The American Missionary — Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898

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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The American Missionary - Volume 52, No. 1, March, 1898 Author: Various Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #25782] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AMERICAN MISSIONARY - MARCH 1898 *** Produced by Joshua Hutchinson 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) [Pg i] Vol. LII. MARCH, 1898. No. 1. CONTENTS EDITORIAL. R EMOVAL—THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, NOW A QUARTERLY—LIST OF FIELD WORKERS? OUR INDUSTRIAL WORK BOTH ARE R IGHT FIVE C IVILIZED TRIBES—C HINA AND THE C HINESE—ALASKA THE FIELD. OUR FIELD WORKERS TEACHERS' R ESIDENCES THE SOUTH. BLESSED SEASON—ORANGE PARK, FLA. C ONG 'L C HURCH, ATLANTA, GA. C OLORED MINISTERS OF BLACK BELT, ALA. OBITUARY. D EA. SAMUEL H OLMES MISS MARY E. MCLANE MISS ANNA C OFFIN 38 39 39 32 33 35 5 27 1 2 3 4 RECEIPTS JUBILEE SHARES WOMAN'S STATE ORGANIZATIONS 40 54 55 NEW YORK: PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY ASSOCIATION, THE CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS, FOURTH AVENUE AND TWENTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK. Price, 50 Cents a Year in advance. Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as Second-Class mail matter. [Pg ii] American Missionary Association. CONGREGATIONAL ROOMS, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York City. PRESIDENT, MERRILL E. GATES, LL.D., MASS. Vice-Presidents. Rev. F. A. N OBLE, D.D., Ill. Rev. H ENRY H OPKINS, D.D., Mo. Rev. ALEX. MCKENZIE, D.D., Mass. Rev. H ENRY A. STIMSON, D.D., N. Y. Rev. WASHINGTON GLADDEN, D.D., Ohio. Honorary Secretary and Editor. Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D. Corresponding Secretaries. Rev. A. F. BEARD, D.D. Rev. F. P. WOODBURY, D.D. Rev. C. J. R YDER, D.D. Recording Secretary. Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D. Treasurer. H. W. H UBBARD, Esq. Auditors. D. C. TIEBOUT. C HARLES N EWTON SCHENCK . Executive Committee. C HARLES L. MEAD, Chairman. C HARLES A. H ULL, Secretary. For Three Years. WILLIAM H AYES WARD, JAMES W. C OOPER, LUCIEN C. WARNER, C HARLES P. PEIRCE, LEWELLYN PRATT. For Two Years. C HARLES A. H ULL, ALBERT J. LYMAN, N EHEMIAH BOYNTON, A. J. F. BEHRENDS, EDWARD S. TEAD. For One Year. SAMUEL S. MARPLES, C HARLES L. MEAD, ELIJAH H ORR, FRANK M. BROOKS, C HARLES S. OLCUTT. District Secretaries. Rev. GEO . H. GUTTERSON, 21 Cong'l House, Boston, Mass. Rev. JOS. E. R OY, D.D., 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. Secretary of Woman's Bureau. Miss D. E. EMERSON, Bible House, N. Y. COMMUNICATIONS Relating to the work of the Association may be addressed to the Corresponding Secretaries; letters for "THE AMERICAN M ISSIONARY ," to the Editor, at the New York Office; letters relating to the finances, to the Treasurer; letters relating to woman's work, to the Secretary of the Woman's Bureau. DONATIONS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS In drafts, checks, registered letters, or post-office orders, may be sent to H. W. Hubbard, Treasurer, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York; or, when more convenient, to either of the Branch Offices, 21 Congregational House, Boston, Mass., or 153 La Salle Street, Chicago, Ill. A payment of thirty dollars constitutes a Life Member. N OTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—The date on the "address label" indicates the time to which the subscription is paid. Changes are made in date on label to the tenth of the month. If payment of subscription be made afterward the change on the label will appear on the next number. Please send early notice of change in post-office address, giving the former address and the new address, in order that our periodicals and occasional papers may be correctly mailed. FORM OF A BEQUEST. "I GIVE AND BEQUEATH the sum of —— dollars to the 'American Missionary Association,' incorporated by act of the Legislature of the State of New York." The will should be attested by three witnesses. [Pg 1] AMERICAN MISSIONARY VOL. LII. MARCH, 1898. N O . 1. THE REMOVAL. The office of the American Missionary Association has been removed from the Bible House to the Congregational Rooms, Fourth Avenue and Twenty-second Street, New York City. THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY, NOW A QUARTERLY. Some of our friends write us, saying that they do not receive the "American Missionary" regularly. Perhaps these friends have not noticed the announcement that our magazine is now a quarterly and not a monthly. The last number was issued December, 1897, and this number will appear March, 1898. LIST OF FIELD WORKERS. We publish in this number of the magazine the annual list of our Field Workers. We take pleasure in presenting this list, believing that it will be valued, not only by the friends of these faithful workers, but by many others who will be glad to trace their names and locations. Our workers have been epoch makers. They entered upon the work [Pg 2] during the first year of the war and followed the advance of the Union armies, and when at length the slaves became freemen, these teachers and preachers were their guides in the paths of industry, knowledge and piety. The work was opportune, for it needed a strong influence to direct their uncertain steps in the new life that broke so strangely upon them. Many of these workers have devoted well-nigh their active life to this work, and gray hairs are adorning the temples of some who entered the service in their early and vigorous youth. Their achievements are the ample reward for their self-denying and useful labors and are found in neat homes, family purity, skilled industry in shop and on farm, in well-prepared teachers and in educated and pious ministers of the gospel. Their work is multiplied by the successful toil of hundreds and perhaps thousands who have been trained by them. May God bless these workers and the peoples among whom they toil—the Emancipated Slaves, the Indians on our Western border, the Highlanders on our Southern mountains, the Chinese on the Pacific Coast, and the heroic family in far-off Alaska. OUR INDUSTRIAL WORK. The American Missionary Association was a pioneer in introducing industrial training and work among the freedmen of the South. In May, 1867, the Association purchased a tract of land on which the buildings at Hampton, Va., are now located, and agricultural and industrial pursuits were immediately inaugurated. In 1872 a charter was obtained and the property was turned over by the Association to a Board of Trustees, and Gen. Armstrong, with his remarkable enthusiasm and administrative skill, pushed the institution forward in its marvelous career. At Talladega, Ala., in 1867, the Association purchased a large building, with forty acres of land attached, and the young men were set to tilling the soil under systematic training. In 1877 the Winsted Farm, of 160 acres, was secured, and ten years later the Newton Farm was added, the whole tract now containing 270 acres. On this large farm is carried forward every variety of agricultural industry in the preparation of the soil, in drainage and irrigation, rotation of crops and the raising of stock. An institute for farmers of the county is statedly held under the College auspices, and annual meetings of several days' length are conducted in three or four of the counties of the State. The varied industries of the shop are kept up with the home industries of cooking, laundry, sewing and nursing. A printing office publishes a little monthly which is very creditably printed. Similar periodicals are published in nearly all our large institutions. At Tougaloo, Miss., the Association purchased 500 acres of land in 1869 and subsequently added another tract, until now the whole domain embraces 650 acres. A great feature of the institution is its industrial work. Here has been developed the full range of farming industries, stock raising and the cultivation of the various crops adapted to the soil, together with shops for mechanical work, embracing carpentry, blacksmithing, wheelwrighting, steam-sawing, sewing and other branches of domestic economy. Strawberries are [Pg 3] raised and shipped to the Chicago market. Our normal schools at Memphis, Tenn., Macon, Ga., and Williamsburg, Ky., have carpentry, printing and other industrial training for young men, and training in the various arts of home life for the young women. At Wilmington, Savannah, Thomasville, Athens, Marion, Mobile, Pleasant Hill and other normal, graded and common schools, the young women are trained in all things needed in making comfortable and pleasant homes. In our Indian schools industries are taught and practiced. At the Santee Agency a tract of nearly 500 acres gives room that is well used for farming and stock-raising, and well-arranged shops give employment in carpentry, blacksmithing and printing and other avocations. The "Word Carrier," a monthly publication, is not surpassed in neatness of printing by any paper that comes to this office. In other Indian schools various industries are taught, especially those that relate to the care and improvement of homes. As evidence that this industrial work is pushed forward, we may mention that in our most recently established school in the South, that at Enfield, N. C., the farm of more than a thousand acres of land (the gift of a generous Christian lady of Brooklyn, N. Y.), a large portion of which is under cultivation, gives ample employment to the student. Cotton, corn, potatoes, and the products of the field, the garden and the orchard are cultivated, while in the shops the boys are taught in blacksmithing and in carpentry, and the girls in the various kinds of domestic work, sewing, cooking and housework. BOTH ARE RIGHT. Mr. Booker T. Washi