Horatio M., Chewelah and Springdale,
Wash.
Morton, George F., Alexandria, Minn.
Musil, John, Cleveland, Ohio.
Nash, James H.. Braswell, Ga.
Nelson, Nels I., Wood Lake and Doctor's Lake,
Wis.
Nichols, Danforth B., Mission Hill, So. Dak.
Owens, M. James, White Bay Springs, Friend-
ship, and Oak Grove, La.
O'Brien, James P., St. Louis, Mo.
Olds, Alphonzo R., Weston and Dry Hollow, Ore.
Ormes, Manley D., Colorado Springs, Colo.
Orr, James B., San Francisco, Cal.
Paradis, Eucher, Welsh, La.
Parker, Lyman B., Tecumseh, Okla.
Paulu, Anton, Vining, Iowa.
Pederson, Hans, Washburn and Bayfield, Wis.
Pederson, LudwigJ., Fargo, No. Dak.
Pharr, Theodore A., Rose Hill and Hilton, Ala.
Poole, Carl E.. Lantz, Penn.
Pope, Joseph. Laurel, Mont.
Prior, Isaac R., Columbia, So. Dak.
Prucha, John. Cleveland, Ohio.
Prucha, Vaclar, St. Paul, Minn.
Queen, Chas. N., Guthrie, Okla.
Rattray, Benjamin F., Columbia City, Wash.
Reitinger, Miss Marie, Cleveland. Ohio.
Rich, Ulysses G., Michigan City and Lacota, No.
Dak.
Rives, Charles J., Morrison, Okla.
Robberts, James F., Park and Tabor, Okla.
Robertson, Angus A.. New York City, N. Y.
Robinson, William H., Palermo, Cal.
Rominger, Henry V., Hot Springs. So. Dak.
Root, Edward P., Buena Vista, Colo.
Rundus, John, Crete, Neb.
Schauffler, Mrs. Clara H, Cleveland, Ohio.
Schenerle, Gottlieb, Ritzville, Wash.
Scoville, Edgar E., Chillicothe, Ohio.
Seccombe. Charles, Springfield, Running Water,
Kirkwood, and Wanarie, So. Dak.
Selden, Mrs. C. M., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Shepherd, Alexander, Fruita, Colo.
Shockley, Albert D., Manville, Wyo.
Skeels, Henry M., Denver, Colo.
Smith, Andrew J., Tacoma, Wash.
Smith, Howard N., Rock Springs, Wyo.
Smith, J. Franklin, Arcadia, Neb.
Smith, Thomas, Hosmer, Ind.
Snyder, Charles W., Jennings, Okla.
Stevens, Clarence H., Crested Butte, Colo.
Stevens, Julius, Bryant, So. Dak.
Stevens, Moody A.. Hopkins, Minn.
Stevens, William D., Noble, Mo.
Stringer, Firth, St. Louis, Mo.
Strong, Jacob H., Sunol Glen, Cal.
Sumner, Frederick A., Glenwood, Minn.
Thirloway, Timothy, Buffalo Gap, and W. G.
Flat, So. Dak.
Thomas, Chas. M., Denver, Colo.
Thomas, Wm. A., Dunkirk, Ind.
Thompson, Thomas, Revillo and Elmira, So. Dak.
Thrasher, William J., Haleyville, Ala.
Tomlin, David R., General Missionary in So. Dak.
Totusek, Vincent, Milwaukee, Wis.
Travis, David Q\, Pocatello, Idaho.
Tre Fethren, Eugene B., Worthing, So. Dak.
Trutna, Miss Frances, Milwaukee, Wis.
Tubb, W. H., San Francisco, Cal.
Turner, John, Denver, Colo.
Tuttle, George E., Flagler, Seibert, and Clare-
mont, Colo.
Tychsen, Andreas C, Hoboken, N. J.
Vailes, Charles S., Los Angeles, Cal.
Veazie, Walter O, Evangelist in Kan.
Watkins, Joseph V.. Oxford, Ala.
Watson, Wm. H., Red Lodge, Mont.
Weatherby. Seaborn. Spioand Echo, Ala.
Wellman, Wheeler M., El Reno, Okla.
Wells, Archibald C, Tallassee, Central, Kent,
and Verbena, Ala.
Wells, Clayton B., Elyria. Colo.
Wheeler, Charles T., Pueblo, Colo.
Whidden, Whitter R., Wimbledon, Courtney, and
Kensal, No. Dak.
White, Austin B., Escondido, Cal.
White, Isaac J., Georgiana, Ala.
White, Isaac J., Volinaand Halton, Ala.
Whitlock, Frank M., Indianapolis, Ind.
Wickham, Alden A., Hibbing, Minn.
Wideberg, Claes J., Arnot. Penn.
Wiggins, Aaron W., New Cambria, Mo.
Williams, W. H., Siloam Springs, Ark.
Williams, William L., San Jacinto, Cal.
Williamson, Allen J., Great Falls, Mont.
Willett, George, Buena Park, Cal.
Wood, Edwin A., Ipswich and Powell, So. Dak.
Woodruff, Alfred E., Springfield, Ohio.
Wrbritzky. E., St. Louis, Mo.
Wright, Turner, Ashland, Millerville, and Mil-
ner, Ala.
RECEIPTS IN MAY, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 187 to i<
MAINE— $118.52.
Cumberland Mills, Warren Ch., by J.
Graham
Harrison, $3 ; North Bridgton, $3, by
Rev. A. G. Fitz
M12 52
6 00
NEW HAMPSHIRE-$675.53.
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of N. H.,
Miss A. A. McFarland, Treas. :
Plymouth, A Friend, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor $100 00
July, 1896
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181
Claremont, A Friend $6 00
Francestown, Ch. and S. S., by A.
Downes, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor, and to const. Mrs. H. S. Ives
and Miss M. A. Richardson L. Ms. 100 00
Keene, S. S. of the Second, by A. C.
Gillis, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
Laconia, by J. P. Smith 33 53
Nashua, First, to place the names of
Rev. C. Richardson, D.D., and
Dea. N. Greenwood on Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, by W. P.
Clark 200 00
Y. P. S. C. E. of the Pilgrim Ch., by
R. M. Sawyer, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor, and to const. J. A.
Plummer and H. F. Locke L. Ms. 100 00
Portsmouth, Ladies' Soc. of Cong. Ch.,
by Mrs. I. H. Upton 5 00
Winchester, Ladies' H. M. Soc, by
Mrs. A. G. Atherton, toward L. Mp.
of Miss C. Gates 31 00
VERMONT- $225.46.
Vermont Dom. Miss. Soc, W. C.
Tyler, Treas. :
Highgate, Y. P. S. C. E., for Salary
Fund 3 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. P.
Fairbanks, Treas. :
Springfield, Mrs. A. Brown, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Brandon, by J. F. Potwin 8 05
Castleton, by M. A. Rico 10 co
Jericho, Second, by C. Van Vliet 2 65
Morristown, by Mrs. G. W. Hendee,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
West Hartford, Y. P. S. C. E., special 1 75
MASSACHUSETTS — $5,371.25 ; of
which legacies, $3,107.75.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treas. :
By request of donors, of which $500,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor ;
Salary Fund, $50 ; debt, $25
Woman's H. M. A., Miss A. C. Bridg-
man, Treas. :
Baldwinsville, Ladies' Miss.
Circle $3100
Boston, Old South Ch 20 00
Hyde Park, Aux., Cradle
Roll Dept., Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor too 00
Randolph, Miss A. W.
Turner 100 00
Roxbury, Immanuel Ch 5 00
586 05
256 o0
Amherst, College Ch., by L. H. Ewell. 88 20
Two Friends 50 00
Ayer, First, by Mrs. G. F. Kingsbury. 17 00
Boston, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, by A
Friend, to place her name on the
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Mrs. S. B. Capron, by A Friend, to
place her name on the Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
W. A. Wilde, for Salary Fund 50 00
Brookline, Young Ladies' Benev. Soc.
of Harvard Ch., by W. G Pudde-
foot, for Salary Fund 100 00
Chester, Mrs. T. D. Murphy, by A
Friend, to place her name on the
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Dedham, add'l Extra- Cent -a- Day
Band T 88
Florence, by W. L. Wilcox „ . 15 52
Gardner, A Life Member $10 00
Haverhill, A Friend, for the debt. $25 ;
C. Coffin, $4.40 29 40
Friends, by A. E. Welch 10 00
Holyoke, Second, by J. N. Hubbard.. 375 43
Jamaica Plain, Central Ch., Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Lowell, Legacy of Nathaniel Bartlett. 57 75
S 5 00
Ludlow Center, First, by H. S. Jones. 21 77
Millbury, Bequest of Mrs. Satira S.
Sumner, by E. A. Sumner 50 00
Pepperell, Estate of Rev. Eli W. Har-
rington, by C. Crosby, Ex 2,500 00
Estate of Rev. E. W. Harrington,
by Charles Crosby, Ex 200 00
Peru, S. S., by Mrs. G. B. Parks 4 00
Salem, Tabernacle Ch.,byJ. H. Phip-
pen. 19 00
Young Ladies' Miss. Soc. of the
Tab. Ch., by S. U. Chapman, for
the debt 50 00
Southbridge, Legacy of Mrs. C. C.
Harding, by C. W. Weld, Ex 300 00
South Egremont, by A. M. Smith 13 69
Springfield, A Member of Park Ch.,
by M. K. Stevens 25 00
Ware, Silver Circle, Mrs. C. J. Sage,
$5 ; Miss S. R. Sage, $5 ; Miss H.
S. Hyde, $5 15 00
Mrs. A. B. Bassett 1 00
Worcester, in memory of Dea. S. W.
Kent, by Mrs. S. W. Kent of Ply-
mouth Ch., for Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor and to const, herself a
L. M 100 00
Worthington, First, by A. Stevens... 19 56
RHODE ISLAND-$i85.24.
Rristol, First, by P. Skinner, Jr 49 03
Providence, North Ch., Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, by J. W. Rice,
Treas. R. I. H. M. Soc 100 00
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E. of Highland
Cong. Ch., by Miss F. H. Fowler,
for the debt 5 on
Mrs. G. E. Luther 1 00
Woon socket, Globe Ch., by L. E.
Taylor 30 21
CONNECTICUT— $4,007.44; of which
legacies, $2,006.34.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., W. W. Jacobs,
Treas. :
Special for the debt 60 75
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas. :
Bridgeport,First L. B. Org.,
by Miss C. Smith, for Sal-
ary Fund $8 57
Fairfield, Mrs. J. A. Kippen,
Ladies' H. M. Soc. special 5 00
Kensington, Mrs. S. H.
Cowles, by Mrs J. C. Gra-
ham, to const. Miss M. L.
Colton a L. M 50 00
Milford, Plymouth Ch.,
Miss. Soc, by Miss K. S.
Tibbals, toward L. Mp.
of Mrs. A. A. Baldwin . 25 00
Plymouth Ch., Mrs. A. A.
Baldwin, Mrs. O. T.
Clarke, for Salary Fund,
and in full to const.
Mrs. A. A. Baldwin a
L. M « 2 00
New Britain, South Ch., by
Mrs. S. H. Wood, add'l,
for Salary Fund 2 00
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So. Ch., by Mrs. S. H.
Wood, contents of Mrs.
B. D. Gardiner's Dime
Bank $5 00
First, Mrs. H. P. Strong,
by Mrs. J. A. Pickett,
for Silver Circle 5 00
So. Ch., D. M. Rogers,
Dime Bank 5 00
New Hartford, by Mrs. H.
R.Jones, for Salary Fund. 3 00
Norwich, Broadway Ch.,
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor, and to const. Mrs.
W. B. Young and Mrs. I.
Gifford L. Ms 100 00
Poquonock, by Mrs. N. T.
Merwin, for Salary Fund. 50 00
South Coventry, by Mrs.
S. E. Coleman, for Salary
Fund 1000
Whitneyville. Y. L. M. S.,
by Miss M. S. Dickerman,
for Salary Fund 6 00
$276 57
Berlin, Second, by Miss C. S. Webster. 25 00
Branford, H. G. Harrison 10 00
Bridgeport, Estate of Mrs. C. P.
Crocker, by J. W. Thompson,
Adm 136 40
Olivet, by L. F. Manhall 3000
Bridge water, Legacy of George
Minor, by H. P. Downes 232 64
Brooklyn, Estate of Mary E. Ens-
worth, on account by P. B. Sibley,
Ex 15000
Clinton, Y. P. S. C. E.,by G. Dudley,
for the debt 25 00
Danielson, Wcstfield Ch., Mrs. L. A.
Davis, by H. S. Brown 500
East Hartford, in memoriam, to place
the name of Rev. Francis Williams
on Gen. Howard Roll of Honor, by
Mrs. Francis Williams and Rev. S.
A. Barrett 100 00
Greenwich, Estate of Eliza Ray, by
G. A. Finch, Ex 563 98
Hartford, A Friend 50 00
A Friend 2 00
Lyme, First, by D. A. Grant, for the
debt 7 50
Madison, Fellow Workers, free-will
offering, by Mrs. F. Dowd 10 00
Meriden, First, by H. M. Billard, to
const. E. B. Everitt, Dr. J. D.
Eggleston, B. Lawton, J. U.
Pratt, and Mrs. W. G. Snow L.
Ms 25000
Ladies' Soc.,by Mrs. F. P. Griswold 1 90
Middletown, Estate of Miss S C.
Clark, by H. W. De Forest, Ex. . . 423 32
First, by Mrs. M. L. Crittenden,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
The Gleaners of the First, by M.
E. Bunce 10 00
Milford, Plymouth S. S.,byS. Haw-
kins 911
Mystic, Woman's Miss. Soc . by Miss
A. C. Denison.for the debt 25 00
New Hartford, North S. S., by C. E.
Jones 18 27
New Haven, Ch. of the Redeemer,
by W. E. Rowland 13727
Young Ladies' Mission Circle of the
United Ch., by Miss R. M. Mun-
ger 25 00
Self-Denial Soc. of the Grand Ave-
nue Ch., by Mrs. M. E. Mitchell 15 go
Yale Divinity School 48 75
Norfolk. Estate of Mary L. Porter... 500 co
North Stonington, Extra cont. for the
debt, by Rev. W. B. Cary 52 00
Norwalk, A Friend 50
Norwich, Buckingham S. S., by T. J.
Leonard, for the debt $25 00
Broadway Ch., by F. J. Leavens. . . 500 00
Poquonock, Mrs. T. Duncan 3.00
Putnam, a class in the S. S. of the Sec-
ond, by E. F. Whitmore 500
Thomaston. First, by H. A. Welton . 8 73
Windsor, Ladies' Aux. of the First,
by Mrs. J. B. Wilbur, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Windsor Locks, S. S.,by S. C. Coffin. 50 00
Woodstock, First, by H. T. Child .... 14 75
NEW YORK— $1,411.41.
Received by William Spalding,
Treas. :
Black Creek $5 47
Busti . ...j 3 00
Camden 25 76
Elizabethtown 1050
Gasport 10 00
Keene Valley 5 00
Middletown, North Street
Ch 7 50
North Java 335
Summer Hill 5 00
Washington Mills 14 50
90 08
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall, Treas.:
Albany, First, Silver Circle. $5 00
For Salary Fund 79 63
Binghamton, First, Helpers
Soc, for Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor and to
const. Mrs. A. G. Palmer
and Miss J. E. Dunning
L. Ms 100 00
Brooklyn, Tompkins Ave-
nue L. B. S., for Salary
Fund 150 00
Central Ch. L. B. S., for
the debt 50 00
Buffalo, First, for the debt . 10 70
Silver Circle 5 00
Canandaigua, for debt 2600
Cortland, for Salary Fund . 20 00
Ellington 10 57
Groton, L. B. S 5 00
C. E 5 00
Homer, Aux 5 00
Honeoye, Aux., for debt.... 5 00
Oswego. Silver Circle 15 00
Philadelphia 10 00
Syracuse, Danforth Ch. L.
U., for Silver Circle 30 00
Sidney. C. E. S 5 op
Syracuse. Plymouth W. C.
A., to place the Woman's
Christian Asso. of Ply-
mouth Ch. on Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
From Silver Circle 20 00
Goodwill Ch 7 00
Warsaw, to place the name
of the Soc. on Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, and to
const. Mrs. M. Bristol and
Mrs. M. E. Jennings L.
Ms 100 00
763 90
Brooklyn, Rochester Avenue Ch., by
N. D. Redhead 4 59
Y. P. S. C. E. of the Park, by Miss
E M. Little 10 00
R. D. Benedict. Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Cambria Center, by Rev. D. T. Will-
iams 10 00
Chippewa Bay, Miss E. Higbee 1 00
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Clifton, Springs, Mrs. Z. Eddy, for
freight
Flushing, Missionary Union, by Miss
A. H. Parsons
Greene, First Ch. and S. S., by F. F.
Peck
Jamestown, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First,
by Mrs. S. A. Baldwin, toward L.
Mp. of Mrs. H. C. Marvin
Massena, by Dr. M. J. Stearns
Middletown, First, by S. R. Corwin.
New York City, Harlem Pilgrim Ch.,
by M. O. Hubbell, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor
A Friend
F. M. Prescott
North Java, by F. E. Dark, for the
debt
Oswego Falls, by Rev. E. Curtis
Portchester, Epworth League, T. S.
Myer '
Poughkeepsie, First, by E. E. Deyo.
Smyrna, by Miss M. M. Brooks
Wellsville, Y. P. S. C. E., by M. F.
Lewis
36 00
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70
100
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ALABAMA— $8.00.
Bluff Spring, Mt. Carmel Ch., and Mil-
ner Union Hill Ch., by Rev. H. T.
McKay
Christiana and Ashland, Wesley
Chapel, by Rev. T. M. Lindley. . . .
LOUISIANA— $13.90.
Jennings, First, by F. F. Morse, for
Salary Fund
Long Straw, by Rev. J. Brue
FLORIDA— $104.09.
Belleview, by Rev. T. H. Rouse
Dorcas, Shoal River, and Campton, by
Rev. W. G. Miller
Pomona, by Rev. M. C. Welch
Tavares, by C. H. Newell
White City, by Rev. E. T. R. Fripp. .
Winter Park, by F. W. Lvman, to
const. Miss L. A. Abbott a L. M . . .
NEW JERSEY-$433.38.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Asso., Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas.:
Washington, D. C., First, of which
$25 for Salary Fund 27 00
Cedar Grove, by Rev. B. F. Brad-
ford 8 75
East Orange, First, add'l, by C. H.
- Nevius S 00
Hoboken, Norwegian Ch., by Rev. A.
C. Tychsen 513
Newark, Belleville Avenue, by S. Van
Duyne 119 00
Orange Valley, by A. B. Johnson, to
const. Miss L. Iddings. Miss E.
Cooper, and J. H. Condit L. Ms.. 153 50
Y. P. S. C. E., by A. P. Johnson,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Summit, A. F. Libby 1500 NEW MEXICO— $5.00.
Albuquerque, Ch., for the debt.
TEXAS-$i4.i5.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. II.
Gray, Treas. :
Sherman
Palestine, by Rev. L. Rees
OKLAHOMA— $19.12.
Carney and Lincoln, by Rev. W.
Lumpkin
Medford, by Rev. J. L. Read
Oklahoma City, Pilgrim, by Rev. P.
C. Burhans
Pawnee, by Rev. J. H. Parker
PENNSYLVANIA-$37.4S.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. T.
W. Jones, Treas. :
Lansf ord $7 5°
Meadville 10 00
Arnot, Swedish Ch., by Rev. C. J.
Wideberg
Chandler's Valley, Swedish, by Rev.
C. J. Lundquist
Tohnstown, First, by R. R. Thomas .
Slatington, Bethel Ch., by W. T.
Williams
Warren, Swedish, by J. A. Dahlgren.
MARYLAND— $29.00.
Baltimore, First, by C. S. Houghton.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— $10.00.
Washington. Y P. S. C. E. of the
Fifth, by B. N. Seymour
GEORGIA-$ioo.45.
Ft. Valley. Rev. S. E. Bassett, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor
Glenmore, by Rev. T. Pitman
9 00
? 5°
ARIZONA-$2o.oo.
Nogales, Ch., $13 ; Rally,$i.5o; S. S..
$1.25; Calabasas, $1.65: and Crit-
17 5° tenden, $2.60 ; by Rev. J. H. Heald
OHIO-$636.97.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.:
Ashtabula, Second, by E. B.
Schwacofer $2 00
Berlin Heights, by Alwilda
M. Gunn 8 63
Brighton, by O. F. Goss 1 50
Bristolville, by Rev. C E.
Knapp 5 00
Carmel, by Rev. D. B. Jones 5 80
Centerville, by Rev. D. B.
Jones 4 20
Chillicothe, by W. F. Nog-
gle 5 00
Cleveland, Union, by Rev.
C. H. Lemmon 20 00
East Greenville, Welsh Ch.,
$1.77; Children's Band,
$1.77, by D. T. Davis.... 3 54
Newark, Mrs. James Evans 6 00
Strongsville, W. C. Smith,
by Rev. H. J. Wilkins. ... 2 50
10 00
3 9°
24 00
10 00
5 00
2 13
4 CO
58 96
2 50
11 65
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Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Cleveland, First, S. S., by
Nellie E. Bailey $5 37
Mrs. F. W. Low 1 00
Mt. Vernon, the Schnebly
Family 6 60
12 97
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
G. B. Brown, Treas.:
Cleveland, Pilgrim, W. A.,
Bible Readers Home ... 10 00
Jefferson, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 5 65
Oberlin, Second, L. S., Bi-
ble Readers School and
Home 20 00
Ridgeville Corners, W. H.
and F. M. S 12 00
Unionville, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 7 04
54 69— $67 66
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Ashland, for Salary Fund.. $15 00
Ceredo, West Va., for Sal-
ary Fund 1 00
Chester Cross Roads, Y. L.
M. S., for Salary Fund... 5 00
Cincinnati, Walnut Hills,
from Mrs. H. M.Wood's
Dime Bank 5 00
Vine, "Our Nine," for
Salary Fund 2 00
Cleveland, Bethlehem, Mrs.
H. A. Schauffler's Dime
Bank 5 00
First, for the debt, Mrs.
A.F.Russell 500
Dayton, for Salary Fund. . . 5 00
Hamilton 3 00
Mansfield, First, Dime Bank
of Miss O. Stone 5 00
Medina, for Salary Fund... 15 00
S. S., Dime Bank of Mrs.
O. H. McDowell's class 5 00
Mt. Vernon, special 100
Dime Banks of Mrs. O.
Murphy, $5.00 ; Mrs. C.
Tilton, $2 50 : Mrs. J.
Turner, $2.50 10 00
Norwalk, for Salary Fund.. 4 00
Oberlin, First, Dime Banks
of Mrs. W. B. Gerrish,
Mrs. W. Mitchell, Miss
Thompson and Miss
Florence Penfield 20 00
Second, Miss Anderson's
bank 5 00
Toledo, First, Working
Band, from Mrs. B. H.
Whitney's Dime Bank.. 5 00
Central, for Salary Fund. 5 00
First. W. B., Mrs. D. M.
Fisk's bank 5 00
West Williamsfield, for Sal-
ary Fund 10 00
136 00
Atwater. bv G. W. Weldy n 25
Berea, First, by S. L. Root 22 00
Columbus, Mrs. P. L. Alcott, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Coolville, by Rev. H. O. Judd 2 50
Defiance, T. B. Goddard, by E. P.
Hooker 100 00
Medina, Ch. and Aux's. by Rev. J. R.
Nichols, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Ravenna, Mrs. C. A. Newton's Dime
Bank, by Mrs. C. A Newton
Tallmadge, Y. P. S. C. E., by J. W.
Seward
Toledo Central Ch., of which $12.50
for Salary Fund, by C. C. Jenkins .
Windham, First, by C. E. Smith
INDIANA— $116.48.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. H.
Ball, Treas. :
Anderson, Hope Ch., Ladies $16 34
Jr. C. E 1 5°
Indianapolis, Mayflower
Ch., Ladies' Miss. Soc,
$13.71 ; Y. P. S. C. E.,
$6.50, tor Salary Fund 20 21
Dunkirk. Plymouth, by Rev. W. A.
Thomas
East Chicago, First, by Rev. F. E.
Bigelow
Orland, $31 ; Terre Haute, S. S. of the
First, Easter coll., $1339; Casey-
ville, $3.89, by Rev. E. D. Curtis.. .
ILLINOIS-^
$66.67.
.67 ; of which legacy,
Buda, Estate of J. F. Hyde, by H. T.
Lay, Trustee
Chicago, Miss J. E. Eversz, for the
debt
MISSOURI— $11.53.
Chillicothe, by Rev. J. W. Eldred ....
De Soto, Y. P. S. C. E., by M. Myers
Hamilton, First, by J. N. Morton
MICHIGAN— $10.00.
Ann Arbor, Estate of Prof. C. L. Ford,
$500.
Detroit, Mrs. M. E. Lane, Silver Circle
South Lake Linden, Y. P. S. C. E., by
G. H. M. C.Dennis
WISCONSIN-$i.7o.
Bruce and Appolonia, by Rev. D. L.
Sanborn
Glen wood, Scand. Ch., by Rev. T. G.
Grassie
MINNESOTA-$38.57.
Glen wood, by Rev. F. A. Sumner
Graceville, by Rev. H. A. Cotton
Hamilton, by S. C. Babcock
Minneapolis. " Rodelmer "
New Brighton, by Rev. T. H. Lewis.
North Branch and Sunrise City, by
Rev. P. H. Fisk
St. Paul, by Rev. W. Oehler
Spencer Brook, Swedish, by Rev. A.
P. Engstrom
Tracy, Mrs. J. L. Martin
Upsala, Swedish Ch., by Rev. A. G.
Petterson
KANSAS— $56.75.
Received by Rev. J. G. Dougherty,
Treas. :
Cawker City $4 00
$5 00
3 71
20 41
4 27
38 05
18 15
12 00
66 67
2 00
9 38
5 00
5 00
1 50
5 00
9 30
2 50
8 30
1 81
2 00
1 35
5 00
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Chapman $3 2S
Council Grove 1 00
Athol, $6.10 ; Westmoreland, $2.25, by
Rev. W. C. Veazie
Colwich, by Rev. J. A. Henry
Dial, $5.56; Mount Ayer, $2.26;
Bloomington, $1.65 ; A Friend,
$3-53^ by Rev. N. Emmerson. ,
Dunlap, by Rev. W. R. Bair
Ft. Scott, First, by Rev. A. O. Penni-
man
Fredonia, First, by Rev. H. D. Herr.
Hiawatha, Jr. C. E. Soc.,by S. Bierer
NEBRASKA— $278.90.
Received by H. G. Smith, Treas. :
Clay Center $3 30
Exeter 1 10
Indianola 7 54
Kearney 13 00
Lincoln, S. S. of the First. . 8 00
Stanton . . . ^ 4 66
Weeping Water 22 70
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
M. W. Skinner, Treas., of
which $50 to const. Mrs.
E. Parker a L. M 130 00
$190 30
Less expenses 80
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. W.
Dawes, Treas. :
Nebraska, A Friend, for the debt. . .
Aten and Crofton, by Rev. W. T.
Williams
Brunswick and Willow Valley, by
Rev. G. T. Noyce
Cortland and Pickrell, by Rev. F. G.
McHenry
Havelock, by Rev. S. Wood
Madison, Mrs. M. L. Little
Neligh, by Rev. J. F. Bacon
Nelson, $1.80; Edgar. $3.30 ; Deweese,
$2.90, German Chs., by Rev. P
Lich
8 35
5 °°
13 00
565
3 00
1 50
CO
00
2
5°
3
6
90
00
5
00
4
00
Beresford and Pioneer, by Rev. H.
W. Jamison
Faulkton, $13 ; Clark, $12 ; by Miss
E. K. Henry
By Rev. F. Mitchell
Firesteel, Letcher, Lisbon, and Bethel,
by Rev. E. B. Swartout
Ft. Pierre, $10; Waubay, $6.86; Al-
cester, $11.10; Gothland, $525;
Tyndall, $2.89, by Rev. D. R. Tom-
lin
Mission Hill, by Rev. D. B. Nichols .
Rapid City, by C. A. Trowbridge....
Sioux Falls, by Rev. W. H. Thrall. . .
Springfield, Wanari and Running
Water, by Rev. C. Seccombe
Vermillion, Swedish, by Rev. C. J.
Hansen
COLORADO-$78.67.
Colorado Springs, First, by H. M.
Carlton
Denver, Villa Park, by Rev. E. R.
Drake
Mayflower, Rev. J. Turner
Lafayette, by Rev. J. F. Smith
Lyons, by Rev. C. H. Harger
Otis and Hyde, by Rev. G. Dungan. .
WYOMING— $1.66.
Sheridan, First, by Rev. C. D. Gear-
hardt
MONTANA-S16.00.
Billings, by Rev. P. B. Jackson
Great Falls, First, by Rev. W. S.
Bell
UTAH— $15.25.
Salt Lake City, Plymouth Ch. and S.
S., by Rev. J. D. Nutting
25 00
3 00
36 10
1 5°
14 26
12 31
3 °°
18 27
54 25
7 3°
5 00
3 e2
6 50
2 00
11 00
5 00
NORTH DAKOTA— $59.63.
Abercrombie, by Rev. E. E. Saunders,
Fargo, Ladies' Soc. of Plymouth Ch.,
by Rev. H. C. Simmons
Forman, $38.26 ; Sanborn, $6.93 ; Har-
vey, $1.80, by Rev. W. H. Gimblett
SOUTH DAKOTA-$i79.o6.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
A. M. Wilcox, Treas. :
Athol $1 00
Aurora 5 00
Buffalo Gap 1 20
Clark 2 90
Deadwood 4 00
Elk Point 5 00
Firesteel 316
Huron 5 00
Jr. C. E 1 25
Iroquois .... 1 50
Mitchell 400
Pierre 2 00
Powell 68
Sioux Falls, Jr. C. E 3 90
Yankton 3 00
Ruk, Micronesia, Miss Kin-
ney 4 00
CALIFORNIA— $1,176.40 ;
legacy, $1,000.00.
of which
Woman's H. M. Union, Southern Cal.,
10 64 Mrs. M. M. Smith, Treas.:
Buena Park $2 50
46 99 Ontario, Jr. C. E 4 00
6 50
Antioch, by Rev. J. W. Brier. Jr 6 00
California, A Friend, by S. L. Peirce 5 00
East Los Angeles, Mrs. J. E. Cush-
man, for the debt, by Rev. J T.
Ford 15 00
Etiwanda, by Rev. C. H. Davis 3 75
Los Angeles, Central Avenue, by Rev.
C. S. Vaile 3 00
Oceanside and Encinitas, by Rev. J.
L. Pearson 7 40
Ontario, Legacy of Rev. D. B. Eells. 1,000 00
Pasadena, Mrs. E. W. McPherson,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
San Diego, Mrs. E. E. Wiggin, for the
debt 10 50
San Luis Obispo, by Rev. W. W.
Madge ; 7 60
San Rafael, by Rev. W. P. Hardy ... j 4 65
Sunol Glen, by Rev. J. H. Strong | 7 00
[Erratum : $17 in June H. M. from
Porterville, by Rev. M. Z. Fenenga,
47 59 should be by Rev. J. G. Eckels.]
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OREGON— $18.04.
Forest Grove, by Rev. C. F. Clapp..
Portland, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Koch
Mississippi Avenue, by Rev. H. W.
Young
Rainier and Scappoose, by Rev. C. E.
Philbrook
Rickreall, by Rev. A. Brady
WASHINGTON— $33.50.
Colfax, Plymouth Ch , by Rev. H. P.
James
Deer Park, by E. A. Short $24 00
Endicott and Alcali Flats, German
?7 14 Chs., by Rev. J. Hergert 600
Kirkland, by Rev. D. H. Bicknell. ... 2 50
5 00
4 00
4o CANADA— $22.50.
1 5°
Rock Island, So. Ch., by J. U. Baxter
Home Missionary.
22 50
45 9°
5iS,655 57
Contributions in May, excluding contributions for the debt $5,866 47
Legacies in May 6,18096
Contributions for the debt in May 3,834 45
Total receipts in May $15,881 88
Contributions for the debt to June 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $81,356 58
Special for debt 8,010 59
- $89,367 17
Donations of Clothing, etc.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Mrs. C. M. B., pack-
age.
Clifton Springs, N. Y., Mrs. Z. Eddy,
barrel $45 00
Concord, N. H., Y. L. M. S. of South
Ch., by Annie C. Benton, box, pack-
age, and check 136 33
Social Soc. of South Ch, by Bertha R.
Sumner, box, barrel, and check 146 17
Elyria, O., W. H. M. S., by Mary N.
Garford, box 77 23
Lancaster, N. H., by Mrs. Nellie H.
Fletcher, box 30 00
Minneapolis, Minn.. Ladies of First Cb.,
by Rev. J. H. Morley. box 50 00
Ladies of Plymouth Ch., by Rev. J.
H. Morley. four boxes 36300
Ladies of Fifth Ave. Ch., by Rev. J.
H . Morley, box 20 00
New York City, Hospital Book and
Newspaper Soc, two packages read-
ing matter.
Pasadena, Cal., L. M. S. of First Ch., by
Mrs. S. R. Barnham, box $50 00
Plainview, Minn., Ladies, by Rev. J. H.
Morley, box 25 00
St. Johnsbury, Vt., W. H. M. S. of North
Ch., by Miss Martha J. Hall, barrel... 95 27
St. Paul, Minn., Ladies of Olivet Ch.,
by Rev. J. H. Morley, box 27 00
Waterbury, Ct., Second Ch., by Mrs. C.
M. J. Benedict, box and barrel 113 26
Winona, Minn., Ladies of First Ch., by
Rev. J. H. Morley, box. ... 100 00
Woodbury, Conn., L. H. M. S., by Mrs.
Geo. Follett, barrel 91 00
Woodville, N. Y., L. H. M. S., by Emma
S. Gates, box 55 08
$1,424 34
Donations of Clothing, etc., received and reported at the rooms of the Woman's Home
Missionary Association in May, 1896. Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg,
Secretary
Brookline, Harvard Ch., Aux., by Mrs.
Mary I. Wason, two barrels $9865
Dorchester, Second Ch., W. H. M. S., by
Mrs. J. M. Phipps, barrel 73 70
Hinsdale, Ladies, by Mrs. M. C. Bing-
ham, barrel 88 08
Hyde Park, First Ch., Aux., by Mrs. M.
C. Clark, box and barrel 100 02
Leicester, Aux., by Mrs. C. F. Palmer,
barrel 3621
Lexington, Hancock Ch., by Mrs. G. P.
Milne, barrel ... in 16
Montague, L. B. S., by Miss M. A.
Deane. barrel 36 56
New Bedford, Aux., by Mrs. Nelson
Freeman, barrel 100 00
Newport, R. I., Aux., by Miss E. R.
Hammett, box $150 00
Newton Center, Mrs. J. F. Hawley,
box . 12 00
Peabody, Aux, by Mrs. Mary E. Trask,
three barrels : 251 I2
Providence. R. I., Beneficent Ch., by
Mrs. S. E. Slade, three barrels 121 75
Somerville, Broadway Ch., Aux., by
Miss M. S. Higgins. two barrels 142 00
Wollaston, Aux , by Mrs. H. T. Whit-
man, box 2500
$1,346 25
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AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from April 20 to May 20, i£
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Albany $8 00
Arlington, East 4 00
Ascutneyville, Mrs. Geo. Fitch. $1 00
Mrs. Newton Gage 5 00
6 00
Bellows Falls, First 60 62
Bradford 13 42
Brandon 15 08
Burke, for Women Evangelists - 2453
Charlotte 10 35
Dummerston 21 81
Essex, Amasa Osgood legacy 428 12
Fairfield, East, Ladies' Church Relief
Society 5 00
Fairlee, West 7 00
Georgia 5 02
Hardwick 3 00
Highgate 412
Y. P. S. C. E., for Miss Reitinger 3 00
Hyde Park, North 5 60
Jamaica n 25
Lunenburg 5 50
Mclndoes Falls 525
Newbury, additional 60
Pawlet, West, Welsh Ch 2 00
Post Mills 750
Rev. L. Harlow 10 00
Rochester 28 03
West 5 00
Salisbury, Y. P. S. C. E
Sheldon
Pastor
Shoreham
Simonsville
Thetford, First
North, for Women Evangelists.
Townshend, West
Tyson
Warren
Weston
Interest
Vermont Missionary
W. H. M. U :
Brookfield, W. H. M. S (
Dummerston
' Enosburg, W. H. M. S
Glover, West
Greensboro
Manchester
Newbury 16 60
Pittsf ord 45 00
Salisbury 11 11
Springfield 10 00
Townshend 7 00
W. H. M. U. Finance Com.. . 150 00
6
4 97
5 00
*S 00
8 33
10 00
10 25
5 37
16 15
7 50
8 95
3 00
7 00
15 00
360 00
4 54
287 74
J1, 452 63
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in May, i£
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev. Edwin
Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor :
Chelsea, First Ch., Ladies of $100 00
Danvers, Maple St., Ch. and S. S 100 00
Holyoke, Bagg, Mrs. Edward P 100 00
Lowell, A Friend 100 00
Marlboro, Union, S. S 100 00
Somerville, Broadway Ch 100 00
Andover, Free, by Mrs. Minnie C. Cole. $82 00
Bank balances, April interest on 19 27
Barnstable Cotuit Union, by Mr. Fish.. 18 00
Belmont, Waverley, Ladies' Miss. Soc,
by Rev. G. P. Gilman 4 75
Billerica, North, Gould, Mrs. E. R., for
C. H. M. S. debt 12 00
Boston, Allston S. S., by Jas. E. Louns-
bury 4 55
Brighton, by L. E. Bates 112 97
Charlestown, Winthrop, two mem-
bers, for debt of C. H. M. S 10 00
Office, for local Armenian work 5 00
Park St. S. S., by E. H. McGuire, for
local Armenian work 10 00
Roxbury, West, So. Evan., by Mrs. C.
H. Botsford 2 64
X 5 00
Bridgewater, Scotland, by Mrs. S. O.
Keith 6 40
Brimfield, First, by Miss Julia T.
Brown $14 50
Deerfield, South, add'l, by C. B. Tilton. 5 00
Everett, First, by R. A. Rideout 33 84
Falmouth, Nye, James, bequest, income
of 11 36
Fitchburg, Davis, Grace U 5 00
Foxboro, A Friend, by Horace Carpen-
ter 100 00
Bethany, by Horace Carpenter 22 96
Hatfield, by Alpheus Cowles 46 43
Holliston, First, by W. P. Gage 67 73
Hyde Park, First, by D. W. Lewis 85 96
S. S., by R. J. Ford 1927
Inanda, Natal, So. Africa, Bigelow,
Agnes M., for C. H. M. S 10 00
Lawrence, White, Samuel 50 00
Leominster, Orth., by A. O. Wilder,
add'l .. 2500
Littleton, Orth., by Jno. S. Hartwell... n 25
Lynnfield, South, by Rev. Geo. E.
Freeman ... 10 00
Marion, Hadley, A. J 500
Medford, West, by J. H. Gerrish 13 50
Milton, First Evan., by Arthur H.
Tucker.. 3648
Monterey, by Miss Jessie A. Townsend. 14 50
Newbury. First, by Edward Perkins... 25 33
Newton. Auburndale, by C. C. Burr, for
local Armenian Work 40 26
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Newton (Center), First, S. S., by W.
H. Rice
North Evan., V. P. S. C. E., by W. E.
Lowry
North Evan., S. S., by W. E. Lowry
West, Bell, W. G., for debt of C. H.
M. S
Orleans, by J. Higgins
Reading, by Dean Peabody
Revere, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. N.
Badger
Rochester, North, by A. K. Small.. . .
Shrewsbury, by H. Harlow
Southfield, Canfield, Mrs. E. S
South Hadley Falls, by A. N. Chapin. .
Springfield, Olivet, by E. C. Hazen, to
const. Mrs. J. H. Clarke a L. M
St. John's, by Mrs. M. H. Thomas
Stoneham, by O. W. Richardson
Taunton, West, by Lewis P. Luther
Templeton, by Mrs. Mary A. Hoyt
Baldwinville, by Geo. H. Alexander,
with other gifts to const. Mrs. A. W.
Hirda L. M. of C. H. M. S
Watertown, Phillips, by Moses Fuller..
Wevmouth and Braintree, Union, by E.
F'. Bowles
$25
26
3°
25
00
5
IS
2
00
37 18
5 00
36 50
14 92
Whitcomb, David, Fund, Income of . . . $250 00
Wilbraham, by F. E. Clark 18 00
Wilmington, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss
Carrie M. Swain, E. C. a Day offering,
for Spanish-American Work 1 05
Winchendon, Whitney, Mrs. S. L., by
Rev. Davis Foster, D.D., for C. H.
M. S. debt 1 00
Windsor, add'l, by Rev. S. M. Andrews 5 00
Woburn, North, by S. A. Thompson 6 51
Worcester, South, Conf., by A. Armsby,
Treas "77
Union, Cent-a-day Band, by Miss H.
T. Boardman 611
Woman's H. M. Assoc, by Miss Annie
C. Bridgman, Treas :
Boston, Rox., Wal. Ave. Aux., towards
Salary of Rev. S. Deakin.. ..$50 00
Somerville, Broadway, Aux.,
for Italian Mission 1000
60
3 00 Home Missionary.
£2,197 64
7 5°
RHODE ISLAND HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Rhode Island Hotne Missionary Society from April 1 to June I,
1896. Joseph William Rice, 7'reasurer
Providence, Beneficent Ch. :
Margaret C. Hackett. two
shares Howard Roll of
Honor $200 00
Mary S. Taft 5 00
Special for Wood River Junc-
tion 2500
Margaret C. Hackett, special
to A. B. C. F. M 200 00
Academy Ave. Ch., Coll., C. W. Shel-
ton
Elmwood, Temple Ch., for debt of C.
H. M.S
FreeCh., for debt of C. H. M. S
North Ch.. Howard Roll of Honor...
Plymouth Ch., Coll., C. W. Shelton. .
East Providence, Newman Cong. Ch.,
two shares Howard Roll of Honor
Central Falls Cong. Ch
Newport, United Ch
Slatersville, Cong. Ch., Samuel I. Tabor.
Westerly, Pawcatuck Ch
Interest
$18 29
100 00
6 10
$618
95
200
JO
81
2 2
46
37
10
00
5
5°
9
•••')
39 56
$971 13
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in May, \\
Treasurer
Ward W. Jacobs,
Colebrook, by J. M. Grant
East Haven, Foxon, by Rev. Charles
Page
Foxon. see East Haven.
Franklin, by Rev. H. E. Hart
Glastonbury, South Glastonbury, Ch.
and S. S., by H. D. Hale
Greenwich, North Greenwich, by B.
Close
Hartford, Pearl Street, by William A.
Willard
Zion, Swedish, by Rev. L. W. A.
Bjorkman
Hartland, West Hartland, by H. L.
Wilcox
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur
Nepaug, see New Hartford.
New Hartford, Nepaugr, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Jessie M . Beckwith
North Greenwich, see Greenwich.
Old Savbrook, by Robert Chapman
ForC. H. M. S
Putnam, Second, by E. F. Whitmore..
Prospect, by Rev. W. H. Phipps
Somers, Somersville, by H. L. James...
$11
5°
5
75
3
43
7
34
20
00
47
79
4
16
8
00
27
25
12 00
12 OO
36 25
15 00
7 25
Y. P. S. C. E., forC. H. M.S $787
Somersville, see Somers.
South Glastonbury, see Glastonbury.
Thompson, by Josiah W. Dike 7 75
For Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor 60 75
Watertown, by George N. Griswold... 38 00
West Hartland, see Hartland.
West Winsted, see Winchester.
Winchester, West Winsted, by John
Hinsdale 231 10
W. C. H. M. U. of Conn., Mrs. George
Follett, Sec. :
Abington, H. M. S, by Miss Anna F.
Bird ... 3 50
Hartford, First, Junior Auxiliary, by
Mrs. M. W. Jacobus 30 00
Kensington, H. M. S., by Mrs. J. C.
Graham 22 51
Somersville, H. M. S., by Mrs. Oscar
Keeney 12 25
Stamford, First, Aux., by Mrs. H. P.
Wilcox 2 00
$643 45
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MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in May, 1S96.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer
Allenville $2 10
Ann Arbor 85 00
Bay City, S. S 670
Columbus 4 51
East Paris 3 46
Ellsworth 1 50
Grand Rapids, First 100 00
To const. Mrs. I. P. Powell aL.M... 30 00
Hilliards 2 05
Jackson, First 1 00
Lewiston 5 00
Olivet 1 00 .
Vicksburg 3 50
Interest on Permanent Funds 16 v>
Refunded by C. H. M. S 627 42
Woman's Home Missionary Union of
Michigan, by Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
Treas 3 00
$S82 74
Receipts of the W. H. M. U. of Michi-
gan in May, 1896. Mrs. E. F. Gra-
bill, Treas.:
SENIOR SOCIETIES
Addison, W. H. M. U $6 00
Alpena, W. H. M. U
Breckenridge, W. H. M. U
Greenville, W. H. M. S
Lawrence, W. H. M. S
Lester, First, W. H. M. S
Rockwood, L. A. and W. H. M. S..
Victor, W. H. M. S
Wheatland, W. H. M. U
YOUNG PEOPLES FUND
Grand Rapids, Park Church, Willing
Workers
Greenville, S. S
$20
00
2
2
3°
60
3
CO
10
*5
S
00
3
00
16
00
Total.
Per receipts of Rev. J. P. Sanderson :
Lawrence, W. H. M. S $3 00
Rockwood, L. A. S. and W.
H. M.S s oq
$68 05
20 00
$25 00
$93 05
WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, i8go
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House, Boston.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis, So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary , Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
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7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary , Mrs. George L. Epps, Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May. 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong. Lane Seminary
Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, The Morris,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 21 16 Warren
St., Toledo.
9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave.,
Brooklyn.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St.,
Syracuse.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave.,
Brooklyn.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. W. H. Boals. Fargo.
Secretary. Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec. Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June. 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary. Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. A. H. Robbins, Ashton.
Secretary,
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Hartford.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
ig. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B Perry. Crete.
Secretary. Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
* 27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
,,.,,,, ... . _ „ _ , T • President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In- ridian
dianapohs. Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
Secretary, — versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson. Treasurer, Wrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-"
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary , Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 152 North Gal-
vez St., New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. J. H. Babbitt, West Brattleboro.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith, 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. 2. Moreland, 1214 Grundy St.,
Nashville, Tenn.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley , Box 508, Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary j
and VMiss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, \
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple. Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
_ ., "elTe,na: ~ T T. . Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston. Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1852
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Secretary. Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher.
Secretary, Mrs. J. E. Piatt. Guthrie.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. J. D. Hagerman, Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes. 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized Nqvember, 1892
President, Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City, Black
Hills, South Dakota. .
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
Treasurer, Mrs. D. Q. Travis, Pocatello.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, is3 La .Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, IIS.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio,
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall... Huron, S. Dak.
U ev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville. Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. . Rev. W. S. Hawkes ?. .Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. L. P. Broad Topeka, Kan. Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. E. H. Ashmun Albuquerque, N. M. Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
Rev. A. Judson Bailey Seattle, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapp Forest Grove, Ore.
y. T. G. Grassie . . ... . .Ashland, Wis. R T w j D D j 511 Woodland Terrace,
J ' 1 Philadelphia, Pa.
t> a a -d „ .. S Black Hills and Wyoming.
Rev. A. A. Brown... -| Hot SpringSi South ^a4<otl.
Rev. W. S. Bell '. Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross, D.D.. ... ..." ...Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama) .. Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John L.Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hillman, Secretary New Hampshire Home Miss. Society. . . .Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " " ....Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " ** .... St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " " " " ....St. Johnsbury, Vt,
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " .... | 9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer. ' " " " " .... f Boston, Mass,
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " . ...Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer _ " " " " ....Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " " ■" Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society ...Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer " "■ " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D., Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary Illinois " " " ) 153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " " " " ( Chicago, 111.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " " " Grinnell, Iowa.
J. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. William H. Warren, D.D., Secretary.. Michigan " " " Lansing, Mich.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Communications
relating to general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.
Communications relating to the Editorial Department of The Home Missionary may be addressed to Rev.
Alex. H. Clapp, D.D. Correspondence of the Woman's Department may be addressed to Mrs. H. S.
Caswell, Bible House, New York.
Donations and Subscriptions
in Drafts, Checks, Registered Letters, or Post-Office Orders may be addressed to Wm. B. Howland.
Treasurer, Bible House, Astor Place, New York.
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Form of a Bequest
I bequeath to my executors the sum of dollars, in trusty to pay over the same,
in months after my decease, to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, formed in the City of New York, in the year eighteen hundred
and twenty-six, to be applied to the charitable use and purposes of said Society, and under its direction.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Bible House, Astor Place, New York
Major-General Oliver O. Howard
President
Rev. ALEXANDER H. Clapp, D.D.. Honorary Treasurer
Secretaries for Correspondence
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
Rev. William Kincaid, D.D.
Rev. Washington Choate, D.D.
Mr. William B. Howland, Treasurer
Executive Committee
Wm, Ives Washburn, Esq., Chairman
Asa A. Spear, Esq., Recording Secretary
Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D.
Rev. Samuel II. Virgin, D.D.
Mr. Joseph Wm. Rice
Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D.
Mr. George P. Stockwell
Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D.
Rev. John D. Kingsbury, D.D.
Mr. George W. Hebard
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Rev. Thomas B. McLeod, D.D.
Rev. Robert R. Meredith, D.D.
Mr. John F. Anderson, Jr.
David A. Thompson, Esq.
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Contents for August, 1896
Meeting of the Woman's Depart-
ment. ... • x93
A Word of Explanation *94
Woman's Share of the Howard
Roll of Honor I07
Personal Experiences in the Ger-
man Work IQ7
Three Questions Answered by
Superintendent Eversz 201
Young People and Home Missions
on the Pacific Coast 201
The Individual Back of the Organ-
ization 2°4
The Crisis in Oregon 205
The Little Missionary 208
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Notes 2I°
Annual Meeting of the Unions . . . 212
Sacrifice 2I3
A Wiser Beneficence 215
Bible Reading 220
For the Silver Circle :
A Novel Entertainment 224
More Holes in the Busybody
Purse 225
Go, Preach! 227
Special Notice — Miss M. D.
Moffatt 227
The Treasury 227
The Howard Roll of Honor 228
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MEETING OF THE WOMAN'S DEPARTMENT
HE annual meeting of the Woman's Department of the Congre-
gational Home Missionary Society was held in the Center
Church, New Haven, Conn., on Wednesday, June 3, at 10.30
a.m., the secretary, Mrs. H. S. Caswell, presiding.
An opening address was made by Mrs. Caswell, explaining the meth-
ods of the State Unions and the amount of their contributions to the
Congregational Home Missionary Society and the other national socie-
ties. She also discussed ways and means by which the brethren in our
churches may be won to a more active interest in missions.
Mrs. H. W. Heinzelmann of Indiana, formerly of Chicago, spoke of
the German work in that city, of the opposition to the efforts of the
workers, and the results which followed their patient labor.
Miss Caroline A. Potter, secretary of the Christian Endeavor Socie-
ties of California, brought greetings from the State Union and also
from the Young People's societies.
Prayer was offered by Mrs. Washington Choate in behalf of these
two departments of missionary work.
Mrs. Ella Sheppard Moore, president of the Tennessee Union, one
of the original jubilee singers from Fisk University, beautifully ren-
dered the song, " Swing low, sweet chariot."
Mrs. Margaret E. Sangster of New York followed. Her subject was
" The Individual as Back of the Organization." She gave an inspiring
address upon development, responsibility, and consecration. She spoke
of the apathy in the ranks of the home missionary societies, and
enlarged upon our need of information and more enthusiasm.
A responsive exercise, "Fear not," prepared by Mrs. Caswell, for
use at this meeting, was then conducted by Mrs. Isaac Piatt Powell of
Michigan.
Rev. Dora Read Barber of Oregon gave an interesting account of
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her experience as missionary evangelist in that State, after which a
special offering of $262.40 was gathered for the pressing needs of that
vast field which has twelve counties without the Gospel.
Prayer for God's blessing upon this gift was offered by Mrs. Joseph
Ward of Yankton College.
The meeting was closed with the benediction by Mrs. Barber. —
Annie A. McFarland, Scribe.
A WORD OF EXPLANATION
By Mrs. H. S. Caswell
Rev. James Freeman Clark, of Boston said to a speaker about to
describe the slums of the city: "Take it for granted that nobody
knows anything about anything."
I take it for granted that some of you do not know that these
Woman's Homeland Unions represent every State and Territory in this
land, with two exceptions — little Delaware, which has no Congregational
church, and Alaska, where we shall have Christian women to organize
when the American Missionary Association has the means to push the
work there.
This great organization of forty-two State Unions, which we repre-
sent to-day, covers the country like a shining network. It is not an
independent society, with a board and central office. It is simply an
auxiliary to the five national home societies, and a right hand to every
pastor who will accept our help. Each State Union has its own officers,
and its own methods of work, but all are united in one harmonious
whole for the evangelization of this land.
Why are we called Unions ? Because we work for the five national
home societies. We are familiar with the whole Congregational alpha-
bet, which cannot be said of certain Congregational pastors. We study
the field of the five societies, distribute their literature, pray for them,
work for them, and give to them. This year we have placed in their
treasuries $104,507.96, of wdiich $58,091.31 has been contributed to the
Congregational Home Missionary Society. This is $10,000 more than
we gave her last year, because of her extremity.
In ten years we have contributed to Home Missions through the
unions, $777,860.49.
While congratulating ourselves over the $104,000 raised this year,
let us look one fact in the face. If the question put to the heathen
convert, " How many dollars do you love the Lord Jesus ? " were put
to us, we could not answer in "dollars." We, the 400,000 women of
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the Congregational churches, have given for work in our own land this
year just twenty-seven cents apiece! Is this the measure of our love?
of our Christian patriotism ? Had we reached the average of one
dollar per woman, that $400,000 would have kept- the candle of the
Lord burning in many a community which this year has been con-
demned to darkness.
There are, however, as always, the faithful few who have stood
nobly by the Congregational Home Missionary Society during her
struggle with a heavy debt. When the inspiration was given General
Howard to raise a debt of $140,000 by one-hundred-dollar shares from
1,400 people, 500 of these shares were assigned to women, and nobly
have they responded. Of the 871 shares taken, 490 are credited to
women. This means $49,000 of the $50,000 expected of us. On the
woman's part of the Howard Roll, Massachusetts stands first, Connecti-
cut second, Vermont third, New York fourth, New Hampshire fifth,
Rhode Island sixth, Maryland seventh, New Jersey eighth. Had each
contributor sent her gift through the treasury of her own State Union
the grand total would have been inspiring.
Very effective assistance has been rendered to the Society during the
past six years by the special gifts from women, to defray the expenses of
missionary speakers at the annual meeting of the woman's department.
These contributions have given the people an opportunity to see and hear
many messengers from the front, without extra expense to the Society.
This investment has paid an hundred-fold in missionary interest.
We would also render grateful acknowledgment to the members of
our Homeland Silver Circle for the steady incoming of the five-dollar
gifts from the dime banks. These accumulated dimes have brought
much good cheer to headquarters.
Messages of sympathy have been good to receive. One of the
Southern unions, whose work is admirably managed by colored officers,
sent us cordial greetings from their recent annual meetings as follows:
" To the Congregational Home Missionary Society: Numbers 6, 24, 25,
26. Your noble Society is assured of our affectionate sympathy and
desire that your good work be lifted from debt and embarrassment, and
greatly enlarged. For a word of encouragement we send you this: Be
YE STRONG IN THE LORD ! "
From another Southern union we had this: " We have held a thank-
offering service to rejoice over the success of the General Howard Roll
of Honor and the Stickney legacy."
During this year of continued business depression the call has been
loud and incessant for the home missionary boxes, so generously sup-
plied by our ladies' societies. In addition to the extra $10,000 in the
treasury, they have ministered to the personal wants of the missiona-
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ries, by the gift of barrels, boxes, etc., to the number of 855. These
have been sent by fifty-seven more working circles than took part last
year. The value set upon these boxes is $66,008.42.
Further particulars concerning the work of the unions may be found
in the annual report of the woman's department, now ready for distri-
bution.
Your secretary has just completed a nine months' campaign, East
and West, with our home missionary rally party, and finds herself
impelled to touch upon one matter that has been presented to her by
pastors and thoughtful women in both sections of the country. The
question in a nutshell is this:
Are the men in our churches becoming increasingly indifferent to
missions ? Do our boys already consider this a subject beneath man-
hood, and adapted to women and girls only ?
An Illinois pastor, who had attended the annual meeting of the
Woman's Union, said : " I am going home to organize a men's mission-
ary society. In old times Ruth used to glean after Boaz. Now Ruth
is driving the team, whip in hand, making a clean sweep of the glean-
ing, while Boaz sits on the fence, with nothing to do. Boaz must come
off that fence and help Ruth."
Is this missionary indifference among men the effect of a separate
missionary organization for women ? Is the separate organization for
the best interests of the church ? Is more money raised than if the
whole church were a missionary society ?
The superintendent of a Western State told me the other day that
it was not uncommon to read a church record like this: " For missions:
the church, $1.00; the Woman's Missionary Society, $70.00." " Is this
a normal condition," he asks, " where the men, who should represent
the financial strength of the church, appear to such disadvantage in the
amount given to missions ? "
" An open letter" upon this subject, on the first pages of the report
alluded to, may be of interest. Allow me, in closing, to pass on for
your consideration a half-dozen questions which at present confront
your secretary:
1. Does God design this training of woman, to prepare her as an
instrument through which he may quicken the whole church with new-
ness of missionary zeal ?
2. Shall the church be likened to the " three measures of meal " in
which the hand of woman is to hide the leaven of missionary interest
until the whole church is leavened ?
3. At the beginning, was not the church the missionary society ?
And did not the men and honorable women work together, and put their
united contributions into the church treasury for distribution ?
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4. Ought not the church of to-day, as a whole, to be a living mis-
sionary organization, where men and women together study and pray
and give ?
5. Is it not possible to adapt ourselves to the present demand, and
omitting the word "woman," and calling ourselves the "Homeland
Unions," elect a few brothers on our official staff, hold the missionary
meeting once in the month in place of the mid-week prayer-meeting, and
place the missionary money in the hand of the church treasurer to be
sent, as designated, to the national societies ?
6. Would this plan, faithfully carried out by pastor and people, help
to usher in the day when each of our 5,000 Congregational churches
will become a missionary center, sending the gospel message to every
part of our.own land, and through this land to all lands ?
THE WOMAN'S SHARE OF THE HOWARD ROLL OF
HONOR
On the tenth day of June the last of the five hundred shares assigned
to the women of our churches was taken. Of the subscriptions, we
received from Massachusetts 165 ; Connecticut, 109 ; Vermont, 63 ; New
York, 52 ; New Hampshire, 28; Rhode Island, 18 ; Maryland, 16 ; New
Jersey, 12; Pennsylvania, 7; California, 5; Minnesota, 5; Ohio, 5;
Missouri, 4 ; Illinois, 3 ; Colorado, 2 ; Michigan, 2 ; District of Columbia,
1 ; Kansas, 1 ; Maine, 1 ; Turkey, 1.
When the 1,400 shares have been taken, another report will be made
showing the total gifts of the women by States.
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PERSONAL EXPERIENCES IN THE GERMAN WORK
By Mrs. H. H. Heinzelmann, a German Missionary Wife
A Greek philosopher of the ancient times, Socrates, has said: "I
know that I know nothing." We all know he was a wise man, and
so we will call this modesty in him; but if I say this of myself, " I know
that I know nothing," we will give it the right name, truth. I do not
want to bring you philosophical ideas and thoughts of any kind, and if
I would, I could not do it. I had the opportunity to observe the
influence of the Congregational Church in the German families, and I
simply like to have you listen to some experiences of my work among
the Germans in this country.
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Born in Germany, I left my Fatherland in 1885 to make the city of
Chicago my future home. As I was used to do, I went to a large
German Lutheran church on the first Sundays, but I was not quite sat-
isfied, because I found the service so different from what I expected to
find; there was not a bit of spiritual life in it. The name " Congrega-
tional " was at that time entirely unknown to me, and so I paid no
attention to a chapel with this sign in front. I was always looking out
for a big church with a high steeple, until a member of the small chapel
invited me to attend the service with her, and it was here that my soul
was filled with the riches of God's infinite grace, and I became a
Sunday-school teacher, which I remained for five years, when I married,
and removed to another part of the same city.
My husband's congregation was at first a very small one, and his
church situated in a place that is almost entirely settled by German
Lutherans. Did any one of you ever work among them ? You will
agree with me when I say they have a prejudice against everything that
is not connected with the name "Lutheran," except the beer. They
drink that, whatever name it has. I do not mean to blame the laymen
as much; they are taught that way; nor do I want to say one word
against the great German reformer, Luther. He was a noble tool in
God's molding hand, but we must not forget the Creator among his
creatures, and so we must teach the Germans practically the abundant
love Christ has for them, that they may not cling to their name as much
as to that one which we are proud of — Congregational Christians.
The German Lutherans suppose themselves to be Christians when
they pay their contribution, visit the church to and fro, especially on
festival days, have their children baptized and confirmed; but they are
not born again, they work on Sundays, and they even prefer this holy
day to have their picnics.
This reminds me of our first church and Sunday-school picnic.
They thought it an easy way to make money for the church, by selling
beer on the grounds, as the Lutheran churches in the West do. Several
of the men insisted upon having it sold; the pastor opposed, and, though
he did not like to leave his field of labor, he was going to hand in his
resignation on this account; then they decided not to sell beer, and in
the four following years it seemed self-understood that on no occasion
or picnic combined with the church there was sold any liquor, and now
they detest it themselves. We see that dead souls can be filled with
life again, can be ennobled, if those that have more judgment lead
them on the right way.
We had a very hard time to conquer the prejudices of our Lutheran
surrounding and to get the children in our Sunday-school, especially
because they had their own mission, two houses apart from our house
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of worship. I do not want 'to relate how the Lutheran teacher worked
against us, but, glory to God! He crowned our work. We experienced
a slow though steady growth of our Sunday-school until the average
attendance was ninety scholars; and if you win the heart and the love
of a child, be sure you have its mother on your side.
The German mother, as a rule, is known as a good housekeeper and
rather a hard-working woman. She devotes all her time to her home
and children, teaching them to sing and pray, to knit and sew, and to
obey strictly, telling them stories while she is sewing and mending,
and our church is greatly obliged to the mothers in our Woman's Soci-
ety. They helped us in every possible way, though our congregation
consisted of the poorer class of people. We know a great many cases
in which the head of a family of six and seven earns one dollar a day,
and now he is willing to contribute a small share to the monthly collec-
tion, and their children would not come to Sunday-school without a
penny, and that means much with many children and but small wages.
I remember a little girl's absence from Sabbath-school. She had
no other reason but the want of a penny. I visited her and told her
that the Savior wanted something of more value from her — Christ wants
a little girl's heart — and so she came back without a cent, but with a
face beaming with joy and with a heart ready to give it to the best
friend of children. Shortly after this happened there were two boys
who thought it an easy plan to bring their heart as tribute instead of a
penny, and one Sunday morning it seemed impossible to them to find
their cent. I asked them, " Now, boys, what are you going to give ? "
"My heart," was the prompt answer. "That is well done; but
haven't you a penny, too ? " They searched and searched in all their
pockets, very slowly, of course; I waited patiently, because I knew my
boys. At last they found their looked-for penny, and, with blushed
cheeks, they dropped it into the collection-box. You, friends, and I, we
wonder if their heart was as near to Jesus as to their penny on that fine
spring morning.
This incident encouraged me to organize a "Junior Christian En-
deavor Society," the first German one, as I heard afterwards, in Chicago,
and I had the enjoyment to enroll thirty-two little workers in the vine-
yard of our Lord, and God has perfected praise out of the mouth of his
young children. The offerings that some of the little Endeavorers
brought to their weekly prayer-meetings, I encouraged them to give at
certain times to sick and still poorer children and widows, for God
loveth a cheerful giver; and these small gifts, accompanied with our
prayers and the Almighty's blessing, worked wonders.
We do not see any difference now between our little English and
German Endeavorers; the latter like very much to sing their Gospel
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Hymns, are ready to lead a prayer, and I always noticed the blessing
of my Junior Society in their individual homes; father and mother are
fond of hearing their children sing these songs, and so they did not
object any more, as they did first, when we made use of these beautiful
Gospel Hymns for church service, and I am glad to state this year was
the first one we could have revival meetings. The term was fixed for
eight days; the church was crowded every night; and our congregation
showed such an interest that we agreed with all our heart to prolong
these meetings for one week. All were under the impression that a
great unity of feeling prevailed, and let us ask the Lord to-day that he
may pour out his blessings in a rich measure also upon the German
Congregational work, extending it from frosty Canada to the sunny
Gulf, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
Perhaps, my friends, it is of some interest to you if I give you some
items of the work of a German missionary's wife. As her husband's
salary is a very small one, she, of course, has to do all the housework
herself in every detail, and must never get tired to visit the sick, and
not forget the healthy. She has to help in Sunday-school, to be pres-
ent in every meeting, to preside over the Ladies' Society, to teach
Bible classes during the week, and, as it was the case with me, to play
the organ in church, Sunday-school, and meetings, and to lead the choir;
and yet she must not show a worn-out face, but everything will be done
cheerfully.
Dear friends, I do not want you to understand this as a complaint.
On the contrary, I always thought it a great privilege that our beloved
Master favored me to do a little for his sake, and would it not have
been for my lacking health, I had never given up an iota of this blessed
work; and suppose there should be any one in the audience who is to
become a missionary's wife, do not shrink back on account of the duties
that are awaiting you and seem to be hard. Your task will become the
longer, the dearer to you; and, bear in mind, if all was right, the mis-
sionary and his wife would not be needed.
Compared with the large German population, there is only a small
number of German Congregational churches in the United States, and
so we feel sorry in saying the Germans cannot all be reached, on
account of the limited means with which the church has to deal. I
urgently request you to help us to carry the message of life also to the
Germans in this country, that they may feel the spiritual life of the Pil-
grim Fathers. Let us work healthfully and efficiently together, creating
a true and real heart union in the English and German Congregational
church work, for we are all brothers and sisters in Christ, and so we ful-
fill partly our Lord's commandment, when he says: " Go ye therefore and
teach all the nations;" and we know a good Christian is a loyal citizen.
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THREE QUESTIONS ANSWERED BY SUPERIN-
TENDENT EVERSZ
1. How many Germans are there in this Country ?
It is difficult to answer your questions with exactness. From 1820
to 1892 there were 4,730,000 immigrants from the German Empire. Add
to this the Germans who are included in immigrants from Russia and
Switzerland, and the number of Germans would swell to about 5,250,-
000. Over against this England,. Scotland, and Wales furnished
2,840,000; Ireland, 3,595,°°°; Norway, Sweden, and Denmark,
1,194,000. I estimate that there are about 7,500,000 of Germans and
their children of the first generation in this country. While there are
many of these, like myself, who are essentially Americans, that number
is, I think, fully equaled by those who have remained German for the
second and third generation.
2. How many German Congregational Churches?
We have 115 German Congregational churches, which are cared for
by about seventy pastors.
3. What about your German College ?
Wilton German-English College is located at Wilton Junction, Iowa,
twenty-seven miles west of Davenport. Students enrolled, 115. Of
these thirty-five are German young men, of whom twenty-two have
the ministry in view. It has no endowment, only the beginning of a
library, and of apparatus to illustrate the natural sciences. It is
dependent upon the gifts of its friends for means to carry on its work.
We believe that money invested here will go as far as, if not farther
than, anywhere else in the production of genuine, intelligent, Chris-
tian character. The salaries of our teachers are behind. The promises
of the Education Society are considerably in arrears. We never needed
friends there more than we need them now.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND HOME MISSIONS ON THE
PACIFIC COAST
By Miss Caroline A. Potter, Oakland, California
It is a great pleasure to me to be here to-day, and bring you greet-
ings from the young people of the Pacific Coast.
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On the night that I left home, after the good-bys had been said, after
we had sung " Blest be the tie that binds," and had our Mizpah benedic-
tion, just as the train left the station, we looked out over the Bay through
our beautiful Golden Gate on a most heavenly sunset — I say heavenly,
for it always seems to me a little glimpse into the portals of heaven when
the horizon is resplendent with purple and gold and red. I felt that it
was a token of God's blessing, that he would go with me, and give me
words to speak here to-day. As we traveled through the grand forests
of California, Oregon, and Washington, this thought was uppermost :
How much God has done for our land in its physical formation, and now
he has given to us the great privilege of helping to make its people wor-
thy of their surroundings. Are we making the most of this privilege?
In the Santa Clara Valley, where one may ride through acres and acres
of orchards that when the fruit trees are in blossom look like fields of
snow, the farmers have devised a plan of setting out young trees between
the rows in their orchards that, as the older trees stop bearing and die
off, the young trees may be ready to take their places. The women of
California try to be as wise as are the farmers. They are organizing the
young people. We are proud to follow in their footsteps, but we realize
that we shall need great knowledge and great consecration if we are ever
to be worthy to take their places.
We work in two ways — through the " Home Missionary Sons and
Daughters," and through the Christian Endeavor societies. The Home
Missionary Daughters were organized about fourteen months ago, with
this motto : " That our daughters may be as corner-stones, polished after
the similitude of a palace." Later, as we found that boys belonged to
some of our missionary societies, the name was changed to Sons and
Daughters. You cannot expect much of a fourteen-months-old baby.
Its mother, the Woman's Home Missionary Union, like all fond mothers,
thinks her baby is just about right, and if prayerful, wise guidance will
make children all they should be, this child ought to be a prodigy.
We felt, after careful consideration, that as there were quite a num-
ber of young people in our churches who did not contribute to missions
either through the women's societies or through the Christian Endeavor
societies, an effort should be made to reach this class, though we have
many members who are also members of the Christian Endeavor socie-
ties. We hold bi-monthly meetings, which we try to make as interesting
as possible. Our aim is to have an auxiliary in every Congregational
church in the State, or else to have that church help us through its Chris-
tian Endeavor society. Sometimes we do feel that California missionary
societies, like our giant sequoias, are of rather slow growth.
A most interesting work which has been engaging our efforts is that
among the Italians. There are 150,000 of them in California. Missions
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have been started in several places, and if we only had more money, that
we might have more workers, so much might be accomplished. We have
been fortunate in having as general superintendent of this work a most
consecrated Italian, a converted Roman Catholic. He receives no salary,
but he and his blind and deaf wife go from place to place and try to
interest their countrymen and lay the foundation for Christian work
among them. It is not easy work, for the Italians are very much under
the control of their priests ; but it is work that pays, and work we dare
not neglect.
We have been hearing much in . California of late about the " new
woman " and woman's suffrage. It seems to me that we women have a
grand opportunity in our hands now, without waiting for the franchise.
We can help mold public opinion, we can help purify political life just as
surely as, if a little more indirectly than, if we had the ballot. Are we
making the most of this opportunity now ?
For the past year and a half we have been striving to get more in
touch with our Christian Endeavor societies, and with their missionary
committees. We have arranged a system of uniform topics, which are
published in our Missionary Banner, a little paper published jointly by
our Home and Foreign Mission Boards. The Christian Endeavorers are
not slow in responding to our overtures. It is delightful to work with
young people, they are so enthusiastic, sympathetic, and generous — though
their generosity is sometimes spasmodic and needs to be educated. They
don't know so very much, but they are willing to be taught, and they are
unprejudiced. I thank God for the Christian Endeavor Society. This
great movement, which started with one small society away up in one
corner of our country, has grown in a way that has surprised even the
most sanguine. May it not be so with this new graft on the Christian
Endeavor movement ? At all our Christian Endeavor conventions more
and more attention is being given to the cause of missions. Educating
young people along missionary lines is like printing chromos. The first
time the paper is put under the press only a few shapeless blots appear ;
the next time a few more, until finally the picture begins to assume
shape, and at last the finished picture is before us. The young people's
first ideas of missionary work may be crude, but we believe that patient
and faithful work will accomplish great things. Last year the Christian
Endeavorers in California gave, with almost no outside assistance, the
salary of a home missionary evangelist ; and I learn that the young
people in the State of Washington did the same. This year the Cali-
fornia Endeavorers are helping the Italian work. Then the dear chil-
dren, the little children — they, too, are at work, though not all of them.
If God had not called me to other work, there is nothing I should like
better than to work among the children. When I try to tell them about
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our missions, and look down into their dear little upturned faces, it seems
to me there is nothing on earth quite so sweet as a little child. Truly,
" Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." I talked to a little company of
them a few weeks ago, and tried to tell them how they could be a little
rill to swell this grand missionary river, and promised them that I would
tell this great meeting that the children of California are at work.
You think of California as a wicked place ; that criminals and the most
undesirable elements of population flock to its sunny shores. California
does need missionary work, and so, they tell me, do Massachusetts and
Connecticut. All the money we can raise there, and much more, should
be expended right in our own State.
California is rich in gold mines, fertile valleys, and heavily timbered
forests ; but, alas ! only a small part of the wealth of California is in the
hands of Christian people. The Christians of California are doing their
share. I could tell you many stories of their self-sacrifice and their gen-
erosity— of one society where the women's gifts to Home Missions
averaged five dollars per member. It has been said that in California the
mountains, trees, fruits, and stories are all large. We are proud of our
State, but we are more grateful for the earnest, self-sacrificing spirit
among its Christian women and its young people.
When the last great day shall come, and this missionary army from
the North and from the South, from the East and from the West, shall be
marshaled to render up an account, the detachment from California will
not be found wanting.
THE INDIVIDUAL BACK OF THE ORGANIZATION
By Mrs. Margaret £. Sangster
The individual back of the organization, without whom, indeed, the
organization could not exist, needs four requisites for his full equipment.
The first of these is, perhaps, information. Nobody is ever interested
in that of which he is ignorant. With one's mind a blank as to the
needs, the aims, and the successes of any cause whatever, one cannot
be in touch with it; it in effect does not exist, nor have the least vitality
for those who go on their way, careless, indifferent, and, possibly, in
opposition, simply because uninformed. Information is not far to seek.
By pen and voice and type, by magazines and papers, and by the lips
of eloquent speakers from the field, in conventions, and other meet-
ings, the fullest information is given. Many pass it by; many assert
that the literature of missions is dull; but it is dull only because they
have not given it their attention. It is a current story of heroism, of
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bravery, of romance, which brings a breath of purer air into our com-
mon, prosaic world. And the moment we begin to read and listen and
assimilate information, that moment we are converts to the cause of
Home Missions. We were like those who "looked over a photograph
album full of strange faces. The faces are strange no longer; they
have become friendly now, and are instinct with life and meaning.
This is the difference between lack of knowledge and full information.
Born of information comes, naturally, a sanctified conscience, a
clear, electric sense of personal responsibility. We cannot shirk our
duty, nor shift it to another's shoulders. We it is who must answer to
God. We have something at stake. We go to the frontier with the
missionary. We drive over the bleak and arid fields, we endure hard-
ship, we encounter danger and privation. It is as when in our war, every
wife staying at home was still at the front with her husband, every
mother in the army with her soldier boys. The sense of personal
responsibility leads us to prayer, to service, to liberal giving. What
if it mean a cross ?
" Must Jesus bear the cross alone,
And all the world go free ? "
In the wake of this sense of personal responsibility comes enthusi-
asm. This is of the heavens, a divine quality. It supplies motive
power, and, as steam to machinery, urges on the matter whatever it be.
Woe to the laggards in any enterprise which lacks enthusiasm.
Last of all comes consecration. Is it more than we ought to give,
our all for Christ — health, strength, love, a full day's work ? An organ-
ization by itself is a senseless machine, a thing without a soul. Re-
garded as an association of fully consecrated individuals, it is a thing
with a thousand souls, throbbing, living, aspiring, and forever working
with the Master for his own for whom he died.
THE CRISIS IN OREGON
By Mrs. Dora Read Barber
I have made a good many missionary speeches, though I never made
one before with the previous instruction to "blow my own horn." Now
I have been requested by Mrs. Caswell to tell of our own work, and so
without further preliminary I come immediately to the " rousement. "
About a year after we were converted my husband and I felt im-
pelled to go to the missionary field, and because of the great need of
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work in Oregon we felt especially drawn thither. A chain of circum-
stances, perhaps of no especial interest to the audience, brought us at
last to a small schoolhouse in a vicinity which was called Pleasant Hill.
I never knew what it took its name from, for on one side of the road was
a tumbled-down cemetery, and on the other a schoolhouse which we
would say in Oregon was " catawampas." I suppose the right word is
" out of plumb." It was in this schoolhouse that we began our meeting
on a Christmas night. The meeting was not a success the first night, for
I had never preached but twice before, and was not accustomed to being
amened by an intoxicated listener, which was the case that night ; but
the second night the boys had sobered up after the usual Christmas Eve
debauch, and the meeting was better. One night three young men came
to the altar for fun, and while bowing there one of them became power-
fully convicted of the sinfulness of his deeds, especially of this one of
trifling with God, and he began in earnest to seek forgiveness. He was
saved that night, and from that the work went on. About thirty were
saved, and most of them were young people.
There had been an appointment at the schoolhouse once a month, but
in the winter the roads were so bad as to make it impossible to get to the
appointment, and so the people were without the Gospel the most part of
the year. It was noised about that we were Congregationalists, and that
Congregationalists always kept a minister for each church ; so we were
importuned on every side to organize a Congregational church.
The next thing to do was to find Superintendent Clapp, so we pro-
ceeded with our letter of introduction from Superintendent Warren, of
Michigan, to look for him ; but he was nowhere to be found. Neither
by letter nor by personal effort could we hear from him. He once con-
fessed to me that his silence was due to the fact that he had no money
for us, and thought, of course, that was what we wanted ; but had he
known it was information and not money we sought of him, it would have
been forthcoming.
In the absence of anything else we secured a Roy's Manual and
organized. We had no salary, but our wants were few, and we " boarded
'round " among the people. It was in the bargain that the man with
whom we were boarding should find a conveyance for us to go from one
place to another.
One day a man took us four miles up the mountain to a service. He
drove a good team hitched to a wagon, and we sat on chairs in the
wagon. Going to the service we all backslid, but going down again to
our home we gained what ground we lost in going. I walked in the
wagon box, carrying my chair about half-way up the mountain for the
sake of (or rather, on the account of) sliding back the other half. But
we enjoyed the trip, because the man was one whose home had been
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closed against the minister, and who, with his wife and four children, has
been saved in the meeting.
We got into the home by teaching music to one of the girls. She is
now our church organist.
At another time our conveyance was a " cayuse," one of those
creatures that kicks up, and stands up perpendicularly, and does a great
many other things that I have not words to describe. I started off sud-
denly and stopped as suddenly, though I did not always stop when the
horse did. I soon grew tired of a horse on which I could not depend,
and so I bought " Missionary Jo." I took a great deal of comfort with
Jo. He was all my own. I bought him when Mr. Barber was gone. I
could depend on him every time ;.that is, I could depend that he would
never lose an opportunity of throwing me over his head when I was not
looking for it. I do not know how many times he threw me — I think a
moderate estimate would be about twelve times — and I sometimes felt like
the German in the stage crossing the mountains. After getting an un-
common hard jolt, he said, " Oh dear, my back is more as five inches
higher up !" But Jo always waited so patiently for me while I dusted and
rearranged myself that I soon forgave him.
Once, on coming home warm and dusty, I asked if I could have a bath.
The lady got a basin of water, a cake of savon soap, and a crash towel,
and, putting them on the porch on a splint-bottom chair, said, " There
you are ! " Our work was not only that of preaching, but there was a
large congregation of young people to inspire to something better intel-
lectually. This we tried to do by giving public reading circles, at which
we would read a chapter or two from some interesting book, and then tell
them we would be glad to lend the book to anyone who would like to
read the rest of it. The books we read were quite juvenile at first, but
they soon got to enjoying such works as Drummond's " Addresses," " Ben-
Hur," and others. The work begun must be carried on, and in the district
school were none of the advantages which they needed ; so we took eight
of the young men and women in a wagon and trundled up hill and down
dell thirty miles to Forest Grove, and put them in school. Not all of
them could go through school, but some of them are still working away.
One young lady is preparing for the ministry, and another for missionary
work.
These are a few of the pleasing and bright sides. There are no dark
sides, but there is now and then something that looks a little cloudy. It
has been my sad privilege to be the only lady in the death room of an old
man in a bachelor's home when he crossed the river. We have often been
obliged to bury the dead, when the only comforting thing that could be
said was, " He is free from sickness, and the Lord will be your helper."
We have often attended three services on Sunday, riding on horseback ten
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miles, and eating our lunch in the shade while the boatman brought the
ferryboat over for us. One day we had a wedding at nine, a funeral at
one, and at eight a revival service, in which more than thirty stood for
Christ for the first time.
In short, we have been called upon for almost anything, from pulling
a tooth or bandaging a sprained limb, to prescribing for a soul sick of
sin ; but all these things bring their blessed fruit. The little parish has
grown into a field of five churches, three of which have houses of worship,
and another is now building.
And now as to the crisis in Oregon. It does look like a crisis when
a number of these home missionary churches must be closed for lack of
funds ; when our faithful superintendent, after prayer and planning with
many tears, can find no other way out than to cut clown on the work
already in progress. But while this work in which we have been engaged
has been doing much for others, it has also done much for me. It has
brought me to an implicit trust in God, and I believe that this trial of
our faith will be a blessing in disguise. I believe God is going in some
way to raise up friends for the work, and that it will not suffer long.
We have seen many times when just ahead it looked dark, but we trusted
in God, and he never failed us ; and / know he will care for his own.
*
THE LITTLE MISSIONARY
A Personal Letter from Superintendent Clapp, of Oregon
I have ordered the Little Missionary to start for New Haven, just
as I know you would have me do if you could see her. She was so
good and obedient, and so quick to give it all up (though I half sus-
pect not without a tear or two) when it did not seem wise for her to
take the long journey, on account of her having so completely broken
down, that once she had begun to recuperate it seemed all right to start
her off. My wife was more responsible for it than I. I suppose she
knew how much a woman's heart would be set on seeing the dear
friends about whom she had read so many times, and hearing the burn-
ing words right fresh from the lips of the earnest men and women who
would be there. I have no doubt that it will do her good, and not
harm. Oregon loves this dear Little Missionary more than I can tell you.
She is simple and unaffected, and self-forgetful always. She goes every-
where that duty calls; and rain or mud or cold or heat have no
influence upon her. She won her way to our hearts when she came gal-
loping in on "Missionary Jo," without saddle or other " trumpery or
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foolishness," and just went to work to help win Oregon for Christ; and
now for five years she has never remitted her work and prayers for an
hour. Where the fight was the thickest, there was our Joan of Arc.
She never seemed to know that she was doing anything more than
others would do, and never thought that she was accomplishing half as
much as she ought, or as others would do in similar circumstances. She
has been in revival meetings almost all the time during the fall and
winter months, riding Jo through forests -and over mountain roads,
sometimes alone, while her husband, who is as brave and consecrated
as she, would be preaching at other points. She has been tumbled
from Jo's back many times — I don't suppose she knows herself how
many. She has been landed on top of stumps, being thrown while he
was on the dead run, tumbled into fence corners, over sticks and stones
and bridges, sometimes being laid up for a few days or weeks for
repairs, then out and at it again just as zealous as ever.
Some time I will send you a picture of To when I have time to get
one taken. For Jo is one of the " forces that make for righteousness"
in the State of Oregon. And when the history of its evangelization is
written, he will come in for a large share. But just now it is Jo's rider
that I want to commend to your watch-care and fellowship.
Be kind to her and love her as she deserves. They have never had
more than the most meager salary, but in all the years of their work I
have never heard one word of complaint from either her husband or
herself.
If she had a thousand dollars a year she would give seven hundred
and fifty of it to help the very very poor and to help educate some of
the " boys " and " girls " in her numerous parishes.
She is always looking out for bright young men and women, and
showing them just how they can go to some school and get an educa-
tion. She would take her last bonnet off from her head and give it to a
promising girl to get her to go to school. She does not know how to
"show off," for she has never learned the art; but she has a perfect
genius, and so has her husband, for winning souls to Christ. The last
thing she did before starting East was to disobey my distinct orders
and come into revival meetings that were being held in their church.
I ordered her not to show her face inside the church doors while the
meeting was going on. But almost every night that I was helping her
husband, just as I was about to begin the sermon, she would come in at
the back-door, looking like a boy caught stealing apples. Then, as
soon as the sermon was over, I would see her somewhere in the back of
the church, with her arms around some young lady, showing her what
Jesus would do for a lost soul if only it would come to him. If you
know of any way to " manage " such a woman as that I wish you would
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give me a pointer, as there are a few more of the same kind out here,
and somehow my discipline among the troops seems shamefully slack
when it comes to this.
Do all you can for Oregon. We are having to drop some more work
for lack of funds, and only yesterday I had to send a letter to one of
the missionaries, telling him that the State Committee had decided to
drop his field for the rest of the year, for lack of funds. What he will
do I cannot for the life of me see. He has several children, none of
them old enough to do much toward the support of the family. May
the Lord pour out his blessing on the meeting, is my prayer.
NOTES
The Woman's Department was greeted by a delightfully responsive
audience of representative men and women at its session on Wednesday
forenoon.
The loyal women of the Unions have placed in the treasury of the
Society this year, $58,091.81, an increase over last year of $10,000. The
total amount to the Five National Societies is $104,507.96. In ten
years the organizations have contributed to Home Missions $777,860.49.
The 500 shares on the General Howard Roll of Honor, which were
assigned to women on June 6, 1895, were completed June 10, 1896.
This means $50,000 in one-hundred-dollar shares.
A gentleman remarked that the responsive exercise, " Fear Not,"
as rendered by that Michigan lady, Mrs. Powell, President of the Michi-
gan Union, and the great audience, carried him nearer heaven than he
ever expected to be on this earth. Copies of this exercise may be
obtained by application to 34 Bible House, New York.
Miss Annie A. McFarland, treasurer of the New Hampshire Union,
who was appointed Scribe of the meeting, is the granddaughter of the
historic Mrs. McFarland who received the inspiration which started
woman's work for Home Missions.
" Full information on any subject," said Mrs. Sangster, " vitalizes it."
Miss Bridgman, treasurer of the Woman's Home Missionary Associ-
ation, thinks that there are scores upon scores of church members to
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whom " the Congregational alphabet " is as meaningless as the hiero-
glyphics on the obelisk in Central Park.
A lady was overheard to remark : " If there should be an examina-
tion here on Home Missions, I wonder how many of us would get a cer-
tificate ! "
Miss Dyer, of The Congregationalist, suggested that interest in
Home Missions be aroused by an appeal to the patriotic instincts of
people. There are conditions when we would better treat missions in a
historical rather than a religious way.
There are in the United States some 500 woman's clubs, numbering
many brilliant women. Miss Dyer is confident that these can be inter-
ested in missions, if presented from the patriotric, historical side.
Leaders of current events classes, for instance, can, with wisdom and
tact, show how close is the relation between great events in the world and
the missionary operations.
Mrs. Heinzelmann, a German missionary wife, knows '' a great many
cases among the Germans, where the head of the family of six or seven
earns but one dollar a day, yet contributes his share to the monthly col-
lection." She said "these children would not come to Sunday-school
without a penny, and that means much with many children and small
wages."
It looked like a " crisis " to Mrs. Barber, of Oregon, when Superintend-
ent Clapp came to her and said that in spite of his utmost effort he must
abandon ten churches in their field for want of funds.
The faith of this missionary was greatly strengthened by the contribu-
tion for Oregon, which amounted to $262.40.
Miss Potter, of California, told of a small, poor church in that State,
which averaged five dollars per member for Home Missions in one year.
Mrs. Moore, President of the Tennessee Union, and one of the
original jubilee singers, sang, in a clear, sweet voice, " Swing low, sweet
chariot," and was greeted with warm applause.
Our hearts were brought into close touch with our divine Leader
through the prayers of Mrs. Secretary Choate and Mrs. Joseph Ward ; and
when Mrs. (Rev.) Dora Read Barber had pronounced the benediction, a
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pastor said : " This is the first time I ever received the benediction from
a woman, and somehow I feel blessed by it."
The success of a meeting depends largely upon the tact and good
sense of the management at the rear. Very efficient service was rendered
this session by Mrs. T. H. Sheldon, of the Center Church, President of the
Ladies' Home Missionary Society. In cooperation with Miss Pickens, and
ably assisted by F. R. Fisher, the sexton of the church, the rear of the
house was kept quiet, and every detail was carefully attended to. The
following resolution was presented at the closing session of the Society :
" The Woman's Department wishes to extend hearty thanks to Mrs,
T. H. Sheldon, and those ladies who, with her, did so much to make the
woman's meeting easy to conduct, and agreeable for the audience. We
wish also to testify that the kind and gracious sexton of the church is a
man who knows what a woman's meeting needs, and is quick to supply it."
The informal reception given by the Ladies' Missionary Society of
Center Church was a charming success. The guests were received by
Dr. and Mrs. Newman Smythe, assisted by Mrs. T. H. Sheldon, Mrs.
R. B. Bradley, and Mrs. J. C. Ritter, officers of the Society.
From The Congregationalist. — " The spirits of John Davenport,
James Pierpont, Moses Stuart, Leonard Bacon, and the other early pas-
tors of Center Church, whose virtues and deeds are so permanently and
modestly recorded on the many memorial tablets on its walls, must have
shivered somewhat, at first, as they contemplated the women praying and
teaching in their former pulpit, and pronouncing the benediction. But
their final verdict, we must venture to hope, accorded with the sentiment
of the living ; and even St. Paul, if he had been present, would have found
it impossible to be other than edified and gratified."
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE UNIONS
The annual meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Unions was
held on Tuesday afternoon, June 2, 1896, in the chapel of the United
Church, New Haven, Conn. The exercises were as follows:
Bible Reading.— Mrs. C. L. Goodell.
A Wiser Beneficence. — Miss Annie C. Bridgman.
A New Point of View. — Miss Frances J. Dyer.
The A. M. A. Jubilee. — Miss D. E. Emerson.
Young People's Societies. — Miss Caroline A. Potter.
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This meeting was rich in good things, and we would gladly publish
every paper, were they not held for further use. We are favored, how-
ever, in securing for this issue the address by Miss Bridgman, which
.was listened to with eager interest from beginning to end.
SACRIFICE
By Mrs. C. Rowland, Clinton, Mich."
[The following paper, which was read at the annual meeting of the Michigan Union,
may appropriately be included in the Woman's Number of our Magazine. — H. S. C]
In the rush and hurry of our secular life nowadays, and of our
religious life as well, have we not been making some mistakes, both in
regard to motive and method, in what I may call the world's work ? For
subduing the forces of nature and bringing unseen things to light are of
minor importance when compared with the work of bringing the world
to Christ. That is what our missionaries are trying to do, and you and
I belong to the great army of "backers."
Have we not made a mistake in the meaning of the word sacrifice ?
Does it always mean to give up or to destroy ?
I was turning these things over in my mind, trying to fix upon some
definition which should cover the whole ground, when I took up the
Sunday-School Times, and there, among the editorials, I found just what I
wanted: "A sacrifice is anything devoted to the service of God." A
lady was speaking to me about Mrs. R. " Yes," said she, " Mrs. R. is a
devoted Christian; she does a great deal for her own church and for the
cause of missions, but do you know she makes no sacrifice, for she is
perfectly happy in that kind of work." Now the inference is plain, that
we must do reluctantly and be miserable in the doing, if our work is to
be meritorious. But when we come to put this idea which we have cher-
ished into plain words, it doesn't sound well, does it ? Suppose you had
a dear friend visiting you, and you should think to give her pleasure by
inviting company to tea. You would devote a day or two to preparation,
making the house and the table' very nice, but groaning all the while
because you wanted to be doing something else, spring cleaning per-
haps. Then, when the day arrives, you draw on a long face, receive the
company with many sighs, wiping away a furtive tear or two as you
speak the words of welcome. Do you think those guests would enjoy
themselves, or that your friend would be pleased with the "sacrifice"
you had made for her benefit ? And shall we treat our dearest friend, our
Lord and Savior, in a way which would be insulting to an earthly friend ?
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Now we cannot devote to the service of God anything which is not
our own. A woman in one of our Western States left her little boy totally
unprovided for and joined the Salvation Army. What a sad mistake she
has made ! She has left the special work God gave her to do and has
taken up another. However good that other work may be, God never
can be pleased with such a sacrifice as that. One of the very first things
our missionaries teach heathen women is to properly take care of their
children and to keep their homes neat and comfortable. A very old-
fashioned book says, " Teach the young women to love their husbands
and to love their children." I think that is a fashion which needs to be
renewed, even in this enlightened and progressive age.
That poor boy became a vagrant, and at last found a " home " in the
county jail ! And do you think that mother was entirely honest with
herself? Was her motive a desire to serve God, or only a longing for
change and notoriety? After listening to a stirring address, Mrs. A. said
to me : " I feel as if I could wear a calico dress from this time on, in order
to help that work ! " Well, I've seen her since in satin, in several kinds
of wool, but never once in a calico dress. It is so easy to sacrifice emo-
tion. We have so much in stock, and taken alone it has no real value.
It reminds me of steam. You may get up sixty pounds of steam and it will
fizz, and puff, and blow, but if the connecting rod is broken, the machin-
ery will not start. Let us be careful that the connecting links are all
right ; then, when the tear starts, the hand will move. Some of our plans
for raising money for missionary purposes have seemed a little peculiar
to me. One is to give all the pennies received in change. These pennies
are brought home and dropped in a box through a slit in the top, like a
child's bank ; as if, could we see how they are accumulating, we should
like children be tempted to spend them for ourselves. This is done pre-
sumably to cheat ourselves with the belief that we are not losing much.
Or we go without table luxuries for a while, and give the money they
would cost. At the end of the set time, we are just as well off and our
pocketbook is none the leaner. But do not our souls become leaner with
all this contriving to get a little money to devote to the service of God
without feeling the loss ? David said, " I will not sacrifice to the Lord
that which costs me nothing." Now I am not condemning any of these
plans, if they are necessary ; but when I see a woman dressed richly in
silk, with bracelets and bangles and bugle trimming, exhorting her sisters
to eat cheaper food, I think, Why this waste of vitality ? Why not rip off
a yard of that trimming and sacrifice that, or one of those nodding
feathers and devote that ? I do not mean to be fault-finding, but I have
always had a distaste for these extraordinary ways of raising money for
God's work. I believe if I should set apart a " missionary hen " she
wouldn't lay an egg ! And I couldn't blame her. A much better way
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would be to sell all the eggs and give a portion of the proceeds. These
plans all seem to indicate that mission work is not a part of our legitimate
business, when in fact it is, and if we neglect it we are disobeying our
Lord's direct command. And now, if you will turn to the last chapter of
Chronicles, David will tell you all about the sacrifices which are pleasing
to God. Five times he mentions the fact that the people gave willingly,
and he says of himself, " I have set my affection on the house of my God."
Ah ! there is the secret of the whole matter. When all Christians set
their hearts on God's work, there will be no further trouble. Obstacles
will be removed, debts will melt away, and we shall come up to one of
these reunions with great gladness. Not to mourn over the lack of funds,
oh no, but rather to devise means for reducing our surplus !
"Who then is willing to consecrate his service .this day unto the
Lord ? "
A WISER BENEFICENCE
By Miss Anna C. Bridgman, Boston
When we became Christians we laid at the feet of our Master our
hearts and our strength, but, save in exceptional and marked cases, have
not the rank and file of the church left to the clergy the loving of the
Lord with their minds ? None of us are destitute of mental powers, nor
are we slow in taxing them, sometimes, unfortunately, to the extent of
breaking them, in our home and social life. It is a pleasure to sit down
and carefully plan a dainty luncheon for a choice circle of friends. We
spend hours with our dressmaker in deciding upon the styles for the new
wardrobe. With the greatest zest we take up paper and pen to write an
article for the next literary club, on a subject that interests us — the New
Woman, for example, or the Present Condition of Affairs in Italy. To
arrange a set of toasts for a club dinner is a stimulating mental exercise.
To be sure, there has been an advance made in the preparation of pro-
grammes for missionary meetings, but perfection has by no means been
reached in this line. It is far easier to send to headquarters for a clever
speaker, or a file of recent letters from the frontier, than to prepare a
series of topics, for example, on the history of the Bohemians, their
place in the Old World and their condition in this. It is nothing unusual
to see finely printed topics of a Clio Club, or an All-round Dickens Club,
possibly engraved with its colors — at all events, with an interesting and
studied list of topics for the winter's work. But one gives a little start
of surprise to receive, as happily is occasionally the case, a printed list of
missionary subjects for a year.
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We love the Lord with the side of our mind which touches our secular
life, but we fail to love, and to serve — which is a natural sequence of the
love — with the side that reaches toward God. I am not entering a pro-
test against women's clubs ; I am simply urging you to establish and
keep the proper proportion between your time and the Lord's, to honor
him with your whole mind.
There is one part of this great subject which we wish to consider more
in detail, namely, our contributions for missionary work and our knowl-
edge of it. I venture to assert that very many pastors, and a majority of
the church members in our denomination, would find it as difficult to give
quickly and correctly the full names and their abbreviated forms of our
six national missionary societies as to tell the signs of the zodiac. These
societies are the missionary stewards of the Church ; they have had a
long and noble record for service wisely and broadly performed ; not to
know their names is as stupid as for a college graduate not to know the
names of the trustees of his alma mater, or for a statesman to be ignorant
of the names of the President and his cabinet. There are scores upon
scores of church members to whom the C. S. S. and P. Soc. and the
C. C. B. Soc. are as meaningless as the hieroglyphics on the obelisk in
Central Park. If we grant, however, that the initials are rather cabalis-
tic, cannot the most ordinary mind be made to understand the difference
between a home and foreign missionary society ? We rejoice that there
is a breaking down of the barriers between the two branches of the one
great work that embraces the world, and that the distinctive adjectives
are being dropped in some societies ; but there is a surprising amount of
ignorance on this point in many places and minds. The story is an old
one, of the man who said that he did not wish any of his money to go
for foreign missions — he did not intend to help the heathen — his money
wes to be left to the American Board. This winter an, auxiliary has
been found where packing a box was all the women knew of Home Mis-
sions, and giving fifty cents a week comprised the sum total of their wis-
dom upon foreign missions. You will say that this is an extreme case —
unfortunately, there are many such extreme cases. A president of a
Southern college spoke in the North on the work of the A. M. A., using
his school as an illustration of work and its results for the negro race.
The pastor then made an appeal for Home Missions, especially to the
work among the foreign populations in the West, and then took up a col-
lection for the American Board ! There is no clearer discrimination in
regard to the differences in the home work. A Sunday-school superin-
tendent in New England is interested in the Mountain Whites because,
when he was in the war, especial kindness was shown him by them. After
some persuasion he induced his school to give $100 to the cause in Ten-
nessee, and then sent the check to the Howard Roll of Honor. What do
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you think of a church treasurer who sends a letter to the A. M. A. with
a check made out to the C. S. S. and P. Soc, when all the time the
money was intended for a work outside of the denomination ? No doubt
this man had often sung, " Thy love the power of thought bestowed, to
Thee my thoughts would soar ; " but how utterly he had failed to use that
power of thought in his position as treasurer of missionary funds. This
man is, alas ! only a type of many who remember that the Lord's business
requires haste, and forget that it demands also brains and loyalty.
This last word, loyalty, strikes at a most suggestive and important
point in the discussion. Let us consider why the denomination should
be loyal to the missionary societies, and what loyalty requires of the
denomination.
First, we believe that organization in missionary operations is as essen-
tial as system in any department of life. If you run your home without
method, the well-being of its inmates suffers. One conspicuous- word that
greets our eyes in books, papers, and street signs, these days, is cooper-
ation. There is the Cooperative Flower Market Association, the Bur-
glars' Syndicate, and all the united interests that lie between these two
lines of business. Combinations are being formed daily among men in-
terested in the same kinds of undertakings, for the purpose of increasing
their incomes and building up a gigantic house that shall stand against
all the reverses of fortune.
Union brings strength in the money market. It brings wisdom,
power, economy, efficiency, in the great missionary trust whose shares are
free to all. Not a vast commercial enterprise is the church engaged in,
but a building, even a city of habitation into which' all the tribes shall
enter. The raising of one portion of the walls has been put into the
hands of the Congregational family, the members of which must stand
shoulder to shoulder, heart to heart, mind to mind, if this section is to be
built true and strong. To guard the labor of the building, to note the
weak points in the walls, to hasten the work in the quarter where the
enemy is encamped, there are stationed on the watchtowers. and have
been since the days of Paul and Barnabas, men to whom is intrusted the
supervision of the operation. These watchmen to-day are known as the
officers of our missionary societies — the secretaries, directors, committees.
The greatest possible care is given in their selection. Business ability,
perfect uprightness, keen judgment, statesmanlike qualities, are considered
and weighed before appointments are made. Do you know the personnel
of our boards ? Lawyers, bankers, manufacturers, railroad magnates, pres-
idents of insurance companies, names that rank high in Bradstreet, are on
the lists. Success has attended them in their chosen calling ; freely,
generously, do they give the benefit of their trained business minds to the
Lord's work. Hours and hours every month are spent in committee and
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sub-committee work, visits are made to the distant fields, conditions and
needs are thoroughly investigated, shams are revealed, and leaks exposed.
Prudential reasons alone should compel the denomination to intrust a
much larger per cent, of its gifts to these men for distribution. When
Agabus told the little band of Christians in Jerusalem that there was to
be a famine in the land, did each disciple send unto his own special
friend in Judea whatever he could spare ? No ; they all thought about
the matter, and then determined to send relief by the hands of Paul and
Barnabas ; and we do not learn that they ever repented of the act. Let
us have a mind to follow their example.
What does loyalty require of the denomination ?
On the part of the pastors, a clear, accurate knowledge of the fields
allotted to each society, its distinctive aims and features, and a line-upon-
line presentation of these facts to the churches. On the part of the
people there is needed an annual contribution, however small, to each
society, and a determination to strengthen their minds by a regular diet
of brain food, inexpensive and nourishing — namely, the so-called and
miscalled " dry " missionary literature. But this is not sufficient. The
urgency of the times demands from the entire denomination a courageous
mind that will dare to say " No ! " to promiscuous appeals. The work of
philanthropic organizations and associated charities is becoming more
and more a scientific work, to which the strongest intellects are devoting
constant study. We know how earnestly they deprecate indiscriminate
giving. Christianity has much to learn in this direction from philan-
thropy. The advance made in the last half-century in the solution of the
awful problem of pauperism is a striking proof of what educated minds
can accomplish in alleviating the condition of the worthy poor. It is a
sad commentary on the mental capacity of the church that "unscientific,"
" haphazard," are the adjectives often needed to fitly describe its benefi-
cent undertakings. Octavia Hill, whose noble work in housing the London
poor has made every woman's heart rejoice, warns her co-laborers to see
that what they do is not simply benevolent, wishing well, but is also benefi-
cent, doing well. Ruskin puts the same thought in another way when he
says that " valor is derived from valere, to be well, or strong — strong in
life or valiant, if a man ; strong for life or valuable, if a thing. To be
truly valuable is to avail toward life : in proportion as it does not lead
toward life, as its strength is broken, it is less valuable ; in proportion as
it leads away from life, it is unvaluable or malignant." These are serious
words, and well worth careful pondering. Money is too hardly earned in
these days, there are too many ways for it to be made useful, for us to
fail to make every dollar valuable. Unintelligent, emotional giving on
the part of a church, an auxiliary, an individual, cannot be too strongly
condemned. When retrenchment is an oft-heard word tiiat haunts our
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missionaries the world around, when debts hang over our societies like a
pall, wasted, misspent giving must be stopped. Is it your custom to give
to every man, woman, and child who knocks at your kitchen door with a
plaintive and probably made-up tale of woe ? A fear possibly arises that
he will take revenge upon you if you do not aid him, so you try to pur-
chase peace of mind by handing him a quarter ; but your conscience must
be very fast asleep if before night it does not prick you for wasting
twenty-five cents, encouraging begging, and helping to make another
pauper. This is a parallel case to the indiscriminate giving that is
becoming a deadly enemy to our missionary work. In rare instances we
may turn away from both the front and back door a worthy object, but if
we are too indolent to take the pains and time to investigate the case we
have no right to give to it.
A glib tongue and an attractive manner have a great drawing power,
so that we perchance give generously to an orphanage in one section that
is under most irresponsible management, or make a donation to a man
who travels from another to gather funds for a church — a proceeding
which the watchmen of the C. C. B. Society, knowing all the facts in the
case, utterly repudiate. What is true of house-to-house appeals is also
true of church collections. The most magnetic speaker, he who can tell
tear-drawing tales of destitution, is the one who is apt to receive the
largest gift.
The extravagance and ineffectiveness of independent work are surely
evident to all. Will you not try in your own circle of influence to remedy
this evil ?
If misappropriated money were the only result of this thoughtless
giving, the case would be serious enough ; but the pledged work suffers
sadly from the folly. It is no wonder that the last year was a hard one
to the friends of missions, for we learn from the advanced sheets of the
forthcoming Year Book that the 5,482 Congregational churches in the
land have given to the six national societies, this last year, only a little
more than twice as much as they gave to other objects. We would not
set up denominational loyalty as a fetich, and say that all our gifts must
go into the treasuries of our own organizations ; but we do contend that
Congregationlists are too easy-going and good-natured. Their much-
boasted liberal spirit and love for all the brethren has caused them to
forget the cultivation of a proper amount of family pride.
Who has any patience with the rich man on Fifth Avenue who allows
his mother to exist in the poorhouse, or with the woman who endows a
college and neglects the needs of her own kin ? Honor and honesty
demand that we sustain more royally our brothers and sisters, who are in
the South, the West, and far-off Eastern lands.
From all sides rings out the appeal for larger gifts ; varied are the
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devices for increasing interest in and enlarging donations for missionary
operations. There is wealth in the land, there is consecrated wealth in
the church, which has been generously given for the debts of the societies
recently.
In order to drop now and forever those ominous words, debt and
retrenchment, from the record of the Lord's work, let us as a denomina-
tion think on these things.
The celebration of Memorial Day, last week, recalled the dark days,
the brave acts, the glorious victories of thirty years ago. Did your
brothers and neighbors recklessly dash to the front to assail the enemy,
here and there, as they chose ? Ah, no ! Can you not even now see the
straight lines of the blue-coated boys as they marched through the streets,
keeping step to the martial music, each regiment, as one man, going forth
at its general's orders to conquer or to die for the stars and stripes ?
Women of the homeland organizations, true service have you rendered
in these years of united effort ; conquests have you achieved. Let us
now all go forward to make our best work better, to carry our banner,
which is love, ever unfurled, and to inscribe upon it fellowship and fidelity !
»
BIBLE READING
By Mrs. C. L. Goodell, Boston
Luke xix : 1-10. — These few verses contain an incident in the life of
our Lord with which we are all familiar, but before we come to the inci-
dent itself we find a most instructive lesson. We read, " Jesus entered
and passed through Jericho." He was passing through. It was not his
purpose to stop there ; he was aiming at another destination. But he
was detained, and the result we have in the account that follows.
Many of our Lord's important works may be termed wayside minis-
tries. As he was going from one place to another, he often lingered
wherever he saw an opportunity to bless or cheer a human being. Some-
times he ministered to the body, sometimes to the soul. In this he gave
a beautiful example to us. Lvery day, everywhere, if we have the spirit
of him who went about doing good, opportunities will open, when God
will use us in ways we little dreamed of. It may be only a word, a touch,
and some heart will be uplifted and blessed, just because we chanced to
be passing that way.
There is more in this than we think. Paul said, " For me to live is
Christ." Wherever he went, men could see Christ in his conduct and
bearing-.
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It is related of St. Francis that, one day, as he stepped down into the
cloisters of his monastery, he said to a young monk : " Brother, let us go
into town to-day and preach." So they went forth, conversing together
as they went. They wound their way along the principal streets, through
the lowly alleys, to the outskirts of the town, and to the village beyond.
Returning to the monastery gate, the young monk said : " Father, when
shall we begin to preach ?" Francis, looking down kindly upon the young
man, replied : "My child, we have been preaching while we were walking.
We have been seen, looked at, our behavior has been remarked, and so
we have delivered a morning sermon."
Turning now to the narrative recorded in the remaining verses, we
find the story of a simple conversion. We learn much in the Gospels from
Christ's dealings with the multitudes ; but when we carefully note his
dealings with an individual, we seem to draw nearer to him ourselves,
and can more easily understand the personal touch of our Lord.
The scene here described is an ordinary one, in many respects, yet in
others a rare and conspicuous one. As Jesus was passing along, a crowd
of curious spectators had gathered, made up probably of scribes and
Pharisees and lawyers, a class who on other occasions had criticised him
because he mingled with the common people. Our attention is suddenly
directed to one person. "Behold a man," etc. Let us look carefully,
and see what we can learn about him.
His name is Zaccheus. He is spoken of as " chief among the publi-
cans." Jericho was a Levitical city and the residence of a great many
priests. Its position in the import and export trade between the two sides
of the Jordan made it also a city of publicans. The collection of taxes
required a strong force of workmen to be stationed there. Zaccheus
probably stood at the head of such a force. He was a rich man. Rich
people were not, as a rule, those that followed Christ. Here was an
exception. Christ had lately shown how hard it was for a rich man to
enter into the kingdom of heaven.
It does not appear that Zaccheus had previously any serious concern
for religious truth ; but, having heard of this wonderful man, and the mar-
vels he had accomplished, he was now moved with curiosity to see him.
So he ran before and climbed up into a sycamore tree, for he was little of
stature and could not see"over the shoulders of others. Very likely others
in this crowd had this same curiosity, but Zaccheus was more in earnest
than the rest, and his zeal met with a quick reward.
Jesus did not ordinarily study to show himself — was not carried aloft
in a procession as some dignitaries have been. He did not ride in an
open chariot as princes do ; but, like any common man, he walked among
men. It was the day of his humiliation.
At the same time, he was always found of them that sought him.
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Zaccheus was not more alert to see Christ than Christ was to see
Zaccheus ; for he had no sooner gained his place of view, than Christ's
eye searched him out. We read that, " When Jesus came to place, he
looked up and saw him."
What, do you suppose, were Christ's thoughts just then ? Perhaps
he was thinking, There is a soul that is seeking me. He has this world's
goods in abundance, and position among men, but these things do not
satisfy him ; he is restless, and craves something higher and more endur-
ing. His spiritual nature is hungry. He hardly knows what he wants,
but I know — and I have that to give him that the world knows not of.
I believe I will stay a while here in Jericho on his account. I will go to
his house and meet him alone. Apart from the crowd, he will open his
heart to me, and be ready to receive from me the spiritual manna of
which, if a man eat, he shall never hunger. And so Christ said to him :
" Zaccheus, make haste and come down, for to-day I must abide at thy
house."
Imagine his surprise at hearing Jesus call him by name ! He might
have answered, as Nathaniel did, "Whence knowest thou me?" Oh,
but the Lord knoweth them that are his !
" Zaccheus made haste and came down and received him joyfully."
Here was the beginning of his conversion. St. John writes : " As many
as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God."
Oh, to have heard all that passed between them as they talked to-
gether that day ! We read that " Zaccheus stood and said unto the
Lord," etc. He did not carelessly recline upon his couch, as he might
have done in the presence of an equal, but his attitude was reverent and
humble. A single verse contains all that he said, but what a volume is
there ! "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor." Not.
will I give in my will, when I die, but I give now. Possibly he had heard
about the directions Christ gave another rich young man, to sell that he
had and give to the poor, and how he went away sorrowful. So he was
saying to himself : Such shall not be my case. If I have been selfishly
hoarding my riches, unmindful of those less favored about me, I will
give all the more freely now. I will give half of all I possess ! This was
a very large proportion for benevolence. Can we easily find a parallel
to-day ? The majority of Christians probably feel, if they give a tenth
to the Lord, they have met the requirements of duty. But Zaccheus
went still further. He said : " If I have taken anything from any man by
false accusation, I restore him four-fold." He did not say, If I am sued
at law and compelled to do it, but I will do it voluntarily.
What was Jesus' reply to these words of Zaccheus ? " This day is sal-
vation come to this house." He did not ask him if he was penitent for his
sins ; if he loved him, even ; if he was submissive to his will.- Looking
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into his heart, however, he could see all this and more. The Christian
graces show themselves differently in different people. With some, love
is more prominent ; with others, faith or penitence. With Zaccheus, it
was the grace of benevolence. It has been said that a man's purse is the
last thing to be converted. With Zaccheus, it was the first.
Christ finds many avenues to the heart, and it is well to keep them all
open. But we cannot lay too much stress upon this grace of benevolence.
It is interesting to notice how Paul magnified it when he held up the
Macedonian churches as examples to the Christians at Corinth. " We
make known to you the grace of God bestowed on the churches of
Macedonia, how that in a great trial of affliction, the abundance of their
joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality."
(2 Cor. viii. 1-4.) Then, by way of incentive, he says to them : " There-
fore, as ye abound in everything, in faith and utterance and knowl-
edge, . . . see that ye abound in this grace also." " See," or see to
it. As if he had said : " This will never come about of itself ; it will
require careful planning. See to it ; do not let the matter drift."
But this is not all. He adds (ix. 8), " God is able to make all grace
abound toward you ; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things,
may abound to every good work." He implies that this grace of benevo-
lence does not depend upon our efforts alone. God must give it to us,
and make it abound. It is a gift of God, as truly as faith, or love.
Was it an act of self-denial on the part of Zaccheus to give up half his
goods ? Of course it was. To be sure, he was rich, and might have had
enough left to make him comfortable ; nevertheless, like other rich men,
no doubt he loved his money, and hated to part with it. But he had
caught the spirit of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, " though he was rich,
yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be
rich."
He was learning to exercise this Christ-like grace of benevolence.
" True giving is not the throwing away of that which we do not want
and shall never miss. But it is the consecrating to noble uses that which
is very dear to us, that which has cost us much."
What we wait for, dear friends, and are looking hopefully to see, is the
consecration of the vast money-power of the world to the work, and
cause, and kingdom of Jesus Christ. God grant we may each have a
part in bringing this about, both by word and by example !
" Haste ! Men grow weary, waiting
For the servants who should bring
Their burdened, famished, longing souls
A message from the King."
—Golden Rule.
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FOR THE SILVER CIRCLE
By Mrs. H. M. Union
A Novel Entertainment
The Young Ladies' Missionary Society of Plymouth Church, Des
Moines, Iowa, is indebted to Miss Otis, an officer of the Woman's Home
Missionary Union, for a very artistic, interesting, and impressive home
missionary meeting, given at her own residence. Miss Otis, representing
Martha Washington, gave her guests a most cordial welcome in rooms
liberally decorated with flags, pictures, and curios, to remind them of the
great events in American history, from the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers
to the present day. The rooms were lighted with candles in antique
candlesticks of various patterns. Assisting this modern Martha Wash-
ington, all in costume, were George Washington, Master John Parke
Custis, Miss Nellie Custis, Miss Mary Phillipse, Dollie Madison, Thomas
Jefferson, Jessie Fremont, General Sherman, General Warren, Miles
Standish, John Alden, and Priscilla. Miss Phillipse many times reminded
the company of her opportunity to become Lady Washington. The
devotion of John Alden to Priscilla might have been painful in the pres-
ence of Miles Standish, had not the manners of the latter put the entire
company at ease.
Among the relics of the Revolutionary period were a mask used in the
battle of Bunker Hill, and a brass pan from the massacre of Fort Wyo-
ming. From the War of 1812 were a mask, sword, and hat. From the
Civil War, a sword used at Vicksburg, a sword and shell from the battle-
field of Gettysburg, a fork from the battlefield of Corinth, a sword of
General Weaver, a jeweled sword of General Given, a ring made from the
first cannon fired at Fort Sumter ; a flag of truce used in the exchange
of prisoners, made from a hospital sheet ; a knife made in Libby Prison,
and a ring in Andersonville. There was also a bullet from Custer's
battlefield. A spinning-wheel, flax-wheel, and a substantial New Eng-
land dinner reminded us of an earlier period of life.
The Indian life in America was represented by an Indian girl in
costume — Bright-Eyes Wolf — at the door of her wigwam, about which
were relics from Alaska and several Indian tribes.
John Chinaman sent his sister, Ah Yane, he being too busy fighting
the Japs. She brought the flag the Chinese invented when they went to
war with the Japs — a yellow ground, with a large black dragon in the
center, and a small red sun in one corner. She also brought, with other
things, a pair of those pitiful little shoes worn by the women of her
country.
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After two hours spent at supper and looking at the curiosities, we
were seated and listened to the programme of the evening. General
Warren sang several solos, to the delight of the company. Dr. Frisbie
offered prayer, followed by an enthusiastic address by Mrs. Drake, for-
merly of Dakota. She told the story of the Congregational Home Mis-
sionary Society. Aunt Chloe, in native garb, told of missionary work
among the negroes. Bright-Eyes Wolf presented the cause of the
Indian. Cindy Come-and-go-fetch-it presented the cause of the Moun-
tain Whites. Ah Yane talked of the Chinese, while little ten-year-
old Katie quite broke our hearts with her simple story of Mormon
life.
After an offering for Home Missions, some of the natives sang " Wing
Tee Wee," "Indian Cradle Song," "My Old Kentucky Home," and
" Sword of Bunker Hill." The programme concluded, we took leave of
our hostess and returned to our comfortable homes, thankful that they
were in Christian civilization, and praying God to bless our offering for
the relief of our burdened Home Missionaries.
MORE HOLES IN THE BUSYBODY PURSE
Some years ago I read the following yarn. A young lady, on receiv-
ing a proposal, said : " Oh, Charles, I could live on bread and water if
I could be with you." He replied : "Well, if you will get the bread, I
guess I can scratch around and get the water."
That was for years a time- honored joke, the essence of silly sentiment,
until I came to be a guest in the Busybody home in the great Northwest —
the land of hard alkali water and no cisterns. Bread or flour costs the
Busybodys at the rate of ninety cents per month. Cisterns are not made
because they freeze, so ice at a dollar a load, or its equivalent, four bar-
rels of cleansed water from the mill, at twenty-five cents per barrel, are
used to do the washing for the month. When the ice is gone and the
mill not running, Rev. Mr. B. turns charioteer and brings water from some
pump, after getting permission of the owner. That proposal evidently
took place in this region, for while bread costs ninety cents, the water for
washing alone costs a dollar per month. My estimation of that young
man has risen immensely, for he had a hard task before him, and so have
all the women of the frontier who have to use hard water softened with
"consecrated lye," as Mrs. B. called it when a child. She now has to be
consecrated or lose temper when, on a visit to sisters in a distant city,
they tell her her " clothes look as if in mourning."
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It is like every other blessing ; we do not realize its value till it is
gone. And only when someone has tried the experiment of doing with-
out will she understand what a comfort and blessing it is to have a real
cistern filled with real rain-water at hand, to use as freely as she desires.
There goes the door bell ! Mrs. B. puts the baby down and goes to the
door, there to find a shy young man who asks, " Is the pastor at home ? "
Yes ; Mrs. B. knows that shy manner, and as she goes to summon the
dominie, visions of what she will buy with that wedding fee fly through
her mind — that rocking-chair so much needed, or that upholstery she has
waited so long for ; or, maybe it can be put aside for that organ they would
enjoy so much to have. Parson B. sights the young man and thinks it a
call to preach some funeral sermon, and immediately begins to select
some suitable text. Just imagine their surprise when the young man
explains, " Will you please give me a cup of coffee ?" No offer to work ;
the only excuse given is, "I came here too early."
Pastor B. stops his work, cares for baby while Mrs. B. prepares a
meal, then he gets his wraps and goes out with the young man, and tries
to find employment. The meal is a great drain on the larder. As many
as three or four a day, and for a week at a time, men straggle up for food.
One year Mrs. B. succeeded in beguiling thirty-five cents from them for
Home Missions ; but that was before these " hard times."
A carriage stops at the door, and who can that be ? A trembling old
man alights and asks to sell a book.
Wealth is not one of the many blessings the Busybodys enjoy, but to
help him Mrs. B. says she will take a book of songs. Then comes the
questions : " Can I stay all night ? " " Can I put my horse in your barn ? "
They were getting ready to move, and had just done the last washing.
This arrival means two extra sheets, pillow-case, towel, and napkin, a
good supper and breakfast, and feed for the horse.
At night Mrs. B. is requested to flannel and help a sick man to bed. The
morning finds him better, and now, " Please sew that flannel to my shirt-
band." " Help me with this or that." " Let me take your comb and brush,
for I have none," and at last he is ready for breakfast. Then he departs,
leaving his thanks. A stranger to them, but it was a " cup of cold water "
to one of our Lord's feeble ones.
It is a mystery how they are able to pass on the favors they do ; but
they always seem to have enough to eat, although it makes Mrs. B. use
her wits, and turn every way to give the family good, wholesome, but
plain living.
They are not able to lay aside much, if anything, for future use, but
they try to rest on the promise : " My God shall supply all your needs."
Pastor Busybody and wife are only one of the hundreds of home
missionary couples all through the North and West who are denying
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themselves to keep the Lamp of Life burning, if even feebly, in these
small churches. The day for sacrifice is not past, and the Home Mission-
aries of to-day have a good chance to exercise great self-denial in many
ways, "unheralded and unsung."
Go, Preach ! — To all believers the divine command is that we out-
grow our babyhood — cease to be mere objects of care, and become care-
takers ; that we enter into that divine plan which takes in the whole
church, the whole world, the whole age. We must be satisfied with the
hope that has its anchorage in Scripture promises, do our duty, and leave
results with God. The stress of the command is on occupation, evangeli-
zation. A loyal servant or soldier obeys implicitly orders that are
implicit. Our marching orders are: "Go, preach!" — Rev. Dr. A. T.
Pierson.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Miss M. D. Moffatt, who has had large experience in the " slum
work" of our cities, in the isolated" or rural work of our New England
States, and as General Missionary in Oklahoma, has recently returned
from the West. Arrangements can be made for her to speak on Home
Missions to churches, ladies' societies, Christian Endeavor unions, etc.,
by writing to Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn., or to the Congregational
Home Missionary Society, Bible House, New York.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DEBT LEGACIES TOTAL
April $11,428.79 $5,093.08 $2,687.84 $19,209.71
May 5,866.47 3,834.45 6,180.76 15,881.68
June 8,713.88 3,506.61 2,502.22 14,722.71
Of these June receipts, $3,100 were from subscribers to the. General
Howard Roll of Honor, and $406.61 were "specials for the debt." At its
July meeting the Executive Committee voted that this amount ($3,506.61)
be paid upon the debt of April, 1895, reducing the amount still due
thereon to $39,266.27.
Our readers will not need to be reminded that the annual " dry
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season " for this and other benevolent society treasuries has fully set in.
With business at a standstill, congregations scattered, pastors, Sunday-
school superintendents, and church officers seeking needed rest and recu-
peration at the seaside and in the mountains, the tide of offerings falls to
its lowest ebb.
Yet there are churches that gather their fullest numbers and receive
their largest income in these hot months ; there are wage-earners whose
pay the summer heat does not shrink ; there are Christian men and women
blest of God with comparative independence of " the market ; " there are
busy executors to whom the summer's lull in business gives time for set-
tling estates under their care. To these, and to all friends of Home Mis-
sions, as God has prospered them, we earnestly and fraternally appeal
for such aid as they may find it in their hearts to render in this time of
special need. And may God bless every cheerful and timely giver.
*
THE GENERAL O. O. HOWARD ROLL OF HONOR
Previously acknowledged, S87 ; subscriptions added below, iS ; total number of
shares, 905.
A Friend, Groton, Mass.
A Friend, Pittsfield, Mass.
First Church, Spencer, Mass., three shares.
In Memory of Wm. Read Shedd, by a Friend, Wells River, Vt.
Margaret J. Evans, by Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.
Congregational Church, Tolland, Conn.
Mrs. M. A. Keep, Oberlin, Ohio.
Mrs. F. R. Pratt, Eddyville, Mass.
A Friend, Connecticut.
Congregational Church, Nelson, N. H., by four sons and
daughters.
Congregational Church, Newton Highlands, Mass.
Dime Banks from South and First Churches, Concord, N. H.
D. M. Rogers, New Britain, Conn.
Mrs. Rev. Dr. G. W. Phillips, Rutland, Vt., by Congregational
Church.
Mrs. J. B. Page, Rutland, Vt., by Congregational Sunday-school.
Christian Union Congregational Church, Upper Montclair,
N. J.
First Church, Chelsea, Mass. (erroneously reported before).
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RECEIPTS IN JUNE, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 234 to 236
MAINE— $25.50.
Skowhegan, Ladies' Miss. Soc, by A.
T. Colby $25 50
NEW HAMPSHIRE— $676.56; of which
legacies, $297.81.
N. H. H. M. Soc, by Hon. L. D. Ste-
vens, Treas.:
Manchester, Legacy of Chester B.
Southworth 247 81
N. H. H. M. Soc, by Hon. L. D. Ste-
vens, Treas.: -
Of which $50, Legacy of S. S. Barker
of Pelham 207 20
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of N. H.,
Miss A. A. McFarland, Treas.:
Merrimac Conference, for the debt. 50 00
Durham, Woman's Miss. Soc, by Miss
C. E. Buzzell 10 00
Goffstown, by D . Grant 5 90
Kingston, Rev. W. A. Patten, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
New Hampshire, A Friend, " B." 3 00
New Ipswich, by I. E. F. Marsh 2 69
Penacook, by L. M. Currier 15 85
Walpole, by C. E. Sparhawk 34 11
VERMONT— $1,117.71.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. R. P.
Fairbanks, Treas $375 11
Bellows Falls, Ladies'
Union 12 89
Bennington, No. Y. P. S. C.
E., for Salary Fund 500
Brandon 10 00
Brattleboro, West, Y. P. S.
C. E., for Salary Fund. 10 00
Whatsoever Circle 5 00
Burke, East 3 20
Burlington 20 76
First, Y. L. M. S., for
Salary Fund 6 51
Y. P. S. C. E., for Salary
Fund 10 00
Cambridgeport, Y. P. S. C.
E 1 10
Clarendon, East 2 80
Danville 14 75
Keeler's Bay 7 00
Lyndonville 5 00
Mclndoes Falls 900
Newbury 5 00
Norwich 8 00
Pittsford 30 00
Randolph Center, Home-
land Circle 5 00
Richmond, Homeland Circle 5 52
St. Albans 14 15
Stowe, Y. P. S. C. E., for ,
Salary Fund 723*
St. Johnsbury, North Ch.,
for Salary Fund 25 00
South Ch., Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 5 00
South Ch., A Friend 1 00
Springfield. 15 00
Swanton 10 85
Westminster, Mrs. C. W.
Thompson $5 00
In Memory of William Read
Shedd, of Wells River,
by "A Friend," Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. 100 00
By Friends 2 00
$736 87
Brattleboro, Dying gift of Miss Mary
Elizabeth Van Doom, by Mrs. H.
V D. Brown 80 00
Danville, Mrs. U. B. Kittredge, for
the debt 1 40
Lyndonville, by W. C. Tyler, Treas.
Vt. Dom. Miss. Soc 2 00
New Haven, A Friend 50 00
St. Albans, by H. M. Stevens, with
previous cont. for Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 131 00
By H. M. Stevens, for the debt 5 00
South Royalton, Y. P. S. C. E., by A.
G. Whitham 6 44
Springfield, by B. F. Aldrich, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Vermont, F. J. Fowler 5 00
MASSACHUSETTS-$2,655.22.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treas. :
By request of donors, of
which $700 Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor, spe-
cial for the debt, $174.21 $884 82
For work among foreigners
in the West 981 51
■ 1,866 33
Woman's H. M. A. Mass., Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas. :
Baldwinsville, Ladies' Miss. Circle,
for the debt 31 00
Amherst College, add'], by E. S. Hall 3 00
Boston, Mt. Vernon Ch., by T. Y.
Crowell, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
W. G. Wilde, for Salary Fund 50 00
Brocton, Rally, by Rev. C. W.
Shelton 1650
Dorchester, Miss M. D. Binford's S.
S. class in Pilgrim Ch 5 00
Gilbertville, Young People's Mission
Circle, by T. Crawford, special 39 50
Lowell, A Friend 1 00
Middleborough, S S. of Central Ch.,
by Dr. E. S. Hathaway 7 18
Monson, by E. F. Morris 2400
Rochester, E. F. Leonard, of which
$25 for the debt 50 00
Sheffield, by Dr. A. T. Wakefield .... 7 56
South Hadley, Y. W. C. A. of Mt.
Holyoke College, by M. C. Gay.. 55 45
Silver Circle, Mt. Holyoke College,
Miss M. Allen, $5 : Miss J. Clau-
son, $5 ; Miss F. M. Hazen, $5. . . 15 00
Springfield, Memorial Ch., by H. W.
Bowman 101 22
HopeCh., by R. R. Upson 52 88
Hope Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., by E. A.
Root , 14 60
The Opportunity Club of the South
Ch., by I. King 1500
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West Springfield, Ethan Brooks, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor
Worcester, Samuel R. Heywood, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor
[Erratum : Greenwich, H. M. Woods,
$100, erroneously ack. under Conn, in
April Home Missionary.]
NEW YORK- $1,402.87; of which leg-
£100 00 acies, §713.09.
100 00 Received by Rev. E. Curtis :
Black River and St. Law-
rence Assoc $851
Corning 17 88
Norfolk 4 00
RHODE ISLAND— $528.00.
East Providence, Newman Ch., to
place the name of the Ch. and Miss
A. E. Shorey on Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor, by J. W. Rice, Tr. R. I.
H . M . Soc 200 00
Providence, Miss M. C. Hackett, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, by J. W.
Rice, Treas. R. I. H. M. Soc 200 00
G. R. McAuslan, Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Slatersville, Samuel O. Tabor 10 00
Tiverton Four Corners, by J. D. Hum-
phrey 18 00
CONNECTICUT— 2,536.61 ; of which
legacies, 5952.98.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., W. W. Jacobs,
Treas., by Rev. W. H. Moore, Sec. 19 87
Berlin, Extra-Cent a-Day Band, by
Miss J. Hovey 36 00
Bridgeport, Miss R. J. Curtis 2 00
" Connecticut, A Friend," special,
Mrs. J . E. Northrop 50 00
"Connecticut, Extra Contribution.". 25 00
Enfield. J. Parsons 200
Fairfield. Estate of Burr Osborn, by
J. W. Morehouse, Ex 39 67
Farmington, Estate of Rev. T. K.
Fessenden, by H. M. Cowles, Ex.. 500 00
Greenwich, Steep Hollow, Union S.
S.. bv Miss S. H. Mead 2 00
Hartford, Park Ch., by W. E. Smith. 43 38
Roland Mather 500 00
Two Friends, General Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Students' Assoc. Theol. Sem., by G.
W. Fiske 24 10
Jewett City, From Estate of H. L.
Johnson, by H. L. Johnson, Ex. .. 413 31
New Hartford, North Ch., by F. B.
Jones 18 23
New Haven, Annual Meeting, A
Friend 1 00
Norwich, Mrs. G. D. Coit, for the
debt 5 00
Portland. First Ch , in full to const.
Rev. W. W. Smith a L. M., by H.
Kilby 34 85
Putnam. Second, by E. F. Whitmore,
special for the debt 30 00
Rockville, G. Angell 1 00
Simsbury, by A. J. Holcomb 25 50
South Britain, by G. W. Mitchell 10 00
Southington, S. S., byE. N. Walkley. 13 46
South Norwalk. by E. Beard 231 07
Stamford, Ladies of Cong. Ch., by
Miss M. D. Moffatt, for work in
Okla 30 00
Stony Creek, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss
B.M.Wallace 200
Terry ville. bv A. B. Beach 100 00
Thomaston, First, by H. A. Welton.. 2 67
Thompson ville, Dennis Pease 100 00
Tolland, by E. S. Agard, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
Wallingford. by J. N. Piatt 28 50
West Cornwall, D. L. Smith and
friends 40 00
Woodmont, Homer Tuttle & Son 6 00
$3° 39
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall, Treas. :
Central Assoc, Annual
meeting $4 62
Coventryville, for the debt.. 2 00
Henrietta 10 00
Holland Patent 3 23
Homer, Silver Circle 500
In Memory of Dea. B. W.
Payne, by Mrs S. A.
Payne, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Hudson River Assoc, An-
nual meeting 9 85
New York City, Broadway
Tabernacle, S. W. W 4 00
North Java 3 00
141 70
Angola, A. H. Ames 5 00
Brooklyn. S. S. of the Tompkins Ave-
nue Ch., by P. Palmer 100 00
Mon. Con. Tompkins Avenue, by
P. Palmer 21 40
Parkville Ch., by Rev. W. A. Kirk-
wood 4 60
S. S. of the South, by De H. Bergen 25 00
L. N. Chapin, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Rev. Lyman Abbott, D.D., Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor too 00
A Friend 4 40
Buffalo, Niagara Square, People's Ch.,
on account of Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 66 00
Plymouth Y. P. S. C. E., by A. L.
Grein ... 5 00
Hopkinton, Balance of Legacy of
Jason Brush, by Charles H. Brush,
Ex 100 00
Lewiston. Estate of Abigail Peck, by
G. E. Wilcox, Ex 613 09
Lysander, Jr. C. E. Soc, Rally, by J.
L. Keedy 2 00
Newark Valley, E. B. Sykes. for debt 1 00
Niagara Falls, Y. P. S. C E. of the
First, by M. F. McConnell. for Sal-
ary Fund 14 oc
Northville, S. S., by H. Tuce. 15 12
Remsen, Mrs. H. T- Owen 1 00
Richmond Hill, Y. P. S. C E. of the
Union Ch., by Miss G C. Reis 10 00
Riverhead, by Rev. W. I. Chalmers. 10 23
Smyrna, Mrs. H. M. Dixon. Silver
Circle 5 co
Syracuse, Plymouth Ch. Bible School,
by G. L. Hamilton 25 94
Ticonderoga, M. E. Shattuck 2 00
NEW JERSEY-$87o.o3.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Assoc. Mrs J. H. Denison. Treas. :
Montclair, First, for Salary Fund.. 75 00
Chatham. S. S. and Ladies' Soc, by
W. F. Cooley 9 30
Glen Ridge, by M. G-. Belloni 180 46
Montclair, First, by F. T. Bailey 337 44
Newark. First, by Dr. W. E. Holt. . . 17 83
Westfield, by J. R. Connoly 250 00
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PENNSYLVANIA- $604.14; of which
legacy, $500.
Woman's Home Miss. Union of the
N. J. Assoc, Mrs. J. H. Denison,
Treas. :
Philadelphia, Central Ch., for Sal-
ary Fund $64 14
Albion, by Rev. D. H. Christy 4 40
Bangor, The Juveniles of the Welsh
Ch., by J. Williams 10 00
Philadelphia, Estate of Miss E. A.
Ewing, W. Foster, Ex 500 00
Scranto'n, D. E. Hughes 18 60
Spring Brook, Welsh Ch., by G.
Lougher 7 00
MARYLAND-$io.oo.
Baltimore, Second, by Rev. E. T.
Root 4 00
Frostburg, by Rev. G. W. Moore 6 00
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— $3.00.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Assoc, Mrs. J. H. Denison,
Treas. :
Washington, First
VIRGINIA-$i7.3S.
Falls Church, First, by A. C. Rore-
beck
WEST VIRGINIA-$io.
Ceredo, by Rev. G. Gadsby
GEORGIA— $5 00.
Demorest, Ladies' Miss. Soc, by O.
Van Hise
ALABAMA— $2.50.
Tallassee, Tallassee and Texas Union,
Central, Equality Ch., Kent, Mt.
Olive Ch., and Verbena, Union Ch.,
by Rev. A. C. Wells
FLORIDA— $28.72.
Key West, First, by Rev. C. W.Frazee
Melbourne, First, by Rev. E. W. But-
ler
TEXAS -$42.50.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. H.
Gray, Treas. :
Dallas, First
Palestine, First, by Mrs. J. W. Sive-
wright
Paris, First, by Rev. L. Rees
INDIAN TERRITORY— $2 50.
McAlester, Second, by Rev. T. E.
Holleyman
OKLAHOMA— $2.00.
West Guthrie, by Rev. A. M. Lennox
NEW MEXICO-$n.85.
Albuquerque, Aux., by Mrs. W. A.
McClaskey 3 00
Bland, by Rev. E. H. Ashmun 1 85
Gallup, by Rev. P. A. Simpkin 2 00
White Oaks, Plymouth Ch., by Rev.
J. A. Hollars 5 00
TENNESSEE— 50 cents.
Hudsonburg, A Friend, 50
OHIO-$4so.7o.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.:
Berlin Heights, Y. P. S. C.
E., by A. M. Gunn $2 00
Huntsburg, Ch., Bi9-5° ; S.
S., $5, by A. W. Tuttle. . 24 50
Thomastown, Jr. C. E., by
Miss R. Davies 1 60
— 28 10
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Akron, West $2 00
Cleveland, Euclid Ave-
nue, Y. L. M. S., for
Salary Fund 3 00
Madison Avenue, Jr. and
Int. C. E., for Salary
Fund 2 00
Mrs. F. W. Low 2 00
Elyria, for Salary Fund 10 00
Lorain, Y. P. S. C. E., for
Salary Fund 2 00
Mt. Vernon, Coal Workers,
for Salary Fund 2 00
Rootstown 2 09
Vermilion, Y. P. S. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 5 00
30 09
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Akron, First, for Salary
Fund $20 00
Cincinnati, Vine, Miss A.
Lovie's Dime Bank 5 00
Columbus, Eastwood, C. E.,
for Salary Fund 5 00
Ch , Mr. Lakin's Dime
Bank 5 00
Elyria, for Salary Fund 10 00
Marietta, First 5 00
North Adams, Jr. C. E., for
Salary Fund 5 00
Painesville, Miss Prescott's
Dime Bank 5 00
Sandusky, Miss Berkley's
Dime Bank 5 00
65 00
Elyria, First, $200 ; S. S., $20, by G.
H. Ely 220 00
Gomer, by H. Williams 40 00
Marietta, First, $61.35 ! Unionville,
Trinity Chapel, $1.25, by A. D. Fol-
lett 62 60
Penfield, Ladies' Miss. Soc, by Rev.
W. A. Schwimley 5 00
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INDIANA— $42.68.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. H.
Ball, Treas.:
Angola, S. S $1 16
Indianapolis, Pilgrim Ch. . . 3 25
Whiting, C. E. Soc 5 00
Elkhart, First. $20 : Solsberry, $8.27.
by Rev. E. D. Curtis
Indianapolis, Fellowship Ch., by F.
M. Whitlock
MICHIGAN— $52.00 ; of which legacy,
$35.00.
Benzonia, From Estate of Dea. A.
Waters, by L. P. Judson
Detroit, German, by Rev. A. Huel-
ster
First Polish Ch., by Rev. J. Lewis..
WISCONSIN-S3.00.
Clintonville, Scand. Ch., by Rev. H.
F. Josephson
Curtiss. German, by Rev. H. W. A.
Niemeyer
IOWA-$ic3.65.
Des Moines, W. B. Bentley,Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor
New Hampton, German S. S., by Rev.
W. H. Dorn
MINNESOTA-$73i.67.
Received by Rev. J. H. Morley:
Chokio $1 42
Lyle, $12.91 ; A Friend, $30. 42 91
20 27
5 °°
ILLINOIS— $123.34 ; of which legacy,
$3-34-
Buda, Estate of J. F. Hyde, by H. T.
Lay, Trustee 3 34
Chicago, Miss M. P. Green, for the
debt.. 1500
Morrison, William Wallace 5 00
Rockford, First, by W. W. Leete,
through Rev. H. D. Wiard, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
MISSOURI— $126.12.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. K. L.
Mills, Treas.:
Aurora $1740
St. Louis, Third 420
Pilgrim, to const. Mrs.
Frank S. Powell a L. M . . . 50 00
Webster Groves 2232
$93 92
Less Expenses 4 70
Ivanhoe, of which $2.81 from Y. P. S.
C. E., by Mrs. H. E. Hazard
St. Joseph, Swedish, by W. Peirson..
St. Louis. Immanuel, by Rev. W. N.
Bessey
Hope Ch., by W. W. Abraham . .
First Swedish, by Rev. A. G. John-
son
89 22
7 61
1 60
12 60
9 35
12 00
5 00
100 00
3 65
Medford $10 00
Minneapolis, F. M 6 00
Park Avenue 17 33
Como Avenue, $10.81 ; S.
S-, $2.51 13 32
Plymouth 75 20
Rev. J. H. Morley, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor,
to const. F. J. Morley
and E. T. Morley L.
Ms 100 00
Rey. G. H. Wells, D.D.,
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Bethany 2 so
St. Paul, So. Park, C. E. S.. 1 94
370 32
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
M. W. Skinner, Treas. :
Aitkin, S. S 61
Big Lake 1 00
Brainerd, First, C. E. S. . 2 25
Second 70
Duluth, Pilgrim 1630
Morley 1 05
West 1 00
Elk River 1 70
Graceville 500
Lake Park 2 00
Lakeland 75
Minneapolis, Lowry Hill. 30 25
Plymouth, to const. Mrs.
J. W. Andrews a L.
M 51 04
Park Avenue 1397
Lyndale 22 10
Monticello 1225
Moorhead 5 00
Meadowvale 36
New Paynesville 6 00
Orrock 1 05
Princeton 60
Pillsbury 1 00
Round Prairie, S. S 3 29
St. Charles 3 70
Stillwater 2 80
St. Cloud 1 50
Spencer Brook 1 47
Staples 3 35
St. Paul, Pacific 535
South Park 450
Bethany, C. E. S 55
West Dora 416
$576 97
Less expenses 2c 00
$55°" 97
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. M. W.
Skinner, Treas. :
Northfield, Carleton College, to
place the name of Margaret J.
Evans on the Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Received by Rev. J. F. Okerstein,
Scand 1 00
Aitkin and Mud Lake, by Rev. F. J.
Brown 3 00
Duluth, Pilgrim Ch.. bv W. S. Horr. 61 30
Edgerton, by Rev. E. Carter 2 50
Hasty, by Rev. J. L. Jones 5 00
Mankato, First, by Mrs. S. B. Steel.. 1 90
KANSAS— $84.66.
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas. :
Kansas State Board, Y. M.
C. A $10 00
McDonald 551
Milford 3 55
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Seneca $24 00
Severy 2 25
Eudora, Miss J. Anderson
Kansas, X. Y. Z
Severy, $5 ; Athol, $3.10 ; Ochiltree,
$1.25, by Rev. W. C. Veazie
5 °°
25 00
Littleton $5 00
Whitewater, L. M. S., a
Thank-offering from Mrs.
Pickett 1 50
$183 60
Creede, by Rev. G. Eaves 6 25
Denver, Second, by A. E. Hart 20 70
Flagler, Seibert and Claremont, by
Rev. G. Tuttle 1 50
NEBRASKA— $22.52.
Arborville, S. S., by F. N. Recknot. .
Avoca and Berlin, by Rev. J. A. Smith
Friend, $4.55 ; Turkey Creek, $1.15;
German Chs., by Rev. M. E. Eversz
Grant, Madrid and Venango, by Rev.
G. W. Knapp
Riverton, by Rev. S. Williams
NORTH DAKOTA— $59.34.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. M. M.
Fisher, Treas.:
Cooperstown $6 10
Dexter, S. S 2 00
Rose Valley 5 00
Fargo, First, by Rev. H. C. Simmons
Forman, Rutland, and Cayuga, by
Rev. J. H. Kevan ,
Gardner, Miss A. J. Hunter, by Rev.
H. C. Simmons
Harvey, by Rev. A. G. Young
Niagara, by Rev. W. B. Cunningham
Williston, $5 ; Wimbleton, 75 cts., by
Rev. W. H. Gimblett
Wogansport, Mrs. J. Cooper, $5 ; P.
D. Lee, $5 ; Miss M. O. Osgood, $1,
by P. D. Lee, toward L. Mp. of
Mrs. M. Lee
SOUTH DAKOTA— $49.20.
Belle Fourche, by Rev. B. Iorns
Bruce, $6 ; Estelline, $1, by Miss E.
K. Henry
Canton, by Rev. R. M. Coate
Chamberlain, Oacoma, Pukwana, and
White River, by Rev. E. W. Jen-
ney
Delmont, C. Wieland, $1.50; Lester-
ville. Worms Ch., $8.70, by Rev. J.
Sattler
Yankton, Mrs. J. Ward, Silver Circle.
COLORADO— $212.05.
Received by Rev. H. Sanderson :
Boulder $2 85
Crested Butte 16 25
Denver, First 30 00
Ladies' Aid Soc. of the
First, by Mrs. B. C.
Valentine, Treas. W. H.
M. U 3000
Second 10 00
Plymouth 40 00
Y. P. S. C. E 500
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E 1500
Grand Junction 3 00
Highland Lake 25 00
2 90
5 °°
S 92
3 °°
13 10
10 00
5 00
1 49
5 00
WYOMING-$6.75.
Wheatland, by Rev. J. M. Brown.
MONTANA— $36.33.
Bigtitnber, by Rev. W. J. Hannah. . .
Horse Plains, by Rev. W. S. Bell...
Laurel, by Rev. J. Pope
6 75
30 00
1 33
5 00
6 45
10 00
15 95
UTAH— $5.00.
Provo, by Rev. M. H. Mead.
IDAHO-$g.5o.
Hope, by Rev. V. W. Roth
Genesee, Idaho, and Uniontown,
Wash., by Rev. W. C. Fowler
CALIFORNIA-$35.4o.
Fresno, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Legler
Highland, S. S., of the Ch. of Christ,
by S. H. Barrett
Los Angeles, Rev. G. A. Rawson, by
Rev. T- T. Ford
Sierra Valley, Pilgrim, by Rev. L.
Wallace
*7 °° OREGON— $20.06.
7 °° Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. D.
5 °° Palmer, Treas. :
Sherwood $2 00
Wilsonville 8 00
5 °3
Forest Grove, S. S., by Rev. C. F.
10 2° Clapp
S °° Portland, Ladies' H. M. Soc. of the
First, by Rev. D. B. Gray
Sheridan and Willamina, by Rev. F.
O. Krause
WASHINGTON— $135.85.
Ellensburg, by Rev. S. D. Belt 16 00
Redmond, Highland, and Bellevue,
by Rev. W. J. Faulkner 1 35
Seattle. Rev. A. J. Bailey, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
Skokomish, by Rev. M. Eells 2 50
Spokane, Second, by Rev. W. Davies. 16 00
Collection at Woman's Annual Meet-
ing, special 262 40
Home Missionary 28 30
10
00
2
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5
00
2
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Contributions in June, excluding contributions for the debt $8,713 88
Legacies in June 2,502 22
Contributions for the debt in June 3.506 6i
Total receipts in June 814,722 71
Contributions for the debt to July 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $84,456 58
Special for debt 8,417 20
$92,873 78
Donations of Clothing, etc.
Bridgewater, N. Y.. Woman's Miss.
Soc, by Mrs. D. S. Wood, box and
cash $72 78
Closter, N. J., Ladies' Soc. and Do
Something Band, by Miss Mabel Still
man. box 35 25
Elmira. N. Y.. Sewing Soc. of Park Ch.,
by Mrs. A. Wyckoff, box 71 37
Keene, N. H., Home Miss. Assoc, of
First Ch., barrel and cash 105 00
Montclair, N. J., Mrs. W. W. Egbert,
package.
Norfolk, Conn . L. H. M. S., by Mrs.
R. I. Crissey, box 12524
St. Louis, Mo., Ladies' Aid Soc. of First
Ch, by Mrs. J. Anderson, two barrels
and two packages Jn5 00
Simsbury, Conn., L. H. M. S., by Mrs.
A. J. Holcomb, box 65 00
Washington, Conn., Homeland Circle,
by Mrs. E. Mitchell, barrel 61 co
Washington, D. C, W. M. S. of Fifth
Ch., by Mrs. E. D. Farnham. barrel.. 25 00
Windsor Locks, Conn., L. H. M. S., by
Mrs. H. R. Coffin, barrel 75 17
Donations of Clothing, etc., received and reported at the rooms of the Woman's Home
Missionary Association in June, 1S96. Mrs. LOUISE A. KELLOGG,
Secretary
Concord. Aux , by Miss Harriet J.
Hubbard, barrel $137 85
Newtonville. Charity Square, by Mrs.
M. H. Binney. barrel 35 64
Providence. R. I., Central Ch., Aux., by
Mrs. T. B. Stockwell. barrel 145 74
Swampscott, Aux., by MissH. B. Story,
barrel 40 00
Walpole. Aux., by Mrs. Clara A. Piper,
br ix and barrel . . $130 00
Westboro, L. S. C, by Mrs. O. K. New-
ton, barrel .... 66 73
Westhampton, L. B. S., by Miss Louisa
J. Montague, barrel 41 25
$597 21
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from May 20 to June 20, 1896.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Barre $10 8c
Bridgewater 8 15
Brownington and Barton Landing 1600
Calais. East 420
Castleton 445
Cambridge. Mr. and Mrs. Madison Saf-
ford 10 00
Colchester 1335
Corinth. East 10 00
Craf tsbury , East 13 00
Danby 1 88
Y. P. S. C. E 72
Eden 2 00
Fairfield 5 00
Ferrisburg 16 50
Franklin 10 92
Guildhall 600
Hartland 16 15
S. S 1 00
Island Pond $15 25
Londonderry 4 00
Northfield 20 27
Orleans County Conference 10 00
Proctor 415
Randolph, West, First Ch 24 03
Roxbury 12 00
Rutland 50 00
St Johnsbury, North Ch 34 16
Rev. Henry Fairbanks 360 00
Salisbury 2250
Strafford 36 00
Wardsboro, South 4 55
Williamstown 10 00
Woodbury, South 10 82
Vermont Missionary 2 30
W. H. M. U 261 52
$1,031 58
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Receipts from June 6 to June 20, 1896
Burke, East
Y. P. S. C. E
Fairfield , East
Lyndonville
For C. H. M. S
Marshfield
Norwich, Rev. N. R. Nichols.
Peacham
$2 75
2 OO
3 42
Stowe
Westminster
Windham
Banks Fund
Annual col. at Bradford
J>21 22
12 08
5 9°
I 00
31 93
$i35 16
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in June, 1896. Rev. Edwin
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor :
Gardner, First, Sunday-school, by
Frank E. Lavallee $100 00
Groton, A Friend, and to const. Mrs.
William S. Palmer of Coshocton, O.,
a L. M. of C. H. M. S 100 co
Pittsfield, A Friend 100 00
Spencer, First, by F. E. Dunton, and
to const. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. N.
Prouty L. Ms. of C. H. M. S., 3i
shares 350 00
Woman's Home Missionary Associa-
tion, by Miss M. L. Woodberry,
Asst. Treas. :
Middleboro , Eddyville, Pratt,
Mrs. F. R $10000 100 00
$750 00
Agawam, Feeding Hills, by Miss J. A.
Bailey 18 00
Amesbury, Main St.,byC. F. Hovey... 20 07
Ashburnham, First, by M. M. Stowe. ... 25 11
Bank balances, May interest on 21 16
Barnstable, West, by Rev. S. W. Clarke 5 od
Boston, A Friend, " M. S. A." 10 00
A Friend, " S." 12 00
Allston, S. S., by J. E. Lounsbury 4 00
Roxbury, Eliot, by Alpine M. McLean 30 45
Immanuel, by Francis J. Ward 159 63
Wal. Ave., by F. O. Whitney 68 60
Thayer, Misses M. E. and F. G 10 00
Boxford, West, by Rev. C. L. Hubbard 2 73
Cambridgeport, Wood Mem'l, by James
H. Robinson, to const. Rev. I. W.
SneathaL. M. of C. H. M. S 50 00
Chelmsford, Central, by Charles J. So-
derburg 20 20
Chelsea, Third, by John Bell 18 53
Chicago, 111., partial proceeds of Howe
St. Est., with $1,500 note at 6 per cent. 2,300 00
Douglas, First, by Rev. A. B. Peffers .. 10 00
Erving, by Rev. J. W. Brownville 5 00
Everett, Allen, Mary P., for debt. . . 5 00
Framingham, Plymouth, by John H.
Temple 62 00
Gardner, First S. School, by Frank A.
Lavallee. in addition to share in Roll
of Honor, for debt 39 21
Y. P. S. C. E., by W. H. Merton 21 44
Granby, First, by Rev. R. C. Bell 40 00
Greenfield, First, by Rev. Cary H. Wat-
son, for debt 27 00
Hadlev, First, by J. N. Pierce 25 68
Hale, E. J. M. fund, Income of $2686
Hard wick, Gilbertville, by A. H. Rich-
ardson, to const. Mrs. Silas Barlow
and Ambrose Heath L. Ms 147 59
Hudson, Y. P. S. C. E., by A. T. Knight 5 00
Hyde Park, First, by E. A. Runnells. . . 72 80
Ipswich, First, Lend-a-hand Soc, by
Rev. E. Constant 6 00
Kingston, Mayflower, by Mrs. M. H.
Peckham 25 00
Lawrence, South, by G. F. Merrick.... 8 32
Lowell, French Ch., by Rev. T. G. A.
Cote1 36 00
Pawtucket, by J. J. Colton,
M.D., for local Armenian
work $1000
By J. J. Colton, M.D., for
local Greek work 10 00
Maiden, S. M. S 3 00
Marion, A Friend 2 00
Medford, West, S. School, by A. H.
Wyatt 15 02
Middleton, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss L. P.
Fletcher 2 50
Millbury, First, by Miss Carolyn C.
Waters 3410
Millis, by Rev. A. H. Wheelock 9 00
Newbury, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by Eliz-
abeth H. Little 11 11
Newburyport, North, by J. B. Creasey. 15 18
Newton (Center), First, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by W. H . Rice 5 00
Eliot, by George N. Putnam, for local
Armenian work 25 00
S. School, by Geo. R. McFarlin. ... 19 86
Newtonville Central, S. School, by
A. E. Wyman, for Rev. Richard
Harper, Darlington, Ok 2500
Peabody, South, by B. N. Moore 148 00
Plainfield, by Rev. J. A. Woodhull 7 82
Plymouth, Manomet, by Rev. Geo. Ster-
ling S 00
Plympton, by Edwin Perkins, Taft
thank-offering 9 00
Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Mary Bisbee.. 4 25
Silver Lake, Y. P. S. C. E., by Harry
W. Clemons 1 00
Quincy, Wollaston, by E. L. Robbins. . . 156 00
Rochester, East, by Rev. V. J. Harts-
horne 9 00
North, by A. K. Small 200
Rockland, Shaw, Mary N., for debt 10 00
Sharon, by D. W. Pettee 21 38
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Somerville Highlands, by J. E. Skilton.
Prospect Hill, by George W. Snow.. .
Springfield, CAPITALS
First, by Henry G. Camp
Olivet S. School, by C. VV. Burnett. . .
Watertown, Phillips, by Moses Fuller . .
Whitcomb, David, fund. Income of.
Woman's Home Missionary Association,
by Miss M. L. Woodberry, Asst.
Treas. :
$19 51
30 76
15 00
106 00
Boston, Roxbury, Eliot Aux., for debt
of C. H.M. S $43 00
Wal. Ave. Aux., towardssal-
ary of Rev. S. Deakin 10 61
150 °° Home Missionary.
- $53 61
S5.207 48
2 70
$5,210 18
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in June, il
Treasurer
Ward W. Jacobs,
Abington, see Pomfret.
Barkhamsted, Riverton, by D. F. Ran-
som $12 00
Branford, by L. ',. Nichols 19 25
For C. H. M. S 19 25
Bridgeport, King's Highway, by F. W.
Storrs 511
Broad Brook, see East Windsor.
Canton, Collinsville, Swedish, Pilgrim,
by L. P. Olson 12 50
Cheshire, by F. N. Hall 1378
Colchester, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M.
S.. by Ella S. Cragin 3 00
Collinsville, Swedish, Pilgrim, see Can-
ton.
Cornwall, Second, by H. M. Pratt 26 85
Coventry. South Coventry, by J. S.
Morgan, for C. H. M. S 47 59
Durham, by Henry H. Newton 18 50
East Windsor, First, by E. G. Morton.. 25 00
Broad Brook, by S. B. Adams, for C.
H. M. S 10 50
Juniors, by Rev. D. E. Jones 2 00
Ladies, for C. H. M. S 8 00
Ellington, by H. L. James, for C. H.
M. S 184 42
Greens Farms, see Westport.
Hartford, Wethersfield Avenue, by
Rev. S. B. Forbes
Windsor Avenue, by Henry H. Pease.
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur....
Nepaug, see New Hartford.
New Hartford, Nepaug, by J. B. Spen-
cer
New Haven, College Street, by Samuel
Lloyd
Plymouth, Terryville, by A. B. Beach..
Pomfret, Abington. by Rev. E. B. Pike.
Riverton, see Barkhamsted.
Salem, by Rev. E. W. Merritt
Somers, by L. W. Percival, for C. H.
M. S
South Coventry, see Coventry.
Terryville, see Plymouth.
Torrington, Third, by Frank M.
Wheeler
Wallingford, by J. N. Piatt
Westport, Greens Farms, by ^ilas B.
Sherwood
Windsor, First, by S. H. Barber
Mrs. George Bradford, of Southbridge,
Mass
fi6 02
55 10
27 89
9» 3i
9 50
31 54
45 25
3 00
$955 13
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in June, 1S96.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer
Bridgeport
Butternut
Carson City
Conklin
Garden
Grand Ledge
Sailor's Encampment
Sugar Island, Payment
Westwood
W. H. M. U., by Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Tr.
Total "
Receipts of the W. H. M. U. of Michigan
in June, 1896. Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
Treas. :
SENIOR FUND
Ann Arbor, W. H. M. S
I
71
10
00
40
53
2
1X1
5
00
26
16
Big Prairie, by Mrs. Mary Barton
Cnarlotte, L. B. S
Cheboygan, W. H. M. S
Grand Rapids, Plymouth Ch., W. M. S.
Greenville. W. H. M. S
Hudson, W. M. S
Manistee, W. H. M. S
Muskegon, First Ch., W. M. S
Ovid, General Missionary Society
Salem, Second, W. H. M. S
Stanton, W. H. M. U., of which $5.70 is
thank-offering
Three Oaks. W. M. S
Watervliet, W. H. & F. M. S
West Adrian, W. M. S
$55 00
$0 50
25 00
12 00
8 60
4 00
4 00
25 00
45 00
3 °°
5 °°
9 59
6 87
2 23
5 00
$2TO 79
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis, So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1S81
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
T? -easzirer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson. Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St..
Topeka.
Treastirer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational Presidetit, Mrs. Sydney Strong. Lane Seminary
House, Boston. Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega- Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, The Morris,
tional House. Boston. Cleveland.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre- Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
gational House, Boston. St., Toledo.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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g. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New-
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. W. H. Boals. Fargo.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs,. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treastirer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June, 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
D^s Moines.
ig. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry. Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt. Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treastirer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary,
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St., President, Mrs. C. M Crawford, Hammond
Los Angeles Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 152 North Gal-
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena „, „/ez St., New Orleans.
Ave. Los Angeles. Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, St-> New Orleans.
Riverside.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. W. J. Van Patten, Burlington. President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor. versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns- Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith, 304 Gilmer St.,
bury. Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
c ivrDe?uer"i -iir , ti „ t^ President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508. Denver. Secretary \
Treasurer,Mrs. B.C. Valentine, Highlands. and' iMiss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, \
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple, Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., Presidenty Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
Helena.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.
Secretary , Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer. Miss Mar}' Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. J. H. Parker, Kingfisher.
Secretary. Mrs. J. E. Piatt. Guthrie.
Treasurer. Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March. 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford. Montclair.
Secretary. Mrs. J. D. Hagerman. Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. D. Nutting-, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President, Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage. Rapid City. Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
' 42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
Treasurer, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German- Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland,. Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak
Rev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. Rev. W. S. Hawkes Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. L. P. Broad .'. Topeka, Kan, Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. E. H. Ashmun Albuquerque, N. M. Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
Rev. A. Judson Bailey Seatt.e, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapp , Forest Grove, Ore.
Rev. T. G. Grassie Ashland, Wis. -r, j. ,y jONES r> t-> J 511 Woodland Terrace,
pe„ A A R„^w*r (Black Hills and Wyoming. ' ' " J > " | Philadelphia, Pa.
Kev. a. A. brown. .^ Hot Springs> South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross,'D.D Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama). .Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John .L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hillman, Secretary . New Hampshire Home Miss. Society. . . .Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " " ... .Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " " . . . .St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " " " " St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " I 9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " ( Boston, Mass,
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " " ... .Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " " " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer " " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. , Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary.. Illinois " " " / 153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " " " " f Chicago, III.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
C M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " " " Grinnell, Iowa.
J. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. William H. Warren, D.D., Secretary ..Michigan " " ^ " Lansing, Mich.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " .... St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Communications
relating to general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.
Communications relating to the Editorial Department of The Home Missionary may be addressed to Rev.
Alex. H. Clapp, D.D. Correspondence of the Woman's Department may be addressed to Mrs. H. S.
Caswell, Bible House, New York.
Donations and Subscriptions
in Drafts, Checks, Registered Letters, or Post-Office Orders may be addressed to Wm. B. Howland,
Treasurer, Bible House, Astor Place, New York.
A PAYMENT OF $50 CONSTITUTES A LIFE MEMBER
Form of a Bequest
I bequeath to my executors the sum of dollars, in trust, to pay over the same,
in months after my decease, to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, formed in the City of New York, in the year eighteen hundred
and twenty-six, to be applied to the charitable use and purposes of said Society, and under its direction.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Bible House, Astor Place, New York
Major-General Oliver O. Howard
President
Rev. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, D.D., Honorary Treasurer
Sec7retaries for Correspondence
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
Rev. William Kincaid, D.D.
Rev. Washington Choate, D.D.
Mr. WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, Treasurer
Executive Committee
Wm. Ives Washburn, Esq., Chairman
Asa A. Spear, Esq., Recording Secretary
Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D.
Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D.
Mr. Joseph Wm. Rice
Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D.
Mr. George P. Stockwell
Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D.
Rev. John D. Kingsbury, D.D.
Mr. George W. Hebard
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Rev. Thomas B. McLeod, D.D.
Rev. Robert R. Meredith, D.D.
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Contents for September, 1896
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XIV —A Week in the Clouds, 241
The Work of the Iowa Band. . . . 247
Our Society a Debtor 252
Our Work Among Scandinavians, 257
A Typical Western Mining Camp, 262
Visit to a Home Missionary
Church 263
How Can We Help the Home
Missionaries ? 264
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Month's Work of an Evangelist. . 265
One Week with the Home Mis-
sionary 266
El Paso (Texas) Jail Work 271
Not Discouraged in Frontier
Work 272
Personal Letter from Rev. James
Hayes 273
Yet Another Good Book, Free. . . . 274
The Treasury 275
The Howard Roll of Honor 275
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NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XIV. — A Week in the Clouds
T will be remembered that in 1879 Mr. West took the writer's out-
station work off his hands and started a church at Manitou.
The latter had been in Denver less than a year before Mr. West
was called to the Second Church, and thus the two friends became minis-
terial neighbors for the third time. Rev. Mr. Bickford had been preach-
ing for some time at Breckenridge, a mining town in the very center of the
mountains and among some of the grandest ranges in Colorado. The alti-
tude was such (9,590 feet above the sea) that common garden vegetables
could not be raised. The winter snows were deep, but the summer climate
was a delight. By dint of hard work with his hands, and generous gifts
from his pocket, Mr. Bickford had got a neat church building erected, and
also a parsonage secured. The parsonage was not a palace, but it was a
good, comfortable frame building of four or five rooms. He wrote to
these two brethren to come up and help dedicate the church. " Come
early in the week ; we will go to the mines ; we will collect crystals ; we
will climb mountains ; I will be your guide, and then on Sunday you are
to help me all you can."
The invitation was too tempting to be refused, and they both promised
to go. It was over 100 miles, and a glorious ride it was for two tired
ministers after the work of Sunday. For the first twenty miles there were
only quiet farm-houses, fields of grain, alder groves, and undulating prairies.
Then all at once the train, as if it had been hunting for a favorable place to
pierce the mountains, turned to the right and plunged into a rocky gorge
where the rocks rose hundreds of feet above the track and the roaring
river was dashing in white foam over the rocks, now on one side of the
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PLATTE CANON AND RIVER, COLORADO
track and now on the other. For fifty miles they followed the tortuous
windings of the Platte Canon and River. Then a few miles of steep grades
and sharp curves, and the train was on Kenosha Hill, 10,200 feet above
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the sea. Then down hill they went and across the smooth floor of South
Park, then up hill to the summit of Breckenridge Pass on the Continental
Divide, 11,750 feet above the sea. Then twelve miles down through dense
forests, along dizzy precipices and around strange loops, and they were at
Breckenridge. The train came out on the brow of a hill far above the
town, then it ran down hill, bent up the valley a mile or two, and then
down into the town. Five lines of track could be seen from one place as
the travelers looked down the hill. It had taken the train two hours to go
the last twenty miles ; in other words, to climb a hill over 2,000 feet high,
and then crawl down it on the other side.
No pastor ever looked from his study upon a finer mountain view than
did the pastor at Breckenridge. His guests could lie in their beds in the
early morning and see the sun throw its beautiful rosy light upon one snowy
peak after another of the great mountain range that rose a mile into the air
just across the valley.
One day the three ministers took the train back nearly to the summit
of the Pass. They left it near the timber line and climbed to the top of
Mount Hamilton, 13,800 feet high. They looked down upon the beautiful
South Park and out in every direction upon a vast stretch of mountain
ranges and bald, jagged peaks spotted with vast snow beds or covered with
black forests of pine and spruce, and interspersed with green valleys and
beautiful parks. They looked down upon a large part of the Colorado
missionary field, and before they left the summit they had a delightful sea-
son of prayer for the brethren and the churches scattered here and there
among those great ranges and along the edge of the wide plains. Surely
they were near to God, and God was near to them.
The next day they went several miles up one of the great valleys or
gulches, out of which several million dollars in gold had been taken. They
found many specimens of iridescent pyrites, so brilliant and beautiful that
it seemed to be good medicine for weak eyes. Another day they climbed
Mineral Hill, sat for hours on the dump of a mine, and broke out of por-
phyry rock many perfect feldspar crystals that were covered with beautiful
tracings or sprays like "forest rock." Towards night, with heavy sacks of
specimens on their shoulders, they walked home five miles in a pouring
rain. That evening they sat and dried themselves by a rousing fire of pine
logs and knots in the old-fashioned fireplace at the parsonage, and talked
of mountains, minerals, and missions.
On Sunday Mr. West preached the dedication sermon, and in the even-
ing the writer preached at a union service in the Methodist church. It
was a happy day to all concerned, especially to the brother who had
worked so hard with brain and muscle and pocketbook to get that church
built. While he remained on that field he looked diligently after all the
mining towns in that region, and organized churches in three or four of
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them. Occasionally he would cross the lofty range near by, sometimes
at the risk of his life, to spend a Sabbath in two mining towns on the
other side. If the whole story of his labors on that field were written
out, it would make a thrilling tale of home missionary work in the moun-
tains.
Tuesday morning was cloudy and rainy, and the two Denver ministers
concluded to start for home. At Rocky Point, where there were dizzy
heights above and dizzy depths below, a huge rock had been loosened by
the rain and fallen on the track. It was discovered in time to prevent
accident. Snow, rain, clouds above and clouds below, swirling masses of
clouds all around, the swiftly rushing stream left behind by the swifter
train, so through the parks and over the passes and down through the
canons they came to the level plains again, thankful to their Heavenly
Father and to the mountain missionary and his good wife for all the
delights of one of the pleasantest weeks they had ever spent.
During that same summer (1882) the writer spent another week in the
clouds, at Seven Lakes, which are very near the timber line and only three
or four miles from the summit of Pike's Peak. He was there in July and
enjoyed the morning frosts, the afternoon hailstorms, and a snowstorm in
which he was caught on Pike's Peak, the roaring pine fires at night, the
boat rides on the lake, the wonderful echo near the log hotel, the long
trips into wild and lonely places where human feet rarely tread, and where
he kept a sharp lookout for bears and bison and mountain lions, whose
tracks were occasionally seen. When he left Denver the strawberry season
was well over ; at 9,000 feet the delicious wild strawberries were just in
season ; at 12,000 feet they were only just in blossom.
Climbing the western slope of Bald Mountain early one morning, he
reached the summit just in time to encounter a dense cloud that had been
coming up its eastern slope. It suddenly grew dark, and he was quickly
enveloped in a swirling mass of vapor so that he could see only a few feet
in any direction. All was cold, gloomy, and dark. He knew he had
reached the summit, but where was the glorious outlook for which he had
toiled patiently upward? Suddenly there was a gleam of light in front of
him, and in a moment more the cloud had swept past and was floating
off to the west, while beneath him were 10,000 square miles of mountains
and plains, of valleys and forests, with the glorious sun shining over
all. And he said to himself : Like this will be the Christian's death ; one
moment in the dark cloud, struggling with the decaying elements of the
natural world, and the next moment there will burst upon him the
glory of the immortal life. He will gaze with enraptured eyes upon
the mountains and the plains, the hills and the valleys of Paradise, while
the earthly life of toil and trouble and the dark cloud of death float away
forever.
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THE WORK OF THE IOWA BAND
By Rev. Ephraim Adams, of Waterloo, Iowa
[One of the most interesting incidents of the Annual Meeting in New Haven was the
appearance before it of Rev. Ephraim Adams, one of the few survivors of the famed
Iowa Band, who, leaving Andover Seminary on their graduation in 1843, made their way
across the Mississippi, found their places, and laid the strong and sure foundations, social,
educational, moral, and religious, of that forming State, now one of the grandest and
most influential of the Western commonwealths. Our readers cannot fail to be deeply
interested in the experience of this veteran, now in his seventy-eighth year, who, as pas-
tor and for fourteen years this Society's Superintendent for Iowa, has been privileged to
see and take part in the growth of the 325 churches of the Pilgrim faith which adorn the
history and assure the future of the State — yea, which are doing much for the spiritual
welfare of the entire Northwest. — Ed.]
As a representative of the Iowa Band, and that you may catch a glimpse
of its humble part in a great work, let me call your attention first to the
time and the situation of its going forth.
It was in the autumn of 1843, fifty-three years ago. That was but a
few years after the Western emigrant began to cross the great river for
a home in the frontier Territory of Iowa. The settlements had advanced
but about forty miles beyond the river and were scattered one from the
other. All beyond even the most of what is now Iowa was a wilderness,
untrodden save by the Indian, the deer, and the buffalo. No Minnesota to
the north, no Dakotas to the northwest ; to the west no Nebraska, no Kan-
sas, no anything, on even to the Pacific. The population gathered upon
that narrow strip up and down the river numbered but a few thousands.
Some schools had been started, and a few churches of various kinds planted.
Of our own order there were fourteen, with a membership of about 400.
To care for these churches and the new openings there were six men.
Noble, faithful men they were, but entirely unable to occupy the fields rap-
idly opening around them. This inability those brethren had felt most
painfully, and so were calling for help. For some time they had eagerly
called, but in vain, till the cry for help was turned almost to a cry of despair ;
for the West then, as a mission field, especially the extreme West, was con-
sidered far, very far away, as morally barren and destitute, full of ague and
fever, but empty of the conveniences and comforts of civilized life. Indeed,
as a mission field it was declared by some as little preferable, if any at all,
to one in the heart of Africa. So it was that if, in response to. the appeal
of those far-off brethren, any started to reach them, it seemed as though
they never would do so, but were sure to drop into openings by the way.
We might here pause to recount the steps that led to the formation
of the Band, to narrate the incidents of the journey out, first by rail from
Boston to Buffalo, the termination of the railroad travel westward, then by
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boat around the lakes from Buffalo to Chicago, thence by prairie schooner
and stage across Illinois, across the river twelve miles into the Territory, to
Denmark, the immediate destination on the field. Much of interest could
be said of the New Hampshire colony of Denmark, the cradle of Iowa
Congregationalism, the place where the first of the five churches already
alluded to was organized, the first church, by the way, of our order now
extant ever organized west of the Mississippi ; Denmark, the place where
lived the first Iowa planter, that remarkable man, Rev. Asa Turner, by
.all acknowledged as the patriarch of the Iowa ministry, whose counsels,
with those of his brethren, we were to follow as to our particular fields of
labor. I might tell how seven of our number were there ordained, and
after ordination of our being assembled in the pastor's study to receive, as
we supposed, from the brethren specific directions as to the fields each was
to occupy; how, instead of this, the brethren, with map in hand, pointed
out and described the points that most needed to be occupied, then retired,
leaving it to us to decide where each should go. Yes ; and how, after a
brief prayer, in twenty minutes, somehow it was decided to the satisfaction
of all ; so that each went out from that gathering with his place in view ;
went out soon to be scattered hundreds of miles apart, never more all
of them at any one time at the same place to meet on earth. All these
things, for the want of time, we must dismiss by a mere reference to them,
and fix our eyes for a moment upon these new workers, these young and
inexperienced workers in a new and untried field. How did they find their
work, how get hold of it, and settle into it ?
The settlements being scattered, communication between them some-
times by bridle-path only, the streams bridgeless, and the sloughs well nigh
bottomless, the first necessity, of course, was a horse. This was the saddle
period of home missionary labor. But as for a home and a study, where
and what ? Well, one found himself in a lean-to of a hotel, and " boarding
'round " in schoolmaster fashion, accepting proffered board in families that
could cat, but not sleep him ; giving credit therefor to the Society as part
payment of the $400 stipulated. Another found his study in a lean-to of a
store, with but a thin partition between the studies on one side, and the
traffic and gossip on the other, where, if he was not careful to shut the door
as he went out, the pigs were sure to go in. Another, who had planned for
a quiet room and writing two sermons a week, was of necessity in the sad-
dle much of the time, his stool and candle and bed in one end of a living
room with only a bedquilt for a partition.
But there must have been hardships and privations then. Oh, yes, to
some extent, in common with the people. But pioneer experiences begat
pioneer friendships and sympathies. But what about fever and ague and
malaria of a new country ? Not much. Sickness and death are everywhere.
Not more, on the whole, there than elsewhere. For myself, not in boast-
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ing, but in gratitude, I am able to say that in all my Iowa life, I have
never had the ague, never a fever, have never been confined a whole day
to my bed by any kind of sickness, have never failed of meeting a dozen
appointments from any cause whatsoever. And yet, there were sometimes
lonely hours in those early days — hours that threw one back upon the
impulses and purposes of life that God had put within him.
Let me give you a picture. It is a beautiful autumn morning. That
rider, whose horse is evidently feeling the exhilaration of the frosty air, is
going out after a month or two of experience upon his field, to some set-
tlement not far away. The open prairies, at first in their verdure of green
so fascinating, are now a wild waste about him, blackened by frost and
fire. So, too, has the poetry of Western life and his Western work already
vanished. He begins to see things as they are. As he ponders the situa-
tion, his thoughts were something on this wise : Here I am alone. All I
have is myself, my trusty horse, a few books, the clothes I wear, and that
little debt at the seminary. I came here to preach. I thought the people
were destitute, and eager to hear. But they are just as careless and
indifferent as elsewhere, and more worldly, I do believe. I thought the
churches and the preachers were few. But here the people come from
every quarter, each, if he cares for any church at all, anxious for his own,
and a preacher for each is waiting at every turn. Of all the denomina-
tions here and there, more than I ever heard of before, my own is among
the least known and least cared for. I came here to preach, but there are
no churches to preach to, no houses to preach in, nothing organized,
nothing started, and nobody to help, really. And here I have come to
live. What if sickness or accident should come and I be laid aside, what
then ? The foreign missionary is cared for, but for the Home Missionary,
what ? Lonely, almost sad is he for a moment. But he rallies. His
saddle exercise has sent the quick blood coursing through his veins. The
autumn sun ascending towards the zenith is sending down upon him its
warm rays, and somehow he feels that God and his love are everywhere,
that though autumn is, and winter is to come, yet the blackened prairies
are to bloom again. He thinks how the advancing tide of a Christian
civilization is to cover them with homes and the fruits of husbandry and
toil. Here, he says, is spiritual seed to be sown and spiritual harvests are
to come, and here it is mine to sow the seed, and this will I do, whoever
the reapers may be.
Take another picture, showing how in this purpose he is strengthened
and encouraged. It is after the first three months upon his field are ended.
In the bi-weekly or tri-weekly mail there comes a letter. Its postmark is
New York. The twenty-five cents postage is paid and the letter is taken
to his room and opened. In it is a check, the Society's first payment for
services rendered. It seems to him as sacred money, for he knows how
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the missionary money is raised and given in his own New England church.
He thinks of the widows' mites that he knows must be there. He thinks
of the prayers that go with the gifts. He reads the cheery words of the
Secretary in that letter, generally signed Milton Badger, and then it comes
over him that he is the channel through which gifts and prayers are to
flow. He must be faithful, he must be in earnest. A thought that often
comes to him not only to cheer, but for new consecration, as at other
times and in other ways, he finds that he is in a great work, the workers
many, he the almoner and servant of all.
In due time, your young men took to themselves wives. Helpmates
are needed in home missionary work, if anywhere. Homes are made and
children born. They are neighbors now, and citizens identified with the
interests where they dwell. The Territory becomes a State, a State whose
resources as they begin to be developed show it a glorious field.
Having happily coalesced with the brethren before them, all becoming
as one man, the new State growing rapidly, with new openings around
them and new churches to be formed, a hearty welcome was given to the
new helpers who came to join them ; all were workers together. So it was
that they found their work, that they got hold of it, and got into it, and
now they hold to it. Much was in this as to all the future. Once in the
work, they held to it.
I do not know as it can be said of the members of the Band that they
were particularly brilliant or highly gifted. But of them there is one thing
that can be said. In addition to being honest, faithful workers, they had a
staying quality ; they went to Iowa for a life work. As a rule, they have
made it so. Of the eleven composing the Band, six have passed on before.
One early returned to his present home by the Eastern sea, leaving four
yet spared upon the field. It is their privilege to look back on the wonder-
ful developments of the half-century past. Iowa no longer a frontier
Territory, but a State central among States. Instead of the fourteen
churches, with their membership of 400, they now number 325, with a
membership of over 30,000. Not that we and our brethren of the Band
have done it all ; no. no, a little part only.
As to the whole work, simply this. In it and out of it and through it all
even a little force, constantly at work, helps much for the grand result. As
the State has been growing, and the churches multiplying, in it and of it.
In legislation sometimes, in it a little, by acquaintance and influence with
legislators.
We have our Iowa College, of which we are not ashamed. In it also,
we helped to raise funds at the start. Two of our members were among
its early professors, and three are now, and always have been on its Board
of Trustees. In our annual Association some have always been present.
If you will pardon a personal reference, it has been my privilege to attend
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every one for the last fifty years, with one exception, and that was when
the death angel was hanging over the home.
Somehow, there has grown up a peculiar fellowship among the brethren,
giving a warmth and glow to our gatherings which strangers are not slow
to observe. We have been in this, too, and of it. In those early days at
the start of things, with no established usages or precedents to bind us, we
were at liberty to adapt matters to our own needs, and so we did, improv-
ing somewhat, as we think, upon even good old New England ways. We
framed our Associations to take in the churches as well as ministers. We
soon learned to form churches without societies. We threw open our
colleges to the daughters as well as the sons. Feeling its need, we had a
church building fund for the building of churches, before our Eastern friends
would tolerate the idea. In these things, too, we were in and of them.
At the time of our country's need, Iowa stood forth nobly to do her part.
For this had she been prepared by our churches, as much as by those of
any other order. As to liberty and freedom they gave no uncertain sound
in the early days when to be an abolitionist was a reproach. In this, too,
in and of it. In all the progress made, as I have said, in it, of it, and
through it all. Yes, you must allow us to say that, to us who are spared, it
gives pleasure as we think of the past. We thank God that our steps
were turned to Iowa at such a time, not only for the relief of the brethren
then on the field, but to be joined with them in our labors in the very seed
time of Iowa's history. We have been told that our going out at the time
and in a body as we did had something to do with bringing the Eastern
churches really to believe that the purity of their doctrine and the
simplicity of their policy could be carried even to the West ; that our
going out as we did turned the attention of the churches to, and greatly
increased their interest in the Western work ; that after our going, it was
much easier to obtain laborers for the Western field than before. These
things, it is true, were not of our planning, but of God's working. But they
are pleasant to think of.
And now, remembering our early associations with this Society, our
relations to it as Home Missionaries, that up to 1882, the time when we
came to self-support, there were scarce a dozen of our churches but what
at times had been receiving home missionary aid, as to the little part we
have had in the great work, it is a pleasure to bring it here as a tribute of
praise to the noble part which this Society is doing in building not a State
only but a nation, and all for the kingdom of God on earth.
" They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear-
ing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves."
— Ps. cxxxvi. 5, 6.
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OUR SOCIETY A DEBTOR
By Rev. A. J. Lyman, D.D., of Brooklyn, N. Y.
[The following is the substance of an address delivered by Dr. Lyman at the Society's
annual meeting in New Haven, June 3d, after the presentation of Secretary Choate's
paper, " The Seventieth Year." Securing the good will of his audience by a few words
of humorous introduction, Dr. Lyman spoke in effect as follows. — Ed.]
Dr. Choate has been very happy, in both senses of the word, in the
admirable paper which he has read to us to-night. The paper itself is
felicitous, clear and comprehensive, with a beautiful symmetry of state-
ment and luminous perspective, like a kind of telescope, through whose
revolving sweep we survey the entire land. And Dr. Choate has himself,
also, been happy in writing this paper. It is distinctly pervaded by an
undertone of jubilation, and I do not wonder at this, when one thinks of
the account presented of achievement, of progress, of this splendid sep-
tendecennial (if this isn't right, somebody correct it) anniversary of this
Society. Seventy years old ! There never was a spryer septuagenarian.
And so the paper is a schedule for a " praise service." Indeed, I seem
to see at the end of it a kind of foot-note, a sort of stage direction, as it
were, reading, " Music by the full band ! " And the facts warrant the
music. Sometimes we whistle to keep our courage up. I have heard that
kind of whistle several times from the Bible House in New York clear
over in Brooklyn. To-night we sing, because our courage is up. In all
this picture which the Secretary has drawn, the sharp anxieties with which
the year opened, the magnificent advance of the year itself allaying many
of these anxieties, while reenforcing the sense both of opportunity and
obligation, the peremptory claims and calls of the opening fields in
Northern Minnesota and Utah, the enlarging power of the State auxilia-
ries in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Kansas, the vast and crowding work
among our foreign population in half a score of States and Territories, to
say nothing of the attractive and menacing condition in the cities at home,
among Bohemians, Poles, Italians, Magyars — in all this great panorama,
at once inspiring and challenging, we discern the one common impression
of a grand and reasonable hopefulness, until I can actually see the doctor
smiling to himself as he wrote down these figures of the grand total of
receipts for the year, $777,747 — practically six sevens. There is some-
thing as uplifting as a geyser spring in such a felicitous conjunction of
sevens in connection with this seventieth anniversary.
Down in Hertfordshire, England, I heard of a farmer who came home
late one night and drank off a pint of yeast, supposing it to be buttermilk.
They said it didn't hurt him any, but he rose three hours earlier the next
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morning. This occasion and this paper seem to me pervaded by a very-
good sort of Congregational yeast, something, at any rate, which should
lead men to be up and doing early in the morning.
But, brethren, over against this jubilant note is a note of command.
Christian enthusiasm is never a flash-in-the-pan. Opportunity is obliga-
tion. For example, this Society, it is said, is now practically out of
debt. In the immediate financial sense that is, on the whole, in a way
true, but, in a deeper sense, it is not true. The Congregational Home
Missionary Society now owes it to the churches of America to get in debt
no more.
And there is still another debt, a glorious debt, of which I would speak
to-night. There are debts which paralyze, and there are debts which
exalt, transfigure, and inspire. The debt of which I would speak is the old,
eternal obligation resting upon us as patriots and as Christians to bring the
message of the Gospel to our countrymen, and especially to the vast
masses of the foreign-born among our people. Here is the menace to the
Republic at the present hour. And here, therefore, is the imminent,
imperative duty of the Christian churches.
The opening sentence of Dr. Choate's paper referred to a certain parity
of progress between the Banner of the Cross and the Banner of the Nation.
And he closes his survey of the country by a vivid delineation of what,
with eloquent accuracy, he calls " Foreign Home Missions." In a sense,
this is the problem of Home Missionary work to-day. I derive from these
suggestions the text for the single word of remark I have to offer to-night.
This land, we say, stands for civil liberty and honor. It also stands for
Christian philanthropy toward our foreign-born populations.
Last Saturday was Memorial Day, radiant in earth and sky, only
shaded by the grief of the land in sympathy with that beautiful, brave
Mound City of the southwest, whose stricken ones may God bless. But
last Saturday we did not merely decorate a grave. We decorated a living
nation, whose graves are pledges that its word shall always be as good as
its bond, and its bond always as good as gold. But these graves are
pledges of one thing more, that American civilization shall always be
Christian civilization. For this, too, our fathers and brethren died. But
this cannot be, except by means of instant, strenuous wrestle with this
problem of the foreign population within our borders. Here is the edge
of the Home Missionary battle to-day.
Self-preservation, however, is only half, perhaps the lesser half, of the
argument which would lead us to proclaim to these myriads among us the
message of the Cross. We have a debt to these children of the Old
World, a debt, yes, a double debt, a debt on account of what the old lands
had, which they gave to us, a debt on account of what they and their
children have not, which we can give to them. For where would be the
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American Republic if the men of the Old World had not, in the first
instance, built it and manned it ? Our debt is a debt of national justice,
as well as of Christian generosity. For a nation is like a man.
Even in personal, private life, how much we owe to other people ! No
man builds the pedestal he stands on, or arranges the spring-board from
which he jumps, which is perhaps the more American illustration. Amer-
icans are as much self-made as anybody is, but it took the wars of a
thousand years to mix the clay out of which an American could have a
chance to make himself, even as decently as he does. Centuries helped
the newsboy to earn five cents on the street corner, continents combine to
furnish the bouquet which the flower girl sells at the depot door. And if
this be true of individuals, it is no less true of nations, especially a nation
like this, a child of a modern time, the young athlete among the nations, a
fresh human amalgam, as strong as, and perhaps a trifle springier than, his
older brethren, but yet compacted of elements drawn, every one of them,
originally from the cruder ores of the Old World.
You may have heard of the sentence in which Max O'Rell begins in
England his lecture on "America." "Ladies and gentlemen," he says,
" the Americans are the greatest people in the world. It is not necessary
to prove this, since they admit it themselves." Well, that is unqualifiedly
true. But, we admit it, if we know what we are talking about, only as
incorporating, also, an implicit compliment to the great European centuries,
whose vigor and whose grace, divested of effete material, sprang into this
new arena as if new-born, and formed the nucleus of the American state.
And note this : the poorer populations, the ignorant, superstitious popula-
tions, from these same old lands, swarm over to us. It is simple justice,
then, that we give to them something of the blessings for which we our-
selves are in part indebted to their fathers.
But this is not the end of the matter. There is still another and holier
form of debt. It is our obligation, in Christ's name, as well as the coun-
try's, to tell these men the tidings of the freedom of faith, the great salva-
tion which Christ has brought to all men. What an obligation, when a
third person has offered at cost of life a gift to two men alike, one of
whom knows it and the other does not, and is, therefore, bound by love
and honor to tell his fellow of it ! It was the thrilling sense of this kind
of obligation which so stirred that Cilician missionary as he wrote from the
alien and sensuous city of Corinth his great message to Rome. "lam
debtor," you remember, he cried, " both to the Greeks and to the bar-
barians, both to the wise and to the foolish." For, as the Revised Version
intimates, the great apostle made no bones about calling a fool a fool. But
think of the immeasurable passion of the sentiment, " I am debtor." He
calls aloud, "For Christ's sake, not alone to my kindred in distant Tarsus,
not alone to my Hebrew countrymen in Syria, but to these Greeks I am
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debtor, and to the barbarians in Arabia, and across the Danube, and be-
yond the snow mountains of Gaul." It is the new democracy of Christ-
like longing and love ; it is the knowledge of salvation and the ardor to
save which burns away the walls of caste, burns away the walls of race,
burns away the most solid dividing barriers, and brings the lonely Hebrew
scholar, with his eager and eloquent hand, within arm's length of every man,
from Jerusalem to Rome.
We cite the great example because we have need of the great enthu-
siasm, and nothing short of an apostolic breadth and fervor of Christian
energy can enable the American churches adequately to meet, successfully
to grapple with this gigantic and critical problem of the foreign-born,
unevangeli^ed masses among us, "Foreign Home Missions." Dr. Choate
has, in his vivid phrase, struck the very keynote of what is to be the inaugu-
ral of the twentieth century in the field of Home Missionary effort, supple-
menting the glorious direct work on the foreign field, which must never be
allowed to slacken — " Foreign Home Missions." Do I dare to fear that the
churches of our land will be unequal to this task ? No, I neither dare to
fear, nor fear to dare, if I am in the path of the Divine Providence.
I believe in the Christian evolution of the Republic, as the phrase goes,
or let me choose the more vivid and older phrase, I believe in what our
fathers gloried in calling " the overruling providence of God." We believe
in evolution in a Christian way, and as far as it goes. The doctrine of
evolution, I think, is a kind of bicyclist in the field of thought, capitally
good, as far as wheels can be used. But it does not account for every-
thing. As well might the trolleys of New Haven account for the trees !
(And, by the way, what a revelation in trees is New Haven at this hour !)
But history is full of still more marvelous bursts of bloom crises, sudden
turns, tremors, and rockings of deliverance, the mystery of genius on the
earth, the mystery of grace in the heavens, all of which go to show that
God is not shut up to wheels and tracks, and traceable gearing, for the
bringing forward of his Kingdom. God is Law, but God is Love as well,
and therefore God is the incalculable energy, or Living Will.
Here is the immortal glee of the world. Here is the supernal stroke of
a Divine redemption. Here is the prophetic splendor upon the field of
missionary effort, and the hand of God seems to be now pointing out this
plan of reaching the nations by reaching the representatives of the nations
who are within our gates. No other land is so cosmopolitan ; in no other
land can a world's normal school of Christianity be so fitly or finely estab-
lished.
And because I believe that this is the purpose and will of God, I believe
that he will enkindle the enthusiasm which alone can accomplish it. Oh !
it is good to be an American and a Christian to-day. Our work as a
Society must spring forward, not with the burden of seventy years upon
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it, but with the momentum of severity years behind it. Congregationalists
use precedent for a guide post, not for a hitching post. Long before our
seventieth anniversary becomes our eightieth I expect to see our six finan-
cial sevens grow into six financial eights. We must watch the progress of
the Republic by the progress of the churches in the Republic. " Greeks
and barbarians" — where are they? They are flocking to our shores.
Wendell Phillips used to say, in his dazzling fashion, that "you did not
reach America on coming to Europe till you got beyond the city pave-
ments." The felicity of the rhetoric hides its fallacy, because the city
pavements themselves are American, and the invisible currents of civil life
that flow above them are. The foreigner, even on the city pavements, is
swept along by civic forces which are not foreign and should never be. No
less should these forces be Christian ; not less instantly should the alien be
met on these shores by the offices of Christian ministry and fraternity, the
message of a free Gospel, the thrill and lift of Christian manhood, reincar-
nating Christ's spirit in Christ's name.
We are familiar with the idea that God, in the order of history, may
commission special nations for special services. We find the root of this
conception of national destiny in the Bible itself. The Hebrew people
were so appointed, and since that time the special charge of God, in con-
veying the ark of human freedom and Christian faith down the ages, seems
to have been committed to one land and nation after another. You all
know the majestic and marvelous story. In the third and fourth centuries,
that commission was given to the local Greek, acute, diffusive, democratic
societies of southern Europe, Asia Minor, and North Africa. In the sixth
and seventh centuries, the torch of God seemed to be moved far to the
west, and to flash on that remote island rim of Europe, when Ireland was
called Scotia, and was known throughout Europe as the " Insula Sancto-
rum " ; and when all the continent sent to that dim and dangerous Atlantic
coast for Irish and Scotch missionaries, and listened to their eloquence as
willingly as ever Parliament afterward listened to O'Connell. Then, later
on, in the dark and terrible ninth and tenth centuries, Switzerland was
chosen of God, keeping alive on her snowy altars the primitive faith of
Christendom. In the stormy and splendid course of the Swiss history for
400 years, enduring the persecution of the Roman pontiffs, defying the
arrogance of the German Empire, resisting, and at last repelling, the
oppression of the Burgundian nobles ; in the heroic martyrdom of the Wal-
denses, driven up into the snow from the valleys of Piedmont ; in the
glorious victory of Dornach, in the Suabian war, one hears, as it were,
the voice of God rolling over Europe, articulating itself above the Alpine
summits, commissioning and commanding one land in the heart of Europe
to stand for an open Bible and an unfettered conscience, and to resist to
the death everything that should steal the freedom of the citizen's suffrage,
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or stifle the fervor of the Christian faith. Then, still later, in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries, Huguenot France was chosen, and the free German
electorates. And then God's commissioning scepter seemed to move
westward again and point to Britain, where Saxon and Norman had been
welded in one race, practical and indomitable, with a language affluent and
sympathetic, suited to convey both the energy and the tenderness of the
Gospel to the ends of the earth. And it has done it.
But is the series completed ? May we not believe that here at last, still
further to the west, upon our own land, loved and sought by the children
of every clime, with its civil freedom, its rapid and mighty industrial life, its
open arena to every activity, is now flashing that long revolving light of
God's choice and command ? In speaking to our country, are we not
speaking to the world ?
Oh ! the passion for humanity, when that passion pours along the
channel opened for it by the providence of God. It is irresistible.
My brethren, such or somewhat such seems to me to be our debt — our
debt to the country — our debt in our country's name to the foreign born
among its mighty population — our debt, in Christ's name, to all. In such a
service, sacrifice is welcome, toil is rest. It is the rescuing passion of the
Cross, and what a difference between its chivalrous and consecrating flame
and that pallid thing men suppose religion to be !
Credit measures what has been done. Debt measures what ought to
be done. So much to be done for men ! So little time to do it in ! Let
us seize the present hour and make it hot and bright with Christian energy.
We are debtors to men, for Christ's sake, and must pay the debt. To-mor-
row we shall be gone. Let us so take care of life ; God will take care
of death.
OUR WORK AMONG SCANDINAVIANS
By Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Superintendent Scandinavian Department
It is probable that the Society's work among the Scandinavians does
not impress the average mind equally with some other forms of home mis-
sionary enterprise. Perhaps there are not in it the touching elements
for pathetic appeal which are revealed in some of them.
By some of our Scandinavian friends, especially among those who
belong to the Lutheran Church, our work for their countrymen is deemed
an impertinence. There are American Christians who see no urgency, nor
much necessity, in it. Some of the constituency of this Society are of the
opinion that it ought always to give, and never to take, precedence ; that
it should willingly take a back seat whenever any other part of our vast
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work wishes to come to the front. Even so it may come and ask your
favor and your aid. Twelve years ago it was thought wise and best to
begin work among the thousands who, from Norway, Denmark, and
especially Sweden, were spreading themselves over our country. Surely it
would not be the part of wisdom to allow the fruit of these years of diligent
planning and constant effort to go ungathered. There is certainly no less
call for this form of work now than there was then.
But it must be said that those who hold the opinions referred to are not
as thoroughly informed with respect to the facts of the Society's work
among the Scandinavians as it would be well to be.
Our Lutheran friends are quite likely to look at our work through their
prejudices rather than to take account of all the facts. We are by no
means engaged in making proselytes from their ranks. All the indications,
as we read them, are that the Lord has opened a door to the Congrega-
tional Church for work among the Scandinavian people who are coming to
this land, and especially to the great Northwest, in such numbers, and mak-
ing their home with us. But we do not judge that to coax sheep from
other religious folds is a part of the work which the " Good Shepherd " has
laid upon us. And we are doing nothing of the kind. There is no need.
There is room enough for all. There are tens of thousands of this people
for whom no denomination, no society, has as yet made any provision what-
ever. No one that I know of is engaged in trying to secure and secrete
any who bear a denominational brand. If a sheep from any other fold
thinks our pastures pleasanter, and comes into them, it does not seem a
duty to drive it back to its old fold again, were this possible. All our
home missionary work, like the New Jerusalem, has gates on every side,
and always open. Ingress and egress are easy.
One sure sign that our work was providentially undertaken and is
divinely directed, is the fact that after so short a term of years the work
does not have to be sought, but is pressing upon our Society from every
side. And there are -aspects of this urgent work which are not sufficiently
considered. Our New England Fathers feared, as we well know, that the
church polity which they loved devotedly, was not well adapted to the
regions beyond the confines of this northeast corner of our country. Their
judgment was that Congregationalism needed a homogeneous population
and a well-ordered people for its permanence and its prosperity. We
venerate their memory, while we do not adopt their opinion. We have
more confidence in the ability and adaptability of our very simple church
machinery. It is good anywhere and everywhere and for everybody, if
properly worked. But the fact to which I call your attention is this, that
the very conditions which our fathers thought were needful to the success
of Congregationalism are afforded in our Scandinavian population. They
are homogeneous ; they are well-ordered ; they are religiously inclined.
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The Swedish people, especially, present to us a natural Congregational
constituency.
This is what that man of quick discernment, open-mindedness, and
broad sympathies, Rev. M. W. Montgomery, discovered when as a home
missionary superintendent of Minnesota he came into close contact with
this people. His visits to Sweden confirmed his previous judgment and
impressed the fact more clearly and strongly upon him. He held it with
strong grasp and worked with it ever in mind.
How is it that among those who come from another land and converse
in a very different tongue, there is such similarity of views ecclesiastical as
to make them a material very suitable for our forms, molds, and methods ?
The answer to this question gives another important reason why we should
address ourselves to this work with greater determination than ever.
The history of this people is not unlike our own. They found their
old ecclesiastical relation too strait for them. They could not be content
with the corrupt practices, with the worldliness, with the excessive formal-
ism of the prescribed religion. They sought for freedom in the things of
the Spirit, and a purer worship. There was no place for them in the old
church-home, unless they would surrender the new views learned from the
Word of God under the instruction of the Spirit of truth.
When the work of forming a church for themselves was laid upon these
people they took not counsel of men, but of the Word and Spirit of God. In
so far as they are Congregationalists, it is not because they were instructed
by the Congregationalists of England or of this country. When Mr. Mont-
gomery came upon these Christians in his Minnesota field, and found them
essentially of his own denomination, it was no easy thing to get a clear
account of their history. There had been no Congregational missions
in Sweden, such as the Baptist and the Methodist churches had had.
English Congregationalists knew nothing, or had heard only the mention,
of a free church movement in Sweden, which to all intents and purposes
was Congregational. It was not from men, but from the life-giving Spirit
that this remarkable likeness in church life sprang up.
This fact of a great religious movement, spontaneous in its beginnings,
issuing out of a devout study of the New Testament Scriptures and a wait-
ing upon the Holy Spirit, and closely related to our own, is certainly a
reason of great force for concerning ourselves about it. Can we do less
than to give it a hearty welcome and generous aid as it works itself, so far
as God will, upon lines which run parallel with our own ?
But after all the chief reason why our Society should, if possible, do
more of this work than it ever has done, is the practical situation which
confronts us.
There are in our country probably 1,250,000 of foreign-born Scandi-
navians, Their children are twice as many — 2,500,000. We have, then,
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of Scandinavian-born and born of Scandinavian parentage, 3,750,000.
Now, if the Lutheran Church provides for twenty-five per cent, of the
Scandinavian people — that is a fair and liberal estimate — and if the Swed-
ish Mission Covenant body, which is Presbyterial in its tendency, certainly,
if not in its constitution, and the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian
churches and others, provide for ten per cent., and the estimate is ample,
then thirty-five per cent, are afforded religious advantages. Must there
not be opportunity, and occasion for other workers ? And so we are in this
field. We gratefully recognize that a very considerable number of our
Scandinavian friends have been providentially led to walk in the Congre-
gational way, even though they may never have called it by this name ;
that in views upon church government, and largely in doctrine, they are
our spiritual kindred. They are needing our assistance, and more than
heretofore are looking to us for it.
It was natural that, when in this land of their adoption so strong a
denomination as we made overtures to these Scandinavians, suspicions
should at first arise in their minds as to our real purposes and motives. It
is natural that their leaders, who would much rather be generals in a
smaller camp than lieutenants in a larger one, should make the most of
such suspicions. But such barriers cannot permanently stop a tide. What
good and sufficient reason can be given why our Savior's prayer, " That
they all may be one ; as thou, Father, are in me, and I in thee, that they
also maybe one in us ; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me,"
should not be answered, in so far as the cordial fellowship and the earnest
cooperation of the self-governed Scandinavian churches and the self-gov-
erned American churches go ? There are careful observers who think that
they can see the tide setting more strongly in this direction. It was for
this that the sainted Montgomery prayed most fervently, for this he worked
most assiduously, for this he waited very patiently. It was he who dis-
cerned this movement more closely than most, in its small beginnings. If
they who have passed into the future life can note what is doing here, he,
better than we, can mark the drift and strength of this current, and it must
increase his joy. For there are a goodly number of these independent
churches which, seeing as they have not in the past how much alike they
and we are, and feeling the need of Christian fellowship, are turning
toward us.
This is our opportunity. Shall we seize it, or let it go by ?
In North Wisconsin are 75,000 foreign-born Scandinavians, and their
children. The Lutheran Church is doing something. The Swedish Mis-
sion Covenant is doing something. So are the Methodists and Baptists.
We think that we have a promising work, both Swedish and Norwegian,
there. But altogether we are just touching the fringes of that population.
In Minnesota, the great Scandinavian State of the country, with nearly
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250,000 born in the home land, the case is not very different. The field is
waiting for sowers and for reapers. Some of the calls to us are loud and
repeated. What shall the answer be ?
North Dakota had 35,000 Scandinavian-born people in 1890, and has
more in 1896. We are occupying only one point in that great State. We
have a church at Fargo, and the pastor there has been trying to overlook a
work at Cooperstown, 100 miles to the west and north. Cooperstown has
called long and loud for a pastor. A graduate from Chicago has just gone
there. They expect our help, but the promise of it was conditioned upon
a certain action of our Executive Committee, which has not been taken,
but negatived. Superintendent Simmons writes me : " You are not doing
much for our Scandinavian population of North Dakota." He never said
a truer thing.* And the like statement is even more applicable to that
great stretch of territory running west from the Dakotas to the far-off sea.
Thousands of Swedes are in the mining regions of Montana and Idaho.
Probably not five per cent, have any religious privileges. From important
places in both these States earnest calls have come for help. So from Wash-
ington and from Nebraska. The answer has had to be in what one has
called " that decisive monosyllable."
A missionary told me the other day of going to a schoolhouse to meet an
appointment to preach. He expected to find no one, or very few, because
of recent hard rains and very bad roads. But the room was well filled
and there was a fair sprinkling of women. One woman had come three
miles, and had her little daughter with her. Coming to a creek, usually
crossed upon stepping-stones, she found the water considerably above her
waist. She disrobed, put her clothing in a bundle and carried it to the
opposite side ; then she fetched her child across, dressed, and went to the
meeting. Her return home was accomplished in the same manner. Such
is the hunger of large numbers of this people for the Word of God. They
delight in it, and go for miles to hear it, and will sit and listen to its utter-
ance long after an American audience would be asleep, or have gone home.
And there are men educated in our seminary who are very ready to endure
hardship, if they may have the privilege of preaching to those who wish to
hear it. We have urgent appeals from many places. To all this willing-
ness to preach, to all this desire to hear, to all those appeals, we are learn-
ing to make the answer — of which Dr. Cuyler again says : " The most
tremendous word in the English language is the short but mighty word,
No, no, no, no."
Immigrants are going into North Wisconsin, who want and need the
church. Superintendent Grassie is learning to say " No." In the north-
ern part of Minnesota 1,000,000 acres of the Red Lake reservation is just
open to settlers, and millions more are there, for the people who will
speedily occupy them. Must Superintendent Morley learn to say "No"
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to the heart hunger and need ? To the calls from the hills and the valleys,
the prairies, the mining regions, the Pacific slope, must the superintendent
of Scandinavian work accustom himself to say " No " ? The churches are
teaching it to the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee is
teaching it to the secretaries, the secretaries teach it to the superintend-
ents, and the superintendents have nothing to do but to learn the lesson,
and to say it, with all its " tremendousness " and all its " decisiveness," to
those who would fain hear a word with one more letter in it.
One can but wonder, if He who for our sakes became poor, had made
answer to the terrible appeal of this world's hunger and need in this
" short but mighty word," what the result must have been !
A TYPICAL WESTERN MINING CAMP
By Rev. O. C. Clark, Missoula, Mont.
The camp to which I will introduce your readers is only six weeks old ;
that is, six weeks previous to my visit there was nothing to be seen on the
ground except the company's office. Eight miles above, in a narrow,
ragged gulch, development work had been going on for some time in what
has been named " The Golden Scepter Mine." But this development had
been simply with the view of finding whether or not there was mineral
enough, and of a sufficiently high grade, to justify the larger outlay for
permanent works. This settled, all was ready for beginning the work at
the opening of spring.
The camp is situated about eighteen miles from the little railway station
of Bonita. At this point your missionary stepped upon the platform, the
24th day of May, 1896. Half a dozen stages and freight teams were in
readiness for those bound for the mine, and we dashed off at headlong
speed toward the new Eldorado of the mountains.
It was a rocky and dangerous ride, over a road that had been cut
through, at a cost of $2,500, since the opening of spring. In about three
hours we found ourselves in Quigley, the new city that had sprung into
being. Four-horse and six-horse teams heavily loaded with freight filled
the streets. A long row of business houses, fully stocked with all lines of
merchandise, stretched along on both sides of the street for several blocks.
Saloons, seventeen in number ; boarding houses, livery stables, tents, etc.,
were sandwiched in so as to give the charm of novelty, whichever way you
looked. Over one hundred houses, all told, were scattered around on the
town site. Many of them were dwellings in which families were already
settled, looking homelike and contented. The foundation was laid for a
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large hundred-stamp mill. The tramway was in process of erection for
electric cars to run eight miles to the mine. Over 300 men were employed
on the various works, and more would at once be set to work, were the
material on the ground for their use.
The missionary, being the first preacher on the ground, was treated right
royally. Arrangements were made for a preaching service in the evening.
The only hall in town was over a livery stable, and was used by different
organizations already started, and for dancing purposes when occasion
required. A well-filled hall greeted the missionary at eight o'clock, and at
the close of the service a Sunday-school was organized, with good material
for officers at hand. Two nice lots were donated for a church building by
Mr. Quigley, president of the mine. His wife and little boy are with him
at the mine. They are cultured Eastern people from Delaware.
This is a characteristic Western mine, and its condition shows the
pressing necessity of being early on the spot in these new camps, so that
the church and its influence may be seen and felt before the saloon has
taken possession and become intrenched. Obviously a church is the
prime necessity, and that at once. But from whence will come the money
wherewith to build ?
VISIT TO A HOME MISSIONARY CHURCH
A .FRAGMENT
By Rev. W. G. Puddefoot
Two years ago I started to visit a home missionary church. Although
it was in the month of January the weather was mild ; in fact, a heavy rain
had set in when I began my journey. As I had over two hundred miles
to ride, I hoped that the weather would moderate before leaving the train ;
but as evening came on it seemed, if possible, to get worse. My train, an
express, was drenched ; the rain seemed to be thrown on the windows as
if from a fireman's hose. The water found its way under the lamp ventila-
tors, and spattered on the hot chimneys until they cracked in a hundred
places, and in some cases put out the light. On the way I passed many
fine houses, some of which seemed as if they belonged to another age.
Then we glided through forests of rough, gnarled trees, some of which were
almost horizontal, and many were covered with lichens ; then past great
reaches of water and past weather-beaten stone walls venerable with mosses.
As night came on, the passengers pulled down the blinds to help the few
poor lamps that were left to light the gloom. Most of the men had turned
up their coat collars and sat moody. Somehow, the wild storm outside
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and the mighty rush of the train soothed me ; but soon I felt the trem-
bling of the cars as the brakes were applied, and my train, with its great
engine panting like a giant, stopped at my station. Another moment and
it was off, and as I saw its red lights swallowed up by the thick darkness,
I felt lonesome. I said " station," but station there was none that I could
see. Huge embankments on either side, steep as a Gothic roof, and com-
posed of slippery clay, made the descent anything but agreeable, not to say
perilous. I reached the bottom in safety, but loaded with tenacious mud.
I waited long enough to scrape off as much as 1 could, and then looked
around. My umbrella was of no use. The wind blew it inside out, but
was accommodating enough to turn it back when held right. I found myself
in an old orchard. A few giant apple-trees flung their skeleton branches
against the sky. An old farmhouse stood in the orchard. Some of its
windows were boarded up, some had paper pasted over the broken panes.
The foundations in many places had fallen to decay, showing black gaps in
spite of the darkness. The savage growls of a big dog warned me to take
as few notes as possible ; but the weather was a protection here, as
the dog was under the house and had more sense than to come out. I
stumbled on in the darkness, wondering whether I had not made a mistake,
when I stepped into a glare of light that half blinded me. But I saw a
sidewalk which was made of stone slabs in sections of uneven distances.
The road was filled with tiny rivulets, which, in spite of storm rubbers, wet
my feet. (I think that is why they were called " storm rubbers.") I
peered around for marks to identify the missionary's home, and luckily I
found it just as the storm with redoubled fury made my umbrella resemble
a bewitched haystack. In another moment I stood in a spacious hall,
brilliantly lighted, while warm air came up through registers. All was
bright with beautiful furniture, elegant rugs, books, center tables ; and a
smiling welcome from the pastor warmed my heart. Was it all a dream ?
Did I really pass through an old orchard, with a farmhouse in it ? My
umbrella was not a dream ; my wet feet were real enough. What did it
all mean ?
It was all real, and I was in New York City !
HOW CAN WE HELP THE HOME MISSIONARIES?
We can tell you ten of the ways now open.
1. Have you fairly good library books — any good books — lying on your
shelves unused ?
2. Have you an old church carpet, not quite worn out, out of which
some good pieces could be secured for aisles, pulpit, rugs, etc. ?
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3. Have you taken out your " Bailey reflector " and put in electricity ?
And should you like to place the reflector, or reflectors, where they " will
do the most good " ?
4. Have you files of the Youth's Companion, the Century, Harper s
Magazine or their Weekly, or other good illustrated papers, that you would
like to pass on — you paying the freight ?
5. Have you fifty or more fairly good copies of Gospel Hymns, or any
other Sunday-school or devotional singing books that you can spare ?
6. HavTe you a dozen copies of any anthem book, or sheet anthems,
that you are not now using ?
7. Have you purchased a new communion set, and do you wish to have
the old one be doing some good somewhere ?
8. Would you like to know where you can build a memorial chapel
for $250 in a needy place that has no church or church services of any
kind?
9. Would you like to invest twenty-five dollars in a " baby organ," to
be used with a Gospel tent in a frontier campaign ?
10. Would you or your society like to buy a twenty-five-dollar scholar-
ship that will pay the expense of one student's tuition for one year in a
Christian academy ?
If you can answer any one of these questions with a happy " Yes," send
to the office of The Home Missionary, Bible House, New York, for the
name of the place needing one or more of these articles.
*
MONTH'S WORK OF AN EVANGELIST
I have served the Society and the churches this month by preaching
or calling in sixteen different towns. The extreme limit of the district
visited was about 550 miles, causing about 1,500 miles of travel. I have
made in the month 151 pastoral calls, have preached thirty times, attended
two councils, and have started on a vacation of two weeks.
The work of the month was altogether among our needy, weak, and
struggling churches. It is impossible for me to give an adequate idea of
the meaning of such work among these — many of them suffering not only
from the general depression, but also from crop failures. They all repre-
sent homes in great need of spiritual help, and communities in which
all that stands for righteousness is found in the weak and struggling
church.
At Longton our people were hopeful, showing the good work of pastor
Moore, who left because of poor health. They have grown in the last year,
showing a real maturing and a decided church life. In fact, one of the
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noticeable features of the present stress is the development of character in
the aided churches.
At Severy I spent a season in perfecting arrangements for the coming
of their new pastor. Little River and Chase were visited, and a brotherly
visit made to Rev. Charles T. Young, who seems to be near the point of
death. He has been taken to Colorado by one of the families of Little
River, who have broken up housekeeping and moved to Colorado Springs
for the express purpose of caring for their pastor — an act as beautiful as it
is unusual. At Strong City I found our work in growing favor under
student management, in care of our brother, Aaron Breck. One Sunday
was spent in Junction City with the struggling band who are pressing on
against many obstacles. A week's meeting was held with pastor Waldrop
at Buffalo Park, resulting in conversions and great good to Christians.
At Banner Grove I attended a "double council " for the recognition of
Fairview, Western, and the Alanthus churches. The councils convened
in a grove, and with a basket-dinner and appropriate services made the
occasion most memorable. A season spent at Atwood was very graciously
recognized by the people. Rev. Mr. Dixon has been for several weeks dis-
abled by illness from pastoral work. Hence the mid-week service, which I
held, and a call upon every member of the Atwood church, except one
who lived far away, was a help in time of need. I spent three days in
Goodland, where our work seems on a better basis than ever before.
Present prospects are rather disheartening, yet our churches will live
and have a field of usefulness. As never before, I believe they are doing
a work for God, and were it not for the peculiarly changeable nature of
the people's habits they might build up faster. There have been sixteen
professed conversions this month, as well as many testimonies of new
heart rest. God is good, proving his faithfulness in grace all the way. —
Rev. W. C. Veazie, Kansas.
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ONE WEEK WITH THE HOME MISSIONARY
By Rev. A. E. Ricker, Chadron, Nebraska
Fourteen miles south of Chadron, on the prairies of Northwestern
Nebraska, is a little community that centers about Flag Butte schoolhouse.
Nine years ago, when the coming of railroads brought immigration into
this region, a Home Missionary from Chadron went into it and preached
to the settlers. The result was the organization of a little Congregational
church. So far are they from other churches — and they are too few and
poor to support a minister themselves — that their enjoyment of Gospel
privileges has been often interrupted. For long periods, especially when
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the sister church at Chadron was pastorless, they have been deprived of a
pastor's ministrations, except as indifferently supplied by frontier itinerants.
The tide of life in the little church has naturally been fluctuating, and
even its name has not always found its place in the Year Book.
So it is not surprising that, soon after the Home Missionary in Chadron
became settled, calls began to come to him to preach to the Christian
brethren at Flag Butte. At last, after an earnest appeal from Brother W.,
an appointment was made for the afternoon and evening of Easter Sabbath,
with meetings to be held on the evenings of the preceding week. When
the set time came it was a forbidding day. An icy north wind flung broad-
sides of spiteful and threatening snowflakes into the face of the venturesome
traveler. The missionary doubted the wisdom of driving to a schoolhouse
fourteen miles distant, to face the certainty of a very small audience and
the probability of none. But early in the afternoon Mrs. W., with whose
husband the appointment had been made, drove up to the parsonage with
a message from her husband, urging that the missionary should not disap-
point them. Concluding that, if a woman could face that north wind, he
could ride the same distance with the wind to urge him on, the minister
harnessed the home missionary horse, and the week of missionary work
began. Though the cold did penetrate two overcoats and gloves, and
though the hearers that night were only four or five, the evident gladness
with which Brother W. and his good mother received him made the visitor
glad, too, that he had not failed them.
Next day began the visitation "from house to house" and the home
missionary experiences here to be told. Two or three miles south of the
schoolhouse where the little band of worshipers meet, runs an irregular and
picturesque line of hills known far and near as " the Pine Ridge." The
prairie lifts itself gradually to the foot of the ridge, and is broken at fre-
quent intervals by deep gulches, or canyons. The hills themselves are
sprinkled with pine trees, in a growth of varying density, often extending
to their summits. Jagged and grotesquely fashioned rocks crown the tops
of others. The peaks are of various heights, some of them almost approach-
ing the dignity of small mountains. One of them, upon which the settlers
have erected a flagstaff, gives its name to the district, the schoolhouse,
and the church. It was in this region that the missionary's pastoral visit-
ing was to be done. Enough snow had fallen to make drifts in the cuts,
and the wind was still blowing cold and strong from the north. The min-
ister, accompanied by Brother W. as guide, had just driven across "Dead
Horse " creek, and was climbing the steep ascent out of its canyon. Just
at the crest of the hill was a snowdrift. Turning out of the road to what
seemed an easier way of escape, he urged " Old Flo." to do her best, and
bravely she climbed through and up. But exactly where the pitch of the
hill was steepest and the snow was deepest, snap went the swingletree.
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The horse went on, but the buggy stopped. The minister was brought up
on a farm and he held to the reins. In a twinkling he and Brother W.
were out, and an inventory of the losses was made. A broken swingletree
and a moderate " rip " in the harness were all. What with Yankee ingenu-
ity, the halter rope, a strap or two and a handkerchief, the damages were
repaired sufficiently to take them to the next house. There was found
generous assistance, and rivets, bailing-wire, and ropes made all as strong
as new, and far more attractive.
This stopping place where repairs were made — would that it might be
put upon canvas for you. A deep canyon, perhaps forty to fifty feet below
the general level (if there be a level to such a country), very steep sides,
a very narrow bottom, pine timber of considerable size and density every-
where, and close at hand the heights of the Pine Ridge, like giant sentinels
standing guard over the home of the pioneer, his log house cozily snuggled
among the pines, well down the side of the canyon. His wife, a Catholic,
met the visitors with a cordial welcome. Here for ten long years she and
her husband have toiled and endured the hardships and privations of fron-
tier life together. Here their sons and daughters have lived most of their
days, and received their impressions as to what this world is, and what life
in it means. But there are in this settler's cabin matters of interest. On
the wall is a splendid pair of deer horns which some bold buck, ignorant
of the good man's skill with the rifle, had lost by his rashness, in the«early
days. On the floor are two pelts of the red fox, soft, beautiful — " caught
this winter."
Do not imagine this to be a destitute home. An organ stands in one
corner. A few books are on a stand in another. A few simple pictures
are on the walls, and everywhere modest ornamentation bespeaks the
instinctive skill of a woman's hand. But what a life ! To us somewhat
picturesque, perhaps a little romantic, too. But how isolated, how thor-
oughly shut off from the great world and the meaning of its mighty on-
rushing ; and, most serious of all, shut off so largely from the glorious
gospel of life and culture. This picture is given as being in a measure
typical of the situation of these people on the plains and away from
railroads and towns. A kind word, an invitation to the meetings —
heeded, for the young folks were out after that — and the missionary
passed on to visit other homes. A larger audience was out the second
night, with closest attention to the message. The next day, with another
brother as guide, the missionary went to the meeting of the Ladies'
Society ! Yes, they have one even among these widely scattered work-
ers. This ladies' society on the prairies, among hard-working farmers'
wives, may have more than one lesson for Christian sisters in more
favored communities. Once in two weeks, on Thursdays, they meet at
the home of some one of the members. The ladies come early, with
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their children, some of them babies, and bring scissors and thimbles. The
day is spent over quilt or garments, working for the lady in whose home
they meet. The hostess furnishes a dinner — an honest, wholesome,
abundant meal — and the " men folks " from the various homes appear in
time for it. The missionary asks God's blessing upon them all, at the
table, and each one pays five cents for the meal, the money going into the
Society's treasury. One lady fed twenty-seven persons " when the Society
was at her house." To-day a smaller number is present, but nine or ten
ladies took part in the work. This society has maintained itself for years,
and regularly contributes its due proportion to the necessities of the little
church. So here, as ever since the earthly days of our Lord, the faithful
women constitute a strong element in the army of the Redeemer, and
"minister unto him of their substance." In the afternoon the sun wooes
the grass roots, and the wind is at rest. "Old Flo." is hitched to the
buggy, and with his guide the minister was able to visit four more homes,
with invitations to the meetings. In one he found a Christian wife and
mother, whose ill-health prevented her attendance upon divine service,
and it was his privilege with her to open the wonderful Book and kneel in
prayer.
That night the little schoolhouse was full, and the Spirit of the Lord
was in the Word : Psalm xxxvii : 5, " Commit thy way unto the Lord."
The fourth day seven or eight calls were made, and Old Flo. did a faithful
home missionary day's work. If the minister could give you a picture of
some of these homes as he saw them, the need temporal and spiritual, if he
could reveal to you the privations, the tremendous obstacles, and the bitter
disappointments involved in the settlement of a new country, it would make
a stirring chapter in the book of Home Missions, and give the friends of the
cause a new vision of the nature, value, and need of this frontier Christian
work.
One experience of this fourth day on the Flag Butte field must not go
untold. In the afternoon, with Mrs. W. as pilot, he started to visit
"Grandma A." Four or five miles of climbing hills and crossing valleys
and we came, at last, to an isolated log shanty. In the distance a man was
lazily plowing in the field. Mrs. W. said : " That is Grandma's only son,
and the only relative the old lady has in all this country. He goes to town,
drinks, and stays away sometimes three or four days. I don't see how
Grandma gets along at all." The missionary tied the horse and turned
toward the old log-house. It was a warm day, and the door was open. As
they drew near they saw down in one corner of the room what proved to be
a woman's bent form, evidently engaged in some work on the floor. " Why,
Grandma, what are you doing ? " cried Mrs. W. " Well, I declare ! cut-
ting potatoes ! Grandma, you are too old to do such work, I don't see
how you do it." There were the potatoes on the floor, part of them cut
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for the planting, and this decrepit old woman, over whose head had passed
the mighty tide of more than eighty years, was cutting potatoes for her son,
who was planting them with the help of horses and plow. Slowly the bent
form straightened a little, unsteadily and tremblingly — for Grandma had
" had a shock " — and a wrinkled, dark face was turned toward the visitors.
It was a shrunken, black, uninviting face, but Mrs. W. kissed it just the
same, and then introduced the missionary. The conversation was mostly
between the two women, but it soon appeared that back of that withered
old face was a good degree of Christian knowledge and real understanding,
and beneath the almost repulsive exterior was a heart that was loyal to
Jesus Christ. Despite the burden of great age and physical infirmity,
memory was active and clear. She told of her girlhood days, in the far-off
but ever verdant realm of youth, " away back in Missouri." She recounted
the circumstances of her conversion and baptism, and gave the names of
the ministers by whom she was led into the kingdom. Oh, the pathos of
it all — this poor old soul with the memory of husband and home and sons
and daughters, of brighter days fresh on the tablets of the mind, but left
now in her age and widowhood, like Naomi of old, among strangers in a
strange land, with only this wretched son and poverty and want to attend
her declining years — the infinite pathos of it all came over the visitors like
the shadow of a great sorrow upon the family circle. After kneeling in
prayer to the Father of the desolate and widow, the minister gave her his
hand and tried to speak some fitting word of comfort, some gentle bene-
diction. Then the tongue of the old woman was loosed, and the benedic-
tion was fittingly spoken : " I'm glad ye come. It was good o' ye to come
'way out here to see a poor ol' woman who hain't got no friends nor kin in
all the 'arth no more. I thank the Lord fer yer words, an' that he put it
in yer heart t' come an' speak 'em. I sh'l never fergit 'em. They're a
comfort t' me ol' soul. They're a light in me dark life. They're marrer
t' me bones. I hope ye'll come agin. The Lord bless ye, the Lord bless
ye." And the poor old hand trembled yet more violently, and the voice
was even more unsteady. The missionary pressed the hand of the old
saint, and tried to speak ; but the blessing was one of stammering words,
and we passed out into the sunshine that somehow seemed blurred, as when
seen through falling rain. Good Mrs. W. kissed her again— a better bene-
diction than the minister's — and speaking a cheery word, she turned to
guide the way to other homes.
That night the schoolhouse was well filled again, and the missionary
talked about the obstacles that keep men away from Christ.
The rest of that week's work is quickly told. The next morning was
Saturday, and the minister drove home to Chadron. On Sabbath morning
he preached an Easter sermon in the home church. A programme pre-
pared for the evening released the pastor, and in the afternoon he drove
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again to Flag Butte, and preached at three o'clock and again in the
evening. At the former service the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was
observed, and seven members were added to the little flock, five of them
on confession of their faith in a divine Savior. Grandma A. was out to
church that afternoon ! Brother W. had gone over in the morning with his
easiest carriage and brought her to his home, which was on the way. In
the afternoon she was taken to the schoolhouse, strong arms lifted her out
and led her tenderly, reverently, to a comfortable chair set in the place of
honor. And tears were shed when they saw her thus once more in her
life entering with trembling the place of worship ; and that Easter sermon
was the first and only Gospel message Grandma A. had listened to since
she came to Nebraska.
Monday morning Old Flo.'s face was turned toward home, and the
minister held the reins with the feeling that a reasonably good and busy
week's work for the Master had been done. Old Flo. jogged along the
sunlighted road with a clear conscience, and the meadow larks sang of
spring.
EL PASO (TEXAS) JAIL WORK
By Rev. H. W. Houlding, now of Seattle, Washington
This work was begun in July, 1893, under our denominational care, by
Mrs. J. M. Leitch. It being a new work, but little interest, except in the
singing, was taken by the workers or by the prisoners during the first year.
During the six months of 1893 there were held twenty-five services, and
6,150 pages of literature were distributed. In 1894 fifty-two services were
held; average attendance of workers, four ; 12,000 pages of literature
distributed ; six Chinese, one Spanish, and thirty English Bibles and thirty
Testaments were given away ; eleven signed pledge cards to live a better
life ; ten letters were received and answered. In 1895 forty-eight services
were held (for four weeks admission was withheld from the workers,
owing to bad behavior of prisoners) ; average attendance of workers, eight ;
12,500 pages of literature and six English Bibles and thirty Testaments
were distributed ; nineteen signed pledge cards to live a better life, of
which six are kept in view and they are leading honorable lives ; twenty-
five letters were received and answered. In 1896 twenty-five services
have been held so far ; 8,000 pages of literature, thirty-six Testaments, six
English and six Spanish Bibles have been given away.
During this year we have been using Moody's prison library series and
find them very helpful, especially the book, " And Peter"; three have
signed pledge cards ; one has united with our own church; another will
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soon unite with the Baptist church ; letters received and answered, twenty-
five.
Our total expenses for the three years are : For Bibles and Testaments,
books and papers, clothing, stamps and paper, flowers, organ rent, $27.85.
This money has been contributed by three of the workers. For the past
year and a half a small " Story & Clark " organ has been loaned us, which
we now hope to buy.
During the past year more workers were willing to help than could be
used, as a few can do better work among the men than can be done by
changing workers often.
The jailer reports that our work is helpful to him in that it keeps the
prisoners in a quiet mood. Our exercises consist of good music, short
pointed talks and prayers, both in Spanish and English. The Spanish
exercises are conducted by three boys from the Rio Grande Congrega-
tional Training School, through the kind aid of Rev. A. C. Wright.
The following is a letter sent by one of the prisoners to Mrs. Leitch
(men are never asked to write to us if they have friends, as they are
allowed only one letter a month) :
" I wish to say that I have found my way to Jesus. I have lived a sinful life ; but I
have asked and do every day ask God to forgive my sins and keep me steadfast. I rely
on his Holy Word and promises that through his sufferings my sins will be forgiven. I
want to be a follower of him.
" I will leave here in July. It is my wish to see you and the pastor. I am anxious
that my associations may be good, and that I may start on a career of true Christian
living. Please pray for me, that God will find a way for me to get started so that I can
be with Christian people and Christian influences to surround me ; that I may have
opportunity to attend church services and study God's Holy Word. I am glad that my
mind has been opened to see that my soul is of more importance than anything else, and
to save it I must be on Christ's side continually. I thank you all for the instruction you
have given me.
" Yours truly,
NOT DISCOURAGED IN FRONTIER WORK
Nearly three years ago Rev. D. F. Bright was called to this field
(Taylor, Neb.) as pastor. That fall the hot winds took nearly everything,
and the farmers have not since had anything like a fair crop.
We then had an organization of twenty-four members and were about
to build a house of worship, which we finally accomplished at a sacrifice.
Last year, aided by Eastern friends, we put up a sod house of worship with
shingle roof at Cummings Park, an out- station.
Rev. H. Evans and wife, of Burwell, assisted in a series of meetings, as
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: a result of which forty-two have professed conversion, thirty-four have
united with the church, and probably ten or fifteen more will unite soon.
Although the pastor, because of these hard times, has sacrificed at least
$300 of his salary, and has given a great deal of time and labor to church
1 building, he has had the joy of seeing God's blessing upon his work, shown
in the building of two churches ; an addition of fifty or more members ;
the organization of two Christian Endeavor Societies, one Sabbath-school,
and a Ladies' Aid Society.
Our next effort will be a parsonage, which we very much need. It is
very hard for a pastor to do justice to himself and his work with a small
salary much of which his people are not able to pay ; but the Lord has
wonderfully blessed us, and we look for greater things.
*
PERSONAL LETTER FROM REV. JAMES HAYES
[Our readers will be interested to know that our old friend, the " coal-mine preacher,"
has begun work in good earnest in his new and extensive field, Danville, 111. The fol-
lowing extract from a personal letter tells the story. — Ed.]
" The thought has come to me that possibly you might enjoy a few items
telling how my new work opens up in the new field. Our congregations
are large, sometimes more than can get into the old building, which is really
unsafe. Some of the seats have given way at times under too much weight.
A brick church in the central part of this town is a necessity. We have no
money, but there are crowds of idle men and boys on every hand; so we
have rented a brickyard, and are inviting all these idle ones into it to make
brick for the new church. We have about 50,000 bricks already made and
we want to burn next month a kiln of 200,000 more. It will take about
150,000 for the building, and the balance we expect to exchange for lumber,
etc. All this labor thus far is donated, except that of the molders and the
superintendent of the yard. We pay the molders every two weeks. Some
of these also are giving one-third of their wages. Then we have -some
bricklayers who have promised to give us a week's labor in putting up the
walls. The men have offered to quarry the stone for the trimmings of the
building, if the owner of the quarry will give the stone. It looks now like
a success.
" On our side of the river there are no saloons and the public sentiment
is strong against them. Our people are trying to stop the beer wagons
from passing through here on Sunday on their way to other parts of my field
where the saloon power reigns.
"The nightmare of nothingness is lifting and I believe the Lord is with
us. This is a great field and, oh, how it needs the blessed Gospel ! Down
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at , where we must go, they have their fourth murder on hand
since January. At , there are more than 500 souls of all nations
heaped together. Beer is sold by the barrel, and twenty-five per cent, of
the proceeds is kept from the men for a church five miles away, which is
not a Congregational church. Mrs. Hayes went down to this place last
week with some of our ladies and asked one of the proprietors kindly if he
would let her have one of the houses there for a Sunday-school. The man
was not civil even to the ladies. But with the help of the Lord we shall do
something for him there. A colored woman told Mrs. Hayes, the other day,
that she would have to move away, for she couldn't raise her family in
such a place as that. Mrs. Hayes gave her one of Mr. Moody's books and
she began to read it with great interest at once.
" If we can succeed in our plans here, in two years this church will be
self-supporting, and then we will give more attention to the great mission-
ary field in our vicinity. We have some splendid people here. We have
received nine already, and several others talk of joining. We are keeping
a careful record of all the proceedings of our brickyard, the Endeavor
work, the Sunday-school work, and the church work — and we think that
after a while it will make an interesting chapter."
YET ANOTHER GOOD BOOK, FREE
With more copies of his useful work, " The Conversion of Children," of
which many have already gone into the hands of our brethren in the field,
Rev. Edward Payson Hammond kindly sends us a supply of another
work of his, " Jesus, the Lamb of God." The little illustrated volume of
seven chapters (184 pages), tells in simple language the story of our
Savior's coming, teachings, sufferings, and death for sinners, in a way that
can hardly fail to catch the attention, waken and keep alive the interest of
children of ordinary intelligence and thoughtfulness. Accompanied with
judicious guidance of parents, pastors, teachers, or Christian friends, the
book should prove — as in many instances it has already proved — largely
instrumental in leading young souls to Christ and making them active
workers in his kingdom.
Home missionaries expressing by letter or postal card their desire for a
copy shall be served by mail, without charge, so long as the supply lasts.
And if those who find good results from the use of the book, will write
thereof briefly to the author, at 25 Atwood Street, Hartford, Conn., the
little work may so be made still more helpful to others. Our brethren will
always find Mr. Hammond glad to hear from them as to their helps, hin-
drances, and successes in special work for children.
FOR DEBT
LEGACIES
TOTAL
$5,093.08
$2,687.84
$19,209.71
3,834-45
6,180.76
15,881.68
3,506.61
2,502.22
14,722.71
2,I2I.OO
9,772.20
26,244.04
,800 were
from
subscribers
to
th
e General
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THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS
April $11,428.79
May 5,866.47
June 8,713.88
July 14,350.84
Of these July receipts,
Howard Roll of Honor, and $321.00 were "specials for the debt." At
its August meeting the Executive Committee voted that this amount
($2,121.00) be paid upon the debt of April, 1895, reducing the amount
still due thereon to $37,145.27.
In these hot, humid August days, with no let-upas yet of the long-felt
business depression, it is a relief to see that the receipts in July, both
from contributions and legacies, though not large, are well in advance of
those of either of the three previous months of the new fiscal year.
Evidently, the friends of Home Missions in their summer dispersion are
not forgetting to pray and give for the spiritual welfare of the land they
love — the land whose political and financial well-being so presses on their
hearts just now.
We look upon this increase as a token that on their return to regular
work the pastors, churches, schools, associations, executors, and indi-
vidual givers to whom, under God, this Society has so long looked for the
supply of its treasury will nobly rally for its relief, as heretofore.
Meanwhile we trust that the God of our fathers, whose remembrance
of their prayers and sacrifices has saved the land from so many perils,
will have at least begun to lift from the shoulders of our people the bur-
den under which they have struggled bravely and long. " He is faithful
that promised."
The general o. o. Howard roll of honor
Previously acknowledged, 905 ; subscriptions added below, 7 ; total number of
shares, 912.
Mrs. E. H. Meacham, New Haven, Vt.
A Friend, Rockville, Conn.
Eliot Church, Newton, Mass.
Sophia M. Luce, Marion, Mass.
A Friend, , Mass.
In Memory of Rev. J. Howe Vorce, by First Congregational
Church, Derby, Conn.
C. H. Beers, Chicago, 111.
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APPOINTMENTS IN JULY, 1896
Not in commission last year
Biggers, Lorenzo J., Phoenix City, Ala.
Bingham, James A., Hennessey, Turkey Creek,
and Vernon, Okla.
Bird, Martin B., Brainerd, Minn.
Branan, Seborn R., Echo, Ala.
Buyundurian, H., New York City. N. Y.
Cartledge, Henry, Lantana and Linton, Fla.
Condo, Samuel F., Marion, Ind.
Dodd, Arthur C, Dehesa, Cal.
Donaldson, Levi J., Tavares, Fla.
Grant, John W., Tidmore and Tidwell, Ala.
Griffin, John A., Coal Bluff, Caseyville, Perth,
and Cardonia, Ind.
Halbert, Charles T., Meckling, So. Dak.
Hard, Jasper W., Granite Falls and Maple Hill,
Wash.
Hawkes. Albert S., Mountain Home, Idaho.
Hensel, William A., Spencer and Butte, Neb.
Heyward, lames W.. Minneapolis, Minn.
Hicks, William H., McAlester, Ind. Ter.
Holt, John S., Lanette Factory, Ala.
Keyes, Russell M., Lake Preston and Lake Henry,
So. Dak.
Lead ford, Joseph. Wier, Ga.
Murphy, James S., Enid, Okla.
Murray. Edward W., Central, Beechwood, and
Cedarwood, Ind.
Olson, Anton, Trade Lake, Wis.
Paxton, Robert F., Campbell and Tintah, Minn.
Pearse, Franklin F., Nordhoff, Cal.
Posey, Rufus P., Chepultepec, Ala.
Ray, G. W., Cripple Creek, Colo.
Siler, William J., Choctaw City, Minneha, and
Hartzell, Okla.
Smith, James C, Alexandria, Ind.
Strenly, D. E.. Culbertson and Hanes Co., Neb.
Upshaw, William L., North Enid and Paradise,
Okla.
Re-com m issioned
Adams. Clinton B., Philadelphia, Penn.
Barnes, A. E., Fertile and Maple Bay, Minn.
Barnes, Mrs. A. S., Castle, Mont.
Bartlett, Dana W.. Los Angeles, Cal.
Baskerville, Mark, Tekoa and Farmington,
Wash.
Beadenkoff, Thomas M., Baltimore. Md.
Bechtel. Philip, Tyndall and Emmanuel Creek.
So. Dak.
Birlew. Gordon E., San Rafael. New Mex.
Bishop. Albert W.. Parsons, Kan.
Bjorklund, Ernst V., Mankato and Kasota, Minn.
Blakeslee, Allen D., Denver, Colo.
Blankenship, Jefferson D., De Funiak Springs,
Fla.
Bond, John J., New Village and Farmingville,
N. Y.
Bradford, Benjamin F., Cedar Grove, N. J.
Brearley, William H.. Wahoo, Neb.
Brewer, William F.. Atlanta and Braden, Ga.
Brink, Lee A., Gettysburg, So. Dak.
Brower, Asher A , Wichita, Kan.
Brown. Robert P., Arapaho and Independence,
Okla.
Brown, Willard D., Interlachen. Fla.
Bunnell. John J., Fort Payne, Ala.
Burr, William N., Perris, Cal.
Butler, William, Byron and Bethany, Cal.
Buttram, Elijah A., Potolo and Caryville, Fla
Childs, Lucas S., Seward, Oak Ridge, and Brigh-
ton, Okla.
Christian, William C. D.. Clara. Ga.
Clark, Orville C, Missoula and Bonner, Mont.
Clarke, J., Berkeley, Cal.
Combe. Philip, San Francisco, Cal.
Cram, Delbert W., Staples. Minn.
Culver. William C., Kingston, Ala.
Cumbus, George W., Columbus. Ga.
Darnell, Elias. Dawsonville, Ga.
Davis. Joseph W., St. Mary, Ohio.
Day, Ernest, Lyle, Minn.
Day, William C, Mokelumne Hill, Cal.
De Long, Thomas W., San Miguel, Cal.
Denison, Robert C Little Rock, Ark.
Dexter, Granville M., Cottonwood, Cal.
Dick, Jeremiah M., Hubbard, Smyrna, and El-
liott Prairie, Ore.
Doty, Micajah, Glenview, So. Dak.
Drew. Frank L., Henry, So. Dak.
Dungan, George, Otis and Hyde, Colo.
Earl, Theophilus, San Diego, Cal.
East. William R., Sulligent, Ala.
Eckles, John G., Porterville, Cal.
Edmonds, Robert H., Mansfield, Ohio.
Edwards, Jonathan, Spokane, Pleasant Prairie,
and Hillyard. Wash.
Edwards, Miss Rosine M., Spokane and Trent,
Wash.
Emmerson, Nicholas, Dial and Mount Ayr, Kan.
Engstrom, Alfred P., Spencer Brook, Minn.
Evans, George S., Hudson, So. Dak.
Findlay, John J., Vernondale, Cal.
Fleming, Moses G., Amandaville, Comer, Dan-
idsville, and Five Forks, Ga.
Fletcher, Rufus W., Qui llayute. Wash.
Frame, Ezra E., Fort Wayne, Ind.
Frazer, Charles W., Key West, Fla.
Fritzmeier, William, Crete. Neb.
Fuller, Almon T., New Smyrna and Oak Hill,
Fla.
Gordon, William, Field's Landing and Elk River,
Cal.
Graham, William H., The Rock, Lifsey, Hen-
dricks, and Taylor, Ga.
Gilliam, John W., North Rome, Plainville, and
Holland Springs, Ga.
Hale, Edson D.. Lincoln and Fruitvale, Cal.
Halliday, Joseph C, Orange City, Fla.
Hardaway, George W., Longwood and Palm
Springs, Fla.
Harper, Joel, Oklahoma City, Okla.
Haven, Egbert D.. Rocklin, Cal.
Hawks, John S., Carrier, Glenella, and Alvaretta,
Okla.
Helms. George L.. Cresbard and Myron, So. Dak.
Henning. George W., Los Angeles. Cal.
Hilkerbaeumer, Richard, Sutton and Stockham,
Neb.
Hjetland. John H.. Granite Falls, Minn.
Hodel, Abraham, McCook, Neb.
Holway, J. W., Drummond, Cable, and Mason,
Wis.
Home, Gideon, Roberta. Clark's Mill, Magda-
lena, and Woodbury, Ga.
Hubbard, William B., Armour, So. Dak.
Hull, Lyman, Garden City, Pierceville, and Sher-
lock, Kan.
Hurlburt. Wallace, Beaverton and Tualitin, Ore.
Ives. Joseph B.. Paradise, Cal.
James, Horace P., Colfax, Wash.
Jasper, Gustavus A., Hydesville and Rohnerville,
Cal.
Jenkins, David L., Eagle Rock, Cal.
Johnson. Alfred K., Rosedale and Poso, Cal.
Jones. John D., Medical Lake, Wash.
Josephson, Hans F., Clintonville, Wis.
Judah. Solomon B., Wausau and Coatsville, Fla.
Kimball, Jeremiah. West Superior, Wis.
Kindred. George, Tolt. Wash.
Koch, Johannes. Portland, Ore.
Langdale. Thomas G., Clark, So. Dak.
Lee, George, Vernon and Bonifay, Fla.
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Lewis, Thomas G., Colville, Wash.
Lindley, Thomas M., Christiana and Lamar, Ala.
Loomis, Eli R., South Bend, Wash.
Lyle. Andrew J., Strickland, Ga.
McConaughy, Frank, Deer Park, Clayton, and
Loon Lake, Wash.
Manley, Richard C, Meansville, Ga.
Marcelius, David, Renovo, Penn.
Mason, Charles E., Challis, Idaho.
Matthews, James T., Blossburg, Penn.
Mead, Marten H., Provo, Utah.
Mills, Ernest P., Kansas City, Kan.
Morris, George, Los Angeles, Cal.
Mullenix, Mrs. Hannah M., Grand Meadow,
Minn.
Newell. William W., Duluth, Minn.
Newton, Howell E., Oxford, Ga.
Noble, Mason, Lake Helen, Fla.
Overton, Joseph, Oleander, Cal.
Parker, Frederick W., Huntington, Ore.
Parsons, A. S., General Missionary in Butte Co.,
Cal.
Parsons, Charles, Webster, So. Dak.
Pearson, John L., Oceanside and Encinitas, Cal.
Petterson, John, Clear Lake, Wis.
Phillips, John W., Bakersfield, Cal.
Pitman, Travis, Glenmore and Dupont, Ga.
Prescott, Matthew, Fredonia, Ala.
Rea, John. Mill Valley, Cal.
Read, James L., Medford and West Medford,
Okla.
Robertson, William J., Upshaw, Houston, and
Addison, Ala.
Rogers, John A., Alpine and Flinn Valley, Cal.
Rogers, Samuel J., Robbinsdale, Minn.
Ruddock, Charles A., Winthrop, Minn.
Ruddock, Edward N., Burtrum and Grey Eagle,
Minn. s
Sanford, John I., New Duluth, Minn.
Schaefle, John M., Pico Heights and Hyde Park,
Cal.
Searles, George R., Willard and Hudson, Minn.
Shaw, Edwin S., Cooperstown, No. Dak.
Shendel, William L., Toledo, Ohio.
Smith, Green N., Baxley, Ga.
Spence, William H., Lorain, Ohio.
Spriggs, John, Suches, Ga.
Stallings, J. J., General Missionary in Ala.
Staub, John J., Portland, Ore.
Tade, Ewing G, Avalon, Cal.
Trchka, Charles, Saint Paul, Minn.
Treiber, Daniel J., Sycamore, Kan.
Thurston, Thomas W., Dawson and Tappan, No
Dak.
Trevor, Ernest A., Starkville, Colo.
Twyford, Mrs. Lucy E., Victory, Ala.
Vaughan, GeorgeW., Chulafinnee, Rosewood, and
Edwardsville, Ala.
Wales, Frederick H., Black Diamond, Cal.
Wells, Charles W., Cathlament, Wash.
Williams, Stephen, Forman, Rutland, Cayuga,
and Havana, No. Dak.
Williams, William T., Slatington and Catasauqua,
Penn.
Wise, Daniel W., Ahtanum and Tampico, Wash.
Wright, A. C, Mexican work.
Young, Arthur G., Harvey, No. Dak.
Young, Harry W., Portland, Ore.
RECEIPTS IN JULY, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 281 to 284.
MAINE— $30.00.
Bridgton, First, by J. H. Caswell
North Harpswell, A. Moore, special. .
Yarmouth, First, by C. L. Marston . .
$18 00
NEW HAMPSHIRE— $230.49.
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of
N. H., Miss A. A. McFar-
land, Treas. :
Concord, South Ch., Dime
Banks, for the debt $76 00
First, Dime Banks, for the
debt 17 50
East Concord 12 50
Hopkinton 125
Merrimack Conf., for the
debt 50 00
Penacook 2 88
West Concord 4 00
164 13
Candia, by E. Hill 7 05
Canterbury, Y. P. S. C. E., by M. A.
Patrick 6 50
Concord, A Friend 5 00
Francestown, by A. Downes 9 81
Laconia, Y. P. S. C. E., by M. S. Til-
ton, for Salary Fund 20 00
Stewartstown, Mrs. S. Converse 3 00
Wilton, Second, by C. Wilson 15 00
VERMONT— $840.23.
Bennington, Mrs. L. H. M. McCul-
lough, Gen. Howard Roll of Honor.
Brattleboro, Center Ch., $200 ; S. S.,
$25, by W. C. Tyler, Treas. Vt.
Dom. Miss. Soc $225 00
Burlington, College Street Ch., by G.
G. Benedict 38 37
Hon. D. A. Hall, by Gen. O. O.
Howard, special for the debt 2 00
Manchester, Ch., $19.86; S. G. Cone,
$50, by S. G. Cone to const. Miss M.
G. Cone a L. M 69 86
New Haven, Mrs. E. H. Meacham,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Rutland, by L. G. Bagley, to place
the names of Mrs.-G. W. Phillips
and Henry A. Hall on Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 200 00
S. S., by L. G. Bagley, to place the
name of Henry A. Hall on Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
St. Albans, by H. M. Stevens, for the
debt 5 00
MASSACHUSETTS-$8,754.63; of
which legacies, $5,069.44.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treas 2,000 00
By request of donors, of which
$300 Gen. Howard Roll of Honor;
Debt, $52 ; Salary Fund, $123.79.. 478 79
Boston, Estate of Lucinda J. Harts-
horn, by Henry R. Ellis, Ex 747 87
S. F. Wilkins, Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
W. A . Wilde, for Salary Fund so 00
1. 1 . a 200 00
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Dorchester, Second, by Miss E. Tol-
man $176 32
Easthampton, Payson Ch., by H. L.
Clark, to const. Miss L. Ferry a L.M. 100 00
East Longmeadow, First, by A. G.
Crane 12 68
Y. P. S. C. E. of the First, by A. G.
Crane 60
Enfield, Legacy of Mrs. Sarah Blod-
gett, by D. B. Gillett, Ex 4,226 57
By L. D. Potter 40 00
Hadley. Estate of J. B. Porter, by W.
P. Porter. Trustee 35 00
Haydenville, by C. D. Wait 7 67
Indian Orchard, by D. E. Greenaway. 46 18
Leominster, Woodbury Fund, by A. O.
Wilder, Treas. Orthodox Cong. Ch. 120 00
Newton Highlands, by G. May, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Northampton, Dorcas Soc. of the
First, by Mrs. J. E. Clarke, for
Salary Fund 6250
Pittsfield, A Friend, $5 : Needham S.
S., $3.70, by Rev. C. W. Shelton, for
Salary Fund 8 70
Southampton, by H. G. Healey 28 25
Uxbridge, First, by Miss S. W. Mas-
croft 33 50
West Boylston, Estate of A. P. H.
Hunt, by C. W. Wheeler. Adm 60 00
Williamsburg, by H. VV. Hill 20 00
Worcester. W. H. Sawyer, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
CONNECTICUT— $2,388.56; of which
legacies, §108.08.
Miss. Soc. of Conn.. W. W. Jacobs,
Treas, by Rev. W. H. Moore, Sec. 555 65
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas. :
Kensington, F. Kent, by his
mother $5 00
Bridgeport, First, L. B. Or-
fanization, by Mrs. C.
mith 1 43
South Canaan. Aux., by Mrs.
E. E. Manley 500
Hartford, Asylum Hill Ch.,
A Friend, by C. E.Thomp-
son 2 00
13 43
Black Rock, by D. H. Sturgis, to
const. Mrs. H. C. Woodruff a L. M. 81 00
Columbia, Y. P. S. C. E., by A. J.
Fuller 2 50
Derby, First. Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor, In Memoriam of Rev. J. H.
Noice. by N. J. Bailey 100 00
East Hampton, by S. M. Bevin 15 75
Ellington, A Friend, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
East Woodstock, by J. M. Paine 34 00
Fairfield, by E. Osborn 50 00
Guilford. First, by E. W. Leete. to
const. N. G. Burr a L. M 50 00
Hanover, by Rev. L. H. Higgins. for
the debt 850
Hartford, A Friend 2 00
Higganum, by R. T.Gladwin 1400
Lebanon, First, by J. R. Maxwell 45 8s
Marlboro, by W. W. Bolles 6 00
Milford. First, by G. J. Smith, toward
a L- Mp 4I 78
New Britain. D. M. Rogers, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor and to const.
M. H. Rogers and D. Rogers L.
™S IOO oo
New Haven, from the Estate of Mar-
garet E. Shelley, by B. L. Lam-
bert. Adm 100 00
First, Ladies' H. M. Soc, by M.E.
Mersick, for Salary Fund $250 00
Humphrey Street, by N. P. Smith.. 79 05
Mrs. M. A. Jones, by R. E. Rice.. . 5 00
Newington, by E. W. Atwood 71 00
New London. First Ch. of Christ, by
H. C. Learned 51 40
Second, by E. H. Wheeler 261 00
Newtown, by G. F. Duncombe 28 42
Norfolk. A Friend, by S. A. Selden... 5 00
A Friend 5 00
North Bran ford, from Estate of
Luther Chidsey, by C. Page 8 08
North Woodbury, by G. F. Morris. .. 26 23
Norwich Town, W. R. Lathrop 10 00
Rockville. A Friend, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor ico 00
Salisbury, by T. F. Dexter 62 13
Sharon, First, by R. E. Goodwin 16 15
Thomaston, First, by H. A. Welton.. 5 53
Thompsonville, C. Kingsbury 5 00
Unionville, Woman's Miss. Soc, by
Miss C. T. Marsh 6 00
Washington, First, by C. B. Nettle-
ton 60 00
Westchester, by E. E. Carrier 811
West Winsted, H. A. Russell 5 00
NEW YORK— $9,983.49 ; of which lega-
cies, §4,449.00.
Received by William Spalding,
Treas. :
Bridgewater $13 30
Canandaigua 50 00
East Ashf ord 1 80
Ellington 5 30
Homer 1600
Napoli 5 31
Rochester, South 35 00
Rev. H. C. Riggs 37 50
Watertown, $20 ; S. S., §10. 30 00
194 21
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall, Treas. :
Carthage. Jr. C. E §210
Parishville, Ch. and S. S.,
for the debt 19 00
21 10
Albany, Miss E. M. E 15 00
Barry ville, by J. F. Whitney 2 37
Brooklyn, William Mackey, in full for
debt 50 00
George P. Stockwell, Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor ioo 00
Denmark. Legacy of Sophia Snell, by
V. H. Cook, Ex 49900
Fredonia, Miss A. Moody 5 00
Maine, by S. C. Carman 10 96
New York City, Atlantic Trust Co.,
dividends 3,70000
O. W. Coe 50 00
A Friend 5.000 00
Niagara Falls, First, by C. R. Thorne 16 83
Perry Center, In Memoriam of Martha
B. Sheldon, for the debt, by M. A.
Barber 38 00
Syracuse, on Account of Estate of
Peter Burns 250 00
Sr. C. E. Soc, by Rev. H. N. Kin-
ney 52
Walton, S. S., by H. C. Tobey 19 57
Warsaw, S. S., by H. L. Martin 7 93
West Brook, by T. S. Hoyt 3 00
NEW JERSEY-$4i2.5o.
Chester. J. H. Cramer 30 00
East Orange, K 100 00
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Paterson, Auburn Street Ch., by J.
Chase
Upper Montclair, Christian Union
Ch., of which $100 Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor, by G. Bostwick
PENNSYLVANIA-$37.24.
East Smithfield, by O. B. Kellogg . . .
Le Raysville, by Mrs. H. C. Lyon..
Monterey, Hawley Memorial, by Rev.
A. Davison
Plymouth, Puritan Ch., by Rev. T.
McKay
Renovo, Swedish Ch., by Rev. D.
Marcelius
MARYLAND— $4.41.
Baltimore, Canton Ch.,by Rev. T. M.
Beadenkoff
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— $39.00.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Asso., Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas.:
Washington, First, of which $18 for
Salary Fund
Washington, Ralph Dunning.
GEORGIA-$3a.3o.
Woman's H. M. Union, Miss V.
Holmes, Treas. :
Atlanta, Central Ch
Baxley, Friendship, by Rev. G. N.
Smith ."
Columbus, by Rev. G. W. Cumbus. . .
Dawsonville, by Rev. E. Darnell
Fort Valley, by Rev. J. F. Blackburn
Powersville, Allen's Chapel, by Rev.
W. C. Carter
Roberta, Clark's Mill, Magdalena,
and Woodbury, by Rev. G. Home.
Suches, by Rev. J. Spriggs
The Rock, Lifsey, Hendricks, and
Taylor, by Rev. W. H. Graham
Wier, by Rev. J . Leadf ord
ALABAMA— $7.50.
Chulafinnee, FairviewCh., Rosewood,
New Harmony Ch., and Edwards-
ville, Salem Ch., by Rev. G. W.
Vaughan
Clanton and Mountain Spring Ch.,
and South Calera, by Rev. J. L.
Busby
Clio, Concord Ch., Henderson, Wes-
ley Chapel Ch., by Rev. N. H. Gib-
son
Rosehill, New Hope Ch., and Hilton,
Antioch Ch., by Rev. T. A. Pharr. .
Verbena, Shady Grove Ch.,and Clan-
ton, Union Point, by Rev. J. R.
Crowson
FLORIDA— $13.40.
Bonifay, Vernon, and Dundee, Hur-
ricane Ch., Ala., by Rev. G. Lee
Bushnell, Mrs. L. W. Bigelow, for the
debt
Longwood, Jr. C. E. Soc, by Rev. G.
W. Hardaway
5 °°
3 74
22 75
3 00
2 75
1 So
S °°
5°
4 00
1 5°
2 50
1 25
Ormond, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. C. Tot-
man
Portland, Black Oak, and Rocky
Bayou, by Rev. D. A. Simmons
Wausau, Harmony Ch., and Coats-
ville, Pleasant Hill Ch., by Rev. S.
B. Judd
TEXAS-
.50.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. H.
Gray, Treas. :
Paris, First, for Salary Fund
OKLAHOMA— $1.50.
Seward, Brighton, and Oak Ridge, by
Rev. L. S. Childs
4-41 TENNESSEE-$4i.8o.
East Lake, by Rev. T. S. McCallie ... 15 00
Memphis, Miss. Soc. of Strangers' Ch.,
by J. G. Bock 26 80
OHIO— $272.20 ; of which legacy, $33.50.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.:
Bellevue, Estate of Mrs. W.
Moore, by Rev. C. K.
Swartz $33 50
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by J. Snow 44 7°
Hudson, by Miss E. E. Met-
calf 11 00
Norwalk 7 40
Parkman, by Rev. S. R.
Dole 6 00
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, Treas.
Bohemian Board. Cleveland :
Chardon, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Mrs. C. L. Smith $500
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by Justin Snow 16 37
Plymouth, Miss Mary A.
Kendrick 2 00
$23 37
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
G. B. Brown, Treas. :
Cleveland, Euclid Ave-
nue $6 00
Mount Vernon 9 go
Springfield, First 2 75
$18 65
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Medina, Dime Banks, Mrs.
C. E. Clarke and Miss
Bertha Brintnall $10 00
S. S. Primary class, Dime
Bank. . 5 00
Norwalk. for Salary Fund. 4 00
Springfield, First, for Salary
Fund 10 00
First, C. E., for Salary
Fund ... 5 00
S. S., Primary class,
Dime Bank 500
Toledo, Washington Street,
Dime Bank, Miss Sybil
Johnson, $4. 60 ; Mrs. A.
U. Young, $5 960
Zanesville, for Salary Fund. 5 00
53 60
2 8o
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Ashtabula. Finnish Ch., by Rev. F.
Lehtinen $3 00
Bellevue, First, by Mrs. W. C. Wal-
ter 4 75
S. W. Boise 10 00
Oberlin, First, by A. H. Johnson 40 23
Sullivan, by Rev. H. F. Thompson... 16 00
INDIANA— $15.50.
Andrews, by Rev. C. C. Mackay 6 00
Fort Wayne, South Ch., by Rev. E.
E. Frame 3 50
Michigan City, by Rev. M. E. Eversz. 6 00
ILLINOIS— $155.00.
Chicago. E. P. Swartz. Silver Circle. 5 00
Illinois, A Friend 50 00
Jacksonville, by W. S. Palmer, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
MISSOURI— $15.75.
Kidder, by Rev. A. L. Gridley 5 25
St. Louis, Bethlehem, by Rev. A. L.
Love 3 00
Springfield, German, by Rev. J. F.
Graf 7 50
WISCONSIN-$ii5.i7.
Received by Rev. T. G. Grassie :
Bloomer, Ch., $2; Ladies, $4 $6 00
New Richmond, Ch., $41.30;
Ladies, $5 46 30
West Superior, Pilgrim .... 40 00
92 30
Glenwood. Swedish Ch., by Rev. O.
Ohlson 225
Peshtigo, by Mrs. G. Baikie 19 00
Wood Lake and Doctor's Lake, Swed-
ish, by Rev. N. I. Nelson 1 62
IOWA— $5.00.
Wilton Junction. German Ch., by
Rev. E. G. L. Mannhardt 5 00
MINNESOTA-$i43.n ; of which leg-
acy, $112.18.
Brownton and Stewart, by Rev. J. W.
Danford 13 41
Glenwood, by Rev. F. A. Sumner. . . 4 40
Hawley, Estate of Adna Colburn, by
W. Tanner 112 18
Minneapolis, Bethany Ch., by Rev. J.
W. Hey ward 2 00
Saint Paul, Bethany, by Rev. S. G.
Arnett 1 00
Verndale. by Rev. R. W. Harlow 5 00
Worthington, Union Ch., by G. O.
Moore 512
KANSAS— $55.28.
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas.
Kan. H. M. Soc:
Comet, S.S.. $2 44 IDAHO-$i2.25.
Topeka, Central Ch 1040
12 84 Challis, Woman's Miss. Soc, by M.
Blue Rapids, by L. B. Tibbetts 2 24 M. F. Mason
Kansas City, Chelsea Place Ch., by Mountain Home, Woman's Miss.
Rev. W. B. Fisher 1 00 Union, by Mrs. W. A. Reynolds
Kinsley, by Rev. H. H. Gilchrist .... $16 00
McPherson, Mrs. E. E. Shepley 10 00
Milford, $2 ; White Cloud, $3 ; Neta-
waka, $2.35 : Valley Falls, $5.85,
by Rev. W. C. Veazie 13 20
NEBRASKA— $76.92.
Beatrice, Mrs. D. B. Hotchkiss 10 00
Carroll, Welsh, by Rev. S. Jones 2 10
Cortland, E. C. Day, for the debt 1 00
Fairmount, First, by Rev. A. A. Cress-
man 7 75
Guide Rock. Superior, and Beaver
Creek, German Chs., by Rev. F.
Brennecke
Hallam, A Friend
Hastings. $4.75 ; A Friend. $2.50 ; and
Inland, $2.82, German Chs., by Rev.
C. W. Wuerrschmidt
Lincoln, First, by Rev. L. Gregory. . .
By Rev. H. C. Halbersleben
German Ch., by Rev. J. Lich
McCook, German Ch., by Rev. A.
Hodel 2 00
Princeton, Ladies' H. M. Soc. of Ger-
man Ch 6 00
NORTH DAKOTA— $19.84.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. M. M.
Fisher. Treas.:
Valley City $2 00
Wahpe'on Conference 227
4 27
Antelope, by Rev. D. T. Jenkins 3 72
Carrington, by Rev. W. H. Gimblett. 2 10
New Rockford, by Rev. N. W. Han-
kemeyer 5 00
Oberon, by Rev. O. P. Champlin 4 75
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SOUTH DAKOTA— $36.74.
Academy and Kirkwood, by Rev. L.
E. Camfield 3 75
Custer, by Rev. J. H. Kevan 6 08
Orleans, A Friend 10
Rapid City, Jr. C. E., by Rev. J. W.
Barron, thro' Rev. H. D. WTiard. ... 5 00
Springfield, by Rev. C. Seccombe 3 00
Tyndall, German Asso., by Rev. J.
Sattler 13 81
By Rev. M. E. Eversz 5 00
COLORADO— $42.30.
Denver, German Ch., by Rev. A.
Trandt 3 35
Manitou, by Rev. F. L. Hayes 10 25
Montrose, by Rev. W. A. Hutchinson. 28 70
UTAH-$2.5o.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. J.
D. Nutting, Treas. :
Salt Lake City, Plymouth
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CALIFORNIA— $63.15.
Woman's H. M. Union, Southern Cal.,
Mrs. M. Smith, Treas. :
Highland, Royal Miss. Sec. $2 00
Los Angeles, First, for Sal-
ary Fund 7 00
Pomona, Pilgrim 14 25
Jr. C. E 500
Avalon, by Rev. E. O. Tade
Chula Vista, by Rev.W. A. McGinley..
Los Angeles, Central Avenue, by
Rev. C. S.Vaile
Murphy's, Douglas Flat, and Sheep
Ranch, by Rev. M. J. Luark
Rosedale and Poso, by Rev. A. K.
Johnson
OREGON— $44.85.
Astoria, First, by Rev. E. S. Bollinger.
Beaverton and Tualitin, by Rev. W.
Hurlburt
Huntington, by Rev. F. W. Parker..
Oswego, Leland. and Beaver Creek,
by Rev. R. M. Jones
Portland, by Rev. M. E. Eversz. . . .
Scappoose, $2 ; St. Helen's, $1.60, by
Rev. C. E. Philbrook
WASHINGTON-$47.58.
Ballard, German Ch., by Rev. G.
Graedel $3 00
Eagle Harbor, by Rev. O. H. Johnson 12 73
Ritzville, German Ch., by Rev. G.
Schenerle 9 40
Seattle, German Ch., by Rev. G. H.
Lee 1 50
$28 25 Spokane, Pilgrim Ch., Pleasant
Prairie, and Hillyard, by Rev. J.
6 00 Edwards 12 30
20 00 West Side Ch., and Trent, by Miss
R. M. Edwards 6 15
5 00 Tolt, by Rev. G. Kindred 2 50
2 4° HAWAIIAN ISLANDS-$2oo.oo.
Kohala, A Friend 200 00
SOUTH AFRICA— $10.00.
20 00 Wellington, Miss A. M. Wells 10 00
4 °° UNKNOWN-$5o.oo.
3 25 VJ
Unknown Friend, Special 50 00
1 00
13 00 Home Missionary 25 10
3 60 $24,235 88
Contributions in July, excluding contributions for the debt $14,350 84
Legacies in July 9,772 20
Contributions for the debt in July 2,121 00
Total receipts in July $26,244 04
Contributions for the debt to August 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $86,256 58
Special for debt 8,738 20
$94,994 78
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the New Ha?npshire Home Missionary Society from May I to August 1,
1896. Hon. L. D. Stevens, Treasurer
Acworth, Ch. and Soc $7 78
Amherst, Ch. and Soc 3 00
Andover, Ch. and Soc 514
Bath, Ch. and Soc 10 00
Bradford Center, Ch. and Soc 2 35
Candia, Legacy of Mrs. Nancy Parker,
in part 200 00
Canterbury, Y. P. S. C. E 6 50
Center Ossipee, Ch. and Soc 12 76
East Barrington, Ch. and Soc 12 65
East Brentwood, Ch. and Soc 14 00
Farmington, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H.
M. S., on salary of Rev. G. E. Birlew,
of San Rafael, N. M . 16 00
Gilsum, Ch. and Soc 5 00
Goffstown, Ch. and Soc 5 90
Hampton, Ch. and Soc 8 36
Harrisville, Ch. and Soc 7 33
Hebron, Union Ch. and Soc 5 00
Henneker, Ch. and Soc, $32.50 ; and
for C. H. M. S., $64.90 $97 40
Hillsborough Center, Ch. and Soc 5 35
Hinsdale, Sunday-school 5 00
Hollis, Ch. and Soc 1478
Hopkinton, Ch. and Soc, for C. H. M.
S 16 50
Hudson, Ch. and Soc 20 41
Keene, First Ch. and Soc 50 00
Manchester, First Ch. and Soc, $41.09 ;
and to const. Will C. Heath a L. M
of C. H. M. S., $59.80 ; Income of
Abigail S. Knowles's estate, $28.05... 128 94
Mason, Ch. and Soc n 65
Miscellaneous, Trustees of N. H. H.
Miss. Soc, $7.02 ; Rockingham
County Conference, $7.23 14 25
N. H. Female Cent Institution and
Home Miss. Union 901 23
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New Ipswich, Legacy, from Trustees
of estate of Dea. Leavitt Lincoln $35 93
Pelham, Legacy of Sarah S. Barker, for
C. H. M. S 50 00
Raymond. Ch. and Soc 15 00
Rochester, Ch. and Soc ig 25
Salmon Falls, Ch. and Soc 20 00
South Weare, Ch. and Soc 4 38
Wakefield, Ch. and Soc $10 40
Warner, Y. P. S. C. E. of Ch. and Soc. 1 00
Webster, Y. P. S. C. E 4 °°
Wentworth, Legacy of Mrs. Abbie Cook 2,295 05
West Concord, Ch. and Soc 15 00
Wilmot, Ch. and Soc 5 00
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in July, 1896. R.EV. Edwin
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor:
Marion, Sophia M. Luce $100 00
Massachusetts, A Friend 100 00
Newton, Eliot Ch., by Geo. N. Put-
nam 100 00
Agawam, Feeding Hills, by Rev. F. L.
Garfield, add'l $200
Amherst, North, Harrington, Miss Mar-
tha E., by E. H. Dickenson 25 00
Ashby, Orthodox, by C. F. Hayward.. 5 72
Bank Balances, June Interest on 17 22
Barnstable, Hyannis, Bearse, Mrs. R. J. 1 00
Barre, Sunday-school, by F. A. Gay-
lord 15 76
Blackstone, by C. H. Lee 1000
Y. P. S. C. E., by C. H. Lee 2 00
Boston, Charlestown, Winthrop, by
Geo. S. Poole 137 98
Dorchester, E. C. a Day Band, by
Miss E. F. Merrill, for local Arme-
nian Work 10 00
Park St., by E. H. McGuire 5150
Roxbury, Friend, " W.," towards sup-
port of Rev. Daniel Staver, As-
toria, Ore 100 00
Walnut Ave. Sunday-school, by C.
T. Barry, Salary Fund 23 79
West, So. Evan., by Mrs. C. H.
Botsford 80 92
South, Phillips, Holmes, D. H 5 00
Brockton, Campello, South, by Frank P.
Mills 100 00
Brookline, Harvard, by James H. Shap-
leigh 88 95
Special for Italian Mission, by Jas. H.
Shapleigh 26 69
Buckland. by E. F. Smith 17 50
Ruddock, Mrs. L. B., debt of C. H. M.
S 25 00
Cambridge, J. E. S 3 00
Cambridgeport, Pilgrim, by N. H. Hol-
brook 33 45
Chicopee, First, by Rev. Collins G.
Burnham 3° 73
Second (Falls;, by Chas. A. Taylor. . . 56 27
Dartmouth, South, Ladies' Cent Soc,
by Mrs. Susan A. McKenzie 10 00
Dedham, First, by E. Howe, Jr 118 70
Easton, by H. Y. Mitchell 25 00
Essex, by Mrs. Mary C. Osgood 16 00
Foxboro, Phelps, Mary N., to const.
Mrs. James W. Flagg a L. M. of C.
H. M. S 50 00
Frost, Rufus S., Fund, Income of 30 00
Gardner, First, by D. H. Rand 50 00
Gloucester, Trinity, by Joseph O. Proc-
ter 50 00
Greenfield. Second, by Miss Lucy A.
Sparhawk (of wh. $17 for debt) 58 73
Haverhill Center, by Daniel Hackett. . 57 00
Hawley, by T. T. Clark $1712
Holbrook, Winthrop, by F. W. Blan-
chard, to const. Rev. and Mrs. W. F.
Low, and another to be named, L.
Ms in 87
Hubbardston, by Lucy H. Grimes 16 00
A Friend 500
Ipswich, First, by Thomas H. Lord .. 25 00
Jessup Fund, Income of 150 00
Lowell, Swede, Sunday-school, by
Berger Pettersson 2 50
Maiden, First, by Charles F. Belcher. . 84 67
Marlboro, Union, by Wm. A. Dudley.. 80 50
Medford, West, by J. H. Gerrish 13 co
Medway, Village, by Rev.R. K. Harlow 52 46
Newburyport, Belleville, by Rev. A. W.
Hitchcock (L. Ms. to be named) 290 45
Newton, Eliot, by Geo. N. Putnam
(add'l to Roll of Honor) 125 00
First (Center), by J. E. Rockwood 214 25
Northampton, Edwards, Benev. Soc, by
S. D. Drury 136 00
First, by J. H. Searle 239 50
Northbridge, Whitinsville, E. C. a Day
Band, by Mrs. A. C. Whitin 20 06
North Brookfield. First, by John S.
Cooke 43 28
Oxford, by Rev. E. A. Bradstreet, to
const. Harriet A. Burdon and Alice
Cory L.Ms 60 60
Parkhurst, E. C, Fund, Income of 15 00
Peabody, West, by F. K. Mclntire. ... 10 25
Pittsfield, French Congregation, by
Rev. A. Bouteiller 5 00
Quincy, Atlantic, by Frank Jenkins 34 79
Randolph, by Rev. Chas. A. Hilton 155 50
Read ville, Rice, Geo. L 5 00
Reed, Dwight, Fund, Income of 90 00
Rockport, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs.
G. L. Bray 9 53
South Hadley, First, by L. M. Gaylord. 18 50
Sutton, Wilkinsonville, A Friend, to
const. Miss M. E. Fowler, of Saun-
dersville, a L. M. of C. H. M. S 5000
Taunton, Union, by Herbert S. Lane... 18 35
Upton. First, by Benj. C. Wood 31 40.
Wakefield, by W. P. Preston 21 78
Waltham, Trinitarian, by T. W. Tem-
ple 52 71
Ware, First, by W. L. Brakenridge 20 55
Wellesley Hills, by L. V. N. Peck 38 00
Wellfleet, by Simeon Atvvood 8 22
Ladies' Society, by Simeon Atwood.. 5 co
Westford, Union, by Daniel Atwood ... 8 50
Y. P. S. C. E , by Mary Atwood. . . 8 50
Westminster, First, by D. W. Hill 31 75
Westport, Pacific Union, S. S., by J. C.
Macomber 15 40
West Springfield, Park St., by Samuel
Smith 32 70
Weymouth, South, Old South, by Rev.
H. O. Alvord 1600
Whitin, J. C, Fund, Income of 120 00
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Winchester, First, Special, by Eben
Caldwell $2 62
Woburn, First, Ladies' Char, and
Reading Society, by Mrs. J. Jameson,
to const. Mrs. Doremus Scudder a L.
M 30 00
Worcester, Central, by G. W. Mackin-
tire 140 00
Piedmont, by Arthur W. Eldred 35 00
Pilgrim, by F. L. Stetson (of wh. $10
for debt) $122 n
Plymouth, by F. W. Chase 222 00
Union, by C. B. Greene go 72
$4,777 45
Home Missionary 2 70
$4,780 15
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut i7i July, 1896. Ward W. Jacobs,
Treasurer
Avon, West Avon, by Rev. F. S. Fran-
cis
Barkhamsted, by Wallace Case
Bloomfield, by F. C. Bidwell
Bridgeport, First, by R. E. Wheeler
Canton, Collinsville, by J. S. Heath. ..
Central Village, see Plainfield.
Collinsville, see Canton.
Danielson, see Killingly.
Deep River, see Saybrook.
East Hartland, see Hartland.
Essex, First, by S. J. Tiley
Fairfield, by Edward Osborn
Gilead, see Hebron.
Goshen, Sunday-school, by Miss Alice
Scoville
Hartford, Pearl Street, by William A.
Willard, for C. H. M. S
Talcott Street, by A. I. Plato
Hartland, East Hartland, by Rev. W.
E.B.Moore
Hebron, Gilead, by A. E. Hutchinson. .
Huntington, by Frank H. Wells
Killingly, Danielson, by Charles Phil-
lips
ForC. H. M. S
Lebanon, Liberty Hill, by E. L. Rich-
ardson
By D. J. Bliss
Liberty Hill, see Lebanon.
Madison, North Madison, by Rev. W.
$15 00 G. Searles $25 00
7 84 Middletown, Third, by J. J. Wilcox 6 47
2 50 New Haven, Davenport, by Geo. F.
8857 Burgess, for C. H. M. S 73 33
50 00 New London, First, by H. C. Learned . 38 47
Second, by E. H. Wheeler 250 00
New Milford, by C. H. Noble 71 66
North Madison, see Madison.
North Woodstock, see Woodstock.
Orange, West Haven, by Rev. S. J.
32 37 Bryant 40 62
50 00 Plainfield, Central Village, by Mrs. A.
M. Lillibridge 1362
Plymouth, by Arthur Beardsley 10 00
29 87 Ridgebury, by Rev. E. S. Sanborn 14 00
Ridgefield, First, by John F. Holmes. . . 30 80
71 76 Saybrook, Deep River, Swedish, by
4 50 Rev. C. G. Younggren 3 70
Southington, by J. F. Pratt 3 79
12 00 Suffield, by W. E. Russell 27 03
25 11 Vernon, by H. L. James 10 13
8 00 West Avon, see Avon.
West Hartford, by E. S. Elmer 1783
26 88 West Haven, see Orange.
5587 Windsor Locks, by C. A. Porter 35 75
Woodstock, North Woodstock, by
7 00 Esther E. Bishop 25 52
1 00
$1,185 99
ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Illinois Home Missionary Society in April, May, and June, 1896.
Aaron B. Mead, Treasurer
Abingdon, Miss Emma Harris $12 50
Albion, Wanboro 4 00
Alto Pass v 5 00
Ashkum 2 93
Atlas 2 00
Beecher 10 00
Beverly . 5 00
Braidwood, Welsh 2 00
Bunker Hill 3 50
Cable 5 00
Chicago, First (Y. P. S. C. E., $1.00). .. 48 84
Leavitt Street 50
Union Park (Mrs. L. A. Bushnell,
$100) 200 00
Ravenswood 62 33
Christ's German 2 00
South Chicago, Second, Sunday-
school 3 00
Gross Park 2 32
Waveland Avenue 431
Clifton $2 61
Creston 1259
Des Plaines (Y. P. S. C. E., $3.44) 16 24
Dover (Sunday-school, $5.00) 10 00
Earlville, J. A. D 50 00
Elburn 7 00
Evanston 134 28
Forrest 8 71
Galesburg, Central (Mrs. Martha Hitch-
cock, $10.00) 135 00
East Main Street 24 65
Knox Street 20 05
Gridley 70 00
Griggsville, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Henry 5 62
Hinsdale (Sunday-school, $50.00) 93 37
Mrs. M. S. Holcombe 20 co
Homer 9 35
Jacksonville 54 00
Joy Prairie, Sunday-school 10 71
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Kewanee $58 46
La Salle 54 69
Marseilles. Dr. R. N. Baughman 100 00
Marshall 11 00
Melville 1 20
Metropolis, V. P. S. C. E 5 00
Millburn (Y. P. S. C. E.. $2.50) 9 60
Oak Park. First, Sunday-school 3 91
Second 10 00
Ontario, Sunday-school 8 00
Park Ridge, German 3 20
Paxton 41 00
Plainfield, Mrs. A. E. Hagar 10 00
Plymouth 222
Princeton (Y. P. S. C. E.. 87-50) 100 74
Mrs S. C. Clapp.... 100 00
Prophetstown 472
Providence 25 00
Quincy, First Union (Prompt Relief
Fund. $20.00) 419 10
Rantoul 3 41
Rockefeller 1 5 72
Saunemin, Mrs. Mary E. Knowlton . . . . 1 00
Seward 1 Winnebago County 1 (Sunday-
school, 82 cents) 21 82
Somonauk (Y. P. S. C. E., $6.90) 16 55
Summer Hill, Sunday-school 8 13
Sycamore, Pledge Signer 50 00
Woodburn 385
Woman's Home Missionary Union :
Alton $3000
Aurora, New England 18 00
Avon 5 31
Big Woods 5 00
Chicago, Lincoln Park 4 50
Millard Avenue, Mission
Band 8 70
Lake View 42
California Avenue 5 00
Elgin, First 20 00
Geneseo 45 00
Greenville $8 85
Griggsville 400
Highland (Mission Band,
$2.50) 7 5°
lllini 6 75
Joy Prairie 16 10
Loda 10 00
Mendon 9 25
Metropolis 95
Oak Park. First (Mrs. E. J.
Humphrey. $20.00! 82 70
Odell. Sunday-school 1 00
Paxton 10 00
Peoria. Plymouth, Jun. C. E. 70
Union 10 00
Plymouth 2 00
Rockford, First 8 80
Second (Jun. C. E., 7ocents) 79 30
Rosemond . ... . 700
Sandwich. Jun. C. E 1 00
Seward (Winnebago Co.) 19 75
Shabbona 5 00
Somonauk, Mission Band 2 00
Stillman Valley 18 05
Toulon 10 00
Wheaton, First 33 00
■ S495 63
Cash 2500
Estate of Mrs. Lucy B. Smith, of Sand-
wich, per Frank Clendenin, Ex .. .. 275 00
C. M. Hotchkin. Chicago 3500
Rev. J. D. McCord. Chicago 16 66
Mrs. C. S. Cady, Chicago 1 00
Mrs. H. S. Caswell (special) 25 00
Friends (special) 20 00
Cash 10 00
Sarah A. Dunn 5 00
Secretary 100 00
$3,161 02
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of tin- Michigan Home Missionary Society in July, 1S96. Rev. John P.
Sanderson, Treasurer
Allenville
Anonymous
Bay Mills
Bellaire
Calumet. Y. P. S. C. E
Chase
Clinton .*
Cooks
Detroit. Woodward Ave
Drummond
Ensign
Fairport
Fayette
Grand Rapids, First
Jackson, Plymouth
Lansing. Plymouth, by C. T. W.
Maple City
Matchwood
Muskegon. First
Northport, Rev. W. H. Hurlbut.
Port Huron. 25th St
Rapid River
St. Ignace
St. Jacques
Sack Bay
Sailors' Encampment
Solon
Wheatland, S. S
A. W. Douglas
$0 32
400 00
2 00
3 20
52 00
1 50
11 00
1 05
67 12
3 00
41
56
28
500 00
14 60
60
2 30
1 09
5 00
2 50
3 °°
2 40
36S
52
32
78
4 00
6 70
5 00
Woman's Home Missionary Union, by
Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Treas
$1,269 9°
Receipts of the W. H. M. U. of Michigan
in July, 1896. Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
Treas. :
Almont. W. H. M. S $500
Grand Rapids, Park 16 00
Grass Lake, W. H. M. S 13 00
Greenville 1 05
Jackson 17 30
Lawrence 3 00
Litchfield, Miss P. A. Turrell . 5 00
Olivet. L. B. S 1000
Portland, W. H. M. S 100
Romeo, W. H. M. S 2000
St. Tohn's, Woman's Asso.... 7 50
Three Oaks, W. M. S s 00
Traverse City, W. H. M.S... 2500
West Adrian, W. M. S 5 00
Whitaker, W. H. M. S 500
YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK
Bay City, Jun. C.E $2 n
Lansing, Plymouth Guild 6 00
Webster, S. S. Miss. Soc 4 01
$138 85
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis. So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell. 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson. Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St..
Topeka.
Treastirer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational President, Mrs. Sydney Strong. Lane Seminary
House, Boston. Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg. 32 Congrega- Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, The Morris,
tional House. Boston. Cleveland.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman. 32 Congre- Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown. 2116 Warren
gational House, Boston. St., Toledo.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts aud Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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g. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New-
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. j. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman. Whitewater.
II. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President. Mrs. W. H. Boals. Fargo.
Secretary. Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July. 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill. Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June. 1889
President, Mrs. A. ludson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St..
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St.. Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President. Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins. Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October. 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry. Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt, Huron.
Treasure r, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President, Mrs. D. B. Perry. Crete.
Secretary. Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary,
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St., President, Mrs. C M Crawford, Hammond
Los Angeles Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere. 152 North Gal-
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena ^ „/ez St., New Orleans.
Ave , Los Angeles Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smitli, Public Library, St., New Orleans.
Riverside.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W. J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine. Windsor.
Treasurer , Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
c iv/rDe£^er; tit , t, „ t^ President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508. Denver. Secretary )
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands. andJf (-Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, )
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple, Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President. Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., president, Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
-r- it unai. . T7 t t- • Secretary. Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer. Mrs. Herbert E. Jones. Livingston. Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June. 1890
President. Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lansford.
Secretary. Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint. Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer. Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. J. H. Parker. Kingfisher.
Secretary. Mrs. J. E. Piatt. Guthrie.
Treasurer. Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, i8gi
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford. Montclair.
Secretary. Mrs. J. D. Hagerman. Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May. 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President. Mrs. W. S. Hawkes. 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets. Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President. Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary. Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October. 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage. Rapid City, Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood. Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
Treasurer, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
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Rev. C W. Shelton, Derbv, Conn.
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Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, .Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Tiirali Huron, S. Dak.
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Contents for October, 1896
PAGE
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XV. — Vacation Excursions . . 289
He, Being Dead, Yet Speaketh. . . 298
How We Increased the Collection, 299
Immanuel Mission (Cuban) in Ibor
City, Fla 300
Looking on the Bright Side 301
How to Do It 302
How Shall I Give to Home Mis-
sions this Year ? 303
Mission Work Among the Indians, 304
Incidents in Home Missionary
Life
Missionary Work Among our
Boys and Girls
In a Hard Field
The Missionary Spirit and Chris-
tian Character
Personal Tribute to Mr. H. M.
Dixon
A Call from the South
Denominational Loyalty
The Treasury
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The Home Missionary
Vol. LXIX OCTOBER, 1896 No. 6
NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XV. — Vacation Excursions
IRST to the Grand Canon and the cliff dwellings of Arizona.
From Albuquerque, New ''Mexico, the Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad had just been completed straight west through Ari-
zona to California. It ran much of the way through a desert region,
uninhabited except by Indians. The Principal of our New West Acad-
emy had been over the road to visit the Grand Canon of the Colo-
rado and the cliff dwellings. He graphically described the trip to the
writer and his ministerial brother, and they naturally wished that they
could take the same trip; but the expense of it forbade. " Let us go
down and see the superintendent of the road," said one of their friends.
They went, showed their passes over the Santa Fe road, and were
promptly and courteously furnished passes over the new road to the
Grand Canon, nearly 500 miles farther on. They left Albuquerque
before daylight, Monday morning, crossed the Rio Grande, then a rush-
ing torrent, passed the pueblos of Isleta and Laguna on its rocky cliff,
rode for miles along a wild black river of congealed lava, and then for
forty miles alongside of vast towering cliffs of the peculiar red rock
which, for hundreds of miles, is found along the base of the mountains,
across the deep gorge of Canon Diablo, over canons and through
canons, across arid deserts, over grassy highlands, through pine forests
and mountain ranges, now catching sight of some old fortification on a
high cliff, then of a band of Navajo Indians, and once a skeleton of a
horse standing up, as though he had forgotten to lie down when he died.
At one o'clock, Tuesday morning, they were at Peach Springs, Arizona,
466 miles west of Albuquerque. They had sent ahead for a team to be
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ready to take them to the Canon, twenty-three miles north. After a
hasty cup of coffee they were on the buckboard behind two good
horses. "Give me my revolver," said the driver; "there are hard
characters round town, and if they know that I am going out with pas-
sengers at this time of night they may hold us up." The road lay
down Peach Spring Canon, now dry, but showing evidence of fearful
torrents in the past. When day broke the rocky walls were rising above
them several thousand feet on either side. They reached the Grand
Canon at six a.m., and had four hours to stay. Time was too precious
to waste in eating breakfast. Snatching a biscuit from their lunch, they
at once climbed a hill some 1,500 feet high, reaching the top in twenty-
five minutes. Then they turned, and looked and looked and looked.
They had seen many wonderful mountain views, but this view eclipsed
them all. They looked far down on the turbid Colorado, seemingly a
narrow sluggish stream, but really a swiftly rushing torrent, the drainage
of 300,000 square miles, and of many lofty mountain ranges, whose deep
snows were fast disappearing under the summer sun. At that point the
river was about 250 feet wide and 200 feet deep, and was then some
sixty feet above low-water mark. Back of them rose the Haystack,
3,900 feet high; back of that was Sunset Peak, 6,000 feet high.
Across the river, as part of the canon wall, Solomon's Temple, stupen-
dous and grand with its majestic natural architecture, rose 6,000 feet
above the water. Mount Emma, Tower of Babel, and other cliffs were
about the same height. They could look up and down the river for
miles and could see on both sides about twenty miles of those marble
walls stupendous in size and height, yet wondrously beautiful, and they
then remembered that the canon was 300 miles or more in length, and
that in some places the rocks were 8,000 feet high. Then they thought
of the wonderful feat of Major Powell, who in 1869, and again in 187 1,
descended its whole length in a boat.
Time was precious. They looked fast and hard, but they closed
their eyes long enough to have a season of prayer on what seemed to
them holy ground. Very precious was their communing with God in
the midst of his wonderful handiwork. They then went some two miles
up Diamond Canon, which is tributary to the Grand Cafion. There is
no canon in Colorado that equals it in sheer depth. At one point the
black igneous rocks were only twelve feet apart at the bottom, yet they
rose almost perpendicularly nearly 2,700 feet, or 900 feet higher than
the rocks in the Royal Gorge of the Arkansas. Years before an adven-
turer had "salted" a part of this canon with $40,000 worth of dia-
monds, and thus started the great Arizona diamond excitement. Hence
the name of the canon. Ten o'clock came too soon, and they started
back in the intense heat of an Arizona midsummer day. Most merci-
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lessly did the sun beat down into the canon. There were " great
rocks" and a " weary land," but no " shadow." The road was sandy,
stony, dusty, and often very steep. It was nine miles to water, a stag-
nant spring open to the sun and full of insects; then ten miles to more
CANON OF THE ARKANSAS
water. After they had ascended 400 feet to the railroad, and after six
o'clock p.m., the thermometer stood at 102 degrees in the shade.
On the return trip they stopped off for a day to visit some of the
most interesting of the cliff dwellings scattered over southern Colorado,
northern New Mexico, and Arizona. Those they visited were eight
miles from Flagstaff in Arizona, but only three miles from Casnino, a
flag station, from which they walked to the ruins. The canon in
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which they are found runs through a comparatively level region, cov-
ered with pines and cedars. The locality itself must have been a diffi-
cult one for an enemy to find. The walk was a warm one, but through
the evergreen trees they caught frequent cooling glimpses of the vast
beds of snow that cover the extinct volcano of the San Francisco
mountains.
Suddenly they came to the edge of a canon several hundred feet
deep, and with much difficulty let themselves down into it. About half
way down they found a thick layer of rock that had worn away much
more rapidly than the formation just above it. The result was that on
that level, for miles on both sides of the canon, there were open caves
from five to ten feet high, from five to twenty feet deep, and sometimes
100 or 200 feet long. The cliff-dwellers inclosed those spaces in front
with walls two feet thick, and divided them into separate rooms by walls
equally thick. Usually a narrow shelf of rock was left in front of the
dwellings, from which there was a succession of sheer precipices and
steep slopes to the bottom of the canon. Trails of which there is
now no trace led down to the large clear pools of water which remained
in spots in the canon during the dry season.
The place was admirably adapted for defense. The canon swept
around in a large circle and came almost back upon itself, leaving only
a narrow, precipitous strip of land running out to the peninsula which
came so near being an island. On the highest point of that peninsula
were rude fortifications. It was doubtless the cliff-dwellers' outlook.
The approach of an enemy could be immediately signaled from that
point to the dwellings on both sides for a long distance.
They visited some twenty or thirty of those dwellings. The number
of rooms in them varied from two to ten, some of which were perfectly
preserved, being entered by a very narrow door or a small window. In
one dwelling there were inner rooms, reached from the outer by climbing
over high walls. In some rooms the back part of the floor was raised
a foot or so, making a stone bed on which a whole family could sleep.
A deep layer of dust, ashes, and debris covered the floor in many of
the rooms, so that digging for relics was very dusty work.
Reaching, on the far side of the canon, a dwelling which had evi-
dently not been visited, they noticed that one room was only about
four feet wide. They concluded that it must have been the store-room,
and they began to dig in the debris, after removing the heavy stones
that had fallen upon it from the walls. Sure enough, it proved to be the
store-room, garret, cellar, and dump heap for that whole row of rooms.
They dug for an hour or more, and found, among other things, an old
stone mill with which the Indians ground their corn and which was
worn so thin that doubtless it had been used for generations — just such
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a stone mill as they had seen the Pueblos using the week before; corn
stalks, corncobs, beans, gourds, nuts, seeds, arrows, bowstrings, coarse
cloth, a child's sandal, bone needles, pottery, a fishline, soap- weed,
needles, etc. They dug in other ruins also, and came away well laden
with relics. That night they slept on a narrow rocky shelf in the bottom
of the canon. One old shawl answered as a covering for three persons
The space was about wide enough for two, and when one turned over
he had to persuade the others to turn with him. Close under a beetling
cliff, with a pool of water on one side of them, the canon wall on the
other, and the dying embers of their camp-fire behind them, miles from
any human habitation, but not far from the fresh tracks of wild beasts,
those unarmed ministers lay down and commended themselves to him
whose angel encampeth round about them that fear him. They thought
of the time, centuries ago, wrhen those wild cliffs echoed with the cries
and laughter, the songs and war-whoops, of that mysterious race whose
origin and history puzzle the ethnologist. Out of the depths of that
narrow gorge they looked up at the silent stars as they slowly moved
over the canon's top, the same stars upon which the Indians once
looked from those same depths. What a history those stars could tell
if they could but speak. Never did the railroad, its cushioned seats
and its ice-water tank, seem such positive luxuries as to those footsore,
perspiring, relic-laden ministers after their tiring walk to the station
the next day. When the train stopped for dinner a man in an adjoin-
ing car came from his dinner into ours, and carelessly kicked his satchel
to one side. The kick discharged his revolver in the satchel, and the
man was shot, dying in a short time. A man who sat across the aisle
from us, and another directly in front of him, opened their satchels and
took out their loaded revolvers. The ministers had never carried revol-
vers in their mountain trips. They felt safer, and probably were safer,
without them.
When they reached Denver the next Saturday night (not having had
their clothes off since Sunday night), from that trip of a thousand miles
down into the wonderland of America, they felt that they were back
East again.
The next month the same ministers spent two days together in and
on the mountains near Denver — Gray's Peak and the Mount of the
Holy Cross. The first day they visited the mining camp of George-
town, and Green Lake, a few miles from it. The first night they slept
at Graymont, a railroad terminus sixty miles from Denver. The town,
a new one, consisted of an unpainted hotel and a box car, which was
the depot. It is six miles from the summit of Gray's Peak. Between
Georgetown and Graymont the railroad has many wonderful curves,
and one complete loop, crossing its own track ninety feet above it. At
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one point you can see six parallel lines of track, all parts of the same
road.
They reached Graymont in the evening. A huge bonfire of pine
stumps was burning in the front yard of the hotel. On the top of a
distant mountain a forest fire was raging. The valley was filled with
the roar of mountain torrents. They were 9,000 feet above the sea. A
mile above, up and among the stars seemingly, lay the highest summit,
only partly clad with snowy robes on that midsummer night.
They slept, or tried to sleep, till three a.m. " Let us dress and start
for the Peak," said one of the ministers. "Agreed," said the other.
In fifteen minutes they stole quietly out of the hotel, and were on their
way. They were veterans at mountain climbing, and disdained horses
and guides, for their purses were slender. Nevertheless, they lost the
trail in the dark and- wasted a precious half-hour beating around for it
among the bushes and rocks. Venus shone like a camp-fire from the
summit of a distant peak. They were in the shades of a deep valley;
but far, very far, up on the mountain summit they saw the reflection
of the gray dawn, and soon the rosy-fringed rays of the rising sun
turned the gray rock, the green forest, and the white snow all to a rosy
red.
Close to a foaming torrent of ice-cold water they built a fire, made
some tea, and ate their breakfast. Near them was a long clean swath
cut through the forest down the mountain side. It was the work of an
avalanche the winter before. Great trees lay prostrate in its path. A
little farther on and they were in a vast amphitheater. The jagged wall
to the east seemed almost perpendicular, and was several thousand feet
high. Far up on its sides were miners' cabins and mine houses. What
will not men do for gold! But that rugged mountain, like some people,
had two sides. The eastern side was smooth and grassy, with a gentle
slope ; danger and gold on one side, ease and poverty on the other.
Mount Kelso, west of them, showed its smooth and grassy side, green
as green could be. On its summit was a field of whitest snow, and
above it the sky of darkest blue. All the colors were superlative and
intense. The explorers walked over fresh ice that formed the night
before, August 5th. A cloud passed over them and dropped first rain,
then hail, then snow.
By zigzag courses they kept rising, and at last stepped out on the
narrow top, 14,341 feet above the sea, the third highest point in Colo-
rado. The writer is not demonstrative by nature, but his first exclama-
tion was, " Glory, hallelujah! " and then he repeated aloud that sublime
sentence, " Before the mountains were brought forth or ever thou hadst
formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting thou
art God!" They lifted up their eyes westward and southward and
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northward and eastward, and in every direction they beheld gray rocks,
green slopes, dark forests, vast fields of snow, steep precipices, dark
valleys, awful chasms, peak after peak, range after range, a great sea
of snow-capped mountains, with here and there some minute lines and
little dots, the work of that little insect, man. Their eyes ranged over
a circle whose circumference was about 500 miles. All the mountains
were surpassingly beautiful and grand, but they eagerly looked for one
whose fame was world-wide. It was not Long's Peak, the sentinel of
the north, nor Pike's Peak, the sentinel of the plains, nor the peak that
bears the name of the martyred Lincoln, but the one on whose broad
rugged side is stamped the symbol of our holy faith — the Mount of the
MOUNT OF THE lKH.Y CROSS
Holy Cross. There it stood, thirty miles away in an air line, sharply
defined against the western horizon, with a huge cross, formed by two
immense transverse gulches fdled with snow, seemingly covering the
whole mountain side. And it seemed to say, " This is God's country;
these mountains with all their treasures belong to the Kingdom of the
Lord Jesus Christ. Worship him."
They remained on the summit nearly an hour. Never did they see
more in any hour. And then, as their custom was in such places, they
had a season of prayer. They were never nearer the skies; God and
heaven seemed very near to them, and as they prayed the mountains
seemed transfigured. Their countenance was altered, their raiment
glistened and shone under the glory of the sun that just then burst
upon them from behind a cloud. It was good to be there.
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Now for the descent. The party on horseback had fifteen minutes
the start, but their course was so zigzag that by going straight down over
the rocks the two ministers soon passed them. Then they came to a
great bank of snow that stretched a long distance down the mountain
side. They started some great stones, and what fun it was to see them
bounding and leaping "like mad" down, down, until they could
scarcely see them. " Catch it quick," cried one minister. But before
the other could see what it was that he was desired to catch, the first
brother's knapsack, with lunch inside, bounded past, and soon seemed
only a black speck on the snow far below them. Then they proposed
to each other to slide down, and thus save themselves the tedious climb
down over the rocks. Both agreed, but they thought it best to be cau-
tious. The incline was not more than about thirty degrees, but it was
long, and there was more ice under the snow than they supposed. One
of them sat on the edge of the drift for a moment. Before he knew
it his feet started and took his body along with them without his
consent. He could not stop, his speed was constantly increasing, it
was a thrilling moment. He knew not when or where or how he would
stop, probably in a few seconds on the rocks at the foot of the moun-
tains, bruised, stunned, or killed. Turning over, he dug his fingers and
toes into the snow, clutched at a projecting stone, and came to a halt.
Just then the other minister, who was nearer the center of the snow
bank, and who had also been deceived by the snow-covered ice, darted
past him, going faster every second, and making desperate efforts to
stop himself. The first one thought surely that he would have to watch
his companion, as he did the rocks, go bounding down the mountain
and become a black speck below. But his friend rolled over sideways
several times, made a desperate effort, and landed on the stones at the
side of the drift. They both concluded that it was easier to climb
down over the rocks, at least until they reached a point where they
could slide safely. They recovered the knapsack, and that night they
slept soundly in Denver.
HE, BEING DEAD, YET SPEAKETH
Coming upon The Home Missionary for January last, we have been
reading Mr. Cross's touching article, "Our Fallen Leader." From a
child almost, I have felt that missionaries were entitled to a higher and
more blessed home beyond than we common believers can hope for.
That feeling was intensified on reading of Mr. Pickett's last work and
death. The article held our close attention from the first, but when we
came to the triumphant death on the mountain, voice failed us for tears;
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yet a feeling of triumphant gladness thrilled us as it always has on read-
ing of the prophet and his " chariot of fire."
How must we in our sheltered homes contrast our comforts with his
labors and exposures, his unselfishness and devotion to the work of the
Master, and ask, Are we worthy to sit down with him and with like great
souls hereafter ? What an incentive must it prove to open hearts and
hands, although ours be but the "widow's mite" to help forward a
work to which such a man has given his life!
All will feel the deepest sympathy for the bereaved family; yet what
wife and children but must almost envy them the glorious memory of
this " fallen leader " ? How immeasurably he towers above the great-
est warrior of earth! May we not see his face in some future number
of the magazine ? We shall be glad to have it always before us, to
keep alive all high and holy resolutions, as well as to stir up others to
befriend home missionary work through the knowledge of this most
noble life and touching death. May I add that I had a devoted aunt
and uncle who fell years ago in the missionary field, and that I am
named for the first female foreign missionary who sailed from New
England? H. N. S.
Worcester, Mass.
HOW WE INCREASED THE COLLECTION
We took up our annual offering for Home Missions last Sunday.
The amount was much larger than usual. This was our method: I
made up five hundred packages, each one containing the " pastoral let-
ter," the report of the Society's work, and the subscription envelope.
I inclosed these packages in separate envelopes and addressed them to
members of the church and congregation, and residents here upon
whom I call. The Sunday before the collection I preached a sermon
upon the work of the Congregational Home Missionary Society for the
past year. In order to make the subject as vivid as possible, I cut from
The Home Missionary magazine pictures representing the Society's
work, mounted them on cardboard, and placed them upon the front of
the pulpit. I added to this collection those pictures of the officers of
the Society which appeared in " The Congregationalist " recently. I
invited the congregation to pass in front of the pulpit and look at these
pictures. The majority did so. The children of the Sunday-school
were also interested, and as the pictures were left on the pulpit during
the session of the school, they exerted a silent influence which we hope
will result in still larger gifts to the Society.
Would it not pay for the Society to have ready photographs of its
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work, etc., to loan to pastors on the Sunday of their annual sermon for
the Congregational Home Missionary Society ? These would add
greatly to the effectiveness of the service, and the increased collections
would pay the cost many times over. The pictures should be returned
to the Society the week following their use.
I hope that the churches by their increased collections will say to
the Society, " Advance, all along the line! " — Pastor.
IMMANUEL MISSION (CUBAN) IN IBOR CITY,
TAMPA, FLORIDA
This protege of the Florida Woman's Home Missionary Union is
brought into fresh prominence by the great war in progress on the beau-
tiful island, near by, so surely slipping from the grasp of Spain. It is
the only Cuban Congregational mission, and may be one of the factors
in the solution of the vexed Cuban question in the near future.
A great wave of Latin immigration has struck the Gulf coast of
southern Florida. The tyrannical edicts of Weyler and the awful rav-
ages of war have compelled thousands of Cubans of the better class to
emigrate. Some have gone to Mexico, to Central and South America,
and others to West India islands; but Florida, because of its proximity
and similarity in climate, has been a favorite resort of the exiles.
Thousands came to Key West and Tampa before the present war to
better their condition ; thousands have come since, awaiting the return
of more peaceful days. Never was our mission work more needed than
to-day. We have a Cuban population of over 9,000. Our modest little
chapel, with its cross pointing skvward, stands in the midst of the Cuban
population a mute reminder of the practical interest which Congrega-
tional Christians take in the enfranchisement of the " Pearl of the
Antilles."
It is still only a mission, no church having been organized, and con-
verted Cubans affiliate themselves with the parent church in the city
(Tampa) of which Ibor is a suburb. The Spanish services consist of
the Sunday-school, which has been kept up for nearly four years with
varying interest. It is delightful to hear the dark-eyed little ones chant
Christ's praises in the musical tongue of Spain, recite their Bible les-
sons, and repeat the Commandments and the Beatitudes. The union
evangelical service is participated in by the several Cuban pastors and
Rev. E. P. Herrick of the Congregational church, who organized this
work and devotes to it as much of his time as can be spared from his
regular church duties.
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The day-school, taught by Miss Esther Wilson, a devoted member of
the church in Tampa, is in a flourishing condition. It is taught in the
chapel, the only Congregational Cuban chapel in the world, and the
first of its kind ever built. She has an enrollment of over forty schol-
ars, and an average attendance of from twenty-five to thirty.
The work thus auspiciously begun should have a warm place in the
hearts of all the true friends of Cuba. The ladies of our Florida
churches are carrying the burden and need aid. Our churches are poor,
and but few are self-sustaining. "The freeze" has crippled the
resources of all. Pastor Herrick's gratuitous services need to be sup-
plemented by those of a native preacher who will devote all of his
time to the work. When the lone star flag waves in triumph over Cuba,
Macedonian cries will come to our churches. A Christianized constitu-
ency is needed to insure the stability and perpetuity of the new nation
under the Southern Cross, already crying for recognition. The Cuban
and Saxon civilizations meet in this semi-tropical State.
We cannot aid in equipping the mysterious expeditions which sail
away from time to time with arms and munitions of war, but we hope
through the agency of the Immanuel Mission to equip and send forth
truly converted sons of the Antilles, who will bear the glad tidings of a
Savior's love to that island " waiting for his law."
Scatter the seeds of Gospel truth, make this restless people fit for
the duties of Christian citizenship, and secure the liberation and
redemption of the great once opulent island now desolated by war and
reddened with patriot blood. We commend our Cuban work to the
prayers and aid of the churches.
LOOKING ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
It makes one feel sad to see, in a beautiful place like this, the
people looking on the dark side both with reference to their secular and
religious interests. I prefer looking on the bright side, and with
implicit trust am going ahead with a self-denying spirit to do all the
Master has for me to do here. After all, many things give encourage-
ment. While the place has suffered very greatly by removals, others
will come to take their places. The crops were good this season, and
there is plenty to eat. Potatoes are very cheap. There are plenty of
them, and one can make a very good meal on baked potatoes and salt.
Again, this is a very healthy country ; and that is a great blessing. Ours
is a very peaceable place, with but one liquor saloon, and the people
are very pleasant and sympathetic.
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The Congregational church is one of the finest in the State and lias
no debt. Ours is now practically the only religious work in the place.
We gather our congregation from over five miles around. Over this
whole section I make calls upon the people, talk with them, invite them
to meeting, pray with them, and distribute good gospel tracts. There
are some very fine Christian people in our church. Many young men
are in our evening congregation, and I always aim to give them a good
gospel lesson. I hope for great things in the way of spiritual blessings.
— South Dakota.
" HOW TO DO IT "
" By One Who Did It "
About two years ago I began an experiment. I found a large
territory a few miles south of my town which had no church or Sunday-
school. I drove out one day to find out if I could secure the school-
house for the organization of a Sunday-school. On the Sunday follow-
ing, about forty came, most of whom were willing to start a school.
In a few weeks they inquired if I would not preach for them occasionally.
I accepted the invitation which I had hoped would come. In the early
part of the following winter these people asked me to spend a week
with them in special services. So again I followed my policy, to let the
people do the requesting. That one week resulted in the conversion of
over twenty people. Not one word did I say about the Congregational
church. The new converts, however, said: "What shall we do? We
are now Christians, and we cannot be without a church." I advised
them to do just what they pleased, only to unite and serve Christ. When
they asked me to explain my own church polity they thought that such
a self-governing church was just what they wanted. Last winter I spent
ten evenings with them, and others were added to the church. They
now have nearly fifty members, crowded houses, and a united neighbor-
hood. In the mean time the success of this enterprise stirred up the
village church. Many of its members have driven out to attend wor-
ship, and some of the farmers have come to town to worship. Invita-
tions to dine have been extended on either side and accepted. A few of
the village people have lately proposed that the two churches hold a
picnic together during the coming season, which proposition I shall not
be slow in advancing. Thus, by gradual steps, the rural-village problem
is being solved, so far at least as our work extends. There are certain
points which everyone attempting this work must keep in mind:
First, there must be an earnest appreciation of the worth of the
farmer and his interests as a factor of our society. To simply go into
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the country to make professional visits, or to " missionate " to the
farmer, will not serve the purpose. The principles and sentiments of the
village preacher are well known by the rural population before he gets
there, and he must have a deep enough reach to apply the teachings of
Christ to the rural problems he may find, because the average farmer is
an intelligent man. He is often by far better posted, I find, than the
average villager. There need not be agreement in all the lines of
thinking, neither need there be affiliation with the same political party,
but the people must have the assurance that the man who preaches to
them believes in them and their vocation.
Second, self-sacrifice is absolutely essential in this work. Faithful-
ness, promptness, asking no remuneration, patient visitation — all these
are necessary. In due time the farmer will not fail to do his part.
Third, the minister who stands before a heterogeneous rural popula-
tion, differing in national customs as well as in religious thinking, must
preach along the lines of life, emphasizing only the great eternal
Christian verities. He must find some ground on which all can stand
and work together. Dogmatic preaching will divide, every time; the
essentials will unite. The man who is going to stand for one form of
baptism as against another is not going to win. It requires less time to
immerse a number of candidates than to persuade them out of their
traditional belief. Find points of agreement, and refuse to entertain
points of disagreement. Be all things to all men in the Pauline sense,
and the enterprise must prove a success.
This rural work should be done by all town churches, both self-sup-
porting and mission churches. We need to do this work to solve our
home missionary problem: to reach the major portion of our Kansas
population, and to secure sufficient men for the ministry — for the rural
districts have heretofore been in the habit of furnishing most of them,
and many of the very best. — Great Bend, Kan.
HOW SHALL I GIVE TO HOME MISSIONS THIS
YEAR?
Do not decide:
By what your neighbor gives; by what you " usually " pay; by what
you " feel able " to give; by what you can spare after having luxuries
in your home life; by what you can give without missing it; by fear
lest you will not have enough for business or a living if you give the
amount the Holy Spirit asks of you.
But give:
Intelligently. Consider the facts of Home Missions. After a talk
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with Jesus about it. One honest inquiry of him covers all, viz. : Lord,
what dost thou want me to give ? According to what Jesus has done
for you. Remember his Cross and your expected crown. With awak-
ened sympathies for Christ's "little ones." Missionary churches are
these. " Inasmuch as ye did it unto one of the least of these my
brethren," is what the Christ, watching us as we give, wants to say to
us, by and by. In faith. Take God at his word that he will take care
of you and yours if you maintain his kingdom first (Matt. vi. t>Z)- —
The Kansas Home Missionary.
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MISSION WORK AMONG THE INDIANS
[Dear Mr. Editor : — I have been reading a book which takes us behind the scenes
in every-day missionary life in our own land. I think leaders of Ladies' Societies might
find material here for a few meetings. The book is called " Our Life among the Iroquois."
It is published by the Congregational Sunday-school and Publishing Society. I send you
a few extracts. — A Constant Reader.]
THE CAPE COD CHAISE
The arrival of the mail was an event of intense interest at the Mis-
sion, but a letter from David G. Eldridge, of Yarmouth, Massachusetts,
telling us that the gift of an old-fashioned chaise was on the way by
canal to the Reservation, caused great excitement. "Is it possible,"
said Mrs. Wright, "that at last my poor head is to be protected from
sun and wind and rain and snow during our long drives ? "
Mr. Wright dampened our ardor somewhat by a suggestion that the
new vehicle might not take kindly to the mud-holes of the Indian roads.
When the chaise reached Buffalo some one had to go after it with a
horse, as the last thirty miles of its journey were to be taken by land.
Several Indians volunteered to do this, so curious were they to see "a
wagon with two wheels and a cover." The successful candidate
returned with the chaise in due time, and solemnly admonished all
within the sound of his voice to have nothing to do with this "evil
invention of the white man." The mode of harnessing the horse to
the chaise differing from ordinary harnessing, the bewildered chari-
oteer found himself " looking into the sky" several times on the way
home.
When Mrs. Wright and I were about to take our first chaise ride we
were particular to have the straps securely adjusted, lest we too should
find ourselves suddenly " looking into the sky." At the start we were
followed by an admiring crowd ; but after a while, in the solitude of the
woods, we were free to exult in the happy exchange of the hard, spring-
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less seat of the rickety open wagon for the soft cushions and protect-
ing cover of our New England chaise.
Alas! our exultation was short-lived. With the customary plunge
into a mud-hole stretching entirely across the road, Ruhama made safe
passage to the other side; but the unlucky chaise remained in the cen-
ter of that black sea, stuck fast, its thills thrown upward like imploring
arms, its occupants "looking into the sky"! Ruhama stopped and,
regarding us a moment in dignified surprise, began to nibble the sur-
rounding bushes. After a somewhat prolonged discussion of " the way
out," we were forced to submit to the inevitable, and, descending into
the black sea, with some difficulty we brought the uplifted thills to a
horizontal position, drew out the heavy chaise, attached it to the patient
beast, and turned our faces homeward, passing through other holes with
becoming caution. Arriving at the Mission House, we were glad to
exchange our mud-soaked garments for something more respectable
and comfortable.
A CURIOUS DEVICE
Peter Twenty-Canoes was the great-grandson of a man who owned
many canoes; yet this descendant was shiftless in the extreme. His
love for fire-water was his greatest affliction. King Alcohol led the man
into a multitude of scrapes, and left him to find his way out as best he
could. One day, being overcome by an unusual spasm of industry, Mr.
Twenty-Canoes borrowed a scythe, and resolved to work out awhile.
Alas ! he couldn't begin without his dram, which resulted in a fall
upon the scythe, cutting open one side of his face, and entirely tak-
ing off his nose! It was a blessed accident to him, however, for it led
to his reformation. The ingenuity of our Indian was now taxed to its
utmost to supply the very important feature which he had lost. While
visiting at the Mission House one day, he observed some adhesive plas-
ter with which Mrs. Wright was dressing a wound. ' That's the thing
for me! " said Mr. Twenty-Canoes with considerable energy. We gave
him a small piece, which he immediately formed into a respectable nose,
and fastened upon his face. The man was jubilant, and no longer walked
among his fellow-creatures noseless. This manufactured article was at
times in quite a dilapidated condition, but on gala days it was fresh and
new. Mr. Twenty-Canoes was fond of variety; consequently, no two
noses were of the same shape and size, which gave a refreshing diver-
sity to the expression of his countenance.
This Indian was fond of exhibiting his little stock of English upon
every available occasion. He scented a polysyllable a long way off,
and brought it to bear upon his conversation in a way quite remarkable.
He wrote me a note one day, in which he endeavored to express his
appreciation of my worth to his people:
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"Miss C. : Respected Sir, — I ask to know how long commence
school again on our district. I ought not to been so negligence with my
boy, and I had been recommend it, that you are mostly confidence mis-
sionary as than any others among Indians, that is to your capacity to
instruct the Indians in the way to the morality, life, and perseverance for
human intelligence. I know you will not afail and omission too much
inform me the set time to commence school on our neighborhood.
" Your respectable friend,
' Twenty-Canoes."
Mr. Twenty-Canoes kindly volunteered at one time to write a " beg-
ging paper " for an old woman to take to white people, and thereby
obtain the necessaries of life. As the poor creature made her first effort
with the missionaries, I had an opportunity to copy the manuscript,
verbatim:
" To all whom it may concern the bearer of Sally Silverheels which
she is very old of age unable her to care of herself had no family to
see her supported whosoever to do this thing to rendered unto or attrib-
ute towards the needy and indeficient the god will bless you for your
great bounty of charity such thing as provision and she will be very
thankfully to you give to her that article little money or clothing or
anything.
" Twenty-Canoes."
Twenty-Canoes was once asked to assist in drawing up a temperance
constitution. Of the ten articles I have space for only three:
1. This society shall always be open in prayer by some benevolent
religious person.
2. If any member shall become intoxication, and accident occur, or
death attack him in spirit condition, the society shall not be responsible
for such person.
3. We shall assistance the sick, and furnish Doctor, and in case any
member become mortality, furnish all necessary purposes for the
funeral.
THE YOUNG INFIDEL
I had a Bible class of thirty young men. One of these had received
a good education, and possessed an unusual degree of mental culture.
He went into business in Buffalo, and fell into bad company. From
Buffalo he went to Chicago, only to pursue the same downward course.
All this while the prayers of his mother and the missionaries followed
him until the Lord directed his steps home to the Reservation for a
vacation. He was very hard and even bitter towards all Christians.
He was impelled to come into the old Bible class every Sabbath, where
he would combat every religious truth uttered, in order to destroy its
force upon the minds of others. He spoke freely of his own disbelief
in the Bible and everything of the kind, quoting from infidel authors.
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A position was offered him in New York. He came to the Mission
House and told me this. " It will be your ruin," said I. " Why ? " he
asked indignantly. " My boy, you are like a poor boat out on the rest-
less ocean with no compass or rudder. You will be drifted about just
as your master, the devil, shall choose."
He started to his feet, his eyes flashing. " You want me to be a Chris-
tian," said he. " How can I be a Christian when I believe nothing of
your religion ? I will not deceive you. I have not a particle of feel-
ing. I could die calmly this moment. It would be mockery to accept
a Savior of whom I feel no need — in whom I do not believe even intel-
lectually."
My heart went out in great pity as I looked at him, but it was time
for our weekly missionary meeting, held in the Mission Home. Mrs.
Wright was calling me even then. As I turned to leave him I said:
" You are going away. I shall not have another opportunity to ask a
favor of you. Grant me this one to-night. Go into the prayer-meet-
ing with me." He laughed and exclaimed, "What a ridiculous idea! "
" Never mind," said I; "go with me to-night." "Well, just to please
you, I will do it," said he.
Great was the surprise of the missionary band to see the young
infidel in that sacred spot. He took a chair, tipped it back against the
wall, and prepared to be an amused spectator. I was so overwhelmed
with the sense of his condition that I knelt immediately and prayed for
a young friend who. boasted of his want of feeling, and I entreated the
Lord to strike conviction to that heart even then. Others followed in
the same strain, until the poor young man could hold up his head no
longer, but buried his face in his hands.
As soon as the meeting was over he vanished. I saw no more of
him for several days, and supposed he had gone to New York. One
afternoon he appeared at the Mission House and said, " I want to see
you alone." His face was haggard, his eyes wild, as though sleep had
been a stranger to them. He walked back and forth a few times, try-
ing to control his voice, and finally said: " I have had no peace in my
mind since the night of the prayer-meeting; no peace, night or day. I
cannot sleep. Tell me how you found the Savior, for I must find him
or lose my reason." Oh, the mighty power of the Holy Spirit to con-
vict a stony heart! I pointed him to Jesus as well as I could. " Oh,
yes," he said, as I told the story of my own conversion, " it was easy
for you to come to Jesus; but you never knew sin as I have." " But,
my boy, he saves the chief of sinners." I then read the passage prov-
ing that although his sins were as scarlet they could be white like snow.
"But you don't know," said he, "to what depths of sin I went in
Buffalo and Chicago. I drank and I gambled. Oh, I have been a ter-
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rible sinner! " ;' Yet there is mercy for you," I said, as I continued
giving my messages from God's own Word, knowing well that this was
too solemn an occasion to use words of my own. At last he knelt with
me and surrendered all to Christ. " My heart, my hands, my feet, my
all, just as I am," he cried, and found peace in believing. Great joy
came to him then. The great love of Christ seemed wonderful to him.
" Why have I waited so long," he exclaimed, " so long, and wasted all
these years, when they might have been given to Jesus?" (He was
only twenty-one years of age.) That night when he went home his
mother had retired and was asleep. He burst into her room and roused
her with these words: " O mother, mother, I have found the Savior! "
What sweeter sound could have greeted the ears of the praying mother ?
He knelt by her bed, she threw her arms about him, and together they
talked and prayed until the day dawned. When he told me of this
afterward he said: " I saw a look in my dear mother's tired eyes the
next morning that I never saw there before." The next Monday even-
ing he attended our prayer-meeting at the Mission, and there in broken
accents confessed that conviction entered his soul even while we were
in prayer.
A DAY AMONG THE PAGANS
The experience of one day among the pagans will tell the story of
many days during the following weeks and months.
Mrs. Wright and I began this day with a meeting among the Plank
Road pagans. Mr. Porcupine was very angry with us the week before,
because we " interfered with the dances." He sat outside in the wind
saving hard things about us, and took a bad cold. To-day he came
into the house and said these words: " 1 have been very angry with
vou, but my mind has been greatly troubled since you were here last. I
am an old man of eighty years. It is time for me to try to understand
the new religion. Tell me how one so old can come into the Jesus
way." He listened with great attention while the simple plan of salva-
tion was made known to him.
We called upon Moses Cornplanter. His young wife, a daughter of
Cornstalk, was pretty and interesting. She looked at us wistfully, as
though troubled with questionings. Was she reaching out after light ?
She gave us a cordial welcome and said: " I have attended your Plank
Road meeting twice. It is the first time I have heard of the Jesus way.
I want to know the truth. Have I been taught an error?" Mrs.
Wright explained the " new religion " to her very clearly, and read the
words of Christ from the Indian Testament. We sang gospel hymns
and prayed with her. Mr. Cornplanter was not pleased and had left the
house. She thanked us for our words and said: " My husband is a
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pagan, but he is not a bad man; he is not cross, he does not drink, but
you know the woman must not go ahead. Will you win him so that I
may come into the Jesus way ? I will gladly follow him."
Our next call was at Silversmith's, to see poor little Jack Pigeon.
He was lying upon a board covered with a bit of soiled blanket. A
ragged piece of cotton cloth was thrown over him. Somebody had
placed a spray of green leaves in a crack of the log near his board.
He directed our attention to this as something very pleasant. A half-
starved young robin, a pet, was hopping about on the rough floor.
After ministering to the poor boy, we went out and dug worms for the
robin An old woman covered with rags and dirt watched us with inter-
est, and expressed surprise that we cared to handle the ugly worms!
On our way back through the woods we heard groans from the vicin-
ity of Porcupine's cabin. While climbing a fence he had fallen and
was badly bruised. With the remedies in our missionary bag we were
able to bind up his wounds. After making him as comfortable as pos-
sible in his poor cabin, we looked up Mother Big-Tree, and coaxed
her to act as nurse for a time. The promise of a bright red handker-
chief, when Porcupine should become convalescent, reconciled Mrs.
Big-Tree to this rather uninviting position.
On this day Mrs. Big Kettle, who seemed inclined to favor the
Gospel, had invited us to hold a meeting at her house. Brother Daniel
Two-Guns, a member of the mission church, promised to meet us there
and give us his assistance. After a drive of five miles we reached the
Big Kettle cabin, to find it empty. A neighbor told us that Big Kettle,
who was a pagan, was angry, and had taken his wife and the little Big
Kettles away. She further made known the fact that he threatened
to leave his wife if we held a meeting in his house. Brother Two-
Guns had been there, and was now trying to find an open door for us
in this neighborhood. We stepped into Mrs. Blacksnake's cabin to
await the return of our Christian brother. As soon as we sat down,
the woman, with dark looks, began to wash her floor. She " swashed "
the water with such vigor that we were well drenched. We went out-
side and sat upon a log and sang plaintively, "Where, oh! where is our
good old Daniel ? "
At last his tall figure emerged from the forest. Without a word he
sat down beside us. When ready to report, he said that there was no
door open to us in this neighborhood, but suggested that we remain
upon the log awhile, and pray and sing there. We were too much chilled
with the long waiting in our damp condition, thanks to the Blacksnake
deluge, to accept his proposition, and were making arrangements to go
home, when Mrs. Johnny John, who was passing, said, " You may have
a meeting in my house."
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We promptly accepted this unexpected invitation, and followed the
woman a half-mile over an indescribable trail, making familiar acquaint-
ance with treacherous holes and stumps. Her house of one room, six-
teen feet by seventeen, accommodated three beds, a large stove (red-hot
at this time), a table, and a bench. We blew our tin horn, and thirty-two
people, responding to the call, were packed into this small room. A
garment, or section of a garment, was tucked into every air-hole by
which broken windows and loose cracks might have been a merciful
relief.
We endured this sense of suffocation and physical discomfort until
half-past ten. Each one had something to say for or against the new
religion, and it would have been a breach of Indian etiquette, not easily
forgiven, to have closed the meeting earlier. Mrs. Wright and I were
asked to sing sixteen times. It required more will-power each time to
open our mouths in that polluted atmosphere.
At last we started for home. While fording the creek the bottom of
our wagon fell into the water and floated down stream. " We ought,"
said Mrs. Wright, "to be thankful that the wheels are left, for they
will take us home." We had never before appreciated the value of the
dashboard, upon which our feet were elevated until we gladly dis-
mounted at the Mission Home.
INCIDENTS IN HOME MISSIONARY LIFE
By Rev. Clarendon M. Sanders
[Rev. C. M. Sanders was ordained in Illinois in 1867, and won the love and confi-
dence of the churches of that State by several years' faithful preaching of the Gospel
there. Later he commended himself to all who knew him by his successful ministry in
Cheyenne, Wyoming. From 1887 to 1894 he did good service as this Society's superin-
tendent in Colorado, residing in Denver. His health becoming seriously broken after
further ministry to his early friends in Illinois, he came to New York city for medical
treatment, and here the last months of his life were spent. His continued deep interest
in Home Missions was manifested by visits to the Bible House, as his strength allowed,
to learn of the progress of the work in the New West and elsewhere — a work which he
hoped to renew and devote to it the remainder of his days.
On one of these visits, a few days before his death, feeling unusually bright and hope-
ful, he left with the editor two brief chapters of " Incidents in Home Missionary Life,"
promised others as his growing strength should permit, and left with cheerful parting
words. But his new hopes were never to be realized. On August 14th, with but the
briefest warning, he was called home, ending at once his work and his sufferings.
The first of his articles is here given. The second will appear hereafter. — Ed.]
1. Brought to Self-support. — For some twenty years the church
at W. had been nursed by our Home Missionary mother. The first
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year of my pastorate aid was received. At the end of the year I sug-
gested self-support. This was thought to be impossible. One said,
"It is with difficulty that we raise the present amount." Deacon B.
declared, " It can't be done"; adding, " What is the Home Missionary
Society for, if not to aid such churches as ours ? " His idea seemed to
be : Get all you can from the Home Missionary Society, and we will
endeavor to raise the rest. I sought to set him right, telling him that
the church should do its very best before appealing for aid, and adding
my desire to test the matter. As I was in fact the most interested
party, I felt free to urge the trial for one year. I made this proposition:
If the church will earnestly and heartily do its best toward raising the
salary, I will accept the amount thus raised, no call being made upon
the aiding mother. The deacon thought I was assuming too much, and
that my salary would be only the amount usually raised by the church.
But what was the result ? Entering earnestly and with something of
enthusiasm into the scheme, the additional amount was raised, and a sur-
plus of thirty-five dollars remained over for the new year. This was a great
and glad surprise to the deacon. No one felt the poorer for the effort.
The next year, what ? The year closed so successfully that the
people somehow came to feel over-confident. Instead of continuing to
do their best, they slackened their efforts, so that at the close of this
year they were again surprised to find a deficit of $175 staring them in
the face. At the annual meeting, when the fact was made known, a
cloud shadowed the countenances of those present, for this was a large
amount for the church at that time. Discouragement and despondency
ruled the hour. No one presented a plan by which to raise the money.
What can be done ? was the thought as the meeting closed. It was
indeed a time of emergency. To look upon that company and hear
their conversation, one might think they were descendants of Barak;
that debt was a Sisera with his nine hundred chariots. But Deborah
was there. The next morning her husband called upon the pastor to
talk of the meeting, and to assure him there was no difficulty in his
direction. " Our great thought is how to keep you "; and he added:
" Don't you allow yourself to get blue: there is a way out of this dif-
ficulty. My wife is to start out this morning, visiting, and soliciting
aid from som° of the outside friends of the church." "All right!"
responded the pastor to his brother Hopeful; "I am not disheart-
ened." That evening the pastor was present, and led the meeting.
The first hymn sung was, " Triumphant Zion, lift thy head," etc., and
the following hymns were of the same hopeful character. The ninety-
third Psalm was read: " The* Lord reigneth." No time was left unoc-
cupied. At the close of the hour, sister Deborah arose and stated that
she had already raised nearly one-half of the amount called for, and
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should continue to solicit until the full amount was secured. This was
a great and glad surprise: heads were bowed, and for a moment there
was silence. Humiliation and confession followed. Said one, " How
foolish we were to so distrust God." Said another, " I will have faith
in God." In a week's time the debt, this Sisera with his nine hundred
chariots, was conquered. This was a bright hour to the church, and
the beginning of a gracious revival in which a goodly number found
Christ, to the joy of their hearts. God give to all of our churches a
sister Deborah. "O Lord . . . let them that love thee be as the
sun when he goeth forth in his might."
*
MISSIONARY WORK AMONG OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
Are you asking, What can the Juniors do in the line of missionary
work ? They can be taught to feel, first, that the poor, the unfortunate,
the sorrowing, we have with us always; that with these they can find
the grand opportunity of missionary work. Should not all who have
charge of boys and girls impress upon them the fact that there are
children everywhere who are not so fortunate as themselves; that it lies
within their power to help such children, to uplift and purify their lives,
so that each Junior may become a working missionary? Show them
what would come to pass if each boy and girl in the city and State
would begin immediately to find even one person to help, should seek to
elevate the life of such a one, and to tit him for the kingdom above.
Here are some things a boy or girl can do. A flower, even in this land
of flowers, may speak eloquently of God, the giver of all we have; a
sack of coal, a pound of tea, may pave the way for the spoken word,
and kindness and thoughtfulness shown in this way may be the prelude
to the Sermon on the Mount. Our Juniors began by each one bring-
ing a potato. We had enough to fill two sacks, and then came small
packages of tea, sugar, meal, flour, and beans. These gifts have been
a source of great satisfaction, and have brought help and comfort to a
number of the poor and sick in our city.
You, children, are apt to think you cannot do enough to be of much
account in a work so great; but do you know what the Scotch say:
" Many littles make a mickle " ? Have you read the story of Theresa
and her halfpence? It was all she had: it seemed very small, and the
need about her was very great; but what said she ?
" But if in faith of the Master, confiding, and strong, and bold,
I offer it, He in his richness may swell it a hundredfold !
Ah ! nothing can I and a halfpence accomplish, however so small,
Yea, nothing — but God and a halfpence can compass and conquer all ! "
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Just think, children, of the love of all our boys and girls, the prayers
of all our young folks, the pennies of all our little folks, what a great
sum of work and prayer and money it would make!
There may be some readers of these lines who are to be congratu-
lated upon having the charge of a Junior society.
You are doubtless growing to feel more and more the importance of
training the young in a knowledge of and interest in the missionary
work of the church. For as character is formed in childhood and youth,
so it will remain through manhood and womanhood. You greatly desire
that the boys and girls should grow up into straight, strong, glorious
Christians, needing only to know the commands of the Lord to be ready
to obey them.
We find too many grown-up people, professing Christians even, who
pay little attention to this command: "Go, preach the Gospel," and
who do little to teach the ignorant about Jesus Christ. Is not this
because they were not trained in childhood to understand the meaning
of Jesus' word, nor taught to love the work he has left for his people to
do ? That our own Juniors may be saved from this selfish way of
living, let us organize "mission bands" in our societies; bands whose
object is to secure on the part of the children an intelligent, sympa-
thetic, systematic, and enthusiastic study of missions — then to enforce
the theory by practical work. A great variety of work will be suggested
to those in charge of bands. Patchwork for quilts is the first thing
thought of for girls. Some may not fancy this, but much depends on
the way it is managed. Girls can be taught to take each stitch in a lov-
ing way, with the earnest desire to do what they can to help those in
need, and in time, as God gives them greater skill and means for use-
fulness, their patchwork will give place to greater things undertaken,
and greater results achieved, in the name of Christ. Do you ask,
" What can the boys do ? " Anything that girls can, of course; what
boy but would scorn a contrary statement ? I could tell of boys — not
mishy-mashy, milk-and-water boys, but real, fun-loving, true-hearted,
talented, manly boys — who have cut patchwork, worked mottoes, knit
mats, and I am glad to say these boys did their work well. By all
means, enlist the boys. There is no end to the plans which they them-
selves, once interested, will suggest.
In the work of these bands, with so much that is delightful, there
may be many things to perplex, perhaps to annoy. There will be mis-
takes; these young folks in getting started may cost you some money
and a little trouble. Never mind; it will surely be money well invested,
and trouble which will result in a plentiful harvest of good. Lead the
Juniors patiently in the right way; help them over the hard places, they
are but learners; they bring to their work hands not skilled but willing,
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minds not taught but teachable, hearts not disciplined by years of
Christian experience, but you will find them glowing in the ardor of
youthful zeal, all ready to be impressed with the image of the Master,
and molded for his service. Let us see that we train our Juniors in
this missionary work, assured by the voice of inspired wisdom that,
early brought into this way, when they are old they will not depart
from it.
May this message make its quiet way to some whose hearts are
prayerfully inquiring, "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" Let
us take the past as our guide, and look forward into the future, for doing
greater things, in the line of missionary work, for the boys and girls.
May these lines be our inspiration:
" It pays to give a helping hand to eager, earnest youth ;
To note, with all their waywardness, their courage and their truth ;
To strive with sympathy and love their confidence to win :
It pays to open wide the heart, and let the sunshine in."
— B. F. L., Los Angeles, Cal.
IN A HARD FIELD
The past quarter has been a trying one tome. I have suffered much
illness, physical pain, and not a little mental trouble, because I could
not do more for my blessed Master. At one time I thought my work
was about done, but it pleased the good Lord to raise me up and put
me into fair working condition again.
I have been successful in getting good brethren to help me, so that
the preaching services have been maintained on every Sabbath but one.
Very efficient helpers in our. little church also took my place in the mid-
week meeting, so that there has been no break in the prayer-meeting
services.
The event of the past quarter has been the completion of improve-
ments in our church edifice, which have changed it from a dark, dingy,
uninviting place for public worship to a very neat and attractive little
chapel. The three hundred dollars which it was necessary to expend to
attain this end had been solicited by your missionary from his old
friends in Connecticut. I hope that this work, which has cost no little
labor, care, and vexation, will be to the glory of God.
The mountains round about this place are beautiful and grand, but
they are full of illicit distilleries that are run by "moonshiners" in
defiance of Uncle Sam. The majority of the people for many miles
around are " moonshiners, " or their friends; therefore it is almost impos-
sible to enforce the laws against illicit distillers. One of the officers of
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my church is United States Commissioner, and his principal work has
been the trying of those arrested for violating- the United States laws in
regard to whiskey. He has been faithful and fearless, and as one con-
sequence was shot from an ambush a little while ago. Fortunately, his
injury was not serious, but we all feel that he is in danger of losing his
life at any moment. Probably he will have to leave the place, and we
shall thus lose one of our best members and my most efficient helper.
These are the people you hear lauded so much as the " American High-
landers." This is a most beautiful country. " Every prospect pleases, and
only man is vile." What, then, is the hope for this section ? The com-
ing in of Northern and Western people with capital, brains, and thrift to
enjoy this superb climate and reap golden harvests from these fields that
have been blasted and worn out by the shiftless methods entailed by
slavery.
In this place the good work has been well begun. Since I came
here several good families have come in, and most of such people cast
in their lot with the Congregational church; so that it is only a ques-
tion of time when, if the Congregational Home Missionary Society con-
tinues its fostering care, there will be a strong church here, not only to
bless this place, but to cast its light over all the surrounding country,
which only a few years ago was known as "the Dark Corner," and is
still called so by some. — North Carolina.
THE MISSIONARY SPIRIT AND CHRISTIAN CHAR-
ACTER
By Mrs. Clarence F. Swift, Lansing, Michigan
Yes, said the minister's wife to the President of the missionary soci-
ety as they sat together, a committee of ways and means, talking over
the interests of their various church organizations, I think it was
really the most notable missionary meeting I ever attended. Not that
it was called a missionary meeting; for if it had been known as such,
probably there would have been about four of us present, instead of the
dozen or fifteen who made up the company. You see, it happened in
this way. We met one evening by accident in one of the little railway
stations on a northern railroad, all bound for a resort a few miles dis-
tant, to listen to a well-known lecturer. We were all more or less
acquainted, as people are apt to be who summer together, notwithstand-
ing the fact that we were about as mixed a company as could well be
brought into contact. The train was late, and as I looked about the
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little, dimly lighted room and surveyed the different faces an impulse
seized me. I had been haunted by my promise to write a certain paper
for our missionary society on the question, Is the Missionary Spirit an
Essential Element in Christian Character ? I had not given much real
thought to it, but it had kept pushing itself into my mind all through
my summer holiday, and the time was drawing near when the question
must be settled. Here was my opportunity.
We were all professing Christians, with one or two exceptions, the
most striking one being a well-known skeptic, who was present with his
wife, a church member but a society devotee, and their young lady
daughter, a brilliant scholar, of perfect manners, but very cold and
unsympathizing. In striking contrast to this family was a bright-
eyed little woman in blue, with her friend, the missionary who had
labored so long in Turkey, and was now in America resting and speak-
ing for her cause. They had with them a young Turkish girl of high
rank, who had come to this country to be educated. There were also in
the company a philanthropist, with his companion, an energetic Chris-
tian man who had recently been much interested in building a new
church; a theological professor; a student, honored for his genuine
Christian character; a good sister, much interested in Home Missions
as opposed to Foreign; a lady of leisure, who seemed indifference per-
sonified; the sweet-faced mother of a family with two of her boys just
ready for college; and a white-haired saint, known and loved far and
wide. He had been an unusually successful business man, noted for his
consistency and honesty in both business and religious circles. We all
knew what a friend he had been to education the world over; and it was
rumored that scores of ministers called him their benefactor, while
missionaries at home and abroad blessed his very name, and rich and
poor alike delighted to honor him. The minister and myself completed
the company. Here, thought I, as I looked about, is a chance for an
object lesson. These friends, most of them, have developed more or
less Christian character. How interesting it would be to see just how
far the missionary spirit is responsible for it ! The professor is the
man to draw them out. They may think it cruel to bring theology into
a summer camp, but I shall never have another such chance. The pro-
fessor, at any rate, will be delighted.
"Professor," said I, innocently enough, "I see that the recent
troubles in Turkey are bringing up the old, time-worn question of mis-
sions, and the advisability of carrying the Gospel to the heathen. How
is it, anyway ? Are we bound to do it ? Is the missionary spirit really
an essential element in Christian character?"
The professor brightened at once, and I was delighted to see that I
had touched upon a favorite topic. "Well, my dear madam, your
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inquiry opens up a great field of thought. Suppose we begin at the foun-
dation of the matter — that is, with the question you have asked last, as
to the relation of the missionary spirit to Christian character — and see
what we shall find." Here the professor straightened himself as for
the delivery of a discourse. Now, you know that everybody listens to
the professor when he speaks, and the little company began to close
about him with one accord. "In the first place," he began, "how
shall we define the missionary spirit ? " At the word " missionary " I
couldn't help noticing how some faces brightened and others fell;
while the lady of leisure and the intellectual young woman turned with
a common impulse as if to leave, but for lack of anything better finally
stopped in their places.
" The missionary spirit may be defined briefly as the generous desire
to pass on to others the benefits which Christ has brought to us; while
I should say that Christian character is, to put it simply, the result in a
man's life of following Christ. Now, Christ's life was one great act of
giving — giving himself for all men. How then can we follow his
example or reach a high type of Christian character without this same
spirit of giving — giving ourselves for all men ? And to what does this
spirit lead but to missions — here, there, everywhere?" "Certainly,
certainly, professor," broke in the philanthropist, "there is nothing
like giving. It is certainly ' more blessed to give than to receive'; I
can testify to that. There isn't a day that my pocketbook does not
have to respond, and there's a great satisfaction in it, I can assure you.
By the way, did I tell you that they are after, me now to help build a
gymnasium for the one-armed soldiers in our community ? I don't
know but that I shall do it, too, although I have just spent a consider-
able sum for a library at the Institute for the Feeble-Minded. Yes,
there's a great satisfaction in giving ! " And he rubbed his hands and
beamed on all around in a self-satisfied way.
I just caught indistinct utterances from the minister, who was stand-
ing near, in regard to the Christ-spirit in giving, and about doing alms
before men, when the man who had been building a church spoke up:
" Did I understand you, professor, that a man isn't a Christian who
doesn't believe in missions ? I should be sorry to hear that from you."
" You will observe," answered the minister, " that the professor proved
that there could be no high type of Christian character without the
Christ-spirit of giving, which he calls the missionary spirit. I think
that he would agree that there may be, and are, multitudes of crude and
undeveloped Christian characters who do not believe in, or at least do
not exercise, the missionary spirit. But what poor, impoverished lives
they lead compared with those who know the joy of giving in the spirit
of Christ! Doesn't this reasoning seem correct ? "
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" Well, I don't know, it may be all rigbt in theory, but I tell you,
sir, you can't practice it. It is folly. Here is our church; we've been
struggling for years to build it. Now it is done, and it's a fine one too;
but it isn't all paid for yet, and it strikes me that there is our first duty.
We've got to provide for our own first, sir. Doesn't the Bible say that
' if any provide not for his own, he is worse than an infidel ' ? That's
my belief. We haven't any right to send off to the heathen or any-
where else what ought to go to pay our own debts."
" My friend," said the student, " did you know that the matter has
been carefully looked up, and it has been shown that the churches
which give most largely to missions are the churches which most easily
provide for home necessities ? that self-extension reacts to promote
self-support ? that it keeps a church weak or an individual weak to do
nothing for those who are without ? Ladies, what do you do with your
sweet peas or pansies to make them blossom ? Pick them, of course.
It is a natural law that giving begets the ability to give. If for no other
reason than this, the missionary spirit should be cultivated."
" We workers in the field see that fact illustrated again and again,"
said the missionary. ' The first impulse of the heathen heart after it
has accepted Christ is to share its joy. And isn't that a natural
impulse? Don't you remember how it was in your own case ? When
your heart was so full of peace and joy on the morning of your new
birth, wasn't there a great desire to share your joy with your friends ?
And isn't this the missionary spirit, pure and simple ? Now if this
impulse had been followed, simply and faithfully, throughout your
whole life, might not a height of Christian character have been reached
which you can scale only in imagination now ? It is this spirit which
we try to cultivate continually in our work, and so it happens that there
is rarely a conversion which is not followed by others; and then is cul-
tivated the desire to teach, to preach, to be a Bible reader, as the case
may be; and to give of material things as well. How is it, my dear,"
turning to the little Turkish maid, who was apparently listening with
all ears to this discussion; "what did the girls in the school do last
winter in their missionary society ? "
"Why, we only did what our teachers did — gave a tenth of our
money to take the Savior to others."
" And what if you had no money ? "
" Oh, well, there was our food; a tenth of that would amount to a
little something. Oh, my people need it so! Think of your lives with
no blessed Savior — all dark, dark, dark."
I shall never forget the appeal of that voice — "all dark, dark,
dark." We were all touched — even the lady of leisure lost her listless
look. " Sometimes," said the professor, " I am reminded of an illustra-
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tion I once heard Mr. Puddefoot use. He said that some Christians
reminded him of the man who bought himself a forty-dollar overcoat
and his wife a dollar bonnet, and then kept saying, ' I love you, oh, I
love you, Maria! ' Isn't that about the spirit in which we too often
sing, ' I love thy Kingdom, Lord '? I think what we need is personal,
or ' purse-and-all,' consecration, as I have seen it put. But, my friend,"
turning to the skeptic, " how does all this strike you ? "
The skeptic, who thinks he is an honest doubter, was for once a little
sober. "Well, seriously, friends, I believe I could preach you a little
sermon from an outsider's standpoint. If you Christians really believe
in a Christ who came to save all — and as far as I can understand there
is no limitation; all, beggar and. king, Chinaman, Hindu, and Fifth
Avenue bondholder — and you have his command to follow him, why,
in the name of consistency and loyalty, aren't you practicing what you
profess, and rallying your forces and sweeping the world ? You can't
really believe that you have a Divine Leader! Why, there would be no
limit to your power! We fellows would have to look out, or you would
win us over, the first we knew. But practically, now, do you really think
that the comparatively slight efforts which you do make, pay ? Just
let me question you a little, and see if you can stand fire."
" Now," said the minister, " you are asking a question which many
Christians ask, and answer in the negative, and thus satisfy their con-
sciences for doing nothing. But look at the facts: America paid in fifty
years one and one-fourth millions to evangelize Hawaii, and during that
time has received about four millions a year in trade. When Daniel
Webster was Secretary of State he said: ' Our country owes it to the
missionaries that all its territory west of the Rocky Mountains and south
as far as the Columbia River is not owned by Great Britain!' The
Governor of Natal said: ' One missionary is worth more than a battalion
of soldiers '; and the Earl of Shaftesbury once made the statement: ' If
London did not have its 400 missionaries, it would need 40,000 more
police.' Their contributions to science and literature have been won-
derful. The missionaries of the American Board alone have converted
into written languages sixteen previously unwritten tongues. And then
the joy of the work! How is it, my missionary friend?" Her face
fairly beamed as she answered, " Here are a few words from a friend of
mine who has just gone out to the work: ' Dear , I have only just
begun to live. I feel a power I never felt before. . . . More, more,
dear Lord, of this wonderful life in thee! ' "
"Isn't it an inspiration to hear of their work! " exclaimed the bright-
eyed little woman in blue. " Why, sometimes, when I am unusually
busy, I read absolutely nothing for weeks at a time but missionary intelli-
gence, and I find that it, more than any other one class of reading, keeps
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me in touch with the whole world, and is a daily inspiration." The lady
of leisure looked up at this remarkable statement, and the intellectual
young woman's face betokened real interest, for this same bright-eyed
little woman in blue, whose lovely Christian character, as we all knew,
had been tried in the furnace of affliction, and who was now serving as
a home missionary teacher in a Western State, was acknowledged to be
without question the best informed little person in our company, and
the most entertaining of conversationalists.
;' This is growing interesting," exclaimed the skeptic. " And now,
my dear, what confession have you to make?" turning to his wife,
whose religion had always seemed to somewhat amuse him. Now, this
was rather trying for the poor woman, for you know she would do noth-
ing which she thought to be really wrong, for the world. She attends
church quite regularly, gives liberally when her feelings are stirred,
manages a lovely home, and is universally considered, as indeed she is,
a most charming woman socially. The only trouble seems to be that
the cares and pleasures of this world have completely monopolized her
time. I never saw her at a loss for words before, but now she hesitated *
and made some faltering excuses. "Of course she believed in it all;
but reallv there were so many demands on one's time nowadays; and
with her home and social claims and literary clubs and Shakspere
classes and French classes and musical clubs and — and " — " other clubs "
(mischievously interpolated by her husband, who drew a pack of cards
from his pocket) — " she — well — she supposed she hadn't been very con-
sistent. But how was it ever to be managed ? How do you manage it,
with all your little ones?" turning to the sweet-faced mother of a
family, who, with a boy on each side, had been an interested listener
thus far.
" Me ! Manage what ? to find time for missions ? Well, I suppose I
feel something like the character in the ' Bonnie Brier Bush ' : ' He kens
noo . . . that nae man can be a richt father tae his ain without
being akin tae every bairn he sees.' And so, loving my own little flock
as I do, how can my heart help going out to all the little ones the world
over ? Having all these young hearts and minds to train, I have always
felt that I must get the very best help possible; and it has been my
experience that the most symmetrical, the most helpful Christian char-
acters I find among my own acquaintances and hear of elsewhere are
those which are rounded by this world-wide love — the missionaries, and
the great army of those workers at home who have their spirit. God
willing, I may some day be able to repay the missionaries for the inspi-
ration they have given my life by sending them some helpers; and I
shall ask no more honorable positions for my boys than to serve their
great Leader wherever he may appoint them — in Africa or America."
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"Oh, let it be America by all means," interposed the good sister
who was partial to Home Missions. " Why send such men abroad when
there is so much need of them right here in our own land ? " " That is
for them to settle with their consciences," said the mother, with a loving
look at each one; " as for me, I make no distinction. It is all one work.
You may talk of the foreign field and the home held; Christ says, ' The
field is the world.' ' " And instead of Home Missions and Foreign Mis-
sions," added the minister, "let us say, as I have heard suggested,
' Christian Missions. ' But our train is due in a few minutes, and we must
not part without hearing from one whom we all admire, and whose char-
acter we must all desire to emulate. He has been sitting here listening
so patiently to us, when he must have such valuable testimony to offer on
this subject himself. I am sure he will let us call him our white-haired
saint, and he'will tell us what he considers the secret of his success." A
solemn thrill passed through us all as the dear old man, young in heart
as any of us, yet so evidently near the end of his race, arose, and, stretch-
ing out his hands, exclaimed : ' ' The greatest of these is Love ! ' ' After a
pause he continued: "My friends, I can say, with a well-known mis-
sionary, that there was a time when I had no care or concern for the
heathen; that was when I had none for my own soul. When by the grace
of God I was led to care for my own soul, I began to care for them; and
not only for the heathen, but for all mankind. I began to love, and how
could I love without sharing my blessings, everything which God in his
great mercy gave me ? and especially his greatest gift, the knowledge of
the way of salvation ? Could I love my brother, and not tell him that ?
It is said that Handel's Hallelujah Chorus was written to express his
joy at the idea of the redemption of the race. Arouse yourselves, have
a share in this redemption, and thus help to swell the new Hallelujah
Chorus of the redeemed about the throne of God. "After this I
beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all
nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne,
and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their
hands; and cried with a loud voice, saying, ' Salvation to our God
which sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb.' And all the angels
stood about the throne, saying, ' Amen! Blessing, and glory, and wis-
dom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might be unto our
God for ever and ever. Amen! ' "
A solemn hush — then the whistling of the train and the bustle of the
departure; but I noticed that our party was strangely mixed. The phi-
lanthropist stayed behind to talk with the white-haired saint; the skeptic
gave his arm to the sweet-faced mother of a family; the society devotee
started off with the minister; the believer in Home Missions took the
missionary and the Turkish maiden under her wing; the builder of the
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new church buttonholed the student; the lady of leisure and the intel-
lectual young woman each grasped an arm of the bright-eyed little
woman in blue; while I found myself bringing up the rear with the two
young missionaries-to-be, their boyish faces filled with a new expression
of manliness. And as I looked about at the earnest faces of the group
I was satisfied. I felt that ray question was answered.
PERSONAL TRIBUTE TO MR. HERBERT M. DIXON
[The following spontaneous tribute from a former pastor of Mr. Herbert M. Dixon
of Smyrna, X. Y., for thirteen years an esteemed member of the Executive Committee
of this Society, was received in a personal letter to one of the Secretaries. It is given here
as expressing the sentiments of his associates — which, indeed, are the sentiments of all
who have intimately known this earnest working Christian. — En.]
" A hastily written postal has just been received, saying, ' Father
passed away last evening (June 28); funeral, Monday, at 2 p.m. — J. L.
Dixon.'
"And so our Christian brother, indeed, Mr. Herbert M. Dixon, has
been called to his heavenly rest! I was once his pastor. For one year
I lived in his home. I knew him intimately and thoroughly, so trans-
parent was he, as a Christian and as a man; and so I chose him and had
him as my friend henceforth! How I envied him his childlike faith!
" His simple-heartedness was only matched by his single-minded-
ness. Always, and everywhere, he was doing good. I never knew a
more cheery Christian. Religion seems only bright and joyous when-
ever I think of him; never sad or gloomy, nearly always singing as he
was, because of his gleeful Christian, rather than natural, temperament.
"I believe one may be happily 'born again,' as well as favorably
born. Some are not so. He, conspicuously, was. The very thought of
him, to me, commends religion, presents its attractiveness. Is not even
heaven the brighter because of the entrance there of such jubilant,
triumphant Christians ? It has now one more attraction for me.
" His usefulness, how unostentatious, yet varied and extended. In
his home, in his native community, throughout the Chenango Valley,
throughout New York State, in the nation, and in the wide world,
whither his prayers extended and where his activities were felt, how
he will be mourned. How few are like him. Who can take his place ?
Would that the world were full of such men !
" God be thanked for our mutual friend and brother, Herbert M.
Dixon. Sincerely yours,
" Charleston, S. C. "Henry Martyn Grant."
October, 1896 The Home Missionary 323
A CALL FROM THE SOUTH
Among all the papers and magazines which follow us from our Min-
nesota home to this pine-covered, "wire-grass region" of Georgia,
none are more welcome than our steadfast friend, The Home Mission-
ary. We hope in due time to see credited in it an offering from our new
city of the "Old Soldiers' Colony." But for the present we must be
content with laying, as well as we have strength to do it, the foundations
as " upon rock " for the social and religious structures which we fondly
hope may long stand here for good. Do you know that there have
gathered here during the past three months from every State of our
Union, and from almost every county of the Northern States, men and
families to the number of 10,000 (estimated by the post-office authori-
ties), fathers, brothers, and sons, families ? Usually these are the fore-
runners of a colony company numbering more than 50,000. Oklahoma
over again in the rush and rustle, but here without startling expecta-
tions. We are here for the fruits, the sunshine, and the mild and even
climate, hoping to lengthen our days, to increase our comforts in
homes all our own " under our own vine and figtree, " and to see and
use the results of our own labors. The central city spreads outwardly
in lots increasing in size. Then come the five-acre tracts, next the ten-
acre, and so on to the eighty-acre farms — one immense city in which
you are nowhere, for miles out, beyond the sound of ax and hammer.
The 40,000 acres we now have subdivided are expected to yet increase
to 100,000 acres, for which we have already the people and will have
the land, as the undrawn and alternate tracts are sold to cash buyers,
whether colonists or not. This is undoubtedly the greatest movement
of people hereabouts since the armies moved. We find a welcome here,
that might have been anticipated at the hands of our Southern brothers,
everywhere full of chivalric hospitality. Here while we are building
houses, clearing, fencing, planting trees — for we are in the central fruit
belt of America, where scarcely a known tree but grows ten months in
the year, and bears its fruit to a burden — we are also building society,
planning and founding to build upon rock societies, civic, literary,
beneficiary, of all kinds known anywhere. A Grand Army Post organized
here with a larger number of charter members than ever before com-
bined in the United States. Churches are organizing and building
where they are strong and active, and where fewer in numbers we are
pulling our smaller boats nearer shore. The Congregationalists, few
but irrepressible, have but one service so far, though they are working
for increase, and join leadingly in the Union Sunday-school, from which
the Methodists and Baptists have already cut loose and started their
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own. We have the Congregational quarterlies and papers, though in
quite insufficient numbers, and to-day massed our pennies toward send-
ing for " Gospel Hymns." Now, we just wish that some good soul at
the North who has not spent all his money in getting here and opening
his little " tract " would hear of us " away down South in Dixie," and
we feel sure he would help us a little, so that we can better attract and
instruct afresh in Christ's doctrine as he taught it nineteen hundred
years ago from Olivet. Please tell them of us, and if there is any over-
flow beyond the needs of our present Sunday-school, the colored people
just outside are waiting and expecting great help from us, and must not
be disappointed. The State Missionary was here to advise and help us;
but the school has grown, one scholar at a time, till the old "corn
crib" which we use is getting too small. We must move and sometime
build, and that must be done by adding one board and one nail at a
time. We are so anxious to have these children and young men, and
older people too, within some safe fold before any evil spirit moves
them — yes, before they even find that they are away from the old home
influences. Can some one help us ? I will be pleased to answer per-
sonal letters. " Doing unto others," etc., Dr. S. B. Coe.
Fl rZGKRALD, ( rA.
DENOMINATIONAL LOYALTY
This is, first of all, loyalty to Christ in a true, conscientious, relig-
ious life, devoted to God, the family, the church, and mankind; seeking
all good, opposing all ill, and keeping mind and heart ever open to the
highest truth. It is loyalty to one's own particular church, delighting in
her assemblies, maintaining her services, attending her Bible school and
mid-week prayer-meeting, and fostering all related activities. It is the
spirit which sustains one's pastor, wins people to the sanctuary, makes
pulpit presentation effective by a manly, winsome, godly life, and makes
the church itself a name and a praise in Zion and the world.
It is also loyalty to the general sisterhood of churches, appreciating
their organic principles, reverencing their eminent names, participating
according to one's measure in their assemblies, and pushing their con-
nectional activities for Christ and human good in all parts of the country
and in distant lands. Such loyalty takes and reads denominational
documents, seeks information of connectional causes, and in every par-
ticular makes the general name and sisterhood effectual with saving-
power.
Loyalty in each particular connection means full-hearted fellowship,
benevolence and organization, proper devotion to prayer-meeting,
October, 1896 The Home Missionary 325
Sunday-school, church, conference, association, and missions, and all
benevolent and educational activities. Such loyalty is large-minded,
open-hearted, generous, unswerving, and faithful in every particular
which concerns the common need and duty.
But denominational loyalty does not mean sectarianism, bigotry,
or narrow-mindedness. It does not hold to infallibility of Pope or
church or denomination. It does not tolerate denominational exclusive-
ness or monopoly. It recognizes the fact that each particular church
and each particular denomination of churches is to advance by accept-
ing new truth as God's providence makes it known. Ever since the
church began, her Divine Head has raised up members able to unfold
new truth, new methods, and new-successes. The noblest church loyalty
holds fast everything good in the old and rejoices to welcome the new.
— The Plantation Missionary.
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THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DEBT LEGACIES TOTAL
April $11,428.79 $5,093.08 $2,687.84 $19,209.71
May 5,866.47 3,834.45 6,180.76 15,881.68
June 8,713.88 3,506.61 2,502.22 14,722.71
July 14,350.84 2,121.00 9,772.20 26,244.04
August 3,460.00 487.56 2,167.21 6,114.77
This report of our August receipts shows the smallest sum acknowl-
edged in that dry month for several years. Those who would account
for it repeat the old story of churches and pastors scattered for the sum-
mer; business at the lowest ebb it has seen for many years; investments
bringing nothing to the investor; the settlement of estates delayed to
avoid great loss on securities offered in a panicky market; large givers
awaiting the return of more stable times before deciding what they may
safely do, etc., etc., etc. — reasons enough and plausible enough.
Meanwhile the missionaries are toiling manfully, uncomplainingly,
sharing the sharp pinch of the times with their people, making the best
of everything, willing to practice self-denial for so noble a cause, glad
to know more intimately and to follow more closely the Master they
serve, even if it must be through the fellowship of his sufferings.
The receivers and the almoners of the churches' offerings are waiting,
no less anxiously than are the givers, for the better times that shall bring
return of confidence, the revival of business, the hoped-for quickening
of zeal, the renewal of courage, the reopening of hands, and the uplifting
of believing prayer for the restoration of our country's prosperity.
May our Lord hasten the glad dav!
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APPOINTMENTS IN AUGUST, 1896
Not in commission last year
Adams, Hubert G.. Garretson, So. Dak.
Beran, John, La Crosse. Wis.
Biegert. John G., Seattle. Wash.
Burr. Horace M., West Ferndale, Wash.
Cinyburg, .Miss Clara, Cleveland, Ohio.
Cooprider. Wilford, Clio, Okla.
Duncan, Hugh J. B.. Omaha. Neb.
Dykeman, S. B., Village Creek and Scatter Creek.
Kan.
Grant, John W., Tidmore, Ala.
McReynolds. Samuel I.. Burwick and Cimaroon,
Okla.
Matthews. Newman, Scranton, Penn.
Osgood, Richard S., Edgerton, Minn.
Peterson, Mathias. General Missionary among
the Swedes in Western Wash.
Perks, Harry. Lockeford, Cal.
Pickle. Henry E.. Guthrie and Beulah. Okla.
Rathbone, Leland D., Santa Rosa, Cal.
Thompson, Herbert, Ford. Fowler, and Crooked
Creek, Kan.
Whitham, Frank E., Green Ridge, Mo.
Wilkinson, William A., Abercrombie, No. Dak.
Re-commissioned
Allen, Frank H., Albuquerque, New Mex.
Bair, William R.. Dunlap. Sunny Side, and Big
John, Kan.
Brier, John Wells. Antioch. Cal.
Childs. Edward P., Ashland, Ore.
Donovan, David. Paynesville, Minn.
Fellows. Charles B., Walker and Lothrop. Minn.
Ferrier, William W., Pacific Grove, Cal.
Fish, Samuel E.. Aurora. So. Dak.
Forbes, Harrison L., Kansas City. Mo.
Fowler, William. Genesee, Idaho, and Union-
town. Wash.
Grieb. Edmund. Needy, Ore.
Griffith, Thomas H.. Brooklyn Hills. X. V.
Griffith. William, Caledonia, No. Dak.
Groie, Claud E., Brightwood. Ind.
Hadden, Robert A., Minneapolis, Minn.
Hindley, Georg.'. Ridgeville, Ind.
Hodoush, Miss Anna, Braddock. Pa.
Hoskins, Emanuel, Pescadero, Cal.
Kloss, Charles L., Kansas City, Mo.
Larson, Anton. Merrill, Wis.
Lewis, T. Henry, New Brighton, Minn.
Libby, Edgar H.. St. Louis. Mo.
Locke, J. Frank, Round Prairie, Minn.
Neuensch wander. Daniel, Fessenden. Hoffnungs-
voil. Einheits. and Eigenheim, No. Dak.
Nichols, John T., Seattle. \Vash.
Noyce, George T.. Brunswick and Willowdr.le.
Neb.
Orchard, John. Fargo, No. Dak.
Parker, Lawrence J., Evangelist in Oklahoma.
Piatt, Dwight H.. Goodland. Kan.
Prucha. Miss Theresa. St. Louis, Mo.
Quaife, Robert, Toledo. Ohio.
Quarder, Paul. Herndon and Logan. Kan.
Reitinger, Philip, Silver Lake, Minn.
Robinson, Oliver T., Perry and Lawnview, Okla.
Root. Edward T., Baltimore, Md.
Sanborn. D. Lee. Bruce. Wis.
Stevens. Clarence H., Lafayette. Colo.
Thomas, David L., Bowdle. So. Dak.
Travis, Lee James. Weymouth. Ohio.
Warren, Leroy. Brookfkkl. Mo.
Wurrschmidt, C. W., Hastings and Inland, Neb.
RECEIPTS IN AUGUST, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 330 to 332
MAINE-S5i.5o.
Cape Elizabeth. Spurwink Y. P. S. C.
E.. by Elizabeth Tobey
New Gloucester, by H. G. Mank
NEW HAMPSHIRE-$282.23; of which
legacy, $7.46.
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of N. H.,
Miss A. A. McFarland, Treas :
Division of Undesignated Funds.. .
East Derry, First, by H. F. Herrick.
Exeter, Estate of Mrs. A. W. Chad-
wick
Jacob Chapman
Milford, First, by A. C. Crosby
Pelham, A Friend
VERMONT— $40.22.
Vermont Dom. Miss. Soc, W. C.
Tyler, Treas. :
Chelsea $8 87
Weston , 415
$1 00
--,0 50
163 60
10 17
7 4°
50 00
41 00
10 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. R.
Fairbanks. Treas.:
Brattleboro, Fessenden
Helping Hand Soc, for
Salary Fund $20
Jefferson ville, Y. P. S. C. E. 3
Newfane, Boys' and Girls' H. M.
Army, by Miss Abbie Fish, special.
M ASS A CHUSETTS-$i. 509.56; of
which legacies, $1,065.00.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer. Treas. :
By request of donors, of which
$12.56 for the debt 77 56
Agawam, Mrs. D. T. Rice 2 00
Andover, Gift of a Bible Class of Phil-
lips Academy in the Seminary
Church, by Grace M. Whittemore,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary Fund 50 00
Georgetown, Estate of Silena D.
Winter 100 00
Greenfield, Estate of William B.
Washburn 5 00
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Holyoke, Girls1 Circle of King's
Daughters of Second Ch., by Agnes
R. Allyn, for the debt $500
Northfield, Mrs. A. M. D. Alexander,
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor 100 00
Pittsfield, Estate of Mrs. F. T. Allen,
by W. R. Plunkett, Ex 1,000 00
Springfield, Estate of Levi Graves,
Income of Mission Farm, by D.
W. Wells 60 00
Arthur L. Stebbins 10 00
RHODE ISLAND— $621.00 : legacy.
Pawtucket, Estate of Hugh McCrum.
Port Leyden, A Friend $5 co
Sherburne, Estate of Eri Benedict, by
J. H. Benedict 250 00
Steuben, Welsh Ch., bv Rev. E. Dcvies n 8"
Union Center, by W. L. Edson ^ yo
Walton, A Friend 50 00
Warsaw, by F. W. Relyea ' 6 10
NEW JERSEY-$5.25.
East Orange, Swedish Ch., by Rev.
A. P. Nelson 2 25
Perth Amboy, Swedish, by Rev. C. O.
Sjoberg 3 00
PENNSYLVANIA— $11.53.
Arnot, Swedish, by Rev. C. J. Wide-
, berg
Chandler's Valley, Swedish, by Rev.
C. J. Lundquist
Mt. Carmel, S. S., by Morgan Davis.
Warren. Bethlehem Scand, Ch., by
Rev. J. A. Dahlgren
CONNECTICUT- $944.96.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas.:
Norwich, Broadway Ch., by Helen
B. Royce, for Spanish Work 2" 00
Berlin, Second, by C. S. Webster 12 15
Bristol, by L. G. Merick 90 00
Connecticut, A Friend 100 00
Darien, by A. Morehouse 29 26
Ellington, Mr. and Mrs. C. Bradley.. 3 00
Greenwich, Second, A Friend, by I. .,. , TT ., TT . . , ..T T
L Mead *oo 00 Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Gro'ton, to' const.' Charies'E.'w'hite'a wApu°C-' MrSJ: H; Venison, Treas :
L. M.. by Wilson Allyn 65 55 Washington, First, for Salary Fund
Jewett City, Lisbon Cong. Ch., by
Rev. Q. M. Bosworth 19 00
Kent, by George R. Bull 7 27
New Haven, Center Ch., by F. S.
Bradley 276 45
Norfolk, by S. A. Selden 72 10
Northford, Ch. and Society, by Wil-
liam Maltby 30 00
Plainville, Mrs. Mary C. Morse, by
Mrs. C. E. Blakeslee 5 00
Salisbury, by T. F. Dexter 3 00
South Manchester, by C. E. House .. 87 93
Stratford, of which $4.75 from Oro-
noque mon. con., by S. A. Talbot, *
in full to const. Mrs. E. J. Atwood a
L. M 42 25
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA- $25.00.
GEORGIA— $17.00.
Barnesville, by Rev. S. C. McDaniel.
FLORIDA-$i6.65.
Avon Park, by Rev. F. D. Rood
Tampa, by Rev. E. P. Herrick
OKLAHOMA-
.25.
NEW YORK— $786.8: ; of which leg-
acy, $250.00.
Received by William Spalding,Treas.:
Griffin's Mills $1 84
North Java 3 00
Paris 17 00
Rutland 6 52
Summer Hill 5 00
Syracuse, Plymouth Ch .... 105 86
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall, Treas.:
Canandaigua, First, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor. $100 00
First, to const. Mrs. S. D.
Backus. Mrs. CT Fitch,
and Mrs. H. T. Parmele
L. Ms hi 50
Honeoye 6 00
Albany, A Friend
Angola, Miss A. H. Ames
Brooklyn, Parkville, by Rev. W. A.
Kirkwood
East Bloomfield, by F. Munson
East Rockaway, Bethany Ch., by Rev.
Thomas S. Braithwaite
Flushing, Cong. Ch
Hennesy, Hope Ch., Turkey Creek
and Vernon, by Rev. J. A. Bingham
Medford and West Medford, Osage
Ch., by Rev. J. L. Read
Wakita, Mrs. T. A. Brunker, by Rev.
T. A. Brunker
OHIO— $208.30.
Rec'd by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. :
Ashtabula, L. J. Deming. .. $25 00
Cleveland, Pilgrim, by H.
C. Holt 60 00
Cuyahoga Falls, by Rev. C.
R. Freeman 9 20
Mecca, Jr. C. E., by N. M.
Buck 3 co
Springfield, Lagonda Ave.,
by C. E. Saxton 5 oc
5=
00
S
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12
75
25
00
10
00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Cincinnati, Vine Street,
Dime Banks of Alex-
ander Henderson and
Mrs. E. M. Lawton $10 00
Walnut Hills, Dime Bank
of Mrs. Sarah Norton,
Master Will Morris, and
Anna L. Strong 15 co
Hudson, for Salary Fund .. 3 25
1 25
6 53
10 00
6 65
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Oberlin, First. L. A. S..
Dime Bank of Mrs. A. H.
Currier $5 °°
Springfield. First, Dime
Bank of C. E. Folger.... 500
M5 °°
75
Old Orchard, by C. O. Twining
S. S.. by G. W. Hutchinson
Will i\v Springs, First, by Rev. A. A.
Robertson .
MICHIGAN-$23.75 ; legacy.
Adrian. Estate of Mrs. A. M. Lathrop,
by A. L. Millard
WISCONSIN-S10.58.
Mauston, Mrs. C. W. Barney. $1 :
Mrs. M. A. Loomis, §1. by Mrs. M.
A. Loomis
New London, by S. T. Ritchie
Wausau, Scand.,by Rev. C. J. Jensen
IOWA-$i.co.
Macksburgh, A Friend of Missions.
MINNESOTA-$724.78.
Received by Rev. J. H. Morley :
Campbell $4 00
Center City 3 35
Claremont 2 50
Franconia 1 70
Madison 2 50
Maplewood ... 1 25
$38 25
4
35
2
00
so
00
10
00
I
50
Ashtabula, Swedish, by Rev. C. A.
Widing
Brecksville, First, by H. M. Rinear..
Elyria, Mrs. E. A. De Witt, by I. D.
Metcalf
Oberlin, Mrs E. B. Clark
Tallmadge, by John W. Seward
INDIANA -$800.
Coal Bluff. $5 ; Caseyville. $1 : and
Cardonia, $2, by Rev. J. A. Griffin.
ILLINOIS— $345.00 ; of which legacy,
$100.00.
Illinois Home Miss. Soc. by Rev. J.
Tompkins, D.D.: Salary Fund,
§100 ; Gen. Howard Roll of Honor,
$100 200 00
Chicago. Mr. David Fales 40 00
Elgin, Mrs. S. M. Burdick. Dime
Bank, by Rev. J. S. Rood 5 00
Freeport, Legacy of L. A. Warner, by
A. C. Warner, Ex 100 00
MISSOURI
Woman's H. M. Union,
Mills. Treas.:
Brookfield, L. H. M. S.
Less Expenses. .
7 5°
2 15
2 00
6 58
2 00
Marshall $9 00
Medford 10 00
Minneapolis. Open Door. . . 10 82
Rock Creek 1 50
Scandia 2 15
Winona 141 19
Woman's H. M. Union,
Minn.. Mrs. M. W. Skin-
ner. Treas.:
Ash Creek 1 60
Austin 10 84
Biwabik 1 56
Barnesville 500
Center City 1 63
Custor 4 00
Dawson ... 1 20
Duluth, Pilgrim 15 00
Ellsworth . 4 50
Edgerton 3 15
Franconia 1 50
Faribault, $10.50 ; Jr. C.
E., S5 15 5°
Gibbon 1 92
Granite Falls 2 15
Garvin. 1 25
Kanaranzi 1 50
Lake Benton 1 05
Lamberton . . 2 75
Madison 1 60
Marshall, $4.55 ; Jr. C. E..
"c : 5 32
Mazeppa 19 00
Minneapolis. Missionary-
Union 6 43
Plymouth 40 47
Pilgrim 6 75
Moorehead 12 52
Monticello 1 65
New Duluth 1 35
New Ulm 1 75
New Richland 300
Rush City 3 91
Rochester 61 77
Robbinsdale, Y. 1 1 50
t Sandstone 1 60
Springfield 40
Sleepy Eye q 50
St. Paul, Park 35 60
Anthony Park 29 00
Sauk Center 14 77
Tyler 1 67
Winthrop 4 25
Walnut Grove 1 00
Worthington 2 50
Waseca 20 60
Winona, First 125 00
Second 10 co
West Dora 50
Less Expenses.
59 47
25 00
#664 47
Granada, by Rev. S A. Van Luven. .
Minneapolis, Rev. S. V. S. Fisher.
Special
New Duluth, Mayflower Ch.,by Rev.
J.I. Sanf ord
Pelican Rapids and West Dora, by
Rev. E. B. Palmer
St. Charles, First, by Mrs. L. N.
Howe
St. Paul. People's Ger. Ch., by Rev.
Wm. Oehler
Spencer Brook, Scand., by Rev. A.
P. Engstrom
Upsala, Swedish, by Rev. A. G. Pet-
terson
Winona. Second, by Rev. W. L.
Dibble
2 50
40 00
3 45
2 69
3 32
2 00
I 00
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KANSAS-$34.67.
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas.
Kan. H. M. Soc:
Alton $2 25
Osawatomie 5 00
Altoona and Village Creek, by Rev. I.
D. Barnard
Ash Rock, $1.52 ; New Harmony,
$1.38; Bloomington, $2.07, by Rev.
T. £. Roberts
Cleburne and Bala, by Rev. J. Izard .
Dunlap, Sunnyside, and Big John, by-
Rev. W. R. Bair
Fredonia, First, by Rev. H. D. Herr.
Kiowa, Ladies, through W. H. M. U.,
by Rev. J. E. Everett
NEBRASKA— $37.89.
Cortland and Pickrell, by Rev. F. G.
McHenry
Crete, Mr. Vogel, through Rev. W.
Fritzmeier
Doniphan, West Hamilton, and North
Hastings, by Rev. E. Cressman
Friend and Turkey Creek, Ger., by
Rev. G. Essig
Germantown and Oak Grove, Ger-
man, by Rev. F. Woth
Inland, Ger., by Rev. C. W. Wurr-
schmidt
Maple Creek, by Rev. H. M. Lyman.
Nelson, Deshler, Edgar, Firfield, and
Deweese, German, by Rev. j. Lich.
Omaha, Hillsdale Ch.. through
Ladies' Aid Society, by F. M. Ham-
line
NORTH DAKOTA— $22.60.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. M.
Fisher, Treas. :
Fargo. First $500
Cummings 4 45
Hope, by Rev. J. E. Jones
Niagara, by Rev. W. B. Cunningham
SOUTH DAKOTA— $38.64.
Received by Rev. C. J. Hansen,
Scand. Ch
Columbia, by Rev. I. R. Prior
Keystone, by Rev. J. A. Becker
Letcher, Firesteel. Bethel, and Lis-
bon, by Rev. C. F. De Groff
Sioux Falls, Ger , by Rev. J. M. Preiss
Willow Lake and Pitrodie, by Rev.
W. C. Cleworth
COLORADO-
51.50.
$7 25
4 97
9 00
2 00
6 04
5
00
1
00
10
00
8
49
3
00
2
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1
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8 is
3 00
10
75
4
25
4
00
6
64
2
5°
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. B. C.
Valentine, Treas :
Colorado Springs, First, for
the debt $68 00
Highland Lake 1 00
Denver, Olive Branch, by Rev. C. M.
Thomas
Mayflower Ch., by Rev. J. Turner.
Flagler, Seibert, and Claremont, $1 ;
Rev. G. E. Tuttle, $1, by Rev. G. E.
Tuttle
Herman, by Rev. H. M. Skeels
Otis and Hyde, by Rev. G. Dungan..
Telluride, by Rev. H. Sanderson
MONTANA— $6.83.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. H. E.
Jones, Treas :
Castle, Ladies' Miss. Soc
Helena, Rev. W. S. Bell
CALIFORNIA-$5o.i3.
Received by Rev. J. T. Ford :
Rialto, Y. P. S. C. E
Dehesa, $4.43 ; Jamacha, $1.95, by
Rev. A. C. Dodd
Escondido, by Rev. A. B. White
Etiwanda, by Rev. C. H. Davis
San Miguel, by Rev. T. W. De Long.
Suno! Glen, by Rev. J. H. Strong
OREGON— $3.00.
Portland, Miss. Ave. Church, by Rev.
H. W. Young
WASHINGTON— $48.10.
Chelan, for the debt, by Rev. W. L.
Dawson
Dayton, First, by Rev. F. B. Doane. .
Endicott and Alkali Flats, Ger., by
Rev. J. Hergert
Everett, by R. O. Sturgeon ...
Port Angeles and Pine Hill, by Rev.
G. W. Nelson
Ritzville, by Rev. J. Lockwood
Seattle, First Ger. Ch.,by Rev. J. G.
Biegert
Sprague, First, by Rev. O. S. Haines
Steilacoom and Lakeview, by Rev. W.
F. Rose
Sumner, Jean H. Brown
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2 00
7 00
5 °°
1 83
6 38
34 85
8 75
2 00
5 00
15
00
2
00
4
00
5
00
33
45
Contributions in August, excluding contributions for the debt $3,460 00
Legacies in August 2,167 21
Contributions for the debt in August 487 56
Total receipts in August $6,114 77
Contributions for the debt to September 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $86,656 58
Special for debt 8,825 76
. $95,482 34
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Donations of Clothing, etc.
Brooklyn, N. Y., Mr. Brooks, two boxes.
Hollis. X. H., Ladies' Reading and
Charitable Society, by Mrs. Annie V.
Colburn, barrel
St. Louis, Mo.. Y. L. M. S. of Pilgrim
Ch., by Miss Grace Burnham, box.
Saratoga Springs, N. Y.. Mrs. E. B.
Ripley, box and cash $100 oo
Warsaw. X. Y.. Ladies, by Mrs. M. D.
$39 67 Jenks, box 40 oo
$179 67
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipt? of the Maine Missionary Society from April 15 to September I, 1S96.
[ohn I.. Crosby, Treasurer
Abbot Village, by (',. A. Bradman
Alfred, by John M. Akers 10 50
Bangor. Central, Rev. D. P. Hatch ... 5 00
First Cong. S. S.. by P. T. Hubbard . 11 81
Central Dist. S. S., by R. H. Hunt ...
Bath. Winter St. S. S.. by C. C. Low . . 21 68
Belfast, First, by A. O. Stoddard 50 00
Biddeford. Second, by E.H.Goldthwaite
Bingham, by Mrs. Calvin Colby 7 00
Bluehill. First 5 00
Brewer. First, by G. A. Snow n 75
First Cong. S. S., by A. Robinson. ... 10 00
Brooks, by Miss Grace E. Washburn ..
Brooksville, by Everett U. Douglass. . 5 00
Brownfield, Y. P. S. C. E., by Delia A.
Pingree 4 00
Brownville, Ch. and S. S.. by Rev. W.
C.Curtis 1500
Calais. First, by A. L. Clapp 20 00
A Friend of Home Missions 15 00
Camden. Elm St., by H J. Hemingway. 16 00
Ladie^. by Rev. D. P. Hatch 1 00
Casco, Woman's Miss. Aux.. by Mrs. C.
W.Jordan 1000
Center Lebanon, by Mrs. M. A. Shap-
leigh 1 1 33
Conway, Y. P. S. C. E . by Delia A. Pin-
gree 5 00
Cornish, by Margie C. Marr 6 10
Cranberry Isles, by Rev. Charles E.
Harvvood, to const, him L. M 20 00
Cumberland Center, by Rev. F. W.
Davis 1300
Cumberland'Mills, Warren Ch.. by James
Graham 107 30
Deer Isle. Beach S. S.. by Mrs. D. \V.
' Torrey 2 50
Denmark, Y. P. S. C. E., by Delia A.
Pingree 5 00
East Baldwin, by Mrs. Emily Brown .. 10 00
East Orrington, Y. P. S. C. E.. by M.
T. George 4 00
By Rev. D. P. Hatch 600
East Stoneham. by F. H. Bartlett 6 07
East Sumner, by Rev. P. E. Miller 10 00
Eastport. Central, by Rev. C. S. Holton 8 36
Eliot, Ch. and S.S.. by Rev. A. L. Golder 7 12
Ellsworth, by Hon. George P. Dutton . 34 75
Ellsworth Falls, by Rev.'D. P. Hatch.. 1 q6
Falmouth, First, by Alfred Merrill .... 10 00
Farmington, legacy from Hiram Holt,
by Ex 2,000 00
First, by Rev. E. R. Smith 29 04
Farmington Falls, by Rev. D. P. Hatch 5 59
Fort Fairfield, by Rev. G. B. Hescock.. 12 00
Foxcroft and Dover. Ladies, by Rev. C.
H. B. Woodbury
By Rev. C. H. B. Woodbury
Frankfort, by Grace E. Wa-hburn
Fryeburg, Y. P. S. C. E., by Delia A.
Pingree
Gardiner. First, by F. D. Dingley
Garland, by Miss Sarah A. Curtis
Hampden, First, by Mrs. Kate R. Whit-
man
Harrison, by Rev. A. G. Fitz
P.
gree.
Hiram, Y. P. S. C. E.. by Delia A. Pin-
Industry, by Rev. D. P. Hatch
Kennebec Conference, by Rev. James
Richmond
Kennebunk, LTnion, by H. S. Brigham.
Kohala, Hawaii. Rev. Elias Bond
Limington, bv Rev. C. S. Wilder
Litchfield Comers, by D. T. Snr.th
Little Deer Isle, by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier
Machias. Center St., by A. L. Heaton . .
Marshfield. by Mrs. Jennie Lyons
Masardis, by Rev. Charles Whittier. . . .
Mechanic Falls, by Mrs. O. W. Hawkes
Xorridgewock, by C. E. Wan en
Norway, Mrs. Sarah A. Holt
Xorth Bridgton, by Rev. A. G. Fitz . . .
North Deer Isle, by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier
Perry, by Rev. J. H . Helser
Phippsburg, by Frank S. Bowker
Portland, West, by B. C. Fuller
Wilhston, by A. L. Burbank
State St.. by H. M. Bailey
Second Parish, by R. Acres
Presque Isle, by Rev. C. H. Harbutt. . .
Princeton, by Rev. D. P. Hatch
Red Beach, by Rev. F. W. Conley
Riverside, by F. H. Baker
Rockland, by E. M.Stubb
Scarboro, First, by Rev. J. G. Merrill..
Searsport, by Miss Grace E. Washburn.
By Misses Washburn and Hale
Sherman Mills, Washburn Memorial
Ch., by Rev. I. C. Bumpus
Y. P. S. C. E.. by Rev. I. C. Cumpus.
South Brewer, by Eva L. Long. . . .
South Freeport, by Rev. Arthur Smith.
Springfield, by Rev. Chas. Whittier. . . .
Stillwater, by Mrs. W. H. Woodward..
Strong, by C. A. Breck
Sunset, by W. John T. Brown
Thomaston, by Rev. D. P. Hatch
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Tremont, by Rev. G. H. Hefflon
Union Conference, by Rev. D. P. Hatch
Vanceboro, by Rev. Chas. Whittier ....
Vassalboro, Adams Memorial, by Mrs.
M. A. Bush
By F. H. Baker
Warren, by Rev. D. P. Hatch
Washington Conference, by Rev. C. S.
Holton
West Auburn, by Mrs. Mar}' K. Briggs
West Brooksville, by Mrs. M. B.
Stevens
West New Portland, by Mrs. Cyrus S.
Luce
$2502 Wilton, by Rev. B. S. Sanborn $2640
5 00 Winslow, by Rev. T. P. Williams 15 00
5 00 Winthrop, A Friend, by Geo. O. Pack-
ed 50 00
3 00 Yarmouth. First Parish, by C. L. Mars-
5° ton I5 00
8 39 Woman's Maine Missionary Auxiliary,
by Treas 1,064 41
21 00 Income from Investments 84597
15 00
5,664 32
133 Previously acknowledged 9,18399
3 00 Total Sept. 21, 1895, to date $14,848 31
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from July 20 to August 20, li
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Center Rutland, Swedish Ch $4 25
Charleston, West 40 00
Craftsbury, North 4 00
Chelsea, for C. H. M. S 8 87
Eden, for Women Evangelists 15 50
Fairlee 11 00
Greensboro, Y. P. S. C. E 2 64
Hubbardton, S. S 725
Ludlow 15 00
Middlebury. A Friend . .
Pownal, North
Royalton, South
Westmore
Weston, for C. H. M. S.
W. H. M. U
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MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in August, li
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev. Edwin
Acton, by Rev. Bernard Copping $29 00
" A Friend of the Cause," Mrs. A. H. P 20 00
Andover, West, by F. S. Boutwell 50 00
Bank Balances, July Interest 20 36
Bernardston, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. H.
L. Crowell 1 50
Billerica, by J. F. Bruce 9 00
A Friend 3 00
Boston, South, Carrie A. Harlow 5 00
Brookline, Harvard, by Jas. H. Shap-
leigh, for Italian Work 30 00
Cambridge, First, by Geo. S. Saunders. 624 22
Chicopee, First, E. C. a Day Band, by
Rev. C. G. Burnham 21 21
Colerain, by Rev. F. H. Bodman 6 00
Concord, Trinitarian, by Thomas Todd 10 co
East Bridgewater, Union, by Geo. M.
Keith 6 09
Everett, a Friend 1 00
Grafton, Evan., by Geo. K. Nichols.... 76 70
Great Barrington, H. M. Silver Circle,
by E. J. Langdon 5 00
Hatfield, by Alpheus Cowles 49 49
Hinsdale, by M. M. Wentworth 14 00
Howe St. Est., Chicago, 111.. Balance... 66 55
Ipswich, South, by Rev. T. F. Waters.. 100 00
Lakeville, Precinct S. School, by T. P.
Paull 9 00
Lawrence, Clara F. Prescott. for debt
of C. H. M. Soc 12 56
Marshfield, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Lilla A. Baker 2 72
Massachusetts, a Friend
Medford, South, Union, by H. B.
Doland
Medway Village. Mrs. C. D. Adams, by
MM. Fisher, to const. Mrs. C. D. A.
aL. M. of C. H. M. Soc
Methuen, First, by Jacob Emerson
Middleboro, North, by Chas. S. Tink-
ham
Northampton, Mrs. Lavinia M. Smith . .
Northfield, Trinitarian, by Mary T.
Dutton
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Plymouth, Silver Lake Y. P. S. C. E.,
by H . W. Clemons
Reading, by Dean Peabody
Richmond, Y. P. S. C. E., by Helen L.
Coleman
Rochester, North, by A. K. Small
Rockport, First, by Z. A. Appleton (of
wh. $5 from Z.A.A.)
Rovalston, First, by Colin Mackenzie..
Y. P. S. C. E., by Colin Mackenzie.. . .
Rutland, First, by Rev. Sidney Craw-
ford, to const. Mrs. M. L. Miles a
L. M. of C. H. M. S
Y. P. S. C. E., by H. D. Bray, for C.
H. M. S
Shrewsbury, by Henry Harlow
Shutesbury, by N. A. Briggs
Spring-field, First, by H. G. Camp
Sunderland, by W. L. Hubbard
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Townsend, Orth., by J. W. Eastman
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E., bv J. W. Eastman.
West Boylston, by E. B. Rice
Westfield, Second, by R. L. Scott
Williamstown. South, Sunday-school,
by Rev. J. A. Lytle
Woburn, Conference of Churches, by-
Rev. G. E. Lovejoy, Treas., for Mont-
vale Ch
hs 36 Wrentham, First, by S. M. Gerould $16 70
16 07 Woman's Home Missionary Association,
1 00 by Miss A. C. Bridgman, Treas. :
6 25 Special, for French Prot. Col-
34 96 lege, Springfield $25 00 25 00
Home Missionary.
$1,792 07
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MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in August, 1896. WARD W. Jacobs,
Treasurer
Chatham. Cobalt, by Rev. J. W. Moul-
ton $13 00
Cobalt, see Chatham.
Fairfield, Greenfield, by Oliver H.
Meeker, to const. Oliver H. Meeker
a L. M 63 00
Glastonbury, First, by M. S. Tracy... 601 23
Greenfield, see Fairfield.
Hartford, Park, by Willis E. Smith... 32 83
Huntington, by Frank H. Wells 9 00
Litchfield, Milton, by W. E. Page 12 00
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur 45 00
Milton, see Litchfield.
Montville, Rev. G. H. Morss. personal.
In Memory of Mrs. G. H. Morss.
New Canaan, by H. B. Rogers
Old Saybrook. by Robert Chapman
ForC. H. M. S
Portland, Swedish, by Rev. Carl E.
Carlson
Windham, by William Swift
Windsor, First, Y. P. S. C. E., for C.
H. M. S., by Miss M. E. Sill
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46 09
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MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in August, 1896. Rev. John P.
Sanderson, Treasurer
Cannon
Detroit, Woodward Ave
Grandville
Greenville
Hopkins Station, Y. P. S. C. E
Howard City
Lake Linden
Y.P. S. C. E
Lowell, Y. P. S. C. E
Old M ission
Stanton, T. N. Stevens
A Friend
A Friend
W. H. M. U., by Mrs. E. F. Grabill.
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20 00
25 00
40 00
40 00
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Detroit. W. U. of Woodward Ave.
( Second ) Ch
Dowagiac, W. H. & F. M. S
Ellsworth. W. H. M. S
Grand Ledge, L. A. S & W. H. M. S.
Grand Rapids, Smith Memorial. W.
M. S
Greenville. W. H. M. S
Harrison, " "
Mulliken. " "
Olivet
South Haven, W. M. S
Trout Creek, W. H. M. S
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$5 00
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
i. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis, So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.T
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson. Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St.,
Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND*
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House. Boston.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, The Morris,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
St., Toledo.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
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9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15- CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President. Mrs. Wm. Kincaid. 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, g Camp St., New-
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. E. G. Updike. Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. W. H. Boals. Fargo.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill. Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June, 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave.. Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary, Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry, Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt, Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President, Mrs. D. B. Perry. Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasztrer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary, Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April. 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, igoo Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
2g. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 152 North Gal-
vez St., New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
Presiden', Mrs. W.J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mis. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508, Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple, Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary )
and > Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, )
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. L H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized Mav, i8go
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave
Helena.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones. Livingston.
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
Secretary. Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond. Vinita.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June. 1890
President, Mrs. J. W. Thomas, Lanslord.
Secretary. Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint. Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer. Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. W. M Wellman. El Reno.
Secretary. Mrs. J. E. Piatt. Guthrie.
Treasurer. Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. J. D. Hagerman, Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison. 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May. 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President. Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary. Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer. Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President. Mrs. J. B. Gossage. Rapid City, Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood. Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock, Weiser.
Treasurer, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
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Field Secretaries
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Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
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Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
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Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " "" " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
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Contents for November, 1896
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XVI.— The Great' American
Desert 337
A Superintendent's Vacation .... 344
Hard Times in the Northwest... 346
Reports of Special Religious In-
terest 347
" As we have therefore Opportu-
nity " 348
Notes by the Way :
One Woman 350
Scraps from Reports 354
Sunday Base-Ball Clubs 356
That Silver Circle
The Responsible Partners
Incidents in Home Missionary Life
Rev. John Wheeler Harding
From the Eastern Coast, Florida.
That Indian Orphanage
Home Missionary Grit
Lost in the Woods
The Dangerous Native Classes..
Home Missionary Rally Day
The Treasury
The Howard Roll of Honor
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NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XVI. — The Great American Desert
FTER Superintendent Blanchard left Colorado for an Eastern
field at the end of 1884 no new Superintendent was appointed
at once. Until one was appointed, the writer was requested to
be the acting superintendent. He took that work in addition to the care
of his own parish, supposing it would be for a few months only. But it
was almost two years before he was relieved of it. Of course, old ser-
mons had to be used to some extent, and he could not often visit the
churches on Sunday. But he took many trips between Sundays, while he
tried not to allow his own church work to suffer. One thing that greatly
facilitated this work was a new first-class tricycle which a friend gave
him, and on which he could fly rapidly over his parish and around the
city. As it was the first one to be regularly used in that city it was an
object of much attention, being often surrounded by an inquisitive crowd.
The pastor was often described as the man on a tricycle.
In June, 1885, he attended the home missionary annual convention
at Saratoga Springs. The following extracts from his remarks at that
meeting show in part his estimate of the field and the work :
" We do not have many inhabitants to the square mile in Colorado,
but we have a good many square miles, and a good deal of territory to
the square mile. We have to stack it up in great heaps three miles high,
and we are all the time giving it away. The immensely fertile States east
of us obtained all their fertile land from our mountains.
"We have now thirty-two churches, with about 1,800 members and
2,700 Sunday-school scholars. A larger proportion of our churches are
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self-supporting than in any other State west of the Mississippi. We have
also a college. It has received a set-back, but it is going to live, and in
the judgment of the brethren on the field it ought to live. Its available
resources for next year are $32.40 ! Since the first of January our
churches have added 300, or about twenty per cent., to their membership.
The same rate of increase throughout the country would add 80,000 to
our churches ! Six years ago to-night we organized the second church in
COLORADO COLLEGE AND PIKES PEAK
Denver. Some doubted whether there was room for another church in
that city then. A few weeks since we organized the eighth church. All
of them are well located. If you think we have too many, I answer,
' Come, and see.'
" A yearly feast of tabernacles will have to be one of the institutions
of our Denver churches in the future. The regular way of starting a
church with us is to put up a tent, which sooner or later blows over in
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some hard wind, and then we have to go to work and put up something
better. That fact symbolizes our work. An important factor of any
successful work in the West is a patient, faithful holding on through all
sorts of trials, discouragements, and opposition. Our work requires
patience, but it also requires a holy impatience. I get great comfort
from the fortieth Psalm. In the first verse the Psalmist says : 'I waited
patiently for the Lord,' and we all have to do that. But in the last verse
he cries : ' Make no tarrying, O my God.'
" I suppose we ministers are all more or less ambitious with an ambition
more or less godly. I confess that my ambition has been, not to take, but
to make good places ; not to take large churches, but to enlarge small
ones. And years ago I had an ambition to organize a church, to see it
born and grow and become strong, and that ambition has been, to some
extent, gratified. Over there in southern Vermont, when this century
was young, an old Revolutionary soldier, my great-grandfather, stood one
day in his door. Some passers-by stopped to admire a magnificent elm
across the street, seven feet in diameter and over twenty feet around.
The man said to them in words my mother put into rhyme years ago :
" ' Why gaze ye so,' said the aged man,
' Upon that stately tree ?
' . When I was young I carried it
And with it other three.'
" There are aged men here to-day whose hearts swell with honest pride
when they hear spoken the praises of churches and colleges which they,
when young, carried in their hearts and hands. When I get to be an old
man — say in about forty years- — and visit Colorado Springs and see a
church of 500 or 1,000 members I shall be able to say, with perhaps a
pardonable pride, that when I was young I carried that church, and with
it two or three others ; one at least in Denver, and one in that most
charming spot, Manitou, which honors itself and honors Saratoga, too, by
calling itself ' the Saratoga of the West,' as it truly is.
" I think I shall lose no reputation that I may have for under-state-
ment, when I say with emphasis that it is a grand and blessed and
glorious work to have a hand in laying the foundation of a Christian em-
pire. I am glad that there are ministers self-sacrificing enough to stay
and preach for the wealthy Eastern churches, and raise money for the
West, but we don't all have to do it. I am glad that I ever had a call to
a little church out under the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, so far
away that it could not hear me preach before calling me."
A part of the work which the acting-superintendent had to do was to
help inaugurate the work on the plains in Eastern Colorado. The
churches on the plains thus far had been close to the mountains, or
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within sight of them. But about 1885-86 the great wave of immigration
that had been filling up the western portions of Kansas and Nebraska
leaped over the State line and boldly invaded the arid plains of Eastern
Colorado, where it had been supposed that nothing could be raised with-
out irrigation, and where there was little or no water to irrigate with.
This was a part of the region that had been known for a long time as
"the Great American Desert." In a geography in the writer's posses-
sion, printed in 1866, though prepared in 1855, that "desert" is repre-
sented as covering nearly the whole of the eastern half of Colorado, all
of the territory east of the mountains except the northeast corner. In
successive geographies the desert kept shrinking in size until it finally
disappeared entirely.
Of course the immigration into that region was greatly stimulated by
real estate men, by the locaters of town sites, and by the railroads that
were pushing across that vast unoccupied region to reach Denver and
the mountains. Much was said about the gradual westward movement
of the rain-belt, and a few wet seasons seemed to justify what was said,
but accurate observations of the rainfall over a term of years did not
prove the theory. Some good crops of corn, however, were raised on the
virgin soil without irrigation. A great many of those who took up claims
did so with the intention of selling them. The future of that region was
very problematical. But there were people there ; towns were actually
being built, and they must have churches. Town interests and the real
needs of the people combined to demand them. There were two towns
over a hundred miles east of Denver in which the writer became espe-
cially interested and for which he helped to secure a minister and organ-
ize churches. On his first trip to explore the field he saw thousands of
dead cattle that had perished on the plains in a terrible blizzard a few
weeks before. The two towns were only a few miles apart. In riding
from one to the other one Sunday in summer time he saw in the front
and on the right and left great lakes of water, on whose banks the little
cabins of the settlers rose as stately palaces. It was a mirage, such as is
common on the plains in summer. At a certain time of the year he used
to see such a lake regularly, day after day, from his home in Colorado
Springs. The water was only a mockery of that region, for ordinarily
there was no water anywhere near those towns. All the water used in
the town, and by the settlers and their cows and horses for miles around,
had to be carried from the great tank at the depot which was kept filled
by the railroad company, who brought it a long distance in tanks on the
cars. To go to town for a load of water was a regular part of the set-
tler's work. A well was being dug at Otis when the writer visited the
place, and a few weeks later he received a card from the pastor there, on
one side of which was printed in large letters,
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" WATER ! WATER ! ! WATER ! ! !
" Hurrah for Otis ! Plenty of clear sparkling water struck at a depth of
207 feet at ten o'clock to-day, June 16th. The only drawback to this
COLORADO SPRINGS IN 1878
God-given country overcome ! Particulars to-morrow." On the other
side of the card the pastor wrote : " The water question is settled. The
people are jubilant, and we want to push church matters and take the
tide at its flood."
The tide of water was two hundred and seven feet under ground, but
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the tide of real-estate excitement and of town-lot speculation was above
ground. Evidently it was not the place for a Baptist church, and the
Baptists somehow did not cultivate that field. But churches were started
at Otis and Hyde and are now doing well. It was not thought best, how-
ever, to put much money into church buildings, as the permanent settle-
ment of the country by any considerable population seemed a problem
which only the future could solve. Quite a number of churches have
since been started in other places on the plains, and there is no doubt in
the writer's mind but that that region will all be thickly settled some day.
Providence seemed to keep that great strip of land back from the greedy
landseeker for a time and for some good reason. It is part of man's
work, however, to subdue the desert and make it blossom as the rose.
The planting of trees, the raising of crops, the breaking-up of the soil,
the building of vast reservoirs for holding water, the discovery and rais-
ing of cereals adapted to a dry climate — these things will all help to
populate those plains. Moreover, the Almighty if he sees fit can very
easily turn the air currents so as to shed abundance of rain on that region.
In 1806 Lieutenant Pike explored that region and prophesied that
only the borders of the Mississippi and the Missouri would ever be set-
tled by whites, while the great prairies incapable of cultivation, would be
left to the wandering and uncivilized aborigines. In 1835 Washington
Irving wrote that the great plains of the Far West would probably be
inhabited in the future by a hybrid race made up of Indians and of fugi-
tives from justice. To one who has helped plant churches on " the
Great American Desert" those prophecies are interesting reading, and
such a one will not scoff at any prophecy for the future that seems ,to go
to the opposite extreme.
Julesburg, in Northeastern Colorado, is another place where a
church was planted. In early pioneer days it had been the scene of such
horrid frontier barbarities as make the blood run cold. One man, a white,
not an Indian, got another man, his enemy, in his power. He had him
tied to a post in his corral and then amused himself a long time by shoot-
ing at different parts of his body, taking care not to hit a vital part, and
thus killed him inch by inch. Those things were for a few brief years only.
Now churches and schools flourish there, and will for centuries to come.
Said the writer in one of his home missionary sermons : " There are
limits to the ascendancy of extreme wickedness in frontier towns. The
worst characters kill each other and kill themselves off rapidly. The
righteous outlive the wicked, two to one, and righteousness will outlive
wickedness in any community in our land. You may take any new town
or territory in this New West, and I care not how gross and defiant may
be its wickedness at first, nor how vice may flaunt itself in broad daylight,
nor how much the laws of God and of man are trampled under foot, nor
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how much Ingersollism there is ; 1 care not how weak may be the hands
of the first Christian workers, nor how feeble their knees ; such is the
persistent staying power of that force in the world which makes for right-
eousness, such is the evangelizing, transforming power of Christ's Gospel,
that I know and am sure that by and by that community will be a Chris-
tian community, and sometime it may be a very ' saint's rest.'
'• The frontier in our country, ever since it crossed the Hudson, and
even before, has been except in spots a wicked frontier. As a rule,
organized Christianity has always been weak on the frontier ; but behind
its weakness there has been an organized Christian power in the land
that has all along been strengthening the weak -hands and confirming the
feeble knees of frontier Christianity. It has given the fresh young blood
of its own churches ; it has given regiments and brigades of Christian
ministers ; it has poured out millions of money ; its clarion voice has
ever been saying : ' Be strong, fear not ; your Cod will come and save
you.'
" And so across the continent and along the path of empire has been
built, though not yet finished, a highway of holiness for the coming of
the King. There remains much to be done ; there is much land yet to
be possessed. And just as fast as the weak churches become strong —
yea, while they are yet weak, and as a means of becoming strong, they
should begin to give and pray in order to strengthen the weak hands
beyond, and confirm the knees that are feebler than theirs."
*
A SUPERINTENDENT'S VACATION
By Rev. T. K. Harrison, Northern California
My vacation has been taken in almost constant traveling over the field,
visiting the outside points before the rains begin. I have been home only
two or three times during the last two months, and then only for a day at
a time. We have divided up our work in Sierra County, putting in a young
man from the seminary as an assistant to brother Wallace. The people
are to " board him 'round " a la " Hoosier Schoolmaster," and give him
$200 a year. One man is going to feed his horse ; another will do his
blacksmithing and wagon repairing ; and one old lady has asked the
privilege of doing his laundry work. He will preach at Beckwith, Mo-
hawk Valley, Summit, and Claire. Heretofore we have had but one man
for the whole valley, with eight or nine preaching stations. We have also
sent a valuable helper to Mr. Cole in Trinity County. Mr. Cole has
occupied his vast field (being the only Protestant preacher in the whole
county) with much ability, but with far too much work.
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A young man with a somewhat striking history came to me some time
ago desiring work. He is a student from the Edinburgh University, with
good mental fitting, but had drifted away morally and spiritually from his
moorings. Coming to this country he was converted in the Salvation Army,
and worked faithfully with them, but later joined our Congregational church
in San Rafael, where he worked with so much earnestness that the pastor
recommended him for missionary work. Our Committee approbated him
for lay preaching, and we sent him to Trinity County. He goes at his
own expense, trusting the Lord to provide for him. Already come excel-
lent reports of him and his work.
I have been privileged to see the work of the Lord in softening hard
hearts in quite a remarkable manner this month. Up in Butte County is
a town that has had a hard reputation for the last forty years. We have
sent missionary after missionary there, many of them among our most
consecrated workers, but they have been repulsed and driven out time and
time again. Repeated threats have been made that no church would ever
be allowed there, and if it did get built, it should be burnt down
at once.
But who can withstand the Spirit of the Lord ? When the time came
he opened the hearts of the people to his Word. Our missionary, Rev.
A. S. Parsons, of Butte County, was the instrument used. Under his tire-
less hand a church has been built, he doing almost all the work himself,
and two weeks ago we dedicated it to the service of God, in the presence
of a large number of attentive and reverent worshipers. One man was
converted and several rose for prayers at the service.
It has also been my privilege to pay a visit through a vast churchless
region in Mendocino and Humboldt Counties. Mr. Parsons drove me over
the mountains — a little the worst mountain trip I ever took. At times
we had to cut down and tie trees to the back of our wagon to let the con-
veyance safely down some especially dangerous grade, and part of the
time I had to add my weight to the tree. We used up Mr. Parsons'
horse, and I had to leave him to come back more slowly than my time
would allow me to travel. But we viewed the land over. Here is a vast
region, off from the line of the railroad, but all of it settled, with eight or
ten towns unreached by any religious services. My thought is to have
Mr. Parsons take up this virgin work, removing him from Butte
County.
I wonder if you have any idea of the planning and rearranging I have
to do in order to meet our growing necessities on our decreasing receipts !
I often tell my wife, with sincere admiration, that I verily believe she
could so cut an outgrown suit of clothes for our boy as to make it fit him
beautifully for another year. I think I am learning of her. I have
walked again and again rather than ride, and have camped out under the
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trees to save hotel charges. Sometimes I fear that in the financial stress
we may lose sight of the fact that our Society's name has the word
" Missionary " in it, and that the cries of lost souls may not sound as loud
as do the cries of hard times. As I have gone over these fields and seen
the lost, undone condition of men, women, and children, I find myself
weeping at my inability to help them.
HARD TIMES IN THE NORTHWEST
It has been with us a time of hardship and self-denial. Many times
we have been in need of the necessaries of life. For myself I do not care,
but I cannot see my wife and little child suffer. You know what that
means without my saying more. Bread and water two or three times a
day is not a very nourishing diet ; yet we are glad to get even that, and
accept it with thankful hearts. Before another year passes, that maybe a
luxury Early in the season the grain crop was looking finely. It never
had looked better here and our farmers were in high spirits. But a few
days later a hot, burning wind arose and burnt all, so that it will not even
pay to cut it. People are much disheartened, and what the end will be I
do not know. But I know this : if something doesn't come this fall in the
way of relief there will be much suffering here this coming winter. Hard
as our experience has been, however, we would gladly go through it
again if we could in any way be the means of doing some good and of
extending the cause of our God. Within the year five Sunday-schools
have been organized, four of which I took an active part in starting, the
fifth one being formed by one of our young women. Some of these schools
are doing excellent work ; also, one church, and another community is
taking steps to organize a second. Some outside places have been visited
and work started in them. One of these is a very beautiful and romantic
place, numbering about fifty souls who have been living there from eight
to fifteen years and never heard a sermon until we came to them. We
found them responsive and very anxious to have the Gospel. One young
woman came fifteen miles on horseback to hear me, but she preached to
me a sermon fifteen miles long and went home with a smiling face and a
happy heart. This place would be ripe for a church organization in a
very little while. I have found several places that we could enter and
where they would like to have us come ; but I now have all that I can
attend to. There is enough work here for three good men, and we hope
the day is not far off when the money will be on hand to send them. —
Washington.
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REPORTS OF SPECIAL RELIGIOUS INTEREST
Revival Meetings. — We have held a series of revival services which
resulted in fourteen hopeful conversions and the spiritual quickening
of the church in every department. We received those who professed
conversion at our last communion, and have had occasional conversions
since. I have also aided in special services at the Second Church, where
were gathered twenty-four souls for Christ's Kingdom. Then followed
services in the church at S., resulting in the conversion of fifty men and
women, three of whom were more than seventy years of age. I have also
preached at intervals to our two neighboring pastorless churches, besides
laboring in Christian unity with my ministerial brethren of various
denominations round about. To us all it has been truly a time of
refreshing from the presence of the Lord. — Pemisylvania.
After Souls. — This has been with me one of the busiest of quarters,
inasmuch as I have had so much outside work to do in the way of
holding meetings with neighboring brethren. One of. two weeks with
Brother R. brought in six or eight. Two weeks more of special services
at O. resulted in twelve hopeful conversions, some of them very bright.
Of these, nine have united with the church. I have another point in
view, a thickly settled part of the country about twenty miles west of us,
where I expect to organize a church that can be cared for without an
extra outlay of missionary funds. That community has no church
privileges whatever, and I feel it my duty to give them the Gospel if it
is in my power. — Oklahoma^
Revival Work. — We have held a series of revival meetings lasting
nearly eight weeks, the result of which was nineteen conversions and
seventeen reclaimed, for which we give God the glory. Eleven have
joined the church, and there are more to follow. The Lord has prospered
the work in church and Sunday-school wonderfully. — Kansas.
Spiritually Quickened. — We have just closed a series of revival
meetings and have taken in six members, with more to come in later.
The converts are fewer than I hoped. A smallpox scare coming at the
time of the meetings, kept the attendance down and disturbed the
interest. The church membership has been greatly blessed with spiritual
life. — Missouri.
Twenty-five Additions. — We receive about twenty-five into the
church next Sunday. There were about seventy-five cards signed during
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our revival meetings, but the number of hopeful conversions is indefinite.
The church was revived and the result is good in that respect. —
Minnesota.
Fifteen Received. — I have this quarter received fifteen persons to
the church, eleven of them on confession, and the remainder returning
backsliders. This is the result of stated preaching, with no extra efforts. —
Pennsylvania.
" Led by their Children." — Two young men and their wives lately
presented themselves for membership. They were led to the step by
their children. I visited, talked, and prayed with them, and they brought
their little ones to church for baptism, and were themselves baptized and
received. The Scripture was fulfilled — " A little child shall lead them."
Two of our young men, sons of good fathers and mothers, have witnessed
for the Master and united with our church. The work was all personal
and has been done quietly, but I think it is none the less effective and
permanent. There are many others in our congregation who are on the
same road, and who are to be reached in the same way, by speaking the
opportune word at the opportune time. — Kansas.
*
"AS WE HAVE THEREFORE OPPORTUNITY"
Perhaps some of the workers at the front in missionary fields may
like to know how one little mission church in a New England country
district remembered them and tried to help last year. Money was not
plenty, but energy and interest were abundant. What was needed was a
start ; so one Sunday in May the pastor brought out some nickels and
offered one to every man, woman, and child, who would use one apiece as
capital to invest in some profitable way for missionary work. The
returns were to be made at Thanksgiving season, and each person was to
report how his nickel was used and could say to what missionary organiza-
tion he wanted his money to go.
In a few days thirty-two "talents" had been given out. Along with
this plan were put six dollars which had just been received from the sale
of potatoes raised the year before on a weak, stony bit of land called " the
missionary lot." The various gatherings, or "bees," however, for the
cultivation of this land had aroused considerable missionary interest.
These methods did not seem to be sufficient, and one Sabbath the
pastor (plucking up courage) made a public offer from the pulpit to the
young men that if they would come to the parsonage some evening after
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their other work was done, and saw up four cords of hard, tough, dry wood,
he would put into the fund in their name a sum equal to what the work was
worth. One evening, not long after, the young men began to gather with
bucksaws and sawhorses, and soon, by the light of lanterns which had been
hung up, seven bucksaws were seen moving at a lively pace. Somehow
the young ladies had got news of the event and were present in force to
pile up the wood and cheer on those at the saws. (Sorry not to have a
flash-light picture of this.) The wood proved a little too tough to finish
sawing in one evening, but when the time was up the good mother in the
house called them all in to enjoy coffee and cake. After a half-hour's
singing the young people went home, tired but happy. The job was
finished in due time, and four dollars and seventy-five cents were added
to the fund.
Several times during the summer and fall public inquiry was made as
to the fate of the nickels, and the Sunday-school superintendent hinted
that they would have to hustle if they got ahead of him when the day of
reckoning came. Finally the day of reckoning did come, and the Thanks-
giving week prayer-meeting was given up to hear the reports upon the
"talents." At the regular hour for the meeting, three times the usual
number of persons had come in. The ingenuity of the people had been
taxed, and one after another had to bring in his or her money and tell
how it was gained. One had bought material and made catchup and sold
it ; another, picture frames ; another, candy ; another, cookies ; and so on.
Two little boys had bought corn, popped it, and sold it at five-fold
increase. Some had worked all summer, while others had barely escaped
bringing their nickel back in a napkin. The pastor confessed to one failure
on melons, but saved himself by buying an egg with the rest of the nickel
and raising a lusty chicken. One girl — who does not find it easy to take
part in prayer-meeting, but knows how to work and once flew out of the
house like the wind and stopped a pair of horses which were running
away and dragging her father along the ground — said that she made her
money on raising beans. We learned that she had found a piece of
ground near the house, which her father had plowed, and captured it
without any questions. The pastor asked : " Did you plant the beans ? "
" Yes, sir." " Did you hoe them ? " " Yes, sir." " Did you pull them ? "
"Yes." " Did you thrash them ? " "Yes, sir." The audience expressed
approval with a hearty laugh. Some who were not natural traders earned
money and handed it in along with their nickels, and a few gifts were
made by others.
At length the superintendent was reminded that " the day of reckon-
ing had come " for him. We learned that he had bought some sweet
corn with his money and had planted and cared for it. The largest single
return up to this point had been a dollar and fifty-five cents. Gravely
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rising, the superintendent said : " I knew thee that thou art an hard man,
reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not
strewed ; and I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth :
lo, there thou hast that is thine : three dollars and thirty cents."
The amount gathered by the nickels was twenty dollars and fifty-two
cents. The Woman's Association, which had done much in other lines,
added its offering, and we found that from all sources we had thirty-nine
dollars, which we divided among five of our leading missionary organi-
zations. White Oaks.
NOTES BY THE WAY
By Mrs. H. M. Union
One Woman
I heard of her while in Texas as doing a remarkable work at Pine
Valley, and that her husband, her cordial helper, though not a church
member, had offered to pay one-half of the salary if a preacher might be
sent there. Curious to hear directly from this brave New England
woman in Texas, I wrote for information. As her letter takes us into a
phase of life not familiar to many, I will share parts of it with the readers
of The Home Missionary.
Pine Valley, Texas, August 8, 1896.
My Dear Mrs. Union : — I am glad to comply with your request as
best I can. I fear, however, that you will regret having opened the gates
to so long a story— a story that must savor so strongly of egotism as
mine if I give you any idea of what we are trying to do. I am taking it
for granted that you are a long-suffering woman, you see. In the first
place, I am a full-blooded Yankee — a lineal descendant of Peregrine
White, of Mayflower fame. My life has been spent in three States that
differ as widely as any that could be selected, in manners, customs, and
climate. New Hampshire, Iowa, and Texas have each been my home.
New Hampshire was my childhood's home ; Iowa was the home of my
early married life and the native State of six of my seven babies ; and for
nearly fourteen years I have been in the piny woods of East Texas. I
feel very strongly the impress of the surroundings of my earlier years,
and I believe I can see how, in many ways, my early life was a training
for what awaited me later. The strict Puritanic training impels to work
always, I believe.
We came to Texas because there were four boys that must be trained
up to earn their own living, and the northern home was already so fully
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occupied as to leave no choice of business to anyone. We are lumber
manufacturers. We came first to Trinity County, forty miles north of
our present location, and were part of a company made up of Iowa men.
We saw many hard times in those years. The great change of climate
and of food, scarcity of good help, hostility of the people to " Yankees,"
the absence from home of my husband, combined to make it a terrible
time to recall. For eleven months after our arrival not one white woman
crossed my threshold, except a sister that was there a few months and
another Yankee that moved south with us. The native population of the
vicinity was largely composed of the descendants of criminals from the
older Southern States. Not one tree had been cut down from our posses-
sions (40,000 acres) when my husband went there. We lived there nine
years, and left a town of 1,200 people.
We severed our connection with the Lumber Company «.nd came here
to start anew. The boys were nearly grown up, and we could carry on a
business alone more satisfactorily. We found this a much pleasanter
location. We began again in the unbroken forest. We had two sons
able to count as men, and a third, with myself, did the store work. All
saw-mills run a supply store. With this boy of twelve years I bought and
handled $25,000 worth of goods that first year. As our settlement grew
we employed clerks, and I became the cashier, time-keeper, and buyer.
I worked in that way three years, then a man came along who wanted my
housekeeper, and for sake of her took my job also. The other daughter
was married before we came here. We live all close together, and " L.
T. S. and Sons " means Mr. and Mrs. S., two sons and two sons in-law.
We have four grandchildren. So much for our history — perhaps too
much.
The second summer we built a schoolhouse. The day after the
shavings were swept out we organized a Sunday-school. A Baptist
minister came here to preach and helped us organize. To my great
surprise he recommended a Congregational Sunday-school. He argued
that if it was a union school it would be "nobody's child" and a con-
stant source of annoyance. He vouched for me that my doctrine and
belief would not be dangerous, and they assented. It has proved a wise
move.
We had occasional preaching, all very poor, but we insisted on retain-
ing possession of the Sunday-school hour, not always easily done. For a
while we had a man for superintendent, but he was so entirely inefficient
that, if truth were known, I invited him to withdraw. I then said that I
wanted to try it myself. I promised but one qualification, and that was
that I should always be present. It is not pleasant to have to send to the
ball-ground for your superintendent, as I have often done. This will
seem a high-handed performance to you, but the relation of employer
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and employee is just that of the English landlord and tenant. They
expect direction to the point of dictation, and so long as you are honest
and consistent, and at all wise in your leadership, they will follow you
blindly and willingly. You may doubt this, but experience proves it to
be true all over the South.
The Southern prejudice against " female workers " is very strong.
My work in the office (I am also postmistress) brought me into contact
with the entire population not only of our own village but of this end of
the county, and being naturally of a sociable disposition I soon made
friends. The people are of a better class than some, and the mill was
accepted as a blessing. Mr. S. has done a good deal for them by way of
advice and assistance in county affairs, notably road and school work.
These things taught them gradually that a woman could work in a
public position and still remain a lady, and all that paved the way for a
greater influence over them religiously.
After carrying on a Sunday-school for a year we felt greatly the
need of other services. Our village numbered eighty dwellings, fifty of
them occupied by white families, and many single men (we employ 175
men), and our population is entirely of our employees.
We began a "praise service." We bought a ninety-five-dollar Estey
organ the first winter, and as all my family sing and three are organists
we can always have good music. This service consisted of the reading
of a chapter, a prayer by one of those present, and then singing the rest
of the hour, the audience selecting the tunes. It was not very satis-
factory, but served as a wedge to better things.
I then began reading sermons, and gradually the whole service fell
into my hands. While by no means an elocutionist, I had careful training
in reading in girlhood, and it is easy for me to read clearly, having also a
penetrating voice that requires no effort to fill a large room. How
thankful I have been for these blessings that to all appearance had lain
idle for thirty years at least ! I read first " Moorehouse's Bible Readings
on Ruth," then Moody, Spurgeon, Phillips Brooks, and to my surprise
nothing was received more cordially than " Canon Farrar's Sermons on
the Lord's Prayer." I continued this reading, always having a night
service with occasional preaching, for a year.
Then a Congregational minister visited us and wanted to organize a
church. I could not consent. It meant then a feeble, struggling church
the weight of which would have fallen on my inexperienced shoulders,
and I was not willing to shoulder it. The situation is peculiar. As a
business firm, we are doing business in a very different way from the com-
mon customs of this crop-mortgaged, mortgage-cursed country. As
Christian workers, we have carried on the Sunday-school and other work
in a different way from the customary one, and we are being watched by
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a large circuit of people. If I had belonged to a denomination already
well established in the State I should not have objected, but I could not
assist in beginning a Congregational church under such doubtful circum-
stances. If it failed it meant denominational failure in all this section,
and that was not wise.
In March, 1895, we organized a Christian Endeavor Society as a com-
promise. It is a union society, and all the working material in the village
joined cordially in its organization. Once a month a Baptist man comes
and preaches, but on all other times we' make the Christian Endeavorers
supply the night service. Though our number is less than forty, our
audience is one hundred. We supplement the usual prayer-meeting by
reading comments on the Sunday-school or Christian Endeavor topic,
always closely allied, or I talk to them ten or fifteen minutes on that
topic. I have been invariably well received and believe I have the
respect and affection of all our people. They surely cordially cooperate
with me in all I ask. We have also a Junior Christian Endeavor Society
of thirty, that is the pride of my heart. Since June, 1895, I have been
Superintendent of Galveston District. My territory embraces 25,000
square miles — twenty-two counties. We began 1895 with twenty-four
societies and closed the Endeavor year in June with forty-eight, a gain of
one hundred per cent., thereby making this "the banner district" of
Texas. The Lord has very signally blessed my work in many ways and
my own development has been greatly helped by the work.
There is no Congregational church nearer than eighteen miles, and
only seventeen in the State, some of them without pastors. I am very
lonesome, and often wonder why I was selected to be a denominational
object lesson for East Texas. I am very anxious about the outlook. Six
months ago the way to a church and definite work seemed open. Now,
because of the hard times, we expect to have to shut down our mill. We
cannot sell the five and a half millions of lumber on hand now. Shutting-
down means keeping perhaps twenty men to ship out this stuff, and scat-
tering the 150 others that we seem to have had a hold upon. When, in
six months or so, we get ready to saw again, a new crew will have to be
trained up, and it is slow work, but it may mean the "scattering of pre-
cious seed " into unknown corners. So far as Sunday services go we are
doing fairly well, but we need a resident pastor and his wife. People in
this country are " preached at " too much, no pastoral work being done.
This is a long story, and I fear you will not ask another woman what
she is doing. I wish you could step into our Endeavor meeting to-mor-
row. It is my turn to lead, and I have prepared texts and other matter
to stir up the temperance question thoroughly. Nine of my family are
Endeavorers, and we have some good, faithful, earnest souls in our little
village. What Congregationalists in Texas need is recognition. Now
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Texas is moving forward rapidly, and some day the older States will be
proud of her acquaintance.
Yours, constantly endeavoring,
S. M. S.
*
SCRAPS FROM REPORTS
In the Cyclone's Sweep.— We have been in the field of cyclonic
power. Early in the quarter a fearful storm swept through our entire
parish, destroying houses, barns, and some lives, among them two children
whose parents were members of our church. Some of our people are still
sufferers in body from injuries received at that time, and others in a later
storm. The church was swept from its foundation. Steps are now being
taken to place it back ; but harvesting and winter, so close at hand, I fear
may prevent. The loss in personal property was very considerable, and
nearly every one feels like saying, Let us care for home first ; then do
what we can for the church. Still, dear fellow-workers, there are many
bright spots, chiefly this : It is a joy to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ ;
to be the herald of a full salvation in him. — South Dakota.
A New Lot in a New Sodom. — If I may judge by what I see and
hear, this is the wickedest community I ever became a member of. In
our town of six hundred we have twenty-eight heads of families who are
ex-saloon-keepers. Twice since we came here our basket collections
have been stolen during the brief interim between the benediction and
the opening of the Sunday-school. Great indeed is the need of faithful
gospel work. The beautiful lives of a few Christians in the midst of all
this is a source of much consolation. It not only rests my soul when I
turn from the deplorable wickedness about me, but it fortifies my faith
and inspires me to a greater effort in their behalf for the Lord's sake.—
South Dakota.
Poor and Neglected. — This quarter we have visited many homes of
poor and neglected people. In a number of instances we have been told
that I was the first minister that had ever called. This was said in one
case by a father of grown-up children. In another case we were told
that I was the first minister to call in fourteen years ; in yet another, that
we were the second to call within a period of seventeen years. (And this
was in the State of Ohio.)
Grateful for Help. — We thoroughly appreciate the help of the
Society. The Gospel is preached here regularly to a large number of
people who would be deprived of the means of grace without its help.
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It is a hard field. I preach three times every Sunday, once in Welsh and
twice in English. The evening meetings come close upon each other,
one at 6 p.m., the other at 7.30 p.m. I have hardly time to breathe
between them. Then there are, besides, four meetings each week to
attend. But I am not discouraged, so long as I know that foundations
are being laid for a good self-sustaining work. — Pennsylvania.
Three Fruitful Years. — Our new church, finished and dedicated
May 31st, is a fine building consisting of auditorium and four rooms, all
finished and carpeted in good taste. We have just organized a church
Sunday-school, and are beginning to furnish our reading-room, which is
to be kept open all the time. I hope to slip out to a new settlement on
the railroad, where there appears to be a good opening for a church.
Three years' work has given us three good working churches in south
center of our State, and h may be we can keep up the annual record. —
Missouri.
" Speakin' in Meet'n'." — Our prayer-meetings are favored in the mat-
ter of attendance ; but when it comes to " speakin' in meet'n'," the sisters,
and especially the brethren, are altogether too quiet and still. When I
urge upon their attention the privilege and joy of participating by spoken
words, they all claim that they are " nervous and very much afraid to
take part." I notice, however, that when some item of business is in-
troduced the " nervousness " and fear promptly leave them, and they
become quite voluble ! — Oregon.
Against Wind and Sand. — We have had to encounter the prairie
winds and blinding sandstorms for a longer period than usual ; but we
have tried to keep our eyes closed to these things and open towards
Christ. We remember it was when Peter "saw the wind boisterous " that
he began to sink. In addition to regular home work, I have visited eight
churches for the purpose of giving missionary lectures. These met a
need, were appreciated, and will bear some fruit. — Kansas.
The Busy Bees. — The little girls of our Sunday-school are organized
into a circle called the "'Busy Bees." To each one is given a small blank
book on the first page of which is set forth the object of the Society. Each
child seeks subscribers at one cent a week. So far, in a little over two
months, they have collected five dollars. The little girls have met once a
month for a social time. Now they will meet oftener and work upon a
quilt. In its center a picture of the church is etched, with the names of
the Busy Bees around it. On the remainder of the quilt will be etched
the names of all those friends who are willing to pay five cents for the
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work. By this piece of work alone we hope to raise from ten to twenty
dollars more for Home Missions, for which cause the Busy Bees collect
and work exclusively. — South Dakota.
A Fresh Attraction. — At an out-station in a sparsely settled farm-
ing community I preach every Sunday afternoon and a Sunday-school is
maintained. Last Sunday, although it was a day of extremely oppressive
heat, we had a larger audience than usual. There may be some doubt
whether we should attribute this to the increasing popularity of the min-
ister, or to the fact that one of our bachelor Sunday-school teachers
brought his bride to church for the first time. As she seems to be an
earnest Christian woman, we hope for some permanent help. When our
numbers are so few, even one is an important acquisition. — South Dakota.
SUNDAY BASE-BALL CLUBS
We have received one good member, the head of a family, the daughter
of Jewish parents, whose mother so opposed her for standing up for Jesus
last winter in our revival and renouncing the religion of her parents. But
neither threat nor coaxing could keep her from joining our church. Her
face actually shines in the prayer-meeting. Praise the Lord for the
salvation of such a shining soul !
We are opposed in our church work by the Sunday base-ball club, of
which there are several in our county. As I go to my afternoon appoint-
ment I pass the Sunday base-ball grounds, where all the vagabond Indians
and whites gather in defiance of God's law and statutes. To our sorrow
we notice women among the crowd of spectators, thus abetting the crime
while standing in the way of transgressors.
The field is large, as I try to supply six stations besides our regular
church out-stations, where the people must hear the Gospel from us or
not at all. — Northern California.
THAT SILVER CIRCLE
Its members pass in the contents of their dime banks so quietly that
we do not realize the number of five-dollar bills that have been added to
the treasury of the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Upon
consulting the records of the Circle, we discover that the returns thus far
from 1,200 banks, costing sixty dollars, have been $6,000. Not a bad
investment of sixty dollars !
November, 1896 The Home Missionary 357
Moreover, these 60,000 dimes in many cases represent prayerful sacri-
fice, and are doubly precious. Let this report inspire those who have not
yet made any return from their banks to increased effort, that the silver
stream may continue to flow into the treasury.
In answer to the question, " What shall I do with my empty bank after
having forwarded the contents ? " we suggest that you fill it again !
Why not ?
*
THE RESPONSIBLE PARTNERS
By Emily Huntington Miller
" Something must be done, ladies," said the president, firmly, though
her voice trembled a little ; " we have put this matter off from month to
month, and we are simply making our work harder by giving ourselves so
much less time. Of course we all intend to do our part toward raising
the missionary money — " The tremble became a quaver as the good
lady settled >her glasses that seemed likely to slide down her nose, and
folded the leaflet in her hand into fine creases. She bent a reproachful
look upon Mrs. Jeremiah Davis, who sewed^ in serene silence without lift-
ing her eyes from her work. Mrs. Jeremiah Davis was the member who
could usually be depended upon to voice the sentiments of the society ; and
the timid ones who had not quite made up their minds, as well as the
bewildered ones who had been sure they held an opposite opinion, gener-
ally fell into line, and were entirely unanimous when they found them-
selves swept into the current of her smooth, authoritative speech. Some-
body always must lead, and even great minds have found the relief of
letting others make their decisions for them.
" Last year," said the president, taking up the thread of her discourse
after a little silence, " we raised, as you know, one hundred dollars less
than the year before ; and this year, unless we make some special effort,
we shall fall still further behind "
"Behind what, Madame President? " asked Mrs. Jeremiah Davis, in
that smooth, gracious, courteous manner which the ladies all recognized
as her most dangerous weapon. " Mis' Jeremiah's on the war path,"
whispered Sally Atwell, as she borrowed the scissors of her next neigh-
bor.
" Behind our usual amount," replied the president ; " the amount the
Society counts upon us to raise."
" I don't see why the Society should consider us under obligations for
any special amount," said Mrs. Davis ; " we intend to do what we can,
but we make no pledges. I had that point in mind when I opposed our
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binding ourselves for special work ; though, of course, even in that case
it is understood that we only agree to do it if we can."
" And no one could have foreseen this dreadful financial depression,"
echoed Mrs. Doubleday.
'* No," said the president, who began to rise to the occasion ; " no one
could have foreseen it, and certainly not the officers of the Society, who
were compelled to plan their work and assume financial responsibility
beforehand in utter ignorance of what the year might bring forth."
"And if they make mistakes of judgment, no matter how innocently,
and assume responsibilities they cannot meet, we certainly are not to
blame," said Mrs. Jeremiah, folding her hands and looking across the
room as if she had the officers of the Society arraigned for trial.
" But we want to help them out," said Miss Morris, timidly.
" Certainly, we want to, and we will do what we can ; but some people
talk as if it was our debt and our responsibility."
" Seems to me that is just what it is, ladies," said the president.
" The Lord has set his church to do certain work for him in this world.
We have no other business but to spread the knowledge of his Gospel and
help people to live by its principles. The missionary society is one of the
organizations for doing that, and its officers are our representatives that
we have put there to manage a certain part of our business for us. We are
not outsiders, giving our money to charity. We are responsible partners,
and a part of our duty is to furnish the money. If we have failed to do
that it is we that are in debt, and not the officers who administer our busi-
ness. When we talk vaguely about the debt of the National Society and
the deficiency in the missionary treasury, we lose sight of our personal
responsibility in the matter, and act as if we might honorably throw the
burden of our debts upon others, or leave those who trusted us to suffer."
" The Society certainly takes the responsibility of planning the work,
sister Bryce," said Mrs. Merritt, " and they ought to go cautiously."
" Yes, they plan our work for us ; that is part of the duty we have
assigned them. They try to expend in the wisest manner the money we
furnish them. After they have made their plans, if we fail to provide
the money we promised, who is to blame ? Here is a stock company that
employs certain men to plan and carry out improvements for it. But
after the work is projected and entered upon, the partners do not furnish
the money. One decides he needs all his capital in his business, and
another thinks his money will bring more in some other investment, and
another just neglects it or loses interest in it. What can the managers
do ? Abandon the work already done at the risk of great loss, or go on
in the hope that the responsible partners will surely come to the rescue of
their own interests ? Ladies, do let us try to make this a personal matter,
and take our share of responsibility."
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"Our share wouldn't help much, with such a debt already on hand,"
said Mrs. Field, despondently. " I declare, when a dollar is so much to
me and so little toward the grand total, I feel like keeping the dollar
where I know it'll count."
" I s'pose it's our doing that that makes the whole trouble," said little
Miss Morris. " You know how it was the time we planned the surprise
party for Jennie Allerton. When it turned out such a bad night every-
body thought, ' Oh, well, they won't miss me in such a crowd, and I'll stay
at home,' and so not a soul went but Malviny Dyer and me. It was the
most surprisin' party."
" That is exactly the way," said the president, a good deal relieved by
the laughter that seemed to have cleared the air. " All the falling-off in
the receipts comes in dollars and half-dollars kept out by good people
who say, ' My small gift cannot matter.' And the whole deficiency might
be made up in the same way, by dollars and half-dollars and dimes, if we
would all take hold together to help."
"Well, I'm ready to take hold," said Sally Atwell, energetically,
" though I donno how in creation I'm going to git the money, 'nless I git
up a minstrel show, the way them fash'nable young wimmin down to the
city did."
"They say those girls got rrtore'n a thousand dollars," remarked
Grandma Cook. " All the folks crowded in to see 'em dance and sing.
Of course you couldn't tell who was who when they were blacked up, but
I should ha' thought their mothers would ha' hated to have 'em do it.
Most of 'em think it's dreadful indelicate for women to lecture or talk in
public, or even speak in meetin'. I donno just what St. Paul would ha'
said 'bout minstrels."
"Well, I've heard of some things worse than minstrels," said Miss
Morris, "and that was a 'Beauty Show,' like they had in the Midway —
a lot of girls painted and dressed up for beauties of all nations, and the
folks paying to come in and vote who was the prettiest. I wouldn't have
believed it myself, but it was put- in the Herald, and it told how much
they got for the hospital. It's got so you have to get up something out
of the common if you expect folks to give, nowadays."
" Such jugglery is not giving at all," said the president, indignantly ;
" and a missionary society that has to resort to it would much better go
out of business. I hope while we remember that we are responsible part-
ners in this great undertaking, we shall also remember that we are only
partners ; workers together with God, and bound to carry on our work in
such a way that he can work with us."
" 'Pears to me," said Grandma Cook, "there's just one easy, dignified
way to give money, and that is to give it. I've tried all sorts of ways of
cheating myself into thinking I wasn't giving, and it makes a sight harder
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work, and not half the satisfaction. Now I just put five cents every week
into my missionary box, and there it is."
" We might learn a lesson from the native Christians in India. They
do not give by adding anything to their resources, but by tithing what they
have, be it ever so little. You remember how the five poor women who
were disappointed that a Bible reader could not be sent to a neighboring
village, consulted together and agreed to raise the money by giving up
half of their scanty ration of rice. That meant real hunger for them. If
we are willing to do half as much "
" I don't really believe I'd go hungry for my neighbors, let alone folks
in Injy," said Sally Atwell. "If I don't have my meals reg'lar I git low
in religion right away ; but, my sakes ! the's things enough a body could
give up without sufferin', and save more'n ten cents a week, and I'm going
to do it. I'm just going to keep saying, 'You're in debt, Sally Atwell,
and you'd better make a business of getting out.' "
" Let us all say that," said Mrs. Bryce, " and make this a month of self-
denial for this one purpose, and then we will talk over our experiences at
the next meeting. And we will not forget that the pledge we made was
not only 'two cents a week,' but 'a prayer.' When we forget the prayer
we lose interest in the rest."
Mrs. Jeremiah Davis looked up from her work to repeat impres-
sively :
" Who gives himself with his alms, feeds three :
Himself, his hungering neighbor, and Me."
"But then," whispered Miss Sally, "it ain't alms at all, it's a debt;
and if you don't pay your debts you're meaner'n pusley." — Life and Light.
INCIDENTS IN HOME MISSIONARY LIFE
By the Late Rev. Clarendon M. Sanders
2. Then and Now. — One of my earliest experiences was at H., in
Illinois, and I call to mind my first sight of the place. It was in Feb-
ruary, 1866, as I was on my way to L. Stepping from the train and view-
ing the surroundings, I saw a rolling Illinois prairie with perhaps a half
dozen widely separated houses in sight. As we rode up from the depot
to the brow of the hill I noticed a pile of rock lying by the roadside.
" What is to be done with these stones ? " I asked my companion. " Mr.
R. is going to put up a school building," was the reply. " A school build-
ing ! " I said with surprise ; " but where are the children ? " " Oh, Mr.
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R. is starting a new town," he said, "and expects to have many families
dwelling here ; streets are to be laid out, trees planted, and houses and
stores built." This was a strange statement to me, for I had but recently
come from New England, and knew nothing of building new towns.
Some months later, while serving the church at L., I was asked to com-
mence services at H. on Sunday afternoons. The depot was the only
available place. Chairs and boards served to supplement the seating
capacity of the waiting-room. A family living in the station had a piano ;
the wife was a good "musician, so that we had music from the start. Par-
ties from L. drove up, among them most of the choir. Several farmers'
wagons were filled, boards being used for extra seats. One good lady
remarked concerning the experience, " I rode on a board to the service,
and sat on a board while there." Encouraging congregations greeted
us, many often standing outside by the open windows. The contemplated
town became a reality ; the schoolhouse was completed with a hall up-
stairs, and to this hall we changed our services. A little later the Con-
gregational church was organized and recognized by council. While
worshiping here the church was presented with a metallic pulpit, a unique
affair. One Sabbath I exchanged with a brother minister accustomed to
emphasize his remarks. He struck this pulpit but once ; for as he did so
it responded in such a way as to surprise him and make the people smile.
The next time we met he asked : " What is that pulpit of yours made of ? "
"Of good stuff," I replied. "I should think it was, by its response to
my hand."
It was at H. that I was called upon to officiate at my first wedding.
During the two years of my pastorate, all denominations united and
worked together. This was then. What a change now ! To-day H. is
one of the attractive suburbs of Chicago. The Congregational church
has kept step with this onward progress ; an organization reporting a
membership of 209 ; a Sunday-school of 240 ; an edifice costing $17,000,
with a parsonage valued at $4,000, and no indebtedness ; reported benev-
olences, $2,826 ; and raising for home expenses, $3,678, for one year.
The acorn planted by the aid of our Home Missionary Society in 1867
has grown into an oak. Was it not a wise planting — a paying invest-
ment ?
REV. JOHN WHEELER HARDING
This widely known and universally esteemed minister was born in
Waltham, Mass., October 12, 1821, was graduated from Yale College
in 1845, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1849. He was
ordained pastor of the Congregational church in Longmeadow, Mass.,
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January 1, 1850, and served it with rare fidelity and success for more than
forty years, interrupted only by a visit to Europe and the Orient in 1867.
His friends loved to call him the " Bishop of Longmeadow," and he well
earned the title ; but he was scarcely more prominent in caring for the
spiritual interests than he was in promoting all forms of material pros-
perity of that beautiful town, to no resident and no concern of which was
he indifferent. For much of the time he added to his pastoral work
valuable service as correspondent, book reviewer, and editorial writer on
the staff of the Springfield Republican, the high character and wide circu-
lation of which among intelligent readers gave him a large field for use-
fulness in a line for which he was peculiarly fitted.
Springing from genuine New England Pilgrim stock, Mr. Harding
was among the most earnest friends and supporters of all our Congrega-
tional missionary and benevolent enterprises. His family has long been
closely identified with both home and foreign missions. On the Executive
Committee of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society he wrought
effectively for many years, and very few if any took a deeper interest in the
National Society's work throughout the land. It was natural, therefore, that
on laying down his pastorate, in the ripeness of his years, he should choose
to devote his remaining strength to actual service in the home missionary
field, and conference with the officers of this Society led to his appoint-
ment to the pastorate of the Congregational church in Ormond, Florida.
To the care of this church and of the adjacent district, aided by his
family, he gave the working months of the years 1892, '93, '94, '95, and
to the 14th day of April, 1896. On that day by the instant summons of
his Lord he was called to the higher services of the upper sanctuary.
Not often is it given to a young, inconspicuous church, like that of
Ormond, to profit by the labor, the wisdom, and the spiritual strength
compacted by more than forty years' pastoral experience of a man like
Mr. Harding. His work was greatly blessed to the spiritual welfare of
its members, and in their homes he and his family will be lovingly cher-
ished in fragrant lifelong memory.
The editor of this magazine came to know " John Harding " in the
autumn of 1836, when both were boys fitting for college in Phillips
Andover Academy. That acquaintance speedily .ripened into a friend-
ship which, lasting unbroken and unchilled through sixty eventful years,
revealed in the boy, the youth, the mature man, and the veteran, these
and other sterling qualities : absolute sincerity and integrity ; a scholar's
love for learning ; unflinching devotion to Scriptural truth, combined with
generous tolerance of differing opinions ; thorough consecration ; deep
religious experience ; a genuine love of souls ; a changeless warmth of
affection that won to him the heart's love of all who knew him well, and
strongly attracted those who had with him only a passing acquaintance.
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He was one of those rare spirits whose Christian love, fidelity, and hearti-
ness contribute so largely to the brightness, the charm and joy of life,
and keep alive the assurance of the eternal fellowship of heaven. There
may we meet again !
J
FROM THE EASTERN COAST, FLORIDA
[The following is the latest — alas ! that it must also be the last — of the series of Mr.
Harding's reports of his work with the church in Ormond, Florida. It covers the quar-
ter ending March 31, 1896. Only a brief note came to us later, concerning a remittance.
That was dated April 7th, just a week before his sudden and lamented death. — Ed.]
This church has met the hard tim.es occasioned by the disastrous
freeze of last year remarkably well, showing no sign of weakness or dis-
couragement. The average attendance on Sunday worship and prayer-
meetings is larger. Peace and harmony prevail. The somewhat uncer-
tain experiment of uniting Christians of various denominations under
Congregational auspices and polity has proved thus far entirely success-
ful. Not the least tendency toward sectarian divisions is manifest.
The plan of having the annual church meeting a social occasion, and
inviting winter residents who attend the worship to break bread with us,
has become an established custom, very delightful and profitable in
magnifying the importance of the local church as a household of faith
and a working body of Christ. The benevolences of the church and
congregation have increased in amount and system, including the Chris-
tian Endeavor Society, which is vigorous and permanent throughout the
year.
So, indeed, are all the meetings, being never intermitted during the
summer vacation of the pastor, who keeps in constant touch with the
people. They would, however, be better served if a minister could be
procured who would stay all the year round. But in view of the diffi-
culties in the way of this they have voted to reelect the present pastor for
1896-97. — Rev. John W. Harding, Ormond, Fla.
THAT INDIAN ORPHANAGE
We are in great rejoicing because, through the blessing of God, the
quarter just ended has seen our plans reach fruition. One year ago
(April 1, 1895) we took this field, feeling honored of God to be called to
such a work. The plan outlined before coming hither was to reach the
Indians, not only by preaching, but by practical Christianity. We planned
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orphanage work for Indian children, but expected to reach that only after
some, perhaps long, waiting. About fifteen months have passed ; but
before the fifteenth month has gone, we have in the orphanage four girls
and two boys, ranging in age from one and a half to thirteen years, all of
them Arapahoes. Five of the six are with us during the vacation of the
Government school, and will return to school in September. The sixth
orphan is " Night Man," an Arapahoe baby, eighteen months old. We
rescued him from filth and almost starvation on Sunday, June 21st. I was
out in the afternoon, visiting the two camps of the Cheyennes and Arapa-
hoes, when I passed a tent outside of which sat a baby in filth and ver-
min, more beast-like than human in appearance. The Lord directed me
to see about the child, so I went back. He had on only a shirt, and was
lying over on his side. Thinking he was dying I raised him up. A talk
with the woman who was pretending to care for him revealed the fact
that he was without parents, and that I might have him if I wanted him.
I came home to consult with Mrs. Harper about the matter, and we went
back for the baby. We wrapped him in a gunny-sack and came thus to
the river. Here the sack and shirt were thrown away and water and
soap played their part. Then we brought him home. The scissors freed
him from his hair and other things, and now dirty little Night Man has
become clean, bright, interesting Charlie. By God's help we hope to
train him and all orphans whom God gives us to be Christians and loyal
citizens." — Rev. R. H. Harper, Darlington, Okla.
Many of the ladies have sent us things for our orphanage, but we still
need more. Do you know of more societies that could help us without
robbing the home missionary boxes? — Mrs. Harper.
HOME MISSIONARY GRIT
By Elizabeth H. Miller
A young preacher started from the East here and traveled to Nevada,
to a town which had sprung up in connection with the silver mines. When
he reached the end of his journey he was very ill with pneumonia, and was
carried, helpless, into what was postoffice and drugstore combined, and
laid out on the counter. " Tell me," he said to the postmaster, "the name
of the best Christian you have here." The man looked at him. " There
ain't any." There were 25,000 people living in the place. " No Chris-
tians ! Not a single one?" "No." "Do you mean to say," persisted
the stranger, " that there is no good man in this town ? " " Oh ! good
man? Oh, yes! Mr. King." He sent for Mr. King, and found him a
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good man indeed, who took him into his house and nursed him back to
health.
When he was on his feet again the young divinity student — Mr.
Emmons, as we may as well call him — started about the plans for doing
good which had brought him to the town. He first put up posters every-
where, announcing a Sunday-school service for the next Sunday after-
noon. Then when Sunday morning came, he went to the baseball
grounds, where a crowd was sure to be collected, to try what private
canvass would do. He buttonholed boy after boy, appealing to every
motive which he could dream would influence him, to come that afternoon
and help build up a Sunday-school. In his eagerness he collared one lad
and dragged him off for a tete-a-tete so roughly that he had to apologize,
and found some difficulty in making it plain that it was not with intent
to kill. When afternoon came, that boy was his sole attendant. All
during the week he made vigorous efforts after recruits ; he posted more
posters and held more interviews on the ballfield. On the next Sunday
afternoon — the same boy. On the Sunday afternoon following, the same
boy plus his little sister.
Then matters began to look up. Scholars multiplied and a preaching
service was held. Mr. Emmons was a small, slight man, boyish and pale,
and the big, broadfisted miners at length bethought themselves of a beau-
tiful joke to be played upon the parson. One of them offered to lend
him a horse to shorten distances in his large parish. It was a high-
mettled animal, only half-broken, and they expected to enjoy themselves
immensely over the discomfiture of the "tenderfoot," that being their
idea of entertainment. Now it so happened that Mr. Emmons could ride
well. He knew what their offer meant, and he knew also that if he
refused it he would lose caste in their eyes forever ; and so, relying on
his horsemanship and his light weight and his cool head, he decided to
make the trial. The time was fixed, the miners collected at the street
corners in expectant groups, and the horse was brought out. No sooner
was Mr. Emmons on its back than it sped off like the shot from a rifle ;
straight through the street it tore, then whisked around corners, past
circles of spectators, from whose eager gaze it speedily disappeared, with
the plucky little preacher sticking on its sides like a bur. Hatless,
breathless, splattered with mud from head to foot, he yet managed to get
back to town on top of his steed ; and the Sunday after was a field day
in the church. A ring of jockeys from all the neighboring country, men
who had not attended a religious service in years, collected to hear this
preacher who was after their own heart. And thenceforward he did not
have to complain of the numbers of his congregation ; the trouble lay
deeper — the men who came to hear him on Sunday would go out on
Monday and shoot one another. It is hard for us off here at home, who
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have been trained always in the nurture and admonition of the Lord, to
understand how anyone can listen to the blessed Gospel of Love on
Sunday and not begin early Monday morning to practice it during the
week, is it not ?
As the church increased, Mr. Emmons one day made an appeal to the
miners for thirty dollars for a Sunday-school library. They responded
speedily. A man was sent at once out into the streets to collect the money,
as would have been done in the case of a comrade crushed in the mines,
or in any way "down on his luck." He came back with a great pile of
notes of hand — their only currency — which he slapped down on the
preacher's desk, drawling out, —
" We don't want any of your snivelin' little Sunday-school libraries.
Count that ! " It was $150. Mr. Emmons remonstrated ; it was too
much. " Let a hundred of it go to the parson," somebody suggested.
But this he would not hear to. " Then we'll get him another hundred."
Which they forthwith proceeded to do, by levying again on the streets,
with the result that a $250 library was brought into that wild settlement,
rows and rows of books, Mr. Emmons said, such as would gladden the
eyes of many of our flourishing Eastern schools. — Weil-Spring.
LOST IN THE WOODS
By Mrs. Dora Reed Barber, Wilsonville, Oregon
During the winter of 1891, our first winter in Oregon, while we were
holding special meetings in a country district in the foothills of the Cas-
cade Mountains, we started out one Thursday to make a few calls. The
rain was falling as it can fall in Oregon ; but the missionary must not stop
for rain and like trifling hindrances, so we donned our gossamers and
went forth. As I was then only an amateur at climbing hills and
walking footlogs, one of the men who had been converted in the meeting
offered to loan his pony to me. It was one of those mixtures of balk and
kick-up that I have since learned to designate "cayeuse," and very much
like those that formed a considerable part of Buffalo Bill's " WTild West "
at Chicago last fall. I had never had any formal introduction to it, and
of course was unacquainted with its habits, but as horseback riding had
been my favorite pastime since I was a child I most gladly accepted his
kind offer.
We started away very suddenly, as that sort of a conveyance generally
does, and, anticipating a fine ride, I was inwardly condemning my selfish-
ness on leaving the partner of my joys and sorrows to plod along alone
on so lonesome a road, when, as I came to a crossroad, the animal sud-
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denly stopped, and I assumed a more forward position, there to wait
until the quadruped should take it into his stubborn head to proceed,
which, however, was not until we were overtaken and led part way up the
hill. I afterward learned that the road he wished to take was a short cut
toward his home, and that these animals think "there's no place like
home," a fact that we proved true before we got back that evening.
We made our calls and started early for home, for we knew it would
be dark soon on account of the rain, and, because it was nearer, we con-
cluded to take a trail which we had heard led straight across the woods ;
but we had not gone far before the woods became so dense as to make it
too dark on that rainy evening for us to follow our path, and we began to
fear lest we should lose it entirely and be led off in another direction
from that in which we wanted to go. Night settled down upon us, and
once I put out my hand to see if I could see it, but I could not. How
dark it was ! and I thought how terrible it would be to be lost forever in
the blackness of darkness.
We could hear the roar of water below us, but we did not know how
far it was to it nor how deep it was. We were not so much concerned
about that as we were to know if we should spend the rest of that rainy
night in those dark woods under the shelter of those gigantic fir trees.
As we proceeded, the roar of the waters became louder, and I could tell
by the incline of the pony's back that we were descending ; and when all
at once my husband, who had courageously assumed the position of
guide, ordered a halt and said he had slipped off the bank, I knew that he
had been descending too. We crossed the creek on a bridge, and when
the pony refused to go and had to be led across I thought it was another
of his contrary spells, and never imagined that he knew of the danger
better than we. After wandering about in the woods for a while it
occurred to me that a pony brought up in that country ought to know the
way out of the woods better than a preacher raised in Michigan, so I
assured my husband that if he would let. us go ahead, I would give him
the rein, and we should soon be out of the forest. To this he consented,
and we both wondered why we had not thought of it before.
We had gone but a short distance when we came to a standstill, and
what was my surprise to find that the unfaithful beast had left the path
and wedged himself in between two trees. My plan had not proved the
success that I had anticipated, and I said meekly to my " partner in dis-
tress," "Will you please pull us out from between these trees?" which
request he granted without even saying, "I told you so." I thought
about panthers and bears, but I knew that one from a land of plenty like
Oregon would never be hungry enough to tackle our pony, and if it came
to the worst, we would both be safe on its back ; but we were getting wet,
and it was lonesome in the woods, so we again started with no less
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determination to find our way out. The old maxim that the darkest hour
is just before day we found true in our experience this time, for when we
were about to give ourselves up as lost we came out into an open space
from which we could see a light away up the hill.
On inquiring we found we were almost in sight of the schoolhouse
where we were to hold the meeting that night. We went directly there
and found them engaged in a prayer- meeting, having given up our com-
ing. We had a good prayer-meeting, a good revival followed, a Congre-
gational church was organized, and now, on Thursday nights, a church
bell rings out through those very woods, and following the sound of it,
wanderers may not only find their direction in the storms of this life, but the
gospel of the old church bell would guide them into a haven of eternal rest.
And yet how many a poor soul is spiritually " lost in sight of home " !
When we told our story the people said we were surely brought on our
way by Him to whom the darkness is as the light, for the road was con-
sidered an unsafe one to travel on horseback by daylight. The next
summer I retraced our steps from curiosity to see the place of our
encounter, and found a narrow footpath cut into the side of a steep bank
by which we made our way that dark night down into the depths of the
canon and up the hill again.
The bridge of which the pony seemed so afraid was made by felling
trees across the creek so as to serve for a footing. It was a lovely spot,
although so wild, as I looked upon it that summer afternoon. The rocks
on the bank were covered with moss, soft and beautiful. The green grass
was sprinkled with flowers to the water's edge ; the birds hopped and
twittered among the hazel bushes, and the squirrels chattered in the firs
above. The water, leaping from crag to crag in the stream below,
laughed a far merrier laugh in the sunlight of that summer afternoon
than it did on that dark night when we were lost in the woods.
THE DANGEROUS NATIVE CLASSES
By Rev. William G. Puddefoot
[People who have not read Field Secretary Puddefoot's thrilling home missionary
book, " The Minute-Man on the Frontier," and who relished the extract given in The
Home Missionary for November, 1S94, will be glad to find here another chapter from the
volume, and if the perusal shall lead them to secure the work, they and their households
will read it more than once, with profit to themselves and to the cause of Home Missions.
— Published by T. Y. Crowell & Co., New York and Boston. — Ed.]
We hear much about the dangerous foreigners that come to us, but
little about the dangerous native. There is nut a type, whether of pov-
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erty or ignorance, but what we can match it. Leaving out the negro,
we have over ninety per cent. Anglo-Saxon in the South. Here we
find a strange lot of paradoxes, — the most American, the most igno-
rant, the most religious, the most superstitious, and the most lawless.
Take the lowest class of Crackers, and we have the whole of the above
combined, with millions of mountain whites to match. Yet in this same
South land are the most gentlemanly, and the most lady-like, and the
most hospitable people in the country. The Cracker classes are
descendants of the English, but what kind of English ? The offscour-
ing of prison and dockyards, sent over to work on the plantations
before slave labor was introduced.
The mountain whites are the descendants of the Scotch-Irish. As
many people seem to think this means a Scotch parent on one side and
an Irish upon the other, it may be well to state that the Scotch-Irish are
the descendants of Scotch people who immigrated to Ireland. But it
ought not to be forgotten that the mountain whites are the descendants
of Scotch-Irish of two centuries ago, a very different people from
the Scotch-Irish of to-day. Here in the mountains we find some three
millions, often without schools, and waiting sometimes for years for a
funeral sermon after the person has been buried. Towns can be found
over seventy years old, organized with a courthouse and no church.
" Yes," they say, " the Methodists started one some years ago; but
the Baptists threw the timber into the Cumberland, and sence then we
ain't had no church."
Here one of our minute-men had two horses shot under him, and
another missionary was nearly killed.
Here you may find families of twenty and more, living in a wretchedly
constructed house, on bacon and corn-meal, hoe-cakes, and dodgers.
I started once to stay over night in one of these houses. As we came
near to the place, I found that my host was a school-teacher. He had
taught twenty-two schools. He meant by this that he had taught
that many years. The kitchen was as black as smoke could make it;
the butter was stringy, caused by the cows eating cotton-seed; and my
seat a plank worn smooth by use, with legs which stuck up through it,
which would have been better had they been worn more. I suppose in
some way I involuntarily showed my feelings; for the woman noticed it,
and said, " Yer oughter put up with one night what we uns have ter all
the time."
I said, " That's the trouble; I could when I got used to it."
The room I slept in had a hole in the end that you could drive a span
of horses through. It had been left for a chimney. As I found out that
the day before a rattlesnake had come into the house, and the good
woman had to defend herself with the fire-poker, I did not sleep so well
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as I might. The possibility of a rattler in the dark, and no poker
handy, filled me with uneasy thoughts; but as people get up with the
sun, the time passed, and I was glad to get back to civilized life.
I noticed that the cotton was ridged up with concave rows of earth,
which was covered with rank weeds. This was done to keep the water
from running off too quickly. I asked whether sage would not hold the
ridges as good as weeds. " Oh, yes! " they said, and it brought a dol-
lar a pound; but they had never thought of that.
Some of the States do not have seventy school-days in the year;
and the whole South to-day has not as many public libraries as the State
of Massachusetts. A man needs perfect health to enjoy some of the
pastoral work which he must do if he intends making a success among
the mountain whites. One thing should never be forgotten. The poor
whites of the mountains Were loyal to the Union, and out from this type
came the greatest American we have had, Abraham Lincoln.
Here, then, is plenty of material to work on, — families big enough to
start a small church, and who do not send to England for pug-dogs for
lack of progeny. Here are the rich fields, and here must the race be lifted
before the millions of blacks can have a chance. Education must be
pushed; and then will come a period of skepticism, for this people are
fifty years behind the times.
Several people were sitting on a large veranda; and one man, a
preacher lately from Texas, was telling us of his visit. Among other
things he spoke of the cyclone-pits, and said, " Seems to me, brother,
a man can't have much faith in God who would go into a pit. I would
not ; would you ? "
" No," replied mine host. " Men seem to me to be losing faith. I
once raised a woman up by prayer that three doctors had given up.
Aunt Sally, have ye any of that liver invigorator ? I kind of feel as if
I needed some."
Here was a man who had prayed a woman out of the jaws of death,
calling for liver medicine. None of them seemed to see the incongruity
of it. One good old deacon that I knew horrified his pastor, who was a
strong temperance man, by furnishing the communion with rye whiskey.
The old man meant all right; but he had neglected to replenish the
wine, and thought something of a spirituous nature was needed, and so
brought the whiskey.
It is a fact worth noting, that we have to-day, in the year 1895,
millions of men living in conditions as primitive as those of the eight-
eenth century, while in the same land we are building houses which are
lighted and heated with electricity; that some men worship in houses
built of logs, without glass windows, and others worship in buildings
that cost millions; that in the former case men have lived in this way
November, 1896 The Home Missionary 371
for over two hundred years, and the latter less than fifty since the
Indian's tepee was the only dwelling in sight; that to-day may be seen
the prairie schooner drawn by horses, oxen, or mules, and in one case
a horse, a cow, and a mule, the little shanty on wheels, the man sitting
in the doorway driving, and his wife cooking the dinner. But so it is.
We have all the varieties of habitation, from the dugout of the prairie
to the half-million summer cottage at Bar Harbor; and from a single
Indian pony, we have all kinds of locomotion, up to the vestibuled
palace on wheels.
That I may not seem to be overstating the condition of the moun-
tain whites, and the dangers among our own people, I close with a quo-
tation from Dr. Smart's Saratoga address:
" Let me tell you of just one experiment of letting a people alone,
and its result. Shall we trust that American institutions and American
ideas, that the press and schools, will ultimately Americanize them ?
In the eastern part of Kentucky, in the western part of North Carolina
and West Virginia, there is a section of country about the size of New
Hampshire and New York, — one of the darkest spots on the map of the
South. The people living there have been there for over a hundred
years, and are of Scotch-Irish extraction. Whole counties can be
found in which there is not a single wagon-road. Most of the houses
are of one story, without a window, or only. a small one; and the door
has to be kept open to let in the light. I have it from good authority
that when the first schoolmistress went there to teach, she stipulated
that she should have a room with a window in it, and a lock to the door.
Very few of the people can read or write. They have no newspapers,
no modern appliances for agriculture, no connection with the world out-
side and around them. This is the land of the 'moonshiner.' They
love whiskey, and so they manufacture it. The pistol and bowie-knife
are judge and sheriff. Bloodshed is common, and barbarism a normal
state of society. These men were not slaveholders in the times before
the war. They- were as loyal to the Union as any others who fought
for the old flag, and they served in the Union army when they got a
chance. Now, why are they sunk so low ? Simply because they have been
let alone, and American institutions, American schools, and the American
press, have flowed around them and beyond them without effect."
*
HOME MISSIONARY RALLY DAY
[When this number of the magazine reaches our readers the Army Rally Day will be
near at hand. But if there be schools that have not used, and desire to use, Rally Ex-
ercise Number Four, prepared by this Society, it will not be too. late to send for and
receive it.
The following note is being mailed to the superintendents of our Sunday-schools,
trusting that they will cheerfully comply with its request for a collection from the Army
Boys and Girls, on November 22d. so generous as to make glad the heart of their gallant
General and meet the approval of the great Captain of their Salvation. — Ed.]
372 The Home Missionary November, 1896
To the Superintendent.
Dear Friend : — The young soldiers of the Boys' and Girls' Home Mis-
sionary Army, under command of Major-General O. O. Howard, are scat-
tered among many Sunday-schools in all parts of the land.
It may be that some of them are found in your own school. We
hope so.
The usual Rally Sunday observed by the Army is that preceding the
national Thanksgiving, namely, November 22, 1896. Will you kindly call
attention to this fact and commend our great cause to your Sunday-school
for a special contribution on that date, and have the same sent to the
State or the National Society ?
We have prepared no special Rally Exercise this year, but expect by
another year to make an extra effort to maintain and revive interest in the
Boys' and Girls' Home Missionary Army.
PLEASE DO NOT FORGET RALLY DAY, NOVEMBER 22.
So the children shall be trained up to take the places of the fathers
and mothers, and the race of those that love their country and sacrifice
for its good shall not die out.
Officers of the Congregational Home Missionary Society.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DEBT LEGACIES TOTAL
April Si 1.428.79 $5,093.08 $2,687.84 $19,209.71
May 5,866.47 3,834.45 .6,180.76 15,881.68
Tune 8,713.88 3,506.6] 2,502.22 14,722.71
July 14.350.84 2,121.00 9,772.20 26.244.04
A.ugus1 3,460.00 487-56 2,167.21 6,114.77
September.... 9,148.64 610.00 5-775-99 !5,534-°3
Six months of the current financial year have passed, and have
brought into the treasury the sums reported above. In fraternal frank-
ness we call the attention of our friends to the fact that these receipts are
smaller by $75,000 than were those of the first half of last year.
All can foresee what must come if a like falling off should mark the
year's second half. "That is unlikely," you say; "the coming months
being those of largest collections, and the whole land counting on better
times close at hand." Unlikely ; but say not it is impossible. It is not
only possible but certain unless you, reader, and other willing givers,
shall so enlarge your offerings and induce others to do the same, as to
make up the deficiency here reported. You can change the whole
November, 1896 The Home Missionary 373
aspect by doing both of these things, not resting satisfied until not only
your personal offering, but those of your family, kindred, church, school,
benevolent circle, largely exceed those of last year.
You need no reminder of the motives permanently binding every
Christian patriot to support at his best, and especially just now, a Society
whose one object is the promotion of our country's temporal and spiritual
welfare. Has any duty, beyond the care of one's own household, claims
upon us so just, so strong, so affecting, enforced by so many tender
memories — of the sacrifices and prayers of our godly fathers, the suffer-
ings of those who nourished our country's youth, the Divine interpositions
in her times of deadly peril, the price at which our civil and religious
privileges were bought and preserved, and, above all, of our Redeemer's
precious blood, shed that in his name we may freely offer eternal salva-
tion to all our people ?
We love and hono: our self-sacrificing brethren and their families
working at the front in our stead. They confidently look to us to sustain
them by our loving sympathy, our gifts and prayers. Winter is just upon
them — doubly trying this year because of their pinched living for these
recent winters in which they have shared the hardships of their people.
Not a few of them have received little or nothing beyond the Society's
appropriation, intended only to supplement the pledges on the field,
— pledges which it proved impossible to fulfil. They must not be
brought into still narrower straits nor be kept longer as they are.
We honor and love, also, our Divine Lord, nor can we ever forget
his word: "Inasmuch as ye did it "—or "did it not" — "unto one of
these my brethren, ye did it " — or " did it not " — " unto me."
*
THE GENERAL O. O. HOWARD ROLL OF HONOR
Previously acknowledged, 912 ; subscriptions added below, 8 ; total number of
shares, 920.
In memory of Mrs. W. H. Thrall, Huron, So. Dak.
Bible Class of Phillips Academy in Seminary Church, Ando-
ver, Mass.
Mrs. A. M. D. Alexander, Northfield, Mass.
H. D. Smith, Plantsville, Conn.
Mrs. Mary L. Lyon, Northfield, Minn.
Plymouth Church, Syracuse, N. Y.
Mrs. Hannah R. Worrell, Centerville Church, Barnstable, Mass.
Friend B., Fairfield, Conn.
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APPOINTMENTS IN SEPTEMBER, 1896
Not in commission last year
Ayers, Alfred W., Omaha, Neb.
Foust, Joseph D., Hanceville, Ala.
Gibson, John, Washburn, Wis.
Hand, Leroy S., Omaha, Neb.
Hendrick, Harmon E., Sheridan, Wyo.
Hewlett, B. F., San Jacinto. Cal.
Hood, E. Lyman, Lorin, Cal.
Martin, George, Mecca, Ohio.
Princell, John G., Minneapolis, Minn.
Rice, Guy Herbert, Red Cliff. Colo.
Richmond. George Wynne, Louisville and Mount
Union, Kan.
Roberts, Clarence E., Valencia, Kan.
Trover, Winfield D., Pettisville and Ridg:ville
Corners, Ohio.
White, Levi, Fairmount, Ind.
Re-commissioned
Andrewson, Andrew I., Maple Valley, Wis
Andrewson, Severt M., Cooperstown, No. Dak.
Arnold, William A., Toledo, Cowlitz Bend, and
Knab, Wash.
Baker, George, Washougal and Mount Pleasant,
Wash.
Bickn°ll. Dennis H., Kirkland, Wash.
Buck, Eugene L., Cortez, Colo.
Bushell, Richard, Marysville and Edison, Wash.
Champlin. Oliver P., Oberon, No. Dak.
Chevis, Ernest C. Lake Park and Audubon, Minn.
Choate. Charles Wesley, Dayton, Ohio.
Clark, Victor F.. Holdredge, Neb.
Coate, Robert M., Canton, So. Dak.
Compton, Herbert E., Cathay, Sykeston, and Fes-
senden, No. Dak.
Crater, George W. , Carthage, Redstone, and Es-
mond, So. Dak.
Dantord, James W.. Brownton and Stewart,
Minn.
Davies, Thomas V., Salina, Kan.
Davies, William, Spokane, Wash.
Davisson, Augustus, Monterey, Penn.
De Groff, Charles F., Letcher, Firesteel, and Lis-
bon, So. Dak.
Dreisbach, Charles H., Lebanon Springs and
Logan, So. Dak.
Evans, William L., Plymouth, Penn.
Faulkner, Wellington J., Bellevue and Highland.
Wash.
Fisk, Pliny B., Ree Heights. Spring Hills, Green-
leaf, and Midland, So. Dak.
Foster. Richard B., Okarche, Okla.
Francis, David R., Trinidad, Colo.
Funk. George N., Jennings, La.
Galloway. Emil R., San Francisco, Cal.
Gilmore. William C. Valley Springs, So. Dak.
Haines. Oliver S.. Sprague, Wash.
Hansen. C. J., General Missionary among Scandi-
navians, So. Dak.
Harris. Henry, Crested Butte, Colo.
Hassell. Richard B.. North Yakima and Natchez,
Wash.
Hobart, Miss Ella, Cleveland. Ohio.
Hodgeman, Lewis P.. Johnsonville. Ohio.
Holway. Thomas. Maplewood, St. Louis. Mo.
Huntley. Sanford F., Wessington Springs and
Anina. So. Dak.
Iorns. Benjamin, Belle Fourche, So. Dak.
Jefferies, John, Norfolk, Neb.
Jensen. Charles J., Wausaw, Easton, and Rock-
well, Wis.
Johnson, Augustus R . Kalama, Wash.
Kellogg. Fred. Brigham. Pelhamville. N. Y.
Kirkpatrick. John E., Seabrock and Sunnyside,
Kan.
Lee. George, Dundee, Ala.
Luck, Charles W., Ogden, Utah.
Lyman. Mrs. Henrietta C Ft. Pierre, So. Dak.
Lyons, Eli C. Appleton. Minn.
Martin. John L.. Kensal. Courtnay, and Wimble-
don. No. Dak.
Mercer. Henry W.. Long Beach, Wash.
Northrop, George E.. Belleview, Minn.
Parker, Fred. W . Pendleton, Ore.
Parsons. Julius. Cumberland. Wis.
Pease, Frank W.. Ravenna, Neb.
Pettigrew, Mrs Nina D., Lusk. WTyo.
Philbrook. Charles E., Scappoose, Ore.
Phillips. Charles H., Jamestown and Eldridge.
No. Dak
Phillips. William O.. Demorest. Ga.
Reese, Thomas P.. Canova. So. Dak.
Sheldon. Charles F.. General Missionary in La.
Snyder, Charles W . Newkirk. Okla.
Spaulding, Wayland, Bedford Park, N. Y.
Swartout, Edgar P., Gann Valley, Duncan, and
Pleasant Valley. So. Dak.
Taylor, Horace J., Fidalgo City and Rosario,
Wash.
Tillberg. John M.. Lincoln, Neb.
Trandt, Adam. Globeville, Colo.
Turner, Leonard A.. Kilpatrick, Neb.
Walters, T. W.. General Missionary in Wash.
Wiggins. Aaron W., New Cambria. Mo.
Wright, Reuben B., Boise, Idaho.
RECEIPTS IN SEPTEMBER, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 379 to 381
MAINE-$5.8o.
Auburn, Sixth Street Ch., by Mrs. L.
J. Thomas $5
NEW HAMPSHIRE
which legacy, $150.
$575.44 : of
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of
N. H., Miss A. A. McFar-
land, Treas. :
Concord, A Friend, First... $100 00
Exeter, Mrs. C. K. Bell.
Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor $100 00
$200 00
Francestown. M. C. Willard, for the
debt 10000
Hinsdale, by Mrs. M. L. Stearns 2 03
Milford, First, by A. C. Crosby 70 00
Orford, Primary class in S. S.. "The
Little Men and Women." Rally, by
Mrs. A. W . Newcomb 2 00
Penacook. Estate of Rev. A. W. Fiske,
by Miss M. A. Fiske 150 00
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Portsmouth, Susan Bosthwick $1 00
Rochester, by H. M. Plumer 33 81
Wilton, Second, by C. Wilson 16 60
VERMONT-$i28.67.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
W. P. Fairbanks, Treas. :
Middlebury, L. D. M. S $20 00
St. Albans 10 00
— ■ 30 00
Barre, by W. F. Moore 15 47
Hartford, Church 15 00
Newfane, Lulu Newton, add'l, Boys'
and Girls' Army, by Miss A. Fish. . 50
St. Johnsbury, North Ch., by W. C.
Tyler, Treas. :
Vt. Dom. Miss. Society 67 70
MASSACHUSETTS — $1,302.60; of
which legacy, $50.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treas.:
By request of donors, of which $200
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor ;
Special, $30 279 56
Woman's H. M. A., Miss A. C.
Bridgman. Treas. :
For Salary Fund 165 72
Belchertown, First, by C. B. South-
ick 39 19
Beverly, Dane Street, by H. R. White 229 41
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary Fund 50 00
Fitchburg, Miss J. M. Gould, from
Dime Bank, $5 ; Mite boxes, $6 n 00
Greenfield, Mrs. M. K. Tyler 15 00
Holyoke, First, by J. H. Wylie, Jr. . . 31 42
Monson, by E. F. Morris 15 13
Newton Center, Extra-Cent-a-Day
Band of the First Ch 25 00
North Amherst, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss
E. C. Crocker 13 00
Northampton, A. L. Williston 300 00
Pawtucketville, L. A. Morrill. 1 00
Petersham, Estate of Susan-
nah Goddard $6,289 °5
Phillipston, Mrs. M. P. Estey 5 00
Salem, Primary Dept. of the Tab. S.
S , by A. K. Woodbury 1500
Sheffield, by Dr. A. T. Wakefield 7 17
Stoneham, Estate of Mrs. Abigail
Hayes, by W. Hayes and O.H. Wil-
marth, Exs so 00
Webster, First, by E. L. Spalding 50 00
RHODE ISLAND— $1,400.00 legacy.
Little Compton, R. I., Estate of Mrs.
A. Pierce
CONNECTICUT— $4,157.36; of which
legacies, $1,780.
Miss. Soc. of Conn.. W. W. Jacobs,
Treas., by Rev. W. H. Moore, Sec.
Woman's H M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas. :
Bethel, Mite-box offering,
Ladies in the Ch., for Sal-
lary Fund $13 51
Brooklyn, for Salary Fund . 7 00
Suffield. Mrs. L. H. Hall,
for Salary Fund 2500
Berlin, S. S. of the Second, by F. L.
Wilcox $25 co
Bethlehem, by C. L. Ayer 40 00
Bristol, Estate of Andrew Ingraham. 700 00
Estate of Andrew Ingraham, by W.
A. Ingraham, Ex 80 co
Greenwich, Stillson Benev. Soc in the
Second, by K. M. Mead, to const.
Mrs. C. E. Chapin. Mrs. W. H. Her-
rick. Mrs. E. Reynolds, Mrs. H. Bar-
ton, Mrs. E. Bird, and Mrs. M. O.
West L. Ms 485 00
Hartford, " C. E. H." 1,000 00
Ledyard, by G. Fanning 6 60
Mt. Carmel, by L. A. Dickerman 29 46
New Haven, Edmund Pendleton 5 00
Norfolk, Estate of Mary L. Porter. . . 1.000 00
Norwalk, First, by E. L. Boyer 65 06
Plantsville, H. D. Smith, Gen. How-
ard Roll of Honor 100 00
Roxbury, by E. W. Preston . . 13 48
South Britain, by M. C. Bradley 16 00
Storrs, G. F. King 1 00
Thomaston, First, by H. A. Welton. . 7 00
Thompsonville, Dennis Pease 500 00
Whitneyville, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss
M. S. Dickerman 4 00
Woodstock, First, by H. T. Child. . . . 14 00
NEW YORK— $1,060.96 ; of which leg-
acy, $150.00.
Received by William Spalding.
Treas. :
Busti $3 00
Lincklaen 10 47
Newburgh 2416
Roscoe 3 25
Rev. W. J. Carter 5 00
Rutland 4 50
Syracuse. Plymouth 5 00
Good Will 145
56 83
Bedford Park, by W. R. Post 431
Brooklyn, Central Ch., by O. P. Ed-
gerton 478 01
South Ch., by E. D. Ford 100 00
Miss. Soc. of the Atlantic Avenue
Chapel Sunday-school, by C. Ken-
yon, Jr 1000
H. L. Mersereau, special for the
debt 10 00
Buffalo, First, by R. K. Strickland . . . ico 00
Dunton, First, by J. W. Currier 5 00
Mohonk Lake, Mrs. C. B. Tompkins,
by C. C. Tompkins 50 00
Morrisville, Estate of Margaret G. De
Forest, by C. A. Fuller, Ex 150 00
New York City, Manhattan Ch., by
D. B. Holmes 72 66
W.C. C 2 00
Orient, by M. B. Brown 2215
NEW JERSEY— $105.35.
Dover, Swedish, by Rev. L. Akeson..
East Orange, K
PENNSYLVANIA-$45.85.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. T.
W. Jones, Treas.:
Braddock $4 50
Cambridgeboro 10 00
Coaldale 11 10
Monterey, Hawley Memorial Ch., by
Rev. A. Davisson
Potterville, by Dea. E. B. Powell
25 60
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MARYLAND -$6.oo.
Frostburg, by Rev. G. W. Moore.
$6 oo
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA $3066,
legacy.
Washington, Estate of William Webb,
by J. M . Vale 30 66
VIRGINIA— $3/25.
Herndon, by E. L. Robey 3 25
GEORGIA -$5.50.
Dawscnville, by Rev. E. Darnell 75
Demorest, by Rev. W. O. Phillips 4 75
ALABAMA $13.50.
Central, Balm of Gilead.and Kidd.by
Rev. A. J. McCain
Clanton, Mountain Spring, and South
Calera, by Rev. J. L. Busbv
Gate City, by Rev. T. B. Haynie
Tallassee, Central, Kent, and Ver-
bena, by Rev. A. C. Wells
ARKANSAS— $1.65.
Gentry, by Rev. E. H. Price
2 00
2 50
1 65
FLORIDA— $1,168.21.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. D.
Brown. Treas.:
From Feb. n to Sept 1,1896:
Belleview, Y. P. S. C. E.. $6 00
Conant, Miss O. I. Wor-
cester 5 00
Daytona 15 00
Interlachen, Y. P. S. C. E. 5 00
Jacksonville 2400
Melbourne, Mrs. J. H.
Phillips 5 00
Orange City. Rirthday Of-
fering 1 00
Ormond 6 50
Sanford 3 50
Tampa 29 00
Jr. Y. P. S. C.E 500
Tuition Mission School. 3 55
Tavares 6 50
Thonotosassa.Y.P. S.C..E. 302
West Palm Beach 7 50
Winter Park 9 41
Y. P. S. C. E 5 59
Coll. at An. Meeting... 3 33
Jewett City, Conn., Mrs.
Brewster 1 00
Charlestown, S. C, Mrs.
King 1 00
M5 9°
Fernandina, A Friend 1,000 00
Key West, Extra Cent-a- Day Band of
the First, by Rev. C. W. Frazer ... 15 31
Ormond. Sen. Y. P. S. C. E.. $2. 25:
Jr. C. E., $2.75. by E. D. Mills 5 00
Tavares, by Rev. L. J. Donaldson... 2 00
INDIAN TERRITORY-75 cents.
McAlester, Trinity Second, by Rev.
T. E. Holleyman
OKLAHOMA-$6.35.
Auburn and Whitehouse, by Rev. A.
Connet
West Guthrie, by Rev. A. M. Lennox
OHIO— $336 19.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. :
Berea. Rev. S. B. Reard,
special $2 50
Chester, by J. M. Johnston. 9 50
Cuyahoga Falls, by Rev. H.
Stauff er 2 05
Freedom, by F. M. Heyd.. 4 05
Lenox, Y. P. S. C. E.. by
Rev. F. W. Link 5 00
Twinsburg, by O. O. Kel-
sey 12 04
Received in August, by Rev. J. G.
Fraser, D.D., Treas. Bohemian
Board, Cleveland:
Cleveland, Pilgrim, by H.
C. Holt $90 00
September:
Cleveland, Plymouth, by S.
H. Stillson 15 °5
&105 05
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
G. B. Brown, Treas. :
Akron. First $17°°
West 2 00
Ashtabula, Second 2 00
Austinburg, Y. P. S. C. 12.,
for Salary Fund 3 00
Chillicothe, L. A. S 1 00
Cincinnati, Walnut Hills.
Jr. C. E., for Salary
Fund 5 00
Columbia, Bible Read-
ers School and Home 2 00
Cleveland. Trinity, L. A.
S, Bible Readers School
and Home 5 00
Conneaut, for Salary Fund 400
Elyria 12 00
Fredericksburg, Bible
Readers School and
Home 3 00
Huntsburg, K. E. S., Bi-
ble Readers School and
Home 11 48
Jefferson, for Salary Fund 500
Lodi. Bible Readers
School and Home 2 00
Lorain 3 00
Mansfield, First, Bible
Readers School and
Home 10 00
Marietta, Oak Grove, M.
B.. Bible Readers
School and Home 2 00
New London. Bible Read-
ers School and Home . . 1 04
Plain 5 00
Rootstown, Bible Readers
School and Home.... 14 41
Y. P. S. C. E., for Sal-
ary Fund 2 00
Ruggles, L. S.. Bible
Readers School and
Home 2 00
St. Mary 3 00
Wauseon, S. S., for Salary
Fund 7 98
York 3 00
I* 35
4 00
$127 91
232 96
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Chagrin Falls, by M. F. Brewster . . .
Conneaut, S. S., by Mrs. T. S. Norton
Ellsworth. Mrs. B. W. Allen
Garrettsville, Mrs. C. Williams, by
H. N. Merwin
Lyme, by M. Wood
Thomastown, Jr. C. E., by J. Hughes
MICHIGAN-$5.oo.
Vermontville, Orlin P. Fay.
i>i7 33
IO oo
IO oo
23 85
5 31
ILLIXOIS-S'92.00; of which legacy,
$182.00
Buda, Estate of J. F. Hyde, by Rev.
A. N. Hitchcock 182 00
Morrison, R. Wallace 5 00
Rockford, Mrs. Caleb Simons, Silver
Circle of the First, by Miss M. E.
Crosby 5 00
MlSSOURI-$324.i5.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. K. L.
Mills, Treas. :
Aurora, Jr. C. E. Soc $2 50
Brookfield 15 00
St. Louis, Pilgrim 200 00
First, to const. Mrs. J. I.
Swan a L. M 58 co
Union 10 00
Springfield 2 40
Webster Groves 25 57
$313 47
Less Expenses. 14 92
298 55
Hannibal, Pilgrim, by Rev. J. Thom-
son 5 10
St. Louis, First Swedish, by Rev. A.
G. Johnson 2 50
Tabernacle Ch., by Rev. W. Johnson 12 00
Thayer, First, by Rev. J. Chew 6 00
1 00
1 00
WISCONSIN-$2.oo.
Clear Lake, Scand., by Rev. J. Petter-
son
Clintonville, Scand., by Rev. H. F.
Josephson
IOWA— $36.33 ; of which legacy, $33.33.
Grinnell, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. R.
Potter 3 00
Iowa Falls, Estate of Alfred Woods,
by E. Nuckolls, Ex 33 33
MINNESOTA— $818.63.
Received by Rev. J. H. Morley :
Alexandria $22*5
Custer 4 Q2
Garvin 3 00
Glencoe 10 00
Lamberton 76
Lake City 35 92
Minneapolis, Plymouth 76 04
Northfield 62 88
Rose Creek 3 04
St. Anthony Park. St. Paul. 16 95
Tintah 3 08
Woman's H. M. Union,
Minn., Mrs. M. W. Skin-
ner, Treas. :
Austin $9 35
Belgrade 1 50
Brownton 1 75
Custer 5 00
Duluth, Morley 2 00
Dawson... 500
Excelsior 7 00
Faribault 49 45
Freeborn 15 00
Fairmont .. . 12 46
Groveland 65
Grand Meadow 75
Hopkins 1 00
Hawley 7 ;g
Hamilton 3 05
Hutchinson 5 00
Lake Stay 1 00
Lyle 1 50
Lake City 16 52
Madison 6 40
Morris 4 00
Mazeppa 21 00
Morristown 1 25
Mapleton 535
Mankato, $3 ; Jr. C. E.,
75 cents 3 75
Minneapolis, Lora Hollis-
ter 5 00
Plymouth 34 62
First, $26.81 ; Young
Ladies, $5.25 32 06
Pilgrim, C. E 1 51
Fremont Avenue, $7 :
C. E., $2 9 00
Como Avenue and Jr.
C. E 15 00
Lowry Hill 15 00
Northfield 75 00
New Ulm 10 00
New Paynesville 4 00
Plainview 4 30
Princeton 10 00
Robbinsdale, C. E 1 95
Stewartville 2 26
St. Claire 50
Silver Lake, Bohemian ... 4 43
Stewart 50
Saratoga 1 00
Springfield 3 00
Sauk Center 2 00
St. Paul, Bethany 3 35
Plymouth 3 25
St. Louis, Park 1 25
St. Charles 1 06
Spring Valley 2 60
Taopi 205
Wadena 4 10
Worthington 29 54
West Dora 2 50
West Union ... 9 00
Waseca, $4.40 ; Jr. C. E.,
$2.50 6 90
Less Expenses.
723 39
35 00
$688 39
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. M. W.
Skinner, Treas.:
To place the name of Mrs. Mary L.
Lyon on Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Anoka, by H. E. Bretters 15 38
Edgerton, by Rev. R. S. Osgood 3 50
Glyndon, Ch. and S. S., by C. E.
Tracy 7 86
Grand Meadow, by Mrs. H. M. Mulle-
nix 1 50
Minneapolis, Rodelmer 2 00
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KANSAS #162.05.
Receive 1 by A. C. Hogbin, Treas.:
Great Bend. S. S > 1 ;
Hill City 2 00
Mound City i
Mount Hope 5 00
Overbrook 715
Plevna 341
Ridgeway 225
' $3 ' ' 4
Woman's H. M Union, Mrs. E. C.
Read. Treas. :
Blue Rapids $ 11 40
Clay Center 4 50
Dover 4 00
Emporia 25 00
C. S. Plumb's Dime Bank 5 00
Garnett 10 00
Herndon. C. E 3 00
Highland 2 ~,c
Lawrence. Plymouth 5 50
Maple Hill . . .* 10 00
McCune, Miss N. Bray-
man's Dime Bank 5 00
Osawatomie, Jr. C. E 50
Ridgeway Missionary 2 00
Scatter Creek 1 12
Smith Center 200
Topeka. First 15 60
Valencia 1 00
Wellsville 5 00
White City. Rev. E. Rich
ard s Dime Bank 5 00
Wabaunsee. Rev. E. Rich-
ard's Dime Bank 5 00
$123 12
Less expenses 2 46
120 66
Carbondale, by Rev. J W. Hardy 5 o=
Str rjng City. A. Breck
Valeda. T. Gray 125
Buchanan, 50 cts.; Edmunds. 85 cts.:
Melville, 79 cts., by Rev. W. H.
Gimblett $223
Buxton, Estate of James P. Gould, by
A. Sargeant. Ex 2,000 00
Hillsbnro. by P.ev. N. P. McQuarrie.. 2 30
Wimbledon, $1.20 ; New Rockford,
$2.50; Fessenden, §2.20, by Rev.
W. H. Gimblett 5 90
SOUTH DAKOTA-$i43.42.
M.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. F.
Wilcox, Treas. :
Badger Lake $3 60
Chamberlain.
Firesteel
Lake Preston.
Oahe
Sioux Falls. . .
Yankton
A Friend . . .
4 00
1 45
5 00
1 00
10 00
3 00
4 00
Alcester, $11.50; Vankton. $90. by
Rev. W. H. Thrall
Keystone, by Rev. J A. Becker
Lebanon Springs and Logan, by Rev.
C. H. Dreisbach
Plankinton. S. S., by C. R. Bruce. . . .
Rosebud, Woman's Soc, §i ; Young
Men's Soc. Si, by Rev. W. H.
Thrall
Winfred. by Rev. D. R. Toinlin
COLOR ADO -$14.97.
Denver. Glenarm Soc. of C. E. of the
First Ch., in memory of Rev. C. M.
Sanders, by M. R. Morrison
Otis, Birthday Box, by Rev. G. Dun-
gan
Red Cliff, by Rev. G. H. Rice
101 50
2 25
1 97
3 00
NEBRASKA S55.92.
Avoca ami Berlin, by Rev J. A.
Smith
Cowles and Pleasant Ridge, by Rev.
S. Deakin
Dodge and Howells, by Rev. A. Earn
worth
Grant, Madrid, and Venango, bj Rev.
G. W. Knapo
Linwood. by Rev C Halbersleben. . .
Omaha. Ladies' Aid Soc. of Hillside
Ch..by Rev. J. Flook
Park and West Cedar Valley, by Rev.
C. H. Kershaw
Sutton. First, by W. E. Thompson...
Trenton and Fairview, by Rev. D.
Donaldson
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Douglas, by Rev. O. L. Corbin.
MONTANA -$20.05.
Livingston, Holbrook, by Rev. W. A.
Walker
Red Lodge, Rev. W. H. Watson
IDAHO-$94o.
Hope, by Rev. V. W. Roth
Pocatello, by Rev. D. Q. Travis
1 20
8 20
NORTH DAKOTA-$2,o25.7i : of
which legacy, S2.000.
Received by Rev. H. C. Simmons :
Fargo, Y. P. S. C. E. of the
First $7 58
Valley City 2 10
$9 68
Woman's H. M. Union. Mrs.
M. M Fisher. Treas.:
Caledonia $1 00
Portland 4 60
$5 6°
CALIFORNIA— $31.24.
Woman's H. M. Union of Southern
California. Mrs. M. M. Smith,
Treas.:
Ontario
Chula Vista, S. S. $4.18: Redondo
Beach. $4.s6, by Rev. J. T. Ford....
Dehesa, by Rev. A. C. Dodd
Fresno, German Ch., by Rev. J. Leg-
ler
Green Valley, by Rev. W. Rogers...
Pasadena. Miss H. M. Bliss
San Diego. A Friend
8 74
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5 00
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OREGON-$i7.65. WASHINGTON— $10.30.
Beaverton and Tualatin, by Rev. W. Bellevue and Highland, by Rev. W. J.
Hurlburt $6 50 Faulkner . . : $1 25
Forest Grove, by Rev. C. F. Clapp... 3 00 Kalama, First, by Rev. A. R. Johnson 1 50
Hood River, Riverside Ch., by Rev. Pataha City, by Rev. T. W. Walters. 7 55
J. L. Hershner 815 Home Missionary 3630
$14,260 71
Contributions in September, excluding contributions for the debt $9, 148 64
Legacies in September 5.775 99
Contributions for the debt in September ... 610 00
Total receipts in September $i5i534 63
Contributions for the debt to October 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor ' $87,156 58
Special for debt 8,935 76
$96,092 34
Donations of Clothing, etc.
East Jaffrey, N. H., Cheerful Helpers.
by Mrs. Will. J. Mower, box
Hartford, Conn., Mrs. B. R. Abbe, pack-
age.
Northwood Ridge, N. H., Miss Lydia
Ann Hill, box.
Philadelphia, Pa., Mrs. D. J. Pierson,
$35 60 box.
Summit, N. J., Rev. C. C. Baldwin,
D.D., box.
Warsaw, N. Y., Ladies, by Mrs. Mary
Darling Jenks, box $44 00
$79 60
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in September, 1896.
B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev. Edwin
Gen. O. O. Howard Roll of Honor :
Barnstable, Centerville, one share in
name of Mrs. Hannah R. Worrell,
by Mrs. Owen Crosby $100 00
Chicopee, Third Church, by Rev.
Chas. Pease 100 00
$200 00
Abington, First, by E. M. Nash $10 50
Amherst, South, by J. F. Gleason 9 38
Bank Balances, August interest on 11 30
Barnstable, Centerville, add'l to Roll of
Honor, by Mrs. Owen Crosby 30 00
Boston, Neponset, by H. Tucker 16 25
Boxford, West, by W. H. Cole 4 25
Braintree, First, by A. B. Keith 4 23
Ladies' Home Miss. Soc, by Miss
Sarah H. Thayer, for Vinita Acad.
Scholarship, and to const. Mrs. W.
E. Sheldon a L. M 30 00
Brockton, Waldo, by S. E. Nickerson.. 12 50
Brookline, Harvard, by Jas. H. Shap-
leigh 5S 38
For Italian Mission 16 62
Cambridgeport, Pilgrim, by N. H. Hol-
brook 20 02
Carver, North, by Rev. N. Lincoln 15 00
Charlemont. East, by Chas. H. Leavitt n 10
Concord, Trinitarian, by Thomas Todd 16 25
Conway, by Francis Howland, for C.
H. M. S 39 56
Danvers, Maple St., by C. G. Mears, to
const. E. Florence Perry, Lewis B.
Abbott. Mrs. J. A. Gould, and Mrs.
M. A. Hall L. Ms. of C. H. M. S $234 77
Deerfield,Gunn, Rufus, by Nathl. Hitch-
cock 10 00
Dracut, First, by C. L. Hodge 1 25
Dudley, First, by W. H. Upham 4 50
Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Marion E.
Williams . . - 225
Everett, Courtland St., by Rev. R. H.
McGown 7 50
Falmouth, East, by W. W. Eldredge . . 5 00
First, by Obed F. Hitch 54 00
Wood's Holl, by Mrs. J. W. Bowles.. 12 70
Groton Union, by Frank D. Lewis,
$84. 50, less e.xpressage 84 25
Groveland, by Miss M. A. Burbank 12 00
Hartshorne. Rev. V. J 5 00
Harvard, Torrey, Rev. C. C 5 00
Hawley, West, by Clarence C. Fuller. . 8 00
Holyoke, French Evan., by Rev. C. H.
Vessott 20 00
Hyde Park, Blue Hill Evan. Society, by
S.T.Elliott 1844
Leverett, First, by S. K. Field 18 75
Longmeadow, First, Benev. Asso., by
Walter Bliss 142 88
Lowell, High St.. by Rev. C. W. Hunt-
ington, towards salary of Rev. Mr.
Santikian,* $42.00.
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Lynnfield Center, A Friend, by Rev.
Geo. E. Freeman
Manchester, by Geo. F. Allen
Medfield, in memory of Joseph H.
Wight
Medford. Mystic, by John McPherson..
Milford. by Geo. G. Cook
New Salem, by D. A. Stowell. .
North Attleboro, Oldtown, by C. E.
Jordan
North Brookfield, Union, by Hiram
Knight
Pittsfield, French Mission, by Rev. A.
Bouteiller
Reed. Dwight. Fund, income of
Rochester, North, by A. K. Small
Sunday-school, by P. P. Gerrish . . .
Sharon. Church, $26.85 ; Sunday-school,
$10, by D. W. Pettee. to const. Mrs.
Elizabeth M. Geisler a L. M
South Hadley Falls, by A. N. Chapin..
Springfield, First, by H. G. Camp
Walpole, Second, by Mrs. S. E. Bentley
West Boylston. First, by E. B. Rice
West Springfield, Ashley School and
Charitable Fund, by Samuel Smith.. .
•55 °o
73 5°
25 00
184 75
55 86
5 34
7 00
40 00
36 85
12 74
57 37
5 53
6 00
176 41
West Stockbridge, Center, by Rev. W.
W.Curtis $1000
Village, by Rev. W. W. Curtis 15 00
Whitin. J. C., Fund, income of 25 00
Winchester, First, by Walter D. Middle-
ton, D. N. Skillings1 annuity 100 00
Woburn Conference, by Rev. Geo. E.
Lovejoy, for Montvale Ch 30 00
Worcester, Park, by Rev. R. M. Taft.. 5 00
Piedmont, Goff, Mrs. M. E. A., by
Dr. A. W. Eldred 1 50
Plymouth, by F. W. Chase 38 83
Woman's Home Miss. Associa-
tion, by Miss A. C. Bridg-
man, Treas.:
Easthampton, Ladies' Aux.,
for Silver Circle $5 00
Worcester. Bethany, Aux., for
Silver Circle 5 00
Home Missionary.
$2,086 31
RHODE ISLAND HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Rhode Island Home .Missionary Society from J tuie 1 to October I,
1896. Joseph William Rice, Treasurer
Barrington. Ch $60 co
Kingston, Ch 8944
Newport. United Ch 53 15
Pawtucket, Cong. Ch $200 00
Park Place Ch. 27 35
227 35
Peace Dale, Ch 34 64
Providence, Beneficent Ch.. a
Friend $500
Pilgrim Ch $200 00
C. E. Soc 22 74
$222 74
Union Ch 1.200 00
Interest 30 00
$1-457 74
$1,922 32
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in September.
Treasurer
Ward W. Jacobs,
Avon, West Avon, Shubael Thompson.
Bridgeport, Swedish, by Rev. Oscar
Lindegren
Colchester, Church and Sunday-school,
forC. H. M. S., by Edward F. Strong
Fairfield, Southport. A Friend
Georgetown. Swedish, see Weston.
Griswold. by Rev. F. E. Allen
ForC. H. M. S
Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M. S
Hartford, First, Y. P. S. C. E., for C.
H. M. S., by Carl W. Davis
Litchfield, First, by Miss C. B. Kenney,
forC. H.M. S
Mansfield, First, by A. W. Buchanan,
to const. Mrs. Susan M. Dewing, of
Hartford, a L. M
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur
New Britain, First, by A. N. Lewis...
New Haven. First, by F. S. Bradley. ..
Dwight Place, by Frederick C. Lum..
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North Branford, by Rev. Charles Page.
North Canaan, Pilgrim, by J. B. Reed..
North Stamford, see Stamford
Somers, Somersville, by H. L. James.
ForC. H.M. S....
Southport, see Fairfield.
Suffield, West Suffield, by Benjamin
Sheldon
Stamford, North Stamford, by Rev.
W. T. Swinnerton
West Avon, see Avon.
Weston, Georgetown, Swedish, by Rev.
A. A . Nordlund
West Suffield, see Suffield.
West Woodstock, see Woodstock.
Windsor Locks, by C. A. Porter
Woodstock, West Woodstock, by A. W.
Bicknell
100 00
276 44
112 50
$27 63
!3 92
6 75
6 60
26 87
62 44
$890 63
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Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in September, 1896. Rev. John P.
Sanderson, Treasurer
Bridgman $10 00
East Paris 6 00
. Harrison 657
Homestead . 2 50
Hudsonville, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Imlay City 1 2 00
Lansing, Plymouth, C. B. Stebbins 30 00
Pilgrim 1 50
Pleasanton 9 00
St. Joseph, of which $25 in memory of
Dea N. Vanderveer 7900
Sandstone 200
Y. P. S. C. E 1 00
Solon 37
Somerset 800
Traverse City, Y. P. S. C. E 25 00
Wheatland 21 20
Rental, Ionia Ch 10 00
Interest on Jubilee Fund 150 00
W. H. M. U., by Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
Treas 199 51
Receipts of the W. H. M. U. of Michi-
gan in September, 1896, Mrs. E. F.
Grabill, Treas. :
SENIOR FUND
Canandaigua, W. M. S
Charlotte, L. B. S
Grass Lake, W. H. M. S
Greenville, W. H. M. S
Laingsburg, Woman's Asso
Olivet, L. B. S
Pontiac, W. H. M. S
Union City, W. H. M. S
YOUNG PEOPLE'S FUND
Rochester, Y. P. S. C. E
Saginaw, Y. P. S. C. E
$578 65
$3
60
25
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12
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5
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9
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5
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90
WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumlord St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols. 230 E. oth
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon. 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND*
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House. Boston.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis. So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 16S Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March. 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson. Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 18S1
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell. 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 1-9 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
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7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October. 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell. 802 W. 12th St.,
Topeka.
treasurer. Mrs. E. C. Reed. Parsons.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong. Lane Seminary
Campus. Cincinnati.
Secretary. Mrs. J. W. Moore, 513 The Ellington,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown. 2116 Warren
St., Toledo.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July. 1884
Reorganized June. 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey. 704 Olympic
Ave.. Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St..
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George. 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry. Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt. Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October. 1883
President. Mrs. Wm. Kincaid. 483 Greene Ave..
Brooklyn.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St.,
Syracuse.
Treasurer. Mrs'. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave.,
Brooklyn.
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison
Mrs. A. 0. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer. Mrs. C. M. Blackman. Whitewater
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1S85
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City
Secretary. Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash. Ave.,
Kansas City.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President. Mrs. N. M. Lander.
Secretary. Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer. Mrs. J, M. Fisher, Fargo.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin. Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St.. Chicago.
Treasurer. Mrs. L. A. Field. Wilmette.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July. 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill. Portland.
Cor. Sec. Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs W. I). Palmer, 546 3d St.. Pert-
land.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June. 1886
President, Mrs T O. Douglass. Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins. Grinnell.
Treasurer. Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
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ig. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
[President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508. Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
Secretary. Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple. Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale. Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary, Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, igoo Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W.J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine. Windsor.
Treasurer , Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns
bury.
2g. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 2812 FreVetSt,
New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April. 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore. Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville. Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
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31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, i88q
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier. McLeansville.
Secretary 1
and -Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, )
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March. 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Gray, 297 So. Roulevard,
Dallas.
33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary. Mrs W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave.
Helena.
Treasurer. Mrs. Herbert E. Jones. Livingston.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgwav.
Secretary. Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgwav
Treasurer. Mis. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
35. OKLAHOMA
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May,' 1891
Reorganized December. 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J.. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets. Salt Lake City.
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April. 1892
President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
Secretary. Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer. Mrs. Raymond. Vinita.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint. Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer. Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November. 1892
President. Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer. Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President. Mrs W M Wellman. El Reno
Secretary. Mrs. Joel Harper, Oklahoma City.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer. Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
ami Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March
President. Mrs A H. Rradford. Montclair
Secretary. Mrs. J. D. Hagerman. Montclair
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison. 150 Belleville Ave .
Newark.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October. 1893
/'resident. Mrs J. B. Gossage. Rapid City. Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Dead wood. Black
Hills. South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. E. A. Paddock. Weiser.
Treasurer. Mrs. R. B. Wright. Boise.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
Rev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. Rev. W. S. Hawkes Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. L. P. Broad Topeka, KanA. Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
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. A „ \ Black Hills and Wyoming. Kev. 1. W. Jones, U.-D. ... -j Philadelphia, Pa.
Kev. A. A. Brown. . -( Hot SprulgSi South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross, D.D Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniei Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama).. Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
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John L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hillman, Secretary , New Hampshire Home Miss. Society. . ..Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " ... .Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " " St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Win. C. Tyler, Treasurer ' " "" " " St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " ( 9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " " . . . : \ Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary. .;... Rhode Island " " " .. . .Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Providence, R. 1.
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Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer.' " " " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer " " " " ■ Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. , Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary.. ... .Illinois " " " > 153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer, " " " " 1 Chicago, 111.
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C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer [ " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
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Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
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Contents for December, 1896
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Ten Weeks of Tent-Work 385
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XVII. — A Mountain Stage
Ride, and a Church Organ-
ized 390
For the Silver Circle :
Metamorphoses 395
From Southern Missouri 397
The Cyclone's Work 399
Dangerous Delay 399
Working Amidst Trials 400
In Southern Florida 400
That Year of Destiny, 1846 401
Tribute to Rev. W. A. McGinley.
Comity
Temporary Sunday Rest
Compulsory Sunday Labor
Self-Denial for the Debt
" Sick, and Ye Visited Me"
In Need of Christian Work
"Father Nichols"
Christmas Offerings
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The Home Missionary
Vol. LXIX
DECEMBER, 1896
No. 8
TEN WEEKS OF TENT-WORK
By Rev. Norman Plass
T was a winter campaign. To explain that remark, I hasten to
acid that it was at Miami, Florida, where the southernmost
railway station in the United States is located — the present
terminus of the East Coast
Railway. So far to the south-
ward does it lie, that one seek-
ing the shady side of the street
in the month of May finds him-
self upon the northern side. It
is, furthermore, the southern-
most town in the United States
where pioneer home missionary
work is being prosecuted.
At the beginning of the " ten
weeks," it was not a railway
station. To reach it one must
start from Jacksonville, go three
hundred miles by rail to Palrn
Beach, then embark and pro-
ceed by boat nearly one hun-
dred miles farther until he had
reached the beautiful Biscayne
Bay region, where " the town
to be " had been given " a local
habitation and a name." The missionary whom the Society sent went
down with his family in a sixteen-foot sailboat. Reaching there at
length, they embarked, as did the Pilgrim Fathers, " upon a rock-bound
coast " (in this case, that of the Miami River), made their way into the
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"boundless wilderness" where the town was to be, pitched their seven
by nine tent, and when night came lay down to pleasant dreams, having
faith in God, but also " having locked the door with a shot-gun."
A place was cleared and grubbed for the large forty by sixty feet
tent, which Superintendent Gale had wisely secured, and it was at once
raised and occupied. The first Sabbath saw sixty-three in the audience
— two women, the rest men. Where they all came from, whether from
holes in the ground or from windows in the sky, one couldn't tell. But
they came, Gospel-hungry, earnest in their devotion, eager to hear the
OX THE MIAMI — NEARING BISCAYNE BAY
Word. During that ten weeks, they came in numbers from sixty-three
to one hundred and eighty, no more than fifteen women to be found
among them at any time.
The "Church Tent " became the popular place to go. At the bugle-
call, they assembled. It was not a question with any whether they should
go ; it was the thing to do ; everybody did it ; they all went. There
the rich and the poor were met together. There was the man with spot-
less attire, while beside him or behind him sat the man without a collar,
or the man without a coat, or the man without a vest, or the man without
suspenders, or the man with his overalls buttoned around his neck. The
dress made no difference ; they were there, all members of one family,
with common needs and a common Father. Unbelievers were there,
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Catholics and Jews. There was the old sea captain, a declared infidel
who said that he "came to hear, the singing " (such singing !), but whc
did not go out when sermon-time came ; and who, the last night of the
"ten weeks," when the missionary was about to depart, said : " I air
not a Christian, but I want to give you a text, ' Be not weary in well-
doing, for in due season you shall reap if you faint not ' "; and who begged
leave to write to the missionary after he had gone away. One man com-
ing to town said to another on Monday :
" Where were you last night ? I couldn't find you."
" At the church tent."
" At church ! You at church ? What did you go there for?"
" If for no other reason," was the answer, " to see who had come to
town, tor everybody goes there."
" Right you are," said the other, "and I was there myself."
As the weeks went by, and tents and shacks and cabins sprang up on
every side, it was found that for once at least the church was ahead of
the saloon. But now there was talk that the saloon was coming. A man
advertised for a partner to go into the saloon business with him, saying
that he had " secured a petition." And in fact he had. But a sentiment
was created against his coming. At the close of a Sunday evening ser-
vice, when the question had been discussed, " Do We Want a Saloon in
Miami or Vicinity ?" sixty-seven men out of eighty-three rose to their
feet to declare that they did not, while not a single vote could be elicited
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389
upon the other side. One of the promoters of the town was present, the
first to arise. Whatever weight this meeting may have had, it was de-
cided by the " town-site people," not that "the saloon must go," but
that it should not come ; and every deed of transfer made out excludes it
from the city for a term of three years. What a shame, if the saloon
ever catches the church, when she has such a running start !
The 2 2d of April was a day long to be remembered at Miami. The
demand was universal for the organization of a church. One hundred
and seventy-five persons were present to discuss the proposition to pro-
ceed to the organization of a "Union Church." It was amended to read
" A Union Congregational Church," and unanimously adopted. Forty-
five or fifty gave in their names as charter members. About thirty-five
of them were men. Among them, besides Congregationalists, were
Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians, both "North" and "South."
Thirteen of them came on confession of faith in Christ. There were
the Southern Johnnie and the Northern Yank, the " Wolverine," the
"Buckeye," the "Sucker," the "Tar-heel," the "Gober-grabber," the
" Cracker " — " all are in Christ " — " Blest be the tie that binds." Thus,
three hundred miles south of St. Augustine, "the oldest settlement,"
men from all sections of America and of all Christian beliefs unite to
form a church of the Pilgrim Fathers.
But the 2 2d of April was memorable for another reason. The bond
of union was to be fastened with the seal of blood. The only son of
the missionary, a bright lad of six summers, who had done many a little
THE LITTLE GRAVE
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part of the work with joy, after a mysterious illness of only forty hours,
passed away that morning at break of day, and the same evening at set
of sun was laid to rest. The burial service, conducted by Superintendent
Gale, was full of tender pathos. The tent, decorated as usual, only more
profusely, with air plants and orchids and oleanders and palms and ferns,
was filled with sympathizing friends, who in double file followed the little
home-made casket to the lone grave upon the banks of the beautiful
Miami. There, where the orange and lemon trees drop their sweetness,
where the birds ever sing and the snows never fall, the little body was
laid at rest to await the call to " The Resurrection and the Life."
" Nothing worth having without sacrifice. " Here was the contribu-
tion, submissively laid upon the altar by these loving parental hands, if,
by means of this translation to the church triumphant, the little company
of the church militant at Miami, their hearts blended in sympathetic love,
may be more closely bound together as one in Christ Jesus.
*
NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XVII. — A Mountain Stage Ride, and a Church Organized
The writer found it necessary to make a trip between Sundays to
Aspen, a growing mining town on the Pacific slope of the Great Divide.
The church at that place had been started a few years before by Mr.
Paddock from Leadville, who, in his trips for that purpose, did some of
the grandest mountain pioneering ever done by any Home Missionary in
the Rocky Mountains. Several times he made the trip across the range,
sixty miles, on foot, and most of it in one day. Once he crossed the pass
in a fearful storm after he had been told that no human being could cross
alive. Once he walked thirty-two miles on Friday and fifty more on
Saturday, crossing the high range and carrying on his back a pack of cot-
ton cloth that was to be used for windows in the church building. Then
he did a minister's full day's work on Sunday, and on Monday walked
forty-two miles of the backward journey across the range. After that
trip the stage company presented him with a free pass.
He had left that field, another minister had taken it, and certain com-
plications made it necessary for the superintendent to visit the church and
pastor, which he had to do between two Sundays. The first day's journey
was from Denver to Leadville by rail. At six the next morning he was
on an old-fashioned Concord stage drawn by four horses and bound for
December, 1896 The Home Missionary 391
Aspen, sixty miles away, over the great backbone of the continent, over
that snow-capped rocky wall that rose a mile into the air across the green
valley of the Upper Arkansas. There were eleven passengers, and the
coach was top-heavy with baggage, mail, and express. " You will need to
drive carefully," whispered the local agent to the driver. " I should
think so," was the brief reply.
We sat on the seat with the driver, and our first question was, " How
long have you been on the road ? " " Oh," said he, " I'm only a green
hand taking the place of a driver whose arm got so lame in driving over
the range that he had to take a vacation." This was not reassuring. A
few miles down the valley could be seen the spot where Superintendent
Pickett was instantly killed in 1879. The writer was now doing the same
kind of work, and had the same seat on the stage. Eighteen miles
down and across the valley, and they were at Twin Lakes, where he and
his friends had camped eight years before. He had then wondered what
lay up and beyond those great mountains. Now he was to see for him-
self. Horses, stage, and driver were changed, and the long half-day's
climb began. Past the Falls, past Twin Peaks and Mount Elbert, past
great bare domes of rock, past an occasional cluster of log cabins with
accommodations for man and mule, past crystal streams that flowed in from
wild gorges or leaped in white cascades over rocky walls, past the slow-
moving double freight wagons and sometimes in almost impassable places,
along the roaring stream that gradually grew smaller, over corduroy roads
that spanned now a marshy spot and now a great ridge of rock, through
beautiful forests of evergreen and through desolate stretches of dead and
fallen timber, so on and on, up and up, they went.
The thunder rolled its deep bass below them ; the air grew cooler and
they put on their overcoats. The streams grew smaller. They came to
snow and saw the creek flowing under an immense snowdrift. They
entered a vast amphitheater, up whose steep walls stretched vast beds of
last winter's snow. In some way those walls must be scaled. The road
wound back and forth through the wooded slope. The passengers walked
while the stage with six horses came slowly behind with frequent stops.
Near the timber line they found trees of immense size, a phenomenon
often noticed on the mountains. Then they were above the timber line and
then on the summit, 12,540 feet above the sea — one of the highest passes
on the continent. Great drifts of snow lay around them. Where the
ground was bare it was full of ice-water, but it was white with beautiful
flowers where the snow had been a few days before. They had burst
into bloom at the first hint of the sun's warmth. They were even found
growing through the old snow at the edges of drifts.
There was a cabin on the summit in whose front yard was an immense
snowdrift. This was July 14th. In the back yard was a prospect-hole
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for which the owner was once offered $40,000. It was now worthless.
On that pass the snow was so deep in winter that a man could step over
the telegraph wire. When it began to melt the going was simply terrible.
But, with occasional blockades during some great storm, the freight teams
and stages kept crossing; for over the mountains was a great booming
mining-camp, whose supplies were brought in and its ore taken out over
that pass. But the dead mules and horses, the broken wagons and sleds
that lined the road, showed at what cost the traffic was carried on.
At the summit the passengers reentered the stage, but in a few minutes
they wished that they had not, for a sharp curve brought them to the
edge of a precipice where they looked down 500 feet and saw the road
below them. They looked farther down into a beautiful valley, through
which the creek wound like a huge serpent or an endless letter S. A
freight wagon just ahead of the stage came to a stop and could not or
would not proceed. " Draw up close to the bank," shouted the driver,
"and I think I can pass you on the outside." Some of the passengers
trembled, and one of them at least was all ready to spring toward the
bank if the stage wTent over the precipice. The outer wheel crumbled
the dirt over the edge. But the stage passed in safety and the six horses
went galloping down the winding sharp-curved road. Looking down
over the rocks, they saw the dead mules and splintered wagons of an
" outfit " that had gone over a few weeks before. The wagons were
loaded with glass.
They drove through the deserted streets of Independence, which three
years before had been filled with a surging tide of gold-seekers. Two or
three houses only were occupied, and these by saloons. One man had
held the fort all alone one winter, and he held all the town offices also.
They plunged down into wild gorges. The Roaring Fork rapidly grew
larger. The canon closed in on them. Great rocks larger than houses
lined the roadside, while others seemed ready to fall from overhanging
cliffs. The mountains pierced the sky. Foaming streams leaped from
mountain -tops and pierced the valley. Was that a snowdrift or a white
cascade that you saw far up in that pine forest ? It might have been
either. Now they were surely in the very heart of the Rockies. How
desolate, how wild, how grand everything was ! " This," said an Irish-
man, " is what was left over after the world was made ; and it is two
rocks to one dirt."
In less than twenty miles they descended nearly 5,000 feet, and proba-
bly three-fourths of that descent was in ten miles. As they went lower
the vegetation increased. They could reach out of the stage and pluck
beautiful wild roses. Little garden patches began to appear. The
stream was grown to be a river, but it was less like a wild beast, and it
took an occasional rest by gliding quickly between grassy banks.
December, 1896 The Home Missionary 393
At seven o'clock they reached Aspen, covered with dust. The town
was on a level plain two miles long and a mile wide, and was flanked on
either side by lofty mountains in which were the wonderful deposits of
gold and silver ore which had given the town a new start and have since
made it the second mining town of Colorado. A day and two evenings
of missionary work, and we started on our return trip. A rain had settled
■the dust, and at first the ride was delightful. The stage carried two
swine, a dead one strapped on behind till it was left at a way station, and
a live one that sat inside and puffed smoke in the faces of the passengers.
He was finally told that while he might have a right to smoke he had no
right to smoke other people. The man slowly saw the point, grunted
and exchanged his pipe for a cigar. They reached the summit and went
swiftly on down the rough road on the Atlantic side. Two ministers sat
on the back seat. Some of the large logs in the corduroy road were
missing. Suddenly the front wheels dropped a foot or two, and the
ministers very promptly rose to their feet. The wheels were quickly
jerked out of the rut, and the ministers took their seat, very promptly and
solidly. Up they jointly rose again and sat down amid laughter. Up again
and down again with surprising promptness. The driver quietly laughed
and drove faster. " It seems to me," said one of the ministers, "that this
(up again) is a (down) regular Episcopal service." "How do the stage
wheels stand such rough usage ? " asked one. " I don't know," was the
reply, "but I think we have been standing a good deal." " Well," said
the other, " I never supposed that I could become so theatrical and cut
up such antics on the stage." All the passengers were just in the mood
to laugh heartily at every attempt at witticism. They laughed till they
cried as they went bouncing and bumping over stones and logs down
that steep mountain road.
After dinner it began to rain. They were in an open stage with no
umbrellas. Overcoats were soon soaked through. It rained four hours.
The passengers had all stopped laughing. Somehow things did not seem
so funny. The thunder reverberated grandly among the mountains.
Above the timber line fresh snow was falling. In the distance the moun-
tains were white with fresh snow. As they passed Twin Lake a rainbow
of wondrous beauty rested, one end on the upper lake, and one on the
pine forest. It was the facsimile of the bow which, eight years before,
had so delighted the camping party one Sunday night at that same spot.
When they reached the railroad, the writer was so chilled through that
he could scarcely walk straight. He boarded the train at dark and sat
close to the hot fire until it scorched him. Oh, what a luxury the cars
seemed after that ride ! The rain beat against the windows, but what
cared he ? He curled up on the seat and slept as the train sped down the
Arkansas, through the Grand Canon and the Royal Gorge, past Canon
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City, Pueblo, Colorado Springs, and Palmer Lake. That ride in the rain
with its extremes of temperature made him ill for days. He was absent
from home four days, rode a day and a night on the cars, four hundred
and ten miles, two days on the stage over one hundred miles, three times
across the Continental Divide and back, and that trip was only one little
item of a superintendent's work in Colorado. .
In 1885 this same superintendent was on a missionary trip to Gunni-
son and Crested Butte, to which railroads had been built since his mis-
sionary trip to those places in 1880. At Crested Butte he found the
pastor, now United States Senator from South Dakota, sick in bed and
having many discouragements and discomforts, but bravely and cheer-
fully holding the fort and doing the best he could in that coal-mining
town. A very large church building had been partially completed, and
was a sort of elephant on the hands of the feeble church. Visiting Gun-
nison to look after the interests of the Budding Society in the church
which had been built in that place, now s? dull, the writer heard much
about a new town down in the Uncompagl . e Valley. In a few days he
visited the place. Down the Gunnison Valley, down for many miles
through the wild romantic scenery of the Black Canon, through which the
Gunnison River when high dashed with awful force ; up a side canon, up
a long steep grade for miles, and then down slides the train into the
Uncompaghre Valley and to Montrose, about three hundred and fifty
miles from Denver. A day spent in looking at the new town, looking
out upon the valley and hearing about the ranches, about the crops, and
about the markets in the mining towns among the neighboring mountains,
convinced him that whatever discouragements and hard times there might
be at first, that place could not help being an important town in the
future. He decided to have a church there if it were possible, and found
a number of people who were willing to join in the effort. There was
already a Methodist church, but its pastor said heartily that, as long as
other churches were bound to come, he would rather see one of the
denomination represented by us, and he would give it a hearty welcome.
He knew that if that church was started not so many others would be
started, because it would gather to itself representatives of several denom-
inations. The writer was there on Wednesday. On the next Saturday he
had a man on the ground ready for work, and in four weeks he went back
to organize a church. It was a fearfully hot day in August. Many of
the people were off in the mountains trying to keep cool. Eleven names
were given for the organization. The pastor of the Methodist church
gave a short address and a hearty welcome to the new church. The
audience was not large that evening. The restless crowd in that new
community had gone to the courthouse to hear an infidel lecture. He
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felt very sure, however, that long after that infidel had gone and all traces
of his visit had disappeared, the church that day organized out of a few
poor Christians would remain with its preaching services, its ordinances,
its Bible school, its missionary society, and its prayer-meeting ; that it
would build for itself a home whose spire would preach to men of heaven.
Afterward in passing through that town on the cars we saw that spire, and
knew that back of that infant church was a strong denomination of
Christians and a great Home Missionary Society that would reach help-
ing hands over mountain-ranges, giving money while it was needed and
sympathy always ; that the church would increase ; that it would in all
probability stay in that community for Centuries, a permanently organized
power for good. So we were not troubled or disturbed in mind because
the crowd went to hear the infidel that night. He was pouring forth
words that the wind would blow away like chaff. We were planting a seed
that would grow. He gave his lecture and went his way. We were prepar-
ing the way for two anti-infidel lectures every week and for a permanent
answer to all his arguments against the churches. That church had some
discouraging times in after years, but it survived them, because it was a
church of Christ, an organized fellowship of Christian people with a
strong denomination back of it. Such churches in such towns are gen-
erally very hard fields for Christian work. The pastors are often exceed-
ingly discouraged and their wives are often exceedingly homesick. It is
a very rare thing for one pastor to remain with such a church through the
first five or ten years of its history. The wonder is that more churches
do not die young in the great West.
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FOR THE SILVER CIRCLE
By Mrs. H. M. Union
Metamorphoses
I have been very much interested in noting the metamorphoses going
on among the students in some of our Western colleges. This is espe-
cially noticeable in the case of young men of different nationalities, for
a large proportion of the students are of foreign birth, and it is inter-
esting to watch the process of assimilation. They come to the college
awkward, right from the country; some of them who call on the Presi-
dent, seeking information, forgetting even to take off their hats in
his presence and in his own house. They come from the farm to the
school. Mrs. Joseph Ward says: " The farm is the very best kind of a
place to come from, and where a young man gets about the manliest,
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most sensible, and practical start in life there is." This metamorphosis
has been described by a Yankton College student in this wise:
Scene i. — A diffident youth, " homespun " in garb, speech, and man-
ner. He wears a flannel shirt. He knows nothing of collar or necktie.
His clothes, which hang on his large frame, do not " fit " and are guilt-
less of attention from brush or sponge; trousers lacking a couple of
inches at the extremities; shoes coarse, and revealing the ravages of
time and weather upon their pristine unpolished surface.
Scene 2. — In process of evolution: Our young man dons first what
is called, in Western parlance, a " biled shirt" — shirt still collarless.
Soon buys a celluloid collar; wears this without a necktie, a resplendent
collar button being considered ample in the way of adornment. Takes
to brushing his old " cowhides," which he soon casts off for a pair that
" takes the shine better." Makes up for deficiency of trousers below
by adorning his head above with a less outlandish-looking hat. Pro-
cures and wears — shades of the rainbow! — a necktie gaudy enough to
make a tulip weep for envy! Now the young man supposes himself
" made " !
Scene 3. — The barber is permitted to run a "mowing-machine"
through an astonishing crop of hair. Our friend now wears both collar
and cuffs; they are of linen; they are immaculate. A necktie of modest
color and approved style replaces the one of rainbow tints. Meantime the
whole appearance of the student has undergone a change, and the change
is in the man himself as he straightens up and begins to respect himself
more, and feels the man that he is capable of being stir within him.
Now, it is the province of the Christian college to inculcate that kind-
ness of heart and nobleness of soul which alone will give the true
" finish " and " polish " to dress and manners.
Is it not glorious to think over this marvelous and interesting work
of transformation that is constantly going on in these Western colleges?
This character-building is something wonderful, and must be done right
where these young people are, if done at all. These sons and daughters
of the present civilization want an education, and though struggling
against great odds, they mean to have it and are eager and willing to
work for what they get.
Oh, friends of the East, hear the cry of thousands of boys and girls
in the West, pleading for the same liberal education that you are giving
to your own girls and boys !
Many a self-satisfied "society leader" would have looked down
with contempt upon Abraham Lincoln the rail-splitter ; but millions of
America's noblest people to-day would gladly give all they possess for
a tithe of his world-wide reputation as the patriot, the hero, the deliverer
of his country, the Martyr President.
December, 1896 The Home Missionary 397
FROM SOUTHERN MISSOURI
By the late Rev. Victor E. Loba
[This graphic statement of the intellectual, moral, and religious condition of the
southern counties of Missouri is from the pen of one of the most valued missionaries of
the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Few men are better qualified to observe,
or more careful, just, and candid in reporting, the actual condition of a given field than
was this able and excellent missionary. The report was written after five years' resi-
dence and self-sacrificing and effective labor among the people whom he described, and
in whose spiritual welfare he felt and showed the deepest Christian interest. The Soci-
ety and its work, indeed all the churches of the Southwest, sustained a heavy loss in Mr.
Loba's lamented decease shortly after this report was written. In view of the good he
was accomplishing, and, as far as man can see, would have effected, had he been spared,
his death seems to us one of the mysteries of an All-wise Providence. — Ed.]
The missionary work in these lower counties — Howell, Ozark, Taney,
Stone, and others — may not be termed unique nor any field in them
strategic. I wish to mention a few items which may be depended upon,
if we would understand the spiritual necessities of people comprised
within these boundaries.
First. — The people are purely American. Nowhere on home mission-
ary ground, I believe, can be found so large a territory with so small a
foreign element. If you go to Dakota or Minnesota you will find there
the Scandinavian, German, Bohemian, whose strange ways, strange
tongues, and deep prejudices must first be learned, before one may be a
successful messenger between the truth and the heart. Our large cities
and often our small towns are cosmopolitan. " Our brother in black "
stands in the gates of the South, and his past history and present demands
confront us. These must be studied. The white brother's prejudices
must be withstood or endured. But here in these counties one thing we
may be assured of — we are American. Nor do we know much of any
other country. Venezuela is to us an Isle of Atlantis lying in some far-
off region, we know not where. The Armenian massacres mean to us
the killing of some strange creatures by some wild animals in some un-
known regions lying outside of God's moral heritage.
Second. — -These people are poor. They have neither good clothing
nor houses, and only the barest necessities of life. As for homes, they
have the word but not the article.
Third. — They are shiftless and thriftless. Here one finds an utter
want of system, whether in farming, thinking, or religion. A half-dozen
facts are never used to produce one result. But one fact is worked for
its one result and a second fact for its result ; this, regardless of waste
and conflict. There is no scheme, no plan, no picture presented to the
mind's eye of what might be.
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Fourth. — They are conservative. We may not find here the traditional
corn in one end of the sack and a rock in the other to make it balance on
the ox's back. But we find habits and modes of thought very like this.
Fifth. — Religiously, to use an unusual but applicable word, "Ye are
too superstitious" or very religious; either translation would well apply
to these Ozark people. These hills do not produce Bob Ingersolls. We
have no "great Bible man who is an infidel." Rarely do we hear of a
man as an atheist or even as an unbeliever. WTe have as many sects as
there were tongues gathered together on the day of Pentecost. The only
noted exceptions are Geneva and Plymouth Rock. We believe this is
the leaven which is wanting to lift up this people.
Sixth. — The ignorance and inefficiency of the native preachers is
appalling. We have been here nearly five years, have met in all sorts of
gatherings, and traveled on horseback and in wagons hundreds of miles,
and yet have never met a native preacher with anything more than the
most meager education. As a general thing they are men who, having
not succeeded as farmers, have taken up preaching.
Seventh. — And the last fact that I will mention. Almost the only and
certainly the chief means of grace in the minds of the people is the annual
or semi-annual " revival." Regular preaching, regular Sabbath-school,
and regular prayer-meetings are not to be compared with the " Big Meet-
ing." held under a booth, and attended by eight or ten preachers and by
all the people from all the country around.
To be sure, the converts will need to be sought after, next year, but
one that will "stick" in five hundred is enough to give the enterprise
indorsement. And besides, " Are not these revivals the way we always
did it? " This is all the argument needed. " The Gospel is free ;" there-
fore, it would be "agin Scripture" to pay for it. If any one does not
believe in giving and giving generously and giving continually, let him or
her come down into this region and see what that thought has done for it.
This little Congregational church is a small gleam upon the top of the
hill. It is having a positive influence for good. It is about the only
church hereabouts that gives and is taught to give.
One may gather from the above-mentioned facts some of the help and
some of the hindrances to preaching the Gospel i:i these regions. I have
not mentioned the isolation to which the minister is called, because it is
not the object of this paper to speak of the workers, but only of the field.
But it may be said that preachers and teachers are more, willing to go to
Africa, India, or Turkey than to come to these Ozark woods. They expect
to meet heathens there, and are not disappointed. They do not expect to
find heathens here in America, and are surprised at the poverty of material
and the uncertainty with which events come to pass. We need here, as
elsewhere, "the patience and perseverance of the saints." And we need
becember, 1896 The Home Missionary 399
preachers and teachers who are willing to live on what they can get and
ivho do not talk about what they "ought to have." There is no reason
ivhy a saint should eat more than a sinner ; yet, as a frequent thing, he
:alls for a larger support. These regions need " A Wind from the Holy
spirit " like that which Brother Montgomery told of in Sweden, and we as
laborers in his name call upon all of God's people to pray for such an
butpouring. This and only this can change this section of our country
from a condition of shallow worldliness to one of deep spiritual fervor.
THE CYCLONE'S WORK
A heavy gale of wind, amounting to a cyclone and lasting from five
to ten minutes, has blown down a tall chimney attached to our church.
The chimney was very heavily built and securely braced, but the iron
braces were twisted like wires, and the weight of the chimney when it was
once started stopped at nothing. It crashed through the roof, tearing a
hole some six feet wide and twenty feet long, and through the floor of the
unfinished auditorium into the finished basement, striking that with such
force as to cut holes in the cement floor, which is six inches thick. A
iportion passed through the roof of the study, ruining furniture and some
books. Most of my library, however, was on one side of the fall, and
though covered with soot and dust was practically uninjured ; a few
books were damaged by water, but most of the water was blown by the
force of the wind over the low wall of the study.
The old frame church, which we have not yet sold, but which is rented
to another congregation, received part of the blow, and had a large hole
torn in the roof and floor and gas-pipes broken. Pieces of slate from the
roof were carried by the wind 120 feet, with sufficient force to break
windows. It will require several hundred dollars to repair the damage,
and this will be a hard matter for us to raise. — B?-addock, Pa.
»
DANGEROUS DELAY
Few days pass in which some unsaved miner is not either killed or
badly injured in our mines. The work of visiting the injured takes no
small part of my time and strength. Only yesterday I labored with a
miner, who was hurt six weeks ago, until he found peace with Christ.
He had been an openly godless man. Although we can but rejoice at a
conversion even at the eleventh hour, it seems to me sad that it should be
left till then. It is so fearfully uncertain, and the delay sets a most
injurious example.
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The prayer-meetings have been improving both in interest and
attendance, lately numbering forty-seven. The church membership has
doubled in six months, which is hopeful, but there are so many who
attend church and know the plan of salvation who do not give up to God.
I am hungering for their conversion, and am full of hope that the ingath-
ering this season will be larger than ever before. Four new members are
to come next Sunday. The Sunday-school is rapidly growing, recently
running up to 125 attendants. The classes are well organized, graded,
and provided with the best available teachers. I find the Gospel has all
its old drawing and keeping power, and its persistent proclamation wins
souls rather than popularity. Pray for me that I may be found faithful.
— Missouri.
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WORKING AMIDST TRIALS
Scarlet fever has prevailed here, and only God can fill the empty
hearts and homes that it has left behind. The dread disease visited many
of our homes and took loved ones ; from one family one, from another
two, from another three, etc. For about eight weeks all public gather-
ings were prohibited. Our Sunday-school, prayer-meetings, and preach-
ing services were all closed during the reign of the epidemic, and pastoral
visiting was practically suspended, as every one feared each visitor might
carry contagion. Our work has just begun to recover from the forced
suspension of services, but many have gone to the mountains and else-
where, and we cannot hope for a complete resumption of work until these
return.
Individually our hearts have been made sad and our home lonely.
During the epidemic our only child was stricken, and after two weeks of
suffering was taken. He is another treasure laid up in heaven. We try
to bow submissively and say, " Thy will be done." Our loss has worked
for us a great hardship aside from our lonely hearts and home. The
unforeseen expense of sickness and death has been hard, but we " look
unto the hills from whence cometh our help." We take up our work
gladly again, believing that all things work together for good to those
who love God. That work is not easy, yet we expect to overcome all
things. — Oregon.
IN SOUTHERN FLORIDA
When we commenced the work here ours was the most southerly Con-
gregational church on the mainland of the United States, the Island
church on Key West being the only one further south in the country ; but
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the organization of the church at Miami obliges us to concede to it our
forme-r claim. I have held services and organized a Sunday-school nine
miles south of here, where the people are trying to start a new town, but
financial matters went hard, and, later, people were sorely discouraged by
the destruction of their crops by frost. Some had to desert the place,
seek new work temporarily, hoping to return to their northern homes.
Three were laid at rest beside old ocean's rolling surf.
During the first few months of this year the sadness and sorrow, the
hardships, the sufferings, and disappointments of these settlers, could
they all be known, would melt into tenderness even the most stoical ; none
the less from the fact that some, the most unsuited to that kind of life
and work, with means too slender to make their venture a possible success,
were, as such always are, among the first to catch at the offers of " land
agents " and " town-builders." I have looked forward to the organiza-
tion of a church there, and am looking still. I might tell of the hundreds
of miles I have walked to do this work — work done literally in the sweat of
the brow : yes, of the whole body ; of the chilly nights spent under a can-
vas tent, when it was impossible to sleep for want of sufficient covering ;
but I forbear, for I have had somewhere to lay my head, and under those
circumstances no loyal servant should complain.
During the mosquito season we had temporarily to discontinue our
week-night prayer-meetings. Those who have never experienced it can-
not conceive the virulence of the attack of untold myriads of the little
pests. I had five miles of personal experience of them one Sunday "night
in a rowboat, and now I know how it is myself.
THAT YEAR OF DESTINY, 1846
By Rev. D. L. Leonard, D.D., Oberlin, Ohio
In undertaking to tell something about the early work of the Home
Missionary Society in the Great Salt Lake Basin and the Territories
adjacent, it seems to be every way fitting, if not also even necessary, to
set forth from the beginning of civilized settlement upon the Pacific
Coast and throughout the Rocky Mountains — that vast region of which
the one more especially under view is only a fraction — and even to recall
in fewest words how it came to pass that, only a brief half-century ago,
the western half of this continent ceased to be foreign soil and was added
to the national domain. The entire story is altogether unique and most
thrilling, while the events to pass under rapid review belong among the
memorabilia of American history, and easily take rank with the chiefest of
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the many remarkable providences which from the first have attended our
career as a people. The date which stands above marks a veritable
epoch. It is no sentimental exaggeration of its importance to place 1846
even in the same category with 1620, 1776, and 1865. To justify such a.'
classification we have but to note how in what widely different realms
what forces were just then cooperating to produce momentous changes
by giving great enlargement and increase of resources to the Republic
and to the kingdom of God in the Western World.
It was in 1845 that Texas was annexed and admitted to the Union, with
the Mexican war following as consequence within a twelvemonth, whose out-
come was utter defeat and humiliation to our sister republic, with the loss
of about one-third of her territory. With slight difficulty New Mexico was
conquered and held by our arms, and during the same eventful summer
of California was transferred from Castilian to Anglo-Saxon hands almost
without the shedding of blood. It is sufficiently strange to see these vast
acquisitions so easily made, but the wonder grows when we remember it
was during the same year that a dispute long and bitter, between Great
Britain and the United States, and which more than once had seriously
threatened war ("Fifty-four forty, or Fight"), was ended by treaty, and
Oregon soon became ours beyond dispute. At the close of the Revolu-
tion, excepting Florida and a narrow strip along the Gulf, we possessed
the continent as far west as the Mississippi. Twenty years later, by the
purchase of Louisiana, our boundaries were extended to the remote crest
of the Rockies, the national domain was more than doubled, and reached*
about 1,800,000 square miles ; and now behold ! just seventy years after
the Declaration of Independence, including Texas and her claims, within
a few months our proportions expand to 3,000,000, almost equaling
Europe, and become truly imperial. The Stars and Stripes are supreme
from ocean to ocean, including a coast line of 2,500 miles upon the
Pacific. At a single bound America has attained to the estate of a first-
class power among the nations of the earth.
Though a mention in this august connection may appear absurd, an ,
event trifling by comparison, and yet important because of certain weighty
results which have flowed from it, should be referred to in passing.
About two decades before, in Western New York, the virus of Mormonism
had begun to gather and operate. The baleful center of the mischief
was soon removed to Ohio and Missouri, and finally to Illinois, where
the "prophet" Joseph Smith, in the midst of his preposterous schemes,
and for his evil deeds, was slain in 1844. Nor was it long after that life
in Nauvoo was found to be impossible for his deluded followers, and his
successor, Brigham Young, began search for a new place of refuge. The
report of Fremont's explorations beyond the mountains had just been
published, and the belief was kindled that the tempest-tossed Latter-day
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'Saints" could find their Canaan either in Oregon or Upper California,
>oth at the time non- American. As pioneers, early in 1846 a shipload of
Vlormons were dispatched from New York to San Francisco, via Cape
ilorn, and in due season reached their destination. Not many weeks
ifter long trains of wagons began to cross the Mississippi, pushed their
\ray across the empty spaces of Iowa, and halted for the season in the
iricinity of Council Bluffs, to raise a crop in preparation for the residue of
heir tremendous journey. While tarrying here a battalion of their young
nen were enlisted into the army, which was making ready for the subju-
gation of Northern Mexico. By the end of 1847 some thousands were
ixed in the vicinity of the Great Salt Lake, including the members of the
pattalion, who, after their discharge in California, had made their way
nto the valley. But, alas for the peace of mind of all these immigrants !
jince they left Nauvoo the entire Pacific slope had passed under the sway
)f the Government from which they had dared and endured so much to
escape. The important role which this outlandish company of religionists
arere providentially called to play in the settlement and development of
he whole Cordilleran region will appear in a later paragraph.
So much for some of the more striking events of the year under view.
A.nd next some words concerning their far-reaching results, and through
these their transcendent significance to the nation and the world. First,
by the discovery of gold so speedily ensuing, later of silver also, together
with mineral wealth in greatest variety and abundance, as well as of
agricultural resources almost without limit, a prodigious rush of popula-
tion ensued to the newly acquired realm — a migration of the masses which
for magnitude has never been equaled in the history of the race. It is
true that before 1846 a few thousand Americans had found their way into
the valley of the Columbia, and some hundreds had crossed the Sierras,
as it seemed then only by a journey to the very ends of the earth. But
when, in February, 1848, numerous glittering grains were discovered in
the gravel of Captain Sutter's mill-race (some ten days before this nine-
teenth century Ophir had become definitely ours by the signature of the
treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo), and the startling intelligence flew forth
far and wide, excited gold hunters by the ten thousand and the hundred
thousand began to pour in from the East and from all the wide world over,
up the Platte and over the mountains, across the Isthmus and around the
Horn. So that where hitherto had been but a wilderness as good as
unknown and empty of inhabitants, within two brief years a large popula-
tion was found, a new commonwealth had been set up and admitted into
the Union, and it had almost literally come to pass that a nation had been
born in a day.
And further, a most striking phenomenon appeared. Or, this complete
revolution was wrought in the order and method of migration and settle-
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ment in the New World. To be sure, a great watery "gap had been spannet
when the first colonists had crossed the Atlantic and established homes ii
the forests of the eastern border. But afterwards, when the area of settle
ment began slowly to enlarge, the furthest frontier was seldom at anj
considerable distance from the older communities ; only a few miles, ai
most but a few hundred. From Virginia there was emigration over intc
Tennessee and Kentucky ; from New England into New York, Ohio
Illinois, etc. It was in this natural, gradual, methodical way that the
seaboard and the eastern half of the Mississippi Valley had been peopled
The Missouri River now constituted our extreme limit towards the setting
sun. Iowa was the remotest of the sisterhood'of States, and the bulk of
its inhabitants were found within the eastern third of its area. Yet further
north the red man still held full possession. As late as 1847 St. Paul
contained but three white families. But a tremendous break was at hand
in this march of progress, so orderly and step by step for more than two
centuries. Of a sudden, by a prodigious leap, the frontier was shifted
over nearly two-thirds of the breadth of the continent, across the Great
Plains and the vast stretch of mountains, and was planted upon the
Pacific. More than 2,000 miles were left behind untouched and with
scarcely a white occupant. Nor was it long before a complete reversal!
was seen of the famed historic dictum, " Westward the course of empire
takes its way; " for by a refluent wave, the placers of California failing, a
wild chase ensued after gold diggings in Nevada, Utah, Colorado, as well
as in Idaho and Montana, so that these Territories were largely settled
from the West. Moreover, by this phenomenally rapid peopling of the
Pacific slope vastly improved means of communication were imperatively
demanded and became possible. By the end of the first decade from
1849 the overland stage line came into being, the pony express and the
telegraph soon after, and the Pacific Railroad before the close of the
second decade. Other lines have since been added, so that now all the
interior spaces have become easily accessible, and the entire national
domain will be inhabited sooner by fifty or even a hundred years.
It may well be, indeed it is more than likely to be, that the historian
who in future days reviews the course of development through which this
nation has passed will conclude that the chief significance of the period
we are now considering is not to be found in any of the facts yet noted,
but rather in this, that in extending our borders to include the western
slope, a magnificent and momentous outlook was secured towards the
East ; we became near neighbor to the Orient with its myriads, or at
length came to face the Old World no longer merely from across the
Atlantic, but from both sides of the continent. From henceforth we could
not remain isolated, but of necessity became a world-factor and a world-
force. In spite of ourselves we began to enter into closest intercourse
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ith humanity. How impressive the fact, it was less than a decade of
he date of the first hoisting of the Stars and Stripes in California that
ith the aspect of war, though with the spirit of peace in his heart, Com-
odore Perry knocked resolutely and most effectually at the long-sealed
afeates of Japan, and with astounding results for civilization and Christian-
ity. Who can doubt that it is in the Divine design that in some way our
simple, untrammeled faith, our intelligence, and in due season our civil
liberty also, yes, our democracy, are to spread and become universal ?
JThis lofty conception of our mission, this inspiring foregleam of unspeak-
able blessings to flow from this nation to lands beyond the Pacific, came
'early to some who stood upon the watch-towers of Zion, as the pages of
The Home Missionary declare as far back as 1849.
Such was the Lord's matchless and mysterious way of making this
nation to be not only big but also great; and it is marvelous in our eyes.
And of course the Gospel must be carried to this new region, the founda-
tions of the Kingdom of Heaven must be laid. Nor could it but be that
this sudden and colossal enlargement, this unprecedented transfer of
population across hundreds of leagues, should thrust rudely upon the
attention of the Society problems most novel and serious, and of magni-
tude so great as to be nothing less than appalling. In 1835 the "American
Board " had sent its representatives to Oregon. But what was then
foreign was now a portion of the home realm. Just twenty years before,
I the Society had been organized. Hitherto its task, though burdensome
by comparison with what was now at hand, was exceedingly tame, and
simple, and easy of performance. The field was not so very remote from
headquarters, and the new settlements, as to the character and occupations
of the inhabitants, were substantially like the old ones. But now the
distance to be traversed, judged by difficulties to be overcome, by the cost
in expenditure of time and money, was as great as that which separated
from Africa, India, or the Islands of the Sea. The work lay beyond the
pale of established society, of law, and almost of civilization. It was a
floating population, half crazed with thirst for gold. Few homes existed,
and womankind was well-nigh fatally absent. Roughness and vileness of
every description were everywhere, vice and crime were shameless and
rampant. Here at least it was true that emigration tends fearfully to
barbarism. But these were their brethren; they went out largely from
their homes, and their spiritual destitution was extreme. Those in charge
of the work at once perceived the situation, and rose grandly to the height
of the occasion.
Two other phenomena remain to be mentioned, which were part and
parcel of the outcome of the forces that wrought so famously in 1846. It
was wholly under the inspiration of the slave power that the Mexican war
was inaugurated and fought through, and that the northern provinces
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were seized and held. The free States were multiplying so rapidly tha
in order to maintain the balance of North and South in Congress, it wa
necessary to gain more slave territory in some direction, and such was t
be found only in the southwest. Out of Texas alone several States couli
be carved, while New Mexico and California would supply others whe
needed. Well, the plotters succeeded to the utmost of their desires, thei
conscienceless deed was done to perfection. And yet, behold how quickl
their jubilation was changed to grief ! It was even this their shinim
achievement which wrought their utter ruin. Instead of securing fo
their cherished institution an indefinite lease of life and a dominating in
fluence in the councils of the nation, its overthrow and annihilation wen
greatly hastened. Texas refused to be divided, and was the last State t<
be admitted with slavery. In 1850 the golden prize they sought upot
the Pacific came into the Union, but with freedom in its constitution.
Made desperate, the Missouri Compromise was repealed and the Fugitive
Slave Law was enacted, and a little later a plot was formed to capture
Kansas for bondage at all hazards. This however only sufficed to make
the struggle tenfold more bitter and the end came in secession, and rebel-
lion, and emancipation, and final victory at Appomattox. And thus did
the wrath of man praise God. Even so it was that the Republic was
helped forward prodigiously towards its glorious destiny.
And finally, another glance towards the Mormons is in order. Remem-
ber, it was to escape from restraint and even observation, to be free from
interference, to be allowed to do what was right and pleasant in their
own eyes, that they had set forth from Nauvoo, and the next year from
the Missouri. As things were just then, once through South Pass they
would be on soil both foreign and practically without ownership or ruler.
But alas! while tarrying to make ready for a final push across the plains
and mountains, the flag of the Union was raised in all the region about the
Golden Gate, and Oregon became American (the treaty was signed June
6th, the ratifications were exchanged July 7th, and the proclamation was
made August 5th). Yes, and the Mormon battalion had actually helped
to complete the conquest ! When Brigham Young made the final choice
of location for his church and kingdom, the Great Basin was still at least
nominally Mexican; but the next February ownership passed over to the
United States, and these would-be independents found themselves again
amenable to law. Next, with enterprise and energy worthy of a better
cause, these theocrats, to pluck victory from the jaws of defeat, made all
haste to secure a population sufficient and to gain statehood for Deseret,
extending from the Sierras to the Rockies But Congress deemed the
tutelage and subjection of a territorial estate more fitting to their case.
A little later, upon the discovery of the precious metals all about, hordes
of miners began to pour in, to be henceforth a sore thorn in the flesh.
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And when the swelling tide of emigration to the Sacramento and the San
rajjoaquin set in, for two full decades the Mormons supplied an exceedingly
tciconvenient, if not an absolutely essential, half-way house as a resting-
Iciplace and depot of supplies in the midst of those 2,000 miles of terrible
eni desert. Tens of thousands were thus helped on their laborious journey.
:ii|And then, as a final service to the nation which they hated and abhorred,
which like the other was not willingly bestowed but almost in spite of
themselves, their presence in Utah in large numbers made the construc-
tion of the railroad much more easily possible. For hundreds of miles
both east and west of Salt Lake it was Mormon muscle and Mormon
teams that performed the bulk of the labor of grading and track-laying.
And so it was that here again the wrath (and folly, and even iniquity) of
man was made to praise God, and the crazy schemes of pseudo-prophets,
apostles, and hierarchs were overruled to the substantial furtherance of
this nation and the Kingdom of Heaven.
TRIBUTE TO REV. WILLIAM A. McGINLEY
William Anderson McGinley was born February 15, 1831, in the
fifth generation of a Scotch-Irish family that have for 150 years occupied
the same home at Fairfield, near Gettysburg, Pa. He pursued his college
course at Gettysburg and Chambersburg. He read law, and was admitted
to the bar at Gettysburg afterward, about 1854 or 1855, and located in the
practice of law at Toledo, Iowa, then a rude frontier village. Becoming
interested in the religious work to which his after life was devoted, he
abandoned the practice of law, and for a short time taught Latin and
Greek at the then young University of Iowa, in Iowa City. Afterward, for
a time, while pursuing his theological studies, he lived on the Mississippi,
at Muscatine, Iowa.
During his life in that State at that early day, he contracted severe
malarial poisoning from the miasm consequent upon the breaking up of
the prairie soil, and perhaps owing to local conditions near the river,
from the effects of which he suffered much throughout his life. From
Iowa he went to Oberlin, Ohio, to pursue his preparation for the ministry,
and afterward graduated from Andover Theological Seminary about the
year 1858. In July, i860, he was married, at Dudley, Mass., to his devoted
wife, Eliza B. Fay, of Shrewsbury, Mass. His charges in the order of
time were: Shrewsbury, Mass., seven years; Newburyport, Mass., four
years ; Gloversville, N. Y., six years ; Brooklyn, N. Y., four years, where
he was pastor of the Ross Street Presbyterian Church, which he lifted out
of a crushing and theretofore hopeless state of indebtedness. Worn out
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with his labors there, he next took a charge at Greenfield, Mass., for a
year and a half ; thence in Portsmouth, N. H., for ten years. While there
he was chosen to deliver the sermon on an occasion of almost national
importance, the thanksgiving service to welcome back Lieutenant Greely
and the survivors of his Arctic expedition. Thence he moved to Empo-
ria, Kan., for two years, where he had a severe illness from grip, from
which he never fully recovered. Thence he returned to Shrewsbury,
Mass., for about three years, thus rounding out the cycle of his ministry
at the Atlantic coast at the place where he received his first charge and
married the wife of his youth. Finally, considerations of the health of
himself and relatives brought him to California.
He settled as pastor of this people May 24, 1895. His death occurred
in his home at Chula Vista, after an illness of some six weeks, at 10:30 a.m.,
on May 25, 1896, being the day following the close of his year's pastorate
here, and of his continuous service in the ministry the thirty-ninth.
During the Civil War he served as a member of the Christian Commis-
sion, and as such was engaged on the field of Antietam through the progress
of the battle, in the succor of the wounded and the consolation of the
dying. He also engaged in like work at Gettysburg, coming upon the field
just after the battle.
Almost a year ago this people gathered to receive him and his wife to
their pastorate. It fell upon me to give some expression to the people's
welcome and their joy. After giving some sketch of the founding and
growth of this community, I remember saying, among other things : " So
it has come to us that after eight years we have somehow, in the good
providence of God, received a settled pastor ; who is not here alone, not
an evening guest to depart on the morrow, but settled here with his
family."
Alas ! he has departed ; for him it is the eternal to-morrow. Many
now recall how he said, in his response, that he had long had the presentiment
that he should end his days on this coast. We little thought that it was a
prophecy to be so soon fulfilled.
Great as was our joy to receive him of whom we then knew so little,
how much profounder is our sorrow to part with him whom we soon learned
to admire, to love, and to honor so much !
It was no ordinary blessing that this community should for one golden,
though broken, year have been under the influence of this remarkable man.
From that early sermon by which he arrested our attention — in which he
said to us with the manly directness so characteristic of him : " I shall
speak as I believe ; do you think as you please " — we have found that we
were but being led into larger faith and into that larger liberty wherewith,
according to the apostle's conception. Christ makes us free — the liberty in
which he himself lived and loved and taught.
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The variety, the power, the exquisite harmony of his spoken discourse,
we shall in the time to come fondly recall ; upon his personal dignity and
,the grace and sweet charm of his personality we can, in the freshness of our
bereavement, not yet in spoken word bear to dwell — not now, while all
that through which they shone lies before us in the silent majesty of
death.
We must now surrender this dear body to be laid in the ancestral
ground. He loved us ; he loves us still. It is hard, very hard, for us to
say with the sorrowing one of old, but we will strive to say it, for he him-
self would have had us say it, " The Lord gave, the Lord hath taken
away ; blessed be the name of the Lord." H.
Chula Vista, Cal.
COMITY
The talk about another denomination crowding into a near-by town,
and yet another denomination trying to capture one of our missionary
schoolhouse congregations, reminds me of some of the "comity" I
have seen at the West. For instance, during grasshopper times I rode
eight miles, in all weathers, every other Sunday for a year, to preach to
a congregation in a schoolhouse. No one else cared enough for these
people to preach to them once during the year. I was then just from
the East, and did not know what I know now, so I made no attempt to
organize them — -simply preached the Gospel and visited the families.
At the end of the year a minister from another denomination preached
two of the alternate Sundays and organized most of the people into a
church of his sort.
In a neighboring town one of our brethren had preached for three
years, and then gave notice that on the following Sunday they would
have a council to organize a Congregational church. I was invited on
the council. On arriving I f»und that a minister of another denomina-
tion had come down on the previous Thursday night, and organized a
church of their order, though not one of them had ever preached a
sermon in that place.
We sent different men to look over another field. They decided that
there were more people belonging to our church than to any sister
church, and so reported. Our Superintendent of Missions sent word
that he would come on the Sunday after next, and at their desire gather
them into a Congregational church; but he never did, for on the next
Sunday the missionary of a sister denomination — who had been a book
agent, and was an unscrupulous man — went in and persuaded the people
not to wait, but to organize a church after his kind. And they did, on
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that Sabbath. At H. a Congregational church had been established
some years, and over $1,000 of missionary money had been put in by
our Society to aid it. An unscrupulous minister of another communion,
knowing that his own ecclesiastical body would not recognize the church;
if he organized it there, set up a church on his farm, a few miles out,l
and after it was recognized moved it into the town of 400 people, and
ran an opposition church there, to the discouragement of our brethren,] p
until his church ran out, and the good sense of the few that remained [1
led them to disband and unite with ours. I might add several more
such instances, but these will suffice to show how sometimes " comity " is
and has been forgotten, to the detriment of God's cause and kingdom. —
Cinereus.
TEMPORARY SUNDAY REST
Our " season " closed about a month ago, and for a few months now
we shall have a rest from Sunday excursions, etc. Our Sunday " attrac-
tions " outside the church and Sunday-school are too strong for many of
our own people to resist, and it is a sad thing to see how even professing
Christians join in the open desecration of the Sabbath. During the sum-
mer a dead whale was found floating in the ocean by some fishermen.
One of the railroad companies secured it, brought it ashore, advertised
it widely, and on Sunday 20,000 people came to see it. That night I
preached " Lessons from a Whale Story," and got a good congregation ;
and like the young minister of Drumtochty got a chance to " say a gude
word for Jesus Christ " to some who do not listen very often. We have
to do our work against such things — whales, balloons, swimming matches,
barbecues, etc., besides the ever-present saloon which " our best citizens "
declare a necessity. — California.
COMPULSORY SUNDAY LABOR
Our congregations do not grow. One cause especially is working not
only against our church but against all. The complaint is universal that
Sunday work is killing the congregations, even the oldest and strongest.
Men are compelled to work longer hours than ever before, and there is
much more work done on Sunday. Practically none of it is necessary in
the strict sense ; and careful investigation, I think, proves that most of it
could be dispensed with, with no pecuniary loss to the company. But
changes in the management have put into control men whose tendencies
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;« are largely in the wrong direction. There are men connected with our
!)J church who have not had a Sunday free from labor for three months, and
these instances are not isolated. The men cannot help themselves.
h To object is to lose their job, and that means starvation. I can say
nothing where it will do any good. The clergy of the town, without
regard to sect or language, united in an effort to lessen the amount of
Sunday work. They were received, without exception, in a gentlemanly
way, but accomplished absolutely nothing. The employment of men on
Sunday is forbidden by law in this .State, and the fine is twenty-five dol-
lars for each offense. But for us to offer to enforce the law would be to
bring the powers that be down on every member of our churches in their
employ. We do not feel ready to do that ; though we might, did we not
know that before we could fight the battle through all the courts, the em-
ployers would simply move on to Harrisburg and repeal the law. As it
is, the law is of some value, and there is a natural hesitation before
taking steps that may lose for us this little good. — Pennsylvania.
SELF-DENIAL FOR THE DEBT
The debt of our Home Missionary Society and the emergency now
before us has come to us all as a call for our best effort. I have
preached on Home Missions twice in the last three or four months. As the
day for our offering approached, I wrote a pastoral letter inclosing an enve-
lope and a generous selection of home missionary literature to each family
or person likely to give (even to some not so likely). Then on the Sun-
day morning I again presented the needs and called for the offering.
My wife and I said " Come / " on this ; then our Ladies' Society and about
thirty others gave enough to make fifty-three dollars. We are greatly
pleased, for it represents a good deal for our little church with no wealth
and much expense. One old lady over sixty had saved fifty cents in her
mite box. She got a chance to do some sewing for which she was paid
a dollar, and gave it also. A woman whose husband has been sick and out
of work for months, and who supports the family by dressmaking, gave a
dollar. From a family of six where the father depends on day work, a dollar.
A carpenter with four adults in the family, and often out of work, gave
a dollar and a half. A school-teacher who supports herself, her mother,
and an aged aunt, and who had no school all last year, sends five dollars.
I stand my share. Have worn my best coat three and a half years, and
will probably have to use my straw hat all winter. Some papers must
go, and some needed books remain unpurchased. — California,
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"SICK, AND YE VISITED ME"
This mission field, like many others, is new, and the most of the peo-
ple here are beginners. On this account much of the missionary's time
and strength are taken up in visiting the sick and poor in their lowly homes,
and helping them with what clothing we can spare to defend them from |
the coming cold winter.
I should like to take one of the friends of Home Missions along with
me for a little trip. Going through the woods a few miles we find a little
cottage. We rap at the door, and the weak voice of a child bids us
" Come in." As we enter we see one, two, three, four, five children, the
eldest not yet ten years old ; their clothing is shabby, the parents are so
poor. Why are they poor ? From sickness. The house-mother has lain
sick in bed about six months, and we find that it is our duty to help this
poor family as well as to talk to them of Christ's love for us.
We visit another family. The husband is out working. "The wife is
sick in bed with consumption and her strength all gone. A little child
two months old is by her side crying and wanting help. Two little
children are on the floor playing, trying to enjoy themselves as best they
can. We talk with their mother and find that she has little or no bed
clothing for the family. Some of. them have to spend their nights by the
side of the sick wife. So one must help them get the needed articles to
make them comfortable. While I was writing these lines, I received word
that this sick mother had moved away to a better home where there is no
sickness, need, or trouble. The condition of many other families is not
unlike these, but I have not space to write about them now. — Minnesota.
IN NEED OF CHRISTIAN WORK
I was never before in a community whose morals were so bad. The
prevailing sins are drunkenness and impurity. Both are very difficult to
attack — the latter from its nature, and the former because of the almost
universal prevalence of drinking customs and the high social standing of
the saloon business. Public and promiscuous dancing, masquerade balls,
cards, and billiards are the amusements of the people, and are followed
assiduously by almost every one. All kinds of characters frequent the
ballroom without discrimination, and parents send or take their children
of tender age and allow them to participate. Even the church fair of
the people on a recent Saturday evening closed with a grand ball
continuing till five o'clock Sunday morning. No wonder that men and
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women, young and old, boys and girls, are being rapidly drawn down
into this vortex of corruption and ruin. I almost feel sometimes that I
am a foreign missionary. You can partly know how deeply we feel the
need of the earnest and continuous prayers of Christian people, and we
do most earnestly entreat them Such conditions as prevail here will
require the patient and faithful work of years to overcome, or else such
a sudden and gracious outpouring of the Holy Spirit as we hope and pray
may come soon. — California.
"FATHER NICHOLS"
On the eighth of October, at Mission Hill, South Dakota, with music,
feasting, congratulatory addresses from ministers and laymen, and read-
ing of poems and letters from friends in twelve States and the District of
Columbia, was joyfully celebrated the eightieth anniversary of the birth of
Rev. Danforth B. Nichols. His varied life, from his birth in the home
of a poor miller and his wife in Rehoboth, Mass., to this eightieth anni-
versary in the then unknown faraway " land of the Dakotas," has been
one of genuine romance. In boyhood his health was poor ; after a brief
course in the district school he was apprenticed to a tailor, and afterwards
learned something of the baker's trade— two branches of learning that
later stood him in good stead when compelled to work his way through
college and into the ministry. For to college he went — two colleges,
indeed : first to Granville, then to Oberlin, into which he walked from
Elyria, where he left the stagecoach and his trunk, being unable to pay
his fare beyond that point. Here he supported himself while pursuing his
studies by sawing, splitting, and piling wood, watching and milking cows,
making children's wagons and wheelbarrows, weeding professors' gar-
dens, tending their wives' babies, acting as college baker, mending
clothes and shoes for the students. Not only did he pay his way, but
boasted that, by good financiering, he increased his capital 150 per cent.,
having entered Oberlin with ten cents in his pocket and leaving it at his
graduation with twenty-five !
After teaching schools in Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana for eight
years, he was licensed to preach, and in 1849 was commissioned at
the hands of our former secretary, Dr. Milton Badger, as a Home Mis-
sionary in Warren, Iowa. Here he not only preached, but, among other
offices, was postmaster, member of the schoolboard, notary public, church
and pulpit builder, church painter, etc., with a salary of $250, and all he
could use of beets, hay, cabbages, and potatoes.
Later he was Western Secretarv for Iowa and Illinois of the Massa-
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chusetts Sabbath-School Society, city missionary in Chicago, founder and
first superintendent of its Reform School, searched a good part of Europe
for facts concerning pauperism and crime, became superintendent of the
Michigan Reform School, and carried its fever and ague to Scituate,
Mass., where he taught a classical school. The civil war took him to South
Carolina as teacher and preacher to the freedmen. There he was
made superintendent of " contrabands " in Washington ; had charge of
the land abandoned by the rebels in Arlington, where he supervised five
camps and 6,000 men. Then he was in the third auditor's office of the
Treasury Department ; next, superintendent of buildings, and later a cor-
porator, trustee, librarian, curator of the museum, and finally lecturer
in the theological department of Howard University, from the medical
department of which he was graduated in its first class. The years
1874 to 1880 were given to preaching in Illinois, whence in 1880 he went
as pastor to Bon Homme, Dakota (Territory), where he built another
church. Thence making his way in 1887 to Mission Hill, he undertook
the pastorate of the new Congregational church, which he is still most
acceptably serving, not having in all these years missed a single sermon,
nor being tardy at one service.
This space has been given to the career of our beloved and respected
" Father Nichols," that our readers may see and honor a specimen of the
Massachusetts Yankee transplanted to the West. Long may he still live
to preach Christ to his loving people ; to allure them to brighter worlds,
and lead the way.
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS
By Mrs. C. L. Goodell, Boston
[The following is an extract from the annual address of Mrs. Goodell as President
of the Woman's Home Missionary Association, in Boston, October 28, 1896. Her
general theme was " Self-Denial for Christ's Sake." After commending self-denial as
expressed in dress, in thank offerings, New Year's offerings, and birthday offerings, she
comes to treat at greater length of Christmas offerings. Her suggestions in this line we
quote and commend to our readers because of their Christian good sense and timeliness.
—Ed.]
Lastly in this golden chain come the Christmas offerings, the glad
song and vision of the angels brightening with the nearer blessed realiza-
tion, " Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward
men ! " It is this offering we are next approaching to which I wish to call
your special attention to-day, for it has been borne in upon me for some
time past that there is one way in which we may unite and strengthen one
another to increase our offering to missions this year.
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At the risk of being criticised for meddling with time-honored cus-
oms, I would suggest that, for once at least, we break away from our
labit of exchanging Christmas presents with our nearer friends and
elatives, and place the amount, more or less, we should otherwise spend
or this purpose in the Lord's treasury.
This at first may shock your sense of propriety, and you may say
I can't be done. But let us look at the matter candidly for a moment,
md see if some light does not break in. We will suppose a typical case,
tlere is a lady blessed with a family of her own — a husband, and three
or four children, perhaps. Not far away are the families of her beloved
Darents and of her brothers and sisters, forming a group of uncles and
iunts and cousins and nieces and nephews almost without number —
:he more the better when they come to the Christmas gathering or tree,
[n addition to these of kin, she has a circle of choice and intimate friends
-friends, it may be, of the years — who have always been included in her
hristmas benefactions, and who in turn favor her in like manner. All of
these dear ones must be " remembered " with some gift adapted in style
and value to the age and supposed taste and predilection of each.
As the time approaches she carefully makes out her list and plans for
one after another separately, spending days of thought over the matter.
Then come the selection and purchase, and finally the arranging of the
numerous parcels securely for the mails or other conveyance. In all this
she finds infinite delight, of course. Her own heart is kindled and other
hearts respond through the medium of these material gifts, and Christ-
mas joys are multiplied in many homes. Granting this to be true, and
the custom well worth perpetuating to a wholesome extent, yet I long to
jshow unto you a more excellent way. Let me repeat my suggestion.
It is this : that for once we break away from our habit of exchanging
Christmas presents with our nearer friends and relatives, and place the
amount we should otherwise spend for this purpose in the Lord's treasury.
This suggestion will, of course, allow of all proper limitations, such
as would affect those about us in need or destitution, or who are in any
measure dependent upon us for cheer or help. Narrowing the circle
down as much as we may wish, there will still be left ample opportunity
for carrying out this plan.
If our typical lady adopts it, think what it will mean in her own case,
just in dollars and cents, saying nothing of the real joy of her sacrifice
for Christ's sake — for we will grant it did cost her a "bit of a struggle.
Then if others follow her lead by the tens and hundreds, who can com-
pute the sum thus diverted from a lower to a higher end, or the astonish-
ing figures that will tell the story of the wonderful increase to our mis-
sionary treasury in this year cf pressure ? Why, there is not one of
j us but would be so happy and proud (I use this word in a sanctified
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sense) over the result, that we should wonder we had never attempted it
before !
This plan, if carried out, I hear you say, will necessitate some adjust-
ing in its details. Yes, we shall want to enlist as many of our friends as
possible beforehand, acquaint them with our project, and get them to join!
us in it, so that their gifts to us may be withheld for the same reason that
ours will be withheld from them. We can easily arrange a mutual under-
standing with them, whereby we shall agree simply to send each other a
brief, personal, written word of greeting at Christmas time, expressive of
our love and good wishes, and which shall this year take the place of the
customary Christmas present.
Think of this, my friends. It will grow upon you, I am sure. And
if you decide to join and help make it a general thing, it will insure yo
one of the happiest and most joyous of all your Christmas seasons ! No
would I leave out of our reckoning the large number of young people
and children in our mission circles. Let us offer them this privilege too
When the plan, now so nearly universal, was first introduced into our
Sunday-schools of substituting Christmas offerings for the needy in place
of the Christmas tree bending under the weight of presents for our own
children, do you not remember with what alacrity and zeal they entered
in ? Surely there was no more beautiful sight than that of class after
class marching up the aisle in quick succession, with glowing faces and
laden hands, carrying their gifts and bestowing them upon God's altar.
Would they not be just as ready to adopt a plan such as I have proposed ?
ANSWER TO A LETTER ABOUT BOXES
By Mrs. Flora K. Regal
You think that if all the churches write for a family to work for, we
must have more barrels than families. This would be so, indeed, if the socie-
ties were easily suited. Most of them, however, want the regulation family
of about six girls and a baby. As we do not manufacture these families, it
is impossible to supply the demand. On the other hand, we have quite
an army of families which the societies, as a general thing, do not wish
for. These are families where there are boys, no small children, foreign-
ers, families where there are no children, and families where the measures
do not suit — the man perhaps being too tall and the wife too stout. I will
not take your time to enumerate other defects which fill our lists with
what we call " undesirable families." They may be the salt of the earth,
but they are simply unfortunate in failing to please a ladies' society.
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" 3ne other qualification is absolutely necessary. The missionary must be
ible to write an " interesting letter " which will keep up the enthusiasm
I }f the ladies.
You see I have taken you behind the scenes a little bit to show you
1 ivith what we at the office contend. You will find a " family blank "
nclosed. If you should elect to ask me to send you a blank in addition
po this of some " undesirable family," I shall feel that this message is not
?ent in vain.
And now I come to the last sentence of your letter, which to me
;ouches a vital point :
" If you feel that the expense, time, and energy we spend on our barrel
would better be spent in raising money, please be free to tell us so."
I suppose you know that the only interest which hundreds of women
eel in Home Missions is the box interest. It is impossible to raise them
:o a higher level. We must take them where they are, and let them
;ew for the missionary until, through his letters, he shall raise them to a
ligher interest in his work, and they shall be willing to make some
acrifice to add money to the work of their hands. You will be glad to
know that hundreds of women not only sew for the missionary, but also
help to pay his salary. Within three years, more than $50,000 have
come in for salaries for those who were at the same time ministering to
the personal needs of the missionary.
I am very anxious to have some society take the lead in sending
money to a missionary in place of the box, or in addition to it, allowing
him through this gift to supply some special needs. Of course there are
families who must have the box. Mothers with little children to clothe,
need it. Mothers who through ill-health cannot work for their families.
Our missionaries in the South need the box. Also the foreign mission-
aries ; also those who live far away from stores, and those who live where
prices are exorbitant. But there are families consisting of the father
and mother and one child, or families without children, where fifty or a
hundred dollars would be a godsend.
FOR OUR ARMY BOYS AND GIRLS
Let us take you out to the frontier and show you how much your
money is needed. You won't mind the long journey across the country,
past the beautiful fields and plains, the lakes and rivers, and wonderful
mountains and valleys, etc.
At one place on the way you would have seen, a few years ago, a
queer little log house which has a story. The people here wanted a
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church, more than you can imagine, but had no money. They did have,
however, strong hands and hearts and ever so much pluck. One day they
picked out a piece of ground for the church. The boys and girls got
some knives and began to cut down the small bushes, while the men took
their axes and cut down the large ones. The women helped, too. You
would have enjoyed that picnic ! When the land was cleared, the men
who had horses went to the woods and drew some logs to the clearing.
The boys and girls scrambled upon those logs, and began to pull off the
bark. The strong men built the house of the peeled logs and put the
bark on top for a roof. Because every man and woman, every boy and
girl helped, the church was built in a very short time.
But what could they do for seats (for they had no money to buy chairs) ?
However, you may be sure they weren't going to give up for want of money /
They took some slabs and cut them into the right length for seats. Then
they bored holes in these slabs and put sticks in for legs. The pulpit was
also made of slabs. But the minister must have something better than a
slab seat in the pulpit — he must have a chair. So they found an empty
flour barrel and scooped it out for a chair. They covered this with some
green cloth, and set it in the pulpit for the minister. How they loved
that little church ! What pride the boys and girls had in it because they
helped build it ! How glad they were to have a minister ! Could they
pay him much ? No, they were very poor. It was because you and
others gave us your money that they could have this good missionary for
their pastor. They have a nice large church now, and can pay their own
minister and help us to send missionaries to other needy places.
And now we will go on and on, quite across the country, until we find
ourselves away out in Wyoming. Here is a nice town, where there is a
fine Sunday-school of as bright boys and girls as ever you saw. There is
a nice church building, too, but if only you could have seen this place a few
years ago !
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS
April $11,428.79
May 5,S66.47
June S, 713.88
July 14,350.84
August 3,460.00
September.... 9,148.64
October 7,115.88
1
FOR DEBT
LEGACIES
TOTAL
$5,093.08
$2,687.84
$19,209.71
3,834-45
6,180.76
15,881.68
3,506.6l
2,502.22
14,722.71
2,I2I.OO
9,772.20
26,244.04
487.56
2,167.21
6,114.77
6IO.OO
5-775-99
15,534-63
218.85
1,646.85
8,981.58
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TO THE FRIENDS OF HOME MISSIONS
Seven months of the Congregational Home Missionary Society's year
ire now gone, and during that time the receipts have been $110,000 less
han in the same months last year, a decline of more than one-half. Of
his falling off, $65,000 were in donations and $45,000 in legacies.
During a part of this period the Society has been unable to borrow
noney even on good security. The consequence has been that our
nissionaries have had to wait weeks and even months for their salaries,
thing unknown in recent years. Large numbers of them are still
vaiting, and the Society having now reached the limit of its credit at
;he banks, has no recourse but to its friends.
The average receipts of the last five years, including two years of
Dusiness depression, had been $447,000. The Committee, therefore, felt
3afe in making a reduced apportionment of $417,000 for the work of the
year. But no foresight could provide against so enormous a deficiency
in the receipts.
To meet the emergency the Committee have, first, sought to cut
iown expenditures, endeavoring to save as much as possible from the
present limited apportionment. They have also appropriated to the work
of the current year the entire remainder of the Stickney legacy, which
seems to have been provided providentially for the present crisis, than
iwhich none other more serious is likely to occur. This exhausts all
available funds. There is no legacy or reserve of any kind upon which
'we can henceforth depend. Nothing can avert intense suffering on the
part of our missionary brethren and another burdensome debt at the end
of the year but prompt and generous collections from the churches and
large and self-denying individual gifts.
Once more the great home missionary enterprise, which is not ours,
but the Master's, is thrown upon Christian hearts. We are involved in an
exigency that suggests renewed consecration, confession, and prayer.
May we not hope that in the closet, at the missionary concert, and in the
public services of God's house these precious interests may be re-
membered, and that, in these times of returning prosperity, earnest
supplications, with thanksgiving, may precede and accompany the
riches of our liberality as those riches are poured out in noble and
generous gifts ? The need is real and it is urgent.
In behalf of the Executive Committee :
Jos. B. Clark, )
Wm. Kincaid, - Secretaries.
Washington Choate, )
Bible House, N. Y., November 15, 1896.
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APPOINTMENTS IN OCTOBER, 1896
Not in commission last year
Abram. George, Coal Creek. Colo.
Baker, William H., Portsmouth, Ohio.
Blomquist, C. F.. Fosston. Minn.
Brooks, Raymond C, Eugene, Ore.
Comin, John, Chamberlain, Oacoma, and Puk-
wana, So. Dak.
Gray, John, Howard and Vilas, So. Dak.
Halsall, Evan, Melville, No. Dak.
Hawkes, Albert S., Mountain Home, Idaho.
Heathcote. Arthur Slade, Hermosa, Red Earth,
and Fairburn, So. Dak.
Schvvimley, William A., Green River, Wyo.
Simmons, Daniel A., Boggy and Portland, Fla.
Smith, Charles W., Flagler. Colo.
Smith, G. Byron, Iberia, Mo.
Wheeler, Edgar C., Ellensburgh, Wash.
Re- com m issioned
Arnett, Samuel G., St. Paul, Minn.
Billings, Charles S., Los Angeles, Cal.
Bjuge. Carl B., Minneapolis, Minn.
Bormose, Niels N., Philadelphia. Penn.
Burleigh, B. W., Mitchell, So. Dak.
Chancy. Nathan B., Bonifay, Fla.
Crane, E. Payson, Pelican Rapids, Minn.
Diven. C. L., Olympia, Wash.
Drew, J. B., St. Paul, Minn.
Ellis, Leighton A., Vinita, Ind. Ter.
Harris, Robert N., Mt. Carmel, Penn.
Henshaw, Thomas D., Spring Creek and West
Spring Creek, Penn.
Herr, Horace D., Fredonia, Kan.
Hershner, John L., Hood River, Ore.
Hull. George H., Jetmore and Rush Center, Kan.
Jelinek, Joseph, Milwaukee, Wis.
Jenkins, John J., Glen Lyon and Wanamie, Penn.
Jensen, Julius A., Atlanta, Ga.
Jones, James Lincoln, Carrington, No. Dak.
Keller, Lewis H., Minneapolis, Minn.
Lindsay, George. Salt Lake City, Utah.
Melton, Jesse J., Warnell and Panasoffkee, Fla.
Miller, Henry G., New York City, N. Y.
Miller, Louis, Holly, Fla.
Pierson, William, St. Joseph, Mo.
Ritchie, George, General Missionary in Utah.
Trutna, Miss Frances, Braddock, Penn.
Van Wagoner, A. J., Carthage, Mo.
Waldrop, Isaac M., Alanthus, Collyer, Fairview,
Western. Macon, and Wallace, Kan.
Wheeler, Sheldon Harley, Compton, Cal.
RECEIPTS IN OCTOBER, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 425 to 429
MAINE-$i8.7i.
Bluehill, Miss A. Peters, Ss : Ladies'
Mission Circle, $i, by Mrs. R. G.
Lord
Eliot, First, by W. L. Fernald
Wells, First, by Rev. N. M. Bailey. . .
$6 00
4 41
8 30
NEW HAMPSHIRE -$1,053.95; of
which legacy, $1,000.
Candia, by Mrs. E. Hill 7 27
Chester, P. A. Mills 5 00
Concord, A Friend 5*00
Durham, by L. Thompson 3018
Keene, Legacy of Mrs. M. A. Merrill,
by C. H. Whitney 1,000 00
New Ipswich, Proceeds from Fair, by
Mrs. C. Wheeler 5 50
Orford, A Friend, Union Meeting
Cong. Ch 1 00
VERMONT-$io.2o.
Middlebury. L D. Eldredge
Rochester, by W. C. Tyler, Treas. Vt.
Dom. Miss. Soc
Shoreham, Miss I. G. Birchard
MASSACHUSETTS — $1,361.66 ;
which legacy. $500.
of
Mass. Home Miss. Soc. by Rev. E B.
Palmer, Treas.:
By request of donors, of which Sal-
ary Fund, $67 ; Rally, $96.05
9 2Q
5 00
166 72
Woman's H. M. Asso., Miss A. C.
Bridgman. Treas. :
For Salary Fund $74 00
Springfield, Memorial Ch.
Aux., for Salary Fund ... 20 00
$94 00
Amherst. Amherst College Faculty,
by Prof. E. A. Grosvenor, Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor 100
Amherst College, add'l, by L. H.
Elwell 25
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary Fund. 50
Curtisville, A Friend 10
Dorchester, Second, by Miss E. Tol-
man 145
East Brookfield, A Friend 1
Lowell, Eliot Ch., by J. Howard, to
const. J. H. Haworth a L. M 50
Lynn, Legacy of J. Porter Woodbury,
by C. J. H. Woodbury and G. H.
Martin, Exs 500
Medford, Mystic S. S., by L. W. War-
ren 22
Northampton, Dorcas Soc. of the
First, by Mrs. J. E. Clarke, for Sal-
ary Fund 62
Norton. Trin. Ch., by S. H. Cobb .... 8
Salem, Young Ladies' Miss'y Soc. of
the Tabernacle Ch., by S. U. Chap-
man, for the debt 2
South Framingham, Rev. W. G. Pud-
defoot 30
Springfield. Hope Ch., by R. R. Upson 48
Miss M. C Merriam, by E. B. Mer-
riam 15
S. C. Burnham 5
Westboro, Y. P. S. C. E., for Salary
Fund, by Rev. H. A. Scliaumer 15
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Worcester, H. B. Smith and Mrs. H.
N. Smith
A Friend, from the O. S. Ch
A Member of Plymouth Ch., by F.
W. Chase
RHODE ISLAND— $515.00
R. I. H. M. Soc., by J. William Rice,
Treas
Kingston, S. S., for Salary Fund, by
Rev. C. W. Shelton
West Kingston, Mrs. J. G. Clarke, by
B. E. Helme
CONNECTICUT— $1,969.05 ; of which
legacy, $50.
Miss. Soc, of Conn., by Rev. W. H.
Moore
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas. :
Bridgeport, Benev. Fund of
South Ch., Mrs. M. L.
Higby, Treas., for Salary
Fund $57 89
Milford, First. Ladies'
Benev. Union, by Mrs. C.
A. Nettleton, for Salary
Fund 5 00
New Preston Hill, Aux., by
Mrs. D. C. Peet, for Salary
Fund 3 00
Norfolk, S. A. Selden, col-
lector, for Salary Fund . . . 106 00
$5 °°
2 50
500 00
10 00
5 00
187 92
171 89
Bridgeport, Second, by O. H. Broth-
well , 63 45
Bristol, by L. G. Merick 46 50
S. S., by J. E. Beckwith 25 20
Chester, by Rev. A. Hall "75
Clinton, S. S., by J. M. Wellman 1000
Colchester, L. T. Destin 2 00
East Haven, by Miss L E. Street 26 00
Fairfield, Friend B., Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Goshen, by Mrs. D. Ostrom 100 67
Mrs. M . Lyman 10 00
Greenwich. Second, by I. L. Mead. . . 193 89
Hartford, Park Ch., by W. E. Smith. . 50 73
Miss E. R. Hyde 40
Mansfield, Second, by B. F. Koons... n 60
Milford, First, by G. J. Smith 24 41
New Britain, L. J. Pease 50 00
New Haven, United Ch., by C. E. P.
Sanf ord 450 00
A Friend 5 00
New London, First, by H. C. Learned 60 59
Norwich, bal. for the debt, Rally 1 85
Plainville, by M. S. Corning. 34 91
Putnam, Second, by E. F. Whitmore. 79 67
Rockville, G. Angell 1 00
Salisbury, by T. F. Dexter 14 00
Southport, by R. W. P. Bulkley 93 41
Suffield, James P. Pierce, by Mrs. G.
Follett, Sec. W. H. M. U. of Conn.. 50
Thomaston, First, by H. A. Welton.. 8 75
West Hartford, by E. S. Elmer 16 57
Windsor, Legacy of Mrs.L. A. Jenner,
by N. W. Hayden. Ex 50 00
First, $60 ; S. S., $6.39, by S. H.
Barber 66 39
Erratum : Suffield, Conn., Mrs. L. H.
Hall, for Salary Fund, $25, should be
credited to Longmont, Colo. Errone-
ously ack. under Woman's H. M. Union,
Conn., in November Home Missionary.
NEW YORK— $692.36; of which leg-
acy, $28.10.
Received by Rev. E. Curtis :
Canaan Four Corners $3 00
Coventryville, Rev. R. C.
Lansing 25 co
East Ashford 1 50
Harpersfield 525
Otisco, Y. P. S. C. E 700
Syracuse, Plymouth S. S... 10 94
Goodwill S. S 5 00
Rev. E. Curtis 10 00
Volney 15 00
82 69
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall, Treas.:
Brooklyn, Mrs. S. V. White $100 00
Cortland 25 00
Silver Circle 5 00
Middletown, Ladies' Guild. 500
Mt. Vernon, Special 1000
Oswego 5 00
Riverhead, Aux 19 68
Saugerties, L. H. M. S., for
the debt 10 00
179 68
Brooklyn, J. A. Brainard 7 00
Eldred, E. B. Wilson 1 00
Flushing, by W. H. Lendrum 62 47
Jamestown, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First,
in full, to const. Mrs. H. C Marvin
a L. M., by Mrs. S. A. Baldwin 10 00
Lancaster, O. A. Hall 83
Morrisania, Forest Avenue Ch., by
Rev. W. S. Woolworth 8 90
New Haven, by Rev. S. Johnson, to
const. Mrs. M. J. Daggett a L. M. . . 50 03
New York State, Two Friends 55 00
Orient Point, A Friend 5 00
Port Chester, " H. M. Silver Circle,"
Mrs. C. O. Banks 5 00
Pulaski, by G. L. Sherwood 5 00
Richford, Harvest Festival, by W. J.
Hutchinson 31 00
Salamanca, First, by W. H. Hazard.. 11 24
Sherburne, First, by G. W. Lathrop.. 124 26
Warsaw, by F. W. Relyea 16 66
Willsborough, Estate of Mrs. S. A.
Stower, by A. J. B. Ross 28 10
Woodville, by J. H. Wood 8 50
NEW JERSEY— $274.80.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
• Asso., Mrs. J. H. Denison,
Treas. :
Montclair, First, for Salary
Fund $250 00
Westfield 21 70
271 70
East Orange, Swedish Ch., by Rev.
A. P. Nelson - 3 10
PENNSYLVANIA-$i24.28.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. T.
W. Jones, Treas. :
Riceville
Allegheny, First, by A. H. Claflin
Braddock. by Rev. H. A. Schauffier. . .
Cambridgeboro, First, by G. W.
Rhodes
Canton, Henry Sheldon
Centerville, by E. E. Clark....
Corry, S. S., by Rev. T. W. Jones. . . .
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Lander, Alfred Cowles, by S. E.
Grassie
Minersville, S. S. of the First, by D.
W. Rowlands
Mt. Carmel, S. S., by M. Davis
Wilkesbarre, Tabernacle Ch., by Rev.
E. G. Heal
MARYLAND-$4.26.
Baltimore, Canton Ch., by Rev. T. M.
Beadenkoff
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA— $20.00.
Washington, Fifth Ch., $jo ; Y. P.
S. C. E., $10, by B. N. Seymour
VIRGINIA-$6.45.
Falls Church, Young members of the
First, thro, the Y. P. S. C. E., by A.
C. Rorebeck
4 5°
9 34
4 26
6 45
Shelby, Ch. of the Covenant, by Rev.
A. T. Clarke $27 7c
Talladega, The Little Helpers, by
Mrs. E. C. Silsby 5 oc
Ch., $2.24; S. S., $4.05, by Rev. E.
C. Silsby 625
Verbena and Clanton, by Rev. J. R.
Crowson 1 00
FLORIDA-$73.65.
Avon Park, by Rev. F. D. Rood 21 00
Boggy and Portland, Chs., by Rev.
D. A. Simmons 115
Bonifay, by Rev. G. Lee 4 00
Holley, by Rev. L. Miller 3 00
Longwood and Palm Springs, by Rev.
G. W. Hardaway 3 00
Orange City, by Rev. J. C. Halliday.. 39 25
Potolo and Caryville, by Rev. E. A.
Buttram 1 25
Wausau and Coatsville, by Rev. S. B.
Judd 1 00
OKLAHOMA-
GEORGlA-$n6.37.
Received by Rev. S. C. McDaniel :
Barnesville $66 50
Baxley, Friendship Ch 500
McDonald's Mill 5 00
Amandaville, Liberty Ch., by Rev.
M. G. Fleming
Atlanta, Duluth Ch., by Rev. W. F.
Brewer
Baxley, Friendship Ch., by Rev. G.
N. Smith
Columbus, by Rev. G. \V. Cumbus...
Conyersand Meansville, by Rev.R. C.
Manley
Glenmore and Dupont, by Rev. T.
Pitman
Ft. Valley, by Rev. J. F. Blackburn..
Hoschton, $2 ; Conyers, $3 ; Teazle,
$2, by Rev. J. C. Forrester
North Rome, by Rev. J. W. Gilliam.
Oxford, Sardis Ch., by Rev. H. E.
Newton
Suches, by Rev. J. Spriggs
ALABAMA— $63.19.
Art, Blackwood, and Wicksburg, by
Rev. M. V. Marshall
Bluff Spring and New Site, by Rev.
J. M. Gipson
Dadeville and Oak Ridge, by Rev. J.
Matthews
Echo, Judah Ch., by Rev. S. R.
Branan
Hurricane, by Rev. G. Lee
Jackson's Gap, Liberty Ch., by Rev.
E. B. Gunn
Kingston, by Rev. W. C. Culver
Opelika, Mt. Jefferson, by Rev. J. S.
Holt
Perote, $2 ; Phoenix City, $2, by Rev.
L. J. Biggers
Portersville and Ten Broeck, by Rev.
J. M. Dobbs
Roberta and Magdalena, by Rev. G.
Home
Rose Hill and Alton, by Rev. T. A.
Pharr
Salem, 50 cts.; New Harmony, 25 cts.;
Fairview, 25 cts., by Rev. G. W.
Vaughan
76 50
5 00
4 00
7 00
1 00
5 00
1 00
I
60
4
00
5°
1
1
70
6o
1
5°
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55
4
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75
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00
I
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Park and Tabor, by Rev. J. F. Rob-
berts
Soldier Creek and Pleasant Valley, by
Rev. O. G. Le Grande '.
Tecumseh, by Rev. L. B. Parker
Waynoka and Belleview, by Rev. J.
W. McWilliams
2 50 ARIZONA— $289.70.
2 00 Arizona, A Friend.
Prescott, First
OHIO— $892.47.
Received by Dr. J. G. Fraser :
Castalia, by Rev. C. H.
Powell $1300
Chillicothe, Ladies' Guild,
special, by Rev. E. E.
Scovill 5 00
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by Justin Snow 41 31
Pilgrim, by H. C. Holt... 60 00
Lakewood, by Rev. H. A.
N. Richards 3 73
Columbus, Walter A. Snow 3 00
Hudson, by Miss E. E. Met-
calf 1000
Huntington. W. Va., by J.
Clare..... 6 60
Lorain, First, by W. B.
Whitehouse 10 66
Mansfield, F. E. Tracy 100 00
Mrs. R. L. Avery, special. 5 00
Mantua, Friends, by Miss
C.M.Davis 200
New Castle, Pa., by Rev.
W. R. Evans 3 00
Rochester, by E. L. Cum-
mings 4 25
Ruggles, Ch. and Y. P. S.
C. E., by Rev. A. Bowers,
in full to const. Harvey
Sackett a L. M 4S 83
Steubenville. H. G. Dohr-
man. special 2 00
Strongsville. by R. Gibbons. 8 00
Vermilion, by Rev. J. A.
Kaley 3 20
Windham, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by M. Goodrich 500
2 50
2 53
200 00
89 70
331 58
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Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land.:
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by Justin Snow $1500
Ruggles, Ch. and Y. P. S.
C. E., by Rev. A. Bow-
ers 12 50
$27 50
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
G. B. Brown, Treas.:
Andover $4 00
Austinburg 5 00
Belpre, Bible Readers
School and Home 3 00
Charlestown, for Salary
Fund 2 00
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
Bible Readers School. 30 00
Y.P.S.C.E 300
Pilgrim, W. A., for Bi-
ble Readers School
and Home 700
Franklin Avenue, for
Salary Fund 2 63
Hough Avenue, for Sal-
ary Fund 3 54
Lakewood, C. E., for
Bible Readers Home. 2 60
Cortland, Bible Readers
Home 500
Elyria, Y. P. S. C. E 500
Fairport Harbor, H. and
F. M. S 5 00
Hudson 3 00
Jr. C. E 5 00
Oberlin, Second, L. S.
Gen. Work of O. H. M.
S., $10 ; B. M. B., $10 20 00
S. S., for Salary Fund. 20 00
Painesville, Y. L. M. S.,
Bible Readers Home... 10 00
Pittsfield, Bible Readers
Home 2 50
Sandusky, W. M. Union. 8 00
Springfield 4 00
Toledo, Central, W. M. U. 2 72
Unionville, Y. P. S. C.
E., for Salary Fund 2 65
West Andover, for Salary
Fund 3 00
$158 64— $18
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas. :
Cincinnati, Walnut Hills,
Dime Banks of Mr. and
Mrs. C. Robinson, Mrs.
M.Turner $1000
Columbus, Eastwood,
Dime Bank of Mrs. B.
Brook and K. Early 10 00
Mansfield, First, pime
Bank of Miss D. Waugh. 5 00
Marysville, Dime Bank of
Mrs. O. M. Scott 500
Medina, Dime Banks of
Mrs. A. E. Thompson,
Miss C. Wheatley, Mrs.
G.Thompson 1500
For Salary Fund :
Akron, West 5 00
Alexis, W. W 300
Ashtabula, First 5 00
Austinburg 6 00
Bellevue S 00
Berlin Heights 5 00
Bucksville, Y. P. S. C. E. 1 50
Burton 5 00
Ceredo, W. Va., W. M. C. 1 00
Claridon 6 00
Clarksfield, Y. P. S. C. E.
Cleveland, Bethlehem
First, Y. P. S. C. E
Hough Avenue, Prim.
S. S
Park
Plymouth
Columbus, Mayflower. .
Plymouth, Y. P. S. C. E.
Junior C. E
Conneaut, Y. P. S. C. E..
Kent
Kirtland
Lima
Litchfield
Mansfield, Mayflower
Marietta, Harmar
Marysville, Y. L. M. S...
Mt. Vernon
Y. L M. S
New London, Y. P. S.
C. E
Newport, Ky
Oberlin, First, L. A. S....
Paddy's Run, Jr. C. E....
Painesville, First
Richmonds
Tallmadge, Y. P. S. C. E.
Wauseon, C. W. A
Williamsfield
Youngstown
$1 25
5 00
10 00
3 00
5 00
11 00
4 00
10 00
3 00
3 °°
5 00
4 00
2 50
2 00
5 00
5 00
5 00
7 25
3 00
3 37
5 00
47 00
1 50
8 24
2 S°
4 20
5 00
3 °o
3 00
Ashtabula, Finnish, by Rev. F.
Lehtinen
Brunswick, by Mrs. A. Ay lard ......
Columbus, Eastwood Ch., by F. Hum-
phreys
Cortland, by Rev. S. A. Cornwell
Fargo, Mrs. C. B. Remington, by L.
C. Meeker
Lawrence, Little Muskingum, Mari-
etta, Second, and Stanleyville, by
Rev. F. S. Perry
Mecca, by Rev. G. Martin
New Knoxville, German Immanuel,
by Rev. J. Schaerer
Oberlin, First, by A. H. Johnson
Thompson, by Rev. W. O. Town ....
INDIANA— $6.50.
Ft. Wayne, South Ch., by Rev. E. E.
Frame
Ridgeville Corners, by Rev. W. D.
Trover
MISSOURI-$26.3S.
Kansas City, Y. P. S. C. E. of the
Clyde Ch., by W. W. Findlay
Kidder, by Rev. A. L. Gridley
Maplewood, Covenant Ch., by Rev.
T. T. Holway
New Cambria, by Rev. A. W. Wig-
gins
Springfield, " Two Friends " of Ger-
man Ch., by Rev. J. F. Graf
WISCONSIN-$3i.g3.
Antigo, Woman's Miss. Soc, $18.23 ;
Hayward Y. P. S. C. E., $9.60, by
Rev. T. G. Grassie
Bruce, by Rev. D. Sanborn
Glenwood, Swedish Ch., by Rev. C.
Ohlson
Wood Lake and Doctor's Lake, Swed-
ish Ch., by Rev. N. I. Nelson
$264 31
4 00
2 00
4 50
8 25
3 00
10 00
52 09
4 75
1 So
5 °°
5 00
5 00
5 00
5 35
6 00
27 83
1 00
2 00
1 10
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IOWA— $89.80 ; of which legacy, $68.75.
Des Moines, " Rollins Farm " Estate
of Mrs. H. L. Rollins, by S. A. Mer-
rill
Wilton Junction, German Ch., by Rev.
E. G. L. Mannhardt
MINNESOTA— $60.50.
Brainerd, Second, by Rev. M. B. Bird.
Burtrum, Palmer, and Grey Eagle, by
Rev. E. N. Ruddock
Dawson, by Rev. S. R. Brush
Ellsworth, $9.39 ; Ash Creek, $1.36 ;
Kanaranzi, $1.75, by Rev. W. J.
Conard
Glencoe, by Rev. H. A. Schauffler
Stillwater, Grace Ch., by Rev. J. H.
Albert
Verndale, by Rev. R. W. Harlow ....
Winthrop, by Rev. C. A. Ruddock...
Worthington, Union Ch., $5.60 ; S. S.,
$1.08, by G. O. Moore
KANSAS— $108.43.
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas. :
Comet $5 15
Valley Falls 7 25
Alma. Harvest Home Festival, by C.
P. Simon
Emporia, Second, Welsh, by R. D.
Thomas
Galena, C. A. Hubbard
Goodland, by Rev. D. H. Piatt
Kinsley, by Rev. H. H. Gilchrist
Leavenworth, by Rev. W. C. Veazie.
Maize, by S. S. Spitler
Russell, by Miss A. Thorpe
Seabrook and Sunnyside, by Rev. J.
E. Kirkpatrick
Smith Center, Jr. C. E.,by E. L. San-
ford
Tabor Valley, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs.
J. D. Willfoung
Valencia, by Rev. C. E. Roberts
Wichita, by Rev. J. S. Gould
NEBRASKA-$i5i.82.
Received by H. G. Smith, Treas.:
Brunswick $2 83
De Witt 1 00
Omaha, S. S. of Pilgrim Ch. 3 33
Plymouth, Jr. Y. P. S. C. E. 75
Waverly 400
York 17 42
Rev. H. Bross 1000
$39 33
Less expenses 65
Bloomfield, $8 ; Addison, $3.50, by
Rev. E. Martin
Bruning, by F. H. Heydenburk
Carroll, Welsh, by Rev. S. Jones
Crete, by T. P. Craig
Fairmount, First, by Rev. A. A. Cress-
man
Germantovvn and Oak Grove, German
Chs., by Rev. F. Woth
Inland, by D. Stimbert
Lincoln, German, by Rev. J. Lich....
McCook, by Rev. A. Hodel
Milford, by Rev. G. A. Munroe
Norfolk, by Rev. J. M. Jefferies
Princeton, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Morach
Santee Agency, " Gift of A Friend ".
NORTH DAKOTA— $73.62.
Received by Rev. H. C. Simmons :
Lisbon $26 10
$6875 New Rockford, Annual Coll. 1288
6 89
10 00
6 23
8 00
5 00
1 27
4 76
5 00
10 00
20 00
38 68
II
50
2
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2
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17
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00
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10
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2
00
2
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Received by Rev. H. C. Simmons :
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. M. M.
Fisher, Treas. :
Cooperstown $700
Grand Forks 10 00
Oberon 6 50
Kensal, Courtnay, and Wimbledon, by
Rev. J. L. Martin
Morton Co., German Bethany, by
Rev. J. Sattler
Oberon, First, by Rev. O. P. Champ-
lin
SOUTH DAKOTA— $83.15.
Bryant, by Rev. J. Stevens
Carthage, Rev. G. W. Crater
Clark, by Rev. T. G. Langdale
Cresbard, $2.31 ; G. L. Helms, $2.96,
by Rev. G. L. Helms k .
Custer, by Rev. J. H. Kevan
Faulkton, by Rev. F. Mitchell
Huron, T. M. Jeffries
Iroquois, $5 ; Osceola, $1, by Rev. A.
H. Robbins
Mission Hill, by Rev. D. B. Nichols.
Ree Heights, Spring Hills, Green-
leaf, and Midland, by Rev. P. B.
Fisk
Springfield, Rev. C. Seccombe
COLORADO-$75.23.
Woman's H. M Union, Mrs.
B. C.Valentine, Treas. :.. $25 00
Boulder, Y. P. S. C. E 1 00
Highland Lake 1 50
Whitewater 3 00
Canon City, " A "
Denver. North Ch., by Rev. A. D.
Blakeslee
Mayflower Ch., by Rev. J. Turner.
Elyria. Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. C. B.
Wells
Fruita, by Rev. A. Shepherd
Globeville, First German, by Rev. A.
Trandt
Steamboat Springs, by Rev. E. I.
Grinnell
WVOMING-$i4.oo.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. H. N.
Smith, Treas. :
Cheyenne, Aux
NEVADA— $6.00.
Reno, First, by Rev. T. Magill.
CALIFORNIA-$5o.8o.
Woman's H. M. Union of Southern
California, Mrs. M. M. Smith,
Treas. :
Poway $14 00
Vernondale,Y. P. S. C E... 100
6 00
2 25
5 85
3 33
1 75
2 00
ecember, 1896 The Home Missionary
Avalon, by Rev. E. O. Tade
Cloverdale, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss M.
S. Luther
McConaughy, 20c; Oro Fino, $2.25 ;
Calahan's, $3.20, by Rev. B. F.
Moody
Mokelumne Hill, by Rev. W. C. Day.
San Diego, Second, by Rev. T. R.
Earl
iREGON— $20.00.
Received by I. A. Macrum, Treas.:
Portland, Dr. C. B. Nichols, First
Ch., by D. D.Clark
Astoria, First, by Rev. E. S. Billings.
Corvallis, First and Plymouth, by
Rev. H. J. Zercher
Oregon City, Mrs. E. Stevens
Oswego, Leland, and Beaver Creek,
by Rev. R. M. Jones
piS 00
3 15
5 65
2 00
5 00
S 00
4 00
5 °°
WASHINGTON-$i2o.57.
Ballard, German Ch., by Rev. G.
Graedel
Christopher, White River, by Rev. L.
A. Smith
Granite Falls and Maple Hill, by Rev.
J. W. Hard
Lake Park, Spanaway Ch., and Hill-
hurst, by Rev. W. H. Atkinson
Leavenworth, by Rev. J. Bushell
Ritzville, German, by Rev. G. Sche
nerle
Seattle, Taylor Ch., by Rev. G. H.
Lee
Spokane, Westminster Ch., by Rev
F. B. Cherrington, D. D
Pilgrim Ch., Pleasant Prairie, and
Hillyard, by Rev. J. Edwards
Tolt, by Rev. G. Kindred
Home Missionary
Contributions in October, excluding contributions for the debt .
>egacies in October
Contributions for the debt in October
Total receipts in October
Contributions for the debt to November 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor.
Special for debt
87,356 58
8,954 61
Donations of Clothing, etc.
3ath, N. H., Ladies, by Mrs. Annie S.
France, box
|3ethel, Conn., Ladies, by Mrs. H. H.
I Seelye, box
fcheshire, Conn., First Ch., by Mary E.
I Baldwin, barrel
{Cleveland, O, L. H. M. S. of Euclid
I Ave. Ch., by Mrs. D. Duty, two bar-
I rels
tEast Hampton, Conn., King's Daugh-
■ ters' Circle, by Mrs. C. G. Bevin
lEast Orange, N. J., H. M. Branch of
I Guild of Trinity Ch., by Fannie S.
I Halsey, box
iLyme, N. H., Ladies' Benev. Soc, box.
IMilford, N. H., Ladies' Charitable Soc,
I by Mrs. J. B. Melendy, barrel.
|Mt. Vernon, N. Y., W. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. Grace M. Wood, three
barrels and box
New Haven, Conn., United Ch., by
Sarah E. Champion, box and package
64 00
215 00
75 00
Norwalk, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Asso.
of First Ch.. by Miss E. W. Brown,
box and barrel
Norwich, Conn., L. H. M. S. of Park
Ch., by Louisa G. Lane, box.
Penacook, N. H., F. C. I. and H. M.U.,
by Mrs. S. E. A. Sanders, box
Peoria, 111., W. M. S. of First Ch., by
Mrs. Mary R. Franklin, box
Plainville, Conn., L. B. S., by Mrs. C.
E. Blakeslee, barrel
South Glastonbury, Conn., Missionary
Society, by Emma S. Hale, box
Suffield.'Conn., Ladies of First Ch., by
Mrs. W. L. Loomis, barrel
Talcottville, Conn., Ladies' Miss. Soc,
by Mrs. S. A. Talcott, barrel
Wallingford, Conn., Elizabeth Atwater,
overcoat.
West Rutland, Vt., Woman's Miss. Soc,
by Mrs. F. A. Moore, barrel
425
10
00
2
25
3
2
50
80
7
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4
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3,470 58
£7,115 88
1,646 85
218 85
3i 58
78 4°
78 00
$1,156 33
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Verinont Domestic Missionary Society from August 20 to September 20,
1896. Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer.
Barnet
Cabot
Essex Center, Mrs. J. H. Tyler.
Guilford
Newfane
Peachatn
Plainfield
$83 °5
*3 97
5 00
10 00
50 00
24 80
11 00
St. Johnsbury, North Church, for C. H.
M. S $67 70
Vergennes 1500
Woodstock 24 24
Vermont Missionary 23 48
W. H. M. U 51 40
So 54
426
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December, 1$
Received from September 10th to October 20th.
Bennington, North $56 49
Berkshire, East 14 10
Brattleboro, West 50 00
to const. H. C. Harris a L. M 20 00
Burke, for Women evangelists 29 91
Cabot, additional 2 20
Danville 15 00
Dorset, East 2 00
Lower Waterford 2 50
Manchester, Geo. G. Burton, legacy. . . 300 00
Marlboro 524
Montgomery Center 2 70
Montpelier, Bethany Ch 37 00
Northfield 18 90
Randolph, West (Thayer Fund). . .
Rochester, for C. H. M. S
Springfield
Thetford, North
Troy, North Junior Y. P. S. C. E.
Waterbury
Weathersfield Center
Westminster, West
Windham
Windsor Co. Conference
Vermont Missionary
Interest
W. H. M. U
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in October, 1$
B. Palmer, Treasurer.
Rev. Edwin
Agawam, by Reuben De Witt $30 65
Andover. Ballardvale, by Lizzie M.
Rowland 55 00
Arlington, Moulton, Miss A. P., Estate
of. by Edmund W. Noyes. Ex 150 00
Bank Balances, Sept. Interest on 6 31
Berkely. by R. H. Babbitt 6 05
Bernardston. by H. L. Crowell 35 18
Billerica. Orth., by J. F. Bruce 9 00
Boston. Central, by A. A. Maxwell, in
part 187 15
Mt. Vernon, by D. R. Craig, in part.. 207 78
Roxbury, Eliot. Friday Eve'g Coll.,
by Alpine McLean 3 80
Boxford, by Daniel W. Conant 27 91
Braintree, First, by A. B. Keith 2661
South, by H. B. Whitman 25 12
Chester. Center, by Rev. E. C. Haynes. 5 80
Haynes, Rev. E. C 4 00
Dighton, Ladies' H. M. Soc, by Mrs.
Martha L. Smith 10 00
Easthampton, First, by W. H. Wright. 76 20
Erving. by Rev. J. W. Brownville 4 00
Fitchburg. Calvinistic, H. M. Soc, by
Annie T. Francis 10 00
Lawrence, Mrs. A. G 500
Framingham, South, Grace, by G. M.
Amsden 54 57
Franklin, by J. Herbert Baker 11 83
Frost. Rufus S., Chapel Trust fund, In-
come 1600
Granby, Cook, S. M 2000
Great Barrington, Housatonic, Union
Service, by Rev. J. Coit 8 69
Gurney, R. C. fund. Income 48 25
Haile. S. W. fund. Income 62 50
Hale, E. J. M. fund, Income 25 00
Hanover, Second, by H. B. Barstow 4 97
Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. Arthur Samp-
son 5 00
Haverhill. French Evang'l Ch., by Rev.
S. P. Rondeau 10 00
North, by E. G. Frothingham 125 55
Hyde Park, First, by E. A. Runnells. . . 38 74
Leominster, North, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Mrs. C. H. Haven 313
Lexington, Hancock, by W. W. Baker. 100 00
Lowell, Pawtucket. bv John J. Colton.. 50 00
Marshfield Hills. S. S. Class of I. H.
Hatch, by Agnes L. Sherman 6 68
Massachusetts, to const. W. E. Fowler
a L. M. of C. H. M. S 50 00
Medfield, by F. S. Wight 12 00
Middleton, by C. P. Stiles
Newbury, First, by Edward Perkins. .
Newton, Eliot, by George N. Putnam..
Special for local Armenian work. . .
First (Center), by J. E. Rockwood ...
Special for local Armenian work
Newtonville, Stiles, Mrs. E. E., by
Edmund E. Stiles, Adm'r 100 00
Second (West), by J. J. Eddy, special
for local Armenian work 16 00
Northampton, Edwards, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Martha F. Gere 50 00
Northbridge, Whitinsville, E. C. a Day
Band, by Mrs. C. E. Whitin 19 07
North Brookfield, First, by John S.
Cooke 41 55
Norwich, Conn., Doane. Betsy H., Es-
tate of, by Lewis A. Hyde, Ex 791 78
Norwood, First, by Edson D. Smith,
special for Bohemian work of Rev.
E. A. Adams, Chicago, 111 15 00
Sunday school, by Edson D. Smith. . . 10 00
Petersham, Y. P. S. C. E., by Anna S.
Dawes 2 00
Reading, by Dean Peabody 15 00
Reed, Dwight, fund, Income 64 00
Rockland, Hicks, Mrs. Addison 500
Sheffield, Union Service, by Rev. J.
Coit 10 00
Southboro, Newton, Lucy, Miss 5 00
Springfield, French Evan. Ch., by A. S.
Nadow 5 00
Union Service at First Ch., by Rev.
J. Coit 29 00
Stoughton, First, by H. W. Darling ... 7 01
Sudbury, South, Helping-hand Soc, by
Jessie E. Butterfield 10 00
Wakefield, by W. P. Preston 24 53
Wall fund, Income 32 00
Walpole, Second, by S. E. Bentley 2 50
Waltham, Trinitarian, by T. W. Tem-
ple 8 07
Warwick, by Rev. E. F. Blanchard 3 60
Westport, Pacific Union Sunday-school,
by J. C. Macomber 10 12
West Tisbury. by Ulysses E. Mayhew. 18 44
Weymouth, South, Union, by H. B.
Reed 25 84
Whitcomb, David, fund. Income 187 50
Whitin, J. C, fund. Income 337 50
Williamstown, White Oaks, by Mrs.
David Goodell 3 12
Wilmington, by Rev. Elijah Harmon.. 8 00
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Voburn Conference, by Rev. Geo. E.
Lovejoy, Treas., special for Montvale
Ch
Worcester, Piedmont, by Arthur W.
Eldred
Smith, A. L., to const. Mrs. A. B.
Whipple a L. M
Union Ch., by C. B. Greene
Cent-a-Day Band, by Miss H. T.
Boardman
Union Service in Central Ch., by Rev.
J. Coit
County, a Friend
64 25
30 00
87 31
*9 13
8 00
Woman's Home Missionary As-
sociation, by Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas. :
Boston, Rox., Wal. Ave. Aux.,
for Rev. Sam'l Deakin's sal-
ary $35 00
Natick Aux. , for Miss Moffatt's
work 32 00
■ $67 00
$4,"4 75
Home Missionary 6 00
$4,120 75
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in October, \i
Treasurer.
Ward W. Jacobs,
I von, West Avon, by Rev. F. S. Francis
Jranford, Stony Creek, by T. M. Bray.
5ridgeport, West End, by Rev. C. F.
Stimson, for C. H. M. S
Bristol, First, by L. G. Merick
Coventry, Second, by Andrew Kings-
| bury, to const. Mrs. M. Laura Kings-
I bury, of Coventry, a L. M
ast Haddam, Hadlyme, by Charles H.
Rich
Fairfield, Southport, by Mrs. H. T.
Bulkley
lastonbury. South Glastonbury, Ch.
and S. S., by H. D. Hale
3reenwich, North Greenwich, by B.
Close
ranby, South, by C. P. Loomis
Hadlyme, see East Haddam.
"Hartford, First. Bequest of Mary M.
Phillips, by Daniel Phillips, Ex. ...
arwinton, by Rev. William Hedges . .
ebanon, First, by Miss Julia R. Max-
well
adison. First, " Ladies' Cent Society,"
by Elizabeth Wood
25 00
25 91
6 00
6 00
32 60
Marlboro, by William W. Bolles - . . . $4 48
New Haven, Yale College, Missionary
So. of Yale Divinity School, by Quincy
Blakely 2 00
North Greenwich, see Greenwich.
Simsbury, by A. J. Holcomb, for C. H.
M. S 16 00
South Glastonbury, see Glastonbury
Southport, see Fairfield.
South Windsor, Wapping, by F. W.
Gilbert 20 17
Stony Creek, see Branford.
Thomaston, Swedish, by A. Carlson .. 4 50
Wapping, see South Windsor.
Washington, Swedish, by C. O. Hall-
strom 455
West Avon, see Avon.
West Hartford, by E. S. Elmer 16 94
Wethersfield, by S. F. Willard 36 58
Woodstock, Swedish, by Mrs. G. D.
Hall 10 00
W. C. H. M. U. of Conn., Mrs. George
Follett, Sec, Norfolk, by Stephen A.
Selden 100 00
$603 81
ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Illinois Home Missionary Society in July, August, and September, 1896.
Aaron B. Mead, Treasurer.
Albion, Rev. F. B. Hines $10 00
Union Church, S. S. Class 7 40
Wanboro Church (S. School, $2.60) .. 7 47
Alton Mission, S. School 200
Alto Pass s °°
Atkinson 10 36
Aurora, New England 5 07
Batavia 36 00
Belvidere 14 00
Beardstown, S. School 5 00
Bloomington 54 00
Blue Island 12 64
Centralia 100
Chandlerville (Y. P. S. C. E., $1.12) ... 69 77
Chicago, First 49 10
Plymouth, Miss Daisy A. Gaylord 5 00
Leavitt Street, Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Union Park 77 91
Jefferson Park, Y. P. S. C. E
Mount Clare
South Chicago, Second
Burnside
Chillicothe, Y. P. S. C. E
Dongola .
Dover, Y. P. S. C. E
Dea. George Wells
Edelstein
Farmington
Geneva
C. H. Beers ($100 on Roll of Honor).
Glen Ellyn, Y. P. S. C. E
Gray's Lake
Griggsville, S. School
Hinsdale (S. School, $50)
Joliet, Swedish
Lawn Ridge, Rev. C. E. Marsh
23 00
* 50
1 60
4 00
3 59
10 00
20 00
185
50 16
3° 32
150 00
5 °°
13 20
12 56
95 97
4 00
5 00
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Lemont, Swedish $4 00
Melvin 600
Milburn 33 31
Naperville 40 00
Normal, First 8 65
Oak Park, First 118 84
Ottawa 29 63
Paxton. Senior and Junior Y. P. S C.E. 25 00
Princeton, Mrs. Rufus Carey 100 00
Quincy. Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Rockford, Second 270 14
Mrs. Julia P. Warren (special) 200 00
Rollo <Y. P. S. C. E., $10) 19 70
Rosemond 9 46
Seward t Winnebago Co.) Y. P. S. C. E. 10 00
Shabbona 40 35
South Danville 2000
Sycamore, Margaret E. Syme Fund .... 100 00
Pledge Signer 25 00
Mrs. P. Sturtevant 2000
Tonica, Ladies' Miss'y Society 8 00
Waukegan, First, Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Ebenezer 5 00
Wheaton, College
Wilmette
Winnebago
Winslow, Berean
Woman's Home Missionary Union :
Chicago, New England $60 91
Covenant 6 00
California Ave., Jun. C. E.. 1 00
Elgin, First 500
Oak Park, First 5 25
Port Byron 14 52
Rantoul 5 00
Rockford, Second 15 10
Waukegan, First 6 00
Waverly 10 00
Mrs. M. L. Burnham
Interest on invested funds
Rev. J. A. Adams
Rev. J. D. McCord
Benjamin E. Warner
Received in October
Alto Pass
Aurora, New England
Austin. Swedish
Brimfield
Caledonia
Chicago, First, A. B. Mead
Lincoln Park (Y. P. S. C. E., $ro>...
Englewood. Pilgrim, Y. P. S. C. E..
Bethlehem. Y. P. S. C. E
Gross Park
Brainerd
Cobden. Union
Dover
Fall Creek
Galesburg. East Main Street
Galva
Geneva
Glen Ellyn (Y. P. S. C. E., $5)
Granville. Y. P. S. C. E
Griggsville
Hazel Grove
Hinsdale
Kewanee
La Grange <Y. P. S. C. E., $4.10)
Lawn Ridge
McLean
Melville
Oak Lawn
Payson, Y. P. S. C. E
$4
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Rockefeller (Y. P. S. C. E., $18.71 1
Sandwich. Y. P. S. C. E
Spring Valley, First, Jun. C. E. S
Villa Ridge
Yorkville
Woman's ' Home Missionary Union :
Chicago, New England....
Lincoln Park
Forestville
Rogers Park
Harvey
La Salle
Marshall
Ontario
Payson
Pittsfield, Rose Miss. Soc.
Lottie Kelly Society
Rockwood, Second 50 00
Sandwich 5 00
Toulon, Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Warrensburg 3 00
Mrs. Grace and Gertrude Wyckoff,
Pang Chuang. China
Supply fee
Rev. J. D. McCord, Chicago
14 00
1 50
3 00
1 00
5 °9
5 °°
7 00
5 00
3 °°
14 5°
5 00
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in October, 1S96. Rev. John P.
Sanderson, Treasurer.
Cannon $700
Chase 1 25
Clinton 11 00
Clio. Jr. Y. P. S. C. E 500
Custer 1 10
Detroit. First 500 00
East Paris 8 00
Flat Rock 4 00
Gaylord 12 00
Hartford 675
Jackson. Plymouth, Y. P. S. C. E 643
Jacobsville 80
Lawrence
Linden
Litchfield
Matchwood
Memphis
Mulliken
Olivet
Port Huron, 2;th St.
Rondo
Union City
Wheatland
White Cloud
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nittaker $3 55
Ijcksburg, Rev. J. Van Antwerp 200
IFriend 1 00
|H. M. U., by Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
T"reas 141 83
1 33
5 °°
6 40
21 82
5 5°
ceipts of the W. H. M. U. of Michigan
in October, 1896. Mrs. E. F. Gra-
bill, Treas. :
enton Harbor, W. H. M. U. $500
linton, W. M. S 19 00
Covert, W. M. S 1500
Dundee, W. H. M. S 1000
Grand Blanc, W. H. M. S. . . . 21 00
Ledge, W. H. M. S
Rapids, South, L. M. S....
Greenville, W. H. M. U
Jackson, First, W. H. M. S..
Plymouth, L. M. S
Lansing, Plymouth, W.' H.
M. U 13 37
Mulliken, W. H. M. S 165
Reed City, W. H. M. S n 82
Sandstone, W. M. S 227
South Haven, W. M. S 10 00
WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
Missionary
Watervliet, W. H. & F. M. S.,
of which $15.10 is thank-
offering $1794
Wheatland, W. H. M. U., of
which $6 is thank-offering.. 13 00
Whittaker 5 00
YOUNG PEOPLE'S FUND
Cooper, Y. L. M. S $800
Greenville, Jun. M. Band 1 04
Hudson, C. E. Soc 5 30
Michigan Center, C. E. Soc. 25
Owosso, C. E. Soc 5 00
Three Oaks, C. E. Soc, to
apply on support of Rev.
Joel Martin 2 50
Vermontville, S. S., miss, pen-
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1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
president, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
ecretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
"reasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House, Boston.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
^resident, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. gth
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis. So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
'resident, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary , Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
430
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7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St.
Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, 513 The Ellington,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
St., Toledo.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June, 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry, Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt, Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave.,
Brooklyn.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St.,
Syracuse.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave.,
Brooklyn.
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New'
Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. N. M. Lander.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Egbert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, GrinneU.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, GrinneU.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
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19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley , Box 508, Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President, Mrs. D. B. Perry, Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple, Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary, Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 353 So. Hope St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, igoo Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W.J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 2812 FreretSt.,
New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
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31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary \
and V Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, )
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave.
Helena.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgway.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
35. OKLAHOMA
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street, Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd, Vinita.
Secretary, Miss Louise Graper, Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magiil, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President, Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. W. M. Wellman, El Reno.
Secretary, Mrs. Joel Harper, Oklahoma City.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. J. D. Hagerman, Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs,.]. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage. Rapid City, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42-
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. C. E. Mason, Challis.
Treasurer, Mrs. G. L. Cole, Mountain Home.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
Rev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. Rev. W. S. Hawkes Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. L. P. Broad Topeka, Kan. Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. E. H. Ashmun \ Albuquerque, N. M. Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
Rev. A. Judson Bailey Seattle, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapp Forest Grove, Ore.
Rev. T. G. Grassie Ashland, Wis. Ro , t' w t™tt= r> n ) 511 Woodland Terrace,
fo A a t, i Black Hills and Wyoming. *ev. I . w. Jones, IAD. . .. -( Philadelphia, Pa.
Kev. A. A. Brown. . ( Hot SpringSi South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross, D.D Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama). .Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hili.man, Secretary New Hampshire Home Miss. Society Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " " ... .Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " " ... .St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " lL " " , St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " [9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " " . ...f Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " .. ..Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Ward W. Jacobs. Esq., Treasurer " " " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary -. New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer. " " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. , Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer. " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary Illinois " " " (153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " " " " I Chicago, 111.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer , " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " Grinnell, Iowa.
'J. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. William H. Warren, D.D. , Secretary. .Michigan " '* " Lansing, Mich.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society. St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
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Major-General Oliver O. Howard
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Rev. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, D.D., Honorary Treasurer
Secretaries for Correspondence
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
. Rev. William Kincaid, D.D.
Rev. Washington Choate, D.D.
Mr. William B. Howland, Treasurer
Executive Committee
Wm. Ives Washburn, Esq., Chairman
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Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D.
Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D.
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Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D.
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Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D.
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Contents for January, 1897
Notes of Long Service in Colortdo :
XVIII.— The San Juan 433
From a Worker in Alabama 439
Another of the Iowa Band Gone
Home 440
A Word to Home Missionaries
and Other Preachers 442
Getting Home Again 446
Between Seed -Time and Har-
vest 447
PAGfc
How the Gospel Entered the
Cordilleras 449
Those Helpful Boxes 454
A Chapter of Home Missionary
Work in New York City. . . . 455
Giving for Missions 458
Annual Conference of Secretaries 462
How a Man Looks At It 463
The Treasury 464
Responses to Appeal 465
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at the Monthly Concert and among their people.
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Vol. LXIX JANUARY, 1897 No. 9
NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XVIII.— The San Juan
|HE San Juan (Spanish for St. John) region, or the San Juan for
short, in the southwest part of Colorado, is about one-half as
large as New York State, or larger than Massachusetts, Connec-
ticut, and Rhode Island combined. It has as many as a hundred peaks
that are two and a half miles high, and a goodly number that are 1,400
feet or more above the sea. It abounds in silver mines, and is called
the " Silvery San Juan." The writer heard of that region almost before
he reached Colorado in 1876, but it was nine years before he visited it.
He was then so charmed with its wonderful scenery, by the side of which
Pike's Peak Range seemed tame, that he went again and again. It was
a long and tedious trip before the railroad was built, and even by rail it
was a long journey of about 500 miles to Silverton, the chief mining town
of the region in those days.
The sharp outline of the mountains in the San Juan, their profound
depths and dizzy heights, the green valleys, the charming waterfalls
(highest and finest of any in Colorado), the sylvan retreats that so
strangely combine the beautiful and the sublime, the variety of rare
flowers that are found in the deep valleys and on Alpine heights, the
sharp precipices, the great forests, the box canons, the hot springs, the
hidden wealth of gold and silver and crystals — all these make it an
ideal mountain region, visions of whose loveliness and grandeur are ever
and anon flitting through the minds of those who have been there, and
making them wish to go again. It would take a whole paper simply to
name all the interesting things to be seen in the trip "around the circle "
of nearly 1,000 miles by which that region is reached.
About 200 miles south of Denver the train crosses the Sangre de
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Christo Range at Veta Pass at an altitude of 9,350 feet. Then a descent
of 1,500 feet brings you down into San Luis Park, the largest of all of
Colorado's wonderful parks, containing an area of over 5,000 square
miles, or twice as many as North, Middle, and South Parks combined.
Its greatest length is 140 miles, and its greatest width fifty miles. The
floor is so level that the railroad, in a distance of over forty miles, has
only one or two curves. The road runs for miles along the base of Mount
Blanca (14,464), the highest peak in Colorado, and the highest but one in
the United States.
Beyond San Luis Park there are 160 miles that are full of interest, but
the scenery is tame compared with what is to come. The most interest-
ing thing is Toltec Gorge, a wild canon, down into whose awful depths
you look from the car window as the train emerges from a tunnel, through
which it crosses the mountain on one side of the gorge. The road dips
into New Mexico, and then runs a long way through the Ute Indian
Reservation. For 170 miles there is nothing resembling a village.
At Durango, 450 miles by rail from Denver, the writer in his first trip
was an entire stranger. Stopping at a corner fruit store to make some
inquiry, the young man who kept it recognized him, and pulled out of his
pocket a well-worn recommendation signed by his customer when he was
a teacher and the young man a student in an Eastern college. The
ex-teacher could not deny the handwriting, and so he expressed the hope
that in the rough Western country the young man had preserved his
character as carefully as he had kept his certificate. The forty-five-mile
railroad ride between Durango and Silverton is one of the grandest in
Colorado. It takes one through the whole length of the finest canon in
the State, the canon of the Los Animas River. This canon is in places
about a mile deep, though the walls are not perpendicular. Such gigantic,
towering masses of granite as you see when you pass The Needles are
not seen in many places in this world. The fields of ice and snow abide
among them the year round. They are the brooding place of fierce
storms. Those sharp rocks catch and tear to tatters the clouds that float
against them. In summer they echo and reecho the thunder peal, while
in winter is ofttimes heard the roar of the avalanche. The number and
variety of the streams that flow into that canon, and the waterfalls which
they make, are a constant delight. One must keep his eyes open and look
at both sides of the train at once, or he will miss some of the finer ones.
At the head of the Animas Canon is Silverton, a mining town, whose
altitude is about 10,000 feet higher. From their doorways the people
in winter time can watch the avalanches that sweep resistlessly down
the mountain sides.
At that place Superintendent Pickett had started a church work in 1878,
which had been carried on successfully for several years. It nas held in
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one church all the Protestant Christian elements in that heterogeneous
community. Very thrilling were some of the experiences of the young
missionary, especially in some of the trips that he took on snowshoes to
help to rescue or to bury the victims of snowslides. A funeral procession
on snowshoes was a common sight in that mining town in the winter. One
winter there was almost a famine in the town, as on account of snowslides
in the canon no supplies could reach the place for about three months.
On one of his missionary trips to the San Juan the writer left the rail-
road at Rockwood, in the Animas Canon, and took the stage, which was
an open wagon loaded with freight and express matter, for Rico, thirty-
five miles away over two high ranges. He had been sick all night and
could eat no breakfast or dinner, but he was not too sick to enjoy the
wonderful flower beds and dense forests of pine and poplar and spruce
through which he successively passed, and^ the perpendicular precipices,
1,000 feet high, along whose base the road passed for miles, and the ever-
changing views which they had of mountains, near by and far away, as
they rode along the sharp-edged summit of a mountain ridge. The long,
rough ride cured him, and at night, when he had washed off the different
colored layers of dust which indicated the different geological regions
traversed, he was ready to break his twenty-four hours' fast by eating a
hearty supper.
A railroad runs to Rico now, and it is a prosperous mining town ; but
then it was one of the most out-of-the-way places in Colorado, and was
exceedingly dull, about half of the houses and stores being empty.
There were plenty of mines and prospects on the mountains around the
town, but the ore was low grade, and the one thing which the people
supremely desired was a railroad to take their ore to market.
We were there to see what the prospect was for sending in a Home
Missionary. We found a number of persons who desired church services,
though not all from the same motive. A man went around with us to
invite the people to come to the services to be held the next day, Sun-
day. A common reply which they received was, " I am very sorry, but I
have my arrangements all made to go fishing to-morrow." The services
were held in a hall with a dim, very dim, light, that was not altogether
"religious." It had only about four square feet of window. In the
Sunday-school there were only six adults and six children. There is now
a good church and a fine church building in that place.
Sitting in the hotel office on Sunday afternoon, the minister could
not help hearing a conversation in the next room between two hotel
employees, a man and a woman. " Are you going to hear the preacher
to-night ? " said the woman ; and she added, as though a bright thought
had struck her : " Oh, say, let's all hands go down and make the preacher
stand on his head and dance." " I don't know about that," said the
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man ; " he is a pretty good-sized old man, and he might kick." The
mental comment of the preacher was that very likely he would kick, and
kick vigorously. Being only a little past forty, it made him feel a trifle
queer to hear himself called an "old man" for the first time. "What
denomination is he ? " said one. "Give it up," replied the other, "but
he looks. like an Israelite." Of course they were only chaffing. When
evening came they were there, with over 100 others of all characters and
conditions, but, as was always the preacher's experience in mining towns
and lumber camps, they were exceedingly quiet and attentive, as much so
as any congregation that he ever addressed — some, in such places,
because they want their town to have a good reputation in such things, and
others because they are so hungry for gospel services. Whispering and
giggling and writing notes and running out during the service — such
annoyances he did not encounter in any mining-town congregation.
In going from Silverton to Ouray the stage driver, who had carried a
minister on his up-trip in the morning, announced " another preacher " to
the lounging crowd at the stopping-place in a small mining town, and the
people flocked out of the store to look at him. In about four miles of
that trip there was a descent of 2,000 feet through the wildest kind of a
mountain gorge. At one point the horses trotted around the curves of
the road, about ten feet wide, that was cut out of the side of a precipice
of rock. A pebble could be tossed from that road into the creek nearly
1,000 feet below, while rocks from 1,000 feet above could fall into the
road. At one point the stage crossed a mountain stream on a bridge that
was built over the water after it began its fall of almost 300 feet into the
chasm below.
Ouray was the grandest and most interesting spot that we had found
in all our travels. Around it are mountains piled on mountains, preci-
pices towering above precipices, canons within canons, waterfalls in great
number and variety, hot springs of great size and number, and mines in
all the valleys. Cascade Creek, Oak Creek, Canon Creek, Portland
Creek, and Uncompaghre River come tumbling over into the valley where
the town lies, or gliding into it through marvelous box canons. The
walls of those canons are very high, are so near together and so overhang
each other that they shut the light out of the canon. Two sheer preci-
pices, 1,000 feet or more in height, face each other on opposite sides of
the river just below the town. Houses have been built among the huge
rocks that have fallen from those precipices. What eggshells those
houses will be when other rocks fall, as they will some time !
On one of his trips to the San Juan, the writer desired to reach Tellu-
ride, another place out of the way then, but reached by railroad now. It
was forty-five miles from the railroad, by stage, but right over the range it
was only about seven miles. He decided to go over the range on foot and
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alone. He left the road at Summit, 11,500 feet above the sea, at three in
the afternoon. He was warned that a storm was brewing on the range,
but he set out at once. When he got above the timber line, he encoun-
tered the storm. There was no rock large enough to hide under, so he
took refuge in an ice-cave under a huge drift of old snow. The thunder
rolled heavily and cracked sharply around him ; the rain fell in torrents ;
the hail rattled on his snowy roof and on the rocks, while fresh snow
whitened some of the neighboring peaks.
In half an hour the storm had abated and he passed on, at first over
sharp rocks, and then through such wondrous beds of flowers as it seemed
to him he had never seen before. There were acres of dense masses of color,
one huge billowy bouquet of red, white, blue, yellow, purple, and green ;
great scarlet bunches of " Indian paint-brush," huge clusters of colum-
bine with flowers of enormous size, wild geraniums, blue gentian, sun-
flowers, larkspur, and many flowers whose names he did not know.
He turned a curve, and in the trail beyond, so far away that he could
not exactly tell whether it was a mountain lion, a panther, or a bear, was
a wild beast. They faced each other at a safe distance for ten minutes.
The minister was unarmed, except with his little book of promises, one of
which was, " He shall make the beasts of the field to be at peace with
thee." He concluded to return to the railroad, and actually started back.
Then he turned and went towards the wild beast a few rods, and the wild
beast came towards him. Then they both paused and looked at each
other again. Then, to the minister's great relief, the animal left the trail,
went off among the rocks, and allowed him to pass.
He was now looking down and across the valley, upon the famous
Red Mountain or Mountains. Their stony slopes were all of a most
brilliant red, a result of some chemical change in rocks that were once
white. No painter's brush could exaggerate their wondrous coloring.
Here was met a burro, or donkey train, crossing the mountain with sup-
plies. The minister's soul was full to overflowing with the magnificent
panorama spread out before him, and he said to the wearily plodding
driver : " That view is the finest in the Rocky Mountains." " Ugh," said
the man, " what do you mean ? " " Oh," was the reply, " how far is it
to Telluride ? " " 'Bout twelve miles," was the answer. This was not
encouraging to the inquirer, who thought that he had already gone nearly
half of the seven-mile trip. So he went on a few rods and asked another
burro driver whom he met how far it was. " Oh, I reckon it is six
miles." Another thought it was four, and another nine. Before he
reached Telluride he concluded that they were all right ; that one might
call it any number of miles he pleased, for miles utterly failed to measure
that distance. Finally, through a deep cut in an immense drift of snow,
he reached the summit, whose altitude was about 13,500 feet. And then
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what a view he had ! What interminable mountain ranges ! The
Quartzite group, the Needles, San Miguel, Uncompaghre, Bear River,
and La Plata ranges were all in sight. Such awful gorges ! Such sheer
walls of rock ! Such sharp and ragged peaks ! Such flaming colors !
Such gigantic castles and embattled cliffs ! Such profound depths
beneath, and such long-drawn-out distance to the farthest peaks ! Such
colors of rock and sky, of snow and water, of forests and flowers ! Oh,
reader, imagine the wildest and grandest, the most awful and the most
beautiful mountain view that you can, and call it that !
That serpentine stream sparkling in the sun, miles away down the
valley, is the San Miguel River, and to reach it the writer had to let him-
self down about 5,000 feet. Down he went, over fields of loose rocks,
along the edge of steep precipices, into mountain basins where avalanches
thundered through winter days ; down into the timber again, and through
some more wondrous beds of flowers, past famous mines and countless
prospects ; down alongside or in sight of many ice-cold streams that unite
and go thundering down over countless cascades, one long tremulous drift
of white ; down over the zigzag of an endless " \V " trail ; down through
4,000 feet of eruptive rock, and then through hundreds of feet of con-
glomerate and stratified rock ; and yet when he reached the bottom of the
valley, he was still 8,600 feet above the sea.
Next to Ouray, Telluride he thought was the most romantic town he
had found in Colorado. In the very outskirts of the town is a romantic
canon and a beautiful waterfall 120 feet high. Mountains from 12,000 to
14,000 feet high surround the town. At the head of the valley, two or three
miles away, is seen a stream that leaps out of a great mountain basin and
bounds down the mountain for thousands of feet, a long path of white
foam, whose roaring is heard at Telluride when all is still at night. Near
by another stream tumbles out of another mountain basin and forms the
highest and most beautiful waterfall in Colorado, the Bridal Veil Fall.
The large stream makes a sheer leap of 337 feet.
All the Christian elements in Telluride had united to form one self-
supporting church, which nevertheless had a hard struggle in that wicked
mining town, some of whose leading citizens preferred not to have any
church in the place. The writer found the pastor sick, so he remained
over the Sabbath to preach for him. The pastor thought his coming
providential, as he was the first minister who had called on him since he
took his field.
On Saturday the traveler was so lame from his trip across the range
the day before that he could hardly step without pain, but he dragged
himself two or three miles up to the Bridal Veil Fall that he might get a
nearer view of it and enjoy its beauty. From a distance it seemed to fall
into the tops of a pine forest, and so it did almost, for the trees grew
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up as near to it as they dared. They drew close around that charming
spot and kept constant watch over it.
Making his way through the woods, he came to a little open space
where boulders and stones were covered with greenest mosses and grasses,
kept constantly wet by the unceasing spray. With his water-proof coat
on, he crept behind a huge boulder, up to within a few feet of where the
water fell. He threw his head back and looked straight up where that
mass of water seemed to fall out of the sky, and watched it as it descended
in great flakes and masses into the basin at his feet. A gust of wind
drove the mist all around him. He could look up no longer, but looking
down he saw a rainbow in the form of a perfect and entire ellipse about
ten feet long. It was lying horizontally on the rocks and water, and he
was standing at one end of it.
He went and lay down under the pines a few rods away, opened and
read out of his little book of promises, and then looked up at that white
torrent falling out of blue skies, necking with foam the red cliff behind it,
and gliding away with gurgling sounds among the great boulders. Then
he read another set of promises and took another look. A blessed uplift-
ing hour it was that he spent there communing with God and nature, with
God through nature and with nature through God. The Word of God
glorified his works and his works illuminated his Word.
The golden texts of the Bible always seem more precious when beauti-
fully printed in illuminated text and surrounded by the pictures of flowers
and other beautiful natural objects. The monks of old labored not in
vain when they wrought patiently for years to write God's Word in illumi-
nated text. But no monk's pen or printer's art ever gave to the golden
texts of the Bible such royal setting, such glorious illumination, as they had
while he read that day from plain type amid those glorious surroundings.
All the sights and sounds around him and the visions of his soul united
in one clear, harmonious note, " God is love. Praise the Lord ! " The
great busy world was far away, remembered only as a dream. There
came to his ears none of its discordant notes. As the mighty steam ham-
mer comes down with tremendous force, and then only gently touches the
crystal of the watch placed under it, so that roaring cataract, thundering
down out of the skies, spoke gently to the soul and brought it peace.
FROM A WORKER IN ALABAMA
Arbacoochee is an old gold-mining town of about 140 inhabitants,
containing one hotel, two stores, one doctor's shop, and a post-office.
The people are lenient, kind, and open-hearted. When I came here they
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knew nothing of Congregationalism, but looked on it as being made up
of ignorance and poverty. Though I have been straitened financially —
not being in commission, and therefore not receiving aid — and have had
to struggle to support my large family, yet I have been laboring for the
meat that perisheth not and for Congregationalism. I have organized
three Sunday-schools, though two of them use Methodist literature ; have
conducted three protracted meetings with good results, among which are
several conversions. One old gray-headed man, that has lived in sin all
his days, confessed Christ and has joined the church. The fruit of my
labor is a Congregational church of seventeen members, and more will
join soon. It was organized near this town by Rev. R. E. Merrill, and
the presumption is that another will be organized soon. The people here
seem to be getting hungry for Congregationalism. As soon as they find
what it is they are ready to accept it. I don't see any reason why our
churches should not spread largely in this country if the missionaries can
have a support until the churches get a start. The people here are poor
and "hard run." Many of the ladies have gone back to the spinning-
wheel and loom to clothe their children, and yet some of them are con-
tributing largely of their penury to benevolent societies. God bless
the Congregational Home Missionary Society and give its missionaries
strength, grace, and courage for their work.
»
ANOTHER OF THE IOWA BAND GONE HOME
By Rev. Ephraim Adams
Died, October 23, 1896, at New Hampton, Iowa, Rev. Harvey
Adams, in the eighty-eighth year of his age. Then passed away one of
the oldest Congregational ministers of the State ; oldest not in years only,
but in term of service, it being fifty-three years ago that he came to Iowa
for his life work. He was a native of New Hampshire, born in the town
of Alstead, January 16, 1809. Brought up in the atmosphere of home
piety, among a rural people of the old New England type, and being
naturally of a serious turn of mind, he was early led to the choice of a
Christian life and to cherish the desire for an education for the ministry.
Home duties, however, in a family of moderate means, prevented his
putting this desire into execution till his majority, when, relying upon self-
help, he entered upon the task. Winter schools, among other things, were
naturally resorted to. It was in one of these, at Wakefield, Vt., that he
contracted a serious cold, followed by a painful sickness with such pul-
monary symptoms that his life was despaired of. But towards spring he
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rallied, and as soon as he could go abroad he went, with Bible in hand,
from house to house, conversing and praying with his patrons, who gave
him hearty welcome, noon or night, wherever he happened to be. It is
not strange that a revival followed such as had never before been seen in
the place. The years 1831 and following were years of revivals. Into
these he entered heartily. So earnest, judicious, and helpful were his
services that they were often sought for by ministers of various towns, not
infrequently to fill appointments they were not able to fill. " I preached
considerable," he said in an interview not long before his death — " I
preached considerable before I began to preach." " The pulpit in my
own town was always open to me, and most always when I went home in
vacations from college or seminary the people wanted me to fill it." Dr.
Adams fitted for college at an academy in Montpelier, Vt., taught by
Rev. J. C. Southmayd. After being fitted, to the credit of his scholarship
and other qualifications as well, he was induced to tarry a year as assistant
teacher and to pursue advanced studies. Doing so he was able to com-
plete his college course in three years, entering Vermont University at
Burlington in 1836, graduating in 1839. After teaching an academy for
a year in Medway, Mass., he entered Andover Theological Seminary in
1840 and graduated in 1843. Shortly afterwards he with other classmates
came to Iowa for his life work, upon which he entered with far more and
in some respects a better preparation than the seminary could give. And
here he has remained, notwithstanding occasional offers to go elsewhere
with larger salary. His pastorates in their order have been as follows :
First at Farmington, from 1843 to i860 ; second, Council Bluffs, from
i860 to 1863 ; then Farmington again, from 1863 to 1866 ; New Hampton,
1866 to 1871 ; Fairfax, 1871 to 1875 ; the last at Bowen's Prairie, 1875 to
1882, when he retired from the active ministry, with his wife and one
daughter, to spend the evening of his days at New Hampton, near a
married daughter, the wife of Dr. Babcock of that city.
On August 14, 1844, he was married to Rhoda Matilda Codding, who
shared with him life's labors almost to the golden-wedding time. On
June 16, 1893, she was buried in the New Hampton cemetery. As the
fruit of this marriage there were seven children, of whom but three are
living — one son, Mr. Edward E. Adams, of Des Moines, and the two
daughters above referred to. To specify prominent features of his char-
acter and work is somewhat difficult. These are distinguished rather for
that symmetrical completeness which produces an even, steady flow of
life force into other lives than for any one thing momentous, startling, or
attractive. Still a few things are easily named.
1. He was a man of prayer. That tone of voice with which he used
to lead our devotions, how it sounded the adoration and reverence and
awe, yet the childlike faith and trust with which he used to commune with
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God the Father ! It was in prayer that he sought direction as to questions of
duty. Thus in the night watches of a particular date, while in the semi-
nary, he decided that his field of labor should be at the West, independently
of others and before he knew that others were considering the question.
2. He was scholarly. In intellect he was clear and logical ; in
investigation patient and thorough. He knew what he believed and why
he believed it. Not only was he clear as to theological views, but he took
in also the drift of scientific thought. Educational matters were to him
of great interest. Thus was he equipped for usefulness as trustee of
Iowa College, in which capacity he served from the first.
3. His preaching was biblical, appealing to the reason and judgment
rather than the emotions. He sought to instruct. To know God's Word
and declare it was his great aim. That he might know it, the Bible of all
books was the book of his study. He traced the shades of its meaning in
the original, being familiar with both Hebrew and Greek.
4. In his later years, towards the evening of life, the Bible was his
companion, his joy, his hope and stay. He read it almost constantly,
often in course, from beginning to end. In one year he read it thus
sixteen times ; in another fourteen ; not dreamily and carelessly, for
his mental vigor was in force almost to the very end. At the time when
struck with paralysis, a few days before his death, the stroke came upon
him with the Bible in his hands.
As showing how and where his faith rested, it was but a few weeks
before, in speaking of his funeral, when it should be, etc., he said : " As to
text, etc., I have no directions to give, but there are one or two hymns I
would like to have sung ; one in particular. The hymn ' Just as I am '
— I would like to have them sing that and sing it all." At evening he
said : " Good-night, brother. Quite likely I may see brother Lane before
I see you again." For we had spoken of brother Lane and others who
had gone before. So when death came and we buried him, it did not
seem like death. It was rather the setting of a sun in glory for a more
glorious rising, or, to change to a more Scriptural image, like a shock of
corn fully ripe being garnered in.
A WORD TO HOME MISSIONARIES AND OTHER
PREACHERS
By a Veteran Churchgoer
Beloved Fathers and Brethren :
Having for threescore years been accustomed to attend church with
much regularity, I have had favorable opportunities to note the peculiari-
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ties of ministers in conducting public worship in churches larger and
smaller, in cities and rural districts, in more than one country, and to
form conclusions of my own as to the things which attract men to the
house of God, or, it may be, disincline them to attend.
I may say then, that, partly no doubt because it is a lifelong habit, I
like to go, and feel in some measure lost if deprived of the privilege ; and
while I am not often found at a church of another denomination, I never,
in my summer outings about the country, absent myself from public ser-
vice on the ground that the doctrine or the ritual will be unfamiliar. I
agree with Dr. O. W. Holmes, who said : " There is a little plant called
Reverence in the corner of my soul's garden which I love to have watered
about once a week."
I may say further that I think John Calvin did a pretty good thing —
perhaps he never did a better — when he formulated for his Geneva flock
that statement which was adopted by the English reformers, and has
become familiar to us through the Book of Common Prayer, that " we
assemble and meet together to render thanks for the great benefits which
we have received at His hands, to set forth his most worthy praise,
to hear his most holy Word, and to ask those things which are requisite
and necessary as well for the body as the soul."
To put it in different phrase, three things impel me to attend church :
a desire to accompany others in the praise of God, a longing to unite
with them in common prayer, and a hope of hearing some message from
him suited to my mental and spiritual state. Unfortunately, I am some-
times wholly or in great measure disappointed, and when this is the case
I am inclined to believe that the fault is not always entirely mine.
First, I am by no means satisfied to listen while anthems are " per-
formed " in unknown tongues, or to sing hymns of sentiment, of exhorta-
tion, and of dogma, in place of those which utter praise to God, and extol
his Son our Lord.
If, after a choir, however skillful, has made some headway with its
anthem, I have not been able to distinguish a single word, I stop listening,
and, so far as I am concerned, that opportunity is thrown away. Why do
you, as directors of public worship, ever allow a " voluntary " to be sung
without distinctly informing the congregation in some way what it is they are
to hear ? Too often, to use a phrase of Dean Stanley's, there is a " sever-
ance of sound from sense." I once remarked to Dr. X., at the close of a
service, that it would have been appropriate to the occasion to sing the
version of the Twenty-third Psalm beginning, "The Lord of love my
shepherd is."
" Why," he said, "that was one of the pieces which the choir sang ! "
"Then why not supply the people with a printed programme, that they
may know what to expect ? "
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" Because the rustling of papers would interrupt the peaceful quiet of
the hour ! "
There is something of sentiment in Mrs. Brown's hymn,
" I love to steal awhile away ; "
but has a Christian assembly gained as much by singing its five verses as
if it had sung
" Now to the Lord a noble song " ?
How much better a hymn of direct address to Christ, like
" My faith looks up to Thee,"
than the doctrinal utterances of the hymn,
" Ere the blue heavens were stretched abroad,
From everlasting was the Word."
or,
" Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed."
I am sorry to say that I sometimes hear three hymns at one service
which exhort men to pray or praise, while not one of them voices the peti-
tion or the praise. " Brethren, these things ought not so to be." When
the Father is seeking for worshipers, why should we not do more in the
way of worship and less in the way of inviting men to worship ? What a
mistake to spend all one's breath on exhortations and arguments and
appeals addressed to mortal men, and hardly a syllable of direct adoration,
thanksgiving, and love !
Second, I sometimes question whether you ministers believe in wor-
ship at all when I see that instead of taking part in the song to which you
have summoned the congregation, you spend the time in looking over the
notices, or arranging your sermon, or finding your text, or whispering
with the deacon. It was the habit of an old Connecticut pastor to set his
congregation to singing a long hymn while he went out to rest under a
tree in the churchyard. Is it wise for the minister to set an example of
perfect indifference to the service of song ?
Third, I do not like to complain of unwritten prayers, or to criticize
the leaders of devotion ; but I do think ministers often fail to gather up
and express the desires and petitions of those whom it is their privilege to
lead to the throne of grace. Some men have "the gift of prayer ; " they
select the right word ; they give form and expression to the worshiper's
desire. It is a gift to be cultivated. A hospital visitor at the bedside of
a soldier began his prayer with the Fifty-first Psalm : " Have mercy upon
me, O God, according to thy loving kindness ; according unto the multi-
tude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions."
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"That's it," interrupted the sick man ; "won't you say that again?"
He had struck the right chord.
Brethren, your congregation can make no common utterance, except as you
direct and guide them. Do you look around the house and consider what
this and that and the other person wants to have said to God just then
and there ? While many experiences and wants are common to all men,
and while some confessions, petitions, and thanksgivings are appropriately
offered wherever human souls are assembled for worship, surely the wise
and sympathetic pastor would not lead the devotions of an ancient " fam-
ily church " in the East, made up mostly of confirmed believers, in the
same words that he would use in voicing the prayer service of a gathering
of cowboys in the " parks " of Colorado. On a memorable day, in a great
city, my friend and I questioned where we would go to church, and we
agreed to attend an Episcopal service because we were sure that we
should hear the petition which we craved : " Restore thou those who are
penitent ; according to thy promises declared unto mankind in Christ
Jesus our Lord."
In another city, on the Lord's Day, I went to a large and prominent
church where in sermon, prayer, and song everything was in the key of
the Old Covenant ; and apart from a few formal phrases hardly a word
was said or sung which might not have been spoken in a Jewish syna-
gogue.
Fourth, First and last I hear a good deal of complaint and criticism
of modern sermons, and I believe some of it to be just. I hear it sug-
gested that "the pulpit is losing its power." It may be so with some pul-
pits. I hear too few sermons which impress me with the conviction that
the preacher feels himself to be an ambassador of Christ sent with a mes-
sage of glad news for my soul. It is a part of my grievance that the par-
son too seldom unfolds to me the meaning of God's Word. He takes his
text from the Bible, of course, but he does not always proceed to speak
as one sent of God to me, to help me in life's work and speed me heaven-
ward. It seems to me a perversion of Scripture if, starting with the
words, " The kingdom of God is within you," he proceeds to develop the
thought that the kingdom of God is something peculiar to the inner life
of man. I see no reason why the insulting sneer of the Pharisees, " This
man receiveth sinners and eateth with them," should be made the basis
of an argument respecting my personal duty, and I think it very farfetched
to educe from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus the duty of mak-
ing a sacrifice for the sake of attending public worship. I find no nour-
ishment for my soul in pulpit essays upon success and failure, and I am
sure to starve spiritually if bidden to a banquet of platitudes, or rhetoric,
or speculation, or philosophy. But I crave, more and more, new state-
ments of " the old, old story ; " new discoveries of meaning breaking forth
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from the words of the Master ; new experiences like those of Paul and
John as they meditated on the grace and love of Christ. Failing to find
these things, I lose my interest in preaching, am ready to pronounce it
" foolishness," and have a measure of sympathy for those who ask, " Who
will show us any good ? " and in despair and listlessness forsake the
assembling of themselves together. An American traveler in England
says that of eight sermons which he heard last summer, the texts were
taken in seven cases from the Old Testament, and the discourses were in
perfect keeping with the texts. " In the pulpit," he says, " I saw Moses
and Joshua and Elijah and Isaiah, and I greatly hungered for a sight of
Jesus or some of his Apostles." Many of us, like the Greeks of old,
desire to see Jesus.
I have concluded that it is no easy thing to preach the gospel of sal-
vation ; to speak the word of good cheer to men who are striving to do
their duty ; to recognize the value of a devout and holy life ; to speak to
the careless and unbelieving in such a way as not to discourage and dis-
hearten the sincere believer ; to preach in this nineteenth century as our
Lord would speak if he were some day to " occupy the pulpit " in the
place of those who speak in his name.
I am best satisfied — it does me most good — when the songs of Zion
bring me nearer to God ; when the minister's prayer has said better than
I could say the very things which I longed to have expressed ; when his
reading of the Bible has stimulated my thought, and his discourse has
" found me."
Brethren, this is the longing which our souls have ; many souls, in our
great cities, in the older rural districts, on the distant prairies, on the
Rocky Mountains, on the Pacific Coast, throughout the great South — the
longing of the human heart to make common confession of our faith ; to
join in ascriptions of praise to God and Christ ; to hear the Scriptures read
with feeling and emphasis ; to offer our united prayers and intercessions ;
to hear a message from God, and to be brought into sweet and precious
communion with him.
Suffer, therefore, this word of exhortation, even though it may seem to
voice a complaint, for it is spoken in all kindness and with earnest desire
for the edifying of the church of Christ.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Q. Q.
GETTING HOME AGAIN
[Rev. A. A. Brown, the Society's Superintendent for Wyoming and Black Hills, after
giving a detailed account of his October's work of exploration, confirming and helping
the brethren scattered over his wide field, closes his report with the following story of
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his getting home. We give it place here, that our quiet, comfortable friends and helpers
in the older settlements may know what their representatives at the front meet with in
doing their share of the common work for the Master. — Ed.]
On Saturday night, October 31st, it began raining at Buffalo [Wyo-
ming]. On Sunday morning it began snowing, and on Monday morning
there were, perhaps, ten or twelve inches of snow, if it had lain as it fell.
But a high wind had distributed it very unevenly. None of the mails had
reached Buffalo since Saturday's early stages. On Monday morning the
proprietor of the stage route from Buffalo to Clearmont hitched up a
team to a two-seated buggy, took in the mail, myself, and another pas-
senger, and started for the railroad at Clearmont. All went well until we
were eight miles out, when we began to encounter the drifts. We had
the team down three or four times, and were compelled to tramp snow up
to our arms. Changing teams at the stage stations, we reached Clear-
mont, a distance of thirty-five miles, a little before four o'clock, with wet
feet and legs, tired and hungry, having eaten nothing since before six
o'clock in the morning. We were, however, in time for the east-bound
train, and I reached home the next morning, sound and well, and very
thankful to our Heavenly Father. Such is life in this Far West ; but it
is not without its compensations. It makes sturdy, honest, loyal, and
resolute men, self-reliant and ready for emergencies.
The tardiness of missionary payments is causing much embarrassment
and some suffering among our missionary laborers, and I fear may com-
pel some to leave their fields.
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BETWEEN SEED-TIME AND HARVEST
By Rev. W. A. Tenney, Oakland, Cal.
" He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again
with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him."
During the last month the writer received a letter from a widely
esteemed Christian lady with whom he has been acquainted for nearly
forty years. The communication was chiefly of a business character, but
this incidental item was included near the close. It is given here for the
encouragement of young Christian workers.
" You may not remember a sermon you preached when you were first
here. I do not remember the text, but it was on saving time. It set
me to thinking what I could accomplish, and the consequence is, I
have done far more than I can tell on paper. Besides this, and more
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than all else, I think I found the way of salvation fully through your
preaching, but for many years I found it very hard to express what I
felt."
Reference to my records shows that the discourse referred to must
have been my New Year's sermon for 1858, on the text, "The time is
short," preached near the beginning of a mission in the wilds of early
Oregon. Years ago the manuscript, discarded as of no value, went for
kindlings in the cooking-stove. Nearly thirty-nine years elapsed before
the preacher had any intimation that the sermon turned the trend of a
human life or that his other preaching changed the destiny of that
immortal soul. The fact that a sinner has been converted under the
preaching of the Word is only an ordinary event in the experience of the
average pastor. But the above case has an extraordinary sequel. When
we first met this lady she was eighteen years old, and was the mother
of two children. It was not unusual in early Oregon for girls to marry
at fourteen. Unmarried white women were very scarce.
The husband of this lady was the captain and chief owner of a vessel
plying between the Columbia River and Honolulu in a lucrative trade.
As the wife boarded, she had much leisure. We noticed that soon after
the time mentioned she began special courses of study to make up for
defective early education. By private lessons and untiring personal
efforts she has' become one of the best informed and most cultured ladies
in the region where she dwells. As might be expected from one whose
childhood was spent amidst the fewest Christian privileges, her religious
life had a small beginning ; but during all these years her spiritual
capacity and fruitfulness have been steadily increasing. So far as could
ever be learned, this was the first conversion in the little town of Astoria,
which is now a strong city of 12,000 or 15,000, and contains seven or
eight Protestant churches. The hallowed, active, silent influence of this
lady has left an impress on nearly all these churches. The husband
early placed his ship in charge of another captain, and engaged in
a large and profitable business on shore. Some years ago he died, and
left to his widow a liberal fortune, wisely invested. The income is very
large, but not out of proportion to the heart that controls it. The in-
creasing funds are judiciously spread with a munificent hand. Churches,
missions, charitable institutions, the unfortunate, the needy and suffering
within her knowledge, feel the touch of her purse and her fervent heart.
Her Christian influence through her large gifts and graces is being widely
felt in home and foreign lands.
The tens of thousands of dollars scattered in Christian work go to
multiply the number of souls saved as the remote and indirect effect of
a New Year's sermon which the preacher supposed for many years fell
fruitless upon listless ears. No good seed well sown will ever be lost,
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though the sower may not seethe sheaves till late in the autumn of life or
in the future world.
" In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thy hand : for thou
knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike
HOW' THE GOSPEL ENTERED THE CORDILLERAS
By Rev. D. L. Leonard, D.D., Oberlin, Ohio
It was Livingstone who suggested for substance, that not until the
explorer has completed his task can the work of the missionary begin.
Assuming ttie truth of this statement, it will be proper to preface a
sketch of the labors of the early heralds of the Gospel, by speaking briefly
of the still earlier preparatory service rendered by discoverers and
pioneers.
To us of this generation it seems passing strange that the entire west-
ern half of this continent, including the long stretch of the Pacific Coast,
was suffered to remain so long untouched by foot of civilized man and
utterly unknown. Captain Cook had indeed sailed along the shores of
Oregon and Alaska in 1778 ; in 1792 Captain Gray had crossed the bar
at the mouth of the Columbia, and cast anchor inside ; and a few days
after Vancouver had ascended that river a hundred miles. When Jeffer-
son had purchased Louisiana in 1803 (though years afterward he put
himself on record as believing that for five centuries, at least, the Ameri-
can people could easily be accommodated with homes between the Atlan-
tic and the Mississippi), he commissioned Lewis and Clarke to trace the
Missouri to its source, and then, crossing the Rockies, to search for the
corresponding great stream on the western side, and if found to follow it
to the ocean. This difficult task was splendidly performed. In 1806
General Pike, and in 1819 General Long, invaded the recesses of the
Great Plains, and their names live by being attached to two of the lofti-
est peaks upon which their eyes rested. In the meantime, and for a
whole generation, hundreds of trappers, hardy, daring, venturesome, of
the stamp of Daniel Boone, had begun to ascend the Missouri and its
principal western tributaries like the Platte, Arkansas, etc., to their head
streams in the mountains, and to penetrate even to the basins of the Colo-
rado and the Columbia. The American Fur Company was formed in
1808. Among its servants were such as these : Ashley, who disputes with
Bridger the honor of being the first white man to behold the Great Salt
Lake, in the twenties ; Campbell and Fitzpatrick, Henry, Hunt, Smith, and
Sublette. Astoria, the first American settlement on the Pacific, dates
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from 181 1. Another important step forward was taken in 1832-33, when
Captain Bonneville of the army, and also Nathaniel Wyeth, with wagons
and an organized company of men, made their way for trapping and
trade to southern Idaho and Oregon. Irving's " Astoria " appeared in
j 836, his " Adventures of Captain Bonneville " the year after, and turned
the attention of many to those remote wilds. But easily the most signal
advance was made in 1842-46, when Fremont led three successive expe-
ditions which took him back and forth through the whole Cordilleran
region, from east to west, and from north to south. He saw everything
with the eye of a scholar and man of science. He gave to the country
the first description of Great Salt Lake. He also it was who made
known the physical features of the Great Basin and gave to it the name.
His reports were soon published, were read by multitudes with absorbing
interest, and still remain a classic. Just now it was that the entire trans-
montane region was added to the Union. But before this event, in spite
of the general and persistent conviction that the area lying beyond the
Continental Divide was utterly worthless for settlement, emigrants, not a
few from the East, had straggled in, the missionaries of the Methodist
Church and the American Board blazing the way. In 1843 one of the
latter, Dr. Marcus Whitman, had piloted in a thousand.
As for California, Sir Francis Drake, in 1579, had landed in one of its
harbors to careen his ship, and calling the country New Albion, had
taken possession in the name of England's virgin queen. It is not
known just when the Spaniards made their advent. No steps, however,
were taken by them to actually possess and govern until 1769, when at
San Diego the first of nearly a score of presidios (military posts) and
Franciscan missions was established. The next year San Francisco Bay
was discovered. By the revolution of 1822 this future El Dorado became
a part of the Mexican republic. But so exceedingly remote was it from
the seat of government, and so slight was the population, that little atten-
tion was bestowed upon its affairs, while the civil authority was feeble in
:he extreme. In 1826 Jedediah S. Smith brought in a party of trappers,
and about the same time, whalers and traders from New England began
to visit the coast. One of the latter, Thomas O. Larkin, in 1832, opened
a wholsale and retail mercantile establishment at Monterey, some years
later becoming United States consul. In 1839 Captain Sutter entered the
valley of the Sacramento and secured a concession covering several thou-
sand acres, securing himself also from Indian assaults by the erection of
a fort. As year after year Americans crossed the Sierras in search of
homes, they naturally clustered about this very convenient stronghold.
All which circumstances, under the cogent operation of " manifest des-
tiny," wrought together to bring it to pass that in the summer of 1846
the " Bear Flag " was raised, Fremont being mysteriously present in the
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nick of time to aid and abet, while a few days later Commodore Sloat
captured Monterey and San Francisco.
1. The beginnings of the Gospel in Oregon date from 1833, and
resulted directly from that most pathetic and romantic journey of the
four Nez Perces braves to St. Louis, in fruitless search of some one to
'ell them of the Book which contained a knowledge of the Way of Life.
.Lev. Jason Lee and others penetrated to the Willamette Valley, while
Dr. Whitman and his companions located either at Lapwai or Walla
Walla. But in an Indian massacre occurring in 1847, the last named
missionary fell a victim, with his wife and seven others. By this time
the American Home Missionary Society, constantly watching for open-
ings for new and aggressive work, had begun carefully to scan this
remotest corner of the horizon. In June of 1846, the very month of the
Oregon treaty, The Home Missionary, after speaking of the " caravans
on the way to Oregon and the adjacent parts of California," states that
requests for missionaries have come more than once, and two are to be
sent as pioneers at the earliest moment. In August Rev. George H.
Atkinson and Rev. Horace Lyman are named as the honored first bearers
of the Glad Tidings. The former, with his wife, sailed in late October
of the next year, via Cape Horn and the Sandwich Islands, was com-
pelled to tarry three months at Honolulu, waiting for a vessel, and after
traveling 18,000 miles, or two-thirds of the distance around the globe,
reached their destination in June, 1848. During their voyage of eight
months the American Board's Mission in Oregon had been broken up, the
treaty with Mexico had been signed, and gold had been discovered. It
was not long before the settlers throughout the valley of the Columbia
went wild over the stories of fabulous wealth to be had by washing the
California gravels. A large portion of them left at once with all speed lest
their life opportunity should be lost, and for years the residue were so
uneasy as to make the work of evangelization exceedingly difficult and
discouraging. About the same time bad matters were made worse by a
land law which gave to each settler a whole half-section, and as much
more to his wife. Homes were thus scattered so widely that congrega-
tions of respectable size could only with greatest exertion be gathered.
Mr. Lyman took his departure a year later than his companion. Halting
at San Francisco, and learning that the region to which he had been
appointed was well-nigh depopulated, it was not until after orders came
from home that he went forward. This is no place to give the details of
the experiences and toils of the trying years of seed sowing. Suffice it to
say that as early as 1852 the foundations were laid for a female seminary
at Oregon City. A reinforcement of two men was sent the next year.
By 1856 the number of missionaries had increased to eight, and Rev. Mr.
Hunt was commissioned by the Society to proceed from California to
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Washington on a tour of exploration. By i860 ten churches were reported
in Oregon, with upwards of 2,000 members, and one church in Washington.
Such has been the divine blessing since bestowed that now in the two com-
monwealths together 172 churches are found, with 9,123 communicants.
2. The first public mention made of plans for undertaking Gospel
work in California is found in The Home Missionary for November, 1848.
" Upper California being now included in the territory of the United
States [the treaty had been signed February 2d, ratified May 30th, and
proclaimed July 4th], a mission thither is determined on, and the neces-
sary steps have been taken to send one or more men." December 1st,
Rev. Samuel H. Willey and Rev. John D. Douglas sailed from New York
via the Isthmus, without the least suspicion of what startling intelligence
was about to burst upon their ears. While the vessel was delayed several
days at New Orleans, on the nth arrived from the Pacific the messenger
bearing an official dispatch to the government from Colonel Mason, detail-
ing the next to incredible facts relating the millions to be easily gathered
by mere shovel and rocker in numerous localities on the western slopes of
the Sierras. The telegraph here caught up the news and scattered it
over the land, with what was almost a frenzy of excited feeling resulting.
Hundreds would embark at once on this steamer, while a multitude were
gathered at Panama scarcely able to contain themselves until transportation
could be secured up the coast. Early in 1849 these pioneer heralds of
the Cross reached their destination. Mr. Willey commenced work at
Monterey, and Mr. Douglas at San Francisco, " as Yerba Buena is called."
According to The Home Missionary for June ensuing, "in four months
from December 1st, 17,300 sailed from Atlantic ports, and from 20,000 to
40,000 are likely to cross the plains this year." The exigency was so great
that two more men were soon sent forward, and before the end of the year
a third one, in the person of Rev. J. H. Warren, so long the representative
head of Home Missions in California. By 1851 the Society could report
great things at hand in the valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin in
the way of the organization of churches and the erection of houses of wor-
ship. In a retrospect made after five years, 1848 was declared to be an
era in the history of the Society. " Then we never dreamed that we were
to be summoned to work for hundreds of thousands upon the Pacific."
Eight are to be dispatched ere long, six of them to the Golden Gate, the
rest to Oregon. Concerning this company it was written : " It is believed
that a larger number of ordained missionaries has never left our shores at
one time, certainly not for a more distant field." In i860 eleven churches
were reported with 579 members. By this date the agricultural resources
of the State had begun to receive a fair degree of attention. In ten years
more the churches numbered forty-eight, and the members 2,121. By
1896 the totals were respectively 173 and 16,708.
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3. Though located upon the extreme eastern border of the Cordilleran
region, mention should next be made of Colorado, both because of its
importance to the Kingdom, and because it was in this section that the
mining excitement next "broke out." And how surprising that within a
single half-decade numerous centers for the gathering of almost frenzied
gold seekers sprang into being. In localities, too, as far apart as Denver
on the east and Gold Hill, Nevada, later with its Comstock Lode ; and
half way between, in the mountains to the southwest and southeast of Salt
Lake ; as well as in the Owyhee district of southeastern Oregon, and the
adjacent parts of Idaho about Boise and further down the Snake River ;
and also far up in Montana, at Bannock, Virginia City, and Helena. The
explanation of the phenomenon is found largely in the fact that after some
ten years of washing, the gravels of California had been nearly robbed of
their precious nuggets and flakes, and thousands of miners set out through
all the ranges far and near in search of other diggings as rich as those had
been. It was in 1858 that placers were struck on Cherry Creek, one of
the tributaries of the South Platte. This, with others to match, sufficed to
set going the famous " Pike's Peak " fever the next year, during which it
is estimated that not less than 50,000 were gathered from all quarters as
eagles to the prey. In 1861 Denver was incorporated, and a territorial
government was set up. As usual the boom did not last long. The sup-
ply of gold presently began to give out, the war of the rebellion was on,
an Indian outbreak occurred, thousands disappointed and needy departed
for other fields, and the trial of hard times befell. However, in 1869 the
Union Pacific Railway was completed, and not long after the Kansas Paci-
fic. In 1870 Greeley, a flourishing agricultural colony, sprang into life,
giving a great impulse to the raising of grains, vegetables, and fruits ; the
Territory became a State in 1876, while not much later Leadville suddenly
astonished the world with its rich silver carbonates in exhaustless abun-
dance.
Colorado does not appear in the pages of The Home Missionary until
about the middle of 1863, when this statement occurs: "Appeals have
been made from several towns with a population ranging from 1,000 to
4,000. Two or three men are likely soon to be commissioned." Rev.
William Crawford was presently upon the ground ; after a few weeks had
gathered a church of twenty members at Central City, reports that Den-
ver needs a minister, is greatly disappointed that nobody can be found to
come to his assistance, and gives notice that "no family should start from
the Missouri by wagon later than November 1st, though if the stage is
resorted to the trip can be made at any time." Rev. Norman McLeod
came in 1864 with Denver as his field, where not long after a church was
established with a membership of twelve. The days of small things and
severe trials lasted long. Rev. N. Thompson, in 1870, reports that he is
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the only Congregational minister in the Territory. Before the end of the
year a church, the sixth in the sisterhood, was formed by council at Gree-
ley, with twenty-nine members, soon to increase to forty. In August of
187 1 Mr. Thompson writes from Boulder that "the six churches have
never had more than four ministers ; one-half of the six are emaciated,
two-thirds are famishing ; " there has been a grievous outflow of popula-
tion, and he ends by calling loudly for a home missionary superintendent
to push things. Not until 1875 could this reasonable petition be at all
regarded, and then only by sending Rev. J. W. Pickett from another State
to explore and do general work for two months. In two years more Rev.
R. T. Cross appears at Colorado Springs, where is a population of 3,000,
and a church two years old which has had no pastor or regular preaching,
but, notwithstanding, has steadily grown. In 1878 Mr. Pickett returned to
the State as superintendent, wrought untiringly and heroically, but early
in 1880 was killed in the midst of a night ride by the overturning of a
stage. Soon after, Rev. C. C. Creegan was appointed to his place, by
which time primitive days were over. The Colorado churches now num-
ber sixty, with 5,062 members.
THOSE HELPFUL BOXES
By a Far-Western Superintendent
Your kind letter concerning the Broadway Tabernacle Church ladies
and their missionary box for Mr. B. is at hand. 1 didn't get up and dance a
jig when I read it, but I felt as happy as old Dr. MacLure, the " doctor of
the old school," felt when he had saved the life of Annie Mitchell, after
going " through the flood," or when he pulled Saunders safely through in
his " fight with death." My wife, I think, cried a little, and I would, only
that I am so big I was ashamed to. Of course she didn't weep much, and
that was simply because we had come to take their part so fully that when
the good news came that they were to be remembered by a church so
noted as the Broadway Tabernacle is for its boxes, it seemed almost too
good to be true. And right here I want you to say to those good women
in that church that I had heard of their good works for a long time, and
always hoped that some time I might get a chance to tell them so. I have
heard more praise from Home Missionaries for the boxes sent out from
them than from any other church in the East or the West ; and I want them
to know it. I am sure that some of these brave men at the front will remem-
ber them with loving gratitude as long as they live. The fact is, that
there are some men in the ministry who are simply overwhelmed with the
goodness of these friends and don't know what to say, or how to say it, and
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so perhaps they do not seem appreciative. But never, till the day which
reveals all things, will the donors know what they have done and what
they are doing for some of God's dear children. And if ever I have
a chance to meet them on this 'side the "river" I shall tell them so.
These boxes have made it possible for us to employ men who other-
wise could not have been kept on the work ; for that part of the pledged
salary that the people could pay in these hard times was not sufficient for
them to live on and furnish food and clothing for their families. So that
instead of coming merely as so many comforts or additional luxuries, they
have been comforts and luxuries indeed, but more than that, they have
been the necessities without which the work must have been abandoned.
I know I have not been as careful as I ought to have been in telling
the Eastern friends how much we appreciate these boxes. I confess my
sin in this regard, and humbly beg pardon ; but the superintendents are
so busy, that it seems impossible to get time to say all the nice things we
have in our hearts, and desire to write. The fact is, I was at home only
three days during nearly two months just passed, and when I do get home
there are scores of letters to write, and only a short time to write them in.
And then with " the care of all the churches," and the trying to straighten
out all the tangles, the looking after all the vacant pulpits, and the writing
of a few words of comfort to some bereaved or despondent pastor, and all
the other odds and ends, I know I let many of the little amenities of life
go by default ; but I will try to do better in the future. Tell the dear
thoughtful friends that the Master knows how much time and thought and
self-sacrifice it costs them to do these kind things, and he will have some
just such magnificent surprises in store for them individually, when they
meet him in his kingdom, as they have* made for the humble missionaries
for whom they have toiled so long and faithfully.
h
A CHAPTER OF HOME MISSIONARY WORK IN NEW
YORK CITY
The summer of 1894 had closed, the artists of autumn had given
evidence that their season was on, and the best the earth yields filled
the markets on our streets, when the shattered remnants of a minister
gathered themselves together after a year's suffering, and he betook him-
self to New York City to investigate on his own account the religious
needs of neighborhoods where no churches were visible to the naked eye.
As he sauntered over the West Side he was impressed with its many
churches and their beautiful exteriors. Then he said to himself, " If the
people here are lost from not availing themselves of spiritual privileges,
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they deserve to be. Surely Christians have done all they can for West
Side sinners."
He then made a general inspection of the East Side. A few inviting
churches were found, but most of the places of worship were unattractive
chapels, indicating that variety shows and brilliantly lighted saloons were
more alluring to the every-day sinner than most of these places of wor-
ship. But the scarcity of even such edifices for worship was evident. He
saw the East Side " full of boys and girls playing on the streets." In this
it seemed richer by thirty-fold, at least, than the West Side. Many more
people were in the parts where the fewest churches could be found than
in those where a church adorned every three or four blocks.
But what impressed him most was the finding of long stretches with
no church, no hall, no place that could be obtained for a public service.
Sections of ten blocks square or more were found where many families
would need to walk a mile to church, and most of them half a mile, and
where a group of anywhere from 200 to 1,000 families could be ministered
to by a church planted in the right location.
Then the question arose, Are not most of these families Roman Catholics?
Is not that the reason why no church or chapel has sprung up among
them ? The scientific method was adopted. A canvass was made of fifty
houses on one street, and the question asked, " Where is the nearest church ?
Do your children attend a Protestant or Catholic Sunday-school ? "
People do not like to be asked what their religion is, but they are only
too glad to have any interest expressed in their children. So this form of
question gained two points : it let the inquirer know how many children
actually attended some Sunday-school, and whether the parents were
Catholics or Protestants. The taking of fifty houses on different streets,
covering about 350 families, gave the following results, viz., that a great
many Protestant children attended no Sunday-school at all ; that many
more attended irregularly (not having been back since vacation ; i.e., they
had been absent from June 30 to November) ; that very few parents ever
attended church ; and that no minister ever called. But they had their
children baptized, a minister married most of them, most would send
for some minister when they thought one of their sick was not likely to
recover, and all wanted a minister to officiate at funerals. In not more
than about ten families out of the 350 was there a church or minister that
they regarded as their own. Another fact to emphasize is that Protest-
ants outnumber the Catholics in every row of fifty families — about ten
Protestant families to one Catholic family — except in one instance, where,
in a row of tumble-down old tenements, it was said that all were Catholics.
Investigation showed, however, that of the twenty families ten were
Catholics and ten were Protestants. (Our poor non-church-going Prot-
estants are supposed to be Catholics by most of their neighbors.) These
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investigations were made from the section of the city between noth and
169th Streets.
The writer decided to " agitate " concerning the occupation of these
fields. He selected three neighborhoods on which to focalize attention.
One was within half a mile of a Congregational church, and its pastor
objected to a Congregational enterprise so near him ; he preferred an-
other denomination. The next field was receiving at the same time the
attention of the Dutch Reformed brethren— pastors of two different con-
gregations combining their efforts to occupy and maintain it. The field
left was within half a mile of a Congregational church, but the pastor was
eagerly waiting to encourage his denomination to occupy it. He and his
people seconded the efforts to plant a church and Sunday-school, and the
field was prepared for the Congregational Home Missionary Society to
place an evangelist in it, which was promptly done.
The section comprising this parish is bounded by East 138th Street,
the Sound, and Brook Avenue. There was no hall, no unoccupied store,
nothing but a tenement house available for use where worship and Sunday-
school might be housed. There was no church within about six blocks,
and only two churches within a reasonable distance. The facts revealed
by the investigation show how much the work was needed ; and a look into
the character of the people emphasizes the fact of its need of spiritual
ministrations. Two years ago there were 700 families ; apartments have
since been built that add 500 more families. There is a population of
4,000 residents, besides a day population of persons residing elsewhere,
who work in our twelve factories, forty stores, and fifteen saloons, making a
total of 6,000 persons. There are over 1,200 children of Sunday-school
age, of whom at least 1,000 are Protestants, yet not more than half of
them attend any Sunday-school, and conditions favor the rank weeds of
city heathenism. Another Sunday-school has been started, using the
German language for the little ones, that in no wise interferes with the
English work, and is an appendage to a German Lutheran church too far
away for their little ones to attend.
This chapter we draw to a close by narrating just what has been done.
A church is organized and now numbers twenty-five members. A church
corporation, through its trustees, has purchased two lots, fifty feet front
by eighty feet deep, on East 135th Street, near Trinity Avenue. There is
a mortgage on them, and the interest has been taken care of. The running
expenses of about twenty-five dollars a month have been paid, and about
$400 are raised towards a building fund. The new enterprise is now
knocking at the doors of the Church Extension and Church Building
Societies for help to build a chapel.
Up to this point the only expense of the undertaking has been the
salary of the evangelist, paid entirely by the Congregational Home Mis-
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sionary Society. But to put the church upon its feet it must have a
building, and will need the generous aid of the denomination. It is lim-
ited by its cramped quarters ; the obstacles have been great : no suitable
place of worship, the general financial depression, the high price of lots
in this part of the city, and the strain on our denominational societies to
carry on the older fields, have made this enterprise appear in the light of
an intruder, born prematurely, and so noisy and insistent for attention
and care that the denominational nurses have their private opinions about
it ; but they will do their duty by this latest-born daughter, situated up
in the front of Hell Gate, and nothing daunted, with the world, the flesh,
and the devil all about her, she uses the gospel weapon of faith, against
which the gates of hell cannot prevail !
GIVING FOR MISSIONS
By Mrs. E. R. Drake, Denver, Colorado
When asked to write something upon the subject of Giving for Mis-
sions, I said to myself, What more can be said on this subject, which has
already been worn threadbare ? How can I present it so that some new
light may shine upon it, or at least the old light may reflect it in a new and
more telling way ? As I studied God's Word and thought upon the old
way of giving instituted by God, ages ago, I found myself drawn toward
God's plan of " tithing " as the solution of the great missionary money
problem of to-day.
That we should give is a fact long since established. How much shall
we give ? is the question many have not settled, or at least settled practi-
cally. But why not let God settle it ? Why not follow the commands
and teachings of his Book, the " lamp unto our feet and the light unto our
path " ? From the beginning God must have known how much of this
world's store was needed to advance his kingdom and carry on his work.
To review the history of God's plan, we have only to go back to Abra-
ham in his meeting with Melchisedek, the priest of God, " to whom also
Abraham gave a tenth part of all ; " to Jacob and his covenant with God ;
to the people of Israel all down through the history of the Old Testament
and the New, even to the present, with their tithes and offerings to the
Lord. And we must not fail to notice Christ's recognition of the custom
and its justice, in his rebuke to the boastful Pharisees, who, recounting
their good deeds, said they went so far as to tithe even the herbs they
used. Christ says, " These ought ye to have done." Then bear in mind
the fact that for the first ten centuries of the Christian era the practice
January, 1897 The Home Missionary 459
was never called in question, but the Christian church paid tithes as a
lawful custom until, with many other good things, it was lost in the dark
ages. But weightier than all these is the argument that will come :
God knew how much he needed ! In the palmiest days of the children
of Israel a tenth proved an abundance. The crying need of the pres-
ent, in God's work, is money ; and it has been estimated that a tenth
of the income of Christians to-day would fill to overflowing the Lord's
treasuries and push to a speedy end the evangelization of the whole
world.
And why may we not know the blessedness of this obedience to God,
this giving as he asks, giving back what he has set apart for himself ?
How this simplifies the subject of giving, and leaves no room for query or
quibble in our benevolences. Instead of this question, " How much ought
I to give," coming up for answer each time, it is forever settled. " The
tithe is the Lord's," and I cannot choose but pay him what is his.
Depend upon it, the other nine-tenths will go much further than the
whole with a niggardly pittance taken out.
But some will say, " This comes so much harder on the poor than on
the rich." True, it does, seemingly ; but so does keeping the Sabbath —
the giving of one day in seven to God — seem more grievous to the poor
man than the rich ; but is it ? Has it not been fully demonstrated that he
can do more with the six-sevenths of his time, giving the other seventh to
God and rest, than he could by using the whole for labor ? Do you count
it hard that the poor man, out of his limited supply, should layby seed corn
for the harvest of another year ? No more is it hard to plant the tenth in
God's vineyard, from which, in blessings, the most abundant harvest is
promised. I love to consider it as a sort of rental for the use of God's
good stores he so bountifully measures out to us. Should you rent your
farm, would you be pleased with the tenant who considers the share you
ask as your rental a free gift from him to you ? Would you expect him to
say, in speaking of it, I give my landlord, as a free gift, so much for the
use of his property ? No more does God look with favor upon us, !
believe, when we fail in the payment of our tithe, or count it a gift to him.
No, the real gifts come after the tithe is paid.
Let us read the words in Malachi iii., and give them their rightful
meaning. We have fallen into the habit of making these words mean any-
thing else than what God meant they should mean ; viz. : money, first-
fruits, offerings. So used have we become to applying them to conditions
of heart and mind in revival seasons, that we have forgotten the context,
which translates the real significance. Let us begin back with the text
in the eighth verse and read through the twelfth ;
" Will a man rob God ? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee ? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a
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curse ; for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. Bring ye all the
tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and
prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the
windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be
room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the devourer for your
sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground : neither shall
your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of
hosts. And all nations shall call you blessed ; for ye shall be a delight-
some land, saith the Lord of hosts."
Can we any longer relegate this truth to its established but mistaken
use ? No ; but brandish it like the sword God meant it to be, piercing
our pocketbooks and dividing the tenth for himself ; piercing our bank
dividends, our money from our produce, our liberal amounts set aside
for our tables and our dress ; the income from our business, whatever it
may be — the day's labor, the weekly or monthly wages, or the vast sums
which come into our princely merchants' coffers— from one and all the
tenth is separated as holy to the- Lord ; and whether we recognize it or
not, in the light of this Scripture, " The tenth is the Lord's."
But one will say, " Would you limit your giving to a tithe in all cases ? "
By no means. This is a small part of what some should give, and as truly
all that many others ought to give. Remember God said to the Jews,
"tithes and offerings;" and with many the "offering" should be a much
larger amount than the tenth, while with others, the " turtle dove," or a
" few goat's hairs " would limit their possibility. To give until we feel
it brings the richest blessing. The " offerings " of the Jews were the
gifts after the required amount had been paid, and it had been estimated
that the entire amount given by the Jews would not be far from twenty-
five per cent, of their income.
I know well that the tenth does look large when we separate it from
our small incomes, but how niggardly even this would seem in the light
of eternity, when we can compare truly our plenty with the suffering need
of the heathen and godless in our own and other lands. May God forgive
us for our weakness when we set aside our gifts for him. Can he ever
forgive us? is the question that will come when we look at the subject in
its true light.
Dr. Josiah Strong, in his wonderful book, " Our Country, " tells us
that in 1880 there was in the hands of American Christians alone the vast
sum of $8,728,400,000, and of this only one-sixteenth of one per cent, was
given for missions, home and foreign. In this same year he says 10,000,000
American Christians gave $5,500,000, or an average of fifty-five cents each,
for missions, while 10,000,000 other American people gave $900,000,000, or
an average of ninety dollars each, for intoxicating drinks. What can we
conclude, he adds, but that the dram drinkers of America think more of
January, 1897 The Home Missionary 461
their drink than Christians for the souls of the perishing ? Oh, terrible
statement ! But can we deny it ?
It seems almost, in the light of God's Word, that we have hitherto
been playing at giving. We have planned and prayed and worked in
ways, too often I fear, that would hardly bear careful investigation God-
ward to raise the small sums that bring into our treasuries from many
sources the all insufficient aggregate ; while had we spent one-half the
time and strength in preaching and teaching God's old and time-tried
plans, around the obedience to which cluster blessings from Genesis to
Revelation ; and around the disobedience, from the beginning until now,
have gathered want, disaster, lack of blessing and power ; the treasuries
would, we believe, have been full, and thousands who have gone down to
death unsaved because of lack of money to send to them the Gospel of
our Lord Jesus Christ would rise up in the resurrection to call us blessed.
Had God never commanded this, were there no word of promise to
those who should keep the command, still there would be abundant
reason why we should set aside the tenth — because it would answer the
demand ; because it would supply the pressing need, and bring to its
dawn the day of the Lord speedily.
Can we afford longer to ignore God's claims upon us ; to cheat our-
selves out of the blessing ; to let another generation come to maturity
with no better knowledge and practice on this subject, and no greater
blessing than this generation has had ? Or shall we call a halt now, even
to-day, to this lax and inefficient method of dealing out our littles to the
Lord — too much of which often is begged from unwilling givers — and set
heart and hand to the obedience of God our Father?
" And God is able to make all grace to abound toward you, that ye
always having all sufficiency in all things may abound to every good
work."
Oh, what a band of followers would rejoice next year could each of us
say, I have paid the Lord his tithe, I have offered willingly. Truly, then,
should we have lifted our beloved land to a plane of blessedness, and
still should we have left to push the work in unblessed countries.
O that I might be able to say the word that would rivet this neces-
sity of obedience home upon every heart ! Then should I feel that my
lips might forevermore be silent, except in glad thanksgiving to God.
A few years ago there was a riot in the city of Chicago. The police
force was called out to quell it, but unwilling to use violence upon their
brothers, the riot waxed fearlessly hotter and hotter. Then the city
militia was called out, but to no better purpose. Finally, driven to the
wall, the city officials telegraphed the State militia, stationed some dis-
tance away, to come at once, for the need was pressing. With all speed,
not stopping for rest or food, the troops came ; and dusty, worn, and
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travel-soiled they left the train in haste, and marched with their steady
and unwavering tramp, tramp, to the scene of the riot. Already their
influence was felt, and fear began to possess the crowd in the streets.
An Irishman tremblingly stepped up to one of the soldiers as he was
passing, and said : "I say, but yez wouldn't shoot, would yez?" "I'll
do just what the captain orders, sir," said the true soldier, while his eyes
were never taken from the front, nor his firm step slackened for a moment.
It is needless to add that the riot was quelled.
Taking a lesson from this, shall we not, with our eyes fixed upon our
leader, say, "I will do just what my Captain commands," and push
gloriously on to victory ?
ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF SECRETARIES
The Conference of Secretaries of State Congregational Home Mis-
sionary Societies Auxiliary to the Congregational Home Missionary Society
convened, for its twenty-fourth annual meeting, at the Congregational
House, Boston, Mass., at nine a. m., Tuesday, October 27, 1896. There
were present :
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary of the Maine Missionary Society ;
Rev. Alfred T. Hillman, Secretary of the New Hampshire Home Mis-
sionary Society ; Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary of the Vermont
Domestic Missionary Society ; Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary of the Mas-
sachusetts Home Missionary Society ; Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary
of the Missionary Society of Connecticut ; Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary
of the New York Home Missionary Society.
Also, by invitation :
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, Secretary of the Congregational Home Mis-
sionary Society ; Rev. William G. Puddefoot, Field Secretary of the
same.
Mr. Merrill was made chairman. Prayer was offered by Mr. Coit.
Messrs. Curtis and Hillman were made a Committee on Business. The
report of the treasurer was made and accepted. The report of the
registrar, including a programme, was made and accepted.
It was voted : That the next annual meeting be held at the Congrega-
tional House, Boston, Mass., at nine a. m., Tuesday, October 26, 1897 ;
also that the minutes, when approved, be offered for publication in The
Home Missionary. The Committee on Business made a report, which
was accepted.
Topics were considered as follows :
1. How far shall a Missionary Society dictate the kind of a man for
an aided church ?
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2. The expediency of putting a good man, well paid, over four small
churches, to be visited each one whole week in succession.
3. Congregational Work.
(a) Its character and prospects.
(b) What can be done for its circulation in the auxiliary States ?
At 12:30 a recess was taken till two.
At two resumed consideration of topics.
4. How many churches fail to contribute, as churches, for Home Mis-
sions ?
(a) What are some of the causes of the failure ?
(b) What can the Congregational Home Missionary Society do in
the case ?
5. The condition and outlook of the field of each Secretary :
(1) Vermont, Mr. Merrill.
(2) Maine, Mr. Hatch.
(3) Congregational Home Missionary Society, Mr. Clark.
(4) New York, Mr. Curtis.
At 4:30 adjourned till nine a. m., Wednesday.
At nine a. m., Wednesday, prayer was offered by Mr. Hillman.
The consideration of fields was resumed :
(5) New Hampshire, Mr. Hillman.
(6) Massachusetts, Mr. Coit.
(7) Connecticut, Mr. Moore.
The minuteswere approved.
Prayer was offered by Mr. Moore.
At eleven the body adjourned.
William H. Moore, Registrar.
HOW A MAN LOOKS AT IT
A PERSONAL MESSAGE FROM TURKEY IN ASIA
I have just been looking over The Home Missionary for August, and
it is so good, I want to tell you right off how I enjoyed it ; how I was
comforted, cheered, encouraged, stimulated by it. As a great army cov-
ering a vast expanse of territory in its wide operations, one division may
be hard pressed, but it is inspired with fresh hope and strength if it hears
that another division in another part of the field is sweeping victoriously
onward. We are rather hard pressed this year ; our appropriations were
reduced about fifty per cent, to start with. The spirit of lawlessness has
greatly increased, so that we are pestered and bothered in many ways
people would not have ventured on a year ago.
" To heaven I lift mine eyes ; from God is all my aid."
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And now I want to say, that it seems to me you have hit the nail
squarely on the head in your " Word of Explanation " in the August issue
of The Home Missionary, in what you say of dropping the word " Woman,"
and calling your organizations " Homeland Unions." I have rejoiced in
the increasing activity of woman in all good works, but I have viewed
with much apprehension the tendency to draw the sex line. It seems to
me that in Christian activities the sex line should be largely obliterated.
As I understand it, in the church of Christ " there is neither Jew nor
Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female."
Being one in Christ Jesus, there is an essential equality of right and privi-
lege. It would take too long to try to carry the thing out to its ultimate
conclusion, and would be only tiresome to you. Very possibly I should
run up against stumps myself, for I have not thought the thing clear
through !
Of two things I feel sure : that woman should have a much larger
share in the direction and management of the activities of the church
than was thought at all proper twenty years ago, and, on the other hand,
that attempts to divide the work on sex lines are to be most earnestly
deprecated. Why should we have " Woman's Work for Woman " any
more than " Man's Work for Man " ? Of course, there are things woman
can do better than man, and others that man can do better than woman.
Let the principle be carried out of giving each individual what he or
she can do best, or, rather, employing the best person available for each
service.
Am I a very old fogy ? Let us not say, " Mary must not address a
meeting, must not manage the treasury, simply because she is a woman ;
nor that John must not say a word about the girls' schools, simply because
he is a man." Let us try to have it one work in which both Mary and
John engage, each doing the part he or she can do best, but helping each
other, taking each the other's place, if necessary. — A Missionary of the
A. B. C. F. M.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS
April $11,428.79
May 5,866.47
June 8,713.88
July 14,350.84
August 3,460.00
September .... 9,148.64
October 7,115.88
November. . . . 12,533.97
FOR DEBT
LEGACIES
TOTAL
$5,093.08
$2,687.84
$19,209.71
3.834.45
6,180.76
15,881.68
3,506.61
2,502.22
14,722.71
2,I2I.OO
9,772.20
26,244.04
487.56
2,l67.2I
6,114.77
6IO.OO
5,775-99
I5,534-63
218.85
1,646.85
8,981.58
33I.OO
30,845.53
43,710.50
January, 1897 The Home Missionary 465
[As our " Treasury Note " for this month, will our readers please accept the following
samples of the many series of responses to the appeal printed in The Home Missionary
for December, page 419?— Ed.]
I inclose draft or Boston for one hundred dollars. I trust the Lord
may move many other persons to do likewise. Surely these heralds of
the Cross who go to the front and deny themselves the comforts of home,
and many of whom, as I know, endure great privation and hardship,
should be paid and sustained. I think the country is now entering upon
an era of prosperity in which I hope and believe your Society will share.
I trust the Great Shepherd of the sheep and Head of the church will move
his people to come to your relief. — House of Representatives, Washing-
ton, D. C.
I am pained to the heart by that terrible debt. The faithful mission-
aries must be paid. I have given already all I thought I could for the
cause this year, but I must do more now, and I hope everyone who learns
the state of things will feel as I do and do all he can to relieve the situa-
tion. Inclosed find my check. — A Massachusetts Lady.
I am distressed for the Congregational Home Missionary Society and
yet can do so little to help. Two weeks ago I sent twenty dollars
through our weekly offering, thinking it was all I could spare, but a little
money has come to me unexpectedly, and here are ten more. God grant
that this cloud may soon be lifted. — Connecticut.
Inclosed please find my check. I regret that it is such a trifle, and
would be thankful could I send twenty times the amount. The cause is
very near to my heart. — A Lady of Washington, D. C.
I regret to be obliged to say that fire and heavy losses have wiped
out practically the saving of fifty years' industry and economy and left me
in a position to do nothing for the great missionary enterprises, except
to contribute my little through our local church. — Massachusetts.
Your appeal is at hand. Would that it were possible to pay the debt
myself, for my heart is with you. The situation here enables us to real-
ize in some degree the burden which rests upon you. But it is God's
cause, and in some way he will bring light out of darkness It may not
be in our way, or our time, but it will be in his own way and time. His
word to us is, " Be strong and of good courage."- — Michigan.
I am deeply interested in the work of the Society and wish it were in
my power to make a gift that would materially relieve the burdened
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treasury. But such pleasure is denied me. I will, however, early next
month gladly send my mite, not forgetting the real meaning of " the
widow's mite," and practicing self-denial that I may add this to the gifts
I am making in other directions. Hoping that in some way many hearts
may be touched with the need of earnest effort and giving. — An Illinois
Lady.
I am very sorry for the stress laid on you, and have just given $200
to our State treasurer, which he will forward to you this week. Wish we
could do more, but this will be one of the rills, which I hope may be
many and prompt, in answer to your appeal. — A New Hampshire Pastor.
I inclose herewith my check for $100 towards the needs of the
Society, and wish most sincerely that I could make it ten times as much,
but the demands upon me this year have been greater than ever and
I cannot in justice to other interests make the amount larger. — Boston,
Mass.
Your circular of course causes pain, and it is quite as much to relieve
my own feelings, as to inform you, that I write. We have arranged to
have a special service and collection for the Home Missionary Society's
work next Sunday. I trust you may receive something proportionate and
encouraging for this emergency. — A Connecticut Lady.
The letter sent by your Boarcbof Secretaries is certainly very pathetic.
How I wish I had the money for you ! We are loaded here in Missouri,
and my church is especially loaded ; but I shall bring this matter before
our committee at an early day and we will see what we can do. Our
hearts are with you. May God bless the workers and the work through
you and the Society you represent. — A Missouri Pastor.
My husband and I have decided to have an every-day dinner to-day
and contribute our mite to this good work. Would it were ten thousand
times what it is. — Maine.
In response to your appeal I take pleasure in sending my check, only
wishing it were a hundred times that amount. Some time ago I received
a small sum of money from a very aged aunt of mine, which sum she
asked me to " use in some good cause." The inclosed is that sum and a
small contribution of my own. The cause, I am sure, could not possibly
be better. Hoping that divine Providence will cause many contributions
to be sent you, and from men able to give more abundantly than 1, 1 am,
very truly. — Massachusetts.
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APPOINTMENTS IN NOVEMBER, 1896
Not in commission last year
Appelman, Hiram H., Sauk Rapids and Cable,
Minn.
Brotherton, J. Howard, Worthing, So. Dak.
Churchill, Geo. W., Perkins, Okla.
Crawford. Chas. H., Baltimore, Md.
Davis, Albert A., Lakeland and South Stillwater,
Minn.
Ferguson, Frank P., Big Lake and Orrock, Minn.
Gourley, Thomas H., Lenora, Kan.
Grove, J. F., Evangelist in 111.
Grupe, F. W., Buffalo, Wyo.
Johnson, B. O., Renovo, Penn.
Lyman, Harvey Austin, South Shore, Mazeppa,
and Troy, So. Dak.
Mac Ayeal, H. S., Omaha, Neb.
Parsons, James, Los Angeles, Cal.
Perkins, Mrs. Eliza B., Silver Creek, Neb.
Poeton, Josiah, Taylor, Neb.
Rogers, W. P., Groveland, Minn.
Rose, Wm. Franklin, Steilacoom, Wash.
Rowe, George W., Hackleburgh, Ala.
Spanswick, Thomas W, Hennessey, Okla.
Swain, Carl J., Lyle, Minn.
Umsted, Owen, Longton, Kan.
Weage, A. D.. Paso Robles, Cal.
Wilkinson, Wm. A., Abercrombie. No. Dak.
Woodford, Burton H., Dayton, Ranchester, and
Parkman, Wyo.
Recom missioned
Adams, James Robert, Bevier, Mo.
Austin, Henry H., Big Horn, Wyo.
Beauchamp, Jethro M.. Willard and Salem, Ore.
Brier, J. W., Antioch, Cal.
Bright, David Franklin, Trenton and Fairview,
Neb.
Camfield, Lewis Emerson, Ward Academy and
Kirkwood, So. Dak.
Cibula, Jan, Braddock, Penn.
Cunningham, John T., Randall, Minn.
Dibble, Wm. L., Winona, Minn.
Egerland, Franz. General Missionary among the
Germans in 111.
Evans, Howell M., Grand Island, Neb.
Fisher, Owen D., Indianapolis, Ind.
Fowler, Olin L., Alderton, McMillen, and Orting,
Wash.
Hall, Frederick E., Palestine, Texas.
Hankemeyer, Nathaniel W., Deming, New Mex.
Houston, A. S., Indianola, Neb.
Ingham, John E., Mazeppa and Zumbro Falls,
Minn.
Jenkins, J. Alex., St. Paul, Minn.
Jones, John Lewis, Clearwater and Hasty, Minn.
Libby, Edgar H., St. Louis, Mo.
Marcelius, David, Cleveland, Ohio.
Moore, Wm. N., Great Falls, Mont.
Nelson, A. G., District Missionary in Minn.
Parker, Stanton Alonzo, Ft. Calhoun, Neb.
Pease, William P., Hay Springs, Neb.
Pederson, Ludvig J., Fargo, No. Dak.
Pettigrew, Mrs. Nina D., Keystone, So. Dak.
Ricker, Albert E., Chadron, Neb.
Rominger, Henry V., Crawford, Neb.
Rood, John, Sauk Rapids and St. Cloud, Minn.
Roth, Victor Wilhelm, Hope, Idaho.
Scroggs, Miss Bessie B., Rogers, Ark.
Scroggs, J. W., Rogers, Ark.
Smith, L. Adams, Christopher and Star Lake,
Wash.
Stewart, William John, Amery, Wis.
Sumner, Frederick A., Glenwood. Minn.
Thomas, Isaac, Horatio and Lindsay, Penn.
Thompson, Thomas, Revillo, So. Dak.
Tomlin, David R., Frankfort, So. Dak.
Upton, Rufus P., Custer and Garvin, Minn.
Vaile, Chas. S., Monrovia, Cal.
RECEIPTS IN NOVEMBER, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 473 to 476
MAINE— $120.46.
Biddeford, Second, by E. H. Gold-
thwaite $37 65
Gorham, Friends 1 00
Kennebunk, Union Ch., by H. S.
Brigham ' 55 19
Portland, " Ladies of Bethel Ch." 26 62
NEW HAMPSHIRE-$424.42; of which
legacy, $27.30.
N. H. H. M. Soc, Hon. L, D. Ste-
vens, Treas 302 22
F. C. I. and H. M. U. of N. H., Miss
A. A. McFarland, Treas 8 00
Claremont, by H. W. Frost 25 00
Exeter, Estate of Mrs. A. W. Chad-
wick, by F. H. Wiggin 27 30
Francestown, Dea. M. B. Fisher, by
A. Downes 5 00
Hanover, A few ladies, by Mrs. C. O.
Blaisdell 20 00
Lebanon, by Mrs. D. B. Carter 34 80
Meredith, Miss H. J. Leavitt 2 10
VERMONT— $80.04 ! of which legacy,
$10.
Bellows Falls, First S. S., by N. G.
Williams
Benson, by Rev. C. E. Hitchcock
Royalton, Mrs. S. A. Danforth
Rupert, by G. R. Thompson
Springfield, by B. F. Aldrich
Vergennes, by A. Ross
Estate of J. Bingham, by Ira Bing-
ham, Ex
Vermont, A Friend
Waterbury, S. S. Rally, by Mrs. R. M.
Forrest
16 15
7 00
5 00
19 00
9 64
15 00
5 c°
3 25
MASSACHUSETTS — $31,385.92 ; of
which legacies, $28,662.31.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E. B.
Palmer, Treas 500 00
By request of donors, of which for
Salary Fund , $62 459 39
Woman's H. M. Assoc, Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas. :
Amherst 163 00
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Ayer, First, by Mrs. M. L. Kingsbury $8 50
Beverly, Dane Street, by H. R. White 48 83
Blandford. First, by W. E. Hinsdale . 41 27
Boston, Estate of J. A. Ambrose, by
T. Weston, Esq 302 00
A Friend, In His Name 100 00
A Friend 100 00
Brookline, L. C. Whitney 5000
Cambridge, A. A. Steele 100 00
C.H.Warner 5000
Canton, E. A. Morse 100 00
Clinton, First Evan. S. S., by E. L.
Greene 6 42
Concord, M. E. Ames 50 00
Danvers, M. E. Batson 1 00
Dedham, "Towards the debt, from
Sabbath Mite Box." 6 00
Dorchester, Estate of Mrs. E. J. W.
Baker, by B. C. Hardwick and
H. P. Williams, Exs 20,760 31
Estate of Mrs. E. J. W. Baker 6,000 00
Easthampton, Payson Ch., by H. L.
Clark 30 co
Fitchburg, Rev. and Mrs. John Wood. 15 00
Gilbertville, S. S. Rally, by E. M.
Marsh 12 50
Haverhill, Estate of Mary B. Jones, in
part, by G. C. Clement and Samuel
Merrill, Exs 1,000 00
Holyoke, Second, by J. N. Hubbard.. 281 05
Ladies' Prayer Circle of the Second,
by Mrs. F. H. Chamberlin 10 00
Jamaica Plain, C. T. Bauer 12 00
Ludlow, Union Ch., by A. H. Halford. 14 85
Monson. by E. F. Morris 27 00
Natick, E. S. Hayes 10 00
Mrs. A. WTalkef 3 00
New Bedford, North Ch., Y. P. S. C.
E., by J. W. Buchanan 2500
Newburyport, E. S. Moseley 25 00
Northampton, L. Maltby 10 00
North Blandford, Second, by Mrs. F.
M. Bliss 3 00
Norton. Trin. Ch., add'l, Mrs. E. B.
Wheaton 100 00
Oxford, Mrs. S. W. Smith 1000
Pawtucketville, L. A. Morrill, in full,
to const. Miss E. F. Morrill a L. M. 48 00
Pepperell, On account of Estate of
Rev. E. W. Harrington, by C.
Crosby 600 00
Petersham, S. S. Rally, by C. Bohanon. 1 40
Pittsfield, F. S. Bissell 2 00
Salem, Tabernacle Ch., by J. H. Phip-
pen 12 00
Tabernacle S. S., J&17 ; Y. P. S. C.
E., $33, by J. H. Phippen 50 00
Scituate, S. S.. by C. Hay ward 1 08
Sheffield, by Dr. A. T. Wakefield 5 46
Southbridge, W. G. Reed 500
Mrs. L. A. Carleton, by W. G. Reed 2 00
J. A. Hall 50 co
South Hadley Falls. " In His Name." 20 00
Springfield, Hope Ch., by R. R. Upson 44 28
Waltham, G. W. Poore 1000
Ware. Silver Circle, H. S. Hyde 25 00
G. B. Cutler 1 00
Westfield, First, by M. E. Searle 10 08
Worcester, Plymouth Ch.. by F. W.
Chase 1 00
Phenyo-Caffein Co 10 00
Miss M. R. Goddard 2 50
Cash 50 00
RHODE ISLAND— $631.00.
R. I. H. M Soc, J. W. Rice, Treas... 500 00
Central Falls 85 00
Auburn. Mrs. C. A. Foster 1 00
Pawtucket. " Cash " 20 00
Providence. Cyrus Carleton 15 00
Mrs E. P. Johnson, by Rev. S. H.
Woodrovv 10 co
CONNECTICUT— $3,950.46 ; of which
legacies, $1,150.00.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., by Rev. W. H.
Moore $26975
Ansonia. E. Bartlett 3 80
Branford, A.J. Palmer 10 00
Connecticut, Cash 25 00
Connecticut, " Thanksgiving " 500 00
Cornwall, Estate of S. C. Beers 750 00
Coventry, S. S. of the Second, Rally,
by A. Kingsbury 5 00
Danbury, First S. S., by A. I. Gordon 25 00
Durham, Mrs. H. L. Newton 10 00
Enfield, S. S. of the First, by F. A.
King 5000
Greenwich. S. S. of the Second, by
H. O. Childs 25 49
Miss E. C. Mead. $5 ; Miss L. C.
Mead, $5. Silver Circle 10 00
Guilford, First, by E. W. Leete. to
const. Miss H. M. Culver a L. M... 50 00
Hadlyme. R. E. Hungerford 5 00
Hartford, Center S. S., Thanksgiving
offering 1 1 36
Mrs. M. A. Williams, Thanksgiving
offering 20 00
Roland Mather 1 .000 00
Higganum, S. S.,by Mrs. D. A. Hun-
tington 43 00
Manchester, Estate of Amos L. Spen-
cer, by A. H. Skinner, Ex 700 00
Y. P. S. C. E.. for Salary Fund. by-
Rev. J. M. Barber 10 00
Meriden, A Friend 2 00
Naugatuck, In memory of Dea. James
Smith 10000
New Haven, United Ch., add'l, " A
Thank offering " 50 00
Howard Avenue, by Rev. W. J.
Mutch 2934
" A Friend " in United Ch 50 00
F. C. Cannon 5 co
M. T. Landfear 20 00
New London, A Friend, First Ch. of
Christ 10 00
New Milford, A Friend 5 00
Norfolk, Legacy of Harriet B. John-
son, by J. T. Levi, Adm 200 00
A Friend 1000
Norwalk, Miss J. A. Lockwood 10 00
Norwich, Rev. L. W. Barney 5 00
G. D. Coit 10 00
o.L.H c 00
Salisbury, Woman's Board of H. M..
by Mrs. A. B. Robbins 29 30
Saybrook. L. B. Ward 10 00
South Norwalk, C. M. Lawrence.
Thanksgiving offering 1 00
Stonington, Second, by C. T. Stanton. 30 00
Tolland, Union Y. P. S. C. E., by
E. B. Sumner 5 00
Unionville, Woman's Miss. Soc, by
C. T. Marsh 12 00
Wallingford, by J. N. Piatt 125 00
Washington, A Friend 1 00
Waterbury, Mrs. I. Upson. First Ch.,
by Mrs. M. D. Griggs 1 00
Watertown, Friends 2 00
West Hartford, W. E. Johnson 10 00
Wilton, S. S. Rally, by Rev. W. D.
Hart 7 42
Woodbridge, by W. M. Beecher 55 00
Woman's H. M. Union of Conn., Mrs.
W. W. Jacobs, Treas. :
For Salary Fund $25 00
Bridgewater. Aux., by Mrs.
E. A. Evitts, for Salary
Fund 17 00
Hartford, First, Friend, for
Salary Fund 25 00
First. Miss E. Bunce, for
Salary Fund 22 00
January, 1S97
The Home Missionary
469
Middletown, First, by Mrs.
J. H. Bunce, Mrs. H. Gil-
bert's Dime Bank $5 00
New Britain, South Ch.,
Friend, by Mrs. S. H.
Wood, for Salary Fund.. 3 00
Poquonock, Aux., by Mrs.
N. T. Merwin, for Salary
Fund 30 00
NEW YORK-
legacy, $57'
of which
Received by William Spalding,
Treas. :
Ashville, S. S $500
Busti 3 05
Griffin's Mills 6 00
Homer 2025
Middletown, North Street
Ch 8 00
North Java 500
Phcenix 10 00
Siloam, Welsh 19 10
Summer Hill 15 00
Syracuse, South Avenue. ... 6 63
98 03
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
J. J. Pearsall, Treas $30 00
Buffalo, First 40 00
Northville 20 00
West Winfield, Ladies' Aid,
for Salary Fund, $10 ;
from Dime Banks, $20. ... 30 00
Albany, A Friend 50 00
A. S. Carleton 5 00
H. M. Paine 25 00
Fred M., Willard D., Robert M.,
and Arthur W. Eames, by M. E.
Eames 25 00
Aquebogue, Ch., $9.25 ; Y. P. S. C.
E., $2.25, by Rev. G. L. Wells. . . n 50
Bangor, T. Adams, by Rev. R. E.
Andrew 20 00
Binghamton, Mrs. C. A. Morris 40
Brooklyn, Tompkins Avenue, by P.
Palmer 1,000 00
Puritan Ch., by H. A. W. Goll .... 45 00
South Ch., by E. D. Ford 169 83
Y. P. S. C. E. of the Lee Avenue
Ch., by C. Deknated 10 00
A. G. Brinckerhoff 25 00
Mrs. L. P. Brockett ' 1 00
Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Macky 25 00
L. F. Rand '. 10 00
Mrs. T. P. Wilkinson 20 00
W. H. Williams 25 00
A Friend 150 00
Buffalo, First, by R. K. Strickland. . . 150 00
Castile, G. A. Davis 5 00
Churchville, by A. D. Stone 16 72
Clifton Springs, Two Friends 10 00
Eldred, E. B. Wilson 5 00
Elizabethtown, A Friend 5 00
Fairport, by M. Olney 35 00
Farmingville, by F.I. Terry 3 04
Fredonia, Mrs. S. R. Bishop •. . 1 00
Glen Spey, by J. F. Whitney 9 00
Granville, Welsh Ch., Rally, by E. J.
Ellis 3 14
Ithaca, Mrs. R. P. Todd s co
Jamestown, S. S. of the First, by F.
R. Moody 8 86
Massena, by M. J. Stearns 5 00
Mineville, Mrs. L. Reed 1 00
Munnsville, Miss M. C. Gaston 6 00
New York City, S. S. of Central Ch...
G. S. Hickok, $25 ; Mrs. G. S.
Hickok, $5
S. M. B
New York State, A Friend
Northville, by J. T. Downs
Norwood, by W. D. Fuller
Oswego, W. F. and Juliet A. Cook. . .
Port Leyden, A Friend
Rochester, A Friend
Sayville, Ch., $21.20 ; S. S., $16.73, by
W. Green ...
Walton, A Friend
Wells ville, by Miss F. Crittenden....
West Bloomfield, by Mrs. G. B. Ayers
West Winfield, by A. A. Leach
Willsborough, Estate of Mrs. S. A.
Stower, by A. J. B. Ross
NEW JERSEY-$28.23.
Bloomfield, M. E. C
Cedar Grove, by Rev. B. F. Bradford
Perth Amboy, Swedish, by Rev. C. O.
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PENNSYLVANIA-$463.32 ; of which
legacy, $438.92.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. T.
W. Jones, Treas. :
Ebensburgh $5 00
West Spring Creek 1 00
6 00
Allegheny, add'l, by Mrs. A. H. Claf-
lin 3 15
Arnot, Swedish, by Rev. C. J. Wide-
berg 2 50
Chandler's Valley, Swedish, by Rev.
C. J. Lundquist 1 25
Lancaster, A Friend 5 00
Pittsburg, Estate of Ellen P. Jones,
by William Lewis, Ex 438 92
Plymouth, Puritan, by Rev. T.
McKay 1 50
Scranton, Plymouth S. S., by S.
Hughes 3 00
Warren, Bethlehem Scand. Ch., by
Rev. J. A. Dahlgren 2 00
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-$5i5.oo ;
of which legacy, $500.00.
Washington, Estate of John B. Tay-
lor, by E. H. Breckenridge, Ex. . . 500 00
Ralph Dunning 15 00
GEORGIA— $48.78.
Atlanta, Central Ch., by C. E. Kemp. 48 78
ALABAMA— $6.00.
Ft. Wayne, Emanuel, by Rev. J. J.
Bunnell 5 00
Jenifer, Colored Ch., by Miss M. J.
Smith 1 00
LOUISIANA— $1.00.
Long Straw, by Rev. J. Brue 1 00
ARKANSAS— $5.00.
Little Rock, Mrs. J. Coates 5 00
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January, 1897
FLORIDA— $1.00.
Longwood, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev.
G. W. Hardaway
TEXAS— $10.00.
Paris, by Rev. L. Rees
OKLAHOMA-$25.38.
Burwick and Cimaroon, by Rev. S. J.
McReynolds
Carney and Lincoln, by Rev. W.
Lumpkin
Guthrie and Beulah, by Rev. H. E.
Pickle
Hennessey, Turkey Creek, and Ver-
non, by Rev. J. A. Bingham
Medford and West Medford, by Rev.
J. L. Read
Okarche, by Rev. R. B. Foster
TENNESSEE-$5.5o.
Jonesboro, Thanksgiving offering, by
Nash Wile, Miss C. L. Bl'akei Fisk Uni-
versity, Silver Circle
Columbus, Eastwood, for
Salary Fund $1500
Eastwood, Dime Banks of
Eddie Reels and Estill
Woods 10 00
Gomer, for Salary Fund... 1 50
Strongsville, Dime Bank of
Mrs. H. Clark 5 00
Toledo, Central, Dime Bank
of Miss G. Wright 500
$61 00
Akron, West Ch., by J. E. Patterson,
special 106 75
Ashtabula, Swedish, by Rev. C. A.
Widing 360
Elyria, J. F. Brooks 5 00
Geneva, L. E. Hitchcock 5 00
Mansfield, Mayflower Mem., by Rev.
R. H. Edmonds 8 00
Oberlin, Second, by N. Huckins 67 19
S. S. of the First, by A. M. Love-
land 10 00
Olmsted, Second, by F. G. Robb 7 96
Rootstown, by H. A. Deming 29 75
Weymouth, First, by Rev. L. J. Travis 5- 50
INDIANA-$ii2.5o.
Indiana, A Friend, for Salary Fund.
Ridgeville, by Rev. G. Hindley
TOO OO
12 50
OHIO-$73i.oo.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.:
Akron, Arlington Street, by
Rev. E. T. MacMahon ... $5 58
Berea, Rev. S. B. Beard,
special 2 50
Canfield, by Rev. W. T.
McConnell 2 60
Chardon, by M. L. Maynard 8 21
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue
S. S., by H. S. Stebbins. . 10 00
Fitchville, First, by Rev.
H. M. Tenney. D.D 255
Medina, in full to const.
Mrs. EllaTempleton. Miss
Sarah W. Smith, and J. S.
Mason L. Ms., by H. A.
Horn 157 33
Mesopotamia, by Mrs. C. A.
Smith 4 5°
Oberlin, Dudley Allen,
M.D., in full to const.
Prof. Owen H. Gates a
L. M 5° °°
Paddy's Run, by James
Scott 19 00
Painesville, First, by L. E.
Judson 32 88
Radnor, S. S., by G. N.
Davis. Supt 15 00
Saybrook, by C. W. Sexton. 16 10
Willoughby, Rev. S. C.
Dickinson 5 °°
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser. D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Cleveland, Pilgrim, by H. C. Holt.
Woman's H. M Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas. :
Cleveland, Arch wood Ave-
nue, for Salary Fund. . . $^50
Euclid Avenue. Jr. C. E.,
for Salary Fund 1 00
W. H. M. S., for Salary
Fund 21 oc
ILLINOIS— $144.00.
Illinois H. M. Soc, by Rev. J. Tomp-
kins, for Salary Fund 100 00
Received by Rev. M. E. Eversz :
Caseyville $2 80
Peoria, German 5 00
Ridge Prairie, German
Zion's 12 20
20 00
Chicago, E. H. Sargent, $5; Mrs. M.
H. Sargent. Leavitt Street Ch., by
E. H. Sargent, $2 7 00
H. C. Read 5 00
McGrawville, H. D. Corey 1 00
Payson, Mrs. Dr. M ills 2 00
Peoria, A. A. Stevens 3 00
Princeton, A Friend 5 00
Rockford, Mrs. A. H. Van Wie 1 00
MISSOURI-$in.52.
Amity, by E. E. Bull 232
Bonne Terre, by Rev. J. B. Fiske... 75 00
Carthage, First, by L. N. Manley 14 86
Chillicothe, by Rev. J. W. Eldred .... 125
Cole Camp. First, by G. Biddle, thro.
Rev. M. E.Eversz 8 82
Green Ridge, by Rev. F. E. Whitham. 9 27
33I 2S MICHIGAN-$5.oo.
Detroit, A Widow's Mite.
90 00 WISCONSIN-$i93.4o.
Received by Rev. T. G. Grassie :
Bloomer $1 10
Hayward, Y. P. S. C. E. . . . 8 00
Beloit. Mrs. H. B. Emerson, by Rev.
H. A. Schaufner
Hammond, by N. E. Campbell. .....
1 00
6 30
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The Home Missionary
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Menasha, E. D. Smith $100 co
E. D. Smith, special, for " Evange-
listen " --• 75 °°
Wausau, Eastern, and Rockwell, by
Rev. C.J. Jensen 2 00
IOWA— $22.00.
Blairstown, Mrs. J. H. French 10 00
Des Moines, Birthday offerings of Pil-
grim S. S., by L. P. Lyman 2 00
Waterloo, Rev. M. K. Cross 10 00
MINNESOTA -$1,067.77.
Received by Rev. J. H. Morley :
Austin and Lake City, C. E.
Socs., Minneapolis, S. Ss.
of Lyndale and Plymouth,
for General Howard Roll
of Honor $100 00
Minneapolis, Plymouth .... 100 00
Ladies' Missionary Union,
General Howard Roll of
Honor 100 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. M. W.
Skinner, Treas.:
Austin $7 00
Burtrum 2 00
Claremont . . 6 00
Crookston 8 50
Dodge Center 2 80
Edgerton 185
Elter, S. S 400
Faribault 15 00
Frazer 1 50
Freeborn 1 40
Granada 1 65
Grand Meadow 500
Glyndon 7 00
Glencoe 9 02
Hutchinson 2 70
Mankato 9 06
Medford 4 50
Marshall 23 00
Montevideo 3 50
Merriam Park .... 9 60
Minneapolis, Park Avenue,
in full to const. Mrs.
Flora Black a L. M 30 04
Open Door, $8; Young
Ladies, $7.80 15 80
Lowry Hill 8 00
Pilgrim 48 75
Fifth Avenue 7 35
Plymouth, $60.17 ; Young
Ladies, $77.32 137 49
First 14 75
Lyndale 28 67
Forest Heights 1 61
Fremont Avenue, $10 ;
S. S., $6 1600
A Friend 5 00
Mankato, Swedish 45
Northfield 4 60
New Brighton 2 30
Plainview 10 00
Rochester 9 45
St. Cloud 500
St. Paul, Pacific 465
Park 2 12
Plymouth Si 90
St. Anthony Park 14 34
Jr.C.E 15
South Park 3 66
Sherburn 285
Sauk Center 2 52
Waseca 2 70
Winona, First $142 00
Waterville 1000
Zumbrota, $20 ; C. E., $15 ;
Jr. C. E., $5; S. S.,$4.3i... 4431
$75i 54
Less expenses 49 53
Benson, Pilgrim, by Rev. J. S. Hay-
ward
Glenwood, Union, by Rev. F. A. Sum-
ner
Graceville, J. W. Patten, $23.50 ; Oli-
vet, Will Lang, $3 ; Chokio, I. H.
Ward, $4, by H. A. Cotton
New Brighton, by Rev. T. H. Lewis.
North Branch and Sunrise City, by
Rev. P. H. Fisk
Ortonville, by Rev. G. W. Shaw
Sauk Rapids, by Rev. H. H. Appel-
man
Spencer Brook, Scand., by Rev. A.
P. Engstrom
South Park, by Rev. J. B. Drew
Upsala, Swedish, by Rev. A. G. Peter-
son
Winona, Scand , by Rev. E. A. An-
derson
KANSAS— $190.52.
Received by Rev. L. P. Broad :
Bala, Harvest Festival $3 20
Atcheson, Harvest Festival. 5 38
Kansas City, Pilgrim Ch.,
S. S. Birthday Box 2 00
Y. P. S. C. E 2 00
Louisville,Harvest Festival. 2000
Partridge, Harvest Festival. 12 00
Sedgwick, Harvest Festival. 1500
Severy, Harvest Festival. .. 2 55
Stafford 1 65
Tonganoxie, Ch., and S. S. 4 44
C. S. Fitch 25
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas. :
Alton, S. S., $7; Y. P. S.
C. E., $1.25 $8 25
Dover, S. S 3 15
Ellis 15 50
Great Bend, Y. P. S. C. E. . 4 00
Maple Hill 906
Oneida 3 40
Osage City, Welsh 2 50
Partridge 3 00
Atwood, by Rev. J. J. A. T. Dixon. . .
Blue Rapids, add'l, by Rev. V. H.
Deming
Dial and Mt. Ayr, by Rev. N. Emroer-
son
Dunlap, Sunnyside, and Big John, by
Rev. W. R. Bair ■
Garden City, Pierceville, and Sher-
lock, by Rev. L. Hull
Haven, by Rev. O. T. Wattenbarger .
Kansas City, Bethel Ch., by Rev. E.
P. Mills
Pilgrim, $9.70; "Little Pat," $1,
by Rev. D. B. Griffiths
Topeka, Rev. W. C. Veazie
Wakefield, S. S., by E. Dodson
NEBRASKA-$i26.45.
Received by Rev. M. E. Eversz :
Friend $3 97
Friend and Turkey Creek . . 2 20
Superior, G. Giebelhans. ... 1 00
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Cortland, by Rev. F. G. McHenry —
Crete, German, by Rev. W. Fritze-
meier
Dodge and Howell, by Rev. A. Farn-
worth
Hallam, German, by Rev. J. Morach.
Harbine, by Rev. G. J . Battey
Hastings, by Rev. C. W. Wuerr-
schmidt
Minersville and Camp Creek, by Rev.
J. L. Fisher
Nelson, Deshler, Edgar, Firfleld, and
Deweese, German, by Rev. P. Lich.
Pickrell, by Rev. F. G. McHenry ....
Spencer and Butte, by Rev. W. A.
Hensel
Sutton and Stockham, German Ch., by
Rev. R. Hilkerbaeumer
NORTH DAKOTA-$42.25.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. M.
Fisher, Treas.:
Cando
Cando, by Rev. C. A. Mack
Dawson and Tappan, by Rev. T. W.
Thurston
Kulm, by Rev. P. Burkhardt
Langdon, Mrs. D. Woolner
Portland, $7.85 : C. E. Socs., $8.80, by
Rev. J. T. Killen
75c, add'l ; Hatton, $5.38, by Rev.
J. T. Killen
SOUTH DAKOTA-$i39.o2.
Bowdle, by Rev. D. L. Thomas
Eureka. Rev. H. Hetzler and wife
Garretson, S. S. and Ch.. by Rev. H.
G. Adams
Hudson, by Rev. G. S. Evans
Ipswich and Powell, by Rev. E. A.
Wood
Mission Hill, Rev. D. B. Nichols
Parkston, Mission Festival, by Rev.
M. E. Eversz
Redfield, by Rev. L. Reynolds
Sioux Falls, German Ch , by Rev. J.
M. Preiss
Vermillion, Rev. C. J. Hansen
Ward Academy and Kirkwood, by
Rev. L. E. Camfield
Webster, $8.50 ; Waubay, $1, by Rev.
C. Parsons
COLOR ADO -$67.25.
Lafayette, by Rev. C H. Stevens
Longmont, First, by E. White
Otis and Hyde, by Rev. G. Dungan.
Trinidad, by Rev. D. R. Francis. ...
Ward, by Rev. H. Sanderson
>io co UTAH— $7.55.
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Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J.
Nutting, Treas. :
Salt Lake City ,
"5 °° CALIFORNIA
Alpine and Flinn Valley, by Rev. J.
A. Rogers
Belmont, E. L. Reed, Thanksgiving
offering
Chula Vista, V. P. S. C. E., by Rev.
J. T. Ford
National City, by Rev. F. A. Bissell..
San Miguel, by Rev. T. W. De Long.
San Rafael, by Rev. W. P. Hardy. . . .
Spring Valley, Y. P. S. C. E.,by Rev.
I. W. Atherton
Sunol Glen, by Rev. J. H. Strong
2 25 OREGON-$i2.8o.
25 Albany, by Q. E. Propst
Freewater and Ingles Chapel, by
6 00 Rev G A Taggart
10 00 Portland, Rev. J. Koch, German Ch.
16 65
6 IO WASHINGTON-$309.5o.
Received by Rev. A. J. Bailey :
Christopher, by Rev. A. L.
Smith $1000
Collections, by Rev. H. W.
Houlding 4 00
Index S . S 2 00
West Kittitas, by Rev. R.
G. Hawn 5 co
W. H. M. U., by Mrs. C. E.
George 21800
Ebensburgh, by Rev. E. C. Wheeler.
Endicott, by Rev. M. E. Eversz
Endicott, Alcali Flats, German Chs.,
by Rev. J. Hergert
Quillayute, by Rev. R. W. Fletcher..
Roy, Hart Lake, and Yelm, of which
$4.25 Teachers' Miss. Soc, by Rev.
H. Gregory
Seattle. Fremont Ch., Jr. Y. P. S. C.
E., $2 ; Toledo, $2.60, by Mrs. J. W.
George
Steilacoom, Oberlin Ch., by Rev. W.
F. Rose
Tacoma, East Ch., by Rev. A. J.
Smith
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Contributions in November, excluding contributions for the debt $12,533 97
Legacies in November 30.845 53
Contributions for the debt in November 331 00
Total receipts in November $43,710 50
Contributions for the debt to December 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $87,656 58
Special for debt 8,985 61
$96,642 19
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Donations of Clothing, etc.
Bangor, Me., Ladies of First Ch., by
Mrs. C. H. Cutler, two barrels and
cash, $15.00 $140 00
Bangor, N. Y., W. M. S., by Mrs. Geo.
D. Bradford, barrel 19 00
Benson, Vt., Ladies, by Mrs. C. E.
Hitchcock, barrel 35 00
Black Rock, Conn., Ladies, by Sarah J.
Bartram, barrel 83 00
Binghamton, N. Y., Ladies, by Mrs. H.
A. Goff , box 156 00
Bridgeport, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc.
of First Ch., by Mrs. Ebenezer
Burr, box 195 28
South Ch., by Mrs. A. D. Lewis, two
barrels 154 70.
Bristol, Conn., C. H. M. Aux. to State
Union, by A. E. North, two barrels. . 105 64
Brooklyn, N. Y., Ladies' Benev. Soc. of
Tompkins Ave. Ch., by Sarah M. Hig-
gins, two barrels and cash, $125.00 275 00
Canandaigua, N. Y., Home Miss. Soc,
by Mrs. H. T. Parmele, box 205 73
Chester, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc, by
Mrs. Hattie B. Daniels, box 30 00
Danbury, Conn., Sewing Soc. of First
Ch., by Mary E. Stone, box 113 00
Danielson, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc,
by Mrs. J. Q. A. Stone 69 75
Dover, N. H., First Ch., by H. E.
Wyatt, box 256 37
East Derry, N. H., Ladies' Benev. Soc,
by Mary A. Morse, box - 20 84
East Orange, N. J., Woman's Soc. for
Christian Work, by Mrs. M. H.
McKay, two barrels. 14684
Fairport, N. Y., W. H. M. U., by Mar-
garet Olney, one and one -half bbl.
and cash, $12.00 107 06
Falls Ch., Va., Ladies' Home Miss.
Soc, by Gertrude Nourse, barrel .... 44 26
Francestown, N. H., Ladies' Benev.
Assoc, by Mary Pettee, barrel 6700
Goshen, Conn., by Mrs. Alice E. Car-
lisle, barrel 65 00
Greenwich, Conn., The Stillson Benev.
Soc. of Second Ch., by Amelia Mead,
two barrels 150 00
Maine, N. Y., W. H. M. S., by Mrs. L.
E. Turner, box 58 00
Middletown, Conn., L. H. M. S. of
First Ch., by Mrs. A. R. Crittenden,
barrel 80 00
Ladies' Union of South Ch., by Mrs.
Sarah L. Browning, box 98 00
Middleford, N. H., Ladies, by Mrs. J.
B. Melindy, box $25 00
Milton, Vt., Woman's Miss. Soc, by
Mrs. Annie F. Plant, barrel 46 67
Mt. Pleasant, Washington, D. C,
Woman's Miss. Soc, by Mrs. D. B.
Davis, barrel 130 00
Newington, Conn., H. M. Union, by F.
C. Latimer, barrel 5410
Newton, Conn., Ladies' Miss. Soc, by
Rev. Otis W. Parker, barrel 41 50
Oberlin, O., Ladies' Benev. Soc. of
Second Ch., by Adell N. Royce, barrel 100 09
Old Saybrook, Conn., L. H. M. S., by
Agnes A. Acton, barrel 80 00
Orford, N. H., Ladies' Sew. Soc, by
Mrs. Isaac Willard, barrel 44 50
Pasadena, Cal., Woman's Miss. Soc. of
First Church, by Mrs. Edward A.
Walker, three boxes 124 10
Portland, Conn., Ladies, by Mrs. M. B.
Harvey, barrel 60 78
Putnam, Conn., Second Ch., by Hattie
E. Clarke, barrel 3910
Ravenna, O., Woman's Home and For-
eign Miss. Soc, by Sarah C. Hart,
barrel 22 91
Sunday-school, cash 10 00
Redding, Conn., W. H. M. Aux., by
Mrs. Edgar Field, barrel 60 38
Ridgway, Pa., Woman's Miss. Soc, by
Mrs. A. H. Bevier, barrel and pack-
age 83 15
St. Louis, Mo., Ladies' Aid Soc. of First
Ch., by Minnie J. Anderson, barrel. . . 37 00
Saxton's River, Vt., Ladies' Benev. Soc,
by Mrs. G. F. Chapin, barrel.
South Windsor, Conn., H. M. Soc, by
Mrs. G. L. Sperry, barrel 76 95
Stafford Springs, Conn., L. H. M. S., by
Mrs. Ellen J. McLaughlin, box 115 00
Stonington. Conn., Second Ch., by Rev.
Chas. J. Hill, box 200 00
Toledo, O, Woman's Miss. Soc. of Sec-
ond Ch., by Mrs. Mattie A. Beck,
barrel 75 10
Washington, D. C, L. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by L. E. Cummings, two barrels,
package, and check, $25 303 34
West Hartford, Conn., Elmwood Soc,
by Miss J. L. Foxon, barrel 71 83
Westmoreland, N. Y., Mrs. John A.
Mankleton, barrel.
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AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Maine Missionary Society from September 15 to November 21, i£
John L. Crosby, Treasurer
Albany, Ch.,$7; Y. P. S. C. E., $3, by
Mrs. J. E. Bird
Amherst and Aurora, Ch., by Mr. A.
Cullens
Amherst, N. H., Malinda H.Thomas,
legacy, by Mrs. Delia A. McGoun, Ex.
Annual meeting at Fort Fairfield, $40.86,
less $32 voted to Ashland Church
Building
Anson, Ch.. by Sumner Dinsmore, Clerk
Augusta, North Parish, by Miss Alice
Hawes
5 00
3 00
474
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South Parish, by Miss Susan W. Wal-
dron $10000
Bangor, First, by W. P. Hubbard 50 00
First Parish, S. S., by Percy A. Hub-
bard, which, with prev. gift, const.
Elizabeth Ida Firth a L. M 13 85
Bath, Winter Street, by G. J. Mitchell. . 150 50
Belfast. First, by A. O. Stoddard 50 00
Boothbay, Second, $7 ; Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Miss Hattie B. Adams, $3 10 00
Bridgton, by J. H. Caswell 1900
Bucksport, Elm Street, by Edward Swa-
sey 38 02
Calais, First, by A. L. Clapp 34 00
Cape Elizabeth (Spurwinki. Y. P. S. C.
E., by Miss Elizabeth Tobey 100
Mrs. A. E. Dyer 1 00
Castine. David Dunbar, legacy, add'l,
by G. M. Warren, Ex 100 00
Cumberland Conference, by Rev. J. L.
Jenkins 1 00
Dead River and vicinity, by Mr. George
A.Merrill n 21
Deer Isle, First, by Rev. J. S. Rich-
ards 1 67
A Friend, by Rev. J. S. Richards.. .. 2 00
East Bangor, by Rev. D. P. Hatch 11 00
Frenchboro, by Miss Grace E. Wash-
burn 20 57
Gorham. First, by Joseph Ridlon 11 00
Hallowell, Mrs. Mary Fifield, legacy,
add'l, by Joseph Fifield, Ex 63 15
Harpswell Center, by W. C. Eaton 22 00
Harrison, by Rev. A. G. Fitz $2 66
Isle au Haut, by William T. Bartley 3 91
Limerick, by Rev. J. A. Waterworth 4 28
Litchfield, portion of approp. for 1896
returned 43 75
From Rev. James Richmond 1 25
Machias, Center Street, by W. W. Brad-
bury : 387
Minot Center, by J. E. Washburn 9 33
North Belfast 4 75
North Bridgton, by Rev. A. G. Fitz 6 00
Northfield, by Miss Grace E. Washburn 9 35
Outer Long Island, by Miss Grace E.
Washburn 634
Oxford Conference, bv H. A. Bolster. .. 10 10
Portland, State Street', S. S., by A. W.
McKnight 20 00
Church, by Rev. J. L. Jenkins 24 71
Solon, by G. K. Goodwin 7 08
Standish, by Mrs. L. P. Croston .... 8 00
Washington Conf., by Rev. C. S. Hol-
ton 10 00
West Brooksville, by Mrs. Geo. W.
Blodgett 3 do
West Woolwich, by Rev. S. W. Chapin. 10 10
Windham, by J. W. Knight 10 39
Yarmouth, First, by O. L. Marston 19 70
York Conf., by Rev. C. S. Wilder 3 26
By Rev. F. P. Estabrook 15 15
Woman's Me. Miss. Aux 126 91
Income from Investments 376 05
$i,537 68
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from October 20 to November 20,
1896. Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Arlington, East
Coventry
Hardwick, East
Jericho Center
Sunday-school
Johnson
ForC. H. M. S
Manchester, Church and Society
Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Cone, to const.
Miss Mabel G. Cone a L. M
Monlpelier, M. S. Stone, to const. Mrs.
Phcebe Griswold a L. M
$450 Newfane, Mrs. Fred. Randall $500
25 00 Pownal, North 5 00
2 00 Pittsford 49 75
7 10 St. Johnsbury, South Church 73 6°
2 48 For women evangelists 29 13
24 50 Wallingford 17 25
2 00 Ladies' Cent Society 19 66
24 41 Wardsboro, Anna H. Allen, legacy 25 00
Vermont Missionary 10 65
2000 W. H. M. U 2038
Interest from invested funds 360 00
20 00
$747 41
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in November, 1896. Rev.
Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer
Amesbury, Main St., by C. F. Hovey.. $12 20
Andover Chapel, by Warren F. Draper 250 00
Ashland Rally Service, by Edwin Perry n 50
Bank Balances, Oct. interest 7 13
Barre Rally Service, by Rev. J. F. Gay-
lord 16 36
Bedford Trinitarian, by Rev. Edwin
Smith 2936
Boston, A Friend 2 00
Allston, Sunday-school, by J. E.
Lounsbury 2 98
Central, by John A. Bennett $975 22
Childs, Mrs. A. E 50 00
Dorchester, Pilgrim, by E. S. Wood-
bury 70 00
Second. Ex. Cent a Day Band, by
Miss E. F. Merrill 10 00
Mt. Vernon, by D. R. Craig (add'l). . . 21 00
Old South, by Joseph H. Gray 1,012 63
Park St., by E. H. McGuire 25 00
Roxbury, Eliot, by A. McLean 119 25
" T. G." 30 00
January, 1897
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Boylston, First, by Rev. D. E. Burtner
Brookline, Howard, by James H. Shap-
leigh
Cumtnington, West, by Mrs. S. D. Ben-
jamin
Dedham, First, Sunday-school, by Miss
Sarah K. Burgess
Duxbury, by J. H. Haverstock
Easton, Evan., by H. Y. Mitchell
Fairhaven, by C. C. Cundall
Foxboro, Bethany, by Horace Carpen-
ter
Gloucester, West, by J. E. Roberts
Hadley, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by J. N.
Pierce
Haverhill, West, Sunday-school, by
Henry A. Poore
Hawley, by T. T. Clark, Taft Thank-
offering
Hinsdale, by M. M. Wentworth
Holbrook, Winthrop, Rally Service, by
F. W. Blanchard
Holden, by Mrs. Marion E. Warren...
Hubbardston, Grimes, Mrs. Abbie D. . .
Ipswich, Rally Service with South Ch.,
by Rev. T. F. Waters
Linebrook, by J. H. Tenney
Lancaster, Evan., Ladies' Benev. So-
ciety, by Harriet A. Keyes
Littleton, Orth., by John S. Hartwell. .
Lowell, Eliot, A Friend, by James
Howard
First, by Joseph W. Griffin
First Trinitarian, for Armenian Work,
by Rev. C. W. Huntington, $25.00*
High St., by Samuel A. Chase
John St., by William Morey ;
Lynn, First, by Mrs. Clara M. Staton. .
Maiden, First, by Charles F. Belcher. .
Marlboro, Patch, Mrs. L. A., Remnant.
Mass., A Friend
Medford, West, by J. H. Gerrish
Medway, West, Third, by Geo. W. Bul-
lard
Middleboro, First, by Rev. Geo. W.
Stearns, to const. Geo. H. Wilbur and
Albert Deane L. Ms
Milloury, Second, by A. Armsby
Milford. Elbert W. and Charles, in mem-
ory of Saml. and Lydia S. Whitney,
late of Waltham, Mass
Montague, Turner's Falls, Rally Ser-
vice, by Rev. H. C. Adams
New Salem, by D. A. Stowell
Newton, Auburndale, by C. C. Burr
Eliot. Sunday-school, by Geo. R. Mc-
Farlin
Highlands, " Thanksgiving "
Norwell, Cushing, Miss Nancy, Estate
of, by Geo. Cushing, Ex
Orange. Central, Rally Service, by F. D.
Kellogg
North, by S. J. Oliver
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Oxford, Woman's Miss. Society, by Miss
L. D. Stockwell $200
Pittsfield, South, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs.
J.E.Francis 832
Flympton, Silver Lake, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Harry demons , 2 00
Rochester, North, by A. K. Small 2 00
Salem, South. A Member, Relief 25 00
Sharon, Y. P. S. C. E., by Sidney A.
Weston 5 00
Somerville, West, Day St., by J. F.
Terry 5 00
Shedd, Mrs. Sally, memorial coin 50
Southboro, Second, by S. R. Day 5 00
South Hadley Falls, by A. N. Chapin.. 8 00
First, by L. M . Gaylord 20 00
Sudbury, South, Memorial, by B. F.
Howe 3869
Townsend, Orth., by J. W. Eastman. .. 22 54
Wakefield, by W. P. Preston, an extra
offering tor " Relief " 25 00
Walpole, Second, Sunday-school, by C.
A . Engley 10 62
Webster, First, Rally Service, by E. L.
Spalding 90 17
Wellfleet, Walker, Mrs. Geo. F., Gold
watch for Home Missionary, unap-
prised
Wenham, by Mrs. Frances Perkins 20 00
Westhampton, by A. D. Montague 31 53
West Springfield, First, by Addison H.
Smith 16 50
Park St., by Samuel Smith 31 37
Whitcomb, David, Fund, Income of. . . . 125 00
Wilmington, by C. W. Clark, " Relief " 5 00
Winchester, First, by Eben Caldwell,
work among foreign population, $100 *
Windsor, by Mrs. H. C. Cleveland 5 00
Woburn, North, by Samuel A. Thomp-
son 21 00
Worcester, " A mite for the deficit " 1 00
Piedmont, A Friend, by A. W. Eldred 2 00
A Friend, by A. W. Eldred 5 00
Hutchins, Chas. H 50 00
Hutchins. Mrs. Eliza E 50 00
Yarmouth, Matthews, William, Special 2 00
Woman's Home Missionary Association,
by Miss A. C. Bridgman,Treas.:
Boston, Jam. Plain, Joslin,
Mrs. Harriet A., to const,
herself a L. M. of C. H.
M. S $50 00
Rox., Wal. Ave. Aux., for
Rev. Saml. Deakin'sSal. 62 00
Home Missionary.
,,072 52
5 40
$5,077 92
Erratum: In Dec. No., page 426, ist column,
for "Boston, Central," etc., read " Boston, Jam.
Plain, Central," etc.
* Received and credited on special account.
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in November, 1896. Ward W. Jacobs,
Treasurer
Ansonia, German, by W. Ritton
Bridgeport, Park Street, by Adna S.
Hall
Bristol, Swedish, by Rev. H. Palmer...
Clinton, by Daniel W. Stevens
$2 06 Chaplin, by Frank C. Lummis
Colchester, First, Special for C. H. M. S.,
42 00 Miss Esther Porter, $5 ; Miss Abby G.
1000 Willard.$i
44 55 Eastford, by Henry Trowbridge
6 00
5 10
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East Haddam, First, by E. W. Chaffee.
ForC. H. M. S
East Norwalk. Swedish, see Norwalk.
Fairfield, Greenfield. Y. P. S. C. E.. by
M. Louise Meeker
Grassy Hill, see Lyme.
Greenfield, see Fairfield.
Guilford, First, by E. W. Leete
Haddam, Haddam Neck, by William F.
Brainerd
Haddam Neck, see Haddam.
Hartford, Danish, by Niels Christensen.
Killingly, South Killingly, by W. S
Beard
Lyme, Grassy Kill, by J. S. Hall
Manchester. North, by Levi Drake
ForC H. M. S
Middlefield, by Rev. John Allender
Lyman A. Mills, special, for C. H. M
S
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur
New Britain, First, by A. N. Lewis
New London. First, by H. C. Learned .
$21 66
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North Canaan, East, by A. B. Garfield. $3 25
Norwalk, East Norwalk. Swedish, by
C. Molander 3 40
Old Saybrook, by Robert Chapman 10 68
For C. H. M. S 10 68
Ann A. Pratt, special, for C. H. M. S. 25 00
Orange, by S. D. Woodruff 9 54
Plantsville, see Southington.
Plymouth, by Arthur Beardsley 34 50
Preston, by H. H. Palmer 19 00
Southington, Plantsville, by E. P.
Hotchkiss 29 42
South Killingly, see Killingly.
Stamford, First, by E. M. Goulden 9 77
Thompson, by J. W. Dike 7 65
ForC.H.M.S 2000
Woodstock, First, by Henry T. Child . . 14 50
$884 37
[Correction. — A contribution of f 8.50 from the
Congregational Church of Bolton, Conn., was in-
advertently omitted from the Conn, receipts
acknowledged in H. M. for December.]
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in November, 1896. Rev. John P.
Sanderson, Treasurer
Allegan, A Friend $ico 00
Allendale 10 00
Almont 28 50
Y. P. S. C. E 4 50
Alpena 6 50
Ann Arbor 122 25
Bay Mills 200
Bellaire 500
Calumet 23 18
Columbus 6 25
Covert 31 73
Dexter, Dea Dennis Warner 30 00
Detroit, Woodward Ave 100 00
Dowagiac 21 62
Sunday-school n 29
Y. P. S. C. E 4 00
Eaton Rapids 35 83
Garden 2 00
Galesburg, Y. P. S. C. E 740
Hamburg 3 40
Hopkins Station, A Friend 5 00
Lansing, Pilgrim 35 00
Litchfield, S. S 1 95
Olivet 39 69
St. Jacques. S. S 88
Traverse City 10 00
Vicksburg 5 00
Webster 4 99
A Friend 5000
W. H. M. U., by Mrs. E. F. Grabill,
Treas 237 71
BOXES OF CLOTHING
Flint. One box, valued at $38.
Lansing, Plymouth Church. Ladies, One
box and packages, valued at $77.21.
of which Ladies' Society, $61.18 ; Ply-
mouth Guild. $15.60, together with
$45.35 from other sources.
Jackson. Ladies' Society. First Church,
One box, valued at $ioc, and $5 in
cash.
$945 67
Receipts of the W. H. M. U. of Michi-
gan in November, 1896, Mrs. E. F.
Grabill, Treas. :
SENIOR AUXILIARIES
Almont, W. M. S
Rronson, W. H. M. S
Calumet, W. M. S., of which $25 is to
be used in the Upper Peninsula ....
Cheboygan, W. H. M. U ,
Chelsea, W. M. S
Detroit, W. U., of Woodward Ave. Ch.,
of which $37.50 is for the salary of
Rev. F. H. Bassett
W. A., First Ch., of which $20.50 is
thank-offering
Dexter, W. M. S
Galesburg, W. H. M. and Aid Soc
Grand Ledge, W. H. M. S
Greenville, W. H. M. S
Hopkins Station, W. H. M. S
Lansing, Plymouth, W. H. M. S
Lawrence, W. H. M. S
Litchfield, W. M. S
Ludington, W. H. M. S
Muskegon. W. M. S
New Baltimore, W. M. S
Olivet, L. B. S
Red Jacket
Saginaw, W. S
Three Oaks, W. M. S
Victor, W. H. M. S
YOUNG PEOPLE'S FUND
Ann Arbor, Y. P. S. C. E
Bronson, Sunday-school
Cheboygan, Sunday-school
Chelsea, Y. P. S. C. E
Detroit, First, Young Woman's LTnion.
Sunday-school
Edmore, Pine Tree Mission Band, for
Rev. Joel Martin's salary
Flint, Y. P. S. C. E
Kalamazoo. Jun. C. E. S
Webster, S. S. M. S
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, i8go
President, Mrs". Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis, So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., St. Paul. St., Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court, Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St.,
Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
House, Boston.
Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32Congrega- Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, 513 The Ellington,
tional House. Boston.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
St., Toledo.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15- CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. C. M. Blackman, Whitewater.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. N. M. Lander, Wahpeton.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June, 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Clafiin. Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass. Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October. 1887
President. Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry. Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt. Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOM\N'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B. Perry. Crete.
Secretary. Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 O St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, ■ Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows. Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secreta?y, Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 949 So. Hill St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, igoo Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 2812 FreretSt.,
New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W. J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treaszirer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
25. COLORADO •
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508. Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Seer eta ry \
and VMiss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, )
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple. Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave.,
Helena.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones. Livingston.
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgvvay.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint. Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. W. M. Wellman, El Reno.
Secretary, Mrs. Joel Harper, Oklahoma City.
Treasurer. Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March. 1891
President. Mrs. A. H. Bradford. Montclair.
Secretary. Mrs. J. D. Hagerman, Montclair.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes. 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall. 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President. Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. C. E. Mason, Challis.
Treasurer, Mrs. G. L. Cole, Mountain Home.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev; Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
Rev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. . Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wray Kansas City, Mo. Rev. W. S. Hawkes Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. L. P. Broad Topeka, Kan. Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. E. H. Ashmun Albuquerque, N. M. ' Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
Rev. A. Judson Bailey Seattle, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapp Forest Grove, Ore.
Rev. T. G. Grassie Ashland, Wis. -p t w t™ nn ) 511 Woodland Terrace,
j Black Hills and Wyoming. Kev- i> w- Jones, u.u. .. . ^ Philadelphia, Pa.
Rev. A. A. Brown.
I Hot Springs, South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross, D.D Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama). .Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hillm an, Secretary , New Hampshire Home Miss. Society Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " . . ..Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary. ..\ Vermont Domestic " " St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " " ".'■•.-' ... .St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " .... I 9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " "....( Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " . .. .Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " " .... Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary Missionary Society of Connecticut. . .. ,.. Hartford, Conn.
"Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " '" " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer " " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. , Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer . " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D., Secretary Illinois " " " (153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " "' " " ( Chicago, 111.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer , " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " Grinnell, Iowa.
J. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. William H. Warren, D.D. , Secretary. .Michigan " "' " .Lansing, Mich.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " . . . , , St. Louis, Mo.
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relating to general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.
Communications relating to the Editorial Department of The Home Missionary may be addressed to Rev.
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Caswell, Bible House, New York.
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Bible House, Astor Place, New York
Major-Gen eral Oliver O. Howard
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Rev. ALEXANDER H. Clapp, D.D., Honorary Treasurer
Secretaries for Correspondence
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
Rev. William Kincaid, D.D.
Rev. Washington Choate, D.D.
Mr. WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, Treasurer
Executive Committee
Wm. Ives Washburn, Esq., Chairman
Asa A. Spear, Esq., Recording Secretary
Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D.
Rev. Samuel H. Virgin, D.D.
Mr. Joseph Wm. Rice
Rev. Charles H. Richards, D.D.
Mr. George P. Stockwell
Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D.
Rev. John D. Kingsbury, D.D.
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Contents for February, 1897
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Notes by the Way 481 How the Gospel Entered the
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XIX.— Pastoral Incidents 488
Neglected Corners: How to Treat
Them 491
The Baby's Funeral 493
How Malcolm Solved the Problem 495
The Fellowship League of Prayer 503
Clippings from Reports 504
Open-Air Meetings 507
The Treasury 507
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NOTES BY THE WAY
By Mrs. H. M. Union
RESTO ! Saturday. — " This town," said Superintendent Bross,
as we stepped from the train at four o'clock into the crisp, clear
morning air of Chadron, Nebraska, 3,100 feet above sea level,
"is the center of Congregationalism for Northwest Nebraska." At 8.30
a fine outfit of ponies and sleigh, with fur robes, was placed at our dis-
posal by a friendly merchant, and we glided swiftly away to the music of
the bells.
Could it be that less than a dozen years ago this thriving town was
the scene of tar-paper shacks, saloons, and gambling dens, and that the
reckless cowboy and Indian had free range here ? And now we are
passing pleasant homes, through streets adorned with blocks of brick and
stone, an imposing courthouse, schoolhouse, and hotel — the Blaine, so
called in memory of the statesman. On, on speed the ponies up the hill
to the picturesque " buttes," and here we are at Chadron Academy, dear
to many an Eastern friend but for whom it would not exist. Burned to
the ground three years ago, it has risen from its ashes, and " is doing
better work than ever," so say the inhabitants, who appreciate this Chris-
tian academy, and have, by painful sacrifice, put more than $14,000 into
its treasury. Unless you know at what cost to the people a new town is
built into Christian civilization you cannot realize the heroism of this gift.
My companion is a happy man this morning. Memories of the past
crowd upon him. Having had a large share in laying these foundations
he almost claims the town as his own, while the hearty greetings on all
sides would seem to indicate that the town claims him.
" There ! " he exclaims. " Do you see that drug store ? Well, stand-
ing in a wagon box, in front of that store, eleven years ago, I held the first
religious service ever held in Chadron." A moment later, and again the
ponies are suddenly pulled up at a street corner. " There stood the
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gospel tent presented by the Sunday-school of Farmington, Connecticut."
His face is aglow, and I begin to understand what it means to have a hand
at the beginning of things.
At this writing Mrs. Superintendent, looking over my shoulder,
quietly remarks : " A Western town a few days old is a curious sight.
Here were a few hundred people living in tents, wagons, and shacks, and
all varieties of trade were represented — groceries, hardware, furniture
and dry-goods stores, hotels, boarding-houses — in tents ; lawyers, doctors,
barbers, butchers, bakers — in tents ; saloons and gambling dens — in tents.
I shall not soon forget our first night in the gospel tent. I procured
some wire springs of a bed, on which we planned to put our blankets ;
BIRD S-EYE VIEW OF CHADRON, NEBRASKA
but toward night a heavy rain came on, and soon the ground was too wet
and cold for a bed. What was to be done ? Fortunately we brought
provisions with us. We scooped out a hole in the ground, and built a
chip fire, Indian fashion, having to open the tent door, of course, to let the
smoke out. We boiled some water in an empty fruit can, made a little
tea, and ate our supper from off a chair. Then we put the wire springs
on four chairs, climbed on, and slept as well as the cold and wet and our
croupy little boy would allow.
" The next night our tent was crowded full, and all the space in front,
for fifteen or twenty feet, packed with men waiting for the service to
begin. We had borrowed an organ, and the melody of the Gospel Hymns
brought back to these men tender memories of the old home and the old
church far away. On Sunday evening we organized the church, and on
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the following Tuesday the women gave an oyster supper, which yielded
ninety dollars, the first money which came to the little church."
Mrs. Superintendent tells me that one day she was sitting in front of
the gospel tent when two cowboys came dashing by. They were booted
and spurred as usual, and attired in the cowboy costume of broad-
brimmed hat, fringed leggings, cartridge belt with revolvers and bowie
knives, and the long lariats were coiled upon the saddles. Over the door
of the tent was the sign, " Gospel Tabernacle." This attracted the atten-
tion of one of the boys, and he called out to the other : " Ride slow, Bill ;
this is a church."
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She says that when the little church graduated from the tent into a
real church building a little shack was built for the use of the pastor's
family. It was a low building, clapboarded on the frame, containing two
very small rooms, with a miniature " lean-to " at the rear. In the front
room were a single bed evolved from a couch, the pastor's secretary, three
trunks, and two packing boxes. In the second room were a lounge for
the boys and a small table. These, with two chairs, occupied nearly all
the space. In the " lean-to " there was a small cook-stove in the corner,
and a broad shelf on two sides of the room, one end of which served as a
china closet, and at the other end the family, sitting in a row, took their
meals. It was convenient in this respect, that the lady of the house could
manage cook-stove and dining-table without rising from her chair.
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And now, having waited a moment for these experiences from the
heroic missionary wife, our ponies whirled around another corner and
came to a halt in front of a neat church and parsonage. " This building,"
said the superintendent, " followed the gospel tent." Yes, to be sure.
Here is the " first Congregational church and parsonage of Chadron."
While looking at these buildings my mind persisted in taking another
journey back to the days of the recent past — of the Indian, the cowboy,
the wagon-home, the tar-paper shack, the tent, the saloon and gambling
den, and the general desolation when there was no church, no school-
house, no academy, no Christian homes, and I exclaimed : " God bless the
friends of the dear old Home Missionary Society, which has caused this
desert to blossom as the rose ! "
This memorable Saturday closed with afternoon tea at the parsonage,
and a delightful evening with Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Ricker, Professor and
Mrs. Bennett, and the faculty of Chadron Academy.
Sunday. — " Rally-day for the Home Missionary Society," said Pastor
Ricker, "and I have notified the people that they must come prepared for
a collection." "Then," said I, "you will have empty seats!" "No,
indeed ! " he exclaimed. " My people will do all they can, although you
must remember that this is a home missionary church, and what with lay-
ing foundations here, and helping the academy, and making homes, the
strain has been heavy."
Pastor Ricker fully intended that his people should " get their money's
worth" that day, for the programme included addresses from the Super-
intendent and Mrs. Caswell, not only at the forenoon, afternoon, and even-
ing services, but at the Sunday-school and Endeavor Societies between.
Superintendent Bross informed the people that he expected fifty dol-
lars in the collection baskets, and I held my breath, as did the audience,
for this was multiplying their usual collection by two. But the people
made a heroic effort to realize the desire of their beloved superintendent,
and submitted with cheerful grace to five collections during the day,
reaching a total of fifty-five dollars, after which we sang the doxology
with grateful hearts.
With the use of planks for extra seats, the home missionary church
was packed with people at the different services, and as I studied this
audience of refinement and intelligence, my mind again reverted to the
desert of eleven years ago.
In the evening Pastor Ricker and Professor Bennett added inspiring
words to those of the guests. The pastor spoke of the responsibility of
the church for the evangelization of the regions lying round about.
" Here," said he, " is this church in Chadron. Its mission is not sim-
ply to proclaim the Gospel in this city, but to send it forth to the regions
round about us. Paul wrote to the Thessalonians : ' For from you
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sounded out the word of the
Lord not only in Macedonia
and Achaia, but also in every
place your faith to God-ward is
spread abroad.' The spiritual
life that had been planted in
Thessalonica was a power that
transformed individual lives
there. It was a force that ex-
pressed itself in correcting the
evil practices of the people
there ; but it was such an
abounding power that it over-
flowed the limits of that com-
munity and poured itself forth
into Macedonia, into Achaia,
into Greece, and on and ever on
in wider flood-tide to regions
far away. Now that is an ex-
ample of what a true, spiritual
living Christian church is. Here
is a church planted in a certain
MRS. HARMON BROSS
REV. HARMON BROSS, SUPT., NEBRASKA
community. What are the marks that
reveal its presence and power ?
There had been Sabbath- break-
ing ; men begin to respect the
holy day and to come together
for worship. There had been
profanity ; men begin to cease
taking the name of God in vain-
and learn to pray. There had
been lying and stealing ; men
begin to speak the truth and to
live honest lives, and the heaven-
ly principles of the Gospel rule
in the affairs of the community.
But this spiritual power is a
force of such abounding energy
that it cannot be confined to the
limits of that community. It
sweeps on to the regions round
about.
" The character of the true
church is like the strawberry
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plant. You see the slender arm it shoots forth, by means of which over
there, a foot or so away, it starts another strawberry plant. Presently the
new plant, having become rooted and established, sends out a similar
arm, and we have a third plant, and so the process goes on. This
illustrates what every living Christian church ought to be doing.
"Again I say, our church in Chadron does not exist simply to meet
the spiritual needs of this city. Here are these counties of Northwestern
Nebraska for whose spiritual welfare we are responsible. If we take
simply the constituency of Chadron Academy, we have a region four
times as large as the State of Massachusetts for which we are, in a
sense, especially responsible.
Let Chadron become the An-
tioch of these Northwestern
counties.
" I am afraid we are too
easily satisfied with the work we
do for Jesus. If our pastor's
salary is paid, if the church is
in good repair, if the Sunday-
school is supplied with helps, if
the common necessities of our
church work are provided for,
we congratulate ourselves and
fold our arms in complacent
contentment.
" Oh, my people, in the
light of apostolic zeal that
sent forth the glad tidings to
the people who sat in dark-
ness in the first century of the
Christian work, how weak and
poor, wretched and beggarly, do our modern efforts appear ! "
Professor Bennett illustrated the relation of Christian education to
Christianity and the church, and then asked : " What is Chadron Acad-
emy doing for this Northwestern Nebraska ? In these sections where the
Christian school has become established, we find as a consequence the
churches strong and well manned. We find the students taking the
places of responsibility and trust in the community. We find the school
furnishing from that community ministers and missionaries for the church.
We find the school going into the homes and pleading with the boys and
girls to educate themselves. Do boys need urging to go to school ? I
wish you could be in the next room and hear some of the pleading that is
being done by the representatives of our Christian schools. This is a
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February, 1897
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distinctive trait of the Christian academy. It not only takes those who
come, but it goes out after the others.
" To illustrate what Chadron Academy is doing for this section, it
may be said that our boys and girls are found taking a leading part in
the life and religious work of the communities in which they now are. A
study of the records of this county shows that during the past seven
years of the academy's history its students have taught 150 school years ;
and,, adding to this what has been done in the surrounding counties, it is
safe to say that Chadron Academy students have taught during the life-
time of a little over seven years two centuries of school in this section."
Superintendent Bross em-
phasized the great need just at
present of help for the churches
on the Nebraska frontier, which
are suffering because of the
empty treasury of the Home
Missionary Society ; and Mrs.
Caswell closed the services of
this most interesting occasion
by the story of sacrifices made
by Eastern friends that the
gospel message might be given
throughout the West.
Monday. — At 8.15 this
morning Pastor Ricker ap-
peared at the door with his
missionary team to take Mrs.
Caswell and myself to the acad-
emy for " chapel service." It
was an inspiration to see that
company of young men and
women, whose thoughtful faces told the story of difficulties bravely
overcome to secure the coveted education. They listened with close
attention to a familiar talk upon missions, after which we accepted a-
cordial invitation from the teachers to visit the classes. The recitations
proved thorough instruction on the part of faithful teachers. Owing to
the present financial stringency everywhere, the academy is in debt, and
it is months since these heroic teachers have received remuneration for
their faithful labors, yet they continue to give time, strength, and life to
the work.
A fact to remember — twenty-one counties in Northwestern Nebraska
have an area of 28,000 square miles and a population of 64,000. In all
that region, except in the public schools, the only institution of learning
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is Chadron Academy. There is no academy in the West more deserving
of the sympathy and liberality of Eastern friends of Christian education.
Joseph Cook says : " The Christian academy has been a silver link be-
tween the golden link of the college and the iron link of the common
schools."
NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XIX. — Pastoral Incidents
Many of the writer's parishioners were in Colorado on account of
poor health. Some recovered and returned East to live. Others
recovered, but found that they could live only in Colorado. Many died,
and there were very sad cases of invalids dying away from home and
loved ones, among strangers.
One young boy was left in the pastor's care by his father. The boy
joined the church and was for a while hopeful of getting well. But the
disease had too strong a hold upon him and he failed rapidly. The
father was sick and another child was dying in the far-away Eastern home,
and only his Sunday-school teacher could come to be with him when
he breathed his last, so far from home, parents, and loving brothers
and sisters.
One man, a freighter, was fatally shot while drunk and while attempt-
ing to enter a vile resort. The aged Christian father came on from the
East. He told the pastor that his son had been a Christian when he
was a boy, but he got into bad company and went astray. As the gray-
haired man stood over the open grave he no doubt felt that it would have
been a great blessing if he could have buried that son when he was yet
a boy.
Another call was to minister what comfort he could to an intelligent
Christian lady from the East, whose cup of sorrow seemed to run over.
She had come to Colorado with a consumptive son, to see if the climate
would not help him. He returned East and died. A married daughter
came, and while there her own little child died. Starting eastward with
its remains, the mother being barely able to travel, the body of the child
was lost in some change of cars, and when it was found, weeks after, it
was buried where it was found. Then the child's mother died. Then
another son of the lady, a young man who was not an invalid, died.
Then, to crown all, another boy not an invalid, but who was with her in
Colorado, formed a foolish plan to rob a bank, was caught at it, and
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sentenced to a term of years in the State prison. He had been a reader
of dime novels, and he thought he was out in the Rocky Mountains
where, according to the story, such things were done. After retiring one
night a revolver was fired not far from the parsonage. Officers were
lying in wait at the cashier's house when the boy and his companions,
who escaped, tried to enter, to get the key to the bank. This last sor-
row exceeded all the others, and the mother's heart was nearly broken,
yet she bore up under all these afflictions with rare Christian courage. The
pastor visited the boy in jail, and, among other things, advised him
not to try to escape, as he would be almost certain to fail. He said he
would not try to escape, but he afterwards did, possibly with somebody's
connivance.
Was called once in great haste to go and see a man who had been
hurt on the railroad, and who had but a short time to live. The man was
told that what he said to him must be said quickly. The lower part of
his body was terribly crushed, and he could feel death creeping up towards
his vital organs. Friends and neighbors stood around as the pastor
urged him, as well as he could, to repent of his sins and believe in Jesus
Christ, who could save him even then. He had been a rough, wicked
man, but he was facing certain death, and he felt the need of some
preparation for the other world. He professed to put his trust in Christ,
and urged the pastor to pray for him. Then he bethought him of a man
who had wronged him and whom he felt that he could not forgive. He
was urged to forgive all' his enemies if he would have his own sins for-
given, but no, he would not forgive that man. His wife and his lovely
daughter also besought him to forgive before he died. They were not
professing Christians, but ah ! how the presence of death brings out
into startling distinctness, even to unconverted people, the necessity of
the great Christian doctrines ! Pride struggled with forgiveness in that
dying man's soul, and pride evidently gained the victory. He would not
forgive that one man, and thus he died.
While out calling one day the pastor saw a lady, who had occasionally
attended his church, wandering across some vacant lots in an aimless way.
Entering into a brief conversation with her, he soon learned that she had
resolved to commit suicide within twenty-four hours, on account of trou-
bles in her home. She was dissuaded from her resolution, and urged to
seek help from above to bear her troubles. Was that a chance meeting
by the wayside, or was it divinely ordered ? One call more, or one less,
by the pastor that afternoon, turning down one street instead of another,
and the result to a soul and a home might have been vastly different.
But not all pastoral experiences were of this sad kind. One evening
at a prayer-meeting some boys outside were purposely disturbing the
meeting by making a noise on the window. The pastor stepped to the
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door, and was sprightly enough in his movements to catch one of the boys.
He brought him into the meeting and kept him there, an unwilling and
sheepish- looking attendant, until its close. The boy's father afterwards
rallied him on being a member of that church. The boy denied that he
was a member. " But you are," said the father ; "you told me yourself
that the preacher took you into the church."
The news came one day that one of the pastor's neighbors, a promi-
nent man in the community, had discovered the fossil remains of a giant
in the southern part of the State. The petrifaction had a short caudal
appendage, and hence was supposed to be "the missing link " that evolu-
tionists fondly dreamed of finding. It was brought to town and placed
in a public hall, and crowds of people went to see it. It required little
study of the carved stone image to show that it was a swindle ; it was
altogether too perfect. A glance at the "prominent citizen," who stood
near, deepened the conviction, because of the sheepish look in that man's
face. It so happened (?) that Barn urn, the great showman, was in town
at just that time.' Of course he passed a favorable opinion upon the gen-
uineness of the petrifaction and negotiated for its exhibition at the East.
The fraud was soon exposed, and "the prominent citizen" was not so
prominent after that. The discovery by Professor Kerr of a saurian rep-
tile in the Garden of the Gods, near where crowds of tourists have driven
for years, was more genuine. It was estimated that the reptile was origin-
ally over one hundred feet in length.
The church building and the pastor's house seemed to be in a sort of
lightning belt. One year the jail, three blocks distant, was struck by
lightning. Another year a horse was killed in a barn two blocks away.
A child was killed by lightning not far from the same spot. One night
during prayer-meeting a house was struck directly across the street from
the church. At another time the lightning struck a telephone in the
pastor's back yard, scattering the fragments over the yard, where the chil-
dren were playing, and giving quite a shock to his wife, who stood by the
kitchen stove. The same thunderbolt leaped from the telephone wire and
hit the church in a very gingerly way, boring a hole about as large as a
knitting needle through the brick wall, and scattering the brick-dust in a
straight line across the audience-room. It so happened that the lightning
struck in the near vicinity about every other year. After it had struck
one year the pastor's little girl was heard to exclaim ; " Well, we are safe
now for another two years ! "
The dry, sandy bed of the famous Cherry Creek was only a few blocks
away. Every year or two the news would spread, brought perhaps by
some horseman riding furiously into town, that " Cherry Creek was com-
ing," and crowds of people would flock to the banks and watch for hours
to see the great, erect tidal wave, or flood, come down, caused by a sud-
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den " cloud burst " on the Divide. The front of those walls of water
would sometimes be a good many feet high. Woe to the houses built on
sand which were in their way. There was one such fearful storm one
night on the bluffs six miles from Colorado Springs. The resulting flood
flowed through Templeton's Gap, then divided. One part flowed across
the level plain five miles, struck the rear part of the town, swept away
bridges and houses, and drowned one woman in a house that was swept
away. After the flood subsided, great balls of clay were found on the
prairie, formed from masses of hard clay which the flood had rolled along
until they became balls.
Happening one Sunday to go early into the church, the pastor saw a
stranger sitting on a back seat. He spoke with him and learned that his
church membership was in a distant part Of the city, and that he was
looking for a new church home nearer to the farm that he had rented.
It was only a few weeks before he and his wife, son, and daughter had
joined the church. He was of good New England stock, a college gradu-
ate and ex-professor. He made. a good trustee and Bible-class teacher
for young men, and his wife, besides being a superior musician, made a
good primary-class teacher and secretary for the local, and also for the
State, missionary society. The family was very faithful at church service
and Sunday-school, though living three miles away. Their home was one
of the places where the minister's family was always welcome. Through
some real estate deal years before, the man had lost all his property, and
had also got himself in debt many thousand dollars, yet he became at
once the most liberal giver in that home missionary church, giving two
dollars every Sunday toward the salary, besides gifts for other objects.
God prospered him, and in a few years he not only paid off every cent of
the old debt, but secured a good home and farm of his own, all through
diligence in business and honoring God with his substance. That family
came into the church, sent of God, the pastor believed, in answer to
prayer, at a time when things were at low ebb, and the pastor's hands were
drooping. Next to seeing souls converted, there is nothing that gives
more pleasure to a hard-working, discouraged pastor than to see such a
family come into the church.
NEGLECTED CORNERS : HOW TO TREAT THEM
It is often said that in New England there are many neglected corners,
and that the people living in them are lapsing into gross immoralities and
are in danger of outright barbarism, because remote from churches and
church influences. Remote from churches — it should be noticed that
two miles is in our day practically more remote than five or six used to
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be ; for this, whatever the reason may be, is an important element in the
problem as to what to do with corners.
Let me give, by way of suggestion as to how to treat the problem, an
account of one such corner, Moore's Corner in the town of Leverett, Mass.
A Congregational church of twenty-seven members (twenty-six on pro-
fession) was formed at Moore's Corner on July 8, 1896. When people
who knew the place and the character of its inhabitants for years heard
that this was to be done, they exclaimed: " What ! at Moore's Corner?
Why, that is one of the hardest places in all this region, noted for intem-
perance, profanity, Sabbath breaking, and everything bad. How has it
come about ? " The ready answer was, that some of the young men from
Northfield, under the supervision of Rev. Mr. Cook, have been holding
meetings and there has been a revival. Rev. Mr. Cook was employed by
the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society for six months to look after
neglected districts in Franklin County, and he, with two young men from
Northfield, did carry on meetings at Moore's Corner, and the church re-
sulted. But, it should be considered, work similar to that which was done
at first in Moore's Corner was done by them in other places, and un-
doubtedly good was done elsewhere, yet nowhere else was such a
marked change wrought in the community. Then it appeared that two
good women at Moore's Corner had long been praying that God's bless-
ing might come upon the neighborhood. Still, doubtless good women
had been praying elsewhere. It is their wont to pray.
Why, then, was such a harvest gained here ? It may be accounted for,
in part at least, by the fact that for many years a faithful Christian man
had been sowing good seed by constant and regular distribution of
religious and other good papers among the children. These papers were
read to the children in many cases by mothers who themselves were inter-
ested in them. He, with others, had also maintained from time to time
Sunday-schools and temperance meetings.
From a report of a committee on Home Evangelization, read in
Shutesbury in 1890, it appears that "many years ago," under the lead
of a committee on Home Evangelization, of which Mr. A. D. Hubbard,
of Sunderland, was chairman, a Sunday-school was opened at Moore's
Corner and was carried on for some years at intervals. Then Amherst
students were engaged to do Christian work there fcr a while. In 1886
temperance meetings were held and many signatures were obtained to
what Mr. Hubbard calls a cast-iron pledge. It covered tobacco and pro-
fane swearing. Most, but not all, who signed, were children. There were
some marked instances of reformation among adults.
But, after all, the constant distribution of religious papers by Mr.
Hubbard, whose business carried him regularly to the place, seems to
have had most effect in preparing for the good results of last year. This
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work was begun at a suggestion made by Rev. Austin Cary, of Sunder-
land, more than thirty years ago. At first the church in Sunderland, or
its Sunday-school, appropriated small sums of money to procure papers.
Then papers were collected from individuals and publishing houses in
large numbers. Mr. Dudley first looked out for the distribution, but in
two years the work fell into the hands of Mr. Hubbard, who has carried
it on to this day.
In answer to the question sometimes asked, " Are these papers read ? "
Mr. Hubbard reports one boy as saying, " I have to jump when your bell
rings, for all the folks want to read your papers." Again, "Two small
Irish girls will leave their play and their mates at once when my bell
rings, and stand ready to receive their paper's. The eldest girl says that
she lays them all up to read over again by-and-by."
Who carr doubt that this circulation and reading of religious papers
has had a large part in preparing for the good work done in the com-
munity in the winter of 1895 and in the following spring ?'
This, then, is one way to treat corners — give the people something
good to read, and follow it up with personal work. Go about among
the people as heralds of salvation, you Christian laymen. Wherever
your business carries you, remember that the King's business is your
first and most important business. — J. C.
THE BABY'S FUNERAL
By Mrs. Dora Read Barber
Home missionary life is a checkered web. There are many scenes
that are very bright and give one real joy to have them in remembrance.
There are also many dark scenes.
I came home on Friday night flattering myself that I should have a
whole day's rest before entering upon the work of the next week. This
day being all my own I concluded to spend it in the open air, and accord-
ingly took my pony to a grassy field where he would be sure to enjoy the
day too, for he shares in all my work. I had not yet given him his morn-
ing brushing when my attention was drawn to a carriage coming rapidly
down the hill toward me. On coming nearer, one of the men in the car-
riage informed me that a baby had died about five miles up the Willamette
River, and that my husband and I were wanted to conduct the funeral.'
My holiday was at an end, but I remembered that it was our duty to
"weep with those who weep." We find it a real joy to be able to say a
word of comfort to those who are in trouble.
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We saddled the ponies and started across the woods because it was
nearer. In many places the trail was so narrow that we could only make
our way by going " Indian file." Once the ponies had to jump a large
log, and again we were obliged to ford a stream through a deep canon or
go a long way round, so we forded. Soon we came out into the open
road that wound over hills and through valleys where the modest violet
nestled in its mossy bed and the stalwart ox-eyed daisies stood like so
many sentinels on guard.
Sometimes the road lay very close to the placid-faced Willamette, with
its bright fringe of willows and vine maple, looking in the distance like a
silver thread shot through emerald. Again we crossed deep ravines on
rustic bridges below which the little waterfalls laughed and tossed their
spray as they leaped from crag to crag on their way to mingle their spark-
ling waters with the calm deep gray of the river. We stopped to gather a
handful of the wild flowers which grew in such profusion on the river's
bank for the casket, and then pursued our onward journey until we reached
the house of mourning.
It was a humble dwelling. The floors were bare, the walls were hung
with a few simple pictures. A fir knot was smoking on the hearth as if
its efforts to add one bright ray to the desolate picture had also been in
vain. In a corner of the room on a rude table stood a little white casket,
around which the family now and then gathered, so reluctant were they
to part with the precious clay that had once held the little spirit. The
Scripture was read and prayer offered. The sable-veiled mourners looked
for the last time on that which had by the ties of nature become so dear
to them, and for the last time kissed the little white hands that on earth
were folded forever, and we started for .the city of the dead that lay just
across the river. The descent to the river being very steep, a line of men
was placed at intervals down the bank, and the casket was handed from
one to the other. When we reached the river the skiffs were waiting, and
the minister, holding the casket, took the bow of the boat which contained
the relatives of the baby, and one by one the boats fell into the wake of
the first. The river's placid face smiled and dimpled at the touch of the
boatman's oar as though it were not carrying a multitude of sad and ach-
ing hearts upon its surface. The daisies on the bank, also, nodded to the
breeze just as they had before when we took the ride for pleasure. " O
Earth ! beautiful, cruel mother, how canst thou smile with a face so fair,
when sorrow and death crush thy children ? " But the earth answered,
" I smile with a calm and changeless smile to show all my frail children
that my unchanging joy shall one day be theirs."
When we reached the cemetery the sermon was preached, the casket
lowered, and with the solemn words, "dust to dust," the body was com-
mitted to the earth to await the resurrection morn. After the grave was
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filled each member of the family placed upon it a tribute of flowers, and
all was over.
The homeward journey across the river was a silent one, save for the
dipping of the oar and the smothered sobs of the broken-hearted mother ;
and our hearts ached when we remembered that she did not know Jesus
and had not learned to cast her care upon him. In the few minutes we
stayed at the home we tried to point those weeping ones to him and to
help them to see that he loves and cares for us and " doeth all things
well."
These people do not have church privileges, and funeral sermons are
about all the preaching they ever hear ; but our prayer has been that he
may strengthen the chain he hath broken in twain and fasten it firm to the
skies. — Exchange.
Since I first wrote this, we have a church within less than a mile of
this cemetery, and Mr. Barber preaches there twice each month. — Wilson-
ville, Ore.
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HOW MALCOLM SOLVED THE PROBLEM
By Miss Katharine MacNaughten
Mrs. Sinclair sat before the glowing fire, deep in thought. Round
the center table was gathered a group of young girls busily engaged in
dressing dolls and making fancy articles for a bazaar. They chatted and
laughed, mixing their conversation in a remarkable way with running
comment on the poor little girl in India that their circle of King's
Daughters were interested in, and exclamations and plans for their own
booth, which was to be " too sweet for anything " with decorations and
oriental costumes. Off in a corner sat Malcolm, a bright boy of fifteen,
apparently deep in " The Boys of '61," but with a half cynical, half wist-
ful glance from time to time toward the little group at the table. Mrs.
Sinclair paid little heed to any of them.
She had just returned from a missionary conference and her mind was
uplifted and her heart stirred to its very depths by the words to which she
had listened. One heavy thought weighed on her mind which she could
not put aside : " Where were all the young men and boys in this glorious
work ? "
In their own active church the Woman's Missionary Society was well
organized ; the young girls were banded together with King's Daughters
circles and doing effective work. Even the Young People's Association
had made some spasmodic efforts " to interest the young men in mis-
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sions," but so far all had failed. She sighed as she thought of her own
bright boy, and many like him, who were standing aloof from all this
work so dear to her own heart.
Suddenly, apropos of nothing, Malcolm broke out, " I don't see why
only girls should have ' Circles.' Why can't we be King's Sons just as
well ? The girls have all the good times nowadays. They put on a little
cross and call themselves King's Daughters. Then they go to work and
make pincushions with dolls' heads on, and crazy looking things they call
' fancy articles,' and every one says they are so lovely, but they never
think of asking us into help them get up a bazaar. I think it is just
mean."
Malcolm paused to take breath while the girls giggled, and here Mrs.
Sinclair was forced to smile, but her heart gave a leap of joy. Here was
a way out, of which she had never dreamed. " My dear boy," she said,
" you make me very happy, but you must not be too hard on the poor
girls ; they are not to blame. I am afraid we all thought you did not
care."
" Well, we do ; I know a lot of fellows who would come in if only
some one would give us a start and help us a little. I say, mother, you be
a leader of a circle and I will get the boys. Do now, like a dear, sweet
little mother that you are." And Malcolm rushed to his mother's side and
nearly smothered her with kisses.
" There, there, my dear child," she answered, with a little quiver in
her voice, " I will do what 1 can ; but, Malcolm, you must not go into this
for the fun of the thing, but remember that you are a King's Son, and it
is ' For His Sake ' you do this work, and think what a privilege it is to
work for him and help others who are as dear to him as any of us."
The question was soon practically settled by Malcolm bringing about
ten of his friends, some of them already open followers of Christ, and
others who were hesitating, they hardly knew why. They chose their own
officers, and, with kindly help and suggestion from the leader, commenced
the work.
In humble imitation of " the favored sex," they began by sending a box
to the West, to a mining camp, collecting good magazines and books, with
some little comforts for the " fellows " who had a hard time of it.
The dainty leader of the band was not allowed to do more than super-
intend the packing. They hoped they could do that much. That, at
least, was " men's work." At every meeting a little bank was produced
which held their voluntary offerings. Soon sufficient money was raised
to support a boy in an industrial school in China. They immediately
began a vigorous study of China, its history and customs. Remarkable
discussions were sometimes carried on, and an occasional frolic was
indulged in to relieve their feelings, but Mrs. Sinclair's gentle ways soon
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restored order, and the circle was voted a success. It was noised abroad
in the church, and other circles were formed, some of them led by the
young men. The older people held aloof at first, strange to say, even the
women. " There were too many organizations, anyway," and " these boys
would not keep it up long."
These comments did not hinder the work, and the heart of the pastor
was cheered as one after another the young people dropped in to the
missionary meeting, the older ones even taking part, the others helping
with singing, and by their very presence giving cheer and encouragement.
Then the " usual monthly meeting in behalf of missions " was transformed
into a live missionary meeting, where all the burning questions of the day
were discussed, with the room crowded, and young and old doing some-
thing toward the result ; even the most skeptical were forced to admit
that " God moves in a mysterious way his wonders to perform."
Meanwhile, Malcolm, blissfully unconscious of having done anything
remarkable, went on his way rejoicing ; but in his mother's heart was a
great song of thankfulness for this wonderful answer to prayer. Truly,
" In ways we have not known
God leads his own."
HOW THE GOSPEL ENTERED THE GREAT BASIN
By Rev. D. L. Leonard, D.D., Oberlin, Ohio
The extensive area which bears this name constitutes the driest por-
tion of our vast arid region. In general it is a land of almost limitless
"sage brush, sand, saleratus, and salt," whose look is forlorn and forbid-
ding in the extreme. There are, however, valleys not a few blessed with
mountain streams, and with soil so fertile that by irrigation the desert is
easily made to blossom as the rose. And yet the difficulties of settlement
were so exceeding great that without some extraordinary happening it
would almost certainly have been left for generations uninhabited. Pio-
neers were required who were rude, tractable, and credulous, as well as
massed and impelled by leaders filled with wild vagaries and bent on
absolute rule. So refractory were the materials chosen, so unpromising
the instruments employed, that the divine ordering in the matter may
appear strange and inscrutable to the borders of the irrational. But we
need not doubt that even in this case the results in future centuries will
abundantly "assert eternal providence and justify the ways of God to
men."
Ten years before the arrival of the Mormons in Utah, the supply of
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converts in this country having seriously fallen off, missionaries had been
sent to Great Britain, where the guile of the elders readily sufficed to
capture multitudes, who were shipped across the sea to the Illinois Zion.
After arriving in the " valleys of the mountains " and taking time to look
about and lay foundations, the task of recruiting was taken up again,
both to retrieve the appalling losses by apostasy following the death of
the original prophet, and also to secure population sufficient to gain
statehood ; but especially, when polygamy was proclaimed, in 1852,
seized by a sublime-ridiculous impulse, hundreds of zealous proselyters
were dispatched at once to every land, whether pagan or Christian, to
capture the whole world for this precious creed. For the most part this
quixotic crusade came to utter grief. The heathen and Romanist heart
were found to be altogether stony ; but in Denmark and Sweden a host
was found ready to hear and heed. The Perpetual Emigration Fund was
started to aid impecunious Scandinavian and British saints ; every year
whole shiploads were imported ; while all summer, from the Missouri to
Salt Lake, long trains were creeping up the Platte, through South Pass,
and down Echo Cailon. In this way and by natural increase the popu-
lation rose to r 1,000 in 1850, during the next decade to 40,000, and by
1870 to 87,000. At one time the annual immigration rose to 6,000. To
furnish homes for these hordes of neophytes new settlements were opened
by the Church for hundreds of miles about in every direction — from Fort
Bridger, Wyoming, to Carson Valley, Nevada, and San Bernardino, Cali-
fornia ; and from Idaho to St. George, hard by the borders of Arizona.
Considering the colossal conceit mingled with large measures of fanati-
cism which from the first had characterized the Mormon hierarchy, it is
not strange that in the midst of such really great achievements they
should find it hard to curb themselves and submit willingly to any outside
dictation, or pay much deference to the law of the land. They were not
Americans, except by the accident of birth or habitation. Always, every-
where, and only, they were " Latter-day Saints." They could scarcely
forgive Congress for extending its authority over the Great Basin just
after they had entered it, and another serious grievance came when, ask-
ing to be constituted a sovereign State, they were relegated instead to the
ignominious condition of a Territory. Gentile judges and courts were
intolerable. It was something that Brigham Young was appointed gover-
nor, but he was soon removed. Such was the general disposition to resist
and rebel that in 1857 it was found necessary to send an army to bring them
to their senses. Besides, all through the fifties, mainly as a result of the
ruthless measures instituted to compel universal assent to the doctrine and
practice of polygamy, a reign of terror prevailed. The so-called " Refor-
mation " was started and carried on, as dreadful and revolting a spasm of
religious frenzy as the world ever saw. "Blood atonement" was the
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phrase which set forth the climax of the madness, the duty and necessity
of literally shedding one's blood for the remission of sins otherwise inex-
piable, like rebellion against the priesthood, and apostasy. The carnival
of murder culminated in the Mountain Meadows massacre, than which
surely the sun never shone upon a deed more damnable. It was the
butchery without provocation of more than six-score men, women, and
children, emigrants on their way to California. In 1862 a law against
polygamy was framed in Washington, but it came to nothing. Having so
serious a task already on hand, Mr. Lincoln is credited with the remark,
"If the Mormons will let me alone, I will let them alone." In 1874 a
second anti-polygamy law was passed, which likewise remained a brutum
fulmen. The set time for calling these audacious law-breakers to account
had not yet come.
Nevertheless the worst was now over. This obnoxious system had
reached its zenith in 1857, and from that date steady decadence can be
traced. Human nature had been overstrained with excitement, and reac-
tion began to set in. Leaders and followers began to awake from the
long nightmare and debauch. Besides, in 1862 a regiment of Californians
was ordered in, who planted themselves upon the bench just beyond the
outskirts of Salt Lake. And the next year some of these miners, pros-
pecting in the neighboring mountains, struck divers veins overflowing
with mineral treasures. Nor was it long before in the canons and the
city were found thousands of hardy and determined men, for whom even
Brigham Young was no match, and who utterly abhorred him and all his
works. The telegraph also was there, the newspaper soon followed; and
presently the railroad began to stretch westward across the plains. Occa-
sional notices had appeared in The Home Missionary relating to Mormon
matters, but in August, 1864, it was declared : "The time cannot be far
distant when it will be possible to plant the banner of the Cross among
the misguided population of this strange land. Indeed, we are not sure
that if the right one could be found willing to go, it might riot be safe
and wise to send him at once." President Jonathan Blanchard was at
this time making an extensive tour through the Rockies under the auspices
of the Society, and visited Salt Lake to study the situation. Another
reconnoisance was made about the same time by Samuel Holmes of New
York. And as the result of the investigation, General Connor, command-
ing the troops in Utah, adding his testimony and urgent request, " the
door seemed open. Who should go ? It was now winter. The overland
route was infested by Indians, and it appeared imperative to rob one post
to man another." So Rev. Norman McLeod of Denver was telegraphed
to go at once, and January 16, 1865, he arrived in the valley, the first
Christian minister to lift up his voice in solemn protest against the follies
and iniquities of the dominant ecclesiastical system. He brought a full
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stock of zeal, courage, and determination, and, having secured a hall, was
soon at work with tongue and pen with all his might. The congregations
were large, a great sensation was produced, and before the lapse of many-
days a bitter opposition set in. A Sunday-school and preaching service
were opened at the camp. In February a church was formed with eight-
een members, an ecclesiastical society also, with twelve trustees, Chief
Justice Titus being president, and a movement for a sanctuary was set on
foot. A course of lectures was given to crowded audiences, Mormons
being present in large numbers, with intense excitement attending. Such
plain speech had never before been heard in Zion, such handling without
gloves of the " First Presidency," the " Quorum of the Apostles," and all
the church dignitaries. Probably the fiery enthusiasm of the speaker ran
away with his prudence, though under the circumstances this was not at
all strange.
For some months the presence of officers and soldiers was of great
value to the work, but unfortunately the military headquarters were now
removed to Denver, a large fraction of the troops soon following. Then
later in the year Mr. McLeod was summoned to Washington by a com-
mittee of Congress to give testimony as touching the situation in the
Great Basin. Some months passed before he was ready to return, and
then reaching Leavenworth he was met by a telegram from General
Connor, stating that Dr. Robinson, his Sunday-school superintendent, had
been foully murdered by the ruffian " saints," and counseling him to pro-
long his absence, lest he also should fall by the hand of the assassin. So
the work was suspended until the fury should subside. Year after year
went by with no opportunity appearing for resumption. In November,
1871, it was written : "The indications are that Utah will soon be open
again for labor. Five years ago Mr. McLeod was driven out, and since
the church and Sunday-school have disappeared. But the railroad has
come, the mountains are swarming with Gentiles, while a powerful party
of social reformers has been organized," etc. In July, 1872, though
the congregation was scattered, it was reported that the property which
had been purchased was still held. Superintendent Warren of San
Francisco had paid a visit to the city, and steps had been taken to
reinaugurate the undertaking. A few months afterwards the plucky
evangelist was back again at his post ; in spite of serious set-backs he was
courageous and hopeful, and could tell of 800 and 1,000 in attendance at
his lectures. Nevertheless, the old hostility was found to be yet alive, so
strong and virulent withal that it was plainly wisdom for the object about
which it centered to retire from the scene. Hence, at the end of a twelve-
month, Mr. McLeod took his final departure ; not at all, however, that
the field was to be abandoned, but rather that successful tillage was just
about to begin. Two ministers from the Pacific coast, with one of the
February, 1897 The Home Missionary 501
secretaries of the Society, made a careful investigation upon the spot, and
reported that only an acceptable leader was required to make possible a
fair degree of success. The qualities required were found embodied in
Rev. Walter M. Barrows. Before the end of 1873 he had taken up the
task so arduous, and at the earliest moment proceeded to reorganize.
From this time onward steady progress can be traced.
But meanwhile a second locality for evangelizing effort had been
coming into notice. The Pacific Railroad had been completed in 1S69,
and Ogden had been fixed upon, at the point of junction of the two divi-
sions. Here, therefore, scores of officials and train men with their
families had come to reside. Late in 1876 an item appeared to the effect
that Rev. A. W. Stafford was newly stationed at this point. At first the
outlook was encouraging, interested hearers were found in sufficient
numbers, though after some months it appeared that, with two neat
church buildings near by, the obstacle of climbing a long flight of stairs
was working serious harm. However, with the timely aid of Superintend-
ent Warren, who happened that way just then, a church was formed in
July with nine members. Later in the season their shepherd left his flock
and took his departure for the East to raise money for a house of wor-
ship. Not meeting with success, and when no friendly counselor was at
hand, a certain grievous wolf entered in among them, not sparing the
flock, even promising another shepherd and a comfortable sanctuary, on
condition that they only change their name and ecclesiastical connection ;
which thing a majority of them proceeded to do.
In 1877 we find Mr. Barrows urgently setting forth the need of schools
in Utah, since none in the Territory were free, naming several points
where these should be established, and calling on the friends of Christian
education for financial assistance. Schools could be introduced more
easily than churches, because the prejudice against them would be much
less. The year following he told of great interest in education all through
the settlements. A missionary was called for to organize a movement in
Southern Utah. A dozen teachers would not be too many. A beginning
was made in July by the incorporation of Salt Lake Academy, Rev. E. W.
Benner, principal, and at its opening in September eighty pupils were in
attendance. Since this was not exactly the work of the Home Missionary
Society, he wondered if a Woman's Board could not be organized to take it
in hand. A few years ago Utah was closed, but now it was open. In July,
1879, ^ was stated that track-laying was in progress for a railroad into
Southern Utah, and also for another northward towards Montana, by
which new openings were made for evangelists and teachers. Besides,
" an immigration is expected during the season greater than for the last
five years taken together." In November Mr. Barrows reported a visit to
Park City, with a population of 600, but with neither church nor school.
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He called an assembly, proposed that they raise $400 for repairs upon the
building and to apply on salary, while he would secure the residue and
send a teacher. A subscription of nearly the whole amount needed was
made at once. The field should have a preacher in the spring. He may
have to take a trip to Idaho the next week on a similar errand. Mr.
Pickett had been directed by the Society to visit Mormondom at the
earliest day, to open several incipient preaching stations, and was nearly
ready to start when his lamented death occurred. In February of 1880
Mr. Barrows was able to state that Park City had a school in operation with
two teachers and ninety pupils, a Sunday-school also, a telegraph, and in
the spring would be accessible by railroad. A school had been started too
at West Jordan. He had been to Farmington to agitate for a school.
During the summer of that year Rev. C. C. Creegan, Mr. Pickett's suc-
cessor in Colorado, made a flying visit to Utah, and while there organized
a church in Park City, to which Rev. C. W. Hill was commissioned by
the Society in July. In September The Home Missionary contained the
intelligence that the Salt Lake church needed aid no longer and had
become self-sustaining, an achievement highly creditable to its pastor.
This same magazine had already expressed the conviction that Salt Lake
Academy had come into being largely through the energy and wise meas-
ures of Mr. Barrows.
Mention must also be made here of an event of greatest significance
to Utah and the surrounding Territories which occurred in Chicago
in 1879. The question had often been anxiously canvassed, as to what
instrumentality should be employed in the New West to further the
work of Christian education. At length, by divers Congregational pastors
of that city, with Col. C. G. Hammond to supply no small part of the
intellectual and spiritual dynamics required, the conclusion was reached
that a new organization was called for. This was also brought into being
by setting up the New West Education Commission, whose especial mis-
sion it was to found and foster in all the region which suffered sorely
from the blight of Mormonism or Catholicism of the Mexican type
schools of various grades from the primary to the academic. By the end
of 1880 the preliminaries had been settled, the methods of work had been
laid down, executive officers and a few teachers had been chosen, and the
Society was ready to push vigorously for substantial enlargement.
" Send me, Lord, to the rough and savage pagans of the wilderness ;
send me from all that is called comfort on earth ; send me even to death
itself, if it be only in thy service and to promote thy Kingdom," — David
Brainerd.
February, 1897 The Home Missionary 503
THE FELLOWSHIP LEAGUE OF PRAYER
[We print below the substance of a letter by Rev. W. C. Merritt, of Snohomish,
Washington, to his brethren, the Congregational ministers of that State, concerning The
Fellowship League of Prayer, the object of which the perusal of the letter will make plain.
The League is a measure for reviving the interest and combining the efforts of the pastors
and churches of that State, which was cordially indorsed by the General Association at its
latest meeting in Tacoma. As will be seen, the plan is equally adapted to use by earnest
believers and workers in all parts of our country. To their thoughtful and prayerful study
we commend the letter. — Ed.]
The Fellowship League of Prayer may be made very potent for good.
But it is so easy to forget ! For our own help I have had printed, on
heavy manila paper, 12 x 18 inches in size, and hung in our prayer room,
a reminder that we belong to this League of Prayer and have promised to
pray for one another at our mid-week services.
Have you noted the call of the Evangelical Alliance to observe a
" quiet day " preparatory to the winter's work ? It seems to me to be of
the very spirit and genius of the Gospel, and a vital, aggressive Christian-
ity. Do we not, as churches and pastors, carry on our work too much in
the spirit of isolated individualism, where unity, fraternity, fellowship, and
a consecrated common purpose should- dominate and control ? We can
pray and believe, not only for ourselves, but for others, and we should.
We may well learn a lesson from the late political campaign. Why not
conduct a campaign for Christ in our State, moving along similar Christian
lines in a united effort led of the spirit ? Why may not we pastors observe
a " quiet day " each month in the fellowship of Christ, the Holy Spirit,
and one another ? To make the unity of meditation and prayer the
closer, we might have for our common study the same Scriptures — as, e.g.
(Phil. ii. 1-11) : " Let this mind be in you," etc. — changing the Scriptures
each month. Jesus said (Matt, xviii. 19) : " If two of you shall agree
[the Greek word is that from which come our words symphony and sym-
phonize] on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be
done for them," etc. In the dedication of the Temple (2 Chron. v. 13) '
" It came to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one
sound to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord . . . that then
. . . the glory of the Lord filled the house of God." And in Acts
i. 14 and ii. 1 we find this unity of prayer when the Holy Spirit manifested
himself in pentecostal power and glory. Are we not missing our baptism
of power, in that we have not been using this principle of the kingdom of
heaven, unity and fellowship in prayer ? Why not claim in a " monthly
symphony of prayer " the presence and power of the Holy Spirit in our
work ?
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CLIPPINGS FROM REPORTS
Happy Results. — Our union revival meetings were particularly suc-
cessful in promoting fellowship between us and our Methodist neighbors.
Now we all recognize that we are brethren. Two adults, one male head
of a family, professed conversion to Christ, and four backsliders returned
to the Father's house, adding ten to our numbers, and leaving us all
quickened and strengthened. I went one hundred miles southwest into
Meade County, to help Missionary Thompson in some evangelistic tent-
meetings. That large tent, pitched right out on the prairie, looked in-
deed like a campaign in the wilderness. The people came from some-
where, and the Lord so blessed the work that a Congregational church is
likely to result on the edge of the beautiful artesian district, which is a
strategic point. — Kansas.
Our Great Hindrance. — This is the prevailing worldliness of the
people. For example : A young lady, who ceased to run with the crowd
to the same excess of riot, was called " a nun " by them. The same every
one may experience who wishes to live a Chiistian life. I may say that
one hundred souls have been drawn away by those who scare the church.
Nevertheless, there is a young lady from a Catholic family, whose father is
an infidel, her mother indifferent, and three of her brothers blasphemers,
but who never omits our Sunday-school and preaching service. It is
difficult for an American to realize how hard the work among such people
is. They were, as children, never brought to any Sunday-school, and
consequently it is strange for them to begin now, when they have been
brought up in such an unspiritual state. — Iowa (Scandinavian).
Lengthening the Cords. — We have for some months back dropped
our morning session that I might hold service in the country, some eleven
miles out. Excepting as we supply them, this out-field, embracing a
section six miles square, has no services of any kind. There is danger of
their settling into practical heathenism. There is little Christian senti-
ment among them now, but if ministered to they will probably have a
self-supporting church there in time. There are also neglected fields to
the west and southwest of us, and I shall probably take up alternate
appointments in these neglected out-fields. So long as our church carries
on such work I believe it has a right to live. — Wisconsin.
In h God's First Temple." — Our church building gave evidence of
danger from falling of plaster, etc. So, being heartily assisted by the
Christian Endeavorers, we held a home camp-meeting every Sabbath in
the park. Our audiences ranged from 200 to 500. Guitars, cornets,
February, 1897 The Home Missionary 505
organ, male quartette, choir, Chinese lanterns, and a locomotive head-
light were all consecrated to this evangelistic effort. Numbers of the
non-churchgoing were drawn to the services and, we have good reason to
believe, to " the sweet reasonableness " of the truth as it is in Jesus. —
Kansas.
Children Brought In. — A feature of our Sunday evening services
has been the attendance of from twenty to thirty children, and the pastor's
brief talks to them have been rewarded by the conversion of sixteen of
them. The children evidently knew what they were doing, for their de-
cisions came after several weeks of interest and serious thought. — Indiana.
Twelve Converts Received: — The most cheering event of the
quarter was the reception of twelve members at one communion, the
largest accession, I think, since the organization. Ten of these were
from two families who had long attended the church, but, being Presby-
terian and Baptist, had delayed uniting with us. The conversion of three
of the children during the few months turned the older ones to us, from
the aged grandmother of eighty-three to the granddaughter of eleven
years. — Minnesota.
Grateful for Help. — I must state a pleasing incident, showing that
our Western people are not all wanting in gratitude for Eastern benefits.
Last year Superintendent Bross forwarded me thirty-six dollars from
Eastern friends, to distribute among our needy farmers for seed-corn.
One of the recipients came to me recently and said : " I want to pay back
that money that helped me so much last year." This explains so much
of the collection reported at this time. — Nebraska.
Working for a Parsonage. — It is impossible to tell all the ways a
Home Missionary has to devise to meet emergencies. The other day I
spent from 6 a.m. until 4.30 p.m. in the saddle (stopping only long
enough to eat) in getting our brethren to work on a parsonage enterprise :
borrowing a log wagon, getting men to give us timber; then, later, shoul-
dering a saw and assisting in the felling of the trees, soliciting teams to
haul the lumber from the sawmill, which was six miles distant, then help-
ing to lay the foundation. Meanwhile the visiting of the sick and many
other things had to draw upon the time. Ofttimes weary in the way, but
not weary of it, rejoicing in hope, with our eyes fixed on Christ the source
of all strength, we found true delight in the work. — Indiana.
His Labors Blessed. — On the. 18th of October we received four
members on confession of faith ; on November 8th two on confession
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and one by letter ; on November nth two by letter ; on November 18th
one on confession ; and on December 6th one on confession. We have
appointed next Sabbath evening as a special service for the formal
reception of these persons. All of them are manifesting a growing love
for the truths of the Lord and a deeper interest in the work of the
church. All our members are exceedingly hopeful for the church's
progress in this very needy held, embracing 1,200 or 1,500 people, 800 of
whom are Protestants. I am greatly pressed in spirit for their salvation.
— Denver, Colo.
Encouraged. — We have felt the Spirit's presence in our service.
At our latest communion we received on confession ten new members
and one by letter. Many more are laboring under deep conviction.
The church is being spiritually quickened in her various departments.
Our place of worship is too small to accommodate those who desire to come.
It seats barely 300, and our town numbers nearly 14,000. The Sunday-
school attendance is the largest in the church's twenty-six years' history.
In many of our services the majority are men, and in the Sunday-school
many heads of families attend with much interest. — Mt. Carmel, Pa.
After the Young Folks. — I have a full Bible-class of young men, my
wife has a class of young ladies averaging about a dozen, and the Sunday-
school has another class of large boys numbering, last Sunday, seventeen.
Most of them belong to my "Zigzag Club," with whom I meet every
alternate Friday evening. The pleasant fact about our full evening
audience is the large number of lads and young people who make up the
attendance. These are helping in different ways to carry forward our
church work. My prayer is that their hearts may be touched with
religious conviction, that they may be brought into living relations with
Christ and the church. — Omaha, Neb.
The Memory of the Just. — After supplying Ormond for the summer,
after Rev. J. W. Harding's death, we had planned to go North, but as we
were familiar with Ormond and the east coast, the question naturally
arose of continuing a year if all were satisfactory. So we are providen-
tially here for that period. It has been very pleasant to follow Dr.
Harding and to hear so many kind things said of him. I learn that he
was a very faithful pastor, visiting the people, speaking with them on the
subject of personal religion, and comforting and cheering all on in the
Christian life. He was particularly well adapted to the field, and did a
great deal of good of which even the church and public knew nothing.
This comes out from familiar conversations with those whom he helped.
— Rev. D. M. Breckenridge, Ormond, Fla.
February, 1897 The Home Missionary 507
OPEN-AIR MEETINGS
Having decided to try to combat the prevailing worldliness of the
people in this vicinity, I called together some of those who could sing
and began practicing songs for the special services. Assisted by two
earnest brethren, we began the meetings in an arbor made by driving
posts into the" ground, and covering them with brush. Around this we
placed four camp fires, made by setting posts about four feet in length
into the ground, joining these with poles and covering them with earth,
on which we built fires. These lighted up the place for a hundred yards
around. Our services lasted two weeks. In the daytime we visited
homes and at night preached. We came in contact with Methodists,
Baptists, Campbellites, Holiness people, and Dunkards, nearly all of
whom were represented at our meetings, and some joined very heartily in
the work. One of our most hopeful converts is a young man about
seventeen years old. About the fifth night after our meetings began he
made a bold stand for Christ. His step led his father and mother to
unite with us. His father is an old soldier who had been on the frontier
many years, and had not been inside of a church since 1868. He says
he always knew what he ought to do, so when his son made a start he
hesitated no longer.
I visited another church which two years ago had thirty members but
now could only muster twelve, as they have been without a pastor for
over a year. So everywhere in this new country the work is crippled for
the want of workers. Shall we not pray continually that " the Lord of
the harvest may send more laborers into his vineyard," and that the
hearts of his children may be opened for their support ? — Missouri.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS
April $11,428.79
May 5,866.47
June 8,713.88
July 14,350.84
August 3,460.00
September.... 9,148.64
October. . .... 7,115.88
November .... 12,533.97
December .... 20,941.25
FOR DEBT
LEGACIES
TOTAL
$5,093.08
$2,687.84
$19,209.71
3,834-45
6,180.76
15,881.68
3,506.61
2,502.22
14,722.71
2,I2I.OO
9,772.20
26,244.04
487.56
2,l67.2I
6,114.77
6IO.OO
5,775-99
I5,534-63
218.85
1,646.85
8,981.58
33I.OO
30,845.53
43,710.50
200.00
77,086.65
98,227.90
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APPOINTMENTS IN DECEMBER, 1896
Not in commission last year
Ay res, Andrew F., West Indianapolis, Ind.
Allen, Jesse F., Sulligent, Ala.
Bryant, J. W., Keno, Lake View, Langelle Val-
ley, Bonanza, Pine Grove, and Circuit, Ore.
Dickson, Jas. Porter, San Francisco, Cal.
Fewster, Ernest Philip, Lowell, Wash.
Forbes, Charles A., Red Cliff, Colo.
Hakes. Albert W., Winfred and Freedom, So. Dak.
Gray, William J., Everett, Wash.
Hartley, John. Butternut and Fifield, Wis.
Leppert, David, Huntington, Ore.
Lockwood. John W. H., Kennewick, Wash.
Munneke, Stado, Lesterville, So. Dak.
Newman, George Henry, Ritzville, Wash.
Osthoff, Eugene C, Muskegon, Mich.
Patchell, Wm. Trimble, Eaton, Colo.
Preston, Elmer E., Hemingford, Reno, and Hy-
annis, Neb.
Rowell. N. L., Redondo Beach, Cal.
Sanford, John I., New Duluth, Minn.
Smith, Jas. Challen, Alexandria. Ind.
Stewart, Julius H., San Bernardino, Cal.
Waller, E., Tipton, Cal.
Recom missioned
Barteau, Sidney H., Iowa, La.
Becker, Tames A., Spearfish, So. Dak.
Belt, S. D., Santa Monica, Cal.
Bingham, Charles M., Daytona, Fla.
Bosworth, William A., Wichita, Kan.
Breckenndge, Daniel M., Ormond, Fla.
Brown, Robert P., Arapahoe and Independence,
Okla.
Carter, Elijah, Edgerton. Minn.
Christy, Dennis H., Albion, Penn.
Cooke, William H., General Missionary in No.
Cal.
Cross, Rowland S., Monticello. Minn.
Curran, Edward, Crockett, Cal.
De Kay, George H., Norwalk and Buena Park,
Cal.
Doane, Frank B., Dayton, Wash.
Edmonds, Robert H., Mansfield, O.
Gadsby, George, Ceredo, W. Va.
Gearhart, Charles D., Pierce, Neb.
Graf, John Frederick, Springfield, Mo.
Harris, Benjamin, Palmyra, O.
Hardy, Miss Georgie W., Vinita, Ind. Ter.
Heald. Josiah H., Nogales, Ariz.
Hemenvvay, Frank W, Newton, Kan.
Henry, J. A., Colwich and Maize, Kan.
Holleyman, Thomas E., McAlester, Ind. Ter.
Huffman, Nathan, Pokegama, Cal.
Jaffery, James, Bangor, Penn.
Jenkins, David T., Hillsboro and Kelso, No. Dak.
Johnson, William, St. Louis, Mo.
Jones, Robert Griffith, Stewartville, Minn.
Keyes, Russell Melzo, Lake Preston and Lake
Henry, So. Dak.
Kirkwood, Wm. Arnot, Parkville, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Knapp, Geo. W., Grant, Neb.
Lehtinen, Franz, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio.
Lewis, John, Detroit, Mich.
Lich, John, Lincoln, Neb.
Lodwick, Wm., Lake Benton, Minn.
Mills, Ernest P., Kansas City, Kan.
Nelson, Gustave Walter, Port Angeles and Pine
Hill, Wash.
Newell, Wm. W., Duluth, Minn.
Parsons. A. S., General Missionary at Scotia, Rio
Dell, Alton, Pepperwood, etc., No. Cal.
Parsons, Henry W., St. Paul, Minn.
Poling, Daniel V., Albany, Ore.
Snell, Charles Y., Inkster, No. Dak.
Sprague, Elmer E., Farnum, Neb.
Robertson, Angus A., Port Morris, N. Y. City.
Staver, Daniel, Hillside, Greenville, and Gaston,
Ore.
Thayer, O. Franklin, Cheney, Wash.
Town, Willard O, Thompson, Ohio.
Uzzell, Thomes A., Denver, Colo.
Wadsworth, George, Pawnee, Okla.
Wells, John Lester, Jersey City. N. J.
Whitlock, Frank M., Indianapolis, Ind.
Widing, C. A.. Ashtabula. Ohio.
Wise, William Cooper, Chelan, Wash.
Wood, Samuel, Havelock, Neb.
RECEIPTS IN DECEMBER, 1896
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 520 to 524
MAINE— $311.77.
Auburn, High Street S. S., by W. A.
Robinson $10 oo
Bath, Winter Street Ch., by G. J.
Mitchell hi 2c
Blanchard, by J. Blanchard 500
Bucksport, Mrs. J. Bradley, $5 ; Mrs.
E. Buck, $5 10 00
Calais, First, by A. L. Clapp 34 00
Corvinna. A. Blanchard 5 00
Cumberland Center. Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Mrs. N. P. Tordan 10 00
Fort Fairfield, by Rev. G. B. Hes-
cock 6 00
Gardiner, Mrs. H. A. Ballard 1 80
Machias, S. S. of the Center Street,
by H. M. Heaton 5 77
Naples. A. S. Perly 10 00
New Gloucester, S. H. Chandler 1000
Orono, Mrs. J. H. Emery 5 00
Portland, St. Lawrence Street, by J.
J. Gerrish
" H. O. Farrington. collector "
Cash, Second Parish. Friends
Searsport, H. M. Pendleton
South Berwick, Y. P. S. C. E., by J.
R Ricker
South Brewer, Rev. J. Ramage
South Bridgton. by T. B. Knapp
Wiscasset, A Friend
NEW HAMPSHIRE-$249.o7.
Alstead Center, S. S. Rally, by Mrs.
E. B. Greene
Amherst, A Friend, "A. C. B."
Concord , A Friend
Friend
Exeter, A. E. Mclntire
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Gilmanton, A Friend $3 77
Hillsboro Bridge, Mrs. C. M. Burn-
ham, to const. Rev. H. N. Dascomb
a L. M 5000
Hooksett, by W. S. A. Miller 15 30
Keene, " A Christmas Offering " 15 00
Lyme, by D. A. Grant 52 00
Lyme Center, Mrs. A. Bailey 1 00
Manchester, J. W. Johnston 20 00
H. J. Parkhurst 10 00
Newmarket, Y. P. S. C. E., by E.
Hutchenson 10 00
Peterboro, Extra-cent-a-day Band of
Union Ch., by Miss J. M. Buck-
minster 15 00
Union Ch., by C. S. Pierce 5 50
Pike Station, E. B. Pike 5 00
Pittsfield, M. H. Nutter 13 10
South Merrimack, A Friend 10 00
West Rindge, G. G. Williams 9 40
Winchester, " In His Name " 2 00
VERMONT-$537.84.
Vermont Domestic Miss. Soc, W. C.
Tyler, Treas.:
Bennington, Mrs. G. W.
Harman $5 00
Georgia 2 00
Johnson 2 00
Saxton's River, Miss G.
Magee . 1 00
MASSACHUSETTS — $8,394.43
which legacies, $1,835.
of
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. R. P.
Fairbanks, Treas.:
Barton, A Friend $5 00
Burlington, First Ch., for
Salary Fund 45 00
Dorset 10 00
Essex Junction, Mrs. M. W.
Seaton 5 00
Hartford, Ladies 10 00
Lowell 1 90
Randolph Center, Home-
land Circle 25 16
Rochester, Mrs. Louisa
Martin 5 00
St. Johnsbury, North Ch.,
for Salary Fund 25 00
St. Albans 13 58
Townshend 5 00
Waterbury 6 00
Wells River, for Salary
Fund 12 25
West Brattleboro, L. B. S. . 5 37
174 26
Bennington, Mrs. M. H. Sheldon 5 00
Brattleboro, Mrs. C. L. Howe 3 20
Bristol. Mrs. F. W. Nash 5 00
Brookfield, S. S. Rally of the First, by
G. B.J. Hall 1 11
Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. C. H.Morse. 500
Burlington. First, by M. H. Stone 176 00
Rev. D. Goodhue 5 00
Danville, Mrs. U. B. Kittredge 1 00
East Poultney , by J. Mears 6 00
Fairlee, A Friend 2 00
Middlebury, J. C. Houghten 10 00
Milton. First, by C. H. Jackson 10 09
Mrs. M. J. Jackson 1 00
Newport, W. Richmond 10 00
North Tunbridge, J. Lyman 6 50
Rutland, W. R. Page 5 00
St. Johnsbury, " Dec. 25. 1896." 50 00
Waitsfield, by Mrs. G. Olmstead 16 00
Waterbury, Y. P. S. C. E., by C. C.
Palmer 1568
Vermont, A Friend 20 00
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E.
B. Palmer, Treas $3,000 00
By request of donors, of which $200
for Gen. Howard Roll of Honor ;
Rally, $12.96 ; Vinita Academy,
$25.91 ; Salary Fund, $75 1*093 97
Woman's H. M. A., Miss A. C. Bridg-
man, Treas. :
Easthampton, Ladies' Benev. Soc.
of Pay son Ch., for Salary
Fund $60 00
Chester, Ladies' Mission
Circle of the Second, for
Salary Fund 1200
Mt. Holyoke College 151 30
223 30
Amherst, South Ch., by J. F. Gleason 12 16
A Friend 1500
Andover, A Friend 10 00
Auburndale, A. S. Cooley 10 00
A Friend, a Christmas gift 1 00
Friends , 4 00
Beverly, A Friend, Lane Street Ch. . . 5 00
Boston, Walnut Avenue S. S., by C.
T. Barry 50 00
A. G. Ives 80 00
W. A. Wilde, for Salary Fund 50 00
Cambridge, E. C. Chickering 10 00
Cambridgeport, A Friend 2 00
Chester, Mrs. E. C. Kingsbury 5 00
Curtisville, by D. H. Newton 31 05
Dalton, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. F. H.
Cleveland 20 00
Danvers, Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Page . . 100 00
Dedham. A Friend 1 00
Dorchester, Estate of Mrs. E. J. W.
Baker, B. E. Hardwick, and H.
P. Williams, Exs 100 00
Second, by Miss E. Tolman 125 00
Easthampton, Payson Ch., by H.
Clark, to const. Mrs. A. J. Lyman,
Mrs. S. McKenaghan, Mrs. E. W.
Wood, Mrs. W. Freiday, and Miss
A. Topliff L. Ms 140 86
East Northfield, Miss A. E. Bird 1000
Falmouth, Thanksgiving offering of
Jr. C. E. Soc. Rally, by E. E. Kelley 3 50
Franklin, add'l 100
Gt. Barrington, Y. P. S. C. E. of the
First, by E. M. Pixley 6 00
Greenfield, Estate of R. W. Cook 100 00
Mrs. M. H. Tyler 20 00
E. B. Loomis 10 00
Haverhill, Estate of Mary B. Jones,
by G C. Clement 1,500 00
Kawley, S. S. Rally, bv E. Harmon.. 1 25
Holbrook, Mrs. E. M. Spear 100 00
Holyoke, First, by J. H. Wylie, Jr. . . 35 76
Second, by J. N. Hubbard 68 89
Ladies' Prayer Circle of the Second,
by Mrs. F. H. Chamberlin 17 75
Mrs. E. Smith 5000
Huntington, Second, by Rev. W. L.
Hendrick 12 68
Hyde Park, W. D. Ward 5 00
Lawrence, Estate of Mrs. M. T. Ben-
son, by Mrs. A. T. Brewster,
Trustee 20 00
J. H. Eaton — 100 00
Massachusetts, T 50 00
Medway, M. G. M 100
Middleboro, S. S. of the First, by A.
Deane 5 00
Millbury, M. D. Garfield 10 00
Monson, S. S., by E. F. Morris 20 00
Newburyport, Belleville Miss. Soc,
by Miss A. E. Wiggin 78 00
Newton, Miss I. D. Allen 5 00
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Newtonville, Mrs. N. Davidson $10 00
Northampton, Miss A. C. Edwards .. 5 00
North Adams, Mrs. A. E. Babbitt 5 00
North Billerica. Mrs. E. R Gould ... 10 00
Palmer, Mrs. C. A. Puffer, by Rev. F.
E.Jenkins 500
Mrs. G. H. H 2 00
Peabody, L. Mills 2 00
Phillipston, Estate of E. Sawyer, by
S.Lee 11500
Pi tsfield, S. S. of the First, by A. A.
Mills, for Salary Fund 10 00
H . S. Strong 20 00
Rochester, Miss E. F. Leonard 4 00
Salem, Tabernacle Ch., by C. R.
Washburn 100 00
Saxonville, Edwards Ch., by G. H.
Tower 24 00
Sharon, Miss E. M. Geissler 1 00
South Framingham, A Friend in
Grace Ch., by Rev. W. G. Pudde-
f oot 200 00
South Hadley, Prof. E. M. Bardwell,
Mt. Holyoke College 5 00
Spencer, Extra centa-day Band, by
G. H. Marsh 5000
Springfield, Eastern Avenue Ch., by
Mrs. W. M. Ayres 7 00
Faith Ch., by W. I. Morse 9 41
Memorial Ch., by H. N. Bowman.. 87 95
Miss A. H. Southworth, $50 ; H. A.
Southworth, §25 75 00
F.A.Moody 1000
A Friend 100 00
Stockbridge, " Cash " ' 20 00
Ware, E. E. Richardson 2 00
Webster, First, by E. L. Spalding ... 39 04
Wellesley, In memory of Rev. D. S.
Rodman, by Mrs. L. W. Rodman .. 5 00
Westfield, A Friend in First Ch 5 00
West Newton, Pax, $1 ; Susie M., $1. 2 00
Pax 1 00
West Upton, C. H. Bull... 4 20
Williamsburg, by H . W. Hill 58 50
Woburn, Birthday money from Mrs.
Wheeler's S. S. Class in North Ch.,
$10 ; Friends, $8 18 00
Worcester, Old South Ch 45 00
Bethany S. S., by C. H.Hill 5 16
A member of Plymouth Ch., by F.
W.Chase 200
Miss M. W. Robinson, by Rev. A.
Little. LVD 10 00
RHODE ISLAND— $123.21.
Central Falls. E. L. Freeman 100 00
East Providence, United Ch., by S.
P. Sprague 3 00
Little Compton, S. S., by Mrs. C. C.
Wordell 921
Providence, An absent member 5 00
Slatersville, Y. P. S. C. E, by J. H.
Whittaker 6 00
CONNECTICUT-$5,946.i8; of which
legacies, $7,404.65.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., Rev. W. H.
Moore, Sec 419 16
Woman's H. M. Union, Conn., Mrs. W.
W. Jacobs, Treas.:
East Haven, by Mrs. J.
Bradley $19 60
Enfield, Ladies' Benev. Soc,
by Miss K. C. Abbe 5 00
Hartford. First, Jr. Aux., by
Mrs. M. W. Jacobs 40 00
Asylum Hill, Miss A.
Moore 10 00
Friend 25 00
South Ch., Mrs. G. W.
Moore, $10 ; Mrs. F. R.
Foster. $5; Mrs. C. H.
Smith, $5, by Mrs. G.
W. Moore $20 00
New Britain, South Ch., by
Miss M. E. Bingham... n 26
Mrs. E. E. Guernsey's
Dime Bank
Plainville, by Mrs. E. C.
Blakeslee
Pomfret, by Miss O. Math-
ewson, for Salary Fund. .
Prospect, Aux., by Mrs. W.
H. Phipps
Putnam, by Miss Hattie E.
Clark, ann. coll 36 86
South Norwalk, by Miss G.
H. Benedict, for Salary
Fund 100 00
Terryville, Mrs. K. Gay-
lord's Dime Bank
Torrington, Mrs. H. S. El-
dredge, Silver Circle
Wauregan, Ladies' Soc, by
Miss C. L. Fellows
5 3°
5 00
35 00
15 00
5 00
5 00
4 00
Berlin, Second, $73-50; S. S., $26.50,
by F. L. Wilcox
Bridgeport, Bible School of the Sec-
ond, by O. H. Brothwell, for Salary
Fund
Bristol, by L. G. Merick
S. S., by Miss J. E. Beckwith
Burrville, Mrs. J. M. Burr
Canaan, Ladies' Miss. Soc. of Pilgrim
Ch., by S. W. Adam
Cheshire, H. Gaylord
Chester, by Rev. A. Hall
Colebrook, A Friend
Collinsville, J. R. Andrus, by Rev. J.
Tompkins
Columbia, by J. Hutchins
Mrs. M. L. Fuller
Comstock's Bridge, Miss A. G. Snow.
Connecticut, a member of the Silver
Circle
Three Friends
A Friend
Deep River, by L. Kellogg
Mrs. F. Denison
Elmwood. N. M. Newton
Enfield, Gleaners' Mission Circle, by
L. E. Abbe
Falls Village, $12 ; South Canaan,
$5.33, by Rev. C. W. Shelton
Goshen, by Rev. M. Burr
Greens Farms. " A."
Greenwich, Second, by I. L. Mead. . .
Edward Brush
Mrs. A. Bell
Hartford, Students' Assoc, of the
Hartford Theo. Sem., by W. A.
Mather
A Friend, Asylum Hill, by C. E.
Thompson
Miss E. Gaylord
J. C. Parsons
M. H. Perkins
H. P. Stevens
Mrs. R. Seymour
"One who would give largely if
possible "
Lisbon, by Rev. Q. M. Bosworth, in
full, to const. Mrs. M. A. Bosworth
a L. M
I yme. Old Lyme Ch.. by W. F. Coult
Madison, Mrs. J. E. Lewis
C. E. Soc. E. W. Bishop
Meriden, First, bv H. M. Billard. ...
Center Ch.. by W, F.Smith
Middlefield, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss
L. C. Miller
1 00
00
50
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95
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25 00
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38 00
10 00
23 92
25 00
5 00
66 70
30 00
50
50 00
200 00
10 00
2 00
11 50
10 00
5 00
25 00
100 00
63 00
5 00
February, 1897
The Home Missionary
511
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur.. $ o 25
Mrs. T. Gilbert 2 00
Milford, First, by G. J.'Smith 17 38
Monroe, Y. P. S. C. E., by A. R. Lutz 9 00
Mystic, by E. Williams 18 27
Nepaug, Two Friends 8 40
New Britain, " Christmas gift " 10 00
New Haven, First, by F. S. Bradley. 5 00
Ch. of the Redeemer, by R. W.
Chapman 25 00
Yale College Ch., by B. Ferrin 405 00
New Lebanon Mission of Center
Ch. Rally, by C. W. Whittlesey. . 20 50
Mrs. H. J. Prudden, $10 ; Miss L.
E. Prudden, $10 20 00
A. Scobie 2 00
H. F. B. Root 5 00
Mrs. S. S. Bronson 1 00
M. B. Merwin 5 00
B. A. L 3 80
H. S. D 50 00
A Friend 50 00
Newington, by E. W. Atwood 17 93
New Lebanon, M. Mead. 5 00
New London, Mrs. B. P. McEwen... 30' 00
New Milford, J. Hine. ... 40 00
New Preston Village, Mrs. H. Hoff-
man, collector, by D. Burnham 73 50
Norfolk, by S. A. Selden 4 50
" In His Name " 10 00
North Cornwall, S. S., by M. P.
Rogers 4 10
Northford, S. S. Rally, by W. Maltby 2 00
Norwalk, " Highwood " 20 00
Norwich, Park Ch., add'l, of which
$19.76 for Salary Fund, by H. L.
Butts 104 60
Buckingham S. S., by F. J. Lea-
vens 50 00
Second, A Friend 40 00
Mrs. E. A. Huntington 500
" Y." 20 60
Plainville, A Friend 2 00
Plymouth, by G. Langdon 10 00
Mrs. L. Beach, $5; E. A. Beach. $1 6 00
Pomfret, Rally, by Mrs. C. C. Wil-
liams 18 79
Putnam, Second, by E. F. Whitmore. 5 00
Second, C. A. Smith, by E. F.
Whitmore S 3°
Salisbury, A Friend 5 00
Shelton, J. Tomlinson 25 00
Simsbury, A Friend 5 00
Somers, Estate of Mrs. E. C. Shep-
herd, by C. Barrows, Ex 2,354 65
South Britain, of which $4. 50 from
mite boxes, by Miss M. C. Bradley. 32 92
Southport, S. S., by R. W. Sherwood 141 ci
Stafford Springs, S. H. Demond 5 00
Stonington, Miss J. E. Crandall 500
Thompson, Bequest of Miss H. W.
Dike, by H. W. Dike, Adtn 50 00
Torrington, Mrs. L. A. Carpenter,
Silver Circle 5 00
Unionville, First Ch. of Christ, by J.
R. Jenkins 100 co
Mrs. M. M. Smith 25 00
Warren, Mrs. C. J. Barnum, to const.
Miss E. A. Carter a L. M 50 00
West Hartford, First Ch. of Christ,
by E. S. Elmer 15 71
Whitneyville, by J. M. Payne 36 00
Windsor, First, of which from Miss
O. Pierson, $50, by S. H. Barber... 98 39
Woodbury, S. S. of the North Ch., by
W. C. Scott 2 50
NEW YORK-$2,349.86.
Received by William Spalding, Treas.
Ashville $3 50
Deer River 6 06
Denmark '. $878
Homer 19 00
Lakewood 3 50
Osceola 10 00
Otisco, W. H. M. S 11 00
Plainfield Center, Welsh... 5 00
Portland, Ch., $8; S. S., $10;
C. E. Soc, $3 21 00
Summer Hill 10 00
Syracuse, Danforth 70 co
Geddes 10 75
Good Will 15 06
Wilmington 300
Willsborough 18 00
Rev. E. Curtis 10 00
$224 65
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J. Pear- '
sail, Treas.:
Brooklyn, Tompkins Ave-
nue, L. B. S $5000
Tompkins Avenue, King's
Daughters, for Salary
Fund 50 00
Buffalo, People's Ch., Silver
Circle 25 70
Fairport 10 00
Homer, Mrs.J.M. Schermer-
horn, $5 ; Mrs. H. Pierce,
$5 ; Mrs. J. Stebbins, $5.;
Miss I. Beach, $5 20 00
Honeoye 7 00
Ithaca, special, 8 00
Oswego s 00
Rochester, South Ch . . . 10 00
Sherburne 64 50
Mrs. O. A. Gorton, f 5 ;
Mrs. G. W. Lathrop, $5.. 10 00
260 20
Angola, A. H. Ames 5 00
Antwerp, S. S., by W: S. Augsbury. . 10 43
Aquebogue, Y. P. S. C. E., by G. L.
Wells 5 00
Attica, J. H. Loomis 50 00
Binghamton, First, by A. D. Sheal... 85 11
Brooklyn. Tompkins Avenue S. S.,by
P. Palmer, for Salary Fund 250 00
Tompkins Avenue, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by P. Palmer 50 00
Beecher Memorial Ch.,byRev. D.
B.Pratt 3172
Park Ch., by W. Van Valkenburg. . 8 86
Patchen Avenv.e Ch.. by J. Irving ; 16 43
Puritan Ch., by H. A. W. Goll 97 25
Parkville Ch., by Rev. W. A. Kirk-
wood s 00
Puritan S. S., by A. J. Young 19 67
W. C. Wood and L. P. Wood 40 00
Mrs. C. M. Hartwell 5 co
G. Clark 300
A Friend 10 00
Buffalo, First, by R. K. Strickland. . . 50 00
F. C. Squier 10 00
Camden, by Rev. E. Evans 29 00
Clifton Springs, J. M. Gilman 50 00
Miss L. D. Lyman 20 00
Crown Point, S. S.'of the First, Rally,
by Z. K. Townsend 8 00
Second, by J. A. Penneld... 2500
Danby, Ch., $6.21 ; S. S., $7.50, by
L. H. Hollister 13 71
Deansboro, Ch., $15 ; Y. P. S. C. E.,
$4.24, by Rev. C. W. Mason 19 24
Fairport, A.M. Loomis 10 00
Farmingville, by F. I. Terry 2 60
Galway, Mrs. W. B. Smith 20 00
Honeoye, by Rev. S. M. Day 25 25
Hopkinton, by Rev. F. Hassold 22 00
Ithaca, First, by S. D. Sawyer 68 75
By S. D. Sawyer 2 00
Jamestown, First, by F. R. Moody.. 223 27
Lysander, by W. C. Van Doren 11 66
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Mayville, Mrs. M. E. Fisk $11 20
Morristown, by J. More 9 75
Munnsville, by Dr. S. P. Moore 5 30
Napoli, S. S., by A. Bliss 3 10
Newark Valley, by Mrs. H. Winship. 30 50
E. B. Sykes. 1 00
New Village, First, by J. B. Gould.. 15 40
New York City, Pilgrim Ch., H. N.
Lockwood 100 00 "
Camp Memorial Ch., by F. E.
Francisco, Rally 13 37
Trinity Ch., by R. Turner 10 00
R.Turner, Jr 200
Miss S. F. Lincoln 500
Miss A. E. Smith 1500
C. S. B 25 00
A. S. Cady 5 °o
Mrs. L. E. Wright 10 00
Northville, Y. P. S. C. E.by L. Terry. 10 00
Olean, Ch., of which $3.80 from Mrs.
M. A. Strickland, by Rev. J. H.
McKee 6 80
Oneonta, L. J. Safford 1 00
Orient, S. S., by D. W. Terry 38 00
By M. B. Brown 3236
Oxford, by J. V. Thorp 21 25
Perry Center, by H. C. Butler 26 72
Piermont, Mrs. M. Lee 5 00
Plattsburgh, Mrs. G. H. Anderson . 1 00
Poughkeepsie. First, Mrs. J. B. East-
mead, $15 : Mrs. T. M. Gilbert, $20 ;
H. A. Richardson, S25 ; H. Allen,
$5 ; Friends, socts., by E. E. Deyo 65 50
Richmond Hill, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Miss B. Reis ■ 10 00
Rochester, Plymouth Ch., by E. W.
Peck 18 13
Rockville Center, by F. O. Sacken. .. 6 61
Rye, L. M. Boies 10 00
Utica, Bethesda Welsh, by W. W.
George 10 00
Walton. I. B. Fitch 10 00
Warsaw, S. S., by H. L. Martin 13 57
Mrs. M. A. Barber, in memory of
W. F. Barber 10 00
Wantagh, Memorial Ch., by G. H.
Northup 4 50
NEW JERSEY-$32g.44.
Atlantic City, Mr. and Mrs. John
Evans, by J. Edmands
Bloomfield, Mrs. D. B. Coe
Bound Brook, by P. V. Bergen
Glen Ridg-e, by Rev. F. J. Goodwin. .
Jersey City, Waverly Ch., by Rev. J.
C. Emery
Montclair, N. J., Mrs. J. Butler
E. M. T. Brower
A Friend
Orange, Hillside Presb. Ch., A.
Carter
PENNSYLVANIA— $1,118.63; of which
legacy, $323.36.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. T.
W. Jones, Treas.:
Allegheny, Mayflower Soc. ..$2 43
Braddock, Ladies' Aid Soc. of
the First, by Rev. H. M.
Bowden 4 52
15 00
50 00
52 44
25 00
30 00
5 °°
50 00
2 00
100 00
6 95
Allegheny, First, by Mrs. A. H. Claf-
lin $5 00
S. M. Youngs 2 00
Braddock, S. S. of the First, by T.
Addenbrook 6 25
East Smithfield, Estate of Lucelia P.
Cross, by F. H . Scott, Ex 323 36
Germantown, First, by S. J. Hum-
phreys 1467
Mrs. H. A. White, Thanksgiving
offering 10 co
Irwin, C. L. Palmer 10 00
Philadelphia, Central Ch., by W. H.
Lambert 380 68
Park Ch., by S. Wareham 15 75
Roxboro, Miss P. Kobes, to const.
Miss E. C. Crawford a L. M 5000
L. M. Harmon 1 00
Mrs. D. M. Pierson 3 00
A Friend 10 00
Pittsburgh, Puritan, by Rev. J. Ed-
wards 2 30
Reading. O. S. Doolittle 10 00
Ridgway, First, by W. H. Ostenhout. 81 00
First, by Rev. J. S. Upton 14 co
Scranton, First Welsh, by D. D.
Evans 20 00
First Welsh, T. Carson, to const,
himself a L. M., by Rev. D. Jones 50 00
Shamokin, Welsh Ch., by Rev. D. T.
Davies 6 52
Titusville, Swedish Ch., by Rev. A.
J . Isakson 8 00
Wanamie, by Rev. J. J. Jenkins 955
MARYLAND— $71,841.00 ; of which
legacy, $71, 757-50-
Baltimore, On account of J. H. Stick-
ney's Legacy 41.907 5°
Estate of J. H.Stickney 29,85000
First, by C. S. Houghton 75 00
Mrs. T. P. Kinsley 1 50
Frederick City, J. G. Miller 1 00
Frostburg, by Rev. G. W. Moore .... 6 00
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-$22i.9o.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J. As-
soc, Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas. :
Mary E. Denison $50 00
Washington, First, of which
$24 for Salary Fund 64 00
Mrs. Emily M. Seymour 4000
154 00
Washington, First, by W. Lamborn. . 62 90
A Friend 5 00
VIRGINIA -40 cents.
Snowville, N. M. Richardson
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Assoc, Mrs. J. H. Denison,
Treas.:
Philadelphia, Central Ch., for Sal-
ary Fund
WEST VIRGINIA— $271.14 ; of which
legacy, $266.14.
Ceredo, by Rev. G. Gadsby 5 00
Pennsboro, Legacy of Mrs. Lucy H.
Kimball, by J. E. Tyler, Admr 266 14
NORTH CAROLINA-$37.73.
Hendersonville, Mrs. E. I. Brown,
$5 ; Miss S. R. Ives, $5 10 00
Marion, Rev. R. R. Brookshier 1 00
Ridgeway. Miss P. M. Lee. . . 1 00
Southern Pines, by Mrs. A. M. Foster 25 73
February, 1897
The Home Missionary
513
GEORGIA— $92. 60.
Woman's H. M . Union, Miss V.
Holmes, Treas. :
Atlanta, Central $32 60
Baxley 10 00
Meansville, New Hope Ch. 6 00
Received by Rev. S. C. McDaniel :
Atlanta, Berean $5 00
Immanuel 5 00
Rarnesville 1850
Jolly s 00
Wilkins 5 00
Dawson ville, by Rev. E. Darnell
Demorest, by Rev. W. O. Phillips . . .
ALABAMA— $11.00.
Central and Kidd, by Rev. A. J. Mc-
Cain
Millerville, Oak Hill, by Rev. H. C.
Simmons ,
Opelika, Rev. J. S. Holt
Verbena and Clanton, by Rev. J. R.
Crowson
LOUISIANA— $3.65.
Hammond, by J. Q. Adams
FLORIDA— $652.00.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. D.
Brown, Treas. :
For Ybor City Mission.. .. $69 44
Daytona . 10 00
Jacksonville 10 00
Lake Helen 5 00
New Smyrna 1 00
Bushnell, Mrs. L. W. Bigelow
New Smyrna and Oak Hill, by Rev.
A. T. Fuller
Orange City, Rev. J. C. Halliday. . . .
Philips, by Rev. S. F. Gale
St. Augustine, Miss M. F. Norton
Tavares, by Rev. L. J. Donaldson . .
Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. C. H. Newell
Warnell and Panasoffkeej by Rev. J.
J. Melton
TEXAS-S17.1S.
Woman's H. M. Union., Mrs. J. H.
Gray, Treas. :
Dallas, First $10 65
Sherman, Mrs. Haflin and
Thomas, for Salary Fund 5 00
El Paso. Mexican S. S., by Rev. A. C.
Wright
INDIAN TERRITORY— 50 cents.
McAlester. Trinity Ch., by Rev. T. E.
Holleyman ;
OKLAHOMA-I10.57.
Chandler, Rev. M. D. Tenney
Morrison, by Rev. C. J. Rives
Orlando. Mrs. B. H. Campbell, by
Rev. R. H. Harper
4 25
5 °°
3 65
NEW MEXICO-$i.oo.
Gallup, by Rev. P. A. Simpkin
ARIZONA-$5.oo.
J48 60 Tempe, Friends
TENNESSEE— $30.00.
Knoxville, Pilgrim Ch., by J. R Wil-
liams -
38 5°
„ KENTUCKY-$5.3s.
4 75 Williamsburg, by Rev. W. G. Olinger
OHIO — $1,125.53; of which legacy,
$500.00.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.:
Austinburg, by M. Parker.. $7 65
Brighton, by O. F. Goss 200
Castalia, add'l, by J. C.
Prentice 5 00
Cincinnati, Lawrence St.Ch.
and Y. P. S. C.E., by Benj.
Davies 20 00
Cleveland, First, by F.%E.
Spelman .*. . . 9 20
Bethlehem, S. S., Rally
Day, by Mrs. Thos. Pi-
wonka " 1 1 92
Dover, by D. D. Osborn and
W.J. Frost. 29 00
Geneva, by S. P. Searle 26 00
Gustavus, by L. P. Hodge-
man 2 00
Hudson, by Miss E. E. Met-
calf 12 00
Johnsonville,by G. A. Bush-
nell 5 00
Newark, First, Welsh, Y. P.
S. C. E.,by Mrs. Sylvanus
Jones 5 00
Newton Falls, by P. D.
Dodge 8 00
North Ridgeville, by J. P.
Riedinger .... 18 00
Norwalk, Rev. T. J. Collier 5 00
Olmsted, First, by Lillian
M. Damp 300
South Newbury 8 70
Tokio. Zion Welsh Ch., by
J. J. Jones 12 00
Toledo, Washington St., by
Geo. C. Stahl 12 70
Wayne, by W. B. Smilie 3030
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Cleveland, First, by F. E.
Spelman $10 93
S. S, by N. E. Bailey 1407
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas.:
Alliance, Y. P. S. C. E.,
Bible Readers Home $250
Cleveland, Euclid Ave. . . 20 00
Madison Ave., Jr. C. E.,
Bible Readers Home.. 250
Elyria 5 00
Kent. Y. P. S.C.E., Bible
Beaders Home 4 35
Jr. C. E., Bible Readers
Home 5 00
2 00
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2 50
500 00
2 00
6 58
15 65
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Lyme, Y. P. M. C, Bible
Readers Home $3 25
Olmsted, Second 2 00
Richfield 5 00
Sandusky, Y. P. S. C. E.,
Bible Readers Home... 5 00
Wakeman, Y. P. S. C. E . 3 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas. :
Akron, Arlington, for Sal-
ary Fund $5 00
Alexis 3 00
Burton, Miss Hitchcock's
Dime Bank 5 00
Columbus, Eastwood, for
Salary Fund 10 00
Coolville, for Salary Fund,
$17.70 ; Miss A. E. Fuller's
Dime Bank, $5 22 70
Hudson, Y. P. S. C. E., for
Salary Fund 5 00
Madison, Mrs. Kimball's
Dime Bank 2 10
Mansfield, First, for Salary
Fund, Dime Bank, 85. . . . 20 00
Oberlin, First, for Salary
Fund 10 00
Second, Dime Bank of
Miss Sadie H. Manning,
$5.33 ; Miss Thomasino
Stell. $5.20 10 53
Bellevue, First, by Mrs. VV. C. Walter.
Claridon, by A. C. Treat
Cleveland, Plymouth Ch., Silver
Circle, by Mrs. B. S. Cogswell. ..
Swedish Ch., by Rev. D. Marcelius
Rev. J. Musil
Deerfield, Mrs. Mary Ganse
East Cleveland, Life Member
Elmore, P. B. Warriner
Elyria, S. S. of the First, by G. H.
Ely :
Mrs. F. S. Nelson
Fort Recovery, by Rev. E. D. Curtis
Garrettsville, by H. N. Mervvin
Lorain, A Friend
Medina. G. Thomson
Milan, Bequest of Dr. Silvanus Stuart
and Mrs. C. M. Stuart, by E. W.
Stuart
Mt. Vernon, First, by O. F. Murphy.
Nelson. M. O. Beardsley
North Kinsrsville. S. C. Kellogg
Oberlin, Mrs. J. Safford
Wakeman, by W. W. VVhiton
Wellington, First, by A. R. Palmer..
Mrs. E. B. Skeele, a Thank offering
INDIANA-$6o.8o.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. H. Ball,
Treas. :
Fort Wayne, Plymouth $15 00
MichiganCity 755
Alexandria, First, by Rev. J. C. Smith
Indianapolis. Mayflower Ch.. by Rev.
J. W.Wilson
Michigan City, German Ch., $10.25;
S. S., $3.00, by Rev. M. E. Eversz..
ILLINOIS -$378.67.
Chicago, E. S. Ransom
M. B. H , University Ch
Dwight, S. S. of the First, by D. S.
Fox
$57 60
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22 55
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20 00
T3 25
2 00
5 00
Elva, J. W. Ward Ss 00
Greenville, Berthaand Daisy Williams 5 20
Illinois, A Friend 25 00
La Grange, Mrs. M. J. Carpenter. ... 25 00
Moline, First, by Rev. W. VV. Willard 201 47
Payson, J K. Scarborough 100 00
Peoria, Ladies' Miss. Soc. of Union
Ch., by Mrs. M. A. Walker 5 00
MISSOURI— $414.68.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. L. K.
Mills, Treas.:
Brookrield $10 00
St. Louis, First 80 00
Webster Groves 22 65
S. S 5 00
$117 65
Less expenses 5 89
in 76
Breckenridge, by Rev. A. K. Wray.. 30 00
Brookrield, by Rev. L. Warren 15 00
Carthage, Cong. Ch 20 00
St. Joseph, Tabernacle Ch., by G. P.
Myers 50 42
Y. P. S. C. E., by G. E. Jones 5 00
St. Louis, First, by F. T. Knox 180 00
First Swedish Ch., by Rev. A. G.
Johnson 2 50
MICHIGAN-$8.75.
Columbus, S. S. Rally, by H. J. Vogt
Lake Linden, Mrs. M. McKay
St. Johns, Mrs. M. Essler, by Rev. H.
E. Butler
WISCONSIN-$io7.96.
Appleton, A. W. Patten, special
Boltonville, by Rev. A. D. VVhaley...
Clear Lake, Swedish, by Rev. J. Pet-
terson
Clintonville, Scand., by Rev. H. F.
Josephson
Cumberland, First, by Rev. J. Par-
sons
Eagle River, First, by Mrs. J. Mor-
gan
Genesee, Mrs. M. Fender, by J. R.
Ward
Merrill, Scand , by Rev. A. Larson ..
Prentice, by Rev. A. Chambers
Sterling, by C. C. Bishop
IOWA- $81. 40.
Algoma. A. Zahlten
Belmond, S. S. Rally, by Miss A. P.
Luick
Evergreen, C. Smith
Grinnell, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. P..
Potter
Lansing, Rev. A. Kerr
Macksburg, Mrs. I. W. Brownell
Muscatine". Mrs. E. Kirby
W. F. Johnson .
Tabor, H. T. Woods
Traer, by Mrs. T. H. Best
Waterloo, J. H. Leavitt
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Received by J. H. Morley:
Ada..
Cable
$5 10
2 75
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Excelsior $9 5"
Fairmont, C. E 1500
Granite Falls 2 10
Mankato ... 7 50
Minneapolis, Bethany 6 00
Union ... 3 50
E. R. Shedd 5 00
First (S. S., $2x0) , 21 30
Vine 20 co
Open Door 19 50
Lyndale 25 00
Northtield 35 98
New York Mills 9 25
New Paynesville 3 00
Park Rapids 7 00
Rochester 24 66
Round Prairie. 7 °5
Sauk Rapids 55
St. Paul, Olivet 17 99
Sleepy Eye 10 00
Welsh 3 61
Waseca 7 25
Zumbrota... . — 14 3°
Custer, Bethel Ch., $5 25 ; Garvin,
$8, by Rev. R. P. Upton
Duluth. Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Patton..
Edgerton, by Rev. E. Carter
Faribault, $56 ; Cannon City, $1, by
A. Young
A. B. Hills
Grand Meadow, by Mrs. H. M. Mul-
lenix
Kasota, Swedish Ch., by Rev. S. V.
S. Fisher
Lake Benton, by Rev. W. Lodwick. ..
Lake Park, First Ch., and Audubon,
Second, by Rev. E. C. Chevis
Mazeppa and Zumbro Falls, by Rev.
J. E. Ingham
Minneapolis, "The Widow's Mite, "a
" Thank-offering "
New Richland, $7 ; Otisco, $3, by Rev.
F. H. Oehler
Pillsbury and Swanville. by Rev. W.
B Frost
St. Cloud. W. F. Hicks
St. Paul. Park Ch., by W. B. Geery . .
People's German Ch., by Rev. W.
Oehler
Pacific Ch., by M. Lundberg
H.W.Hunt
Saratoga. B Murray
Staples, by Rev. D. W. Cram
Stewartville, by Rev. R. G. Jones....
Villard and Hudson, by Rev. G. R.
Searles
KANSAS-$332.33.
Received by Rev. A. C. Hogbin,
Treas. :
Garfield $14 00
Jetmore 6 00
Mound City 233
Harvest Festival 3 50
Muscotah 15 00
Ochiltree, Harvest Festival. 5 24
Overbrook, Harvest Festival 11 15
Paola . 30 70
Ridgeway, Harvest Festival. 2 n
Valley Falls, Jr. C. E 3 85
W. and M. Sturgeon id 00
$282 89
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Ford, Ch., 69 cts.; Rev. J.Thompson,
$5 ; Fowler, $2.31, by Rev. H.
Thompson
Hiawatha, by S. Bierer
Kansas City, Y. M. C. A., Rev. L. P.
Broad, by Rev. W. C. Veazie
Longton, by Rev. O. Umsted
Neosho Falls, Rev. S. B. Dyckman..
Pittsburg, Tabernacle Ch., by R*v.
E. B. Smith
Scatter Creek, $5.53 ; Village Creek,
$5.17, by Rev. S. B. Dyckman
Topeka, Mrs. Popenoe, by F. O. Pope-
noe . ....
Wabaunsee, First Ch. of Christ, by
J. F. Willard
Wakefield, A Friend
A Friend, add'l
NEBRASKA— $533.32.
Received by H. G. Smith, Treas.:
Exeter $8 25
Y. P. S. C. E 500
Fremont 86 21
Friend 4 00
Hastings 23 00
Lincoln 10 00
Neligh 36 00
Newcastle 4 03
Scribner 2 75
Trenton 1 33
Woman's H. M. Union,
Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Treas. 169 00
$349 57
Less expenses 55
Burlington, by W. C. Sears
Carbondale, by Rev. J. W. Hardy . .
Eleanor, F. Tangemann, by G. D.
Tangemann.
Emporia, Mrs. G. W. Newman
10 00
4 00
5 00
5 00
Avoca and Berlin, by Rev. J. A. Smith
Butte and Naper, German, by Rev. G.
B. Baumann
Crawford, First, by Rev. H. V. Ro-
minger
Columbus, by C. G. Hickok
Crete, by T. P. Craig
Rev. J. Rundus
Dustin, by W. Dustin
Friend, Rev. G. Essig, $13.75 ; Ge-
meinde, friend, $1
Friend and Turkey Creek, by Rev. M.
E. Eversz
Genoa, Miss M. A. Pugsley
Grand Island, S. S., $4 ; Hyannis,
$2 35, by Rev. E. E. Preston
Grant, First Ch., by Rev. G. W.
Knapp
Holdrege, by Rev. V. F. Clark
Lincoln, Ch., $20.35 ; S. S., $2.37, by
A. W. Lane
Minden, Mrs. H. W. Sprague
Monroe and Wattsville, by Rev. H.
A. Shuman
Omaha, Hillside Ch., by Rev. J. Flook
Saratoga Ch., $7 : Endeavor Soc,
$1; S. S., $1.60, by Rev. L. S. Hsnd
Riverton, $9 50 ; Juniors, $2.50, by
Rev. S. Williams
Rokeby, $6.65 ; S. S., $3.45, by Mrs.
I. F. Hay
Springfield, by Rev. J. E. Storm
Wilcox. Hildreth, and Freewater, by
Rev. W. H. Le Bar
NORTH DAKOTA— $174.11.
Received by Rev. H. C Simmons :
Augusville $2 05
Gardner 541
May ville 16 00
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Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
J. M. Fisher, Treas. :
Crary
Getchell
Grand Forks, Plymouth
Ch
Hankinson
Harwood
Mrs. O. G. Church ....
Jamestown
Mayville
Oriska
15 00
2 21
12 41
1 00
6 00
10 00
3 22
.25 ; Oriska, $9 : Valley
Getchell. $
City, $13 .
Guadenfeld, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Sattler
Hankinson, by Rev. G. S. Bascom...
Hoffnungsfeld, S3 '• Friedensfeld,
$).8S. by Rev. P. Burkhardt
Inkster, by Rev. C. Y. Snell
Kulm, Two Friends, by Rev. M. E.
Eversz
Wahpeton Conference, by Rev. G. S.
Bascom
SOUTH DAKOTA-$i9o.45.
Athol, by Mrs. M. E. Moore
Aurora, by P.ev. S. E. Fish
Bowdle, Jacob Gross, by Rev. M. E.
Eversz
Buffalo Gap, $6.15 ; Ladies' Miss. Soc,
$6, by Rev. T. Thirloway
Burdette, by Rev. P. Winter
Canton, First, by Rev. R M. ( oate..
Castlewood, Mrs. H. H. Curtis
Centerville, First, by Rev. E E.
Webber
Columbia, by Rev. I. R. Prior
Deadwood, First, by Mrs. G. G. Ben-
nett
Fort Pierre, First, by Mrs. H. C. Ly-
man
Highmore. $5.67 ; Lake Preston, 65
cts.; Wheeler, $7.25, by Rev. E. W.
Jenney
Iroquois, Jr. C. E., by A. H. Kobbins
Lebanon Springs and Logan, by Rev.
C. H. Dreisbach
Meckling. by Rev W. H. Thrall
Myron, by C. E. Chapman
Pierre. First, by Rev. W. A. Lyman.
Revillo, by Rev. T. Thompson
Scotland, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Sattler
Sp^arfish. by Rev. J. A. Becker
Tyndall, German Ch.. by Rev. J. Satt-
ler
German Emanuel Creek, by Rev. J.
Sattler
Valley Springs, by Rev. W. C. Gil-
more
Watertown, Tr. Y. P. S. C. E., Mite
Boxes, by Rev. W. H. Thrall
Waubay, by Rev. W. H. Thrall
Winfred and Freedom, by Rev. A. W.
Hakes
COLORADO -$117.20.
Woman's H. M. Union. Mrs.
B. C. Valentine, Treas $7 53
Denver, Third 10 00
Boulevard 33 75
North Denver 5 00
Villa Park 12 82
Colorado Springs, First 26 00
Friends 2 00
Second Ch 2 qd
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Colorado Springs, S. S. of the Second,
by Rev. M D. Ormes
P. C. Hildrcth
Fruita, A Friend
Hayden, by Rev. H. Sanderson
WYOMING-$i8.75.
Cheyenne. First, by E. W. Mann
S. S. Rally by E. Sherman
Rock Springs, First, by Mrs. M. A.
Clark
5 00
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MONTANA— 821.75.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. H. E.
Jones, Treas.:
Helena $10 00
Livingston, Mrs. H. E.
Jones 2 00
M issoula 3 00
Laurel, by Rev. J. Pope
Melrose, by Rev. W. S. Bell
IDAHO— gii. 75.
Boise, by Rev. R. B. Wright
Hope, by Rev. V. W. Roth
Pocatello, by Rev. D. Q. Travis . .
C ALI FORNI A— §265.86.
Woman's H. M. Union. Mrs. M. M.
Smith, Treas. :
Avalon $6 co
Daggett, S. S 1 85
Jamacha Union 1 25
Jamul .... 1 06
National City 35
Pasadena, First S. S 16 00
Redlands, First 16 oo
San Jacinto 65
Villa Park 1 25
Vernondale 3 10
625
6 00
75
6 25
2 10
3 40
■ 47 51
Received by Rev. J. A. Rogers :
Woman's H. M. Union, Southern
California, Mrs. M. M. Smith,
Treas. :
Alpine, Y. P. S. C. E $1 05
Flinn Valley. S. S 1 85
Riverside, S. S 7 75
Jr. C. E 10 00
— 20 65
Florin, M. A. Whitman 5 00
Fresno, German, by Rev. J. Legler.. 3 70
Los Angeles, Mrs. E. E. Wiggin, a
New Year's offering 10 00
Oakland, C. F. Whitton 5 00
Pacific Grove, Mrs. H. S. Goldsmith. 1 00
Pasadena. Miss L F. Bradley 5 00
Pomona. A Friend 10 00
Poway, D. Parker 1 00
Santa Barbara. S. Edwards 50 co
Santa Paula. Dea. N. W. Blanchard,
by Rev. J. T. Ford 100 00
Tulare. A Friend 5 00
West Saticoy , A Friend 2 00
OREGON— $40.55.
Albany, by Q. E. Propst
Ashland, First, by Rev. E. P. Childs
5 35
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Needy, $4.45; Hubbard, $1.40, Ger-
man, by Rev. E. Grieb
Portland, Hassalo Street Ch., by Rev.
C. F. Clapp
H. Binnian
Weston and Dry Hollow, by Rev. A.
R. Olds
Long Beach, Union Ch., by Rev. H.
$5 85 W. Mercer
Sylvan, Mrs. S. A. Gillette
6 35 Tacoma, Swedish Mission, by G.
5 00 Bjorkman
Vancouver, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. T.
42s W.Butler
j>2 OO
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5 00
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WASHINGTON— $29.83.
Bellevue. by Rev. A. J. Bailey
Deer Park, $13.65 ; Clayton, $1, by
' Rev. F. McConaughy
Kalama, First, by Rev. A. R. Johnson
Kennewick, by Rev. J. W. H. Lock-
wood
14 75
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C. E. H.
Home Missionary.
136 70
Contributions in December, excluding contributions for the debt $20,941 25
Legacies in December , 77,086 65
Contributions for the debt in December \ 200 00
Total receipts in December $98,227 90
Contributions for the debt to January 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $87,85658
Special for debt 8,985 61
$96,842 ig
Donations of CZot/iing, etc.
Ansonia, Conn., Ladies' Aid Soc. of
First Ch., by Mrs. F. L. Gaylord. box $60 00
Aurora, 111., Corban Asso. of New Eng-
land Ch., by Mrs. D. W. Hurd, barrel 77 00
Baltimore, Md., W. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. T. S. Brown, barrel ... 60 00
Barre, Vt., Sunday-school, by O. G.
Stickney, M.D., three boxes, - two
packages, and barrel.
Berlin Heights, O., L. M. S. of First
Ch., by Miss Alice E. Faust, barrel .. 42 00
Branford, Conn., L. A. S. of First Ch.,
by Mrs. T. S. Devitt, two barrels 114 48
Bridgeport, Conn., Ladies' Union of
Park St. Ch., by Mrs. C. K. Bishop,
box and barrel 139 72
West End Ch., by Miss C. W. More-
house, box 80 00
Brooklyn, N. Y., Clinton Ave. Ch., by
M. J. C. McLeod. box 200 00
• Young Ladies' Guild of Clinton Ave.
Ch., by Hamil C. Woodruff, barrel.
Y. P. S. C. E. of Park Ch., by Miss
E. Marie Little, box 50 00
Mrs. Dodsworth's Class in Church of
the Pilgrims, by Mrs. J. W. Dods-
worth. box and cash.
Ladies' Benev. Soc. of South Ch., by
O. H. Zabriskie, two boxes and
Thanksgiving dinner 185 00
Burlington, Vt., L. B. S. of First Ch.,
by Mrs. C. M. Smith, two barrels . . 100 38
Campton, Conn., Ladies, by Mrs. E. A.
Cook, barrel 33 00
Canton. Conn., Collinsville Ch., by Alice
R. Williams, two barrels and cash... . 155 97
Carthage, Mo., Y. P. S. C. E., by Edna
Hoag. box and barrel 37 75
Champaign, 111., Ladies, by Mrs. C. E.
Maltby, barrel 50 00
Chester. N. H., Ladies, by Miss H. A.
Melvin, barrel . ..'. 50.00
Cincinnati. O., W. H. M. S. of Vine St.
Ch., by Mary A. Myers, barrel 40 co
Cleveland, O., H. M. S. of First Ch., by
Mrs. T. G. Newton, box , 8775
Cromwell, Conn., Ladies' Aid Soc, by
Miss Emma T. Savage, box $40 00
Denver, Colo., L. A. S. of Plymouth
Ch., by Mrs. E. P. Wright, barrel 75 00
East Andover, N. H., Mrs. P. M. Quim-
by, barrel.
Elmira, N. Y., Sewing Soc. of Park Ch.,
by Mrs. A. Wyckoff, box and cash ... 92 02
Falls Valley, Conn., by C. W. Hanna,
barrel . . 35 co
Fitzwilliam, N. H., by Mrs. A. C. Fay,
barrel 66 00
Flushing, N. Y., Ladies' Working Soc.
of First Ch., by Mary A. Dykes 78 co
Fort Wayne, Ind., Ladies' Soc. of Ply-
mouth Ch,, by Mrs. W. H. McGrath,
box 4 2 00
Gloversville, N. Y., by E. M. Hutchin-
son, box in 79
Grafton, Mass., L. B. S. of Evangelical
Ch., by H. C. Jewett. barrel 130 00
Greens Farms, Conn., L. A. S., by Mrs.
E . Beers, barrel 50 co
Guilford, Conn., L. H. M. S. of First
Ch.. by Rev. Fred. E. Snow, barrel.. 72 75
Hartford', Conn.. L. H. M. S. of Pearl
' St. Ch., by Mrs. H. K. Lee. box.... 204 35
A Few Friends, barrel and box 100 00
Hollis, N. H., Junior C. E. Soc, by
Miss Minnie A. Bancroft, package 5 45
Hopkinton, N. Y., Ladies' Aid Soc, by
Mrs. J. H. Chittenden, box and cash.. 55 00
Jersey City Heights, N. J., Waverly Ch..
bv Mrs. O. A. Wessenborn, box co 00
Keene, N. H., H. M. S. of First Ch., by
Miss Emma W. Richards, box and
barrel 89 00
Litchfield, Conn., L. H. M. S., by Fanny
E. Coit. box and check . . 109 15
Los Angeles. Cal., W. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mary A. Dennis, two boxes
and package 123 04
Y. I.. M. S. of First Ch., by Annie L.
Bixby, box 65 00
Lyme. Conn.. Old Lyme Ch., by Mrs. J.
A. Rowland, barrel 43 00
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Manchester, N. H., First Ch., by Har-
riet A. Williams, barrel $10242
Meriden, Conn., L. B. S. of First Ch.,
by Miss Mary J. Benham, barrel, half-
barrel, and cash 194 90
Middletown, Conn., L. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. A. R. Crittenden, barrel no 00
Moline, 111., Aid and Benev. Socs. of
First Ch., by Mrs. S. M. Atkinson,
box, barrel, and cash in 12
Montclair, N. J., VV. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. Mary A. Horrax, three
barrels and package 230 41
New Britain. Conn., First Ch., by Em-
ma L. Pickett, two boxes 13622
Ladies' Benev. Soc. of South Ch., by
Mrs. S. H. Wood, three boxes 276 85
Nevvfane, Vt., Homeland Circle, by
Abbie E. Fish, barrel and cash 35 12
New Haven. Conn . L. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. John G. Lewis, four
boxes 783 16
L. H. M. S. of Ch. of the Redeemer,
by Mrs. W. A. Hotchkiss, box 90 00
W. H. M. S. of Plymouth Ch., by Mrs.
H. G. Newton, box 86 67
United Ch., by Sarah E. Champion,
two boxes 236 52
New Milford, Conn., Ladies' Sew. Soc,
by Mrs.T. A. Johnson, two barrels 103 50
New York City, Hospital Book and
Newspaper Soc, two packages.
North Cornwall, Conn., L. B. S., by
Miss H. F. Rogers, barrel 79 48
North Haven, Conn., L. B. S., by Mary
W. Eliot, barrel 6982
Northwood Center, N. H., Ladies, by
Mrs. L. M. Fuller, barrel 27 00
Norwich. Conn . L. H. M. S. of Second
Ch., by Jennie H. Bushnell. box. . . . 133 44
L. H. M. S. of Park Ch., by Louisa G.
Lane, box.
Greenville Ch., by Mrs. E. P. Gard-
ner, two barrels 54 00
Norwich Town, Conn., W. H. M. S. of
First Ch., by Mrs. Herbert L. Yer-
rington. box and two barrels 225 od
Orange. N. J.. Orange Valley Ch., by
A. L. Russell, box and barrel 175 00
Philadelphia, Pa., W. H. M. S. of Cen-
tral Ch., by Mrs. J. H. Denison, two
barrels 75 00
Young Ladies' Guild of Central Ch.,
by Lillian M. Turner, three barrels
and box 103 00
Plainfield, N. J., Woman's Asso , by
Mary A. Ellis, two barrels $150 00
Redlands, Cal., First Ch., by Mrs. Ella
H. Judson, box 66 00
Riverside, Cal., Ladies' Aid Soc, by
Miss Maria P. Lyman, barrel 80 45
Rodman, N. Y., Woman's Miss. Soc, by
Mrs. O. R. Cooley, barrel 32 32
St. Joseph, Mo., W. M. S. of Tabernacle
Ch., by Mrs. H. K. White, box 85 00
St. Louis, Mo , W. M. S. of Immanuel
Ch., by Mrs. Edith Kottsieper, barrel.
Sherburne, N. Y., W. M. S. ol First Ch.,
by Miss Mary C. Coats, box and
draft 46 70
South Manchester, Conn., L. B. S. of
First Ch., by Mrs. A. B. Spencer, bar-
rel 65 00
Stratford, Conn., L. H. M. Sew. Soc. by
Mrs. R. W. Bunnell, box 85 00
Terryville, Conn.. L. B. S., by Mrs. W.
H. Scott, barrel 80 00
Thompson, Conn., Ladies of First Ch.
of Christ, by Mrs. J. Scott Lewis, two
barrels 118 67
Torringford, Conn. .Ladies' Sewing Soc,
by E. M. Durand, box 114 38
Torrington. Conn., L. B. S. of Third
Ch., by Ida E. F. Burr, barrel 94 07
Trumbull, Conn., by Mrs. A. G. Beards-
ley, barrel and freight 79 00
Upper Montclair, N. J., Woman's Miss,
and Aid Soc. of Christian Union Ch.,
by Mrs. Jennie M. Phillips, barrel.. ..
Walpole, N. H., Ladies, by Mrs. G. I.
Bard, barrel
Washington, Conn., Homeland Circle,
by Mrs. O. Hickox. barrel
Washington. D. C ., L. H. M. S. of First
Ch.. by Mrs. G. J. Cummings, barrel
and check 125 81
Wellington, O., Ladies' Benev. and H.
M. S , by Mrs. E. Vv'ells, Jr., barrel... 34 00
Wellsville, N. Y., Ladies' Miss. Union,
by Mrs. Eli^a I. Frisbey, box 47 35
West Brattleboro. Vrt , L. B. S., by Miss
C. S Clark, box and barrel 76 00
Westchester, N.Y.,Mr. William Abbatt.
package.
Westport, Conn., Woman's Beneficent
Soc, bv Florence A. Wakeman, barrel 102 00
Wiiton, Conn., L. H. M. S.. by Mrs. Ed-
war J Olmstead, barrel and cash 72 00
Zanesville, O.. First Ch.,by Mrs. Carlos
H. Hanks, barrel 32 50
Donations of Clothing, etc., received and reported at the rooms of the Woman's Home
Missionary Association from July 1 to December 31, 1896. Mrs. Louise A. KEL-
LOGG, Secretary
Allston, Aux., by Mrs. Emilie A. Ray-
mond, two boxes $21 00
Amherst, L. B. S., by Mrs. O. D. Hunt,
box 132 00
Ashburnham, M. U. A., by Mrs. J. E.
Clark, barrel 35 00
Ashheld. Ladies, by Mrs. L. J. Wil-
liams Hall, $19.45 and barrel 100 45
Athol, L. U., by Mrs. A. R. Tower, box
and barrel 54 40
Auburndale, Ladies, by Mrs. C. S.
Cooley, two barrels 13600
Y. W. M. S., by Miss Susan G. Mos-
man. box and barrel 144 25
Barre. L. H. M. S.. by Miss Helen C.
Knight, box and barrel 8536
Barrington, R. I.. S. W., by Mrs. C. H.
Bowden, barrel 54 5°
Beverly, Washington St. Ch., L. B. S.,
by Mrs. H. A. Simonds, barrel $60 00
Boston, Old South Ch , Ladies, by Mrs.
Wm. B. Garritt, three barrels 312 12
Park St. Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. E.
Smith, three barrels 312 51
Shawmut Ch.. Ladies, by Mrs. W. H.
Richards, barrel 150 00
Union Ch.. Ladies, by Miss H. A.
Woodbridsre, barrel 97 14
Bradford, L H. M. S., by Mrs. J. H.
Bird, barrel 37 00
Bridgewater, L. C. S. S. S., by Miss
Harriet A. Wilbar. box 130 31
Brimfield, Ladies, by Miss Julia T.
Brown, barrel 36 35
Charlemont. Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss M.
E. Clemens, barrel 21 00
February, iJ
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519
Concord, Ladies, by Miss Harriet J.
Hubbard, barrel $74 36
Dalton, Ladies, by Miss Clara L. Crane,
barrel and half-barrel 181 86
Mrs. Weston, Miss Swift, and Miss
Mitchell, $20 and barrel 150 00
Dorchester, Second Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
J. M. Phipps, two barrels 127 86
Village Ch., L. S. C, by Mrs. F. M.
Swan, box 119 27
East Orleans, by Mrs. E. J. Rackett, box 48 60
Fitchburg, Rollstone Ch., L. B. S., by
Mrs. E. Taylor, barrel 68 37
Florence, Y. L. M. C, by Miss Martha
Whitmarsh, three boxes 153 32
Franklin, L. B. S., by Mrs. Wm. Rock-
wood, barrel 82 18
Georgetown, First Ch., W. M. S., by
Mrs. Irene M. Tyler, barrel 45 91
Great Barrington, L. A. S., by Mrs. M.
D. Saxton, barrel 85 00
Greenfield, Ladies, by Miss Sarah P.
Smead, two barrels.
Groton, S. S., by Supt. G. W. Shattuck,
two barrels 75 00
Hardwick, Ladies, by Mrs. Elijah
Bridges, barrel 41 00
Hatfield, L. B. S., by Mrs. James Por-
ter, $19.00 and barrel 156 70
Holbrook, Miss S. J. Holbrook, barrel.. 44 00
Holyoke, First Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. W.
S. Gould, barrel 93 38
Hopkinton, Ladies, by Mrs. S. B.
Crooks, two barrels 345 co
Housatonic, L. B. S., by Mrs. T. G.
Ramsdell, barrel 72 77
Ipswich, First Ch., Senior and Junior
C. E. S., by Miss Anna Louise War-
ner, barrel 58 38
Jamaica Plain, Central Ch., L. S., by
Mrs. R. J. Wood, two barrels 148 47
Keene, N. H., Ladies, by Mrs. G. E.
Whitney, barrel 68 00
Lexington, Young Ladies, by Miss
Edith Redman, barrel ... to 00
Lincoln, L. H. M. S., by Miss Alice M.
Peirce, barrel 55 00
Littleton, U. W., by Miss Julia S.
Conant, barrel 43 75
Lowell, High St. Ch., W. M. S , by Miss
Clara T. Jackson, three cases 94 17
Pawtucket Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. S.
G. Leland, two barrels 85 00
Lynn, Central Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., by
Miss A. L. Whitman, barrel 76 52
Maiden, Ladies, by Miss F. A. Odiorne,
barrel .... 30 00
Marion, Ladies, by Miss Abbie S.
Trevett, barrel 53 46
Marlboro', L. B. S., by Mrs. W. A.
Walker, barrel 95 00
Medford, Mystic Ch., Aux., by Miss M.
S. Clark, barrel 127 00
Middleboro', Mission Circle, by Mrs. M.
J. Belden, barrel 70 00
Monson, Ladies, by Mrs. Alice L. Cush-
m an, box 25 &o
Natick, Aux . by Mrs. M. H. Under-
wood, barrel 73 00
Newbury, H. M. S., by Miss A. M. B.
Little, barrel 115 00
Newburyport, Belleville M. S., by Miss
A. E. Wiggin, barrel 04 01
Whitefield Ch.. T. M. C. barrel 80 94
Newport, Aux., by Miss Eliza R. Ham-
mett, box 153 86
Newton, Eliot Ch., Mrs. C. H. Daniels
and family, barrel 43 00
Eliot Ch., Y. L. M. S., by Miss Mir-
iam Trowbridge, box - 40 00
Newton Center, Ladies, by Mrs. George
E. May, barrel 162 00
Newton, Highlands, Aux., by Mrs.
Emily W. Hyde, three barrels 131 22
Newtonville, Central Ch., Charity
Square, by Mrs. M. H. Binney, two
barrels $ io8 20
Norfolk, Ladies 35 00
North Adams, Aux., by Mrs. D. A. An-
derson, freight $20.00, and two bar-
rels 275 00
Northampton, Edwards Ch., Aux., by
Mrs. A. F. Kneeland, two barrels 215 00
North Brookfield, First Ch., L. B. S., by
Mrs. E. G. Cutler, barrel in 00
North Middleboro', W. W., by Miss
Mabel W. Gibbs, box 174 28
Norwood, Aux., by Mrs. D. M. Thomp-
son, two barrels no 00
Peabody, Aux., by Mrs. T. M. Stimp-
son, barrel 88 88
Pittsfield, First Ch., F. W. S., by Mrs.
Mary B. Davis, three barrels 297 02
Plymouth, Aux., by Mrs. Harriet E.
May, box 195 00
Providence, R. I., Beneficent Ch., Y. P.
S. C. E., by Miss Elizabeth W.
Olney, box 151 51
Central Ch., Aux., by Mrs. T. B.
Stockwell, three boxes 472 43
Pilgrim Ch , S. C, by Mrs. C. H.
Alexander, two barrels 202 95
Randolph, Aux., by Mrs. H. Maria
Mann, barrel 6000
Roslindale, Daughters of Rev. E. P.
Blodgett, box 50 00
Roxbury, Eliot Ch., Mrs. Mary F. W.
Porter, package 25 00
Walnut Ave., W. H. M. S., package.. 9 00
Rutland, Ladies, by Mrs. L. A. Mason,
box 15 00
Salem, South Ch., B. A., by Miss S. S.
Driver, two barrels 166 20
Sharon, Ladies, by Miss Emma L. Pet-
tee, barrel 100 00
Sherborn, Ladies, by Miss E. F. Cool-
idge, barrel 25 40
Shirley, Aux., by Miss Martha J. Hun-
ter, box 20 00
Somerville, Franklin St. Ch., H. M. B.,
by Miss Emma M. Moore, two bar-
rels 10292
Winter Hill Ch., by Mrs. Emma S.
Hayes, barrel 61 45
Southboro', H. M. S., by Mrs. L. R.
Crouch, barrel 51 00
South Boston, Phillips Ch., Aux., by
Mrs. W. H. Lovering, barrel 55 00
Southbridge, Ladies, by Mrs. E. S.
Swift, barrel 63 67
South Easton, by Mrs. H. D. Purinton,
barrel 67 45
Spencer, Aux., by Mrs. C. O. Tyler, two
barrels 155 95
Springfield, First Ch., W. H. M. S., and
Gleaners, by Mrs. C. A. Graves, two
barrels 113 n
Hope Ch., L. B. S., by Mrs. E. H.
Cutler, 2 barrels 150 00
Taunton, Broadway Ch., Ladies, by
Mrs. G. H. Rhodes, box and barrel. . 71 34
W. re, Miss S. R. Sage's S. S. Class, by
Miss M. A. Barlow, barrel 95 00
Woman's Circle, by Miss Emma T.
Eaton, barrel 99 87
Watertown, Phillips Sewing Society and
King's Daughters, by Mrs. M. Fuller,
three barrels 203 00
Wenham, Ladies, by Rev. Arthur N.
Ward, barrel .... 35 co
Westboro', L. S. C, by Mrs. F. E. Corey,
barrel 95 00
West Brookfield, Ladies, by Miss Har-
riet N. Fobes, barrel 102 10
Westfield, First Ch., L. B. S., by Miss
Lucy C. Smith, two barrels 365 00
Westminster, Ladies, by Mrs. M. A.
Wood, barrel 40 00
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February, 1897
West Newton. Ladies, by Mrs. J. F. Ful-
ler, two barrels $170 00
West Roxbury, L. B. S., by Miss Jessie
C. Dennett, box 103 07
Whitinsville, Ladies, by Miss Lila S.
Whitin, box 174 32
Whitman, Aux., by Mrs. Sarah P. Smith,
barrel 86 31
Winchendon, Ladies, by Mrs. C. C.
Parker, box 151 22
Winchester, L. W. M. S., by J. P. Bout-
well, two barrels no 00
Woburn, L. C. R. S., by Mrs. F. W.
Crosby, barrel $ 91 25
S. B. S., by Mrs. C. M. Howe, box
and barrel 74 52
Worcester, Old South Ch., Ladies, by
Miss E. M. Sibley, two barrels 164 24
Pilgrim Ch., L. B. S., by Mrs. E. K.
Bancroft, barrel 62 22
Plymouth Ch., L. B S.. by Mrs. Lou
F. Putnam, box and barrel 232 50
(112,190 13
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
NEW HAMPSHIRE HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the New Hampshire Home Missionary Society from October 1 to December 31,
1896. Hon. L. D. Stevens, treasurer
Bartlett, Ch. and Soc $5 60
Bath, Y. P. S. C. E 500
Bennington. Ch. and Soc, $409; Y. P.
S.C. E.,$i.25 5 34
Boscawen, Ch. and Soc 16 95
CaTipton, income of Mary A. Marsh
Estate 20 00
Candia. Ch. and Soc 5 00
Colebrook. Ch. and Soc 5 00
Concord, First. Ch. and Soc, S50.00;
for C. H. M. S.. $257.2?; Y. P. S. C.
E., for C. H. M. S.. $12.00 319 22
Contoocook. First, Ch. and Soc 13 15
Croydon, Ch and Soc iroo
East Alstead. Ch. and Soc 6 30
East Barrington, Ch. and Soc 5 00
Exeter, First, Ch. and Soc. $5542 ;
Second, Ch. and Soc, $58.00. and for
C. H. M. S., $100.00 213 42
Franklin. Ch. and Soc, $27.00: Y. P. S.
C. E., $3 50 ... 30 50
Gilmanton, Ch. and Soc 5 00
Gilsum, Boys' and Girls' Miss. Army,
$2.44; Ch. and Soc, $2.00; S. S.,
$11. 18 15 62
Greenfield, Ch. and Soc, for C. H. M. S. 15 00
Hampstead, bal. of Legacy of Ann M.
Howard 143 46
Hanover, Cong. Ch. at Dartmouth Col-
lege 155 5°
Hill, Ch. and Soc 50 00
Hillsborough Bridge, M. J. Dutton, for
C. H. M. S 1 00
Hollis. Ch. and Soc 15 00
Jaffrey, Ch. and Soc 10 00
Kingston, Ch. and Soc -. 12 35
Lempster, Thank-offering of Mary
Anna Smith and Helen Bingham $2 00
Lyndeborough. Ch. and Soc 18 50
Manchester, First, Ch. and Soc. to
const. Geo. H. Austin a L. M., $79.-
42 ; S. S., $27.98; A Member, $3.00... no 40
Marlborough, Ch. and Soc 7 71
Meriden, Legacy of Henry Wills 78 22
Nashua, First, Ch. and Soc 88 00
New Hampshire Cent Union 600
North Hampton, Ch. and Soc, for C. H.
M . S 56 50
Northwood Center. Ch. and Soc 13 00
Pelham, Ch. and Soc, $30.00; for C. H.
M . S . , $30.00 60 00
Penacook, Legacy of Rev. Abira Fiske,
to const. M. A. W. Fiske, Ellen Maria
Fiske, Charles Albert Fiske, John
Wm. Fiske, and Mary Ann Fiske L. Ms. 150 00
Plymouth, Mrs. J. F. Draper, for C. H.
M. S 1 00
Rochester, Ch. and Soc 9 57
Rve. Ch. and Soc 25 00
Salem, Y. P. S. C. E 3 00
Seabrook and Hampton Falls. Ch and
Soc, $4.00; Boys' and Girls' Home
Miss. Army, $4.00 8 00
Somerswortfi, First, Ch. and Soc, fcr
C. H. M. S 16 00
South Merrimack. Ch. and Soc 10 20
Stratham. Ch. and Soc 16 70
Union, Ch. and Soc 5 co
Westmoreland, Ch. and Soc 850
West Stewartstown, Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
Wilton. Legacy of Mary C. Pettengill,
in part 150 00
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from November 20 to December 20,
1896. Wm. C. Tyler. Treasurer
Bennington, Mrs. G. W. Harraan, for
C. H. M. S
Cornwall
Coventry, " K." .
Craftsbury. North
Franklin, First Church
Georgia, for C. H. M. S
Hardwick, East
$5 00 Irasburg
7 36 Montpel ier. Bethany Church
5 00 Newport, First Church
5 00 Pawlet
J3 53 Post Mills, Mrs. Frances L. Dodge.
2 oq Randolph Center, First Church . .
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The Home Missionary
521
Randolph Center, S. S
West, First Church, Hannah Wood
fund
Rutland
Saxton's River, Miss Georgia Magee,
forC. H. M. S
Sharon
Wilmington
Vermont Missionary
W. H. M. U
5 00
35 38
25 CO
$287 72
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in December, i{
Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev.
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor :
Boston, Dewing, Benj. F $100 oo •
Framingham, Plymouth Ch.,
in memory of Mrs. E. B.
Mann . . ico oo
Holliston, Burnap, Mrs. E. S.,
one quarter-share 25 oo
Acton, Evan. Sunday-school, by Rev.
F. P. Wood
South, by William F. Hale
Agawam, Second, by R. De Witt
Amesbury, Union Evan., by John T.
Bassett
Amherst, North, by E. H. Dickinson
($50 of wh. to const. Mrs. Edwin H.
Dickinson a L. M. of C. H. M. S ). . . .
Andover Chapel, by Warren F. Draper
Ashland, by Edwin Perry
Auburn, Y. P. S. C. E., by Lizzie P.
Stone
Bank Balances, Nov. interest on
Barnstable, Hyannis, by Miss Rosie C.
Bearse.. . .'
Barre, by Abner R. Mott
Blackstone, Church, $16.51 ; Sunday-
school, $2.00; Y. P. S. C. E., $2.00, by
C. H. Lee
Boston, A Friend
A Friend, " W." special
Allston, by I. G. Wheeler
Barnes, Mrs. Ellen J
Dorchester, Central, by D. McCurdy
Second, by Miss E. Tolman, for
local Armenian work
E.-c.-a-day Band, by Miss E. F.
Merrill
Village, A Friend, "H."
Old South, by Joseph H. Gray
Special for local Armenian work. . .
Park St., by E. H. McGuire
Roslindale, by Rev. R. B. Grover
Roxbury, Immanuel, by Francis J.
Ward
Shawmut. by D. E. Partridge
South, Phillips, by H. C. Bird
Swedish Ch.. by P.ev. P. Vincentius.
Bridge water. Central Square, by A. G.
Boyden
King's Daughters, by A. G. Boy-
den
Sunday-school, by A. G. Boyden. . .
Scotland, by Mrs. S. O. Keith
Brockton, Campello, South, by Frank
Mills, w. p. g. to const. Mrs.
Sarah W. Parks, Albert W. Gibbs.
and Harold C. Childs L. Ms. of
C. H. M. S
Sunday-school, by Arthur M. Keith
Brookfield, by j. M Grover
Brookline, Harvard, by Jas. H. Shap-
leigh
Special for Italian Mission
Leyden, by G. E. Adams
Rutan, Chas. H
$225 00
7 00
10 45
12 00
75 00
15 00
10 00
8 34
7 00
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Cambridge, Anonymous $1 00
Prospect St., Sunday-school, for Vin-
ita Acad., by A. L. Merrill 2591
Cambridgeport, Pilgrim, by N. H. Hol-
brook 22 26
Jr. Y. P. S. C. E , by Mrs. S. H. Dow 10 00
Canton, by Rev. M. B. Taylor 115 43
Chelsea, First, by C. A. Baccn. .' 71 50
Chester, First, S. S. Rally gift, by Rev.
E. C. Haynes 1 36
Second, by E. O. Redfield 7 26
Chicopee. Third, S. S., by William H.
Ordway 3 82
• Clinton, Parkhurst, Mrs. G. B., Christ-
mas offering 300
Cohasset, Second, by P. Bates 40 80
Concord, Trinitarian, by T. Todd 15 77
Misses Mary and Eliza Munroe, by
T. Todd 1000
Cummington,by Miss Fannie M. Porter 20 00
Dalton, First, by W. E. Barton, to const.
Mrs. Isaac E. Averill, Jesse T. Gage,
Chester B. Scudder. and Geo. R. Judd
L. Ms. of C. H. M. S 219 15
Dana, by N. L. Johnson 10 00
Danvers, First, Ladies' Eenev. Society,
by Miss M. P. Grover 10 00
Maple Street 40 00
Rally Service, by Rev. E. C. Ewing 12 96
Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Isabel B.
Tapley 15 00
Dedham, Islington, by Rev. W. F. Bick-
f ord 5 50
Dover, by J. W. Higgins 10 00
Easthampton, First, by W. H. Wright. go 07
East St., Ladies' Benev. Soc, by Miss
A. J. Parsons 13 00
Y. P. S. C. E., by W. H. Wright, Ch.
Treas., Special 4 19
Enfield, by Lyman D Potter 31 75
Fall River, Central, by R. B. Borden (of
wh. $85 special) 12983
Fitchburg, Rcllstone, Y. P. S. C. E., by
S. H. Lowe . 5 00
Framingham, Plymouth, by John H.
Temple 91 95
Saxonville, Edwards, Mission Band,
by F. A. Dearden 19 00
Frost. Rufus S . fund, Income of 11 18
Goshen, by C. N. Shaw 10 14
Granby, by Rev. R. C. Bell. Ch., $15 ;
S.S..$3o 45 00
Great Barrington, First, by Clatence R.
Sabin 8026
Housatonic S. S., by Miss Anna R.
Turner 20 58
Greenfield. Second, by Miss Lucy A.
Sparhawk 79 87
S. S.. by K. T. Slate 15 00
Greenwich. Village, by W. H. Glazier. 13 50
Gurney, R. C, fund. Income of 26 56
Hadley, First, by J. N. Pierce 16 00
Hale, E. J M., fund, Income of 2748
Hanover. Second, by A. M. Barstow... 1 50
Hanson, by I C. Howland, Ch., $9.84;
Y. P. S. C. E., $2.61 12 45
522
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February, 1897
Harwich, Y. P. S. C. E., by Annie P.
Smith $5 00
Hatfield, by Alpheus Cowles 4253
Haverhill, Fourth, by Rev. Geo. L.
Gleason 12 31
North, by E.G. Frothingham, for local
French Ch 41 70
Riverside, by Rev. Geo. L. Gleason.. n 00
Hawley, by Rev. J. A. Pogue 16 78
Hingham, Evan., by Mrs. Chas. Bates. 6 50
Hopkinton. A Friend, by J. D. Stewart 2 00
Howe St., Chicago, 111., mort. note, Int. 45 00
Huntington. Second, Children's Con.
cert, by W. L. Hendrick . 383
Hyde Park, by E A. Runnells 3857
Clarendon, by John Holden 27 20
Ipswich, First, S. S., by Miss Abbie L.
Newman 800
Linebrook. add'l. by J. H. Tenney 6 00
Lawrence, Riverside, by Rev. H. E. Ox-
nard 5 00
Lee, Ch., $594.00 ; S. S., $30.00, by Win.
J. Bartlett 624 00
Lenox, by E. C. Carter 31 83
Leverett, Moore's Corner, by J. W.
Watson 7 00
Lexington, Walker, Mrs. John 5 00
Littleton, Orth., by John S. Hartwell,
special 25 00
Lowell, A. B. S 500
Eliot, Collection at ordination of Rev.
A. Solberg, by J. A. Howard 17 71
, French Prot. Ch., by Rev. T. G. A.
Cote 2505
Maiden, Linden, by William Gray 14 18
Manchester, Jr. Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev.
F. A. Fate 1500
Marblehead, First, by N. P. Sanborn. . . 66 00
Marlboro. Patch, Mrs. Lucy A 1 00
Marshfield. First, by H. B. Sprague 123 46
Medford, Mystic, Christmas offering.
by J. McPherson 15 00
Friends in, by J. McPherson 8 00
Medway, West, Second, by Jas. M. Fales 12 00
Melrose, Highlands, by Chas. S. New-
hall 34 30
Leavitt, Rev. B. F , converted Christ-
mas gifts 2500
Millbury, Putnam, Mrs. Geo. A 5 00
Montague, by Sanford Marsh 40 00
Natick, South, by M. V. B. Bartlett 16 95
Needham, First, by W. F. Snow 34 77
Newbury, Byfield, South, by A. C. Poor 12 co
First, Member S 00
Two cent-a- week Offering, by H.
J. Leigh 6 30
Newburyport, North, by J. B. Creasey. 15 63
Newton, Auburndale, by C. C. Burr. ... 10 00
Newtonville, by E. W. Greene 244 10
(West). Second, by J. J. Eddy 240 98
Northampton. First, by J. H. Searle . . 308 00
North Andover. by Frank W Frisbee.. 61 80
Oakham, by William S. Crawford 62 00
Palmer, Second, by J. H Tuthill 33 5°
Phillipston, by Mrs. T H. Chaffin 7 76
Plympton. by Edmund Perkins ....... 2 05
Qaincy Point, Washington St., by Miss
Amey F. Newcorab 7 00
Randolph, special 500 00
Raynham, First, by Joseph W. White.. 17 65
North, by Rev. S K. B. Perkins 2 00
Reading, by Dean Peabody 47 50
Readville. Rice. Geo. L .. 500
Reed, Dwight, Fund, Income of 44 76
Richmond, by C. H. Dorr. ... 14 71
Rochester, First, by Geo. B. Haskell... 12 00
Rockland, Friends in, for Rev. C. L.
Hall, Fort Berthold. No. Dak 15 00
Rockport, First, by Zeno A. Appleton.. 16 85
Pastor's S. S. Class, by Rev. I. Ains-
worth, to const. Henry C. Davis a
L. M 30 00
Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Amanda M.
Hutchins 10 00
Rowley, by Woodbury Smith
Salem, Barrows, Mrs. M. H
Fletcher, Mrs. A. J
South, by Joseph A. Dane
Saugus, by John E. Stocker
Shelburne Falls. A Friend
Shirley, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mary A.
Park
Shrewsbury, by Henry Harlow
Somerville, Franklin St., by Geo. E.
Dustin
Springfield, Olivet S. S., by C. W. Bur-
nett
Sterling, by Rev. Geo. H. Pratt
Stockbridge, S. S., by Clarence H. Perry
Sunderland, Rally Service, by W. L.
Hubbard
Taunton, Trinitarian, by Geo. M. Wood-
ward, to const. H. W. Horrub, David
G. Wilbur, F. E. Austin, Mrs.
Amanda Belyea, Mrs. Mary E. Chase,
Mrs. Sarah A. Morris, and Miss Nancy
B. Rhodes L. Ms
Upton, First, by A. Wiswall, Taft
thank-offering
Wall fund, Income
Waltham, Trinitarian, by T. W. Temple
A Member, special
Ladies' Benev. Society, by Mrs. L. E.
Wilson, special
Wellesley, Friends in, by Miss Nathalie
Lord, special
Hills, by L. V. N. Peck
Wellfleet, South, by Winslow Paine
Westboro,Evan., by Harriet E Brigham
Life member, Christmas offering ...
West Boylston, by E. B. Rice
West Brookfield, by Edwin Wilbur
West Springfield, Park St., by Samuel
Smith
West Tisbury, by Ulysses E. Mayhew.
Weymouth, East, by Mrs. C. B. Cush-
ing
South, Old South, by Rev. H. C. Al-
vord
Whitcomb, David, fund, Income of
Williamstown, First, by Chas. S. Cole.
White Oaks, by Rev. G. V. Strvkrr..
Winchendon, First, by Sarah M. Rice. .
North, by H. S. Allen
Winchester, First, S. S., by E. H. Rice,
to pay salary of Rev. Daniel Staver,
of Forest Grove, Oregon, in part
Wollaston, by E. L. Robbins
Worcester, Central, by G. W. Mackin-
tire
Hope, by Mrs. Emma G. Hall
Piedmont, Austin, Mrs., by Rev. E.
Horr, D.D
Pilgrim, bv F. L. Stetson
Plymouth,' by F. W. Chase
Yarmouth, West, by Miss Abbie B'.
Crowell
Woman's Home Missionary Association,
by Miss A. C. Bridgman, Trtas.:
Boston, Roxbury, Wal. Ave.
Aux.. towards salary of
Rev. S Deakin $4 00
Goodell, Mrs. C. L 25 00
Brookline, Harvard, Ladies'
Christmas offering for sal-
aries in arrears 40. 00
Cambridge, First, Aux..
"Friend," for arrears of
salaries . . 20 00
Cambridgeport, Hidden. Mrs.
M. E., for arrears 10 00
Williamsburg, James, Mrs. H.
E., for arrears 50 00
$23 72
4 00
1 00
'83 59
39 14
2 00
6 32
20 00
26 37
30 07
6 55
27 08
216 58
10
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150
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149 00
481 67
14 95
496 62.
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RHODE ISLAND HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Rhode Island Home Missionary Society from October 1 to December 31,
1896. Joseph William Rice, Treasurer
Central Falls $105 94
Chepachet 1908
Crompton. Swedish Free 5 00
East Providence. Newman Ch 60 00
Howard, Franklin Ch 3 00
Luther's Corner 5 00
Newport, United Ch 36 57
Peacedale 56 14
Providence, Central Ch 160 00
Plymouth Ch
Swedish Free
Union Ch., S. S
River Point
Slatersville
Thornton, Ch
Westerly, Pawcatuck Ch.
Wood River Junction. . . .
Interest
if 12 50
15 00
65 99
10 00
J3 75
5 °°
20 00
S °°
39 79
MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in December, 1896.
JACOBS, Treasurer
Ward W.
Abington, see Pomfret.
Bridgeport, King's Highway, by F. W.
Storrs $6 72
Bridge water, by Mrs. A. J. Bennitt 17 00
Canton Center, by W. G. Hall ock 1 1 00
Columbia, by Joseph Hutchins 15 15
Danielsoii, see Killingly.
East Haddam, First, oy E. W. Chaffee. 5 57
East Windsor, First, by E. G. Morton. 10 95
Greenwich, North Greenwich, by B.
Close 10 65
Glastonbury, South Glastonbury, Ch.
and S. S., by H. D Hale 761
Special, for debt of C H. M. S 1650
Hamden, Whitneyville. Jun. Endeavor
Soc, by Mrs C. F. Clarke 75
Hartford, First, by C. T. Welles 226 55
ForC. H. M. S 90 71
" Thank-offering, from Woman's
Prayer Meeting." for C. H. M. S.. . 40 00
Hartford, Asylum Hill, by Charles E.
Thompson 10 00
Hartland, West Hartland, by A. A.
Newton 5 00
Huntington, Shelton, by George E.
Mitchell 52 53
S. S., by George F. Cook 2500
Kent, First, by George R. Bull 8 00
Killingly, Danielson, by Charles Phil-
lips 28 47
For C. H. M. S 61 34
Litchfield, First, special for C. H. M. S.,
by Miss C. B. Kenney 58 50
Litchfield, Milton, by Rev. W. E. Page. 7 00
Madison, First, Ladies' Miss. Soc, by
Mrs. Charlotte A. Gallup 22 00
Meriden, First by H. M. Billard 52 90
Center, by Wilbur F. Smith • 2500
First, Mrs. W. H. Catlin 25 00
Mr. W. H. Catlin 15 00
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur 36 73
Milton, see Litchfield.
New Britain, First, by A. M. Lewis.. . 20 20
South, by P. M. Bronson, to const.
George W. Andrew -and George S.
Talcott L. Ms 363- 27
New Haven, Taylor, by J. E. Leighton. 2 25
Emanuel, Swedish, by Rev. C. J.
Ledin 10 00
New Preston Hill, see Washington.
North Greenwich, see Greenwich.
North Haven, by Whitney Elliott $140 00
Norwich, Broadway, by F. J. Leavens. 543 79
Park, by H. L. Butts 49 44
Swedish, by Rev. A. Abrahamson 2 00
Orange, West Haven, S. S., by W. H.
Moulthrop 25 00
By Rev. S. J. Bryant 3250
Plainfield, First, by Milton J. Kingsley. 7 50
Pomfret, Abington. by Rev. E. B. Pike,
personal, for C. H. M. S 3 00
Poquonock, see Windsor.
Redding, by J. B. Sanford 25 66
Scotland, by Rev. Henry B. Mead 19 00
Shelton, see Huntington.
Sherman, by M. G. Gelston 26 36
Somers, Somersville, by H. L. James,
for C. H. M. S 4 60
Somersville, see Somers.
South Glastonbury, see Glastonbury.
Talcottville, see Vernon.
Vernon, Talcottville, by M. H. Talcott. 100 00
ForC. H.M. S 244 35
Washington, New Preston Hill, by W.
L. Birkins, for C. H. M. S 20 00
Waterbury, Second, by B. G. Bryan . . . 605 50
Y. P. S. C. E., by George L. Riggs .. 35 00
Whitneyville, see Hamden.
Windsor, Poquonock, by L. R. Lord... 31 71
West Hartland, see Hartland.
West Haven, see Orange.
Woodbury, First, by J. H. Linsley 14 75
W. C. H. M. U. of Conn., Mrs. George
Follett, Secretary :
Hartford, First, Ladies' H. M Soc, by
Mrs. S. M. Hotchkiss. special, for
family of Rev. S. K. Didriksen, of
Danish Ch., Hartford 10 00
Mrs. George Bradford, of Southbridge,
Mass 5 00
$3,232 49
Madison, First, "The Ladies' Chari-
table Society," box $2870
Thompson, package 15 30
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MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in December, 1S96. Rev. JOHN P,
Sanderson, Treasurer
Addison
Armada
S. S
Bay Mills
Bay City, S. S
Benzonia, Y. P. S. C. E
Bradley
Breckenridge
Carmel
Charlotte
Chase
Cheboygan
Y. P.5. C. E
Jr. Y. P. S.C.E
Chelsea
Clinton
Crystal
Delta
Detroit, First
Jr. C. E
Eaton Rapids, S. S
Fisher's Station
Freeport
Fruitport
Galesburg
Grand Blanc
Grand Haven
Grand Junction
Grand Rapids, Second
Smith Mem
Barker Mem .
Grandville
Greenville
Hancock
Hartland
Helena .
Hersey
Hudson
Jackson. First
Plymouth, S. S
Y. P. S . C. E
Kalamazoo, First. E. Maria Knapp ,
East Side, Avails of property
Kalamo
Lake Odessa
Lakeview
Lamont
Lansing, Plymouth
Pilgrim
Mayflower
Lerov
Manistee
Milieu's
Muskegon. First
Newaygo, Y. P. S. C. E
New Baltimore ._.
Northport, S. S. ."
Y. P. S. C.E
Oxford
Pinckney
Pine Grove
Pittsford
Port Huron. First
Rapid River
Rosedale
Saginaw
St. John's
Salem, First
Second
Shelby, Y. P. S. C E
Sherman
Trout Creek
Vanderbilt
Vestaburg
Vicksburg. Friends
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Williamston 3 85
Wolverine 20 00
Ypsilanti 19 50
Y. P. S. C.E 10 00
Rev. James Vincent, Tecumseh 10 00
Rev. A. N. McConoughey, Caro 10 00
A Friend 40 00
Pulpit Supply
Two notes of $500 each from "Anony-
mous," maturing July 1, 1899 1,000 00
W. H. M. U. of Michigan, per Mrs. E.
F. Grabill, Treas 612 24
$3,490 25 ■
Receipts of W. H. M. U. of Michigan,
for State work, in December, 1896,
Mrs. E. F. Grabill. Treas. :
SENIOR Fl'Nl)
Allegan, W. M. S., of which $5.31 is
Thank-offering $11 20
Bangor, W. M. 5 1 80
Bay City, W. S 12 00
Benton Harbor, W. M . U 425
Benzonia, W. H. M. S 7 60
Breckenridge. W. H. M. U 1 50
Bridgman, VV. H. M. S 5 00
Charlotte, L. B. S 25 00
Chelsea, W. M. S 3 S5
Coloma, W. H. M.S 14 ic
Dexter. W. H. M. S 50a
Flint, W. H. MS 10 75
Frankfort, W. H. M. Union
Grand Rapids, Park Ch . W. H. M.
U IOO OO
Smith Memorial Ch.. W. M. S. . 5 co
South Ch.. W. M. S 5 co
Grape, W. H. M S 7 00
Hancock, W. M. S 25 00
Harrison. W. H. M. S 5
Hudson. W. M. S 250
Jackson, First. W. H. M. S 50 00
Kendall, W. H M. S 520
Lake Linden, W. M. S 10 00
Lake Odessa, W. H. M. S .. 1500
Lamont, W. H. M. S 375
Lansing, Plymouth Ch.W. H. M. U. 14 66
Manistee, W. H. M. S 36 65
Morenci. W. M. S 5 00
Muskegon. First. W. MS 2500
North Adams, W. H. M. S 18 50
Rochester. W. M . S 500
Salem. Second, W. H. M. S n oo
Somerset, W. M. S 8 00
Stockbridge, Mrs E. W. Woodward. 5 00
Three Oaks, W. M. S 8 13
Traverse City, W. H. M. S 25 00
Ypsilanti 14 00
$521 14
YOUNG TEOPLE'S FIT D
Cheboygan, S. S
Detroit, First, Y. W. Guild.
Lansing. Plymouth, Y. \V.
Guild
Junior Endeavorers
Muskegon, Children's Band
and junior Endeavorers .
North Adams. Y. P. S. C. E.
Watervliet. S. S . contents
of Birthday box for 1896. 7 00
Ypsilanti, S. S 650
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyr^is Sargeant. Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis. So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols. 230 E. 9th Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., St. Paul. St., Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court, Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April,. 1889
Preside?it, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson. Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St
Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell. 32 Congregational President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
House, Boston. Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg. 32 Congrega- Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, 513 The Ellington,
tional House. Boston. Cleveland.
Treasurer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman. 32 Congre- Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
gational House, Boston. St., Toledo.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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g. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary^ Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike. Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. E. Smith, Madison.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President. .Mrs. N. M. Lander, Wahpeton.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1SS4
Reorganized June. 1889
President, Mrs. A. ludson Bailey. 704 Olympic
Ave.. Seattle.
Secretary. Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St..
Tacoma.
Treasurer. Mrs J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin. Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St.. Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins. Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St., Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C E. Corry. Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt. Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B Perry. Crete.
Secretary. Mrs. H. Bross. 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In- President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
dianapolis. ridian.
Secretary, Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart. Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson. versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 949 So. Hill St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary , Mrs. W. J. Washburn, igoo Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 2812 FreretSt.,
New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W. J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508. Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
Presidetit, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansvillc.
Secretary )
and )-Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, \
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple. Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
President, Mrs. O. C. Clark, Missoula.
Secretin}. Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave.,
Helena.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones. Livingston.
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. Fayette Hurd. Vinita.
Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June. 1890
President, Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgway.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint. Reno.
ary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs W. M Wellman. El Reno.
Secretary. Mrs. Joel Harper, Oklahoma City.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. IS. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Includi 1 i»i it of Columbia, Maryland,
amd Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President. Mrs A. H Bradford. Montclair.
Secretary. Mrs. F. J. Goodwin, Glen Ridge.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November. 1892
President. Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President. Mrs. J. B. Gossage. Rapid City, Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadvvood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President. Mrs. W. S. Hawkes. 135 Sixth East
Street. Salt Lake Citv.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Set retary, Mrs. C. E. Mason, Challis.
Treasurer, Mrs. G. L. Cole, Mountain Home.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Fraraingham, Mass.
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, III.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
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Kev A A Brown * Black Hills and Wyoming. Kev. 1. W. Jonks, U.U.... -j Phiiadelphia, Pa.
Kev. A. A. brown. . ( Hot SpringSi South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
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Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer " " " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T. Hillman, Secretary ■, New Hampshire Home Miss. Society Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " " ... .Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " " . . . .St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " "■ " ....St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " .... I 9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " " .... ( Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " ... .Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " " " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Fraser, TJ.D., Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer. " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary Illinois " " " I 153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer " " " " ( Chicago, 111.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " . Beloit, Wis.
C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " " " Grinnell, Iowa.
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Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
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Contents for
Notes of Long Service in Colorado :
XX.— Called Further East-
Colorado Revisited 529
Work in Arizona 532
A Reconnaissance in the Rockies 533
Instructing Young Converts 539
Revival in Oklahoma 540
What Lack of Money Does 540
From Our Alabama Superintendent 541
Swedish Work in Minneapolis... 542
From the Bar to the Pulpit 543
Waiting for the Barrel 544
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Christian Earnestness and Mis-
sions 545
A Mexican Fiesta 547
The Missing Links... 549
Rev. A. G. Petterson 551
"The Mysterious Mrs. B." Again 554
Pioneering Experiences 554
A Dying Church Revived 555
Rev. Dr. Kincaid 556
The Treasury 557
The Closing Year 557
The New Year 558
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NOTES OF LONG SERVICE IN COLORADO
By Rev. Roselle T. Cross, York, Nebraska
XX. (and last). — Called Further East. — Colorado Revisited
NE morning, just as the writer and his family were about starting
for a two or three weeks' rest in the mountains, a letter unex-
pectedly came asking if he would consider a call to a suburban
church in the metropolis of the Northwest. To several such letters
from other places in preceding years he had given a prompt negative, but
circumstances were such now that he said, " Yes, I will consider it."
While camping out he thought and prayed over it, counted and
weighed the pros and cons as he was wont to do, and finally concluded
that he could do more good in a new field, while a new man could prob-
ably do more good in his present place. He had called the church and
watched over it through more than eight years. It was his child and a
child of many prayers. It was hard to leave it and to leave the many
loved brethren in the city and State with whom he had worked so many
years for the New West. It was with great regret that he and his family
left that sunny climate and those magnificent mountains which they had
learned to love so well. He had received about 280 into the church and
left it with a membership of about 180. Before leaving he helped the
committee to secure a successor, whose hard work as Home Missionary
in the mountains and great success in revival work in the East seemed to
point him out as the right man to take up the work. He also helped to
dedicate a new church building for the mission which he had watched
over in its infancy, and also to start the tenth church of our order in
the city.
The time came to say " good-by." The church had been crowded
to hear a farewell sermon and also at a farewell reception. The night
before they were to leave, when nearly everything was packed and every-
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thing else was in confusion, two separate couples came in to be married.
The next night at dark all were ready to go to the depot. Wraps were
on ; friends and neighbors were saying good-by, and in a few minutes
they were to take the street car The doctor came in and looked at the
eldest boy's throat. He had been complaining during the day, but his
parents had been so busy that they had hardly noticed it until night. Now
it was discovered thathe had diphtheritic symptoms. To go or not to
go ? It must be decided very quickly. The goods had been shipped
and were on the way. The trunks were at the depot, all checked. But
to go and expose others, and possibly to be put off among strangers, was
not to be thought of. And so in the empty house, with such furniture
and bedding as friends loaned them, the father and mother and sick child
camped, the other two children going to a sister's house. Neighbors
were kind and sympathetic, but naturally were afraid of the disease. Day
after day and night after night the parents watched with the sick boy,
while his sister and brother and cousins came almost daily with notes
which they left on the porch, or kisses thrown through the window to the
bloodless lips of the sick child. The parents remembered the experience
through which they had come to Colorado, and they prayed earnestly that
the experience might not be repeated.
One day, when it was doubtful whether the boy would recover, his
father asked him which he would rather do, if he could have his choice,
go home to heaven and see his two brothers there, or go to the new home
further East. The boy had anticipated much pleasure in going to the new
home and in meeting many relatives and friends whom lie had never seen,
and he hesitated, evidently thinking that perhaps he ought to say that he
would rather go to heaven. But he honestly said that on the whole he
would rather go to the new earthly home. And his father could not help
feeling the same way, concerning both the child and himself. Prayer and
medical skill again prevailed, as they had for the same child when he was
a babe. The younger boy, who had been born in Denver, was sick one
night. His father watched and prayed by him all night, but he did not
have the diphtheria.
In two weeks it was thought safe to start. As the train glided out of
the city that moonlight night the parents saw from the car window the
many white stones and granite shafts in the beautiful cemetery where
they had officiated so often in burying the dead. Their hearts were full ;
their eyes filled with tears of grateful joy because their boy was with them
in the car and not out there in the cold ground. The father had not
cared to take another church in a city. He preferred the quiet of a coun-
try field. He felt that for a while at least he could enjoy a country par-
ish, many miles from the railroad. His wife felt differently. When they
reached their new field they were both satisfied. It was in the city limits
March, 1897 The Home Missionary 531
and at the end of a street-car line, yet it was in the woods and among the
hills and in a sparsely settled section. The outlook from the study in
the church was upon forests and fields. The people were pleasant and
cordial. It was a country parish in the city. But the pastor missed the
mountain view upon which he had gazed for years, and ever and anon
there flitted through his mind visions of the boundless plains and snow-
covered mountains, of wild gorges and flower-covered parks, of mining
towns, and of the Queen City of the Plains in which he had tried to do
faithful work for his Master.
Nearly two years of happy and fruitful work on the new field passed,
and then the way opened for him to revisit "the Centennial State."
There had been many changes and constant growth in those two years.
Two more churches had been organized in Denver and four church
buildings erected.
Is there any pleasanter experience for a hard-working, conscientious
minister, who has tried to please God rather than man, than to go back
after a few years' absence to a field where with many obstacles and
difficulties he has worked hard for years, and there be greeted with
a crowded house, with the warmest hospitality, and to hear only the
kindest things said of him and his work ? Disagreeable experiences,
if there were any, seem to sink out of sight and be forgotten, or remem-
bered with no bitterness. What joy in finding one's converts standing
fast and becoming pillars in the church, and in seeing the children whom
you prayed for growing into a vigorous Christian manhood and woman-
hood ! The returning pastor had much of this joy on his visit, and it
greatly cheered him. Just before the morning service in his old church
at Denver a prominent railroad official, and his wife who was a member of
the church, stepped forward with their babe whom they wanted their old
pastor to baptize, because he had baptized their other children. That
evening, in another part of the city, he was requested to baptize the child
of another former church member, because he had married the father and
mother. Three days later he found one of his old families in the moun-
tains, and they, too, had a child, a boy six years old, whom they wanted
their old pastor to baptize.
On his first field in Colorado the Second Church had been organized
and a fine building erected. Visiting its large Sunday-school, he was
affected almost to tears to see thus realized one of the dreams of his
ministry in that place years before. Going to his old church and slipping
quietly into a back pew in the new forty-thousand-dollar edifice, he
greatly enjoyed the service and the sermon by a stranger, but somehow it
was strangely interwoven in his mind with manifold memories of the past.
He learned that there was a church and a church building at his old
out-station on the Divide, which was now a railroad station. At Manitou
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he found the church which he had organized at another out-station,
twelve years before, growing so fast that it had just enlarged its stone
edifice. At Pueblo the church which he had prayed for before its birth,
when he was sleeping on the prairie one night, had built a costly edifice,
as had also another church started in that same city.
Taking a thousand-mile trip through the mountains, he saw or heard
of prosperity and growth on fields for which he had often prayed and to
whose churches he had contributed. From the car window he saw the
spire of the church building that was a home for the increased company of
Christians whose beginning had been in opposition to the infidel lecture
[Home Missionary for December, 1895, page 394], and he learned with
joy of an association of twelve churches in that distant part of Colorado !
The growth had not been so great absolutely, though it had relatively,
as in some other Western States. There were now fifty-two churches in
place of half a dozen or so which he found there fifteen years before.
The increase of members had been from about 300 to more than 3,000 ;
of Sunday-schools, from six or seven to about ninety ; of Sunday-school
scholars, from less than 400 to between 6,000 and 7,000 ; and there had
been a corresponding growth in other things. These figures do not
include the work that had grown from nothing, or nearly so, in the sur-
rounding States and Territories.
Looking back on the past, which so lately had been the impenetrable
future, and looking into the future as far as human reason could look, the
writer felt profoundly grateful that the Lord had led him to that frontier
home missionary field in those early days to have a part, however small,
in the work of laying foundations and in the growth of Christ's Kingdom
in that growing part of our great country.
t
WORK IN ARIZONA
Here ends the fourth year of my work in Nogales, and I enter upon
the fifth from decided vantage ground. When I was considering the
question of undertaking the work here Superintendent Hood said to me,
" It is of no use for a man to go to Nogales for a year. It is a field that
requires persistent and continued work to accomplish anything." I
have had abundant opportunity to verify the wisdom of this remark. The
situation has required waiting as well as working, the waiting, not of the
idler, but of the intensely alert angler fishing in a running stream where
the trout are darting up and down. The town has practically changed its
population since I came here; i.e., as many have left the place as there
are newcomers now in it. The roll of the Sunday-school and church
March, 1897 The Home Missionary 533
show that about as many have left us during this period as we now have.
This has made the work extremely difficult, the results unstable, and has
rendered a permanent pastorate all the more important.
So we have waited, and watched as we waited, and worked as we
watched, and at last we begin to see some things that look like satisfac-
tory results. Conditions seem to be more favorable than ever before,
and the conviction has grown upon me that " now cometh the harvest."
We have succeeded in forming a Society of Christian Endeavor with
about twenty active members, and there are several who will soon unite
with the church. — Rev. J. H. Heald.
»
A RECONNAISSANCE IN THE ROCKIES
By Rev. D. L. Leonard, D.D., Oberlin, Ohio
I
In preceding articles I have told as briefly as possible the story of
the beginnings of civilized settlement in the vast Cordilleran region, and
also of the early work of the Home Missionary Society therein. But
from henceforth I am to confine my view to the four Territories, Utah,
Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming, west of the Main Range, which were
committed to me to dress and keep, and to matters with which I had
personally to do. It would not be easy to find an individual more utterly
surprised and astonished than I was when, in April of 188 1, through Sec-
retary H. M. Storrs, I was asked to resign a pastorate in Northfield,
Minnesota, which for attractions of many kinds was almost ideal, and
transform myself into a superintendent and general missionary. It
meant that I was to undertake the role of pioneer and founder in a moun-
tainous district extending some 800 miles from north to south by 600 from
east to west. My headquarters were to be at Salt Lake City, and Mor-
monism was to be the principal object on which my wits and energies
were to be expended. I was to be turned loose in an area equal to two
States like Texas, equal to eight or ten as large as Ohio or New York,
and to be at first practically without helper or counselor. The popula-
tion, though less than 250,000, was widely scattered and for the most
part difficult of access. The only railroad was the Union Pacific, with its
two branches extending, one some 250 miles south toward the Arizona
line and the other more than 300 miles north across the border of Mon-
tana. The traveler's main reliance was upon the stage. I freely confess
to no inconsiderable shrinking from such responsibilities and risks.
Among many sagacious friends consulted only two said go. It cost me
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a great struggle to decline the unanimous and very earnest request from
those who had the power of appointment to remain in Minnesota as
superintendent. But somehow by the sure prospect of hardship and
severest toil desire was kindled rather than quenched. The last days of
June found me crossing the Great Plains and the Rockies.
Of course, first in order came the laborious task of exploration. A
few weeks were devoted to the Mormon Zion and the region around, the
mining camps and the settlements in the valleys, visiting the few teachers
already at work, making the acquaintance of Rev. C. W. Hill, of Park
City, my only clerical coadjutor between the British possessions and
the Mexican boundary, and making preparations for the early opening of
additional schools. Prominent among these first essays was a trip up
Little Cottonwood Canon into the recesses of the Wahsatch to visit Alta,
seat of the once famous Emma Mine. Steam power was available to the
mouth of the canon, where a transfer was made to a tramway and an open
car hauled up the steep ascent by two mules. Except where long snow-
sheds altogether obstructed the vision, the scenery was all that could be
desired for magnificence ; the sun was at its brightest, the air was full of
ozone, and at one point during my stay I climbed to an altitude of nearly
11,000 feet. Under the operation of this combination of causes, though
at the time not knowing why, all that day and the next I found myself in
an exalted and most pleasurable frame both of body and spirit, which
amounted to a quasi intoxication. Scarcely could I refrain from shout-
ing, striking, kicking, leaping, turning somersaults and other such physi-
cal demonstrations to expend the excess of nervous energy with which I
seemed to be bursting.
After a fair amount of such light skirmishing with frontier travel and
adventure, to harden muscle and discipline the nerves, it was time to
enter upon the real campaign, the genuine tug-of-war. As counseled by
veteran miners and others, I undertook to prepare myself to endure with
least damage the evils which I could not shun by investing in warmest
flannels, a pair of heavy woolen blankets, overalls of duck (called " Cali-
fornia broadcloth " in the humorous speech of the natives), arctic over-
shoes, with cap and mittens to match, nor in the least forgetting a fur coat
and buffalo robe. Not one of all these was ever left behind when any
long trip was to be taken, even though it might be in midsummer.
There were mountain ranges to cross; the nights were certain to be cold;
if not needed for covering these articles were servicable as cushions, and
on occasion could be transformed into beds to spread upon the ground or
the floor. Thus accoutred, in early August I set out for Montana. My
only known Congregational predecessors in those most roomy parts were
President Blanchard, who, nearly twenty years before, had taken a flying
trip to Virginia City when Alder Gulch was booming, and " A Volunteer
March, 1897 The Home Missionary 535
Home Missionary" who, in The Home Missionary for November, 1880,
had written of " An Exploring Tour in Montana," speaking in particular
of Helena, Bozeman, and the Yellowstone country. Some months before
my first visit an earnest Christian woman had written East from Fort
Benton pleading for a minister. All went well with me while I kept to the
narrow gauge Utah Northern with its Pullman. But, alas ! at Dillon I
must needs exchange it for a stage, which I did with great shrinking and
a cold shiver, for it was to be an all-night ride. The first evening I
simply looked on when the start was made, but by the next trip my cour-
age had risen to the height of the occasion. Virginia City, distant about
sixty miles, was the first halting place. I could really have been much
more miserable than I was. The old moon shed some cheering rays, the
lunch at 2 a.m. was timely. We struck Alder Gulch at sunrise, and fol-
lowed it up twelve miles. Hereabouts early in the sixties was the scene
of greatest excitement, when some 50,000 gold seekers were gathered and
were able to wash from the gravel some $40,000,000 of shining dust.
But not a vestige remained of the "glory" of the former days. After
tarrying twenty-four hours I was up and off at 4 a.m. for Bozeman,
seventy miles away, with not a mouthful till 9 o'clock. But then at
Berry's ranch, Meadow Creek, a breakfast was spread so truly royal and
superb that it still lives in vivid memory. That memorable day we also
met such dignities as Secretary Sherman, Justice Strong, Senator Harri-
son, and his law partner, Miller, afterward Attorney-General— all these
fresh from a visit to the National Park. A day at Bozeman discovered
no call to occupy, and it was next to Helena, no miles, a stretch of nine-
teen hours — from 2 a.m. to 9 p.m. At Bridgeville we crossed the Galla-
tin, Madison, and Jefferson, near where they unite to form the Missouri,
r,ioo miles above Bismarck, 3,600 above St. Louis, the water at this point
clear as crystal. Most of the day we journeyed down the Missouri Valley,
for too long a distance over a road exceeding rough with boulders, with
three persons crowded into seats only wide enough for two, and my ribs
continually grinding against the sharp corner of an iron brace. There-
fore it was a sweet relief to reach the capital and taste the creature com-
forts of the International.
Two or three days were given to investigating the ecclesiastical situa-
tion in Helena, and I left with the conviction that, when the time came for
starting work, here was abundant room and need for a church of our faith
and order. A trip of 150 miles to the north and east remained that my
eyes might behold Fort Benton. Two days and the night intervening
were required. When fairly started upon this portion of the journey the
intricacies of the canon of the Little Prickly Pear must needs be threaded.
For some twenty miles we coursed along between lofty walls, with abun-
dance of beauty to bewitch the eye, in spite of the stifling dust. But of a
536 The Home Missionary March, 1897
sudden the aesthetic sense was thoroughly deadened to the point of paral-
ysis. For just where the defile was narrowest and most crooked we had
overtaken a band of 4,000 cattle creeping northward at a snail's pace, and,
task most herculean, for two miles we must force a passage through this
solid mass of horns and hoofs. But the din which split the welkin was by
far the hardest to endure. The calves were clearly in a majority, of
whom each and every one had lost his mother, and was calling after her;
with all his might; nor less did the mothers bellow at their loudest in
response, while the entire multitude of other adults present of both sexes
in deep sympathy lifted up their voices in chorus till the cliffs near and
far re-echoed the terrific strain. In due season I found myself at Benton,
in the midst of a population of nearly 1,000, including many blacks, and
half-breed Indians not a few. This was a river town, and was possessed
of all the evil characteristics common to such. Drinking and gambling
appeared to be the principal occupations, and I took particular note how
cards fairly covered the ground in front of each saloon. Here was an
adobe fort constructed by the American Fur Company as far back as
1846, and this was the head of navigation. Almost all kinds of freight
entered the Territory by this route, and boating was lively during the
limited season of high water each year. But I heard of a certain hapless
piano which was two years making the passage hither from 'Boston.
Before it reached Bismarck the last boat had ascended the stream, and
so it was consigned to a damp warehouse to pass the winter and to await
the next "June rise." Not many indications appeared that church
work undertaken here was likely to be successful. As almost everywhere
else in the Territory, it was easy to see that this belonged to the " arid re-
gion " (at least sub-arid) for New England ideas and ways. In particu-
lar, because nearly the entire mass of early settlers were emigrants up the
river from Missouri, who in 1862-3 took surreptitious leave to escape mil-
itary service either in the Union or the rebel army, or, as the phrase was,
constituted the "rear guard of General Price's corps." But, since only
the Episcopalians and Roman Catholics had opened services here, and a
handful was found " of our persuasion," it was deemed fitting to locate a
man at Benton at the earliest possible day. Nor was it long before Rev.
W. A. James was on the ground, gathering a congregation and Sunday-
school in the court-house. A return journey to Helena was next in order,
and after that a side trip of eighty miles eastward to inspect White Sul-
phur Springs, just now coming to fame as a health resort. The night
ride from Sun River was enlivened by the presence of a youth out for fun,
who came aboard fortified with a box of cigars and a flask of ardent
spirits, between which he went constantly back and forth for several
hours, until we met the returning stage. The road to the Springs took us
across the Missouri, up Confederate Gulch to Diamond City, with its
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Montana Bar — from whence, within a certain six weeks, gold dust to the
value of $1,000,000 was washed — over the Divide into Smith River and
past Fort Logan. A night was spent upon a ranch where three brothers
from Illinois kept house, managed a profitable dairy, and rejoiced (as also
did I) in a brook in the front yard fairly alive with speckled trout. Re-
turning to Helena, I crossed the Main Range upon another eighty-mile
jaunt westward and southward by Deer Lodge to Butte, rival of Lead-
ville, whose fame was then upon everybody's lips. Here on the mountain
side and over an ample area were gold, silver, and copper in abundance.
A large population was present, with wickedness of all sorts rampant and
shameless. Also a half-score of Congregational saints were unearthed
and ready for a church organization as soon as a minister was on the
ground. This first excursion was concluded by a further stage ride of
fifty miles south to the railroad at Melrose via Glendale in the mountains,
and a return to Salt Lake by narrow gauge. Thirty days had been con-
sumed, and not less than 800 miles of stage lines had been covered.
After ten days of rest from jolts, thumps, and general disarrangement
of all regular habits, which were also filled with duties pertaining to the
Utah work, trip number two was entered upon, with Idaho as the objec-
tive point, and Blackfoot the point where all the appliances of civilized
travel were to be left behind. My only fellow-travelers were a bride and
her companion from Nebraska, the former on her wedding tour, though
the husband had taken the journey some days before to get a cabin ready
for joint occupation. Bound for Challis, 140 miles west, we crossed the
Snake and sallied out upon the waterless, desolate, and hideous lava beds
which cover and blight more than 200,000 square miles of the Pacific
coast. Dinner was served at Root Hog in a tent, with a vigorous breeze
blowing, which greatly disturbed the alkali dust and covered the viands
with grit. But for the young women the entire day was full of
sore trial. The seat was too wide, and too high, and too smooth ; the
springs were too stiff, while the lava was too rough and hard. How often
and grievously were they tumbled from side to side and tossed in the air !
And, besides, for these two entire days the poor bride was weighed down
with the woes of the stage equivalent to sea-sickness. At Arco we tar-
ried for a portion of the night, with an early start and a barbarous jerky
stage to receive us next morning. Under ordinary circumstances the ride
would have been most inspiring through the canons to the Salmon and
along that stream, and especially across the Valley of a Thousand Springs.
Arriving at Challis, I found a Methodist preacher just come to take up an
appointment, and as yet only a few inhabitants had gathered. After a
night at Burns' hotel I crossed the mountains to visit the Custer mill and
Bonanza, returning by the way I came. An old-timer was my seat-mate,
addicted to mining, protected from road agents by a Winchester and sev-
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eral revolvers, also with pockets well stocked with articles both potable
and smokable, which were freely offered to all. Having found it difficult
to convince him of my strict temperance principles without exciting anger,
at noon I felt constrained to compromise by accepting a treat of California
peaches at the dining-station, whose cost was at the rate of seventy-five
cents a pound. Then as we neared Challis our vehicle was rudely stopped
by two young women in a carriage, who refreshed the driver and the pas-
sengers from the contents of a flask, and when I politely declined my por-
tion cursed me in shocking terms and pronounced me " no gentleman."
A little later I found my landlady much the worse in sense and speech
from overabundant indulgence in wine. The presiding elder and his
preacher were also guests that night, and while they sought escape from
her maudlin talk in a stroll, I chose the alternative of retiring to my
room, from which it was not easy to persuade her to depart. With such
experiences in memory, it is pleasant to recall that in later years a church
of the Pilgrim stamp has been established in this desert spot.
Wood River was my real destination, a mining camp just now rapidly
rising to fame, and to reach it I must return to Arco, and from thence
skirt the mountains southward and westward through a trough be-
tween them and the lava sheet, 155 miles in all. The night ride from
Arco was unique in at least one particular. I had already discovered
that it was the wont of all stage officials, first of all, to find a snug place
for the mail and express matter, and allot to the passengers whatever space
might be left. On this occasion I was the only human traveler. Up the
line was just now a scarcity of grain for the horses, and hence the coach
was nearly filled with barley sacks. About a foot and a half of space
was left just under the roof. Into this I crawled and remained until
breakfast time next day. Bellevue had been built of logs the year before.
Arriving very late Saturday night, I was assigned to my share of a room
containing twelve beds, of which each was occupied to the full. Worldly
toil went on as usual next day — a horse-race, with women as contestants,
in the afternoon, affording the only variety. And this was at Hailey, a
rival planted a few miles up stream, of only six months' standing, but
built of boards, to which I next proceeded, and passed it to ascend the
valley, as far as Ketchum. Here, too, cabins of logs sheltered all the
inhabitants, in one of which I preached to an audience of less than a
score. Several families gave me a hearty welcome, and in their utter des-
titution of the means of grace were ready to welcome a pastor, whom I
also promised to send at the very soonest. No other settlements re-
mained to visit in these parts, and the easiest exit was found to be
through Kelton, distant south more than 150 miles, upon the Central
Pacific Railroad, and hard by the Great Salt Lake. The day was hot and
dusty far beyond any other I ever saw before or since. We were travers-
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ing an extensive alkali tract, made more hideous by frequent streaks of
lava. To crown all, a furious wind blew from behind for ten mortal
hours. Imagine the looks of those woe-begone passengers, and, if possi-
ble, their feelings. We crossed the Snake about midnight, and rested a
season at Goose Creek. The day following it was over the mountains of
the same name, into Marsh Basin, across the old California trail, supping
at Emigration Spring, and not long after we were well fixed in the Keltcn
House, the strain all over. The last half of the ride had been upon an
excellent road, with such companions and other concomitants as to
make it positively pleasurable, and almost to blot out the memory of
the miseries of the earlier portion. Thus came to an end a stage trip
of nearly 600 miles.
INSTRUCTING YOUNG CONVERTS
The quarter's work has been largely educational, in answering ques-
tions and considering subjects appropriate for our lately received mem-
bers and converts, such as the inspiration of the Scriptures, the doctrines
and covenants, new and old. The person, office, and power of the Holy
Spirit have been outlined in several lectures, descriptive and instructive.
The older members of the church have enjoyed the course as much as the
younger. We have also adopted the plan of delegating one or more of
our young members to the meetings of church and Sabbath-school asso-
ciations, and requiring of them as full reports of those meetings as possible,
to be given verbally at our evening meetings. Notice of these reports
being given in the morning service usually attracts a large attendance at
the evening meeting. Our Sunday evening meeting continues as a re-
vival service, allowing opportunity for expression of growth in grace.
At such a meeting last Sunday six or more people held up their hands for
prayer, for conversion, and for increase of spiritual light. The interest
continues hopeful. A practical work is also being done by some of the
converts in visiting their acquaintances and reading to them the Scrip-
tures, " with new light," as they call it, and with good results, reaching those
who do not attend many of the meetings. This is good home mission-
ary work among themselves. A work is also being done in the educa-
tion of the converts and others touching the church as a divinely
appointed instrument for the salvation of the world, the custody of the
Scriptures and sacraments, and showing its responsibility for the services.
We found that some of these long-settled doctrines were new to some
older Christians, and they gave expression to their satisfaction with the
instruction. — Long IslandyN. Y.
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REVIVAL IN OKLAHOMA
Through the mercy of our God this has been the most blessed quarter
your missionary has had during the four years he has been in commission.
Our Salem church, with other churches in the neighborhood, has been the
scene of a wonderful movement. The presence and power of the Holy
Spirit have been manifested in an unusual degree. We are now in the
tenth week of an evangelistic effort — eight weeks without interruption in
our Salem church. Night after night, and for four weeks every afternoon,
your missionary with the help of the people has been enabled to proclaim
the glad tidings of salvation, and the hand of the Lord has been visibly
with us. The conversions have been for the most part among the young
people. Several of the best young men of the neighborhood have given
their hearts to Christ and united with the churches. Of the old men, so
far as we can tell, only one has been savingly reached, but his is quite a
happy case, while in his family (three grown sons and one daughter and the
young wife of one of the sons) all give unmistakable evidence of having
been "born again." Two young married couples, after much show of op-
position to the Gospel, are now in our church and taking firm hold of the
work. One of the men is the only son of a Baptist minister in Kansas,
and has in him good sound qualities. Last Monday he addressed the
congregation for twenty minutes with good effect. Then two other men,
one married, were " hard cases." The single man, the son of a Christian
widow in Illinois, had gone far astray, but he is now sweetly trusting the
Lord and gives good evidence of conversion. Some are living the Chris-
tian life in the face of opposition. Some are already learning to deny
themselves and take up their cross daily and follow Jesus. The Christians
of the community have been quickened and are greatly rejoicing because
of this wonderful mercy of God, to whom we ascribe all blessing and praise.
We cannot say when this glorious meeting will close. The interest is
as good as ever, and many are under conviction of sin. We expect five
or six to unite with us next Lord's Day. Other churches have also
received accessions. — Rev. T, A. Brunker.
WHAT LACK OF MONEY DOES
What a deterring influence this lack of money has everywhere, in
small towns as well as in large cities ; not only on commercial enterprises,
but on Christian work and church progress. I have long known the fact
theoretically, but never by experience so fully as within the last twelve
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months ; for I have never before been where money was so scarce as it is
here. The scarcity is, I find, one of the causes that keep so many people
here from going to church. They say, " I hate to be everlastingly ap-
pealed to for contributions when unable to respond." I have made stren-
uous efforts to attract such, but comparatively in vain. Besides advertis-
ing free lectures, special discourses, even short sermons, and brighter
services generally, I have taught stenography, French, and Latin, vocal
and instrumental music, etc., to individuals inside and outside of the con-
gregation. I have conducted a rather large singing class on the " Tonic
Sol-fa Method," with the result, I am told, of improving congregational
singing in all the churches, but not of greatly increasing the attendance
at our own. All this teaching has been given " all for love and noth-
ing for reward," except in one or two private cases when I wished to
earn a little extra for my quota toward needed repairs upon our small
sanctuary.
But all, or almost all, has been in vain, as to attraction. The cry is
still, "the collection," "the collection," or, rather, " our inability to give
anything," in answer to the earnest appeals which the poverty of the
church necessitates Sunday after Sunday. " Hence these tears," and my
renewed unwilling confessions that I am still unable to report satisfactory
accessions either to our membership or audience. " Perhaps the preach-
ing's at fault." Possibly. But folks do say, many of them, it isn't; and
I am vain enough to hope that those hearers are sincere who thank me
every Sunday for their gratification and edification. Anyhow, their
grateful assurances are at present the chief temporal reward of your
missionary. — Missouri.
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FROM OUR ALABAMA SUPERINTENDENT
If you have ever had a burning, with no insurance, you are fully pre-
pared to sympathize with your friend and brother. I note what you say.
in regard to apportionment for Alabama. All I can say is that we acqui-
esced in the action of the apportionment committee of the Society, and
as Superintendent I will do the best thing possible by cutting the garment
according to the cloth. I can't tell as yet what can be done with churches
that have been aided with a few dollars, unless we leave them off the list
until times improve, or, rather, until the depleted treasury returns to its
normal condition. I am aware that some of my brethren will blame me
for the cut, for you know there are always those who expect impossibil-
ities. We are glad to say, however, that we have not many of this class
in Alabama, and these few, I trust, will emigrate soon to the town of
" Grumbleburgh."
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We will take the whole situation and every department of the work to
the Lord, who promises : " If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God,
that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given
him."
It is raining hard to-day, so we spent from two to three hours at family
prayers this morning, and in searching the Scriptures, trying to find out
why God permitted our loss by fire, and the terrible fright by midnight of
my family (most of whom are aged or helpless women); also asking his
aid and direction to administer wisely and in the fear of God our church
matters in Alabama. With the treasury depleted and the churches poor
and suffering, the pastors and their families in many cases hungry, their
meal barrels often empty (for the drought prevailed in some places to an
alarming extent this past year), the people are also hungering for the
bread of eternal life. Before we broke up the family devotion tears were
flowing freely from all our eyes ; but we received a blessing that will be
remembered as long as life lasts. We realized then and there that —
" The birds without barn or storehouse are fed:
From them let us learn to trust God for our bread.
His saints what is fitting shall ne'er be denied,
So long as 'tis written, the Lord will provide."
So we all thanked God and took courage.
My wife is still suffering severely from the broken rib, and I fear
there are other internal injuries. We earnestly ask an interest in the
prayers of all the Society. — Rev. S. E. Bassett.
SWEDISH WORK IN MINNEAPOLIS
We have a great field in this city and surroundings. Here is a Swedish
population of about 30,000 souls, some say 40,000, and of this number
there are at most 8,000 who are members of or connected with the
twenty-two different Swedish churches in the city ; viz., six Lutheran, three
Baptist, two Methodist, four Mission Covenant (Missions Forbundet), one
Protestant Episcopal, two Presbyterian, one Free Baptist, one Free
Mission, one Norwegian (only three Swedes belonging to it), and lastly our
own, which is also called Free Mission, but is in reality Congregational,
as it is now affiliated with you. Besides, there are a Swedish Universalist
Church Society, and a Swedish Spiritist organization that too calls itself
a church, not counted in the above enumeration of twenty-two churches.
Here is also one Swedish Salvation Army corps, numbering about
twenty "soldiers" and attended by fifty to one hundred persons. Hence
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here is a Swedish population of at least 20,000 to draw from. Some
of this great number of non-church-members do, indeed, more or less
regularly attend one or another of the above-mentioned churches — perhaps
3,000 to 5,000 of them — and this is the material from which the churches
get most of their new members ; but most of the great unchurchly popula-
tion seldom attend church anywhere. Perhaps 200 or 300, at most 500,
belong to or attend exclusively American — that is, English-speaking — -
churches.
The mass of this unchurchly population is very difficult to reach with
the Gospel. Many of them are very poor, and for that reason will not
go to any church ; some are openly disbelievers in any and all religion,
extremely inimical to the churches, and have societies and meetings of
their own. A great many constitute a floating population, here to-day,
elsewhere to-morrow, simply working from day to day and utterly in-
different to religion and churches. Nevertheless, this mass of people
is a very interesting field, and not wholly unprofitable, either. We, as
a new and lately entering church, must work in it to get a good portion
of our material, and material for the living temple of God, from it. By
visits in families and in boarding-houses I have found a good many who
are willing to receive tracts and read them, and also to accept invitations
to come to church or some gospel meeting in a hall or at a private house.
Now and then one or another of these is converted. The best prospects
are with the unchurchly families. I am permitted to hold meetings
in their houses with good results. We ought to have a good city mis-
sionary who could have time to visit more such families and hold more
such "cottage meetings," as I have very few evenings to spare, having so
many meetings every week, two in the church besides Sunday meetings,
and at two mission places.
An instance may be to the point. At one such meeting the man of
the house was converted after having attended two or three times. In
his first prayer in public he said, in Swedish, among other quaint
things, with the utmost simplicity and without intending to pique : " O
God, help me to live a better life than I have been living, better than
a good many I know who call themselves Christians." — Rev. J. A. Princell.
FROM THE BAR TO THE PULPIT
Prior to my conversion in January last I was a lawyer by profession,
and when it was suggested that I leave that honorable calling for one
still more honorable I hardly knew what to do. It was hard to leave the
avocation for which I had specially trained and in which I had spent six-
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teen of the best years of my life, but I carried the problem to God in
prayer and left the question with him, asking his guidance and direction.
I soon saw the way open before me so plain that I could not mistake my
clear duty. Thereupon I closed my law office and applied to my minis-
terial friends for instruction and help. They were more than kind
towards me, and have given me all the assistance in their power.
In April I presented myself to the Association of the Congregational
churches of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho at its annual meet-
ing in Walla Walla, passed my examination, and was licensed to preach
for one year. In August I received a call from the First Congregational
Church in Rosalia, Whitman County, Washington, and began my ministry
here August 30, 1896, since which time I have preached in the church
here every Sabbath morning and evening, except the third Sabbath in
each month. This I spend at Oakesdale, twelve miles away, preaching
there also morning and evening. At the suggestion of the brethren who
knew me best, a council convened at Rosalia, September 29, 1896, for
the purpose of my ordination and installation, and I was duly ordained
and installed that evening. '
When I came here all business houses ran their stores, shops, and
other offices wide open on Sunday. Now they are closed, and an ordi-
nance has been passed, without opposition, providing for the proper
observance of God's day as one of rest.
I have had but one conversion under my ministry, and that not in my
church, but of a prominent politician well known in the national life,
who came here to make a speech. May God bless and keep him faithful
unto the end ! — Rev. C. W. Bushnell.
WAITING FOR THE BARREL
The times were very hard and the " home missionary debt " caused
so much pressure that there had been a general reduction of salaries.
Ours had been reduced almost beyond the possibility of making both
ends meet in this cold country, with coal from seven to twelve dollars a
ton. The parsonage was a poor shell that had been built for a barn
and enlarged, the cold wind blowing right through it in the blizzards.
We had had extra expenses, too, which took about seventy dollars from
us that we could ill afford. The missionary barrels for a couple of years
had not been as good and full as usual, so our stock of bedding and warm
clothing had become very low. We looked forward to the winter with
apprehension, for " Who can stand before his cold ?" While we were de-
bating ways and means, our hearts were rejoiced by a kind, thoughtful
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letter from the secretary of a ladies' society in the Middle States, telling
us that they were going to send us a barrel, and asking what special
things we needed. We replied, telling them of things most necessary,
and especially the warm bedding. They wrote again, and we replied,
giving them the story of our field, condition, and prospects. We waited
five or six weeks, and heard no more. Then a letter came saying they
were going to fill and ship a barrel in about ten days, and they would
write again. But no word came. Two weeks went past, and then three
days more. We heard nothing. In the meantime there came on an
early blizzard, which lasted three days ; our coal pile was small, and we
had no money to get more — the missionary treasury being empty, the
secretaries had written that we would have to wait for salary. We did
the best we could in the cold spell. We took down the curtains and used
them for bedding on one of the children's beds, and put hot bricks and
fiat-irons in bed with them. Then we took the missionary overcoat that
had done good service for twenty years, keeping the missionary warm in his
journeys, and put it on the boy's bed. With the lap robe and warm bricks
we kept the children warm. On our own bed we piled the clothes we
took off, but in spite of them all the cold wind as it went through the
house seemed to find our spines, and chill us through. I said to my
husband, " How I wish that barrel had come before this cold spell."
He replied in his cheery way, "Maybe it will come to-morrow." But it
did not come. " The Missionary's Sunshine " would say, as he came from
town : " Pa, any letter about our barrel ? I am waiting for my shoes."
"No, my child." "Never mind," she said; "maybe it will come to-
morrow." But no letter, no barrel. We are still waiting as patiently as
we can, every day looking for it. And we shall look and wait until it
comes Doubtless it is somewhere on the road and will come soon.
In the meantime we are waiting for the barrel. Still waiting. — Mrs.
Cinereus.
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CHRISTIAN EARNESTNESS AND MISSIONS
" The value of our religion," says a thoughtful writer, " is in propor-
tion as we are borne away from self, and are influenced by a burning love
for God and man to sacrifice ease, comfort, and possessions to advance
the kingdom of Christ." The measure of that principle is the measure
of our earnestness, in the pulpit and in the pew, in preaching and in
listening, in praying and in giving. The quality of the earnest spirit is
the same in all, though it does not in all manifest itself outwardly in
the same way. In the Christian, and in essence, it is the spirit of all-
absorbing interest in Christ's cause. It is ever asking, In what way can
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I best serve Christ, promote his kingdom and save souls ? It is not sat-
isfied to be for Jesus nothing more than a member on a church roll.
When it takes possession of a sincere soul, it is a burning passion to be
something for Jesus. So it manifested itself in Paul after his conversion.
The first cry of his new-born experience was : " What wilt thou have me to
do ? " I am thine, O Lord ; thine to suffer, thine to sacrifice, thine for
any service thou requirest of me.
When Xavier was preparing to go on his mission through the East
a friend who shared his sleeping apartment was awakened at dead of
night by hearing him in his sleep crying : " Yet more, O Lord, yet
more ! " In his dreams he had seen a wild and terrible career opened
before him in the service of Christ. He was to traverse barbarous
regions — islands, and continents, and mighty empires ; to endure hunger
and thirst, and all forms of physical suffering ; to face even torture and
death. As in his dreams he contemplated the trials, dangers, and suffer-
ings he was to face, he seemed to hear Christ saying to him, " Wilt thou
endure all this for the sake of winning souls to me ? " He cried out :
"Yet more, O Lord, yet more ! Give me more territory to conquer,
more suffering to bear." That was the spirit of missionary earnestness,
kindled by divine love into a burning passion for Christ and souls.
Would to God that all who profess Christ had in these days more of this
passion ! It would kindle every pulpit and every church in the land,
and cause money to flow in rich abundance into the depleted treasuries
of the missionary societies of all denominations, which because of inade-
quate resources are compelled to withhold aid from missionaries at home
and abroad ; and this when fields were never in the history of the world
richer for a great harvest than now. The laborers are few compared
with the need of the world ; but compared with the means to support
them they seem to be more than can be commissioned. This certainly
would not be were the hearts of all who profess Christ kindled with
divine love, so as to sympathize with the travail of his soul for this
suffering, lost world.
The need of our day, more than all else, is deeper consecration. It
is not better times and more money in circulation that are going to fill the
coffers of the missionary societies. The world is full of money, and so
are the churches. The money which is contributed for missionary pur-
poses is given by men and women whose hearts have been touched by
divine love ; and these contribute according to the measure of the
love they feel and the intensity of their consecration.
A man who had been for years a deacon of a church said to me,
after a renewed and more earnest consecration under the influence
of a revival : " I find I can pay a dollar now to promote the cause of
Christ easier than I could pay a dime before." Before he was an uncon-
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verted church member, and any little he paid to support his pastor or for
missions was a burden, an unwilling offering. Now, as a converted man,
his heart was in his giving, and he only wished he had more to give.
Let unconverted members of our churches be converted, and backsliders
return to the Lord in holy, whole-souled consecration, and dimes flowing
into the treasuries of the Lord will become dollars, and no more complaint
will be heard of debts and deficiencies.
I was once immersing an old man, converted — but thoroughly con-
verted— late in life, when his wife cried out to him from the shore, as
I was about to perform the ceremony : " Your pocket-book and money
are in your pocket. Throw it to me before you are immersed." " No,"
he said; "I want my money baptized with me." Under the water he
went, with his pocket-book and money, and lookers-on from the shore
said,' " That' old man is in earnest." If all who call themselves Chris-
tians were as earnest as he, religion would seem more real to people.
The old man after this, to the close of his life, was an earnest, consis-
tent Christian, because he had consecrated himself and all he had to
Christ.
Let us pray for the outpouring of God's spirit on all the churches of
the land ; that backsliders may be reclaimed ; that unconverted church
members may be converted ; that all may consecrate themselves anew
who are following too far off. Then we shall see a new order of things,
and the cloud now resting on the churches and the nation will be lifted.
— Whitley.
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A MEXICAN FIESTA
By Rev. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque, New Mexico
To step from a Christian community into a Mexican village7 yesterday
visited by the writer, and witness the Roman Catholic festival, the Feast
of Malinche, is enough to make one ask himself whether he is in the nine-
teenth century, or back in the Middle Ages ; whether he has not been
transported to some pagan land of the Orient, instead of being in Chris-
tian America.
The feast is held in honor of the patron saint of this village, San
Rafael, after whom the village is named, but the honor is shared by Ma-
linche. This woman is not a saint. She was a slave of Cortez, acted as
his interpreter with the Aztecs, and was finally made his mistress. She
is held in grateful remembrance by the Spaniards for the aid she gave
them in effecting the conquest, and by the natives for the kindness and
sympathy which she showed them in their misfortunes. " Many an Indian
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ballad commemorates the gentle virtue of Malinche. Even now, if report
be true, her spirit watches over the capitol which she helped to win ; and
the peasant is occasionally startled by the apparition of an Indian Prin-
cess dimly seen through the evening shadows, as it flits among the groves
and grottos of the royal hill of Chapultepec." So says Prescott. Re-
hearsing for the dance begins many days before the feast, and drinking
and carousing continue from the time of the first preparations until some
days after the feast day.
The feast consists of mass in the church, a dance in the plaza in front
of the church, and bonfires and fireworks in the evening. There are
twelve dancers, all men, over their trousers wearing pants of white mus-
lin, extending down from the thighs, tucked and frilled and trimmed
with lace. Shawls of varied hue and pattern were pinned to their
shoulders and hung down their backs; a large silk handkerchief of
bright color covered the face below the eyes and hung down over the
breast, while above this the face was veiled by lace, beadwork, or a piece
of mosquito netting. This curious costume was crowned by a gorgeous
headgear, being a cap about fifteen inches high, running to a point and
covered with glass beads, tinfoil, tinsel, etc. On each cap were several
small mirrors, which glittered and flashed in the sunlight as the dancers
kept time to the music. Long streamers of ribbon of all the colors of the
rainbow, a dozen to each cap, hung from the topmost point. Fan-shaped
ornaments of wood were carried in the left hand, and waved in time to
the music, and rattles in the right hand were kept in motion as they
danced. One of the dancers is the Monarcho, representing Montezuma,
and Malinche was impersonated by a girl of fourteen. Besides these
were four other characters, as follows : the Vieja (old woman); a man
who was the manager of the dance, dressed in a suit made of gunny
sacks, a sheepskin mask, and sombrero ; two Abuelos (grandfathers),
similarly dressed and masked; and the Toro (the bull), whose head was
crowned with a pair of horns, and whose special function was to scare the
small boys. These four were in reality the clowns of the performance,
making themselves as ridiculous as possible, and furnishing fun for the
occasion. Preceding the mass, the dancers and performers were led into
the church, a crowd of people who had gone in before being sent out,
and, rigged out as they were for the coming festivities, received a special
benediction. Two priests officiated at the mass. The church was crowded
to its utmost capacity, with not less than 400 people, including the per-
formers. After mass the priests, carrying a picture of San Rafael, led
the procession in a march around the plaza, followed by the dancers and
clowns, dancing and performing as they went. In the afternoon the
dancing was more elaborate, including a variety of steps to the music of
a violin and guitar. These instruments also accompanied the singing in
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the church services. During the mass an anvil was fired at frequent
intervals just outside the church.
Some of the actions of the performers were grossly indecent, and their
speech too vulgar for repetition. Liquor flowed freely. There were three
saloons running specially for this occasion, in this village where none exists
at other times (though native wine is kept in many houses and habitually
used), for the express purpose of supplying the needs of this religious (?)
festival. One of the Abuelos flourished a bottle of liquor from time to
time. Nearly everyone drank — men, women, and children — and some of
the performers gave unmistakable evidence of its effects, One man was
reported shot and another cut, in brawls, during the fiesta. At the last
the Toro is killed and Malinche catches his blood in her silk handkerchief,
but he comes to life again in time to join in the final dance. The even-
ings are made brilliant with fireworks and a large number of bonfires on
the plaza and on the roof of the church (the roofs are made of adobe and
are flat), and bailes (common dances) are held each night.
In the presence of such superstition, drinking, carousing, and vulgarity
as a part of a so-called Christian festival, one can hardly help querying
whether this is Christian civilization. A greater travesty on religion can
hardly be imagined.
In this same village, surrounded with what makes such scenes as this
possible, stands our Congregational church and school. Is it any wonder
that the work is difficult and results are slow to appear ? Not much gain
can be seen, though most efficient work is being done by our missionaries,
Mr. and Mrs. Birlew, and our teacher, Miss Dick. After about ten years
of work in San Rafael, a fully established church had heretofore been
impossible. But on the very day of these mockeries there came to the
mission a man who until a few months before had been living in drunken-
ness and adultery, bringing his wife with him, both desiring to unite with
the church. There .is no question as to the sincerity of their purpose.
Thus there are rifts in the clouds.
THE MISSING LINKS
By Miss Katherine MacNaughten
The incidents which suggested this title occurred at a conference for
missions in a neighboring village. The morning session had been most
inspiring, with addresses from missionaries and practical workers. The
afternoon was largely devoted to discussions of various questions of inter-
est. Of course the perennial question, How shall we interest the members
of our churches ? came up once more. One very earnest missionary
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worker, in the course of her remarks, quoted from a recent speaker who
had alluded to the <f missing links " at these gatherings, meaning the
absence of young girls. Looking round the audience, we saw quite a
number of these same " missing links," one of them a bright young lady
who had devoted her life to work in far-away China.
Now, this earnest speaker, who was really very much interested in the
question, did not mean to cast any reflection on young girls, but had
merely forgotten the girls' point of view. Certainly in this day of King's
Daughters organizations, Mission Bands, Young People's Societies of
Christian Endeavor, Brotherhoods of Andrew and Philip, etc., all more
or less interested in missions, we cannot say that the young people are
not falling into line.
But we must adapt our methods in missionary work, as in many
others, to the changing conditions of this century, even if some good old
methods seem for a while to be put aside. Let the young folks try their
plans, bringing into the work their undimmed enthusiasm which they will
have sore need of when they are older in the service.
At the same meeting, during the luncheon hour, a stalwart missionary
from India, well known to many, remarked, " I expected to see more men
here." A few did apologetically come in and sit at the extreme rear of
the church to hear this same missionary tell of his work, and the needs
of the cause in India. Here was the same question again. Certainly
the men of the church are " missing links " also. Of course large meetings
like those of the American Board and the Home Missionary Society
draw crowds, but at the smaller conferences and in our local churches
the men are conspicuous by their absence. Why should this be so ? Is
this work only for women and children ? It was not always so. I
remember, in far-away times, when it was still considered worth while for
the whole church to have at least a monthly concert for missions, we
had delightful meetings, when the busy pastor was not left to his own
devices to "get up a meeting," but when the intelligent men in the
church took lead of the meetings in turn, bringing the best information
on the subject for the use of all. We need a mission to the " neglected
classes," the men of the church. If the women and children, even in the
infant department, must come into line, why should not the " sterner
sex " come also ? If they do not study missions for themselves, or come
under the influence of missionary meetings, how can they take an intelli-
gent interest as they do in political or other great questions ?
With all due respect to the noble work of women for missions in this
century, the undoubted fact remains that it is in the hands of the men of
the country that the wealth is placed.
If our mission boards are to be put on a sound financial basis to meet
the many appeals coming to us, it needs a rally along the whole line. What
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kind of an army would that be with some of the companies not in active
service ? The whole church, not any one part of it, is called to the ser-
vice. The whole force is needed, each company working, it may be, inde-
pendently, but with one common bond of sympathy, one great aim, one
great leader, the Lord Jesus Christ, who heads the host and whose com-
mand was to the whole church, and his promise, " Lo, / am with you
alway, even unto the end."
Each individual church must adapt its methods to existing circum-
stances. In large cities and churches more separate organizations of
both young and old may be of advantage, but in smaller places and
feebler churches one strong organization for the work may be the best
way, only so adapted that all may have part, with variety enough to suit
all. Let us not make the young people and children feel out of place at
a missionary meeting any more than at a church service. We are all one
body in Christ. All the force is needed, if the many open doors, here and
abroad, are to be entered. First our beloved country, with its teeming pop-
ulation jostling each other, and speaking every language under heaven,
appeals to us. If we come up to our full duty here, we need not think that
the claims of the " outside heathen " will be disregarded. Numbers of these
"foreign" people, like the Chinese and Africans, are fitting themselves
for effective work in their own lands, showing that there is no division in
the body of Christ, no home, no foreign.
In this blessed work let us have no " missing links " to weaken the
chain, but one grand whole, bound together by mutual sympathy and the
charity which is " the bond of perfectness " to the one Lord and Master
to whom each Christian has pledged life-long service and devotion. —
Albany, N. Y.
*
REV. A. G. PETTERSEN
Anders Gustaf Pettersen was born in Sweden, November 7, 1844.
When a lad of eight years he began to be interested in spiritual things,
and clearly felt, as he was persuaded, the Holy Spirit striving in his heart.
When Anders was eleven years old his father became a Christian, and this
made the Christian life seem all the more desirable to him ; but while he
was trying to do the things which he thought would be pleasing to God
he had no peace or joy. It went on so for a long time. He was much by
himself, frequenting the forest, where he prayed much and earnestly that
he might become a genuine Christian, as his father seemed to him to be.
But his prayers and tears brought him no relief and no comfort. When he
was nineteen he broke away from the restraints of home and of the Spirit's
entreaties, and wandered into sin. After a time he was taken severely
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sick, and it was thought that he would not recover ; he himself expected
to die. His past life gave him no pleasure whatever. He desired and
prayed that he might recover, and made many good promises as to what
he would do, if only he might recover. God restored him ; but he let go
all his good promises, and lived on as he had been living, until a dear
friend died and he felt himself all alone in the world. Then he began
again to seek the Lord, and found both pardon and peace at the throne of
grace. His own account of that hour was : " No one can understand how
happy I was in the knowledge that Jesus was my Savior, and that my sins
were forgiven."
A year later, in 1867, a theological student advised him to study for
the ministry. As this had been on his own mind, he felt that perhaps this
advice was a call from the Lord. He began to pray that, if the Lord
would have him a minister, he would open the way for him to earn money
that he might secure an education.
In the fall of 1869 he entered "The Swedish Evangelical Fatherland
Colporteur School." After three terms of study the Association sent him
to the province of Dalarna to do the work of a colporteur and to preach
the Gospel. Working there a year, he fell into a despondent mood ; he
thought that God had not called him into the work, and that he could not,
therefore, expect his blessing.
He was much exercised in mind and heart over this, and made it a
subject of constant and earnest prayer. He could not be content without
knowing that the Lord wanted him in his work and had called him to it.
After a considerable time this question was finally settled, and he was fully
persuaded that he was called to be a minister of Jesus Christ. Then
there followed a memorable revival in his field. In his own words : " Many
came to me night and day, and wanted me to pray with them. Hundreds
became Christians. The good work, spread over the whole field. Many
are now in this country, and have become leaders in Swedish Mission
churches ; and many have gone home to be with the Lord. This was the
greatest religious movement I have seen in my life." Mr. Pettersen
remained on this field until 1877. Then the Association passed certain
rules for the direction of their colporteurs, to some of which Mr. Pettersen
could not give his assent. He therefore left the Association, and began
to preach independently. In 1880 he came with his family to this coun-
try and settled at Willmar, Minn. He worked at his trade, that of a car-
penter, until Christmas. Then he set out to visit the small new Swedish
settlements in Minnesota and Dakota. He would gather the settlers for
gospel services, stay a few days with them, and then go on to the next
group of settlers, out on the prairies.
In this way he gladdened the hearts, and blessed the lives, of many
who otherwise were not likely to listen to the preached Word. Many
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were led to give themselves to Jesus Christ through his ministry. It was
his privilege to plant a number of churches, which have since grown
strong. As the people to whom he preached were not well off in this
world's goods, Mr. Pettersen was obliged to support himself by working
on week days at his trade ; but on the Lord's Day he went out and
preached the Word to any and all who chose to come and hear. He kept
this up until 1891, when he moved from Willmar to Trade River, Burnett
County, Wis., to assist his brother in running a flour mill. This brother
had begun to erect a little church, and the two worked together in the mill,
and also upon the church, until it was ready for occupancy. They did
not ask for outside aid ; but prayed and worked, and worked and prayed,
till the building was finished. The church is a standing witness in that
community to what faith in God, prayer, and good-will can accomplish.
Meantime Mr. Pettersen continued to preach the Gospel as opportunity
offered. In 1892 he received a call from the Swedish Congregational
church of Upsala, Minn. He accepted this call, removed there in August
of that year, and began that work which he continued over four years,
until a month before he died. Mr. Pettersen ministered not only to the
church, but to the whole community. He was the only Swedish minister
settled in Morrison County, where there is a large population of his own
countrymen.
Numbers went to him for counsel and care, not alone in regard to
spiritual matters, but in anything and everything. When friends from
New England sent boxes of clothing to him, for himself and his family, he
did not forget " the poor family that has much less than my own family
and myself." It was his pleasure to do good, and to communicate and to
share his good things with the less prosperous.
He appreciated the aid of the Congregational Home Missionary
Society. He was wont to say, " Thank God for the dear American
friends, down East, who have sent us these things."
For more than a year Mr. Pettersen suffered with cancer in the stom-
ach. Towards the latter part of his life the pain was, at times, intense.
He preached in his church for the last time, November 8, 1896. The last
message to his people was, " Love one another." He thanked his wife for
all her care and loving sympathy, and charged his children to love their
mother, and be good to her. He died December 4, 1896. He was laid
to rest in the churchyard on Tuesday, December 8. Four of his brother
ministers officiated : Rev. A. G. Nelson, of Center City, Minn.; Rev. N. I.
Nelson, of Falun, Wis.; Rev. John Rood, of St. Cloud, Minn.; and Rev.
S. V. S. Fisher, of Minneapolis. The numbers and demeanor of those
who were gathered at his funeral indicated the regard with which the com-
munity honored our brother Pettersen. He has entered into his rest, and
his works do follow him. — S. V. S. F.
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THE "MYSTERIOUS MRS. B." AGAIN
By Mrs. H. M. Union
Our readers who have followed the experiences of this worker among
the miners in Montana may be interested in the latest message from her
pen in a personal letter. She writes :
I am still " holding the fort " here, with times as dull as usual, and
somewhat closer than ever. Last fall, as a delegate, I attended a State
convention in St. Louis, and had a very enjoyable time.
In crossing the Range on the way home, I got caught in a blizzard,
and the driver lost his way and wandered about among the sage brush all
night. I was the only passenger, and we were out twenty-one hours
without food or shelter, with the thermometer registering fifteen degrees
below zero. It was wonderful how the Lord sustained me through it all.
I did not freeze hand or foot, although I was so thoroughly chilled that I
suffered from it for several weeks afterward. I never felt my Father's
presence so close to me as I did all through that fearful night ; and such
peace filled my heart that I could speak cheering words to the driver,
who had the hardest time, for he froze his face and neck quite badly.
Now, dear friend, please do not reprove me for taking such a risk. I
did not realize it before, although I have traveled so much over these
mountains. We were due at our evening station before dark, and I was
so thoroughly wrapped, I knew I could stand the cold to that place. The
horses, however, were so tired, pulling through the drifts, that they went
very slowly, and night overtook us when within five miles of the station.
Not being able to see anything, the horses drifted before the wind. I do
try to be careful, but there are many unseen dangers ever around our path,
and we can be safe anywhere only through the providential care of our
Father in Heaven. — Montana.
PIONEERING EXPERIENCES
Financially, the people of Oklahoma are very poor, many of them
coming hither with almost nothing of this world's goods. But they have
gone to work with the determination that if God will keep them in health
and strength, and bless their endeavors, they will build homes for them-
selves and houses for his worship. With godly ministers and our beloved
Superintendent at the head, we hope and expect great things from the
Master.
Wife and I, traveling over the country, find very many who are so
"hard-up" for clothing that it is almost impossible to tell the original
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material from the patches. Many are going without shoes, being unable
to buy. Hardship is everywhere ; yet many of these people try to give
something to the cause of Christ. It is hard to take from them, yet for
the cause of the Lord the poorest of them. can give something, and it is
right and just that they should be continually taught to do so. God will
bless the man or woman who remembers him. The people take great
interest in church services and sometimes show wonderful spirituality.
We had a short revival last spring, with very good results. — Oklahoma.
A DYING CHURCH REVIVED
The people here had been without regular preaching for nearly two
years ; their moral condition was growing worse and the families were
scattered. They could offer no compensation except to bring in fruits
and vegetables. There was no appropriation from the Home Missionary
Society. The only inducement to come was the large opportunity for
doing good. Our first work was to repair the parsonage, which was
greatly dilapidated, having been used to store fruit. Glass was broken
from the windows, and the porches were tumbling down. By practicing
the closest economy we had saved a few dollars, hoping to take a little
vacation in a modest way, but this seemed to be the place to put our
money. Part of the lumber was given by one of the mills, and we went
to work repairing and building more porches, which were necessary for
comfort, painted the building inside and out, and papered the rooms
inside. This seemed to arouse the people and encourage them to
go to work. A friend donated shade trees and shrubs ; those most
interested helped about setting them out. So we now have a cosy,
pleasant home.
We found among the papers of the church a letter from one who
wished to unite, but at first there was neither life nor interest enough to
act upon the letter. Here was a grand opportunity to rally the church,
and by great effort we got four members together, two of them coming
fifteen miles, and voted the man into the church. The new member was
at the time thirty miles away, working in a mine, and some thought that
would be the last we should hear of him ; but upon being notified of his
admission, he immediately sent us a check for twenty-three dollars,
stating that twelve dollars were for the preacher's salary, two dollars
were for church insurance, and nine dollars for tracts to be distributed
through the town.
A week of prayer was observed and the meetings continued for five
weeks, beginning with nine and closing with an attendance of seventy-
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five, and resulting in the conversion of nine persons. Among them was
the saloon-keeper, now one of our most efficient members. — California.
REV. DR. KINCAID
The Rev. Dr. William Kincaid, for the last nine years one of th(
Secretaries of this Society, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., on the
12th of February, 1897, aged 55 years.
Born in London, England, in 1841, he came to this country in early
childhood, was graduated from Oberlin College in 1865, and studiec
theology at Princeton and Oberlin, graduating from the latter seminar]
in 1868.
With marked acceptance he filled pastorates in the Congregational
churches of Rushville, N. Y., Leavenworth, Ran., Oberlin (Second),
Ohio, and Oswego, N. Y. Thence he was called to represent " the Ameri-
can Board " as its district Secretary in New York City. From this
position he was elected, in 1888, one of the Secretaries of this Society.
From that time until a few weeks before his lamented death he fulfilled
the duties of his office with untiring energy and self-denial, with eminent
sagacity and unfaltering trust in the Divine warrant for the Society's
mission and in its abundant ultimate success.
He was a man of strong faith, of prayer, and of genuine consecration.
His genial, cordial spirit made cooperation with him ever easy and
pleasant. By the Society's superintendents and the faithful laborers in
its widely severed fields his periodical visits were warmly welcomed for
the light and strength and cheer gained from his counsels, sympathy, and
prayers. There are few helpers of good men and women in the Lord's
vineyard whose decease will be mourned by a wider circle of His chosen
ones.
But nowhere, outside of his home, will Dr. Rincaid be more sadly
missed than in the band of his co-workers in the offices of this Society and
of those cooperating with it in the Bible House, where he was most inti-
mately known and sincerely loved.
These brethren met in informal conference on the day after his
decease, and united in the resolutions that follow :
Whereas, To our Heavenly Father in his infinite wisdom and love it has
seemed good to call unto himself our beloved brother, the Rev. William
Rincaid, D.D., we, his brethren and fellow-laborers in the several co-
operative benevolent societies having their offices in the Bible House,
desire to unite in the expression of our sense of loss through his depar-
ture, our high estimate of his character and work, and our sympathy with
all who with us are afflicted by this bereaving providence :
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Resolved, First, That we, his intimate associates, bear united testimony
to our brother's deeply spiritual and devout character, his consistent and
eminently useful life, his self-denying devotion to every good word and
work for the Master, his large-hearted fellowship with all who love our
Lord in sincerity.
Resolved, Secondly, That in his removal from the scenes of active
Christian work we deplore an incalculable loss from the united band of
witnesses for Christ and his truth in the missionary fields at home and
abroad, who henceforth must miss his untiring labor, his gifts and prayers
in their behalf.
Resolved, Thirdly, That we sincerely sympathize with the Congrega-
tional Home Missionary Society and its workers scattered over our wide
land in their loss of a most loving brother, tenderly appreciative of their
toils and sacrifices for our country's evangelization ; with the Clinton
Avenue Church, Brooklyn, in the losing from its ranks of an earnest,
active, praying member ; and with all the cooperative organizations
caring, in their several lines, for the same great ends that ever found in
him a cheerful, ready helper.
And finally Resolved, Fourthly, That we extend our deepest, tenderest
sympathy to the bereaved family of our brother thus removed from their
precious home circle in the prime and vigor of his powers : to the beloved
wife of his youth, the companion and helper of his busy manhood ; to the
son and daughter who — along with their brother now in heaven — have
been richly blessed with the precept and example of so wise, affectionate,
and heavenly-minded a father.
THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS
April $11,428.79
May 5,866.47
June 8,713.88
July 14,350.84
August 3,460.00
September .... 9,148.64
October 7,115.88
November .... 12,533.97
December 20,941.25
January 27,244.08
THE CLOSING YEAR
The Society's seventy-first fiscal year is near its end — March 31. It
is believed that that day will have seen " the beginning of the end " of
these dreary years of business depression and of unprecedented dearth in
the treasuries of this and all other benevolent societies. With what more
joyful, appropriate, and grateful recognition can God's people hail the
FOR DEBT
LEGACIES
TOTAL
$5,093.08
$2,687.84
$19,209.71
3,834-45
6,180.76
15,881.68
3,506.6l
2,502.22
14,722.71
2,I2I.OO
9,772.20
26,244.04
487.56
2,107.21
6,114.77
6IO.OO
5,775-99
I5,534.63
218.85
1,646.85
8,981.58
33I.OO
30,845.53
43,710.50
200.00
77,086.65
98,227.90
452.00
8,136.54
35,832.62
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dawn of returning prosperity than by breaking the fetters of this chosen
instrumentality for the evangelization of our land and setting it free to press
forward the work he has so richly blessed for more than seventy years ?
The Society's obligations at the banks February 10 were $119,000.
Had the receipts equalled those of the same months of the seventieth
year, as was hoped and expected, these obligations would have been less
than $5,000. There will be needed for meeting dues to the missionaries
in February and March, $85,000. To redeem these pledges and to close
the fiscal year wholly free from debt, therefore, will require in these two
months $204,000. No large legacies are known to be ready for payment,
so for this sum the Society must look to the churches, State auxiliaries,
women's unions, Sunday-schools, Christian Endeavorers, army boys and
girls, and individual helpers from whom its supplies have come hitherto.
It seems a large amount to expect from them in so short a time. But
offerings as large have been several times received in the closing weeks
of recent years.
Is there no favored steward of his Lord's money ready to help these
steady givers in the generous spirit of a friend of missions who offers a
sister society $250,000 towards canceling its indebtedness, more than
four times as large as ours ? Are there no clusters of large churches or
of well-to-do men and women ready to unite in special efforts to meet the
emergency, thus blessing our country, and, through it, the world for which
our Redeemer died ?
THE NEW YEAR
The apportionment for the seventy-second year was made by the
Executive Committee of this Society early in January last and confirmed
by the Convention held on the 20th of that month. In view of the long
continued financial stringency the Executive Committee felt it absolutely
necessary to cut down the estimates for the coming year to an amount
which it could reasonably expect would be met by that year's receipts.
After carefully studying the operating expenses and making every reduc-
tion which in the Committee's judgment could possibly be endured with-
out seriously endangering the work, the estimates for the coming year were
cut down by $74,000. Of this amount seventeen and one-half per cent,
falls upon the work in the field, and twenty-two per cent, upon the
operating expenses.
It is the confident hope and belief of the Committee that this largely
reduced amount, with any obligations that may remain at the close of the
seventy-first year, will be met by the receipts, enabling prompt payment
of the missionaries to be made without the incurring of further debt.
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APPOINTMENTS IN JANUARY, 1897
Not in commission last year
Adams, Hubert Gilman, Garretson, So. Dak.
Bushnell, Campbell W., Rosalia. Wash.
Comin, John, Chamberlain, So. Dak.
Davies, James, Plankinton, So. Dak.
Farnsworth, E. D., Fidalgo City, Wash.
Grey, Fred. Valeda, Kan.
Hendrick, Harmon E., Port Townsend, Wash.
Mills, Charles L., Clay Center, Kan.
Munro, George A., Milford, Neb.
Rice, Guy Herbert, Springfield, Minn.
Richardson, Charles A., Louisville, Kan.
Spence, Joseph M. A., Clark, So. Dak.
Re com m issioned
Avery, Holly H., Steele City, Neb.
Barber, Jerome M., Wilsonville, Ore.
Barnes, Albert Edmond, Fertile, Minn.
Bascom, George S., Hankinson, No. Dak.
Bates, John Milne, Wakonda, So. Dak.
Bauman, Gustav, Butte, Neb., and Gregory Co.,
So. Dak.
Brereton, John, Grandin, Mo.
Caldwell, Asbury, West Palm Beach, Fla.
Chew, James. Thayer, Mo.
Conard, William J., Ellsworth, Ash Creek, and
Kanaranzia, Minn.
Deakin, Samuel, Cowlesand Pleasant Ridge, Neb.
Emerson, Frederic C, Glen Ullin, No. Dak.
Farnworth, Arthur, Nebraska City, Neb.
Fellows, Charles B., General Missionary at Gran-
ite Falls, Biwabik, Hibbing, and Eveleth,
Minn.
Fisk, Wilbur, Freeborn, Minn.
Flook, Jacob, Omaha, Neb.
Franklin, Benjamin, Etna Mills, Cal.
Gerrie, William A., Embarrass, Wis.
Gilles, Elbert W., New York Mills, Minn.
Green, George Edmund, Canova and Dover, So.
Etek.
Hensel, William A., Butte and Spencer, Neb.
Hjetland, John H., Williston, No. Dak.
Langdale, Thomas G., DeSmet, So. Dak.
Lich, Peter, Nelson, Neb.
Locke, Robert J., Turton, So. Dak.
Martin, Edwin, Erwin, So. Dak.
Michael, George, Detroit, Minn.
Mote, Henry William, Pacific Grove, Cal.
Newell, Arthur F., Lincoln, Neb.
Nutting. John D., Salt Lake City, Utah.
Oehler, William, St. Paul, Minn.
Parker, L. J., Denison, Texas.
Perry, Frank S., Lawrence, Little Muskingum,
Marietta, and Stanleyville, Ohio.
Plant, Miss Catharine, Minneapolis, Minn.
Reynolds, Lauriston, Redfield, So. Dak.
Robbins, Anson H., Iroquois and Osceola, So.
Dak.
Rood, Francis D., Avon Park, Fla.
Rouse, Thomas H., Belleview, Fla.
Sacken, Frederick Osten, Rockville Center,
N. Y.
Sherman, Miss Ella. Cheyenne, Wyo.
Smith, William E., Rockledge, Fla.
Townsend, Stephen J., Ocoee, Fla.
Webber, Edwin E., Centervilie, So. Dak.
Whittlesey, Charles T., Eureka, Wash.
Williams. Mark W.. Bruce and Apollonia, Wis.
Williams, Samuel, Riverton, Neb.
RECEIPTS IN JANUARY, 1897
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 569 to 572
MAINE— $1,308.61 ; of which legacy,
$1,000.
Received by J. L. Crosby, Treas. Me.
Miss. Soc .' $5 00
Auburn, Young Ladies' Mission Band
of High Street Ch 10 oo
Bangor, First, by W. P. Hubbard 40 00
Central Ch., by G. S. Hall 50 00
Bath, on account of Legacy of Mary
D. Moody, by J. R. Kelley and
G. C. Moses, Exs 1,000 00
Central Ch., by J. C. Ledyard 44 95
Belfast. First, by A. O. Stoddard 40 00
Ellsworth, by J. H. Brimmer 3 30
Jonesport, Woman's Soc, by Mrs. E.
G. Sawyer 1 00
Minot Center, by Dea. J. E. Washburn 10 66
Portland, High Street Ch 10 00
State Street Ch.,by H. M. Bailey.. 10 00
Williston Ch., by A. S. Burbank ... 73 30
Richmond, by S. E. McGeehon 5 00
Saco, First, by F. A. Lord 10 40
NEW HAMPSHIRE -$434.32; of
which legacy, $50.
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of
N. H.. Miss A. A. McFar-
land, Treas.:
Bristol, Ladies' H. M. Soc.
toward L. Mp. of Mrs. J.
H.Brown $3009
Concord, Y. P. S. C. E.,
First Ch $1200
A member of Cent Union
of the First 100 00
S. S. Primary class. 6 38
Keene, Primary Dept., S. S.
of the Second 6 00
Rochester, Young Woman's
Miss. Soc 20 00
$!74 47
Berlin, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. J. B.
Carruthers 7 oo
Chester, P. P. A. Mills 5 00
Epping, A Friend 1 oo
Exeter, A Friend 10 00
I. S. Sbute, to const. M. A. Hatch a
L. M 50 00
Hanover, Estate of Andrew Moody,
by J. K. Lord, Trustee 50 00
Littleton, First, by D. C. Renwick. . . 18 01
Lyme, S. S., of which $5 from Mrs.
Gordon's S. S. class. Silver Circle,
by Rev. C. E. Gordon 10 00
Manchester, Franklin Street Ch., by
J. T. Carpenter 58 10
Newmarket, T. H. Wiswall 10 00
New Ipswich, Dea. J. E. F. Marsh. . . 5 00
Orfordville, Mrs. A. L. Pierce 40
Pelham, A Friend 15 00
Peterboro, Extra-Cent-a-Day Band of
Union Ch., by Miss J. M. Buckmin-
ster 3 00
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March, 1897
Somerworth, A Friend $10 00
Temple, S. S., by M. N. Fisk 5 34
Warner, Mrs. R. W. Sargent 2 00
VERMONT— $267.48.
Vermont Domestic Miss. Soc, W.
C. Tyler, Treas.:
Barton $1300
Bennington. Second, to
const. Dea. W. C. Hitch-
cock a L. M 55 55
Brattleboro, West 500
Chelsea 9 59
Weston 4 00
Barre, A Friend
Berlin, by G. W. Dustin
Burlington, College St., by G. G.
Benedict
Fair Haven, First, by R. H. Ball. . . .
Manchester, Miss E. J. Kellogg
Middlebury, by N. P. Barbour
North Thetford. Mrs. M. B. Pratt
Norwich, Miss S. J. Burton
Putney, A Friend 1 00
St. Albans, First, on account Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor, special for
the debt 7 00
South Royalton, Y. P. S. C. E., by A.
G. Whitham 6 44
West Randolph, Mrs. F. S. Carter... 5 00
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MASSACHUSETT S— $13,972.86 ;
of which legacies, $2,666.70
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E.
B. Palmer, Treas 8,000 00
By request of donors, of which $45
for debt ; Salary Fund, $20 ; -Roll
of Honor, $200 554 59
For work among foreigners in the
West 525 00
W. H. M. A., Miss A. C. Bridgman,
Treas. :
New Bedford, Aux., for Salary
Fund 200 00
Amh rst, First, by B. H. Williams... 191 00
Arlington, by S. A. Fowle, Jr 126 25
Ayer, Legacy of Sally M. Page, by
E. A. Richardson 100 00
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary
Fund 50 00
Cambridge, A Thank offering 3 00
Charlemont, S. S. of the First, by E.
P. Smead . .'. 10 24
Dalton, Mrs. F. Couch 25 00
Dorchester, Second, by Miss E. Tol-
man 16086
Enfield, Mrs. M. P. McClary, by W.
B. Kimball, for Gen. Howard Roll
of Honor 100 00
Everett, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First,
by Mrs. H. R. Grant 500
Fitchburg, Miss M. Gould 5 00
Hadley, Estate of J. B. Porter, by W.
P. Porter, Trustee 34 40
Hatfield. Primary Dept. of S. S., by
Mrs. R. Billings 3 00
Haverhill, C. Coffin 4 40
Holliston, Estate of George Batchel-
der, by J. M. Batchelder 32 30
Holyoke. Jr. C. E. of the First, by C.
H. Baird 1000
Linden, Mrs. T. D. Goodhue 1 00
Lowell, Legacy of Mrs. L. M. Ely. . . 500 00
Highland Ch., by H. A. Smith 43 35
Ludlow, Jr. C. E. of the Union Ch.,
by Rev. A. J. Quick, special $5 00
Massachusetts, A Friend, by Rev. C.
W. Shelton. for Vinita 1 50
Monson, E. F. Morris 150 00
By E. F. Morris 20 00
Montague, First. A Friend 1000
Needham, S. S., for Salary Fund, by
Rev. C. W. Shelton 7 48
Newton Center, Extra-Cent-a-Day
Band, by S. F. Wilkins 15 09
Northampton, Dorcas Soc. of the
First, by Mrs. J. E. Clark, for Sal-
ary Fund 62 50
North Andover Depot, A. B. Chan-
dler, in memory of her father 1 00
Pittsfield, First, by F. W. Dutton 15 00
Rockland, First, by L. D. Perkins... . 70 00
Salem, Young Ladies' Miss. Soc. of
the Tab. Ch., by Mrs. J. P. Hale... 400
Shelburne, Z. D. Bardwell, to const.
Mrs. J. Goodrich a L. M 50 00
South Amherst, Y. P. S. C. E. of
South Ch., by Rev. J. F. Gleason.. 10 00
Southampton, S. S., by W. A. Parsons 30 04
South Framingham, H. A. P., $10 ;
E. A. P., $5, by H. A. Pike 1500-
South Hadley Falls. Miss E. Gaylord 50 00
South Hadley, Mt. Holyoke College,
Dime Banks of Miss E. Redman,
Miss H. Swift, Miss F. M. Hazen,
by Miss F. M. Hazen 10 00
Silver Circle, by Mrs. L. H. Porter 5 00
Springfield. Mrs. A. Baker, by Mrs.
S. M. Coe 1 00
" The Benev. Fund " of the Park
Ch., by W. W. Gowdy 70 25
Opportunity Club of the South Ch.,
by F. Lincoln 25 00
Three Rivers, Union Evan. Ch., by
Rev. G. S. Butler 12000
Ware, Silver Circle, Mrs. G. E.
Tucker. $5 ; Mrs. C. J. Sage. $5 ;
Miss S. R. Sage, $5 ; Mrs. H. N.
Hyde, $5 ; Miss H. S. Hyde, $5 25 00
Warren, by G. E. Tarbell 290 00
Westfield, First, by M. E. Searle. ... 181 27
A Friend 1 00
West Newbury, S. S. of the Second,
by Miss J. H. Bailey 12 34
Williamsburg, by H. W. Hill 25 00
Wollaston Heights, A Friend 5 00
Worcester Co., E. B 1 00
Worcester, Legacy of William T.
Merrifield, byH. K. Merrifield, Ex. 2,000 00
RHODE ISLAND— $2,589.50; of which
legacy, $2,500.00.
North Stonington, byT. S. Wheeler.. 89 50
Providence, Estate of John E. Troup,
by R. I. Hospital Trust Co., Adm . . 2,500 00
CONNECTICUT-$3,i5i.23.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., by Rev. W. H.
Moore, Sec 384 06
Woman's H. M. Union of Conn., Mrs.
W. W. Jacobs, Treas.:
Enfield, The L. Benev. Soc,
by Mrs. K. Abbe, for Sal-
ary Fund $5 00
Hartford, First, A Friend.. 25 00
Jr. Aux. in the First Ch.,
for Salary Fund 90 00
South Ch., Mrs. G. W.
Moore 25 00
Kent. Aux., by Mrs. S. M.
Roberts 60 00
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Middletown, North Ch., by
Mrs. J. H. Bunce, con-
tents of Miss S. E. Ba-
con's Dime Bank $5 30
No. Ch., member of Silver
Circle 5 10
New Britain, South Ch. L.
B. S., by Miss M. E.
Bingham, Silver Circle,
$5 ; Salary Fund, $6.13. n 13
South Ch., contents of
Mrs. G. Root's Dime
Bank 4 go
South Ch., Friend, for
Salary Fund 1 00
South Ch., A Friend,
Christmas offering, for
Salary Fund 5 00
Norfolk, by S. A. Selden... 171 00
Sharon, for Salary Fund. . . 50 00
Wallingford, L. B. S., by
Mrs. L. B. Bishop, for
Salary Fund 100 00
Wauregan, Ladies' Benev.
Soc, special 20 00
West Winsted, Second. Mrs.
C. W. Gay, for Salary
Fund 25 00
Woodstock, Aux., by Miss
F. H. Butler 25 00
$628 43
Berlin, "Golden Ridge Mission Cir-
cle," by F. M. Warren 25 00
Bethel, First, by A. H. Knox 164 10
Bridgeport, Mary Barnes Palmer
Mission Circle of the First, by A. H.
Hincks, for Salary Fund 25 00
Centerbrook and Ivoryton, by S. F.
Parmelee 10 28
Chaplin, H. T. Crosby 2 40
Connecticut, Friends, by Rev. C. W.
Shelton 3 00
Cromwell, by S. M. Savage 109 12
Danbury, First, by H. E. Averill, to
const. J. L. Knapp and Mrs. M.
Beltaire L. Ms 157 26
Dayville, S. S., by R. C. Harrington. 86
Deep River, by L. Kellogg 13 64
Easton, by S. B. Turney 6 00
East Woodstock, Two Friends 2 00
Ellsworth Ch., $3.30; Y. P. S. C. E.,
$7. 10, by Dea. C. C. Dean 10 40
Fairfield, C. Bells 5 00
Farmington, A Friend 200 00
A Friend 50 00
Goshen, F. M. Wadhams. 20 00
Greenwich, Y. P. S. C. E. of the Sec-
ond, by C. P. Child 515
Second, of the S. B. S 10 00
Miss M. F. Choate 5 00
Hartford, Fourth Ch.,by C. E. Miller 13 12
Theol. Sem. students, by R. B. Hall 3 00
K. S. Williams 10 00
H. M. Lyman 3 00
Higganum, by C. J. Gladwin 10 00
Kensington, First, by S. M. Cowles.. 18 31
Lakeville, "Fidelia 300
Lebanon, First, by Rev. W. S. Palmer 2 00
Two Ladies of the First 46 52
Ledyard, by G. Fanning 8 36
S. S„ by J. M. Gray 142
Meriden, A Friend 5 00
Middletown, South Ch., by G. A. Craig 88 45
Monroe, by A. Wheeler 27 52
Mt. Vernon, by W. C. Driggs 15 00
New Hartford, Penny-a-Day Band of
the North Ch 5 32
New Haven, Center Ch 10 00
Grand Avenue Ch., by W. Heming-
way 50 00
Ladies' Mission Circle of the United
Ch., by Miss R. M. Munger 5000
I. M. B. D 35 00
New London, First, by H. C. Learned $68 68
Newtown, by G. F. Duncombe 6 00
Norfolk, A Friend 10 00
Northfield, by H. C. Peck 20 00
By W. Maltby 400
Norwalk, First, by E. L. Boyer to
const. G. H. Quintard a L. M . . . 83 78
S. S. of the First, by F. J. Curtis. . . 20 00
Norwich, Second in 70
S. S. of the Second, by H. Lanz... 18 63
By F. H. Potter 10 00
Old Lyme, by W. F. Coult 76 85
Old Saybrook, by R. Chapman 35 25
Plainville, A Friend 5 00
A Friend 1 00
Pomfret, First, by Mrs. C. C. Wil-
liams 179 40
Rockville, Ladies' Aid Soc. of the
Union Ch., by C. F. McLean 25 00
Sharon, First, by R. E. Goodwin 41 15
Southbury, Mrs. H. Perry 2 00
Southington, by J. F. Pratt 87 70
Southport, A Friend 2 00
Stamford, M. W. Brown 2 00
Terry ville, by A. B. Beach 20 62
Thompsonville, C. Kingsbury 5 00
Westport, Saugatuck Ch., by H. C.
Wood worth 61 75
Windsor, Y. P. S. C. E. of the First,
by Mrs. M. H. Barber 1200
NEW YORK— $1,588.77 ; of which
legacy, $200.00.
Received by W. Spalding,
Treas.:
Canandaigua $26 79
Chenango Forks 3 22
Columbus 25 00
Cortland 33 00
De Ruyter 7 40
Maine, a Friend 10 00
Randolph, $26.19 ; S. S.,
$2.35; Y. P. S. C. E.,
$11-25 39 79
Rensselaer Falls, $6.88; S.
S.,$i 7 88
Syracuse, Rev. E. Curtis... 10 00
163 08
Woman's H. M. Union, N, Y.,
Mrs. J. J.Pearsall,Treas.:
Barry ville $5 00
Binghamton, First, Help-
ers 50 00
Brooklyn, Bushwick
Avenue, King's Daugh-
ters, special 3 50
Tompkins Avenue, King's
Daughters, for Salary
Fund 50 00
Buffalo, First, toward the
debt 50 00
Cburchville, of which $15
Silver Circle 2000
Cortland, Silver Circle 5 00
Elmira. Park Ch., special... 44 00
Homer, S. S 5 58
Ithaca, S. S 47 27
Middletown, First, Ladies'
Guild, to const. Mrs. C.
Lyon a L. M 77 09
Rutland 9 40
366 84
Angola, by T- H. Mallows 10 00
Berkshire, Y. P. S. C. E., by J. J.
Hough 4 50
Brooklyn, Lee Avenue, by C. H. Gil-
lespie 16 00
J. L. Roberts 5 00
E. F. C... 5 eo
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Canandaigua, First, by H. C. Buell,
for Salary Fund
Fishkill-on-Hudson, Miss M. T. Kitt-
redge
Flushing, S. S. of the First, by C. P.
Harris
Gaines, Ch. and S. S., by A. E. Ben-
ton
Gloversville. by D. H. Tarr
Lawrenceville, Mrs. L. Hulburd
Londonville, Legacy of Eliza McKis-
sick, in memory of Mary M. Lyman,
by Walter McE wan, Ex
Middletown, First, add'l, by S. R.
Corwin
Mt. Vernon, First, by J. M. Hurd. . .
Mt. Sinai, mon. con., by S. J. Hop-
kins
New York City, Mt. Hope, Christ Ch.,
by Rev. H. M. Brown
Bedford Park, by W. R. Post
Tremont, Children of Trinity Ch.,
by C. W. Stoughton
Spanish, by Rev. J. M. Lopez
Welsh Ch
Mrs. J. Billings, special
S. E. Gillum
Northfield, Union Miss. Soc, by W. S.
Webb
Northville. S. S.. by H . Luce
Norwich, First, bv J. McCaw,to const.
Rev. E.J. Klock, M.A.,aL. M
Orient, by M. B. Brown, for Gen.
Howard Roll of Honor
Oswego, by W. B. Couch
Owego, First, by E. E. Strait
Sherburne, S. S. of the First, by R.
Marvin
C.S.Gorton
Spencerport. S. S. of the First, by A.
Mclntyre
Syracuse, S. S. class. Silver Circle, by
Mrs. W. Nichols ...
Tallmans, First, by T.W. Springston.
Wadham's Mills, by Rev. E. J. Ab-
bott
West Brook, by T. S. Hoyt
West Groton, by Rev. J. Cunning-
NEW JERSEY-$393.59.
Woman's H. M. Union of the N. J.
Assoc, Mrs. J. H. Denison,
Treas.:
Bound Brook $22 00
Montclair, First, for Salary
Fund 50 00
Orange Valley, for Salary
Fund 60 00
Ch., for Salary Fund 700
139 00
Bound Brook, Y P. S. C. E 6 37
Closter, First, bv Mrs. I. H. Demarest 6 22
East Orange, K 100 00
Passaic, A Friend 2 00
Paterson, W. Mitchell 30 co
Somerville, Mrs. F. Lyman, " In
Memoriam '' 1000
Upper Montclair, Christian Union
Ch., by G. N. Bostwick 100 00
PENNSYLV ANIA-$339.34.
Woman's Missionary Union,
Penn., Mrs. T. W. Jones,
Treas. :
Kane $5 00
Meadville 1000
Ridgway 5 00
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Assoc, Mrs J. H. Denison, Treas. :
Philadelphia, Penn., Central Ch.,
for Salary Fund $6 20
Audenried, Welsh Ch., by W. Hughes. 6 00
Blossburg, Second, by Rev. J. T.
Mathews 1500
Braddock, First, by Rev. T. Adden-
brook 4 75
Edwardsville. Bethesda Ch., by Rev.
D.L.Davis 700
Guy's Mills, Mrs. F. M. Guy 500
Jermyn, Memorial Ch., by Rev. W.
Surdival 10 00
Johnstown, First, by R. R. Thomas.. 4 95
Mt. Carmel. S. S., by M. Davis 12 70
Philadelphia, Kensington, by Rev. N.
N. Bormose 5 00
Pittsburg, Cash 200 00
Pittston. First, by Rev. D. M. George. 10 74
Plymouth, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. W.
L.Evans 500
Puritan Ch., by T. McKay 7 00
Welsh Ch.. by W. T. Jones 1300
Renovo, Scand., by Rev. B. O. John-
son 2 CO
Scranton, Puritan Ch., by Rev. N.
Matthews 5 00
MARYLAND— $173.01.
Baltimore, First, by C. S. Houghton. 63 01
Canton Ch., by Rev. T. M. Beaden-
koff 1000
Frederick City, A Friend 100 00
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-$733.oi ;
of which legacy, $701.44.
Washington, Legacy of William
Webb, by J. M. Vale, Esq 701 44
Y. P. S. C. E. of the First, by A. A.
Buck 2157
Mrs. F. P. Burrows 5 00
Miss E. Foster, by Rev. R. H. Har-
per 5 CO
NORTH CAROLINA-$2.g8.
King's Mountain, by M. E. Newton..
GEORGIA-*
.40.
Atlanta, Duluth Ch., Si. 30, and Bra-
den, Antioch, 70c, by Rev. W. F.
Brewer
Barnesville, $25.50 ; Hoboken, $1.30;
Naylor, $1, by Rev. S. C. McDaniel.
Columbus, bv Rev. G. W. Cumbus...
Ft. Valley, by Rev. J. F. Plackburn. . .
Hoschton, by Rev. J. C. Forrester
North Rome, Plainville. and Holland
Springs, by Rev. J. W. Gilliam
Pearson, Union Hill, by Rev. G. N.
Smith
Powersvi'le, Allen's Chapel, by Rev.
W. C. Carter
Roberta, Clark's Mill, Magdalena, and
Woodbury. Ga., by Rev. G. Home.
Strickland, by Rev. A. J. Lyle
The Rock, Lipsey, Taylor, and Hen-
dricks, by Rev. W. H. Graham
Zoar. $3 ; Concord, $2 ; Ebenret. $1 ;
Liberty, $1, by Rev. M. G. Fleming
2 98
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5 75
7 60
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5 00
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7 75
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ALABAMA— $84.07.
Arbacoochee, by Rev. S. E. Bassett.. $5 00
Art, Blackwood, and Wicksburg, by
Rev. M. V. Marshall 5 65
Ashland, Millerville, and Milner, by
Rev. T. Wright 8 75
Bluff Spring and New Site, by Rev.
J. M. Gipson 3 70
Clanton, Mountain Spring, and South
Calera, by Rev. J. L. Busby 2 50
Concord, $5 ; Henderson, $8.82, by
Rev. N. H. Gibson 13 82
Dadeville, Ridge Ch., by Rev. J.
Matthews 50
Echo, Friendship Ch., by Rev. E.
Mathison 1, 65
Judah Ch., by Rev. S. R. Branan.. 1 20
Fairfield, St. Thomas Ch., by Rev. M.
M. M. Schwarzauer 2 00
Fredonia, Mt. Pisgah, by Rev. M.
Prescott 6 00
Gate City, by Rev. T. B. Haynie 3 50
Haleyville, Union Grove Ch., by Rev.
W. J. Thrasher 1 00
Jackson's Gap, Liberty Ch., by Rev.
E. B. Gunn 75
Lamar, Rev. M. Prescott 1 00
Opelika, Mt. Jefferson Ch., by Rev. J.
S. Holt 5 00
Phcenix City, Bethany Ch., by Rev.
L. J. Biggers 2 00
Portersville and Ten Broeck, by Rev.
J. M. Dobbs 1 25
Rose Hill and Hilton, by Rev. T. A.
Pharr 2 25
Spio and Echo, by Rev. S. Weatherby 2 45
Tallassee, Central, Kent, and Verbena,
by Rev. A. C. Wells 7 50
Tilmore and Tidwell, by Rev. J. W.
Grant 500
Upshaw, Houston, and Addison, Chs.,
by Rev. W. J. Robertson 50
Volina and Halton, by Rev. I. J.
White 1 10
LOUISIANA— $47.10.
Boyce District, Pine Grove Ch., by
Rev. W. C. Cudd 100
China, by Rev. C. F. Sheldon 12 23
Jennings, First, by Rev. G.N. Funk. 26 47
Lake Charles, Rev. C. F. Sheldon... 1 40
New Orleans, Morris Brown S. S., by
E.H.Phillips 100
White Bay Springs, Friendship, and
Oak Grove, by Rev. M. J. Owens. . 5 00
FLORIDA— $133.04.
Boggy and Portland, by Rev. D. A.
Simmons 1 20
Daytona, B 100 00
Jacksonville, Union Ch., by A. J.
Wakefield 20 00
Longwood. Sr. Y. P. S. C. E., $1.25 ;
Jr. C. E. Soc, P. Hardoway, 14c,
G. W. Hardoway, 8c, by Rev. G.
W. Hardoway 1 47
Longwood and Palm Spring, by Rev.
G. W. Hardoway 3 75
Manson and Coatsville, by Rev. S. B.
Judah 1 50
Moss Bluff, by Rev. E. D. Luter 2 00
Vernon, Bonifay, and Dundee, by Rev.
G.Lee 312
Collections for Ybor City Mission,
$69.44 ack. in February H. M. :
Annual Meeting $1303
Daytona, Y. P. S. C. E s 00
East Coast Conference $4 35
Interlacken, Aux 5 00
Jacksonville, Aux 3 50
Longwood, Y. P. S. C. E.. 2 08
New Smyrna, Aux 10 00
Sanford, Y. P. S. C. E 500
St. John's River Conference 1 48
TEXAS-$24.5s.
Dallas, First, $11.25; Paris, First,
$13.30, by Rev. L. Rees
INDIAN TERRITORY— $S. 00.
McAlester, First, by Rev. W. H.
Hicks
OKLAHOMA— $48.06.
Alpha, Mt. Pisgah, Otter, and Parker,
by Rev. W. Kelsey
Bulah, $5-25 ; Park, $3-97 ; Tabor, $3,
by Rev. J. F. Robberts
Choctaw City, 25c. ; Minaha, $3, by
Rev. W. J. Siler
El Reno, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. W. M.
Wellman
Enid, Plymouth, by Rev. J. S. Murphy
Payne Co., First and Union Chs., by
Rev. I. A. Holbrook
Soldier Creek and Pleasant Valley, by
Rev. O. G. Legrande
ARIZONA— $100.00.
Phcenix, F. W. Lyman.
$49 44
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Berea, Church of Christ, by T. J. Os-
borne , 10 33
OHIO— $591.24.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. :
Ashtabula, Second, by E. B.
Schwacofer $4 55
Cincinnati, Vine Street, by
J.R.Henderson 14 75
Cleveland. Euclid Avenue,
by J. Snow, in full to
const. Mrs. A. J. Smith,
Miss Florence L. Cozad,
and H. T. Loomis L. Ms. 69 62
Columbus, North, Birthday
offering, by J. A. Rhcads. 7 38
Cuyahoga Falls, Y. L. M.
S., $12; S. S.,$5, by Rev.
H. Stauffer 17 00
East Greenville, by E. P.
Blethyn 3 00
Granville, by Rev. D.
Jones, D.D 10 00
Kent, by C. M. Power 1511
Kingsville, Miss Eliza S.
Comings 5 00
Lodi, by A. B. Taylor 10 54
Mansfield, Mayflower C. E.,
by Mrs. C. B. DePue 2 00
North Amherst 9 00
Norwalk, S. 3., by F.
Husted 20 87
Pettisville, by Rev. W. D.
Trover 3 94
Pittsfield, by Miss A. F.
Whitney 10 00
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March, 1897
Ridgeville Corners, by Rev.
W. D. Trover $2 83
Sandusky, by H. H. West.. 27 05
Sharon, Penn., S. S., by W.
J. Thomas 3 84
Thomastown, by Miss R.
Davies 4 00
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue,
by J. Snow $3298
Plymouth, Christmas of-
p fering, by S. H. Stilson. 66 65
Woman's H. M. Union, by
Mrs. G. B. Brown :
Cleveland, First 1226
Plymouth 5 00
Lakeview 5 00
Garrettsville 3 00
Huntsburg 5 00
Marietta, First 10 00
Norwalk 2 25
Painesville 3 50
Wauseon, S. S., Bible
Readers Home 3 98
West Williamsfield 11 00
160 62
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas :
Belpre $4 00
Cincinnati. Vine Dime banks
from S. S. classes of
Miss K. A. Strieber and
Miss M. L. Brickley 10 00
Vine S co
Cleveland, First 12 26
Columbus, Eastwood, J.
Lindsey's Dime bank 500
Geneva. Mrs. S. P. Searles'
Dime bank 500
Gustavus 5 00
Hudson 6 50
Oberlin, First. L. A. S.,
Mrs. Harmoni's Dime
bank, $5 ; H. Hustids, 90c. 5 90
Sandusky, Miss S. E.
Clark"s bank 5 00
Springfield, First, Y. P. S.
C. E 15 00
Unionville 5 00
83 66
Ashland, I. O. Jennings 4 40
Ashtabula Harbor, Finnish, by Rev.
F. Lehtinen 2 00
Cincinnati, Columbia Ch., by J. N.
Cole 6 00
Claridon, M. J. Wilmot 5 00
Croton, $3.50 ; Lock, $3.48, by Rev. J.
W. Dickson 6 98
Kirtland, by G. P. Curtis 1 27
Oberlin, First, by A. M. Loveland... 30 80
Second, by N. Huckins 21 69
Springfield. First Ch. and S. S., by H.
G. Forbes 1 1 65
Wellington, First, by A. R. Palmer.. 11 69
West Williamsfield, by C. R. Cole-
man 5 00
INDIANA-$i42.69.
Received by Rev. E. D. Curtis:
Anderson, Hope Ch $10 40
Fort Wayne. Plymouth Ch. 55 00
Michigan City, Sanborn
Memorial 5 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. H.
Ball, Treas.:
Bremen $1 00
Indianapolis, Mayflower... 31 29
Terre Haute, First 25 00
Fairmount, First, by Rev. L. White..
ILLINOIS-
$981.52.
$1,087. 92 i 01 which legacy,
WISCONSIN-$i6.46.
Coloma, by Rev. I. Jones
Glenwood, Swedish Ch., by Rev. O.
Ohlson
Maple Valley, Scand., by Rev. A. J.
Andrewson
Norrie, $1.18; Birnamwood, $3.02, by
Rev. T. G. Grassie
West Superior, Hope Ch., by Rev. J.
Kimball
Wood Lake and Doctor's Lake, Swe-
dish Ch. , by Rev .N.I. Nelson
IOWA— $72.80; of which legacy, $36.90.
Charles City. Jr. Y. P. S. C. E. of the
First, by F. A. Slocum
Des Moines, Rollins Farm. Estate of
Mrs. H. L. Rollins, by S. A. Merrill,
Ex
Gait, C. J. Gillett, by S. A. Martin...
Muscatine, Friends
Traer, Mrs. T. F. Clark's S. S. class,
by Mrs. T. H. Best
Wilton Junction, German, by Rev. E.
G. L. Mannhardt
$57 29
15 00
Illinois Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. J.
Tompkins, for Salary Fund 100 00
Griggsville, Estate of Jabez D. Phil-
brick 981 52
Hamilton, A. L. Miller 1 40
Tiskilwa, G. C. Kellogg 500
MISSOURI— $429.86.
Aurora, First, by Rev. A. M. Beman.
Bonne Terre, by Rev. J. B. Fiske. . . .
De Soto, J. E. Jones, M.D
Eldon, by H. Phillips
Glasgow, Mrs. J. Trowbridge
Kidder, by Rev. A. L. Gridley
Maplewood, Miss. Soc. of the S. S. of
the Ch. of the Covenant, by S. C.
Greene
Pierce Citv. First, $23.01 ; Jr. C. E.
Soc, $2, by W. A. Rhea
St. Louis, Pilgrim Ch., by G. L. Day.
Reber Place Ch., by Rev. F.
Stringer
Seymour, J. M. Anderson
Springfield, Pilgrim Ch., by Rev. J. C.
Reeve
German Chs., by Rev. J. F. Graf . .
Webster Groves, First, by Mrs. E.
Ticknor
MICHIGAN-$5.4o.
Grand Rapids, Mrs. H. R. Peck.
Jackson, R. M. Bennett
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565
MINNESOTA— $133.81.
Clearwater, by Rev. J. L. Jones
Hopkins, Mizpah Ch., by Rev. M. A.
Stevens
Minneapolis, Rev. S. V. S. Fisher,
special
Swedish Free Mission Temple, by
A. B. Johnson
Monticello, First, by Rev. R. S. Cross.
Morris, by A. A. Stone
Princeton, by G. A. Eaton.
Red Wing, D. C. Hill
Robbinsdale, by Rev. S. J. Rogers. . .
Silver Lake, Bohemian Free Reformed
Ch., by J. S. Jerabek
Tyler, by Rev. W. Lodwick
Verndale, by Rev. R. W. Harlow
KANSAS-
422.96.
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas.:
Fredonia, Harvest Festival. $i 25
Independence 2 32
Ingraham Memorial 3 00
Muscotah 945
Y. P. S. C. E 3 10
Olathe 700
Children's Festival 1325
Stafford 1 07
Topeka, Central Ch 3 54
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. E. C.
Reed, Treas., to const. Mrs. S.
E. Bell, Mrs. A. S. Ham, and Mrs.
M. H. Jaquith L. Ms. :
Burlington $5 00
Council Grove 10 00
Clay Center 1000
Downs 3 30
Emporia 20 co
Eureka 10 00
Goodland 1 50
Hiawatha 10 00
Indianapolis 10 80
Kirwin 2 50
Kansas City, Pilgrim 2 50
Wyandotte Forest 5 00
Leona 1 12
Lawrence. Plymouth 35 15
Lowell. Mass., Mrs. H. M.
Bigelow 1 00
Newton 4 00
Neosho Falls 2 00
Nickerson 1 50
Osawatomie 2 20
Jr. C. E 11 00
Plevna 4 00
Sedgwick, C. E 2 00
Sunnyside, Miss Pond. 2 00
Sterling 5 00
Y.P.S.C.E 400
Topeka, Mount Vernon, Y.
P. S. C. E 300
Mrs. M. L. Sherman 50
Central Ch 3 50
Wabaunsee 8 67
Wakarusa Valley 2 00
White Cloud , . . . 1 00
Wichita, Fairmount 10 00
$194 24
Less expenses 3 88
Brookville. by Rev. J. H. Embree —
Emporia, First, by J. N. Wilkinson...
Hiawatha, by Rev. I. M. Waldrop...
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43 98
190 36
12 50
53 27
30 00
Leavenworth, First, by Mrs. J. W.
Johnson
Lenora, First, by Rev. T. H. Gourley
Newton, First, by Rev. F. W. Hemen-
way
Ocheltree, "Harvest Festival 1895,"
by Rev. L. P. Broad
Onaga, Y. P. S. C. E., by A. O'Meara.
Rush Center, by Rev. G. H. Hull....
Valeda, by Rev.F. Grey
NEBRASKA-$725.i2.
Neb. H. M. Soc.byRev. H. Bross
Ainsworth, Jr. Y. P. S. C. E
Received by H. G. Smith, Treas.:
Albion, to const. Rev. L.
H. Stoughton a L. M $50 00
Arlington . . 1 75
Aurora 2341
Beatrice 17 55
Bertrand 5 00
Chadron, to const. Rev. A.
E. Ricker a L. M 50 00
Exeter 50
Franklin 46 40
Geneva 8 60
S. S., $2.36; C. E., Si. 56;
Jr. C. E., 48c 4 40
Genoa 5 00
Greenwood 2 39
Lincoln, Vine Street 24 53
Omaha, Plymouth 4 60
Pilgrim 1 71
St. Mary's Avenue 95 00
Petersburg 5 00
Rising City .... 9 26
Verdon 5 10
Wisner 6 77
Woman's H. M. Union,
Mrs. C. W. Doane, Asst.
Treas 250 00
Received by Rev. M. E. Eversz :
Friend, $3.22 ; Turkey Creek, $1.98;
Guide Rock and Beaver Creek, by
W. Adams, $1.80
Arcadia, by Rev. J. F. Smith ...
Crete, German Ch., by Rev. W.
Fritzemeier
Farnam, by Rev. E. E. Sprague
Germantown, Oak Grove, German
Ch., by Rev. F. Woth
Inland, by D. Stimbert
Lincoln, German Ch., by Rev. J. Lich.
Ogalalla, by Rev. W. S. Hampton . . .
Petersburg, by Rev. T. Griffiths
Pierce, by A. A. Lindsay
Santee Agency, Edith Leonard
NORTH DAKOTA— $111.55.
Carrington, Ch. of Christ, by Rev. J.
L. Jones
Cooperstown, by Rev. E. S. Shaw . . .
Dexter, Rev. S. F. Porter
Fargo, Plymouth Ch., by Rev. J. Or-
chard
Jamestown. $9.25 ; S. S., $5, by Rev.
C. H.Phillips
Langdon, by Mrs. D. Woolner
Melville, by Rev. E. Halsall
Oberon, First, $6.65 ; Ladies' Miss'y
Union, $10, by Rev. O. P. Champ-
lin
Wahpeton, First, by R. T. Barber . . .
N8 75
87
26 00
9 00
2 17
3 °6
3 00
616 97
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March, 1897
SOUTH DAKOTA— $94.26.
Received by Rev. M. E. Eversz :
Mount City, Peters Ch., j
Friedens, $3 : and Israels Ch.,
by Rev. H.Vogler
$16 00
Aberdeen, Plyfaiouth Ch., by Rev.
T. J. Dent
Armour, by Rev. W. B. Hubbard
Canova, Cambria Ch., by Rev. T. P.
Reese
Carthage, Pilgrim. Redstone, and
Esmond, by Rev. G. W. Crater
Frankfort, by Rev. D. R. Tomlin
Glenview, by Rev. M. Doty
Henry, by Rev. F. L. Drew
Iroquois, Birthday Box of the S. S.,
by Rev. A. H. Robbins
Mission Hill, by Rev. D. B. Nichols..
Myron, by Rev. G. L. Helms
Rapid City. First, by J. W. Barron...
Ree Heights, Spring Hills, Greenleaf,
and Midland, by Rev. P. B. Fisk. . .
Springfield. Wanari, Running Water,
and Kirkwood. by Rev. C. Secombe.
Wakonda. by Rev. J. M. Bates
Ward Academy and Kirkwood, by
Rev. L. E. Camfield
COLORADO-S72.35.
Coal Creek, Union Ch., by Rev. G. A.
Chatfield
Globeville, First German, by Rev. A.
Trandt
Grand Junction, First, by Rev. S. F.
Dickinson
Greeley, Park Ch.. by Mrs. E. C. Pal-
mer
Lyons, by Rev. C. H. Harger
Pueblo, First, by H. Sanderson
Pilgrim, by Rev. C. T. Wheeler
Steamboat Springs, Ch., by Rev. E. I.
Grinnell
MONTANA-$i8.o5.
Castle. Rev. Mrs. A S. Barnes, Silver
Circle
Great Falls, First, by Rev. W. N.
Moore
Livingston, $3.75 ; Rimini, $1. by Rev.
W. S. Bell
Missoula and Bonner, by Rev. O. C.
Clark
UTAH- $44.05.
Park City, First, by G. D. Gregor.
IDAHO $26.80.
Challis, by Rev. C. C. Mason
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. L.
C. Cole, Treas. :
Challis
CALIFORNIA-$i,836.q5.
Received by John McKee. :
Benicia. Rev. S. Skeyler, to const.
Mrs. H. C. Watkins a L.M. $50 00
Benicia 1075
Berkeley, First, by J. L.
Barker 50 00
First 1 50
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5
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8 45
3 65
7 20
21 15
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12 00
13 40
3 00
5 3°
3 00
4 75
5 00
16 25
Cloverdale $10 80
Crocket, Y. P. S. C. E 250
Dougherty 2 00
Fresno 8 50
Fruitvale 14 50
Gait 1 50
Green Valley, Y. P. S. C. E. 3 10
Lod i 4 00
Lorin 6 50
Mill Valley 1000
Oakland, First S. S 40 00
First Ch 500 00
Oleander q 00
Pacific Grove 16 00
Plymouth, S. S 12 70
San Francisco, First 20 00
Plymouth 1400
Sebastopol, S. S 425
Soquel 9 50
Thermatito, Y. P. S. C. E.. 1 25
M. E. Walcott 150
West Side Union 30 00
Woodland 10 00
Wyandotte 2 60
E. Coleman 500 00
Mr. Warne 50
Woman's H. M. Union,
Mrs. J. M. Haven,
Treas 194 00
Oakland, Young Ladies of
the First, to const. Mrs.
C. R. Brown and Mrs.
M. Gawthorne L. Ms.. . 100 00
Mrs. G. H. Gray 15 00
$1,655 95
Woman's H. M. Union Southern Cali-
fornia, Mrs. M. M. Smith, Treas.:
Bloomington $1 10
Chula Vista, S. S 126
East Los Angeles, S. S 4 27
Los Angeles, S. S. of the
First 10 00
San Bernardino. S. S 3 07
Woman's Miss. Soc 5 50
Sierra Madre, S. S 1 80
San Diego, Y. P. S. C. E. of
the First 10 00
37 00
Alhambra, Mrs. A. A. Thompson.... 1 00
Bakersfield, First, by Rev. J. W.
Phillips 3 50
Byron and Bethany, by Rev. W.
Butler 10 00
Highlands, S. S., by S. H. Barrett 4 00
Monrovia, by Rev. C. S. Vaile 5 co
Ontario, by Rev. A. E. Tracy 50 00
Pasadena, A. K. Nash, to const. Miss
K. Nash a L. M 50 00
Rosedale and Poso, by Rev. A. K.
Johnson 10 00
San Diego, Second and La Mesa, by
Rev. T. R. Earl 5 00
Tulare, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. D.
Weage 3 50
Turlock, by Rev. L. N. Barber 2 00
OREGON— $137.51.
Received by I. A. Macrum, Treas.
H. M. Soc:
Portland, Salem Ch., Messrs. Gil-
bert Bros 1400
Astoria. First, by Rev. E. S. Bollinger 5 00
Beaverton and Tualatin, by Rev. w .
Hurlburt 3 50
Corvallis. First and Plymouth, by H.
J. Zercher 1 25
Forest Grove, $5 : Oregon City, Y. P.
S. C. E., $7.72, by Rev. C. F. Clapp 12 72
March, 1897
The Home Missionary
567
Oregon City, by F. F. White
Oswego, Leland, and Beaver Creek,
by Rev. R. M . Jones
Pendleton, First, by Rev. F. W.
Parker '
Portland, Hassalo Street S. S., by I.
A. Macrum, Treas. Or. H. M. Soc.
By D. D. Clark, thro. I. A. Macrum,
Treas. Or. H. M. Soc
Scappoose, by Rev. C. E. Philbrook. .
74 °7
3 25
WASHINGTON -$2i9.go.
Received by Rev. A. J. Bailey :
Aberdeen, Y. P. S. C. E. . . . $5 00
Colville 11 05
Seattle, Plymouth Ch '. 126 35
142 40
Alderton, McMillen, and Orting, by
Rev. O. L. Fowler 615
Almira, $2 ; St. John, $2.35 ; Wash.,
and Wardner, Idaho, Mrs. Smith,
# 1 ; by Rev. T. W. Walters $5 35
Dayton, by Rev. F. B. Doane 3 34
Marysville and Edison, by Rev. R.
Bushell 4 00
Natchez, $3.91 ; North Yakima, $11,
by Rev. R. B. Hassell 14 91
Ritzville, German Ch., by Rev. G.
Schenerle 12 15
Seattle, Taylor Ch., by Rev. G. H.
Lee 4 00
Edgewater Ch., by Rev. J. T.
Nichols s 15
Snohomish, First Ch., add'1, by Rev.
W. C. Merritt 17 45
Tolt, by Rev. G. Kindred 2 00
Washougal. Mt. Pleasant Ch., by
Rev. G. Baker 3 00
Home Missionary 117 75
$31,797 68
Contributions in January, excluding contributions for the debt $27,244 08
Legacies in January 8,136 54
Contributions for the debt in January 452 00
Total receipts in January $35,832 62
Contributions for the debt to February 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $88,256 58
Special for debt 9i°37 61
$97,294 xg
Donations of Clothing, etc.
Brooklyn, N. Y., The King's Daughters
of Tompkins Ave. Ch., by M. H.
Pearsall, five barrels $55000
Ladies' Benev. Soc. of Central Ch.,
by Mrs. William G. Hoople, five bar-
rels 357 00
Zenana Band of Central Ch., by Miss
Grace C. Sawyer, two barrels 225 00
California :
Alameda, Ladies' Aid Soc, by Mrs.
C. F. Franks, barrel 40 00
Pansy Class of the Primary Dept.
of First Ch., by Mrs. L. T. Snow,
box 35 00
Berkeley, Ladies' Aid Soc. of First
Ch., by Mrs. May B. Hatch, two
boxes and two packages 48 95
First Ch., Theodora Soc, by Miss
Georgia Baker, box 15 00
Ladies' Miss. Soc. of North Ch., by
Miss Marden, two packages 8 00
Campbell, Young Ladies' S. S. Class,
by Miss E. B. Williams, two pack-
ages 25 00
East Oakland, Pilgrim Ch., by Mrs.
W. J. Wilcox, box and two barrels.
Glen Ellen, First Ch., by Elizabeth
Clarke, box. barrel, and package... 37 50
Oakland, Ladies' Aid Soc. of First
Ch., by Mrs. Giles Gray, two
boxes 131 50
Home Miss. Daughters of First Ch.,
by Carrie Potter, box and pack-
age . . 49 50
Market Street Ch., by Mrs. F. Per-
kins, box and package 12 00
Pacific Grove, Mayflower Ch., by
Mrs. J. L Colerick, box 18=0
Redwood City, by May W. Maar,
box $15 00
Sacramento, Ladies' Aid Soc. of First
Ch.. by Mrs. H. N. Hoyt, two boxes 63 00
San Francisco, Ladies' Aid Soc. of
First Ch., by Mrs. Warren, box.. 134 00
Ladies' Aid Soc. of Plymouth Ch.,
by Mrs. D. M. Gove, two boxes. . 100 00
Ladies' Aid Soc. of Third Ch., by
Sophie W. Rader, box 6000
Ladies' Aid Soc. of Bethany Ch., by
Mrs. W. Pond, package 8 00
Dorcas Circle of King's Daughters
of Park Ch., by Linda Johnson,
box 50 00
San JoS3, Ladies' Aid Soc. of First
Ch., by Mary H. Edwards, box and
six packages 75 00
Santa Cruz, by M. Bessie Green, box. 12 00
Stockton, by Mrs. E. N. Drury, box. 60 00
Cambria, N. Y., Ladies, by Miss M. E.
Whitnell, box ....... 10 00
Chicago, 111., Woman's Asso. of South
Ch., by Mrs. A. E. Whitaker, four
barrels 296 58
Cleveland, O., Y. L. M. S. of Euclid
Ave. Ch., by Mrs. S. R. Gardiner,
box 15 00
Colchester, Conn., Ladies' Benev. Soc,
by Fannie S. Curtis, box.
Cromwell. Conn.. Ladies' Aid Soc, by
Emma F. Savage, package 16 00
Elyria. O., W. H. M. U., by M. N. Gar-
ford, box 159 34
Hartford, South Ch., by Mrs. M. H.
Graves, two barrels and package. .. 152 36
Four Ladies, by Mrs. M. H. Graves,
cash 20 00
568
The Home Missionary
March, 1897
Ladies" Benev. Soc. of Asylum Hill
Ch., by Mrs. S. M. Capron, three
boxes
Henrietta, N. Y., Home and Foreign
Miss. Soc, by Mrs. H. A. Burger,
barrel
Homer, N. Y., Ladies' Aid and H. M.
Soc, by Mrs. L. H. Tuthill, barrel. ..
Jersey City Heights, N. J., Waverly Ch.,
by Rev. J. C. Emery, two barrels. . . .
Kansas City, Mo., First Ch., by Mrs.
James W. Perkins, two barrels
Locke. O., Ladies' Miss. Soc, by Mrs.
W. H. Mitchell, barrel
Middletown, Conn., L. H. M. S. of
First Ch., by Mrs. A. R. Crittenden,
barrel
Milford. Conn., Miss. Soc. of Plymouth
Ch. , by Kate S. Tibbals, barrel
Moravia, N. Y., by Mrs. T. T. Tuthill,
box (and cash, $10)
New Haven, Conn , L. H. M. S. of
First Ch.. by Mrs. John G. Lewis,
six boxes
United Church, by Sarah E. Cham-
pion, box
New London, Conn., Dorcas Soc. of
Second Ch., by Mrs. J. W. Eggleston,
box
New York City, Broadway Tabernacle,
by Mrs. H.W. Seamans, nine trunks
Hospital Book and Newpaper Soc,
package.
Northampton, Mass., Clarke School, by
Helen M. Severence, box.
North Hampton, N. H., Ladies' Dorcas
Circle, by Miss R. M. Chapman, barrel
$346 53
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North Ridgeville, O., Ladies, by Mrs.
J. P. Reidinger, barrel.
Norwich, Conn., L. H. M. S. of Park
Ch., by Mrs. L. G. Lane $150 00
W. H. M. S. of Broadway Ch., by
Mrs. S. B. Bishop, four boxes 538 67
Portland, Me., Ladies' Benev. Soc. of
Williston Ch., by Mrs. W. M.
Chenery, barrel 75 00
Pottsmouth, N. H., North Ch., by
Susan J. Jewett, box 135 50
St. Albans, Vt., W. H. M. S., by Miss
Emma L. MacDonald, two boxes.... 104 04
St. Johnsbury, Vt., W. H. M. S. of
North Ch., by Mrs. C. W. Farr, three
barrels 164 68
St. Louis, Mo., H. M. S. of Central Ch.,
by Miss E. Mullen, two barrels 103 90
Sharon, Conn., by Jane M. Goodwin,
barrel 119 07
Somers, Conn., by Mrs. W. P. Fuller,
barrel 60 51
Warsaw, N. V., L. H. M. S., by Mary
D. Jenks, box 81 00
Waterbury, Conn., L. B. S. of First Ch.,
by Mrs. Mary D. Griggs, box (and
cash, $15) 129 00
West Williamsfield. O., Ladies' Miss.
Soc, by Mrs. E. T. Wilcox, box 24 40
Windsor Locks, Conn., L. H. M. S., by
Mrs. Chas. H . Coye, barrel 60 00
Woodbridge, Conn., L. B. S., by Mrs.
R. C. Newton, box 3477
Woodstock, Vt., W. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Miss C. A. Munger, box 20 00
$8,221 28
Donations of Clothing, etc., received and reported at the rooms of the Woman's Home
Missionary Association in January, 1S97. Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, Secretary
Allston, Aux., by Mrs. Emilie A. Ray-
mond, four boxes $134 52
Boston, Park St. Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
E. Smith, barrel 76 00
Brookline, Leyden Ch., Aux., by Miss
H. A. Fillebrown, two barrels 17000
Danvers. First Ch., L. B. S., by Miss
May P. Grover, barrel 81 75
Maple St. Ch., Aux., by Mrs. E. A.
Kemp, three barrels 168 48
Dorchester, Pilgrim Ch., Aux., by Mrs.
C. H. Crockett, barrel 256 16
Essex, L., Ch., by Mrs. Mary C. Os-
good, barrel 47 00
Falmouth, Ladies, by Mrs. Louise S.
Davis, barrel 71 25
Haverhill, North Ch.. Bethany Asso, by
Mrs. M. A. Le Bosquet, two barrels.. 161 01
Hinsdale, Ladies, by Mrs. M. C. Bing-
ham, barrel 63 74
Holbrook, Aux., by Mrs. J. M. Thayer,
barrel 30 00
Holyoke, Second Ch., L. B. S.. by Miss
Agnes R Allyn, $7, and box 60 00
Hvde Park, Aux.. by Mrs. Mary Clark,
barrel 76 91
Kingston. R. I., Ladies, by Mrs. M. A.
Clark, barrel 50 00
Middleboro'. Central Ch.. H. H. S.. by
Miss Mabel L. Tobey, box and bar-
rel in 38
Newton Highlands. C. H. M. S C, by
Mrs J. F. C. Hyde, two barrels 143 22
Northfield, Ladies, by Mrs. Mary T.
Dutton, $5, and two barrels 152 97
Norwood, Ladies, by Mrs. Geo. F.
Willett, add'l $1500
Providence, R. I., Academy Avenue
Ch., L. A. S., by Mrs. Josephine
Kellogg, box 44 70
Central Ch., Aux.. by Mrs. T. B.
Stockwell, two barrels 206 67
Union Ch., Aux., by Mrs. Wm.
Knight, two barrels 31000
Randolph. Aux., by Mrs. H. Maria
Mann, barrel 3050
Springfield, Mrs. C. C. Lewis, barrel .. 35 00
Stockbridge, L. H. M. S., by Mrs. C. P.
Warner, barrel 70 72
Sunderland, Ladies, by Mrs. H. D.
Graves, two boxes 138 60
Ware. Gleaners, by Miss M. A. Barlow,
barrel 40 00
Wellesley Hills, Ladies, by Mrs. M. E.
Souther, barrel 136 co
Westerly. R. I , Ladies, by Miss Julia
E. Smith, barrel ... 5000
Westfield, Second Ch.. by Mrs. Olin C.
Fowle, barrel 98 84
West Medford, Aux., by Mrs. C. F.
Kingsbury, barrel 51 10
Whitinsville, Ladies, by Miss Lila S.
Whitin, box .... 147 75
Williamstown, by Eleanor Ralston
Duncan, barrel 170 89
\V. illaston, Aux., by Mrs. Wm. S. Wash-
burn, barrel 125 00
$3^525 16
March, 1897
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AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from December 20, 1896, to January
20, 1897. Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Barton .
ForC. H. M.S
Bellows Falls, First Ch
Bennington, Second Ch., to const. Wm.
M. Barrow, Mrs. J. S. Holden, and
Mrs. E. E. Hart L. Ms
Second Ch., for C. H. M. S., to const.
Dea. W. C. Hitchcock aL.M
Brattleboro, Mrs. Mary L. Hadley
West
ForC. H. M. S
Burlington, College St. Ch
Burke, for Women Evangelists
Cambridge, Mr. and Mrs. Madison Saf-
f ord
Chelsea, for C. H. M. S
Chester, S. S
Dorset
Dover, West
Essex Junction ;
S. S
Harvard, Mass., C. C. Torrey
Johnson, additional
Marlboro
Milton
New Haven
Orange Co. Conference
Randolph Center, additional
))I3 01
13 00
6 61
55 55
25 00
20 88
5 00
53 81
41 87
10 00
9 59
9 5°
13 30
2 00
4 60
5 72
5 00
3 °°
8 28
3 62
80 33
4 34
10
So. Hero and Grand Isle $15 75
Townsend 25 00
Waitsfield 9 50
Westminster, West, Homer Goodhue,
legacy 1,500 00
Weston, for C. H. M. S 4 00
Whiting 626
Windham, Bank's Fund 1 00
Interest 66 00
Vermont Missionary 28 25
2,120 16
Woman's Home Miss. Union :
Berlin, W. H. M. S $4 00
Burlington, First Ch., W. H.
M. S 10 00
Cambridge, W. H. M. S 5 00
Newbury, West, W. H. M. S. 6 50
Roxbury, 10
Rutland, W. H. M. S 100 00
St. Johnsbury, No. Ch., W. H.
M. S 35 00
Windsor, W. H. M. S 500
Woodstock, W. H. M. S 2000
185 60
$2,305 76
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in January, 1897.
Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer
Rev.
Abington. First, by J. T. Richmond . . . $22 21
A Grateful Christian 10 00
Amesbury, Union, by John T. Bassett. 9 00
Andover, South, by T. F. Pratt 379 47
West, by F. S. Boutwell 30 52
Attleboro. Second, by Chas. E. Bliss
(of which $1.00 for debt) 187 24
Bank Balances, Dec. interest on 12 60
Barnstable (Centerville), South, by Mrs.
Owen Crosby 26 00
Barre, " A Thank-offering " 1000
Bedford, by W. M. Sawin 8 22
Berlin, by Rev. Henry F. Markham ... 20 00
Beverly, Washington St., by Samuel L.
Abbott. Tr 142 00
Boston, Allston, S. S., by J. E. Louns-
bury 665
Charlestown, Winthrop, by Geo. S.
Poole 135 57
Dorchester, Second Barry, J. L., by
Miss E. Tolman 10 00
E.-C.-a-Day Band, by Miss E. F.
Merrill 10 00
Dunbar, Miss S.J 2 00
Joyslin, Mrs. L. B 5 00
Mt. Vernon, Tucker, Mrs. J. T 5 00
Old South, by Joseph H. Gray
Park St., Coburn. Mrs. Helen G
Roslindale, " A Thank-offering "
Roxbury, Eliot, by Alpeni McLean . .
Hill, Mrs. Chas. W., by A. Mc-
Lean
Member
Highland, E.-C.-a-Day Band, by Jo-
seph Esselen
Y. P. S. C. E , by Miss Ida Hen-
derson
Immanuel, Y. P. S. C. E., by C. E.
Woodsum
Walnut Ave., by F. O. Whitney ...
Special for French Prot. Coll., by
F. O. W
Boxborough, by A. W. Wetherbee
Boxford. West, by W K. Cole
Bradford, Ward Hill, bv H. P Waldo.
Braintree, First, by A. B. Keith
Buckland. Bement, Mrs. E. D , by Ella
M. Trow, for debt
Cambridge, North Ave., by Adam K.
Wilson
Cambridgeport. Leavitt. E D
Carlisle, by Mrs. W. B. Chamberlin
400
00
200
00
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March, 1897
Chelsea, Palmer, Mrs. Ruth G
Chicopee, First, S. S., by C. G. Chapin.
Third, S. S, by E. S. Wilcox
China, A Friend, by A. B. C. F. M
Pang Chuang, Smith, Rev. Arthur H.,
by A. B. C. F. M
Clinton, First Evan., by J. A. Field. . .
Cummington, by Miss Fannie M. Porter.
Dalton, Crane, Miss Clara L
Crane, Mrs. James B
Crane, Miss Mollie
Crane, W. Murray
Crane, Mrs. Z. M
Dedham, First, by Elijah Howe, Jr
S. S., by Miss Sarah K. Burgess
Douglas (East). Second, by T. H. Meek.
East Bridgewater, Union, by Geo. M.
Keith
Everett, " A Friend, M."
Fall River. First, by E. S. Thayer
Falmouth, North, by Ward Eldred
Fitchburg, Davis, Grace W
Rollstone, by S. H. Lowe, to const.
Rev. W. O. Conrad, A. B. Peck. M.
M. Keyes, and S. H. Lowe L. Ms..
Foxboro, Phelps, Mrs. M.N
Framingham, Grace, by G. M. Amsden,
Treas., Stereopticon offering
Frost, Rufus S., Chapel Trust Fund, In-
come
Gardner, First, by D. H. Rand
Georgetown, First, by Mrs. Alice C.
Noyes
Gloucester, Trinity, by Joseph O. Proc-
ter
Grafton, Saundersville, Union, by Jas.
T. Shirley
Hadley, First, S. S., by M. S. Pierce...
Halifax, by Rev. Louis Ellms
Harvard, by J. W. Bacon
Haverhill, West, Ch. $17.00; Y. P. S.
C. E., $2.08. by W. F. Poore
S. S., by Henry A. Poore
Hingham, Bethany, by H. O. Beale ...
Hinsdale, by M. M. Wentworth
Hopkinton, S. S., Primary Class, by S.
I . Valentine
Hubbardston, by L. H. Grimes
Ipswich, First, by N. R. Farley
South, by Rev. T. F. Waters
Jessup, C. A., fund, Income of
Lancaster, Evan , by L. Rowell
S. S., Penny Collection, by Miss E. F.
Merrick
Lawrence, Lawrence St. (with $ 200.00*
for local Armenian Work), by C. K.
Pillsbury
Leicester, First, by John W. Robinson.
Lexington. Hancock, by Alvah C. Stone
Lincoln. First, bv E. F. Doane
Lowell. First Trinitarian, by I. Warren
Bisbee
Highland, by Rev. C. W. Huntington,
for local Armenian Work. $20.00*
W. H. Miss. Soc, by Rev. C. W.
Huntington, for local Armenian
Work, $5.00*
John St., by Rev. C. W. Huntington,
for local Armenian Work, $25.00*
Kirk St., by A. L. Thompson
By Rev. C. W. Huntington, for local
Armenian Work. $40.00*
Swede Ch., by Nills O. Delgren
Lynn, Central, by Isaac K. Harris
Maiden, A Friend
Mansfield, Woman's Miss. Soc, by Mrs.
Elizabeth Copeland
Marion, Pitcher, John, Estate of, Annu-
ity, by A. J Hadley
S. S., by Miss Clara Lewis
Marlboro, A Friend to missions
Massachusetts, A Friend
$1
00
3
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00
15
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300
00
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77 32
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15
00
10
00
Maynard, by W. H. Gutteridge
Melrose, by C. C. Goss
Highlands, by C. S. Newhall
Millbury, First, by Miss Carolyn Wa-
ters
Natick, First, by Miss Bertha L. Ran-
dall
New Braintree. by Chas. A. Gleason. . .
New Hampshire. Home Miss. Soc. for
services in N. H. of Rev. H. K. Lanti-
kian, $75.00*
Newton (Center), First, by J. E. Rock-
wood
Newton, Eliot, by Geo. N. Putnam (of
wh. $150 tor Gen. Howard Roll of
Honor
North Adams, by W. W. Richmond, for
Gen. Howard Roll of Honor and to
const. Frank H. Whitney and Rob-
ert A. Thompson L. Ms. of C. H. M.
Soc
By W. W. Richmond, to const. Ma-
thew Morrison, Peter McPhail, Fin-
ley D. Mclntyre. Prof. I. F. Hall,
and Effie A. Cutting L. Ms. of C. H.
M. S
S. S., by C. W. Ford, to const. Harriet
M. Flood and Chas. W. Ford L. Ms.
of C. H. M. S
Northampton, Edwards, Benev. Soc,
by S. D. Drury
Northbridge, Whitinsville. E.-C.-a-Day
Band, by Mrs. C. E. Whitin
North Brookfield, First, by John S.
Cooke
Oxford, by Rev. A. E. Bradstreet, to
const. Mrs. Mary E. Brown a L. M.. .
Palmer, Thorndike, by C. F. Smith. . . .
Parkhurst, E. C. fund. Income of
Pelham and Packardville, Union Ch.,
Ladies' Soc, by D. O. Chickering
Pepperell, by Charles Crosby
Pittsfield, First, by Frank W. Dutton..
French Mission, by Rev. A. Bouteiller
Plymouth, Chiltonville, by Rev. O. F.
Davis
Rutan. Chas. H.,by Miss L. B. Nick-
erson
Pilgrimage, by H. N. P. Hubbard. ..
Reed, Dwight fund, Income of
Salem, South, by Joseph A. Dane
Scituate, by L. L. Perry
Sherborn. Pilgrim, by Lowell Coolidge.
Shirley, A Friend, '" Relief"
Somerville, A Friend, " M."
East, Howard, Mrs. Henry
Prospect Hill, by Geo. W. Snow
Southbridge, by Edwin S. Swift
Spencer, First, by F. E. Dunton
Springfield, Emmanuel, by H. V. R.
Schermerhorn
Olivet, by Edward C. Hazen
Sharrocks. Minnie D
South, by J. Stuart Kirkham
Stockbridge, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs.
C. E. Rich, toward salary of Rev. J.
A. Rood
Swampscott, by Rev. George A. Jack-
son
Tolland, by Rev. S. B. Andrews
Truro, First, by John B. Dyer
Upton, by A. Wiswall, Treas., Taft
thank-offering, add'l
Wakefield. First, by W. P. Preston (of
which $2.00 for Rev. W. S. Hawkes'
work)
Ware, French Ch., by Rev. L. E. Ri-
vard
Wendell, by Mrs. Ellen L. Baker
Wenham. by Joseph P. Lovering. Treas.
Boys' and Girls' H. M. Army, by Er-
nest C. Brown
$200 00
56 35
25 24
150 00
30 00
382 19
279 58
117 79
141
IO
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79
4i
89
45
43
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4*
5
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301
05
30 50
20 00
'3 SO
12 00
6 42
12 00
* Received and credited on Special Accounts.
March, 1897
The Home Missionary
571
West Granville, by Rev. S. B. Andrews.
Westport. Pacific Union S. S., by J. C.
Macomber
West Springfield, First, by Addison H.
Smith
Weymouth, North, Pilgrim, by Samuel
J. Rockwood
Whitin, J. C, fund, Income of
Whitman, Smith, Sarah P
Wilbraham, North, Grace, Union, by H.
W. Cutler
Williamston, Franklin Carter, LL.D.
($30 of which to const. Prof. H. D.
Wild aL. M.)
Winchester, First, by Eben Caldwell,
Treas. (with $39.21 * for For. Popn.
work)
Woburn, First, by J. W. Fox, to const.
Dea. Alvah Buckman, Nathan W.
Frye, W. A. Prior, Miss E. V. Bridg-
ham, Miss Susan E. Edgell, and Mrs.
F. J. Brown L. Ms. of C. H. M. S. . . .
Worcester, Central, by G. W. Mackin-
tire
Piedmont, by A. W. Eldred
Union Ch..,$i6o.26 ; E.-C.-a-Day Band,
$5.70, by C. B. Greene
Yarmouth, First, by E. D. Payne
Matthews, Mercy, for California
Missionary
$8 58
14 67
18 50
S 00
120 00
2 00
7 21
Woman's Home Miss. Association, by
Miss A. C. Bridgman, Treas.:
Boston, Roxbury, Wal. Ave.,
Aux., for salary of Rev.
Greenfield, Aux., for general
work and towards L. Mp . .
Medford, Mystic, McCullom
Peabody, A Friend, Christmas
gift
Sheffield, Aux
35 5°
50 00
8 00
2 50
100 00
1
$106 00
$10,162 99
17 13
610,180 12
. Erratum : On page 475, January Home Mis-
sionary, column first, line second, "Howard"
326 63 should be Harvard.
Supplementary Statement of money received for
22 39 expenditure in local Chinese work, under the
38 08 oversight of the M. H. M. Soc. : Boston, A
Friend, $1 ; Boylston Ch.,'S. S., $5 : Albert Gay,
165 96 $2;F. L. Hatch. $2 ; ShawmutCh., Y. P. S.C. E.,
50 00 $5 ; Geo. A. White, $10. Brookline, Mrs. H. E.
Abbott, $1; Chas. H. Rutan, $12.65. Canton,Hon.
2 00 Elijah A. Morse, $5. Newton, J. W. Davis, $10.
* Received and credited on Special Accounts.
HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in January, 1897.
Jacobs, Treasurer
Ward W.
Bethel, by A. H. Knox
Buckingham, see Glastonbury.
Canterbury. First, by Andrew J. Het-
rick, for C. H. M. S
Cornwall, First, by John E. Calhoun,
forC. H. M. S
Danbury, First, by Harriet E. Averill.
East Lyme, Niantic, by G. A. Howard.
East Windsor, First, by E. G. Morton .
Glastonbury, Buckingham, by T. D.
Goslee
Goshen, S S., by Miss A. H. Scoville..
Guilford, North Guilford, by Benjamin
Rossiter
Third, by Rev. George W. Banks . .
Hanover, see Sprague.
Hartford, First, Homer Blanchard, for
C. H. M. S
Fourth, by Chandler E. Miller
Asylum Hill, by Charles E. Thompson
Killingworth, by N. H. Evarts
Lyme, First, by Rev. E. F. Burr
Middlefield, Miss Mary E. Lyman, for
C. H. M. S
Middletown, South, by G. A. Craig
Monroe, by A. Wheeler
New Haven, Howard Avenue, by Rev.
W. J. Mutch
New London, First, by H. C. Learned.
Niantic, see East Lyme.
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North Guilford, see Guilford.
Norwalk, First, by E. L. Boyer, to
const. Mrs. Helen Rockwell Beers
aL. M
Old Lyme, by William F. Coult
Plymouth, Terry ville, by A. B. Beach..
Salem, Rev. Jairus Ordway
Sprague, Hanover, by Rev. L. H. Hig-
gins
Southington, by J. F. Pratt
Terry ville, see Plymouth.
Torrington, Third, by Frank M.
Wheeler
Union, by Roscius Back
West Hartford, Estate of Abigail P.
Talcott, by S. A. Griswold, Trustee,
forC. H. M. S
Wethersfield, by S. F. Willard
Winchester, by E. B. Bronson, for C. H.
M. S
Wolcott, by Harry L. Andrews
Dr. Robert Crane
{Correction : In the acknowledgment of Conn.
State Aux. receipts in February number, page
523, Greenwich, North Greenwich, should be
credited with $10.63, not $10.65. '"New Britain,
First, by A. M. Lewis," shouldread A. N. Lewis.]
$50
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ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Aaron B. Mead,
Receipts of the Illinois Home Missionary Society in November, 1896
Treasurer
Aurora, New England
Buda
Byron (Y. P. S. C. E., !
$54 °°
5i 69
12 50
Cambridge
Carpentersville.
Champaign ....
$9 52
21 60
4700
572
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March, 1897
Chesterfield
Chicago, First
New England
Millard Avenue, Coral Workers
Bowmanville
Forestville
Crystal Lake, S S
Dallas
Evanslon, First
Galesburg, East Main Street
Havana
Kirkland
La Grange
Loda
Malta, Mrs. Emma Puffer
Mazon, Y. P. S. C. E
Morrison, William Wallace
Oak Park, First, S. S
Frank Milligan
Second, S. S
Olney
Payson
Peoria, Union, Mr. & Mrs. H. W. Lynch
Peru (S. S., $5 ; Y. P. S. C. E., $5)
Port Byron
Rantoul, Y. P. S. C. E
Roodhouse
Ms
27
57
49
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55
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Saunemin, Mrs. Knowlton $i oo
Seward , Second 400
South Danville. 825
Spring Valley, Y. P. S. C E 10 00
St. Charles 12 00
Sycamore 10700
Toulon (S. S., $16.16) 5620
Warrensburg, Mrs. Schroll 1 00
Waukegan, German 3 00
Wheaton, S. S 2 50
Winnebago 2 50
Woman's Home Missionary Union :
Evanston, First $100
Melvin 7 00
Metropolis 1 06
Oak Park, First 3 00
Princeton 5 10
Rantoul 10 00
Rockford, First 10 30
1 37 46
A Friend in Northampton 20 00
Rev. J. D. McCord 16 66
Cash 76 60
$1,015 9°
Received in December
Albion, First
Alton, Ch. of the Redeemer
Atkinson
Beardstown. Philip Kuhl
Belvidere
Canton
Chenoa
Chicago, First, S. S
J. F. Mendsen
William E. Rollo
Plymouth, Mr. and Mrs. Wamsley . . .
New England, S. S
Lincoln Park
Union Park, Mrs. William Ripley....
Covenant
Warren Avenue, Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Kilner
Forestville, Mrs. M. M. Wilson
Pacific, S. S
Cobden
Crystal Lake, S. S
Desplaines, Y. P. S. C. E
Dongola
Dover. Dea. Geo. Wells
E. Anderson
Dundee (S. S., $2.00)
Dvvight .
Elgin, First
C lencoe
Griggsville. Mrs. Anna E. McWilliams
Hamilton, Y. P. S. C. E
Healey
Highland. Jun. End. Soc
Hillsboro
Hinsdale (S. S., $50)
T vanhoe
Jacksonville
Joy Prairie
La Grange
Lawn Ridge, Rev. C. E. Marsh
Lyndon
Lvonsville
Malta
Marseilles
Melvin, Rev. William B. Humphrey...
Mendon
Mound City
Neponset (Jun. End. Soc. $5 00)
Oak Park. First. George Eckart (special)
Simpson Dunlop (special)
C. D. Payne (special)
Sir,
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Poplar Grove
Rock Falls, Y. P. S. C. E
Rockford, Second, S. S
Mrs. Julia P. Warren
Sandwich
Shaw
St. Charles
Sterling (S. S., $17.01)
Stillman Valley
Streator, Bridge Street
Sublette
Sycamore, " Pledge Signer. "
Thawville
Tolono. Mrs. H. B. Haskell
Victoria
Vienna
West Rockford
Wheaton, First, Y. P. S. C. E
Winslow. Berean
Woodburn. S. S
Wyanet
Wythe
Woman's Home Missionary Union :
Alton $15 00
Aurora. New England 25 83
Blue Island 12 00
Bunker Hill 1300
Chebanse 4 09
Chicago, Ravenswood 15 00
Pilgrim 18 88
Grace 3 00
Elmhurst Mission Band 500
Emington 5 00
Geneseo, Mrs. Huntington.... 10 00
Glencoe •. 30 15
Hillsboro 1 00
Jacksonville 10 00
Oak Park, First 14 50
Payson 10 00
Peoria, Union 10 00
Rockford. First 21 00
Second 19 00
Rollo 500
Spring Valley 10 00
Sterling 5000
Toulon 8 85 -
Mrs. E. C. Hagar. Joliet
Rev. J. D. McCord, Chicago
Cash
$19 70
6 00
15 00
100 00
108 00
2 50
6 00
57 61
32 82
3 00
2 50
25 00
S 28
40 00
15 00
1 91
1 46
5 00
17 35
5 '5
11 54
10 00
316 30
10 00
23 00
62 44
$i,7°7 45
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary , Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer., Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 17 Florence Court,
S. E., Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis, So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. M. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denison, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary , Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treaszerer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St.
Topeka.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND*
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House. Boston.
Treasztrer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre
gational House, Boston.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Lane Seminary
Campus, Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, 513 The Ellington,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 2116 Warren
St., Toledo.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pearsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President. Mrs. E. G. Updike. Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. E. Smith, Madison.
11. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. N. M. Lander, Wahpeton.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke, 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June. 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey. 704 Olympic
Ave.. Seattle.
Secretary. Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin. Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President. Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins. Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, 300 Court Ave.,
Des Moines.
ig. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, 572 12th St.. Oak-
land.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry. Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt. Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B. Perry. Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross. 2904 Q St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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21. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In-
dianapolis.
Secretary, Mrs. D. F. Coe, Elkhart.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson.
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
ridian.
Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 949 So. Hill St.,
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J. Washburn, 1900 Pasadena
Ave., Los Angeles.
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library,
Riverside.
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 2812 FreretSt.,
New Orleans.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W.J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Wm. P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Charles Westley, Box 508, Denver.
Treaszcrer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary )
and > Miss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, \
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson. Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple. Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer , Mrs. T- H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. O C Clark, Missoula President, Mrs. Favette Hurd, Vinita.
Secretary, Mrs W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
t~ iw Helena. Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
Ireasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgway.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie. Ridgway. President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter- Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno,
race, Philadelphia. Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. W. M Wellman, El Reno.
Secretary, Mrs. Joel Harper, Oklahoma City.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March, 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. F. J. Goodwin, Glen Ridge.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes. 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street. Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President. Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary. Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City, Black
Hills. South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO .
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. C. E. Mason, Challis.
Treasurer, Mrs. G. L. Cole, Mountain Home.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Field Secretaries
Rev. W. G. Puddefoot, South Framingham, Mass,
Rev. C. W. Shelton, Derby, Conn.
Rev. H. D. Wiard, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Superintendents
Rev. Moritz E. Eversz, D.D., German Department, 153 La Salle St., Chicago, 111.
Rev. S. V. S. Fisher, Scandinavian Department, Minneapolis, Minn.
Rev. Henry A. Schauffler, D.D., Slavic Department, Cleveland, Ohio.
Rev. Edw. D. Curtis, D.D Indianapolis, Ind. Rev. W. H. Thrall Huron, S. Dak.
Rev. S. F. Gale Jacksonville, Fla. Rev. H. C. Simmons Fargo, N. Dak.
Rev. J. H. Morley Minneapolis, Minn. Rev. H. Sanderson Denver, Col.
Rev. Alfred K. Wrayv Kansas City, Mo. Rev. W. S. Hawkes Salt Lake City, Utah.
Rev. L. P. Broad Topeka, Kan.. Rev. J. K. Harrison San Francisco, Cal.
Rev. E. H. Ashmun Albuquerque, N. M. Rev. James T. Ford Los Angeles, Cal.
Rev. A. Judson Bailey Seattle, Wash. Rev. C. F. Clapp Forest Grove, Ore.
Rev. T. G. Grassie Ashland, Wis. -p„ „ t w t ti n j 511 Woodland Terrace,
„ a 4 p. „ T I Black Hills and Wyoming. Kev. 1. w. Jones, JJ.IJ. . .. ^ Philadelphia, Pa.
Kev. A. A. brown. . ( Ho(. Spr;ngSi South Dakota. Rev. W. S. Bell Helena, Mon.
Rev. Harmon Bross, D.D Lincoln, Neb. Rev. S. C. McDaniel Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. S. E. Bassett (Supt. Alabama).. Ft. Valley, Ga. Rev. J. Homer Parker Kingfisher, Okl.
Secretaries and Treasurers
of the Auxiliaries »
Rev. David P. Hatch, Secretary Maine Missionary Society Bangor, Me.
John L. Crosby, Esq., Treasurer ' " Bangor, Me.
Rev. A. T.'Hillman, Secretary , New Hampshire Home Miss. Society Concord, N. H.
Hon. Lyman D. Stevens, Treasurer " " " " . . ..Concord, N. H.
Rev. Charles H. Merrill, Secretary Vermont Domestic " " St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer " " " '." ... .St. Johnsbury, Vt.
Rev. Joshua Coit, Secretary Massachusetts Home " " .... | 9 Cong'l House,
Rev. Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer " " " "....( Boston, Mass.
Rev. Alexander McGregor, Secretary Rhode Island " " " ... .Pawtucket, R. I.
Jos. Wm. Rice, Esq., Treasurer " " " " Providence, R. I.
Rev. William H. Moore, Secretary Missionary Society of Connecticut Hartford, Conn.
Ward W. Jacobs, Esq., Treasurer " " " Hartford, Conn.
Rev. Ethan Curtis, Secretary New York Home Miss. Society Syracuse, N. Y.
William Spalding, Treasurer.'. " " " " Syracuse, N. Y.
Rev. J. G. Eraser, D.D. , Secretary Ohio " " " Cleveland, Ohio.
Wm. B. Howland, Treasurer " " " " New York City.
Rev. James Tompkins, D.D. , Secretary Illinois " " " ) 153 La Salle St.,
Aaron B. Mead, Esq., Treasurer. " " " " ( Chicago, III.
Rev. Homer W. Carter, Secretary Wisconsin " " " Beloit, Wis.
C. M. Blackman, Esq., Treasurer , " " " " Whitewater, Wis.
Rev. T. O. Douglass, D.D. , Secretary Iowa " " " Grinnell, Iowa.
J. H. Merrill, Esq., Treasurer " . " " " Des Moines, Iowa.
Rev. William H. Warren, D.D. , Secretary.. Michigan " "' " Lansing, Mich.
Rev. John P. Sanderson, Treasurer " " " " Lansing, Mich.
Geo. H. Morgan, Secretary Cong. City Miss. Society St. Louis, Mo.
Rev. Arch'd L. Love, Superintendent " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
Lewis E. Snow, Treasurer " " " " St. Louis, Mo.
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relating to general business of the Society may be addressed to either of the Secretaries for Correspondence.
Communications relating to the Editorial Department of The Home Missionary may be addressed to Rev.
Alex. H. Clapp, D.D. Correspondence of the Woman's Department may be addressed to Mrs. H. S.
Caswell, Bible House, New York.
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in months after my decease, to the person who, when the same is payable, shall act as Treasurer
of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, formed in the City of New York, in the year eighteen hundred
and twenty-six, to be applied to the charitable use and purposes of said Society, and under its direction.
Congregational Home Missionary Society
Bible House, Astor Place, New York
Major-Gen eral Oliver O. Howard
President
Rev. ALEXANDER H. CLAPP, D.D., Honorary Treasurer
Secretaries for Correspondc7ice
Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
Rev. William Kincaid, D.D.
Rev. Washington Chqate, D.D.
Mr. William B. Howland, Treasurer
Executive Committee
Wm. Ives Washburn, Esq., Chairman
Asa A. Spear, Esq., Recording Secretary
Rev. James G. Roberts, D.D.
Mr. Joseph Wm. Rice
Rev. Charles H. .Richards, D.D.
Mr. George P. Stockwell
Rev. Robert J. Kent, D.D.
Rev. John D. Kingsbury, D.D.
Mr. George W. Hebard
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Rev. Thomas B. McLeod, D.D.
Rev. Robert R. Meredith, D.D.
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David A. Thompson, Esq.
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Contents for April, 1897
Funeral of Dr. Kincaid 578
An Early Friend's Tribute 579
A Comrade's Tribute 582
His Pastor's Tribute 585
His Dying Message 587
Mrs. Sangster's Poem 588
Executive Committee's Resolu-
tions 589
The Reconnaisance Completed. . . 590
Clippings from Reports 595
New Sermon from an Old Text. . 597
Casting Self and People on God's
Care 599
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The Migratory Class 600
An Open Letter 601
Personal Messages 603
First Fruits of our Consecration
to Oregon 603
Church Built on Dime Contribu-
tions 605
A Christian Matron's Gift 606
As to Missionary Boxes 606
Forward ! 607
The Treasury 608
Change in the Magazine 608
Index to Volume LXIX.
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APRIL, 1897
No. 12
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REV. DR. WILLIAM KINCAID
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FUNERAL OF DR. KINCAID
HE funeral of Dr. William Kincaid, whose decease was briefly
noticed in The Home Missionary for March, was held in the
Clinton Avenue Church, Brooklyn, on the afternoon of February
15th, his pastor, Dr. Thomas B. McLeod, leading in the services. Many
New York and Brooklyn ministers of his own and other denominations
attended. Addresses were made by Rev. Judson Smith, D.D., senior sec-
retary of the American Board, and Dr. Joseph B. Clark, senior secretary
of the Congregational Home Missionary Society. Dr. Smith was teach-
ing in Oberlin College during Dr. Kincaid's courses in the college and
seminary, and there formed a close friendship with him which had grown
in intimacy and strength till it was for a time interrupted by death.
Dr. Clark had been in near association with Dr. Kincaid from the
time of his coming to the Bible House as a representative of the Ameri-
can Board, and since 1S88 still more intimately as his co-secretary in home
missionary work. Both speakers were therefore well qualified to testify
of their friend from personal knowledge of his character and life, and
they spoke freely and with full and tender appreciation, but without
exaggeration, of his salient qualities as an earnest, spiritual, conscientious
Christian, and of his noble work for the Master in the pulpit, and in the
wider relations to the churches and pastors of the land in his later years.
Dr. McLeod followed with a pastor's testimony as to his influence in the
church gained by his eminent piety and consecration. Prayer was offered
by Drs. L. H. Cobb and A. H. Clapp, also intimate associates of the
departed, and favorite hymns of Dr. Kincaid effectively sung by the choir
completed the service in memory of our beloved and honored brother.
The burial was in Greenwood cemetery beside a beloved son, who died
in June, 1894. Besides his Bible House associates, the Congregational
Club, the Clerical Union, and other religious associations have passed
appreciative resolutions concerning Dr. Kincaid.
In this and following pages we give the substance of the funeral
addresses ; the dying message of our honored brother, in which all con-
nected with the work of Home Missions will take a tender, personal inter-
est ; and a loving poetic tribute to his memory by his friend, Mrs. Margaret
E. Sangster.
At the stated meeting of the Executive Committee, held on Monday,
March 1st, our brother's " dying message," with its tender remembrances
of his associates, was read by Rev. Dr. McLeod, and resolutions were
adopted by the Committee, by its direction to be entered on its minutes,
printed in this magazine, and presented to his family. The message will
be found on page 587, and the resolutions on page 589, of this issue.
April, 1897 The Home Missionary 579
THE TRIBUTE OF AN EARLY FRIEND
By Rev. Judson Smith, D.D., of Boston
My acquaintance with Dr. Kincaid began more than a generation
since, in the days of the war for the Union, when he was an undergraduate
in Oberlin College and I was a tutor there ; was resumed and deepened
when, somewhat later, I returned to Oberlin as a professor and found
him a student in theology ; followed him in his two first pastorates at
Rushville, N. Y., and at Leavenworth, Kansas ; and passed into the
intimacy of a close and lasting friendship when he became pastor of the
Second Church of Oberlin, and. so continued to the very end. I feel as
though my place were properly in silence, with those who mourn to-day,
while others speak the praise of him we love.
Dr. Kincaid was a man of simple faith and genuine piety. He always
made the impression of a godly man, who lived and wrought habitually
"as in his great Taskmaster's eye." Without anything sanctimonious, or
formal, or in the least degree repellent in his bearing, every one who met
him felt that he was a man of prayer, of unaffected devotion to Christ,
who walked with God and viewed all things in the light of this divine
fellowship. A certain quietness and dignity of manner, instinct with
Christian geniality and, whenever occasion required, accompanied by a
frank avowal of the principles which guided his life and of the truth which
he held sacred, gave character and attractiveness to all his social inter-
course. He bore himself with such frankness, sincerity, and lively interest
in his contact with others as to put all at their ease ; young people and
children were always attracted to him ; the mature and thoughtful felt
the force of his thought and the charm of his character, and implicitly
trusted him.
His Christian experience began before he became a student at Ober-
lin, and his influence from the first was positive and wholesome among
his fellow-students. He was a ready scholar and took a high rank in all
his classes. On the outbreaking of the war he joined the ranks of the
first company enlisted in Oberlin, but being prevented by physical inabil-
ity from serving as a soldier, his intense interest in the country's great
struggle found practical expression in the Lorain County News, published
at Oberlin, on which he rendered most acceptable editorial service during
the later years of his undergraduate course. With him the decision to
enter the Christian ministry occasioned no struggle ; it was the realization
of a purpose which had long been cherished, and his theological studies
were pursued with equal satisfaction and success. It was easy to foresee
that the work of the pastorate would appeal to his highest aspirations and
would draw out his noblest powers.
580 The Home Missionary April, 1897
He was an able and successful preacher. His sermons were always
carefully prepared, clear, and often eloquent ; his delivery was easy,
forcible, and attractive ; and those who heard him oftenest enjoyed him
the most. His preaching was eminently scriptural in the substance and
spirit of it, practical in its aim, and popular in style. His bearing in the
pulpit and in the house of God was marked by great dignity and decorum,
and predisposed his hearers to reverent attention and serious thoughts.
He felt himself, and he seemed to others, to be the bearer of a message
from God to men upon which great and eternal issues attended. Those
who heard him once wished to hear him again ; and all found him draw-
ing their thoughts to great truths, their hearts to reverence, and their
souls to worship and devotion. He was particularly happy in extempore
preaching and in occasional and offhand addresses. The last time I
heard him speak in public, when he brought the greetings of his own
Society to the recent jubilee meeting of the American Missionary Asso-
ciation in Boston, he seemed to me to excel himself, in the appropriate-
ness of his theme, the felicity of his language, and the elevated beauty of
his delivery. As a pastor he was faithful and winsome ; his visits were
welcomed by young and old, and left a wholesome influence behind. At
the bedside of the sick, in the last services for the dead, his presence was
a comfort and a benediction, his words were fitly chosen and instinct with
Christian love and sympathy. The churches he served were built up in
the faith and service of Christ, their numbers were multiplied, and their
unity and effectiveness increased. In every case his retirement from the
field was in answer to a superior call of duty elsewhere, and was accom-
panied by the love and regret of the people whom he had served.
It seemed a great misfortune that one so successful as a pastor, so
eminently qualified for the gospel ministry, should be turned aside to
executive duties. But a temporary weakening of strength seemed to
demand a change, and Providence opened the way distinctly to his later
and wider service in the secretarial office. Looking at what he has
wrought and the influence he has exerted during these later years, it now
seems plain that this change in the form of his labors was wisely ap-
pointed, and that he has here achieved his highest service in the King-
dom of God on earth. For three years and a half he filled with rare tact
and power the post of Secretary of the American Board in the New
York office ; and since the fall of 1888 he has borne his full share as
Corresponding Secretary in the executive management of the great Con-
gregational Home Missionary Society. His good sense and wise judg-
ment, his natural conservatism mingled and tempered by the spirit of
Christian progress, his deep-toned piety and profound patriotism, have
made him an invaluable counselor, a safe leader, a trusted and honored
executive in that important organization. But of his qualities for this
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post and of the work which he has done in these later years it is fitly
reserved for his associates to speak.
In a rare degree he combined intensity of conviction and feeling with
catholicity of mind and breadth of views. He never forgot or underesti-
mated the work of the Foreign Board, while devoting himself with
unwearying ardor to the work of home evangelization. His interest in
the local church was as keen while in this administrative post as it had
been when he was in the pastorate. All things connected with college
and theological education seemed to him as important as if he had been
in direct control of these activities. The development of theological
thought, the whole field of biblical criticism and doctrinal discussion,
were as keenly relished and wisely followed as if these were the scenes of
his special responsibility.
Of his life in the home no one outside that circle can worthily speak.
Suffice it to say that he was a devoted and loyal husband, an affection-
ate and appreciative father. In domestic life he was a pattern to the
times, setting unconsciously the example of what a Christian man should
be in these most intimate relationships. The memories that are treas-
ured in this household are sacred beyond our poor language to express,
and will abide while life endures ; and they are all without a stain and
without a regret.
Of Dr. Kincaid as a friend I can speak from an intimacy of many years.
He was one for whom to give thanks, intercourse with whom was always
uplifting, yielding a heightened sense of manhood and truth, and of the
worth of life itself. He was a man singularly free from himself, and at
the service of his friends. In conversation, while interested in all cur-
rent events, he never inclined to mere gossip, or the light talk of the hour,
but his mind drew toward the greater themes of interest, the deep and
standing problems of human thought. He was peculiarly kindly and
generous in his estimate of others, slow to criticise, swift to praise. His
friends — and they were many — were dear to him, and their virtues were
seen so large that he seemed not aware of their faults. We shall miss him
everywhere, and we shall miss him most where fewest yet remain to walk
with us.
This, our friend, has met invalidism and death in the prime of his life
and power ; and he has met them in a spirit that has rebuked our ques-
tionings and deepened our love. At the height of his fame and influence,
when religious and ecclesiastical life in great sections of our country was
taking shape at his hand, when men from all parts of the land sought his
counsel and trusted his wisdom, when many years of more fruitful and
honorable service seemed to await him — at this point in his growing career
the summons came, weakness laid him low, and he was called to mark the
slow, resistless approach of death. And no murmur escaped his lips ; no
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regrets rose in his heart ; calmly, steadfastly, patiently, as he had lived, so
he moved on to the end of life, his heart at rest in God, his peace like the
flowing river. The end became him, as noble as his life was true. The
total impression of this life, as to-day we view it whole in the light that
falls upon the open tomb, is singularly homogeneous, serene, uplifting, and
deep. He had but one great passion — that was for Jesus Christ, our Lord.
He had but a single absorbing ambition — that was to advance the King-
dom of God on earth. And he has not died too soon — too soon, ah ! too
soon for us — but not too soon in the thought of God ; life's great work
with him was done. With Paul he might have said : " I have fought a
good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith : henceforth
there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous judge, shall give me at that day : and not to me only, but unto
all them also that love his appearing."
A COMRADE'S TRIBUTE
By Rev. Joseph B. Clark, D.D.
I am here to speak as a comrade, and in the name of a circle of com-
rades, to whom this brother was singularly dear.
It was my privilege to name him for the office he held at the time of
his death ; and it became my duty to inform him of his election, and to
urge him to an acceptance of the call. With that silent attention which
was the habit of his mind,Jie listened considerately, but gave no sign of
his purpose, nor even of his preference. It was several days before I
obtained any intimation of his feelings. Then he accepted the office, with
a single proviso, characteristic of the man. He would become Secretary
on condition that, when his Sundays were not in demand for the service
of the Society, he might regard himself as free to preach the Gospel. His
vocation, as he felt, was the care and training of souls. The vows of his
ordination were on him, and he confessed to a mighty homesickness, not
uncommon with secretaries, for the old ties of the pastorate. Thus it
happened that, more than most of his associates, he has responded to
calls for pulpit service at times often when the mind, jaded with office
cares, craved and needed the solace of a day of rest.
From the moment his decision was taken he was given to his work
with a rare devotion. It was not in the nature of William Kincaid to do
anything by halves. In the midsummer of 1895, against the protests of
friends and associates, and in the shadow of a great family affliction, he
spent a month in missionary labor under the burning sky of Alabama.
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To all remonstrances his reply was, that only in July and August could
he meet the humble churches depending on his watch and care in their
annual conferences.
The experiences of that month were a trial to flesh and spirit, and
their memory led him more than once to break over the barriers' of silence
with which he guarded his personal history. Traveling continually,
preaching and talking without rest, often without sleep, living amid
strange conditions, suffering extreme discomfort in a superheated atmos-
phere to which he was not acclimated^ and burdened day and night with
a heavy grief, it is much to be feared that this act of devotion to duty
was but the beginning of the end. On home missionary soil and in
home missionary service the seeds of sickness and death were probably
sown. What then ! Science and travel and country have had their
martyrs, whose examples enrich humanity. So has the sacred cause of
missions — many of them. His life had been dedicated to Home Mis-
sions, and when the particular test came he was not the man to hold back
any part of the price. And who shall say that a sacrifice so precious
may not become, under God's husbandry, the germ of a new life in that
Southern belt and among those humble brethren whom his soul loved even
unto death ! His last public words, printed in the Chicago Advance,
while their writer was lying between life and death, were an impassioned
appeal in behalf of these brethren of the South.
Dr. Kincaid was a model Secretary. It is not enough to say that he
enjoyed the confidence of his brethren and of the churches ; he com-
manded, he compelled it. A mingled dignity and sweetness clothed
him as with a garment. They won affection, they inspired trust. He
was swift to hear, but slow to speak. Few men have so short a record of
rash and unconsidered speech to repent. His mind was of the judicial
order. It was not made up on any question until the case, and the whole
case, was in. Then it was made up for good. It was this quality that
gave singular weight to his judgments. Men trusted his conclusions, and
were seldom, almost never, deceived.
In the financial vicissitudes of the past three years, when the faith
of many has faltered and the panic of fear has almost paralyzed our
minds more than once, Secretary Kincaid has repeated : " I am tranquil,
brethren. I have no fear. We must hold on firmly. This storm, like
others, will blow itself out." And it was such calmness under trial, such
sublime faith in God's future, such patience of hope, that have steadied
the minds and shaped the counsels of his brethren. Alas, how we shall
miss his firm grasp, his always hopeful view of the situation !
More than most men, Dr. Kincaid's daily life moved by rule and
method. Order to him was Heaven's first law. We have never seen him
hurried or flustered, whatever the provocation. There was a time for
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everything, for everything had its time— if not in the busy office hours,
then at home in the quiet of the study and while others slept. But no
knotty question of administration was called settled by him until thought
out patiently, methodically, to the bottom. To some it may have seemed
that under this strain of law he took life too minutely, even too seriously.
One very near to him has said that he never learned to play, like other
men. Yet God bestowed on him one gift that saved him from becoming
a mere slave of routine. He possessed a rich social nature that re-
sponded quickly and keenly to the joys and sorrows of his fellowmen.
In his well-ordered life there was also a time to laugh, to unbend, and a
sportive vein that lubricated the wheels of daily routine. No man was
more acutely responsive to human needs. Probably there is not a home
missionary pastor he ever met who does not count and will not mourn
him as a personal friend. He loved the workman as he loved the work,
and the files of the office are rich in letters of tender comfort written to
missionaries and their families in sorrow, of sympathy and cheer to faith-
ful men in hard fields of unrewarding toil,, and of honor and praise to
men fighting a good fight and winning victories. Under all the order
and method that stamped his character welled up these springs of human
sympathy, and in them he found his play, his recreation.
To those who knew this man at all, I need not say that he was Con-
science incarnate. His central power was moral, his pole-star was duty ;
and no magnetic needle was ever more true to .he North than was he
to the voice of duty. Or ever the light from above fell upon any path
before his feet, straightway he became obedient to the heavenly vision,
and followed with a persistence that not warnings of friendship, nor
entreaties of love, least of all considerations of personal safety or ease,
could stay or divert. With him nothing in the shape of duty was too
small not to be done well ; nothing so large as to be shirked or dreaded.
His was the loyal conscience, in whose ear the faintest whisper of God's
spirit was like the thunder of a command.
The value of Dr. Kincaid's services to the cause of Home Missions
cannot be hastily estimated, for they are not completed. With a wise
and patient hand he has sown much precious seed. To the future belong
the harvests. The Southern work has been specially dear to him, but no
more so than the Slavic department, which in the division of labor has
fallen to his personal care. All foreign-speaking populations attracted
him, and his soul would sometimes burn almost with impatience for days
of plenty that might justify a forward movement along that line of
missionary effort. The great cities also, and their needs, often sharpened
his plea before the churches. His annual papers and frequent published
articles impressed readers and hearers with their breadth and insight.
To him, doubtless, more than to any other man, the remarkable success
April, 1897 The Home Missionary 585
of the new paper, Congregational Work, is due. He foresaw its need and
mission ; he labored unsparingly to launch it. It was almost his dying
effort, and its more than 90,000 readers in every quarter of the land will
mourn no truer friend than he. But why do I specify ? Eight years of
consecrated toil for the redemption of America cannot be measured, and
they are too precious to be lost. Such a life does not end. Death only
gives it a new career. William Kincaid is not dead. His name is hence-
forth a polished stone in that templed kingdom building up in the earth
with the lives of consecrated men.
I am well aware how faulty is. this picture. Your own memory,
brethren of the Executive Committee and of the Bible House, will complete
the broken image. In the close fellowship of Christian service, we have
known, honored, and loved him. His spirit will abide in our rooms,
hallow our work, guide our pens, and live again in our counsels.
Gratefully we acknowledge that our lives are richer for the memory
of William Kincaid — the tender preacher, the wise administrator, the
faithful servant of the churches, the genial comrade, the conscientious
workman, the loving brother, and always the man of God.
HIS PASTOR'S TRIBUTE
As our brother, Dr. Kincaid, has been for many years in the public
eye, as the servant of the church at large, and as this assemblage of
mourners is composed of numerous representatives from the wide field in
which his noble energies were spent, it seemed fitting to his friends
that the conduct of these services should be put in the hands of men
who represent the entire church, and with whom he has been intimately
associated. At the same time, I feel that the exercises should not close
without a word from one whom our brother called his pastor. Under the
circumstances, it must be only a word. Even if I were not disabled, I
could hardly trust myself to say what is in my heart, which is greatly
distressed this day. A great sorrow has come upon me, and my place is
by the side of his bereaved family.
You have heard the testimony of those who have known him and his
work in the prominent places he has occupied for so many years. His
ability, fidelity, consecration, missionary zeal ; his earnestness and elo-
quence in pleading for the evangelization of the world ; his wisdom and
administrative capacity ; his sympathy and tenderness and sweetness of
temper, have been set forth in those noble tributes to which we have lis-
tened. My word shall be of his last days in the sick-room. That room
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has been to me like a veritable mount of transfiguration, where I have
beheld the glory of the Lord reflected on the face of his servant. To us
it seemed hard that a man of his physical vigor and elasticity, so full of
hope and ambition, so richly equipped for service and endowed with such
affluent resources of mind and heart, should be arrested in mid career and
bidden to drop the work he loved and for which he was so eminently
qualified. But it did not seem hard to him. He committed his body and
soul, his present and future, into the hands of the Lord whom he loved
and trusted, ready to accept his will, whatever that will might be. If
further service awaited him here, it was well ; if promotion to higher ser-
vice above, it was better. I have enjoyed a great privilege, and an inde-
scribable confirmation of my faith, in being permitted to witness his
patience, his resignation, his confidence and joy in the Lord. The great
spiritual verities of the other world were very real to him. His faith
penetrated the visible forms of things and grasped the invisible. God,
and Christ, and heaven, and eternal life were as actual as his own personal
identity. As I witnessed all this day by day, and heard his triumphant
words, and saw the radiance of heaven shining in his face, I said to my-
self again and again, Books on apologetics are for me superfluous.
Before sitting down I must deliver a message which he gave me for
you, his brethren in the ministry. He charged me to assure you that he
was dying in the faith — the same faith in which all the generations of
believers in the past have lived and died ; that he was strong and of
good courage, and his heart was stayed on his God ; that he had a vision
and revelation of the Lord ; that his faith was stronger than ever in God,
in Christ, in the atoning sacrifice of the Redeemer, in the power of the
Gospel to transform the world. He bade me say that his only hope for
himself and for his fellowmen was in the cleansing efficacy of the blood
of Jesus. He took no comfort from the recollection of anything that he
had done. He confessed himself a poor sinner saved by grace, and never
was sinner more conscious of his personal unworthiness, or more devoutly
grateful to his Redeemer for salvation, than was this saint of God on the
eve of his translation to glory. Strange, is it not, brethren, that the men
who seem to walk with God, who live as if in the presence chamber of
the King, whose lives are as "the breath of a perpetual prayer," are
always the lowest before God in confession ! Our brother charged you
and me to be instant in season and out of season in preaching the ever-
lasting Gospel to sinning, dying men, and never cease to believe that the
gracious plan of God shall be fulfilled, and that the whole earth shall be
brought into subjection to the authority of Jesus Christ.
Friends, such a man as this never dies. The death of such a man is
but the unloosing of his powers. It is not defeat, nor collapse, but achieve-
ment. I know not how far and wide the fame of this man will ring, or
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what the world's estimate of him will be ; but this I know, that he was
a great and good man in the sight of the Lord ; and the work he did,
and the words he spake, and the character he built, and the influences he
set in motion will outlive the stars.
HIS DYING MESSAGE
I wish to leave my Christian remembrances to the dear official circle at
the Bible House. To my beloved Dr. Clapp, our senior, my affections
are first drawn out ; so to my two associates in the Secretaryship and to
my near and dear friend, Mr. Howland, whom I much love.
I wish a personal message sent to each of the beloved Field Secretaries
and their wives whom I know and highly esteem — Mr. Shelton, Mr. Pud-
defoot, and Mr. Wiard.
I desire to be called to mind to the Chairman and Secretary and each
member of our beloved Executive Committee, and to let them know that
they were in my dying thought and heart.
I wish to send my special love to all the dear Superintendents of the
Society, particularly those with whom I have been in special correspond-
ence. During my illness I may not have received personal messages for-
warded by them, except such as have been sent direct from them to my
home, but I want them to understand that I heartily reciprocate whatever
kindly word may have been uttered, and that they all have the best love
of my heart.
I wish to be remembered to all the beloved missionaries of the Soci-
ety. Tell them that Christ is very near me as I indite these words, and
that I personally know that
" Jesus can make a dying bed
Feel soft as downy pillows are."
Tell them to preach the simplicity of the truth as it is in Jesus ; to
take the whole Word of God and build upon it with faithfulness from the
first book of the Bible unto the end. Express to them my dying convic-
tion that God will bless his Word as preached in great simplicity and
faithfulness, that revivals will prevail, that multitudes will be converted,
and that our country and the world will be saved.
William Kincaid.
483 Greene Avenue, Brooklyn, January 27, 1897.
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ENTERED INTO REST"
Dr. WILLIAM KINCAID, February 12, 1S97
" Then I heard in my dreams that all the bells of the city rang again for joy ! "
From the fair land of Beulah,
Where the shining ones are seen,
Across the dark, cold river
This land and home between,
Keeping his age-long promise
To conquer Death's last strife,
Our blessed Lord himself hath come
And lifted thee to life.
Still, the Master was beside thee,
Nor left thee, day or night ;
The darkness was the background
Where the day-star shed its light.
And we marveled as we saw thee
In all thy weakness strong,
And heard thy words so sure and
sweet,
So full of heaven's song.
Slow days were thine to linger
In the valley's shadowy rim,
But ever pulsing through them
Was heaven's unceasing hymn.
The light of God transfigured
The beauty of thy face,
And the glory of the better land
O'erflowed thy dwelling-place.
Now, thou art gone, beloved !
But gone not far away :
It is but a breath to heaven,
From our fading mortal day ;
And none who watched anear thee
When the silver cord was riven,
Thenceforth may dread the golden
path
That leads Christ's own to heaven.
Cheery, serene, and patient,
Thine own the Master's will,
And the shining angels led thee
And staid beside thee still ;
Yet not the angels only
Came hovering o'er thy bed,
One like unto the Son of Man
Sustained thy fainting head-
Till he bade thee cease from service,
. Have done with earth's employ ;
And then the bells of the city,
Methinks, were rung for joy.
And we, who yet are bidden
To strive with sin and care,
May well gaze after thee, beloved !
And wish that we were there.
Margaret E. Sangster.
" Gon shall wipe away all tears from their eyes ; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain." . . . " He that
overcometh shall inherit all things ; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son."
" And -they shall see his face, and his name shall be in their foreheads." . . .
" And there shall be no night there ; and they need no candle, neither lights of the sun,
for the Lord God giveth them light, and they shall reign for ever and ever." . . .
" Because I live, ye shall live also."
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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTIONS
At a stated meeting of the Executive Committee of the Congregational
•Home Missionary Society, March 1, 1897, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted, and placed upon the records :
Whereas, Our Heavenly Father has taken unto himself from our
official circle the Rev. William Kincaid, D.D., for more than eight years
a beloved and honored Secretary of this Society ; be it
Resolved, First, That we, his associates in the conduct of the affairs
of the Congregational Home Missionary Society, bear our united and
cordial testimony to his constant and conscientious faithfulness to the
precious interests committed to our joint care — a faithfulness shown in
his unremitted devotion of time, thought, study, and prayer, that he and
we might be led by the Spirit of God to adopt the wisest means for
securing the fittest and most consecrated men for the work ; for their
judicious assignment to the most needy and promising fields ; for the
multiplying of willing givers for the pecuniary support of these brethren ;
for such presentation of the cause of Home Missions as should insure the
remembrance of it by praying men and women, in the services of the
sanctuary, at the family altar, and in the place of secret communion with
God — and, added thereto, parental inculcation upon the children in all
our Christian households of an intelligent love, care', and support of the
same great interests.
Resolved, Secondly, That we devoutly thank God for the privilege of
working through these years with one so prudent in counsel, so earnest
in labor, so thoroughly consecrated, loving, and prayerful, so successful
in attaining the ends most dear to his heart and ours — most dear to the
heart of our Savior.
Resolved, Thirdly, That we deeply sympathize with our brethren, the
superintendents and missionaries toiling in this Society's wide fields, in
being thus suddenly deprived of the prized fellowship, love, counsels, and
prayers of one who held them so dear, one whom they had learned to
esteem so warmly and trust so implicitly.
Resolved, Fourthly, That we do most affectionately tender to the
bereaved widow and children of our brother our sympathy with their
sorrow at his loss from their domestic circle, his summons from the
sphere of his chosen service, in the midst of his largest usefulness and
promise, when the bright past was giving full assurance of grander and
nobler successes yet to come ; and we pledge to them our fervent prayers
that our Heavenly Father, by his more manifest and perpetual presence,
will sustain them under this heavy affliction, will sanctify it to their
spiritual well-being until they meet him again with rejoicing in that
deathless world where our blessed Redeemer welcomes and recompenses
his chosen faithful ones for evermore.
" Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord . . . that they may rest from
their labors ; and their works do follow them."
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THE RECONNAISSANCE COMPLETED
By Rev. D. L. Leonard, D.D., Oberlin, Ohio
II
In the autumn of the first year a return to Minnesota was made to
pilot my family to the Latter-day Zion, and the winter was given to Utah,
spying out the land more in detail, preaching, and lecturing in connection
with the schools of the New West Education Commission ; supplying the
pulpit of the Salt Lake church, whose pastor, Mr. Barrows, had left to
become secretary of the Home Missionary Society a few days before my
arrival, etc. Early in 1882 I attended a fellowship meeting and the
installation of Rev. C. M. Sanders in Cheyenne, and m March was obliged
to sally forth some 600 miles towards the North Pole to play general
missionary in Fort Benton, Mont., Mr. James's health having given out
at this early and inauspicious date. For six weeks I acted the part of
pastor and preacher with all diligence. On the way out, from Butte I
had reached Helena by the Boulder route, starting at four a.m. in an open
sleigh with the mercury at minus thirty, crossing the Continental Divide
at sunrise, coursing through the Park and Bison Canon at an inspiring
pace, and finishing up on wheels in season for a fair night's rest. All
through the forenoon a family funeral party was aboard, composed of
both sexes, whose grief could only be endured by solace afforded by the
potent juice of Kentucky corn ; so, at intervals of about thirty minutes, the
family flask would pass from lip to lip, and tears would be mingled with
its contents. From Benton I made an excursion of eighty miles south
to the Parker mines in the Little Belt Range, from which, just then, great
and marvelous things were expected. The road was. new and exceeding
rough ; the "accommodations " for eating and sleeping on the route were
primitive in the extreme, while almost every hour of the four days the
wind blew with a velocity which at times attained to the rate of sixty-five
miles an hour. I found four settlements stretching up and down a gulch
almost dark with a dense forest of pine and fir. A thousand lots had
been sold, log cabins by the hundred had been started, while a mixed and
varied multitude had been gathered. Mine was the only laundered shirt
in the camp among all those Chinamen, half-breeds, college graduates,
and men of science, including some of the best business talent from
Boston and Chicago. Five men with families were there, and one lorn
widow, but not a cow. A service was held, at which the collection,
amounting to nearly ten dollars, was taken by a poor German, who
staggered sorely under a load of strong drink, and asked the boys to give
liberally to "the priest." But easily the worst portion of that campaign
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in Montana was reserved to the last. Between Helena and Benton I had
endured a long and severe snowstorm, in the midst of which, and while
crossing tempestuous Bird Tail divide, by a brokc-n axle I was compelled
for forty miles to share with mail sacks and kegs of beer an open spring
wagon, for lack of a seat sitting on the bottom. But this was luxury
compared with the experiences which befell me while returning in April.
First, it was half a day of floundering through the terrible Alkali Flats,
with mud so deep and of such a pronounced glue-like structure that the
wheels ever and anon became so overloaded as to refuse to turn ; nor
could the six horses haul the load. Therefore driver and passengers
would alight, and with shovels brought, along for the purpose would pro-
ceed to remove the sticky mass (be it always remembered that the fare
paid was twelve cents a mile). Farther on and near Eagle Rock,- on account
of the snow a foot journey of five miles was made at dead of night,
followed by a four hours' halt till daylight, which was utilized by sleep-
ing with head upon a hospitable table. Here and now it was that our
coach gave out, and nothing remained but to take passage in a lumber
wagon ("dead ex."), destitute of box or seat, offering only a wood-rack for
protection, and a narrow board running lengthwise on which to bestow
ourselves and baggage. In such a case the second night was passed.
While traversing the Main Range towards Deer Lodge we faced a fierce
wind without cover for our heads, which, however, I minded but little,
since a millionaire miner shared the infliction, and though accompanied
with the pelting of rain, hail, and snow. When at length Butte was
reached, and the railroad with its Pullman, I was little short of a spectacle
to behold. Three days and nights had left their marks upon the physical
man, in utter weariness, general soreness, blood-shot eyes, nose and cheeks
of a ruddy hue, and lips cracked and bleeding. But glycerine and the
luxury of the narrow gauge wrought a miracle of cure before Salt Lake
was reached.
Some easy trips by rail soon succeeded — to Tintic mines and Frisco,
to the Pleasant Valley coal mines ; to the end of the Oregon Short Line,
which had now reached the Bear Lake region ; to Butte also, where we
now had a minister, and to "recognize " our first church in that Territory,
and also to Wood River, to set things in order for the arrival of a mis-
sionary. The first Sunday in Ketchum a hall was occupied, but the next
week we were ousted by a minstrel troupe, which also sent out its brass
band, and by a " sacred concert " sadly depleted our congregation. In a
single day two funerals befell, one of a boy killed suddenly by an
accident, and I the only minister within seventy miles. Again I made
my exit by the Kelton route. Halting at Goose Creek to change to the
stage from Boise, while I slept, expecting it to tarry for breakfast, it came
and passed on, leaving me behind. However, a few hours later I was able
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to move forward in the " prairie schooner " of a family of genuine Ken-
tucky poor whites. The year before had been passed by them on the
road between Missouri and northern Idaho, having heard that in the
latter region was located the Eden for the lazy. But the snow fell twelve
feet deep, and therefore disgusted, they were now making their way to
Texas, the paradise to be. Next day the stage picked me up once more,
and I was soon in the midst of a spectacle most thrilling and never to be
forgotten. I sat with the driver ; six fine horses were speeding us
forward across a waste all hideous with sage brush, when at once we were
in the midst of a tract some ten miles square, all radiant and glorious
with cactus (prickly pear) in full blossom. As far as the eye could reach
in every direction the earth was robed in rich straw color, with frequent
patches of most brilliant scarlet. From henceforth let nobody speak
ill even of an Idaho desert.
In June and July I was doing my best to select locations and get hold
of property, that more schools might be opened in the autumn. By
August I was ready for another extensive exploring expedition. The
Northern Pacific Railroad was pushing up the Yellowstone with all speed,
and new towns were springing into existence in stirring fashion. From
Dillon to Bozeman I "staged it " by a newr route, a portion of the dis-
tance helped forward by a marvel of a driver who never touched a drop of
alcoholic stimulant. But next day, while threading Bozeman Pass and
crossing some wild country beyond, I was in the hands of one who drank
so often and so much as to utterly lose both wits and bodily strength, to
the great peril of the passengers (one of whom was the boss gambler of
Montana, also most gentlemanly, affable, and obliging). The second
night an axle broke ; so what could the company do but make their beds
under the open sky, and slumber on until another vehicle could be pro-
cured, even though the Crow Reservation was perilously nigh, and the
savages had been using too briskly of late the tomahawk and scalping knife
upon the traveling public? At two a m, a lunch was made upon crackers,
candy, and dried apples. On the evening of the fourth day from Dillon
we pulled into Billings, and made ourselves comfortable at the Dutch
Hotel, with the track only a few miles away. A minister had been here
since May and a sanctuary for temporary use had been erected. I went
on as far east as Glendive, halting at Forsythe, Miles City, and Big Horn,
and then returning took stage across the country for Benton by a route
just opened, and myself the first through passenger, a further stretch of
four days and 275 miles. It was by Bull Mountain, up the Musselshell,
past Oka, Yube, and Yago, through Judith Basin, etc., etc. Once I slept
under a haystack and once on a " bed " of poles ; while for supper I had
wild goose, and again my full share of a two-bushel sack of speckled trout
fresh from a mountain brook, with four spiders to fry them in. This meal
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will ever live in memory with Mrs. Berry's breakfast at Meadow Creek
the year before. A new minister was met, and a little church was formed.
Then off through Helena and Deer Lodge I hurried on a tour down the
Hell Gate to Missoula. A region was crossed all hideous with mineral
holes and other effects of placer mining. New Chicago was scrutinized)
and also Bear's Mouth, with the most fearsome portion to endure when in
Hell Gate Canon. How dark was that night, how winding and rough
that road, how persistently hour after hour those four Germans smoked
with the curtains all down. Besides, for miles the dense pine forests were
all aflame, with crackling and roaring and crashing heard far up the lofty
sides. And what sweet relief to draw up at our hotel as the morning star
appeared ! Returning, this passage infernal was made by daylight, and I
turned aside to call at Phillipsburg, journeying thence to Butte, sixty
miles, in the worst conveyance yet seen and felt. It was a lumber wagon,
with a framework above designed to support a canvas top ; but the canvas
was lacking. A half-dozen victims sat all day perched high upon spring
seats, their heads exalted among the roof timbers, against which, too,
they were thrust rudely and without warning whenever a collision was
made with stone or rut, which occurred so often as to inflict wounds and
bruises upon every one. This trip lacked but fifteen miles of reaching
a thousand.
Wyoming west of the Rockies, Utah and Montana by this time had
been quite thoroughly scanned, but a large and important section of
southwestern Idaho still remained terra incognita. Therefore, in early
October, too late in the season by several weeks, as will be seen, this last
considerable reconnaissance was taken in hand. The start was really
made from Rock Springs, Wyoming, whither I was called to assist in the
dedication of a sanctuary. From Kelton I headed north for Goose
Creek over a road I had already traveled thrice, and there turned west-
ward and northward down the Snake, keeping as near as possible to the
south bank of that stream, passing Shoshone Falls at no great distance.
Snow, rain, and mud were the noticeable order of the day, and of the
night also, nor less of almost all the nights and days for several weeks to
come. As we neared Salmon Falls, as I gazed at the thick lava sheet
which ended abruptly with the lofty and precipitous bluffs on the north
side, I noted with wonder how from beneath it and about half-way down,
at numerous points great streams of water gushed forth and fell tumbling
in foam. At the close of the second day we crossed the Snake by ferry,
and had a long climb to the plateau beyond. Through all the hours of
darkness it was a steady splash of rain and mud. At midnight we
supped on chicken at Mountain Home, where now is a Congregational
church, but then was only a ranch with room for settlers. Soon after day-
light a deep descent was made into Boise Valley, of which a magnificent
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view was had. Here was a veritable oasis in the midst of a vast expanse
of utter desert. Irrigation had been applied with effects well nigh magi-
cal. Such thrifty orchards in particular, with fruit so abundant, so per-
fect, and so almost universally red, it would be difficult to match. But it
rained all that day, and I gave myself much to sleep. Two days
were taken for a jaunt to Boise Basin and back, once all astir with a min-
ing population, but now with " Ichabod " writ large over every door.
The stage was without cover. I had John Chinaman for seat mate,
whose knowledge of English seemed to begin and end with, " You bet
your life," and he practiced with greatest assiduity all he knew. Three
hard showers fell upon us, one of them adding the accompaniment of
pelting hail. Some visits were made. I preached in the Boise Presby-
terian church, listened with all eagerness for a call to found an organi-
zation with the faith and practice of the Pilgrims, but heard none (though
happily one was sounded out within a decade), and so set out for Wood
River, floundered all night through the mire, breakfasted at Mountain
Home, ascended the Rattlesnake, crossed two terrible ravines, struck the
Little Boise, and in a great snowstorm arrived at Rocky Bar at the early
hour of two a.m. It snowed all the next day, but I preached in the Alturas
House. I learned some interesting things about, the town I was visiting:
how the snow for months buries all things inanimate and animate, and
they tunnel from house to house. In the autumn the butchers take
orders for five months, fill them, and then drive out the residue of cattle
to winter in the lowlands. When the storm king takes possession, neither
egress nor ingress is possible save upon snowshoes. On account of deep
snow the stage was late next day, but finally I was able to turn my back
upon what I much feared was to prove my prison. Two hours after mid-
night, Cat Creek was made, but the station was full. At least, it contained
but one bed, while here were present twenty-one persons by actual count,
including three women, two children, one Catholic archbishop, one Con-
gregational ditto, the rest being cowboys and such. A half-day was
spent waiting for the stage from Boise, and when we were fairly started
up through the cliffs towards High Prairie, mingled rain and snow began
to fall, and continued all night. On Camas Prairie the four horses
proved unable to haul the two passengers, and on two occasions gave out
utterly, so that others must needs be borrowed to take their places. But
in spite of all, though two days behind time, we pulled up in Ketchum.
Here I tarried long enough to organize a church, our first in Idaho, and
a pastor for it was already on the ground. Blackfoot and the railroad
were distant 100 miles ; one-third the distance lay across the lava, but,
fortunately, the roads were so unutterably bad that night travel was dis-
pensed with. At Fish Creek we spread our blankets upon the floor, and
arose for breakfast at four; while the next night at Arco, besides our
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eight passengers, lodged a theatrical troupe of ten, as well as something
like a score of ordinary people.
Sixteen months had now passed since I had entered upon the task of
surveying the phenomena contained within the limits of my spacious bish-
opric, and I found I had traveled 21,500 miles, of which 4,500 were made
by stage and 300 on foot. I had been to the end of every railroad and
of every important post route, and had made at least the outside acquaint-
ance of every considerable settlement. The next two months were spent
in the East, visiting almost all the large centers of population and all our
theological seminaries as far East as Bangor, in eager quest of men for
my fields, making from one to three addresses nearly every day. Thanks-
giving was kept in Boston, while I was back in Salt Lake in season for
Christmas and to assist in organizing the Utah Association. Curious to
know just how many changes had been made and how rapidly I had
moved about, consulting my diary and figuring out the facts, it appeared
that in 157 nights I had occupied no less than 143 beds ; and sometimes
it seemed as though those figures should be reversed to make it 157 beds
in 143 nights.
CLIPPINGS FROM REPORTS
Spiritual Uplift. • — -We have held several special meetings which
lasted three weeks. They were very well attended and resulted in a
great spiritual uplift to the church and in five young men coming to the
determination to follow Christ. — Wyoming.
Thirteen Converts. — Evangelistic services were held the last of
November and the first of December. Though held under what seemed
to be unfavorable circumstances, we believe the meetings were productive
of much good. Thirteen hopeful conversions were one result of the
meetings. Several were members of families of another church, there-
fore united there. — Nebraska.
Weakened by Removals. — We are being depleted by removals, it
saddens us to see our already weak cause, in the midst of drunkenness,
open day gambling, and fearful moral and religious indifference, stripped
and weakened in this way. But so it is. The salary is largely in arrears.
We cannot afford a janitor. The minister sweeps the church, rings the bell,
and lights the fire. We trust that some good will result. — Washington.
Infidel Politeness. — Some who were of an infidel "turn of mind"
insisted on bringing dogs with them into the meetings to play with dur-
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ing the service ; others, on reading books so as to .show their contempt
for the minister and the Word preached. This is now, we believe, ended.
There being no other place for them to go to, they still come to our
meetings, and seem now to recognize our right to insist on order in our
services and reverence for the Word of God. — Wisconsin.
A " Mixum Gatherum." — Our chief difficulty is in the task of har-
monizing and centralizing the diverse elements of a typical Dakota com-
munity. We have here people of almost every nationality and political
and religious belief ; a veritable chaos of pet ideas, associated with a very
marked degree of individualism, and in too many cases more of the spirit
of rivalry than of the Master. These conditions have become aggravated
by long-standing feuds, until the limit of compatibility appears to have
been passed. We still hope, however, for better things. — South Dakota.
Hanging on bv Their Finger Nails. — Financially our people and
all others here are hanging on, as it were, just by their finger nails, strug-
gling to build up their business again. They are courageous and cheer-
ful, and there is promise for the orange industry in the not very distant
future. But there is next to nothing for us here until that comes. There
are very few in my congregation who are not members -either of our
church or of some other. Our prayer-meeting attendance averages
nearly one-half the number of the Sunday congregation. That is better
than I ever knew of any church in the North doing in that respect. —
Florida.
Patience in Tribulation. — We have seen trial and deprivation,
having lost our dwelling house with everything we had in the way of
clothing, bedding, furniture, etc. But we still cling to the truth of the
Scripture : " All things work together for good to them that love God."
Besides having for our best friend our Father in heaven, we find that he
also puts it into the hearts of his children to be friends to us, especially
you brethren of the dear old Society. The Lord has seemed very near to
us during the cold weather, while we have been compelled to live in a
very inferior dwelling, with scant clothing for beds and body. Yet,
remembering the spirit of the Master, we have lacked for nothing that
was absolutely necessary to physical or spiritual comfort. Praised be his
holy name ! — Georgia.
Church Awakened.— We have just closed a series of special meet-
ings which gave great promise, but had to be discontinued owing to
inclemency of weather and difficulty of warming the house of worship.
Yet the Lord was with us and moved the hearts of his people to an
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earnestness such as I have never before seen here. A number have been
freed from inactivity, and are working and testifying for the Master. A
few have confessed the Lord for the first time, and we are praying and
working that others may follow. — Wisconsin.
Spiritual Progress. — The close of the quarter finds the work in a
most promising condition. The Spirit of God has rested upon our
efforts, and in every way we have been growing. Since the last report
we have had thirty conversions and a large accession to the church, the
majority of whom are adults and heads of families. We held a union
revival meeting with the Methodists, which did much good to the mem-
bership of the churches, and there were about twenty conversions of chil-
dren and adults during the meetings. The spiritual condition of the little
church is 'excellent, and the influence it is exerting in the community is of
the most gratifying character. — New Mexico.
Profitable Chastening. — The principal feature of the work of late
has been the enlargement of our field by pushing into the rural districts.
The influence of our church has thus been much increased and the church
itself greatly strengthened. We have not only " lengthened our cords,"
but have " strengthened our stakes." We now have five flourishing Sunday-
schools in the rural field, besides that in the village. I preach every Sunday
afternoon in some one of these schools, and frequently on a week-day
evening, besides my two services every Sunday in the village. I think the
churches in this drought-stricken region are now reaping a harvest from
their discipline of dire distress. We have had revivals in nearly every
church in this afflicted territory. At first the people rebelled in the
midst of their suffering ; later they learned God's lesson, and it is working
the peaceable fruits of righteousness to many. — Nebraska.
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NEW SERMON FROM AN OLD TEXT
It is one thing to ride over a great ocean-like prairie in June, the
billowy grass waving in the breeze, the sun shining brightly in the deep
blue, cloudless sky, the flowers nodding and dancing among the grasses
to the meadow lark's thrilling note, great birds wheeling overhead, the
clear air sparkling with exhilaration, all giving you such sense of delight
and freedom that you feel as if you were a swift bird, or were merrily
ploughing the sea on a white-winged yacht.
It is quite another experience to plod along through the trackless
waste of snow in midwinter, battling with the cold of the wind-swept
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prairie and its merciless blinding storms. But our brave Home Mission-
aries " on duty " are nothing daunted, either by midsummer's oppressive
heats or the cruel blasts and benumbing cold of a northern winter, but
push on, intent on service, ''as the Master went," to answer the call of
the sick or the perishing, and to preach the Word, " in season and out of
season," to the multitudes hungering for the "living Bread which came
down from heaven."
It was a bitter, bitter cold day in the early nineties in the region of
our country's outposts in the great Northwest. One of our brave Home
Missionaries was making his round of appointments in spite of the cold
and hardship, calling upon the scattered people, and holding services at
various points along his circuit. At one of these, services a thinly clad
old woman asked from the missionary the favor of a call. She lived in a
poor little cabin of rough boards and sod, standing all alone like a tiny
black dot on the white blank of the snow-covered prairie. When he
entered the two-roomed house he found the husband of the woman, all
doubled up with rheumatism, lying on a miserable bed in the farther
corner. Everything about the house indicated extreme poverty. Sup-
posing that the presence of the minister was sought by the wife that he
might administer the consolations of the Gospel to this brave but crippled
and bedridden old soldier of the Union army, he sat himself down by the
bedside of the invalid, and (as only a skilled physician o"f souls can)
began to talk in such a way as to bring the light of heaven into that
humble home, and to make the man almost forget the pain and somber-
ness which was all that life had for him in that cheerless abode. The
good woman sat by with bright eyes of keen interest, but said little.
The minister made a long call, for his words of sympathy had drawn
out from the sufferer a tale of " romance in real life " ; but at last he
arose to go. Then the timid, reserved woman straightened up, and
standing between the visitor and the door, as though she would detain
him for some important message, she broke forth with an intensity of
speech that was almost dramatic, and addressing her husband — though
every word was intended for the minister's ears — she said : " Now, hus-
band, you know that two years ago I gathered up two quarts of wheat
from the mud after the thresher, washed it, and dried it, and Will here
(turning to the eldest son, who at that moment entered the room) sowed
it for me. Then last year he sowed it again, and I got twenty bushels.
I am going to give ten bushels to the Orphans' Home, and the other ten
bushels I am going to have sowed this year, and I am going to give all
the increase to the home missionary cause, which this missionary repre-
sents. That is why I have asked him to call to-day. I wanted to give
him my pledge. I hain't forgotten the t^ood old days back East ! We
always gave to missions then. We used to have the means to give in
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those times, and I only wish we'd given a sight more to the missionary
cause then, when we had it to give ! It's too late now." This she said
meditatively and in a lower tone, as she seemed for a few moments to be
recalling the more prosperous past. Then, speaking again in the intense
key, she added : " But we can't be deprived of the privilege of giving now,
even if we are poor (and God knows we are poor enough). We feel as if
we wanted to belong to the ' more blessed ' kind of folks, as Christ called
'em ! Too poor to give, did you say, mister ? " (Here for the first time
she looked squarely at the minister.) " Too poor! No, indeed ; we're
not ! It is such a privilege to give. Poverty itself can't cheat us out of
that one great blessing. Praise God for that ! "
And once again, with tearful eyes, she turned to her companion in
the journey of life and said : " You know that it is not our wheat, it's
God*s wheat." And then, addressing herself to the missionary, she
added : " It's our missionary fund ; and oh, sir, it's such a blessed privi-
lege to be able to give ! "
To the minister had come a revelation. He had listened to a new
sermon from a very old text. — Mrs. Sarah F. Ward.
CASTING SELF AND PEOPLE ON GOD'S CARE
I believe that God cares for his children. Were it not for his love
and protection I am sure that' I should not now be in the land of the
living. In a recent trip to one of my mountain appointments I encoun-
tered an awful storm which imperiled the life of my horse and myself.
The wind was so violent that I could not sit in the saddle. On foot I
led my horse up the mountain, battling with wind, snow, and ice. Again
and again both leader and horse slid, stumbled, and were in the greatest
peril. Both were in danger of being hurled down the mountain side and
dashed on the rocks hundreds of feet below. But we escaped with a few
falls and bruises and a good shaking.
Strange to say, a few years ago near this place I nearly lost my
life. How I escaped being crushed to death at that time is a mystery to
me. It is true that I was hurt badly, but in a few weeks I recovered.
Surely, we may sing even as Luther and Melanchthon sang, " The Lord is
our refuge, strength, and a present help in trouble."
I may say further that after going through this storm and getting within
half a mile of the church, I could not get to the church to have service.
I have learned since that had I been able to reach it, I should have been
there alone. Not a single person in that section of the country thought
any minister would be out in such a storm as that.
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As I write my heart is sad. This part of the country is mourning the
loss of the potato crop, on which the farmers depended to help them out
of their difficulties. Now their hopes are dashed. How they will get
through the winter and spring the Lord alone knows. They have little
to sell ; in fact, very few have sufficient vegetables, fruit, etc., for family
use. How they will get groceries, clothes, and seed for planting, is a
problem they cannot solve. Such a failure as this has never been known
before in the history of this region. Yet the Lord liveth, and we pray
that he will send help for these people in some way, and that good may
come out of this trial — failure of material things leading people to seek
and find spiritual and eternal good. — Washington.
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THE MIGRATORY CLASS
The fifth anniversary of our church was both a pleasant and sad occa-
sion. We remembered the many families who had been with us, but so
many of whom were obliged to leave because of the stoppage of the tin
works, the partial shut down of the copper refinery, the removal of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railway shops, and general depression of business.
I am surprised, when I consider the changes in residence of families of
many workmen, to find their moral tone no lower than it is. If these
families of my parish are fair examples, I think that no class is more
migratory. By the changing tides of business they are obliged to move
from city to city wherever there offers an opportunity for more wages or
better living. In many cases they find themselves deceived when it is
too late to retrace their steps. I count twelve or fifteen of such families,
some of whom have many children, who have come here, remained one,
two, or three years, enjoyed more or less prosperity, and have then
moved on to some place of more promise. Their household furniture is
sold, or part of it is packed and carried along in their flight. Sometimes
grocers and store bills are left unpaid. Off they go to begin elsewhere
the same see-saw of good and bad times which was their experience
here. With some this has been their experience for eight or ten years,
and their travels here included journeys across the water, over railroads
through Maryland, New York, Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. Their
migrations have been a revelation to me of the unsettled life spent by
many workmen in the tin, copper, and iron trades, reminding me of those
once called "movers "on our Western frontiers. By such a life, of
course, education and systematic religious training are almost out of the
question, and those who are more settled are our chief supporters and
co-workers in the church. — Maryland.
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AN OPEN LETTER
To my Pastors, whether past, present, or future :
I beseech you, brethren, surfer the word of exhortation which comes
to you in this way from one of your hearers. I am grateful for every
helpful sermon that I have heard you preach, for every spiritual uplift
gained from your prayers, and for your fellowship in the Gospel from the
first day until now. But while I have no wish to enter your pulpits, I
would like to preach a short sermon, to which I pray you to give heed.
My text is the familiar one in Galatians about doing good as we have
opportunity, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.
You have so many opportunities, could you but see them ! Is it
myopia, or shyness, or want of sympathy, that keeps you at such a dis-
tance from your people ? Have you ever suspected the disappointment
they often feel because you manifest so little interest in them ? When
you enter the horse-car, why do you ignore the presence of your fellow-
passengers, some of whom are your own parishioners, vainly looking for a
token of recognition from you ? When we came home on the same car
from those union services where Christian fellowship had been empha-
sized, was it not an unfortunate oversight that you did not seem to notice
A, B, and C, with others from our church, who had made an especial
effort to be present ? Afterwards you took us to task publicly for not
attending those meetings !
Some time ago you wrote a personal letter to Mr. D, urging him to
take up the duties of a Christian life, and the next day you met him in
the post-office without giving him a friendly look or word. I happen to
know that the seeming slight did more harm than your well-meant letter
did good. Of course you did not see him, but I wish you had been look-
ing for him !
Imperfect vision is, indeed, a reasonable excuse for some sins of omis-
sion, and the mantle of charity may well cover them. Yet I beg you not
only to wear the best glasses your oculist can provide, but to cultivate the
habit of seeing people. Very much can be done in this way if one tries
in earnest. No harm will be done — perhaps even some good — if by mis-
take or by design you sometimes bow or speak to those not connected
with your congregation.
Has it ever occurred to. you how many of your people crave help from
you, apart from your public ministrations ? The poor you always have
with you, and always those who are carrying the burden of sorrow, and
who depend upon you for sympathy and comfort. " I wrote to my min-
ister," said one of your people, " after the news came of G's sudden
death, but I never had a word from him, either spoken or written, to
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show that he appreciated what that blow meant to us all." Perhaps you
have so fully adopted the saying that the heart knoweth its own bitter-
ness and a stranger intermeddleth not with its joy, as to forget the value
of a kind word, the pressure of the hand, the assurance of sympathy.
Christiana and her children often need the presence of Mr. Greatheart, to
help them over rough places and along the valley of the shadow of death.
You may indeed shrink from doing right through fear of doing wrong ;
yet, remembering that our Master came to bind up the broken-hearted, and
to comfort those that mourn, will you not seek to be a true son of con-
solation to the sorrowing ? A word spoken in due season, how good is it !
One thing more I am constrained to say, after much observation. You
often lose precious opportunities of doing good when visiting the sick and
infirm. I have heard again and again of their disappointment that your
visit ended without your offering to pray with them. Do you say that
you always comply zvhen asked? Let me remind you that the very asking
is often a great effort for an invalid. She waits and waits for an oppor-
tunity to propose it, but your conversation, though kind and friendly,
is so general in its character that she finds it hard to interrupt you, and
your call is over before her desire has found utterance. I would not
imply that you are to insist upon prayer whether opportune or not. The
circumstances of the family may not be favorable ; physical discomfort or
suffering may be so great as to make listening impossible ; but will you
not make the way easy for those who are cut off from the privileges of
public worship, to have the Word of God and the voice of prayer cheer
them in their seclusion ? When they are hungry and thirsty for the help
you might give them, is it feeding the flock o£ God, over which the
Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to divert their thoughts by pleasant
conversation of a general character? To those who for years are unable
to go to the house of God with the multitude that keep holy-day, it may
be an unspeakable comfort to have you propose bringing to them the
memorials of Christ's death, not as a viaticum, but as the spiritual food
which may help them to live day by day, patiently bearing what is
appointed them. Why should you wait for them to ask for the privilege
which it is in your power to offer ? Will you not, in this respect, learn a
lesson from your neighbor, the Episcopal rector, who offers, as a matter of
course, to pray with the sick and sorrowing, and to administer to them
frequently the Holy Communion ?
If I did not value highly the good work you are doing, notwithstand-
ing all the peculiar hindrances in your parish, I should hardly venture to
point out to you these other possibilities of usefulness.
With great respect and esteem, I remain, yours truly,
Phebe,
a servant of the church.
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PERSONAL MESSAGES
That Frontier Homeland Club. — Perhaps you would like to
know how the Homeland Club succeeds, that you organized on the Ne-
braska frontier. I am glad to tell you that our meetings are well attended.
We prepare papers on different subjects, and read your leaflets. Every
one last week was very much interested in " The Deacon's Conversion,"
read by one of our ladies. One member came to me afterward for a copy
of that leaflet and several others. She said she wanted to read them to
her husband. We expect to celebrate Washington's and Lincoln's Birth-
days by a public meeting of the Woman's Homeland Club, and special
papers on those occasions. We expect to get some money for Home
Missions at that time. .
Our Soldier Boys and Girls in Texas. — Our division of your Boys'
and Girls' Army is very much alive. They have worked hard and have
raised money for their tent mite-boxes. They are raising money for our
own missionary in Texas now, and are much interested. They pray
earnestly at their meetings. They take turns in conducting them. My
thought is that if these young soldiers are taught to speak for Missions
now, before they reach the timid age, they will do better service by and
by. I am trying to teach them how to conduct the meetings, how to look
up their subjects for themselves, how to pray, and how to read their
Bibles, so that in a few years our church will not have a dead missionary
meeting of a few women only, but an intelligent, praying, working con-
gregation of men and women who will feel their responsibility as
Christians.
I have just distributed fresh tents, to the delight of the children, and
now the girls are making baby quilts for the missionaries and the boys
are making scrapbooks, and altogether enjoying the missionary work.
Let me tell you that these children pray for the Congregational Home
Missionary Society and for the missionaries who received the postal card
which came to us, saying, " No money in the treasury." We pray that
the treasury may be filled and the missionaries paid and the good work
go on. — A Missionary Wife.
FIRST-FRUITS OF OUR CONSECRATION TO OREGON
By Mrs. Dora Read Barber
The west-bound train was skimming along over the prairies of Kansas
with the same monotonous rumble and jar it had had for a day and a
night, when a group of three men gathered in one end of the car. One
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of them was a tall, swarthy man with sharp black eyes and jetty hair,
cropped just below the ears. He wore a sombrero, whose breadth of
brim diminished greatly the apparent size of the naturally small face, and
whose tawny color, blending with the existing pallor of cheek and brow,
gave to them a hue approaching the ghastly. Another of the group was
a chubby, red-faced man of the type we would quickly recognize as
"Pat " ; but as we are not so much interested in him, this brief introduc-
tion will suffice. The third to join the group was your Missionary, who
looked no more like either of the others than they looked alike, and I
could not better describe them, taken collectively, than by Carleton's
words, " That 'ere strange dissimilar three." As our missionary came up,
the tall man said, " Hello, friend, where you makin' fer ? "
" I am going to Oregon," was the reply. "That so, friend? So am
I." And so saying, he pulled from his side pocket a half-filled flask, and
offered it to his new-found fellow-traveler, who declined with thanks.
The chubby man, thinking that he did not want to begin on so small an
amount, took from his pocket a bottle filled to the brim, saying, " Here,
have a pull at this." " No," said the missionary, " I do not drink."
" Don't drink ! Where did you come from, and what are you going to
Oregon fer ? " The Missionary then explained to them that he came from
Michigan and was going to Oregon to preach the Gospel. As our tall
friend named as his place of residence a place that had seen a great deal
of hard fighting during the late war, the question that naturally followed
was, " Were you there during the war ? " To which he answered that
he had been a soldier in the Confederate army. He said he had been
living since in Arkansas, and was going to Oregon to get rid of the
" ager," which he had every spring.
Our Missionary told him that one of his brothers had died a prisoner,
having been taken while fighting for the Union. " Friend," said the tall
man, " them days are passed "; and reaching out his long, bony hand, it
was clasped in the hand of the Missionary for a moment, and the group
dispersed. We saw no more of him until we reached Pueblo, where,
upon entering the depot after a little stroll around the grounds, we found
him stretched out upon a bench, apparently in great distress, with his
three children and his wife, not fully awake from her last dose of opium,
near by. The depot police, thinking him drunk, told him to leave the
room, which he did with some help. The Missionary explained to the
police that he was not drunk, but sick, and obtained permission to take a
bench out and make him a bed. This done, he gave him some simple
medicine which he had, and sat down by him to bathe his head. .In his
pain he often used the expression, " Lord of mercy," at which the preacher
told him that God was a God of mercy, and that he had promised to have
mercy on all who would call upon him.
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He looked up blankly, as though he did not comprehend what was
meant ; so he was told the simple but wonderful story of Christ's power
and willingness to save all who call upon him, and to help us in time
of trouble.
When the train came he was helped to get upon the car, and we saw
no more of the family until we reached Ogden, where we were to stay
all night. He had not much money and no place to sleep. This being
arranged comfortably for them, we went to our hotel.
When we left the next day we saw nothing of them, and we feared
they were left ; but, after reproaching ourselves for not looking after
them more closely, we eased our conscience by laying it all to depot
police. We reached Sacramento late at night, and as there were some
things we wanted, to replenish our lunch basket, our Missionary went out
to get them. When he was coming back some one stopped him and began
to inquire the way to the depot, but on recognizing him he said, " Oh,
here you are ; I was afraid I had lost you, and I wanted to tell you some-
thing. I never had any one talk to me like you did. I have been a
wicked man, but I want to be a Christian, and I want you to pray for
me. I have left my old chums and my past in Arkansas, and when I get
to Oregon no one will know how bad I have been, and I shall do my best
to be a good man."
So there, at one o'clock at night, in the streets of Sacramento, this
poor lost soul found the Savior who had been looking for him so long.
He came back and asked me to tell the story to his wife, which I did as
best I could, and she, too, gave her heart to Jesus.
The next day we left the train at Albany, and have never seen them
since ; but we know them by name, and pray for them ; and because we
have committed their souls unto the Holy Spirit's keeping, we believe that
he will keep them against that day.
CHURCH BUILT ON DIME CONTRIBUTIONS
Decoto, about thirty miles by rail from San Francisco, has a neat little
church, built on dime contributions from members of the Christian En-
deavor Societies of California. The church-going people of the place are
not very numerous, and they were having a hard time trying to get a
church until Rev. Loyal Wirt, of San Francisco, and Rev. Frederick H.
Maar, pastor of the Niles Congregational church, went to their assistance.
They later united in asking the Endeavorers of the State to aid in starting
a dime contribution movement throughout the organization. There was a
ready response, and practically enough to build the church was raised.
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The building of the church was a project very dear to Rev. Mr. Maar,
and during the progress of the work he joined the carpenters, and with
hammer, saw, and chisel labored as hard as any of them. He is a muscular
young Christian, and enjoyed the task. The chapel is still unfurnished,
but the ladies of Decoto have undertaken to attend to that. The Ladies'
Guild will give a bazaar at Decoto, by which it is believed that enough to
complete the work will be raised. — J. C. H.
A CHRISTIAN MATRON'S GIFT
It is one of those gifts that carry the heart with them, that are per-
fumed with believing prayer, and so receive the blessing of Him who
" sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money
into it." This is what she says :
" This little gift, in remembrance of my eighty-seventh birthday, is to
the dear old Home Missionary Society which I have loved since childhood,
partly because my dear mother loved and worked for it." — A. F. R., Cleve-
land, Ohio.
*
AS TO MISSIONARY BOXES
By One Who Helps To Prepare Them
We ladies of the aid societies often have but a faint idea of the
great blessing these boxes carry to some families, to whose comfort they
are absolutely necessary. Especially is this true as regards bedding and
clothing for the little ones, and as regards mothers too ill to make up gar-
ments, or too far from stores to procure material.
I believe we can make a big improvement in this matter, and thereby
be a greater blessing to the Home Missionary, and at the same time enjoy
a greater blessing ourselves. We give what we can spare, but how few
of us give at a sacrifice. How many of us send to the sacrificing, hard-
working minister anything but what we can easily do without ? Have
we often sent a new hat, bonnet, cloak, or dress to the missionary fam-
ily, and kept our old ones for ourselves another year ? Let us send
the worn garments to some deserving poor one who does not occupy so
prominent a place as a minister's wife does. Let us remember the Golden
Rule, and give worthily, if at all, for we are helping the Lord's own.
Again, if we are fortunate enough to collect money, don't let us spend
it for rugs for those who have no carpet ; nor for lace curtains when the
house-rent can't be paid ; nor for fine linen table-cloths when the gro-
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ceryman is getting impatient. Why not send the money, in cases where
the missionary and his wife have access to friendly dealers, and can make
a dollar go farther, knowing what is most needed, than we can make two
dollars go, just guessing what would be most useful ?
If we have donations of clothing, let us see that it is worth the send-
ing. We would not want our husbands and daughters to wear unbecom-
ing clothes, even if we were poor. They have self-respect, as well as we.
So let what we send be nice : new, if possible, and suitable for those to
whom it is sent. Let us give prayerfully and as unto the Lord, and not
only will the missionary be made happy, but we, as societies of Christian
workers, shall be blessed. — Indianapolis, Ind.
FORWARD!
By Mrs. E. M. Morse
Gird up thy loins, O Israel !
Fold not thy hands to rest ;
For, lo, there yet remaineth
Much land to be possessed.
Strongholds of Satan's kingdom
Encompass thy domain,
And giant forms of evil
Defy Immanuel's reign.
Thy word, O Lord, is mighty ;
Thy promise cannot fail :
Not all the powers of darkness
Against it can prevail.
Why must thy promise tarry,
Thy foes take heart again ?
Why must thy Word be holden,
For lack of means and men ?
Whose heart is stirred within him,
The Word of Life to bear ?
Who consecrates his substance,
The saving work to share ?
Hasten, for time is flying,
Nor doth the spoiler rest ;
Hasten, for men are dying
Uncared for and unblest.
Go to the squalid dwellings
Where want and. woe abide ;
Go to the scattered cabins
That dot the prairies wide :
Wherever sin defileth,
Or sorrow weeps apart,
Proclaim the blood of cleansing,
The oil of joy impart.
O Spirit of the Highest,
Now shed thy power abroad !
Arouse thy slumbering people
As with the trump of God !
Thine all the strength, and wisdom,
And power have ever been ;
And thine shall be the glory,
Forevermore. Amen !
Austin, Minnesota.
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THE TREASURY
1896-97
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR DEBT LEGACIES TOTAL
April $11,428.79 $5,093.08 $2,687.84 $19,209.71
May 5,866.47 3,834.45 6,180.76 i5,8Si.68
June 8,713.88 3,506.61 2,502.22 14,722.71
July 14,350.84 2,121.00 9,772.20 26.244.04
August 3,460.00 487.56 2,167.21 6,114.77
September.... 9,148.64 610.00 5,775-99 15,534.63
October 7,115.88 218.85 1,646.85 8,981.58
November 12,533.97 33LOO 30,845:53 43,710.50
December 20,941.25 200.00 77,086.65 98,227.90
January.. ... . 26,894.08 452.00 8,136.54 35,482.62
February 8,865.76 34034 9,110.30 18,316.40
The seventy-first year of the Congregational Home Missionary Society
closes March 31st. It is due to all the friends of the work that a state-
ment of the present financial condition of the Society be made.
The receipts in the eleven months ending with February were $76,308
less than for the same period last year. But for the debt brought over
from the previous year, the Society, with the receipts of last year for these
eleven months, would have met its dues within about $8,000. There
remain, however, of the debt of 1895-96 $34,505, and to meet current
expenses $84,494 have been borrowed, making present bank obligations
$119,000. To close the year without debt, the $119,000 due the banks
and the estimated March expenses of about $50,000, a total of $169,000
are necessary.
The volume of work for which the Society has assumed responsi-
bility is well within the bounds of ordinary receipts. Such continued
shrinkage of income could not have been foreseen. But, recognizing the
financial conditions of the country, the Executive Committee on the 1st of
January reduced the appropriation for the year beginning April 1st next
by $74,000. Of this amount seventeen per cent, falls upon the field, and
more than twenty-two per cent, upon the operating expenses. To meet
the missionaries' dues and bank obligations the Society must look to the
friends of the great cause. The entire Stickney legacy, which came so
providentially for a time of need, has been devoted to the work. Two
weeks of the year remain. The exigency is great. The time is short.
The Officers.
March 15, 1897.
CHANGE IN THE MAGAZINE
This is the last number of The Home Missionary's appearance as a
monthly. Henceforth, enlarged to eighty pages, it is by vote of the
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Executive Committee to be issued quarterly in July, October, January,
and April. The July number, as heretofore, will give in condensed form
the annual report of the work of the Society, with its auxiliaries, covering
the entire field of its operations. By the careful reading of that number,
and of the three succeeding issues each year, our friends can obtain and
keep alive an intelligent familiarity with the Society's aims and methods,
the principles on which its operations proceed, the vast extent of its fields,
their needs, promise, difficulties, and possibilities, the measure of success
attained, the motives appealing to the supporters and active workers in
the enterprise, the Divinely covenanted and therefore assured recompense
awaiting the labors, offerings, and prayers of every faithful Christian
patriot who gives heart and hand lovingly to the cause.
For sixty-nine years the magazine has monthly recorded and preserved
a compact history of the Society's work, beginning with 169 missionaries,
of whom 129 were in New York State and thirty-three were in what was
then "the West," now "the Interior," and growing until the force is now
more than 2,000 and the yearly outlay has risen from $14,000 to over
$700,000.
This history it is proposed to continue in the quarterly, with such
larger views of the Society's policy and progress as passing events may
call for. Its pages will be open to the friends of Home Missions, as
hitherto, for the interchange of views and discussion of the wider themes
pertaining to the grand and growing enterprise.
As the less frequent issue allows a reduction of the cost of publi-
cation, the subscription price of The Home Missionary (Quarterly) will
be only thirty cents a year. Subscribers who have paid at the former rate
will be served for the longer time their payment covers at the new rate.
The rapid success of Congregational Work, the new common organ of
the six affiliated societies acting in their several lines for the denomi-
nation, is most gratifying, as showing that it meets a real want in our
churches. Its paid subscription list already numbers more than 91,000,
with a daily increase that promises a full 100,000 very shortly, perhaps
before these lines are read. The space which the new paper allows to each
society is necessarily small .; but, being mostly occupied by active workers
in the field, it will serve to keep those brethren in constant touch with the
churches, Sunday-schools, Ladies' Societies, Christian Endeavorers, Army
Boys and Girls, and devout men and women whose steady, liberal, cheer-
ful giving should make a continuance of the work possible even in the
hardest times. It is strongly desired — and at ten cents a year it surely
seems practicable — as its motto indicates, to introduce Congregational
Work " into every family. " We earnestly invite all pastors and other
friends of Home Missions to help the cause by commending both these
periodicals to their churches and neighbors.
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APPOINTMENTS IN FEBRUARY, 1897
Not in commission last yea?'
Bartlett, Alfred H., Stockville, Neb.
Belsey, George W. , Toledo, Ohio.
Bush, A. S., General Missionary in Kan.
Chapin. Charles H., Paynesville, Minn.
Conry, Henry W., Kensington, Kan.
Eveland, Samuel, Ainsworth, Neb.
Trover, Winfield D., Pittsville, Ohio.
Recom m issioned
Adams, Clinton B., Philadelphia, Penn.
Andress. John Harlan. Long Pine. Neb.
Armitage, Durand Eldred, Badger, Hetland, and
Spring Lake, So. Dak.
Arnold, William A., Roy, Wash.
Atcheson, William Henry, Bloomer, Wis.
Battey, George J., Harbine, Neb.
Brown, Henry M., Mt. Hope, New York City.
N. Y.
Butler, Elmer W., Melbourne, Fla.
Butler, William, Lincoln. Cal.
Caldwell, Asbury, Palm Beach, Fla.
Chambers, Alexander, Prentice, Wis.
Cobleigh, Elvira, Walla Walla, Wash.
Crawford, Charles D., Kansas City, Fla.
Cressman. Edmund. Dodge, Neb.
Dixon, J. J. A. T., Atwood, Kan.
Doane, Frank Butler, Cheney, Wash.
Emery, John C, Jersey City, N. J.
Everett, John Edward, Kiowa, Kan.
Gregory, Herbert, Lake Park, Wash.
Haresnape, Will, Blue Rapids, Kan.
Henderson, Thomas H., Ferndale, Wash.
Hergert, Jacob, Endicott, Alcali Flat, and Walla
Walla, Wash.
Herrick, Edward P., General Missionary, Tampa,
Fla.
Hess, Henry, Freudenthal, Boyd, and Knox Co.,
Neb.
Huntley, Mrs. Abi T., Templeton, So. Dak.
Jones, John Edward, Hope, No. Dak.
Killen, John T., Portland, No. Dak.
Luter, Elvin D.. Moss Bluff. Fla.
McQuarrie, N. P.. Evangelist, No. Dak.
Mack, Charles A., Cando, No. Dak.
Miller, William G.. Dorcas, Fla.
Mitchell, Frank, Faulkton, So. Dak.
Murphy, Charles G., Wallace, Neb.
Okerstein, John F., Swedish General Missionary
in Minn.
Preston, Charles W., Curtis, Neb.
Roberts, Thomas S., Osawatomie. Kan.
Sarkeys, Elias Joseph, Bloomfield and Addison,
Neb.
Shuman, Henry A., Monroe and Wattsville, Neb.
Surdival, William, Termyn, Pa.
Taggart, Charles E.. Elk Point, So. Dak.
Welch, Moses C, Pomona, Fla.
Woodruff, Purl G., Bagdad, Fla.
Woolworth, William S., Morrisania, New York
City, N. Y.
RECEIPTS IN FEBRUARY, 1897
For account of receipts by State Auxiliary Societies, see pages 617 to 620
MAINE-$i3g.5o.
Auburn. High Street Ch., by J. F. At-
wood $45 00
Y. P. S. C. E. of the Sixth Street
Ch., by Mrs. E. L. Moody. 3 00
Augusta, M. J. Cooledge 5 00
A Friend -50 00
Hallowell, Ladies' Cent Soc, by M.
C. Dole 10 50
North Bridgton, C. E. Soc, $1 ; Har-
rison C. E. Soc, $1, by Rev. A. G.
Fitz 200
Portland, West Ch., by B. C. Fuller. . 19 00
Sherman Mills. Washburn Memorial
Ch., by Rev. I. C. Bumpus 4 30
Topsham, F. E. Purinton 2 00
Yarmouth, First, by C. L. Marston... 18 70
NEW HAMPSHIRE -$456.91; of
which legacy, $110.75.
F. C. I. and H. M. Union of N. H.,
Miss A. A. McFarland, Treas.:
Keene, First, for Salary
Fund $25 00
Portsmouth, North Ch 26 00
51 00
Amherst, by A. S. Wilkins 5 00
Danbury, Legacy of Martha A.
Brooks, by G. H.Jackson, Ex no 75
East Derry, First, by H. F. Herrick.. $5 32
Epping, by G. S. Thompson 12 oc
Francestown, by A. Downes 25 00
Hanover, Dartmouth College, by J. V.
Hazen 137 84
Newport. Ch 50 00
North Hampton, E. Gove, to const.
J. N. Morton a L. M 50 00
Plainfield, S. R. Baker 10 00
VERMONT-S370.47.
Vermont Domestic Miss. Soc.
Ham C. Tyler, Treas.:
Barton, Y. P. S. C. E
Brookfield, First
Second
Cornwall, Y. P. S. C. E
St. Johnsbury, North Ch. ..
Wil-
$4 37
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. R. P.
Fairbanks, Treas.:
Northfield . . $14 00
Rutland, West 1 75
Windsor 616
Mrs. H. S. Bancroft 300
For Salary Fund :
Barton, Y. P. S. C. E. ..
Bellows Falls. Mt. Kil-
burn Miss. Soc
$24 91
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Brattleboro, West, Y. P.
S. C. E
Middletown Springs, S. S.
Class of Mrs. L. Grey. .
St. Albans, Y. P. S. C. E.
St. Johnsbury, East, Y. P.
S.C.E
Westminster, West, Mis-
sion Band
Weybridge, Y. P. S. C. E.
4
00
10
00
2
00
5
00
2
00
$43 °°
Burlington, Y. P. S. C. E. of College
Street Ch.,by Gen. O. O. Howard 6 00
Gen. O. O. Howard, for Roll of
Honor 100 00
East Hardwick, by C. S. Montgomery 22 64
Y, P. S. C. E., by Mrs. W. H. Un-
derwood, for Salary Fund 9 00
Island Pond, A Friend 5 00
Milton, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. M.
Benham 1 66
Newbury, Mrs. A. E. Keyes 10 00
Orwell, A Friend 1 00
Putney, by F. L. Peirce 34 83
Vermont, A Friend 1 00
Weston, Mrs. C. W. Sprague 2 00
West Rutland, by C. M. Smith 12 00
Williston, by W. M. Barber 4 70
MASSACHUSETTS — $6,235.71 ; of
which legacies, $4,770.00.
Mass. Home Miss. Soc, by Rev. E.
B. Palmer, Treas.:
By request of donors, of which for
Salary Fund, $111 ; Debt, $57 ;
Foreign Pop., $15 436 29
Woman's H. M. Assoc, Miss A. C.
Bridgman, Treas.:
For Salary Fund $72 00
Memorial, February 1 100 00
172 00
Amherst, College Ch., by L. H. El-
well 115 10
A Friend ^ 5 00
Boston, W. A. Wilde, for Salary
Fund 50 00
Brookline, on account of Legacy of
Mrs. A. S. Noyes, by C. E. Miles
and H. E. Abbott, Exs 1,000 00
Danvers, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Learoyd,
Jr 1000
Deerfield, S. S., $5 ; Friends, $15 20 00
Easthampton, " A Friend," to const.
Winfred M. Gaylord a L. M 5000
East Northfield, " C. F. M." ' 500
Haydenville, by C. D. Wait 7 42
Holyoke, First, by J. H.Wylie, Treas. 46 04
Hunthigton. H. 0. Adams 1 00
Lancaster, Y. P. S. C. E., by S. M.
Griggs 3 20
"Lee" 5000
Lowell, J. H. Kimball 5 00
Ludlow Center, First, by H. E. Miller 15 25
Mattapoisett, by S. W. Hiller 18 00
Monson, Miss S. E. Bradford 5 00
Needham, S. S. Rally, by Rev. C. W.
Shelton 1 49
Newton Highlands, by G. May 145 44
North Brookfield, A. C. Stoddard... 2 00
Petersham, Estate of Mary A. God-
dard, for Permanent Fund, $5,171.62
Pittsfield, Estate of Mrs. Fanny T.
Allen, by William R. Plunkett,
Ex 3,000 00
S. S. of First Ch. of Christ, by Miss
M. W. Redfield, for Salary Fund. 10 33
Putnam, Y. P. S. C. E., by G. A.
Deane $2 25
South Framingham, Rev. W. G.
Puddefoot 10 00
South Hadley Falls, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by M. McLeod, for Gen. Howard
Roll of Honor 100 00
Springfield, Bequest of Mrs. C. W.
Bachellor, by L. C. Haynes 400 00
Estate of Levi Graves, Income
from Mission Farm, by D. W.
Wells, Trustee 70 00
Faith Ch., by G. H. Stoughton 23 03
S. S. of South Ch., by D. C. Bowen 10 00
A Christian Endeavorer of the First 2 00
Sunderland, S. S., by A. T. Montague 25 00
Templeton, Trinitarian Ch., by J. F.
Winch 12 75
Ware, Jr. C. E. Soc. of East Ch., by
Rev. A. B. Bassett 10 00
G. D. Moore 1 80
Winchester, Legacy of Clarissa R.
Parker, by I. S. Palmer, Ex 300 00
Wollaston Heights, A Friend 10 00
Worcester, Ladies' Miss. Aux. of
Plymouth Ch., by Mrs. R. P. Bea-
man, for Salary Fund 50 00
Park Ch., by Miss L. A. Giddings.. 30 32
H. T. Burnap 5 00
RHODE ISLAND— 40 cents.
Pascoag, L. W. Church
CONNECTICUT— $4,851.64; of which
legacies, $3,342.70.
Miss. Soc. of Conn., by Rev. W. H.
Moore, Sec 62 25
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. W. W.
Jacobs, Treas. :
Hartford, Asylum Hill, by
C. E.Thompson $2400
Kent, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Mrs. S. Barton, for Salary
Fund 10 99
North Haven, by Miss M.
W.Elliot 14 50
Orange, Mrs. E. C. Rus-
sell's S. S. class, for Sal-
ary Fund 2 £7
Trumbull, by Mrs. S. B.
Beach 6 00
58 06
Bethel, Miss H. H. Seelye, by A. H.
Knox 16 50
Bridgeport, Olivet Ch., by L. F.
Marshall 20 30
M. M. Blodget 10 00
Bristol, S. S., by J. E. Beckwith 25 83
Central Falls, by Mrs. E. H. Lilli-
bridge 4 45
Colchester, J. R. Backus 20 00
Cornwall, Estate of S. C. Beers 173 75
East Hampton, by S. M. Bevin 18 00
Essex, A Friend '. 50 00
Falls Village, Y. P. S. C. E.,by F. E.
Egleston 953
Guilford. First, by E. W. Leete, to
const. E. E. Griswold a L. M 100 00
Hadlyme, R. E. Hungerford 5 00
Hartford, Fourth Ch., by C. E. Miller 57 98
Harwinton, by Rev. W. Hedges .... 7 16
Ivoryton, Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. N.
D. Miller 5 50
Rally, by Rev. C. W. Shelton 30 00
Meriden, S. S. of First, by J. W. Lo-
gan, for debt 31 34
A Friend, First Ch 5 00
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Naugatuck, by Miss E. Spencer $150 00
New Britain, Sophia and Cordelia
Stanley Estates, Mrs. J. A. Loomis,
Ex 668 gs
New Haven, M.J.C.... 200
Dwight Place Ch., Bible School, by
M. W. Curtiss, for Salary Fund.. 25 00
United Ch., by C. E. P. Sanford 500 00
Rev. Burdett Hart, D.D 5 00
New Milford, Y. P. S. C. E. of First,
by Rev. F. A. Johnson 10 02
New Preston, Y. P. S. C. E., by L. P.
Burnham 2 00
Norfolk. S 1 00
Northfield, Ch., add'l, by H. C. Peck. 2 88
Plainville, Friends 10 00
Pomf ret. Estate of Mrs. Mary R. Hunt,
by Dr. L. Jewett, Ex. . . 2,500 00
Salisbury, by T. F. Dexter 56 66
By Rev. J. C. Goddard 8393
Stratford, S. S., by E. H. Judson 15 00
Waterbury. Mrs. W. H. Camp 100 00
Westminster, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. M;
Pellett 3 55
Winsted, O. S. Rexford 500
NEW YORK-$i. 782.39.
Received by William Spalding, Treas. :
Brandon $4 50
Buffalo, Fitch Memorial.,.. 6 50
Busti 3 00
Copenhagen, Mrs. Green . 1 00
East Ashford .... 25
Elmira. St. Luke's n 00
Little Valley 5 00
Middletown, North Street
Ch 700
North Collins 2600
Richville, Welsh 5 00
Sinclairville 12 50
Sloan 4 00
Summer Hill 500
Syracuse, Good Will 1 46
92 21
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. J.
Pearsall, Treas.:
Brooklyn, Ch. of the Pil-
grims, for Salary Fund.. . $50 00
Cortland, Silver Circle 1500
Fairport 19 50
Homer 800
Mt. Vernon 1000
New York City. Broadway
Tabernacle 130 50
233 00
Brooklyn, Central Ch., by Rev. C. C.
Creegan, D.D 60 00
Ch. of the Pilgrims, by J. E. Leech. 919 97
Lewis Avenue Ch.. by F. E. Odell . no 59
South Ch., $100 ; South Cong. Mis-
sion, $25, by E. D. Ford 125 00
Parkville. by Rev. W. A. Kirkwood 3 00
Little Morris's Birthday Gifts, In
Memoriam 2 00
Coventryville, First, by Rev. R. C.
Chaning 11 75
Crown Point, Mrs. L. F- Murdock 1 00
Greene, Y. P. S. C. E., by G. Gilli-
lano , for Salary Fund 2 06
Groton, Miss E. E. Vantine 1 40
Ithaca, A. M. Hull, by S. D. Sawyer. 10 00
Morrisania, Forest Avenue Ch., $15 ;
S. S., $10.49; C. E. Soc, $25, by
Rev. W. S. Woolworth 50 49
New York City, Bethany Y. P. S. C.
E., $14 ; An ex-Home Missionary,
$25 39 00
Trinity Ch.. by R. Turner 10 00
New York Mills, Y. P. S. C. E. of
the Welsh Ch., by W. Rowland 2 00
Orient, by M. B. Brown $29 02
Pulaski, A Friend, Silver Circle 5 oc
Richmond Hill, Y. P. S. C. E. of
Union Ch., by G. Weston. Jr 5 00
Sherburne, by M. D. Botsford 4000
Warsaw, by F. W. Relyea 17 90
Weedsport, Mrs. E. A. Hanmer 2 00
West Bloomfield, Y. P. S. C. E., by G.
Tyler, for Salary Fund 5 00
West Brook, Mrs. T. S. Hoyt 5 00
NEW JERSEY-$84.96.
Jersey City, First, by W. S. Hunger-
ford
A Friend
Newark, " G."
PENNSYLV ANIA-$i5i.47.
Arnot. Swedish Ch., by Rev. C. J.
Wideberg
Braddock, by Rev. H. A. Schauffler.
D.D
Rev. J. Uhrin, $1 ; Rev. J. Jelinek,
$2
Chandler's Valley, Swedish Ch.. by
Rev. C. J. Lundquist
Clifford, Y. P. S. C. E. of First Ch.,
by Miss M. E. Richards
Edwardsdale, Welsh Ch., by Rev. T.
C. Edwards
Guy's Mills, by H. J. Drake
Lansford, Welsh Ch., by Rev. F. T.
Evans
Nanticoke, Bethel Ch., by Rev. W.
Smith
Philadelphia, A Friend
Scrantnn, Providence Welsh Ch.,by
Rev. R. S. Jones
Spring Creek and West Spring Creek,
by Rev. T. D. Henshaw
Vandling, by Rev. J. G. Evans
MARYLAND— $900.50; of which leg-
acy, $886.85.
Baltimore, First, by C. S. Houghton.
Estate of J. H. Stickney
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA-$i35.oo.
Woman's H. M. Union of N. J. Assoc,
Mrs. J. H. Denison, Treas.:
Washington, of which $50 for Sal-
ary Fund
S. S. of the First, by J. P. Stephen-
son
F. W. Tuckerman
GEORGIA— $8.50.
Americus, Davis Chappell, by J. F.
Black
Demorest, by Rev. W. O. Phillips...
ALABAMA— $6.00.
Edwardsville, Salem Ch., $2; Rose-
wood. New Harmony Ch., $2 ;
Chulafinnee, Fairview Ch., $2
LOUISIANA-$25.56.
Woman's Missionary Union, Mrs. L.
St. J. Hitchcock, Treas.:
New Orleans, University Ch. Aux.
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Iowa, by Rev. C. F. Sheldon
Lake Charles, by Rev. C. F. Sheldon
Welsh, by Rev. E. Paradis
FLORIDA— $64.98.
Received by Rev. S. F. Gale :
Mount Dora
Sanford, Y. P. S. C. E
Tangerine
Interlachen, by Rev. W. D. Brown...
Moss Bluff, by Rev. E. D. Luter
Orange City, First, by S. M. Morse..
TEXAS-S20.50.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. J. H.
Gray, Treas. :
Dallas, First, Ladies' Soc . . $15 50
Grand Avenue,S.S. Rally. 500
OKLAHOMA-$i7.6o.
Burwick and Cimaroon, by Rev. S. J.
McReynolds
Newkirk, First, by Rev. C. W. Sny-
der
NEW MEXICO-$2.5s.
San Rafael, by Rev. G. E. Birlew. . . .
TENNESSEE— $18.25.
Memphis, Miss. Soc, by J. G. Bock..
OHIO— $600,35.
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D. :
Berea, Rev. S. B. Beard,
special $2 50
Bluescreek, by V. C. Crist. . 1 75
Brownhelm, Ch., $6.20 ; S.
S., $2.81, by S. Bacon .... 9 01
Cincinnati, Vine Street, add'l
by J. R. Henderson 2 00
Cleveland, Irving Street, by
Rev. J. A. Davidson 25 00
Pilgrim, by H. C. Holt. . . 64 66
Union, Ladies' Aid Soc. . . 1 1 00
Hough Avenue, by C. H.
Ball 1806
Trinity, by E. G. Phillips. 13 71
Olivet, by Mrs. J. L.
Young 1 61
Rev. W. F. McMillen .... 5 00
Thomas Piwonka 10 00
Fredericksburg, Y.P.S.C.E.,
by Mrs. L. Hurst 5 00
Huntsburg, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by F. Hannum 1 00
Lafayette, by G. W.
Buchanan 10 25
Marysville, by Rev. W. S.
Bugbey 8 46
North Amherst, add'l, by
Rev. P. E. Harding 1 00
North Bloomfield, by Miss
M. J. McAdoo 700
North Madison, by Rev. A.
D.Barber, D.D 1600
Norwalk, Rally, coll, by
A. T. Symons 4 10
Saybrook, Mission Band, of
which 50c. from Rev. C.
W. Grupe, by W. C. Sex-
ton 5 33
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8 50
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Shawnee, by R.'D. Reese. . .
South Newbury, add'l, by
Rev. E. O. Mead
Tallmadge, Welsh, by Miss
M. A. Thomas
Received by Rev. J. G. Fraser, D.D.,
Treas. Bohemian Board, Cleve-
land :
Chatham, S. S., by Mrs. C.
A. Moody $15 00
Cleveland, Plymouth, Miss
M. A. Kendrick 2 00
Pilgrim, by H. C. Holt.. 113 10
$130 10
Woman's H. M. Union,
Mrs. G. B. Brown,
Treas.:
Brecksville, Y. P. S. C. E.,
Bible Readers Home 3 00
Claridon 12 50
Cleveland, Euclid Avenue 1000
Columbus, First 10 00
Oberlin, First, L. A. S.,
Bible Readers Home. . . 10 00
Strongsville 3 00
Toledo, Central, W. M. U. 10 00
$58 50 188 60
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. G. B.
Brown, Treas. :
For Salary Fund :
Alexandria, L. A. S $250
Ashtabula, Y. P. S. C. E.. 3 00
Chatham, L. H. M. S 3 00
Cleveland, East Madison
Avenue, Y. P. S. C. E. . 2 50
Elyria 30 00
Mansfield, Mayflower.... 3 40
Medina 10 00
North Amherst, J. C. E.. 4 20
Oberlin, First, L. A. S... 10 10
Second 40 00
S. S 20 00
$128 70
Oberlin, First, Minnie
Hart's Dime Bank 5 00
Toledo, Central, Mrs.
Towns' Dime Bank .... 5 30
139 00
Claridon, Hon. L. Taylor 40
Ellsworth, Mrs. B. W. Allen 10 00
North Madison, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Mrs. J. Sanderson 2 00
Oberlin, Rev. S. F. Porter 10 00
Mrs. E. B. Clarke 10 00
Painesville, M. C. Noyes 5 00
Toledb, Central Ch., by C. C. Jenkins 5 61
INDIANA— $146.00.
Received by Rev. E. D. Curtis, D.D.:
Cedarwood $1 00
Central 4 00
Terre Haute, First 20 00
Washington 10 00
Angola, Miss A. E. Voorhees
Elwood, by Rev. R. Powell
Fort Wayne, South S. S., by W. A. S.
Parry
35 00
100 00
7 00
ILLINOIS— $75.00.
Illinois H. M. Soc, by A. B. Mead,
Treas
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MISSOURI-$522.gi.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. K. L.
Mills, Treas.:
Amity, Y. P. S. C.E $075
Aurora, Jr. Y. P. S. C. E.. 1 50
Cole Camp, Y. P. S. C. E.. 2 00
De Soto 10 00
Eldon 2 00
Hannibal 5 45
Kansas City, First, Ladies'
Union 7 43
Y. P. S. C. E 12 50
Fourth 1 00
Clyde, Ladies' Union. ... 2190
Olivet 425
Lebanon 10 00
Y. P. S. C. E 1000
Neosho 6 00
Pierce City 20 00
Rogers, Ark., Y. P. S. C. E. 10 00
St. Louis, Plymouth 3 65
Compton Hill 5 00
Pilgrim 218 96
First 3000
Y. L. M. S 29 40
People's Tabernacle 17 00
Fountain Park 40 00
Central 27 00
Emmanuel 1 50
Webster Groves 855
$505 84
Less expenses 25 29
Meadville and Chillicothe, by Rev. J.
W. Eldred
Neosho, First, of which $3.20 from the
Y. P. S. C. E., by E. Skevves
St. Louis, First, by F. T. Knox
Covenant Ch. of Maplewood, by
Rev. T. T. Holway
MICHIGAN— $5.00.
Saline, A Friend
WISCONSIN-S35.24.
Antigo, $22.50; West Superior, Pil-
grim Ch.. Woman's Miss. Soc,
$12.74, by Rev. T. G. Crassie
IOWA— $14.67.
Ellsworth, Mrs. W. Willis
Grinnell, Y. P. S. C. E., by E. R.
Potter
Hull, by J. S. Wilson
New Hampton, German Ch., by Rev.
W. H. Dorn
Rowan, G. Riedasch
MINNESOTA— $215.46.
Received by Rev. J. H. Morley. :
Ada $11 37
Belgrade 8 80
Cottage Grove 3 92
Crookston 6 46
Fairmont 1000
Hawley 4 70
Lake Belt 5 00
Marshall 244
Minneapolis, Mizpah 3 00
Cash 5 00
Morristown 9 25
New Ulm n 28
20 85
12 76
6 75
3 00
4 17
5 00
2 OO
Plainview $17 14
Princeton 13 53
Rochester, W. J. Eaton 25 00
Selma 4 00
Sherburn 4 07
Waterville 1273
Worthington 5 59
Big Lake and Orrock, by Rev. F. P.
Ferguson
Dulut'h, A. B. Siewert
Fosston, by Rev. C. F. Blomquist
Glenwood, Union Ch., by Rev. F. A.
Sumner
Glyndon, Ch. and S. S., by C. G.
Tracy
St. Paul, People's Ch., Hazel Park,
by Rev. T. A. Turner
Spencer Brook, Scand., by Rev. A. P.
Engstrom
Winona, Mrs. E. W. Morris
KANSAS— $278.74.
Received by A. C. Hogbin, Treas.:
Atchison, Ch., $9.12 ; S. S.,
$3.06 $12 18
Dover 2 79
Ellis 9 00
Independence 7 50
Little River 5 00
Netawaka 3 50
Russell 3 50
Severy 5 00
Western Park 287
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. E. C.
Read, Treas., to const. Miss N.
Goodell a L. M.:
Blue Rapids $625
Burlington 1000
Clay Center 5 00
Jr. C. E . 1 00
Fairview 2 00
Highland 2 00
Paola 5 00
Ridgeway, Miss. Soc 3 50
Sabetha 3 50
Seabrook 2 50
Jr. C. E 50
Smith Center 4 00
Stafford 6 00
Stockton 5 00
Wellsville, Christmas Offer-
ing 4 00
Westmoreland 3 30
$63 55
Less expenses 1 27
Dunlap, Sunnyside, and Big John, by
Rev. W. R. Bair
Fredonia, First, by Rev. H. D. Herr.
Manhattan, First/by C. P. Blachly...
Sabetha, by Rev. W. C. Veazie. ......
Seabrook and Sunnyside, by Rev. J. E.
Kirkpatrick
Valencia, by Rev. C. E. Roberts
Village Creek, by Dea. F. J. Cooper. .
White City, by Rev. E. Richards
NEBRASKA-$89.53.
Brunswick and Willowdale, by Rev.
G. T. Noyce
Calhoun, by A. C. Couchman
David City, Y. P. S. C. E., by W. Tay-
lor
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Harbine, Ch., S. S., Y. P. S. C. E. Jr.,
and Woman's Soc, by Rev. G. J.
Battey
Hastings, German Ch., by Rev. C. W.
Wuerrschmidt
Havelock, First, by Rev. S. Wood.. .
Hot Springs, Ch., $5 ; S. S., $1.35 ; Y.
P. S. C. E., $1.45, by Mrs. C. L.
Cook
Irvington, by C. R. Brewster
Lincoln, Swedish Ch., by Rev. J. M.
Tillberg
Moline, Mennonite Ch.,byRev. A. G.
Beitel
Nelson, German Ch.,by Rev. P. Lich
Norfolk, Second, by Mrs. C. J. Chap-
man
Rev. J. M. Jefferies
Pickrell, Mission Band of Children,
by Mrs. L. E. Austin
Pierce, by Mrs. B. Lindsay
Plymouth, First, S. S. and Y. P. S. C.
E., by Rev. G. J. Battey
NORTH DAKOTA— $91.11.
Received by Rev. H. C. Simmons:
Michigan City $3 00
Rose Valley 5 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs.
J. M. Fisher, Treas.:
Buxton 5 00
Cooperstown 9 65
Kensal 2 75
Portland 3 25
Cando, Ch., $10.20; S. S., $1.86; C.
A. Mack, $8.36, by Rev. C. A. Mack
Carrington, Ch. of Christ, by Rev. J.
L. Jones
Fargo, Scand., by Rev. L. J. Peder-
son
Fessenden, Hoffnungsvoll, Einheits,
and Eigenheim, German Chs., by
Rev. D. Neuenschwander
Forman, Rutland, Cayuga, and Ha-
vana, by Rev. S. Williams
Kensal, Courtnay, and Wimbledon,
by Rev. J. L. Martin
Seimenthal, $2.75; Eigenfeld, $2;
Bethanien, $3, by Rev. P. Burk-
hardt
SOUTH DAKOTA— $331.79.
Received by Rev. W. H. Thrall :
Clark $10 00
Freedom and Winred 10 50
Huron 56 75
Watertown, Friends 1 00
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. A. M.
Wilcox, Treas.:
Academy $2 80
Armour 160
Badger Lake 9 76
Buffalo Gap 1 76
Deadwood 2 00
Firesteel 3 75
Huron 981
Mitchell 7 00
Myron 5 00
Redfield 4 00
Santee 5 55
Vermillion 12 75
Wakonda 7 00
Yankton 6 00
4 00
1 25
7 80
6 34
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28 65
20 42
5 00
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1 50
1 00
78 25
Canova, $7.50 ; Dover, $11, by Rev. G.
E.Green $1850
Canova and Dover, by Rev. G. E.
Green 575
Gettysburg, Rev. L. A. Brink 5 00
Huron, Rev. W. H. Thrall, in mem-
ory of Mrs. W. H. Thrall 100 00
Redfield, by Rev. L. Reynolds 8 05
Sioux Falls, First, by W. R. Kings-
bury 12 47
South Shore, $11.50 ; Mazeppa, $3.25 ;
Troy, $5.25, by Rev. H. A. Lyman. 20 00
Turton, by Rev. R. J. Locke 5 00
COLORADO— $135.02.
Woman's H. M. Union, Mrs. B. C.
Valentine, Treas $36 54
Denver, Third 7 28
Highland Lake 618
50 00
Colorado Springs, Second, by Rev.
M. D. Ormes 11 00
Denver, Second, $32.85 ; Montrose,
$5.50, by Rev. H. Sanderson 38 35
People's Tabernacle Ch., by Rev.
T. A. Uzzell 25 00
Harmon, by Rev. H. M. Skeels 9 07
Red Cliff, by Rev. C. A. Forbes 1 60
Erratum: Denver, Colo., Third Ch., $10,
should be credited to the Second Ch., Denver.
Erroneously ack. in February Home Missionary
under Woman's H. M. Union.
MONTANA— $8.25.
Red Lodge, by Rev. W. H. Watson.. 7 00
Rimini, by Rev. W. S. Bell 1 25
78 77
CALIFORNIA— $201.46.
Woman's H. M. Union Southern Cali-
fornia, Mrs. M. M. Smith, Treas. :
Claremont, Jr. C. E $1 60
Mentone 8 00
Ontario, Jr. C. E , . 1 50
Pomona, Pilgrim Ch., Y. P.
S. C. E 13 50
Redlands, Ladies' Union. .. 1000
San Diego, S. S 15 62
Santa Ana, S. S 86
Santa Barbara 5 00
South Riverside 1 83
Whittier, S. S 2 00
Black Diamond, New York Ch., by
Rev. F. H. Wales
Glen Ellen, $5.15 ; Kenwood, $20, by
Rev. J. D. Foster
Needles, by Rev. J. F. Brown
Nordhoff, by Rev. F. F. Pearse.
Pacific Grove, Mayflower Ch., by Rev.
H. W. Mote
Palermo, Mrs. Gray, by Rev. W. H.
Robinson
Rocklin, by Rev. E. D. Haven
San Bernardino, Bethel Mission, by
Rev. J. H. Stewart
San Bernadino, E. Smith
San Luis Obispo, First, by Rev. W.
W. Madge
Stockton, Rev. J. C. Holbrook, D.D.
Whittier, by Rev. J. T. Ford
OREGON-$56.59.
Received by Rev. C. F. Clapp :
Woman's H . M . Union, Mrs.
W. D. Palmer, Treas $24 91
3085
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Condon. P. McPherson $2 50
Portland, Hassalo Street Ch. 400
Condon, Lexington, and lone, by Rev.
U. S. Drake
Freewater, by Rev. W. Hurlburt
Oregon City, Y. P. S. C. E., add'l, by
Rev. C. F. Clapp
Portland, German Ch., by Rev. J.
Koch
Salem, S. S. of First, by I. A. Macrum,
Treas. Or. H. M. S
Waukomis and Mt. Calvary, by Rev.
J. Foster
Willsburg, by Rev. G. A. Rockwood,
thro' I. A. Macrum, Treas. Or. H.
M.S
6 28
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WASHINGTON-$i9.65.
Received by Rev. O. L. Fowler :
Alderton $1 70
McMillan 245
Orting 2 00
$6 15
Ballard, German Ch., by Rev. G.
Graedel 3 00
Colfax, by Rev. H. P. James 3 00
Seattle, First German, by Rev. J. G.
Biegert 2 50
Sprague, by Rev. O. S. Haines 5 00
Home Missionary 100 73
flO,2CO 39
Contributions in February, excluding contributions for the debt $8,586 76
Legacies in February 9,110 30
Contributions for the debt in February 340 34
Total receipts in February $18,316 40
Contributions for the debt to March 1st :
General O. O. Howard Roll of Honor $88,556 58
Special for debt 9-077 95
$97,634 S3
Donations of Clothing, etc.
Aurora. 111., Corban Asso. of New Eng-
land Ch., by Mrs. D. W. Hurd, two
barrels $70 00
Claremont, N. H.. Ladies' Asso., by
Fannie S. Goss, barrel 5000
Hartford, Conn., Ladies' Soc. of First
Ch., by E. C. Curtis, barrel and
package 132 00
Second Ch., by Mrs. M. H. Graves,
two barrels (and cash, $12.00) 14629
Keene. N. H., Home Miss. Asso. of First
Ch., by W. I. Bishop, box and barrel. 79 00
Lyme. N. H.. Ladies, by Mrs. A. G.
Washburn, box.
Middletown Springs, Vt., W. B. M.
Aux., by Henry L. Bailey, barrel 46 00
Newbury, Vt., Two Friends, by Mrs.
Anna E. Keyes, box.
New Britain, Conn.. First Ch. of Christ,
by Emma L. Pickett, barrel 30 70
New Haven, Conn., L. H. M. S. of First
Ch., by Mrs. J. G. Lewis, four boxes 659 47
United Ch.. by Sarah E. Champion,
two boxes and package 359 21
L. B. S. of Dwight Place Ch., by Mrs.
H. S. Higby, box and barrel
New Lebanon, N. Y., by Theo. W.
Harris, box and barrel
New York City Hospital Book and
Newspaper Soc, two packages.
Norwich, N. Y., Woman's Working
Asso. of First Ch., by Mrs. John P.
Hall, barrel
Orange, Conn., by Mrs. S. D. Russell,
box
Somersworth, N. H., Ladies, by Cora
Stickney, barrel
Southport, Conn., by Mrs. Simon C.
Sherwood, box and barrel
Toledo, O., Jeannette Mission Circle of
Second Ch., by Mrs. Florence M.
Nauts, barrel (and cash, $3.25)
Ladies' Miss. Soc. of Washington St.
Ch., by Mrs. L. E. Johnson, box
and barrel
58 So
$2,14$ 64
Donations of Clothing, etc., received and reported at the rooms of the Woman s Home
Missionary Association in February, 1897. Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, Secretary
Acton, Ladies, by Miss Evelina Davis,
box $27 00
Bedford. United Workers, by Mrs. W.
G. Webber, barrels 70 00
Boston, Old South Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
Wm. B. Garritt, two barrels 160 62
Walnut Avenue Ch., W. H. M. S., by
Miss Grace Sorm, three barrels 225 00
Brockton, Porter Ch., Aux., by Mrs.
Frank W. Sears, two barrels 69 68
Cranston, R. I., Edgewood Ch., Ladies,
by Mrs. D. G. Markham, two barrels 108 00
Dalton, L. S. S., by Miss Clara L.
Crane, barrel 89 60
Holliston, Ladies, by Mrs. George B.
Fiske. barrel.
Millbury, Aux., by Mrs. Hattie E.
Searles, ($8) and two barrels 131 33
Newburyport, North Ch., Powell Mis-
sion Circle, by Mrs. E. J. Bonnette,
one and one-half barrels
Prospect Street Ch., H. M. S., by Mrs.
E. J. Bonnette, two barrels
Pawtucket, friends in Central Falls Ch.,
by Miss L. A. Tracy, box
Aux., by Mrs. L. B. Goff , box
Peabody, Aux., by Mrs. Thomas M.
Stimpson. barrel
Pittsfield. First Ch., L. B. S., by Mrs.
Sarah B Adam, barrel
Salem, Tabernacle Ch., Aux., by Mrs.
Choate. case and two barrels
Somerville, Broadway Ch., Ladies, by
Miss M. S. Higgins, barrel
South Sudbury, Aux., by Mrs. H. H.
Brown, barrel
25 00
130 00
63 16
197 28
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Spencer, Ladies, by Mrs. C. O. Tyler,
barrel : $5700
Springfield, First Ch., W. H. M. S., by
Mrs. C. A. Graves, barrel 96 35
Westfield, Second Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
Olin C. Towle, barrel. . . go 43
Westhampton, L. B. S., by Miss Louisa
J. Montague, barrel 25 09
Worcester, Central Ch., Ladies, by Mrs.
C. G. Leland, barrel $150 00
Immanuel Ch., Ladies, by Mrs. L. W.
Murdock, barrel 17 50
Union Ch., Ladies, by Miss Mabel
Lancaster, barrel 120 00
$2,556 63
AUXILIARY STATE RECEIPTS
MAINE MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Maine Missionary Society, from November 21, it
John L. Crosby, Treasurer
), to January 30, 1897.
Aroostook Conference, by G. B. Hes-
cock
Auburn, High St., Young Ladies' Mis-
sion Band, for Cong. Home Miss. Soc,
by Harriet C. Reynoldson
Bangor, Essex St
Central, S. S., Mrs. J. W. Porter's
class
Ch., by G. S.Hall
S. S., by R. J. Sawyer
Y. P. S. C. E., by Henry F. Drum-
mond
First, by W. P. Hubbard
Bath, Central, by J. C. Ledyard
Miss Mary D. Moody, legacy (in part,
by J. R. Kelley and G. C. Moses,
Exs.)
Dedham, Ch., by Rev. H. A. Freeman .
Ellsworth, Ch., by Z. H. Brimmer
Garland, Ch
Gray, by Rev. E. M. Cousins
Harpswell Center, Friends, by Mrs. E.
P. Morse
Holden, Ch., by Rev. H. A. Freeman..
Houlton, Ch., by F. L. Cook
Jackman, Ch., by W. L. Muttart
By Rev. D. P. Hatch
Jonesport, S. S., by Mrs. D. D. Kelley.
Kennebunkport, Mrs. Horace Smith . . .
Second, Ch., by W. R. Wheelwright.
Kennebunk Union, by H. S. Bingham .
Kittery Point, by Rev. H. V. Emmons
Lewiston, Pine St., by A. L. Temple-
ton
Limerick, Ch., by Rev. J. A. Water-
worth
Little Deer Isle, by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier .• ■
Machias, Center St., S. S.,by Hattie M.
Heaton
North Belfast, Y. P. S. C. E., by Rev.
D. P. Hatch
$20 00
10
00
6
10
3
00
100
00
'3
00
28
00
50
00
56
45
1.500
00
3
00
5
75
4
00
5
70
2
00
8
00
8
80
10
00
9
60
17
00
11
00
5
00
39
53
5
00
31
°5
6
00
7
47
6
3°
5
00
North Yarmouth, Ch., by Howard Cole
Orland, by Miss Emma Buck
Phippsburg, Ch., by F. S. Bowker
Pittsfield, Mass., by Rev. J. L. Jenkins,
D.D
Portland, State St., Ch., by H. M. Bailey
Ligonia, Ch., by Mrs. WilliamThomas
W. C. Rideout, by Rev. D. P. Hatch.
Two Friends
High St., Ch..by H.W. Shaylor
St. Lawrence St., Ch., by J. J. Gerrish
Presque Isle, Y. P. S. C. E., add. by Rev.
C. Harbutt
Princeton, Ch., by Rev. Charles Whit-
tier
Saco, First, by Fred A. Lord
Sebago Lake, Ch., by Mrs. N. E. Saw-
yer
Skowhegan, Island Ave., Ch., by Jas. N.
Page
South Bridgton, Ch., by T. B. Knapp,
which with prev. gifts to const. Miss
Ethel M. Knights a L. M
Temple, Ch., by J. R. Wilson
Union Conf., by Rev. D. P. Hatch
Unknown, " F., 1896 "
Wells, Barak Maxwell
West Brooksville, Ch., by Mrs. Maggie
E. Blodgett
Winthrop, by Rev. Geo. H. Credeford,
for Ashland Ch
York, Second, by J. H. Moody
By C. C. Barrell
Rev. James Ramage
Woman's Me. Miss. Aux
Income from Investments
20
5
00
28
31
325
5
2
33
29
00
00
1
00
200
00
10
00
5
00
11
6
52
15
2
00
25
00
3 25
6 00
10 00
200 00
20 00
2 70
5 00
13 00
2 30
5 °°
333 69
723 15
Previously acknowledged
Total from Sept. 15, '96, to Jan. 30, '97 .
&3>943 61
1,537 68
VERMONT DOMESTIC MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Vermont Domestic Missionary Society from January 20 to February 20,
1897. Wm. C. Tyler, Treasurer
Bakersfield
Barton, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M. S. . .
Brookfield, First
ForC. H. M. S
Second
ForC. H. M.S '
$2 68 Brandon
4 37 Burlington, First
4 23 Mrs. E. N. Keeler
4 22 Charlotte
7 12 Cornwall, Y. P. S. C. E., for C. H. M. S.
7 13 Coventry
7 12
2 01
5 00
6i8
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April, 1897
Greensboro, Rev. C. L. Guild $5 00
Guildhall 525
leffersonville 10 00
Lamoille County 100 00
Newbury. West 1 54
Northfield 1527
Pownal, North 2 50
St. Johnsbury, East. . .
North Ch
ForC. H. M. S
Wolcott, Y. P. S. C. E.
Interest
Vermont Missionary ..
$5 00
75 00
75 00
2 00
67 00
21 05
$633 49
MASSACHUSETTS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society in February, 1897.
Edwin B. Palmer, Treasurer
Amherst, A Friend
Andover, Ballardvale, Union, by Wm.
E. Shaw, C. E. day Thank-offer-
ing
Bank Balances, Jan. interest
Barnstable, West, by Rev. S. W. Clarke.
Bernardston. Y. P. S. C. E., by Mrs. H.
L. Crowell
Boston, A Friend
Boylston, by G. E. S. Kinney
Dorchester, Central, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Alice M. Pinkham, towards
salary of Rev. John Rood
Fullarton, Mrs. Jacob, towards sal-
ary of Rev. Geo. Baker, Washou-
gal. Wash
Village, Ladies' H. M. Soc, by Mrs.
Reuben Swan, w. p. g. to const.
Mrs. Fred M. Swan a L. M
Jam. Plain, Swett, Sam'l W., Est. of,
Remnant, $2,500.00.*
Central. S. S., by E. Seaverns, for
local Chinese work, $25.00.*
Old South, by Moses Merrill, for local
Chinese work, $25.00.*
Richardson, Mrs., for relief of debt . .
Roslindale, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss B.
J. Morrison, salary of Rev. S. H.
Schwab, $7.75.*
Shawmut, by D. E. Partridge, for
local Chinese work, $5.00.*
Union, by W. H. White
S. S., by Geo. H. Emerson
Y. P. S. C. E., by H. E. Heath,
C. E. day gift
X
Bradford, First, by S. W. Carleton ....
Braintree, First, L. H. M. S., by Miss
S. H. Thayer, for relief of debt and to
const. Mrs. Susannah H. Wheeler a
L. M
Brockton (Campello), South, S. S., by
Martha S. Fanning
Brookline, Harvard, by Jas. H. Shap-
leigh
Cambridge, J. E. S., for C. H. M. S....
North Ave.; by Adam K. Wilson
Cambridgeport. Pilgrim, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Mabel W. Snow
Prospect St., R. L. S
Chelsea, Central, by W. B. Denison
Concord, Norwegian Ch.,by R.Petersen
Dartmouth, South, Y. P. S. C. E. day
offering, by Jane R. Baker
Dudley, Y. P. S. C. E., by M. Eva Wil-
son
Dunstable, by W. P. Proctor
Duxbury, Sen. Y. P. S. C. E., $4. 36;
Jun. Y. P. S. C. E.. $1.64. by Emma
B. Bates, towards salary of Rev. John
Rood
Everett, Kent, Miss Mary
Foxboro. Y. P. S. C. E., bv P. B. Rich-
mond, towards salary of Rev. S. H.
Schwab, $10.00.*
$30 00
7
J3
17
27
S
00
2
55
20
00
45
47
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ii
25
00
2.5
00
5
00
50
00
3°
00
*3
98
278
40
5
0. >
5
00
5
00
75
00
33
75
10
00
5
00
1
40
53
00
6
00
1
40
Freetown, Hatheway, Mrs. A., $2.00 ;
Nichols, Mrs. I. L., $2.00
Greenfield, First, by Rev. C. H. Watson
Hadley (North), Second, by H. C. Rus-
sell
Hampden County, an anonymous
" Friend of the Cause "
Hanover, Second, by A. M. Barstow...
Hanson, by I. C. Howland
Harwich, by Wm. H. Underwood
Hatfield, Y. P. S. C. E., by Alpheus
Cowles
Hawley, West, by Clarence C. Fuller,
Taft thank-offering
Holyoke, Second, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Josephine Myers, for work among
foreign population
Ipswich, First, Y. P. S. C. E., by Alice
F. Thomas, towards salary of Rev. C.
J. Hansen
Kioto, Japan, " Silver Exchange," to
const. Walter Cary a L. M. of C. H.
M. S
Lancaster, Evan., by L. Rowell
Lawrence, Armenian Cong., by Rev.
W. E. Walcott, for local Armenian
work, $25.00.*
Leominster, North, Ch., $12.55; Y. P.
S. C. E., $2.00. by Lucy E. Shedd. . .
Lexington, Shaw, Mrs. E. A., for ar-
rears of salary
Lowell, High St., S. S., by S. N. Wood,
for work among Greeks, $17.00.*
Lynnfield, Center, by Rev. Geo. E.
Freeman
Mansfield, by Rev. Jacob Ide
Maynard, Y. P. S. C. E., by Miss Annie
G. Adams
Merrimac, by F. O. Davis
Montague, Turner's Falls, Y. P. S. C.
E., by Rev. H. C. Adams
Newton, Auburndale, Kelley, Edw. P..
(Center), First, Y. P. S. C. E., by
Rev. E. M. Noyes, for foreign
Pop
Newtonville, Howe Y. P. S. C. E.,by
Percy G. Stiles
Norfolk Union, by Wm. E. Mann
Northampton, Florence S. S., by W. M.
Smith, for work of Dr. H. A. Schauf-
fler
Northboro, Evan., Ch. and S. S., by
Miss A. A. Adams
North Brookfield, First, Y. P. S. C. E.,
by Herbert Sargeant, for work among
foreign population
Oakham, Y. P. S. C. E., by Geo. H.
Morse
Palmer, First (Thorndike), by Chas.
Smith
Petersham, by Rev. D. E. Adams
Princeton, by Rev. C. A. White
"R."
Reading, by Dean Peabody
Revere. First, by W. M. Hill
Rev.
25 00
30 00
ICO 00
I 04
6 02
25 75
1 21
5 36
50 00
40 95
M
55
5
00
'7
00
M
25
10
00
44
40
9
40
10
00
3i
00
12
00
45
00
XO
t8
IO
00
I
13
8 75
5 20
98 63
1 00
25
00
3
30
* Received and credited on Special Accounts.
April, 1897
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Rowley, Ladies' Benev. Soc, by Nellie
Rutland, First," Y.' P." S.' C. E.', by El-
sie L. Nourse, for work among for-
eign population
Saugus, Cliftondale, by Miss H. A.
Haywood
Sharon, by D. W. Pettee
Somerville, Broadway, by F. S. Holden
South Hadley Falls, by A. N. Chapin,
Rally aftermath
Spencer, Y. P. S. C. E., by Elizabeth
Bacon, towards sal. of Rev. S. H.
Schwab, $7.75-*
Springfield, Anonymous
Hope, Y. P. S. C. E., by Harry H.
Lane
Olivet, by George B. Kilbon. to const.
Edith Grace Albro and Helen A.
Camp L. Ms. of C. H. M. S
Sutton, Wilkinsonville, A Friend, to
const. Mrs. A. P. Pratt, of Grafton, a
L. M.of C. H. M.S
Upton, add'l, by B. C. Wood
Ware, First, by W. L. Brakenridge,
$12 00 w. p. g. to const. Dea. N. H. Ander-
son a L. M $26 00
Wayland, Trinitarian, by F. H. Fowler 7 13
5 00 Wellesley College, Cummings, Prof.
Clara E 25 00
16 62 Westboro', Newcomb, G. S 5 00
17 46 Westfield, Second, by R. L. Scott 52 37
27 72 Westhampton, by A. D. Montague 18 00
Weston, by J. C. MacDonald 7 00
13 64 Whitcomb, David, fund, Income of 125 00
Williamstown, Fernald, Prof. O. M 20 00
South, Y. P. S. C. E., by Lula E.
Young 57
5 00 Worcester, Emmanuel, Ch. and S. S., by
L. Pratt, Taft thank-offering 34 00
15 00 Woman's Home Missionary Associa-
tion, by Miss AC. Bridgman,Treas. :
Hyde Park Auxiliary, for re-
14688 . lief of C. H. M. S. debt $5200
52 00
$2,565 22
50 00 Home Missionary 13 40
25 $2,578 62
Received and credited on Special Account.
HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT
Receipts of the Missionary Society of Connecticut in February , 1897.
Jacobs, Treasurer
Ward W.
Burlington, by Samuel Russell
Colchester, First, Ch. and S. S., by Ed-
ward F. Strong
Greenwich, Stanwich, by L. M. Close .
Y. P. S. C. E
Hartford, First, by C. T. Welles
ForC. H. M. S
" Hawes Fund," for C. H. M. S
Second, by H. E. Harrington, to
const. Mrs. Lennie E. Clark, of
Hartford, a L. M
Asylum Hill, Rev. William H. Moore,
personal
Park, by Willis E. Smith ...
Glenwood, by H. M. Smith
Warburton Chapel, S. S., by J. Coo-
lidge Hills
Litchfield, S. S., by Robert A. Catlin,
for C. H. M. S
Middletown, First, by E. P. Augur
Montville, by Henry A. Baker
Naugatuck, by Miss Ellen Spencer
Norwich, First, by Lewis A. Hyde
Old Saybrook, by Robert Chapman
For C. H. M. S
$12 03
25 34
10 00
5 °°
161 15
2 00
35 25
50
29
3
00
39
00
7
00
25
24
6
00
33
00
100
00
114
27
10
10
73
73
Poquonock, see Windsor.
Salisbury, by Theo. F. Dexter $25 00
Somers, by L. W. Percival 14 53
Stanwich, see Greenwich.
Stratford, by C. C. Wells 18 42
Suffield, First, by W. E. Russell, with
prev. conts. to const. John R. Hen-
shaw, of Suffield, a L. M 49 00
Thomaston, First, by H. A. Welton, for
C. H. M. S 9 28
Waterbury, First, by Lester M. Camp.. 183 96
Wilton, by B. Gilbert 38 00
Winchester, by E. B. Bronson 41 34
Windham, by William Swift 62 21
Windsor, Poquonock, by L. R. Lord ... 3 06
W. C. H. M. U. of Conn., Mrs. George
Follett, Secretary : Hartford, First,
Junior Aux., by Mrs. M. W. Jacobus 10 00
$1,486 07
Hartford, Park, a box $135
ILLINOIS HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Illinois Home Missionary Society in fanuary, 1897. Aaron B. Mead,
Treasurer
Alton, Church of the Redeemer, special $215 00
Aurora, New England 19 20
Batavia, Mrs. Lucy C. Bull 5 00
Mrs. L. C. Patterson 10 00
Big Rock, Mrs. Dr. Long 5 00
Bunker Hill 2 00
Caledonia 5 00
Chicago, Jefferson Park 20 00
Millard Avenue 20 00
Mizpah Chapel 3 50
Decatur 30 00
Dover (Dea. George Wells, $25) $35 00
Earlville 19 30
Elburn n 35
Evanston, First, Mrs. Andrew Shuman. 20 00
Fall Creek, Mrs. Margaretta Keil 50 00
Frankfort 19 17
Galesburg, Central 113 22
Geneseo (Mrs. P. Huntington, $5) 90 24
Granville 10 37
Gridley, Y. P. S. C. E 325
Grossdale 12 00
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La Grange, Jun. C. E $5 00
Lee Center 26 00
Marseilles. S. S 659
Melvin. Rev. William B. Humphrey... 2000
Mendon 3 50
Morgan Park (S.S., $5.10) 12 50
Neponset, Y. P. S. C. E 7 50
Norris City 25 50
Oak Park, W. F. Furbeck, special 10 00
Second Ch. (E. H. Pitkin, special, $10) 2314
Payson, S. S 689
Peoria, Martin Kingman, special 5 00
German Ch 3 30
Princeton, Y. P. S. C. E 3 45
Rockefeller, Y. P. S. C. E 6 29
Sfterrard 2 87
Spring Valley. Y. P. S. C. E 10 00
S. M. Dalzell, special 500
Sycamore 113 52
Y. P. S. C. E 6 00
Henry Wood 1500
Toulon, Y. P. S. C. E 5 00
Villa Ridge
Woman's Home Missionary Union :
Chicago, New England $14 25
Union Paik 100 00
Ravenswood 8 00
Englewood, Pilgrim 2 50
Lombard 2500
Odell, Y. P. S. C. E 3 50
Payson 5 00
Peoria, First 5 00
Sandwich 6000
Springfield, First 9 55
Rev. J. A. Adams, Chicago .
Mrs. S. A. Cooley, Chicago .
Rev. K. E. Forsell
Friends in South Dakota
Rev. C. L. Westman, Vienna
$5 00
232 80
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$1,365 5«
MICHIGAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Receipts of the Michigan Home Missionary Society in February, 1897. Rev. John P.
Sanderson, Treasurer
Alba $1522
Allegan 2100
Berryville t 71
Big Rock 1000
Central Lake 415
Chelsea 800
Chesterfield 12 59
Columbus 1 5 00
Clinton 20 00
Detroit, First 135 00
East Paris ' 7 00
Y. P. S. C. E 2 00
Eastport 4 30
Ellsworth 3 54
Excelsior 50
Fisher's Station 4 00
Gilmore 1 23
Grandville 10 00
Grass Lake 20 09
Hudsonville 2000
Kalkaska 10 00
Laingsburg 2 50
Lansing, Plymouth 35 00
Lewiston 25 00
Michigan Center 500
Napoleon, Mrs. A. A. Rexford 1000
O. F. Colgrove 8 00
North Leoni 3 00
Northport 20 00
Old Mission 23 80
Pleasanton 1 30
Rockford,$i2 ; S. S., $4 ; Y. ?. S. C. E.,
$5 2T OO
St. Joseph, Y. P. S. C. E 2 00
Salem, Second 5 65
Stanton ... 18 18
Tipton, Y. P. S. C. E 300
Vanderbilt 6 08
Vienna 1000
West Branch 2 00
Whittaker 1043
Wyandotte 38 10
A Friend 52 28
Another Friend ... 100 00
W. H. M. U. of Mich., by Mrs. E. F.
Grabill 442 71
$1,170 36
Receipts of W. H. M. U. of Michigan
for February, 1897, Mrs. E. F.
Grabill, Treas. :
SENIOR FUND
Addison, W. M. S $5 00
Almont. W. M . S $5 00
Ann Arbor, W. H. M. S„ of
which Children's Miss. Soc.
gave $20 92 00
Cheboygan, W. H. M. U 18 00
Clinton, W. M. S 1200
Cooper, W. M. S 6 00
Detroit, Mt. Hope, L. A. S... 15 00
Brewster, L. H. M. S 10 00
Farwell, W. H. M. S 522
Gaylord, W. H. M. U 600
Galesburg, W. H. M. S 26 00
Grand Ledge, W. H. M. U... 2 75
Greenville. W. H. M. U 8 00
Jackson, First, W. H. M. S... 2 40
Litchfield. L. M. S 1220
Manistee. W. H. M.S 2610
Maybee, L. A. S 2 00
Memphis, W. U 230
Mulliken, W. H. M.U 160
Muskegon, First. W. M. S 10 00
Nashville, Mrs. M. R. Brice.. 2 00
Olivet, L. B. S., $15; thank-
offering, $21.35 3635
Oxford, W. A 267
Saginaw, W. A 75 00
South Lake Linden. W. U.... 6 00
Stanton. W. H. M. U 26 02
Three Oaks, W. M. S 665
West Adrian. W. M. S 870
Wheatland. W. H. M. U 11 00
Whitaker, W. H. M. S 7 00
YOUNG PEOTLE S FUND
Ann Arbor, Y. P. S C. E $1000
Benton Harbor. Y. P. S. C. E. 12 00
Detroit, First, Children's Mis-
sionary Army 1 50
Flint. Y. P. S. C. E 1 76
Kalamo, Y. P. S. C. E (Jan.) 60
Jackson, First, S. S., birthday
box 13 00
Litchfield, Junior C. E. S 3 65
Muskegon, First, Y. L. M. C. 2 50
Oxford. Y. P. S. C. E 236
Light Bearers' Miss. Band 1 13
Pontiac, Y. P. S. C. E 850
§448 96
57 00
$505 69
April, 1897
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WOMAN'S STATE HOME MISSIONARY
ORGANIZATIONS
OFFICERS
1. NEW HAMPSHIRE
FEMALE CENT INSTITUTION
Organized August, 1804
and
HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. Cyrus Sargeant, Plymouth.
Secretary, Mrs. M. W. Nims, 16 Rumford St.,
Concord.
Treasurer, Miss Annie A. McFarland, 196 Main
St., Concord.
2. MINNESOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1872
President, Miss Catherine W. Nichols, 230 E. 9th
St., St. Paul.
Secretary, Mrs. A. P. Lyon, 910 Sixth Ave., S.,
Minneapolis.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. W. Skinner, Northfield.
5. MAINE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY AUXILIARY
Organized June, 1880
President, Mrs. Katherine B. Lewis. So. Berwick.
Secretary, Mrs. Gertrude H. Denio, 168 Ham-
mond St., Bangor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rose M. Crosby, 64 Grove St.,
Bangor.
6. MICHIGAN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1881
President, Mrs. I. P. Powell, 76 Jefferson Ave.,
Grand Rapids.
Secretary, Mrs. Cornelia C. Denjson, 179 Lyon
St., Grand Rapids.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. F. Grabill, Greenville.
3. ALABAMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1877
Reorganized April, 1889
President, Mrs. G. W. Andrews, Talladega.
Secretary, Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Montgomery.
Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Silsby, Talladega.
7. KANSAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1881
President, Mrs. F. J. Storrs, Topeka.
Secretary, Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, 802 W. 12th St.
Topeka.
■Treasurer, Mrs. E. C. Reed, Parsons.
. 4. MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE
ISLAND *
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY ASSOCIA-
TION
Organized February, 1880
President, Mrs. C. L. Goodell, 32 Congregational
House, Boston.
Secretary, Mrs. Louise A. Kellogg, 32 Congrega-
tional House, Boston.
Treasztrer, Miss Annie C. Bridgman, 32 Congre-
gational House, Boston.
8. OHIO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1882
President, Mrs. Sydney Strong, Walnut Hills,
Cincinnati.
Secretary, Mrs. J. W. Moore, 513 The Ellington,
Cleveland.
Treasurer, Mrs. George B. Brown, 21 16 Warren
St., Toledo.
* While the W. H. M. A. appears in the above list as a State body for Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, it has certain auxiliaries elsewhere.
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9. NEW YORK
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
15. CONNECTICUT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized January, 1885
President, Mrs. Wm. Kincaid, 483 Greene Ave., President, Miss Ellen R. Camp, 9 Camp St., New
Brooklyn. Britain.
Secretary, Mrs. Wm. Spalding, 511 Orange St., Secretary, Mrs. C. T. Millard, 36 Lewis St.,
Syracuse. Hartford.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. J. Pea'rsall, 508 Jefferson Ave., Treasurer, Mrs. W. W. Jacobs, 19 Spring St.,
Brooklyn. Hartford.
10. WISCONSIN
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1883
President, Mrs. E. G. Updike, Madison.
Secretary, Mrs. A. O. Wright, Madison.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. E. Smith, Madison.
II. NORTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1883
President, Mrs. N. M. Lander, Wahpeton.
Secretary, Mrs. Silas Daggett, Harwood.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Fisher, Fargo.
12. OREGON
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
President, Mrs. F. Eggert. The Hill, Portland.
Cor. Sec, Mrs. D. D. Clarke. 447 E. 12th St., No.
Portland.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Palmer, 546 3d St., Port-
land.
13. 'WASHINGTON
Including Northern Idaho
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized July, 1884
Reorganized June. 1889
President, Mrs. A. Judson Bailey, 704 Olympic
Ave., Seattle.
Secretary, Mrs. W. C. Wheeler, 424 South K St.,
Tacoma.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. George, 620 Fourth Street,
Seattle.
16. MISSOURI
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Henry Hopkins, 916 Holmes St.,
Kansas City.
Secretary, Mrs. E. C. Ellis, 2456 Tracy Ave.,
Kansas City.
Treasurer, Mrs. K. L. Mills, 1526 Wabash Ave.,
Kansas City.
17. ILLINOIS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1885
President, Mrs. Isaac Claflin, Lombard.
Secretary, Mrs. C. H. Taintor, 151 Washington
St., Chicago.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. A. Field, Wilmette.
18. IOWA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1886
President, Mrs. T. O. Douglass, Grinnell.
Secretary. Mrs. H. H. Robbins, Grinnell.
Treasurer, Miss Belle L. Bentley, W. Grand Ave.,
Des Moines.
19. CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Organized October, 1887
President, Mrs. E. S. Williams, Saratoga.
Secretary, Mrs. L. M. Howard, 911 Grove St.,
Oakland.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. M. Haven, 1329 Harrison St.,
Oakland.
14. SOUTH DAKOTA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized September, 1884
President, Mrs. C. E. Corry, Columbia.
Secretary, Mrs. B. H. Burtt, Huron.
Treasurer, Mrs. F. M. Wilcox, Huron.
20. NEBRASKA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1887
President. Mrs. D. B. Perry. Crete.
Secretary, Mrs. H. Bross, 2904 y St., Lincoln.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. W. Dawes, Crete.
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31. FLORIDA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized February, 1888
President, Mrs. S. F. Gale, Jacksonville.
Secretary, Mrs. Nathan Barrows, Winter Park.
Treasurer, Mrs. W. D. Brown, Interlachen.
27. GEORGIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1888
President, Mrs. H. B. Wey, 253 Forest Ave.,
Atlanta.
Secretary, Mrs. H. A. Kellam, 176 Ivy St., At-
lanta.
Treasurer, Miss Virginia Holmes, Barnesville.
22. INDIANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
28. MISSISSIPPI
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. W. A. Bell, 223 Broadway, In- President, Mrs. C. L. Harris, 1421 31st Ave., Me-
dianapolis. , ridian
Secretary, Mrs. D F Coe, Elkhart. Secretary, Miss Emma Redick, Tougaloo Uni-
Treasurer, Mrs. A. H. Ball, Anderson. versity, Tougaloo.
Treasurer, Mrs. L. H. Turner, 3112 12th St., Me-
ridian.
23. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1888
President, Mrs. Warren F. Day, 949 So. Hill St.,
29. LOUISIANA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. C. M. Crawford, Hammond.
Los Angeles.
Secretary, Mrs. W. J: Washburn, 1900 Pasadena Secretary, Mrs. Matilda Cabrere, 2812 FreretSt.,
Ave., Los Angeles. »„NeWT0riea?s-TT. ,
Treasurer, Mrs. Mary M. Smith, Public Library, - Treasurer, Mrs. L. St. J. Hitchcock, 2436 Canal
Riverside. St., New Orleans.
24. VERMONT
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY 'UNION
Organized June, 1888
President, Mrs. W.J. Van Patten, Burlington.
Secretary, Mrs. M. K. Paine, Windsor.
Treasurer, Mrs. Rebecca P. Fairbanks, St. Johns-
bury.
25. COLORADO
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Hon. Pres., Mrs. J. W. Pickett, Whitewater.
President, Mrs. E. R. Drake, 2739 Lafayette St.,
Denver.
Secretary, Mrs. Addison Blanchard, 309 31st Ave.,
Denver.
Treasurer, Mrs. B. C. Valentine, Highlands.
30. ARKANSAS, KENTUCKY, AND TEN-
NESSEE
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION OF THE
CENTRAL SOUTH ASSOCIATION
Organized April, 1889
President, Mrs. Ella S. Moore, Box 8, Fisk Uni-
versity, Nashville, Tenn.
Secretary, Mrs. Jos. E. Smith 304 Gilmer St.,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. E. Moreland, 216 N. McNairy
St., Nashville, Tenn.
31. NORTH CAROLINA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1889
President, Mrs. S. S. Sevier, McLeansville.
Secretary )
and VMiss A. E. Farrington, Oaks.
Treasurer, )
26. WYOMING
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1888
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. F. W. Powelson, Cheyenne.
Secretary, Mrs. W. L. Whipple. Cheyenne.
Treasurer, Mrs. H. N. Smith, Rock Springs.
32. TEXAS
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized March, 1890
President, Mrs. J. M. Wendelkin, Dallas.
Secretary, Mrs. W. I. Carroll, 331 Grand Avenue,
Dallas.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. H. Gray, 297 So. Boulevard,
Dallas.
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33. MONTANA
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1890
38. INDIAN TERRITORY
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized April, 1892
President, Mrs. O C. Clark, Missoula President, Mrs. Favette Hurd. Vinita.
Secretary, Mrs. W. S. Bell, 410 Dearborn Ave., Secretary, Miss Louise Graper. Vinita.
„ „,"ei^na; „ T T . . Treasurer, Mrs. Raymond, Vinita.
Treasurer, Mrs. Herbert E. Jones, Livingston.
34. PENNSYLVANIA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized June, 1890
President, Mrs. J. S. Upton, Ridgvvay.
Secretary, Mrs. C. F. Yennie, Ridgway.
Treasurer, Mrs. T. W. Jones. 511 Woodland Ter-
race, Philadelphia.
39. NEVADA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1892
President, Mrs. L. J. Flint, Reno.
Secretary, Miss Margaret N. Magill, Reno.
Treasurer, Miss Mary Clow, Reno.
35. OKLAHOMA
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized October, 1890
President, Mrs. W. M. Wellman. Darlington.
Secretary, Mrs. Joel Harper, Oklahoma City.
Treasurer, Mrs. A. B. Hammer, Oklahoma City.
36. NEW JERSEY
Including District of Columbia, Maryland,
and Virginia
WOMAN'S HOME MISSIONARY UNION OF
THE NEW JERSEY ASSOCIATION
Organized March. 1891
President, Mrs. A. H. Bradford, Montclair.
Secretary, Mrs. F. J. Goodwin, Glen Ridge.
Treasurer, Mrs. J. H. Denison, 150 Belleville Ave.,
Newark.
37. UTAH
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1891
Reorganized December, 1892
President, Mrs. W. S. Hawkes, 135 Sixth East
Street, Salt Lake City.
Secretary, Mrs. L. E. Hall, 78 East First North
Street, Salt Lake City.
Treasurer. Mrs. J. D. Nutting, Third North and
Quince Streets, Salt Lake City.
40. NEW MEXICO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized November, 1892
President, Mrs. E. H. Ashmun, Albuquerque.
Secretary, Mrs. F. A. Burlingame, Albuquerque.
Treasurer, Mrs. M. McClaskey, Albuquerque.
41. BLACK HILLS, SO. DAKOTA
BLACK HILLS WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
UNION
Organized October, 1893
President, Mrs. J. B. Gossage, Rapid City, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Secretary, Miss Carrie Towner, Custer, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
Treasurer, Mrs. S. Cushman, Deadwood, Black
Hills, South Dakota.
42. IDAHO
WOMAN'S MISSIONARY UNION
Organized May, 1895
President, Mrs. R. B. Wright, Boise.
Secretary, Mrs. C. E. Mason, Challis.
Treasurer, Mrs. G. L. Cole, Mountain Home.
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