The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January 1888 eBook

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to be presented to Rev. Dr. Arthur Mitchell of the Presbyterian Board. It was this Miss Hunter who interpreted for me the addresses of the woman’s meeting. Surely the Apostle Paul would say of these, “Help those women who labored with me in the Gospel.” He who was so fond of naming the Christians who were “the first fruits of Achaia,” would be very loving to this aged disciple, the first fruits of Dakota.

JOSEPH E. ROY.

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A missionary from the South writes: “In speaking on prohibition I call attention to the fact that wherever there is a missionary school a majority of the colored people are Prohibitionists, and in alluding to places where local option has failed to banish the saloons because, as is alleged, ‘the negroes voted the wet ticket,’ I add, ’To the white citizens who make this complaint I would say, Oh, that ye had been wise! Oh, that during all the years that have elapsed since the war, instead of keeping out you had provided Christian teachers for these armed but untrained citizens, these dwellers within the gates, with whose fate your own is bound! Now would you have had able allies in this conflict with the powers of darkness, this struggle between the home and the saloon.’”

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RECEIPTS FOR NOVEMBER, 1887.

MAINE, $302.27.

Augusta. “Friends,” by Miss B.D.
Robertson ...$6.59

Bethel. Cong. Ch. and Soc. ...23.18

Biddleford. J.R. LIBBY (30 of which to const. himself L.M.) ...100.00

Brewer. Sab Sch. of First Cong. Soc. ...15.00

Foxcroft. Mrs. D. Blanchard ...2.00

Harrison. Cong. Ch., for Mobile, Ala. ...9.00

New Castle, Rev. and Mrs. C.D. Crane,
for Student Aid, Santee Indian Sch. ...25.00

North Auson. “A Friend.” ...10.00

Portland. First Parish Ch., 30; St. Lawrence
St. Ch., 13.50 ...43.50