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Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 37, No. 1, January, 1883 Author: Various Release Date: September 15, 2019 [EBook #60298] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, JANUARY 1883 *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson, KarenD and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by Cornell University Digital Collections) JANUARY, 1883. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 1. The American Missionary The American Missionary CONTENTS Page. EDITORIAL. Another Year 1 Paragraphs 2 Retirement of Rev. Dr. Ladd—Mendi Mission, John Brown Steamer 3 Paragraphs—How Long is this Thing Going on? 4 Benefactions—General Notes 5 Group of Mongolians (cut) 7 Training Colored Girls. Miss Anna M. Cahill 8 Industrial Work at Memphis. Miss Ella Hamilton 12 THE SOUTH. Avery Normal Institute, Charleston, S.C. 13 New Building at Athens, Ala. 14 Trinity School Building (cut) 15 The Georgia Association 16 The Central South Association 17 Wytheville, Va.—Death of Rev. W. H. Ash 18 THE INDIANS. Statements Respecting Indians and their Necessities: by Gen. S. C. Armstrong 19 THE CHINESE. Humblings: by Rev. W. C. Pond 22 Washee Washee 24 CHILDREN’S PAGE. The Little Dining-Room 24 RECEIPTS 25 FORM OF BEQUEST—AIM AND WORK—STATISTICS—WANTS 28 NEW YORK. PUBLISHED BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, Rooms, 56 Reade Street. Price 50 Cents a Year, in Advance. Entered at the Post-Office at New York, N.Y., as second-class matter. PUBLICATIONS OF EUGENE R. SMITH, NEW YORK. GOSPEL IN ALL LANDS. The Gospel in All Lands was commenced in February, 1880, and was continued during 1880 and 1881 as a 48 page monthly. The only numbers of these years that can now be furnished are as follows: 1880. August—Palestine, Syria, and Jewish Missions. Nov.—Australasia and Malaysia. Dec.—Siam and Burmah. 1881. January—American Indians. February—Papal Europe. March—Africa and Africans. April—Papal America. May—China and the Chinese. June—The Oriental Churches. July—Japan and the Japanese. August—The Jews. September—India. October—The Mohammedans. November—The Malays. December—Unoccupied Mission Fields. Single numbers, 25 cents. Twelve numbers, $2.00. There are two volumes a year. The twelve numbers of 1881 bound in cloth, $3.00. By mail, $3.50. 1882. Sixteen pages a week. Jan. 5—Christian Work in Cities. Jan. 12—Home Missions. Jan. 19—Missions among Freedmen. Jan. 26—China. Feb. 2—Woman’s Missionary Societies. Feb. 9—The West Indies. Feb. 16—Mexico. Feb. 23—Central America. Mar. 2—American Missionary Societies. Mar. 9—Missionary Concerts. Mar. 16—The Progress of Missions. Mar. 23—People and Religions of India. Mar. 30—Christian Work in India. April 6—English Missionary Societies. April 13—Medical Missions. April 20—Siam and Laos. April 27—Burmah. May 4—Northern Africa. May 11—Eastern & Central Africa. May 18—Southern Africa. May 25—Western Africa. June 1—Bible Work. June 8—Greenland. June 15—Canada. June 22—Indians of the Northwest. June 29—Indians of the U.S. July 6—Continental Missionary Societies. July 13—Roman Catholic Missions. July 20—Brazil. July 27—South America. Aug. 3—Missions and the Sunday School. Aug. 10—Independent Mission Work. Aug. 17—Missionary Methods. Aug. 24—Japan. Aug. 31—False Religions. Sept. 7—Money in relation to Missions. Sept.14—Russia, Greece, and Bulgaria. Sept.21—Persia & adjacent regions. Sept.28—Turkey. Oct. 5—Missionary Literature. Oct. 12—Protestant Europe. Oct. 19—Roman Catholic Europe. Oct. 26—General Missions. Nov. 2—Polynesia. Nov. 9—Liberty. Nov. 14—Resources of Missions. Nov. 23—Syria and Palestine. Nov. 30—The Jews. Dec. 7—Educational Mission Work. Dec. 16—Malaysia and Australasia. Dec. 21—The Sandwich Islands. Dec. 28—The Missionary World. Single numbers, six cents. The 52 numbers of the year, $2.00. The 52 numbers bound in cloth, $3.00. By mail. $3.50. 1883 Gospel in All Lands. Sixteen pages a week. Jan. 4.Monthly Review of Missions. Jan. 11.Missionaries. Jan. 18.China. Jan. 25.American Episcopal Missions. Feb. 1.Monthly Review of Missions. Feb. 8.Children and Missions. Feb. 15.Mexico & Central America. Feb. 22.American Lutheran Missions. Mar. 1.Monthly Review of Missions. Mar. 8.Woman and Missions. Mar. 15.Incident and Narrative. Mar. 22.India. Mar. 29.Ceylon. Apr. 5.Monthly Review of Missions. Apr. 12.Missionary Concert Exercises. Apr. 19.Siam and Laos. Apr. 26.Christianity in Relation to Other Religions. May 3.Monthly Review of Missions. May 10.Giving and Missions. May 17.People of Africa. May 24.Missions in Africa. May 31.American Methodist Missions. Jun. 7.Monthly Review of Missions. Jun. 14.Missions in North America. Jun. 21.The American Indians. Jun. 28.Missions in the United States. July 5.Monthly Review of Missions. July 12.The Bible and Missions. July 19.Missions in South America. July 26.American Presbyterian Missions. Aug 2.Monthly Review of Missions. Aug 9.Missionary Obligation. Aug 16.Burmah. Aug 23.Japan. Aug 30.American Baptist Missions. Sept. 6.Monthly Review of Missions. Sept.13.Mohammedanism. Sept.20.Persia. Sept.27.Missions in Asia. Oct. 4.Monthly Review of Missions. Oct. 11.Missions in Europe. Oct. 18.Catholicism. Oct. 25.The American Board. Nov. 1.Monthly Review of Missions. Nov. 8.Armenians and Nestorians. Nov. 15.Turkey. Nov. 22.Syria and Palestine. Nov. 29.Missionary Literature. Dec. 6.Monthly Review of Missions. Dec. 13.Missions in Oceanica. Dec. 20.Missionary Societies. Dec. 27.Progress of Missions. Single numbers, six cents. One year, two dollars. THE LITTLE MISSIONARY is the Children’s Missionary Paper. Four pages a month, filled with pictures, stories about heathen lands and people, and stories that will increase the interest of the children in missions. The principal part of each number is devoted to pictures and stories on the following: January: General Missions. February: The People of China. March: The People of Mexico. April: The People of India. May: Siam and Burmah. June: The People of Africa. July: The American Indians. August: South America. September: The People of Japan. October: Persia and Turkey. November: Syria and Palestine. December: Oceanica. One copy, 25 cents. Six copies to one address, 50 cents. Twenty copies and over to one address, each six cents a year. MAP OF CHINA. It is on paper, 17 by 18 inches, showing each of the 18 provinces colored, and giving the names of mountains, rivers, and more than 5,000 cities and towns. The most complete map of China published. Price, twenty cents, postage paid. THE MISSIONARY WORLD, a missionary monthly for young people. Sixteen pages a month, profusely illustrated, containing interesting and instructive reading concerning all lands and all people, and stories that will awaken and develop the missionary spirit. It can be made a local paper by removing the four outside pages, and putting on it a cover containing local name, news, etc. One copy, 50 cents a year. Twenty copies and over, each 30 cents a year. 1883 MISSIONARY ALMANAC. It contains a list of missionary books, missionary periodicals, missionary societies, with names and address of their secretaries, names and stations of all the foreign missionaries from the United States, maps, and other valuable information relating to missions. Price, 25 cents. SUNSHINE is a beautiful little eight page monthly paper, containing little pictures, little lessons, and little stories for little children. “A little treasure.” One copy, 25 cents a year. Six copies to one address, 50 cents. Twenty copies and over to one address, each six cents a year. Inter-Seminary Missionary Alliance. A pamphlet of 64 pages, containing the proceedings and the addresses made before the first Inter-Seminary Missionary Convention (1880). Price, 25 cents. INTERNATIONAL LESSONS. My Picture Lesson, a beautiful four page weekly, (mailed monthly), containing pictures, lessons, and stories about the International Lessons for the children. “The Best for Primary Classes.” One copy, 25 cents a year. Ten copies, $1.50 a year. Twenty copies $2.60. One hundred copies, $13.00 a year. International Lesson Quarterly, 16 pages a quarter, containing Scripture Text, Questions, Reviews, Hymns, Brief Notes, Opening Exercises, etc. Three cents a quarter; twelve cents a year. Twenty copies and over, each seven cents a year. Light on the Lesson Quarterly, 33 pages a quarter, containing Scripture Text, Revised Text, Questions, Reviews, Hymns, Explanatory and Devotional Notes, Opening Exercises, Illustrations, etc. Five cents a quarter; 20 cents a year. Twenty copies and over, each fourteen cents a year. Lesson Helper Quarterly, 48 pages a quarter, containing Scripture Text, Revised Version, Questions, Reviews, Hymns, Maps, Illustrations, Opening Exercises, Explanatory, Illustrative, and Devotional Notes, Opinions of the Best Commentators on the Lesson, etc. Eight cents a quarter; 30 cents a year. Twenty copies and over, each twenty cents a year. All Lesson Helps are stopped at close of time paid for. Subscriptions amounting to fractions of a dollar can be paid in one cent U.S. postage stamps. Canadian stamps cannot be used. Address orders to Eugene R. Smith, Publisher, 74 Bible House, New York. [1] THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Vol. XXXVII. JANUARY, 1883. No. 1. American Missionary Association. ANOTHER YEAR. With this issue The American Missionary greets its readers the thirty-seventh time on the threshold of a new year. For more than a generation it has participated in mighty struggles for the welfare of the church and the nation. There is no more lofty tower of observation than that builded on the foundations of righteousness. From this eminence, the Missionary has cast its eye to the end of the earth and recorded the progress and change in events that have brought about this glad day. The horrors of the slave trade, now happily passing away, have been unceasingly exposed and deplored. American slavery, so recently abolished, has been opposed with righteous and relentless warfare, and the elevation of the Freedman has been urged by every patriotic and Christian consideration. The rights of the Indians, now so generally recognized, have always been advocated; and the Heaven-given opportunity to evangelize the persecuted Chinaman on the Pacific coast, has been set forth without stint or abatement, while all along the line of the work which this periodical represents, the yoke of prejudice has been lifted from the necks of millions, and the curse threatened by national injustice, beaten back that it blast not the life of our free institutions. The furrow of time is rapidly burying beneath the sod what is left of “unconquerable will, the study of revenge, immortal hate, and what is else not to be overcome.” The new generation, forgetful of the past, is concerned for its future. The flood of misjudgment and distrust that ingulfed the Southland is rapidly subsiding, and the peaks and hill tops are tipped with the effulgence of the Sun of Righteousness. Surely those who wait on the Lord have reason to renew their strength and double their diligence for the toil, the sacrifices, and the rewards of another year. We would respectfully call the special attention of our readers to the statement on the fourth page of cover, relating to our monthly magazine. Subscription price, 50 cents a year. In common with other benevolent societies, we find many people quite ready to vote and to give sentiment for missions who are not willing to pay a cent for their support. We are happy to make room in this number of the Missionary for copious extracts from two valuable papers read before the Woman’s Meeting in connection with our annual meeting at Cleveland. The gathering of ladies was so large as to fill the chapel where they assembled to overflowing, and the interest manifested such that the time allotted for the service was extended to occupy nearly all the forenoon. We commend the papers as worthy of the most careful consideration. In an appeal sent to the churches from our office in Boston, Secretary Woodworth calls attention to the following facts, which are timely and suggestive: “An average of one dollar each by the members of our churches would amount to more than $350,000. But when it is remembered that a large percentage of our churches are not annual contributors to our treasury, it will be seen that the ratio of giving, on the part of those which do contribute, must be considerably increased. “That this matter be brought under the eye at a single glance, we tabulate below the number of giving and non-giving churches for the year closing September 30, 1882, for the New England Department: GIVING CHURCHES. NON-GIVING CHURCHES. Maine 62 Maine 176 New Hampshire 87 New Hampshire 101 Vermont 113 Vermont 84 Massachusetts 310 Massachusetts 218 Rhode Island 12 Rhode Island 15 —— —— 584 594 [2] “It will be seen, therefore, that less than one-half of these churches are on the giving list for the year. If this shall prove a surprise to the pastors, we are sure they will bear with us if we earnestly ask them to see that their people do not fail to contribute through lack of opportunity to do so. May we not reasonably ask two things? 1. A regular place and time for the American Missionary Association on the benevolent programme. 2. One annual contribution to its treasury. Grant us these two things, and we will have a reliable basis for our income, and an amount sufficient to meet the present and prospective needs of our work.” Our annual report for 1882 will soon be ready for distribution. We shall be happy to forward it to any of our friends who will send us their name and address, signifying their wish to have it. [3] RETIREMENT OF REV. DR. LADD. EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. The Executive Committee of the American Missionary Association, in accepting the resignation of the Rev. Henry M. Ladd, D.D., wish to express and place on record their high sense of his worth as a man, his intrepid courage and perseverance as an explorer, and his skill and accuracy in reporting the details of his observations. His success as an explorer gave the strongest assurance that he would have been eminently fitted as Superintendent of Missions, had Providence permitted the Association to enter upon the work in Eastern Africa, and to continue that on the Western coast. But, as it now seems the call of God to the Committee to retire from the foreign field, it commends Dr. Ladd most warmly to the churches for any work in their service to which the Master may call him. MENDI MISSION.—JOHN BROWN STEAMER. Pursuant to the instructions given at the Annual Meeting, this Association has made arrangements with the United Brethren to conduct the Mendi Mission, giving them the income of the Avery fund for a term of five years. Mr. Flickinger, the Secretary, and Mr. Billheimer, the Treasurer of the Society, were at one time missionaries of the American Missionary Association in the Mendi country, and thoroughly understand the necessities of the mission. Mr. Flickinger sailed Dec. 9th for Glasgow, to provide for the construction of the John Brown Steamer. After the contract for the steamer is given out, it is the purpose of Mr. Flickinger to proceed to Shengay, on the West coast of Africa, where the United Brethren have a mission. When the steamer is ready, this point will be within easy distance of the principal stations of the Mendi Mission. During Mr. Flickinger’s visit to the Coast, he will complete arrangements for the continuance of our work under the auspices of his society. We shall place at the disposal of the United Brethren the money contributed for the steamer. We hope the funds we have on hand, with what has been pledged, will be sufficient to pay for the boat. We request, therefore, that those who have made pledges or collected money through Sabbath-schools or otherwise for this purpose, will forward their gifts to us as early as possible, in order that there may be no uncertainty as to the amount that can be relied upon. The Gospel in All Lands has completed its first year as an illustrated missionary weekly. As a power for good we believe it has been of great value. Its editorial department, which not only canvasses the missionary fields at home and abroad, but gives attention to principles underlying the work, and current events and questions of interest, has been much improved. Persons seeking information concerning the work of Protestant missions throughout the world can readily find what is wanted in its files. May it have the encouragement it so richly deserves. “Home Life in the Bible,” by Henrietta Lee Palmer, is the title of a large and attractive book of 401 octavo pages, illustrated with two hundred wood cuts, and printed on good paper, with handsome type. The book is full of the family. What is known of the habitations of the ancient Hebrews is brought out by the author—their mode of life, their food, their cookery, their dress, their amusements, their customs in marriage and in mourning, their education and their religious worship. We believe the book is worthy of study in every American household, and especially among the colored people of the South. [4] HOW LONG IS THIS THING GOING ON? In a New England village, not many years ago, the custom prevailed of making personal solicitation from the members of the church there located, for contributions to the several benevolent societies in regular order and at stated times. To this end certain persons were designated in each of several districts to visit all the resident members. A visitor in one of these districts relates that, after a strong presentation of the claims of the heathen world had been made from the pulpit, he was encouraged to visit a member of the church who had not been noted for his liberality, and to solicit funds in behalf of the work of evangelizing the dark parts of the earth. In response he received a donation of twenty-five cents. No other call was made on the individual referred to during the remainder of the year; but when the usual season for soliciting aid for foreign missions recurred, the visitor called again upon him asking for a contribution. He was met by the inquiry: “Didn’t I give you twenty-five cents for this last year!” Answer was made in the affirmative, when the rejoinder came, “Well, how long is this thing going on?” Of course, there was but one answer to make, and that to the effect that so long as men are born with depraved hearts, this process of the more favored children of the Highest contributing funds and efforts for the elevation and conversion of less privileged ones should not cease “going on.” Deut. xv., 11: “For the poor shal never cease out of the land. Therefore I command thee, saying, thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother; to thy poor and to thy needy in the land.” * * * [5] BENEFACTIONS. The late Hannah G. Russell, of Boston, willed $2,000 to the Boston University, to be used in clothing poor students of theology. Mrs. Sarah B. Jacobs, of Boston, has given $5,000 to the University of Vermont, for the endowment of five scholarships. Columbia College gets $500,000 from the estate of Stephen Whitney Phenix, making its aggregate endowment $5,300,000. Roanoke College, Va., is to receive $1,000 from the estate of Rev. Andrew Bigelow, D.D., of Southboro, Mass. The University of Vermont is to receive the valuable library of the late Hon. George P. Marsh, of Italy, a gift purchased by the Hon. Frederick Billings, of Woodstock, an alumnus of the University. The late Edward Clark, of Cooperstown, N.Y., left $50,000 to Williams College, his alma mater. Howard University has received $5,000 from the estate of the late F. P. Schoals, Esq., of New York. Mr. Thomas Beaver, of Danville, Pa., has given $30,000 to the endowment fund of Dickinson College, as a memorial of his father. The Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., will receive $125,000 from the estate of the late Mrs. Sarah E. Atkinson, of Memphis, Tenn., of which it is the residuary legatee. McGill University is to receive $40,000 from the estate of Miss Barbara Scott. Mrs. William E. Dodge has given $2,000 to found scholarships for the daughters of clergymen in the Mills Seminary of California. The emancipation proclamation was issued January, 1863—twenty years ago. Since then 800,000 colored children have been enrolled during a single year in the schools of the South. The demand for a higher education for some of these, in order that they may be competent teachers and leaders in society, is not only urgent but imperative. The institutions founded by the A. M. A. to promote Higher Education, however, are almost entirely without endowment. GENERAL NOTES. AFRICA. —An official journal of Tripoli reports, from a letter received from Fezzan, a large repository of minerals of different sorts. Lead, tin, zinc, iron, copper, silver and gold have been discovered between Tripoli and Fezzan, and even diamonds. —The new steamer, Henry Wright, destined to the mission at Mombas, has been finished and will soon commence its trips between Mombas and Zanzibar. —Late letters from Freretown say that fear reigns in that station on account of the near approach of a rebel named Mbaruk, who has established his camp near Rabai. He declares that he is not hostile to the mission, but his friendship would be much more dangerous for it than his hostility, in exciting the suspicion of the people of Mombas. —The British Association has made a grant of 500 livres sterling to a naturalist, Mr. Atchinson, to take part in the expedition of Mr. J. Thomson, to the Victoria Nyanza by the country of the Masai. Mr. Atchinson will remain at Kilimandjaro to make botanical and zoological collections, while Mr. Thomson will proceed to Victoria Nyanza. —Mr. Farler, missionary at Magila, has sent to the London Geographical Society an original map made by him from data furnished by the natives, and indicating the routes as far as known from the Pangani to the southeast side of Victoria Nyanza, across the country of the Masai. —Dr. James Petrie, a graduate of the University of Aberdeen, has been sent to Magila, as medical missionary for Eastern Equatorial Africa. —The missionaries sent out to reinforce the stations at Victoria Nyanza and Tanganyika have arrived safely at Zanzibar. Mr. Stecker had everything prepared for them to continue their journey without delay. The Sultan, Said Bargasch, has given safe conduct and letters of recommendation to Mtesa to those who go to Roubaga. They will go as far as Mamboya, the first station of the Church of England missions, with the missionaries of the London Society destined to Tanganyika under the conduct of Mr. Hore, accompanied by his wife and young child, who will probably remain in this healthy station while Mr. Hore will return with Mr. Swann to Zanzibar, to receive the steel steamer sent from England. [6] THE CHINESE. —The steamship Coptic sailed for Hong Kong in November with nearly five hundred Chinese passengers, three hundred and seventy-five of whom had secured return certificates. —The Japanese government has determined to establish 53,760 primary schools. The empire is divided into eight departments, with one college to each. Children are to be compelled to attend the primary school. —Although Mongolian is the term usually applied to all people living in the Chinese Empire, yet the Mongolians proper live in a territory bounded on the north by Siberia and number only about 2,000,000. But few, if any of these, it is said, have emigrated to America. GROUP OF NATIVES IN MONGOLIA GROUP OF NATIVES IN MONGOLIA. [7] THE INDIANS. —Thirty-one Indians, five of them girls, were returned to their homes in Dakota from the Hampton Institute last year. They are employed at different agencies at salaries of fifteen or twenty dollars per month. Of these, seven are farmers and herders, nine carpenters, three teachers, two office boys. —The number of acres cultivated (not including the civilized tribes) by Indians in 1879 was 157,056; in 1881 it was 205,367. In 1879 they cut 48,333 tons of hay; in 1881, 76,763 tons. There has been from year to year a steady gain of products of all kinds among this class. Indians who are so inclined can earn money by freighting and as drovers. —Private charity has already given $55,529.14 to buildings for, and expenses of, Indian education at Hampton. Meanwhile, the Government has furnished $33,128.04. —The Indian Office cannot give a decided opinion as to whether Indians are increasing or decreasing, but think that they are about holding their own. —The number of Indians at boarding schools, not including those in the Indian Territory, who attended one month or more in 1881, was 3,888. The number who attended day school one month or more, was 4,221. —Rev. John P. Williamson, of Yankton, Dak., writes: “Give Indians protection of law. There is no earthly court having any authority to punish our Yankton Indians for murder, rape, arson or any other crime committed against the person or property of another Yankton Indian. And with a few exceptions this is the case with all these nations. This is a matter of immense importance, demanding immediate action, even more than education.” [8]