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Title: The American Missionary -- Volume 37, No. 4, April, 1883 Author: Various Release Date: November 16, 2019 [EBook #60697] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY, APRIL 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) APRIL, 1883. VOL. XXXVII. NO. 4. The American Missionary 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 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. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION. PRESIDENT. Hon. Wm. B. Washburn, LL.D., Mass. 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. EXAMP LE. 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. [97] 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. [98] 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. [99] 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. [100] 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. [101] 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. [102] 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. [103] 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. [104] [105]