35 35 WASHINGTON TER., $33.58. 2.00 S. S.... Garfield Ch. I 50 Medical Lake Ch.. Cheney, Z. K. Self.. Spangle Ch.. Mrs. H. L. Dallas.. Miss Aurelia Fields. *For Indian University: Anadarko, Rev. G. W. Hicks *Muscogee, Indian University: Students for tuition C. E. F. Richland Ch. int.. 100 Goldendale, Clickatat Ass'n. 2 70 171 25 5 25 Roslyn, C. W. Rees.. J. H. Stevens Mrs. J. H. Stevens.. Spokane Falls, Rev. J. H. CALIFORNIA, $17.50. CANADA, $12.60. 5 00 2 58 I 00 10 00 9 00 I 00 I 00 I 00 50 DONATIONS OF CLOTHING, ETC. Auburn, Me., Court Street Church, barrel and express to Iowa, $41.65. Nashua, N. H., Women's Home Mission Society, barrel and freight to Dakota Saxton's River, Vt., Church, barrel to Nebraska, $26; barrel to Iowa, $26. Boston, Mass., Clarendon St. Church, two barrels and freight to Dakota, $131.75Northampton, Mass., Ladies' Benevolent Society, barrel and freight to Minn., $59.34. Beverly, Mass., Ladies' Mission Circle of First Church, barrel, box and freight to 250 Illinois, $91.49. 25 8 60 1 13 10 00 $ 50 Surrey, collections. 6250 Petitcodiac, First Ch..... 3 10 Henthada, Miss Hattie Phinney.. Rev. Truman Johnson 685 C. E. F. Rangoon, Miss Isa 4 30 bella Watson... MEXICO, $17.79. Westrup.. Natick, Mass., Baptist Ladies' Social Circle, box and freight to Dak. $61.95. Winchendon, Mass., Ladies' Circle, box and freight to Nebraska, $83.76. Melrose, Mass., Ladies' Society, barrel to Jackson College, Miss. Woburn, Mass., Ladies' Society, two barrels to Jackson College, Miss. Westfield, Mass., Ladies' Society, barrel to Jackson College, Miss. Framingham, Mass., Ladies' Home Mission Circle, barrel to Kansas, $86.33. Medford, Mass., Woman's Mission Circle, barrel and freight to Ill., $72.70 Providence, R. I., Ladies' Home Mission Sewing Society of First Church, barrel to Kansas. Jamestown, R. I., Ellen Cottrell, package to Hartshorn Memorial College, Va. Newport, R. I., Woman's Home Mis25 00sion Society, two barrels and freight to Dakota, $180. 5 00 17 79 10 co Collections, per Rev. T. M. WOMAN'S A. B. H. MISSION 5 00 26 co Red Cloud, B. B. Fulton. Atkinson Ch 5 00 Chambers Ch. 2 50 For Teachers at State University, Ky..... 3 78 State Convention 721 60 Hartington Ch. For Teachers at Utah School, Utah. 88 88 5 75 A. M. Merrill. For Teachers at Mexico]Schools, 110 00 Plainview Ch. 92 00 Albion, A J. Mansfield. 250 7 00 Minden, Rev. S. B. Hays. For Teachers at Wayland Seminary, D. C... 75 Bluff Center Ch.. For Teacher at Creek Freedmen Grand Island Ass'n. 50 00 10 56 Kearney, H. Lewis.. For Teacher at Benedict Insti 5 00 Alida Byran.. 5 00 For Teachers at Hartshorn Silver Creek Ch: Mrs. S. H. Talman. Omaha Ch., per Rev. A. W. Clark Weeping Water Ch.. Fremont, per Rev. J. W. Osborn Ch in part C. E. F. Bluff Center Ch. Silver Creek Ch, designated. 75 952 81 56 29 35 50 25 00 50 For Teacher at Richmond Theological Seminary.... Central Falls, R. I., Broad St. Church, barrel and express to Kansas, $80. Providence, R. I., Central Church, two barrels to Kansas, $152.50 Syracuse, N. Y. Ladies' Home Mission Society of First Church, barrel and freight to Iowa, $63.56. New York, N. Y., Ladies' Benevolent Society of Calvary Church, barrel and express to Kansas, $70; barrel and express to Minn., $60; barrel and express to Neb., $70. Buffalo, N. Y., Prospect Avenue Church, barrel and freight to Ind. Ter., $87. Brooklyn, N. Y., First Church in Pierrepont St., two barrels to Iowa, $100. Madison, N. Y., Woman's Missionary Society, barrel and freight to Neb., $34. Waterford, N. Y., Ladies' Society, barrel to Jackson College, Miss. Rochester, N. Y., Young Ladies' Mis3500 sion Circle of Park Avenue Church, barrel and freight to Dakota, $58.53. 48 00 Webster, N. Y., Church, two barrels to Jackson College, Miss. Pittsburg, Pa., Ladies' Aid Society of Fourth Avenue Church, two barrels to Dakota, $177-55 Philadelphia, Pa., Chestnut Hill Church, box to Kansas, $75.00. Pittsburg, Pa., Young Ladies' Mis25 00 sionary Society of Fourth Avenue Church, barrel to Kansas, $81.89. Allegheny, Pa., Woman's Home Mission Society of Sandusky Street Church, barrel to Dakota, $55.84. WOMEN'S B. H, MISSION For Missions, designated.. For Utah School, New Building 1 90 For Church at Mexico 500 31 00 875 10 00 Flemington, N. J., Church, box and freight to Dakota, $52.87. Plainfield, N. J., Woman's Home Mission Society of Park Avenue Church, box and freight to Kansas, $179 40. Jersey City, NJ., Woman's Missionary Circle of Summit Avenue Church, barrel 35 00 to Kansas, $60.28. 10 50 7 Beekman Street. J. G. SNELLING, Treasurer, Jersey City Heights, N. J., Mission Band of Bergen Church, barrel and freight to Neb., $57. Norwalk, Ohio, Woman's Home Mis ston Society, box to Minn., $100. Winchester, Ill., Woman's Mission Circle, box and freight to Kansas, $25-44. Lexington, Mich. Church, four barrels of apples to Jackson College, Miss. The fiscal year of the Society will end in about two months. We are very far from getting the $500,000 asked for by the Society at its last meeting. It is much needed. The Board is endeavoring to avoid a debt, but, in order to do so, has denied many requests for assistance in the West. Brethren, help liberally; help quickly. We have heard of an agent of another benevolent organization, who, in order to get larger offerings for his own work, has made the statement that the Home Mission Society is not in need of money, as it has received a legacy of half a million dollars! It is needless to inform our readers that no such legacy, nor even a quarter of this amount, has been received. Presumably, the agent through ignorance made such a misleading statement, but such ignorance is hardly pardonable, and such a method of getting contributions hardly honorable. makes an advance from seventy copies last year to eighty-three copies the year to come. The Emmanuel Church, Brooklyn, is second on the list. Commission, which had its origin in 1879, in a deep conviction shared by many that the most potent of all weapons against certain gigantic evils of the western Territories was the Christian school, has now no fewer than 2,600 pupils in its schools in Utah and New Mexico. Its receipts for the past year were $61,318. It has seven academies and twentythree other schools. It is stated that the New West Education This is under Congregational auspices. If American Baptists had an Education Society, they could have an honorable share in But they are now doing comparatively nothing, as there is no organization through which to work. such work. The Governor of Arizona estimates its present population at 90,000, an increase of nearly 50,000 since the census of 1880. No wonder that the few Baptist missionaries in that territory are begging for reinforcements, which the Society, however, is unable to send. The address by Dr. Haigh, at the Chicago Baptist Social Union, is so excellent that we publish it entire, and commend it to the careful perusal of our readers. The total immigration for eleven months ending November 31, 1887, was 486,660 persons, against 365,453 in the same period of 1886, and 314,645 in the period of 1885. When and what will be the end ? "I am much pleased with the improved MONTHLY, which seemed before as near perfection as any Missionary periodical we see. It fitly represents the great and growing work of the Society whose interests it so ably maintains. It should have a wide circulation. The intrinsic value of several articles in the last number more than compensates for the cost of a year's subscription."-S. B. P. Ohio. PERSONALS. By the resignation of Rev. Jesse B. Thomas, D.D., as pastor of the First Baptist Church, in Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn, and his election to the Chair of Church History in the Newton Theological Institution at Newton Centre, Mass., the Executive Board of the Society loses one of its most valuable members. Dr. Thomas's connection with the Board began in This was 1866 and continued for two years. during his first pastorate in Brooklyn. Soon after his return he was re-elected, and has served continuously since 1876, nearly twelve years. He will be greatly missed in the coun The Swiss government is at last roused to take measures against the Mormon mission, which for thirty years has been actively carried on in Switzerland. The headquarters of Mormon activity for Europe have been in Berne, in which city alone there were 336 converts last year, while in Switzerland the year before there were 610. The government regards it as a religious order dangerous to the State as well as an unauthorized emigration agency. The little Swiss Repub-cils of the board, and will carry with him the lic is entitled to the sympathy and the thanks of the American Republic. That may be a prolific hatching place for the foul broods which flock to our fair shores for their abode. If a proper restrictive immigration bill can be passed by Congress which shall keep out the most of this undesirable element, all will rejoice. THE GOSPEL AGE, which hitherto has been published monthly, will henceforth make its appearance weekly, the price remaining unchanged, namely one dollar per year. Rev. R. T. Middleditch, D. D., N. Y. City, who has had long experience in editorial work continues as editor. The mechanical execution of the paper has always been very fine, while the quality and variety of its contents have made it a welcome visitor to many a household. Doubtless there is room for a good dollar religious paper and we shall rejoice if it finds extensive introduction into homes where now no religious paper is taken. affection, the admiration and the best wishes of his associates, to the position to which he has been unanimously elected and for the work of which he undoubtedly possesses rare qualifications. Rev. A. B. Banks, General Missionary for the Puget Sound region, has been prostrated for several weeks by a severe attack of typhoid fever, from which, at last accounts, he was slowly convalescing. Joel Marble, Esq., who died at Bedford, N. Y., Dec. 14, 1887, in his eighty-fifth year, was one who took part in the organization of the Home Mission Society in 1832. He was born in Worcester, Mass., July, 1803, and, living there for years, was personally acquainted with Dr. Jonathan Going, who was so prominent in the organization of the Society of which he became the first Corresponding Secretary. Shortly after Mr. Marble's conversion his father and himself founded the Worcester Academy. Subsequently he removed to Albany and thence to Bedford, where the later years of his life have been usefully and peacefully spent. At the Jubilee Meeting, in 1882, he was present and spoke of the men and of incidents connected with the or ganization of the Society. Soon the last participant in that event will have passed away. Indeed, we are not certain but that Mr. Marble is the last of the company. Rev. B. S. MacLafferty, of Tacoma, W. T., who recently met with a severe accident which has laid him aside from active work, is slowly recovering though in a letter of December 25th he says: "I am unable to sit in an upright position for more than a few minutes at a time, while I am wholly unable to bear my weight upon my feet." He will have the sympathy of many in his affliction. His resignation of the pastorate of the church has been presented, to take effect February 1st. Rev. S. Gorman, so well known as missionary to New Mexico and old Mexico, is afflicted in the loss of his wife, Mrs. Clarissa C. Gorman, who died at Sparta, Wis., December 12th. In 1849, as the wife of Rev. H. N. Campbell, she went as missionary with him to Burma. After his death she returned to America, and, in 1862, at Hamilton, N. Y., was married to Brother Gorman. She was a devoted Christian and a valuable helper in her husband's missionary work. BENEVOLENCE. Mrs. M. B. Humphrey, who died in New York City, November last, by her will left $25,ooo to Yale College, and nearly $90,000, in all, to charitable institutions. Some of the principal items are: The Long Island Historical Society, $10,000; Home for Helpless Women and Children, $2,000; Brooklyn City Mission and Tract Society, $2,000; Long Island College Hospital, $10,000; Church of the Pilgrims, $2,500; City Hospital Training School for Nurses, $6,000. clothes to 1,500 newsboys, and a ton of coal and a barrel of flour to each of 1,000 poor families in Detroit. Mrs. Mary Beatty, a wealthy lady residing at Dover, Ill., has just given $10,000 to Western College, Toledo, Ia. Mr. Joseph E. Temple, of Philadelphia, Pa., who died in August, 1886, has left the sum of $165,000 to the charitable institutions of his city, besides the income of $10,000 to the Will's Ophthalmic Hospital, and one of $5,000 to the Academy of Fine Arts. In addition to these bequests, $25,000 was left to Mr. Theodore Allen to be distributed among charities and art associations. The late Mr. John Reed, a retired merchant of Nashua, N. H., bequeathed $3,000 to the Nashua Cemetery Association, $1,000 to the First Congregational Church of Nashua, and the remainder of his estate, upon the death of his wife, one-half each to the New Hampshire Orphans' Home and the Nashua Home for Aged Protestant Women. Alexander Duncan, of England, a graduate of Yale College in 1825, has given that institution $25,000. It is stated that the bequest made to Phillips Exeter Academy by the late Francis E. Parker will amount to $110,000. Frederick F. Thompson, a graduate of Williams in the class of 1856, has agreed to subscribe $25,000 to the proposed Mark Hopkins memorial building. The will of Hon. William H. Hill, of Sutton, Mass., makes the following bequests: American Board, $2,000; American Home Missionary Society, $2,000; American College and Education Society, $2,000; the American Congregational Union, $2,000; and Evangelical Congregational Society of Grafton, $2,000. It now seems to be confirmed that Baron Hirsch has actually given ten million dollars, Hiram Deats, Esq., of Flemington, N. J., deposited in the Bank of London, under the who died in November, leaves by his will $5,000 trusteeship of Baron Rothschild and Baron de to the American Baptist Home Mission Society; Worms, for the education of the poor Jews of $2,000 for the Bible work of the American Bap-Russia. It is the most munificent gift of charity tist Publication Society; $2,000 to the Cherry-in the history of the world. ville Baptist Church; and $40,000 for orphans and friendless children. Ex-Governor Alger, of Michigan, during Christmas week made holiday gifts of suits of Mr. David Whitcomb, of Worcester, left over $100,000 to benevolence, including $25,000 to the American Board and the same to the Massachusetts Home Mission Society. |