The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 4, April, 1883
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APRIL, 1883.

VOL. XXXVII.

NO. 4.

The American Missionary

CONTENTS

| Page.
EDITORIAL.
This Number—Financial | 97
Paragraphs | 98
Death of Mrs. G. S. Pope—Paragraphs | 99
Color Prejudice—Benefactions | 100
General Notes—Africa—The Chinese | 101
THE INDIANS.
Work Transferred by the Am. Board | 102
Suggestions of Enlargement | 103
Santee Normal Training School (cut) | 104
Aspects of the Indian Problem, by Hon. Carl Schurz | 105
Work at Carlisle, by Capt. R. H. Pratt | 108
Mandan Hut, Dakota (cut) | 111
History and Outlook of the Indian Work Transferred To the A. M. A., Prof. Alfred L. Riggs | 111
Sisseton Girls, with Teacher (cut) | 114
Indian Industries at Hampton, Gen. S. C. Armstrong | 115
Revival Work Among Indians at Hampton, Miss Isabel B. Eustis | 117
CHILDREN’S PAGE.
Indian Hut (cut) | 118
The Little Indian of Clear Lake | 118
RECEIPTS | 120
Aim and Work—Statistics—Wants | 123

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THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

PRESIDENT.

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CORRESPONDING SECRETARY.

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

TREASURER.

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

AUDITORS.

M. F. Reading. Wm. A. Nash.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

John H. Washburn, Chairman; A. P. Foster, Secretary; Lyman Abbott, Alonzo S. Ball, A. S. Barnes, C. T. Christensen, Franklin Fairbanks, Clinton B. Fisk, S. B. Halliday, Samuel Holmes, Charles A. Hull, Samuel S. Marples, Charles L. Mead, Wm. H. Ward, A. L. Williston.

DISTRICT SECRETARIES

Rev. C. L. Woodworth, Boston. Rev. G. D. Pike, D.D., New York.

Rev. James Powell, Chicago.

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

DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS
may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, 56 Reade Street, New York, or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 112 West Washington Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars at one time constitutes a Life Member.

FORM OF A BEQUEST.

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

“I THINK I’D LIKE TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WHEN I’M SIXTY.”

The gentleman who made the above remark carries a $10,000 endowment policy in the STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY, of Worcester, Mass. That sum will be paid to him at “sixty,” or to his family if he dies before reaching that age.

Thousands of men now living will need $10,000 when they become “sixty”—and their families will need it should they die before attaining that age. Both of these objects can be secured by the payment of a small sum each year to

THE STATE MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE CO.,

OF WORCESTER, MASS.,

Which is one of the OLDEST, STRONGEST and BEST companies in the United States.

This Company guarantees a CASH-SURRENDER value of every policy it issues after the second annual payment.

EXAMPLE.

1. An ordinary life policy, issued at the age of 30 for $10,000, annual premium $226.30. (The second and all subsequent premiums will be reduced by dividends.) After ten annual premiums have been paid, the guaranteed cash-surrender value is $909.80; the paid-up value $2,387.70, or more than gross premiums paid. The net cost for the past ten years of all similar policies has been $1,692.77, which reduced the cost of the insurance to $7.83 per $1,000 for each year.

This Company never disputes, or resists, an honest claim. It has been a party to only four suits in thirty-eight years—and in no case have the courts held a claim, resisted by the company, to be valid.

For full explanations, please call on or address

C. W. ANDERSON, General Agent,

145 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.

THE

American Missionary.

Vol. XXXVII.

APRIL, 1883.

No. 4.

AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION.

We devote the greater part of this number of the Missionary to the Indian problem. Communications will be found from Capt. Pratt, Gen. Armstrong, Hon. Carl Schurz and Prof. Riggs. These gentlemen have made the condition of the Indian a study for some years, and, by experience in public service, in the army, and by educational and religious endeavors, have had rare opportunities to test their theories and principles by practical efforts in behalf of the Indians. We know of no men more competent to speak on the subject or more worthy of the confidence of the public. Statistics relating to our Indian work, including that recently transferred to us by the American Board, are given. As we now are charged with the entire work done by the Congregationalists for the American aborigines, we trust we shall have the prayers and help needful for doing it efficiently.

FINANCIAL.

Our receipts show a falling off. Five months of the fiscal year are ended, and the receipts from donations are $20,774.39 less than for the corresponding months of last year; from legacies only $17,471.44 more. The decrease is in the contributions of living donors, and upon these rather than upon legacies, which are fluctuating and uncertain, must the Association rely for its regular support. Its work was never more successful or needed. The kind of schools and churches it establishes, and the preachers and teachers it sends forth, are becoming more fully appreciated. We are urgently invited to enter new and unusually promising openings for an enlarged church work. The valuable service rendered by our increased corps of lady missionaries makes a strong demand for large additions to their number. The Indian work received by the Association from the American Board will add about $20,000 to the expenditures of the year, without the enlargement which it so greatly needs. The Chinese work makes a strong appeal for additional accommodations for the increasing number of pupils in the schools.

Without an increase of receipts, or the creation of a debt, the Association cannot enlarge its work, or even sustain it in its present condition. Our Executive Committee feel themselves pledged against a debt by their promises to the public and by their own deep convictions of duty. But they confidently believe that the conscientious donors who have stood by the Association so faithfully in the past will promptly render such efficient assistance as will not only save it from debt or curtailment, but will authorize enlargement.

MUST HAVES.

The following “must haves” sent us in a private letter from President Ware, of Atlanta, illustrate the urgency of the appeals that constantly come to us from our different workers South. Mr. Ware says: “We must have buildings; we must have endowments for running expenses; we must or go to the wall; we must have building for grade B; for model school building, $8,000; we must have cottage in girls’ lot for housekeeping instruction, $5,000; we must have new hall for girls, $25,000, that will give room for 100 girls; we must have shop for industries, carpenter, etc., and endowment for support of man in that department, about $50,000 for both;” a batch, it will be seen, of $88,000, with no estimate of the amount needed for general endowment. We believe that it has been found so far by those who have put their money into Atlanta University that it has yielded “some thirty, some sixty, and some an hundred fold.” The stock is not all taken. We invite investors to examine the “points” in this venture, and trust that the merits of the security will warrant a speedy absorption of the entire amount called for.

We are cheered by many kind words relating to the American Missionary, and believe that those interested in the nation’s welfare, and especially in the redemption of the South, find in it much to encourage them to hope and to give in behalf of the people for whom we labor. Nothing, however, gives more evidence of appreciation than the steady response to our appeals for paid subscriptions. So far this year these have been very gratifying. The price is fifty cents, and we hope there will be no abatement of interest on the part of our friends in helping us place the magazine on a paying basis.

In the list of the teachers at Hampton, as reported in the February Missionary, the name of Miss Waldron should have been put as Miss M. M. Waldron, M.D., School Physician.

DEATH OF MRS. G. S. POPE.

After an illness of ten days, terminating in malarial pneumonia, Mrs. Pope died Feb. 2, at Tougaloo University, Tougaloo, Miss. For the past fifteen years she had been engaged in missionary work under the A. M. A., laboring in Montgomery, Louisville, Selma, Talladega and Tougaloo. Mrs. Pope brought into her work rare qualities of mind and heart. Her good judgment, her readiness in emergencies and her kindly interest in every one was an inspiration to all. Her death will be sorely felt, not only by her husband and two little boys, but by the large corps of workers, and the pupils with whom she has been associated for so many years.

The conventions held in Connecticut by the Congregational benevolent societies during February were well attended. One hundred and eleven churches were invited and eighty-eight represented. The meetings for April will be held in the following order: Tuesday, the 3d, Thomaston, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the 4th, Waterbury, 2d church, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the 5th, New Britain, afternoon and evening; Tuesday, the 10th, New Haven, Davenport Church, afternoon and evening; Wednesday, the 11th, Rockville, 1st church, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the 12th, Putnam, morning and afternoon; Tuesday, the 17th, Norfolk, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the 18th, Torrington, 3d church, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the 19th, West Winsted, morning and afternoon; Tuesday, the 24th, Danielsonville, morning and afternoon; Wednesday, the 25th, Norwich, 2d church, morning and afternoon; Thursday, the 26th, New London, 1st church, morning and afternoon; Friday, the 27th, New Haven, Fair Haven, 1st church, morning and afternoon.

“Sermons and Speeches,” by Rev. Atticus G. Haygood, D.D., is the title of a neat volume issued by the Southern Methodist Publishing House, Nashville. It contains 428 pages, and is offered at the low price of $1.25. The sermon likely to attract the most attention is on “The New South, Gratitude, Amendment, Hope.” It was preached on Thanksgiving Day, 1880, and circulated extensively in pamphlet form. “A Christian Citizen,” another sermon, is perhaps of equal merit, and especially pertinent to the condition of affairs South. The addresses of special interest to the general reader relate to “The Negro—A Citizen” and “The New South from a Southern Standpoint.” These addresses are comprehensive, catholic and kindly in spirit. Dr. Haygood convinces his readers of his sincerity, and charms them by the vigor and freshness of his style. Every word he utters indicates his purpose to do good. The circulation of these sermons and speeches will do much to create better feeling between well-disposed people North and South. We wish the book the success it merits.

Pursuant to the action taken at our last Annual Meeting relating to a petition requesting a report on the policy of the Association in regard to race or color prejudice in the support of schools or churches, our Executive Committee, to whom the matter was referred, have passed the following minutes.

I. That in accordance with the New Testament doctrine upon which the Association was founded, and by which it has from the beginning been governed, that God has made of one blood all the nations of men, we reiterate the rule, which we believe that fidelity to Christ requires, that all our churches and schools shall open their doors impartially to persons of every class, race and color.

II. That in obedience to the same New Testament doctrine, we shall require that all churches aided by us shall unite with neighboring churches of the same faith and order in Christian fellowship in the same conferences or associations, and in other usual means of fraternity and fellowship, making no distinctions on account of race or color.

III. That this Association will not enter upon any new church work in any city or town where the American Home Missionary Society has already established a church work, without previous conference with the officers of its sister Society.

Minutes similar in purport to the above have been passed by the Home Missionary Society.

BENEFACTIONS.

Mr. William Backnell, of Philadelphia, has given $60,000 to the University of Lewisburg, Pa., for endowment purposes.

Westminster College is to receive $2,000 from the estate of Miss Jane A. Thompson, of Missouri.

The late Mr. Samuel Willets gave $100,000 to Swarthmore College, a Quaker institution, near Philadelphia.

Dartmouth College is to receive $50,000 from the estate of the late George T. Wilson, of Providence, R.I.

It is reported that Wm. H. Vanderbilt has recently given $100,000 to Vanderbilt University, at Nashville, Tenn.

Mrs. Mary Young has given $500,000 to Fall River, Mass., for the establishment of a school of high rank. The gift is made in memory of an only son.

Washburn College received a Christmas gift of $1,000 from Mrs. Emily G. Williston, of East Hampton, Mass., and a New Year’s offering of $1,000 from Hon. Wm. Hyde, of Ware, Mass.

By the will of the late Wm. E. Dodge, of New York, the Syrian Protestant College is to receive $20,000; Lincoln University, $10,000; Howard University, Atlanta University and Hampton Institute, $5,000 each.

Miss Baxter has given $50,000 to provide a laboratory for a college at Dundee, Scotland, which was founded by herself and her cousin, Dr. Baxter, some years ago, at an expense of $750,000.

Mrs. Adeline Smith, of Oak Park, Ill., recently gave $11,000 for the founding of a Philander Smith chair in the University of Little Rock, Ark., to be a perpetual memorial of her husband, who died about a year ago.

Permanent endowments are needed in order that the institutions of the American Missionary Association may achieve that larger success which is rightly expected of them. Every consideration of the past, of the present and of the future, enforces the demand that these endowments should be provided at once.

GENERAL NOTES.

AFRICA.

—The German Reichstag has voted an appropriation of one million marks to defray the expenses of an expedition now being fitted out for the exploration of Central Africa.

—The Church Missionary Society have received tidings from their Uganda Mission at Mtesa’s capital that five young men have been baptized, the first fruits of the mission.

—Notwithstanding the presence of General Matthews with the troops of the Sultan of Zanzibar, a brisk trade in slaves is going on at Mombassa. General Matthews is now fighting with a rebel chieftain who has a settlement not far from Mombassa where he receives runaway slaves.

—The Church Missionary Society of England is about to begin missionary operations in Egypt. It is to be under the care of Rev. F. A. Klein, an able Arabic scholar. The same society had a station at Cairo in the beginning of this century, but abandoned it in 1824.

—The English Baptists have established a station at Stanley Pool. The new missionary ship “Peace” is now ready to be shipped to the Congo. Mr. Stanley is about to publish an account of the results of his explorations. The French government has recently appropriated about $300,000 to defray the expenses of De Brassa’s expedition.

—The famous work of Miss Whately, daughter of Archbishop Whately, who for years carried on her work at Cairo, at her own charges, is a very interesting branch of Egyptian missions. The Khedive presented Miss Whately with land for her buildings, and her Cairo schools number 300 boys and 200 girls, more than two-thirds of the girls and half the boys being Moslems. She has a branch school of ninety pupils at Damietta.

THE CHINESE.

—There are now between three and four hundred Christian schools in China, containing over six thousand pupils.

—It is pointed out as a significant fact that the missions in Japan, which have been so prosperous, were started by a contribution sent by Christian converts of the Hawaiian Islands.

—There are in New York City and vicinity 500 Chinese laundries, managed by about 2,000 Chinamen. No foreigners are more industrious, more peaceable, or more anxious to conform to the laws of the land. None are so reliable in their business arrangements or so desirous for instruction in mission schools.

—There are at present in connection with Protestant missions in China more than 600 stations and out stations; more than 300 organized churches, a goodly number of them self-supporting, and some 20,000 communicants.

THE INDIANS.

WORK TRANSFERRED BY THE AMERICAN BOARD.

By vote of the Prudential Committee of the American Board, the entire Dakota Mission was transferred to the American Missionary Association, to take effect Jan. 1, 1883. We give the statistics of the Mission as published in the last Annual Report of the Board. But some of the churches in the list (especially those at the Sisseton Agency) are reported as having transferred themselves to the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions, prior to Jan. 1, 1883. When the Prudential Committee of the American Board and the officers of the Presbyterian Board of Home Missions have decided the questions on this subject, which seem to be at issue between them, we will correct the list accordingly, if any change shall be found necessary.

Fort Berthold (Dakota Territory).—Chas. L. Hall, Missionary; Miss Eda L. Ward, Miss Sophronia B. Pike, Assistant Missionaries. One church at Devil’s Lake, sixteen members.

Fort Sully (Dakota Territory). Peoria Bottom.—Thomas L. Riggs, Missionary; Miss Mary C. Collins, Miss Louisa M. Irvine, Assistant Missionaries. One church, twenty-four members.

Cheyenne River.—Isaac Renville, Stephen Yellow Hawk, David Lee, Native Pastors; Mrs. Renville, Samuel Hopkins, Mrs. Hopkins, Mrs. Elizabeth Winyan, Native Teachers.

Santee Agency (Nebraska).—Alfred L. Riggs, Missionary; James C. Robbins, Joseph H. Steer, Mrs. Mary B. Riggs, Mrs. Maria L. Steer, Miss Martha M. Paddock, Miss Susan Webb, Miss Sarah L. Voorhees, Miss Harriet B. Ilsley, Assistant Missionaries; Miss Harriet A. Brown, Miss Lizzie Glisan, Miss ——, Teachers; Artemas Ehnamini, Native Pastor; Eli Abraham. Native Teacher; John Cetanmani, Dennis Mazaadidi, James Brown, James Redwing, Catechists. One church, one hundred and seventy members.

Sisseton Agency (Dakota Territory).—Stephen R. Riggs, LL.D., Missionary; W. K. Morris, Mrs. Annie B. Riggs, Mrs. Martha Riggs Morris, Assistant Missionaries; Miss Thompson, Mrs. John B. Renville, Teachers; John B. Renville, Daniel Renville, Louis Mazawakinyanna, David Greycloud, Joseph Iron Door, Charles R. Crawford, Native Pastors. Six churches, four hundred and ten members.

4 stations; 9 out-stations; 9 churches; 4 missionaries; 3 American male assistant missionaries; 12 female assistant missionaries; 5 other teachers; 10 native pastors; 9 native teachers and catechists.

We add the statistics of the Indian work as sustained by the Association during the past year.

S’Kokomish Agency (Washington Territory).—Rev. Myron Eells, Missionary.

Spokan Falls (Washington Territory).—Rev. H. T. Cowley, Missionary.

Leech Lake Agency (Minnesota).—Rev. S. G. Wright, Teacher.

Hampton (Virginia).—Miss Isabel B. Eustis, Teacher; and appropriation in aid of Indian students.

SUGGESTIONS OF ENLARGEMENT.

We believe that those who read in this number of the Missionary the communications from Capt. Pratt, Gen. Armstrong and Prof. Riggs may ask with good reason, Why not develop at Santee an industrial school for the Indians, of like character to those at Hampton and Carlisle? Already fair beginnings have been made. As will be seen by a cut published herewith, we have good grounds, several attractive and suitable buildings, with other improvements. By an examination of a map with reference to the location of the different Indian tribes, it will be found that Santee is accessible to seven tribes, numbering over twenty thousand souls. The railroad systems of the vicinity are such that no great difficulty or expense would be experienced in bringing students together. The tribes speaking the Dakota language number more than those speaking any other Indian dialect on the continent. The churches already established among them, with a membership of 847, are in full sympathy with the Santee school. No difficulty is likely to come from a lack of students, as already the institution has during the present year been obliged to turn them away for want of room.

SANTEE NORMAL TRAINING SCHOOL.

Mr. Thomas L. Riggs, who collected a company of Indian youth for Gen. Armstrong’s school last autumn, reports that he could have secured several times as many, if he had been seeking students for Santee. The variety of industries that it would be desirable to promote would be limited only by the wants of the people in a new country. Carpentering, blacksmithing, shoemaking, broommaking and basketmaking, are trades that well might receive early attention. It would be no part of the plan to interfere with the religious or normal school work by the more general introduction of industrial training. We believe that Christian nurture is promoted rather than retarded by attention to industrial pursuits among students, when wise oversight is given for the sake of useful achievements. The plan of locating the students in cottages, so that each home may have a quiet and healthful influence upon the untutored youth from wigwam life, is already inaugurated, and can be extended to meet all emergencies. The land at the agency is controlled by the government, but no difficulty is anticipated in securing all that may be needed for the use of the school. Scholarships may also be had in numbers and amount sufficient to warrant preparations on a large scale for a first grade normal and industrial institute. It is the purpose of this Association to weigh carefully the above considerations, and if found practicable, to develop at an early day a training school in Nebraska that shall be equal in its facilities and enterprises to the demands of the new era in the progress of Indian civilization.

ASPECTS OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM.

BY HON. CARL SCHURZ.

The increased interest of public-spirited citizens in the education of Indian children is one of the best, if not the best result, of recent discussions of the Indian question. The success of the schools at Hampton, in Virginia, Carlisle, in Pennsylvania, and Forest Grove, in Oregon, have amply demonstrated what can be accomplished if such schools be organized on the right principle and conducted with ability and energy. That this is more and more generally appreciated is all the more fortunate, as the Indian question is no longer one the solution of which can be trusted to time.

As the progress of settlement and enterprise in the far western regions, or, as it is called in a general way, “the development of the country,” advances, the old methods of providing for the Indians become obsolete. Large reservations of wild land, on which the Indian can freely roam and support himself, partly by hunting, will soon be things of the past. Even now an “Indian frontier” does no longer exist. The abiding places of the Indians are almost everywhere surrounded by rapidly increasing populations of white men eagerly pressing upon the Indian lands. One reservation after another is broken up to make room for new lines of communication and for agricultural and mining enterprises. However conscientious the government may be in its intention and endeavor to protect the rights of the Indians at all points, it is evident that the Indians will soon, in every part of the country, be interspersed with an aggressive force, constantly growing in volume and power, which will threaten to overwhelm them like a rising flood. Their circumstances are essentially changed. The alternative of civilization or extermination is immediately before them—civilization enabling them to become in all important respects a part of the population among which they are to live; or extermination in a vain struggle to maintain the habits of savage life against the progress of superior forces, or rapid decay as miserable paupers and outcasts by the failure of self-sustaining ability. This alternative presents itself not as a question looming up in the distant future, to be solved by coming generations, but as a question involving the existence of the young generation of Indians now living. It is, in one word, a question of immediate urgency.

If the Indians are to live at all, they must learn to live like white men. They can no longer stand in the way of the development of the country, but they must be enabled to become part of that development, and thus to be benefited by it. The “white man’s way” of which they are in the habit of speaking, must not, as heretofore, remain to them a mere vague, shadowy idea, but they must acquire a practical conception of what the white man’s way really is, what its objects are, and by what means those objects are attained. They must acquire that conception soon, for they will need it soon. The education of the young generation of Indians is therefore an immediately pressing necessity. And it must be an education that takes them out of their traditional ways of thinking, out of their old ambitions and habits of life. They must not only learn some reading and writing, but they must learn what reading and writing is for in the practical competitions of human existence. They must learn how to work and how to make their work useful. They must learn to love work by seeing and appreciating the fruits of it. Industrial training of a thoroughly practical kind must therefore go hand-in-hand with the ordinary rudimentary school education. The two things must be carried on with constant regard to the unity of aim.

The schools at Hampton, Carlisle and Forest Grove are conducted upon this principle, and the results attained there prove that Indian youths can be taught the things required to provide for the necessities of life and to lift the Indian above the state of the pauper as well as of the savage. Of course we must not expect too much of them. We must not expect that they will issue from these schools as model men and model women in every respect. We must not expect that on the average they will be better than the average of white boys and girls, raised under the same circumstances and with the same advantages or disadvantages, would be. In point of fact, the reports about the young men and women who, after having gone through their three years’ term at Hampton or Carlisle, returned to their people in the western country, have been as different as reports would be about white boys and girls similarly situated. Some were bright, active and industrious, others dull and indolent. But a large majority of them have been doing well and showed a marked superiority in character, ambition and conduct over other young Indians who had not enjoyed the same kind of education. There is no doubt that their presence among their people as teachers and examples and as a moving force generally will exercise a most healthy and elevating influence, provided the number of Indians so educated be large enough to make them among the rising generation the rule, instead of their remaining exceptional cases, as they now are. It is, therefore, essential that such schools and the number of pupils in them be multiplied as much as possible.

The schools at Hampton and Carlisle are mentioned here in preference to the schools established at the different agencies, partly because the former are superior as to the force of teachers employed there, as well as to their equipment in other respects, and partly because they offer to their Indian pupils the peculiar advantage of withdrawing them entirely from the savage influences of the Indian camps and placing them under the immediate influence of civilized surroundings, where they can learn the “white man’s way,” by seeing civilization at work. But as this method of educating young Indians is expensive, and Congress rather parsimonious as to appropriations for such purposes, the number of Indians profiting from it is necessarily very small in proportion to the whole population, while it ought to be very large. The establishment of an Indian school on the same plan near the Santee agency in Nebraska, as contemplated by the American Missionary Association, is therefore all the more to be welcomed. Although the surroundings of that school will not be quite as civilized as those of Hampton and Carlisle, yet the Santee reservation is at least on all sides easily accessible to civilized influences. It is a small tract, encircled by settlements of white people. At the same time, a school established there will be able to draw its pupils from the great Sioux reserve in Dakota at small cost, the distance being inconsiderable and the means of communication cheap and convenient. The American Missionary Association could scarcely render a more valuable service to the Indian race or do more credit to its own good judgment and benevolent impulses than by making so valuable an addition to the educational forces among the red men.

—A difficulty in prosecuting the work among the Indians in British Columbia is found in the fact that the tribes speak distinct languages. Not less than seven different dialects are used in the range of country embraced by missionary effort.

ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF WORK AT CARLISLE.

BY CAPT. R. H. PRATT.

In compliance with your request I herewith furnish you with a brief history of the Carlisle School, and some account of its industrial features. It originated in the sending to Florida from the Indian Territory of 74 Indian prisoners in the spring of 1875. At the instance of General Sheridan I was selected by the War Department and placed in charge of those prisoners, they having been under my care at Fort Sill. They were from the Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Kiowa and Comanche tribes and were selected for this banishment because of well-known offenses against the peace of the frontier. Some of them were guilty of the most outrageous crimes. Years of army service among the Indians and observation of their treatment had led me to change my views for opinions in favor of giving to the Indian a broader chance and a desire that he might be brought more in contact with the peaceful and industrious side of civilized life, and so before the prisoners were started from Fort Sill I wrote to my superiors urging that they be educated and trained industrially during their imprisonment. Soon after reaching St. Augustine I wrote repeatedly to the War Department urging that some locality with more industrial surroundings be selected and the prisoners be transferred. This was denied, and I then set to work to make the best use of the elements to be found in the sleepy old Spanish town. With no means, I was forced to seek the co-operation of charitable and missionary folks. Miss S. A. Mather, Miss Perit, Mrs. King Gibbs, Mrs. Couper Gibbs, of St. Augustine, and Mrs. Dr. Caruthers of Tarrytown, N.Y., winter resident of St. Augustine, volunteered to teach and did teach the classes of those grown Indian men for two years and a half, giving them about one hour’s instruction daily. Industrially there was little practical opportunity, but numbers were placed for different periods to work on saw mills, at picking oranges, as hostlers, grubbing the land, boating and whatever could be found in connection with their own necessities and comfort in the old fort. Twice we boated pine logs from a distance and constructed log houses within the fort, riving the clap-boards, building stick chimneys, chinking and daubing that they might learn to construct their own homes. Some of them advanced rapidly in acquiring literary, English speaking and industrial knowledge. Others were very stupid. The greatest success in the labor line was in placing five men to grub five acres that had intimidated other laborers both white and black. The undergrowth and roots to be removed were of the most dense and appalling kind, and yet the Indians stuck to it until they had made a complete success of it.

Another of the best evidences of the success of our labor efforts was a petition signed by a very considerable number of laborers and others of the community asking that I be estopped in the putting of the Indians out to labor in competition with other classes, as I was taking bread from the mouths of those who were dependent upon such labor for their living, etc. In the spring of 1878 the authorities at Washington determined to release the prisoners and permit them to return to their homes. There were 22 of them who preferred to remain East and get a better knowledge of civilized life and more education before going home. The expenses of these 22 young men were undertaken by different charitable people. Gen. S. C. Armstrong, of the Hampton Normal Institute, received 17 into his institution, while four went to Paris Hill, near Utica, N.Y., under the immediate charge of Rev. J. B. Wickes, an Episcopal clergyman, encouraged by Bishop Huntington, all the expenses being undertaken by Mrs. Burnham. One was taken to Tarrytown, N.Y., in Dr. Caruther’s own family. Hampton Institute being an industrial school, furnished the most seasonable and practical education of any institution I was able to find. The remainder of the party were returned to their respective agencies, and such was the effect of their training in Florida during their three years’ absence, that they at once became the best element for progress in their tribes. At this time, while a few have gone back to the blanket condition, most likely from necessity, because no other way was open to them, there is abundant testimony in the reports of their respective agents during the past four years that they are still a useful and leading industrious element among their people.

A few weeks after the arrival of the party at Hampton Institute, General Armstrong was so favorably impressed by the conduct and progress of the 17 he had undertaken, that he was willing to increase the number by adding 50 more, and including girls. Mr. Schurz and Mr. McCrary, then Secretaries of the Interior and War Departments, accepted the proposition, and I was sent, in the fall of 1878, to Dakota, and brought away 49 children from six different agencies of the Sioux, Gros Ventre, Mandan and Arickeree tribes. These, together with the former Florida prisoners, were placed under training in all the varied systems of literary and industrial pursuits. Hampton Institute provides liberally for its colored students, and side by side with those colored pupils the Indian boys and girls, in perfect harmony with the new life, demonstrated their capacity to hold their own in improving the best of chances. It was very much desired by the friends of this new movement, and particularly General Armstrong, that I should remain with it, and a clause was introduced in the army appropriation bill, which passed Congress in the spring of 1879, for the detail of one officer, not above the rank of captain, for duty with reference to Indian education.

It was a plan which I had urged for several years that to get the best results in our educational work among Indian children as many as possible should be removed from reservation and tribal influences and placed in the atmosphere of civilized life, and to this end I had urged the use of vacant military posts and barracks as furnishing, without much cost in changing and improving buildings, places to make a beginning, and I proposed to the Interior and War Departments that I would undertake the education of 250 or 300 children at the old military buildings at Carlisle. This proposition was accepted, and after many preliminaries I was sent in September, 1879, to the Rosebud and Pine Ridge Agencies in Dakota and brought away 84 children, and immediately after went to the Indian Territory and from the Kiowa, Cheyenne, Pawnee and other tribes brought 52 more. To these were added 11 from the Hampton Institute of the young men who had been with me in Florida. The school was opened on the first of November with 147 students. To these were added from time to time children from various Western tribes, and at the end of July, 1880, we numbered 239 children, about one-third of whom were girls. At the end of the second year, October, 1881, we had increased to 295. At the present writing we number 379—132 girls and 247 boys. From the beginning our principle has been to place the most emphasis on industrial training, next English speaking and then literary training. To accomplish the first we very early in the work established shops for mechanical instruction in carpentry, blacksmithing, wagon-making, harness-making, tailoring, tinsmithing, shoemaking, printing, baking and on our farm of 115 acres gave some scope for agricultural training. We have avoided theory in our industries and adhered to practice, being governed to a great extent by the old apprentice system. We have at the head of each branch a skilled mechanic as practical instructor, and as nearly as possible we pursue the methods of trades people in their instructions to apprentices. We give half of each day to work and the other half to school, and have found that our progress is proportionately greater in each than it would be if the attention was directed to either the one or the other for the whole time. Under this system we have in training as carpenters 13 boys; as wagon-makers and blacksmiths, 15; as harness-makers, 15; as shoemakers, 19; as tailors, 12; as turners, 11; as printers, 5; as bakers, 3; and every boy not engaged at some trade is required to work during the season upon the farm. Such products of our labors as we are not able to make use of for the school are purchased by the Indian Department and shipped to agencies. We think our boys as forward in capacity for receiving instruction on each of the several branches as the average white boy. In the blacksmith shop our apprentice boys after two years’ instruction, are able to iron a wagon, repair a plow, shoe a horse, etc. In the wood-working department able to get out all the different wood parts of the wagon ready for the blacksmith. In the tin-smithing to construct coffee pots, buckets, pails, pans, cups, etc. In the harness-making to cut out and manufacture harness. In the tailoring to cut out and manufacture clothing. In shoemaking to repair and manufacture boots and shoes. In printing to set up and distribute type and make up forms. In baking we have no other help than Indians. We give to our girls instruction in the various industries of the sex and find no general lack. In cooking, sewing, house work, laundry work, etc., they are apt pupils.

One of the most useful features of our work has been the placing of our boys and girls in private families, principally among farmers, where they perform the same kind of labor and are subjected to the same home and labor influences that white children of their own ages receive. This has the most beneficial results. The children take on English speaking and the industries of civilized life very speedily. During vacation we place out all we can spare from our own work, and during the winter we allow a considerable number to remain and attend the public schools in the several neighborhoods, they being required to do such work mornings and evenings as they are capable of and so pay for their board and clothes. By this course we are enabled to carry a very considerable number more pupils than we are allowed appropriation for. It is plain that the real hindrance to Indian progress is found in their being kept entirely separated from the other masses of our population, and by every act of our government and every sentiment of its people, societies, missionary and others, made to feel that they are a separate people and must so remain forever. Through their education in separate schools, their home life upon prison reservations with their liberty of coming and going abridged to these reservations, with all their aspirations and ambitions so limited, there can be no healthy growth. To overcome these difficulties the Indian mind and the mind of the public as well as Congress must be educated to grant to them the enlarged privileges accorded to all other races. The boy will never learn to swim until he goes into the water, and the experiences of industrial life and civilized life through its associations and competitions will determine for the Indian and white the true status. We have had quite enough of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, etc., as Sioux, Cheyenne, Comanche, etc. We can end their existence among us as such separate people by a broad and generous system of English education and training, which will reach all the 50,000 children and in a very few years remove all our trouble from them as a separate people and as separate tribes among us, and instead of feeding clothing and caring for them from year to year, put them in condition to feed clothe and care for themselves. Our experiences in many individual cases in the last few years make it very evident that not only may we fit the Indian to take care of himself in his own home, but may fit him to go and come and abide in the land wherever he may choose, and so lose his identity.

MANDAN HUT, DAKOTA.

THE HISTORY AND OUTLOOK OF THE INDIAN WORK TRANSFERRED TO THE A. M. A.

PROF. ALFRED L. RIGGS.

Just fifty years ago two Congregational young men from Connecticut, the Messrs. Samuel and Gideon Pond, pressed on into the heart of the then unknown continent to see what they could do for the Indian. They landed at Fort Snelling, in what is now Minnesota, and began their volunteer mission among an Eastern branch of the Dakota or Sioux nation.

One year later the American Board sent out the Rev. Dr. Williamson on a tour of exploration, and the next year after that a mission was regularly established. The organized work gathered in the volunteers, and, moreover, according to the fashion of the times, Congregational relations disappeared and work was started on the Presbyterian basis.

For years it was a slow, hard lift against the weight of heathenism and pride of race. Nowhere is race pride stronger than among the Indians. As is often the case, those who have least to be proud of vaunt themselves the most. So, while the Indian has to acknowledge that the white man is possessor of gifts that class him with the gods (the Dakota name for white man being the same as that he applies to his gods), and thus for the sake of his mysterious power he fears him, yet personally he despises him as different from himself and effeminate.

And heathenism! Some would have us believe that it did not exist; that the Indian naturally was as good a Christian as need be. The courtesy of the Indian perhaps leads to this deceptive view. He will assent to everything you say rather than be so impolite as to contradict you. Then, too, his pantheism easily makes room for another god. So the white man’s god soon had his banner set up at their sacred rites together with the Stone god, the Day god, the Night god, the Thunder god, and the god of the North.

But when Christ claims the whole of their worship, and belief in him is seen to require the giving up of their other faiths, and the casting away of their charms and incantations, then the antagonism of the unregenerate heart breaks out here as everywhere. And the magicians and “medicine men” are stirred up to bitter and unremitting warfare as soon as they discover that their craft is in danger.

As if here were not enough obstacles to meet, there comes in the opposition begotten of the selfishness and dissoluteness of unprincipled white men. For years the fur trade was almost as much the enemy of missions as was the slave trade. The agents of this great enterprise were bound to keep the Indians hunters and trappers in order that their warehouses might be filled with furs. The fur trade also controlled the government, and even to-day its power is felt through laws made then for its benefit and that yet remain on the statute book. Hence in its day the fur trade was a foe to be dreaded, for it could exert its power in a thousand secret ways. It could break up schools, scare people away from religious meetings, and put a ban on the Christian teacher, if content to leave him alive.

After thirty years of patient labor the reward seemed about to come. Christianity was proving its power to disintegrate heathenism, break down prejudice and survive the enmity of unprincipled white men.

Then the outbreak and massacres of 1862 occurred, seemingly sweeping everything away. It was the death-struggle of heathenism, alarmed at the steady advance of Christianity. Other political causes and conditions merely made this outbreak possible. And yet what seemed annihilation was only multiplication and dissemination. Again was fulfilled the Scripture: “They that were scattered abroad went preaching the word.” And the conversion in the military prisons of hundreds as it were in a day, is one of the notable instances of the power of God’s spirit.

Twenty years ago the field of Christian missions among the Dakotas was confined to a small section of the nation then dwelling in a corner of Minnesota. But now the field extends over the great Missouri valley and on northward toward the Saskatchawan in the British Possessions.

The work whose beginnings we have noted, originally one under the American Board, has since been divided. In 1871, at the time of the general division of the missions of the American Board, that part of the Dakota Mission immediately under the charge of the venerable Dr. Williamson and his son, Rev. John P. Williamson, was transferred to the care of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. But the larger portion remained with the other veteran of the mission, Rev. Stephen B. Riggs, under the care of the American Board. And now with the year 1883 another transfer is made to the American Missionary Association. But the five native churches, with a membership of 340, that had meanwhile grown up about Sisseton Agency are graduated from foreign missions into a home mission connection, and so naturally pass under the care of the Presbyterian Home Mission Board. It is not within the scope of this short article to speak of the work accomplished by the Episcopal Mission in the same field, which had its beginning about thirty years later than the original Dakota Mission, and in recent years has had very considerable success. Nor can we speak particularly of the portion of our great field lying across the British line, for though we have furnished the native laborers it is not organically connected with us. But as for the rest of the original mission, even though divided, it works as one. It has one General Conference, and in all its publications and matters of common concern acts as one mission still.

The statistics of the Dakota Mission, as thus defined, show 7 stations, 6 ordained missionaries, 26 assistant missionaries, 13 churches, 12 native pastors and preachers, 9 native teachers, and 847 church members, contributing during the past year $779.83 for their own missions among the heathen Indians, and $1,080.58 for pastoral support and church expenses.

Of this there now passes directly to the care of the American Missionary Association 5 stations, with also an interest in the Native Missionary field at Devil’s Lake, 4 ordained missionaries, 21 assistant missionaries, 2 churches, Pilgrim Church at Santee and Shiloh Church at the Sully Station, with 8 native preachers, 5 native teachers, and a church membership of 194.

As has been noticed, the organization of the work from the first has been on the Presbyterian model, and thus the fruits of the mission have mostly gone into the Presbyterian connection. The church at the Fort Sully Station was an exception. It was organized as a Congregational church. Nevertheless, this Presbyterian cast, this whole native force, is to be considered as one, and will be used by whichever denomination is ready to prosecute the work most vigorously, for the denominationalism of these churches is not of a radical type, as is instanced by the recent change of ecclesiastical relations on the part of the Pilgrim Church at Santee. This is the original mother church, but in order to come into closer and more sympathetic relations with the churches that support the Santee Training School, it voted cheerfully and almost unanimously to leave Presbytery and become Congregational. Indeed this is not hard for them to do, for Indians are naturally very democratic.

In the work that may now be done for this people, Santee Normal Training School must be an important factor. It has vital relation to all these native churches, and it has a name among the heathen communities. Its growth has been slow, for it has taken time and work to instil the idea of a higher education into the minds of the people. Henceforth its growth might be rapid. It now has one hundred and one pupils in attendance, with seventeen instructors, including those in charge of the industrial and boarding departments. This winter a number of pupils have been turned away for lack of room. If accommodations could be provided, the number of pupils might soon be doubled.

While giving great attention to industrial training, it affords unparalleled advantages for that training which is needed to make teachers suited to Indian schools.

The school is the basis of evangelizing the Indian. There will be no large audiences to preach to, except on exceptional occasions, until the school has gathered a company of disciples. Certain persons not understanding the nature of missionary work, or unable to take more than a superficial view, have recently represented our schools as of low grade, and unnecessary to real missionary work. But this is contradicted by the grand progress of the work.

We have spoken of five mission stations as now passing under the care of the A. M. A. But of these Standing Rock is hardly opened, and Berthold and Sully stations are sadly in need of reinforcements. And there are the large Indian Agencies of Spotted Tail’s and Red Cloud’s tribes, numbering about 7,000 each, which we ought to occupy. Then there is the Crow country in Montana, next door to our Berthold Mission. We should have at once six ordained missionaries and their wives, with as many more assistant missionaries, all picked men. This would enable us to manage a yet larger number of native missionary teachers working along with them.

SISSETON GIRLS, WITH TEACHER.

The tribes speaking the Dakota language are the most numerous of any Indian people upon the continent. They are now universally open to Christianity and Christian civilization. They now look to Christian people for their future. Within the last ten or twelve years the whole temper of their mind has changed. The noted chief, Sitting Bull, is an illustration. Only a few years ago he hated the very wind that blew from the direction of the white man’s country. When the wind blew from the east he would send out the town crier to say, “Get you all into your teepees. This is bad air from the white man’s country.” But when it blew from the north his crier would proclaim, “Come out and breathe the healthy air.” And once when a woman of the tribe brought home a “rooster” from a distant trading post to enliven the tedium of her labor, Sitting Bull heard it crow and instantly dispatched his chief soldier to “soldier kill” the woman, that is, cut up her tent and kill her horses, for the crime of having that white man’s bird in the sacred precincts of a Dakota camp. But now the same Sitting Bull is petitioning for Christian teachers, and land, and domestic animals, and undoubtedly would also welcome “the-bird-that-crows-in-the-morning.”

INDIAN INDUSTRIES AT HAMPTON.

BY GEN. S. C. ARMSTRONG.

Every Indian boy who comes to Hampton is allowed his choice to learn farming or a trade, and to select the trade he prefers, to which he is expected to stick. They often wish to change after some months, for they are a fickle people. While this is by no means done as a matter of course, it has sometimes been found wise to do so. A boy who could do nothing at blacksmithing made remarkable progress in the wheelwright’s shop; one who is poor on the farm may be good in the shoe-shop, and vice versa; but it does not do to encourage shifting trades. The girls go through the same routine of housework, cooking, cutting and making and mending clothes.

The boys are assigned to work as follows: carpenters, 15; painters, 1; tinsmiths, 6; shoe-makers, 13; harness-makers, 3; farmers, 13; blacksmiths, 3; wheelwrights, 3; tailors, 1. A generous lady in New York City has recently given $5,000 for an Indian workshop, which will be completed and occupied by the first of April next, and be a most satisfactory change from the shed in which they have for four years uncomfortably worked at their trades.

Considering the past of the Indian, the disposition of our boys and girls to work is remarkable. The general rule is to work from seven to twelve o’clock, A.M., or from one to six o’clock, P.M., Saturday being holiday. Those who work mornings study afternoons, and vice versa. All are paid, girls as well as boys, usually at the rate of $2.50 per month, for to expect Indians to take a real interest in their work without some compensation is absurd. It is weak and foolish to reason that the skill they attain is enough compensation. Human nature requires something more. On the other hand they purchase all their underclothing and shoes with their earnings, and are thus taught the use of money and the true value of garments, and become quite skillful in buying. A school uniform is provided for each one, made in our tailoring department.

Their appreciation of work is a direct contradiction to the statement that an Indian hates to labor. Frequently boys who are working a half-day at some trade will ask to be allowed to work the entire day, including Saturday, so as to earn more and be better able to take care of themselves when they go home. Their wages are then increased and they go to night school. Every such application is encouraging.

Especially those who make extra time in the shops are inclined to save. They generally agree to draw but one-half of extra earnings, the other half being saved to buy them tools and other outfit when they shall finally leave school. We allow ten per cent. interest on all such savings; they are quick to see the advantage of laying up money. They seem to have no marked aptitude for special trades, unless it be for work in leather, shoe and harness-making. Their ancestors have dealt in this commodity more than in any other. They take to all handiwork remarkably; while quick to learn, they are slow to execute. They seldom bungle or “botch” a job. The first pair of shoes made by an apprentice is always serviceable. An Indian carpenter will make as good a mortise as a white one, but will take three times as long. Our expert harness-maker says he can do no better work than some of his boys, but they are very slow about it. We are constantly making and selling carts made by Sioux boys. They have made all our school benches, desks, wardrobes and wash-stands, besides window-frames, etc., for the outside market.

We would be only too glad to make buggy or plow harness, single or double, tin-ware of all kinds and brogan shoes for individuals or institutions in the North or South, solely on the ground of the merit and cheapness of the work done. A neat carriage harness was made last summer for a lady in Newport, R.I. Of the 500 dozen articles of tinware, 75 sets of double plow harness, and 2,000 pairs of men’s shoes made last year by our Indian boys for the use of the Western tribes (ordered by the Indian Department at the lowest contract prices of the previous year) the New York inspectors reported: “They are as well and as strongly made, and for actual service fully equal to any purchased by the Department.”

This year we are making an even larger amount of material for the Indian Department, but at prices which little more than cover cost of material. An outside private trade would be much more desirable. We were paid for men’s brogans “extra” good leather, $1.22½ per pair, boxed and delivered in New York City. Carlisle does even more than Hampton in supplying Indians, and with excellent success.

Owing to bodily ailments, Indian labor is more unsteady than that of Negroes. While in their own life they have endurance, a steady routine of industry is new to them, and they are for our purposes a rather feeble race: they find digging exhausting, but on the hunter’s trail or on the warpath they are tireless when we would soon be weary.

Unless every Indian child is educated to some occupation, teaching is of little account. Hard work rather than the higher studies gives them the best drill. As for all, so for Indians, home influence is a great thing. After the best practical education they are not fit for the loose, idle, dirty life of Indian camps any more than any other children. What is to be done? The best success with the thirty Sioux children who returned in October, 1881, to their agencies (five of them girls) has been with those to whom the agents gave separate rooms near the agencies, having their food cooked and their life led separately. An efficient agent will, by the care he takes, save four-fifths of our Indian graduates to decent lives; a careless, weak agent (and not a third of the sixty U.S. Indian Agents are first-class men) will lose four-fifths of them. We cannot make men of them in three years, but can give them a start in that time that a good agent can keep up, and lead them to true success.

Here, more and more, we find the real trouble; not with the Indian, but in our miserable system of paying so small salaries to Indian agents that a competent one is the exception. The boy or girl who goes home finds no strong, kind friend to advise and help; the current of influence is against a Christian life. Here the missionary is needed; never more than now.

Hampton, Carlisle and the many schools that are educating Indians need to be supplemented by good agents and wise missionaries who will help them to stand against the odds that would make the new life they have chosen nest to impossible. Here is the point of chief anxiety. Public sentiment must be felt at Washington before it shall remove the chief stumbling-block to Indian progress—poor agents. As Secretary Teller says in his last Report, the Indians are chiefly on reservations, and must for the present be treated there; to be gradually pushed upon lands of their own, individually, by the efforts of wise men and the influence of Christian education.

REVIVAL WORK AMONG INDIANS AT HAMPTON.

Miss Isabel B. Eustis, in giving an account of the revival meetings at Hampton, writes as follows of the Indians:

Meanwhile at one end of the chapel there sat a company of one hundred who took no part in the service. The Indian students watched with wondering and wistful eyes the scenes around them. “Pass me not, O Gentle Saviour,” they sang often in their own services during these days, and the Lord heard their cry and turned aside and called them too. Stago, our fiery little Apache boy, heard his voice, and set hard to work to conquer his temper and self-will. The quick-witted, ambitious, head-strong girl, whose influence over the other scholars we dreaded, listened, and her hard expression softened, and the stubborn will yielded, and with gentleness and humility she met the daily requirements which had often roused her rebellious spirit before. Shallow natures grew earnest and proud, and we knew that there was one walking with the Indian students too who could purify and inspire and help.

On Wednesday evening our senior Indian boy, of his own accord, left his class and took his seat with the other Indian scholars. Waiting his opportunity, he rose and called the attention of the school to those who sat behind him. He reminded me of the darkness out of which they had come, and of the dangers to which they must return. He told us that they longed for a share in the blessing God was giving the school, and asked our patience while they prayed to the Father, and spoke of Him in a language we could not understand.

Kamnach rose first. Kamnach came to the school four years ago, directly from his wild Indian life. His hair was uncut; he wore Indian clothes; he had been always familiar with scenes of bloodshed, and placed little value on human life. After three years he went back to his home, a changed man we thought in appearance and heart. But it was hard to stand among his savage comrades. He plead to come back to school. He was a happy boy, when, less than a year ago, he placed his foot again on Hampton soil. Poor boy! he had yet to learn that always his worst temptations would come from his own distorted heart. Some misunderstanding of his position as a returned student, some distrust of those who were over him, and he fell into passionate hatred, and was ready to commit a deliberate and deadly crime. We thought his repentance would be quick and deep, but not so. The first Sunday of the new year, the anniversary of the day on which he confessed Christ, he had no heart to meet the Lord, whose first command was to love and forgive. But the passing Saviour’s voice reached him now. He stood before the crowded school, and with the help of an interpreter acknowledged his sin, and renewed his allegiance to the Saviour, and begged the Indian students to follow the Lord Jesus, though they would find many things in His religion hard to understand and difficult to do.

After Kamnach’s confession a Sioux boy made a prayer. He spoke in another tongue, but more than one felt his heart was lifted to the Father’s heart by the earnestness and pathos of the stranger’s voice. Another tried to speak in broken English. Missing the words he wanted to say, waiting and struggling for confession, he acknowledged Jesus Christ as the Saviour of his soul. Our hearts were knit together in love. We knew that we belonged to one common family and nothing could separate from the love of Christ. Evidently the son of God who came to save the lost finds nothing in the Indian nature he cannot soften and subdue. Evidently the Indian is able to place his confidence in such a Saviour and yield himself in glad obedience to Him.

CHILDREN’S PAGE.

INDIAN HUT.

THE LITTLE INDIAN OF CLEAR LAKE.

ABRIDGED FROM GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS.

Did you ever see an Indian—a real, live Indian—in bead-embroidered buck-skin coat and breeches, girded with a curiously wrought wampum belt, shod with moccasins, his face painted black and red, his hair bristling, like a porcupine’s back, with a gay forest of feathers—as he dashed through the woods or over the prairie, on a wild horse, or strode along proudly on foot, with bow and arrows in his hands, and a large tomahawk and scalping-knife in his girdle?

You have seen him in the pictures, at least, and thought him a fine sight; and perhaps you felt in your heart that it must be fine to live such a wild, daring life, hunting, fishing and roaming in the woods and over the fields.

But all Indians are not like him. Tribes differ very much in their character and habits. Besides, they are never quite so brave and fine in real life as they are in pictures. Most of them are poor miserable creatures; and if you should go into one of their wigwams of sticks and barks, and see their naked bodies, filthy faces and tangled hair, as they squat in the smoke and stench around a little fire, on the bare earth, in the middle of the shanty, snatching at poor food with dirty fingers, like a pack of ravenous wolves. I do not believe you would think it very fine, ever after have the least desire to live like an Indian.

The little boy of our story was born and lived on the shores of Clear Lake, a fine sheet of water among the mountains, thirty or forty miles north of Napo Valley.

Like all his mates, he was so short and thick that he seemed to be about as broad as he was long. His skin was not copper-colored like that of most other Indians, but black. His face was broad and round, his lips thick and pouting, and his nose wide and flat. His long coarse hair, all tangled and matted, dangled around his high cheek-bones and above his naked shoulders, like the shaggy mane of a Canadian pony, and half hid his coarse, brutal features: a pair of small, round, dull eyes, like leaden bullets, made the treacherous expression that slept in every line of his features seem ten-fold more revolting.

His wigwam, or lodge, was nothing but a rude screen of bushes or skins to break the force of the wind. You would not think it very nice or comfortable, but he did, and could sleep just as well there, or on the ground beside a large stone, or behind the stump of a fallen tree as you do on the softest feathers. But he never slept two nights in the same place, for fear of being discovered by an enemy and murdered.

It is a hard and cheerless life which those little Indian children lead, as you can easily see, but the life of this little Indian was especially so; for his father and mother had both been murdered, and he had no friends to care for him any more kindly than they would care for a dog; and even the Hias Tyee, or Big Chief of the tribe, whose duty it was to see that this little waif on the stormy sea of Indian life was provided for, thought only to get some advantage out of him; and so, when he saw a white man camping one day on the shores of the lake, he brought down the boy and offered to sell him for ten dollars. It proved to be a kind, good-hearted man, who saw that the little fellow was friendless and forlorn, and so the bargain was soon closed, and he became servant to the “pale-face” till he was twenty-one years old, on condition of receiving his food and clothing.

On reaching home, the first thing, of course, was to clip off his dangling locks, give him a thorough scrubbing with soap and brush, and cover his black nakedness with decent clothing.

That afternoon, when the pigs were fed, he was found with his nose in the trough eating sour milk with the animals as if he had been one of them. At night nothing could persuade him to sleep in a room or on a bed; and after dark, when the family had retired to rest, he stole out of the house as slyly as a cat, and hid himself away in the tall weeds beside the fence. Every night for many weeks he did the same, and was so fearful of being murdered in his sleep that he changed his nest every night, never daring to sleep twice in the same spot.

His tongue was constantly telling lies, and he would steal everything he fancied that came in his way. He seemed to have no idea of right and wrong. He could not comprehend what such words as love and duty and kindness meant. Fear was the only motive which had the least influence in controlling him. Even the difference between cleanliness and dirt was a thought too sublime and profound for his understanding.

But he could believe in ghosts and haunting spirits of dead men, like most other ignorant and barbarous people; and he thought they lingered around every stump and tree, and followed him wherever he went. He could hear them fluttering in the leaves, or rapping on the limbs and trunks of the trees, or whispering in the wind. He supposed they took possession of the bodies of men and animals, and caused them to sing and dance, and do all sorts of silly tricks, by a kind of inspiration. He had some notions of the Great Spirit, it is true, but they were confused and indistinct, and had little power over him, while a slavish fear of the inferior spirits and other such ghostly nonsense tormented him night and day, and made him a timid, miserable, degraded, creature.

Had you seen him in that condition you would have thought it impossible to make anything good out of such a stupid little animal. You would have said it was of no use to try to teach a creature so brutal and superstitious anything about God and heaven, and a higher life, or even about the decencies of civilized society.

But a kind lady took him under her care. She taught him to read and write. She showed him the folly of believing in ghosts, and talking with the spirits. She told him the story of Jesus, and made him learn the ten commandments, and the precious words of the Saviour, and explained to him how God made him, and fed, and clothed, and kept him, day by day, and that he ought to love Him, and do right in return for His kindness. She impressed him with the thought that God is angry with wicked boys and girls every day, and that only the pure in heart, whose lives are good, can be happy on earth, or go to heaven when they die.

At first he was stupid and stubborn, and unwilling to learn; but after a little while his stolid face began to brighten, his dull eyes sparkled with unusual interest, and he was more and more attentive, till his coarse, animal features wore an entirely new expression. One day he came in with a very serious look, and said in an earnest tone:

“Mistress, oh me got bad heart! Ask Great Spirit to give me better heart.”

He was told to ask for himself; and then the poor little child of the Great Father went into his own room alone and shut the door, and kneeled down beside the bed and prayed, oh! so earnestly, that God would forgive his sins for Jesus’ sake, and take away his wicked feelings, and show him how to be good. From that moment he was a changed boy. His bad habits were all laid aside. He ceased to be stupid and stubborn and inattentive. He told no more lies, and pilfered no more. His face glowed with kindly feeling, as if a ray from heaven were sleeping on it. His coarse features lost their repulsive expression and became rather pleasant to see. I am sure there was rejoicing in heaven that day over this little stray lamb from the wilderness; and I do not doubt that when God gathers up his jewels from the earth the poor Indian boy will be a precious gem in the Saviour’s crown of glory.

RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1883.

MAINE, $261.26.

Augusta. South Cong. Ch. and Soc., 55 (30 of which from Barrett E. Potter to const. Rev. Henry V. Emmons L. M.); “A Friend,” 5

$60.00

Blue Hill. Bbl. of C., for Wilmington, N.C. |
Brownsville. Cong. Ch. | 18.00
Brunswick. Bbl. of C., val. 20, and 2.56 for freight, for Selma, Ala. | 2.56
Camden. E. D. Mansfield, 6; A. Howe and Wife, 3; J. H., 1 | 10.00
Gardiner. Two Bbls. of C., and 4.25 for freight, for Selma, Ala. | 4.25
New Sharon. Cong. Ch. | 5.00

Portland. Rev. I. P. Warren, D.D., 50, to const. Miss E. A. Stanwood L. M.; Plymouth Ch., 43, to const. C. S. D. Griffen L. M.

93.00

Scarborough. “Friend in Cong. Ch.” | 50.00
Skowhegan. “Friends,” by Mrs. L. W. Weston, for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. | 8.00
South Berwick. Ladies of Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C., for Wilmington, N.C. |
Union. Bbl of C., for Selma, Ala. |
West Falmouth. Bbl. of C. and 2.25 for Freight, for Selma, Ala. | 2.25
Woolwich. “Morning Glories” | 3.20
——. “A Friend.” | 5.00

NEW HAMPSHIRE, $419.05.
Claremont. “Friends,” by Miss L. D. Fairbank, for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 16.00
Concord. North Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C. for Tougaloo U. |
Exeter. “A Friend” | 30.00
Fisherville. “Friends,” to const. John C. Pearson L.M. | 30.00
Francestown. Cong. Ch., 20; Aaron Fisher, 5 | 25.00
Goffstown. Cong. Ch., Box of C. for Marion, Ala. |
Lancaster. Cong. Ch. | 10.13
Littleton. Mrs. B. W. Kilborn | 5.00
Londonderry. C. S. P. | 1.00
Lyme. —— | 11.00
Manchester. First Cong. Ch., to const. Geo. W. O. Tebbitts L. M. | 58.16
Mount Vernon. Cong. Ch. | 6.72
Newport. Cong. Ch. | 77.11
Pittsfield. Cong. Ch., 20.93; Dr. John Wheeler and Wife, 10 | 30.93
Sanbornton. Cong. Ch. | 15.00
——. “A Friend” | 3.00
| ———-
| $319.05
LEGACY.
Londonderry. Estate of Josiah Sleeper, by James C. Taylor, Admr. | 100.00
| ———-
| $419.05

VERMONT, $289.64.
Barnet. Sab. Sch. Scholars | 5.00
Bennington. Second Cong. Ch. | 73.67
East Corinth. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 5.18
Essex Center. Mrs. L. C. B. | 0.50
Greensborough. Cong. Ch. | 17.00
Hubbardton. Mrs. James Flagg, for John Brown Steamer | 5.00
McIndoes Falls. Cong. Ch. | 13.00
Morgan. L. L. | 0.50
Pittsford. Cong. Ch. | 48.50
Saint Albans. First Cong. Ch. | 65.25
Strafford. Cong. Ch. | 25.00
Wallingford. Cong. Ch. and Soc., Bbl. of C., 1.65, for Freight, for Tougaloo, Miss. | 1.65
West Hartford. Cong. Ch. | 6.22
Wilton. Cong. Ch. | 2.50
Windham. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 4.20
Woodstock. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 16.47

Ladies of Benson, Greensborough, New Haven, Rochester and West Townshend, Basted patchwork, for Storrs Sch., Atlanta, Ga.

MASSACHUSETTS, $1,842.51
Adams. Sab. Sch. Class, Cong. Ch., by W. B. Green | 12.00
Amesbury and Salisbury. Union Evan. Ch. and Soc. | 4.07
Amherst. “A Friend,” by Miss E. W. Beaman, for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 20.00
Andover. Free Ch., for furnishing, Straight U. | 40.00
Auburndale. Rev. Calvin Cutter, for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 50.00
Bernardston. Ladies, Patchwork, for Storrs Sch., Atlanta. Ga. |
Billerica. Orthodox Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 4.50
Boston. Mrs. Nancy B. Curtiss, 200; “Boston,” 1 | 201.00
Boston. Cong. Pub. Soc., Pkg. Singing Books, for Macon, Ga. |
Curtisville. Mrs. Frances M. Clarke | 2.00
Dalton. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 50.00
Dracut. Center Cong. Ch. | 10.00
East Somerville. Mrs. Buswell’s S. S. Class, Franklin St. Ch., for Santee Agency, Dakota M. | 10.00
East Somerville. Young Ladies’ Mission Circle, Franklin St. Ch., for Student Aid, Dakota M. | 50.00
Fall River. Third Cong. Ch. | 21.80
Fitchburg. Rollstone Ch., Bbl. Stores, for furnishing room, Straight U. |
Gilbertville. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 10.00
Great Barrington. E. P. | 0.50
Hadley. First Ch. Sab. Sch., 15.62; Mrs. D. H. Dickinson, 4.50 | 20.12
Harwich. “Ready and Willing Band,” 2 Bbls. of C., one Val., 25, for Atlanta, Ga.; one Val. 35, for Marietta, Ga. |
Haverhill. West Cong. Ch. | 7.56
Ipswich. First Cong. Ch., Bbl. C, for Atlanta U. |
Jamaica Plain. Central Cong. Ch. (Special) | 50.00
Leverett. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. | 5.00
Littleton. “A Friend” | 50.00
Littleton. “Friends,” for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 10.00
Lowell. Eliot Ch., 60; L. Kimball, 50 | 110.00
Maplewood. Ladies’ Social Union, Bbl. of C. and 1 for freight, for Wilmington, N.C. | 1.00
Maynard. Pkg. Papers |
Millbury. M. D. Garfield | 5.00
Newburyport. Miss Tyler, 5; S. S. Class, 1, for Washington, D.C. | 6.00
Newton Highlands. Ladies of Cong. Ch., 2.95, and Eleven Comforters, for Fisk U. | 2.95
New Salem. Cong. Ch. | 10.02
Northampton. A. L. Williston | 500.00
Northfield. W. S. E. Shaw, Box C. and 1, for Macon, Ga. | 1.00
North Beverly. Second Cong. Sab. Sch. | 6.00
Peru. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 6.00
Princeton. Cong. Ch. | 7.00
Shelburne Falls. Cong. Ch. and Soc., 10.79; Rev. G. A. P., 1 | 11.79
Southborough. Pilgrim Evan. Ch. | 13.09
South Boston. E. St. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 6.00
South Braintree. A. P. W. | 1.00
South Royalston. Second Cong. Ch. | 12.12
South Wellfleet. Second Cong. Ch. | 2.00
Springfield. Memorial Ch., 44; Mrs. R. K., 50c | 44.50
Sterling. Cong. Ch. | 3.15
Tewksbury. Cong. Ch. | 11.00
Townsend. Cong. Ch. | 8.72
Upton. A. W. Aldrich | 4.70
Waltham. Trin. Cong. Ch. | 44.34
Watertown. “Friends” | 5.00
Westborough. Evan. Cong. Ch. | 84.75
Wellesley Hills. Ladies Charitable Soc. of Cong. Ch., Bbl. of C., Val. 54, for Talladega C. |
Westminster. —— | 10.00
Worcester. M. Wheeler, Pkg. Pamphlets |
Westborough. “Friends,” by Freedmen’s Aid Soc., for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 20.00
West Boxford. Cong. Ch. | 6.00
Westfield. “Girls’ Guild” of Second Cong. Ch., for Dakota Home | 31.50
West Springfield. First Cong. Ch., 31; Park St. Ch., 15 | 46.00
| ————
| $1,649.18
LEGACY.
Woburn. Estate of Sarah H. Holden, by Geo. H. Holden, Adm. | 193.33
| ————
| $1,842.51

RHODE ISLAND, $72.56.
Central Falls. Cong. Ch. | 66.56
Newport. D. B. Fitts | 5.00
Providence.——-, for Washington, D.C. | 1.00

CONNECTICUT, $1,394.10.
Andover. “A Friend.” | 11.50
Berlin. “J. W.” | 10.00
Canton Center. Wm. G. Hallock | 5.00
Colchester. “A Sister in First Cong. Ch.,” for John Brown Steamer | 3.00
Durham. Dea. Gaylord Newton, 5; H. N. Fowler, 5 | 10.00
Enfield. First Cong. Ch., for Library, Straight U. | 25.00
Glenville. “A Widow.” | 0.50
Hartford. Mrs. E. Hills | 400.00
Hartford. Asylum Hill Cong. Sab. Sch., for Atlanta U. | 25.00
Hebron. “A. H. P.,” for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. | 10.00
Ledyard. Cong. Ch. | 15.30
Meriden. Ida Pinks’ Class. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. | 1.00
Meriden. Homer Curtiss, 1 Doz. Table Forks, for Atlanta U. |
Middle Haddam. Second Cong. Ch. | 21.20
New Fairfield. Cong. Ch. | 12.60
New London. “P. O. H.” | 2.00
Newtown. Cong. Ch. | 10.00
Northville. Miss E. R., for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga. | 1.00
Norwich. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. Miss’y Soc., for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 50.00
Norwich. First Cong. Ch. | 5.05
Plantsville. Dea. T. Higgins, for Atlanta U. | 100.00
Plantsville. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Tillotson C. and N. Inst. | 15.00
Pomfret. First Cong. Ch. | 53.00
Salisbury. Cong. Ch. | 53.97
Terryville. A. G. Gaylord, for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 50.00
Thomaston. Cong. Ch. | 36.88
Thompson. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 15.60
Tompsonville. T. I. Pease, for Library Straight U. | 33.50
Unionville. First Cong. Ch., for Talladega C. | 27.98
Warren. First Cong. Ch. | 40.25
Waterbury. First Cong. Ch. | 206.40
West Brook. Cong. Ch., to const. Ernest E. Spencer L. M. | 37.37
West Suffield. Cong. Sab. Sch., for S. S., Straight U. | 5.00
Woodbury. Mrs. J. E. B. S., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 1.00
| ————
| $1,294.10
LEGACY.
New London. Trust Estate of Henry P. Haven, for Furniture, Straight U. | 100.00
| ————
| $1,394.10

NEW YORK, $2,836.72.
Auburn. John F. Hemenway | 2.00
Brooklyn. Central Cong. Sab. Sch., for Missionaries at Fernandina, Fla., and Ladies’ Island, S.C. | 175.00
Brooklyn. “An Oberlin Student of 1835,” for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga. | 10.00
Brooklyn. “A Lady, by Aunt Patience,” 5 and bundle of patchwork, for Lady Missionary, Wilmington, N.C. | 5.00
Canandaigua. First Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 57.28
Clarkson. Oliver Babcock | 5.00
Clifton Springs. Mrs. H. L. C | 1.00
Comstock’s. Russell Ranney | 5.00
Greenville. F. H. W. | 0.50
Hamilton. Second Cong. Ch. | 17.48
Homer. Cong. Ch., 153.10; Cong. Sab. Sch., 10 | 163.10
Honeoye. Cong. Ch., 42.40; Sab Sch., 10 | 52.40
Lockport. First Cong. Ch., 7; and Sab. Sch., 75, to const. Mrs. L. A. Dietricks and Miss Jennie Duquette L. Ms | 82.00
Maine. Cong. Ch., 11.35; Sab. Sch., 4.50; “Pastor,” 4.15 | 20.00
Mexico. G. W. French, for Student Aid, Lewis High Sch. | 2.00
Morristown. Cong. Ch. | 4.27
Munnsville. T. B. Rockwell | 5.00
New York. F. P. Shumway | 5.00
New York. D. Appleton & Co., 75 Copies Fourth Reader |
Ovid. David W. Kinne | 4.50
Parma. Mrs. Anna Hathaway, for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga. | 3.00
Union Falls. Mrs. Fanny D. Duncan, 10., Francis E. Duncan, 10 | 20.00
Volney. First Cong. Ch. | 18.00
Walton. First Cong. Ch. | 61.33
Warsaw. Cong. Soc., 24.77, and Sab. Sch., 33.14 | 57.91
Waterville. Ladies Benev. Soc., 19.35 and Box of C., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 19.35
West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. and Soc. | 37.60
West Bloomfield. Cong. Ch. Bbl. of C., for Fisk U. |
West Chazy. Daniel Bassett | 3.00
| ———
| $836.72
LEGACY.
New York. Estate of Francis P. Schoals, by Trustees | 2,000.00
| ————
| $2,836.72

NEW JERSEY, $46.00.
Newark. “A Friend” | 5.00
Newark. Benev. Assn. of Park Presb. Ch., for furnishing Room, Straight U. | 35.00
Newark. Mrs. M. G. B., for John Brown Steamer | 1.00
New Brunswick. Mrs. S. L. Chester | 5.00

PENNSYLVANIA, $25.50.
Coudersport. “Friends” | 5.00
East Springfield. Mrs. C. J. Cowles | 1.50
Hermitage. W. F. Stewart | 5.00
Summersville. Horace Summers | 11.00
Wurtemburgh. Mrs. M. Lacey, 2; Mrs. D. U. L., 1 | 3.00

OHIO, $131.50.
Atwater. Ladies, by Mrs. J. M. White, for Books, Straight U. | 6.50
Bellefontaine. Mrs. J. L., for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga. | 1.00
Chagrin Falls. “Earnest Workers” for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. | 10.00
Cincinnati. F. W. C. Crane | 2.00
Columbus. Ladies Miss’y Soc. of First Cong. Ch., 15; Mrs. James L. Bates, 5 | 20.00
Columbus. C. Coit, for Library, Macon Ga. | 5.00
Harrison. Dr. John D. Bowles | 5.00
Newark. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Jones | 4.50
Norwalk. “A Friend” | 15.00
Oberlin. Harris Lewis | 5.00
Pittsford. “D.” | 1.00
South Salem. Daniel S. Pricer | 5.00
Tallmadge. Rev. L. Shaw, Pkg. Bibles and Testaments |
Toledo. Edson Allen, for Lady Missionary, Raleigh, N.C. | 5.00
Wakeman. Second Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 38.50
West Farmington. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 7.00
Youngstown. J. D. W. | 1.00

INDIANA, $1.00.
Michigan City. “Golden Links of Cong. Ch.” for Student Aid, Atlanta, U. | 1.00

ILLINOIS, $653.54.
Aurora. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 25.00
Avon. Mrs. C. W. | 1.00
Batavia. C. N. Cooper | 5.00
Belvidere. M. C. Foote | 2.50
Camp Point. Mrs. Anna Reynolds | 50.00
Chicago. First Cong. Ch., 142.06; New Eng. Ch., 62.55; Mrs. E. F. Rice, 5 | 209.61
Farmington. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 7.75
Freeport. L. A. Warner | 25.00
Galesburg. First Ch. of Christ | 26.70
Knoxville. W. A. | 1.00
Millburn. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., for Lady Missionary, Mobile, Ala. | 5.00
Moline. Thomas Jewett, 50 for Agricultural Implements, 50 for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. | 100.00
Morris. Cong. Ch., 18; Sab. Sch., 2.25 | 20.25
Nora. G. W. Warner | 5.00
Oak Park. Boys’ Class in Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Talladega C. | 19.10
Paxton. “A Friend” | 25.00
Paxton. Cong. Sab. Sch., 1.50; “A Friend,” 9, for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 10.50
Quincy. Joshua Perry | 10.00
Sheffield. A. W. Boyden (New Year’s Offering) | 100.00
Sheffield. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. | 5.13

MICHIGAN, $271.82.
Ann Arbor. First Cong. Ch. | 77.12
Detroit. Woodward Av. Sab. Sch. | 67.00
Grand Rapids. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Rev. J. H. H. Sengstacke | 10.00
Hubbardston. Cong. Ch. | 4.00
Kalamazoo. J. W. S., for John Brown Steamer | 1.00
Lansing. Prof. R. C. Kedzie | 10.00
Muskegon. Cong. Ch. | 30.00
Olivet. Cong. Ch., 25.35; Mrs. M. R., 50c | 25.85
Parma. Mrs. M. B. Tanner | 2.00
Plymouth. Cong. Ch. | 5.00
Portland. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 10.00
Saint Johns. First Cong. Ch. | 18.85
Utica. “Member of First Cong. Ch.” | 10.00
Vermontville. Mrs. H., for Tillotson C. & N. Inst. | 1.00

IOWA, $253.97.
Cedar Rapids. Mrs. R. D. Stephens, for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La. | 25.00
Clinton. First Cong. Ch. | 40.00
Denmark. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 46.93
Dubuque. First Cong. Ch. | 60.50
Grinnell. Woman’s Miss’y Soc. of Plym. Ch., for Lady Missionary, New Orleans, La. | 30.00
Lansing. Lizzie H. Avery | 5.00
Magnolia. Cong. Ch., 20; Sab. Sch., 5 | 25.00
Marion. “Willing Workers,” for Straight U. | 12.00
Montour. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc. | 5.75
Wittenbergh. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 3.79

WISCONSIN, $222.77.
Beloit. Second Cong. Ch., 25.67; “Sale of Beads,” 5 | 30.67
Brandon. “Busy Bees,” 9.40; Cong. Sab. Sch., 7.10, for Student Aid, Tougaloo U. | 16.50
Columbus. Ladies’ Miss’y Soc., for Lady Missionary, Montgomery, Ala. | 8.50
Cooksville. Edward Gilley | 5.00
Eau Claire. Cong. Ch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 25.00
Fox Lake. Cong. Ch. | 10.88
Green Bay. First Presb. Ch. | 20.47
Kenosha. R. M. | 0.50
Menasha. Cong. Ch. | 30.00
Menomonee. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 12.75
Milwaukee. Sixth St. Cong. Sab. Sch. | 10.00
Sheboygan. “Friends,” Box Books and Papers, and 2, for Macon, Ga. | 2.00
Stoughton. Mrs. E. B. S. | 0.50
——. “A Friend,” for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 50.00

MINNESOTA, $142.65.
Leech Lake. Henry J. King to const. Mrs. Sarah L. King L. M. | 30.00
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch. | 22.65
Minneapolis. Plymouth Ch., for Straight U. | 59.00
Minneapolis. Pilgrim Ch. Sab. Sch. for Student Aid, Fisk U. | 30.00
St. Paul. Miss A. B., for Lady Missionary, Atlanta, Ga. | 1.00

MISSOURI, $1.00.
St. Louis. Rev. C. L. G. | 1.00

KANSAS, $40.40.
Burlington. Cong. Ch. | 15.00
Garden City. Cong. Ch. | 2.75
Great Bend. Second Cong. Ch. | 5.25
Manhattan. First Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. | 17.40

NEBRASKA, $7.72.
Ashland. Cong. Ch. | 5.72
Maniland. Cong. Ch. | 2.00

OREGON, $10.00.
The Dalles. First. Cong. Ch. | 10.00

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, $13.00.
Washington. Mrs. A. N. Bailey, for John Brown Steamer | 10.00
Washington. “Little Rills of Llensmary,” by Rev. M. Porter Snell | 2.00
Washington. “Friend,” for Washington, D.C. | 1.00

KENTUCKY, $95.80.
Berea. Sab. Sch., for John Brown Steamer | 7.05
Williamsburgh. Tuition | 88.75

TENNESSEE, $468.30.
Memphis. Le Moyne Sch. | 212.50
Nashville. Fisk U., Tuition | 255.80

NORTH CAROLINA, $216.30.
Raleigh. Tuition | 0.80
Wilmington. Normal Sch., Tuition, 210.50; Cong. Ch., 5 | 215.50

SOUTH CAROLINA, $10.00.
Charleston. Cong. Ch. | 10.00

GEORGIA, $719.10.
Atlanta. Storrs Sch., Tuition, 192.84; Rent, 3 | 195.84
Atlanta. First Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch. | 52.50
Atlanta. First. Cong. Ch., 55 for Student Aid, Atlanta U., and 10.50 for Student Aid, Storrs Sch. | 65.50
Macon. Lewis High Sch., Tuition 153.86; Rent, 8; Cong. Ch., 5 | 166.86
McIntosh. Dorchester Academy, Tuition | 32.45
Marietta. First. Cong. Ch. and Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 10.60
Savannah. Beach Inst., 145.35; Rent, 10; Cong. Ch. 20 | 175.35
Savannah. Cong. Sab. Sch., for Student Aid, Atlanta U. | 20.00

ALABAMA, $37.40.
Montgomery. Cong. Ch. | 10.00
Selma. Cong. Ch. | 18.20
Selma. Tuition | 9.50

MISSISSIPPI, $183.00.
Tougaloo. Tougaloo U., Tuition | 183.00

LOUISIANA, $125.00.
New Orleans. Straight U., Tuition | 125.00

TEXAS, $281.50.
Austin. Tillotson C. & N. Inst., Tuition | 281.50

INCOMES, $60.00.
Gen. C. B. Fisk Fund, for Fisk U. | 30.00
Belden Scholarship Fund, for Talladega C. | 30.00

CANADA, $1.00.
Caledonia. A. C. B. | 1.00

ENGLAND, $53.50.
London, Stratford. Cong. Ch. Sab. Sch. for Student Aid, Fisk U., £10 | 48.50
York. Mrs. L. H. R. Clark, for Cottage, Atlanta U. | 5.00
| ————-
Total | $11,187.91
Total from Oct. 1 to Feb 28 | 96,743.02
| ==========

FOR AMERICAN MISSIONARY.
Subscriptions | $105.73
Previously acknowledged | 336.86
| ———
Total | $442.59

H. W. Hubbard, Treas.

56 Reade St., N.Y.

AIM AND WORK.

To preach the Gospel to the poor. It originated in a sympathy with the almost friendless slaves. Since Emancipation it has devoted its main efforts to preparing the Freedmen for their duties as citizens and Christians in America, and as missionaries in Africa. As closely related to this, it seeks to benefit the caste-persecuted Chinese in America, and to co-operate with the Government in its humane and Christian policy toward the Indians.

STATISTICS FOR 1882.

Churches: In the South—In District of Columbia, 1; Virginia, 1; North Carolina, 9; South Carolina, 2; Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 7; Tennessee, 4; Alabama, 14; Kansas, 2; Arkansas, 1; Louisiana, 17; Mississippi, 5; Texas, 6. Africa, 3. Among the Indians, 2. Total, 88.

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Teachers, Missionaries and Assistants.—Among the Freedmen, 336; among the Chinese, 31; among the Indians, 6; in Africa, 16. Total, 389. Students.—In theology, 72; law, 38; in college course, 104; in other studies, 9,404. Total, 9,608. Scholars taught by former pupils of our schools, estimated at 150,000. Indians under the care of the Association, 13,000.

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Table of Contents

- The American Missionary

- CONTENTS

- EDITORIAL

- FINANCIAL.

- PARAGRAPHS

- DEATH OF MRS. G. S. POPE.

- BENEFACTIONS.

- GENERAL NOTES.

- AFRICA.

- THE CHINESE.

- THE INDIANS.

- WORK TRANSFERRED BY THE AMERICAN BOARD.

- SUGGESTIONS OF ENLARGEMENT.

- ASPECTS OF THE INDIAN PROBLEM.

- ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF WORK AT CARLISLE.

- THE HISTORY AND OUTLOOK OF THE INDIAN WORK TRANSFERRED TO THE A. M. A.

- INDIAN INDUSTRIES AT HAMPTON.

- REVIVAL WORK AMONG INDIANS AT HAMPTON.

- CHILDREN’S PAGE.

- THE LITTLE INDIAN OF CLEAR LAKE.

- RECEIPTS FOR FEBRUARY, 1883.

- AIM AND WORK.

- Transcriber’s Notes

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