DONATIONS OF CLOTHING, ETC.

Lewiston, Me., Ladies of the Baptist Church, barrel, freight and cash to Iowa, $40.

Fall River, Mass., Woman's Mission Society of Second Church, box and freight to Dakota, $124 90.

Boston, Mass., Mrs. A. Pollard, box to Atlanta Seminary, Georgia.

North Middleboro, Mass., Ladies' Home Mission Circle, barrel and freight to Dakota, $27.

Providence, R. I., Union Baptist Sewing Circle, box and express to Iowa, $120.

Providence, R. I., Ladies of the First Baptist Church, barrel and freight to Wisconsin, $110.70.

Oswego, N. Y., Woman's Foreign Mission Society of West Baptist Church, barrel to Minnesota, $95.

Brooklyn, E. D., N. Y., Woman's Missionary Circle of Central Baptist Church, box and freight to Minnesota, $61.79. Castile, N. Y., Women's Home Mission Circle, barrel and freight to Minnesota. $54.90.

Ballston Spa, N. Y., Ladies of the Baptist Church, barrel, freight and cash to Iowa, $58.

Newark, N. J., South Baptist Church, box and freight to Kansas, $130.

Allegheny, Pa., Home Mission Society of Sandusky Street Church, barrel to Kansas, $100.

Kingston, Md., Mrs. E. B. Marshall, box to Dakota, $13. Grand Rapids, Mich., Fountain Street Church, box to Atlanta Seminary, Ga.

per J. H. Beaven.

Woman's Society...

Colfax Church

Sunday school.

Rev. J. H. Cairns.

OREGON, $111.00.

Albany, John Connor.

Church.

Weston, Pioneer Church, Madison Jones

IDAHO, $11.20.

Rathdrum, Col'n per Rev. J. C. Baker..

C. E.F. Designated for Mexico: Boise City, First Church.

The present number of the MONTHLY is devoted largely to the educational work of the Society. It is worthy of perusal with care, as showing the origin, growth, magnitude and character of this work. No one who reads these pages can fail to be impressed with its value to our own land, and its direct relation to the evangelization of Africa.

The exercise for the Monthly Missionary Concert for Prayer, is full of interesting and instructive statements, many of which are unfamiliar to those who have come to years of understanding, since the events referred to occurred. The leader of the meeting can amplify on some of these points, drawing from the reports of the presidents of these schools illustrations of the subject. Try the exercise and tell us what you think of it and how it can be improved.

A falling off of nearly $9,000 in our receipts for January is a very serious matter. The receipts for the corresponding month. last year included two large individual contributions amounting to $6,600. We could not expect like amounts from the same sources this year. It is not often that such offerings come to us. At the same time, the fact that we have so much less than last year produces a very un

comfortable feeling, while the obligations continue undiminished. In the next forty-five days a round $115,000 are required to avoid closing the year with a debt. The books of the District Secretaries will close April 12th. Contributions may also be sent to the Treasurer, at the Rooms, until that date.

Those who have watched the receipts from month to month, as published in the MONTHLY, will have observed that nearly all the large subscribers to the debt have paid their subscriptions in full. It was a grand thing, that made many hearts leap for joy, when Mr. John D. Rockefeller pledged $30,000 toward the liquidation of the debt. Beautiful has been the spirit in which, without any solicitation, he has paid the whole amount pledged. The same remarks are applicable to Mr. J. B. Hoyt, Mrs. C. C. Bishop, Mr. Samuel Colgate, and others, whose names have already been published among the large contributors to this object. We desire to report by the first of April that every dollar of the debt has been paid.

"The Chapel Builders" exercise is now ready for our Sunday schools. It contains

new recitations, including poetry and prose, with a dialogue and some new Sunday-school hymns. It is believed that it is even better than the exercise of last year, which was highly commended by the many who used it. The day recommended is the last Sunday in March, but if superintendents prefer some other Sunday, we shall be just as well satisfied Please send at once a statement of the number of scholars and the number of the exercises you wish for your school-ordinarily from one-half to two-thirds as many as the school numbers is sufficient. We sincerely hope that a large number of schools will adopt the exercise and make contributions. for the building of Sunday school chapels for our houseless schools in the West.

derived and no reference or credit given to it, nevertheless we rejoice in the information thus obtained and disseminated. If you have not this book, "Baptist Home Missions in America," by all means secure a copy before it is out of print. Send on a dollar for the book, and twenty cents for postage.

Continued tidings of numerous revivals among our mission churches cheer us. Some churches announce their purpose after this year to become self-supporting. So while the cords are lengthened the stakes are strength

ened.

PROGRESS AND PROSPECT.

The Min

It is hoped that there will be a large delegation from the Eastern States to the anniversaries at Minneapolis, Minn., this year. For many years brethren of the West have attended the meetings held in the East. Now, for once, at least, let us reciprocate with a fine attendance in return. neapolis people are very public-spirited, and they want such a representation of the Baptist denomination as will make them stand even more erect than they now do. They want to see the ablest men and the brightest women of the Baptist family, as well as all others whose modesty may not permit them to write their names in either of these lists.

It is expected that special rates will be obtained from eastern points. So make arrrangements, good friends, to visit Minneapolis the last of May and see the marvelous city of the North and help give a new impulse to our work in the great West.

We are glad to observe very frequently, in articles published in our missionary exchanges as well as in the weekly denominational press, how largely the Jubilee Volume is drawn upon in their preparation. The facts and often the very language is employed. This shows the permanent value of the work. Even though nothing is said of the source from which these facts are

BY REV. W. B. JOHNSON, OF WAYLAND SEMINARY, D. C.

RETROSPECTIVE.

The

We stand to-day upon an eminence that overlooks more than two decades, spent in efforts to ameliorate the condition of seven million immortal souls, by opening before their hitherto dark and cheerless lives possibilities of development into a perfect and symmetrical manhood and womanhood. retrospect presents to us a picture of moral degradation-a logical sequence of slavery; mental gloom unpenetrated by the faintest ray of intellectual light; souls, (out of which should flow the holiest and best forces of life) belittled in capacity; warped in sentiment and lowered in instinct, until the distinction between moral right and wrong had nearly become extinct; absolutely sunk in the lowest depths of a poverty which reduced them to objects of charity, and stood as an impreg nable barrier in their way to speedy advancement in all those qualities that make the useful citizen, with every influence of church, State, and social life opposed to their progress in, and enjoyment of the blessings of liberty, and, like some evil genius, forever haunting them with the idea that their future must be one of subserviency to the “Superior race."