School B., 1.02; Zion Bapt. S. S., 1; Public Sch., 1; Antioch Bapt. 8. S, 1; Mrs. Dora Booker, 1; Ebenezer Church, 92 cents; Edward Smith, 55 cents; Major Smith, 30 cents; Miss Blanche Freeman 2; Miss Ross Mason, 1. Middlesex County-Miss C. G. Lockley, 2.75; Rev. J. M. Powell, 1; J. H. Easton, 1; Rev. G. W. Wood, 1; Noah Easton, 1; Society of Willing Workers, 50 cents. Newport News First Bapt. S. S., 1. New UptonWise E. Baytop, 50 cents. NorfolkB. R. Boulding, 1. Norfolk CountyShiloh S. 8., 1. Owenton-Rev. G. R. Ruffin, 5. Plain View Miss Lelia Hall, 2.50; B. T. Blackburn, 68 cents; G. Blackwell, 68 cents. Port HaywoodAlex Johnson, 1.40; Andrew Foster, 4.50; Mrs. W. Hutchinson, 2.15; Mrs. M. S. Singleton, 1.50. Portsmouth-Mrs. Elnora Tabb, 2.81. Princess Ann County-Piney Grove S. S., 2.53; First Linhaven S. Š., 2. Roans-Brookville Public Sch., 2; Rev. A. T. Gayle, 1. Saluda J. H. Carter, 1; Edward Fitzgerald, 1. Sassafras Bethel Bapt S. S., 10.20; J. W. Weaver, 7.60; Miss Frances Leigh, 4; Help of Man Lodge 3/10, 1; James H. Jones, 1; Addison Lemon, 30 cents. Tappahannock, Va.-Rev. W. D. Winston, 1; Miss Susie Rice, 50 cents; Toano-J. A. Jones, 60 cents. True Heart-I. S. P. Robinson, 1. Walkerton-Miss R. Page, 2.81; New Mt. Zion, H. and F. M., 1. Ware NeckMiss N. L. Evans, 3; Ware Neck Bapt. S. S, 1; William Lee, 1; Joseph Willis, 50 cents. Warwick County-First Ch., 3; First Warwick S. S., 2. West PointFirst Bapt. Ch., 2.29. Whalyville-Mineral Springs Bapt. Ch., 3. Williamsburg-J. T. Jones, 1; J. A. W. Jones, 1; J. T. Parker, 1.38; Rev. W. F. Cook, 1; James Paret, 1; Miss M. Jackson, 1; Nelson Stokes, 50 cents; James Cook, 50 cents. Williams Wharf-A. S. Billips, 2.66. York County-Grafton Bapt. S. 8., 1.50; Mt. Gilead S. S., 1.59. Zlon Prospect S. S., 1. Miss Annie Smith, 2.25. vary Bapt. S. S., 2. Brown, 2. CalMrs. A. -John Dudley, 1. -Miss M. E. V. Pusey, 1. Mt. Hermon S. S., 1. Mrs. W. Hearns, 75 cents, -D. Hill S. S., through Miss Page, 50 cents. Miss'y Soc. of Antioch Bapt. Ch., 50 cents. No. 1. Pub. Sch., 50 cents.... FOR CAPPAHOSIC, VA.: Earnest Circle of King's Daughters, Va., one quilt... Ever Ready Circle of King's Sons, one quilt..... King and Queen County. Taylor, two vols. of the Bapt. Encyclopedia... Little Burden Bearers, Bethel Pub. Sch., one quilt.. Lend a Hand Circle of King's Daughters one quilt. Rev. W. H. INCOME, $1,287.50. Avery Fund, for Mendi M. Graves Sch'p Fund, for Talladega C.... 5 00 $19,419 04 6,447 74 $25,896 78 531 25 125 CO Haley Sch'p Fund, for Fisk U. Hastings Sch'p Fund, for Atlanta U 25 00 25 00 Howard Theo. End. Fund, for Howard U.... 828 75 62 50 50 00 40 00 50 00 1,237 50 177 45 129 45 19 93 4.75 19 78 1 00 12 25 8.50 Montague Public School, Essex County, Va, one quilt... Truth Seekers Circle of King's Daughters, one quilt..... Primary Dept. Bethel Pub. Sch. half doz. tea towels, three dish cloths. Purton Pub. Sch., six towels, two prs. plllow cases... Young Ladies of Berean Bapt. Ch., one quilt...... WEST VIRGINIA, $2.19. Bluefield. Mrs. J Walden, for Cappahosic, Va.... Le Moyne Fund, for Memphis, Tenn Plumb Sch'p Fund, for Fisk U.... Scholarship Fund, for Straight U. Tuthill King Fund, for Berea C.... TUITION, $5,461.48. 2 19 Hillsboro, N. C. Tuition... King's Mountain, N. C. Tuition.. 83 00 Malee, N. C. Tuition... 11 65 Nalls, N. C. Tuition..... 4 30 Pekin, N. C. Tuition. 4 25 Saluda, N. C. Tuition.. 46 45 Troy, N. C. Tuition. 4 10 Wilmington, N. C. Tultion.. 394 63 Charleston, S. C. Tuition. 293 88 Greenwood, S. C. Tuition. 188 39 Grand View, Tenn. Tuition... 80 00 Oakland. Chinese Monthly Offer- Oroville. Chinese Monthly Offer- Petaluma. Chinese Monthly Of- Riverside. Chinese Monthly Of- Santa Barbara. Chinese Monthly San Diego. Chinese Monthly Of- San Francisco. Barnes-Chinese 10,127 95 $38 85 518 42 $557 27 Total from Oct. 1st to May 31st........$216,734 9! FOR THE AMERICAN MISSIONARY. Subscriptions for May.. Total.... RECEIPTS OF THE CALIFORNIA CHINESE MISSION from Jan'y 12th to April 24th, 1898, William Johnstone, Treas.: Fresno. Chinese Monthly Offer- Hanford. Chinese Monthly Offer- 49 10 56 85 12 15 $1,433 75 Marysville. Chinese Monthly Offerings...... 32 00 H. W. HUBBARD, Treas., Bible House, N. Y. San Francisco. J. E. Bond. 5 00 840 Saratoga, Chinese Monthly Of- 14275 51 For the nine months of our fiscal year, ending June 30th, the donations show the encouraging increase of $5,229.73, but the legacies have so fallen off that the balance sheet exhibits a debt of $49,626.27. On another page will be found an interesting sketch, by Secretary Ryder, of a recent visit among our Indian missions, showing the remarkable growth of the work there, and the disastrous effects that must follow the cutting down of the appropriations as demanded by the surrender of Government aid to our schools. We are sure these facts will stir the sympathies of our friends, but we must remind them that other parts of our broad field are also in need of assistance. We beg leave, therefore, to urge renewedly upon the friends of our great work, both pastors and laymen, the imperative necessity of efficient aid in this emergency. ANNIVERSARY EXERCISES. Several numbers of the AMERICAN MISSIONARY will be taken up largely with the sketches of anniversary exercises in our various institutions in the South. This is good reading in itself, but is specially significant as a mark of progress. It is only thirty years since the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, or about one generation since the Negroes were allowed to learn to read. Then the law and the lash debarred the Negro from the alphabet; now the schools are found everywhere, and their anniversary days have come to be of very much the same sort as those of the white race North and South. Verily this is a grand record for one generation, unparalleled in the history of human progress. Old abolitionists may read of Commencements in these schools with joy and thanksgiving, and the men of to-day may make them posts of observation to mark the tide that will bear the next generation onward to even greater success. OPPRESSED PEOPLE IN AMERICA. There are several classes of people in this country whose condition calls for the sympathy and anxiety of all good Christians. First of all there is the great unevangelized mass unreached by the churches. They are made up of immigrants and also of natives born in the slums of the cities, and found, too, in the rural districts, even in those parts once dominated by religious influences. Among these are to be found the criminal classes-anarchists, socialists and other foreigners with unAmerican tendencies-and to these are to be added the hordes that grow up in cities and country, the perpetrators of thefts, burglaries and murders. The third class includes the oppressed races. As a rule they are marked by color-the Negro, the Indian and the Chinaman. But for our present purpose we confine attention to the first class, the Negro, as being the largest. That these people are still oppressed is too well known to need argument. They are largely deprived of their political rights, of the free use of facilities for travel, of hotels and restaurants, and above all, they are exposed to an indiscriminate and cruel lynch law that employs torture and sometimes takes the wrong man, justifying itself because he is the same color as the supposed criminal. To these items of oppression must be added another, little noticed and not apparently cruel, which is yet of far-reaching and disastrous influence in the future of the colored race. We mean their exclusion from trades and profitable vocations. This race, like every other, must be mainly laborers-workers on the soil or in the shop. But race prejudice excludes them even here. They cannot be taken as apprentices, and largely both North and South-they are not allowed to work side by side with white laborers. In the higher ranges of industry, those most profitable, they are almost entirely excluded. The effect of all this is disastrous, not only in hindering the accumulation of property, but in crushing the ambition of the race by driving them into the more degraded and unprofitable modes of employment. Recent investigations, as given in the public press, show that this system of exclusion is more and more rigidly enforced, driving the colored people even from the employments they have so long engaged in, such as waiters at hotels and restaurants, coachmen, hackdrivers, etc. These facts should awaken not only sympathy, but apprehension. The Lord does not suffer oppression to go unpunished. We had fearful evidence of this in the doom of slavery, and the same Lord rules yet and will not hold a race of oppressors guiltless. Before the war we were told that slavery was a local question, and that we at the North had nothing to do with it. We found, however, that we had everything to do with it. But the present oppression is not local. We are well nigh as guilty at the North as are they at the South. But while a protest, even the most earnest, may be as little heeded as it was before the war, yet there is one thing that can be done to overcome this cruel prejudice, and that is to elevate the black man in intelligence, thrift and character, that he may ultimately command his position as a man in defiance of all prejudice. Much has been done in this respect, but much more is needed. This is a leverage that may go on with its uplifting power, and is far better than a race warfare or a new national struggle over an oppressed race. SHALL WE GATHER THE HARVEST IN THE INDIAN FIELD? REV. C. J. RYDER. This seems a strange question to ask, but the facts make it pertinent and pressing. It is many years since the first seeds of Christian truth were scattered among the red pagans of our Western prairies. Much of this seed fell upon hard and unproductive soil. A good portion of it,. however, found lodgment where the soil was fertile. This has sprung up, and is to-day bearing a hundred-fold in rich, ripe grain all ready for the harvest. Shall we gather it? Many lives have been put into the work with a quiet self-sacrifice surpassed in no missionary field on the earth. Families through successive generations have been consecrated to this heroic labor. Money, much of it consecrated by prayers and baptized with tears, has been put into the work, unregretfully, gladly, that the kingdom of God may come to the Indians. Shall all these forces be wasted? Shall these sacrifices count for little or nothing? Shall this magnificent harvest be permitted to waste on the prairie? This is the question the Congregational churches of America face to-day, and which they will answer by their contributions, or the lack of them, in the next two months. But why is this so? At the Hartford meeting of the American Missionary Association in October, in obedience to what was believed to be the wishes of the churches, it was voted that no more money should be received from the Government for contract schools. This action meant the loss of about $22,000, which had been received from the Government for the support of the students in the schools. This is nearly a third of the amount expended in the Indian work by the American Missionary Association. It is easily seen, therefore, that unless the churches make up this deficit, we must absolutely cut off a third of our Indian work. I have just returned from an extended trip among the Indian missions. If I could command language strong and vivid enough to present what I saw, without the slightest adornment or exaggeration, the churches would never permit this awful sacrifice. Four years ago I made a visit to these same missions. These four years have shown as marked progress in the Indian field as I have ever seen in any field among any people in |