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“ God help us ever to have sympathy with this grand work; and in this era which is coming, an era which will call for greater sacrifices and greater gifts than any that have gone before—for it must be an era of endowment for these institutions—let its claims be heard among all the rest in fair and true proportion. ”

“ Poor as the building was, a good mother’s love made it a dear home to her little children. Roses and honeysuckles bloomed around the door all summer, and in summer and winter the white sand was swept clean with brooms made of twigs tied together. Health and work gave appetites for the fried bacon and hoe-cake that furnished the daily meals. ”

“ We are not here to-day to plead rival claims and rival causes; but amid the whole circle of Christian graces and Christian charities, the last in all the world to leave unfilled is that which, when all the other miracles and glorious works of Christ had been catalogued, was added as the crowning gem of all—“The poor have the gospel preached unto them.” ”

“ This sum would keep five teachers in the field for a full year. And then we should have a building suited to our needs, large enough and light enough, open enough to the pure air of heaven, to speak for itself a welcome and to bear in itself a blessing to these crowds of needy souls. Fifteen thousand dollars would secure this—a place where (if the predictions of our wisest helpers may be trusted) 300 young men, born in the depths of heathenism, could be brought every day of every week throughout each coming year, to sit at Jesus’ feet and hear his word. ”

“ The next way of dealing with those of a weaker race is to use them, subordinate them to your own service, make bondsmen of them, let them be your hewers of wood and drawers of water, command their labor and their persons, control even their instruction and their religion, and make them absolutely yours. ”

“ I could not add new workers without adding some new bills. The increase of expense is not at all proportioned to the increase in work fulfilled, for while we have reached nearly 40 per cent. more Chinese than we did in any preceding year, the expense will be greater by only about 10 per cent. But I have been working all these years up to the utmost limit of our resources, and now, towards the close of this fiscal year—the annual appropriation from the parent society exhausted and the gifts of most of our regular contributors already used—it comes to pass that that 10 per cent. ”

“ I have organized a Doing Good Society in the girl’s school, which is doing effective work and interesting all. We appoint a committee of two to visit the sick every week. I give them something to carry in food and clothing, playthings and picture-books, for the sick, and taking the Bible and song-book they read and sing, often gathering a whole family in to hear them. Each Saturday a report of their visits is read, and once a month the school brings pennies to buy food. My prayer meetings among the mothers and girls are often very full of tenderness. ”

“ On the one hand, we would have earnest sympathy expressed for those who are seeking to elevate themselves and their people, whether educationally or religiously, and would have them wisely aided. It seems ungracious to do or say anything to check the outpouring of money in response to these appeals. But, on the other hand, when we see how, by reason of the reception given to these special appeals, the work of our missionaries is hindered, and their plans for the education and elevation of the people to whom they are sent are imperiled, we are constrained to utter again a word of caution. ”

“ If he is wise, the one thing he will ask of you is not a share in the control you have, not a share in the possessions you have acquired, not a share in the social position you may have attained, but it is an opportunity to fit himself for the acquirement and use of all these things. It is our business, brethren and friends, and it is the work of this Association, to reach that ladder down. ”

“ Our work has grown this year more than ever in the favor and confidence of both white and black. I believe that the good effect of the closing exercises will make the school very large next fall. One pleasing fact in connection with the exercises was the young organist we presented to the public. Ours is the only colored church here that has an organ, and my wife is the only colored woman, so far as I know, in the county, who plays the organ. Now that she has taken one of the girls and taught her how to play, one of the colored churches has ordered an organita for its Sabbath-school. ”

“ Paul Dulane, of Princeton, N.J., has given $2,000,000, to be used in building and endowing at New Orleans an institution for the education of white young men in languages, science, literature and art.
We learn that a man in the South has made provision in his will to leave $25,000 or $50,000 toward the endowment of one of our chartered institutions in that region. This is a grateful foretaste of what is yet to come, when the people of that land shall join with those of the North in supporting these schools of higher learning for the benefit of our newly-made fellow-citizens. ”

“ The good which the Association, under God, has accomplished here for the poor, is only seen vividly as we compare the results of the present year with those of four years ago. Then we had no church edifice; begun a day-school with three scholars in an old shell of a building for a school-house; the Sabbath-school had about ten scholars. Now we number nearly forty. Since that time a beautiful chapel has been built and a snug parsonage, and we now have an enrolment of seventy scholars in the day-school. ”

“ The rolls for June showed the names of 908 Chinese pupils, and the average attendance was 437. During the ten months now past of the present fiscal year, no less than 2,152 Chinese have been enrolled as members of our schools, and thus, for longer or shorter periods, have been brought to hear something of the true God and the only Saviour. Many have been with us but a short time, but not one, I believe, has failed to get some new idea which, it would seem, must have set him to thinking, and thus may prove to be in him the seed of the everlasting life. ”

“ Monday evening we hold prayer meeting; Tuesday evening is devoted to Bible study for the young people. A good number attend. Friday evening I have a class in singing. The Sabbath is a busy day for each of us. We have a full Sunday-school and need twice as much room, and Sabbath evening the Chapel is well filled. With not a few worthy exceptions the people are ignorant and wicked, but this does not discourage us. Already we can perceive a change for the better. In all our exercises the people are more orderly and attentive. ”

“ The Hampton and Carlisle schools no more meet the exigency than Yale and Harvard supply education to the youth of the whole United States. There are 50,000 Indian children. We must furnish means for their education. Hampton and Carlisle will do for the training of teachers. But we must get the schools, which are to educate the masses of Indian children, out nearer to the tribes.”
This is our view, exactly. Use these and similar institutions at the South for training the young people brought to them from the Indian country to become teachers and mechanics. ”

“ There is one Bible class of Indian men who can understand English, a part of whom can read and a part cannot, and another of about forty Indians, whose teacher talks English, but an interpreter translates it into Nisqually, and then he does not reach some Indians of the Clallam tribe who are present. Next followed a meeting of the Temperance Society, as six persons wished to join—a white man who can write his name and five Indians who touch the pen while the Secretary makes the mark. ”

“ There is one way more in which a race higher in circumstance and condition and endowment may treat those who for the time are weaker than they, and that is to lift them up to its own plane just so fast and just so far as God shall make it possible. ”

“ And I think the four methods in which this race may be treated correspond somewhat with these four divisions of human progress.
The first and barbarous cry which meets a weaker race is, “kill them; put them out of existence.” ”

“ The third way in which a superior race may deal with a weaker race is by the gentler, but perhaps no less harmful, process of letting them alone,—withdraw from them, hands off! Shut them out, keep them away, make the barrier between yourself and them impassable. ”

“ We only want one man in each county, and to him will give the exclusive sale as long as he continues to work faithfully for us. There is no competition, and nothing like our invention made. Parties having from $200 to $1,000 to invest can obtain a General Agency for ten counties or a state. Any one can make an investment of from $25 to $1,000 without the least risk of loss, as our circulars will show that those investing $25 can, after a 30 days’ trial, return the goods unsold to us and get their money back, if they do not clear at least $100. ”

“ As to work, have preached, held prayer meetings, done pastoral work, helped clean up the streets of an Indian village, been carpenter and painter, dedicated a church, performing all the parts, been organist, studied science, acted as agent, taken hold of law, in a case where whiskey had been sold to an Indian, and in a will. As to traveling, have been carried ninety miles in a canoe by Indians, free, paid an Indian four dollars for carrying me twenty miles, was carried twenty miles on a steamer at half fare and twenty more on another for nothing ”

“ The first impulse of savage men—the question is when the savagery is all expelled from human nature—is to put out of the way that which is offensive, that which is in your way, that which seems in any way to compete with your full satisfaction and enjoyment. ”

“ The sympathies of Christian people are always deeply stirred when they come into personal contact with individuals who, in foreign lands, have come out of the superstitions and darkness in which they were reared and are seeking help for themselves or their people in this country. ”

“ There are a number of persons out of employment in every county—yet energetic men willing to work do not need to be. Those willing to work can make from $100 to $500 a month clear, working for us in a pleasant and permanent business. The amount our agents make varies—some making as high as $500 a month, while others as low as $100, all depending on the energy of the agent. We have an article of great merit. It should be sold to every house-owner, and pays over 100 per cent. ”

“ And now, what is it that makes these races weaker, less prosperous, less independent than our own? It is the lack of education; it is the lack of developed intelligence, not of native ability. And what are the claims which ignorance may make upon intelligence? ”

“ On Sunday, every child was well dressed, and generally the blacks had as good clothing as the whites. I urged these good people, who are struggling up into respectable ways of living and moderate prosperity, to stand up for the Lord, that He may bless them more and more. ”

“ Money intended for our mission work in the South, or for student aid, can be more judiciously dispensed by us, knowing the whole field and its wants, than if sent by the donor directly in response to an appeal that may be overdrawn, or relatively less important than some others, and in some cases entirely unworthy of confidence. ”

“ We wish, however, to notify our teachers and missionaries that we desire as speedily as possible the renewed use of their pens. Nothing, however good, can be a substitute for their fresh views and facts.
CASTE ON THE CARS.
Our new-made fellow-citizens at the South are coming to such consciousness of their civil and political rights as leads them to demand the protection of law. The Cincinnati Southern Railway has recently paid a fine of $1,000 for putting a colored man who had a first-class ticket into a second-class car. ”

“ You may properly suggest to him that until he has seen the lay of the land he can hardly decide which way the roads had better run, that until he has lived in the upper air he can hardly know what institutions for the general control of society are best and wisest. ”

“ Reaching the strange city, he soon found a Christian gentleman who wished a boy to wait on the table. “Work for his board and go to school,” was the good news sent home. One year went by, two, three and four. Slow but faithful, he was going up in his classes, winning the respect of school-mates and teachers. ”

“ In closing the review the superintendent gave a blackboard exercise suggested by the verses, “What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?” This formed an impressive introduction to the first subject brought [270] forward—the use of the Blackboard. Other topics presented were, Opening and closing exercises, Duties of the superintendent, Use and abuse of lesson helps, How to get the children in, Conversion and training of pupils, Individual responsibility. ”

“ We are not paying salaries, but want men willing to work and obtain as their pay the profits of their energy. Men not willing to work on our terms will not work on any. Those meaning business will receive our large descriptive circular, and extraordinary offer by enclosing a three-cent stamp, with their address. The first to comply with our terms will secure the county or counties they may wish to work. ”